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Oops, although Esme insisted on going to school this morning, they rang up at 10.30 to say that she was not her usual cheery self and was crying a lot, so my daughter had to go to collect her. She was fine by dinner time this evening, really tucking into her food. They are all going to have an early night tonight, so hopefully things will be back to normal tomorrow.. Her class is going bowling tomorrow, so she won’t want to miss that

Oh dear Florence, what a palaver, but at least you got your heart scan and can be assured that everything was okay

Sorry to have confused you yesterday. Esme’s father was there as well, but the phrase “ chocolate teapot “ springs to mind. I got back as soon as I could, so he only had to look after her for about two and a half hours. She was moaning all day long about her tummy hurting. Personally I think that if she had eaten something, she would have felt better, but she refused. It was a very long day, :-(. All she wanted was mummy, but of course her train was late, so it was well after ten before she got back.
As I was driving back up the motorway, the overhead signs were saying that junction 49 was closed. That meant nothing to me but it turned out to be the junction I needed. So I had to continue to the next one and come back on small country roads instead of a nice large dual carriageway. Anyway I managed and got back safely .

I was absolutely shattered and went straight to sleep. This morning, Esme FaceTimed just before 9am, she was all dressed and ready for school. Although she didn’t go to sleep until 10.50, she had a sleep over with mummy and slept all night. She was insisting on going because they do ballet on Wednesdays and she wasn’t going to miss it.

I went to York today for a day out with my neighbour, we looked round the shops and had a lovely lunch. We were going to go to the interactive Van Gogh exhibition which I have been to before , but when we got there, it was closed which was very odd as I.
I checked the website yesterday. It is right next to the Jorvik Viking centre, which you normally need to book for, but amazingly there was no queue at all. I have been lots of times but my friend hasn’t. She really enjoyed it. My hips are aching tonight with all the walking.

So after the awful day yesterday, i am glad to be in doors today. Its gale force winds and torrential rain since early morning.

Poor daughter had to go town and no doubt will be soaked when she walks from the bus stop, poor thing.

Catching up on emails and other paperwork today so all sorted now.

Made sweet & sour chicken for tea with popadoms and pickles, cant wait.

Hope all is ok with everyone else today

Florence in the hebrides

Yes Linda, I am confused as to who was looking after Esme if she wasn't in school whilst you get your hair done and take OH home??? :-S

Well that was the day that was!!!

So all dressed, coat on and sitting patiently waiting for my lift. it got to 12.00 and no sign eeeek! So by now even if they had turned up, I wouldn't make it in time for the 1st appointment so rang up, explained and cancelled. I then had to cancel the porter.
He said i had been badly let down and surely they called have tel me?

Anyway suddenly at 12.30, Patient Travel arrive, not an ambulance! The person said, we should just make it for your heart scan if we get a move on! I said and what about my other appointment that i have missed and before i could say another word, she ranted and raved that she was on her own, rushed off her feet and that I was lucky to get a lift at all.

Whilst I was sorry for her, it wasn't my problem was it? Oh my, she just let me have it and then said if I am so disabled, why am I not living nearer the town as then i could get a taxi to my appointments and wouldn't need to use this service.

I was pretty irritated by this and so kept quiet and did not engage in any further conversation.

But the scan was fine, a few changes but nothing to worry about and the repair is still intact so i am now reassured. He said the breathlessness is probably due to lack of walking etc and not being so mobile. Unconditioned they call it.

So finally back at home sitting with a large strong coffee wondering if the events of today really happened :-S

Hope everyone else had a much better day than me.

Florence in the hebrides

Good morning all.

Oh Linda! Always something isn't there? I was up at 7am, showered and washed hair which takes an age to dry as so long & thick.

I am off for 2 appointments. First at 12.30 for my breast screening and then at 1pm for my Echocardiogram but.....

Yesterday I get a tel call reminding me of my scan at 1pm and was I still attending to which I replied oh def yes. I mentioned my breast scan before to which I was informed that the machine had been broken and she wasn't sure if it had been fixed :-S :-S

So then I panicked a little! Within 10 mins, I get a call from the hospital to say the Patient Travel Service is unavailable so they are sending an ambulance( no blue lights i hope!) Told to be ready from 8am as they could come at any time, hence the early rise.

But when I asked about them taking me from one part of the hospital to the other for 2nd appointment, I was told as its an ambulance not Patient Travel, they are on call and cannot wait around as they may get an emergency shout.

So after quite a conversation, I had to ring the works dept, then get tf to the manager of the Porters. I had to explain the whole sorry saga all over again but.... he has arranged for a porter to be at the screening place at12.50 and will then come with a wheelchair to transport me to the other place for my heart scan.

Oh my! As you say Linda, you couldn't make it up could you.

So I am sat here all dressed and ready for off, knowing that the ambulance wont be her before 11.30am....hopefully

I watched a beautiful sunrise at 8am, a sky full of orange fire. Was truly beautiful.

I hope Esme gets better soon Linda and you manage ok driving in the dark. I never liked doing that myself even in areas I knew well.

Hope everyone else looking in has a good day.

I shall pop back later and let you know how it all went.

Florence in the hebrides

Such a nuisance Linda just at the wrong time. But I am confused how are you looking after Esme if you are taking OH home and having your hair done? Is your daughter not able to take any leave to look after Esme? Not always, just once in a while?

You couldn’t make this up!
We arrived at our daughters last night to sty over as today is my daughter’s day in London, when she leaves at 6.30 am and gets back about 10 pm. When we walked in, she pulled a face and Sid that Esme was ill. Sure enough, she has been awake for most of the night and is now being sick. It is just a cold, but she swallows all the gunge instead of blowing her nose. Obviously, she isn’t going to school today :-(

The plan was that we would leave once she had gone to school because I am having my hair cut this morning and we are having the house survey done this afternoon. We were then coming back for about 4pm to look after the girls and cook dinner. Now I will take OH home, go and get my hair done and then come back here as soon as I can. That means I will have to drive home in the dark which I don’t like doing, but I will manage. It wouldn’t be so bad if. I wasn’t really tired, I didn’t sleep because I could hear Esme all during the night.

Good afternoon all, feels very cold indoors although it says it is 12 degrees outside. Very windy and damp though and already getting dark. I have finished writing my cards I have not counted them but definitely around the 80 mark. So pleased that I have finished them now. I shall post them in a weeks time I think. :-)

Afternoon everyone.

Oh my what a change in the weather! Thick fog and that drizzly damp horrid rain that gets you soaked before you realise.

So today has been catch up, washing on, drier on, vacuumed everywhere which is just as well as my neighbour is popping in soon for a coffee.

My lists of jobs and things to do for next week has grown enormous "arms & legs. was only when i wrote the list for the week, I realised just how many things I have to do!

I had written out a list of xmas food and it was far too long. So another look at it saw me trim off quite a few things that actually i have in the cupboard. Gravy granules, 2 tubs on shelf, plenty of dried fruit and flour for the xmas cake etc. So saved about £15 so far!

Daughter has emptied the freezer and gone through it all once more. I found a packet of Aunty Bessies roasties so another saving there plus 1/2 a large bag of peas.

It's so worth doing this now so I am not buying things, we all ready have and saving money too.

Linda re your Netflix account, don't worry about it as your family were living with you for some time. It's not like they live 100 miles away and you're using their account is it.

Hope everyone else ok today

Florence in the hebrides

To be fair, they were living with us for two years, so were using our TV. It is just still signed in since they left. We never use it apart from watching The Crown

Naughty lol ;-)

It hasn’t gone off again Florence, so I watched Striictly, then we watched another episode of Tge Crown on Netflix, using my daughter’s log in - very naughty I know :-)

Sorry, Linda, think our posts crossed as just seen your electric went off briefly too, how spooky!

Hope yours is still on so you can watch Strictly.

Evening everyone
So the last fayre today and it was the quietist of the 3! so was quite disappointed but it was an afternoon out of the house from 12-5.

I still have some xmas cards left but i can use them locally for my neighbours and a few friends so they wont be wasted.

I have cut down on posting cards by wherever possible putting them in parcels with gifts. All of mine will go 2nd class this year as JG said, far too expensive. I guess I will need about 40 2nd class but that used to be nearer 80 plus!

The day started bright but just after we got home the heavens opened so glad we wee back home. i just boiled the kettle and the electric went off but came back on within seconds. So oven went on toute suit with left over pizzas from last night and a few chips. The lights stayed on and havent gone off since, thankfully as not sure i could have coped with that today!

Joan , you sound like you are making headway with your cross stitch now, great job and sure it will be finished before you know it.

Linda, have you looked online for curtains? I used a company called Yums? Or something like that....no Chums it was called. I got lovely wine full length curtains and my teal ones 72 drop for this lounge and were good quality. My black wooden poles I ordered from Amazon as well and fairly reasonably priced.

A few bits came from Amazon today so now I can complete another parcel ready for posting.

As long all my parcels and cards are ready for posting by the 1st Dec, then I shall be happy. Then I can work on the menu for xmas day, boxing day etc. And of course decorate the tree lol

So the 2 plates are washed and now am going to relax for the rest of the evening with the remainder of the celebrations that were for the customers lol

I also bought a holly plant today. Its about 8 inches tall and the lady said it takes about 2 years before it grows the red berries as its slow growing but that's fine with me as I wont have to keep repotting it until its much bigger.

Enjoy the rest of the evening folks

Florence in the hebrides

It has been a dreary day here as well, just drizzling but not raining hard. OH mended two fence posts which had snapped in the storms It got dark very early, some was pleased to close all the curtains and make the house cosy .

I sent for some curtain swatches from an online curtain maker, We have chosen a William Morris design. I hoped to be able to find them in a shop, but that particular material is only on the one site. It will take 7-10 days once we order them, but we can’t do that until we have exchanged contracts of course. Hopefully, we will be able to make a visit and measure up ahead of time.

The lights keep flickering and the electricity has gone off twice, but only for a few seconds. A couple of days ago, it was off for thirty minutes. I hope it stays on so I can watch Strictly tonight.

Good evening all.
Well after a couple of really lovely days today has been horrible, the rain was on when i got up this morning & it got worse as the day went on eventually stopping after dinner time, the sun shone for about 10 minutes then it turned dull & got dark prety quick.
So my plans for clearing the several piles of leaves away that I had left yesterday didn't happen.

The local farmer has put a flock of sheep into the surrounding fields so I am doing a lot of looking out of the window to be sure none have gained access to my garden, with the ground being soo wet I really don't want them plodding all over the plants etc.

because i couldn't get outside today I have been doing my crosstitching project only stopping to make a meal or cuppas, I have got a lot of stitches done today so the day wasn't wasted, lol.

Linda, what a shame you haven't managed to find any curtains that you like, hopefully something will catch your eye before too long.

Joan.

Miserable day here . Not much to talk about really but thought I would just say hello to everyone. Been looking on line for ideas for presents and found a few but need to buy things now.
Have just got my cards sorted and now need to write them . I don't send many by post now, good job really with the price of stamps.

Hope everyone is ok and having a good weekend

Ginnie

I hope everyone has had a good day. It hasn’t been bad here, but I haven’t been out. OH swept up some more leaves and cleared the guttering out on the garage. Our buyers are having the survey on the house done on Tuesday, so he wanted to make sure anything the surveyor can see from the bedroom windows was clear :-)

Our conveyancer sent all the search results for the new house this morning, so they took ages to wade through. She also sent the contract and transfer documents for us to sign. We got a neighbour to witness them and posted them back. There is no date on them yet, but at least we are all sorted for buying the new house, it is just up to the other solicitors to get their act together now.

I had a day out yesterday looking for curtains for the new house, but I couldn’t find any I liked. As they are taking the curtains and poles with them, we will need to get some very quickly as soon as we have exchanged contracts. I also went into a Seasalt dress shop and tried some things on. They had a lucky dip and I got a 20% off card. I found a shift type dress I really liked, but they only have the regular lengths in the shop and I need the tall length. The assistant looked on line, but Iof course, they had tall in every size but the one I wanted
I looked myself when I got home and she was correct, there was a live chat option, so I tried that, but they said they weren’t getting any more in, but sometimes get returns. So I looked again today and by a miracle they had the size and length I need. That was when I discovered that the discount code was only valid in store . Not to be thwarted, I googled for Seasalt discount codes and eventually found a 20% one which the site would accept. Hopefully after all that, I will still like the dress when it comes.

Hi Florence & others looking in.
It's lovely here, nice & calm & lot's of sunshine & getting better & warmer by the minute, I have been outside & done some lopping of the large tree branches, much easier for me to handle when I get them shortened.

Still quite wet underfoot but the remaining leaves are drying up nicely, hope I can get them lifted before we get any more rain.
Other than doing the garden jobs nothing exciting is happeneing here, lol.

Nothing grand for our meal today, probably going to have a good old fry up, not had that in a while.

Hope all is well with others looking in, & the weather is as good as it is here.

Joan.