General Chat

Afternoon All and Happy Easter,

Sunny here with about five minutes of rain earlier, but it was really windy in the night and was rattling our fence. I took ages to get to sleep and was just about to get up and take a paracetamol when it started to subside! I woke about 5.00 am for the toilet and didn't go back to sleep again.

How sad for you and the family with your sister's news of her poor granddaughter passing away Mandy. You don't expect your grandchildren to pass away before yourself. It's such a shame and so upsetting.

I see you had a restless night Mel. It gets light realy early now too and I wonder whetherthat wakes us too. Your window dressing sounds lovely and cheerful. I saw where someone had cut a few twigs of catkins and put in a vase and hung little easter eggs on them. I thought I might do the same another time, but decorate the little polystyrene eggs to hang as real ones would be too tempting and we shouldn't have very much being prediabetic.

Vera like AnnG says you need to pace yourself and just do what's most important. You don't want to end up with one of your 'heads'. I hope your OH's back is soon better too or he won't be able to do as much in the garden for a while. My OH is no better. This morning he walked up to the village to watch a match, but found it had been cancelled despite there being nothing online about it so he came back. I was trying to sort the veg for lunch and typical, he interrupts asking if I still needed the kettle, so I told him yes. Then he said he'd noticed I hadn't placed it back on it's stand, so I had to explain then that I needed more of the water to top up the steamer and it was heavy to keep lifting and guiding it on and off the stand. By then I'd lost the plot of what I was doing. It's his tidy mind again!! Then he went out in the back garden and was snipping some wayward bits off a shrub which was fine, but next time I looked he was trying to pull out a six foot fence post!!!! :-0 We've removed some rotting trellis between the posts along the path and will change the design along there as we do jobs and one post was loose and leaning that we removed ages ago. But this last post was bugging him (tidy mind!!). Anyway he insisted it wasn't hurting rocking it to and fro, but I reminded him he hadn't started more physio yet and wasn't able to do the upper back exercises he was given. What are they like eh?!!

I got your legs mixed up didn't I AnnG. Lots of things it might be as you say, but a good idea to try different positions with it. I read the other day where a mother of ten children in America spends £1000 on eggs and gifts for her children every year and wondered the same about affording it. I had just one easter egg as a child and that stopped once I was aged sixteen and working. OH's mother always bought us easter eggs though.

Mel, I assume it won't be wasted? You can still use the feed? Too late to do anything about it now. Unless you can find anyone to buy it off you.

I have just spent an hour in the garden, planted my 6 potatoes in the big planter, then weeded and cut back ivy along one bed, re-positioned some pots and ornaments on the gravel. come in for lunch now. Probably done enough for today. I actually had to water my pots that have plants now growing in them, Geum, Salvia, Heuchera and sedum.

Oh Mandy how sad for you and your family at such a normally happy time. As Vera says it always seems so much worse when somebody young dies.. Her poor husband and of course, her parents and your sister and brother in law. What an awful disease this is, and it seems as thouth this time it crept up on the family. Please accept my condolences to the whole family. <3

I have just opened a new sack of kio food and its a lot smaller pellets than the last lot so either I have ordered the wrong size or they sent the wrong size. I bought this last year when I thought I was getting low so no returning it and I have two of these sacks, one I have now put in the bin and one I keep sealed up for later. Its going to make it difficult to judge just how much to give them now.

How sad Mandy and at a time that will always be remembered. They say God takes the good and its been that case with me all through my life. My condolences.

I am so sorry to hear that Mandy. It’s so sad when such a young person passes away. Do I remember rightly that she had young children? Her husband must be devastated. My condolences to you and her family <3

Just heard that my sisters granddaughter with the brain cancer passed away last night ,she had been having headaches again and went back into hospital yesterday

I am sure Mel when I was young (a long long time ago) you could only buy hot cross buns Easter week. and probably only the day before Good Friday. and I had forgotten, you are right, they had peel in them. And in my case, one Easter Egg was all I had from my parents and a new pair of white gloves for church.. I have just seen a photo on face book of my Great great nieces easter egs, a large pile of quite big eggs and lots of presents etc, just like Christmas. And this is a family that doesn't have a lot of money. I think most of the eggs must be presents from friends. How do these young people afford them they are relly expense.

Morning all,

Nice sunny morning and 8 degrees and there's a lovely blue sky ,still a bit windy ,it woke me up about two o'clock it was really gusty .

I remember making Hot Cross buns years ago and they were lovely on the day but the next day you could have used them as door stops they were so heavy and hard lol I don't know where I went wrong but I never bothered to have another go .
There are so many different ones now even cheese ones .

Yesterday we went to sons and we gave them some money for the grandchildren, it was nice to have a chat, Chelsea was making a cheesecake and it looked lovely when she finished it, she put some strawberries in it.

Not a lot happening here just need to repot one of my plants this morning ,I'm doing roast beef tomorrow, we're out sons again tomorrow as its dil's birthday .

You popped in before me Anng and I forgot to mention about Hot Cross Buns. Yes they were spicier than they are now and had peel in them too which made a lot of difference. I do buy Asda's ones but am not een on all these new fangled ones they keep bring out like chocolate HCB's and cherry bakewell I think I saw soemwhere this year. Did you know the Tudors had HCB's and were only aloud to eat them or sell them for Easter and soemtimes weddings.Queen Elizabeth I even decreed they could only be sold on Good Friday, Christmas, or for funerals. Known earlier as "St Albans buns" (from 1361), Tudor-era buns were often marked with a cross using a knife.

Morning all,

Nice to see you post Vera and I hope oh's back improves quickly. So much for sleep well from Vera I went to bed at 12.27pm and lay there and lay there, you know the feeling, in the end I got up and went to the loo and when I came back in the bedroom I looked at y phone and it was 4.42am. So I got back in bed and then I was hot so I tossed and turned moveing my legs in and out of bed. I must have dropped off in the end and woke at 8.15am so I have not had a lot of sleep in the night.

Beautiful morning here with sun, blue sky and big white fluffy clouds its 7 degrees and pc says partly sunny..

Good morning all 7 degrees and a lovely calm sunny morning.
HAPPY EASTER!! If you still have Easter Eggs bought for you, don't eat them all at once. Once the children had grown up we didn't 'do' Easter Eggs. And then it was, when the Grandchildren were born, Eggs for the Grandchildren. Now I don't see the Greats, they get money some of which they spend on eggs.

the wind was high when I went to bed but taking the hearing aids our solved that. I slept well last night and nobody is more surprisedthan me. I went to bed just before 11pm, woke at 2ish leg hurting a bit but not bad, back in bed tried to adjust how I was laying and went to sleep. woke some time later, leg hurt, I didn't get out of bed just massaged my leg and fell asleep again and woke at 0715. I am now ondering if it is to do with how my leg is postioned so will pay attention to that in future.

Vera I think you need to look at your to do list and prioritise the jobs on it. Tell your self the number of jobs you will do, then STOP and spend the rest of the day relaxing because I can see a migrave appearing if you don't. Some of the jobs will be able to be left until the next day I am sure, especially now your OH has proved he can keep going all day because he is not old!!!! I hope his back is better today.

I do remember that Hot Cross buns tasted wonderful, in retrospect I think it was cinnamon that dominated but definiteky spicy. I have tied all sorts this year, so many different flavours but I had a little parcel ordered for me from daughter which contained 2 scones, cream and raspberry jam and two hot cross buns, they were very close to the old ones I remembered.

At the moment there aren't enough hours in the day and I feel that life is running away with me. I didn't manage to post yesterday so thought I had better come on tonight to say I'm OK, just very busy and overtired as I am still not sleeping much. OH has put his back out again because he was gardening and when I suggested he ought to stop and rest I got told he was fine. He was out there all morning and is now paying the price.

Do you all remember the taste of hot cross buns when we were young? We only had them at Easter and they were something special. Now you buy them all year round and, nice though they are, they are just fruit buns. I've got a recipe for the traditional ones and made them one year and the taste took us back to our childhood. I seem to remember they contained nutmeg.

I hope to post tomorrow but I'll wish you all a happy Easter Day now in case I don't get on the thread. Sleep well tonight ladies.

Ann my leg (left leg) is almost healed. My right leg is the leg that is painful. Nothing to do with the op.
Lots of things it could be besides arthritis, more likely to be circulation problems. I will try and get to see someone when I get back from son’s on 20th.

I was half dressed on the top but I still had my jim jam bottoms on, at least I had my teeth in!!!!!!!!!!

Iv'e not got anything one again today either Annx. Dos'nt it annoy you when you get the chance and then don't take it while they're out? Put it down to it being an Easter holiday.

I did'nt tell you I dressed the windowsill for Easter. I have all my eggs and egg cups chickens and hares etc. I think it looks good and it cheers me up.

Evening All,

My word the Dave storm has been causing a lot of wind here since late morning! It's been quite sunny though. OH went to the match with his pal and I have been Mrs 'Dolittle'. Just not in the mood and yet I could have got lots done while OH was out. I have done a wash though, or rather the washing machine did! Doesn't it annoy you when you log onto a site, click on a window in it and then can't get back? Often you can click the window closed and you are back to where you were, but not today as it took me off the site and when I tried to log back in it wouldn't let me. Now I can't contact them till Tuesday! :-S

Yes I get a lot of questions Mel. He'll say 'I'll let you get on' then five minutes later asks what's for lunch and then back to ask when will we be having it. Then he comes in to empty the litter bin or do some shredding or printing and tells me the neighbour has gone out (do I need to know that.....no!) Then like you say, they never know where anything is and often he's been the last to use it and you have to get up and look yourself. I'm so lucky he's still around, but he does put the brakes on me getting things done and now more of his work is home based he's around more to chat or is talking loudly on the phone which is disruptive as well. I'm sure he still thinks he is doing his job before he retired and is addressing a large room of people.

You undressed again when BIL came round? He must wonder what he's going to find when he arrives! It's good the mower is fixed now and nice that you think there are Robin chicks. Do you know where the nest is?

Does your leg appear to have healed from looking at it AnnG? You must be fed up with it keep being painful. Did Jake get the fairy's water feature fixed for you? I'm surprised you and Vera still need appointments at the tip/dump! Ours stopped after covid, but appointments do avoid build ups at busy times. I'd never thought how they must have to check number plates and presumably they ask for them when you book a slot.

Better get another load in the washer now.

BIL just gone I gave him lunch and he had done the mower and we were saying goodbye on the patio when Robby flew ddown so I gave him 4 worms and he took two away with him so he is either feeding babies or his wife who is sitting. I gave him some more and he took three away this time so I think it must be chicks. :-D :-D :-D

Take a look at this crazy lady and her dogs.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IhjUGYmk15I

Scars not giving me problems at the moment. Leg still sessions of pain. Trying to ignore it.

BIL just driven up and I am not dressed.