Too hot for Beano.

I don't mind the heat but it does affect my eyesight which is quite scary. I know I will go blind at some point which is a worry but there is no treatment available so all I can do is keep buggering on.

It's too hot for Beano to walk far but unfortunately since he will not go to the toilet in my garden I still have to take him out regularly.

This morning I took him out at 4 o'clock for about an hour, when we got home I went back to bed and slept until just after 7 o'clock when I took him out again for another hour. He will just have to manage with trips to the grass verge outside the bungalow until this evening, when hopefully it will cool down again

Autumn group today, if Beano will walk that far I shall take his cool mat with me to keep him comfortable. I'd happily leave him at home but If he cries it annoys my neighbour so I take him most places with me.

Spending spree.

A local ladies group held a second hand clothing sale today, so I went on a spending spree.

I bought two skirts and lots of t-shirts and tops, they are currently swishing around in my washing machine and will be hung on the line to dry soon.

Two of the white tops I bought knowing that they won't fit me  but I'm planning on copying a trick from an old wartime book. I shall cut the sleeves off and cut down the sides, leaving the collar and shoulders intact. I will sew these  inside the neck of two dark coloured jumpers. The dark colours don't suit my colouring but the white collars make all the difference.

The weather here is glorious but too hot for Beano who is in and out like a fiddlers elbow. I think I need to find a way to rig up some shade in the garden for him.

What a waste of time. Updated

I spent the afternoon at Cass's waiting for a phone call from the hospital. The call should have been sometime after 1 o'clock.

There was no call so I left Cass's just after 6 pm and came home.

No doubt I will receive a letter at some point complaining because I didn't take the call that didn't arrive.

So far both appointments have been a bust, the first one because they sent a letter to an address I moved from 12 years ago. They then sent a letter to my current address complaining that I was a no show!

And now this one, I sat at Cass's from before 1 o'clock until 6 o'clock and there was no phone call, it's an absolute shit show, it really is.

I eventually received a message late y'day telling me the appointment had been cancelled.

I have great tits

I didn't manage to get a pic of them but it was lovely to watch them on the bird feeder.

There are bluetits and sparrows as well, the bird feeder is proving very popular.

I've had a letter complaining about my non-attendance for my hearing aid appointment. First they claimed that I'd received a phone call making the appointment, then they claimed they sent a letter. I'm absolutely desperate to get my new aids so there is no way I wouldn't have attended if I'd known. It seems they had an address for me that was 12 years old. Obviously the hospital are insisting the mistake is mine even though every other department has sent letters to my current address!

I've set up three seed trays and am hoping to grow some flowers for my new bed. I also have a couple of plants ready to go in and I'm hoping to buy a lavender plant too.

Playing silly bloggers

Blogger decided to play catch up this morning and so I received an influx of posts. It's taken me a while to catch up.

My neighbour has been working hard on my garden, I now have a flower bed edged in grey bricks and some hard standing for my bins.
 

Local wildlife.

Where I live is a little mini estate of ten properties connected by footpaths, the roads go round the outside so there is only foot traffic between the properties.

I have known, because of Beano's behaviour that there is wildlife using the footpaths after dark.

Y'day I babysat for my daughter and walked home with Beano at about 11 pm. I had my shopping trolley with me as I had collected some large bricks to be used for edging my new flower bed. We were almost home when Beano suddenly became very alert,  he'd spotted something interesting. He took off like a rocket, dragging me and my shopping trolley behind him. I managed to slow him down and realised it was a fox that he'd seen. It managed to slip through a fence and into someone's garden, Beano couldn't follow it. I eventually managed to persuade him to come home with me albeit very reluctantly.

Tonight I took Beano out for his late night widdle and he stopped dead as soon as he left the front door. There was a hedgehog snuffling around in the hedge outside my door. I managed to persuade him to leave it alone and we walked a little way until he had finished his necessities. When we returned to our front door the hedgehog had disappeared, from Beano's behaviour I think it had gone through the hedge into one of the gardens that is untended and must be a little wildlife haven.

One of my neighbours has a birdbox on his shed, today I watched a bluetit going in and out of the box.

Message

I received a lovely message y'day from my neighbour Harry,  where i used to live. He was asking about Beano as he was very fond of him and misses seeing him.

He tactfully didn't mention Steve and neither did I in my reply but I have offered to keep him updated with news of Beano.

Today I went to the local pub for lunch, my grass has been mowed by  a local gardener, I've changed my bedding, dried two machine loads of washing on the line, had a delivery of compost for the garden and I've been sent some assorted fabric that an online friend couldn't use.

The fabric is in a pile and I keep looking at it,awaiting for inspiration to strike. I think I can make a dressing gown and a couple of short sleeved tops at least.