Good morning everyone.

At the moment the sun is out and its looking lovely. They did say we could see sunshine through the wintry showers today.

A quiet day on the cards

Morning ladies, a very cold one here but no rain for a change. The wind is bitter though.

The heating engineer turned up yesterday lunchtime and made it worse, ended up with no heat in either heating zones front or back. So had to ring the housing association again who then rang the company who then contacted one of their top engineers who came at 8pm last night. He has ordered a new hallway thermostat controller and one new control valve (there's 2) then said he could 'fix it' so both zones run off the sam thermostat which is in the lounge. Which he did and said it would be about 1 or 2 weeks before someone would be back to fit theem. BUT when the living thermostat controller was set to turn off  the living room radiators they went off but it had no effect on zone 1 the front of the bungalow. So the heating for that zone stayed on all night and is still on. So I've gone from no heat to too much heat in the bedrooms/bathroom and hallway.  I turned down the thermostat valves on the radiators to try and cool it off but it's not made much difference. 

Rather than phone the housing association I will ring the company direct this morning and ask them if they can get the engineer that came last night to call me as he seems to be the only one that knows anything about the system, and ask him if its normal for the other zone to keep pushing out heat if its supposed to be controlled by one thermostat. 

Waiting on ASDA with my normal shop this morning, then DPD are coming with the dog's food as it was 65% off at Fetch.co.uk. This afternoon a twitter friend is calling in on her way back to Plymouth after spending a week in Penzance caring for her 90 yrs old father who has had pneumonia. 

So a busy day here. 
 

Good morning everyone

Bit cold here but not too bad, no Carol we've not had snow although we did have a few heavy hail showers over the last week. 

Making small needle felted teddies today, well one, they take ages to make. A Twitter friend called in on her way home to Plymouth yesterday from Penzance and brought me a beautiful handmade teddy, she makes and sells them for £140 each. It was a gift from her and another Twitter pal. He's gorgeous. 

My dog food came from fetch.co.uk yesterday, so have enough now for about 4 months, it was on offer and I saved just over £4 a box. I did get 15% off the cat's special biscuits, they'll arrive later today. She has special biscuit for bladder stones and furballs, so it's pretty expensive stuff. I was glad to get the discount off it. So she has enough for about 4 months too. 

Its a bit of a lump to pay out each time but buying it this way I do actually save a lot of money. 

I've just ordered 4 blueberry bushes online, 3 different blue blueberries and one pink blueberry. I already have half a dozen gooseberry bushes in the garden, so the blueberries will go inbetween those and make nice little shrubs with fruit to pick. The apple trees I have are ok, one is a very heavy cropper but the other one's not so good. The pear tree has never had any blossom or fruit on it and I lost one of the plum trees due to the waterlogged soil, the one that's left has never had blossom or fruit on it, and gets scabby leaves every year and looks awful so I'm going to try and dig that one up and bin it. My fig is doing well but gets windswept which blows the figs off before I can pick them pffft.  I do love gooseberries and blueberries.

Carol hope Brodie is ok, hopefully he'll pass anything he's swollen and he doesnt get a blockage. 

Keep warm everyone! 

Proper poorly

Good afternoon everyone

Sorry to hear you're poorly Diane, I hope you soon feel better. Plenty of hot milk with butter and brown sugar and a dash of whisky. I lived off that when I had bronchitis once. Can't remember much about it, think I used to put too much whisky in it 

Lovely day one minute here, hail and snow the next. Weird strange weather. It goes from a bright blue sky and sunshine to black sky almost like night then snow and hail. 

We're doomed! 

Well my Coronaggedon supply store is now complete. I can survive for up to 5-6 months on my supplies from everything to paracetamol to puppy pads, tinned foods to dried pasta, toothpaste to toilet rolls. Even got water treatment tablets incase it gets totally out of control and we can't get fresh water. I can use the water from the 3 waterbutts in the garden. LOL 

I wish really I could have a couple of chicken, but the nasty neighbour would report me. I could have had fresh eggs then. pffft.

Hope everyone is ok and keeping warm in this horrid weather. Enjoy your Saturday folks. x