Still Suffering

We are all very much strangers to a syringe, but after finding ourselves bedridden for these past few days and still suffering, we shall definitely be making sure we are all fully inoculated against the flu next winter, even if we have to queue.

I swear last night I accidently touched Darrell’s leg and it hurt me! 

Please Bear With Us …….

Riverside Towers is currently a place of pestilence  ……. we are all currently incapacitated by the flu, displaying the whole gamut of symptoms from fever, the shivers, aching of an entire body type nature, and dare I say the snots, but not, thankfully, the trots, food has become a stranger to us, though we are doing our best to take on board water and our coughing fits rend the air, we are a very, very sorry lot! 

Please bear or bare with us ……. I am sure we will bounce back when we’ve ridden this storm.

The Perfect Gift For Someone Who Has Everything ……

Nigel has been mooching in Worcester with Lucy ………

……. and he spotted the perfect gift for the person what has everything, to wit Hugh, Darrell’s best friend and mentor . Who could want for anything more than a carrot sharpener ….. even though it would probably be his man that does who would actually use it!

Nigel also wondered whether it would possibly be a suitable wedding gift to send Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for their May nuptials? 

What is he like?

Kilts Akimbo

While out mooching in Worcester with Lucy, Nigel happened upon a whole row of kilts in one of the charity shops …… and come to think of it, we may have mentioned them before ……….

…… so, not a huge demand for a colourful kilt in Worcester since then, then …….

Darrell and I both possess a kilt and accompanying sporran and most splendid I must say we look in them  …….. but  I think Nigel in a kilt, no matter how manly and robustly romantic, should not be overly encouraged.

All’s Going Well

Work on The Towers bedroom renovations is going well …….. no accidental drilling into water pipes or gas mains.

……. Darrell can hardly contain himself, seeing all his design dreams coming true.

I have to say that he hasn’t got under Mr Pete’s feet once but instead has filled his time making sure Mr Pete has been swimming in hot, strong, builders tea (no sugar) and the odd Hob Nob and Caramel Wafer or two.

……. while waiting patiently for Mr Pete to finish his days work before finally going in to the room and marvel at how things are going ………..

……. and quietly counting down to when he can add the fripperies!!!!

Soup

Nigel wishes he had a Nana…….

……. he’s never had one …………

…….. who would make him some Nana’s “Magic” Soup like on the television.

Darrell has promised to look at the recipe card Nigel hopefully helpfully bought back from Tesco …….. 

……. and be his substitute Nana for the duration,  but strictly without the Nana kisses and cuddles……. or bedtime stories

……. what a spoil sport!

Manly Tools

This morning you find The Towers awash with rampantly manly Toblerone testosterone, what can I say?

Darrell is bursting with pride as the instigator of our renovations and full of doting admiration, as Mr Pete, our bespoke bedroom expert, is obviously a man of a great many tools, that he is not shy to get out and display  ……

……. as also has an equally large and  impressive toolbox

Nigel has been warned to keep well away ……..

……. we just cannot risk any accidental incidents of an impalage type nature.

I have told him that he can have just the tiniest peek after Mr Pete has gone home at the end of the day, but to be honest, I would have much rather had him adopted temporarily while the work is being carried out …….

….. as the “thing” in the hall terrifies me!

Perhaps I am just an old worry wart … but I know Nigel.  Tomorrow I think I might send him out to do some shopping in the mahooosive Tesco up the road and throw in a free lunch, in the hope that he will find other “more interesting” distractions for as much of the day as possible.

Totally Thrilled

There has been an awful lot of interest from our followers in the highly unusual face masks that Hugh, Darrell’s best friend and mentor, sent him for Christmas …….

Let’s just say that Darrell is over the moon …….

I have to be honest, Darrell already had a wonderfully smooth and clear complexion which has to be down to his very rigorous and rigid beauty regime ……

……. but I have to say, the results have been truly remarkable …….

……. and, I have to say, I am very tempted to venture into unknown territories  myself!

You never know …….  perhaps I might turn out to be a metrosexual too and never knew it ……

What am I like?

Grand Designs A La Towers

We’ve been at The Towers for 18 months now and I thought that we had things pretty much sorted, but then Darrell, after watching a box set of Grand Designs and perusing a pile of House Beautiful at the dentists, suggested we could tweak a little more in the bedroom department.

Being a bijoux apartment,  space is always of the premium and Darrell thought we could afford to add a few more drawers and shelves in the largest bedroom to wit mine!  So plans were drawn up and sent back and forth until Darrell was happy! 

Darrell has now started project managing, heaven help me, firstly by supervising the installation of two new sets of plug sockets …………

……. and tomorrow the main work of constructing said shelves and drawers begins …… I told him, before he almost went out and bought one, that he really didn’t need a hard hat and that perhaps a selection of biscuits for Pete, our carpenter, might be far more useful.   I will keep you informed of progress …………

The Most Irritating Ad EVER…….

Currently there is an ad on the TV for Nationwide Building Society that irritates us sooooooooooo much (even though we bank with them)  that we fight for who can reach the remote fastest so that we can change channels, no matter what we are watching, until it is all over!

We know  it’s a totally irrational irritation, but it’s the same whenever Cliff Richard or Alexander Armstrong are on ……

……. they just make our toes curl so robustly, we almost get cramp.  What are we like?

But yesterday poor Nigel got the  fright of his life because there they were again, the girls, not Cliff Richard or Alexander Armstrong ……. he said it’s as if they are haunting him with cringiness! He is now looking for a new route to go for his chai latte until the poster is removed!  Poor Nigel!

Change Is In The Wind

With all the bitter wind and rain over the past few days my usual mug of coffee just didn’t seem to be the right tincture to provide the required comfort factor on my early morning walk up to Lavender Fields for my usual Friday “Uncle Duties”.

So I decided to throw caution to said wind and filled my thermal mug with Horlicks instead ………

Let’s just say it went down a treat and was indeed very comforting, I think it might be a habit I could get used to.

Nigel’s Slight Misunderstanding

Sometimes Nigel has a tendency to take things a little too literally.

Yesterday he saw this large banner outside the Tesco up the road …….

…… and got totally the wrong end of the stick ……. declaring that though he really adored his daily ration of fruit, he also really loved Iris and Bertie far too much to ever consider exchanging them for a free banana, apple or satsuma, or, for that matter, a very large honeydew melon!

However, all was mercifully made clearer on entering said supermarket to investigate further, what Tesco were actually offering was a piece of fruit of their choice to any children while they were shopping ……….

Well, that was a completely different scenario to what Nigel had first imagined. However, he is now wondering how many times he can wheel Iris and Bertie round Tesco in a single day without anyone noticing!! Sometimes …… I just despair  ….. what is he like?

Feed The Birds

Darrell and I have treated Nigel to another window bird feeder …….

……. to be honest it’s not really allowed in our leasehold and we’ve put one up before, but we chickened out and took it down after a few days ……

…….. but we now feel more “established” and as we’ve just had our annual window clean it’s a case of “who dares wins”!

We shall see if we get a letter asking us to take it down forthwith or face having it forcibly removed! What are we like …. if not warriors for our tits!

Caught In The Act

Yesterday I caught Nigel in the act ……….

……… “channelling,” he said “his inner most Toni and Guy!” ………

……. on Iris’s Princess Styling Head.  He said, that as an uncle of a beloved niece he was still very much a stranger to the mystery of the bunch, bun, plait and pony tail and getting Iris ready for afternoon nursery was occasionally fraught if any of her slides or bands had come out or loose during the morning ………

…… and he worried that his skills in art of coiffure might be seen as wanting by her nursery staff.

Well, that’s his story ……. and he’s sticking to it!  What is he like, if not the most devoted uncle ever???? But I don’t think said Toni and Guy have anything to worry about!