Just wanted to share a bit of love and support today with this post. 💛

@Santosha12

Thank you for your post, it's helped me to look forward to today more than I did. 👍

You are obviously an animal lover like my partner and myself. We have a cat and a dog. 🐈🐕I'm the cat person, he's the dog person!

The weather here is just dull today but it's good to see our big shrubs in the back garden blooming (one yellow and one pink) and hear birds singing. I think that you must have the really lovely weather that we have had recently. 🌞

I hope those roofers next door soon finish the job altogether. I don't envy you! I do hope that you and your dogs can get into the garden today. 🤞

I wish you all the best whatever you do today and it's good to hear from you again. 😊

@Santosha12

Don't worry, I like being talked to! 😀

I'm glad your dogs were good and despite the noise you got a new roof 🏡

After a long fight with the Housing Association, we finally seem to be underway for having replacement UVPC windows for old, worn out wooden ones and for our far too expensive to run night storage heaters we are having a much more energy efficient, up to date replacement. About time too, the house is 25 to 30 years old! 😮

Thank you for telling me about the thread for National Puppy Day. I'll have a look at that. Our Jack Russell is 2 although I've got photos of when he was a puppy. You said pets, not just dogs so I could look out a photo of our 11 year old cat.

Take care and I hope to hear from you soon 😊 Do enjoy your day.

@Santosha12

I hope that you're feeling as well as you can. 😊

The weather is brighter than it's been here. I'm upstairs in bed (I've a bed downstairs too.) In the morning I always have to spend time getting myself to a point with the chronic fatigue where I have enough energy to get ready so I can go down to my partner and our cat and dog.🐈🐕A good time to write some posts though! 👍

I'm going to watch the Spring Statement this afternoon. 😒 Apparently we are going to get impact statements on what the cuts are going to be, including for the disabled. I wonder how honest they will be about that. 🤔 Not very, I would have thought.

However, on a more optimistic note, how are you and what are you likely to do with your day? 😊

It will be nice to hear from you. 👍

Aw thanks very much I've been peering out of window for the last 2 hrs looking out for tesco delivery as have to get dogs in crates it's all a bit of a palaver. It's been and gone now so going to settee very soon to watch Emmerdale and Coronation street.

I'm hoping for a bit of peace today. 5 people knocked unexpectedly yesterday 1. A roofer mithering (to be fair he was going to sweep up at back so grateful really but dogs were yapping their wotsits off giving me a headache. 2. A Virgin salesman trying to sell me broadband 😬 3. A neighbour with my letter posted to her in error 4. The postman trying to give me a parcel that's for someone else not me 🙄 and finally a man trying to squeeze leaflet re gutter cleaning into letterbox that's sealed up (I've a post box outside). I gave him a bit of a flea in the ear (well actually i nearly screamed 😂) by then poor man. I'd been trying to sleep all day there was no chance. The guttering man came at 315pm which I had candles burning for mum and dad anniversary of dad passing at exactly 315pm so his timing was pretty off. I might put a note on door today saying do not knock im on a tel appt. I've got to laugh otherwise I'll cry !! Aw I hope you have a great day and it's not exhausted you reading this ! Wes Streetings on at 1130 BBC Parliament and I think RR Spring Budget is tomorrow but I'll check. It's spitting here, I'll feel like spitting tomorrow at RR 😃. you take good care I'm going to move to settee and not move again 🙄🤣

I will be watching it and obviously I'm not looking forward to what may be in store for us.

@luvpink

Yes I will be watching the Spring Statement too. Nothing to look forward to, that's for certain. 😔 However, we do need to know what's going on.

@Santosha12

I apologise about the late message as you want an early night. It couldn't be avoided I'm afraid.

Everything is alright with me though.

You've made me smile again, that's for sure. 🤭 I liked the bit about posting that you'd won a chicken 🐔 and a lamb.🥩 😆

Sounds like you could do with a doorbell🔔instead of having people hammering on the door. Before I met my partner, nearly four years ago I lived on my own after my marriage broke up. My partner answers the door now, which is a real help 😌 but then, I hated answering the door to delivery people (I do all my shopping online due to my ill health) when I was feeling off. It was very much better than having to go to town to go shopping but theres few things worse than waking up, half asleep (with my hair sticking up) to answer the door 🚪 to someone giving me strange looks.

It's what you have to do when your ill, as you know but you would think I'd just landed in a UFO by the looks of some of them. 🛸😂 At least I can see the funny side of it.

I don't mind you asking. I live in the South West in Somerset. Where abouts do you live? I don't need to know what town, just the county like me, with Somerset.

That's nice, what you've said about me feeling better. Thank you. 👍 I hope that we both don't feel too down when we watch the Spring Statement tomorrow though. 🤬

It seems that if you're not getting gaslighted by the government or the local council, it's the NHS. It doesn't seem much to ask for people to be honest with you but they've all got their own agenda, with no respect for what you might need. 🙄

I hope that you've had a good day apart from that yourself. I've managed to get quite a bit done for me, I don't want my partner doing too much as he's disabled too and I like to feel useful when I can.

Do take care. 😊

Aw please don't apologise I'm ok being messaged anytime and never expect or never would be offended if I don't hear back. I'm just getting the hang of all this as sometimes I couldn't remember which thread I'd wrote something on and think I hadn't replied at all to someone but I'd never purposely do that.

Aw, l a doorbell. Duh. I've honestly never thought of that. I don't know how they get fitted/to electric? etc but I'll Google that, thanks for the idea, i cant do diy. My older dog trys to batter one of his sisters when he's made to jump so I crate him when I know someone's coming but a doorbell could be the answer.

What a lovely part of the world you live in, I've never been, always wanted to go to Glastonbury for the festival and Stonehenge but too late for me now I can't even get round the corner!

I'm in Cheshire but from Manchester but lived in London for 20 years before moving back up North but am a Mancunian through and through 🤣 cont'd....

Thank you for all the work you do giving us a space to be together online. It is so heart-warming knowing there's a safe place I can go.

@Santosha12

Thank you for what you've said about when I message, I do appreciate that. I just don't like looking as though I'm being inconsiderate, that's all.

I've suggested a doorbell and, well, most of the time it's a good idea but you still get those who will bang on the door like a bailiff! 😆 It does cut the number of people who do that down by a lot though. 👍 I've even put up a notice about ringing the doorbell instead of knocking on the door but I think that there are always some that are convinced that your doorbell can't possibly be working! 🤦🤭

By the way, do you mind me asking how many dogs you've got? It sounds like quite a few! 🐕 Our Jack Russell is very protective of us. The slightest disturbance at the front, never mind the doorbell and he's growling then barking like a rottweiler! 😂

All Jack Russells, I've know quite a few of them in my time, amaze me by being such a small dog but having the bark of a much bigger one! I'm sure they are big dogs in small bodies! 🐶💪Fearless too. 👍

I'm not a local. I've been in Somerset for 24 years, this year. I come from quite near to where you are living now in Cheshire, in North Staffordshire.

My partner is a Mancunian too! He then moved to Yorkshire then London and Birmingham before coming to live in the South West, then Somerset. It's a small world, as they say, you're both Northeners and I come from the neighbouring North Midlands. 😊

Somerset is truly beautiful but, even though I live here, I don't see anything like what I would like to see of it. 😞 As you rightly say, you can't get round the corner now, it's like that for me.

I'm afraid I'm ending this message on a grim note but I thought I'd better warn you. I expect you will be watching the Spring Statement, I certainly will be. In the Guardian this morning it says that the Treasury didn't approve of just having 6 billion pounds worth of cuts to disability benefits but wants another 1.6 billion, which they are going to announce today. 😱

It looks to be coming from the health element or top up of UC, the LCWRA. I expect you have that too as we're both unable to work. They want to freeze it until 2029 apparently (election year) As you've heard the (so called) government are going to slightly improve the basic rate of UC but it will still mean that our money will still have a another real terms cut. 🤬

I hope that I've done the right thing by telling you beforehand what to expect (that's if you don't know yourself already that is). I thought that it might be less of a blow to hear it from me this morning instead of directly from Robber Reeves, this afternoon, if you haven't heard about this yet.

We had better brace ourselves then. 😦

Message me at any time, especially if you want a good moan. Don't go keeping it to yourself! 😊