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It took me until 2 o'clock this morning, to thaw out sufficiently to fall asleep. My knees were killing me but that was hardly surprising as I had forgotten to take my medication when I got up yesterday and only realised when I went to take my evening meds last night.
But after 6 hours of sleep, I was woken by Leighton and Harry banging on my door, yep you guessed it the school runs are back on.
It has taken me a long time to pull myself around this morning, but when the decorating crew turned up around 9.20 I was out with them and my litter grabber cleaning up the detritus that had been left, many paper flags had given their short lives up in the rain so it was my job to go around retrieving them from all the places the wind had blown them haha. Actually, a lot of the neighbours turned out and by 10 o'clock it was all cleared away and tables and chairs returned to their rightful owners. I seem to be the only one that has lost items haha. A whole tub of wax crayons went missing, oh I got the tub back but it was empty, I am not bothered about them but what I am bothered about is my brand new heavy-duty sellotape dispenser that has mysteriously found a new home. I am hoping that whoever has it will return it in due course.
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I think I told you that my train back from Ely on Monday was delayed by 44 minutes and that I had heard you could make a claim against the cost of your ticket. Well, I submitted a claim and I heard back today that they were refunding me £20.65 for the delay. Apparently, there are many, many thousands of pounds in claimable refunds that are not followed up by delayed passengers every year. So if you are delayed for more than 30 minutes you can claim back a proportion of your ticket, but if you are delayed more than an hour you can get a full refund of the cost of your ticket. It is worth the time to make the claim.
Ben Nikki and the kids are away on holiday in Fuerteventura, he has been sending pictures through of his hotel and the kids playing in the swimming pools, I have to say it looks marvellous, I am very jealous, but it won't be long before I am jetting off to Crete to get my own slice of sunshine.
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Tonight I had a landscape gardener call on me to discuss the big changes I want to do in my garden. I guess the biggest change would be the vamoosing of the garage and an extensive deck laid, mind you I am thinking that perhaps I would like a pond as well haha, so big chnges a foot. But like everything else these days it all depends on the cost and how far I can stretch my current budget.
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