sunnyday Posted August 1 Author Posted August 1 Good morning - 'tis Friday How is everyone? Young Froglet - ouch 'Crochet Elbow' - hope it's improving with rest. Busy week here so now looking forward to a quieter weekend🤞 Have a good one x 1 1 Quote
louby loo Posted August 1 Posted August 1 Morning all, Busy day so far, had the GD for a sleep over. therefore already today- I have delivered 5 babies, given the full beauty treatment to 5 customers (including a bunnycorn, had various beauty treaments and hairdoos , been on hoilday twice.... and finished of with a trip to the (Real) vet! This does now mean I shall now be playing 'vets' all afternoon 😂 Have a good weekend all. 😊 PS. I did remember to take all the slides, clips and bows out before leaning the house! 1 2 Quote
SueFinanceManager Posted August 1 Posted August 1 Good afternoon gentle folk louby loo I feel quite exhausted after reading all that lol Survived my fun but very busy weekend last week so looking forward to a much quieter one this weekend. Have fun whatever you end up doing and hope the sun shines for you although the thunderstorm and big rain we had yesterday made hubby happy as he got a night of watering the veggies ⛈️ 3 Quote
Froglet Posted August 1 Posted August 1 Hello all, The elbow is a little better - I'm trying to do things for just short periods of time and give it lots of stretches and rests. Have made lots of progress on sorting the room of doom this week - including rediscovering the EYFS pink folder! A couple of walks round the park and a day catching up with a friend - nothing in particular for the weekend! Louby - you reminded me of when my nephew (now looking at universities) was little and I would have to play 'stories' with him and I was invariably the big bad wolf/giant/villain of the moment! 1 1 Quote
sunnyday Posted August 1 Author Posted August 1 On 01/08/2025 at 17:20, Froglet said: Hello all, The elbow is a little better - I'm trying to do things for just short periods of time and give it lots of stretches and rests. Have made lots of progress on sorting the room of doom this week - including rediscovering the EYFS pink folder! A couple of walks round the park and a day catching up with a friend - nothing in particular for the weekend! Louby - you reminded me of when my nephew (now looking at universities) was little and I would have to play 'stories' with him and I was invariably the big bad wolf/giant/villain of the moment! EYFS pink folder - that's a blast from the past! 🙃 2 Quote
Froglet Posted August 2 Posted August 2 I’m reading a lot more now I’ve finished at school and I’ve just finished ‘The List of Suspicious Things’ by Jennie Godfrey. Really good - definitely recommend if you haven’t already read. 2 Quote
sunnyday Posted August 2 Author Posted August 2 On 02/08/2025 at 13:58, Froglet said: I’m reading a lot more now I’ve finished at school and I’ve just finished ‘The List of Suspicious Things’ by Jennie Godfrey. Really good - definitely recommend if you haven’t already read. Lovely - thank you always good to have a recommendation 1 Quote
sunnyday Posted August 8 Author Posted August 8 Good morning - 'tis Friday! How is everyone? I have had another really busy week and am now looking forward to a bit of 'me time' today and over the weekend. Weather seems to be 'hotting up' again ☀️ Wishing a happy weekend to all x 2 Quote
louby loo Posted August 8 Posted August 8 Amost forgot it's Friday already! Nice balanced week for me activity wise, and off for a late lunch with my old school friend this afternoon. I'm trying to declutter the house - that's not acutally working out though.... I think I'm just adding to it! 😂 Have a good weekend everyone xx 3 Quote
sunnyday Posted August 8 Author Posted August 8 On 08/08/2025 at 10:17, louby loo said: I'm trying to declutter the house - that's not acutally working out though.... I think I'm just adding to it! 😂 Oh yes I know all about that a case of 'why did I even start this'! 🙃 At our singing group/choir on Tuesday the leader was telling us that her lap-top wasn't 'speaking to' her printer - I said "just let me know what you need, I can easily run off some song lyrics" - famous last words - my blessed printer has now thrown a hissy fit and at the moment I can't fulfil my promise - arrghh Quote
Froglet Posted August 9 Posted August 9 All ok here! Enjoy your me time Sunnyday and hope you get your printer sorted. Louby - I feel your pain, I am still decluttering my spare room. Some days it just feels like I move stuff around. Nothing in particular planned this weekend so a quiet one for me(more time for decluttering! 😉😂) 1 Quote
louby loo Posted August 9 Posted August 9 On 08/08/2025 at 13:31, sunnyday said: - famous last words - my blessed printer has now thrown a hissy fit and at the moment I can't fulfil my promise - arrghh That is the kind of thing that always happens with me! On 09/08/2025 at 10:14, Froglet said: I feel your pain, I am still decluttering my spare room. Some days it just feels like I move stuff around. Yep! I aways seem to be 'just moving stuff', either that or I have everyting spread out on the spare bed - then suddenly need it cleared so I quickly put it all in a big bag and out of sight! 2 Quote
Cait Posted August 11 Posted August 11 I take your ‘declutter’ and raise to you my late husband’s workroom, still to be tackled almost a year on 😕. There’s a double garage like this too, an attic and a loft, although that’s largely sorted except for the humongous LP collection. IMG_1693.mov 2 Quote
sunnyday Posted August 11 Author Posted August 11 On 11/08/2025 at 14:01, Cait said: I take your ‘declutter’ and raise to you my late husband’s workroom, still to be tackled almost a year on 😕. There’s a double garage like this too, an attic and a loft, although that’s largely sorted except for the humongous LP collection. IMG_1693.mov Oh Cait 😥 that's hard going... I do sigh when Mr S 'scrounges' yet more 'stuff' - usually wood and tools - knowing that (almost certainly) I will be faced with sorting at some point. If it helps, my late brother-in-law had loads and loads of 'specialist' books which my sister was able to give to Oxfam - she contacted them, told them (roughly) what was available and a very nice young man came and took two car loads away - they wouldn't be displayed in any shops but would be advertised and sold online... Good luck with it all x 1 Quote
Cait Posted August 11 Posted August 11 On 11/08/2025 at 14:43, sunnyday said: Oh Cait 😥 that's hard going... I do sigh when Mr S 'scrounges' yet more 'stuff' - usually wood and tools - knowing that (almost certainly) I will be faced with sorting at some point. If it helps, my late brother-in-law had loads and loads of 'specialist' books which my sister was able to give to Oxfam - she contacted them, told them (roughly) what was available and a very nice young man came and took two car loads away - they wouldn't be displayed in any shops but would be advertised and sold online... Good luck with it all x Newark air museum and Elvington air museum have been fabulous. The former took a load of books and well over 250 unmade aeroplane kits - many no longer produced. Elvington took a bomb rack, the machine gun rack from a Lancaster, various cockpit instruments from wartime planes and loads of books and ancient magazines. Cumbrian Railways association have taken a van load of track chairs, signs and signalling boards and diagrams, and North Yorkshire Moors Railway have taken railway track maintenance equipment, signal levers and the like, so the big stuff is largely gone. It’s down to books and research paperwork mainly now, well over 100 full ringbinders of research on the various old railways of Cumbria. They will go to the CRA eventually - there’s folk rubbing their hands to get hold of it, but our son very much wants to go through it all first. 1 3 Quote
Cait Posted August 11 Posted August 11 I’ve binned a lot of ‘could be handy’ bits of wood and chopped down cardboard boxes that he had stashed - actually filled the large paper recycling bin with those - it was quite cathartic wielding the Stanley knife to reduce them down to flat bits that would fit tidily in the bin 1 2 Quote
louby loo Posted August 11 Posted August 11 Well Cait it must be a hard task for you 😢 but you're doiong well. I came on here to tell you that I actually got rid of a sewing machine today, but now feel quite humble about my achievement.x 1 Quote
Cait Posted August 12 Posted August 12 On 11/08/2025 at 20:27, louby loo said: Well Cait it must be a hard task for you 😢 but you're doiong well. I came on here to tell you that I actually got rid of a sewing machine today, but now feel quite humble about my achievement.x What did you do with it? I have two old but working Berninas to part with but don’t know where to start with them. I thought about Facebook marketplace but not sure about strangers rocking up when I’m here alone Quote
louby loo Posted August 13 Posted August 13 On 12/08/2025 at 20:59, Cait said: What did you do with it? I have two old but working Berninas to part with but don’t know where to start with them. I thought about Facebook marketplace but not sure about strangers rocking up when I’m here alone I put it on our village facebook site for sale. I didn't actually want any money for it - but we have a lady who tries to take everything offfered free to resell! 🙄. The lady that had the maching made a charity donation when I said you could just have it. 😊 1 Quote
zigzag Posted August 13 Posted August 13 Cait that must be very very difficult going through and parting with your late husbands treasures. Sounds like you are doing well though. How fantastic that the museums and railway associations have taken some, lovely to think they have moved onto good homes. I’m sure your husband would approve. What is it with men and the whole this useless bit of rubbish might come in handy one day? My husband does this with bits of steel and wood. The thing he has most of though is rags! He can’t suffer to see me chuck an old duvet, pillow case, t-shirt etc. He has to have them! Even though he has bags and bags of them! And he really does not love decorating that much that he needs all those dust sheets! He’s just finished repainting the front porch and put new carpet tiles down BUT he’s been talking about doing that for FIVE YEARS! 2 Quote
sunnyday Posted August 13 Author Posted August 13 On 13/08/2025 at 15:56, zigzag said: Cait that must be very very difficult going through and parting with your late husbands treasures. Sounds like you are doing well though. How fantastic that the museums and railway associations have taken some, lovely to think they have moved onto good homes. I’m sure your husband would approve. What is it with men and the whole this useless bit of rubbish might come in handy one day? My husband does this with bits of steel and wood. The thing he has most of though is rags! He can’t suffer to see me chuck an old duvet, pillow case, t-shirt etc. He has to have them! Even though he has bags and bags of them! And he really does not love decorating that much that he needs all those dust sheets! He’s just finished repainting the front porch and put new carpet tiles down BUT he’s been talking about doing that for FIVE YEARS! Well - it doesn't pay to rush into things 🙃🤣 2 Quote
sunnyday Posted August 15 Author Posted August 15 Good morning - 'tis Friday Phew another hot day - am looking forward to the slightly lower temperatures that are forecast for the weekend... Hope everyone is okay? I have big news! Well it's big to me 🙃 I have a new granddog - he is a beautiful Labradoodle you may remember that my youngest son and DIL lost their very elderly Chocolate Lab - their remaining dog, Golden Retriever, went into a decline, he was so depressed...his new 'brother' has been life-changing for him, he is back to his usual happy self and of course, we are all head over heels in love with the new addition! 🐶❤️ Hope that the weekend is kind to all x 2 Quote
louby loo Posted August 15 Posted August 15 Cait- so very true. I have a job Ive been putting off for months now, I really should just do it! (It is a job that includes forgotten passwords, it will eith be easy or very stressful) 😩 How lovely for you Sunnyday 😊 We took the GC to one of the free viewing platforms up in London this week. They loved it- the excitment when they got out of the lift and saw the "whole of London" 😂 Have a good week everyone. We are off to the coast for a few days next week- and I'm glad it cooling down a bit. I'm not really a heat lover- to me 24 is hot! 1 1 Quote
Froglet Posted August 15 Posted August 15 Cait, that is such a tough job. I’m glad that there will be other enthusiasts that get to enjoy it. I have to admit to doing a fair bit of my own hoarding of ‘just in case’ bits - especially what I think of as ‘good cardboard boxes’! I have had the laziest of weeks - I’m hoping that it is the heat and that I haven’t actually become a sloth! Sunnyday - I am dog sitting a ‘something doodle’ next week (I can’t remember but she’s visited before and is lovely. 1 Quote
zigzag Posted August 15 Posted August 15 Sunnyday how lovely that the older dog now has a new lease of life. Dogs are so very special aren’t they. It’s become a joke in my family that I am turning into the mad dog women! (Proud to be) Hope everyone gets some cooler temperatures soon. Enjoy the weekend. 2 Quote
Cait Posted August 15 Posted August 15 We have smoke from the moorland fires, 5 miles away. This is looking in the opposite direction, away from the fires and towards the vale of York. As you can see, it’s pretty bad. We have to keep doors and windows closed. The fire is not accessible by fire engines easily, on the moorland, and it jumped the main road yesterday, the A171. It’s currently burning on an area owned by the MOD, and some unexploded ordinance went off yesterday, meaning the firefighters have had to back off. What a mess it all is. 1 2 Quote
Froglet Posted August 15 Posted August 15 On 15/08/2025 at 19:09, Cait said: Love the fire engine’s name Love that! I hadn’t realised fire engines got names! 1 Quote
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