A wet day

I woke through the night as the rain was coming in and I was getting wet so I had to get up and close the windows.


It was still raining this morning so I did my washing and had to use the dryer.


I rang Sonia this morning and had a nice chat with her about her holiday to Jamaica where she hurt her toe, well dislocated it and had to have three stitches, not a good start to a holiday but they did eventually have a good time.


Two birds flew into the glass on the deck and stunned themselves. I thought they were dead but then I say their chests moving up and down. They are a bit like starlings. I picked them up and put them under one of the chairs to keep dry and hoped they would liven up but one looked like he had a broken leg. Fortunately, they perked up and one managed to fly away but the other one kept crashing into the glass panels which is how he hurt himself in the first place, the glass does confuse them. I tried to pick him up to let him fly but he was frightened and kept falling. I eventually manged to get him up and away he flew.


I was doing my housework and I heard a chainsaw start outside and when I looked the man from the bungalow at the front was cutting the big magnolia tree down in my neighbours garden. this is the tree that has been hanging over our drive and Jon spent about two hours pruning it yesterday and Terry comes in and chops the whole thing down in about half an hour!!!! i don't think Jon will be impressed!!! There is now a big empty space so now sure what she is going to plant there.


The Avon lady called with the things Heather and I had ordered and we had a coffee and a chat.


Heather came home for lunch but Jon had a meeting. Heather has some really big bites on her legs and we are not sure what they are from but they are very swollen and itchy.


I managed to get a lot of housework done today and so all is clean and ready for Kirsty and James I just hope Heather keeps it like this while we are away.


I took Totty out for a walk this afternoon, it was too wet this morning so she only had one walk today. Heather and I were going to go out for a power walk when she got home but it started to spit again so we couldn't go.


Jon finally called to say he would be home for dinner. He thought he might be going out with some people who are here for a conference but he didn't feel like it. I hadn't prepared dinner so we just had to have something from the freezer.


We have been trying to plan Easter and Heather wants to go to Oz but it is going to cost a lot of money for a long weekend so we are looking at other options that will suit her and she won't be bored!


WEATHER
Very wet first thing, they cloudy and dry but heavy rain at night 22 degrees