Good evening lovely ladies - she said, idly clapping her hands together and constantly missing a blasted mosquito which just won't leave me alone! Oh they are the bane of my life - obviously finding the evenings a bit chilly after such a warm day.
Well, I honestly couldn't ask for more kindness and concern shown towards my back. I am not in agony, thankfully. Just fed up with having to think before I do anything energetic. It feels a bit easier and I am doing my wonderful stretching exercises 3 times a day, and sitting here with an ice pack in my back, so hopefully all your good wishes will 'have me right' in the shortest of times. Thank you all xx
Have a lovely wedding, Yia - and don't forget the odd photo, please, of your carefully chosen outfit. Charley, little Duncan is possibly as concerned as the rest of us about Angela's life!
There' s a touch of The Argy about the atmosphere in the Kitchen this evening. (And yes, you know who you are, naughty peeps!) Better not get up to mischief whilst Doodle's away. I think she'd planned on saving most of the high jinks for a Christmas 'do' - so you don't want to peak too soon, Kitcheners.
Glad that there is better news of Mr soop, Mr muse and Mr Jax - are these men staging some sort of silent protest, do we think? Maybe they're tired of us grabbing all the injury time!
I read out your post to my DH, Ann and he said 'Aaaah!'. Wonder if you ever thought that your GD would be taking care of you, when you minded her as a tot.
I love the refined Sunday version of a Pub crawl that you've planned for your Stepfather, Urms.? What a great idea, he'll love that. It's so worthwhile spending time with people who know how to have fun and who are appreciative of your ideas and efforts. He sounds like a keeper! Glad to see you, Nannagarra!
GrannySomerset - hurrah, a post from you and thank you for your kind thoughts. I would think you probably need a new back by now. Hope you are still managing to find a bit of me-time if the weather's good or go out for a time just to clear your head and give yourself a break. Wishing hard that you're managing to get help when it's needed. x
Hope the leg is improving, Corner and any down in the dumps-itis has lifted. I expect you will have good and bad days for a while. Don't try to run before you can walk - and that's not irony. I think we can all be in a hurry to get our health back, but try to let your excellent Butler take the strain for a while longer (or at least on a bad day). No shame in that!
Syn, hopefully at this time of night you are sitting somewhere calmly - and not buried under fittings or furniture.
Tomorrow, someone is finally appearing to instal a new microwave and cooker hood chez nous. Talk about pulling hens' teeth - it would have been a lot easier. Don't think we'll try buying anything new for a while - it kind of took over our life for a couple of weeks. I'll never get the time back. Today I did manage to throw together some very nice fat scones (even if I do say so myself) for a dear friend, who said 'ooh scones, what a very English tea'. Well, it was - in the garden with my Granny's teapot, lots of bone china, an embroidered cloth, little slices of lemon, milk, Earl Grey (or Early Grey as my autocorrect WILL have it!), warm scones, strawberry jam, butter, and (sadly) crème fraîche - because we can't get thick cream and certainly not clotted cream here. But when I apologised for that, she said 'do say if you ever want me to bring you clotted cream from Switzerland, won't you'. See....seems you can get it everywhere but not in the South of France! Ah well. It was super delicious anyway. And, I'm afraid we encouraged her to put the jam on first, but hopefully Muse will never find out!
Sitting in the sun, listening to the birds and drinking tea - with the air scented with honeysuckle and eleagnus flowers, it's was strange to think it's already well into October.
Hope your day was a good one - and that all who had a frantic time are now getting the rest they need.
Best wishes and a big hug to those who need it and I hope tomorrow sees you with a spring in your step and plenty of hope in your hearts.
Sleep well, sweet dreams.
Nighty night. ?♀️?
