How is your day going?

The landscape is changing. While today was nice it is now zero outside.

The house is always warm and it is a priority for me.

Quiet Day at the mill, just been watching tv for the most part. I’ve applied to a local Advocacy group to work alongside me and help me get my voice heard so as I don’t have to battle my corner alone. I’ve still got the headache of trying to sort a LPA out, with no family or friends to act as someone who would act on my best interest wishes should I lose my mental faculties, neither do I have the ability to keep a legal representative on a retainer let alone pay to draw one one up with a Solicitor.
I then spent three hours helping my neighbour below me with some technical issues with her internet account,45 minutes on the phone, then sorted out a long standing volume issue for her on her tv (that a professional said some virgin media channels are known to be quiet and suggested a box to her) thankfully she is getting rid of virgin media tv, then tuned all her Freeview Channels on the tv ready for the change in Jan, moved her WiFi to an open area for better signal and unplugged a landline that she can’t use and didn’t need.

Good morning to everyone have bit off difficult with my knee not sure what wrong with it but very painful

Had snow overnight

0 degrees here

House freezing

Most of the rads don't work properly

I've had British gas on at me over debt

Wanting to put up my monthly dd to 356

Crazy

As normal I explained my situation to them many times

It's a waste of time as all they care about is money

I've no insulation in the house

I spoke to the green doctor in the summer re free insulation for loft and outside of the house, but never heard back

In the meantime I freeze

Oh wow, magnificent view! And the white lavender looks so cheerful :)

Hey

got a migraine, first in a while although they've been chronic since age 8 they have behaved more last 2 years.

waiting for More bloods at GP before they can give me something else for the swelling in my hands,wrists ankles and foot. Not sure why when they know from the previous ones it's rheumatoid arthritis The back of my hands have several rolls of excess skin caused by fluid it's horrible.

hope everyone has a good day.

I’ve just pulled a whiskey barrel planter from the cupboard and it started to fall apart 🤬 due to me being a plonker and bringing them inside a hot and cold flat it’s dried it out. Have it some gentle taps with a hammer and then leathered it with some quick drying varnish, hopefully it will persuade the wood to swell and close the gaps to the rings. Only issue I have now is I feel like I’m having hot flushes due to just doing that! Must be my age, fine vintage of 1983. Going to be fun using cardboard as a sled to get them down the stairs with me on the stairlift 😆 just hope for a clear day Sunday and I can get them filled up for the Winter.

I’ve put a thick layer of clear varnish on it, I’m going to dig some picture nails out of the wall and tack a few under the affected rings to support them. Hopefully the varnish will have acted as a binding agent alongside swelling the wood to support the rings

Good for you, getting one step done in the process! But then again, you are of course a very fine vintage of 1983 :)

Tomorrow is another day, or the next, right? No hurry.

just now and still flowering