That was a day that was

The forecast for today was rain followed by very high winds.........power cuts were on the cards, so..... to be prepared I found our wind up wireless and the recharger for the phone and tablets. Filled all the flasks with hot water. Looked for the battery lamp, could I find it? No....turned the house upside down, not anywhere I searched....... at least we had candles.......

DB had a nausea attack, last night after the carer got him ready for bed, so he was in bed by 8pm. He slept all night and was fine when he woke this morning.

I cooked fish and chips for supper, Bakewell tart for dessert. Carer was late, so we were soon in bed, girding our loins for another storm due to hit tomorrow........what a wonderful life we lead!!

Brrrrrr

My goodness it was cold this morning. We had thought about going to Hose for coffee, I have been feeling rather tired, so we called off especially as I had shopping to do in my 2 hours off this afternoon.

Unfortunately the shopping was disastrous, came home with half wha

t I went for, so Amazon is going to come in for a large order later.

Egg and chips for supper, DB had a cherry bakewell for dessert, I had a mince pie.

The heat has been on for most of the day, I have had to dry laundry inside.

DB had a bad start yesterday, but has been OK today.

Quiet weekend

Yesterday was a quiet day, I was feeling a bit delicate, so had an easy day. I have to remember I have heart failure .

DB did not eat his supper last night, I was not amused especially as I had cooked pork loin. I have put half of it in the freezer.

Carer was late this morning, he was just back from 3 weeks in Zimbabwe visiting family. 

Usual jobs today DB's laundry is in the washer ready to wash on the cheap rate between 2am and 5am. I also sliced the gammon joint I cooked on Saturday, I used the stock to make soup, we had a bowl each with toast at lunch time.

Its quite cold heat was on first thing, put it back on at 4pm to take us through till half an hour before we go to bed.

Supper tonight quiche, salad and new potatoes. We finished off the plum crumble off from yesterday.

How do you do it..?

 Recently I applied to change our address for the voting register.

Previously I had done it over the phone, now you have to do it on line........what happens if you do not have access to a lap top or tablet? Many people of our age are not computer savvy, how do they register? The same thing occurred to me when I was dealing with the paperwork for our recent move.........Everything seems to be done more and more 'on line'. We even have to contact our GP on line. It really irritates me.

Yesterday was a sunny morning, I needed to go to Lidl for a couple of things, I decided to take DB with me, he stayed in the car whilst I was in the shop. We then took a ride on the new road round the town. I hasd changed the bed and decided to wash the linen, I hung it out, the wind had got up, the whirly burled round good style. It was soon dry so folded and in the bag for the ironing lady when she comes on Monday.

This afternoon I changed the foot on the sewing machine and turned the fabric that was cut off the curtains in the sitting room into two draught excluders for the sitting room and hall doors. I used the filling from an old pillow to fill them. I have enough fabric left to make a long one for the doors into the conservatory. I just need to sort through and see if I can find another pillow that's past it's best.

Supper tonight, fish pie for DB, sweet and sour chicken for me.

Gosh its windy

We have had 3 days of high winds, great for drying the washing.

DB has had 2 good days, just slight dizziness, nothing else. 

The hairdresser came this morning to give DB a shave and cut his hair off. He will get the carer to wash his head tomorrow morning.

I an tired, but only to be expected, I had a questionnaire this week from the Dr. re my heart failure, no problem except the tiredness which is not surprising, looking after DB is a fulltime occupation.

Looking at putting the garden to bed over the next couple of weeks and planting the bulbs in pots on the front. I can only do an hour at a time. Max will hopefully come for the next couple of Fridays to sort everything out.

Supper tonight, sausage, mash and baked beans. I finished off a lemon cheesecake. DB elected to have a syrup pudding later.

 

Tuesday

Chiropodist came this morning, so we both have comfy feet.

DB decided this afternoon to have a dizzy, I managed to get him to bed, so I am now reading, he is asleep. May call the carers and cancel tonight's visit, hopefully he will come round enough for me to get him undressed later.

Fridge/freezer arrived yesterday, it is so quiet, no more engine revving when it switches itself on.  It has 4 shelves in the fridge, so lots of room.

We have had very high winds today, rained this morning, sun came out, so dried the laundry in the conservatory on the airer, the wind would have blown the clothes off the line.

Not sure about supper, might end up with something on toast.

 

Busy day

It had been decided that we needed to buy a new fridge freezer when finances recovered a bit from our move.

Yesterday I ordered a new one, it is being delivered tomorrow. Yesterday the cleaner and I went out to the garage and brought in the electric cool box and the freezer chest. So the chest is packed with the stuff from the freezer. Some of the stuff from the fridge is in the cool box. The milk, orange juice etc is in the utility room which does not get the sun, it's quite cold in there.

I will get a 4 hour time slot in the morning for delivery. They will need to decide which way they want to bring it in.

After a couple of naff nights, I managed 9 1/2 last night, hoping for the same tonight.

Chicken for supper, finished off a couple of cheese cakes with some cream.