OneGuyFromBarlick

A change is as good as a rest Wendy, take the time while you can. Not easy when all your instincts are are telling you, you have to be there or other such feelings of responsibility. A walk will help to sort your head out, grab it while you have the opportunity. I take it Colin is on the mend?

Just back from a nice walk down Dodgsons Lane, past Fiddling Clough and Oakslack then into Earby by the youth hostel and back up the hill via Standridge Clough Lane. A lovely walk in sunshine this morning and no mud!!
Col is fine thanks Ian, building up his strength ready to start work on the kitchen in May.

Nice to hear Colin is doing OK. I have just ordered some more timber from Lanlee. Sally wants me to make another raised bed for the front garden. Plastic mesh for the lids out of stock but due in tomorrow. Planks and rails in stock so I have asked them to deliver when the mesh comes in. Should get the makings tomorrow or Wednesday. I'll put my cordless drill on charge.

If you run short of anything, particularly big wood screws, give me a shout. I shall never need them again and I have plenty!
Wrote the article yesterday and I feel much better! Gave the stove a good clean out as well after letting it go cold overnight. All the flues cleaned out and firebars de-clinkered. It won't need touching before next winter....

Dad, last time Burnley made the Premier League. He was chuffed. We think he has been blowing the ball from heaven this season

First thing today is raising the flag of St George on the Town Square flagpole.

That reminds me of a line from a Goon Show (yes, showing my age), Hercules Grytpype-Thynne querying of Eccles why the white flag he was carrying was so dirty. "Have you had it up a pole?" "Yes! And he didn't like it!"
(Nurse, the screens! Sorry about that...)

Yesterday I got a phone call from the GP surgery. I have a cancellation appointment today for minor surgery on my ankle. I got two nasty insect bites in the same spot , one in France and one in Venice a week later. It developed into a fibrous cyst which itches and rubs on my walking boots. Should be just a 15 minute job then out to lunch with the grandchildren. They all go home today. I shall be glad of the peace and quiet, they are so boisterous.

Good luck with it Sue.....

Sue, the cyst sounds a bit like a problem Mrs Tiz had a couple of years ago. After a day in the garden she had what she thought was a small `spell' in her hand, in the pad of skin between thumb and index finger. It couldn't be got out easily but it was small and we forgot about it. Eventually she ended up with a cyst that bled and needed a visit to hospital for minor surgery. I think it must have been either an insect's sting or a tiny plant thorn that was serrated in such a way that it worked itself further into the skin as her hand flexed.

5 minute job. Local anaesthetic, then scraped out. Not even a stitch. No pain at all. Glad it's done.

What a brave little Girl!

Hoping to get my bookkeeping job done this morning before heading off for afternoon visiting in Leeds.

You'll be wearing a groove in that road Wendy. Hope it's one of the better visits....

... catching up! Taken ages to deal with emails this morning.

I have discovered this wonderful diet. Eat what you want, have cakes, puddings afternoon and morning treats, glasses of wine every night after 8.00 pm and lose three pounds in 4 days. Oh yes forgot the bit about needing to have a two year old and a 5 year old to stay for a long weekend!

Sue wrote:I have discovered this wonderful diet. Eat what you want, have cakes, puddings afternoon and morning treats, glasses of wine every night after 8.00 pm and lose three pounds in 4 days. Oh yes forgot the bit about needing to have a two year old and a 5 year old to stay for a long weekend!

You make me laugh!

Today I shall be preparing for the visit of my cousin & her husband from Adelaide. The have cruised from there to Southampton & then will fly back. A celebration trip for her 70th & their golden wedding.

Shopping day today.... That's the way to travel Moh, by sea. If I ever go to Oz again it will be on a container boat to Fremantle.

Doing St George's Day on the Town Square; off to set up in a few minutes.

Off to Bradford photographic museum as we have a day with no commitments

Keeping an eye on the O'Sullivan/Perry match at the Crucible....

Sue wrote:Off to Bradford photographic museum as we have a day with no commitments

Take care where you park. I went in the multi storey near by and my car had the window smashed, and the radio stolen . Ruined a nice weekend.

I shall be preparing for a family party tomorrow - all cleaning done, brisket in slow cooker, remainder tomorrow.

We parked in an open, empty car park across the dual carriageway from the museum. We enjoyed all 4 hours we were there. Excellent.