The sun has got his hat on,

 Its quite warm in the day time, but soon gets cooler when the sun moves round to the west. Its been a busy day.... spent ages trying to change our address with the DWP. Gave up in the end, I will write to them. Then needed to sort out the gas and electric, the electric had been transferred but needed a new gas account. Let's just say I was on the phone for over an hour!!

Then  delivery chap and the post man, the window cleaner and DB's medication delivery, just waiting for the last caller, the estate agent to bring me a key so I can read the gas meter. I will be glad to go to bed tonight.

Two gigantic pots arrived, one is for sweet peas the other climbing beans, both for next summer. The tomato growing kit also came, so the shed will be a bit fuller.

No nearer getting the sewing room clear, think I will have to pile everything in the passage, unbox the embroidery arm and the machine and then put stuff away from there. Its beginning to get on my nerves now, I hate mess......even though the door is shut, I still know there is a mess in there.

Supper tonight, sausage mash and baked beans. Strawberries for dessert.

Sunny

This morning turned out to be dull and quite cold. After lunch the sun came out, the conservatory heated up and by suppertime all the laundry on the airer was dry. The sitting room warmed up nicely.

I did a bit of tidying up, I had a 3 tier shelf unit to put in the pantry cupboard, so I can easily see whats in it.

We also had a conversation. About the garden.  Two large pots, one for sweet peas one for climbing  beans. A trough for cherry tomatoes....... I will grow them from seed in the conservatory with the cuttings I will take from the geraniums in a couple of weeks. The hardy fascias will stay in their pots over winter. 

The rhoddi I bought appears to have suffered a lot of damage from the sun. Will have to see if I can revive it for next year.

Supper tonight, roast pork, roast potatoes, cauliflower and broccoli, apple sauce and gravy. Strawberries for dessert.

Slow day

Tate the carer came to DB this morning and will be coming for the next 3 mornings, he is on nights, so we are his last call. We had not seen him for quite a while.

Nothing much done, have cleared some more of the stuff in the sewing room, have ordered a unit to fit in the cupboard, so boxes can be emptied and disposed of.

We are gradually beginning to settle down, DB has spent a couple of hours in the conservatory in the morning, looking at the garden, I went out and watered the pots, a lot of the plants are beginning to die back.

Supper, quiche and salad with strawberries for dessert.

 

Funny day

Spent the morning reading. DB sat in the conservatory for a while in the morning.

We had two very heavy showers of rain in the afternoon, at one time the paving slabs were just running with water.

DB had a dizzy attack in the afternoon. T came to see us, but DB was out of it. No stovies for supper, he ended up in bed at 7pm. Woke once long enough to eat some biscuits and then went off to sleep again. He was a bit dopey this morning, sat in the conservatory for an hour or so, had a nap after lunch.

I tackled the sewing room, took some stuff in to the garage, brought the small steps back in so I can sort out the top shelf in the cupboard. Most stuff is off the floor, I just have to sort out the mats etc for the big machine. The small one is staying in the box till I have time to sort it out, photograph it and put it on ebay.

Supper tonight is last nights stovies, the onion and potato was almost cooked, I had cubed the corned beef, so just need to finish cooking the spuds, chuck in the corned beef and away we go. Strawberries for dessert.

I Shut the door

On the sewing room till next week. I phoned my machine dealer and he has ordered a new flat bed box for my Lumi. Cost me £100......

GGS Max came this afternoon, he has scrapped out all the weeds on the patio. He is coming back at the weekend to jet wash the slabs. The shrubs etc in the garden are in a mess, a lot of cutting back is called for. I wish my old gardener was still around, he would have made short work of it.

DB is doing well, he walked through into the conservatory this afternoon to have a look at the garden. We are both sleeping better for some reason I clocked 9 hours last night and 8+ the night before.

The boxes have been collected, we also sorted out the key to the garage front door.

DB elected to have corned beef salad for supper, we had the last two custard tarts. Delivery from Morrison tomorrow. 

My goodness

I went to Tesco this afternoon for a small top up, I was astonished at some of the prices.......I have had a Tesco card for years, but Tesco was not one of the shops I used. Compared to Morrison they are in a different league,  to get a delivery you have to spend £50. I pay £39 and get deliveries for 12 months. Morrison minimum spend is £25.

The chiropodist came this morning. She has chucked her husband out........long story. She has put her prices up, first time for a number of years.

Its much cooler and there is a breeze, the leaves on the trees are starting to turn, plenty of sweeping up in the autumn.

I was in my sewing room this morning, looking at getting rid of a lot of stuff, the travel bag for the machine is going to have to go in the garage. The bag for the embroidery arm will go in the bottom of the bed in the third bedroom out of the way.

Pork and rice for supper tonight, I got a couple of custard tarts for dessert, we finished the melon last night.

That which was lost???

 I had emptied all the boxes in my sewing room, no sign of the two monitors that feed pacemaker info back to the technicians. I phoned the removers, he thought they were part of the contents to be left in the apartment!! eventually after a lot of argy bargy, I was let in and retrieved them. Now plugged in so report to night to co firm we are still in the land of the living.

DB had a nasty dizzy this morning, was out of it for a couple of hours. All boxes now unpacked, just need to sort out the sewing room and get the curtain poles put up then DD1 and SIL can come over and give me a lift getting the machine up on the table and put the curtains up, then e try thing will be finished except for installing the whirly.

Supper cottage pie, veg and gravy, rest of the melon for dessert.