Thought for a Saturday.

Good Afternoon, the graphic is perfect for the day we are having today heavy rain again, the reservoirs must be about full now I would think after the week we have had.  When we were in Perth on Thusday one of the main parks, The South Inch was flooded enough to have ducks sailing on it so after yesterdays rain and todays goodness knows what it will be like.Stuart has been off to the Doctors this morning to have his flu injection, he was so quick he was back before his appointment was due wonder how he does it, as I am there forever when I go.  In Boots the other day a nurse stopped us and asked if I we would like to have flu jabs we said Stuart gets one but I am no old enough yet but she said they are doing them in Boots for £15. and anybody can have one.  I paid £30 last winter for a private one so I thought it was a good deal.  I could not have one on Thursday due to the fact I was giving a blood sample yesterday but said I would have one next time I was in.  I mentioned this offer to the nurse who took my blood yesterday and she said she was not allowed to give these vacinations and there should be paramedics standing by when doing these injections. She has really put me off by saying this and now I don't know what to do.
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Listening to the news this morning it was so distressing to hear that they are putting out extra police for Halloween in case of trouble and are going to have on the spot fines for any trouble. Many people were saying how they are frightened to answer the door at this time of year you just wonder what things are coming to. When I was a child it was great fun and there was never any trouble oh dear what is happening to this country. Well I had better go and see what we are going to have for our lunch so I wish you all a pleasant Saturday. Bye for now and don't forget

                                   
Love Joan.
                                      

Friday.

   

  Good Morning, I had a very early start at the Doctors this morning giving a fasting blood sample at 8-30am so I was up with the larks.  One thing about being up early is seeing the dawn the above pictures are what was there for a few short minutes this morning and then it was gone in a flash just had time to run out and click.  Stuart has gone off to Art class to finish off the Big Draw from last week. This year it is figure drawing something he has not done before but its looking good. It hardly seems a year since last years Big Draw, that's when all the Art classes in the country do the same drawing one week of the year. After all the hassle of the last few weeks with the DVD etc and of course loosing my score on Book Worm I am feeling much calmer today hope I can stay this way.  Had my hypertension clinic this week and my BP was super the lowest its ever been don't know how I manages it must be doing something right.  The above photos are just some I have taken over the last week and thought you might enjoy them.  Watch a good movie last night very violent and a bit too much bad language but it was a good story. It came free with yesterdays paper. It starred Billy Connelly and Ken Stott and was called The Debt Collector. One to watch. I have collected a box full of free movies, I think they will come in handy during the winter if we are kept in with the weather.  Well I think I will go now and see what's what.  Have a good weekend.

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By the way after that glorious start its raining now.

Am I lucky to be here.

         

Oh boy am I lucky to be here today if Stuart had committed murder last night I would not have blamed him after what I did (By accident) yesterday. We have been playing the same Bookworm game for ages now and had managed to get up to 5,926,200 yes that almost 6 million and we were doing very well until disaster struck last night. No, I did not get burned down I pressed the wrong button and lost our game altogether. You can imagine the state I got in after all the troubles of the DVD player earlier I was not at my best anyway and then I had to do this. Stuart did a restore last night but it was still the same 0000000 when we booted up again. I am so glad it was me as I think the mood I was in, I may have lost the place altogether whereas Stuart was very calm about it.  So be warned and be careful and don't press the wrong button.
On a better note I think I had switched the alert off on my own journal by mistake (Oh I am having a week of it am I not ) so I was the one not getting alerts not you as I thought. The DVD problems are all solved and everything is OK now.  Well, I had better go now and see what I can make a mess of next maybe burn the tea.  Love

                                                  

We Surrender

           

Thank you to D'Design for the graphic today.

Good Morning, I was surprised to see it is over a week since I wrote anything in my journal it has just been one of those weeks. As you may remember  we bought a new DVD recorder last week with a build in freeview box. When we bought it we told the salesman in the store our requirements. We wanted one that we could get a top up card for as we wanted to get rid of Sky but Stuart still wanted Eurosport which covers the cycling and Biathlon both of which are his passions.  We tried all last week to get it working but  then I noticed it did not have a slot to take a topup card.  On Friday last week we plucked up courage and took it back to the store.(Must say here that the store changed it no bother at all). We then bought a DVD recorder the same make as our tele and a separate freeview box complete with the  slot. After more lying on the floor and every permutation we could think of we still could not get it to work so we have surrendered and between 12 and 2PM today the engineer is coming to install all the bits and pieces before Stuart and I either go off our heads or get a divorce, it has been that bad.  There are so many scart leads coaxial cables and power leads behind the telly you do not know where to start. It has been keeping us awake at night, for me that is not a new thing but for Stuart who sleeps very well it is most unusual.  So hopefully all will be well after today.It just show what can happen when the salesmen thinks he knows his job and does not know as much as we do.
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It has been great weather for this time of year for the past week. We still have Dahlias flowering in the garden along with summer bedding that I just don't have the heart to pull out.  When we were out on Monday to St Andrews we saw many hanging baskets still looking good . We had a run down to West Sands there and sat and had a picnic in the car, for us but there were people on the beach and in the water brave them, the weather is good but that water is always cold Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  The trees up here are still green in the most and I am waiting for some good colour to appear will just have to be patient. Well I think that its for just now will let you know how we get on with the engineer later today. It will be great not having to stay up till the wee small hours to see the end of a film etc. as we are not used to staying up that late. Bye for not catch you later.
Love

   

Sara made this for me. Thank you.                                      

Memories of Picking Potatoes.

            

Good Afternoon, been very remiss lately but have been having great problems trying to fit up our new DVD recorder but I think we are just about there now. Stuart seems to have spent the last few days lying on the floor behind the telly in amongst all the wires and scart leads etc I think its about time the manufacturers sorted things out to make it easier for us all of us ordinary mortals.

                         

Yesterday we took our usual run to St Andrews and very busy it was too there were student from the uni all over the place there seemed to be thousands of them and lots of tourists too. On our way there I noticed that all the potato crop has been gathered in. Stuart and I started to chat about the days long gone when we all got off school for three weeks to go and pick the potatoes by hand. Stuart went three times me I only went the one year that was enough for me. It was so hard, the bus picked us up at the school at 7am and took us out to the farm of the day. It was still dark when we arrived and made our way out of the bus and up to the fields. The picture I have chosen to illustrate this entry was just the way it was. It was very cold some mornings there was frost on the ground but that did not deter the digger. We were taken to a nearby school for our school lunch for an hour and then it was back to it till about 5pm. It was back breaking work and by the end of the day you were exausted cold and wet too somedays. The wages for this task were 11/3d per day that would  be about 57 pence today under a dollar for my friends accross the pond. After my three weeks I had saved enough for a new pair of skating boots and boy was I proud of them. Can you imagine that kind of thing going on today with the school children now, I would now wish that on my worst enemy.
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The Last Days of Summer.

     

Good Morning an early entry from me today thought as I could not sleep I would get up and do this while i had the chance.  Don't know what happened to the week it just vanished. With the weather being good we have been out and about and in the garden too. I thought all the Red Admiral Butterflies would have migrated by now but as you can see we still have one or two in the garden.
When we were out and about this week we met a crowd of school children and oh my are they tall these days its like living in 'The Land of the Giants'. Me being only just over 5 foot and Stuart 5 foot six we looked so tiny beside them they were high school kids but they all seemed to be over six feet already.  I put it down to rationing during the war.lol. 
We have been trying to connect a new DVD recorder to our TV yesterday and oh what a job I have never seen so may cables in my life the back of that telly is like spaghetti junction.  We will have to have another go today as we have not got it right yet. We had it up and running and when we came to move the telly back the bottom glass shelf of the TV unit fell off and we had to take everything out and remove the telly which is a large one and start again so by that time we had had enough and both had splitting headaches so we will get back to it today sometime.Well I think its time I had my shower and some breakfast as we go out for our coffee this morning so I will leave you and hope you have a pleasant Saturday Love,

                                                    

                             

                          

                                  

Good Morning I wanted to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all of you for your good wishes for our Anniversary it was so kind of you to take the time.  Love
                                  Joan.