Good morning everyone.

Its dry, cloudy and windy here.

I'm going to give my jab a go. Flu, not Covid, that's next week.  It's weird - I had them all booked in early October, one each week for three weeks and it all went topsy turvy.  Then I'm off food shopping to Sainsburys for a change as that will be closer to the pharmacy.  

Glad to hear you are beginning feel a little better Hazel.

Morning all. Thanks both for best wishes. 

I was going in the garden today to do a bit of tidying up, tons of leaves to sweep up, pruning etc. But it was so windy first thing I decided not to bother but the winds dropped a bit now. I've washed the throws and dog blankets etc off the sofa and the sofa and armchair cover (just drapes over the top, seat and arms). 

This morning I'll make my bread. I made it in the bread machine last week but it took over 3 hours!!!!!! I'd forgotten how long it took, and the loaf was huge so had gone stale before I got round to finishing it. Plus it was very crumbly and I ended up with crumbs everywhere. When it's cooked in the air fryer its much quicker, half an hour to rise and half an hour to bake. Plus the 2 loaves one bread mix makes are a much better size (500gm each). So the slices are firm and hardly any crumb and the size is perfect, and it's just better. I dont know who thought up cooking bread in an air fryer but it's a life changer.  I was in M&S yesterday afternoon and looked at their bread mixes and got a couple of Foccacia and Ciabatta ones. No air fryer instructions on the packets but there's none on all the other mixes either so will cook these in the air fryer the same as the other mixes I've tried. 

I've not had my jabs yet. I'm not sure if I want the flu one, I definitely don't want the norovirus one and I don't want the covid one either as I don't believe it does any good at all. Everyone I know caught covid after having their jabs and those that didn't are having side effects still. 

Morning/afternoon all. 

Was lovely and sunny first thing but getting increasingly greyer as the day's going on. The leaves need raking up on the lawn and the lawn needs cutting again. It's too wet for the little robot to get out there, his wheels will get clogged up with the worm hills and mud. The grass seems to be quite thread bare in patches since they did the drain pipes to carry it away (which isn't very successful) and I think it's where the water is also now diverting around the pipes and flowing across another area of the lawn as well. Hopefully it'll thicken up in the Spring. Like yours Starry, it's growing like mad with this weather. 

I've just ordered some non stick metal 1lb loaf tins from Amazon for the air fryer, the silicone ones are ok but as the bread rises it presses the sides out and you end up with a slightly strange shaped loaf. lol I'm going over to Chloe sometime next week to show her how to do bread in her air fryer, she's got the same one as me, the twin drawer one so I'll take my silicone bread pans over. 

Our friend Suzanne is going home today after her stroke. The daughter is adamant she's not going into the smaller hospital for rehab or into a care home. So she's taking her home and asked Chloe and Jackie to stay with her while she goes to work. She has plans to convert the garage at her house into an annexe with 2 bedrooms (one for Suzanne and one for her youngest sone who's 12) with bathroom and kitchenette. But for now expects Suzannes friends to baby sit her while she (daughter) goes to work. 

The daughter's also applying for carers allowance, attendance allowance for her mother, and once the annexe is done will move Suzanne into that. However, she's not applying for planning or building regs and said no-one will report her and thinks she'll get away with it. She then wants to rent Suzannes house out for about £800-£900 a month and pocket the money for looking after her mother. But and this is the thing, the daughter is going to do the conversion herself. She's not a builder, electrician or plumber but says she can do it herself. So it'll be a good few months before it's finished. She's not told Suzanne she's moving her into the garage when it's converted and then the poop will hit the fan as Suzanne has always kept saying she wouldn't want to live with the daughter and her partner and kids as she likes her own company and doesn't want the hassle. The daughters used her for the school run and baby sitting and used Suzannes car as if it was her own up til the stroke and really just made use of her mother. But to go behind Susanne's back now is shocking. She's just interested in the money and hoping Suzannes friend will do the care work. Damn cheek. 

Suzanne has a son, who knows nothing of the daughter's plans as they don't get on, they hate each other. He lives in one of the flats within the block of flats Suzanne owns at Newquay. Clare is hoping to sell those and so Suzannes son Kevin will then be homeless although Suzanne had said months ago she's written a will and has made sure Kevin will be well looked after in it.  He's not been very good with his mother evidently although he's kept phoning the hospital to ask how she is. He doesn't know or didn't up til now that Clare is taking her home today. She's failed all the tests they gave her when assessing her ability to live normally, and confirmed she has dementia and another stroke is possible, but if that doesnt happen the previous strokes have accelerated the dementia she already had.  She needs to go into a psychiatric geriatric unit or nursing home. But Clare won't have it. Because it'll cost money and she wants all the money herself. 

I told Chloe and Jackie that Clare has a damn cheek expecting them and Suzannes walking club friends to take care of her while Clare's at work, Claire is just interested in what she can get out of her mother financially which is pretty obvious. Chloe says she may report her once she starts work on the garage because she doesn't think it's right that she's doing all that behind her mother's back and if she does report her the council will come down on Clare like a ton of bricks for avoiding the proper permissions for Change of Use, Planning and Building regs. They usually give the perpetrator the option to go through the procedure properly and the conversion has to stay empty or else they are told to pull it down.  I'm afraid Clare is just a user and a greedy selfish bitch. Her mother's no longer useful to her now she's had a stroke and she's hoping to get as much out of her financially as she can before she passes away. 

Glad I don't live near Suzanne or the daughter as she won't ask me to baby sit. And if she ever did I'd tell her what I thought of her. I don't like that she's making use of Jackie and Chloe, she's using the friendship they have with her mother as a form of emotional blackmail to get them to do what she wants. Shocking. 

Makes me glad I don't have any family. 

Hello everyone.

Its another lovely morning here.

I've changed the clocks that don't change automatically  Fitted the LeakBot the water company sent me.  I was hoping Paul would have done it for me , but ! 

Yesterday Paul and Lola came over and we went to Eden with a picnic and she whizzed round the ice rink for two sessions, so she was well happy.  Fish and chip tea and then off they went. By the time I'd sorted and washed up picnic stuff I watched Strictly but was too late to vote.   I did peep and don't recognise one of them in the dance off .. the other I know the name but again couldn't id her.   

I woke up normal time and then went back to sleep.   The lights were on in my neighbours house across the road so something wasn't right and then the ambulance called. I haven't got dressed yet and was going to phone them to find out if all is well but realised if it is they might be having Sunday lunch, so will have to call later. 

I would have thought Suzanne would have a social worker supposed to be looking after her interests too, but my opinion of social workers is very low and found them very unsupportive 

Diane, Suzanne doesn't have a social worker. The hospital needed the bed and her daughter was hell bent on her not going to Liskeard Hospital for rehab so they allowed her to take her home. She's in her own home. The daughter is relying on Suzanne's friends to keep an eye on her while she's out at work. Although tomorrow morning Jackie will watch her in the morning and then the stroke nurse will be arriving in the afternoon and Clare the daughter will be there.  The daughter's still not told her she'll be living in the converted garage as soon as she's cobbled it together. Absolutely shocking!  

Jackie rang me this afternoon to let me know Suzanne was more confused today. It's a right mess. 

I took Chloe to Boots Opticians this afternoon after she'd been stopped by 2 different members of the public on 2 different occasions followed her and stopped her because her driving was so bad. Going from one side of the road to the other and jumping a red light. She passed all the tests at the opticians who said her eyesight is good enough to drive. She refuses now to go to the GP to check if it's something else because she says the Optician has said there's nothing wrong with her sight.  I've seen her driving and I dont think she's safe to get behind the wheel. So God knows what's going to happen because now she's saying she will continue to drive as she knows her sights ok. 

There's only me and Jackie that are safe to drive LOL 

I wish I'd put the robot out to cut the lawn yesterday as it was a nice dry day after lunch, but the forecast said damp Monday and then dry and sunny all week. Today they've now changed their tune and it's going to be damp and wet all week and dry next week. pfffft...It'll be too long for the robot by next week and I really didn't want to use the big mower to cut it but it looks like I'll have to next week. 

Sorry hear about your mum's pain Starry. She's done wonderfully up to now bless her. Hopefully the paracetamol will help for a while longer yet.