Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 3 September 2017

dibnlib said:

LINDY   Chinese whispers , do you think?  Glad all is well with your son and his family.

Annette - The perils of air travel booking! - We book by looking online, then going to a travel Agent to get them to sort it out for us.  But it is a minefield, working out the fares.

Yes, it's my shopping and cinema going Friend: we used to often include a neighbour of hers in our outings but the poor woman died quite suddenly of a cancer which was very aggressive only a few years ago. Another friend of both of us moved south, so it's often just the two of us, now. We've known each other for nearly 40 years so get along very well!

Heather B said:

One can't help but wonder about those early settlers, their hopes and dreams. (Even if they did ignore advice and thought that they could eke a living from land beyond the rain line).

Actually it was the government who ignored advice and opened up the land to be surveyed and then sold it on credit. A better outcome where our next bus trip is going. There, within the Line, farming was & is successful.

Food shopping this morn. Nanny duty pm.

Good Morning. Dull and grey here. 

Good luck with your nanny duty, AQ!   Enjoying your photos and descriptions.

I've got errands to rush around again, and a visit to Friend at home.

Here's today's pic:   dogs again!

A wheel of trouble!

Good morning. It is quite cool here today and I would be tempted to put the heating on if I wasn't going through to Elgin. My train leaves here at 1057.

Thanks, AQ for putting me right about Goyder's Line.

ANNETTE - I hope that all goes well with your ticket booking. I agree about the prices and the sometimes sneaky way that airlines make their money. The latest that I have read on Skytrax etc is that even if you book two tickets at the same time ie for husband and wife - some airlines don't allocate seats together. Then, of course, you have to pay a fee for changing your seat.

I bit the bullet last evening and contacted my 'garden man' to ask advice about felling three of the fruit trees. He will come by and speak to me about it. Whatever sentiment there is (and there is a lot, as you know) I must be practical if I am to stay in this house. I can't just leave the back grass covered with fallen leaves which require clearing up all the time from Late Spring until Autumn. I can't leave them to mulch as they would suffocate the grass. I know that gardening is like housework - never ending - but I get no pleasure from endless raking and sweeping. I suppose that I am not a proper gardener! I'm a snipper and weeder and love flowers more than massive trees that in any case, must block out a lot of light. My son in law said that my OH must have missed all the trees from the big estates that he lived on, all his working life so tried to replace them here, in this small garden!

Anyway, must fly. Have a good day, all.

PS I looked up the Caorunn Rowan, WENDY. It appears to be a cocktail. Am I correct or have I missed something?

Busy week this week – diary full of varied appointments (medical and pleasure) and keeping up with freezing garden produce.  Must use this opportunity to answer a few questions in your posts – good to read them all.

LINDA – pleased to see all was well with the younger family when you dashed off to see them.  Your friend is doing well walking without support.  I attempted to replace crutches with sticks this morning – can do it, but too wobbly for going anywhere, so shall just practice at home on good days!

HEATHER – we grow Gardener’s Delight tomatoes – small fruits; usually from seed but this year OH bought the plants at a small nursery on the high street.  For runner beans, we grow the old favourite Scarlet Emperor from seed.  I hope Elgin is going well – back tonight, or sleeping over?  I hope you and the garden man can get things how you want them – which tree are you keeping?

We had a busy morning and will have a quieter afternoon as we are out this evening for our first club meeting of the new season for General Interest Group at Gretna – AGM, competition evening and shared supper.  Tomorrow I have at last got my occupational therapy appointment for new hand/wrist splints; OH is going to a history lecture at the town museum in the evening, but I can’t cope with more than one thing in a day, so that is when I shall probably post again.

See that you're back to a busy schedule, OG! Hope the wrist splints appointment goes OK.

I popped in to see Friend: she has cut down on the morphine which helps with her Warfarin levels - one thing always affects another! She's had a minor eye infection, so is busily putting in ointment 4 times a day. Off to see her regular physiotherapist tomorrow, she's very pleased with her progress.

I've rushed around, trying to get my errands done. These days I'm happy if I get three quarters of my items sorted! Bought some more (expensive) ink for our printer, as several things need printing off.

Hope everyone on here is having either a lazy or a productive day!

Lindybird said:

Here's today's pic:   dogs again!

A wheel of trouble!

LOL!!