Ambling on ....

So this week has been a bit quiet really. For once, nothing major has happened and life has been doing what it normally does and has just been ambling along. Some weeks are like that, where you get to the end of the week and wonder how on earth you got there!

The week started off quite well with DH having an appointment at the hospital on Monday. After having an x-ray we saw the consultant who seemed very pleased with everything, said things are looking good with no major upsets, but he has to stay using his crutches for a bit longer due to some damage to some of his muscles. So, just to make sure that there are no complications further down the line it means that he still can't move on as quickly as he would like in terms of getting off the crutches and getting back to walking without them. It's frustrating, but necessary. Frustrating in the short term as it also means he can't go back to driving just yet, but hopefully it means a better outcome in the long term for him. They've also said that we can increase the travelling a bit now as long we have enough stops - no flying yet though, so no plans for the Highlands just yet, but we have planned a couple of nights away in the south west of Scotland soon, far enough to get over the border, but not too far for travelling.

After we'd been to the hospital we went to order some sand and gravel so that we can get a proper path sorted out at the front of the house soon. At the moment it's just a few stepping stones set in the grass but the stepping stones don't go all the way from the front door to the main path in the street. Hopefully we've got enough sand and new stepping stones to make decent path now. DD's fiancé is going to help out next week, weather permitting ...(I say help out, but I think he's going to end up doing most of it on his own with a small contribution from us).

The rest of the week has been pretty much the same as most weeks with both of us working and just plodding on. We had a little bit of snow midweek, but not enough to disrupt anything ....   

And then before you know it it's the weekend again and another week over with. And for those who know it was Burns Night on Friday night, well, we didn't have haggis this year. DD decided to invite herself round at night and, as she doesn't like haggis, we saved it until last night. It's one of those things that I think you either love or hate and we happen to like it. But it's like turkey I guess, as every Christmas we say we really like turkey and should eat it more often, and then only buy it again the following Christmas! The same goes for haggis. Every year we say we like it and should buy it more often, and then Burns night comes around again and we haven't had it since last Burns night!

#Burnsnight #snow

Deliveries, removals and trees!

It’s good to have a clear out. Finally getting rid of unwanted or old bits of furniture. We seem to be doing a lot of this lately!

After finishing the last of the Ikea packs last weekend we had to make room for the new drawers by dismantling the old ones. They were too damaged to sell or go to the charity shop, so we took the drawers apart and put the bits in the garage. And as Ikea had also delivered a new mattress which had been settling in the spare room, it was time to remove the old mattress from our bed. I know you’re supposed to change your mattress every so many years, but really? Who does that?! Ours was a bit overdue, let’s put it that way..... With a bit of pulling and pushing we managed to get the old mattress in the garage. So now we had a garage filling up, and a hallway full of bedside drawers and books! 

Two trips to the tip over the last few days and we’ve removed the mattress (not an easy task getting that in the car), along with the old memory foam that had been on top of the mattress, the old tall drawer bits, and various other bits that had been waiting to go. DH had also booked the British Heart Foundation to come and collect the books and bedside drawers that we'd been collecting in the hallway.

So now we have some new furniture in the bedroom, a clear hallway, and less books! (although you wouldn't know it to look at the bookcases....). I wouldn't say we've got more room in the garage as there's still the matter of the sofa bed that's on its side in there until we decide what to do with it.....

We've also had a new freezer delivered. We've managed with a small under counter freezer in the garage for some time now, but decided a tall freezer would be better, give us more storage capacity so when we see something on offer we can at least take advantage and not have to leave it because we've no room in the freezer. That's the theory anyway.

And today I have been helping out locally with the Woodland Trust, helping to plant new trees in an area where some of last years newly planted trees have died off and needed replacing. I think there was about 15 volunteers in total and we managed to plant quite a number of trees - I think somebody said about 500-600 or so this morning. Despite a very foggy start to the day it soon cleared up and we had some blue sky for our few hours planting. Well worth getting involved with.

I also managed to get out in my lunch hour on Thursday as the weather was nice. A brisk walk to the local park to take in the sun was lovely and just enough to keep me going to the end of the day. It's nice to think that the days are finally starting to have a bit more daylight, slowly but surely, and with signs of spring, even though I don't think we've yet finished with Winter, it's lovely to see nature springing up.

#woodland trust #spring #DIY #treeplanting #nature #