16-04-24

Good morning, everyone.  Haw has life been treating you?  Can you believe we are in the second half of April already?   It's lovely to have the longer days and now I wish for warmer early mornings and evenings - never satisfied, am I?

After a rather wet morning yesterday, it dried up and bit and we even had a bit of sunshine.  Not much and not for long but it was very cheering.  Right now, it is dry but cloudy and there's quite a stiff breeze blowing.   BBC says it's going to end up nice and sunny so fingers crossed!

Two very disgruntled pigeons sitting on the fence wishing the rain would stop.  Poor things!

It was raining quite hard first thing so Chris and I drove down to Groove instead of walking which worked well for me as it gave me a bit more time between finishing Groove and leaving for the bus.  The rain had stopped by then, luckily, so I didn't have to dodge raindrops.

Although I got to Specsavers a bit early, I didn't have to wait;  I went straight in to the audiologist (can't remember her name) and there they were - my lovely, serviced hearing aids, all reprogrammed for my hearing changes and ready to try out.

I checked and there's one more year and one month of warrantee left so, as long as I book the annual check in April next year, that more or less gives me two years (barring accidents/breakdowns) before I have to start paying, by which time I will be thinking of new aids.  Technology moves on so very fast and each set of new aids I get has been significantly better than the previous set.
Two years is plenty of time to save.

She also reprogrammed my other aids - not that it made any significant difference but at least it's done.  And didn't charge me a penny - all part of the warrantee, she said.

There's just one flip side to it.  She warned me that my TV gizmos and my phone app would need to be relinked.  The TV gizmo was dead easy but the phone and app . . .

First I had to unlink the aids from the app, then uninstall and reinstall myPhonak, then go through a whole palaver to get them linked back up again.  I've not done it before because they've always done it for me but, annoyingly, my phone was out of charge and, anyway, I would need passwords which I didn't have with me.  Ho hum!

I got there, eventually, after much to-ing and fro-ing and I might have uttered a few naughty words under my breath, so I can control the aids from the app but I couldn't work out how to get the Bluetooth connection to the mobile itself which is more than a bit frustrating and which, I guess, means another trip into town at some point.  I will have another go today - perhaps Google can help with info.

It can't be that difficult, surely?

Edit:  done it!  No idea why it wouldn't yesterday but it took moments (after asking Google).  All is now well in my world! 

Here we go!  Second lot of sourdough hot cross buns and don't they look nice?  The only thing I did differently is I briefly soaked the dried fruit in hot water before draining them and adding them.

I made one mistake - I forgot I needed to heat the honey and water before using it as a glaze so they are very, very sticky on the outside.  

I'm taking them over to Beth and Alex late morning.  

It's a busy day.
I really have to have a good tidy up this morning.  It's a puzzle to me how untidy things can get so quickly.  Then I will do another dust and sweep just because.

I'm taking those buns over to Beth and then the lovely Sharon is here to work her six weekly magic on my hair - so I need to wash it before she gets here.

And then I have to head over to Lindsey's for my personal training session.

Oh, well, keeping busy also keeps me out of trouble, doesn't it?  :-)

Wishing you all a great day, packed with good stuff.  xx