🌱VLOGMAYS🌱 more pootling through the day getting all sorts done.

[@lavenderlaceladylavenderla5420]

When your Dad and I got married all we had a little boiler and a stand alone spin dryer. I used to soak the sheets etc in the bath, then put them in the boiler to wash them. Every thing else was hand washed in the sink and the put in the spinner. We had to hang the washing in a drying room as we didn’t have a garden, so the navy provided a room on each floor of the maisonettes. A lot went missing. I didn’t get a washing machine until you were almost 2 pure luxury. It wasn’t an automatic, it was a twin tub! You were 6 when Nanny Sheila gave me her automatic.

[@talesfromcuckooland]

No wonder you only had one child!

[@lavenderlaceladylavenderla5420]

When you get it right first time, you dare not chance it again! Xx

[@Barbara-yj5tl]

@@lavenderlaceladylavenderla5420wise lady

[@claireangier3322]

@@lavenderlaceladylavenderla5420 Arrh what a lovely mum, wish I still had mine. ❤

[@jillfoster6369]

…..and we were more than thrilled with getting the super duper twin tub washing machine - oh my goodness it was the business 🤭x

[@georgianasstudio]

The only clothes I change daily are my underwear otherwise I wear for multiple days. Unless I’ve been in garden or gotten sweaty.

[@tinastone7368]

Don’t forget the thrush and the blackbird… they sing beautifully 😉🤗

[@pauljoscott869]

I really wish my neighbour was as considerate as you are with your dogs barking. Her dog barks all the time (& constantly when she goes out. I’ve just had 3hrs 45mins of barking whilst she’s been out) & it’s having a huge impact on my mental health! We’ve spoken to her about it & all we get are excuses.

[@talesfromcuckooland]

It’s so hard for someone to stop their dogs barking when they aren’t there but it should be dealt with. I haven’t spoken to my neighbours about their dogs yet but they bark for prolonged periods of time and it is horrid and anxiety making. I will chat to them at some point over a glass of wine and see what we can do. I cross my fingers for you and for me!

[@darlenewatkins4999]

I feel exactly as you do about not being able to relax till it gets dark!!

[@dariennichols-smith210]

Love your view of the world, walnuts always make my skin break out, might be causing your spots, hope this helps

[@talesfromcuckooland]

I wish they were the cause. I rarely eat walnuts. Mine is all done to dodgy hormones. 🥹

[@marionhandsley7959]

I remember mum doing all the washing on a Monday. She had a copper and a mangle. The only clothes we changed everyday was our underwear everything else was worn for 2 to 3 days. Everything was pegged out unless it was raining and the greatest job I loved to do in the winter was fetch the washing in off the line for mum when it was frozen to the line, as a kid I thought it was so much fun😅. xxx

[@heathertucker7056]

When we bought our first cottage we had an outhouse with a brick built copper where someone lit a fire under it to heat up the washing water! There was even the old “copper stick” which was used to stir up the washing while it boiled ! Must have been such hard work and very hot and sweaty! We couldn’t bear to get rid of it so just stored garden tools in it ! Love WW xx

[@ruthmcniff4765]

Love Lavender Lace Lady’s comments 🥰!

[@janecopeland2306]

Ever since I went through menopause (about 14 years ago), I have times where I am absolutely chilled to the bone. I have to cuddle up with a heating pad and/or hot water bottle, and sometimes even have a very hot shower, just to stop shivering. Very odd! We are all very lucky to have the mod cons around the house. For the first time in many years, I have a dishwasher and I am loving it! I learned today that where I live is on the same latitude as London so we have the same amount of daylight. How fabulous!

[@nathaliebourre3578]

Fully agrees with you about clothes washing! I wear dresses 95% of the time and I don’t put them in the washing machine every time after a single wear, only if they got stained! Mind you, I put that in the same basket (ahahah!) as the two showers a day … you change your underwear daily, have a good wash so where is the need to get showered twice daily unless you got sticky, dirty or smelly… it’s amazing the impact on the environment and on one’s pocket too! 🤗

[@louisedavis2128]

Happy belated birthday, Gaynor 🥳 I feel the same about not being able to relax when the days are so light. I have started to try growing some flowers and vegetables for the first time, partly to help me appreciate the lighter, warmer seasons. Loving watching your days.

[@vickie_crafts]

I'm the same with wearing clothes for a couple of days. Most things don't need washing as often as people think. My mum washed all of our clothes etc in the bath before wringing it all out by hand and hanging it on airers, or outside if we were lucky enough to be in an army quarter with a garden. I helped as soon as I was old enough to. We didn't get a washing machine until I was 14 (the late 80s), it was a second hand twin tub but mum was over the moon.

[@lisaporch8922]

Oh I’m the same Gayna I love early darkness 😊 but I also love my garden lol. Can you imaging when people had to spin the fleece then weave then sew clothes from that !?

[@beckyparker9075]

I Love horse chestnut flowers, my Dad used to call them candle blossoms.❤

[@storyandstone]

Hi Gayna, if you’re waking up between 1am and 3am with those symptoms then your liver could be struggling. I went to my naturopath because I was waking up hot, etc and after a couple of weeks of having a liver healing powder in my smoothie I’m sleeping through. It’s great. Coincidentally, my menopause symptoms have lessen too. 😊

[@juliadroy1179]

I'm like your mum only had a washing machine and a separate spin dryer when I first go married, waited a good few years before getting an automatic washing machine, great vlog xx

[@pattyomalley833]

I'm with you, Gayna, in that I can't relax with the longer days. I love when it gets dark early--so cozy!

[@susanmartin7775]

Another lovely podcast Gayna. Take care ❤

[@pennyspearing2731]

We often tend to just walk past the wild flowers but you realise how pretty they are just stopping for a while and looking 😊

[@carotrike]

Steve just said that you smell fine from here! A few tears ago, when twin tubs were all the thing, people wore more natural fibres, such as cotton and linen. These don't need as much washing as much as what I call, sweaty fabrics, like nylon or rayon. If you knit with cotton, you can wear the garment next to your skin for at least 2 days (especially if you make your own deodorant). Ask me, if you want the recipe. I have 2 linen dresses that I wear and then air, I rarely actually wash them in water. The plant in your garden we think is philidelphus. The plant you liked on the floor of the woods is vetch. We have blue-tits nesting in the roof of a garage that joins our back wall. I thought they might be put off by us spending more time outside, but no, they are fine!😍

[@talesfromcuckooland]

It’s a deutzia mont pink 🥰🥰🥰 I am rather averse to synthetic fabrics these days due to the micro plastics that wash out but I generally just love cotton and linen so much!

[@1sweffling]

Talking about seeds I wondered whether you know this poem? The Seed-Shop Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie, Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand, Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry - Meadows and gardens running through my hand. In this brown husk a dale of hawthorn dreams; A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust That will drink deeply of a century's streams; These lilies shall make summer on my dust. Here in their safe and simple house of death, Sealed in their shells, a million roses leap; Here I can blow a garden with my breath, And in my hand a forest lies asleep.

[@chickiemagoo9995]

Winter Vetch is a member of the pea family. Each flower is made up of five unusually shaped petals. The top petal is the banner petal. The two side petals are alike and are called the wing petals. The lower two petals are joined together and are called the keel petal. Winter Vetch has large flower clusters, each with about 20 purple flowers. Sometimes the flowers are pink or white. The other vetch species which occur at Mather Field have only one or two flowers in each cluster. Scientific name: Vicia villosa Family: Fabaceae (pea) Habitat: Grasslands (often disturbed) Size: Plants are long and viney, growing up to a few feet long; each flower is 1 to 1.5 cm long, the clusters have 10-30 flowers.

[@bridiellewellyn8469]

When I went to the chiropractor I screamed every time the pop or crunch sound happened … it didn’t hurt one bit but shocked me every time. Poor man think I traumatised him 😂😂

[@ARIESWOMAN1959]

Oh Gayna, you make me laugh. I can confirm that some of us are blessed with not being the sweaty types and can wear our clothes more than once before washing, I am so grateful because I don't really enjoy doing laundry and have loads of undergarments so those can pile up as needed. But my big giggle today was when you walked in with a clear bottle of liquid, I immediately thought...what is she doing with all that Vodka and must admit was a little disappointed it was water 🤣 See you tomorrow.

[@Floralee2020]

What a lovely walk in nature with all these beautiful flowers in the trees 😍 the Dondee marmalade jam jar on your shelf is that an old one ? , I have one similar that looks like an antique one 😊

[@talesfromcuckooland]

Yes it’s an old one, I don’t know how old but I really love it x

[@Floralee2020]

@@talesfromcuckooland thats good to know , I love mine to , it’s so beautiful

[@sandiking1584]

I wear my tops two days in a row also....I had to do all my washing (from 11 yrs of age) by hand as my mum wouldn't let me use the washing machine...when I first started dating my (first) husband I volunteered to do his washing (foolish move lol) he had a washing machine with rollers attached and you would squeeze the clothes through the rollers, into the laundry sink to rinse then back through the rollers. I got my fingers caught in them once, only once.... Nature is amazing, and we as humans think we can do better

[@thelimeysretreat4976]

That shrub you were asking about looks like a philadelphus but it seems too early, it may be a weigela xxxxx

[@talesfromcuckooland]

It’s a deutzia mont pink 🥰🥰🥰

[@TheUnnur81]

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[@ritazimmermann2918]

Yes, I used to tell my husband my thermostat was broken. 😂 Might also want to have your iron level checked to make sure it isn’t low.

[@suedale1865]

Take a photo on your phone of the plant go to the photo bottom bar is an info symbol & it will come up look up plant & give you name or couple of options I use it all the time That purple flower is vetch can do wherever your walking looking at plants ENJOY

[@talesfromcuckooland]

I tried that and the candied app but they didn’t get it right. A few clever gardening friends helped me out, it’s a deutzia 🥳

[@jowatson2607]

I regularly feel thankful for my washing machine & a garden to hang things on the line outside. My grandma used to drag her twin tub from the bathroom into the kitchen on Tuesdays to do the washing. I don’t know what they did when they needed a bath, it was hard enough clambering round it to wash your hands!

[@suecoles7824]

Can’t smell ya Gayna, but I haven’t met you in person! 😂 there’s nothing wrong with wearing clothes more than once, maybe these days people over wash, if they don’t look grubby and don’t smell 👃 lovely walk along that lane, I love horse chestnut trees, stunning. MY Mum had a twin tub and wringer, also a scrubbing board, took her all day to do the washing, Several loads, I don’t think we have any idea these days. Love & Hugs Suze. 🐦‍⬛🌳🧺 🤗 xxx

[@thecraftydawn]

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[@barbarasinclair8508]

Gayna does your Chiropractor advise you to go for a little work straight after adjustment before you go driving off.....I find this helps me after I have had an adjustment......Happy Belated Birthday x

[@kellyfazekas7831]

Isn't nature wonderful? So pretty and I personally believe God has made the earth to give us all we need, if only we are smart enough to figure it out.

[@talesfromcuckooland]

We are all idiots. I wish we could rewind 200 years.

[@letishegallion3875]

Hi Gayna, Also you can root rosemary and zinnia's in water!

[@talesfromcuckooland]

I knew about rosemary but not zinnias. Thank you!

[@carolyncampbell6149]

I’m like you with the light evenings Gayna (and they’re way longer up here in the frozen north), just feels wrong not to be doing something. But I love all the fresh growth of spring, just wonderful. Was the first shrub a viburnum possibly? Love these vlogs. Xx

[@schiehallion1737]

Your wild plant around 10.13 is Common Vetch (vicia sativa) aka 'poor man's peas'.

[@talesfromcuckooland]

Ohhhh is it? I have a spring Vetch I’m cosseting. It’s so pretty too. Xx thank you x

[@phoebepaxford7184]

And they only used to bath once a week! I wear the same clothes 2 days and jumper and jeans longer. That Gayna, though she's niffy 😅 cold sweats are a thing, I think they're worse than the hot ones. Red clover supplement stopped mine. X

[@christinephillips2069]

It’s the menopause night sweats are horrible,have you got any tips for me on how to cope with tinnitus I have recently developed it’s driving me mad ! X

[@talesfromcuckooland]

No tips, I’m afraid. It’s something I have to try to tune out 🥲

[@meadowsweetfarmfiberartsdesign]

The pain in your coccyx will take time to heal. Just be as patient as you can and get lots of rest. The pain will eventually go away. ❤️

[@debbieharrison71]

I think the plant is a weigela.

[@talesfromcuckooland]

It’s similar, it’s a Pink Mont Deutzia. Haven’t managed to find one in my local garden centres though. X

[@janeb2958]

Clammy might be the after-effects of a hot flush? Personally I've had both extremes of temperature, my thermostat is bust in a way that makes it manic not stuck in one mode!! And restless legs/twitchy feet. Oh it's delightful... :D

[@talesfromcuckooland]

I’ve had restless legs since I was a little girl. I inherited all the good stuff from my dads side as he gets them and so did his mum 🤪

[@louisaheaton4606]

There is a free app you can get that will allow you to take a picture of any plant and it will identify it for you xxx

[@patriciajosey6686]

I think your flowering shrub might be a deutzia 🙂. Give it the google and see if the photos match your live version!

[@Barbara-yj5tl]

I watch a channel called Common farm flowers. I’ve picked up a few helpful gardening tips from Georgie. She’s based in Devon.

[@marybloom9902]

Isn't nature amazing ❤..drink lots of water after your chiropractor appointments it helps a lot.

[@talesfromcuckooland]

Good advice, thank you x

[@suzannemortimer9752]

When I first married in the 70s, I inherited my mother’s old twin tub…….and I managed to somehow allow it to burst into flames!!! She alsogave me her old fridge which had a gas cylinder. I didnt realise that fridges need defrosting and the cylinder blew up!! All in first month of marriage but thankfully he stuck with me 🤣

[@ericallerton809]

❤❤hello gayna!!!🎉🎉🎉 Elaine 🏠

[@carolinedodsworth6481]

Today Thursday 9may hot sunny here sheffield

[@karenegan2640]

I once went to chiropractor with my daughter who was having her first treatment. I was there to look after her in case she felt a bit funny but I passed out at the first crack and she ended up looking after me, useless mother or what 😂😂

[@Beksynormz]

Ahhh I always wondered what the smell was 😂😂😂😂😂

[@lornaking1825]

Blue tits come on my bedroom window here in Yorkshire Dales and I watch them collecting spiderwebs for nesting. Your videos are great fun to watch thanks for sharing x

[@diannemartell9409]

What happened to your marimo moss balls?

[@talesfromcuckooland]

I got a bit tired of them and gave them to my god daughter who was coveting them. X

[@sewknitcreateandrepeat]

I’m thinking the cold and clammy is just night sweats and you’ve woken because you’ve cooled down. Yucky… been getting those since my 30s. 😅