Good morning kitcheners, just popping in to say hello and apologise for being awol.
I haven’t managed to keep up or catch up with everything so I hope everyone is keeping safe and well.
I am taking Himself to the surgery for our 2nd jabs shortly so another step closer to getting back to normality and perhaps to be able to see friends and family soon.
Himself has had a bit of a time of it of late and by extension of course both myself and DD too. The PTSD has taken on a different aspect and while the reliving of traumatic events is less the mood swings have been difficult to deal with. Discovered yesterday that DH has turned down on line appointments with the mental health team and of course we can’t make him accept anything he doesn’t want but I do wish he had discussed it with us first as he will go to back of the queue again if he changes his mind. He insists he is not mad as if anybody has even suggested such a thing. 
I am in the process of trying to talk to someone who can give me and DD coping strategies but everything takes such a long time.
We have been waiting for ages for the alterations to the house to be done but at long last they have started. Himself is not dealing with anything very well and actually seems to be obstructing all that I am trying to do so I am very thankful to have DD here. I have not asked how long it will all take!
The noise is incredible currently and even my teeth are aching with all the drilling of concrete the builders are doing atm. In addition to that the repairman turned up to fix the oven and grill, the groceries have just arrived and are stashed in the hall as I can’t get into the kitchen and the grass cutter is here! Himself has insisted on going through all the workmen and their gear into the garage to cut kindling so I am taking refuge in my bedroom! And Breathe!!!
My sincere apologies to you lovely lot for my long absence. I've been busy all day yesterday and thus far today doing some gardening and a great deal of outdoor painting. At five o'clock, just as I was gathering together all the paint paraphernalia 
I knocked over the tin of Ronseal...all over the entrance hall mat, all over sheets that I'd placed down on Mr Soop's newly treated wood flooring...everything close by was dripping wet. I've been busy clearing up the mess. I now have to bin a whole pile of stuff that the Ronseal has soaked into. Then, I discovered that the lid had vanished into the bottom of the soggy mass ready to be binned. Up to my elbows in buggeration until I located the blasted thing. Almost cleaned up. Just myself to deal with . I shall come into the kitchen after
breakfast time tomorrow. That way I shall have time to catch up with you.. I am ponging, thanks to lashings of turps. Not at all lady-like.
Photo taken recently of a gull that thinks it is a Cormorant.
Night night. Please take care. 
Hair cut today! Feeling a lot better. Take care all 
Missed you all yesterday. I did my usual visit to Mick's but then Monday became a very full day. Finally ventured out in the garden after the severe frost disappeared.
It's been quiet in the kitchen lately. I wonder if everyone is shattered from their ventures out and beyond.
soop what a catastrophe. A little more than a dab behind each ear 
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Jaxjacky. What a find. Handcuff him to the garden gate. I could do with some of the smelly stuff when the raised beds are up and in need of enrichment.
Grandmabatty. Glad the Dgs has lifted the fog. Cuddles with the littles are great.
Welcome Synonymous. I'm relatively new to the kitchen. Started coming in the New Year. That's an avalanche of events for one day. I should stay in the bedroom. Good book and a drink?
Lots of new hair dos. Mine in 3 weeks. We have our 2nd pfizer vaccination on Saturday. 11 weeks since the 1st. Hoping it's a fine day and we can stay out for some lunch somewhere. Going to ring our favourite beach restaurant (old lifeboat station). They have lot of tables outside. Mya is always welcome there. They give her a huge doggy biscuit.
Have a restful evening all. 
Nothing from dear son. I've sent one text but will ring him tonight.
Oh soop I saw your post and thought how lovely to live that close to the sea and then read the rest of your post and the buggeration to befall you. An easy thing to do especially when you’re tired. Well it would be to me anyway!
Put your feet up and have a nice rest, maybe an emergency gin and tonic is called for.
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