What are you all up to

Yes, Bakers, a trip up the A1 to Easton well worth it. We enjoyed it.

No dentist for OH as her dentist is on holiday with her daughter this week. It's not too painful more inconvenient and she has to be careful about what she eats. Booked in next  Wednesday!

Been very busy but not achieving a great deal, why oh why does that sound familiar? We've not had the weather enjoyed by those further south. Teeming with rain when we awoke this morning. Had a brolly up for our morning walk and it took until mid afternoon before the sun put in an appearance.

MiL beginning to sound and look a bit more like her old self. Craft class yesterday for 3 hours where she actually managed to make something. She said it was lucky that they were making a montage on a greeting card as it didn't matter where her errant left hand placed things! She went out to lunch today with the ladies who lunch for the first time this year. She's been worrying herself unnecessarily about it but ended up enjoying both the light lunch and the company particularly when a quite "dotty" friend related burning her knickers whilst drying them in the microwave!

Anyway we escaped to DIY stores and Dunelm in Chester. Exciting or what? OH really sad and annoyed. She bought some slanting calligraphy paper to practice on and resented the fact it came from China. She originates from a Lancashire town which had 3 paper mills when she was growing up, now none as well as most other manufacturing companies. 

Teeming with rain when we awoke this morning. Had a brolly up for our morning walk and it took until mid afternoon before the sun put in an appearance.

WN, very similar to us here. We did manage a short walk after our evening meal without a coat, but nowhere as warm as it has been at Millie's and B2's. I was able to get an appointment at the dentist for Friday pm, but with a dentist I am unfamiliar with. Hope for a good day tomorrow so we can get out for a run. Plans are coming together for our next trip away.

I haven't re-read my post, I quite possibly didn't say it very plainly!

We visited Easton Walled Gardens last year when the sweetpeas were out. Magnificent all round. Including the food and shop.

However, bowling along the A1 satnag tells me to prepare to turn right. I'm on the inside lane and the outside lane is flying by. It continues to nag, turn around when possible. Eventually I did do a right turn, much much further up. Eventually making a u turn, not on the A1. Came back down and into the gardens. Enjoyable once my stomach settled...... OH never been a map reader so no good relying on him. Worked out a route back, avoiding the A1. Oh no it didn't. I must have missed a road, I ended up trapped, on a very short run onto a very fast A1with a large lorry behind on my tail.  Not an experience I wish to repeat - so it's delights will always be a memory.

Takethedogalong your niece sounds intrepid 🥶. I hope you can continue to enjoy your pool.

I pulled my morning glory and sweetpeas out of their pots. Made a jolly good mess! And shifted the large, half barrel size pots of compost into the garage. I was going to empty the greenhouse of the bench and trays. Greenhouse came with the house, not my thing I've decided, so was going to weed in there and cover with weed membrane, and put said half barrels in. Too uncomfortable. Reading Milliehull's post I now understand why!

Wherenext your mother in law is wonderful. I do wish her spirit was available to buy, my OH could use a large dose! Oh please do tell me on burning knickers in the microwave

DEBSC belated birthday greetings to your OH. I'm sorry your celebrations didn't go entirely to plan. I do hope your inspirational granddaughter is OK? She really does go through the mill, and you specators too. I hope you've been able to recover from all the planning and work involved in organising and preparing the day.

Can't really garden here, too dry, so we'll done Milliehull. We do need rain but please let's finish the harvest first now. Not sure how they're progressing. A wet Saturday gave me a day with the 'boys' while DIL pottered as much as you can at 8.5 months. Son is doing his day job and carting in the evenings, so I leave them to rest/work. We're in 'stand by your bed' mode anyway. Timing will dicate who's on call when 'action stations' comes and then the grandparents will sort from there. DIL mother on the night call out, as only her so will sleepover at their house, but grandson has only overnighted here so if its before bedtime......  I'm hoping it'll stay where it is now until after 31 August for school year purposes.

Rufs - although I am not surprised at the quote for your roof - did that come from an 'ordinary' builder - or one of these 'specialist' companies that seem to have popped up recently? The reason I ask is that when we moved into this house - and literally re-built it - our builder asked me if I would like the conservatory roof insulating. At that time, insulated conservatory roofs weren't as much in vogue as they are now. Must admit, I hadn't got it in my plans but it turned out to be one of the best things we did to the house. Cool in the summer and warm in winter.  When I asked him the cost - he said about £2k for the materials - and although that was 12 years ago - things haven't gone up by that much.

The conservatory is about 5 x 4m - all that was involved was reinforcing the existing aluminium roof frame with 3 x 2" timber - bolted through from either side and then the normal lats and composite (lightweight) tiles that look like slate. Insulated with rockwool and 'space blanket'. It was all done in two days - and watertight within a day. Just a normal roofing job, really and nothing to justify the stupid prices I have known these specialist companies to be quoting. 

Weather! We are all fed up of the rain. It might be sunny now, but there's a black cloud looming, Even Ronnie is fed up.

Up and out to join "rush hour" this morning which actually meant 4 cars waiting at the local traffic lights instead of 3. Had to take The Van in, about half an hour drive, to have some minor points fixing and hopefully have the new part for the boiler ready to be installed. New part there and waiting. Sat down to read the paper until OH arrived. She was leaving about 15 minutes later than me but lo and behold MiL had snuck into the car as well. The lure of a clothes shop at the large M&S seemed to have performed a miracle.

Back home for lunch, then off to town for prescriptions and drop a letter off at GP surgery. Then the joy of Tesco. Got beeped going out. Apparently, unbeknown to us, they have had to fit a security code on Cod Loin fillets due to theft. Whatever next.

No van to pick up tonight. Hopefully back tomorrow. Drive looks bear with just OHs run around on it.

Ronnie is a beauty Goldie.

Great photo Goldie where have I seen that look before will have to find a couple of our old photos of our two.

A bit cooler today but very stuffy everywhere so had a trip out to Montauban about 40 minutes from home so a wander around the large Brico Depot store same owners as B&Q and OH got the bits he wanted then across to Le Clerc shopping centre and it was quiet as lunchtime so shopping done and then into a local shop to get some toiletries and then back to Caussade where they have some old quarries that have been turned into a leisure park to walk run or even ride a bike around and that was very quiet and had a quick picnic late lunch and behind us we had about 30 Greylag Geese behind walking about they seemed to be resident there as we have seen them before, then back home and chill out as it was still stuffy outside.

Looks like we may have some storms over the weekend we could do with some rain now fed up with a brown dry crispy garden but still have water in the water butts.

WN wish we had a M&S here just have to make do with what I can find in local shops although I have enough clothes really.

Left storage yard at 1230 hrs and arrived at Kessingland at 1305hrs so perfect timing.  Set up on the beach front so grandtwins will be made up tomorrow when they arrive for a 2 night sleepover

Is Ronnie sat in a Quad/ATV? Thought it was a Landy at first, but noticed no steering wheel😁

then back to Caussade

Oh my goodness. You brought memories of our times when in early March we used to head down to Spain, stop at a campsite that was open a few miles from Caussade and visit the butcher in town for one of his made meal specialities such as Chicken Chasseur or Rabbit a la Orange, sometimes Duck. Nice place Caussade. Happy memories.

Hope you get some rain, also hope we don't! Had  enough of it.