Good Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night!

Just got togged up to turn no. 1 compost over, as P said the grass clippings were beginning to form a mat. Just as I got dug in with fork the heavens opened and  I had to run for cover ( didn't know I could run so fast!)

Just as I thought it was safe to venture out again, it did it again. So rain stopped play. Sometimes the weather is so unreasonable 

   

Hope your recovery continues well Mark.

So do I.

It's raining here now, first time for weeks, and I was trying to think what it might be good for. The main crops needing water are all under cover. Possibly do more harm than good for the potatoes and onions now. The peas are probably past it. It will be good for autumn raspberries but the main beneficiary will be the grass, which I could do without it growing at the moment.

Hope your feeling better Mark!

Evening all, well was expecting storms today but so far all quiet. Who knows what tonight will bring. Had a great sleep last night and yet feel tired, why is that?

Hope you all had a great day, enjoy the rest of your evening.

Morning all
Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery for you Mark.

Getting my Second covid jab later today. That as exciting as it gets around here at the moment. We’ve got rain also. It can stop again now, my house is getting wet! I don’t want my house getting wet until it’s upright.
Hope you all have a good day.

Evening all. If you have hours to waste, read on. All round it's been a tad stressful today, what with one thing and another. No hugely major niggles but at the end of the day you begin to think will anything go right.

You may remember P and I helped our elderly housebound neighbour get online and I spent some considerable time teaching him to do his online shopping. Well after a decidedly dodgy start, I'm proud to say, after a few hiccups, he's now on top of his own Tesco online shopping with no input from me.  He hasn't yet mastered Google, Internet browsing/shopping or emails but I've promised that when winter comes and I have more free time we will address these issues.  Two or three days ago I visited and he proudly said he'd bought himself smartphone (by telephone from a catalogue) but that it was faulty as they had sent an American charger instead of UK, and he was sending it back. I queried this and he reluctantly allowed  me to open his parcel.  It turns out the charger was UK with extendable pins, so I showed it was real,y OK. So face was saved here. I'm not sure they'd have accepted it back anyway as he had massacred the box opening it up. First hurdle jumped. Next day a phone call: ' what's a SIM card?' P explained he would have one in his old mobile which may or may not fit the new one. Next hurdle jumped ...or so you might think. Another phone call 'how do I get the card out of my phone?' He didn't want help doing it so we advised finding the instructions from his old phone to find out how to get the card out.  Nothing heard back so we assumed all was OK, until I visited today (offering courgettes, as you do). He asked where can he buy a card, Tesco only have playing cards or greetings cards not phone cards?. I explained a new card might mean a new number and offered to take his old fashioned phone and the new smart phone over to P to see what could be sorted out.


Here comes the crunch (literally).  He had used a screwdriver to prise the back off the old one scratching and damaging it but the  SIM was missing. Opening up the new smart phone, in the SIM slot was a mangled something stuck fast. It turns out his old SIM was too big so he cut it down  to size  with scissors and forced it into the slot! Then used the screwdriver again to try to get it out.Then wondered why it didn't work. 

P is currently trying to remove the offending bits.  My neighbour said for him not to bother and he would just send it back, he didn't seem to understand the damaged box and blocked SIM slot rendered it unmarketable.  We'll get there in the end but neither we, nor he, have quite figured out why he wanted a smartphone in the first place, when  he couldn't even work the old fashioned simple one. 

Snag no.2 is that we are planning to go to the Isle of Wight for the day tomorrow, then find out there maybe roadworks blocking our way  home. Thank goodness for satnav or I'd be completely lost. I'm only the driver not the navigator. I fear we might be taking a bit of a detour.

Then I got drenched  ... twice.  Ah well, tomorrow's another day.

Keep smiling, JJB. we'll all get old one day.
I had the over-large SIM card problem, contacted Orange and they sent me a smaller one with the same phone number - free. Probably a bit late for your neighbour now!!

P tried that, but you need to be the account holder with a password. I'm going to jump that fence at the weekend. I'm old already and still smiling.

JJB it sounds like a headache for you and P to sort out.

I find that timing is important if you want bargains.

... and Too good to go! It's an app where retailers sell 'magic bags' full of stuff that is coming too close to getting out of date or even actually out of BB date.

I've had a few bags from Budgens specifically for 30% of the full retail price and most of it has been really good stuff. I recommend it!

Sounds good, Sarriss, but anything that involves Apps and Mobile phones is a step too far for me.