These were my Mother's Day flowers from Gabby. In a less than ideal Torquay pottery vase but at least they are upright and not sprawling.
My day started with a bill. A HUGE bill. The plumber's bill for coming out Christmas morning and doing a quick repair to the leaking UV system. It was just short of £300! It made me feel quite ill as I can't take that from my current account (especially after having to pay the heating boiler service bill of nearly £200 this month). That's from savings, which I try not to touch as a rule. I wrote back, telling him not to bother quoting for the shower (I've been waiting for that since Keith was alive), and saying how surprised I was at how much he had charged. Turns out it was for another repair too, from October - I'd forgotten that - but even so it wasn't cheap! My eye had fallen straight on the bottom line of the bill...
Anyway, the day DID improve as I drove down to Carms to see a quilting/horsey friend, and see her horses. That was lovely, to have horsey cuddles, though she gave me Polos for them and they were mobbing me for more! Her dogs were very friendly too and my clean jeans soon had muddy paw prints all over them! Ah well, what are washing machines for?!
Then I popped to my friend Pam (she lives next door) and had a natter and a cup of tea with her and caught up on all the news. I always visit her when I go to quilting group.
After that I drove back but went straight to Tesco and did a stocking up shop. Since when did Saxa salt start costing £1.80?! My fault for not going to Aldi first, but in my defence I needed the loo by then and Aldi doesn't have one. I stocked up on a few tins too, and a big bag of Easy Cook rice, and Earl Grey teabags were on offer, and I always get them whilst they are reduced as they are so expensive to start with. I will have to get used to "ordinary" tea I think. I need to start running down the freezer as it is full, and I had two big fish fingers for tea with a potato sliced thinly and tossed in olive oil. Very tasty with Tartare Sauce.
I checked the greenhouse and some of my Cosmos seeds have sprouted through. They are the only ones so far.
I had a cuppa and then went out and put rose feed around 2/3 of my roses. Since it is largely horse manure, the others can have horse manure muck heap, in fact they all can.
I have had an advert in the Co-op to try and sell Keith's mobility scooter. It's been there for months. Now some old boy wants to buy it (at far less than I'm asking but I did offer to knock £100 off but he wants it cheaper still). Anyway, he has looked it up on line and says it can be taken apart. He only has a TINY car, and even taken apart it would be too big lengthwise, and is SO heavy. The heaviest part (batteries I reckon) are 31 Kg. He was chasing me again yesterday, having viewed it on Saturday, and was saying something about it being a nice day so could he come over? Well, I suddenly realized the "nice day" bit meant he wanted to take it apart to see if he could get it in his car. No way, Jose! You buy it, you can play with it as long as you like, but no way am I letting you take it apart before you've paid for it in case we can't get it back together again! I will have to list it on Ebay or Gumtree. I think the latter might be easier.
Right, back to enjoy some more episodes of The Other Sister. I have cancelled Audible (which I had put on hold for 3 mths and it suddenly snuck back and I was a member again). Instead I have halved the outgoing and gone with Prime - History Play - which is free for 7 days and then £4.99 a month. I will see how good it is before committing. I love the history and archaeology programmes and especially enjoyed the other episodes of Alice Roberts in search of the Holy Grail which I watched last night (yet no mention of the Nanteos Cup, which surprized me). If not as good as I hope, then I shall go with History Hit. I know - it costs nearly the same as Audible, but tv is my relaxation on wet winter days and all evenings.
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