Primroses inJanuary

Saturday, the weather is absolutely horrible, it’s drizzling and the temperature is around 12 degrees. I have all my life suffered with low blood pressure (a blessing really) but this kind of weather gives me a bad head, I feel like I’m floating, sometimes I have it that bad that I can’t drive and have to take medication. Yesterday afternoon we drove to the garden centre were a orchid show was being held. My wife has 4 orchid plants herself and is always keen to learn more about them. There are some beautiful orchids it’s just the price that knocks you back, you can pay anything up to 40 Euros for one plant.

While we were there naturally we had a good look round and ended up buying primroses and large headed daisy’s (they have a proper name of course but I don’t know it) the photo is taken after I had planted them. We thought the primroses would brighten the days up for us, anyway seeing that the weather is so mild.

This week we have started to wash the sun blinds (that we have on every window) this means taking them down, socking them in luke warm water in the bath tub and hanging them up again wet so the plights stay in. Just my luck as I was hanging the last one up a fitting broke (they are made out of hard plastic) so it was off on my bike to Hilden, which is about 5 kilometres from were we live to get some new fittings. I could have gone by car of course but on a Saturday parking in Hilden is somewhat tedious.

One thing has changed for the better; our dog Toby is not coughing as much since he has been taking the stronger antibiotics. I have to see the vet on Wednesday with him again.

It is sometimes surprising just how stupid one can be. A few months ago we decided that we needed a new bath room mat it wasn’t something that had to be bought straight away so we had time to look around compare prices and so on. Then here we go the pair of us completely stupid at the time and so it turned out that we went and bought an orange/red bathroom mat what doesn’t match with any thing else that we have in the bathroom. Why we bought it we both don’t know only thing we know it was expensive 160 Euros. Now every time we go into the bathroom we get a culture shock. It has to go!!

Take care out there were ever you are Tschüss