🦞 The Lockdown Gang still chatting 🦞

NotSpaghetti. I think I will hold my nerve and see if in a few weeks it's still there and I still want it, I could offer less. I haven't sold mine yet and now the Summer has arrived even here in Scotland! people are on holiday and not moving house. 😟

I'm glad your house is cool.

I am having a very lazy day. Dead heading roses has been the major activity and wrapping a parcel and posting to DGS for his birthday.

I have the chiropractor later and then the final Gaelic class where she gives us all a quiz.

We are lucky here as our house is cool - if you don't go to the top floor...
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...which is NOT
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Can you simply offer less for the one you like Grammaretto?

I looked over the do-er upper again today with 2 friends.
They can both see why I like it but think it's too expensive if you factor in the cost of restoration.

Seeing as DD is insistent that it's truly awful, I may have to finally say goodbye.

When I came home I discovered that a cat had died in my garden. The girl who found it was quite upset. It had been sick and convulsing.
I wrapped it in a towel and took it to the vet who dealt with it.
The receptionist said someone will call me if they find an owner. It looked quite like the cat who likes my greenhouse but that one wears a collar.
Very sad anyway.

Sorry to hear it's been too hot to function properly Doodle. I would like it to warm up here but not that much.

That do-er upper must have your name all over it, Grammaretto.

What can you do to swing a sale?😉

Grammaretto it’s too hot for anything. Car is boiling if I get in it but far too hot to walk anywhere. There is no air. It’s just hot. Shouldn’t complain really but I find it totally draining.
Sat in my friends garden for a while this afternoon fully shaded but so so hot.
Ooh I wonder if that is a sign about your house. I don’t know what a note of interest is but it sounds positive. Hope it all works out for you.
Id never thought of putting my feet in a cool mat. Hope all the fluffy and furry friends are coping.

How are you Southerners coping in the heat I keep hearing about? It has missed us here. I am quite glad of that as sleeping is hard enough without coping with great heat.
My back is troublesome still.

I have had a note of interest on my house and the doer-upper is back on the market...
Much to worry about.

I have booked a roofer to take a look at the leak. My lodgers are on holiday so I hope to get it sorted before they come back.

I was at a lovely garden party yesterday amid roses and lush greenery. Such a great way to spend Midsummer.

When we had a cat, she would find the best places to sleep.

Ixion Strange you should say that as I was only looking at cool mats for cats last night! Apparently if cats refuse to use them they are very good for humans hot feet!! Did get our dog one but it was not received with any enthusiasm! Must admit Theo is coping quite well and searches out shady patches in the house or outside. Looking at them on Amazon last night I got so confused by all the different ones I gave up!!!

Much wilting here over the last couple of days, at least now with an end to end block of medical days, hers not his, I can look forward to putting my feet up. Today I have been armchair gardening. Filling, planning and moving tubs around and now waiting for the excitement of more plants to arrive.
Too hot for any craft activity.

I hope your ceiling is getting looked at prontissimo, Grammaretto. Can you distract your house viewers accordingly?

Another one who hopes we can connect with Kaimoana. We'll never give up when a DF has problems joining us.

Jan, does Theo have a cool mat? We bought one for Barney last year. He hasn't exactly fallen in love with it, but is obliged to sit on it when placed on his shaded garden chair. Failing that, Mr.I will sit on it - I don't know what his bottom does to the gel filling or what, if anything, the cooling gel does for his bottom 🫣

Thinking of - and missing - our lovely Dads on their special day 💐

DH’s birthday and Father’s Day today. Went to the hospice and had a lovely afternoon of memories of happier times with our family.
Hope all are surviving this heat. It makes me so lethargic

Oh Kaimoana this group wouldn’t be the same without you, We’ll have to find some way to keep in touch.
Grammaretto glad you had a nice day painting. Hope your Ds gets home safely.
Notsoaghetti and NFK thank you so much for trying to help Kaimoana we need to find a way.
Thinking caps on lobstars.

Wouldn't that be good if Kaimoana's. DS could help her to keep connected.
We miss her already 😞

The local art class asked to paint in my garden this morning. It was lovely. I joined in but not having painted for years, my efforts were dismal.

I enjoyed it. Our tutor is a Fife based artist who I knew when he was a baby but haven't seen since he was 2! His parents used to came to our Quaker meeting before they moved away.

I had another house viewing today but they didn't stay long. Their little children were very demanding. 😁

One of my first memories was tugging at DM's skirt and pulling her away from my kindergarten teacher with all the tugging power a 3 yr old could muster. I was trying to stop them talking. It didn't work but I was sympathetic today.

I tried to change the font to make it bigger, but it won't.

Kaimoana - get your son to have a look at this and see if it's compatible with your machine:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sensotec.knfbreader&pli=1

You are so sweet but the problem is my eyes and you can't change that. I can still, just about, see my special keyboard but not waht it produces and bigger is not better.
So I am resifning myself to giving up my PC.

This also means I cant pay bills, as I have for so long. My son is going to take over that duty but of course not this chat

I think I have pushed on further than I expected but I just cannot do it any longer.
I have loved and appreciated you all and what we have shared over the yars.
Much love, thanks and a few tears.
Lynda xxxxxxx

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I hope Kaimoana can keep connected. There must be a way.

Wonderful to hear that Jan and Nfk have met up 😊

My lodgers have just sent a photo of a leak in their bathroom ceiling! I can't do anything about it in the middle of the night.

My DS is caught up in an emergency at Edinburgh airport so his flight home has been delayed by hours. Poor chap and all the others.
It's caused by a stray abandoned rucksack I think. 😟

This is after I had a lovely day out on a bird watching trip in the Forth.

I wish for a quieter life.

There IS a way to record audio files to send as a Web link exactly as you might link to something else such as an article.

Maybe they could be sent by PM?
I will look tomorrow to see if I can find the info

Oh Kaimoana what a shame, I wonder how we could cope with this. I wonder if I could copy them and post them in an email to you. I don’t think you have to sort of phone we can leave messages on although you might.
So difficult. Anyone got any ideas what we can do. Big love and hugs from us all.
I sympathise with Theo. That’s how I feel too.

Doodle im sure your artwork is better than you admit although saying that I went to art class and my work was horrendous!
Yes it was great to catch up either way NFK. Another get together planned for September and who knows what inbetween! Would be so much easier if I could actually walk properly as at the moment its so difficult.
What can we do about Kaimoana? Its so difficult and so sad. We need somehow to change are writing into Braille but no idea how. Only other idea is to speak to Kiamoana out loud instead of writing but how?
Well its really hot today and looks like staying the same for quite a few days. Enjoy the warm everyone- this was Theos thoughts on how weather last evening

Ì am still her e but unable to see your posts. 🥲Listeni g to Natalie Haynes on Greek myths, excellent. No date yet for heart op. 🤔

Wow what lovely news. 😊. How lovely to think that two of the lobstars have met up in real life. Your little boat trips sounds great. Wish we could all have been with you. So nice to hear from your both NFK and Jan
Sorry the weather was wet Jan but an exciting time none the less.
I’ve been to art today. Hopeless as usual but the company was great. Church with friends this afternoon which was nice then walking group tomorrow. It’s all go here
Sleep well all

Well, hello! Thank you for remembering me ixion! It’s been a busy winter and I’ve still got the Open Gardens before life settles a bit but here I am. The house has been just about re-arranged and I’m now sleeping downstairs in what was the utility room. It does make sense - honest! I’ve just been fighting twitch/couch grass along the overgrown hedge. Bent double for too long and was frozen into place. I had to haul myself upright using the hedge. The garden will never be presentable in time. Pull weeds out in one bed and they’ve grown again in another.

Last week (I think - time flies) the incredible happened and Mrs and Mr Jan actually came to the museum and came for a chug up the river with us!! It was lovely to meet up at last if only for a short while - and the sun shone just for the day. Hopefully we can do it again some time.

I’ve speed read through half of this ‘new’ thread to catch up. Found two new gang members (Hello, pleased to meet you, I’m Nfk), got sidetracked by Omar Sharif (thank you Kaimoana, he had the same effect on me at 15 too), learned that Grammaretto is actually getting serious about moving (the house really is on the market?) although I’m not at all sure I believe it, and got confused with all the various body parts on all of you which are no longer functioning as they should. I’m so sorry NN that Luna is no longer with you apart from in spirit. It’s the hardest part. I also took a moment to reflect on how you all manage to stay so positive despite all that life has thrown at you and wonder at how well we all cope and have coped with all the losses and tragedies our lives have thrown at us. I think we’re all bloody marvellous! I’ll catch up with the rest later, there’s still a long way to go. I’m waiting for some stick-on mirrors to arrive. I can’t manage to get drill bits into a drill now but have discovered No More Nails. It’s wonderful stuff but I daren’t risk it with a mirror - It might give way and I don’t want the seven years bad luck!

Have a lovely day Jan!
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Ixion Yay - you are the winner! Shame theres no prize!! Yes NfkD! She says she will be in touch soon! Such a lovely lady and we had a lovely peaceful cruise along the Norfolk Broads!

NfkD, Jan?
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Good for you NotSpaghetti. Im up but still in pjs messing around on here and waiting for someone to guess my mystery friend! Think they are all still in bed! Lazy Lobstars!