Where Was I?

 So...the fall...concussion...soreness...enough yet...no...chuck in the head cold from hell...enough now...still no...let’s add a positive Covid test...whoa...yep...I had my regular for work test last Friday and late Saturday evening received the unwelcome diagnosis...

I am locked in until 24th and everyone else until the 27th. ...

I still have my it keeps on giving head cold so have no desire to venture anywhere anyway...thank goodness we were able to source a home delivery from Tesco...

Christmas...quite honestly right now I couldn’t give a fig about it...but I know it is looming...and I just happened upon our bottle of Sherry the other afternoon...and partook of a little splash so I did! Medicinal you understand...

Post our personal lockdown we are changing a few things...in order to protect hubby from being locked down again...self employed one man band is not good when you can’t go to work...I will continue to have contact with daughter and the children but by then we hope all their white goods will be over their side rather than ours so son in law won’t need to come over and hubby won’t mix with them. We are still in transition with their move as not everything has been useable next door. I have to look after the children so that won’t change...with both of the young adults working in schools the chances of them being struck down or traced is quite high. We’ve also picked up food delivery slots each week except Christmas week so far...

It beggars belief where I caught the virus..,I’d been off work for 3 weeks what with a weeks holiday and the fall...and I haven’t exactly been roaming the streets with concussion either...but it is what it is as they say...symptom wise the only Covid like thing I noticed is that normally with a head cold tea and coffee are off the menu...pickled onions being great for sore throats...however I have happily downed tea and coffee each day but the smell of vinegar is disgusting to my senses...

So I hope all you lovely folks are keeping safe and warm...I have ventured downstairs early this morning...I needed a cup of tea and a hot water bottle and it’s been lovely just sitting listening to the howling wind with just the lights on our fireplace beam on. The kittens have been playing in the semi darkness and despite the wretchedness that is Covid life is still good.

Blessings J. x

Next Stop A Digger

 So...just as I get my pantry cupboard relatively sorted a new conundrum comes along to vex me...

We have begun to remove the badly damaged hedge between us and daughter’s cottage...

It’s beyond anything really...full of brambles and has been undermined by the previous owner of next door...think pushing the boundaries!

We are going to put in a staggered double fence type number so we can both grow fruit trees against it...

However in order to fully remove all the old stumps and roots we need a mini digger...one which should just about fit trough our side porch...

I apparently have nothing to worry about...hubby has made wooden ramps for the steps and everything...oh yes...the same ramps the men used last weekend wheelbarrowing through loads of concrete for the pig house floor. Should I have mega cleaned up behind them...full well knowing the fate still to come?

Well I didn’t...

Truth be told this head cold that attached itself to my being last Friday along with the last of the soreness from the fall have utterly done for me...

What is different though is that various cupboards will have to move in order for the little beast to gain entry...

Was that a stifled groan I heard escaping from somewhere deep in my chest...

Ah well...

It will be OK...I know it will really...

Just sometimes I’d like the cottage to stay clean and tidy...just for a short while you understand...

And go take a wee ramble to see beautiful sights such as these...

Blessings, J. x

What Happened Was...

 So I had a fall down the stairs carrying hubbys' stinky workclothes a week ago Friday. Yes it hurt and I was a bit dazed initially...however I really didn't think I would still be feeling spaced out nearly a week later. Hand eye co-ordination became less than brilliant and I just felt in a fog constantly with headaches that just wouldn't go. Then Thursday evening I suddenly felt something...I can't quite explain what...I suddenly felt different...the dazed feeling was leaving thankfully...however this was soon replaced with the ability to feel the aches in my back and ribs where I had fallen. Until then it didn't really hurt. So I am having another week off work to get over it and then hopefully I shall be fully fit and raring to go. I do hope so...though now I have come out with a lovely head cold...an old tea-towel is keeping me company and is far more use than the flimsy kitchen roll I was sneezing into.

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Enough of feeling sorry for myself though...I have treated us to a fruit press...Son-in Law has a small one...but I am finding using it really fiddly and it doesn't screw down as hard as I should like it to. Que a bigger beast with a crossbeam mechanisim. I am one super excited woman I can tell you! Pickling and preserving has been rather prevalent in these here parts this year...the last lot of apples have been chopped and frozen ready to juice later.

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We have been treated to a few rather lovely dry days after what seemed like weeks of rain. The wind is blowing in a goodly manner though it is much warmer than the last few days. Our fire is lit and this afternoon I am taking it a little easier than the usual constant bake-a-thon.

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Despite the latest lock-down life continues here at Little Winter. Today the old pig shed floor is being concreted next door so the washing machine and freezer can move over from ours.

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I also managed a lovely walk on one very chilly afternoon. Well worth it to see this though...

Well I think so anyway...

Blessings, J. x