16 weeks and counting

Someone just asked me in work how my house is? and how long has it been now. Its been 16 weeks yes 16 weeks. My god I can't believe we have lived in that damp mess for all this time.

Hopefully when they dig the drains up again  on the 4th January and FIX them properly this time. No cutting corners it will be fixed. And everything else will fall in to place.

I haven't mentioned it before but weekend before Christmas the drains in the road were struggling to take the rain water away because it was raining that heavily. I had a look at our storm drain that is just outside the cellar doors and it seemed to be holding its own. I asked Geoff to bring a couple of sand bags home from work.

During the week I happened to look at the storm drain again and yep you guessed it it looked like it was blocked.  A call to united utilities and a call out later. The operative they sent managed to break the return valve in the drain so that all has to be replaced. I really couldn't make this up.

They are going to try and scheduled the work in next week. But its left my property really vulnerable to flooding I am so worried about Storm Dylan.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/30/storm-dylan-set-to-disrupt-new-years-eve-travel-across-britain

2018 cooking challenge

Yeahhhhh  i'm back online. What a faff that was they bought me a new laptop yesterday and blow me too cut a long story short it was broke. We had to take it back and get a new one. I have a shiny new blue one. 

Enough of that... Any one up for challenge. 


Now despite all my good intentions I have added  another 3 cook books to my already huge 

collection. On top of this I am subscribed to yumly and pintrest  I would love to say that all these additions mean a constantly changing and varied diet........

..........no i like looking at the pictures then heading to the kitchen to cook a chilli or a spag bol 

So enough is enough and there is no better time of year to start changing this habit. 

For me I will choose one 'new to me' recipe every week from one of my many resources and hopefully over time expand my current menu. Any one wanna join in? no pressure just a bit of fun 


And hopefully loose some weight along the way.

Broken laptop

My flu came back with a vengeance on Sunday evening. Off I went to bed at 20:00 all dosed and wrapped   up. I didn't bother with my laptop yesterday. Come to put it on this morning and we have the blue screen of death.

Although I have a good tablet and phone I do love my laptop. It is actually 4 years old today. I do use it every single day to browse and I have a little eBay business so it does get a lot of use. My daughters  have said they will buy me one between them for my birthday as an early present  so I am going to go and a look tomorrow. 

Merry Christmas xx