General Chat

Morning all,

That sounds interesting Anng enjoy your day or morning with your friends.

Its 12 degrees here this morning and very very damp and wet and pc says near record for the temp.

Don't know if BIL will come today he did say that he will start sorting the garage out in the winter when he can't cut the grass buit he has'nt touched it yet and then he will say its too cold out there.

hope it is sorted now Mel permanently for you. raining this morning but I am going into town to meet up with three friends. a quick visit to the cathedral to listen to carols, then lunch and then a visit to the Gloucester city museum for a behind the scenes tour.

Gwyn I missed your post this morning. Its just a thought but they could write a little message on the back of the stars or a prayer.

I blocked aunty Joy by mistake ages ago but I am hoping I have unblocked her now.

I think I may have done what I wanted to do I just hope it was right.

Do you mean a number that you have blocked or somebody has blocked your number Mel?

Thank you Vera, Gwyn and Mandy for your cards.

I have been trying for over an hour to have a phone number unblocked from my phone and it has upset me so much.

A lovely day here, - bright blue sky and very mild, when I went out on a local delivery walk.

Ann, your Christmas cottages are lovely. What a great collection you have. It must have been fun adding to them over the years. I love the scenes you have set out this year.

Mel
I love all the different variety of leaves used in your Advent ring. It looks lovely, especially in the country church setting.

A day to catch up today having been in school all day yesterday. Term finishes a week today.

Monday I am working with a different group of Year 6 children from a different school. They visit the parish church in town and work in groups at various activities.
I am with a group making stars, which they will hang on a twig tree in the church over Christmas. It's a full-on day with several group changes and a light lunch provided, before their teachers walk them back to school mid-afternoon.
Busy, but enjoyable.

Morning its 8 degrees here too Anng and the pc is saying a record high! It very dull out there and looks miserable and wet.

Slept like a log last night. I have to go up the post van this morning and then do some ironing and present wrapping. Am hoping BIL comes tomorrow and not today as it throws me out when he comes on different days. I get myself planned for the day and when he comes they all go out the window so to speak.

Good morning all.thick fog out there and 8 degrees. Not that I am going anywhere today. Tesco this afternoon and quite a big one as I am hoping to not have a delivery next week.

Yes I got my hair cut and yes I got wet, it was not very pleasant walking there and back but soon warmed up when I got indoors. Managed to wrap up Inara’s presents. That took an hour and a half. To do, just got Senua’s to do now.

She cut half an inch off Mandy, it grows quickly.

That sounded like a lovely day Vera. Is it NT or private. Pleased it all worked out for you

Oh you popped in there Vera ,I forgot they had the Christmas trees in the church ,they do that every year ,glad you enjoyed the day.

Evening all,

Been dry today and we got some shopping done early ,this afternoon we wrapped some Christmas presents.
Today is Katie's birthday ,we had dropped her presents and card in yesterday so she would have them to open this morning .

Oh glad the cards arrived I posted them on Tuesday so not to bad with the delivery time.

Vera hope you enjoyed Holkham i remember last year you said it was lovely ,not sure you'd find much to do in Swaffham for a stop over though.

Hope you managed to get to the hairdresser's in the dry Anng ,she won't have so much to trim off if it's only there weeks since you went .

Mel thats a devil the keyboard isn't playing up now but at least you know you have the new one should it pack up altogether.

Tomorrow were hoping to get the outside tree in the holder and get the lights on ,hoping it's going to be a bit milder and dry so we can get it done , we usually put some lights round the door canopy but I don't think Colin should be climbing ladders now so we'll give those a miss this year, I have lights along the side of the garden in the white rose Bush too.

Thank you for your card Mandy which arrived today.

I hope you got your hair cut AnnG and didn’t get soaked.

It’s been wet, gloomy and miserable today. Currently the iPad is telling me there is heavy rain, it’s windy and, although it’s 5 degrees, it only feels like 1 degree. Just the sort of weather to fit with a visit to the dentist. I was in the chair for over an hour. The treatment wasn’t too painful but my jaw really ached from keeping my mouth open for so long. It’s fine now. OH came with me so we could go shopping afterwards and I know he dozed off in the waiting room. I just hope he wasn’t snoring.

Our dentist is in a different town so I had a couple of different shops to visit and managed to almost finish the Christmas shopping so I was pleased about that. I’m hoping to wrap and post some of it tomorrow.

Going backwards we had a good day yesterday. It was very cold but there were beautiful blue skies and sunshine all day. We had a couple of hours in Swaffham and wandered off to take a look at the church. The architecture and woodwork was lovely but an added bonus was that they were having their Christmas Tree Festival so we had all the decorated trees to admire as well. Some people had an early dinner but we didn’t want that much so I had a scone and OH a sausage roll.

We got to Holkham at 1.45 but our time to see the decorations was 3.15 so we visited the very nice, and very pricey, gift shop where I got dil some gloves. Then we both had a snack in the cafe and after that we went to another room for a complimentary mince pie and glass of Prosecco. Now it was time to go in

Words don’t really do justice to all the decorated rooms. Last time we went we could only look over the gallery into the chapel. This year they had a complete visual light display with a religious Christmas theme and you could sit quietly and watch it right through. It probably took about 15 minutes. OH’s camera had the gremlins in it yesterday but he took a lot of pictures on his phone. If he gets around to downloading them I will send a few round but they don’t really do justice to the display. We had a good run back and got home about 8 pm

Did you get your hair done Anng?

I have been fiddling with my polyclay plating up turkeys and veg and mushrooms.

Jut missed the library so followed it up to Shebbear and got my new books there. The last lot I had were not the usual things I like but today there were lots. We only have it twice more and they are stopping the mobile in February so any books taken then have to go back to Torrington.

Vera, Mandy and Gwyn thank you for your cards they all arrived in the same post.

Morning all,

Dull and dreary here this morning too and not so cold as it has been it 8 degrees here too and really cloudy enough for me to have to put the ;light on if it gets any worse.

Ever since the new keyboard arrived Iv'e had no trouble with the old one. Do you think it knows its going to be replaced? or has the gremlin gone?...............

Iv'e a few more cards to do today and pressies to wrap and chickens and wild birds to feed so that will keep me busy for a while.

Hope it is ok for your walk to the hairdressers Anng take a warm scraf and brolly just incase.

good morning all, grey and dreary here again this morning but 8 degrees not cold at all. kept waking up again last night but probably got enough sleep in the end. Hoping the weather is not as bad as forecast as I have to walk to the hairdresser, not looking forward to that. because the last appointment was messed up/rebooked for the same reason (weather) it is only three weeks since I had it cut last so if the weather gets really bad I will cancel. (I have checked with them and they say that is fine if I have to,)

That doesn’t make sense Mel does it. Although I guess it is so you get hooked and then pay to see it. Sneaky!

I don’t seem to have done much today but I am too tired to do anything more. I changed the bed and washed the bedding. Had my friend for a coffee and chat for an hour, then did my monthly bank accounts for November and sorted the Tesco order for Friday. Finally I have sorted all Inara’s presents onto the dining room table and will wrap them tomorrow.

It seems its not available on iplayer ( The Doll Factory) not even on the pc. How silly. Why advertise it if you can't see it.