Hi My Friends
I hope you are all well. We have been really busy helping Claire & Toby in their new/old cottage, digging dead trees out ready for new fencing to all around the property. Paul was doing the hard labour & I was making lunches before going over and playing with Phoenix. I think I got the better jobs. Then it was back home to do the hard labour in our own garden. I've not been that much help as my knee is so painful now and am shouting out with the pain sometimes, Hey Ho! and it's no help when the pratt of a doctor says it's wear & tear love, patronizing woman.
I needed to make a quick Thank You card and an IOU card inside for a big take away for our lovely neighbours. Jim has been amazing. He has saved us an awful lot of money and has saved Paul's back several times as well while Paul has been building our new patio. Jim is a builder and at the time we started our build Jim was demolishing a house, we needed rubble and hardcore and Jim needed to get rid of it, so a portion of the demolished house is now under our patio.
When we first moved here we built 2 raiand also for security reasons.sed decking areas and over time they became unsafe and as Paul said as he gets older he didn't want the headache of constant repair, so we took down the 2 deck's and pulled out shrubs and a couple of trees ( which will be replaced )We decided that our property was too over grown and really needed to be opened up again. So many shrubs had taken over and we were losing our view down to the lawn so fast that if we had left it for another year we would be totally enclosed. and also for security reasons. I will put some photo's of before and after when it is finished. We still have a way to go as I've decided to move the pond from outside the summer house in the back garden to the front of the property incorporating it in the new patio with a shallow waterfall feature, so as you come up the steps to the front door you can look over and see the pond and also when we are sat in the summer room we will be able to see the fish and hear the trickle of the water. By the time we have finished Paul would have laid 275 slabs
As I say it is a massive Thank You card to Jim & to his wife for allowing Jim to spend his time and the use of his digger, trailer and whacker plate machine to help us out.
Here Goes.
Hope you like it.
Please stay safe as this awful virus takes hold again. See you all again soon.
Lots of Love & Hugs
Tina XX
Morning Tina, so pleased that you are all OK, but you knee really needs to be done, I remember when I went for an assessment on mine the nurse said that it was not bad enough but he could give me an injection to help with the pain, but I said no because I was in so much pain I insisted on being referred to the specialist, when I actually saw him he said that the injection would not have done any good because my knee had got way past that stage, he booked me in for a replacement and it was done within 3 weeks. The other knee wants doing but I am putting it off until the pain is unbearable and of course covid, so proves that the assessor doesn't always know what they are talking about. What a lovely neighbour you have too. Special hugs to you all and take care xxxx
ReplyDeleteAfternoon June
ReplyDeleteI was going to get it done, but then the covid started and now I'm really reluctant to go anywhere near a hospital as I caught covid19 after a hospital appointment back in March and as people are becoming reinfected I just couldn't go through that again as Paul and I still have problems with our chest.I'm afraid I'm just going to have to grin & bear it until such times it's safer to go into hospital. I'll just keep popping the pain killers.
Thank you for always being here for me, it really means a lot. X
Love & Hugs
Tina XX
Hi Tina a gorgeous card and your beautiful flowers , you are very lucky to have a neighbour like that .
ReplyDeleteIt is hard work but will be worth it . my hubby struggling a bit with our garden and i cannot help now we will soon have to have someone in to help.
Hope you are all keeping safe and well, i have still not been out only to chiropodist and still doing shopping on line. Hope things improve soon and you can get some help with your knee .well love to you and family keep safe hugs jeanie xxx
Hi Jeanie
ReplyDeleteGlad you like the card Jeanie.
Sorry to hear about your hubby, gardening although enjoyable can sometimes be a pain, in many forms.I said to Paul the day you can't mow the lawn we're getting astro turf :) .
I've been to the wholesalers a couple of times but now the covid numbers are going up I'm staying home. Paul goes to work so it will be up to him to do the shopping, I feel bad but I'm still suffering still with lung capacity from the covid back in March. Hopefully they will find a vaccine soon and I can hug my Claire & Craig and of course my little man.
Please stay safe Jeanie, and thank you for always leaving me a lovely comment X.
Love & Hugs to you & your family too.
Tina XX