General Chat

I can’t believe it’s still raining here. I don’t think it has stopped at all since the middle of last night.

We sorted out the wall units and one of our floor units but didn’t start the other floor one as it contains a lot of photo albums and a lot of loose photos too. I know we’ll keep stopping to look at them so I’m setting aside a whole day for that job.

I’ve just been cooking up loads of mince as in one of the deliveries I had a giant pack. OH didn’t realise I divide it into portions and put the whole pack in the freezer so we have shepherd’s pie tonight, a couple of individual ones for the freezer and a couple of packs of cooked mince.

Dinner’s just about ready so I’ll get dished up now.

Thats nice he managed to get a round in without any rain then AnnG. I bet he came in with a smile on his face. :-D :-D

Been pouring here but I think it may have stopped now for a while.

No Mel, it has not rained here and he enjoyed his game.

Meant to say what are the hair scrunchies like you are mnaking for the girls Mandy?

It started raining here about 12.45pm and has'nt stopped since amd its a good steady shower so good for the garden. Stopped play for oh so after lunch he told me to look out for a delivery van and he is now watching the back of his eyelids.

I wonder if T got his game of golf???? or if its raining there too. :-|

This morning I hoovered up all the spiders I could find in the hall and little loo. Hoovered the hall and all around the outside of the front door. As we don't use the front door much I had'nt realised just how dirty it was and the porch so this afternoon I am going to wash all the door and step down and see if I can get the moss off the slabbed floor.

Sorry you are not feel well again today Frank and that you did'nt have a good night. Hope your F & C are as good as ours usually are, enjoy.

Forgot to post this agan and now its raining cats and dogs.

:-(

Good afternoon all, Sorry I didn't get back yesterday, I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

Not feeling great today, have had a lot of pain in my chest. It kept waking me up in the night so I didn't get a lot of sleep. I am now just sitting in my armchair reading my book. That isn't as easy as it might . The print is so small, I am having a job with it. It's called 1915, and is about the 1st WW in the trenches. The author has researched so many people who were involved, that it is quite gripping, and not something you want to put down.

Our old neighbour "JEAN" has passed away during the night. Thee ha ect we will hear what caused her to passed away, later in the day. No fun in getting old. !!!!

Vera, we have two glass cabinets full of every type of glass you could ever want. I know we had a lot for wedding presents 42 years ago. Plus there are beer glass's and tumblers in the kitchen cupboard.

Ros is in the garden. She has trays of "COSMOS" that she wants to get in the beds. They have been in the greenhouse, and have grown around two foot high, and grown so bushy. I know she has given lots away to friends and neighbours, but there are still LOADS.

The undertakers have just takenJean away. I was talking with Ros in ihe front garden, as they brought the body out. So we stood and lowered our heads, as they put her in hearse.

No cooking for me tonight either Mel, It's the F & C MANS night, tonight, Ros will have a few of my chips, with Ham and Eggs. and I will have a piece of COD.

Really cloudy now, so I expect we will get your rain Mandy/Vera. They do forecast it for today, and tomorrow. FLAMING JUNE !!!!

Off for a coffee and a sarnie, so will catch up with you all later. STAY SAFE. xxxx

Just stopped for a cuppa.. it’s still pouring here. I haven’t been out but the end of our road will definitely be flooded now.

We’ve got 2 sets of wall and floor units in our lounge so we’ve started getting everything out, cleaning them and the contents and putting everything back. Why have I got 69 wine glasses, for goodness sake :-S.? That’s without the 19 sherry glasses and countless beer and lager, whisky and brandy glasses, and why have we got 4 opened bottles of whisky and 3 of brandy? Anyone looking in our cupboard would think we’re a right pair of old soaks :-)

Oh no, OH has discovered a load of old cassette tapes and has put a particularly dreary bit of Tchaikovsky on, just when I need something jolly and bouncy to keep me working.

Right, tea break’s over, now to tackle the floor units.

Morning all,

Rain stopped play here it's coming down quite heavy now ,I did manage to get some shopping in before it got to heavy ,I'm going to crochet the girls some hair scrunchies and needed some hairbands so I went early so there was no one about ,think I was the only one in the shop .

Lovely photo's of your garden Mel ,OH keeps the lawn looking nice with the stripes.
The rose looks a picture too, what pretty feathers the girls have ,lovely markings on them .

AnnG hope OH enjoys his golf today and it stays dry for him.

Coffee time BBL

Morning Vera and Anng and all,

Seems we have the same weather as you Anng. Dull ol day with grey skies and dry.

I think the fish and chip van is calling again in the village so I may go up there for it tonight as we hav'nt had it weeks now. I think its been coming for about three weeks and I hav'nt ventured up there yet.

Should do some hw today and need to do a bit of ironing but want to go and play in the garden........ :-| :-|

Good morning, have to get on as OH off to golf, like an excited schoolboy, hope he feels the same after playing nine holes. dull and grey but no rain here. BBL

Good morning

Cold and very wet here. I think it’s been raining most of the night. It’s a stay in and do h/w sort of day and I’m thinking of starting to give our lounge a spring clean. Perhaps I can get OH to help as he won’t be outside digging up more of my flowers today ;-)

Edit. I forgot to say thanks for the lovely photos Mel. You could rent your lawn out as a bowling green. Your OH does keep it looking good.

when we did all the veg and fruit we had red goosegogs and if you left them they would go really dark.

Sorry Mel, yes I saw your photos and emailed you about them. Lovely photos, liked the one of your bungalow.
Annx never heard of purple gooseberries. Wonder if they need different treatment.

I sympathise Vera as it is very annoying when they do things like that and think that things can be dug up any time of the year to suit them getting on with something. I laid out our garden here and OH doesn't get too involved except with some labour with heavy things and weeding and he will help plant things now I find it more difficult to do. I was a fan of the hoe for weeding and left the bits to rot down and feed the plants, but Mr Tidyfreak likes weeding (not often enough!) but can't bear leaving a bit of weed to rot so they get scooped up!! He also tidies my garden tools away before I have finished with them. The new garden bin is his new love I think and it was collection day today and he has been telling me this for days now. I only have to mention that I might trim or deadhead something and I get constantly reminded it is 'bin' week as if I must rush out and fill it to the brim!! :-S I hope the novelty wears off soon! lol. You hang on to your hanging baskets while you can AnnG!

Mel you have some lovely photos of your garden. The roses and delphiniums are gorgeous and your OH has made a cracking job of the lawns and hedge. Nice ones of Phil and your pretty bantams too. It all looks very smart.

I have what should be a nice purple desert goosegog, but in 4-5 years it has small goosegogs that then fall off instead of growing! I had a green one at my old house that would have loads on. I'm doing something wrong!

Anng I don't know as I don't think I have ever seen them on there before and probably the voles and mice eat them.

I'll try and get a picture but they are behind a lot of stinging nettles over the side of the orchard where the caterpillas and butterflies go. I also have a bonfire near them.

Did you see my pics I sent.

Where's Mandy??

Oh dear Vera. It is so hard when the garden that was formally mostly your domain is taken over for many years I did most of the garden, planning and planting but I have noticed in the past few years OH has gradually taken it over. One reason is that I find I can’t do as much because of various aches and pains and another is he absolutely loves the praise he gets (well deserved mostly) for the garden from the gardening group at U3A. The last straw was when he started talking about ‘what we did with the hanging basket’ the last thing I have managed to hold onto as my domain. Mostly he stops ‘owning’ the garden when I point it out to him but lockdown has not helped in that way. Although has been a salvation in another by giving him something to do. However the garden is about to take a back seat as tomorrow he plays nine holes of golf and on Friday eighteen. Have to admit I am finding it hard as I have got used to us being in lockdown here together. Maybe lockdown is your problem too Vera, good job we can come on here to rant isn’t it?

Hope the wipe down went ok.

Mel are the wild gooseberries any good to eat?

I had a look at the wild goosegog and it has got tiny gogs on it.

Sent loads of pics.

Yes Vera I have noticed they have lost their kidney shape. I think the last pack I had had about one in it that was the right shape.

I have been out in my shed tidying up a bit so I can get my tom plants on the floor. At the moment they are on the shelf by the windows but they need to come down now as they are nearly touching the roof.

Liked the morning byke ride Frank.

I decided to come and post again. It was a choice between having a moan on here or murdering OH :-|. I didn’t go in the garden this morning, in fact I’m hardly doing anything outside now. I thought we would end up having words, to put it mildly. His nibs has taken control of the garden and has become obsessive about Japanese anemones. I have some sympathy as they are really rampant in our garden so he is getting them all out, but every morning that it is dry he is out there waging war. Today he informed me that they are growing in among other flowers so he has dug a load of stuff up - two or three lovely clumps of helenium and a tall, wavy grass. Apparently he has replanted some bits of helenium but I don’t think they are going to be happy with their treatment when they are just coming up to flower. It is amazing that it is only my flowers that have to come up and not his hostas or shrubs. All he can suggest to replace the Japanese anemones are more green shrubs. My pretty garden is now a green blob :-(. Part of the problem is that he can’t see that plants we had in our old half acre garden are overwhelming in our current postage stamp plot. He doesn’t so much water plants as drown them, then if they start to droop because they’re waterlogged he assumes they are dry and waters them again. The final straw was when he brought in some pots he had used, dumped them on the draining board in the utility and left them, presumably for the housekeeper to deal with. Well, this housekeeper washed the one pot she had used and walked away from the rest.

OK rant over. I’ve let off steam now.

About Jersey Royals: I was told by a Jersey person that the small potato farmers used a seaweed to fertilise their soil. Now the small potato farmers have been bought out by a big company who are producing large amounts of Jersey Royals for export and they use artificial fertilisers, which is why they have lost that unique flavour. Has anyone else noticed they seem to have lost their kidney shape too?

Well, Tesco have just been and I had better get wiping. One thing not available and one sub, but that was only for a different size of the product I ordered so no complaints.