Delivery...

We had to stay in today because we were expecting a delivery from the Bullen's healthcare people. it usually comes at around lunchtime but you can never be sure. it did actually.  Everything on the list, now I seem to be well stocked up, in fact it is quite hard to find somewhere to store everything. The boxes are quite bulky and the other bits and bobs too but we have a chest outside the bathroom which is useful. Good job!!
Spent the morning doing the ironing waiting for the bell to ring. All the bedding needed doing which is a bit of a faff because it is cotton and gets creased but well worth doing. Looks lovely when it is done and on the bed. Have three sets so at least they don't have to be turned round in the day.
terrible wind last night. When we went to bed you could hear it whistling up the chimney breast, quite scary, we didn't have a fire last night, in fact we haven't had a fire for about a week now. Good job last night or the chimney would have caught.

There is a touch of Spring in the air round about at the moment. The Spirea in the front garden is beginning to get some colour and the trees and shrubs that we can see from the back windows starting to yellow up a bit. Very late though.

The three hanging baskets outside the back kitchen window are full of primroses Bless them. They have flowered through all of the terrible weather we have had. Sitting there with snow all over them, and they still come up with beautiful flowers. Gorgeous.
Tonight we are having:
Pasta with a sauce possible cheese
Mixed green vegetables
garlic bread for Vin.

What a grey day!!

Today it is a sort of grey day. Darkish when we woke up this morning, and stayed sort of like that all day. Looked like rain but nothing much materialised.
Margaret Thatchers funeral today so the news is full of it all. She has had a State funeral withThe Queen and Prince Phillip attending, plus assorted celebrities. Of course it was a good showcase for David Cameron who made the most of it. All over now thank goodness, the papers have been full of it for the past two weeks, page after page of comment, articles and photographs.  I still don't get why she had a State funeral..you would think she was a Royal.
Didn't go out again today. Nobody can get going enough to go anywhere, and lets face it there really isn't anywhere much to go from here. Vin took himself off to Tesco because we had run out of a few things including his coffee whitener etc., so he took his little list and got everything on it.                      

 These are some photos that vin took yesterday. The flowers are called Glory of the Snow. very apt, and a beautiful colour. they have survived all that horrible weather that we have had over the last few months. The daffodils in the barrel are looking particularly good this year, but very late. we think everything is about a month later than they should be.

You can see they are looking lovely at the moment, but they are usually in flower round about Mothers Day or at Easter which has well gone now.
Tonight we are having:
Baked Potatoes with baked beans for Vin and a bit of cheese for moi.
Maybe a pudding to follow, since we still have two creme brulees in the fridge.

Washing Day!!

My mum always used to do the washing on a Monday..then it would be hung around the house to dry in various places. must have been a nightmare of a job. All those cotton sheets to be washed and ironed, in the Winter. Now we have our washing machines and Tumble driers and steam irons and we still moan. So it is bedding day today since we didn't go out anywhere.
Quite a nice day today too, the sun is shinng and Vin has taken some pics of the Spring flowers which are out in full bloom but very late this year. The little daffodils in the barrel at the front of the house are tete-a-tete and are really lovely.

I still haven't got the hang of adding pics to this blog using the info given but will get there one day. Just wish the computer wasn't such a mystery. It seems to have a mind of its own and won't do what I need it to do. Vin says it is intuitive, but I just think my intuitionisn't that good yet. The words are jumping about and driving me mad now!!

Tonight we are having:

Escalope with potato croquettes

Mixed vegetableswith a sauce

                                                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warming Up!!

Definitely picking up a bit. So much so that we haven't had a fire for the last two nights. Presently the sun is shining and streaming through the windows in Jane's room, klovely and bright.
Vin had a bit of a television weekend. The picture was decidedly dodgy on friday after the digital retuning, so he was fiddling about with it, but wasn't really getting anywhere. The cnnections to the aerial box was faulty he decided, so on Saturday afternoon after another fruitless twiddling he went off to Maplins in Aintree to get another box. Came back, fitted it and Hey Presto it's working perfectly. Well done again Mr Fixit! What a clever man.
he went off to Crosby this morning got me a new battery for my roberts radio. It's a lovely old fashioned red roberts, always looks good and works perfectly.  Then he went to Sainsburys to get some veggies. Maybe we can get out somewhere tomorrow.
jane rang up just a few minutes ago, she is in the Children's hospital for two days this week, but isn't terribly impressed. Doesn't think she would like to work in there full time.
Tonight we are having:
Pizza left from last night,
A little bit of salad with tomatoes and avocado
Potato salad and pasta salad for Vin

Still Got Colds...

Grrr...hanging on in there. I think mine is going but I have an annoying tickly cough which is a pest. Vin's is still a bit chesty, but he says it is clearing up now.
He took himself off to tesco this morning since we had run out of a lot of things like milk etc., He went off with his list and got everything on it. terrific shopper he is now.
Odd phone call from the bank this morning..at least I thought it was.I didn't give out any details and queried who she was. She gave me a number to ring back which was for my bank but wasn't any good because none of the three phone choices fitted what I wanted. Anyway she rang back after lunch and it turned out it was to query a cheque that I had written withdrawing money from my account to put into an ISA. My signature was different from the one they had on file apparently. Probably because my writing is shaky these days. Aaah well it was put through anyway so that is done.
Tonight we are having:
Crispy quorn fillets
Chips 200grms
mushy peas for Vin and green beans for moi
Tartare sauce.

Bloomin Cold!!

We just don't sseem to be able to get rid of our colds at all. Firstly I had one which lasted around a day, the a bit later Vin got a really nasty dose which lasted about a week, and he is still coughing and spluttering. His went to his chest and really took hold poor lad. Then yesterday mine seemed to come back again but aa tickly throaatcough and sneezing. Can't believe it has rresurfaced. Feel very tired and a bit w3obbly today too.  Why do we keep getting these things. GO AWAY !!!!
So, we didn't go out anywhere today, and Vin spent the morning fiddling with the television in the middle room which is still not getting some of the major channels. You can get them on through the video hard drive but not on the ordinary television. I think he is beginning to come to the conclusion that it is the television and a blip on the software. I have no idea at a ll. It is a complete mystery to me, but I was never any good at technical things.
I was supposed to get a phone call from Bullens the healthcare people about my colostomy bag supplies but at the time to typing no-one has called.I'll ring them tomorrow if I don't heat by then.
Tonight we are having:
Crustless cheese and onion flan
A few baby potatoes sliced and sauteed
Small tin of spaghetti hoops. 
All out of the freezer and storecupboard!!

Blasted TV Channels!

Vin got up this morning to make the coffee as usual, and I thought he had been taking a long time. Just thought he was watching the news as he does. When he came back he said there was a problem with the televisions and there were no channels. All the screen was showing was "no signal" Apparently they have been twiddling the digital channels and everything has disappeared.
he actually spent the most of the morning tweaking and retuning teh tele in the middle room. The one in the kitchen he did quite quickly and the one in Jane's rom. The one in the middle room is our main one though and that proved to be more of a problem.  Thing is..there wasn't any warning, or anything telling you what to do. What are they playing at? Vin reckons it's all about money and selling more channels to mobile companies. probably right.
Poor Vin..he isn't a happy bunny at the moment. We've hardly been out for ages, he still has a cough and says he still has a sore throat, and that's a week now since his cold started. Oh Dear!
I got a parcel today from QVC also which was a pair of leggings that were miles too big. Grrrr!
Tonight we are having:
Pasta in a cheese sauce
 A few mushrooms to go with and a piece of garlic bread for Vin.