General Chat

Morning all

Bright and sunny here to, but not very warm, hopefully it'll warm up a bit later.

Happy birthday to your Granddaughter AnnG, hope the weather stays nice for the garden party.

What a pity about your beans being stringy Island, maybe picking them when they're a bit smaller would be better.

We water our toms a few times a day Ann, but I think it might be the cheap compost we bought from Aldi, it doesn't hold the water as well as the one we normally use and we can't get hold of our normal one now as B&Q have stopped selling it, so maybe I need to water the toms more often. We do have some on one plant but they are very small. The trouble is we don't know what type of toms they are as they were given to us off my mum, who in turn got them off her friend, they were grown from seed but none of us know the name. They could well be cherry toms for all we know. Still plenty of flowers on them all but it's getting a bit late in the year for them to grow and ripen if they don't start showing toms now.

My padlock is showing locked Mandy, it's strange how it showed locked on your laptop but not on your tablet. I wonder why that happened. Hope your wipe down doesn't take to long today.

I've decided to do a bit of sorting today, I've got lots of things in my bedroom that have been shoved into drawers and now I'm having problems shutting them, so it's time for a good clear out I think. I might put some stuff in boxes and pop them in the loft, at least I'll be able to close the drawers properly then.

Has anyone seen the new Battersea dogs and cats home advert? The tune is really good and the animals are so cute, it's quite funny in parts to, especially the dog on a skate board looking at the camera as if to say "what do I do now" It looks like he's been put on there and pushed in front of the camera LOL. :-D :-D I like the little kitten licking the woman's face to, it's so cute.

Good morning all, bright and sunny so far. We might go for a walk this morning other than that, who knows.
Grandaughter's 18th birthday today so I hope it stays fine I think there is a garden party of some sort planned.

Morning all,

WE have a nice bright sunny morning here today blue sky with looks like a huge vapour trail to the north but it could be cloud. Its in a straight line and tapers off to the west.

Nothing planned for today so will see how it pans out.

Hope you all slept well.

Evening :-D
Just popped in so I don't get behind LOL

Padlock showing closed on my laptop = my only device.

I was going to say earlier that some of my beans were 12" long but didn't want to risk exaggerating so said they were about 9". I should have trusted my eye as a lifelong pattern cutter - some of them were indeed 12" long and the rest of todays pickings not far behind. I can't believe how fast they had grown and sadly, they were a bit stringy.
I think we shall just pick the smaller ones now and leave the long ones for podding.

Night night

Ah zi saw that padlock locked but thought you were seeing one somewhere else.

Well that's very strange ,the padlock is showing locked on the laptop :-S

Shopping day tomorrow and wipe down :-|

I meant to say i've been feeding my toms , cues and the veg trough with liquid seaweed and they've come on leaps and bounds

Happy Birthday to your OH Gill. It sounds like he's had a miserable time with his teeth though. Is it his usual dentist he's been seeing? I must admit I didn't think any were open yet. I need to get this suspected abscess I have looked at, but I have an appointment in September if it doesn't get cancelled. I must admit I'm slowly losing the plot now with the coronavirus rules and different areas with lockdown actionand now each council deciding on what action to take if necessary. Maybe your toms need more water Gill? I've been watering mine twice a day and they are coming on in leaps and bounds now.

Mandy that is a super little bag you made. Your veggies are all looking good too and what whoppers your cues are! The toms and the veg troughs look really good as well and the netting is a great idea to stop those pesky caterpillars having your cabbages. I can't believe you have peas and beans looking so good and that are ready as well. Your peas are the same colour as my french beans.

I must have made a blunder with my Asda order as they sent a huge tub of Flora spread. It will last us till Christmas I think! lol We got diced lamb instead of lamb shanks but the rest was fine and no short dates this time.

Mandy, my little padlock is locked, not open. (AnnG, it is right at the top where it says genesreunited.co.uk.)

I am not sure how you send photos on a different make of tablet but if you have an iPad it is easy to send several pictures at once. Go into camera roll or photo stream or wherever you know the photos are. At the top right it will say Select. Tap on as many as you like and a little tick will appear in the corner of each. Top left of the page is the little icon like a square box with an arrow pointing upwards, tap on that and then on email. A new email will come up with all the selected photos on it. I hope I’m not teaching my grandmother to suck eggs :-). You probably know all this already.

EDIT. I see you have a Samsung Galaxy. Can’t help you with that I’m afraid.

My padlock is closed at the top in the search bar.

AnnG it's a Samsung galaxy tablet..

The padlock comes up in the search bar across the top of my page .

Mandy is your tablet an Ipad? I have just experimented, if you look at your photos in your photo stream and click on the first one to email you then go to where you tell it to email and there is a tick on the photo, if you move to the next photo you can tick that too (that is what I have just done) you can email all the photos you tick at once.

I can't see a padlock anywhere..

When your photos are in your emails do they then get stored on your computer (I assume that is where the email is?

Mandy where are you seeing an open padlock?

AnnG I take the photos on my tablet then email them to myself so they go onto the laptop as I find it easier to email them on from the laptop.

Has any one noticed the little padlock is opened up at the top of the page ?
I asked son I about it and he said it means their certificate has run out , is it as secure now then ?

Afternoon all

Bright and sunny here, OH is cutting the lawns incase there's more rain on the way. Everyone seems to have the same idea, it's been not stop lawn cutting all day as each neighbour does their's, so OH decided it should do his, just to keep up with "THE JONE'S" lol.

Love all the pics you've all sent. Our toms are still like peas and we have more flowers than toms, so I don't think we're going to have much this year, not unless a growth spurt happens soon.

Pleased to see you're feeling a little better now Jane. How nice for Hannah and Gareth to get away together, hope the weather stayed nice for your BBQ with them.

How lovely to have your photo's put in the paper Ann and a full page all to yourself to. I hope your side is feeling a bit better today.

I see the doctor is going to do a blood test for you Frank, I hope it's nothing serious and you're soon feeling okay again. Did you mark it on the calendar seeing Tony doing something for a change. I wonder how long it'll be until you see him in the garden again.

We cleaned our bird stand the other day to Vera, the water had gone brown, it's all nice and clean for the birds now. That's a shame about your quiz's but I suppose they had to end eventually and now we're no longer in lockdown people will be busy with jobs and other things now. I've been busy doing some sorting which has taken a bit longer than I thought it would.

You're doing well with all your produce AnnG, like I said, our toms are more like peas and don't seem to be growing any bigger and the flowers, (we have lots) don't seem to be turning into toms, even though I gave them a tickle as Mel sugested. I still don't know what type of toms they are as mum didn't know when she gave them to me, so it's a guessing game at the moment. Maybe with them being so small they're cherry toms, I guess time will tell.

It sounds like they're doing all the right things in the school's Mandy ready for September, at least the parents will have peace of mind knowing their children are being looked after properly. I did notice on the news though that some parents aren't letting their children go back to school until the virus has completely gone, they'd rather take the fine instead. I can understand their worries, but it's going to be quite harmful to their children's education in the long run and no one knows how long the virus is going to be around for. It's such a difficult time for parents, having to make the decision on what's best to do. Colin seems to be enjoying making things, he'll be lost when he's ran out of wood.

Thanks for OH's birthday wishes. No I didn't make a cake in the end, he's still got a sore mouth and didn't fancy one this year. OH's back at the dentist on Tuesday so hopefully he will feel better then. He's had a couple of teeth out over the past few weeks and keeps getting abscess's that have to be drained and two of his caps have fell out now, so the dentist is going to be busy sorting him out. At this rate he'll have no teeth left to eat cake lol.

Not a very nice day here. It rained a lot in the night and early this morning. The rest of the day has been dull and dreary with a nip in the wind.

Your veggies are looking good Mandy. I love the peas with the purple pods. The bag is very pretty too

I hope the weather’s better where you are Jane and you are enjoying your bbq with Hannah and Gareth.

I don’t know yet whether our quiz will go ahead next Sunday or not. It’s been going weekly for quite a while now and these things do have a natural life. A couple of the family are in hospitality and now venues are re-opening they sometimes have to work on Sundays. Step grandson works at a gym which will soon be reopening as well. The granddaughter who has just got her degree is doing a bit of work with a Theatre in Education group and their director wanted an online meeting with his cast at the time we have the quiz. As this is all paid work it must come first. Then yesterday my son rang to say they had received a last minute invitation to lunch at his fil’s. As his wife’s father lives some distance away and she hasn’t seen him for months they felt they should go.

I’ve had a really lazy day today. I’ve cooked a full Sunday roast and a pud, which we had at 2 pm, but I haven’t done much else. OH got energetic this morning and cleaned all the bathrooms and toilets so that’s another job done. What’s depressing is thinking that in a few days it’ll all need doing again.

I’m sitting in the conservatory half asleep so I think I’d better get a jacket and go for a walk to see if I can wake myself up a bit. Enjoy the rest of your day

Mandy the peas and beans look really nice and I am sure you will enjoy eating them as they always taste better home grown and fresh off the plants. All ealse is growing well too lots of cues top share with sons family.

Mandy nice loy of produce there, peas and beans look good and the cucumbers are doing well. all our ripe tomatoes are from baskets hanging outside, the inside ones are like yours still green.
Pretty little bag.
Where do you store your photos? On a competer? Lap top or desk top? Or are they on an Ipad or phone. I can send mine all together on my desk top but have to send individually if on my Ipad.

Annx I have never bought anything from Ebay, OH has and has been caught out a few times too. I don't trust Ebay for some reason.

we have just walked round to the free book stall, took three for her and brought two home.

Iv'e replied Ann.

Have sent you a PM Mel.