Yawn Yawn, wakey wakey !! 2015 mk 2

Aloha everyone,

We certainly had some heavy rain at 4.30 a.m. but it's dry at the moment. According to the weather people we have a week of wet and windy weather to come.

The drive home went very smoothly and my car (good boy ) warned me of the overturned vehicle that was blocking the A1. So he took me around the problem on a nice scenic journey through Blyth. @lykewakewalker I bought my car (7 years ago) from a dealer near you that gave me a fantastic deal, with a bit of negotiation . It was Mill Garages, Harrogate . We did the deal over the phone, they gave me an extra £4,000 off (compared to all my local dealers) and delivered the car to me. Excellent service

I thought I would come home to a finished crop of beans as they were already coming to an end. I'd picked everything in sight so they didn't get too big and start to go to seed by the time we came home. It seems to have worked as I was able to pick 10lb of beans, but I'm not sure how much longer they will continue to crop.

There are dozens of large windfall cooking apples to pick up, the 'black' plums are ripe and pears need picking. So a lot of the day is already accounted for.

Sarafi wouldn't leave us alone and couldn't get enough cuddles (we're not sure whether he gets much in the way of cuddles at home ) and loved it when Mrs Shiney picked him up . When I was in the greenhouse picking chillies he was in and out of my legs and then jumped up on to the bench and got between me and the plants and stuck his head against my chest.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

He wasn't throwing it away. I was helping him make his quarterly quota. He got 1/4% bonus on all sales for the quarter as I brought his total up to the bonus level, with only one day to go. A grand total of 20% discount plus an additional £1,500 worth of extras. (I would never pay that for the extras!! )

 

Aloha everyone,

@lykewakewalker I'm pleased that I managed to alleviate your fears of a lapse in Yorkshire fiscal awareness.

It's brightening up out there now so I'll go out and continue harvesting. Picked loads of stuff yesterday.

We had another power cut yesterday . That's the fifth one in three weeks and the twelfth this year. I'm on first name terms with the staff at customer services at the power company . They now phone me with regular updates on progress by their engineers.

Although they got us back on power fairly quickly they haven't solved the problem . It was a fault in the very high power cable but they can't seem to be able to find it so they have rerouted the power for 6,000 homes. They had another fifty power poles to check by the time it got dark. If they still can't find I they will overfly the area by helicopter and use some highly sophisticated detection equipment to try and breaks or hotspots.

If they still can't find the fault (it could have been a tree branch falling across the lines and shorting out the system) they'll reconnect the system and hope for the best - but have emergency crews spaced out along the line with detection equipment.

I've had a bit of fun and games trying to renew my passport on line. They asked whether the photo in my current passport is a good likeness of me now. As it is, I ticked the box and was relieved that I didn't need to bother with getting photos done. When I printed out the Declaration that I was supposed to sign and send to hem it said they wanted two photos .

So I phoned them and asked them why, as I had ticked the box. The woman said everyone has to send the photos and I asked her what the purpose of the question was. She said she doesn't know but she's always getting people phoning and asking the same question . So I've complained to customer services about the, apparently, nonsensical question

I'm still catching up on paperwork after our holiday but I'm not getting into the swing of things yet .

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

@Zigs We're all here for you.