Dh has died - the MN Aunties are helping me keep on

[JuanPotatoTwo]

New thread, not very imaginative title sorry! I can't remember how to link - having a blank moment.

This is your thread, Juan & you can repeat yourself as often as you want.

It is your own place to scream/cry/laugh.

We have only had the lightest drizzle of rain here - not nearly enough. Still dry under any heavy foliage & am still having to water.

The upside (ha!) is a total lack of slugs - which makes a change!

Hello echt, I've seen you around MN & it's nice to see you here. Sorry to hear about your DH, that must've been such a shock.

So all getting back to normal here after our holiday. I have a couple of little tubs outside the front door & a hanging basket. It was very dry last week & while we were away the boys had forgotten to water them, but after a good soaking yesterday & today they've perked up again.

I went into town to do a big shop today and filled up the fridge & freezer. It was nice to be back home, potter around in town, drive on the right side of the road and not have to slather myself in sunscreen before I poke my nose out of doors like I do in Spain.

I had a minor crisis when my temperamental elderly laptop finally gave up the ghost this evening, which had me rather pathetically stressing over how I was going to be able to indulge my evening MN habit . My phone is fairly basic & isn't great for anything other than quick posts. Anyway, I was telling DS1 about it & he said I could use his laptop as he doesn't need it. It's much newer & faster than mine too. He's such a sweetie

Morning all!

DS woke at 6am full of the joys of spring so hoping we're back to normality now.

Drama that's nice of your DS.

Love to you all, will check in this afternoon.

Morning all
hope everyone had a good night.
Thinking of you Juan - I know Mondays are not good.
Drama - how nice of your DS - (and just like my DC , they rarely use a laptop , its all smartphones with biggish screens these days, always in their hands...)
yay Cake - a sigh of relief!
Well, its raining here, I was due to go and plant out sweetpeas and swedes at the allotment, shall have to decide if I want to get wet or not.
May just make it a day of bits and bobs around the house, as need to go and pick DGS from pre school this afternoon.
Thoughts and Prayers x

Well, its pouring ( but I did get to the allotment this morning)
Have some chicken bones in the pressure cooker to make stock for risotto tonight at DD's . Just need to do a bit of ironing, then off to pick up DGS.
I thought I'd put a picture on of one of my flowering bushes , taken in the rain and wind just now. Hope it cheers everyone up - it does me :)

Intermittent rain here all morning - enough to stop me hanging the washing out but not enough to be of any garden use.

Book - is that a wigelia?

Juan - hope your Monday is not too dire. You are going to have to start another thread soon - if you want to. (((xxx)))

Cake glad DS is OK.

Gorgeous picture, book.

Really wet day here, I think I've missed the Irish summer. The joke is that we only get one hot week a year, and of course that happened to be last week while we were away.

Back at work today, trying to catch up. I think it'll be at least Wednesday before I'm completely back in the swing of things.

Thinking of you Juan, hope your Monday isn't too difficult x

Hi Ladies

Yep raining here too, bucketing down and for a while it was more like sleet. Now just raining!

Day has been interupted by phone calls and chasing up council, etc.
Had to take ds and friend to school this am, usually do the pm run so went straight for the shopping to get it out the way. Lovely and quiet. Those kids are eating me out of house and home, god knows what it will be like in the holidays, maybe I should stock up

Tried to print stuff up for council but no ink left in printer so wasted more time ordering that. One of those days methinks.

Book lovely photo cant see the rain

Juan hope today not too bad for you and you have maltersers to hand.

Should be doing some filing as its overflowing but think I might have a nap instead....am such a powerhouse of activity

magi - its a Kolkwitzia - from a cutting my DF gave me over 30 years ago. Its now a bit of a thug, and needs a heavy thin every couple of years, but I love it
Drama - its always the way ...
right off to pick DGS up - I can take his spiderman umbrella , first use in rain...!

That's a lovely bush book - please can you make me feel a bit better and tell me you've at least had one day in your life when you have done absolutely nothing and have been very lazy like me?!

Drama it's nice to be home sometimes isn't it, nothing like your own bed. And no one to tell you which sheets you must or mustn't use or should or shouldn't wash! Your ds sounds so kind sharing his laptop
with you. Willow hope your phone calls were productive and at least you got your shopping done. I always have a supply of Maltesers to hand these days, get a bit twitchy if I don't! Cake glad everyone's healthy again although not envying you a 6am start! Looking forward to tomorrow very much.

It's not rained much here today really, little bit of drizzle on and off. I walked into town this morning to meet a friend of a friend who's a silversmith. She's going to make me a ring with some of Mark's hair in it. You won't be able to see the hair but I know it'll be there. Myself and P (Mark's best friend) have been exchanging lots of texts today - both of us feeling similarly down :(.

I am going to have to start a new thread aren't I magi, and I most definitely do want to. This, and you folks, have become a bit of a lifeline for me. Which gives me an idea for new thread title ...

Hope Selena and dh are doing ok, and Squirrels hope you're having a good day.

Bertie's worn out this afternoon. after being s naughty boy all morning.

I started a new thread :)

Nice plant book, not one I've come across before.
at spiderman umbrella, I think I still has ds1's somewhere - not that his 14yo self would thank me for finding it

Work is going okay, I popped to see a client on the way in this morning. She has a salon and once John got her as a client he used to get his hair cut there, so she knew him reasonably well - and that's hard.
I can't say I'm really enjoying it, but it's getting me up in the morning and giving me something to so, and an income. Tbh it's been more of a job than a career for quite a few years, although it could be a career. A lot of my involvement over the last few years has come from working with John and providing that service to the client together, and supporting his "added-value" type work by being the back office day to day stuff. And I haven't got that pull towards it anymore. I'm not sure how it will pan out, but it is very early days I suppose.

No "post-absence" things to clear up though as other people have been looking after my clients in my absence, so don't envy you there Drama.

Rain here this morning, not massively heavy, and stopped now (I'm just home) and the ground doesn't look very wet.

No boys tonight, one of my friends has been popping in for an hour on her way home on Monday as I'm on my own and it's a day her kids don't have activities. I might suggest that going forward we maybe go to the pub for an hour a bit later in the evening, as that will give me something to do with Mondays. Maybe another friend would be interested as well.

Just as I'd decided I'd re-message the local lady on WAY I got a quite chatty reply from her yesterday, although I didn't see it till today having gone to bed with a migraine last night. So I'm going to ask if she wants to meet up. I don't want being widowed to be the defining thing in my life, but equally at the moment - it is. When I was WhatsApp-ing with someone off WAY the other night it was just SO GOOD to be able to share like that in a way no one else really understands, and to do so with each other rather than it being all about me and my loss. I suppose that's the point of the organisation!

Cross posted Juan.
New thread here