What have you been doing today?

[Mottie]

Cream crackered already and it’s only 8.15! Just fitted the complete contents of three bedrooms into one but the hardest job bar none was moving the mattress. It’s got over 3,500 springs in it and it weighs a ton. I wasn’t here when it was originally delivered but feck knows how two delivery drivers got that up the stairs and into our bedroom. It took all our strength just to stand the bàstard up on its side and then I looped a tow rope through one of the side handles and dragged it a bit at a time into the next bedroom with Mrs Mottie just keeping it upright. Once on the landing it tipped and trapped her against the bannisters. Anyway, all done now, I’ve just got to take up the old carpet and it’s ready for the carpet fitters. Our back bedroom looks like Steptoes front room - all it needs is a skeleton and a stuffed bear!

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Carpet fitters been and gone, now the long process of fitting everything back up in the bedrooms begins. Going to leave the heavy b'stard mattress for the spare room and put the spare bedroom mattress on our bed. The bed frame is dated 2013 so the mattress will be the same age. We'll see how we get on with that spare mattress, if no good we'll think about getting another. Wouldn’t mind one of those two different sided mattresses. I think I’ll just worry about the main bedroom today and then I’ve got to go out to the tip and call in the barbers on the way back for a 'senior cut' . Going to have to get my mate round with his circular saw or plane or whatever is needed as we had to take all the doors off and they all need about 8-10mm taking off the bottom.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I am just waiting now, for the transport to take us down for my two appointment today.

The banter between us (Ev and I), had the staff nurse in stitches, in the kidney department, then moving to my second appointment in the cardio department, for the ultrasound heart scan, we had that department in stitches too.

 

[Mottie]

I feel like the Donald today - all my objectives have been achieved! Up early, dismantled the bed, took up the old carpet and cleared the main bedroom. Went and did the weekly shop. Carpet fitters arrived and laid the carpet in bedrooms 1 and 3, took the old carpet and 4 bags of trimmings to the tip. Went and got my 'oliday 'aircut. Came back, built up and refitted the beds and sorted out two bedrooms, cooked the dinner (usual Friday night salmon stir-fry), had a drink, cried over the loss of our Susie (Mrs Mottie says it’s the Friday night booze that does it) - always worse on a Friday night when she would sit and watch us yak over dinner but it was much, much worse tonight as it was exactly a year to the day that we did the kindest thing and said goodbye to her. Decided we are almost certainly going to get another dog this year. If our friend isn’t breeding one of hers this year, we might look to get a rescue Spaniel. Gotta be a working Spaniel though.

My very last photo of Susie.

Oh, I’ve just started myself off again!

 

[Highway Man]

I feel like the Donald today - all my objectives have been achieved! Up early, dismantled the bed, took up the old carpet and cleared the main bedroom. Went and did the weekly shop. Carpet fitters arrived and laid the carpet in bedrooms 1 and 3, took the old carpet and 4 bags of trimmings to the tip. Went and got my 'oliday 'aircut. Came back, built up and refitted the beds and sorted out two bedrooms, cooked the dinner (usual Friday night salmon stir-fry), had a drink, cried over the loss of our Susie (Mrs Mottie says it’s the Friday night booze that does it) - always worse on a Friday night when she would sit and watch us yak over dinner but it was much, much worse tonight as it was exactly a year to the day that we did the kindest thing and said goodbye to her. Decided we are almost certainly going to get another dog this year. If our friend isn’t breeding one of hers this year, we might look to get a rescue Spaniel. Gotta be a working Spaniel though.

My very last photo of Susie.

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Oh, I’ve just started myself off again!

Get a rescue dog mate, give a dog a home that needs one. A pedigree will always get a home where a poor rescue dog just needs one and some love in its life.

 

[securespark]

I've always had rescue animals, they've been brilliant. All very different creatures, but brilliant all the same.

 

[securespark]

We're in Lille at the moment.

Took the concrete tube under the sea.

Here's the car taking a breather in Ypres.

And sunset over the 13 Century Cloth Hall.