Yawn Yawn, Wakey Wakey...!!!! MK8...

Aloha everyone,

After a night of rain the sun is trying to come out.

I'm still working on sorting out the details of our hols. I had to fill in some complicated forms from our surgery and all I wanted to know is whether there are any compulsory vaccination/tablets etc needed. The forms said that we'd need to have an appointment for them to go over everything and for them to give us advice about vacs, hygiene, mozzies etc. So, when I dropped the completed forms in to the surgery I pinned a letter to them saying that all I want to know is if anything is compulsory and I just want a call or email saying yes or no. I don't want to waste their time, or mine, for anything else. I hope they don't get too upset.

I've got the chiropractor coming this morning for my six weekly service . Then I'm in meetings all afternoon.

Moyra, I hope you get on with your new computer. I've been having trouble with this one for a month or two. It won't shut down when I tell it to and just hangs on trying to install updates. When I restart it I have to start in 'Safe Mode' and then tell it to restart. Otherwise it just freezes. It runsd OK if I leave it on all the time but gradually gets slower. I'm going to send it to hospital when we go away.

We had a lovely sunset yesterday.

Have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning all,how are we to day,on top form I hope,enjoy your day and please stay safe

 

Aloha everyone,

Well, I had an interesting meeting. We were working on planning for the effects on local infrastructure that some major, possible, developements nearby will have. There are plans for the developement of 3,000 houses on the south of the town, 10,000 houses on the north of the town and a new motorway junction - no planning permission applied for yet. The main problem is that although the developements will be part of the town they are on land governed by different authorities. The town is an individual District Council and the two housing developements are in two other District Councils.

None of the politicians in the three authorities are willing to say what they think because they're already planning their re-election campaigns for May 2015!!!!!!! They're scared to say anything until public consultation has happened as they don't want to alienate their voters.

Don't you just love politics?

It's nice and sunny this morning but not all that warm.

Friends coming round for coffee this morning and we're going out with other friends for lunch.

Have a great day

Aloha!

 

Loli, politics doesn't work . It muddles along from crisis to crisis through incompetence and mismanagement.

 

Hi Moyra thank you my friend

What's worse is that they have some understanding of real life,but they just don't care

 

Aloha everyone,

Moyra, I've got most of the problems sorted now. The nurse from our surgery phoned me yesterday and we had a long discussion about vaccinations and tablets. The flights are now booked (couldn't get them for when I wanted them ), accomodation booked, and it now leaves me to sort out how to get to see the things we want to see and do the things we want. It will depend on how inadvisable it will be to wander around on our own.

I've, finally, lifted all the runnerbean plants. It's much harder than it appears because they get so interwoven on the Shineyframe. I first cut all the stems at the root (lots of bending that my back doesn't like), then cut all the string that ties the canes together and the large amount of string that makes up the 'cat's cradle' of the ovehead Shineyframe. Then I struggle pulling all the canes out of the ground and use the secateurs to cut through the amazing amount of stems and branches that have interwoven (about 200 plants). I can then start to get the plants off the canes, cart the plants to the bonfire heap, clean the canes and stack them (another problem for me is bending and picking up the canes ). It took about three solid hours of work! I suppose that's not too bad when you think it comes down to about a minute per plant.

We had a good lunch out, at the pub, with our friends. I had a lovely piece of beer battered plaice fillet with chips and peas (wonderful light, crispy batter on a large piece of plaice), followed by plum tart and ice cream and tea. All for the enormous cost of £7.50

Keep warm, and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning Shiney ,Loli and all my other friends,its a real Autumn morning here,crisp white tinted grass and clear blue sky,enjoy your Saturday and have a lovely weekend

 

Yep! I've had my, first thing in the morning, four mugs of hot water, too.