Showery Saturday

Well, here we are at the start of a Bank Holiday weekend so you know that the weather just has to be wet!  Only showery at the moment but plenty of dark clouds and it is suppose to deterioriate even more during the weekend. I feel sorry for all those organisations who have things planned for the Bank Holiday.

You might have been wondering where I have been.  Well, I never learn.  I had been spending far too much time on the computer and have started my neck off so I am in quite a bit of pain at the moment.  Also, I have begun the increase in my medication with some rather unpleasant side effects, the sort you do not talk of in polite society. I was warned about them but that does not make them any easier to take. At the moment my relaxed attitude to having my diabetic check at the end of next week has disappeared and I am quite uptight about it due to the way I feel right now.  Well, I can only hope that things improve in the next few days and that by next Friday I will feel a lot better and all will go well.  I could do without any more stress at the moment.

On a brighter note, we did look after Daniel yesterday or rather Mike did, bless him - he had to see to the little man because I was lying on the sofa most of the time.  Daniel was not in a smiley mood but here is the latest picture of him.  His hair looks red in this shot but it is not. He is blonde although quite a bit darker than Nathan.

Our new tree arrived yesterday afternoon and is now safely planted. A Mountain Ash that will have white blossom in the Spring (probably next year) and red berries in the Autumn. I did get a couple of shots of Mike planting it.  He did a lot of work out there yesterday, not only putting the tree in place but a good deal of weeding as well because it has been neglected so far this year due to the weather.

 

These were taken before he tackled the weeding.  The tree is a healthy looking specimen so hope it does well. When it was standing in our hall it look quite large but now outside it barely looks like a tree at all, more a large stick with a few leaves on it but it has got good soil, a couple of handfuls of fertiliser and gets plenty of sun (when it shines) so hopefully it will soon grow sturdy and I look forward to the day when birds will be singing in its branches.

I hope you will all forgive me if I do not get around to commenting on all your journals every day for a little while. I need to get my neck better and to feel generally better than I do.  I will tackle as many as I can.  It will also probably be a couple of days before I post again.  I hate missing out on you but with my medical appointment not far off now I really have to be careful and not make my neck any worse.

Well, poor old Mike has just had to dash down the garden to retrieve the washing as it has started to rain yet again.  Looks like we will be drying it inside.

Hope you all have a good weekend and I promise to read all your journals soon.

So, in keeping with the weather I will sign off with this graphic by the lovely Donna.