what are you doing

Finally put our outside lights up yesterday so now when it gets dark outside the living room windows we have twinkling stars. Wreath is up and front door decorated. Today it's time for the indoors decorations but the tree can wait till tomorrow.

Snowing here in the Great Lakes region of the U.S.. I recommend YaxTrax to go over your boots if you have to walk on ice. My Postal carrier recommended them. I have managed to remain upright since I got them. My snow boots are Canadian. They design superior ones in The Great White North!

I'm glad to see the rain has almost cleared the ice and snow. I have been going for walks in places where it is just snow which is easier to walk on than ice.

I think months of confinement due to covid has made me content to have home comforts/activities to make the day go around. But having waited 6 mths for date for some minor surgery, I had to check in to hospital early for day clinic. Luckily it was 2 km walk from home with rucksack ( told to bring dressing gown and slippers and not needed in the end) and the very heavy frost on ground c 7 am made walking manageable. Nice to see the red dawn... All went well, just trouble trying to get a taxi to do the short distance and being Friday friends seemed to have lunchdates or down with a bug.

I’m about to have a go at making Witzend ‘s cheese straws.

rowyn can't help with loo seat but this may help with CH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yNELu3qbY

Other than playing on GN I'm doing a lot of knitting, watching the Traitors, and probably the football this afternoon. My mum is poorly so I'm here making warm squash and hot water bottles for a while - she's sleeping a lot!

Intell you what? Nobody clears their bit if the road/ footpath any more as we used to up to maybe 15 years ago? Everyone's so lazy/ selfish/ useless nowadays! Pity is it's the innocent who slip etc.

Aveline

rowyn look on YouTube for info on how to reattach toilet seat and sort programmable heating device. Good luck.

Well I've been but bored- just a minut! Toilet seat? Heat??? You've just given me a great idea 🤣🤣

A bit warmer here now. A balmy 1C. Throwing caution to the wind -
no long johns under trousers today!
Newspaper read from cover to cover and crossword and other puzzles done. Complicated pill regime to one cat done and compensation provided to other cat who feels he's missing out. Cards for neighbours written and delivered. Lunch with latest 'The Oldie' next then TV until time for scheduled phone chat with another Gran. It's all go!

rowyn look on YouTube for info on how to reattach toilet seat and sort programmable heating device. Good luck.

Life has gone on as normal until today. Lots of dangerous black ice in our village, so not leaving home at all today.

I sympathise rowyn and I have a DH! He thinks he’s really good at DIY…..😳🙄🫣
The snow and ice are starting to thaw here thank goodness 😅! DDog and I delivered the las5 few cards for our neighbours earlier and it was decidedly less slippery than a couple of day ago.
I’m very well stocked up food-wise, I probably have 6 weeks of food in the freezer and cupboards. Apart from milk and bread, and it becoming a bit boring, we certainly wouldn’t starve.
I think I have a siege mentality with a lot of things!
Christmas is going to be very quiet here, we really don’t mind at all!

No snow here yet but icy road & pavement stops me going out. Had both hips replaced, the left one twice after slipping in rain getting on a bus so do not fancy that again! Too cold with the icy breeze off of the sea for a walk plus the icy pavement & my drive is icy till around 1pm then by 3pm iced over again! So it is just like Lockdown all over again except for the youngsters who dont worry about broken bones as they can keep their balance, walking by my window. Never mind though it will soon be time to moan about the heat again if I live that long! Another cuppa & watch the Grinch (Jim Carrey version) as I do every Christmas. Soon be over & we will find something else to moan about 🤣

I don’t know how I’d manage without Mr. B. Several grans have lost their husbands and loved ones over the past two years and I do wonder how they’re coping.

I’ve managed a quick pre Xmas break to son no:2 in Jersey, but it was a struggle to get here. Train tickets wouldn’t print out and no one was in the ticket office. Then despite saying online that trains wee running, all of a sudden they were cancelled. DD whisked me up to Gatwick as the main roads were clear, I boarded the plane as scheduled, but an hour later we were still on the runway having the wings de-iced ! We’ve had snow over here but it’s not settled. I fly back tonight to our home that’s like a building site ! Having new kitchen plus extension, but the builders ill as well as being hampered by the snow, so there’ll be no progress over Xmas. DD text last night to say we had no electric in the house too ! Am sure we’ll survive and get thro it all as best we can.

Finished getting the guest bedroom ready for a visitor over Christmas. DH is in the kitchen recovering the seats of two dining chair which were a tad worn. Just made scrambled egg on toast for lunch ( we have it early as no breakfast) Then a sit down for us both I think. Raining heavily on and off so no walk today.

Well, I was doing alright until a few minutes ago. I live on my own, but am pretty self sufficient and content. Have solved today's Wordle, played Solitaire online and was gearing myself up to put up a few Christmas decorations .

Meanwhile, the CH has stayed on longer than it should and I think the batteries in my horrid digital programmable thermostat thingy need changing. I think I know how to do it but can't quite open the aperture and am frightened to use brute force in case I break it. Actually with arthritic hands my force probably just is'nt brutal enough.

And so I retired to the smallest room for obvious reasons, and to meditate about how to solve the thermostat problem, and I unwittingly did something drastic to my very newly installed soft closing toilet seat, so it' s no longer attached to the loo!

I took the advice of my plumber re which model to have, and rather like the thermostat I now cannot fathom out what has happened. I did shrink back a bit when he'd installed the seat and then handed me an Allen key and one of those things that you use to get air out of radiators, telling me what to do if the fitting got loose, but didn't understand a word of what he was saying, Just hoped it wouldn't happen!

This is the frustrating part of living on one's' own. I'm reasonably intelligent about most things but have an innate inability to translate instructions on paper in 2D into a 3D object.

I have wrapped presents sorted cupboards out and filled bags with warm clothing for local charity and Ukraine. We went to our DD and were surprised she is in hilly Lancashire but all the roads are gritted. We went to our GD school concert their roads like ours have not been gritted thick ice still on roads and pavements.

No snow here but its quite cold.
Today I'll be making up the beds for DGC and daughter who are coming to stay tomorrow until after Xmas. DS coming Xmas eve too, so it's housework day and clear the washing. Xmas tree is up with just lights on ready for DGC to decorate with OH when they arrive

Wrapping up warm and going for walks as often as I can. I have also been doing some weaving. Also crocheted a cat blanket for a cat charity Christmas box. I am currently knitting myself a beanie hat - can’t do much else at the moment because I have covid 😱.

Some of us have no option. Our shift pattern pays no heed to weather forecast. My profession is not on strike. We carry on regardless. I drove to and from work yesterday in road conditions that were not ideal. There were people ski-ing past my house yesterday! My initial reaction, after clearing snow from the drive so I could get out to go to work, was get real, why not go and spend your time clearing snow from some old person's drive or a public pavement. PS. The drive home last night was no picnic!

Up here we still have a lot of snow on the ground, so we have not had a postal delivery since before the snow started, so no chance of a supermarket delivery either. I always have plenty in the freezer to keep us going for a week or two. We are not attempting to go out till Monday. Half of my Christmas cards and GSs birthday card have not been posted. I still have some presents to buy for delivery on Monday. I am missing a carol concert which I was looking forward to. My main problem is that the solar panels haven't been working because they were covered in snow.

I find it terrible with this weather because i have trouble with my knees and hips. When we had covid we saw no one for 3 weeks and i came out of hospital lived on what we got in the house. My cupboards where bare but now it is expensive to fill up we are not on any benifits.

Thanks for heads up on cheap veg ladies.😋😉

Kate1949-😁