Garage Door, Freezer, and Diary Dates!

removing the old garage door

 

The garage door company was scheduled to arrive at 10 am but they were late ... late enough to mean that I couldn't go to the monthly U3A book group meeting. Still, it's done now and that the first thing to tick off my 2023 to-do list. The finished result looks good. It's supposed to be an exact match of the one that was removed but the handle and lock on the new door is much lower, which I knew about, and I actually find this new configuration much easier to use. I now have to move everything back to the correct position in the garage but that's dependent on when S will be able to move the two heavy items for me ... they have to be moved before I can tackle the rest.

So on to the next thing on the to-do list. I was going to replace the oven next but the issues with the garage freezer means that it has jumped to the top of the list. I need to have confidence that it is reliable and I no longer have that ... it was off again for part of the morning and then just restarted itself. There's not much food in it at the moment so this would be the ideal time to swap things over. There's a Beko model in my price range that states it's suitable for use in an unheated external building and will function correctly down to -15ºc so it should be fine for my needs. It's an upright and is about the same capacity as the one it'll replace, so all I need to do is get it ordered. 

My diary is filling up, not with firm dates at the moment but with promises for more social activities in the coming month. First there is a new Meetup group for board games which I've joined but haven't been to one of the meetings yet. This group meets one evening a month in Bradford-on-Avon to play modern board games, none of which I've ever played but I do miss playing board games and I've been assured that they are really easy to learn. It's worth a try anyway.

Local possibilities for photography looks more promising this year. I've already mentioned that I am hoping to start a photography group with the U3A meeting once a month, and yesterday Joy contacted me to suggest that we meet for our own photography sessions followed by cake (actually I think she said a tea/coffee but 😀🍰🧁) ... we used to do some years ago and it was always good fun. H also wants to do something similar as well, so if they all work out that is a minimum of three photography outings a month with other people to add to the dairy in addition to the times I go out on my own. There is a possibility of a fourth one with E but that still has to be discussed and I'm not sure that it will be a regular event, more a series of one-offs. It looks like 2023 will be a very good year!