Oh go on, I'll join you...
https://youtu.be/8aNkfOThccM?si=jZ54AgRTRCwKzcd6
Oh go on, I'll join you...
https://youtu.be/8aNkfOThccM?si=jZ54AgRTRCwKzcd6
Howdy cocktailers!
Long time since anyone posted - I do miss hearing from all your guys.
I have been very busy on t'other site, plus I have been very poorly with covid (again).
It's absolutely bucketing it down here, all the gardens are waterlogged. I have never seen such a miserable show of garden flowers, bedraggled roses - all the taller flowers are leggy searching for the sun and bent over with the strong winds we get here. East Anglia is flat, we have no hills or mountains to shelter from the winds.
Oh ... where is summer?
Hi Trish so to read you have not been well but happy to hear you have been busy on t'other side, I have been listing a few things but I will now be busy with packing the next few months, I have finally found somewhere to move to, I have been very lucky with my buyers who have been very patient, they are 1st timers so I think that helped, although I will have to do some work when I move in as the kitchen is a lot smaller than I am used to so will have to do some tweaking when I move in and live out of boxes until I can get the work done so it looks like a few years of struggle and strife.
Here's a few tunes for you a varied selection
https://youtu.be/EEPAF2StISo
https://youtu.be/vQ6LXJCp9IU
https://youtu.be/1k8craCGpgs
https://youtu.be/1vrEljMfXYo
https://youtu.be/pl3vxEudif8
https://youtu.be/dBN86y30Ufc
https://youtu.be/iOnWTBrFIh0
https://youtu.be/lDK9QqIzhwk
https://youtu.be/IT8XvzIfi4U
Last edited by yellerbelly; 16th June 2024 at 12:39 AM.
Hi there yeller,
Thanks for listing your music selections.
My two favourites were Willie Nelson (love him!) and Bob Marley (love him too!)
Well, I'm now into my 2nd week of antibiotics -
I thought that I could handle the coughing, headaches, tiredness and gasping for breath, but I got a strict telling off from the nurses when I went for my venesection last week. They made me promise to go to the doctors as they could hear my chest rattling away - how did I get Polycythemia AND Bronchiectasis? I was as fit as a flea a few years ago !
Sales have been really hectic for me on t'other side. I have had to force myself to keep up, starting early morning till late at night (much to my family's annoyance) !
Anyways, enough of that - I'm delighted to hear that you have at last found somewhere nice to move onto. Oh, I sure don't envy you with all the packing and living out of boxes. I'm sure once that you are settled in you will breathe a great sigh of relief !
I'm a football widow at the moment - my hubby is glued to his armchair watching all the Euro 24 games.
There is sooo much to do in the garden, although we do both have a go at it when we have time. I don't know where all the weeds are coming from. I know the rosebay willow herb weeds have blown in from the verge next to the road at the bottom of the lane - we saw all the little cotton wool seeds floating about like snowflakes !
Slugs and snails have decimated many plants and birds (especially blackbirds) have uprooted seedlings in pots. What with cats scratching up newly planted flowers and leaving the contents of their bowels exposed to flies, I'm beginning to think that we should pave over some of the gardens.
We are set for a lovely weekend, so I do hope that we will be able to enjoy some sunshine at long last. No rain forecast so we will have to get the hosepipe out - although we are on a water meter. Everything is bone dry and grass is yellowing already. The soil is rock hard, pulling up weeds is useless, they just snap at the base, they have to be dug up individually. Sooo tedious !
Well, as I was making my melts I heard this on the radio - oh, boy - did it get me going! My hips were a-swaying and feet were dancing away ! I dare you listen to this without joining in dancing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBs1MuGSAA
Now, put your feet up and get yourself a nice hot drink - relax and go to a lovely summer place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NU4sZ2Qp-Y
Hi Trish sorry to hear you are still not feeling well, I think it is my supplements I take that keep me going and a trip to the college for acupuncture once a month at the moment. When I move things will be easier no more travelling miles to shops, I will have a huge corner shop within walking distance for me, 'every little helps' save me on petrol, time etc, more time for my hobbies.
I have also been busy in my garden, taking cutting, repotting, splitting my lily of the valley, one thing I will not miss when I move will be having to clean up the leaves and helicopter blades (and new shoots) from the sycamore tree that overhangs my garden, could not stand another winter of it, went out earlier this morning though and had a little trip so taking it easy for an hour or two, garden is on a slope so I had it paved and raised beds built when I moved in and most of my plants are in pots so they will be coming with me, as for watering I am not on a meter, unfortunately, being on an ex MOD site we are tied to an MOD contract which was not disclosed and searches did not reveal, management company would bill when I and others purchased our properties, 15 months in the property and the goal posts were moved bill doubled so I pay for more than I use.
Pleased the weather is getting better went on my first day trip of the year with my sister yesterday and now wondering if I could manage a car boot this week to raise some funds, costlier area I am moving to, have been cutting back so much my clothes are so old they could find their way around without me, good job I go for classic lines.
Loved the tunes, had to laugh about the hips swaying, I was busy in the kitchen on Sunday evening and had my little tv on, BBC Northern Soul at the Proms and I am sure I heard my late mother shouting down "act your age".
Have a lovely weekend and a little something to keep you moving, just shows its not time to hang up our dancing shoes but it takes a little longer to get over it.
https://youtu.be/KEr7VG9tWMk
Hello!
Oh my goodness yeller, I did enjoy watching the dance competition.
Sally was the rightful winner, she was outstanding above all the rest.
Hope you managed to do a car boot, we used to do them regularly many years ago but neither of us have the strength nor will-power to get up at dawn and pack the car! We sure could do with getting rid of all the stuff we have stashed away in the garage and every cupboard/space in the house. A lot of it is the kids stuff from when their relationships broke up and they moved back home bringing with them the entire contents of their ex-homes and belongings, which they have never claimed!
Well after almost 2 weeks of suffering nausea and having a vile acidic taste in my mouth, the doctors surgery phoned to say that the antibiotics thay had given me (clarithromycin) were not adequate for the lung infection that I had. I was then put on yet another 2 weeks of new antibiotics (doxycycline) I have a week more to go. Not at all pleased, as I was told to avoid the sun as I would burn or get a rash due to the meds ... the hottest, sunniest week of the year and I'm cowering in the shade like a vampire at dawn. Can't even have a wee dram as alcohol is not advised.
Going to prepare the Sunday roast dinner now, might even watch some of the England Euro match later if no more sales come in from t'other side.
A it's summertime, here is something to get your feet a-tappin'!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM
What happened to summer?
I'm really fed up with this weather ... July - cold, windy and endless rain.
I have never seen so many slugs and snails - I have given up trying to plant flowers. I nurtured my marigold seeds until thet were big enough to be planted out into gardens/pots/tubs .... all that is left are the bare stalks. We are swarming with these slimy critters - there was even one half way up my kitchen window last night. Today, there were three big 4-5" Spanish slugs outside my front door crawling away from the garden, found four more in back garden. Hedgehogs won't eat them, they are too slimy.
I paid good money for nemaslug when all my daffodills were being devoured - waste of money. Didn't work at all.
Brassed off - roses gone brown and rotted before being in full bloom, tall flowers blown horizontal in winds, stunted growth on seedlings that should be big enough for pots because of lack of sun/warmth -
Well, that's my rant over!
I'm depressed, I need nice weather, being of a tropical nature!
Hi Trish hope you are feeling a little better now, the antibiotics you are taking I cannot take, (clarithromycin)is 1 of 16 on my notes at Drs I cannot be prescribed and doxycycline will have to be added as I was prescribed them for a chest infection earlier in the year and I had 3 of the rare symptoms so stopped taking them, luckily I had an appointment for acupuncture that week so I told them my problem for which they gave me treatment and within 2 days it had cleared up.
In answer to your question 'did I get to the car boot' in a word 'No' just could not be bothered, I don't have to get up early though as the one I attend now and again does not open until 12.30 and you have an hour to set up before they allow buyers to walk around.
I have not given up on my garden but as you say it is very poor this year, have been getting my plants ready to move and taking cutting of my roses.
Here's a few tunes that I have been singing along with on the car radio recently, some I have even managed to get the hips and shoulders going while driving along, even made a group of schoolkids snigger/smile when they saw this grey haired recycled teenager singing along with the music. But I added the Susan Boyle one I prefer this one to the the Stones version, My music taste is very varied. The Johnny Bristol one I had not heard for a while on the radio until today, although I have the album on Vinyl but packed up since last year ready to move.
https://youtu.be/cAQSZhazYk8
https://youtu.be/nqAvFx3NxUM?t=34
https://youtu.be/QDdAgJxdgcQ?t=154
https://youtu.be/ZJL4UGSbeFg?t=16
https://youtu.be/ulZQTrV8QlQ?t=193
https://youtu.be/okJXce7pTRQ?t=201
https://youtu.be/m6OgMEQ4ztw?t=69
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