🦞🦂 Lobstars 🌟 still shining bright 🦞🦂

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Too tired to chat. Eventually met up with the family for dinner and card games.
My husband had managed a swim in between but I was just really achey and my leg was troublesome.

Here are some photos from late afternoon.
As soon as the sun went away, so did the people.

I have forgotten if I told you that my bank was able to clawback the money for the Kumerahou leaves which were never sent.

Now I am waiting for a substantially smaller amount (and cost of course) to arrive from another source

Meanwhile, yet another stress-related skin problem: rosacea which has not only disfigured my face but is making it very uncomfortable. So I am hoping the leaves come tis week.

On Thursday I will see the hospital dermatologist. Their first and only remedy is always to prescribe drugs.

Then I'm off to the Sallies community lunch

I can (just about) see a photo of a fire on Gramaretto's post and hope it is not one that is menacing her home - something which can happen in this area occasionally when an arsonist thinks its funny to set fire to the nearby bush.

Kaumatua group for me tomorrow, if someone can collect me. I'm wondering if I dare make a cheesecake.
If I do and no one comes, as happened last week, I can't eat it.

Friday will be a bit awkward as the power is off from 9am-3pm. That includes the monitor for the emergeny alarm I wear. It's essential if you don't have a phone. Maybe I'll just stay in bed

Grammaretto i hadn’t seen about the blaze. Hope it. An he contained soon. Have a lovely time with your girls.
I met up with both sons today and we had ice creams and a drink and visited their dad’s tree.
Love and hugs to all the lobstars.

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I hope you can treat yourself to a sundowner once the forms are done NotSpag 🍸
I'm having a G&T.
The lodgers arrived, picked up their keys and promptly left.
I had hoped to talk them through a few house rules......!

I have an annoying pain in my new hip, which was doing so well. Why do bodies let us down ☹️

It is a treat to see the DGC Doodle. My little girls are coming tomorrow at some stage. I will set them to lifting some tatties and painting pottery.

Awful photos tonight of Arthur's Seat on fire.

Hello,
I'm on Anglesey, Grammaretto - which is where I have always felt at home.

Today I'm not on the beach though as am filling in the Attendance Allowance form for my mother-in-law! 😬
Now on page 31 of 52 - so the end is nigh!

Notspaghetti sounds like a lovely time apart from the cooking. Hopefully someone else’s turn tonight.
Grammaretto time with the grandchildren is precious isn’t it. Hope he does come and see you soon. Proud gran watching the concert I’ll bet,
I do hope the new lodgers are nice pleasant people who cause you no trouble.
Very hot there today. Not doing much

Kaimoana i wish your boys were closer too and your Gubbins who I expect is not little Gubbins anymore. Must be growing up now.

Where are you, roughly, NotSpag?

I was at a wonderful concert last night in Edinburgh where DGD was in the orchestra and DGS sitting beside me and I was able to catch up with his plans. He promised to drive out to see me on some practice runs for taking his test soon.

My new lodgers move in later today. I am slightly apprehensive but when I met them they seemed fine but it was only for 10 minutes. First impressions?

One of my Helpers has gone walking in the hills, the other is tidying and weeding my footpath.

I took one into a Department Store, John Lewis yesterday to buy knitting wool as she wants to make a scarf. We went to the haberdashery department , the name of which she found very amusing.

In Italy there are many shops selling wool and fabric, here very few.

Even I, who am a determined local shopper, resort to online shopping on occasions.

I hope you have another lovely day by the river Doodle. It sounds perfect.

I wish you could all be as lucky as I am today, knowing that 4 of my 5 adult children are close by.
Xx
Hugs to everyone.

Hello.
We are finally away with the family.
I envisaged a few days of rock pooling with the grandchildren (which I did do yesterday afternoon😍) but I volunteered to cook last night and so spent 2 hours chopping and stoning fruit in the morning and then "hosted" 17 of us for supper.

It was truly lovely to get into bed... where I still am!

What a lovely weekend you're having Doodle - it's nice to hear.
I wish my boys were near enough to visit.

Same old, same old here: knitting, listening to an audio book and (if I feel like it) a bit of domestic work here and there

Evening all. ….anyone there?
Had a lovely afternoon sitting by the river watching rowers and the birds. Quiet place with sun umbrella so not too hot.
Church tomorrow then both sons coming to see me. Looking forward to that.
Hope all are ok.

Grammaretto what a lovely place to visit.
You are going from one extreme to another. No lodger for a while then two new lodgers, two helpers and a friend. Full house indeed. The new helpers sound great especially if they cook. Lovely news of your two granddaughters. Hope your DGS gets on well with his test.
I went out with walking group this morning then stayed on for coffee and chat. Sat in the shade by the river and put the world to rights. This afternoon friend and I went to the hospice and were forced to buy (well it was on sale looking at us) two huge pieces of carrot cake. It was really nice. Very pleasant afternoon.
Kaimoana if I have a desert it’s usually plain ice cream Much as I liked the waffle it did make me feel far too full. Back to ice cream next time.

Hello Lobstars! 👋
How are you all?
I lost a post earlier but I daresay it's not so important.

I have been busy. I am also rather tired. I took my "girls" on a walk yesterday which was about 10km and included looking at Penicuik House where we saw a horse rider and a sea of blue flowers.

The new tenants are expected on Sunday and my friend who comes on Fridays asked if he can stay overnight as his Edinburgh flat has been taken over by visiting family. It's a full house.

Meanwhile I am dealing with the lease, the insurance and other necessary "paperwork". I am not very fond of trying to send documents via email.
There's more to do but at least the "girls" are cooking tonight.

It was my eldest DGD birthday yesterday. Her mum posted beautiful photos of her girl, who's 19.
I also heard that another DGD has been selected to play her flute in the Scottish youth orchestra. I didn't know she was auditioning!

Her brother is taking his driving test soon. I do know that! 😃

Ooooh Doodle what a treat !!

That’s a lovely thought Kaimoana thank you.
Ive been out to dinner tonight. I don’t often do that these days. I feel very full but only to be expected as I was tempted by a waffle with honeycomb and malteasers covered in chocolate sauce. 😱

These significant, special days are so painful Doodle and I am sure we are all holding you in our hearts with love as you struggle on.

Kia kaha as they say in Maori.

Literally it means 'be strong' but has a much deeper, spiritual meaning which implies, 'I/we are being strong alongside you.'

Old dears probably in their 70s used to stop me and admire the pram and reminisce!

Goodness Kaimoana I thought you meant the babies in their prams were hooked to the front of the bus. 🤣🤣
What a lovely story.
My dear mum who had emphysema from an early age told me that when the family lived at the top of a hill, the 80 year old neighbour had to push my brother in the pram back up the hill because my mum couldn’t do it.
Grammaretto posh chairs made me laugh too. I had a lovely silver cross for our boys. I loved pushing that around. I loved the fact it had huge wheels and was really bouncy. I had one of those white canopies with a fringe all round and a green lining to keep the sun out.
ixion I remember the drop down foot too. That made a pram more like a pushchair when the baby was older.
Well I’ve been going to sit fit and if the creaking groaning joints are anything to go by I think I’d better do seated cheer leading.
That’s a natty basket. I don’t think I had one on mine none of our grandchildren had a proper bouncy pram they we all in the buggy sort. Easier to get in the car but not half as much fun.
Been a bit sad today. I had a birthday card in the post (not till next week) it took me by surprise and made me sad thinking about Dh not being here for it. Went and had my haircut this afternoon so looking very shorn.

Trying again ...

A plethora of pram stories - lovely! Your photo was amazing, Kaimoana! Never have I seen anything like that before.
You stirred a long forgotten memory, Doodle, of the removable mid section of prams. Ours didn't have one, but my parents' one did. I'd forgotten clean about that. It was a (secondhand) pram which did me and subsequent siblings, which is why I remember it. It also had a dropdown foot. See picture I've no idea who the cutie might be🤐. And wicker basket!
As for 'our' basket, it looks like the one in the second photo and fixed in similar fashion.
HTH!

Seems you got off relatively lightly from Floris, Grammaretto.
I was wondering how your ?tea service wedding gift commission went? I expect you can't show us, sadly.

Doodle - Just a few days to brush up on our choreography for the ⚽️ season.
How are you shaping up? Hoping Cherry is priming the team hip flask for us, we need all the support and sustenance we can muster.

I loved poshchairs too!

It really made me smile!

Did you write poshchairs deliberately or was it a typo Kaimoana? Either way I love it. ❤️
I remember hearing that some prams are fitted with locks to deter theft.

We borrowed a pram for each baby.
They were all coachbuilt marmet or silvercross. One had a seat for the toddler but, like your experience, it once tipped and baby came flying out and was caught by a passing woman who told me she always put a heavy iron in the well to weigh it down. I didn't know what she was talking about. 😳

Recently I sold an old pram which I had bought for visiting grandchildren. I won't be having any more now.

No more storm here but I can't sleep 😕.

I love the pram photo and story.
What a hoot it would be to see that these days!

About prams.

I had a Pedigree 'high coach' pram for my firstborn. The well in the middle was packed with groceries when I went shopping.
We lived at the top of a long, steep hill so it was hard going on the way back and once, with shopping in the front of the pram as well, it tipped up as I negotiated a kerb and the baby rolled out with the cans of beans.

He was well swaddled so no damage except to my conscience!

Second baby, ten years later spent most of his travels in a sling around my neck as I was involved with Viet-namese refugees and with no car, walked everywhere.
Also it was easier to carry two big supermarket bags when baby was safe on my chest!

Don't let anyone tell you daily, hard exercise means weight loss – I did not shed an ounce but nor did I want to. It was the post-natal nurse who was obsseded with that sort of thing, weighing me as well as baby..

When I first came to NZ in the early 70's, public transport vehicles had hooks on the front, outside where Mums (or more often, the driver) would hook a pushchair. Of course they got wet in bad weather but we all carried towels and a cushion in our bags.

Some Mums worried their posh strollers would be ‘taken by mistake’ but I was never bothered, mine was a decent but old fashioned 2nd hand one.

Now, I see poshchairs so large only a huge SUV could accommodate them folded. Some look as if Mum could easily fit in beside baby.

Next step will be to fit a little motor so they are easier to push up hills!
I longed for that in the old days.