General Chat

Morning AnnG ,morning all,

Wet morning here too and it's hair cut day for us too :-D
I have a little ironing to do and the cobwebs are back so I'll tackle them but apart from that I think it's a lazy day for us unless the rain stops then we'll probably go out side and do a bit of dead heading .

Love to Jane <3

Good morning from a damp Gloucestershire, exciting times, haircut at 12 o’clock. Not sure what to do before we have to go there, some HW or other I suppose. BBL

Ours are self set ones from last year's plants Island. They look strong, but might be cross bred ones so I am wondering is they will be the original small cherry ones or bigger!

Gillx
2018 was a cracking year for tomatoes here. We had lots of surprise plants come up in the raised bed, there must have been seeds in the compost heap. We were giving 'treat' boxes of them away and still had enough for chutney and soup.

AnnG - the Works do canvas boards which are cheap if you fancy working on something a bit firmer. Avoid their tubes of watercolour though :-0

In the past we've seen our bin emptied into other people's or our bags in our bin lifted out and put in other people's bins. It saves them wheeling as many bins the few feet to the lorry to be emptied. We told the council then as there had been a big hoo haa about us not overloading bins due to health and safety for their binmen!! There's more in our bin now we don't eat out so they obviously found a lighter one to tip into ours. Two of them just lift the bin each side and upend it AnnG as our rubbish wheelies are quite small. I don't know how it works now, but years ago they would get paid according to getting a round of bins emptied, so the quicker they did it, the sooner they would go home. If it is like that now it would explain why the less bins the lorry needs to empty the quicker they will be done.

Sounds like you had a good outing AnnG and got some useful things.Great that there weren't many people too. When we called at the surgery in the next village there were long queues either side of the road for the 2 banks. They were keeping to the markers on the pavement though so that was good. OH couldn't understand why the doctors of all places hadn't had the letterbox flap removed for now so that everyone delivering their prescriptions didn't have to touch it. It's in a sheltered corner so would hardly be affected by rain.

My mum didn't like it when I said I was interested in doing family history, didn't know why I wanted to go 'delving into the past' as she put it. She wouldn't have liked the early births I too have found. She wouldn't even have liked me finding that grandad was fined for having no address tag on his dog's collar. lol. The direct line Quaker I found that was among the first settlers in part of Pennsylvania and is mentioned in a book I now have was an interesting find and led me to learn more about the Quakers. It really is an interesting hobby with many tragic circumstances that are very humbling and make you appreciate your own life, irritating husbands and all. :-D

I'm supposed to be doing a free mixed media 2 session course on line tomorrow but have no link or anything to join it with so I've emailed them.They changed the dates twice so it doesn't seem destined to happen.

I did a big jar of pickled cues yesterday, but couldn't face the reek of vinegar everywhere today so may do some more tomorrow. All OH was interested in was how soon he could eat them! Typical!

Afternoon all

It's been raining here all day, but at least the wind has finally stopped and our fence stayed up, which we're pleased about.

Love the picture Mel, thanks for sending it. Wow, what a story, it's hard to believe things like that happened isn't it? Do you have any other stories, good or bad on your tree? I'd love to hear them if you do.

It sounds like you've been as busy as me today AnnG. I have made a stew and done piles of washing, I don't know where it all comes from.

Did you manage all your gardening Vera, I did smile when you said little plugs grow into big plants, you'd think men could work that out for themselves. Don't worry you're not on your own where gardening is concerned, many a time my OH has pulled out plants he thinks are weeds, thankfully now he'll ask me first. I wouldn't mind but he leaves some of the weeds behind....men LOL

You're not alone in short pregnancies on family trees Island, I'm sure we all have a few of them, me included. Nice to hear your runner beans are doing well, we've finally got some very small tomatoes on our plants, not sure if they'll come to much though with being planted so late in the year, but still nice to see them heading in the right direction.

OH watered our plants yesterday but left the front garden with everything being planted in the ground Ann, so with the steady rain all day here to, ours has had a good watering now. I think you are right other people rubbish should not be put in your bin, I think a letter to the council is called for.......good on your OH. I wonder what they'll have to say for themselves.

Ooh I feel as if I have had an adventure :-D This afternoon we drove to an out of town (Cheltenham) Hobbycraft and both went in for a look round. We were going to wear masks but the few people around were not wearing them so we carried them into the shop which had a notice on the door that they were limiting it to 20 customers. young lady on the door obviously counting but I don't think she had a difficult job as I only counted 6 customers and two staff (including us) all the time we were in there. It is a large store with two storeys. There stock is pretty low and they are still trying to sell last years Christmas stuff. still I got some new paint brushes for Acrylic paint, some mixed media paper (because the Acrylic paper was expensive and a very large pad) a couple of painting magazines and a March issue of a card making magazine that I had not read. I was happy just to be there. We intended getting petrol but the petrol station there (Sainsbury's) was closed for refurbishment so we just came home but it was good and I felt I had taken another step forward.

This morning Oh did the wiping down of the four things that Cynth got for us and he actually listened and did it properly. He says next time we have a tesco delivery he will carry the bags in for me and will help put things away. (I might regret the latter I can see it taking more time explaining where it all goes.)

Oh yes, the talking over the TV. five nights a week we split up in the evening and each watch what we want on TV but quite often he will think of something that absolutely can't wait that I need to hear so h will come into the lounge and start talking before I even know he is through the door (I don't hear if he is not in the room and I am concentrating on the screen. so not only do I not hear what he ahs said I don't then hear what is said on the TV. I have said so many times to let me pause what I am watching.
Seems like they are all the same!

It is showery rain here now, it was dry all day but no sun here at all.

Annx that is not right with your bin is it? I wouldn't want other people's rubbish put into my bin. Is that wheelie bins that you have? How did the lad lift it to tip it into yours then, very strange.

Vera, oh yes, my OH likes to cram as many plants as he can into one container so that they are cramped when they grow. He also plants things very close together in the ground. Must be a 'man' thing.

Afternoon All,

Got the washing dry, but it's steady rain here now which the front garden is desperate for as it has to fend for itself waterwise.

Some very interesting FH tales to read from you! I have nothing as exciting as Mel's baby farmer though!

Our excitement for today was dropping our prescriptions off and going home a longer way!

Our beans are in flower but no beans yet as we find the first ones don't usually come to anything unless we plant them late. The french beans are doing better and have a few beans about 3 inches long now.

AnnG I know just what you mean too. OH will come in the kitchen and start a long explanation of what he intends to do and stands in my way, even though I am watching something on the cooker, mixing something else and trying to get things out of the cupboards. Whatever he does he has to come and tell me afterwards too like he needs a gold star or pat on the back and worse, he expects me to stop what I am doing and come and have a look!!! We women do so much ourselves we wouldn't have time to explain it all to them!!! :-S As Mel says it is the same with TV. Mine's main interest I think is who is in a programme, what else he has seen them in before etc and I miss the bits I like while he tells me all this. Reading the papers at lunchtime he tells me all the snippets he finds interesting in his and I end up only half reading a couple of pages of mine. After the last trip in my car I said he wasn't coming in mine with me any more, so this morning he had to promise to say NOTHING and for once we had a peaceful, uneventful journey going the way I wanted to without the whys and wherefores of his way being better and without me getting stressed. Being keen on photography I like to vary routes or do detours, but he is an A to B person. I think our men need a new kind of face mask......'gag masks' lol.

Anyway he is doing a complaint to the Council now so that should keep him busy! When he fetched the bin back up the drive, instead of being clean inside as we use bags for our rubbish, this young man had tipped a neighbour's rubbish into our bin as well so it had liquid all in the bottom and old smelly grass cuttings stuck to the sides. (they shouldn't be putting those in an ordinary bin anyway). Surely they shouldn't be spreading rubbish from one bin to another like that with Covid either.

I was really tired after the wipe down on Sunday AnnG so if you were putting all the things away as well no wonder it took that long and was exhausting. I have been looking at some compact folding stools online and might get one as I think it would help me. I meant to thank you for the info about your photocards. :-)

Vera OH tells me and I have checked and it seems the process and print on papers and magazines mean they pose little risk. We have been leaving our newspapers till the afternoon and magazines and post till 24 hours later, but I shall treat the magazines like the newspapers now. Your poor squashed geraniums will be happy to get a bit of space to breathe. Men don't seem to have much common sense when they do these things. Mine has no idea of spacing plants, even after years of seeing me plant things out.

I don't think Frank can have taken his laptop and other than a few days I can't remember how long he was going to be away. I hope they are both okay and that the patio was finished!

OOOO baby Bob has been on my hand four times today already and yesterday while down by my shed I was topping up a potato plants in a bag and he landed on my back twice to tell me he was waiting for worms. He's getting quite cheeky....... <3 <3

Washing machine has just finished so I better get the washing on the line in a min. Its all cotton stuff and thin so won't take long to dry. A bit of a wind up now and grey sky but still dry and warm.

My mum bought a marriage licience for her parents and they were married cos she was convinced they married a year before her birth but they did'nt. They married on 19th April 1924 and mum was born on 13th June 1924. I only found this out when I starte dthe family tree and mum told me.

Mel, I'm surprised to be getting beans on our lowest flowers this year. Some are about 7" long already. Not enough for a meal though.

I have a wry chuckle Ann because my mother was so 'proper'. I'm sure she would have found a reason why both she and her older half sister were 'born early', likewise my dads eldest sibling. I would never have let on that I knew though.

Gosh those poor geraniums Vera. I feel for them with no room to spead out.

Better get some lunch now or you know who will be saying where my food.

My runner are flowering but no beans yet. I always find the first flowers come to nothing.

I wonder how Frank is and I bet he did'nt take his laptop so we're not going to hear from him. The weathers quite nice here today and very warm with sunshine and a breeze. Second lot of washing in on a 60 wash. Tea towels flannels and pillow cases mostly oh's as he gets his dirty with all t he mowing and working on the mowers and he showers but it just goes to show it a lick and a promiss most of the time.

Lol My mother was very Victorian and prudish! She would be horrified to know My Dad's Grandmother (a sweet old lady) had a child when she was a teenager and not married.

Vera, you snook in while I had my head down :-D

Hi Mel and Ann and all

Another day of nothing here so far. Shoulder easier but still painful to move, I don't want to take more painkillers though.
Gave the kiss of life to some shed plants which were very thirsty :-0

Reading back, I have to say I haven't found any ancestors to be a bit naughty - aside from 'early babies' lol. My mother would have been horrified and unaccepting of her mothers short pregnancies - by both husbands.
I found a Marmaduke once - now that's a criminal offence for starters lol - who was a bit of a scoundrel but the record disappeared :-0

My runner beans are coming on apace. Who's going to be first with them on the dinner plate? Can't wait :-D

Good morning AnnG, Mel and all

Sorry, just noticed it’s already afternoon. Where’s the morning gone? I’ve chatted to a friend on the phone and done the ironing but that’s about it.

You sound as though you have been busy AnnG. I find my motivation to get on with things comes and goes and at the moment it’s gone. I know exactly what you mean about husbands going into every detail of what they have been doing. Sometimes I wish my OH had a key for me to wind him up a bit. Today he has put a few nails and hooks in the garage to hang up a few more tools and I have had all the whys and wherefores.

I think this afternoon I am going to move some geraniums. We had a dozen little plugs of white geraniums. These things are usually left to me but OH planted them into one of our small troughs - all 12 of them! I would probably have put in 5. It didn’t seem to have crossed his mind that little plugs grow into big plants. Now the trough is so densely planted that the flowers are struggling to force their way up through the leaves. I’ve now got a big pot and a half barrel going spare so I shall be doing a bit of transplanting.

OH just answered the phone and I can hear him chatting to one of my friends so I must go and talk to her. Have a good day everyone.

Mines just the same Anng. When I am watching the tv he always comment on the way people are doing things or have said wrong in his eyes and I miss whats said next to get the hang of whats going on. This is why I stay up late and watch my programs when he is in bed then I can hear every word thats spoken.

We have a copter going over at the moment.

They came quite early today a different driver. Took me about an hour and a half to do I think.

Hav'nt fed the chickens yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!