Hello gangsters or is it sailors?
Doodle whatever has happened, I hope it's not too serious. Sending hugs. We will miss you. Xxxx
Missedout glad you made it to dry land still in one piece. It's so hard to find what happens locally. Facebook sometimes gets a result.
Mamissimo it won't be long now. Fingers Xed for you.
Panache it is good to see you posting. Keep away from those high seas.
BradfordLass thanks for your kind words. Your parcel from America will have been exciting. I bought pullup trousers in Lidl yesterday for DH as he can't wear normal ones. They were no good for him but, guess what! they fit me! 
I bought him some ladies pyjamas which are fine not the top part, incase you think I am dressing him up like a babydoll,
We had such a lovely day yesterday. The family came abd even the weather behaved. It was tiring but so nice. I had the little ones harvesting the veggie plot and the 2yr old finding potatoes was magical. I wish I could post a photo of her happy, muddy face.
Breakfast time here. See you soon.
Oh poor Doodle I am so sorry to read there's a family difficulty. I do hope it's resolved soon and all is well.
It seems all mother's sahred saying back in the old days. 'Take your coat off or you won't feel the benefit when you go out.' is anothr 
The tops are excellent. Not too heavy, being a cotton mix.
Mamissimo we'll all be thinking about you as you go for your op.
Panache good to see you back again and those high waves sound spectacular. Nature is amazing.
I once had a similar tree experience Cherry during the hurricane season when I was a lot more agile than I am now.
I went out in monsoon-like rain, wild, wild winds and tied my poor, desperate psoralea pinnata (see pic) to the fence in several places. Of course I got soaked and frozen to the bone but it saved the tree. It's a wonderful tree for attracting bees and butterflies but sadly, it died 4 years later.
I was given 5kg of apples and as my son and I like Apple Crumble (or indeed any crumble ) I peeled and cooked some to freeze.
I grated/zested an orange and cooked one batch in the orange's juice. That's going to make such a lovely crumble (with blueberies?) when he's free to visit.
He phoned to reassure me all is well at their home and I was able to say, quite truthfully, "I'm on the line to New York. Can I ring you back?"
My friend Jayne and I Skype most Sunday mornings.
Missedout You're quite right. That test is a pain in the brain for sure. The whole of my head and neck shouted and stiffened as if I'd just eaten a mouthful of wasabi (as indeed I once did in Thailand, thinking it was avocado 
). No results yet though.
I have a wooden mushroom and used it only last week to darn my long, stripey socks.
It's been a domingo plácido for me. I had a favourite but rare breakfast. I cored an apple, sliced it thinly through its middle and placed a slice on half a toasted bagel. They fit exactly.
Ate the rest of the apple whilst I did my email
Grammaretto hope all is well with you and DH? Here's the latest batch of hats etc., don't know when I'll be able to deliver them, or to whom...and I'm running out of wool.
Still, only 3 days left and we may be back to Level 1 and the shops can open again.
Take care everyone. 
Hello me hearties - it's me again! We have mainly had a super week on the 'good ship Doubtless'. The weather has been mostly kind but I worked the return (Watford) locks in pouring rain (mainly because I didn't want DH to risk any more injuries, even though it was my turn to drive).
Yesterday was fun, trying to get the Doubtless moored against the marina jetty in the storm. Once at the jetty (so we could fill the diesel tank and get the loos pumped out), the marina engineer told us to leave the boat there and they would return the boat to our mooring for us when the weather is calmer. The engineer didn't know how close he came to being kissed by this pensioner, he is lucky that social distancing rules protected him from more than covid19.
I have spent hours online, trying to find news of Monday's injured boater. We know the emergency workers were talking to TV news at one time. However, I think DH and I will never know if he recovers.
Today, DH and I are both weary. There is a lot of clearing up and I now have a hole in my favourite leggings, I must have caught them while on the locks. I will try and darn them this week. Does anyone remember wooden darning mushrooms? Sorry, I'm rambling.
Doodle, I really appreciated you sending Jeeves to help. I think he enjoyed his little sojourn with us although our limited wine stores seemed to be depleted rather quickly while he was with us. He didn't seem to have much boating experience, though. When I asked him to 'cast off', he got out some knitting! He was quite good at holding the centre rope so we could tie and untie mooring lines. His bulk came in useful.
I wish I had some of your Yorkshire blood BFL, I'm a southern softie. Despite it being summer here, at one stage last week, I wore multiple layers - I obviously didn't have my liberty bodice with me - I clearly remember those funny rubber buttons that were misshapen after a hot wash
I'm glad to be back to talk to my online friends. Your posts seem to be fairly reassuring at the moment. I hope Mr G's dizzy spell was a one-off. Thinking of you all.
You lot are having an eventful time! Glad your DH only had a slight fainting fit and he's okay now Grammaretto.
I had a few **exciting events yesterday.
The light bulb above my head (too high to reach) started fizzing and flashing so an emergency electrician had to dash out and fix it. That meant I couldn't use my PC until it was all examined and replaced.
He also replaced 3 bulbs in the bathroom - it's now so bright in there I have to wear sunglasses!
Then a friend came, en route to another job and took my gas-heater's tank to be filled. So I now have heat again and can throw off me vest and liberty bodice.
Ironically, the weather in the night turned so warm** I got up and opened my outside door.
**only warm to a Yorkshire lass, everyone else is wrapped up in duvets.
Enquiring about my test results, I was told it could be another 12-14 days. It doesn't matter, nothing would change, I'd just stay isolated.
Three tops ordered from the USA 2 months ago, arrived. The parcel had a 'holiday' in Tokyo for 10 days; had been opened and I assume santised by NZ Customs and finally sent on to me.
By an amazing miracle (because I don't usually look) I found a collection slot at a supermarket 12km away. A cancellation maybe?
Astonishingly, it was just one hour on one day but the very hour/day my Homecare lady will be here to go for it! So I snapped it up immediately and spent 67 quid on things I'll need over the next month or so.
My other homecare girl, the pregnant one, wanted to come and change my bed yesterday but I'm just not prepared to take any chances with her health and baby's.
Bless her, she said to message if I wanted anything as we could always do it in a contactless fashion. People are kind and not just in Norfolk.
Grammaretto asked if the Sallies had sold their souls. I'm afraid so.
They are run by a marketing company (as indeed are most major church charities) which maximises profits, although as charities they're not supposed to make a profit at all and pay no tax.
Last year the media made a fuss that for the first quarter, the Salvation Army profit excess revenue was $12 million and yet they are charging homeless families for essential furniture (if they are lucky enough to be re-housed).
Nevertheless, they still do good works and I benefit from a beautiful home at slightly less than market rates.
In 2016, they evicted 4 old people who defaulted on their rent and as a result changed they policy from housing the poor and needy to....well, let's say of the 14 houses (24 people) in this street; solely owned by the SA; only 3 of us are not working at very well-paid jobs.
**exciting only for a bored old woman in isolation
I suspect you are all in bed by now so Jeeves, in his 'Kiss Me Quick' hat and bell-bottoms - and I, will do our patrols and make sure everything is ship shape and Bristol fashion.
Hoping you all have a good day tomorrow
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