General Chat

Oh crikey Frank you were so lucky you didn't fall into the glass cabinet ,it might be as Jane said with only one eye to focus it's throwing you off balance just be extra careful when you get up and move about .

Oh dear Ann i thought you had cracked it with this new chemist although i think you dd say a while ago that there wasn't the queues like the other one you went to .
You were lucky with the hot water bottle that it didn't just suddenly gush out it could have given you a nasty scald and now you've twisted your side even more with jumping up quickly ,i hope it soon feels easier .
That was nice having a chat with your beading buddies yesterday are they all still finding time to do lots of crafts ?

Gill they had a BBQ for Jakes birthday tea and they had made a nice chocolate cake with Kit kats all round the side and Peppermint Aero balls on the top .
Hope you can find a few more new branches for your family tree .

AnnG i just happen to look out the window and saw a few spots of rain on the window so we both hot footed it out side and managed to get it all in before it came down ,it didn't last very long and the washing was all dry .

We might go and do a shop tomorrow in Aldi as they are having some Harry Potter Fat quarters in and the girls would like some bunting made for their bedroom .
I'm not going in though if it's busy ,i usually go in on a Monday when it's always quiet so will have to see as it's holiday week end i think it will be busy .

Well, we had a tremendous downpour about an hour and a half ago. It must have lasted about 20 minutes so will heave well watered the garden. We then had quite a long break of completely blue sky and sun and now we have a stormy looking sky again. Not a day for the beach today.

OK Ann thanks.
Oh dear, I hope your pain doesn't last as long as mine did. I am sure it is because we are not fit with being in the house so long without much exercise. Our muscles seem to have seized up.
So pleased you avoided being scalded. We don't have any hot water bottles I am a bit wary of that happening. Will be even more so now.

Frank that could have been nasty, maybe you should not try to do too much while you can't see properly.

Good luck with your search gill, kock down some more brick walls.

Mandy hope you didn't get our rain or any like it if you had washing out. It was so sudden you would not have had time to get it in. Belated birthday greetings to Jake. I bet he is loving his new computer.

I missed your post Ann, sorry to hear you have a sore side, that was the last thing you needed with the hot water bottle, I hope you are feeling a little better today and your bed has dried out. It sounds like you need a new hot water bottle. Nice to see you had a good chat with your beading friends. I wonder how many people will keep Zoom and the like, going after lockdown. It must be nice for people who live on their own to have a bit of company like that, it would be a shame if it stopped when things go back to normal.

Going to get something to eat, before I take another look at my tree.

Morning all

Bright and sunny but the wind is still blowing, it blown all the dust away from my patio, saved me a job of brushing up, all we need now is a bit of rain to water the plants and I can have a day off lol.

Happy birthday to Jake for yesterday Mandy, it'll certainly be one to remember, did he do anything nice, not that there's much you can do is there? I hope he had a nice day what ever he did. Good idea to buy him a new desk to go with his new computer. Nothing planned for the weekend, it's to windy to do the garden and all my housework is done, so I'm going to take another look at my family tree. I got stuck on the bit I was on, so I'm going to see if I can find another branch I can do instead. Yes, it's nice to have a working toilet again, you're right it's not something you can do without.

Not a good start to your day Frank, be careful, you were lucky you didn't fall into the glass cabinet. Can I have some of your rain please, our garden desperately needs it, it's to windy to get the hose pipe out, the wind would blow the water all over the place and onto me. I hope your computer screen stops playing up soon for you. It sounds like you need your ear and eye seeing to, I hope the nurse can do something to help.

So Thomas has decided to keep James company of a night time Jane, getting in through his window, what a shock that must of been for him the first time it happened. Cat's can be quite funny sometimes can't they?

Going to take a look at my family tree now. Hopefully I'll get a bit further than the last branch I tried.

Morning All,

Blustery wind here too! The sun is shining now but we had about 5 minutes of rain earlier, all dried up now and you'd never know there had been any so it didn't do much good.

Before I forget I will email you the measurements of the milk carton band and do a little sketch of it later on AnnG.

We did our 3rd trip to the new chemist to get the last of my medication this morning!! The medical side of things need to get their act together as well if we are still adding to our risks by having to keep visit pharmacies like this.

I managed to twist my side under the ribs yesterday. Don't know how I did it but I took a hot water bottle to bed to lay against it. As I lay down and before I moved it into position I felt wetness!! Heck I thought, the stopper must be loose and leapt out of bed again, hurting my side more, as the bottle was really hot and I didn't want a scald. Well it wasn't the stopper, it had had gone thin and stretchy in a patch near the seam at the side and a small hole had appeared!! :-S I have never had a problem with a hot water bottle before unless the stopper was loose and chuck them out after a couple of years. This one is only about a year old!! Anyway, at least with a waterproof mattress cover on it hadn't soaked the mattress, so I mopped the bed with a towel, put a big plastic bag over it with a bath sheet on top and slept on that! I leave the bed turned down in the day anyway, so any slight dampness that was under the plastic bag should dry out now.

I hosted a zoom meeting with my beading buddies yesterday and we had a really good natter as they don't limit your time on a first meeting.

I haven't read all the posts yet, but a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Jake and a good idea to get him a desk Mandy. It will help him with his schoolwork to have his own desk.

I have my Asda order to finalise later, ready for tomorrow's delivery, after I check what room there is in the freezers....what a job it is!

Lunch to get now

BBL

Good morning once again Mandy and All, I posted earlier and lost the lot. As I was saying before being rudely interrupted . We woke this morning to the noise of the radio BLEEPING. When I tried the radio, it didn't come on. The electricity had tripped for some reason, so it had to be re-srt. Me being me, I went into the conservatory to get the steps, on coming back in, I tripped over the step and went a blinder down the dining room/lounge. I managed to grab a chair to stop me flying into the glass cabinet. What a mess that would have been.

It's raining here at the moment, it started soon after Ros set off to get a few bits from Tesco. So hope she doesn't get wet, going from the car to the store.

I am still as blind as a bat in my left eye, and my right ear has the OCEAN running through it. WOSH< WOSH. I rang the nurse yesterday, she is ringing back Tuesday. If it's no better she will arrange to call and look at it. With this shut down, you can't go to the Surgery.

We had a real DOWN POUR a few minutes ago. but stopped now, and the sun is back out, with blue sky.

My screen keeps going BANANA'S. The printed page, disappears then comes back.
So I will close before I loose my posting. See you later. xxxx

Morning all,

Still very windy here with sun ,I've got one load of washing just spinning and another lot to go in and then the job of keeping them on the line .

What's everyone up to this bank holiday ,gardening and staying in that's about all we can do .

Washing all spun so I'll go and hang out ,I come in with my hair all over the place with the wind ,looks like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards :-D

Evening all,

Very blustery here today we sat out for a while this afternoon until i started sneezing and my eyes felt all itchy so we came in .

AnnG i noticed all the petals from the roses flying about the garden and coming in the back door too.
Lovely photo''s on the blog thank you your Hostas are looking good i have a few in the front garden in pots and this morning i made sure they had some slug pellets round them as i noticed one had a few tiny holes in a leaf .

Gill your place must be super duper clean with all your cleaning lately i must admit i don't dust as must as i use to but on the other hand it doesn't seem to get that bad .
That's good you've had the plumber in to fix your loo it's not some thing you can do with out .

Ann i saw the lady on you tube making the face masks with a pipe cleaner threaded through the top so you can nip it in across the nose .
I made a mask a few weeks and now i can't find it any where so goodness knows where i've put it ,so i'll have to make another one .
The band from a milk carton sounds a good idea ,i had seen some crochet bands with two buttons stitched on to hold the elastic .

Oh little devil Thomas Jane :-D :-D i bet he scared James half to death coming in through the window like that ,he can still climb well then considering he had that op on his leg .
Oh you don't want to be sharing crisps :-0 but the thought was there bless him .

Mel now you have me wondering what will be coming in the post :-D

Jakes birthday today he's 15 :-D son and DIL bought him a computer which will help with his school work so we bought him a new desk to go in his bedroom ,i usually buy clothes for them on their birthdays but its not so easy now so we put him some money in his card .
We went this morning and saw him through the car window,we left the card on the side and he came to the door and opened it ,he brought the box out with the desk in so we could see the picture on the box as son had ordered it and it was delivered straight to theirs so we hadn't seen it .

Oh your poor eye Frank i hope they can soon get things sorted for you at the hospital so you can read your books again ,have you got any CD'S you could play i know you like the radio some times with the old songs perhaps you could get the songs on a CD.

Still rough outside i laid the coffee mugs on the table this afternoon and Colins got blown over because the pvc table cover blew up in the wind so coffee went every where ,i got the hose and washed it off the table .

I've not long woken up, I had a terrible night's sleep last night and having to get up early this morning for the plumber I've felt shattered all day, I settled down to watch a programme I recorded but kept falling asleep on the sofa, so I'm going to grab and drink and watch it again.

I planted up the tomatoes, but it was a quick job with the wind the way it is, it was quite scary in there with the greenhouse shaking all over the place. My screening is blowing back and forth, so I hope that doesn't fall down.

Well, so much for me mopping my floors, the mop head fell apart, mind you it was very old. I managed to get the bathroom floor done and most of the kitchen floor. OH's nipped to the shops for a new one, so I'll re-do the kitchen floor later.

Can you get hold of those talking books Frank, like the ones Mel has? You could listen to them then and it would save you being bored. I see Ros is as busy as ever, does she have a big key in her back that you wind up every morning lol. Home made chips, I haven't had those for years, I really should treat myself to one of the air fryers then I can enjoy some home made chips to, not that I eat chips very often, but every now and then would be nice.

Love all your plants AnnG, I've checked our front garden and all the lovely Tulips I had the heads have blown off them in the wind. They were going over, but it was nice to see them lasting so long. It's times like this I'm glad next door put a 5 foot fence up between us in the front, it stops all the rubbish being blown all over our garden. Apart from the Tulips, which were on the corner by the end of the drive, everything else seems to be okay. I can't say the same about the back though, some of my pot plants have blown over, we've picked them up a few times but have decided to leave them until the wind goes, or we'll be in and out all evening.

Going to grab a cuppa now and watch my programme again, I can't remember any of what I watched with falling asleep and waking up again, so it's easier to watch the whole thing again, it's only a half hour programme, then I can sort dinner out.

Don’t know about breeze Frank it is blowing so hard we have just taken all the hanging baskets down. Never had to do that before.

Afternoon all,

BORED to death, sitting around with nothing to do. T.V. is on, and I am squinting at the screen, to try to watch ROAD WARS. I can't read, so that's all there is to do.

Ros has been in the garden all day again. She never seems to rest. No matter how many times I tell her to rest a while, she just ignores me. It reminds me of a very old JOKE " MUMMY, why am I going round in circles. ?? SHUT UP, or I will nail the other foot to the GROUND" The old un's are the best. lol lol

Pork ribs in a garlic and herb sprinkle tonight, with chips and sweetcorn. Must say a few chips (home made) make a change from Roasts and Mash. Quite looking forward to it.

How is everybody today. ?? Feeling a bit cooler in this breeze, I expect. We didn't see the rain they promised,so I expect I will water everywhere again this evening.

Going to try to get Ros to pack up for the day. Well I can a least try. !!!!

Gill yes a bit windy for compost, it is really gusting here.

Frank, it must be horrible with your eye so fogged. Much better to rest it but it will be boring for you unless there is anything on the radio to listen to. Ros has done so well with all her makes, she must be doing them in her dreams as well.

I have just put the photos of our roses and my hostas on the photo blog.

Good afternoon to you all,

Another iffy night last night, I woke at 2.30 for the loo, then laid awake for ages. By 7.00 am I was ready to turn over, but got up instead.

Ros put a Charity Bag out last night and this morning it had gone. She thought it had been stolen during the night, (which happens round here) But, she saw a Van collecting the bags that had been out this morning. She spoke yo the driver about her bag, and he said he was round before 7.00 am, and was now doing a re-run. So all was O.K. He also took a lot of boxes, that Carolyn had dropped off as no-one calls at her house.

Those face masks, Ros found out how to make them through U TUBE. They take you right through every step of how to make them. At the first signs of COVID, she made well over 70 face masks for friends and relatives. In fact she had a request from Roger and Sue, if she could make some for them, which she did, and dropped them off yesterday.

When I close my right eye, I am completely BLIND IN MY LEFT EYE. Even the computer screen is just a complete BLUR.

We are having problems with a company regarding an order that we didn't make, and we do not have a credit/debit card ending in the number quoted.

Well, I am going to sit quietly had listen to the radio or T.V. as Ican't read my book with my eyes like this. If I don't manage to see to type tomorrow, you will understand why I am not posting. Boy oh Boy will I be glad when the hospital sort this out. xxxx

I need to clean the bathroom floor again now, but at least we have a working toilet, I just need to remember to flush it now and not put litres of water down the loo lol.

I've been decorating the spare bedroom AnnG so my place looked like a war zone with beds and furniture in the wrong place and don't get me started on the dust, I think it all came from the dust sheet, it mustn't of been shaken last time we used it, so it needed sorting. Everything's back in it's right place now and looks much better.

I got some tomato plants yesterday and OH has just nipped out for some compost, so I'm going to plant them up and put them in the greenhouse. I was going to re-pot some plants but it's far to windy, half the compost would be blown away, so I'll do that when the wind dies down. When I've finished the tomatoes I'll mop the bathroom and kitchen floors, then everything's clean and tidy again. I quite like housework, it makes me feel good seeing every where clean, although sometimes I'm not in the mood so things pile up and it becomes a bigger job.

Going to do the few jobs I've got to do, then I might have a sleep, I had a terrible night last night and I'm so tired now.

Gill, I can't believe that your bungalow needed a good clean. You are always cleaning so it must be the cleanest one in your road. I am sure you would think our house was filthy if you came here. I have never ever enjoyed housework and always prefer to be doing other things so the house is clean as long as you don't poke into corners :-D

Pleased that you have got a plumber in to fix the loo anyway.

The plumbers here, hopefully we'll have a working toilet soon. I must remember to flush it rather than pour water into it.

I've not read any posts yet so hope everyone is okay. I'll try and catch up with them later.

I've been so busy this week sorting the bungalow out, the decorating is done and the room put back to rights and all my craft kits have been put away, so that's two room back to normal now. I've given the whole bungalow a good clean and got rid of all the cobwebs around the ceiling, they seem to build up quite quickly, I had to get a chair to stand on as our ceilings are quite high.

I can hear the toilet, so think the plumber is almost finished. BBL

good morning all, dry partly sunny and very windy here which is a shame as it is blowing the petals off the roses.

Not good putting crisps out Jane and then putting his hand in first. Maybe little individual dishes would be better at this time for everyone but especially for you. Typical man though, sometimes their brains just don't accept everything it should,

Mel those sausages sound interesting, did you enjoy them. We don't ever shop in Morrisons unless we are on holiday in dorset.

Annx could you let me have instructions about the head band from milk cartons (and anything else that you know. with hearing aids it is difficult to put the elastic on my ears as well as the hearing aid arms and glasses.

they are nice Ann I used to get them in Morrisons and had these in the freezer. We finished off the blackberry and apple crumble after with Kellys clotted cream icecream.

It turned coudy again late afternoon and tried to rain big spots at about 9pm but it has'nt come to anything. They forcast high winds for us 40 to 60 miles an hour so that'll knock all the new plants down. Must go and tie up the peonies in the morning as I can't get their wire holders in the ground its so hard and some I can't get out cos its so hard. Can't win can I?

They sound nice sausages Mel. I think I would enjoy those and the rest of your meal! I'm getting a bit fed u with coming up with ideas now. That was a good idea your OH had. The lady also showed us how to use a plastic milk carton to cut a band for the back of your head to hook the ear loops onto. By making several slots it could be adjusted and is easy to disinfect each time. All these things have to be washed after each use and used by not touching the mask part if you can. We will avoid public transport as we mostly do anyway, but it would be useful to carry one to use in a shop once we go in one as not everyone obeys the rules and they are supposed to help, even if only a little.

Come to think of it, I used to use sheets of newspaper in the trays in my canary cages when I bred them years ago. They were so easy to clean out by just changing the paper. Of course at one time the Chippie would use them! They would line it with greaseproof paper or plain paper so in most cases.

Gosh that was a bit naughty of Fitz to handle some crisps before offering them to you or at least letting you take some first. I'm glad Georgette is better now and Fitz managed not to get it.

Vera if you have an animal center near you I am sure tye would welcome your shreddings or My friend used to tear up newspapers for her horses bedding. Some horses can have aa bed of straw because they eat it and it causes problems. some are kept on wood shavings but Julie always used newspaper for hers. When I had the pet shop I used to tear up papers for her too and she would collect the bags when she came in for horse and goat food or her hubby would collect them when he came in for bird food.

Talking of ear loops for the masks Ann oh suggested that you could put those hair bands on them for round the ears. The ones like a bit of knitting that rolls up.

I used to get my scripts from Lloyds chemist in Holsworthy and they always took such a long time to serve one customer you would have thought they would have had at least two people serving. Now we changed surgery to the next village they seliver our scripts to the local shop so I pick them up from there. The only thing is I asked if they could give me gastro asprin for oh and they said yes but still sent the disperable ones.

We have motarella and tomato sausages tonight with cheesey potatoe bakes and sweetcorn. Nice.