Wheels!

Th wheels in this case belong to a bicycle , a nice red racing bike to be exact. There had been a notice on our local facebook page about a spate of bicycle thefts in the village, and Vin had noticed a bike had been left in our entry. it had been there for a night and a day and hadn't moved so he went to thelocal shop after moving it to our garden for safety. The lady in the shop said that a woman had been in that morning and said it was taken from one of the local roads. He went down and knocked on a door and was pointed in the right direction. Turned out it belonged to a man over the road from her,  so he went to see, and found that it belonged to a man from that house. He was pleased to get it back and came down later to collect it,He said he didn't expect to see it again and it was worth hundreds of pounds. he had just spent £70 getting it done up in the bike repair shop. Very gererously gave Vin a bottle of whisky for his trouble. Guess he must have been very pleased! 

 August Bank Holiday today, supposed to be one of the coldest on record but it had dawned bright and sunny, although cool. Not I think a day for the beaches, maybe a walk with a nice warm coat on!Jessie would be alright I think she comes already equipped with a nice warm coat! She was up early this morning trying to wake her Daddy up, by crawling up his front slowly bit by bit and stroking his chest. He turned over though and she gave up till later. well it was pitch black!

She went back on her blanket till later!

Happy Birthday!

To our lovely Jane. whose Birthday it is today. All those years ago at eleven o'clock you had just come into the world. Wasn't awake to see you but your Daddy was thank goodness. A month early and weighing nine pounds! I think you would have walked out of the hospital if they had waited any longer. Now look at you, all grown up and a senior radiographer at M.R.I. Good for you.

Hope you enjoyed your meal out last night, sounded like you did. you like your burglars don't you. !! Quite a dull day here, at least the storms have gone and the rain, but they are having badf hurricane damage in Louisiana America, loads of people evacuated, definitely cooler here. rather have the cooler weather than the hot though.

On the news today is the hurricane in America, and which President will save America? Biden or Trump? Also the city centres that are like ghost towns because the office workers are working from home rather than going to work in towns and cities. All blamed on the virus. people working from home and getting used to it, so city centre shops are not getting the footfall.  Also the price of wool is fallng through the floor, so farmers apparently farmers are burning wool rather than selling it. 

 Jessie is again not bothered, as long as she gets her food from her Daddy nothing much concerns her.

Jessie says "Miaow" that's Jessie speak for Happy Birthday Jane XXX 

Stormy Weather!

 Very stormy last night and yesterday. A lot of rain, and extremely blustery winds. Sounds like something out of Winnie the Pooh!  We had been warned of approaching storms by the weather people yesterday, and they weren't wrong. vin said that it was bad all night and kept waking him up, I didn't notice that really, once the hearing aids come out I'm dead to the world.  Started off brighter this morning though, and only a little breezy, but going overcast too so maybe we are in for something else as well.

Vin has gone off to Tesco because as usual we have run out of food by this time, no fresh veggies anyway.  We had a nice mac/n/cheese last night with some green beans, and a bit of the tomato bread that he gets. 

Our Anniversary has been and gone as has Vin's 70th birthday, Jane's birthday tomorrow, thankfully she is not working. She usually tries to get her birthday off which is nice. 

Most of the news these days is about the wearing of masks, in sxchools, whether or not to wear them. Seems now to be a case of the children wearing them in corridors and on buses etc., but it remains to be seen what will really happen. This comes after the fiasco over the exam results too. Feel sorry for the kids this year, especially those who did not get the results they were expecting. 

Little Jessie meanwhile carries on as usual, the stormy weather doesn't bother her much at all.

Have you bought my foods?

Big Week.!

 Big week this week is! Firstly our wedding anniversary yesterday a big 46 years narried. Then it is Vin's birthday today, and he hits the big 70, where did that time go? and then it is Jane's birthday on  Thursday the 27th. What a week. Used to be great when we went to Disney we used to go somewhere for each celebration, but not so much here. At least Jane is off this week, so she can celebrate in Manchester.  We don't actually have anything planned for today which is a shame but it is the circumstances really preventing anything going on. 

Today Monday it was the podiatry man's visit and he came around ten o'clock, Did the dressings on my right foot and all seems well, he seems to think that it will be soon out of dressings and clear. After all these years that is good news. 

Jane sent a lovely card, with a great picture of her looking at a plate of Vin's pudding, which we only have on high days only really.  We did have one last night which was a lovely piece of cheesecake with chocolate ganache in it which melted in the mouth. A big treat and very nice too I must say. 

Nice day today too, lovely and sunny, it was quite cold last night but fine today. However, we are due for a storm apparently, we shall see.!

So, on this lovely sunny day, many many many Happies my lovely Vin. You are a star!

Mid-Week Again!

Wednesday dawns duller and cooler thenk goodness. Pleasant relief from all that scorching hot weather of the last week or so. Jessie seems happier in this cooler clime than the hot weather too, she was a bit under  for a couple of days but we think it was just the heat getting to her

Vin has taken himself off to Tesco for the weekly shop,  we tend to run out of food by this time each week. otherwise everything very boring and samey. Nowhere to go and nothing to do except usual stop in things. We haven't been out to Dobbies in an age, maybe even this year, after january certainly. We thought that we might have gone thisweek but then we saw on the local FB that there was grass cutting on the by-pass and that always means long delays so decided to put it off for a week or so. These strange times we are living in have certainly affeted what we do. After going for the blood test at Aintree last week we left nice and early and ordinarily we would have gone to Costa for a coffee but not this time unfortunately, we came home instead. Shame but there it is.

Somebody wke her Daddy up this morning at some ungodly hour it was still dark. Jumped up on the bed and climbed up his body and he had to put his hand on her to stop her from going on his face. Vin said she jumped off quite quickly didn't want feeding apparently, that came later when she jumped up the second time! What a madam!!

Rain Rain!

 Nice to have a bit of rain for a change, the air is a bit cooler today too which is lovely. it has been a bit too hot last week for us and it is quite hard to get cool, it is much easier to get warm than it is to cool down. 

Monday morning and it was the usual visit from my podiatry man who came at his normal time which is about nine thirtyish. bit later than that this morning but no matter, vin was ready for him. of curse as soon as the doorbell went Jessie disappeared like a streak of black and whit up the stairs. Apparently my foot is healing very nicely and he says that it shouldn't be long before the dressings will be able to be left off completely.  It has only been about four years of visits, operations and dressings at the clinic in Aintree, such a long time really. 

Vin will be back to his Wednesday shopping in Tesco this week, last week we went to Aintree for a blood test, and then a really quick visit to Tesco afterwards to get a couple of essentials. but not going anywhere this week. so back tonormal. 

I think Jessie is in her usual hidey hole under Jane's bed where she feels safe. No doubt she will come out later when hungry, after a good long restful sleep.

Back safe with her Daddy. 

Outing!

First time in ages. I had to get a blood test done so we decided to go yesterday. Left for Aintree at around half past ten and got there quite quickly. Vin parked outside the Elective care part of the hospital and walked me up to where they are done.  There was only one man waiting and as we got there the man can out of the blood test room and he got up to go with him so I was mext in.  Things done a bit differently, before we went into the corridor where the tests are done a nurst took our temperatures before and we were fine. Vin left me to go and park the car and actually i went straight in.  All masked obviously, got them from the front entrance. Came out of the test room to be told that there is a one way system turn right and first left door. put you outside the lifts. No sign of Vin so went down anyway. The lift door opened and there he was! he didn't have to move the car and we went straight out. One of the quickest procedures i have ever done there. 

Home then, via a little trip to Tesco in Formby to get a flan for tea and some sprinkles for Jessie.He has gone off to get the shopping this morning for the week instead. 

Really really hot weather here at the moment. Does not really make you want to go out. last night was so hot i couldn't get off to sleep and only slept in fits and starts, kept waking up because of the heat. What a country! Either pouring with rain or feezing cold and now a heatwave. A lot of flash floods in Scotland with a train being derailed when it hit a landslip. Three people were killed, the driver the conductor and one other passenger.   They seem to be blaming extreme weather conditions, causing the land slide, and the train went into it and de-railed. 

Jessie doesn't seem to be bothered by the heat, but she doesn't go out much anyway.  What she does do is find the coolest part of the house.

Keeping cool as I can. Just waiting for my cream a bit later on. No hurry!