General Chat

Good morning all up earlier than usual because I didn't want to go back to sleep. friend coming any time after 0900 to pick me up. she will come straight from her early swim. We are going to a garden centre then later she will take me to either Tesco or Sainsbury's to get my week's shop. (we know how to live). Every so often I cancel my on line shop and do a proper one. If I don't do this I feel I will lose touch with supermarket shopping. (the confidence to go there).

I cleaned the little loo and the bathroom this morning and did some casting and some painting. Fed all the birds wildies and the chickens and thats about it . I had a nice egg and cress sandwich lunchtime and a salad tonight. Now I am going to watch a bit of telly and then off to bed.

Sleep well all and I hope your backs better tomorrow Vera.

Your soup sounded good AnnG. It made me think of Sharron who used to make Hanging Soup i.e. you throw in anything that’s hanging about. I do miss her on the boards.

I booked a slot for Saturday with Sainsbury’s and got my order in. OH will have a fit when he sees the bill. I make a list and am pretty good at sticking to it and I take advantage of special offers when I can but the bills just keep going up. We’re all in the same boat but I do wonder how someone on a low income, perhaps with a young family, manages.

After lunch I washed a couple of thick, heavy jumpers, took a phone call and then suddenly got the pain shooting through my back again. I couldn’t see any reason for it but it’s blooming painful. I decided to try and carry on through it, so OH put a heat pad on for me, I took some painkillers and started preparing our meal for tonight. Then I got some seeds sown. I did a tray of dwarf antirrhinums, a half tray of Gardener’s Delight toms and a half tray of Moneymaker toms. Both these packs of seeds were 3 years old and there were only a few seeds left in each packet so I don’t know if anything will germinate but it’s worth a try. I also repotted a plant that is waiting to go out once the frosts are gone but was outgrowing the little pot it came in. By then my back was really giving me gyp so I laid down for a couple of hours with a wheat bag along my back and a hot water bottle making the bed generally warm and I feel a bit better now.

OH cut back some plants in the strip alongside our garage and tidied it up generally and also cut our buddleias back so we are gradually getting the jobs done.

How are you feeling now Mandy? I hope you are much improved and everyone else is free of aches and pains..

Sleep well tonight everyone.

I made soup this morning and had a bowl full for lunch I think it was the best yet Certainly had my five a day in it.One large quite wrinkled Parsnip, One medium not fresh carrot, a handful of sugar snap peas, a quarter of a large cauliflower about 2 weeks old, half a courgette a couple of past their best mushrooms a large tomato, a small piece of leek, a vegetable cube, a teaspoon of termeric and half teaspoon of ground ginger, black pepper and garlic salt plus two very small pieces of a chilli. It was spicy and not too hot and the dominant taste was parsnip and it was really nice.

12 degrees here but I have just spent half an hour in the, very damp under foot, garden. Just tidying up and weeding the pots on the gravel. Then fifteen minutes 'chatting' to Skinny in the conservatory. Went to empty the dishwasher and found I had put the tablet in yesterday evening but forgotten to switch it on so that is doing a quick wash now. also did a towel wash and some are in the drier now. Just about to go and have a cup of coffee. Lots of tulip bulbs popping up now and two lovely hyacinths in flower from a couple planted after they flowered indoors in previous years.

Morning girls,

About the same here I think. rained last night in the evening so everywhere is wet and its 10 degrees here and I think at the moment the wind has dropped from yesterday.

Nothing much planned here so may do some cleaning although I get on so much better when the sun shines and shows me all the cobwebs.

Good morning AnnG and all

Everywhere is very wet after plenty of overnight rain again. It doesn’t seem to be too cold though I haven’t put my nose outside yet. The forecast for today is thick cloud so I don’t suppose we’ll see much of the yellow stuff. Good job our daffs have done well and are a nice, bright, sunny yellow.

Not sure what I shall do today. I need to book a delivery slot and get a food order in as I want a delivery this weekend. Then I might sow a few seeds in trays indoors.

Good morning all. 9 degrees here but looking very grey so far. Nothing planned for today except to wash my hair. If it stays dry. I might get out into the garden. It won't look decent until I can cut the lawn but it is still too wet for that.

Just been to the U3a monthly meeting and it is wet and cold out. 7 degrees but feels colder.

Good meeting we had a member of our photography group giving a film with music of his own photos of a photographic trip to Japan. Fantastic photos and really interesting. Interesting to see how, despite the snow laying very deep over night, nothing stopped. And the rail system where over so many years the longest delay was five.......... seconds. :-D

Ahhh dear old Skinny he's good company for you when he pops in.

I have to go across the road and drops some things off to my friends over there.

I have had quite a good morning painting some mini bread for the dolls houses and done one lot of casting fed the wild birds and chickens and had lunch. Now I feel all relaxed as I think I ate too much.

Its turned extremly cold here and the sky is all grey which dos'nt give you any enthuiasum to do anything. Pc says raining now and 7 degrees but it feel a lot colder than that and my hands are all stiff with the cold.

Morning Vera and all,

I know just what you mean Vera. I used to get all the HW done in the morning and go shopping in the afternoon come home and cook a dinner. Those days are well gone now but I think I must do some HW today too. I keep putting it off but my desk needs a good tidy up and a good dust. I don't know where it all comes from I swear the hoover leaks.

good morning all 0 degrees here and bright but there was a frost last night, still on the roofs and cars.

Well, the noise I can hear, like a faint clicking is the drain pump (that pumps water up into the water holder that has to be emptied) vibrating. Apparently it will probably get worse but is not doing any harm. to change it would be over £100 but it is useable and all these parts are out of stock. He suggests I leave it until it gets worse then call him again he has charged £69 for a service and clean and lubrication. If it goes wrong within three months then he will just charge for the part fitting (I assume that is if he can get it.) I will know to stop using it when there is no water in the holder. I thought you could let Rachel know this although yours should have a few years life before it starts to vibrate.

He made me laugh when he asked for a brush and dustpan to clean the carpet behind the drier.

anyway conservatory all back to normal now and Skinny appeared just before he left and was not at all bothered by this strange man in the conservatory.

Good morning all

It looks beautiful outside, sunny and bright, but it’s only 1 degree.

I hope you are feeling better now Mandy.

I did just half an hour in the garden yesterday. It was depressing seeing all the plants that have died. I am planning on a h/w day today and hope OH will give me a hand.as I would like to get quite a bit done. I hate admitting it but I can’t whizz round the way I used to.

Have a good day everyone

I did print out my TV licence and know it runs out on 30th Nov. every year but this time when I paid it it was a little late and they did'nt send me a reply like usual. You can do a check to make susre you have one which is what I did as it makes you think, did I pay it? I had looked on my bank statements too and the money had come out.

Anyway we have had a beautiful sunny day here all day but now its gone down it feels realy chilly and pc is saying rain tonight thne mostl clo0udy and 7 degrees.

The mower man rang today to say they were coming this afternoon to pick up both mowers. A nice young man came and winched them both into the back of his big van and took the deck of the old one too to put that on when its mended. That one has to have a new started and I think the solinoid has gone on the newer mower but he did take the grass box and brushes off before he took it. I rang BIL and told him they were coming so he said he would be down at the weekend to start a bit of clearing in the garage.

I did some casting this morning and cleaned them up but have only painted a couple of them as they were still a bit et and the paint dos'nt take then.

You'll be glad the dryer is mended Anng perhaps now we will get some nicer weather so you won't need it. Ha ha ha.

Nice to see Mandy drop in and I hope it is the pills making her fatigued and not covid if she tests again tonight. Sending love. <3

Just going to cook now, Iv'e done the tatoes and now I am going to cook liver and bacon with some broccoli.

Yes I have read it Anng and it does say one of the side effects can be fatigue and dibility but I need to give them a go and give my body a chance to get use to them but its not nice feeling like this .

Oh blimey we might get some snow this evening according to the weather lady ,still got the lovely sunshine at the moment.

Mandy have you read the information paper that is in with your pills? It may just be your body getting used to the new medication.

Morning all,

6 degrees here this morninv and we have some lovely sunshine but there are a few black looking clouds about .
The last couple of days I have felt very worn out and tired so I thought I'd better do a covid test this morning but that was negative ,when I was talking to son and he said lots of people at the school had tested negative in the morning then tested again at night and it was positive so I think I'll do another test tonight to make sure .
The doctor rang this morning and my blood test was OK so that was good ,I never thought to ask if these new blood pressure tablets would make me tired but the pharmacy lady said she would ring and see how I'm getting on with the new tablets so I'll ask her ,I always seem to have trouble with new tablets when I first had my arthritis tablets I had to try lots before they found one I could take that didn't give me indigestion.

Mel we pay our tv license every three months and the last letter we had giving our payment due dates has the phone number 0300 790 6116 it's saying that is their main number.

Mel it looks like this is the query phone number. 0300 790 6165

Is there a phone number on the piece that you printed out? Or the do not reply email. You do need to know it is not a scam and you do need to sort it out.

Good morning Mel, AnnG and all

4 degrees but with a strong breeze from the North so it feels like -1. It’s also raining again.

Mel, are you sure that TV licence thing isn’t a scam? To get in touch with them, go onto their website and use the Contact Us form. I think there is also a telephone number and postal address for them.

We have a slot at the tip at 12.15 so the highlight of my day is going to be a trip out to get rid of lots of rubbish. Otherwise there’s nothing planned.

Good morning all 1 degree here this morning so temp has dropped back down again. fed up with it now. I want spring!!!

Man for tumble drier due today if he can get through the Races traffic to get here. He lives near the race course.