What are you all up to

We bought one about 2-3 years back, mainly to take in the caravan, but it is so handy thay we use it at home when not in the van.

I fixed the holder on the wall in our utility room, when in the van it lives under the bed where I have installed an extra socket to plug the charger into.

Apart from anything else, it was far too expensive to have only for the van!

We then bought one for our daughter as a  Christmas present, so easy to use that even her husband can manage to use it.

And our son and his wife just got one in the "Black Friday" sales.

This is turning out to be quite an expensive New Year, as well as the car and the chairs, we have just had to buy a new printer as the old HP died after Christmas.

Printers are quite reasonably priced these days, it's the ink that is expensive!

Another lovely cold sunny day here, quite a sharp frost overnight had to break the ice on the bird bath this morning.

My little car is in the garage for its annual service and MOT hope all will be well it. OH has to have his looked at he keeps getting an engine management light on and according to the diagnostics its to do with the turbo  luckily we have a warranty still on it so hoping that will cover any costs involved. So far 2017 doesn't seem to be any better than 2016, we both still have rotten colds and coughs think we keep passing it back and forth to each other.

The M/H that went in to get serviced and a satellite dish fitted is still with the dealer as they found damp in the rear of the van around both wheel arches, they have sent us photos of the problem and we've had a long chat with them about it. They are hopeful that we should get the van back by the end of next week, they now have all the spare parts they need and the van has dried out, so they can now get down to refitting everything. 

I've been out to a garden centre, half price plants at the moment, so I got a rose that I've seen growing well locally. Then onto to a tile place for the last bit of tiling in our converted store room, everything else in there has come from B&Q Wednesday offers and vouchers, mutual satisfaction all round!  Unfortunately the tile place was next to a car show room so I lost OH and he found a car he liked. I'm hoping the desire for it will wear off soon.....

I hope you like it more than we do, David!  We bought our Dyson (with motorised cleaning head, in spring in France (when the euro was still trading at an excellent exchange rate), and at first thought it was great, but it's just not man enough for a normal house with a pet.  The small dust canister just fills up too quickly, the fluff compacts, and then has to be eased out from a narrow space with a bamboo skewer!  Then the filter blocks regularly, so we've now bought a spare filter so that it's never out of action!  On problem sorted, but now the mechanism which opens the dust canister bottom doesn't work everytime!   You can guarantee that as soon as you're no longer over the waste bin, it falls open and the dust and some of the fluff falls on to the newly cleaned floor.

We're booking a visit from the Dyson engineer!  The one good thing is that though it was bought in France, we were allowed to register it with the Dyson guarantee in England, so long as we purchased an English plug in charger.  As we paid considerably less than 200 euros in France, this still came out cheaper than buying one in England.  Then we'll relegate the Dyson to the caravan, and treat ourselves to a larger, newer and more user-friendly Dyson (or perhaps a Miele which my son says is much better) for home!

And as far as 'what did you do today' I collected a load of logs from where my OH is taking down a tree, brought them back and stacked them by the back gate ready for splitting, then I got the old hoover out and hoovered the sitting room, dining room and kitchen!  Then cleaned the tiled part of the kitchen floor, meticulously, going over the grout with a scrubbing  brush!  Now I'm going back to pick OH up and fill up with a second load of logs!

We bought a Miele last year ValDa, it's been excellent (Compact C2 cat/dog version.) Lovely and quiet and easy to use....if only someone else would do the housework it would be even better...

Spent the day mooching round the house, trying to get used to not having my beautiful little Westie, Millie, around. She lost her fight with cancer yesterday. We knew this would be the eventual outcome but it still doesn't fill the hole in our lives which she has left.

The other dogs are coping much better than we are-bless them. At least she had a lovely final trip in the van in October. That won't be the same without her either!

On a lighter note, taken down the Christmas trees and all put away. I quite like the lights in the garden and may keep these out. Much to the distaste of my other half!

I  think  you  should  be  ok  there,  KjellNN,  Pretty  sure  Dick  Turpin  cannot  keep  up  with  a  Motorway  Bus  any  more  !!

I  think  you  should  be  ok  there,  KjellNN,  Pretty  sure  Dick  Turpin  cannot  keep  up  with  a  Motorway  Bus  any  more  !!

Turpin strikes twice.. The system seems a bit wobbly today, I keep having to restart posts.

Ggregu, sorry to hear about your dog Millie, better to keep busy. As you can see I am supposed to be busy but failing in the task.