Yesterday we took ourselves off to Dobbies , mainly to get our free coffees for the month, but also to look for some things for the parcel for Australia.
Nice day for a change, it's usually blowy when we go there but wasn't yesterday. Very quiet too in there, change from last time when it was half term and absolutely heaving with kids running round everywhere.mostly couples looking round and enjoying their food in peace and quiet.
We had a good look round first and saw a few things that were good, we have already got their calendar but also got a nice pen for Ann, a book called time for tea, and a pack of christmassy napkins so the parcel is building up. Just need something for John and we will be sorted. So bauble done, and their parcel nearly done and that's it. Went for our coffees then I had a flat white and Vin had a latte with caramel flavour which he was pleased about because he got that free. After that we got our shopping and also went back for a colar for Jessie. Her old one she has had for two years now and was looking extremely fluffy and horrible. She now looks very smart, it is a nice reflective one, not that she goes out in the dark but it is easy to spot.
She just about raised her head up when we came home! I love the way she came running to the door to greet us...not!! She did rouse herself when it was cream cake time though!
Gosh the nights are drawing in fast and furious now. Poor little Jane must be feeling like a mole in a hole these days, she is on nights at the moment, so goes out to work when it is dark but at least she is coming home in the lighter morning. Hope the bus comes on time for her today, she was waiting ages yesterday.
We haven't been out today, but might tomorrow, somewhere for a coffee. Not sure where yet. Thursday Vin is planning to go and get a haircut,it's getting a bit long now, and Friday I have a podiatry appointment at the podiatry clinic Aintree.
Jessie is really used to the dark nights and actually doesn't wake Vin up too early either, so her body clock must be in tune already. She spent last night in front of the fire lying full length on the carpet. Best spot in the house!
Guess who's coming for cream cake, that is cream without the cakey stuff!
It was big weekend this last one. It was the anniversary of the end of the first world war, so a very big service at the Cenotaph in London and indeed all over the country with each area having its own type of service. There was a small one round at the war memorial as they do every year. We watched the one on the television and I must say it is very moving all the soldiers marching past with their wreaths and different stories. Being born just after the second world war in 1947 I have no memories of either wars but mu Mum did have a brother who served in the First one. His name was James and he fought all through that one, winning the Military medal but was killed in an accident just after while working in a barracks somewhere, electrocuted in fact. We still have the medal which his mother had made into a brooch actually.
Vin went for the papers this morning and also to buy some stamps from the post office next door. The lady asked him if he wanted Christmas ones but he declined. Wonder what they are this year.
Little Jessie has had a nice weekend in front of the fire when it was lit. She lies full stretch in front and only once did she get a bit too near, but when we shouted she moved back. Good girl.
Such a pretty girl I am. Waiting for my cream cake!
Yesterday we took ourselves off to the Costa in Formby for our coffees. When we arrived it was heaving but we found a table luckily where we normally go. The reason we went was because we had a final coupon left from the paper, this one for buy one get one free. He had a latte and I had a flat white, apparently with a new roast of coffee not that I could tell! Very nice though.
Stayed n today and played "doorbells", This morning the doorbell went so I waited for Vin to go and answer it, he didn't and I saw him in the garden so knocked on the window then it went again, and it was the postman with a parcel he had left next door, but all met at once. It was a parcel for me!! feel guilty now.
After lunch sitting up here the doorbell went again, not sure it was answered so I got up to go to the top of the stairs just after it went again, then the door opened and Vin came in, he said it was our neighbour,who couldn't find his key and was asking if we still had one. Then it went again same person to say he had found it. Vin was a bit cross with me because he has told me loads of times not to bother with the door and definitely not to go down, mostly because by the time I got there anyone would have gone. Sorry Vinny!
Wonder how little Jessie reacted to the doorbells going off, she hates them. No idea why, just one thing about her I suppose.
Getting tired waiting for my cream cake! None today, sorry baby!
Vin was planning to shift some bulbs today and do some bits in the garden, but by the time he was ready it started tipping down, absolutely pouring so nothing doing there. He did register the oven and the hob online which took a while but he got there. He had cut the serial numbers from the boxes that were left before he took them to the tip, fortunate because the one on the hob is under it!!! the oven one is on the door, but I wouldn't know how you would get the other one. Ah well!
Not gone out today which was fortunate given the weather, but might go somewhere tomorrow. We do have a coupon for a half price coffee which we have kept hold of, and is due up on the 11th of November so need to use it before then. Not losing the chance of getting money off a Costa!
Our lovely cat Jessie disappeared into the kitchen when we were having our lunch, and used her litter tray. To put it bluntly it stunk!!!filled two rooms so the air spray had to be used. She promptly came back through the middle room and then straight through to the front room where she has been ever since!! Very wise!
She will be back when the fire is going!
Too True!!
Guess what time it is!!
Thankyou Vin! He has just spent an age putting photos from his phone onto here for me, so I don't have to keep using the same ones that I have been using for eons.
We didn't go anywhere today, Vin had some things to do and I was online this morning just ferreting about really, checking on stuff.
Very grey today, it has looked like rain most of the day but nothing materialised as yet. Now the clocks went back the nights are really drawing in quite quickly.It is as I type this at a quarter to five getting extremely murky and black outside. Fortunately we did not hear any fireworks out last night, so nothing to disturb the princess from her slumbers. There don't seem to be as many around lijke there used to be. None over at the hotel where they used to have a big display each year, but nothing this one. Good job really because they were always very loud and used to frighten little Rusty who would hide under the table in the corner. Bless her!
My babies! not quite all of them there is one missing, getting ready for her night shift in Manchester probably.
Gosh! they do come round with monotonous regularity, fifty two each year and always on the same day, amazing that!
Quite overcast today, grey and very cloudy, no good for hanging out the washing. Vin has done the bedding this morning, swapped the old mattress protector for a brand new one and replaced the top quilt for the bigger one that we have.
The new cooker and hob is proving to be a big success, the old one was tending to burn things, especially the edges of pastry goods. His pizza last night was perfect, done exactly right, and no burnt edges which has been a problem for a long while now.
Little Jessie has been mainly in today and in fact all weekend, she has found the catnip mouse that used to belong to Rusty and Bobby and Tootsie had a good go at it too. Literally it must be years old, plus it is now totally black. It was a very pretty shade of pale green when bought from Culpepper in Bath.
Somebody's stoned! Not too much for some cream cake though!
