TinaD
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Good morning. 6.3.
Clouds rolling in again. Oh joy.
Yesterday was a bit of a pain. Had just got dry and comfortable after sorting flood water/drains etc and felling part of a willow tree which had decided to split and shed branches over the herb bed, when a strange car arrived. A couple of people I hadn't seen for 7 years, the male having tested my electrics (for which he had invoiced and been paid). Wanted free legal advice. Why people expect me to sort their ruddy affairs out (for free) and not accept I have retired I do not know. So today I shall be stuck sorting through their paperwork as it is of course urgent - no time for them to instruct (and pay for) a local solicitor. Fortunately the quarry owner rang so I was able to urge them out of the door eventually - I had begun to think they had grown roots in the kitchen chairs.
Nipped over to the quarry and inspected sandstone - very nice, good price, delivery Friday. Had just settled down after dinner to watch antique road trip when the phone rings - the quarry again. Could they come now? The lorry was loaded and leavng it full over night was bad for its springs...So back out into the by now pleasantly dry evening to move car, trailer, etc to make space. Good thing I had gone to the "Hole in the wall" earlier so I could pay for my my gleaming golden pile of stones. Now need to organise a digger for next week end...
I swear if I can find one I am moving into a smallholding as far up the hills as a Himalayan monastery. It's either that or buy a pack of man-eating wolves. This is no place for a recluse.
On the good side the back held up and is now only muttering a bit rather than sending out "scream required" messages. Hopefully I shall find time to get the rest of the willow felled today - my phone line runs through its upper branches so I daren't leave it for a local feller who would inevitably drop it onto any future chance of reading @ColinUK on the operas.
Hope everyone has a good day.
Clouds rolling in again. Oh joy.
Yesterday was a bit of a pain. Had just got dry and comfortable after sorting flood water/drains etc and felling part of a willow tree which had decided to split and shed branches over the herb bed, when a strange car arrived. A couple of people I hadn't seen for 7 years, the male having tested my electrics (for which he had invoiced and been paid). Wanted free legal advice. Why people expect me to sort their ruddy affairs out (for free) and not accept I have retired I do not know. So today I shall be stuck sorting through their paperwork as it is of course urgent - no time for them to instruct (and pay for) a local solicitor. Fortunately the quarry owner rang so I was able to urge them out of the door eventually - I had begun to think they had grown roots in the kitchen chairs.
Nipped over to the quarry and inspected sandstone - very nice, good price, delivery Friday. Had just settled down after dinner to watch antique road trip when the phone rings - the quarry again. Could they come now? The lorry was loaded and leavng it full over night was bad for its springs...So back out into the by now pleasantly dry evening to move car, trailer, etc to make space. Good thing I had gone to the "Hole in the wall" earlier so I could pay for my my gleaming golden pile of stones. Now need to organise a digger for next week end...
I swear if I can find one I am moving into a smallholding as far up the hills as a Himalayan monastery. It's either that or buy a pack of man-eating wolves. This is no place for a recluse.
On the good side the back held up and is now only muttering a bit rather than sending out "scream required" messages. Hopefully I shall find time to get the rest of the willow felled today - my phone line runs through its upper branches so I daren't leave it for a local feller who would inevitably drop it onto any future chance of reading @ColinUK on the operas.
Hope everyone has a good day.