General Chat

Evening all

Just started to rain here but its been nice and sunny just a bit chilly with the wind .

Thanks Ann for passing on Anng's photos, what a lovely lot of flowers so pretty and yes I agree with Mel your son is so like you .

Ann there's always some needs fixing ,we need a new kitchen light ,this one is a fluorescent light and we keep putting in a new starter but this time it's not working so we think we might go for a row of spot lights ,son said he would soon wire them for us so I just have to find some we like .
Son came this morning to take Max to the vets again ,he had to have his second part of his yearly booster jab ,saw the lovely lady who's been there since we started going with our first dog Bonnie ,she stated off on the reception and can now do the jabs etc .
Jake came with son as he has a week's holiday this week ,he bought me a tablet that he doesn't use now ,it's only a year old and he knew I was thinking of buying a new one as this one is getting old and I now can't take any photo's on it ,its saying storage is full .
He set the new one up while we were at the vets ,I now have to get use to using it , I did give him some money for it but he really didn't want to take it but as I told him I was going to have to buy one anyway .

I forwarded the email with the pics almost an hour before you said you hadn't had them Mel. Maybe you don't read all the posts.

Well the garden centre was full of bedding and pot plants, some unusual Million bells too and lots of courgette, cue and even some runner beans. They need to stay inside a bit longer though, so I might wait another week. Also the garden centre in the sticks might be a bit cheaper.

The front door handle seems to have become loose, so something else that needs fixing now.

No problem ann. I sent it last night so wondered if I had forgotten to ask you to send it as I was very tired.

Mel. yes my son is like me.

Love the pictures and is'nt your son like you. You know I like behind photos so guess which one if my favorite? Yes you've guessed it the behind of a Ladybird wonderful.

Iv'e not had anymore pics either.

BIL popped in to do the mower deck but has driven his car away now so I don't know if he's gone or not. He had the eye clinic today which is why he was'nt at work.

I too only have your pictures but like Vera said if I put the cusor under the pic the words come up.

Forgot to post this but he came back on the mower and finished the mowing as he had mended the deck. He's gone now as he has to get ready to go to work but first pick wife up from her work then leave for his.

Sorry AnnG. Yes you did ask but I had to pop out again with OH and shut my PC down before I could send your photos on, but have done it now. It didn't take you long to get home which is good.

Back home now. got home at11.45 (left MK at 0935 so a good journey.

Vera I did send photos to AnnX and asked her to foward them. (Or I think I asked her to fotward them. If they don't get forwarded I will do it later when I have unpacked.

I slept quite well too. I got up at 7.30 am and OH had already gone out for his walk. He's getting earlier and earlier. I've changed my bedding and there are 3 loads of washing on the line but it keeps coming over very dark. I hope it's not going to rain. I've got to walk up to the pharmacy this afternoon for my next lot of tablets.

Tonight we have a club meeting. The speaker is a local historian whose family have owned land here for centuries. He's talking about our town in the '60s and '70s. Most of the members of the club are incomers since the '70s so it will be interesting for us and, if he gets anything wrong, the 2 ladies who were born in the area and have never moved away will be down on him like a ton of bricks.

I only had avatars from Mel and Annx when I started typing but now they are all back minus the writing underneath, though that is visible if you put your cursor under the pictures. Talking of pictures, have I missed something from AnnG? The last ones I had were from Ascott House but it sounds as though she has sent something since then.

OH is just making a quick sandwich so that I can get off to the pharmacy early. Enjoy the rest of your day.

Morning All,

Slept well and was up at 7.30am to take my tablets and shower before going to Costa, then to fill OH's car up and the shop. Diesel here is 190.9 a litre now at Sainsbury's. Not sure what I'm doing today. It's a battle between what I ought to do and what I want to do. We were going to some of the pretty villages Northampton way today so I could take some photos, but OH has to prepare for a hearing tomorrow now and he has work things tomorrow and Wednesday, then I have Drs/nurse appointments Thursday and Friday morning. I might just pop to a garden centre I haven't been to for a while to see what plants they have in now, then do some jobs and take myself off with my camera tomorrow.

AnnG those gardens on your photos are absolutely stunning aren't they! What a lovely display. Nice to see one of you and your son too. :-) I hope it's a good journey home and that the weeds aren't knee high! (only joking, as we haven't had the rain to make them grow too much.)

Our post box on a post at the end of the close fell over (or was pushed) a couple of weeks ago, but I see this morning that it is upright again. I though they might just take it away till they replaced it with the new sort, but no, it is back which is good as it's handy for us.

I've got no writing under the pictures today Mel.

Better get going to the garden centre now.

Meant to say I slept well last night and did'nt get up till 8am for the loo. Don't think I have gone right through the night like that for a very long while.

Morning girls,

Safe journey home Anng.

Another beautiful morning here and 7 degrees and probably like it all day.

When I logged in I had no pictures under our names and its still like it till Anng's post tis morning. Strange.

Just two little parcels to post today and then I must do some washing and hoovering.

Meant to say i slept well last night must have been fresh air and walking among trees

Good morning all. Sun is shining and I am just sorting out the last bits for packing. We leave here around 0930 so should be home lunch time. Then son will come straight back

Yes I dragged myself outside and got a humper, secateurs and a trowel Vera. I trimmed and tidied the shrub I asked OH to leave in the top border, the orange potentilla. Then I did a bit of weeding and then tackled a varietated Euonymus that was hanging 18 inches over it's rock edge and onto a potted hosta. There's still more of it to cut back, but my humper was full, so I called it a day. The garden bin is full now ready for Tuesday's collection and OH has a sack of trimmings and pile of prunings to cut down ready for the next collection. Ouch! I bet that hurt your toe! I am always catching mine on the castors under the edge of the bed. You'd think they were well out of the way wouldn't you. I've had that sort of trouble with Amazon recently too when trying to arrange a collection. It seems to assume delivery arrangements from the past and just asks for payment. I have thought the arrangements must be on the next page, so clicked to pay and then found it's already assumed delivery. Sometimes by trying to make things easier for us they seem to make them harder! They can't leave things be that have worked well!

Your tea sounded lovely and plenty of it AnnG and Waddeson Manor has been on my list some time too. It is a very grand and huge place isn't it and the flowers and trees would be looking so fresh with the new foliage. You have had a good week, as you say and I hope you have a good journey home tomorrow.

Yes I dragged myself outside and got a humper, secateurs and a trowel Vera. I trimmed and tidied the shrub I asked OH to leave in the top border, the orange potentilla. Then I did a bit of weeding and then tackled a varietated Euonymus that was hanging 18 inches over it's rock edge and onto a potted hosta. There's still more of it to cut back, but my humper was full, so I called it a day. The garden bin is full now ready for Tuesday's collection and OH has a sack of trimmings and pile of prunings to cut down ready for the next collection. Ouch! I bet that hurt your toe! I am always catching mine on the castors under the edge of the bed. You'd think they were well out of the way wouldn't you. I've had that sort of trouble with Amazon recently too when trying to arrange a collection. It seems to assume delivery arrangements from the past and just asks for payment. I have thought the arrangements must be on the next page, so clicked to pay and then found it's already assumed delivery. Sometimes by trying to make things easier for us they seem to make them harder! They can't leave things be that have worked well!

Your tea sounded lovely and plenty of it AnnG and Waddeson Manor has been on my list some time too. It is a very grand and huge place isn't it and the flowers and trees would be looking so fresh with the new foliage. You have had a good week, as you say and I hope you have a good journey home tomorrow.

Oh dear Mel sometimes BiL seems to try and do things too quickly. A bit of a liability.

It was a beautiful warm sunny day. We drove to Waddesdon Manor, there were a lot of people there families picnicking and enjoying the sun. Children playing, some rolling down a grass t slope, so lovely to see.
The flowers were beautiful and the trees with their young leaves green and vibrant. After sitting in the sun and wandering around taking photos we had a lovely cream tea, first a plate of savouries each and then a scone with jam and cream, and then a plate of little cakes. And as many cups of tea as we wanted and. It was quite sad as we walked to the bus to return us to the car park as I knew this was the end of my lovely week with Stephen, Jay and Sophie.

We have been so lucky with the weather.

Your bil is so helpful to you Mel but he does seem to be a bit of a liability Your mower always seems to need repairing after he has used it.

I hope your cream tea was tasty AnnG and you enjoyed the trip. Safe journey home tomorrow.

Did you manage to do a short stint in the garden Annx? I got out to the garden while our Sunday lunch was cooking and managed to do another couple of jobs. I also pointed out to OH that he should cut down 3 tall grasses we have thinking that would keep him busy for a little while but he just whizzed across them with an electric cutter thing and was finished in about 10 minutes.

After we had finished eating and had cleared up I showered and washed and dried my hair then came on the computer to order a birthday present for a friend from Amazon. I had a code to put in for £3 off if I collected it from one of their parcel collection places and I knew I had collected from our local PO once before. Could I work out how to arrange this? Could I heck. There was nowhere to say where I wanted to collect it from or anywhere to put in the relevant code. After a lot of googling and going into different bits of Amazon I discovered I was set up with the PO as my preferred collection point so ticked that only to get a message telling me that the PO wasn't available any longer. So more hunting around and I found a local Co-op I could use and got that entered, only to get another message telling me that the company I was buying from didn't deliver to collection points. Why couldn't ihe site have said that in the first place? So a job that should have taken me 5 minutes took me over an hour and I couldn't use the £3 off that I had been given.

Right I must go and get in my cuttings and overwintering plants that I am putting out during the day to harden off. It's supposed to get quite cold tonight.

Oh, a word of advice. Do not try to walk through a doorway while you are still swinging the door open. I did and crashed the door straight into my foot. Just call me Mrs Blue Toes ;-)

BIL came I heard him mowing so knew he would be down later. I forgot to tell him he lost ALL my bookmarks for me so I could'nt make him a cake. He always talks the hind legs off a donkey and its hard to get a word in edgeways. Anyway he went out to mw my back lawn round my pond and what did he do????? ran over the old leccy fencing and got it wrapped around the mower blades. Got off the mower and yanked at it to which it broke off got abck on the mower started it up and put the blades into motion and there was a terrible noise. So he has to come next week now and take the deck off again and see if he can untangle it as by this time it was time to go and pick the wife up from Barnstaple.

I did manage to get the piece of metal out of my loppers by undoing a nut on the side so shall have to remember that for future ref.

Now I have come in for a drink and to take my pills as I was pond dipping.

Afternoon All,

Sun's out so I might do a little in the garden after posting this. OH has walked up to the village this morning and did a little weeding while I got lunch. We had the Sainsbury's ready cooked lamb shoulder today, but it didn't have as much flavour as the Asda lamb shanks. I also bought their lamb shanks to try, so will see if they are better. We had red onions, purple sprouting broc, red cabbage, parsnip, carrots and green beans and mashed potato with it. There's veg left over and I think I have a bought pasta in a sauce that needs eating up so tomorrow I could use that with the veg mixed in for a quick lunch. I've also got the slow cooker going with pork steaks and a casserole mix of veg, enough for two days, so I might freeze half.

What a poor night Vera with your dancing legs! You must feel worn out, so it's no wonder your brain isn't functioning as it should. We both laughed at your and Mandy's comments about my potential appearance on TV crime progs after my experience with the new shop tills. I think I am so used to OH usually paying while I pack when he comes with me that my mind was elsewhere!

I see no-one slept well last night, but I had a better night than usual. What I have noticed is that with still feeling tired like this morning, that it isn't tiredness that makes me yawn like lack of sleep so much as body weariness. :-S Maybe the hay fever tablets need a few more days to work properly.

Mandy, could you sprinkle salt on those weeds where people come through with the dogs?

I hope you enjoy your visit to the NT property and enjoy a nice cream tea AnnG. The week has gone quickly but the weather has been good for you. It's good you got mostly packed up ready for the journey tomorrow before going out too. You won't have it to do after your day out then.

I hope the achey arms improve today and I'd better go and do a short stint in the garden now. I think OH is watching sport on the tv. BBL

O I had a very achey arm last night but its a bit better today. :-)