Here we are again. Happy as can be. All good pals and jolly good company...
[café] 
and much love xxx
granniequeenie Many thanks. I shall take a modest slice to eat with my afternoon
Freezer incidents are the pits. I hate to waste good food. Mind you, our freezer is the smallest on the market. Not too much damage done if and when the door doesn't close as it should.
I'm working on a water colour painting of a very beautiful cat. However, I've my own ironing to attend to. Shall away to reduce the amount before returning to the easel.
PLEASE help yourselves to all the virtually calorie-free goodies. I've put out the best Crown Derby china tea set. And...real, starched napkins. She says with a 
Afternoon all. Ann I have been reading your posts for a long time. I just wanted to say that I know the decision you have come to is not what you would have wished for your DH but you are not Superwoman and he needs 24/7 care. My mum was originally diagnosed with Parkinson's which eventually turned into Dementia with Lewy Bodies.
She was in a care home where everyone had dementia and she was well looked after.
I'm sending hugs and xx
Ann I also know of a lady with Lewy Body dementia. She has settled well into a well run care home. Her family visit and share quality time with her as opposed to being worn to a frazzle with stress.
Hello you lot. Love the new kitchen. Have sat myself down with tea and a piece of the cheesecake, one of my favourites. Afraid I’m a mucky pup so have made good use of soop’s beautifully starched napkins.
Can’t recall the details of the final posts in the old kitchen but I do seem to remember there was much joy in the Lester family because Wolfie had managed to activate his waste disposal system.
Also some lovely Autumn images. It’s been a superb day here today, clear blue skies. So a management decision and a change of plan. Instead of the ‘stuff’ we should have been doing we took ourselves off to collect the gift for Littlest taking the opportunity to have a breakfast and another walk on a deserted beach. A good day.
Sounds good to have a decision made ann. You sound less fraught today. The OT visit also sounds a helpful one. I hope you will be able to rest even if just a bit.
I think it was greyd who commented on lack of drawing ability. Have you been looking over my shoulder? I simply cannot copy an image, there must be a name for the condition 
Good to see you charley, how you feeling now?
Well, inertia has struck here. As my Mum was fond of saying there’s another day tomorrow not yet touched so today’s tasks can wait until then.
Look after yourselves and yes, please slow down.
N&G Well said, Laura. The art of diplomacy...you are learning fast. 
I am away until tomorrow. Not away away but logging off away.
Settle down and enjoy a pleasant evening. I shall pop in to our kitchen tomorrow. No need for dish washing. Our kitchen is virtually chore-free. Eat, drink and be as merry as you wish. 
Another hurdle to negotiate Ann. I’m really hoping there will be light at the end of the tunnel very soon.
Heard today that all the carry on with DD’s ex the other evening, when DGD didn’t want to go to his house, wasn’t because he wanted to spend quality time (on one of his two evenings a week) with her at all. He had arranged for his partner’s mother to babysit while he and partner went to the cinema - you couldn’t make it up! 
No, you couldn’t overthehills, it’s beyond understanding. Wishing you all a peaceful weekend.
Laura seems to know her Grampy. Sounds a fun week ahead n&g. Ours aren’t off for another week yet. We’ve got similar days to come.
Here’s today’s empty beach. Tomorrow I will do what I had planned to do today, honestly I will .
Hello soop and all in the lovely new kitchen! It has taken me absolutely ages to read through all the posts since we left!
soop pleased to hear that you had a good journey to MacS's appointment and that he is being watched over. Look after each other. ((hugs))
Apologies but I will not be able to reply to all you lot except to say you are all in my thoughts.
I am relieved to see that you have 'set your course' dear annsixty and that you have family support. I must say I shed a tear for you both - my excuse is that I am so very tired!
Panache so pleased to hear that you have two interested parties, will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Col 1:11-12
We had a nightmare journey to 'the big smoke' on Wednesday and it was a close run thing that we actually got to Himself's appointment at all with a bus catching fire on one motorway, a lorry's shed load on another and so many accidents we would have found it unbelievable if we han't been stuck there in the middle of it all! I think all the emergency vehicles must have been out there, I have never experienced so many flashing blue lights. We found our hotel eventually and left early for the actual appointment just in case the traffic jams hadn't cleared and it was as well that we did that as the journey which should have been 10 minutes took more than an hour so that we were slightly late. Himself was on tenterhooks and I had to drop him off so he had to go in on his own while I tried to get parked and I was praying that they would still see him even though we were not on time. All was well though and funnily enough it was probably no bad thing that DS was stressed as the Doc could see him 'in the raw', as it were, and consequently he thinks there should be more sessions to come with the therapist so hopefully that will all come through fairly quickly if all is agreed. It was interesting that I was called in and was asked all that Himself had already been asked, as a double check I suppose, and then I was also able to add some things that DH had forgotten which was helpful.
Thankfully, everybody we came in contact with was incredibly kind and helpful which made it all so much easier than it might have been and most importantly we got there and back safely. It was a lot of driving and a bit of an endurance test!
So that is two appointments done and two more to come, one on Thursday next week and the other appointment yet to come through. I will be so thankful when all is 'done and dusted' with this latest round and I am hoping that it might even be the last round but we shall have to wait and see about that.
We are so tired that scrambled eggs is all we can manage food wise and then an early night. Sleep well!
I’m glad the cheesecake hit the spot for some, I’m sorry but it’s all gone now as we gobbled ate the last 2 slices for pud tonight. Oh no doodle, I’m sorry it’s happened to you too, what a nuisance. Fortunately here not everything was affected, mostly items in the upper drawers i.e. veg and ice cream that I just had to ditch. The meat was fine, some prawns had to go but the other fish I cooked for dinner tonight. So if I’m not in this kitchen tomorrow you’ll know that wasn’t such a good idea!
I’m another who’s no good at drawing, maybe you could offer a kitchen drawing class greyduster? You know for folk like corner and me who are, let’s say, artistically challenged. Maybe later we could progress to a painting class with soop....then again maybe I’m getting carried away here, I can’t speak for corner, but I very much fear I’m an artistic lost cause! By the way that’s a beautiful beach corner, just the sort I love.
synonymous that sounds like a very demanding trip, you must be exhausted as well as relieved. You should sleep well tonight though! n&g these old boys all have strategies to avoid/manage shopping trips, mine has a word game on his phone which does the job for him or if it’s a Saturday then the Guardian hits the spot . Your Laura obviously has it well sussed, a good lesson to learn while you’re young I feel. We’re looking after 2 of ours at their half term, the 15 year old LOVES to shop while her 10 year old sister absolutely detests it but does enjoy a good museum, so guess who’ll be doing what that week?
Right then, I’m off to bed, sleep kitchen folk! x
He’ll the new kitchen! I did dash in briefly and dash out again. I was mightily annoyed yesterday as the plumber said he would be back in the afternoon to finish off a few jobs, but when he didn’t turn up by six, it turned out that he had completely forgotten about it! ?. Well, he hasn’t been paid yet so he had better get his act together.
Corner and Gq I didn’t mean to cast aspersions on anyone’s inability to be able to draw. And in this place I would not deign to offer anyone drawing lessons when we have Soop, whose artistic abilities are so far above mine. It’s just that I am very frustrated that my GS has got to eleven without being able to put together a half decent figure drawing (by which I mean one that looks as if it has the ability to move!). Having said that, I spent an hour on Thursday giving him some pointers so that he could complete some homework and the results, which DD emailed to me, were very acceptable, so maybe we are getting somewhere. There seems to be more emphasis on illustrative drawing in most subjects at this new school, than there was in his junior school, so he needs all the help he can get. So don’t worry, girls, I will not be coming after you, waving a stick of charcoal any time soon!
N&G I do love someone who has the same Peter Pan attitude as I have! I wouldn’t have been able to resist the laser guns either! Good on you and Grampy!
Bad news about your freezer, Doodle; one of ours is on borrowed time too!
I have included a photo of this morning’s sunrise. It is set to be another decent, if cold, day here and we are going to watch a cross country in one of our nearby parks later this morning. There is a very good cafe, so we will get a nice coffee (and maybe cake) before we go and stand in the mud!
I will look in later.
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