Patience is a virtue

 It's been pretty much like summer now for 3 or 4 weeks - I know we Brits love to talk about and complain about the weather!  I suppose that in countries where whatever weather they have is pretty much consistent, be it constant sunshine or very cold or wet, they're used to it, whereas our weather is generally anything but consistent, so a period of several weeks of warm sunshine is a novelty.  There have been several reports of possible thunderstorms, but we've had none - a very brief and light spatter of rain a couple of times, but not nearly enough to wet the ground or water plants, or to relieve the humidity.  I really don't like sustained hot temperatures, be it bright sunshine or hazy humidity, they both make me feel ill, especially come the afternoon.

I've put in another couple of bids for houses this week, both bungalows - amazingly, there were 2 suitable ones advertised this week.  Once again it's a case of wait and see, we're still waiting to hear about the 3 other bids we've had in for several weeks now.  Why does it all have to take so long?  Husband had a bright idea (or so he thought) this morning - did I tell the Housing Dept in our application what our hobbies are?  No, they didn't ask.  Well, he said, perhaps I should tell them that we like gardening!!  Huh, apart from the fact that he hardly ever does any now (it's a real pain trying to get him to do any, he's extremely reluctant now), seeing as it's not a question they ask in the application they wouldn't be interested!  He seems to think that if we express a keen interest in gardening, it'll almost guarantee us top bidding for one of the bungalows I've bid for this week (all the ones we've bid for have gardens, not just this particular one he likes the look of)!  Erm, no it won't dear.  I'm just as frustrated as he is, probably a lot more so if truth be told, but there's nothing we can do except wait.

First thing this morning he buggered up his bank account again - he input the wrong sign-in details yet again, 3 times in a row, so was temporarily locked out of his account.....that's the 3rd time he's done that in the past fortnight.  Whilst he was doing it, I tried to tell him he was doing it wrong, but he won't listen to me, he just basically ignores me and blindly carries on.  It's a good job I keep an eye on his account and make sure it's all ok.  This sort of thing is so wearing though, things like this happen every single day, it's no wonder I get so frustrated and feel like tearing my hair out.

The list of jobs I put up on Sunday, in the hope it might spur husband on to actually do some of them, is only half working out.....he's actually started 2, but not finished either of them, he's abandoned both of them halfway through.  No change there then.

We went to the caravan yesterday, to water all the plants and put in a few more, the garden there is starting to look really nice and colourful.  We had our packed lunch in the garden sitting under the gazebo, buying that gazebo was a brilliant idea (on my part!! 😁).