I am glad to report I am much MUCH more cheerful today. A good night's sleep helped, but just not being alone is the best thing. I do get so very lonely here. Rosie's first words on waking this morning: Glan-ma, light and cat!
The camera on my phone has a delay and every photo I took this morning so far has ended up wrong!
Ah well, she's gorgeous anyway!
The flood waters seem to be receding now, but I imagine the Cresselly Arms is going to be a huge clean-up job and of course, they can't get flood insurance. A tree branch took the window out . . .
Photo from Wales online yesterday . . .
Abergwili football pitch . . .
And here is an imponderable for you - how do cutlery draws get dirty when you are putting away only clean cutlery?
Also, Thrips (tiny black thunder flies) hatching in November? Not before, not here . . . but in Tam's bedroom, we have a hatching! Jen and vacuum cleaner heading upstairs now . . .
And not just cutlery drawers but drainers, next to the sink, that take clean washed dishes.
ReplyDeleteI have to put the drainer in the dishwasher every so often to clean it of grime and “bits” ! x
Ah yes, mine needs Slime Control set on to it now and again!
DeleteWe were a couple of hours from the flood gates having to be raised in town, but there's been nothing as severe here. I've often wondered how all the crumbs get into the cutlery tray, I mean it's not as though I stand eating sandwiches or cake while I'm putting the clean knives and forks away!!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever considered moving either into or on the edge of a village or small town, just so you have more people around you and less driving to do. Or would that be something totally alien to you?
This wasn't crumbs - it was tiny tiny black particles . . . sorted now anyway.
DeleteOh my goodness, no idea there had been so much rain over your way.
ReplyDeleteAs for cutlery drawers - no idea but it happens
Not too bad for us here in Builth, though the river came up quite high but didn't burst its banks this time. Carmarthen - Towy Valley - always gets it bad and the valley seems to draw the weather along it . . .
DeleteThat thought had crossed my mind but I know it’s sometimes the house which seems the least practical is the house that feeds your soul.
DeleteWhen my mother was widowed there was a lot of pressure for her to move somewhere more practical but she stood her ground, it was where she felt at peace.
Eventually it was she who decided to move into sheltered accommodation and perhaps because it was her decision she took to it like a duck to water. x
Glad you are feeling better today.
ReplyDeleteI know how my cutlery drawers get dirty - when I'm baking I often put my hands in and out of the drawer with flour, cocoa, sugar etc on my fingers ....... perhaps as you bake often it's the same for you 😀
Alison in Devon x
Much brighter today Alison. No, can't even say it was baking debris - just . . . dirt from somewhere! It was the section where there are things like ties for bags, two lots of chopsticks, metal BBQ skewers etc, so I don't know what it attracted.
DeleteAh Geograph, you will find good few of mine on there, nigh on 41000 now and still going. Might even see some from near you
ReplyDeleteOh well done. I shall have to look at my local squares then. That bridge square, if photographed today, would have an immense tree straddling the bridge and cracks IN said bridge . . . Not sure if they will shut it for repairs after removal of said tree.
DeleteThe weather is like famine or feast. All summer drought and now the heavens open. Glad you are much happier with visitors. You may want to look to the future when you are less able to garden and run a largish house.
ReplyDeleteThere have been thoughts in this direction.
DeleteWhat joy our granddaughters bring us. I don't know how cutlery drawers get mucky but they do. But no thrips here! Xx
ReplyDeleteThey do indeed. Today she bought me my fine felt tip pen - which she can open and put the lid back on - and said "Glanma open". Last night she said "where Lulu gone?" then, "there she is". She continues to hold the pen like a proper grown up - this is something which doesn't normally happen till 4 or 5 years! She is a delight.
ReplyDeleteThrips now vacuumed up and drawers clean . . . need to do the cupboards next!
Gosh you’ve had some rain, we’ve been still so dry here. It’s a worry for sure. Hahaha the cutlery drawer ‘bits’ is one of life’s mysteries! When I’m at work I open them and think ‘what the?!’ Fresh ground coffee is one of my bête noires - it gets everywhere! Xx Danette
ReplyDeleteThrips? Never heard the little buggers called that before, glad you’re in better spirits today m’dear
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