What are you all up to

Ouch, that sounds painful M☹️ I hope it mends up quickly.  

Well, knock on our door at 7pm, parcel handed over to me. Pity it wasn’t mine🤷‍♀️ Luckily I managed to stop Postie, told him he had got C C South, not C C North. He took it back and I told him how to get to right place, oh and did he have a parcel for me in his van? Quick check and oh yes, here it is……you couldn’t make it up honestly🤷‍♀️ He was telling me our sorting office have set new staff on, but they aren’t getting anything like enough training, and there’s all sorts going missing.

Good to get things sorted Nellie. Hope you get off soon. We are starting to pack for our break. 😁

Cold 🥶 ☃️ 🧊 bright start. But I'm on a slow day!

Speedy recovery wishes to Mrs Mousley. Sounds like an unpleasant encounter and a nasty injury.

Whatever you're doing today folks take care and stay warm.

It's nearly the weekend, so what does that mean? Another gig of course! This time it's Merry Hell at The Platform, Morecambe. If you get the chance go to see them. A guaranteed good night out.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Mrs M, moulesy. What with Ros's escapade in February - just goes to show how dangerous these dogs are  Not wishing to be a doom and gloom merchant but has anyone mentioned osteoporosis? First thing our private GP jumped on when he got the results of her MRI scan.  Trouble is, apparently, no one knows they have got it until they break a bone! Ros has been treated for it for the last six months - even though she doesn't go for a bone density scan until next week - on the basis that it's doing no harm to treat her anyway.

 Pleased to hear that you've got out of having to do the vacuuming

Same from us Moulesy for a good recovery, a friend of ours who has two donkeys fell over last year whilst doing their morning feed and broke her left wrist as she was told that she possibly had osteoporosis but has not been for any tests and probably will not go just the way she is.

A very wet day here so far 10.2 mm of rain and the last two days we have had 25mm yuck very mucky to walk on the grass areas, I see in our English paper that this good be a good winter for the Truffle season due to all this rain and a lot of money changes hand around this area as we are in a well known Truffle area and the first sale is next Tuesday and every Tuesday after that until March.

Have a good weekend folks.

"Shocked awake by nuisance phone call just before 7am. Your credit card has been debited £500 at Amazon or Ebay 🤔. Phone replaced at that point!"

glad you were alert to this, but be careful folks, i had a text message also 7am Sunday last , asking if i recognised the following 3 transactions on my current account and asking me to text yes if indeed i did no if i did not, it indicated the text was from my Bank Barclays, i recognised 2 of the transactions but not the 3rd but thought the text was a scam and ignored it, i could see 2 transactions on my current account using my banking app but not the 3rd.

1 hour later a telephone call from an automatic machine asking me to confirm if i did or did not recognise the 3 transactions, i ignored the call. 1hrs later call on my landline from Barclays fraud team,, yes it really was Barclays fraud team, they sent a verification notification to my banking app and we went thru loads of other checks, it transpired that somebody from a company in Hong Kong was trying to take money £79.99 from my current account using an outdated debit card, 2 years our of date. Barclays cxld my current debit card as a precaution and issued me with a new one, Barclays would not divulge how they had spotted this but assured me it would not happen again from this particular company.

Do they still use dogs and pigs to find the truffles Red Kite?

Our Lab would be good at it, he loves snuffling around. Bit of a canine garbage disposal unit🫣 We are heading to Wales shortly, I have done the vet research already. Last time we were in Wales, we had the “rancid crab” incident😱 Definitely not to be repeated. Cost us a small fortune. 

We don't think we will be using the van before the service early next March, unless there is a hint of a mini winter heatwave at some point in January/February So we removed all the bedding and towels from the van today plus the TV. Last year I had a different water pump fitted which I have never drained down so spent some time this morning getting rid of any pockets of water by disconnecting the pipes. Hopefully I have done enough. Usually you are OK with the odd frost here and there but when settles in for a period is probably when the damage is done!

David

Richard

According to the NHS website it often only shows up when you have an incident like breaking a bone. This might be worth a look https://theros.org.uk/ if you have not already done so. I noticed one of the things that are good for it is vitamin D which is probably a supplement we should all be taking anyway, unless you spend all your waking hours outdoors!

David

Look up Alendronic Acid on NHS website. Local hospital doctor said older ladies should take just one tablet per week to strengthen bones and prevent osteoporosis. Ask your GP for advice.