Good morning Micheal and all GN's from a sunny dry, but a little breeze North Yorkshire morning. I have been reading all the posts, and catching up a bit, after a very slow struggle up and getting showered etc. My brain still thinks I can do everything I did 50 years ago, but the bit that it forgets is the time it takes to get over anything extra to the day , and the time to recover!
After much deciding I ended up on friday buying a tv from Argos. I had planned to go with a friend to collect it, but they said that they delivered, so I arranged for it to be delivered to my house, but was somewhat dubious as to how long I might have to wait in. Well good for them, I have to say that it was delivered promptly and I left it in the hall as my friend had offered to come and set it up for me on saturday morning. She is a very busy person with a job and family and I dont like to take up time on her weekend , but knew I would have problems moving the old tv etc etc. So she duly came round to sort it.
The old one was 32" I think, and set on a low tv table. The new one was 42", which to me was plenty big enough. I dont like tvs dominating a room, but each to their own. So I thought it would be take old one off , put new one on and set up and there we are. Huh! The feet on the new one were set out further than the feet on the old one, so it meant that it wouldnt fit on the table. That ended up by having to remove the table, collect another one, and get it all set up etc etc. So much for a quick swap over!
I had previously been quite pleased with myself sorting out large bag of books for charity shop and clearing some things out, but now with the larger table things had to be moved about, and now have this to sort out again. Anyway finally we got it all done and I gave her a lift to where she was going next and returned to sit in the chaos and felt shattered. There was a local show that I had thought of visiting, but was too weary to go. The tv seems very big at the moment but no doubt I shall get used to it
Today I felt full of aches and pains and struggling to get going, and I was only moving bits and pieces round etc .,and feel a bit fed up that one thing that would have been so simple becomes an effort. Ah well never mind , it is done now, and I am clean and hair washed and can take my time sorting things out and it may make me get rid of a few more things. Perhaps my brain may now register that everything takes longer at my age and doesnt live at the timetable of 30 or 40 years ago! I am staying in with the curtains closed but hope to go and have a bit of a walk round later in the evening. We had grey skies yesterday and clouds and hoped for rain, but not a drop!
I have to be more careful in the kitchen at present, as I have a bucket for water for the garden. Have always tried to not be wasteful with water, especially having lived abroad in dry climates, and wish that we had the sensible taps and pipes that I had in portugal. You could switch across so that water went into a butt, rather than down the drain, and "grey" water as they call it can be used for the garden. Washing up gets piled up for a once a day wash, and that water is fine for the garden. So I dont try to cover all borders, they have to take their chance but there are one or two special plants, and a honeysuckle that was only planted this year and so they get a decent amount. You see people giving small amounts to plants, which doesnt do any good as it encourages the roots to come up for the water. Better to give one good dousing than drips and dregs every day.
I have been glad to read all the posts and catch up a bit with what is happening. Happy birthday luluaugust. Hope all goes well for you RoseandLilac. Greyduster, you shouldnt cut lavenders into the dead wood, so it will grow each year a bit. However if you take some cuttings you can let them grow on and then when the old bush is too big, remove that and put a new cutting in its place. I hope
stairs are scary hope you are ok