General Chat

Evening All,

Frost on the screen this morning so I had to clean that off before I set off for the craft club. OH usually goes out and does it for me but 'Sleeping Beauty' was still in the land of nod! We did applique this week and will stitch and decorate them next week. I did a cupcake to get used to the bondaweb and will do a little house next week I think. I had to smile when the teacher said the Bondaweb irons out all the creases in the fabric and thought it would be good to put on your face overnight if it's that good. A new lady has joined us, but it is touch and go whether there will be enough of us for them to continue with the course.

Oh Mel they would have caused a titter on the little table you used to sell your garden produce from too! lol. :-D.

Sorry you haven't been well Vera and I hope you have more energy now. What a shame your OH hurt his rib again. It does sound sensible for him to use a stool in case he goes down with the pain if it happens again, but as you say, when do they do 'sensible?'

Mandy I did laugh at the girls using most of the tin of Pledge to polish their rooms! :-D I don't think they will be keeping that up!!

Gill fancy the message being opened after all these years! :-0 I wonder if they stopped subscrining but have joined again. How is Sandra's knee now? I still have Oliver to watch too.

I like the slab photo too AnnG. It sounds a sensible arrangement for your hubby to make best use of the golf club. When I went to the gym for a short spell many years ago I might add, it was on a PAYG basis.

When I parked my car this morning, the sun was in my eyes and it was in a short space, but I thought it didn't matter as it was just long grass at the front of it. As I ran onto the edge of the grass thinking it was fine there was a horrid scrape at the front of the car!! I backed up and got out to look. I had run onto a sawn off tree stump hidden by the grass!!! Luckily I couldn't see any damage but must have a feel underneath if I can tomorrow to be sure.

I have been busy with my painting so will catch up with the posts tomorrow.

Evening all,

Still chilly here today even with the sun ,did our shop supermarket today and got some eggs from the farm ,son had a whole tray and i had a dozen and a half ,i put mine in the plastic tray that i use each time i go i then went out the door to put them in the car and suddenly realised i hadn't put the money in the tin :-0 i had counted out the right money and put it in my coat pocket while i picked out the eggs ,thank goodness i suddenly remembered i would have felt awful if i had found he money in my pocket later on , plus they have a security camera on the eggs because people have taken them .

Oh Mel have you ordered some :-D :-D dare i say i wonder what they
taste like :-D :-D :-0 :-0
Enjoy your F&C's

AnnG you've got some interesting photo's there ,i like the coiled rope one .

Does sound like you might have had a virus Vera , glad your feeling a bit better today .

Yes i tried to have MillyMollyMandy as my board name but it wouldn't let me so i went for MillyMollyAmanda ,the only people that call me Amanda is the doctors,dentist and optician everyone else calls me Mandy or some times Mand .

Lol Mel

I had forgotten the Croome one will have a look.

Can you imagine the faces if you put one in the harvest festival or the flower show?

O my goodness I was looking up seeds on Amazon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just take a look at this!!!!!!!

Seeds House- SummerRio 30pcs Rare P***s Melons, Rarities Vegetable Seeds Organic Vegetable Seeds Pumpkin Seed Melon Organic Home Garden

Gosh I have been busy today. I have hoovered the kitchen diner and a bit of the lounge where I go in to paint. Oh had the new gazebo delivered and we unpacked that and put it up as its to go over the hot tub. We have tied it to the rail that goes around the decking. All set now for when we can go in again when the weather warms up.

They are still thinning the trees behind our little back field and you can now see through them. I wonder what its going to look like in the summer? The trees that are left he has cut the bottom branches off so raising the leaf canopy.

I have the bin ready to put out when I go for the fish and chips.

I have washed a lot of plant saucers and the hog bowls and now I am going to have a cuppa and a naughty cake.

AnnG I like the rope one too and saw it was a slab and thought how nice it was. How about taking a pic of the back of your hand with all the skin markings? Or what about the pic of the ceiling you took in Croome in July last year. Thats a good texture.

:-D Actually Gill although that looks like a rope coiled, it was taken in the garden centre and is actually a 'stepping stone' about a foot in diameter and the surface is of a coiled rope. We didn't buy one but I thought they were great.

Oh good that someone has opened the message Gill fingers crossed you get an actual reply.

Our garden is not very colourful at the moment, a lot of the colour comes from inexpensive plants.

If you have got a virus Vera then you will have down days. Pleased to hear you're feeling a little brighter today though. I didn't know Venus was also known as the Evening Star.......that's my something new learnt today lol ;-) ;-) ;-) Thank you <3 I hope your OH is feeling less pain soon and you start to feel better soon too.

I love the texture photo's on your blog AnnG. I never thought of a rope what a good idea, you have a few good photo's now. I was admiring your garden photo's again. You have such a colourful garden, I wish mine was as colourful as that, but with having a garden almost 90 foot long it would cost me a fortune to fill it full of colour.

I bet you were glad to get home today Mel and out of the cold. I hope your OH's bloods tests are okay and his arms aren't to sore after them trying to take the blood.

I've put Oliver on for Sandra to watch, I recorded it over Christmas but with everything else she wanted to watch she's only just got around to watching it now.

I've just noticed the message I sent has been read so with a bit of luck she'll reply quicker than she did last time. At least I got a reply even if it was 5 years after I sent the message. I'm hoping she can answer the questions I asked her so I can fill in a few more gaps on my tree. For now I'm carrying on with OH's tree as that is almost copied over from the tree match I've got access to.

Going to get a cuppa then get back to it.

I have put photos of texture on the blog, not sure if any of them are any good so will keep trying.

Afternoon everyone,

We were at the doc's about 50 mins. He had his blood taken and after trying two arms he had a dribble taken from his wrist. He said there was about just under a quarter of an inch in the vial. I sat out in the car and got frozen as the car park is in the shade. I turned the heater on just as he came out of the surgery.

Will post later as Doctors has just started and I hav'nt got lunch yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gill We had cloud last night when I looked out so didn't see the crescent moon but I have been watching Venus as, like Vera, it is one I always recognize by the location and brightness.
As Vera says 5 years does show you should never give up with genealogical searches. Hope you get more info from that one now.

Vera, good to see you are picking up a bit, I am sure it must be a virus, you meet quite a lot of people in your friend groups, do you know if anyone else has been under the weather?
If you were already feeling down I can understand you bursting into tears at the thought of losing your pretty Japanese anenomes. Why does he want to get rid of them they are lovely?
That was naughty going down in your nightie into the cold garage although I can understand why you did it. I hope the cold didn't give you a chill.
Pleased to hear your OH is better. What is it with men who want to remain Macho when there is a solution to a problem? I can see my OH ending up needing a shower stool. Our shower is over the bath and if he gets unstable it will be difficult. And presumably for me too. There might well be a need for us to convert the bath into a walk in shower.
Daughter said it was obvious that she should be Mandy. She is a year old and was in a house with 8 other cats and an owner (don't know if male or female) who became ill so all the cats were taken to the shelter. Mandy was originally Prancer, daughter also met Donner and Blitzen so we can guess what the others were called!! She looks very sweet and is very much like Luna and Molly but is still extremely timid, although is approaching Molly. When we were first married we had a neighbour who has a tiny poodle called Mitzi. Our poodles were called Minty (she was a miniature crossed with a toy, and Gemma. Our cats were Josie, Sammie and Holly and all our animals were female. No pets now but never say never.

Today we have been to one of the ex Wyvale garden centres that has been taken over by Webbs. The only Webbs we have come across before is their flagship store near Droitwich which we like a lot, this is a smaller version but seems as if it will be a good one to visit.

OH has decided that, as he no longer is happy carrying his golf clubs and each winter sees the no trolleys rule extended. (so far ir is in the third month), he is going to change his membership and after February will join the point system. That means he buys so many points and games cost so many points so he can play when he wants and not feel he has to play when he is not feeling like it or the weather is bad. It does mean he will be under my feet a bit more but it will soon be gardening season so we will work something out. Also between May and September we are away for 6 weeks so he won't feel we are paying for something he is not using. We shall see how it goes.

I have already taken a few 'Texture' photos I may put them on my blog later to see what you think.

Morning all

I am feeling a bit more cheerful today though still "off-colour". I am wondering now if it is a virus of some sort as I have been like this since last Friday. I slept a bit better the last couple of nights - between 4 and 5 hours each night and I managed a proper dinner last night, albeit a bit smaller than usual. Like most people I do have occasional down days but I usually snap out of it pretty quickly. Yesterday OH said he wanted to get rid of all our Japanese Anemones and I burst into tears :-S How stupid was that! I'm getting angry with myself now and have given myself a good talking to! I'm turning into a right old misery guts. Sorry about that.

Yesterday I decided I must occupy myself so I decided to pot on some Penstemon cuttings I took a while ago as they had rooted nicely. I had about 20 but had to come in after doing 12 as I was so cold even though I was working inside the garage. Even with gloves on my hands had gone numb. I put the pots inside my mini plastic greenhouse and came in. Just before midnight I suddenly started wondering if I had actually closed the zipped front of the greenhouse so out I went in my nightclothes armed with a torch to check. Just as well as I hadn't closed it. Boy, it was cold out there but a beautiful clear night with a sky full of stars.

A friend called unexpectedly yesterday afternoon. She was feeling down because she had one of her cats put down the day before so we were able to cheer each other up a bit. The trouble is she is a lovely lady but very loud, particularly when she laughs which is more like a prolonged screech. I have to admit that after sitting next to her on the couch for an hour, with her screeching in my ear, I was thinking "When will she go home?" Still, I am grateful she took the trouble to call.

Mandy, I did laugh at your girls and their polishing. I wonder how long the enthusiasm for h/w will last? It reminded me of when my son was about 12. He had a friend W. whose parents were quite strict and would only have in the house friends of W. that they approved of. My son often had a meal with them and one day W's mother told me that he was one of the few boys allowed in to eat with W as he always said please and thank you and always offered to help with the washing up. It didn't sound like my boy at all ;-)

Isn't it strange how we all have different attitudes to bringing up kids? That lady vetted her son's friends so he didn't mix with anyone who might lead him astray. My house was always full of the riff-raff of the neighbourhood as I worked on the basis that, if they were in my house and garden, at least I knew where my son was and what he was doing.

Gill, 5 years is a long while to wait for a reply! Shows you should never give up hope. Fingers crossed that you get a quicker response this time. I did see Venus last night when I went out to check the greenhouse. Venus is the one thing I can always recognise as it is so large and bright and often quite low down in the sky. You said it looks like a big star. Did you know its other name is The Evening Star?

Frank, that's brilliant that the doctor doesn't want to see you for 2 months. The new meds must be doing some good and the news must have cheered you up. I bet Ros was pleased as well. I think you are wise not to go to the wedding or the 70th birthday "do". It's a shame to miss these events but it would mean a lot of driving for Ros and would probably be tiring for both of you.

Good to hear your daughter has got another cat AnnG. All these Mollys and Millys and now Mandy took me back to my childhood. I used to love the MillyMollyMandy books and wanted a name like that. I also had a cat called Molly and her sister who was called Mitzi. Our Molly was quite a small sleek black cat but otherwise very like Jane's Thomas in that she was a hunter. We got very used to finding half a bunny on the patio. Molly didn't like it when we moved here as she no longer had all the fields to roam in.

OH says he is feeling a lot better this morning and reckons another day or so of resting up and he will be able to start doing a bit more. I have suggested we get a shower stool, Mandy, but Mr Stubborn won't have one.

I hope Jane isn't feeling too rough. Sending love as always <3

It was still morning when I started this but I see we're into the afternoon already so time for me to go and prepare a bit of lunch. Have a good day everyone.

EDIT: PS Mel, I keep meaning to thank you for the latest pics of the dragon eye set in the clay. I think it's amazing and quite intricate. You are so clever. I'm looking forward to seeing the completed project

Morning AnnG, morning all

Another sunny cold day, but no frost this morning for a change.

Your heated fleece sounds great Mel, where did your OH get it from, I'd like to get my OH one but have never heard of them before. Is it a blanket or an actual fleece you wear? How does it heat up? Hope all went well for your OH's doctor's appointment.

So you have a clean chimney and the girls have clean bedrooms Mandy. Nearly a full tin of Pledge, I bet it smells lovely in there. Hope your fire works better for you now and you have sorted the aerial out for your TV.

How are you feeling today Vera, I hope you've managed some sleep and are eating better now.

Thinking of Jane and hope she's back on here soon.

What a great name for the cat AnnG after the names of the other two, how old is she? Yes that is Mandy's name on here. I see you got another bargain with your sweater.

Good news from the doctor Frank, pleased to hear the meds are working for you and you are sleeping and eating better now.

Did anyone see the crescent moon with Venus to the side of it last night? OH and I have been watching Venus for a while now, it's very bright and looks like a big star. We were surprised to see it on the news though.

Good morning all. Hope all went well with OH at the doc Mel. Cold again here but sun is shining. BBL.

If I remember rightly I think Mandy's board name used to be Milly Molly Mandy or Milly Molly Amanda. Is that so Mandy????

Aunty Joy had a dog called Molly and when she passed she had a cat called Milly. After her she now has Lily who is ginger and white short haired and is a real character. Lets you know just what she wants and when or for how long.If you are stroking her and she has had enough she gives you a little bite or she goes and looks at the cupboard where her food is kept.

Its so cold in here tonight and I have the heating on so I think I shall watch a bit of telly wrapped in my heated fleece oh bought me for Christmas. Its my knees that get so cold but tonight my feet are also cold.

Oh has the docs in the morning at 9am so I will have to be up early to take him. Will see you all later int he morning.

Night night.

That room will have Been well polished then Mandy. Yes M&co had some nice stuff in their sale good reductions too. I guess like the other shops they are suffering.

Frank good that doc was pleased with you so keep taking the tablets. Wise not to go to Cornwall it is a long way, better to concentrate on Spain.

Good you got out and back quickly Mel..always good to get the shopping out of the way..

I forgot to tell you that daughter has got another cat. After Luna was sadly put to sleep, Molly was lonely so they have now adopted another tabby, called Mandy. She has been so named because grandson previously had Milly, sadly no longer with us. Sooo Milly, Molly Mandy! :-D

Evening all,

Cor blimey what a cold old day its been ,the wind goes through you like a knife ,it's one of those days that when your inside looking out at the lovely sunshine you don't realise how cold it is out there .
We had a couple of chaps here ,friends who Colin worked with, to put a new strap round the television aerial on the chimney as it had slipped over a bit ,we still use that aerial for the television upstairs
While they were up there on the roof Colin got them to take the cowl off the chimney pot and put the sweeping brushes down the chimney my goodness the soot that came down and the cowl was so blocked round the edges it was a wonder any smoke got through it ,hopefully the fire will be better now .

Ann good job you had the fleece under your coat not good sitting in a nasty draught.
So your jigsaw is done ,ours is getting there slowly :-(

Vera sorry to hear you've been feeling under the weather ,hopefully it's just a bug that you can shake off and be back to your old self .
Your poor OH hurting his ribs again ,does he use a shower stool ? might be worth a try if he hasn't ,might save him over stretching again

So you had an early morning call Mel with the tree man ,that was good you managed to get your shopping done and got home early ,when we get hail on the roads it soon becomes slippery on the edges and makes driving a bit dicey.

Frank that's good news you had from the doctor ,she must be pleased if you haven't got to go back for a couple of months ,keep it up.
I saw the programme with the two farmers and their crisps ,they sold a lot didn't they ,i thought the Gin was a bit pricey but people were buying it .

Anng i like some of the things in M&co ,you got a nice bargain on the sweater :-)

DIL said the girls had dusted and polished their bedroom yesterday after school ,they nearly used a tin of pledge !!!!! :-D :-D

Its good the doc was pleased with you Frank. I don't blame you not wanting to travel all the way to the 70th or the Cornwall bash.

Yes got the shopping done and we had one hail shower while I was in Morrisons other than that the sun has shone but there a bit of a very chilly wind.
Did'nt forget anything and they actually had my hash browns in today as they hav'nt had them for the last two weeks. No cornish Pastys though so none for an easy lunch tomorrow. I had asked the butcher to save me a pack oof ox kidney but he forgot so hopefully next week he will remember.

Afternoon to you all,

Vera, Like you, I haven't been eating and sleeping well, but after seeing the Dr. two weeks ago, and two added medications, I have been eating a lot better, and sleeping a lot better.

I was back to see the Doctor this morning. She was very pleased with how I looked. She is sure the new tablets have a lot to do with it. So I have been put on them permanently, and she wants to see me in TWO MONTHS. So I am well pleased. !!!

Ros has gone out with Carolyn as usual on a Tuesday. We need very little in the way of shopping, but I bet that won't stop her bringing two or three bags af shopping home.

Yesterday afternoon, we watch the farming programme about the two farmers who produce their own crisps. Under the "TWO FARMERS" brand. Also the lady who grows JUNEBERRY, and puts it into flavouring GIN. I looked at the website of the two farmers, and found that AMAZON had the CHEESE AND ONION flavour crisps, which happen to be Ros's favourite. So like any good husband, I ordered her a box of 24 PACKETS. They will be here Friday. As for the GIN I thought it a bit expensive, so didn't order any.

I have done a beef casserole for tonight, with mash, Runners, French Beans, Carrots and peas, and Sweetheart Cabbage. So there's our 5 a day. lol lol



Been a very bright sunshiny day today, but cold with it. I expect a good frost for tonight. It won't bother us, as we have nowhere to go.

I have managed to forward the SCAM letter regarding a TAX REBATE, to HMRC and BT.So hope they can trace these B@@@TARDS, and take action against them.

I must try to get to Wetherspoon's one of these Tuesdays and try their STEAK OFFER. I sounds nice AnninG and from what you have said good value.

How did "DONKEY DAY" go Mel, I hope you didn't forget anything, and the cold wasn't to bad for you.

We have decided we won't go to the wedding in June in CORNWALL. It's just too far to go, plus it will interfere with the dates we go to Spain to see Conrad. Likewise, I don't think we will be going to my Nephews 70th Birthday bash in Southend-on-sea. in March.It's a long way to go for dos having to drive, p[lus it's almost certain to be an overnights stay in a hotel, which will make in a dear night out. It looks almost certain that Simon and Sally won't be going, what with her having to rest up for 8 weeks. I will get Ros. to get a card, saying we are sorry, but won't be coming.

I hope our Jane is feeling a little better today, as I do wish, all you other dear ladies good health, and that you are all keeping nice and warm against this cold spell.

Going to have a COT and a read of my book before Madam comes home. xxxx

Been back about an hour and all unpacked. I did'nt have a car in front of me all the way there and all the wasy back.

It was'nt that busy in Morrisons today either AnnG.Seems funny to be back so early and we had a Long Taioled Tit attack so I had to fill all the feeders up again as they are going crazy for food so I think its going to be a hard night for the little birds tonight.