It's Snowing

 Snow has arrived in Suffolk overnight and when Poppy went out in the garden after her breakfast she was not impressed. I went back indoors as it was cold and she eventually must have gone across the patio but soon came in as only one track of paw prints across the garden gave her little meander away. we have both spent quite a time indoors this week as the rain and cold grey days seemed to drag on a bit. some days I only had short walks and my seamans hat knitting has had a good go most days. My decorator came to give me an estimate for my hall, I thought I might change the doors for new ones,(I have 8 doors off the hall ) but the price of new ones frightened me stiff so we agreed that I would have new handles and catches as several of them don't close well. I was expecting to have it done in the Spring but like most tradesmen Ross is booked up well into the summer and the only time to have it done is early February!!

 Our garden rubbish collection has been suspended, luckily my friend told me just as I was about to put the bin out. The news of the week was on Wednesday when I had a message on my phone asking me to book a Covid vaccination I did this online and will have it next Tuesday at Trinity Park Showground on the edge of Ipswich. It also booked the second jab in March. I was suprised how easy it was and at least I will be able to get out of the village and drive there, how I miss not going for a drive and walk.

Thursday evening is our family catch up on Portal and had a lovey time with much laughter as 8 of us chatted, Poppy sat on my lap trying to find where the sounds were coming from as she usually gets Dreamies when my daughter comes , and in Gosport Gordon my other daughters puppy was rushing up and down the floor trying to get into the act!!

That's all for now, Poppy is asleep on the sofa next to the radiator and I'm going to book a live streaming of Burton Albion and Ipswich Town for this afternoon, it will be warmer than if I was going to the Match. Have a good weekend, love from Poppy and Val

It's Cold

 I do not like the cold an wet so have been moaning to myself as it was cold and wet all weekend and now for the past few days it has been very cold and frosty. The cold makes the pain in my hip worse but it something I just have to put up with, so no more moaning Val!

My best friend Pat has had a fall and cracked some ribs, Not much the Paramedics could do for her so she has gone off to stay with her daughter for a while. just got there before Boris locked us in again. I shall miss her and especially her daughter who every Thursday bought me pensioner  fish and chips (with scraps!!!) when she picked her and Pats up. Lovely not to have to cook on Thursdays. 

Haven't been in the garden much as it's so cold and Poppy isn't keen either, She sits on my bedroom window until I let her in and goes to see if there's any thing to eat in the kitchen. spends a lot of the day snoozing and when she is awake rushes up and down like a mad thing, playing with her toys. She won't use the scratching post I bought and loves pouncing on and fighting a Grumpy cat toy she had for Christmas Other favourites are a long cord, I hold one end and she grabs the other when it is moving and wrestles it until I give in, and a small cushion with catnip in it.

Today I had Morrisons delivery and I took a couple of bags of glass to the village recycling areas. I had planned to walk through the churchyard, up Vicarage Lane and back down Ship lane but it was so cold I just walked to the river and back and got home as soon as I could. 

It's crumpets for tea for me and tuna Whiskas for Poppy so goodbye for now, take care and keep warm

Poppy nd Val

New Years Day

 Happy New Year to you all. The best part of New Years eve was a portal call to all my family. We chattered on for about one and a half hours and it was lovely to see all my teenage grandchildren joining in. I was going to stay up but Poppy and I went to bed as usual and I woke up about midnight as a few fireworks  were going off. 

2020 has been a year to remember and we have been lucky to have kept well. I have missed outings with friends, W.I. History group, my weekly family meal which my daughter does so we can catch up together. Good things were all summer we had the family meal in our gardens, bring your own picnic or takeaway. I did lots of walks taking my picnic, (something I had not done before as I usually popped into a a local cafe.) Best of all Poppy my rescue cat arrived on what would have been my mothers birthday  and has changed my life, Sometimes we are still working out whose in charge!! 

Such a lot of changes , and now we go forward into a new world for the U K. Look after yourselves and take care, look forward to the vaccine. Don't look back as we cannot change it and make the most of every day. Breakfast now for Poppy and Val x

It's Christmas, well nearly.

 Tomorrow it will be Christmas, what a week leading up to it Daughter in tier 4 after only 13 hours in tier 3!! we have joined her jumping from 2 to 4. A 5 day Christmas changing to 1  and Brexit has finally been agreed. 

I have finally done everything I am going to towards hosting my first Christmas lunch for 10 years. I am lucky enough to have my daughter and family here on Christmas day and I have been stressing about having enough of everything  or messing it up by forgetting something. My list pads have been in overtime as every time  I go into a room I check the list in it and cross something off. Now I have reached the don't care time, if I haven't got it or done it  Hard luck and I am looking forward to opening my presents with my other daughter by Portal and later in the day both families will meet up on it. We will start a new tradition and whatever happens we will always remember this one.

Happy Christmas to all of my blog friends Poppy and I will be back soon, we are now going to have a Florentine and some Dreamies , question is who will have the most!!!!! Take all of you . with love from Val and Poppy xx

End of the week

 This week stated like most of them, after a very wet few days the sun shone on Monday and I walked at Needham Lake. it was very wet underfoot as I discovered my trainers were leaking so it was a bit squidgy. I popped into the range on my way home, it was very quiet with no queues. Then a lovely surprise was a visit from one of the W.I committee with a Christmas bundle. A pot of narcissus W.I .magazine a card  and a goody bag with several surprises including a choc. teacake with a hand knitted Christmas cover. It would have been our party night so they thought they would bring the party to us, so kind and I did appreciate it and the chat with Jo. Tuesday I walked round the village and delivered my local cards and watched I.T.F.C win a game!! Hurray 2 Dreamies  for Poppy 2 Florentines for me!! Wednesday I took a wreath to my parents grave at All Hallows, met my sister in law ands walked in Landseer Park. I had never walked here before as when I lived here as a child it was the local dump and although other children played there I was not  allowed to. (no health and safety then).  My daughter spent the afternoon with me. 

Thursday was Morrisons delivery and fish and chips day then the drama began as Poppy had been asleep during the evening. couldn't stand up on her back legs  with the back right leg sticking up didn't eat and wriggled about in pain, neither of us had much sleep, I phoned my daughter Friday morning and she came to let the plumber in as he was mending a leak on the boiler!! I took Poppy to the vet who said she had a puncture wound on the back leg (they thought from a fight) gave her anti biotics and painkiller and we got back just as the plumber was finishing.  We were all stressed out and it has taken 2 days for Poppy to get back on her feet, eating, and today she has been out in the garden, so all is well except for a big vets bill!!! Have a safe weekend, Poppy and Val

 

Quiet Week

I think the weather has made this a quiet week. Not much sun cold frosty and very rainy, in all it hasn't tempted me out much I have walked round the village delivering my cards and posted those I had to so thought I had done well nice and early but of course someone I had cut out of my list then sent me one so I must post one this weekend. Why is it always one that needs to be posted that catches me out!!   I have bought a new wreath for my parents grave and am meeting my sister in law next week as the graveyard is near her home and we will go for a walk in a park nearby. I lived there as a child and the walk was then the Dump and I was forbidden to go there so it will a change to see it as it is now 60 years later as although I drive past it to visit the grave I have never been in it. Best evening of the week was Thursday when I had a 4 way Portal chat with both my daughters and my grandson, which lasted nearly two hours!!( we can all talk for England when we get the chance) and by the time we were finished Poppy was winding round my legs wanting to have her evening play with her toys and then her supper. Yesterday I picked up my library book, delivered a present and card to an elderly friend who never stops talking, and picked up my prescription so am stocked up until February! My feet were soaked and so I have to throw out my old trainers and ordered some online. went mad and also ordered a candle arch as I need decorations that are easy to put up as I don't get up on steps any more. Also ordered a cafetiere ( have I spelt that right?) as mine has broken. Next week shall have several parcels. Today is gloomy but Poppy and I are going to spend the morning chopping up the last of my rambler rose which blew down in a storm and filling the brown garden bin for collection next week and then i will be watching my live stream of I.T.F.C. v Portsmouth with fingers crossed as I still have Florentines left to have if we score a goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We won last week so I was a happy bunny. Stay safe, love from Poppy and Val

It's Snowing!!!!

 Woke up to snowing this morning, neither of us fancied going outside, Poppy  just about slunk out of the garden door and rushed in as soon as she could.  I am thinking of getting a cat flap as keeping opening and closing the door during the winter is a bind.  I haven't been far this week as weather has been raining except for Tuesday when my daughter Dawn came and we sorted out my front border, me pulling up french marigolds which had had their day and she doing the hard work of forking out the weeds and tidying everything up. I will plant things in the spring. Back garden is still a tip I have chopped down the rambler rose that blew down in a gale and still have another bin load to get rid of. Just recently I seem to have lots of things go wrong but am ploughing through them. latest one was my Fitbit which was showing the wrong time and I couldn't sort it out. My stepson rang for a chat yesterday and told me to put it next to my Iphone and sync the  Iphone up, lo and behold it worked and both are back to normal. thanks to Robert. Seeing the snow this morning I remembered that when I was looking after my 3 year old grandson (several years ago now) he rushed to the lounge window and said It's snowing out the front Nannie Val than rushed to the french doors and said It's snowing out the back as well!! and guess what it was*****  Keep warm in this cold weather. Val and Poppy.