General Chat

thank you Vera, found it now.

good luck with the quiz questions.

I still have not done anything been reading the Mail on line.

Morning all

No sign of rain here yet but it is very grey and with a cold North wind. I had to pick up my meds today and I felt really cold just walking a short distance from the chemist to the car park and I was wearing a T-shirt, a wool cardigan and a thick fleece. What a change from a couple of days ago.

AnnG, I just checked Tesco again in case I was going mad, but the info is there. If you google Tesco Groceries it should open on the Home page. There’s a banner across that which says “How we’re responding to Covid 19”. If you click on “Find out more ” and scroll down to the bit headed “Food for All” you’ll find it.

Gill, I hope you are feeling a lot better today. I wonder what caused your sickness.

I’m going to do a couple of small jobs now and then have lunch. This afternoon I’ll sort out some questions for Sunday’s quiz. I have some quizzes I’ve done before for clubs we belong to but they have all been compiled with an older age group in mind and I need to sort out some questions that the younger element have a chance of answering. Tomorrow I shall be very brave and attempt to set the meeting up on Zoom, following the instructions that Ann was kind enough to send me.

Thinking of you Jane <3

Right, better get on or it will be time for lunch and I’ll still have nothing done.

EDIT. I forgot to say Mandy that our MOT was booked for 31st March but couldn’t go ahead. When I first put our reg. number in on the government site nothing came up. I can’t remember now whether it appeared on 31st March or 1st April but when I put the number in then the screen said we had an extension till 31st September so it doesn’t look as though the extension is granted till the date the MOT is actually due. We also wondered about our Road Tax due at the same time and normally paid by DD, then OH got an email from them saying they would take this payment on 22nd April.

Morning All,

It's all here on the Government site Mandy and when you can check etc if you scroll down.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-mots-for-cars-vans-and-motorcycles-due-from-30-march-2020#how-the-6-month-extension-works

BBL......lunch needs putting on now.

Good morning GIRLS,

Much the same weather wise here. We did have a whole day of light rain yesterday. So hopefully the garden will come back to life.

We had a beautiful steak dinner last night. Ros ate far more than me. I just don't seem to have any appetite. I suppose not getting outing no exercise isn't helping.

Martine called over this morning with our Anniversary card and present. She got the date wrong. She bought a beautiful plant for the garden. She has also offered me a Motorbility Scooter, to try, and if I like it I can buy it for £100.00. She thinks it will give me so much freedom, to get around the village, without fear of falling over. It's quite BIG and would need to be kept in the garage. At least I can give it a go, and see how I get on.

I am going to the nurse at 4.30 this afternoon, to have my stitches removed. Eos will take me, and sit in the car away from anyone who might be in the waiting room. I will book in, and stand outside. The nurse will call me in, when she is ready.

Spatchcock Chicken for tonight in herbs and garlic. I'll do Roasts and a selection of veg later. It's something I have never tried before, so hope I enjoy it.

Head and neck still very sore, and the graze on the knee is very dry, and pulling when I try to bend my leg.

Our car was filthy, so Ros had it cleaned at our usual place on Tuesday. She will do the inside later today.

Off for a coffee, STAY SAFE my dear friends. xxxx

Morning Mandy and all,

We have quite a bright day with grey and white clouds and a few patches of blue sky. Its dry and has'nt rained in the night as all the road is dry and there's a little breeze cos I can see the trees moving.

Mandy my MOT was due on the 19th May and I rang the garage and Stuart told me I don't have to have mine till September or October. He said I can have it done if I wanted to. I did the same as you and looked on the site which is why I rang Stuart as I could'nt see anything on there either. Shame they hav'nt given us something off the road tax for those of us of a certain age.

Oh has just come in and said its chilly out there. I hav'nnt been out yet so I don't know.

good morning all, a grey but dry day here, doesn't look very welcoming after all the lovely sun. 12 degrees outside. Got up fairly late, slept well but not got a lot of get up and go so far. Prepped the meal for tonight in the slow cooker, bolognese on pasta, might be spaghetti or maybe Fusilli, depends what OH fancies, I usually give him a choice.

At the moment OH is steaming the kitchen floor so that will keep him occupied for a few minutes. He might then find things to doo in the garden I suppose. I want to walk round to the post box later.

Vera I have looked and looked but can't find that part of the Tesco site that you mention, maybe they vary. Never mind I will try 85 next time and see what happens

Mandy, I think the garage will let you know nearer the time, if you always go to the same one, if you have an extension to your MOT.
My OH cleaned my car a few days ago (it is the one left outside) as it was very dusty.

Morning all,

Little rain in the night as the ground is quite wet this morning so that was nice for the gardens we have lot of cloud and some of them are a bit grey looking so I think we might be in for a bit more today ,there's also quite a strong wind I can see the trees swaying .

Gill I hope you feel better today ,what had you eaten to make you sick?

Hope we all have a bit more get up and go today it's strange how you have days where you just can't get motivated to do things .

Colin is going out to give the car a clean out in side ,it's surprising what you take in on your feet ,if it keeps dry I think he's thinking about giving it a wash as it's so dusty
The MOT is due at the end of the month but didn't some one say they are giving you six months.
Son looked on line and found the site were you can put the registration number in but it didn't come up with any thing so we're none the wiser .


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O dear sorry to hear you've been sick today Gill I hope you feel better tomorrow and it has all passed. What could you have eaten to make you so sick? I hav'nt done the parcel ujp yet or Mandy's either, sorry maybe tomorrow.

Vera I have been busy doing nothing today too. I did bring the washing in tonight and ironed it but did'nt get any other ironing done today after all. Not a nice thing for hubby to have tht said to him on his walk. Some people are weird arn't they?

I suppose I don’t look closely at the Tesco site as I don’t add the list DiL does that.. thanks Vera I will know next time.

Gill hope you feel better tomorrow. What do you think has upset you?

Just a quickie to wish Frank and Ros a happy anniversary, sorry it's late but I've been sick most of today, I think it might of been something I've eaten. I hope you both had a lovely day.

I'll catch up with all the posts tomorrow if I feel better.

Ann, When I booked my latest slot a couple of days ago I was putting a few bits in the basket to hold the slot when I just noticed the figure 85. I’ve just checked it by looking at the section on their site “How we’re responding to Covid-19” and it says that they have introduced a limit of 85 items per order and removed purchase limits on most items.

While we were eating OH said to me that he hadn’t realised how much he’d missed talking face to face with people. He said he felt really relaxed after seeing our friends today.

Vera I meant to ask how you found out Tesco has increased to 85 items.

Evening all,

<3 <3 <3 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FRANK AND ROS <3 <3 <3

Hope you've both had a nice relaxing day together and enjoyed the Steaks .
Did the flowers arrive ok ?

That was an early delivery Vera good job you were up and dressed .
Sounds as if the chat in the garden with your friends has pered you all up ,they do say it's good to laugh .

Oh dear little bunnies sitting in the garden having a wash .
OH will be sitting pretty when he gets his new seat ,no more falling off backwards .

No rain here today AnnG but that would have put pay to any ideas your OH had about playing golf today ,but when he does go the green should be nice and green after the rain . :-D

Oh Ann you'll be sleeping with one eye open tonight with a spider about :-0

Ann i'm now going to PM you .

they do drop with a clunk don't they Ann. Its more frightened of you than you are of it so don't worry about it or get G to move the bookcase out to hoover.

Oh has ordered a new seat for the mower he fell off the other day. its a spung one with little arms just what he likes.

Our grass was starting to go brown but it looks a bit better after this small amount of rain we have had today.

My cue plant had a hole in its stem and did'nt grow so I threw it out as it was wilting and when I looked at it it had a big greenfly in the hole. All the plants I have bought down the shop have had greenfly including my tomato plants.

We haven’t had any rain here yet though it’s come over dark a few times, then brightened up again. The weather forecast said the rain would be hit or miss in this area and I think we’ve been missed. It did get quite chilly this afternoon but our friends came and we sat outside with jumpers on and had a good chat and a laugh. I think it perked us all up.

I hope the flowers for Ros arrived safely and she was pleased with them Frank. Your meal tonight sounds good. We had one of those giant cup and saucer plant holders years ago. I had a lovely small leaved trailing plant in mine but eventually the cup cracked and I had to dump it. I still use the great big saucer as a sort of bird feeder. I put it on a garden table with bits of cake or fat or fruit in it and the blackbirds and thrush in particular perch on the edge and feed from it. They love it if I put some mealworms on it.

I don’t seem to have done much today either Mel and AnnG. OH hoovered through for me while I wiped and put away my delivery and had a shower but I can’t think what I did with the rest of the morning. I was just busy doing nothing.

There seems to be a lot of work going on in your Close Ann and that’s really inconsiderate of your neighbours to be hammering away so late in the evening. You shouldn’t have needed to ask a shop assistant to give you room to pass, they must have had distancing hammered into them by now. When OH was out for his early morning walk he was on a narrow pavement with someone coming towards him. He could see this chap wasn’t going to move so OH stepped into the road. As they passed the chap said to him “You don’t have to give me space. I’ve had Covid” . Well, OH hasn’t and will continue to give people a bit of space.

OH has had a couple of beers this afternoon and some cake and now he’s drinking a CoT but he’ll still be looking for his dinner in an hour or so and I haven’t prepared anything yet. I did take some gammon out of the freezer this morning but that’s as far as I got so I’d better shift myself and get some veg sorted.

Well, despite us getting up early to be at the garden centre for opening time, we haven't done much today either so I'm glad it isn't just us. By the time we had our late lunch and did a crossword and word wheel and slumped in the conservatory chairs and chatted, it was time for the daily update! It started with fine rain here but has rained more steadily since and will be doing the garden good as it badly needs it. It will be softening the soil on the other island bed with my lookout post so that I can get on with raising the height of the steps for the lookout once it stops! There's a dwarf Hebe planted there that is no longer dwarf anymore and needs a haircut so that will get done once I can start on the garden again. I need to move some of the alpines and want to build the soil up once the steps are done and are higher. I can't believe how fast the cues and tomatoes have grown in the recent hot weather, but I have had to put some slug bait down round the cues in the greenhouse as I spotted a silvery trail across one of the leaves.

I forgot to say OH heard a bit of a thud on the bedroom floor last night as he took his jumper off and thought it was a twig that had got caught on his jumper. No......it was an enormous spider that scuttled where he couldn't reach it behind a bookcase! Every night now I shall be wondering where it is and scanning the ceiling.

Yes its nice and gentle but now its just in the air.

I have washed up and put the wahsing out and dusted the bedroom and put some ironing away and now I am going to do some more.

Been raining here most of the day but not very hard. good for the garden though.

I hope Vera was able to have her friends in and sit in the garden chatting. It will be a nice change for them both to have visitors.

Anng you'r not the only one who has'nt done much today. I just can't seem to get going. All I have done is one bit of washing and forgotten to put it out and fed the chickens and made lunch and eaten it. I hav'nt even washed up the lunch plates yet.

I hope Ros's flowers arrived and that fthey are having a nice day together even if the weathers a bit dull.

I could just throw myself onthe bed now and go to sleep but I know if I do that I shall sleep too long and be cross with myself for wasting the rest of the day so I think I will wash up and do some ironing.

gosh Vera that was a lot of housework. We changed the beds this morning and washed the bedding but that is all I have really done today. spent a lot of time finishing my book.
Goodness that was an early Iceland delivery. We would not have been awake. Nice to get the order early but they really should stick to their time.

Annx not good that you had to ask a member of staff to move, we had to avoid a couple yesterday but they were not chatting just setting up a sale area, it was still a bit awkwad though. that and trying to sort out an elderly lady who couldn't work out the one way system in the store.

Frank, your meal for tonight sounds nice. I hope the flowers have arrived and Ros is pleased. Our post here is awful I am stillw aiting for something daughter posted to us last tuesday. And the post has been today.