What are you all up to

Oh Very Happy Anniversary to Mr & Mrs Brue  -- hope those lovely flowers came without greenfly -- they are so very messy when squished !!

Happy Anniversary to the Brues. 🍾

Had a walk to a nearby village to use their Post Office as we had something that had to be returned. Enjoyed the scenery and it was virtually car free on the quiet back road.

I meant to mention Millie's comment about shopping in M&S a little while ago. Up to date the Welsh regs haven't permitted any selling of non essential items, including in Supermarkets, and Mrs WN was surprised when she called into M&S when we were in Chester last week for dental appointments to find the whole of their city store's ground floor clothing department open for business. She popped in for some food items only to find a lot of shoppers in there just buying clothes.

It does seem strange to see England having different lockdown regulations on this type of thing than here in Wales, where the FM came in for some criticism last year when he allowed shops like Tesco to continue selling clothes etc. whilst closing down specialist shops so decided this time around to stop everyone doing it. I do wish matters were more co-ordinated across the 4 nations.

When I first ventured onto CT***, Bakers2,  I typed everything out the same as I was instructed at work --> Double spacing & double Linefeed only to find one of the mods ( probably retired by now, so its ok to comment I guess  ) had taken exception to my style, retyped some & castigated me about the rest .

*** I did notice one like that { Post I mean, not Mod }  still existing when one of those weirdo posts cropped up from about five years back 

WN, I quite agree about the lack of consistency between the Home countries about Covid  Rules, Regulations etc.

I was Food shopping in M & S Crewe, this lunchtime, but, since the two stores are side by side on the Retail Park, I had to enter into a Q in the Clothing area before getting near the food . Then back in a similar line to find the tills n checkouts. Didn't mind apart from the comments about yours truly moving past the shirts etc " Oi, have you got Covid, No, why, Well you have a distinct lack of taste, matie "

Well, I've done the Census, sorted the Council Tax, AND let my cuppa go cold, so I'm away for a while,  Tara  

WN  i was really surprised when our daughter told me that M&S clothes dept was open. I cant understand how they are allowed to do that. There seem to be far too many shops open to my mind. When I look out of the cathedral doors when I am occasionally on duty there seem to be a lot of people walkng around with shopping bags. 

Thanks all for your good wishes. 

I think I've just been listening to a walk broadcast from Goldie's farm on PM Radio 4. It sounded very familiar! 

Not long to go before people are travelling round more, the queue today at the garden centre was long and chilly. All the supermarkets looked very busy, I'm not used to seeing these things. Strange that M&S are selling clothes (WN & Millie,) I could understand if they were just offering click and collect.

I went into our high steet M&S fairly early on to buy some food, ground floor clothes available, in fact things that were usually upstairs stopped to ground floor. I understand Tesco, Asda and Sainsburya  are selling everything. It seems unfair to me at other clothing and shoe stores have to remain closed and unable to trade. Not that I want the shops open just a level.playing field. That said it must be really tough if you have growing children, much requests for uniform or selling of same on our neighbourhood fb.

Folks tell me town is busy and I went into the garden centre for a plant and was surprised at the amount of customers. I'm with you brue I'm not used to all these people 😱

Our garden centres don't open until Monday and we've said we're not going to rush to join the hordes so will wait, until Tuesday at least! Probably later in the week.

We have at least a dozen small to medium pots that are vacant and can do with filling, if only with seed. Plus Wellies, oh and a new ensuite bathroom for the birds.

Sterilized the water tank, flushed it through and put about forty litres in which will do us until we can go away properly. Got around to making some letters and numbers out of black fablon so now I can be spotted from motorway bridges.

Happy Anniversary to the brues 

Another lovely day here, out in the garden all day again, finished off a project we started last year but had to leave it over winter due to the freezing weather. All completed now, we have a water feature 

M&S have been open up here all the time, they do have a foodhall but you can still shop for clothes. Same as the Range, they hardly have any food in there but full shop open.

Garden centres have been closed since Christmas not due to open until the 5th of April I think. Totally agree about the devolved nations approach, totally confusing.

Saw my hairdresser today while she was visiting my neighbour, she said she had just been to get the appointment book, did I want an appointment, oh yes please