A day of doing nothing much.

Today after a trip to Sainsburys, B&Q then to drop a card off for Claire, (she is 40 tomorrow),Emma's girlfriend. The day was spent indoors.
I spent a lot of it sitting down or laying down because at the moment my back and hips are extremely painful.
My Tinnitus has been playing up a lot over the last couple of weeks as well. I hear sounds like a radio playing music, or an orchestra tuning up sometimes as well as buzzes and whistles. I discovered today that when people who have Tinnitus hear music it is a rare form of Tinnitus called "Musical Hallucinations". I found out on a newsletter I recieve from "Action on hearing loss".

Tony is re-arranging the office, then decorating it. He has bought a blue cabinet so is going to be painting something blue to match it. He has told me but I can't remember what. The wall opposite the window is going to be green, (I think,). Anyhow it should look good when it is finished it usually does when Tony decorates. Tony usually has a few bumps and bruises after he finishes working. The shelves or cupboard doors have a habit of attacking him.

At the moment there are boxes filled with bits and peices waiting to be put away but until the office is finished I don't know where to put them.
Tony took time off from his decorating today to make some lasagne and some bolognese which will be frozen until it is needed. There are 12 meals for about 60p a meal, Tony is very happy with that, he likes to make the money stretch.
Today though we are having cauliflower cheese with bacon and onion. Mmmm it is making my mouth water just thinking about it. I always look forward to Tonys cauliflower cheese.



I have been putting a playlist together to put on my Sony Player for tonight to block out the Tinnitus, so maybe I will sleep a little better. That might mean I will be able to do more tomorrow, I might even get down to the shed again. I get really frustrated when I can't do the things I want to do!

Hopefully tomorrow I will be fit enough to do some baking. I want to make some flapjacks, peanutbutter cookies and some bread. Then if I have time and I can manage it I might make a jam roly-poly.

Until the next time...

Blackbirds are busy...

Hello do you remember me?
It's been a while but here I am again popping up like the proverbial bad penny.

Things have been quiet around the flat and garden, the weather has not been the sort that has tempted me to stray outdoors. So all in all I have had nothing really to talk about.

However when I did finally venture into the garden I found the Blackbirds busy,

Mrs Blackbird was up on the school roof collecting leaves to build and line the nest.

While Mr Blackbird was busy supervising.

We had some old visitors back with us who I hope will be staying a while.

Beautiful Goldfinches back in the garden.

There are several Dunnocks flying round the garden chasing each other waving wings and whistling.

Dunnock in the hedge

The Jews Ear fungi is still on the drift wood but as you can see it has dried out. It resembles an ear more now.

Jews Ears

Of course no visit to the garden would be complete without a mention of Squirrels!
They are still around. Hopefully they will be coming more often soon. There are only one or two calling at the moment, but I have a feeling that one of the others could be up a tree in a drey somewhere not too far away, with a tummy full of babies.

Squirrels still calling but numbers are down.

Until the next time...