Julia’s phone has been going all day. The large polytunnel in the gardens proved unable to resist the wind last night and the ancient, brittle sheeting disintegrated. Despite being off ill, she has had a constant stream of texts, photographs and requests for decisions.
To call in a team of experts would cost £500 over and above the cost of the plastic. At the moment she is waiting for an answer from the Young Farmers’ Club. to see if they are able to help.
In the shop we assembled a couple of office chairs. They are now pushed up to the desk in the middle room, waiting for a dedicated ebay team. However, it will probably end up with me and Eddie. One of the customers is currently refurbishing a computer for me and then he’s going to set a printer up a wireless network. This might seem normal to you, but it’s close to being miraculous to me, as none of my previous jobs have involved using a computer. I had my own for doing ebay, but I’ve never worked for someone else, or with someone else, using a computer.
This, I suppose, is the 21st century.
After that I had to remove a coin collection from plastic pages. Over the years the pages had sealed the coins in, so I ended up cutting them out with scissors. It’s a tedious job, but there was a Maundy fourpence in it, amongst the silver threepenny bits, so it felt worthwhile.
It’s even more tedious than sorting out the two plastic boxes of mixed cupro-nickel coins. Half-crowns, florins, shillings and sixpences plus large-sized 10 and 5 pence coins. I’m so used to the small 10p and 5p that the old-fashioned large ones come as a bit of a surprise. Thinking of it, I should have taken pictures to illustrate this. I may do that tomorrow.
Newark, Notts
In the afternoon I was off, so I took a quick trip to Newark to see my mate on the market. He was one of three stallholders who had braved the wind and rain, and they had all spread out to make the market look fuller. There were seven trees down on the way, with two teams still working on clearing them. It’s been quite windy round here. Fortunately all the roads had been cleared so there were no delays.
That’s about it. Julia is continuing her slow recovery, but while I was out this morning she inspected the garden for storm damage and, whilst struggling to keep her balance, managed to topple over. She does that. As soon as I’m distracted she tries to do too much and sets herself back. Fortunately she hasn’t hurt herself, but I’m thinking of rigging the house with CCTV so I can prevent a repeat.
I didn’t get many photos today, just a few silhouettes of Newark and some sky.
A dry view of Newark
Your Julia does get a lot done before collapsing. Guess it’s a woman thing. Continued healthy thoughts your way…stay out of hers as much as possible, both for sickness and health (y survival!).
🙂 She’s had a quiet day today, and is much better as a result.
I like those roof pictures! And I never knew about the Maundy money, though I did know that the monarchs used to wash feet. Goodness, I hope Julia heals up well and soon.
She’s well enough to be doing too much – by the time I got home she’d been swimming, walked across town, shopped, cooked a Shepherd’s Pie and collapsed.
Nice pictures of Newark. It seems that you have your work cut out for you with your reluctant patient.
Yes, she was a nuisance when she was ill, but she’s a lot worse as she recovers! 🙂
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I hope Julia gets well soon.
I remember the old five and ten pence pieces. How long ago is it since we stopped using them?
1990 for 5p, 1992 for 10p, 1997 for 50p. I had to look it up because it seems like forever. I don’t remember it being spread out so much. Julia is recovering nicely thanks.
Give our best to Julia for a speedy recovery.
Will do. She’s just at the point of doing too much and undoing all the recovery. 🙂
Such brooding pictures! Love them. Also, the things I learn from this blog! Until today, I never knew there was such a thing as Maundy money. Many thanks! As for Julia…so glad she didn’t get hurt. She reminds me of my mother. There was no keeping her down, no matter the circumstances. “A trooper,” one of my friends called my mother. The same is true of Julia. Hope your trooper can rest enough to really heal.
She’s just getting to the stage where I’m starting to lose control. She went swimming today (which was good) then walked across town to do an errand (which was bad). She is currently resting.
Oh, dear! Just can’t keep her down.
A baseball bat might do the trick… 🙂
I share your sense of the miraculous. Glad Julia is improving. Some of my negatives, in specially designed files, stick to the strips. We lived five minutes walk from those Newark pictures.
It’s a nice town, though it was rather wet yesterday. 🙂
Its a hard life being a carer. I hope that Julia recovers soon.
She deserves it after looking after me for 6 months last year. She’s on the mend thanks.
Best wishes to you both. The coins sound interesting. I’m a sucker for Regency-era coins, and find it amusing that many even then were faked, and others since then faked to be used as gambling chips. It’s been a naughty world for a long time!
Yes, all of human life can be seen in a few old coins. 🙂
And in their accompanying pocket lint!
Indeed! 🙂