What are you all up to

Thinking of you WN, we had quite a collection of monitor stickers, wristbands, tablet cups at one bit. Dad used to take out his IV cannula’s on a regular basis😱 Quite often they’d resort to his foot. 

Birthday here today. Our beloved hound is 14, it was breakfast with crunchy sprinkles on top, out for a walk, and then back to his Jumbone and his favourite pastime of shredding wrapping paper. Snoozing now, in preparation for his favourite Labrador time of the day……….dinner🤣

Like others, we are sniffling and coughing a little, not really a cold of sorts, more contending with changes in temperature inside and out. Very cold here today, and looking to drop lower as week goes on……will we get snow we are wondering.

One put, sorry to hear your brother has Sepsis. My BIL caught it back in November, spent over a month in hospital. He is still not back to his former self yet. Gets tired very easily and still has to use a stick to walk. He was told it could take up to 3 mths to fully recover. 

Very cold here the last few days but sunny and dry so prefer that to rain. Days are getting longer, not needing lights on until 16.30 😊

Checked out another couple of bungalows but still don't give us the space we have here, only things going for them is they are detached, have a decent sized drive and don't have concrete floors. All things we want but not if the inside space isn't right. Oh well it's almost Lanzarote time so we will resume our search on our return. 😊

Happy Birthday to the old guy, Tda, he is doing well to get to that age for a Lab.

Sorry to read that you have caught Covid, heddlo, there seems to be a number of different strains predictably these days. We just try to avoid busy places.

Fingers crossed that your MIL is slowly on the road to recovery, WN, and perhaps it won't be too long before she is able to get up for a short while at least.

Dry again today so finished off the cleaning in the caravan, and all the seat and floor coverings back on. If it stays dry tomorrow I too will give the inside of the cards valet.

 Best wishes to WN's MIL, and OP's brother for  good recoveries, and to heddlo re covid, avoiding it for 4 years was good going!    We had it in March 2022, but had no symptoms at all fortunately.  We reckon Callum brought it home from nursery and passed it round the family.

A mixed day here, some good sunshine, but also grey periods, and even a few flakes  of snow mid afternoon.

OH has had me sorting and tidying my wooden items so we know what there is available  to sell.  Trying to catalogue them all, sort into categories, and store sensibly.  Cupboards seem emptier, but DD still has several items at her place that she is listing for sale.

Some old items have not survived intact, so anything split has been either set aside for repair if possible, or designated as "firewood", our son will be happy to have those!

SIL's  mum has her 70th  birthday next week, so I have selected 2 large bowls and requested DD to give her opinion on which to take along to the party.

Letter from Doc re kidney scan, all normal, so that is one less thing to worry about, but still waiting to hear about possible heart problem, seems to be taking ages!

Caravan service booked for early March, but no sites booked as yet, nor our proposed summer trip to Norway.

Lovely photo ttda - Had to smile about "dinner time" and a labrador's reputation for being greedy.  I bet this one in my avatar could match him - she'd eat all day long if I let her!

Francis - just a comment about Sandringham - we go there fairly regularly and spent this Christmas there.  There aren't any serviced pitches at all - so that might influence your decision.  It's a nice site, though.

Early start this morning - Meg is off to the 'beauty parlour' for 0900 - so will have to take her out before long - before we set off. Not shedding her fur - it's every six weeks or so - and she does like being pampered

He’s surprisingly not that greedy with his meals, although he does enjoy them. His speciality is snaffling disgusting things that he just happens upon, and before we can stop him, nightmare on a beach😱. We got him at seven months, a rehome. He had a day at home with us, then we hauled him off for his first big holiday down in Cornwall. Brain went onto a shelf and total chaos as he stepped onto a huge thankfully deserted beach. Couple of hours later, he started throwing up strange red stuff, and we thought he had taken to eating starfish and urchins, so we were really worried. Upon closer inspection of what he threw up (grisly, but you have to go there🤢) I spotted something glowing. It was a dayglo “MFC” logo on a larger piece of the red stuff. The blighter had eaten our other dog’s Middlesboro Football Club lead! 🤣 Panic over, at least he wasn’t poisoned, but he’s never learned. Dead crab cost us £500 at a Welsh vets, and he was so ill we had to drive home in one go, so lost our night in a lovely hotel. Labs do seem to have sensitive tums.

Terriers (Airedales) can ingest anything with few signs…….logs, books, tv remote (we did find the batteries), telephone answer machine, staircase, loo rolls, you name it, no effect whatsoever🤣

Bright sunny day here but pretty cold out. 

I'm busy cleaning venitian blinds, OH lifted them down for me then I was washing them on my hands and knees. All done now ready to re hang. 

OH doing battle with TP - Link, we bought one of their routers last July, registered it for its 3 year warrenty. We have been having an intermittent problem with it so decided to ask them to check it out or replace it. The phone call was painful, somewhere in Asia I guess, anyway he finally got through to the female on the phone who said she had passed it onto the warrenty department, who would organise a return and replacement. So far so good, they got in touch to say it's not covered under warrenty as it was manufactured in 2016😲 we bought it as new in original packaging. When registering it they did not inform us of this, if they had we could have returned it to the seller. Battle now with seller, TP and ebay 😡😡

More wooly hat knitting done building up a bit of stock now. 

More sorting out of cupboards etc, where has it all come from. When we were moving home every 18mths or so we never had clutter but 34 years in the same place and it's built up. Far to many clothes, shoes etc really need to be ruthless. 

Back to a lot of cloud today and rain later in the day, Saturday a sharp frost but clear blue skies and the sun was lovely not so bright yesterday but at least no rain.

OH has been busy with scanning old photos still a lot to do and I have been clearing stuff out ready for a small fire in our incinerator next week as more stuff to sort, OH went for his blood test early today got there 7.40am and nurse called him in straight away and usually he has to wait until 8am normal opening time and will get the results later this afternoon as next Monday he sees the specialist nurse instead of the doctor and usually gets more time with her than the doctor, shopping in Villefrance tomorrow and call into Opticians to check my new glasses which not fully happy with long distance ok but reading bit at the bottom is not good far too strong heyho so will what they say.

Francis I see you are hoping to go to Norfolk all my OH's family come from there and a few years ago we had a look around Norfolk Broads site we thought it a good site and it does have service pitches and very good for cycling straight from site.

Another very sunny day, but again very cold.  Down to -3 overnight, and never got above +1.5 all day, despite the sun.  Pavements and garden still frosty.  Forecast for tomorrow is for snow.

Managed to get more turned items  catalogued, so should get it all cleared away by tomorrow afternoon.

 I seem to have developed tinnitus, suppose I better book an appointment with our GP, see what, if any, treatment is available.  Have actually had it very mildly for a while now, but it has suddenly got worse.  Now in trouble with OH for not mentioning it earlier.

Thanks to all regarding advice about Nordolk we aren’t overly bothered about a serviced pitches but from research I’ve carried out they are the best ones to get if going to Seacroft. Looking at Sandringham it seems a bit easier to get to and would be good for cycling lots of research still to do