Yawn,yawn, wakey, wakey 2017

Aloha everyone,

@Trunky good luck with it.

I'm still working my way through the photos and deleting the worst of them. We took nearly 1,400 of them (at the last count ) so I'm whittling away at them. It's a tedious job. We went to two carnivals and just kept snapping away as the lighting and the amount of movement messed up the photos (couldn't possibly have been my bad photography ).

We also had a Carnival dinner buffet at our hotel. We were only on B&B and the price for the dinner was 45 Euros per person (which we wouldn't have paid) but the management gave us free tickets . The buffet looked fantastic but looked better than it was - still good, though. I was told later that there were over 500 dinner guests . What was really good was that they had booked some of the carnival groups to come in and dance for us in all their finery. Absolutely superb . As one group finished another one came in and we guess that there were well over 500 of them altogether. The manager told me that there were about 1,000 but we don't think it was anywhere near that.

Just a few of the two photos we took of the dinner show. You can see in the last photo that the dancers were also all amongst the diners.







I'll be busy all morning getting quotes for our car insurance as it's due for renewal tomorrow.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Top of the morning everyone,its another fine day with lots of sunshine to come,a busy day for yours truly,opticians to collect my new owl glasses,lots of odd jobs to do,inside and out ,anyway I digress, enjoy your day and don't forget it takes

It only takes 17 muscles to smile and 42 muscles to frown.

 

Aloha everyone,

Well, yesterday I had a wander down the garden to see what a mess the strong winds had made of it. No real damage but a lot of clearing up to be done. So we will be having Michael in tomorrow, weather permitting, to do it. There's too much bending work for me to do it.

The black porous plastic on our veg plots needs to be picked up from where it's been blown and put back. It's normally held down with tent pegs and bricks but this is the first time in over ten years that the wind has taken it away. Michael shall be bringing more tent pegs and bricks. Lots of branches down all over the garden, the bonfire heap is now spread all over the bottom of the garden and the one ton bag, full of twigs and shrub cuttings, has moved 40ft The tied down blowaway has come apart but is not damaged.

Most of our jobs are normal ones

I've renewed our car insurances. They had quoted an increase of 25% on my car but I eventually got it for just a 5% increase and got Mrs Shiney's 10% lower than last year.

It's a very busy week (non gardening) this week.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Aloha everyone,

I'm late because I've been out and about with meetings and going to have a cuppa before getting busy again.

My bank sent a letter saying that, in future, all statements will be online but we could have one paper statement quarterly. So I phoned them up for a gentle word in their shell like! I'm now going to get paper ones each month.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Top of the morning all my friends on this Bonus of a Thursday morning,hope you are all well and happy,it won't be long when we put the clocks forward on hour at 1am on Sunday 26th March,then we will all Spring forward ,have a lovely day and don;t look back

 

Aloha everyone,

Well done @"M" I hope you explained it to Echo and Ozzy .

We never had insurance for Oscar but I don't think they would have insured him. We hadn't the faintest idea how old he was but I knew he was at least 10 years old and no history of medical condition. We only found out a little while ago that he would have been at least 14 when he adopted us as I found a 1993 photo of the garden with him in it and he was already an adult. Whenever he wasn't well he came straight to Mrs Shiney for treatment . He took any homoeopathic pills she gave him without hesitation and would let her clean and dress any wounds without complaint. Here she had cleaned a wound with antiseptic and was soaking it in salt water.



This morning Tom is coming back to increase the capacity of our computer with another, larger, external drive and a USB3 board as, last week, it took him 25 hours to do a complete backup of all our data . Over 85,000 photos, 15,000 emails, thousands of Word docs and numerous PowerPoint presentations and Excel documents. He's been adding bits to it for well over 10 years and I think I should start calling it Marvin as it will eventually have a brain the size of a planet.

It's a beautiful day today and after I've been for my annual dental check-up (new dentist at the practice so I'll have to get them trained to know what I don't like or won't allow ) it will be library and shopping and, if the grass has dried out, some mowing.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!