General Chat

Morning all

Bright and sunny here today, although it's forecast rain later.

Thanks for the bedding Mel, I love it. It arrived at 7.30am this morning, the postman woke me up ringing the door bell. He did appologise for being so early and kept social distance when I went to the side gate to pick it up. He left it lent up against the gate.

I opened the parcel but just before I did I asked OH to turn the washing machine on, everything was in the machine he just needed to switch it on, no problem there I hear you say, well, I nipped to the loo, only gone a few minutes and when I came back into the living room, the bedding was missing........yes, you've guessed it, OH had put it in the washing machine before turning it on. Luckily it was a white wash and the bedding was a light colour. So I didn't have a chance to look at it properly until I pegged it on the line........Men, they do daft things sometimes don't they? LOL.

I'm so pleased you sent me a sheet and two pillow cases as well Mel, I wasn't expecting those. When I washed my bedding the other day I noticed the valance sheet was going a bit thin in the middle and ready to go into holes, so I've put that under the mattress so only the valance shows, it hides the things I have under the bed and the valance bit of the sheet is okay, so when the flat sheet is dry I'll pop that on the bed. The pillow cases were a god send as OH pillowcase never comes up as clean as mine, probably his mucky head lol, so the two you sent me will replace them to. I love the pretty pink flowers on the quilt cover and it goes perfectly with the pink flowers on the bedroom wall paper. Thank you so much for thinking of me.

I'd love a solid oak floor Vera, but like you said it's very expensive. I might look into the engineered timber you mentioned if it's as good as solid wood but cheaper. We have wooden floorboards but they're not good enough to do anything with, we were told when we had one of our floors replaced it wasn't the right kind of wood to stain and walk on all the time. I think it's soft wood, or something like that, I can't remember exactly what he said with it being 12 years ago. Good luck with your photo's, if you're anything like me you'll spend more time looking at them, than sorting them out LOL.

How lovely Mandy, Lacey wanting an afternoon tea for her birthday, just the right thing in lockdown. Have you decided what to buy her as a gift yet?

The pork we had yesterday was delicious, it fell apart and was very tender, there's some over so I'm going to add some veg and gravy to it for tonight's meal. OH is working a night shift 8pm to 8am tonight, all the shift patterns have changed and are now all over the place. On his next shift on Thursday he's on 10am to 10pm for three days, he can't eat a heavy meal just before bed, so I don't know what he's going to do about eating. I'd of thought he could buy a meal at work, but he doesn't know, so will have to ask. If he can't then it'll be sandwiches, which isn't a healthy diet at all.

Going to check the bedding on the line now, it's been out since 9am, so hopefully it'll be dry now.

Elizabeth, hello and thank you for your good wishes. I hope that youtoo are keeping well and staying safe.

Annx a Humbro, little pots used for airfix, not that I have any but have load os large pebbles round the water feature. Mel, did you find out if your scrops were there today, not really good service that you are getting is it.

Gill, do you have a carpet cleaner? That is my OH's favourite toy, it is a wonder he had not cleaned our lounge carpet away. It is a hotel quality one and is 26 years old but is still, although a bit faded, as good as new and gets cleaned often as it is on the through route from the garden to the front door and kitchen.
Hope you enjoyed your pork.

We have lamb shank tonight.

you had pork as well Vera, hope yours was good as well. also hope you feel better today and have more energy. I think this situation saps your energy.

Mandy lovely to see family, lucky you. A tea party sound a lovely idea, I hope she enjoys it and that you can find a suitable present for her.

Mandy oh sent Stephanie his niece and aftern oon tea hamper from M&S she loved it. It all came in a little grey basket which she uses to put things in.

Glad you liked the lead. It the one I won at the dog show a few years ago and the dogs bowl was last year. I forgot I was going to send you the lead and found it in a box ready to be wrapped up and I had put it under the bedroom unit. When I got the box out I was surprized to see what was in it.

Sending love to Jane. <3 <3 <3 <3 its this week she sees someone, did'nt she say the 17th.

EOS, I am so sorry, I somehow missed your post. Thank you for your good wishes. If anything, we are being a little too cautious but better safe than sorry. I hope you and your family keep safe and well. My best wishes to you all <3

Afternoon all,

I'm here Mel we had the family here this morning ,well some of them as there would have been to many if they all came so the three oldest stopped at home ,Jake is old enough to look after them and they are all sensible any way .

Mel thank you so much for the parcel you should have seen Max when i pulled the lead out :-D it's a lovely lead and very comfortable on the hand ,the water bowl is outside filled up in the shade and the other bits i have put away in the christmas box ,the little cottage is on the mantel piece so many thanks xx
I thought your posy was pretty the scones looked good are there any left .
That place on your arm looks nasty i hope you can get some thing from the doctors tomorrow before it get any worse .

Ann it's when you see some thing like that it makes you really think about the virus ,i was a bit shocked when that ambulance came for one of our neighbours a few weeks ago seeing them all dressed in the white suits ,luckily she didn't have it it was just a bug of some sort .
Hope you enjoy your Sunday lunch again today and it is as good as last weeks ,it looked tasty .

Hi EOS thank you we will and i hope you and your family all keep safe too .

Oh Vera once the photo's come out its the day gone ,but it's so nice to look back at all the fashions ,have you remembered who the chap was ? maybe it was a photo that got mixed in with yours when it was developed ,we've had odd ones found in the packet when you went to collect them ,i remember having some cows in one photo and no way did we take photo's of cows !!! :-D

Sounds as if you had quite a storm yesterday Gill .
Enjoy your roast pork .

When the family came today i asked Lacey what she would like for her birthday she said she would like an afternoon tea party ,so DIL is doing little sandwiches and cakes and hunting for those little cake stands on line to make it a proper afternoon tea for her :-D i meant what present would she like but she was more concerned with having the tea party bless her so i never found out what she would like for her birthday .

Love to Jane if your looking in <3 <3

I’m here now Mel. Been a bit busy this morning, just general jobs of tidying and preparing dinner which is now cooking. All the week we have our main meal around 7 pm but on Sundays we usually have it at about 2 pm. Today it’s roast loin of pork with roast pots and parsnips, carrots and cabbage, followed by apple strudel and cream. Right now I have a nice glass of Sauvignon and OH has a glass of his favourite red. Just realised I’ve forgotten to take the apple sauce out of the freezer so I’ll have to microwave defrost it.

Your scones look yummy Mel and the posy is very pretty but that tick bite doesn’t look good. Will you contact the doc tomorrow?

Carpets do get very black where we sit don’t they Gill? I’m always trying to clean the two little patches where our feet go. In our last house we had a solid oak floor laid through our hall and lounge and it was lovely. It cost a fortune but was worth it. It looked good and was so easy to keep clean. I’ve wondered about having a wood floor in our lounge here. I thought we shouldn’t have it as we have underfloor heating but i’ve been doing some research and apparently it’s OK, particularly if we have what they call engineered timber rather than solid hardwood. I’ll need to work on OH. It might take a while till he thinks it was all his own idea :-D

I’ve wondered where Frank is too. I hope he is OK. Thinking of Jane as well <3

Meat is “resting” so I need to get the veg on and gravy made. Have a good afternoon everyone.

Where is everybody?

I hope Frank is ok as we hav'nt heard from him or Mandy.

Morning Mel, morning all

Your tick bite doesn't look to good Mel, good idea to send the pictures to the doctors, hopefully the antibiotics will kick in quickly. Love the little posy and your scones looked delicious.

My lump sounds just like yours Ann going down then up again, I've had it for a while now, but like I said it doesn't hurt so it can wait until it's safer to go out to the dentist, although I'm not sure if our dentist is open yet. Did you find out what the police helicopter was for? I hope your OH can sort his cheque out soon, has he tried ringing the bank for some advice?

I should think your July appointment should be okay AnnG, if not you can always cancel and re-book it for a later date.

I was busy all day yesterday cleaning my living room and halls carpets, I also washed the bedding and some clothes, it took hours to get the marks out of the carpet where OH sits and it's still not all gone, if I clean it anymore I'll wear the carpet away. OH was asked to do an extra hour at the end of his shift so he was late coming in, he then cut the lawns as the weather forecast was going to be bad, good job he did them when he did as half an hour after he'd finished we had thunder and lots of lightening for ages. I didn't think it was safe to go on my laptop in that weather. Luckily I'd already had a bath, so we watched a programme I'd recorded and went to bed. OH always falls asleep on the sofa after work and I was starting to fall asleep myself, so we both had an early night. My arms are quite achy today, especially the one I hurt when I was breaking up the Red Robin plants the other week, so I'm going to have an easier day today.

The pork is in the oven slow cooking and the last load of washing is on the line. It's a bit cloudy but the sun comes through them every now and then, it's lovely and warm so the washing won't take to long to dry, so long as the rain doesn't come back that we had last night.

Good morning all,

Not a bad start to the day but I don't know whats in store for later on. We have sunshine at the mo plenty of blue sky and white clouds but that could all change in an instant.

I am going to ask again if our scripts are in the shop today. The receptionist said they would be there by Thursday. They can either be picked up on a Tuesday or Thursday giving them three days to get them ready for collection.

My arm is still red this morning so I think I shall ring the docs tomorrow and maybe send the pics I took of it and see if I can get some antibiotic.

Hope you all had better nights last night.

Sending love and wishes to EOS and thank you for your kind words. WE don't go out much at all so its not really different for us.

Thank you Elizabeth and I don't think we will be acting very differently to now for a while longer. Take good care yourself too.

The bite does look nasty and a bit swollen Mel. I like your sweet little posey too and your scones look very nice. OH is hankering after more scones so I might make some during next week.

Oh yes AnnG, I have a head like a sieve lately! It is Humbrol paint in tiny tins. I found red, yellow and black and have used the red and the yelIow up to now and will use the black tomorrow. I was amazed that it was still useable, as I brought it with me when I moved here 20 years ago and must have already had it a few years then. The lids were rusty but the contents were perfect. I had an idea that if I can find a suitable stone as we are digging to fix these rocks and slates, I might try painting one as a hedgehog with my acrylics and varnish it. Then again my head is full of ideas I never get round to and it would have to be a suitable stone.

Gill I have had a small soft lump on my gum that I think is an abscess since the lockdown. It is smaller at times and is near a tooth the dentist said wouldn't have a long life. It doesn't hurt so I am just keeping an eye on it for now.

We dropped our prescriptions off in the next village after teatime and OH tried for the third time to use the machine outside Santander to record his cheque and it still won't accept it. It will be out of date soon. They have marked out the one way system on the pavements and widened some of them by putting cones about 2 feet into the road along the edge. As we returned and were about 100 yards from home we saw an ambulance with 'Isolation' printed across the front parked outside a house so it would seem likely to be some poor person with virus symptoms.

We have ordered sunday lunch from the same place again for tomorrow, so we'd better do things in the garden in the morning, weather permitting as we won't be able to bend over after we've eaten it.

The police helicopter keeps circling so it looks like something has happened on the M1.

Dear All

Hello

As of next week, most retail outlets are opening up.

For others quarantine because of pre-existing illness comes to an end.

So there will be more people around.

May I implore you, please take extra care of yourselves and your families.

Travel safely.

Lots of best wishes
Love Elizabeth, EOS
xx

That bite looks nasty Mel but the posie is pretty and the scones look scrumptious.

sent pics.

Anng I took a list and still forgot to ask for them and SCRIPTS was written in big letters too.

Vera I pick up the scripts from our local shop where I get the paper not a chemist so no pharmacist there.

I am wondering if I have had a midge bite near it as it itched yesterday when I noticed it was red.

You sound as though you have got on well inthe garden today Ann. Soon be all done and you can use your new lookout.

I made a posy for mums grave and oh told me I must'nt take it up there as I have to go on Ralph's land to get to the church so I have put it by one of my fairy statues on the edge of oh's pond where mum had a pond once.

After that it had started raining so I came in and made scones.

Oh came in and made a cuppa so I will see if the scones are cool enough to do now.

It's a beautiful day here today, sunny and quite hot but with a pleasant breeze. It's the sort of day you should be outside all the time but I haven't had the energy to do very much. We did move a load of troughs and pots around this morning - or at least OH moved them and I supervised :-D We put some more down the side of our garage. We can't see them from our house but it's nice for the neighbours to have something bright to look out on rather than just a brick wall.

We are still ploughing our way through endless photos. All the albums are fine but loads of loose packets of photos have been shoved in the unit. I don't remember doing it but at some time I must have gone through and put a year date on each packet so that was a help. Now we are going through them and discarding quite a few. Sometimes we have, say, 3 pictures of the same person in the same place with only slight differences between them so we are just keeping one. Why is there always one photo that you don't recognise at all? One pack contained photos that had been taken at OH's parents' house. They were clearly all taken at the same time. It was Christmas time and I am fairly sure it was 1993 and there is one man in the photos that we don't know from Adam. Who the heck is he? At some time I need to write on each one who is in the photo and where and when it was taken for any future family historians but that will be a long old job.

Mel, that tick bite sounds nasty. Do keep an eye on it. Could you get the pharmacist to look at it when you go back for your scripts? He should at least be able to tell you if you need to get a doctor's opinion or just go ahead and ring the doctor anyway. It does sound as though you might need some antibiotics.

I didn't sleep well last night and have quite a headache at the moment. I think I may have also got a bit dehydrated as I haven't had all that much to drink today so I think I'll go and get a glass of water or squash now.

As I said Mel you need to take a list and check things off, you often seem to forget things if it means a special journey back. That tick bite sounds nasty.

Annx you didn’t answer my question about what sort of paint you use on the stones.

Afternoon All,

It was supposed to rain here today, but not a drop yet! It was sunny so we had lunch outside, just things on toast, an apple and a yoghurt today.

Mel it does sound like the tick bite might be infected. Could you get a telephone appointment to see if they will give you antibiotics. We need to drop our prescriptions into the surgery after teatime when it's less busy. OH still needs to pay a cheque in if he can at the machine too. That Pigeon was enjoying your clover wasn't it.

That's good getting a card finished AnnG. I have lots to do and not much get up and go just now. You fruit bowl did look sad, but now it is full again I understand.

We dug up the rock plants that were in our way and put them with some soil in plant trays as their temporary home till we have built the new lookout steps. OH moved some of the biggest slates for me and we dug out the bottom step and levelled it better and removed the side slates as the next step needs to be further to the left than before. Oh all the ant nests under everything we lifted!!! I got them up with the trowel and flung them to the back of the border in the shade for the birds to find. My left knee was feeling knuckly clicks as I moved it by then so we will tackle a bit more tomorrow. I had forgotten how heavy the big slates were! I did some watering and dead heading after lunch.

Now I need to paint more of the ladybirds!

Tick bite still looks red and its getting bigger.

Did the shop and forgot to ask for our scripts. Rang but they said they were'nt there and he was just about to go out. So I will try tomorrow morning and see if he was telling the truth. Oh is the one thats run out of things but not his diabetic pills thank goodness.

I have had a walk around the garden and its mums birthday today so will take a bunch of flowers up for her stone. There's pink roses and achemilla and some nice dark lavender which I think should make a nice little posy.

Ned to wash up and then make some scones.

Steak for dinner tonight with mushrooms brocc toms and chips for oh.

Everybody must be really busy today. Where is everyone?

I finished off a card I started yesterday. We walked round the post box to post a letter I wrote to friends this morning, via the second hand books sale so picked up a couple of books there. Came home, had lunch then did a bit of rose dead heading, then messed around on the computer. Trying to find a Tesco slot for after 3 July.

I had a letter from the NHS to re-book the referred appointment that I had cancelled for September and when I re-booked I got an appointment for the end of July. I could have actually had one in June but was not sure about going into town too soon, If it had been ok to have it in September it will be ok in July I think.