OneGuyFromBarlick

Morning

What a beautiful day yesterday, it reached 24 degrees, though there was a stiff but warm breeze at St Malo. We are awake early for an early breakfast before we drive down to the ferry port. Have a good day all, hope you get some of this nice weather too

Morning Just the bathrooms and kitchen to tidy this morning, then its an omelette for lunch before we drive to St Malo where we will stay overnight. The ferry is an early start tomorrow but a relaxing 9 hour crossing. The weather forecast is very good indeed so we may sit out on deck. Then we shall ...

Morning My bit of gardening is finished, Bob wants to do some weed killing, otherwise our main purpose for coming is completed. There is very little cleaning to do as we have spent most of our time outside but today I will hoover upstairs and wash all the towels. Our little robot vacuum cleaner ( co...

Stanley wrote: ↑21 Apr 2026, 07:37 We shall be up early as we are expecting a delivery of heating oil
I'll bet that wasn't painless Sue!

You are right , luckily its only about once every three years we need to this , and it is cheaper ( despite present issues) after the winter. It was nearly 1000 euros

Morning We shall be up early as we are expecting a delivery of heating oil between 8 and 12. The only other plans I have today are to finish planting up my veggie plot. We bought loads of plants at the market yesterday and I managed to get the tomatoes planted with a small frame around them to suppo...

Morning A busy day yesterday. I fed the roses in the morning whilst Bob sorted out the automatic watering system for our pots of plants . After lunch we were having a short walk along the river when Joanne phoned to see if we were in. She arrived shortly after we got home and had a cuppa. She came t...

)Morning We had a good day on Friday visiting Porchester castle and a short walk along the coastai path. We then went and had a beer at the outlet centre and bought some jeans at the M&S there. The crossing in the evening was calm . We arrived at the house via the shops for a few essentials such...

Morning No cherry trees don’t last Stanley but we usually get a week of good blossom if its not too windy. We are lucky it reached that before we left, it will be over when we get back next weekend. We are in a Premier Inn near Oxford, we shall breakfast and I will do my daily Duolingo french before...

Our cherry tree today. I love this tree Yes fingers crossed

Morning Yes Stanley it was a very stressful and distressing morning, not helped by a very early start, leaving me with rather a nasty headache that would not clear. The afternoon was quieter but I chose not to swim even though we were back in plenty of time. We did our packing for our week away and ...

All good except for the nearly 4 hour wait with no one telling me what was happening. Bob was the first on the list we were told. It doesn’t do a lot for your stress levels when a nurse tells another patient that there is a delay because of a problem with the first patient….which turned out not to b...

Morning We were up at 5.45 am and on the road by 6.30. Bob has an appointment at Christies at 8.30am for the last of his 2 year checks. We were here by 7.30 and should be home by lunchtime. I have bought sandwiches ( and a coffee) at the M&S cafe so we can have an early lunch here if we need it ...

Morning This morning I shall have a two hour session with Maxine, as we postponed last week due to my cold ( or was it/is it hay fever, no one else caught it and my nasal symptoms respond to hayfever medication. It is the time of year for my hayfever) . This afternoon we have a covid vaccination and...

Evening

It was another early start for french in Haslingden and busy day, I forgot to write again. I will do better tomorrow

Bob's voluntary work for Model Engineers is very onerous..... (and expensive!) We're wet and windy here as well Sue. not a very cheerful Saturday. Morning Bob is the treasurer for the local club and the Northern association of clubs. He is also a boiler tester and runs the database of registered te...

Morning Its very wet and. Windy, dry later but its due to return. Bob is in Derby all day for a Model Engineers meeting. I have the morning to myself when I shall sort out my own sewing ready for a session with Maxine on Tuesday morning. Lucy is coming this afternoon as I am busy on a lot of Thursda...

Morning

Its Friday and the usual, Art and lunch out, thats about it. The forecast is cool, cloudy and dry. Hava good day all

Afternoon. Those cut edges need drawing together and the wound needs to be clean. Busy morning , we wanted to get to Burnley cemetery early before it started raining. As per the last couple of visits we bought flowers at Morrisons in Bacup but this week the choice was almost non existent, a very bad...

Stanley wrote: ↑08 Apr 2026, 08:39 Good luck with the leg Sue!
I have had my walk and done a little shop for milk and bleach....... Both essentials in my life!

I have to have a biopsy just for confirmation but the consultant thinks it is nothing to be concerned about .

Morning I wrote earlier but lost it. After our walk yesterday, i did a bit of gardening in the afternoon, planted a couple of things and removed a hibiscus shrub that I am giving to Wendy and Keith. This morning I have an appointment at a dermatology clinic to look at a blemish on my leg that I have...

Morning Just walked into Rochdale to bring Sundays takings for the train to the bank. It was a bumper day Yesterday was lovely. We finished our Pendle Mystery but Barley was heaving. The car park was full as were all roads leading in. All the way to Rough Lee My cold was fine yesterday but not so go...

Morning Yes Stanley I do take multivitamins and Codliver oil, but these will only help your immune system fight a cold not stop you getting one . I don’t know where I caught this one. Lucy had a cold two weeks ago but thats too long ago. It could have been at pilates, there are a lot of Primary scho...

Morning I see I did not write yesterday, my usual routine seems to have been disrupted. We were up and out early to go to Dunelm where we found different curtains that we liked. From there we walked into Rochdale to take an order back to M&S, stopping for a coffee before walking back to the car ...

Yes, It's a bit bleak up at Weir and gets worse as you go over the tops to Burnley. I remember watching a bloke build a house up on Deerplay and I always thought he was mad. There was nothing between him and the Atlantic to curb the wind.... I have just got up after almost four hours second sleep. ...

Morning The mammoth decorating task is finished. Today we will put the cupboard and its contents back and the room will return to comfort. Next stop Dunelm to look at curtains and cushion covers. After over 45 years of white walls we have gone coloured. The wallpaper on the chimney breast contains t...