Good morning Mick and all GN's from a very dark north yorkshire. Cant even see if it s raining or dry, but cant hear any rain so hoping for the dry, as have a washer load ready to go onto the line, but will have to wait for enough daylight to see what I am doing, and get the cover off the yellow peril. Wet washing is too heavy to carry and a bit too far these days. rather depressing to accept that I cant even walk down that far, which used to be no problem , and I would often walk around the borders and see what plants and flowers were growing on the way back! Grateful to not be in so much pain this morning but a total mess up of the evening yesterday. Had put the washing in, and started to watch a programme called the shipping forecast with Richard Coles , where he was travelling to various places. Of course, with my sailing background it was just the sort of thing I wanted to see and it began in a very good way. Blow me, I fell asleep and missed it all and only woke about 11pm, which then of course meant that I have not had much sleep since. How annoying!!
Anyway a much sorting day planned for today. First get the washing out if the weather is ok, then I have to pack up the computer as I have booked an appointment with the techy genius Archie. Several annoying different things I need sorting out and most of all need his advice about the change of windows 10. I gather that it is just the support bit that is closing not the actual windows 10 in itself, which had rather thrown me into a bit of a panic. When windows 11 came in there were so many hitches and problems, I had no intention of letting them use me as a guinea pig and had friends who had lost documents etc from moving across, so planned to wait for things to smooth out. People still seemed to be grumbling about it so I was happy with my windows 10, which I knew how to use and what I was doing, but now I need to plan what to do for the future. I am hoping that a planned course at upfront comes off , which is going to be probably about safety and using your laptop etc. Things change so quickly and this blasted AI is not what I want or need and do hope to find out how to block it and keep my own things private. Well we shall see.
Well depending on the weather and how I get on there, I may be on my yellow peril if dry enough, and it will give me chance to have a little meander along the high street and just see if there are any great sales, bargains or whatever and then call in to Cafe Nero for a coffee, before coming back and then have some lovely shin beef that I plan to make into a beautiful stew for tomorrow. Fingers crossed , I have someone coming to put up the new curtain rail tomorrow, so again today I need to do a bit of hunting to see if I can find the thicker gold curtains from the old house which should fit fine and will be warmer for the winter. So as I shall be getting the present ones down, it will be a case of hopefully putting up the gold ones and being able to wash these and put them away for next summer, or if I dont succeed in finding them in time these will have to go up again. Anyway whatever goes up there it will look much better without drooping down curtains and being afraid to pull their string hard in case the lot falls down!! So plenty to do today, before going to the games night tonight, and see what they have in store there to play. Hopefully something I have at least played once. Well just looked out and the sky is clearing slightly, enough to see the outline of the tree. It looks very still but dry, so hopefully will get the washing dry. How much of the plans come to fruition I do not know but the laptop sorting is top priority with the washing getting dry.
Well done Mick for sorting out your phone etc and hope the engineer comes early so that you can go off to Bicester as usual. GrandMattie, hope all the baking goes well and that the physio can at least be able to give you some tips if you describe what the pain was like. You do so much baking, do you have a n mixing machine, or could it be that you are working hard, beating eggs and all the ingredients so that it is a sort of repetitive muscle injury? Just a thought, or do you find yourself waking up in the same position every day , where you can have put that shoulder under a strain? Anyway hope the fetes go well and no doubt you will sell everything very quickly. RoseandLilac you got a good bargain at the right time for you with your dryer. Well done. Sounds as though you have a sorting out day planned too. I think that when you are in the right mood you get so much more sorted than when you are reluctant to start and I then can be thinking where can I put this? I have to make the most of this feeling , which I always think is connected to having been a teacher and that this is the start of the year, so it is autumn cleaning rather than spring cleaning. Sounds like a lot of us are having a bit of a sort out. How our halos will shine!! Hoping everyone has a positive day and can look back this evening at something accomplished , whether a cupboard sorted or a letter written, but if it is dry hope you can all get outside and enjoy a little fresh air whilst it is not too freezing.
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