Snap Out Of It!

 Well...after visiting the Council offices in person yesterday...

And wonder of wonders getting to see a real person...

It became evident that trying to get a personal search as opposed to a regular search would take just as long...

So we wait...

27 working days so it seems...

I can only hope that they are working 5 days a week...

The timescale quoted via the estate agent today was a good week over what I had worked out...

But enough...

If this is our only problem then we are indeed fortunate...

I know a mother who is most likely shortly going to be losing her daughter...

Leaving a husband and two young daughters behind...

I have no reason to be complaining...

 

Just look at these beautiful hawthorn berries...

This was taken after I had picked some...

The evening sunshine was so beautiful and showed the berries at their absolute best...

Hopefully the ones I have picked will soon be turned into delicious hawberry jelly...

And if I have enough some may well get mixed together with rose hips and become cordial...

When the sun is shining I don't think you can beat an Autumn day...

Today however has been overcast from the break of dawn...

It looks as if it will be that way until after dusk... 

Blessings J. x

Would Screaming Help?

 Goodness me...

I feel fit to scream...or at least have a tantrum...

Daughter and her family are still ensconsed at ours...

Moving day was going to be this Friday...

WAS

However last Friday they had a call from their newly unfurloughed solicitor...

Because things have taken so long their searches were about to run out...

Before this Friday...

So she called the bank to ask if they could be covered by an indemnity insurance...

The bank would get back within five working days...

They apparently have this morning, and have requested new searches to be done...

The local council are at the moment taking 27 working days to complete searches...

Next doors searches for her new property were delayed twice...

Causing this whole sorry mess...

We were really hoping they would be in in time for Henry to celebrate his second birthday...

But no...

I just want my life back and for them to start the rest of theirs...

Eight weeks and counting have clocked up so far!

I am trying to tell myself there are far worse problems to have...

And I know there are...

But still...

It has been an awfully long time...

And breathe...

~

I have been finding the odd moment to slip away from our chaotic life and pick some blackberries.

How come the juciest ones hang beautifully just out of reach...

If only I were a little taller, a little wiser, a little richer!

Recently I have purchased some WECK canning jars and have been bottling and water bath canning apple sauce, pears in syrup, chutney, and stewed apple chunks.

The men and little men of the house seem to have constant hunger pangs...

There is always somethoing bubbling on top of the Aga or baking in it...

~

Work continues to dominate my life...

I have picked up a few extra shifts and can feel my back begining to say enough is enough!

However I have treated myself in a big way, and am doing a couple extra shifts for a few months in order to pay for my lovely coffee machine.

Normally I do not drink coffee...

I don't care for the aftertaste of instant...

And when out do not appreciate the strength of the regular brews on offer...

However I do love coffee...

Especially a late macchiato with ten mini marshmallows floating in it's frothy milk topping...

One per day is the usual treat...

Yum indeed!

We are shortly going on another berry hunt...

So Blessings, J. x