General Chat

Wrens have a sweet song don’t they I love them no flamboyant colouring but just cute. I often see one on the patio by the house searching the pots.

I don’t think I am encouraged to try pastels then it seems there are too many pitfalls.

That is bad news about the Indian variant. I do wish we had stopped them coming in or back before they did.. Let us hope the blitz of testing stops the spread but I wonder why the school does that mean it is children who have it.I wonder.

It's proving to be interesting about deeds. I remember years ago that Land registry started to digitally register new homes and any older homes had to be registered then when they changed ownership. Some that have been in the same ownership for decades still haven't been registered yet. I hadn't had a mortgage since my early 50s, but we had a mortgage for the first year we lived here, by which time we had paid it off. The Building Society advised us not to close the mortgage in case we ever wanted to start one up again and in which case they could store our deeds for free and that has been the position ever since. Our deeds contain various covenants so how would people know about those without the deeds? Ones I remember are that we can't keep poultry, we aren't supposed to keep a caravan on the property (nextdoor do!), we have to keep our garden tidy and mustn't do anything that causes a nuisance to our neighbours. I think there was something about not being able to have fences on the front till the 4 bungalows were all sold.and that the 4 bungalows are responsible for the maintenance of the private road.

AnnG I found the pastels better yesterday with using non pastel paper! The dust still affected me a little but not as much. I don't find it easy to work with them as are like big chalks and not easy to draw fine detail with. The colour rubs onto your fingers which you have to keep wiping as well as the end of the pastels as they clog up with other colours you use. Also you have to make sure your arm and wrist don't touch the paper or you get smudges where you don't want them.

OH read today that 3 recent travellers in the city are struck down with the new Indian variant of the virus and they have launched a blitz of testing at one of the schools. It hasn't been specified where they travelled but 28% of the city population is Indian.

We had a sweet little Wren singing his heart out on the bottom fence earlier. I'm always surprised how loud they are and I wish I could get a photo but they flit around so fast.

Yes it is quite common for the solicitor to hold deeds but you no doubt pay for that, ours were held by our mortgage people but when we paid the mortgage of 30 years ago we decided to take the deeds ourselves as we have a fireproof safe. However, as Vera says deeds are not required these days with everything digitilised.

I think my solicitor has my deeds to the bungalow.

Its quite chilly outthere today but I may go out in a min and do a bit more.

Had to get my deeds out this morning to add the new registration to them. Noticed that the first sale of this house on the deeds (so new) was April 1981. So it is exactly 40 years old.

Colin is all jabbed ,I haven't had my second one yet AnnG, I had my first on the 10th of March so I have a few weeks to go before I get the next one .

We hold our deeds too and they are quite interesting to look at,the path by our house was called Becclesgste Lane but now its just the foot path.

Still nice and sunny but chilly in the wind so we're not going out to do jobs in the garden today ,yesterday I put some sunflower seeds in pots thought the children might like to grow them .

ah yes Vera, I forgot the law changed. Such a shame as the deeds are lovely to keep. I also have a registration form and letter putting the house into my name only.

I’ve dusted and hoovered the downstairs and I’m just having a drink before I tackle the stairs themselves. I think the upstairs rooms can wait till tomorrow. After that I’ll get tonight’s dinner prepared and then it will be lunchtime. There’s still a bit of Sunday’s roast ham left so I think lunch will be a ham and pickle sandwich.

Some of you have mentioned Gill’s boundaries should be in her deeds. She may not have any deeds. Hopefully you have them Gill as I believe yours is an older house but with modern house sales you don’t get deeds. We bought this house in September 2013. All we have is a small Land Registry document which just shows the date the title passed to us (ie the date we bought the house) and the price we paid. It also talks about a couple of restrictive covenants but our solicitor had already found out about those. There is no plan with the document.

We know where our boundary is as the builder who built the 6 properties in our Close built our house for himself and put the fence on his boundary line. The whole of the fencing round our house is ours, which is an expense when it comes to replacing panels or painting the fence.

Anyway Gill, try the Land Registry. We found them very helpful.

Morning Annx Arm is still aching a bit but it is better than it was. It is not the side of the vaccination is is the right arm. I also have sore - like a bruised feeling, in my ears as I am wearing my new aids and the moulds are less giving than the old ones so are very tight in my ears. I may swap back to my others later as I think my ears will need to get used to them gradually.

boundaries are funny things, cause a lot of problems and quarrels. no doubt where ares are here as we are all fenced round with a house either side and a bungalow over the back. But I have checked the deeds anyway (We hold our own deeds). And all is correct.

No courses today? what did you draw with the pastels yesterday and are you now liking them?

Except for Gill and her OH does it mean once Colin has had his second jab we are all jabbed now?

Morning All,

I slept well once I managed to nod off after 2.00am so feel much better today as my knee is less achey too.

We have the same weather as you Mandy and it is a bit blowy and chilly with it. Good day for drying washing though. That's good Colin is having his second jab today. I drove OH too so he needn't wait around. Someone stopped him to ask if he was driving as he left.

Gill, when we needed to check ownership of our boundaries with having the field at the bottom of our garden, all I did was phone the building society and ask for a copy from the deeds and they sent us a copy free of charge. Whoever has the deeds (solicitor if not the building society?) should have something. After all how could you buy your bungalow without knowing what land you are purchasing. You could also try googling for old ordnance survey maps of the area from around the time your bungalow was built or later as they may show the original boundaries or hedges that will give you some idea, especially if the woodland is shown. It sounds like some other neighbours were hoping to eventually be able to claim squatters rights on the land they have been using.

If you remember, the chap diagonally opposite from us had a boundary dispute with the builder who built our bungalows when he tried to claim some of his front garden to make a road through at the end of our close to build the last 3 properties, so it's important. Luckily I remembered Keith who used to live there putting a concrete retainer kerb across the middle of his garden to keep his gravel in place and he was able to trace him and get written confirmation from him that he had put it in and not the builder who was trying to say it was the boundary. It was also shown in the deeds but the builder was saying those were wrong! It's good that your OH has little pain now and that the damage doesn't seem as bad as he thought.

I hope the achiness in your arm soon wears off AnnG and it is just the way you lay in bed. I still get twinges in my shoulder since that 2nd jab. I think it is the muscle though as when I press my hands together in front of me a pain shoots from the joint up the side of my neck.

Mel I hope your back is getting better too. We can't have you not able to patrol your estate! Have you got rid of all the vine weevils in your pots now? Have you seen any more baby fish? What a lot we are with all our aches and pains and lack of sleep!

Lunch next and it's breaded Haddock,( mashed pots for OH ) and with leek and shredded cabbage and peas with Hollandaise sauce (packet).

Morning you lot of early risers,

I slept in this morning as its a bit dull out there today and its rained int he night here too and the road is wet but not much on the ground as where the chickens had scratched it still looked pretty dry down there.

Happy Birthday Sandra. please pass on my wishes Gill. YOu must do as the others have said Gill and get in touch with the land registry. They should have the right measurement of your land and as you hav'nt had the property long they should be easy to hand so to speak. It needs to be on your deeds if you have bought the house outright.

One dented egg and two whole ones this morning. I have quite a few this week as I have been going round there earlier than usual.

I think house work is on the cards for today as it is trying to rain here and the sky is grey and not a patch of sunshine. Sounds like Mandy has pinched it all today in the east.

Going to get another cuppa now.

No sun here, it rained overnight which is a good thing for the garden but is just very dull here quite heavy cloud 7 degrees, not really cold but too wet to get out in the garden. So it will have to be indoor jobs. My right arm is aching, not painful just achy I think I must have laid awkwardly as I can only sleep on one side at the moment to protect the stitches.

Yes Gill Vera is more with it than me, I should have warned you to make sure it is a government site. and again I am surprised that the estate agent didn't have the measurements of the garden. Obviously the hedge was obscuring a lot.

Morning all,

Nice and sunny here ,I've just hung some washing out and it's having a good blow as the wind has got up ,its a bit fresh out but should be about 14 degrees today.

Gill was there no measurements from the estate agent ,I thought they usually get the boundary measured.
I thought you had sorted out for the chimney to come down with the other chap as you said you persuaded him to take it all down and not just the chimney stack .
Are they pricing for all the work or are you hoping to do the chimney breast yourselves, some builders won't tackle half a job if you know what I mean just in case there's any come backs .

We're off to get petrol in the car and then on to get eggs from the farm and then out again later for Colin to have his second jab ,if I drive he won't have to wait the quarter of an hour before he can drive .

Good morning

You’re an early bird again this morning AnnG. I had a really good night and hardly woke at all. It’s dull and overcast here and doesn’t look very warm but I haven’t been outside to find out.

Gill, it is important that you know where your boundaries are but if you look at the Land Registry site you’ll see that they say they are not always defined. Check out the site but make sure you are on the official government site. There are others that look official but make hefty charges to help you. If there are any documents available you can usually get them from the Land Registry quite cheaply. We have very recently been able to download a document to do with the ownership of our house and we only had to pay £4 to do it. Good luck with sorting it out.

I’ve been up a while and had 2 mugs of tea. Now I am going to have some brekkie before doing a bit of h/w.

good early morning all. slept from 11 until about 5 so can't see me going back to sleep.

Gill it is very important that you fond out where your boundary is a sketch is quite an unusual way to have it defined, your solicitor might be able to help and also the letter or copy of it from the lady you met might help too. What about your next door neighbours? They might know if any land was purchased by your previous owners.Is there no sign of a fence anywhere at all (old posts or anything? When you bought the house was there any sort of survey done? I know it is different if you were not getting a mortgage but surely there should be something in writing to define boundaries.
If you are still in doubt you could try writing to Land Registry in your area. You need to know before any building or anything starts to take place if the land has been sold. If the trees are on your land you need to protect them, if not you need to protect your garden and the trees could be cut down. Dig out all the paperwork that you had when you bought the bungalow and check if the land is mentioned. Do you have the deeds to the bungalow? If so the boundaries should be on there.

Do a search in google for 'Land Registry searches and title deeds on line'.

Sorry I forgot I'd already told you all about OH going into hospital. The past week has gone by so quickly I'm losing track of the days. I've been in the garden again today, thankfully the rain that was forecast never happened so I managed to get through quite a bit, although there's lots more clearing to do.

No AnnG the hedge cuttings are still there, although it is booked in to be taken away in a couple of weeks......well, that's if they turn up. We haven't got the boiler in, we want the chimney out first as it has a coal fire in it and we don't want all the coal dust getting into a new boiler, so we still haven't got any running hot water or central heating yet. The workman who came yesterday about removing the chimney text me today to say he'll email me a quote soon, I hope he doesn't take to long as OH wants to go back to work when his sick note runs out at the end of this week. It looks like he just pulled a muscle rather than it tearing as the pain has almost gone so he should be okay by the weekend when he's hoping to go back to work.

We had a black lab come into our back garden today, he came in the other day and we thought he had run away from his owner taking him for a walk, but we found out today it's the neighbour's daughter's dog and is called Milo, he's lovely and very friendly, all he does is run around us wanting us to make a fuss of him then he runs back to the neighbours garden. The garden is in the other street but their back garden comes up to our back garden and because neither of us have fences he runs from one garden to another. He doesn't look very old and like I said he's very friendly.

So we met another neighbour, well her daughter, today, her name is Jane and she's very friendly, she was telling us that the land at the bottom of our gardens has been sold and her mum got a letter about it so if she can find it she's going to make a copy and pass it onto us as we're not sure where our boundaries are. Apparently everyone in the other street have taken some of the land and made it their gardens and they all got letters off the owner's solicitor a couple of years ago. From what Jane was saying the bit that's been sold might only be a strip along the backs of their gardens and not the wooded area at the back of ours. Hopefully she'll find the letter then we'll know more.

We need to know where our boundaries are before we can have a fence put up. At the moment we've only got a sketch with no measurements and because the garden we're connected to has taken some of the land it doesn't match the picture we got off the solicitor. So it may turn out that the work I'm doing on tidying up the bottom of the garden might end up being owned by someone else.

Well, I'm off to bed now, I'm so tired, I think it's all the work I've done outside and the fresh air.

Yes Idid see your pics and thought they were lovely and very clear. Feeling really tired tonight so think I am off to watch a bit of telly while I plait my hair and setle down for the night.

See you all in the morning stay safe and sleep well.

did you see my [hotos Mel? You can see pinkish line on the moon.

Nice to see Franky Boy pop in and sorry you are still not feeling too good. Hope Roos brought soemthing in for dinner tonight so you did'nt have to cook.

When I saw the moon last night it was white and very bright rather than pink. It sometimes shines in the pond.

Oh is cooking here too tonight one of his sausage casseroles which are always nice and tasty. He puts tinned toms in and mushrooms, onion and new pots and sometimes peas but I said I did'nt want them tonight.

Only one sub red salmon instead of the boneless kind so it means more work for me and they did'nt have his cherry yogurts the special ones.

Did the wipe down pretty quickly today and did get out in the garden but oh stopped play as he started to put up my plastic greenhouse. Its not strong and I don't think it will last more than this year. We have it tied to the rail onthe decking at the mo. I just can't go up to the potting sheds and the big greenhouse anymore. Can't walk that far with this back. My tom plants are still in the uti room at the mo but they are not very green. Think I may pot them on into bigger pots and keep them in the shed for now.

You had a good go in the garden today Vera. We don't cope wioth a;l the garden like we used to in our younger years. Oh does all the lawns and grass outside the wall and the little top field in front of the old potting sheds. I just potter up the border and inthe orchard and what we call the back garden down towards Prickley Bottom where I used to feed the hedgehogs.