Good morning everyone, another lovely day forecast.

Yes Diane he's done wonders, such a fast worker too. He has arrived already and making a start. He'll be finished on Friday just a few bits to do then and take all the old porch away to the tip.   The pond is staying where it is now Diane, as the summer room is bigger than the old porch was so there's no room for the pond and I quite like it where it is. 

Off to check out roller blinds now, want a 5ft and 2ft for out there for when the sun beats down on the glass. And need to get a slimline waterrbutt and some external poly filler for a hole out the front of the bungalow.

Enjoy your day everyone 
xxx

Good morning everyone.

It's a lovely day here.

Paul, Maya and Lola are coming over for a picnic in the local woods.  I better scramble and get it done  

Evening/Morning everyone. 

Just off to bed and realised I'd not posted in here hoops.
Starry the summer room is all finished, I painted the bungalow wall now it's in the new summer room as it looked a bit tired looking. I've got the vinyl to lay tomorrow, it's a sort of distressed oak in shades of grey, and I have 2 grey Venetian blinds for the windows. I was after rollers but could only get the 59" one online and didn't fancy that as it would probably get damaged in the post so went to a local shop and got one and a 2ft one for the little window. I'll put those up Tuesday. Bob the builder did show me where he'd put a couple of extra cross timbers near the top edges of the windows ready for blind fixings so hopefully I'll get the fixings into those and not miss them altogether lol I'm a bit apprehensive about drilling the plastic. 

Once the blinds are up thats all the jobs for the porch done. 
Next jobs are move some plants from around the big pond as the edging has sunk for some reason, put more compost in to build it up and then take the huge water lily out and split off a small piece to go back in and put the rest on Freckle, empty the pond and clean it out then refill it and put the fish back in. Got to get a new pond pump as the current one gas up the ghost about 6months ago. I think it just needs a new impeller but it's such a faff to strip the pump down and change that it's easier to just get a new pump. Unless I can get someone to do it for me. 

And finally the last job is to make a 6ft x 5ft timber frame to go around the little pond so I can fill it with soil between the frame and the pond and plant it up as I can't get the log roll to look any good as there's nothing to fix it it and the pond just looks stupid without it sticking out of the ground about 10". 

Once all those jobs are done it's just basic weeding and tidying up the rest of the garden and the front garden and cutting the lawns.

Just done my food shop for Tuesday, trying a 6 to 7pm delivery as the St Austell manageress reckons thats the best time because they have restocked by then. Let's hope she's right. I expect I'll go back to the 9-10am slot if this one doesnt work out. 

 

Afternoon everyone, well form a damp start it's turned out really warm and dry. I laid the vinyl today, and it almost killed me. I hate getting old, you think you can do the same as you used to then find out you can't. It's done so now only the blinds to fit, but won't be doing them today as I'm worn out after that! 

Yes Diane it'll be nice to get the garden back into some sort of order. After I had that BCC removed from my shoulder I couldnt dig or do much at all for almost 2yrs so everything got out of hand. My shoulder's still not 100% and the doc said the other day it will never be as good as it was before the surgery as they had to remove so much muscle. If that useless Clays Practice had sent me to get it checked out 8yrs earlier it wouldn't have been such a big operation. 

I went with Chloe to the ST Columb animal hospital yesterday with her 15yr old little dog. If it were mine I'd have it euthanised but Chloe won't hear of it. Chloe drove her car as she wasn't sure how to get there now the bypass has been built so I sat in the passenger seat with the ancient pet on my lap.  As usual for that vet's they talked her into have an ultrasound and blood tests and she ended up paying another £400 plus. It's all about the money there. I'm glad I left and went to the new practice as it's a fraction of the cost but I miss my old vet Helen as she was lovely. 

Anyway on the way back to mine Chloe was all over the road, as she was on the way to the vets. There were queues of cars behind us and right behind us was one of those huge coaches who kept tooting his horn as she was weaving about in the road and only doing about 25-30mph. It was embarrassing but it was scary! She reckons she's a good driver but she shouldn't be on the road. I was glad to get back in one piece.  Today she has an appointment at the fracture clinic and Jackie is taking her, she'll be glad when Chloe's been seen and she can drop her back home again as she is driving everyone loopy lately. I swear she's getting dementia, or got it. 

I hope you all managed to get some fresh air today and iit wasn't too bad for you weatherwise. 

Good afternoon everyone, well after a drab grey start with overnight rain it turned out a stonker, really hot. I was going to mow the big lawn as it's a bit long for Bubba (the baby robot mower) and the big robot is still out of action. I went to bed last night at 9pm as I was completely shattered and fell asleep within seconds and slept through til 7.30am.

There was a tiny leak in the new porch on the base one side, and I'd texted Bob to let him know and he came out lunchtime and saw he'd missed a little tiny bit of silicone on the base where it joins the door threshold. Not any bigger than a 5p piece but big enough to let water in. That side of the porch is level with the slabs, whereas the other sides over hang them by about 3" but it wasn't possible to do that on this particular side. I thought there might be problems. Anyway it's all filled in now and he's gone right round the base to check he hasn't missed anywhere else. Phew! He was impressed with my vinyl laying skills LOL Offered me a job! erm... don't think I'll take him up on it. 

Today I've not done much. Fixed the large solar panel to the new trellis fence around the little pond so the fountain is now working to aerate the water for the fish. Then decided to do some laundry, so the first load is in the drier as I'm too lazy to open the rotary and hang it out and the second lot is in the washing machine. I do have my upright airer out in the sun and put a couple of tops and a pair of summer trousers on it. Now the porch is done and a lot bigger than the last one there is room to stand it out there, which I may do when I bring it in later. 

Well I took the St Austell ASDA Manager's advice and ordered my weekly delivery for 6-7pm tonight. Just had the receipt email and there's still 5 subs. So 4 of those are going back with the driver. I think it's worse having a later delivery than an early one. The dates will be longer but the amount of items out of stock or unavailable for some other reason is still poor.  You'd think the supermarkets would order more products in over the summer months to compensate. We have 3.5million more people in Cornwall from May to end of September   yet the supermarkets still run out of stock. Madness and bad planning. 

It's gone all dark and foreboding looking outside now eek.