General Chat

Morning all,

Quite bright here this morning and its 11 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy.

Annx the bright green bushy plant is self sown box. I shall have to seperate them and get them into plugs. The pond had big drop of rain falling into it and they were very spaced apart. It was really weird. The buckets came to me unpainted with no handles. I painted one with the rings round it and the other three I put string round them and though they looked better.

Slept right through till 7.15am went back to bed for a lie in for half an hour. Feels chilly this morning and there's hardly any blue sky now.

A neighbour has asked for more eggs so that will give me a chance to speak to someone. She usually gives me a cup of something and we all sit and chat the three of us.

My covid jab Hurt when she did it and it seemed to hurt for longer than usual. Iv'e not had the other one.

good morning all. 7 degrees and sunny this morning. I think tomorrow morning is forecast to be a frost which is annoying so late in the year, plants will be staying in the conservatory although I hope to plant up the baskets today.

Very little pain in my legs last night, it does vary. I will get it sorted soon but not before I go to daughters in a couple of weeks. I need to make a doctors appointment ideally for when Cynth is home and she is away for a few days now. Using the bus is ok but really awkward as it is an hourly service so can end up afterwards having almost an hour to wait.

I have the bedding in the wash, should be almost finished, so have the bed to re-make later.
After the covid vacc my arm was quite painful yesterday evening but it seems to have gone off over night and didn;t keep me awake. The RSV vacc in the other arm has hardly caused any pain at all.

Evening All,

Yes after a sunny day here it's very chilly and I'm giving the heating a blast before going to bed.

I had a gold watch for my 21st Birthday and my boyfriend who became my first husband bought me a silver charm bracelet. I was still a virgin and had to be home every night by 10pm till I got married at age 22, despite having to leave anywhere I went early to get home. My father's temper was something to behold if you disobeyed him!

Thank you for mentioning the programmes Mandy. I caught up with Reuben and have recorded the other as I like the Spanish Riding School. I went to see them once at the NEC in Birmingham. You are doing well with your plants and it's a good idea to cover them these colder nights as you don't want to lose them having got them this far. I bet Jake will enjoy riding around with a personalised number plate! It must be over 20 years since my old doctor retired and I saw his personalised number plate on a small white car a few weeks ago and forgot to mention it. It's only the second time I've seen it since he retired, SAY 99. Remember when the doctor would tell us to open our mouth and say 99!

Tasty though they are while you are having them, we haven't eaten many sausage rolls for years, mostly a few at christmas. High in the wrong sort of fat means they are bad for acid reflux as Vera experiences if she has them and they aren't good for other reasons. OK for an occasional treat and like AnnG shares things with her daughter, we have an occasional farm shop four inch sausage roll, but between us now.

Mel those buckets you made are so realistic as are the other things. What is the bright green plant in one of your photos? It's nice and compact. Was it rain or hailstones on your pond!

It's good your roof is done now AnnG and I hope the little girl is soon better. Perhaps you should see the doc now about your leg. It would be good to see if it could be helped before you next go away, Did you get much pain after your covid jab this time? OH has been surprised how his arm has ached more this time.

Vera ouch, ouch! That could have been even worse if the fat had gone on your feet as well. Then to cut your finger on the foil! I hope your OH is better than mine at putting plasters on. I usually have to take over once one end is anchored. You are going to be sore for a while.

O Vera that sounds nasty and a paper cut too, they are painful cuts. Put some vasaline on the cut it should help.

I have just come in from the garden. I have had a good go at the big pond filter and cleaned that out and fished out a load of beech tree flowers out the skimmer on my pond. I have managed to get one biggish piece and two small bits off the Iris Rose Queen and have them soaking in a bucket for now. I am hoping I have got all that nasty weed out of them. There's still lots more to get out of the big planter it was in.

Iv'e fished loads of the Beech tree flowers out of my skimmer. Had a walk round the garden and the border needs a lot of attention. The really old plum tree up on the wall got blown to bits in the winter and there are only a couple of weedy branches left on it and it come away from the wall. I get those great big grubs in the poor old thing you can see the big channels where they have eaten the wood away. I think they are the larva fro the stag beetle.

I'm hungry now so I better get something to eat.

Oh Vera your poor hand thank goodness you didn't have hold of the tin as you'd probably have dropped it with the shock of the hot fat , you won't be doing that again with the tongs , I hope you don't get more blisters and the paper cut soon heals .

Anng it should get down to 2 degrees here over night so I've been out and put some bubble wrap over the cucumbers and we've got some plastic round the runner bean plants , I haven't put any flower plants out yet they are in the greenhouse too .

paper cuts are the most painful. Glad that you didn't blister any more, you obviously moved fast enouth. Hope you didn't drop the remainder of the potatoes in your rush for cold water.

It is supposed to be 3 degrees here tonight and 1 degree tomorrow nght. I think I will be wating until about Wednesday yo put out some of the plants I bought on Friday. At the moment they are in the conservatory and today it was so windy I didn't even take any of them out into the garden but had the conservatory double doora wide open.

Thak you for the photos Mel. The buckets are so realistic.

Dull, dreary and windy here. It's around 12 degrees but is expected to drop to 0 overnight. I'm glad I haven't yet put away the fleece that was covering a few plants as I think it might be needed again. I find the constant change in night time temperatures a pain. I keep being too hot so I decide to change the duvet to the thinnest one, then it turns cold again so I don't change it after all.

This morning OH planted the choisya we bought and it's looking good. The golden leaves brighten up a fairly dark area. I haven't set foot in the garden today but there is still plenty to do out there.

I hope you enjoyed your sausage rolls still warm from the oven Mel. For me that would be a recipe for chronic indigestion. We've just had a full Sunday lunch of roast loin of pork, stuffing, roast pots, plenty of veg and gravy, followed by apple strudel and cream; all washed down with a nice glass of French Sauvignon for me and a Portuguese red for OH. In a little while we'll have a nice cup of tea

I had a slight mishap while cooking. I took a pan of roast potatoes and other veg out of the oven and was turning them over with some tongs when I dropped one. It bounced back into the pan and shot hot fat everywhere but mainly over my hand. Gosh, I did yell. I dropped the things I was holding, rushed to the sink and stood there with my hand under cold water for some while. When the pain and redness subsided a bit I got a flexible bag of ice cubes from the freezer and wrapped it round my hand for a little while. I've been lucky and seem to have got away with 1 small blister on one finger. The final straw was when I was tearing off a piece of foil to cover something and the edge sliced into a finger. It's only a paper cut but I had to call OH to put a plaster on for me as it was bleeding well and I didn't fancy extra flavour in our dinner.

Hopefully things will get better now. Enjoy the rest of your day whatever you are doing.

Sent pics.

I have repotted a Verbena Bonariensis fed the strawberries. Fished all the beech tree flowers out ofthebig pond.

Fed the patio pots and strawberries in the little greenhouse and I am about to put a few more pots of strawberries in there as the squirrel has them on the barrow. I may see if any of the pots will fit in my big probagater.

Made the sausage rolls this morning and did some painting of minitures.

15 degrees here and still very sunny with a blue sky with lots of white clouds but its comfortable out.

The sun did try tp break through but it hs gone back to grey and still only 11 degrees. I have not really done any gardening, I did walk round and marked down on my list where some of the plants are to go (i.e. which pot/containers. and I earthed up the potaoes as far as I can.

I have done one load of washing, was going to change the bed but thought my achey arms wouldn't like that exercise.

I have just eaten two nice sausage rolls a few mins after they came out of the oven.

Morning girls,

I am sorry but I have a lovely sunny morning at present and it 12 degrees. I must pot up my waterlillies today they have been in buckets for months since BIL took them out of the pond for me because I had that invasive weed in them. Last week he too my lovely pink iris out as that has it in its pot too. I don't want to lose the iris as it came with me from Suffolk when I moved here. It was in a very wet area of the west lawn first then in a pot and then in the pond. So you know what I shall be doing today.

Morning Anng ,morning all,

Very grey and overcast here and it's a bit chilly out at the moment ,not sure if we'll see any sun with all this cloud .
We're off to sons later for coffee and then I think we're having a lazy day ,we've been busy in the garden all week so it's a day of rest .

Just looked out again I do wish it would rain instead of this very gloomy grey weather. And I have just noticed there is a strong wind again so I don't think I will be gardening today. Not sure which bit of me aches the most, arms or legs.

good morning allkept waking up again last night and my leg was aching. then the fact that it was so light early kept me awake after 5am.

9 degrees here and a bit grey so not sure what the weather is doing today I have to sort the plants out I bought but have to keep them in over night so they can't all go to permanent containers

Nothing else planned for today. I have a small piece of gammon to cook, not sure yet how I am going to cook it.

just lost the lot.

I too was married on my 21st birthday but I also had my son. I think I had a gold gate braelet for my present and a silver box from my aunt. Still have the silver box which is actually a cigarett box lined in dark blue velvet and used as a tirnket box. I must have the bracelet in my jewekry box but never wear it. Maybe another thing to sell to the jeweler and mums gate bracelet too.

I was married and pregnant on my 21st. My parents gave me alarge needlework box/coffee table. Had it for years but have not got it now. We didn't celebrate 18th when I was that age.

Had the Covid and RSV jabs. Nurse said the arm with the covid was more likely to ache than the one with the RSV.
I have not heard of anyone having any reactions from the RSV.

Phew it's warm out there now , got all the pots filled and reported a couple of plants in new compost ,I just need to remake the bed as I stripped that first thing and did a wash.

Son messaged this morning to say they had sorted out Jakes 21st birthday present ,they have bought him a personalised number plate for his car , my goodness they cost a lot and now soon has got his eye on one too .
I can't remember what I had for my 21st I think it must have been jewellery but I do know I had a pretty garnet ring for my 18th ,to small for my finger now and so is my signet ring .

Jake and his Da were gone by 12, just as Mr Tesco arrived so that is out of the way too. I just have to get my covid booster at 2.36 and then I can relax. I did manage to do a bit of gardening, actually just weeding, this morning while they were here. I am not going to pot on any of the plants that will be outside until next week as either tonight or tomorrow is forecast 2 degrees overnight, could easily drop to a frost,

I had a strange night. Slept well for 4 hours then kept waking up the rest of the night. I feel a bit spaced out today. Hope Vera and I can get a better night tonight.

Another dreadful night. I think my body has forgotten how to sleep. Never mind, I'm still on my feet and sort of functioning.

It's a lovely sunny day and I should be doing things in the garden but I've let the household jobs go a bit lately so thought I'd better get on with those. I've done some ironing that's been hanging about all week and given my en-suite a thorough clean and tidied around generally. If I can raise the energy I'll try and do a bit of vacuuming this afternoon.

When our friend died recently his sister asked me to choose something from the house as a memento and I asked for a lizard wall sculpture. She sent me that and also another wall thingy shaped liked a leaf. That was quite rusty which I didn't mind but OH wanted to paint it black. We met halfway, I said he could paint it but not black. Then he remembered he had some dark green metal paint that he had used a couple of years ago for something else. I said OK to that so he has been painting it this morning and it looks good. We hope the chap who is coming on Tuesday to put a bit of guttering up for us will put these wall sculptures up outside as well.

It's good you have got Jake there today after all AnnG. It will all be done for you while we've still got decent weather.

Thank you for the photos Annx. It looks a lovely spot to walk I love the bark on that tree.

My eyes are going blurry now so I am going to turn the computer off for a while. I might bbl, if not I'll see you all tomorrow.