General Chat

Anne, I've pmd you.
Another piggy day! The forecast isn't particularly good for next week, May need to look out those thermals! We're not doing anything interesting today, tomorrow I've got the dentist and a trip to Tesco to get some cheap chicken drumsticks for Cas's dinner.

Good Morning All

Gill, Happy Anniversary I hope you have a good day out.

A belated Happy Birthday to James, I have the same problem if I buy Richard a shirt as he's over 6 ft tall and slim. His work shirts he gets from Aldi and they are a real bargain. All three of my sons are tall, Mark is about 6fft 3, Paul about 5ft 11 but he is the stockier of the three, it's to be expected really as I'm 5ft 7and Peter was just over 6ft and we were always slim.

I am waiting for the girls to arrive, I hope they are happier today. Paul is working today and doesn't finish until 2 so we will be eating later than usual.It will be roast lamb and all the usual veg etc with Yorkshires of course.

We don't have bread and butter with F & C either but I would think it was good idea if you were extra hungry.

The weather here is much brighter today, yesterday it rained most of the day.

Morning all,

We have sunshine and heavy showers this morning. The sky is first very dark grey then there are patches of blue among light and dark grey clouds and there's only a gentle breeze moving the tree branches.

Today I plan to NOT DO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What are your plans?

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GILL AND GLYN <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Have a wonderful day whatever you do and enjoy being together.

Thanks Mel, not sure what we're doing yet, it depends on the weather.

I've replied to your PM, thanks for your kind offer.

Signing out now
Be back tomorrow, but not sure what time
Night Night

The rain is lashing here and the wind is howling...........................

I hope you have a nice day tomorrow Gill and Glyn whatever you decide to do. x

Neither of us could be bothered to go that far for F&C or a Chinese Mel! We like them, but not that much!! We sometimes pick them up on the way home after a day out, but apart from that we don't have them.
Hope you enjoy your day out Gill, and the weather is ok.
Both of us are off to bed now as we're all tired!!

Last night, being Friday, we had F & C and a pineapple ring

Had chicken curry and chip at lunch time. Then a tuna salad sarnie at tea time.

Stuffed :-D :-D

Yes it must be a northern thing Jane, you can't have fish and chips without bread and butter, IT'S THE LAW :-D :-D I was so hungry it was all gone in a few minutes and delicious it was too, we followed it with a chocolate pudding and chocolate sauce, yum yum. We're all full up now.

Sandra is staying with my mum tonight with it being our anniversary tomorrow. Not sure what OH and I are going to do yet, we might just get in the car and see where we end up. Because Sandra is at mum's we decided not to bother with the lamb, so will have one another time when OH is off work again.

OH is watching Top Gear, we have loads of them recorded so he's enjoying himself watching them all, one after the other. He fell asleep on the sofa earlier and it was so quiet with Sandra not being here, felt a bit strange. So I just had a look around the pooter for info on my family tree, with no success. I seem to have come to a standstill, after a good start this morning. I suppose these things happen. I'm sure I'll have a breakthrough soon.

I might go and run a bath, I'm a bit bored with no one to talk to and top gear isn't really my kind of thing. He's got at least another two or three to get through and they run for an hour each, so a long night ahead, by the looks of it.
BBL

Liz I think it is 9 miles to Holsworthy where we get our fish and chips or Chinese.

I'm the next birthday in our family plus our 52nd wedding anniversary which is a week later!
We've had spaghetti bolonaise for supper, which was easy and very nice! All cleared up and we are now settled for the evening.
I've never had bread and butter with fish and chips, but living here with the nearest chippy 7 miles away, we don't have F&C very often!

Mum always did bread annd butter with fish and chips. Somemtimes I have a slice if I have pinched some of oh's chips but if I have my own chips then I don't.

No Jane oh's birthday is the day after bonefire night.

Just making sheep sh*t pie for dinner.

Ann that was nice your friend from class felt well enough to come to the get together.It sounds like she has a long road ahead of her.I hope it all goes well.
Anne you too had quite an ordeal with all your treatment too.I have heard that one of the worst side effects of the Chemo is the ulcers in the mouth.It must have been dreadful.Thank heavens that we have the wonderul treatment these days to deal with Cancer .There must be millions of people in other countries where they will have no access to Chemo or Radiotherapy and they must suffer terribly :-(

Mel is it your OH's Birthday today too? I know it is someones.If it is I wish him a very Happy Birthday <3..It will be Chris next on the 29th.He will be 63.

It's chucking it down here now :-S

Gill I think it is a Northern thing to have Bread and Butter with Fish and Chips.We don't seem to do that here .

Afternoon All

Ooh Snow Fiona !!!.I did see the pic on your FB wth the children and snowman :-D.Looks like he has a bucket or bowl om its head lol
I think that is a good idea to keep your original wedding ring the size it is .As you say if you should lose weight again like you did you will be able to wear ity again.I wear my Nana's wedding ring.She married in somewhere around 1915-20 (I think).It is a heavy 22ct band.I say heavy.It was but it has got slighty thinner now over the years.

Good Cas.She really enjoys her shoots doesn't she Liz :-D :-D...I expect she is fast asleep now dreaming about her pick ups :-D :-D

All this talk of Lamb the other day made me remember I had a half leg of Lamb in the freezer .So that is in the oven as I speak :-D.Smelling good too.

Mel I can understand the chap from the big house being peeved with everyone using his grounds to get by the flooded rd.I imagine he wouldn't mind a few doing that but he won't want everyone and the Mother doing the same thing.

Mandy little Lewis sounds a lovely character.Walking well too.I wonder if by putting one arm up in the air before he sets off gives him a bit of balance and momentum :-D

James and Jess are going for a Thai Meal tonight in Seven Oaks to celebrate his Birthday.This afternoon they were going to go round to Jess's Grandparents.Not sure James was too impressed about that LOL.He does like her Grandad but can take or leave Grandma .She is the Matriarch of the family :-S

Thomas has been scratching at his ears a lot.So this morning I decided t otake him to one of these vets that you can just pop in.I explained I was registered with another vet but they only do emergency appointments on a Saturday.
I thought maybe he has ear mites or something .But the Vet said everything looked fine.He gave him a good combing with a flea comb just to see what was about ,but he was as clean as a whistle :-D..He is due his flea treatment too but I keep putting off doing it :-S.He must have got the hump as I haven't seen him since we got back about 10 .30 and he hasn't eaten anything today.....(I bet he is filling up on MEECE).
I was very impressed though as I wasn't charged anything !!!!!!!..If I had gone to my normal vet I think it would have been nearly £30 for a consultation.I did notice that there were several collection pots for various local animal charities so I gave a tenner and asked the lady on the desk to change it for me and put a couple of pounds in each one.

Chris is trying to finish off this dratted puzzle.I think if it is not done very soon it will all be going back in the box.It is just the last bits of the sky.But I cannot sit that low at the coffee table any longer and my hips are seized up :-S

I thi kthe Lamb is cooked now so will get it out of the oven and pop it under the top one to keep warm .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES

It sounds like Cass has had a good time again today Liz, is she asleep now?

So you've had snow Fiona? Sandra will be so jealous when I tell her. It's suppose to be getting colder here next week but I don't think we'll get any snow, we're not high enough and it said the snow would only be on high ground. Never mind the winter's not over yet, so there's still time for Sandra to get her snow.

I've been doing my family tree most of today, I've got someone helping me, which is nice, but it's still hard going with quite a few brick walls, so I'm still no further forward apart from finding out that one of my relatives married and passed away in Australia. I believe he had a couple of children but trying to find out who they were is impossible. There is a tree on Ancestry but I don't subscribe to them so can't view the tree even though it's showing as a public tree. So I've had to leave that part of my tree for now.

OH has just nipped to the chippy, we fancied fish and chips with mushy peas for a change. So I'd better go and butter the bread.

We never get the white sprouting brocc down here. I think we grew it once many years ago.

I have just made a load more sausage rolls and now I am knackered and have to find something for tonights dinner!!

Hav'nt had a chance to get on to my pom poms today, too much to do as I got up late.

Is it James birthday today??? If so

<3 <3 <3 Happy Birthday James <3 <3 <3

Hope its a good one..........x

She's done very well to be enthusiastic in the pouring rain ,i bet they were both glad to be home to get dry and warm .

I have just had a rummage in the freezer to get a joint out for tomorrow,they were all at the bottom so i had to have all sorts out to find one ,i thought it was a pork joint i found but when i got in and put my glasses on i was beef not that it really matters it will go down the same way .
I was glad to get back in goodness it is so cold out now and rummaging in the freezer didn't help !!

Shepherds Pie for us tonight with carrots and purple sprouting broc ,we really like the white sprouting broc but they didn't have that on the market yesterday i think it might be a bit early for the white though i think that comes a bit later .

They're back now and she is one knackered little girl! Apparently she performed enthusiastically!! Is that good or bad?!! Okish I guess!! OH is giving her some supper, and making sure she's rubbed down as it is pouring with rain and they're both soaked!!
Yes Mandy, I can remember that years ago we had a booster for the TV. I think it was on the ariel input to the TV itself. Where we lived was in a dip and surrounded by a lot of trees and the signal (analogue in those days) was not good to say the least! I'd forgotten all about it, but it did make a significant difference.
I've had to replace my original wedding ring Fiona. Over the years it had to be altered about three times, and eventually got too thin. I also wear my mother's wedding ring which is platinum, and is in as good condition as it was 69 years ago when she first had it!!

Afternoon all,

Dry here no rain so far and we have seen the sun today but it's really chilly now so hubby has just lit the fire he nodded off and felt cold when he woke up ,i was doing the jigsaw in the conservatory and with the sun coming through the window i felt nice and warm in fact i had to pull the blind down as it was so bright .

Mel have you tried a boaster on the aerial ? we had one on our aerial before we had sky as with the church being so near we didn't get a good signal at all and it did help.
Looking forward to seeing the Pom Pom Peg Dolls.

Happy Birthday to James hope he's having a good birthday .

Cas will be worn out when she gets home Liz ,i bet she's getting to know when she's going on a shoot now they soon learn don't they .

So you have had the first lot snow then Fiona , i bet every where looked really pretty this morning ,i love to see the snow when we've had a sharp frost and every where just sparkles .
I have a job to keep my wedding ring on i have to wear another ring with it or it would drop off if i shook my hand .
That's good that you have put a little weight on as you had got really slim, was it eating extra goodies over christmas that has made you put some weight on ?

I'd better put the kettle on i'am quite thirsty ,hubby is watching the darts and i'am sure he won't say no to a cuppa .

I bet Frank has been sunning himself today he will come home with a nice tan .