Good morning Mick and all GN's on a greyish breezy morning in North Yorkshire. Well not a good morning!! A rotten night with very little sleep at all and am getting to the end of my tether at the moment. Woke up about 4am with wretched cramp, couldnt get back to sleep, so now tired crabby and in a lot of pain and just wondering whether it would be worth banging my head on a brick wall in the hopes that it would knock me out for a few hours!! No, not really planning to do that but am really struggling at the moment.
Well at least after all the faffing about, have now got my new mouse and fingers crossed wont be losing posts and getting things in a mess on here. I did also manage to get the rest of the washing dry yesterday so that was something. Today we are having yoga at the womens group, so if I can get myself in the right frame of mind I might be able to relax a bit and perhaps benefit from doing it.Hope so! That means not watching the news this morning as dictator Donald Duck Trump would raise my blood pressure even higher!
I did go to whist last night and it was full and humming. We had nine tables which was very good, especially at this time when many people have to go off on grandparenting duties in the holidays. There are quite a few , I think, who will be ready for a rest when the schools start. Our young farmer Edward, who is always lucky with raffles etc was back with us , looking more relaxed as everyone round here will be , to thankfully have the harvest in and in the next few weeks there will be quite a bit of dashing about as the agricultural shows start. At last chance to catch up with friends and relatives and see what you can enter with your stock. I have always loved these shows, but especially the smaller shows, which are very personal, with cousins and friends enjoying entering all sorts of classes from baking, craft, and fell racing, and quietly pleased to beat your mate with your swaledale sheep!! So I also need to think of what I have in the cupboards, and check my fold up chair and the picnic box to join the gang. The only thing now , have to ring up and try and get a disabled parking place as I really cant manage to walk from the usual parking places. Bit depressing , when you cant pretend any more that you are sometimes ok etc, but at least I can still manage to go to the shows. At least I can get something out of being awake at stupid o clock and get myself off very early and be one of the first on the field. The prices to go to the shows have really gone up this year, so I need to chose which ones I want or can afford to go to. Of course, under sods law there will be 2 on at the same time or a lovely garden in the yellow book and I will have to chose , which will be like a child in a sweety shop only able to chose 1 sweet! Ah well pleasures to look forward to. I always enjoy looking at the bales class to have the chance to see the sweet hay bales that have such a lovely smell and are so precious. There will be no spare bales or crops this year, and it will no doubt add to costs when farmers have to buy in animal food, and as the drought has been all over the country there will not be any spare stuff from other areas. Well we shall just have to see what comes.
Well once I have had breakfast and done some basic bits and pieces, I am giving myself a simple task to do this morning. Well simple but not easy! I need to start going through my books and divide them into 3 basic groups. Rejig my bedroom bookcase with some of the books I have acquired lately from mostly charity shops. I need a selection so that on my rubbish mornings at least I have a choice of something to read to take my mind off things. Then I will have some more that wont fit on the bookcase of books to follow on and lastly I have a bag ready to put books in to give to either the bookcase in Upfront which gives free books to people to enjoy chosing from the shelves. So we have all ages and different people and I like to see the children getting interested, or if they have got too many then they will go to Tesco s bookcase. That is one good scheme, that I really like in Tescos. We have the blue button idea where they have 3 different charities and you are givein these blue tokens as you shop and can put them into which ever one you want to support. So it doesnt cost you money but by donating to these charities, tesco give them things, and I think it is every month they change over and these are usually local charities. Then they too have a bookshelf which different places such as schools or churches might collect books from people and then sell them and have a box to put the money in. So I am happy to add any of mine to swell the coffers. It is good to feel that you can still help a bit, even if you havent a lot of money to give. Good on Tesco to do this, rather like it used to be on Blue Peter when the children sent in all sorts of things like silver paper but were not asked for money so every child could contribute. Ah well this has cheered me up thinking about some good things that are happening, and it is a bit lighter but still grey. So it will be books sorting and then covers off and away on the yellow peril to my yoga.
Glad you are getting back into your old routine Mick, but please take it easy, wont you?grandMattie how pleased you must be for Iris, well done to her, and hope it encourages her to carry on enjoying her riding. How infuriating that the wretched so called management people did not turn up. They obviously do not know how to manage their time !! I think you should send them a bill for wasting your time. These people are so arrogant that they dont think you have things to do and can sit waiting for them to arrive and not even let you know they are not coming!! My response to things like that happening is to go into my garden and do some rather vicious snipping with the secateurs, deadheading my flowers but in my mind doing a bit more deadheading!! Multicolourswapshop, a lovely picture of the dog, she looks ready for off there.
Well hoping the day goes well for everyone and I am more hopeful now that things might improve here too so on that better note I wish you all a good day and will hope that this arrives and doesnt disappear into the ether!
Changes in taxation that Andy Burnham seems to be interested in
