Lockdown 2 - I’ve retreated

November has brought with it a period of silence from me.  I stopped looking at social media, reading my favourite blogs and chatting with friends on Instagram.  I don’t know why, maybe the second lockdown, I’ve retreated from anywhere outside my own space and territory. Probably the sprained ankle didn’t help either.

I’m grateful for friends checking in to see if we are okay, you are a blessing and we are fine.

I’m not ready to join in again yet so I’ll just leave you a pic of the book I’m reading.  It’s random and it’s very funny.  I can imagine her kids, husband and parents cringing.

Right now it’s Saturday morning and it’s time for the best radio programme of the week - Radio 2’s Tony Blackburn’s Sounds of the Sixties.  

Stay safe, we are still a long way off the end but we are getting there.

Lynn

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Lockdown 2 - I’ve retreated

November has brought with it a period of silence from me.  I stopped looking at social media, reading my favourite blogs and chatting with friends on Instagram.  I don’t know why, maybe the second lockdown, I’ve retreated from anywhere outside my own space and territory. Probably the sprained ankle didn’t help either.

I’m grateful for friends checking in to see if we are okay, you are a blessing and we are fine.

I’m not ready to join in again yet so I’ll just leave you a pic of the book I’m reading.  It’s random and it’s very funny.  I can imagine her kids, husband and parents cringing.

Right now it’s Saturday morning and it’s time for the best radio programme of the week - Radio 2’s Tony Blackburn’s Sounds of the Sixties.  

Stay safe, we are still a long way off the end but we are getting there.

Lynn

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Lockdown Diary - On the eve of madness

July 3rd and we’ve got the heating on and it’s never stopped raining all day.  No wonder my backs playing up, cold and wet weather don’t suit me.

It’s got to be soup for tea, to warm us up.  Jamie’s Watercress & leek is on the go now and there’s his music for cooking on Alexa.  It’s a fabulous mix of artists if you’ve never tried it. Dance round the kitchen stuff.

There was a package to be wrapped to send off to a friend.

And here’s what I did with the wooden box, originally an M&S cheese and port gift box.

I was going to make it into rooms but that idea wasn’t floating my boat at all so I veered toward the idea of making a Nature vignette.

I honestly don’t know where the day has gone but it’s flown by.

  

I’m taking mum for lunch tomorrow to the Tearoom we’ve been going to for years.  Its one place I’m confident and comfortable enough to go to.  That’s as far as it gets though aside from our normal local market shopping.  We won’t be joining the throngs of people heading to the pub or shops just yet.

Keep on staying local for a while longer.

Lynn 

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Lockdown Diary - On the eve of madness

July 3rd and we’ve got the heating on and it’s never stopped raining all day.  No wonder my backs playing up, cold and wet weather don’t suit me.

It’s got to be soup for tea, to warm us up.  Jamie’s Watercress & leek is on the go now and there’s his music for cooking on Alexa.  It’s a fabulous mix of artists if you’ve never tried it. Dance round the kitchen stuff.

There was a package to be wrapped to send off to a friend.

And here’s what I did with the wooden box, originally an M&S cheese and port gift box.

I was going to make it into rooms but that idea wasn’t floating my boat at all so I veered toward the idea of making a Nature vignette.

I honestly don’t know where the day has gone but it’s flown by.

  

I’m taking mum for lunch tomorrow to the Tearoom we’ve been going to for years.  Its one place I’m confident and comfortable enough to go to.  That’s as far as it gets though aside from our normal local market shopping.  We won’t be joining the throngs of people heading to the pub or shops just yet.

Keep on staying local for a while longer.

Lynn 

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Another day, another lockdown week

Another day, another new week.  Today after breakfast of porridge and berries and a mug of tea we will be putting out the garden gate display for the kiddies and dog walkers to enjoy.

Can’t be having them little ones crying because it’s not there, can we.

I’ve parcels to take to the post office so we decided to drive over the moors to Todmorden to send them and then carry on to the garden centre for compost and plants for Mum.  She’s inherited the rusty old wheelbarrow that our neighbour Jack was throwing out.  

She’s got just the spot for it and will look good once planted up like the one she has had for the last five years.  

This is an old photo of the vintage French dress I wore for our outing.  I bought it from a little vintage clothes shop in Hebden Bridge a couple of  years ago.  I’m to embarrassed to show you my Worzel Gummidge hair fully..  Normal service will be resumed soon hopefully. 

Back to the garden centre story.  We were not comfortable being there at all, despite the staff being pleasant and the distancing arrows and marks throughout.  The first thing I noticed was that nobody was cleaning the trolley handles.  We did have to use a hand sanitizer on entering the building and I wore a mask for the first time. I have to say anyone having to wear them all day everyday you are to be applauded. I only wore one for about half an hour and found it sweaty and uncomfortable.

We quickly got what we needed, including this little ladybird for our garden gate display, then shot off back over the moor.  After dropping Mum’s stuff off it was back home for a cuppa and some lunch.  Felt odd not being able to eat out like we would normally have done before coronavirus days.

We are watching a lot of feel good programmes at the moment.  Tonight its Channel 4’s documentary on Devon & Cornwall and a dose of Grow Your Own At Home with Alan Titchmarsh.  Even though we are not growing our own hee hee.   There has been some fantastic programmes on train journeys around the world.  Beautiful scenery,  amazing trains but you’d have to be rich to afford them.

It’s funny how 5pm onwards things for us then feel quite normal.  It’s because we are still doing what we’ve always done of an evening.  A cuppa and a gameshow on telly before I make the evening meal, then the rest of the night generally watching the box, reading, journal writing, checking social media, a little walk of the weather is kind and putting away the garden gate display (well that’s not normally in the equation).  If we didn’t watch the teatime news we wouldn’t know any difference.

 Spotted this lampshade on the internet the other day, it’s made from feedsacks.  Isn’t it fabulous.  I think it need one haha.

Stay safe, only do what you’re comfortable with.

Lynn 

xxx

Another day, another lockdown week

Another day, another new week.  Today after breakfast of porridge and berries and a mug of tea we will be putting out the garden gate display for the kiddies and dog walkers to enjoy.

Can’t be having them little ones crying because it’s not there, can we.

I’ve parcels to take to the post office so we decided to drive over the moors to Todmorden to send them and then carry on to the garden centre for compost and plants for Mum.  She’s inherited the rusty old wheelbarrow that our neighbour Jack was throwing out.  

She’s got just the spot for it and will look good once planted up like the one she has had for the last five years.  

This is an old photo of the vintage French dress I wore for our outing.  I bought it from a little vintage clothes shop in Hebden Bridge a couple of  years ago.  I’m to embarrassed to show you my Worzel Gummidge hair fully..  Normal service will be resumed soon hopefully. 

Back to the garden centre story.  We were not comfortable being there at all, despite the staff being pleasant and the distancing arrows and marks throughout.  The first thing I noticed was that nobody was cleaning the trolley handles.  We did have to use a hand sanitizer on entering the building and I wore a mask for the first time. I have to say anyone having to wear them all day everyday you are to be applauded. I only wore one for about half an hour and found it sweaty and uncomfortable.

We quickly got what we needed, including this little ladybird for our garden gate display, then shot off back over the moor.  After dropping Mum’s stuff off it was back home for a cuppa and some lunch.  Felt odd not being able to eat out like we would normally have done before coronavirus days.

We are watching a lot of feel good programmes at the moment.  Tonight its Channel 4’s documentary on Devon & Cornwall and a dose of Grow Your Own At Home with Alan Titchmarsh.  Even though we are not growing our own hee hee.   There has been some fantastic programmes on train journeys around the world.  Beautiful scenery,  amazing trains but you’d have to be rich to afford them.

It’s funny how 5pm onwards things for us then feel quite normal.  It’s because we are still doing what we’ve always done of an evening.  A cuppa and a gameshow on telly before I make the evening meal, then the rest of the night generally watching the box, reading, journal writing, checking social media, a little walk of the weather is kind and putting away the garden gate display (well that’s not normally in the equation).  If we didn’t watch the teatime news we wouldn’t know any difference.

 Spotted this lampshade on the internet the other day, it’s made from feedsacks.  Isn’t it fabulous.  I think it need one haha.

Stay safe, only do what you’re comfortable with.

Lynn 

xxx

A busy lockdown weekend

Friday was a funny day I was very tearful for no reason.  But that’s okay it’s allowed.  So I went to my go to thing for distraction and knocked up another scrappy hanging.

We stopped off at our local pub to treat ourselves to one of these bad boys. They are massive and delicious.  The pub are     making lots of take out food from their usual menu and have set up Ella’s Sundae Stall.  It’s a family run business and much loved within the community and demand for their food is still high even during lockdown.

Saturday we had a bit of excitement on the lane when the Ninja mobile coffee cart turned up.  Normally they are to be found at events and festival, so for now you can book them to come to your street. It was really good and the lads passing by, cycling the Pennine Way,  thought so too as did a couple of dog walkers who all stopped off  and bought a drink.

Got our togs on then and set off for Todmorden market for fresh provisions for the weekend and some for Mum.  It was nice to see some of the old traders back.  It meant we could buy our cleaning stuff and toiletries from the hardware man and there was a new stallholder who makes fresh pasta sauces and sponge puddings.  We like to support as many market traders as we can.  We are very lucky with our little markets.  It's as well as we are not supermarket shoppers.

Spent the afternoon sat in our friend of 40 years garden.  Socially distanced of course.  We even took our own drinks and picnic.  It was lovely, just like old times, and we even managed to forget about things for a while.

Sunday .....


We enjoyed a couple of hours with our niece for her birthday.  We had all been given our time slots so that there was no more than two visitors at once.  Good job the sun shone again and we could sit outside. 

Kim is a head teacher at a primary school.  A job I definitely wouldn’t want.

After dropping Mum’s shopping off we scuttled off back home as we both needed the loo by this time and as the rules about going into peoples houses was still a no no at this point we made a hasty retreat. 

Monday now and the sun is out again today and the wandering welder is working on a little project for our garden gate display.

No tiger in my tank today but there are some on my charity shop frock.  Enjoy the sunshine, rain is on it’s way later this week.

A busy lockdown weekend

Friday was a funny day I was very tearful for no reason.  But that’s okay it’s allowed.  So I went to my go to thing for distraction and knocked up another scrappy hanging.

We stopped off at our local pub to treat ourselves to one of these bad boys. They are massive and delicious.  The pub are     making lots of take out food from their usual menu and have set up Ella’s Sundae Stall.  It’s a family run business and much loved within the community and demand for their food is still high even during lockdown.

Saturday we had a bit of excitement on the lane when the Ninja mobile coffee cart turned up.  Normally they are to be found at events and festival, so for now you can book them to come to your street. It was really good and the lads passing by, cycling the Pennine Way,  thought so too as did a couple of dog walkers who all stopped off  and bought a drink.

Got our togs on then and set off for Todmorden market for fresh provisions for the weekend and some for Mum.  It was nice to see some of the old traders back.  It meant we could buy our cleaning stuff and toiletries from the hardware man and there was a new stallholder who makes fresh pasta sauces and sponge puddings.  We like to support as many market traders as we can.  We are very lucky with our little markets.  It's as well as we are not supermarket shoppers.

Spent the afternoon sat in our friend of 40 years garden.  Socially distanced of course.  We even took our own drinks and picnic.  It was lovely, just like old times, and we even managed to forget about things for a while.

Sunday .....


We enjoyed a couple of hours with our niece for her birthday.  We had all been given our time slots so that there was no more than two visitors at once.  Good job the sun shone again and we could sit outside. 

Kim is a head teacher at a primary school.  A job I definitely wouldn’t want.

After dropping Mum’s shopping off we scuttled off back home as we both needed the loo by this time and as the rules about going into peoples houses was still a no no at this point we made a hasty retreat. 

Monday now and the sun is out again today and the wandering welder is working on a little project for our garden gate display.

No tiger in my tank today but there are some on my charity shop frock.  Enjoy the sunshine, rain is on it’s way later this week.