Ravendale House

In the end we decided to finish the hedge cutting ourselves, hard work doesn’t begin to describe it, but we triumphed in the end as you can see.

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Now that’s a question you don’t hear very often, in fact in all my 57 years I don’t think I’ve ever heard it before, and I’ve certainly never said it myself, that is until a couple of days ago.

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Today I went for a walk around the garden, it felt more like Ocober 18th than July!

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On Sunday we made our annual trip to the famous Waddington Air Show. I say “annual trip” it’s only the second time we’ve been in the 13 years we’ve lived here, and we’re really cross with ourselves for not discovering it sooner. Hey-ho better late than never.

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I’ve written previously about my old Xmas cactus and how it nearly fell foul of the hard winter. Well it’s still doing quite well, but needless to say I’m giving more attention than normal. Basically that means regular feeds of Baby-Bio.

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Life is just a bowl of cherries, and here are some I picked earlier.

    
 

 

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Having been out of action for what seems like an age, I decided to cut the grass, as this doesn’t involve lifting my arm higher than it will go. I knew it would be hard, everything is when you can only use one arm properly, but I thought I was up to it.

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A  few weeks have now passed and things are improving slowly. A trip to the doctor has thrown more light on my situation. She feels I over-stretched my already frozen shoulder and tore a muscle. Hence the terrible pain. The muscle has now healed, and the pain is much reduced, though lack of movement is still an issue. The good news is, I can use my computer and potter about.

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On Wednesday June 8th at around 4.30pm, disaster struck.

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The wind is still blowing, but at least it is warm and sunny now, so yesterday we decided to spend the day at the seaside, in Skegness.

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