Friday 2 August 2013

Whoops late again!

Two little angels at lunch.
 Firstly once again sorry for the late publication of our weekly missive, but this time it's all down to "t'intanet".  The UK is abysmal with it's internet in rural areas and I suspect here in Yorkshire more than most places.  Whilst they are making a great play about how many people get get one hundred megabytes per second  we here in Yokefleet would be satisfied with half a megabyte a second most of the time (when you can get anything) it's about as good a dial up used to be fifteen years ago, which is pretty downright bad.  In Greece although we have lived in some very isolated places the provision of internet has always been better than this.  Greece of course is bankrupt and Britain so far isn't, but there are people trying to run businesses over this, RANT OVER.

Two little demons at play
I have been giving my back some severe exercise this week with the repairs to the conservatory roof at our house.  This meant collecting a trailer load of scaffolding erecting two towers (could be a name of a film that!) and then manufacturing a platform out of ply and four by two timber to span between them and over the offending roof.  Making the platform in total took about eight hours doing the job about one.  The good news is that in true Yorkshire fashion the whole job cost me about one pound!!  Everything but the sealant was begged or borrowed.  We finished just in time as the heavens opened and gave the completed task a thorough testing, success!  I disassembled all the towers and decided not to return them to there owners for some time as the forecast over the next few days was for more thunder storms which duly happened.  So with no more leaks in evidence I once again borrowed the landrover from the farm next door, the big trailer from the vicarage in the next village and returned the scaffolding to it's rightful owner and all the wood for the platform to "number one sons" storage.  Thanks to all the people who loaned my bit's and bobs and of course to Gary who helped me with the heavy stuff.

Florence Nightingale AKA Nit Nurse!
Still on baby sitting duties this week in fact so much so that Sandra has been doing one family and me another at the same time.  Needless to say I took the easier option of the girls, Jessica and Melissa and Sandra had the herculean job of controlling the monsters from the black lagoon, Mason and Finley.  We love em really.

We had to go to funeral of an ex working pal of mine on Tuesday who has died pretty much out of the blue as far as I was concerned.  Ron was a great guy and will be sadly missed at our occasional get together's.  It was very nice to see a few old colleagues there though, it's a real shame that the only time you see some people is at these sombre occasions.

Oh well we will hopefully be on time next week internet allowing!

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