General Chat

Afternoon all,

I don't think it's quite as cold out today we nipped to the tip this morning to get rid of garden rubbish thats been hanging about and it was quite nice in the sun then down came the rain but it didn't last long and we got home in the dry .

Vera thats the first injection over and it did sound nasty with all the pain you had after it .
Has the scarf turned up, you've had it in your hand and done another job and laid it down somewhere I expect.

Oh no Ann you've done one job in the car and made another lol I know when Colin has the battery off the car that takes the radio out and if the clock needs going back or forwards when the clocks alter we get son to do it for us as I'm not sure what buttons to press.

Mel it will be nice for you to go out to the garden centre ,I can see you having a good spend up ,make a list as your sure to forget something .

Anng hope you've enjoyed your trip to town and managed to get ths battery sorted for your phone .

Island I had not seen that, the poor man, I hope people have looked after him and replaced his clothes. What sort of evil person could do that. As you say it is sometimes an awful world we live in.

Instead of coming today until tomorrow, Grandson is coming Friday until Saturday. He has all week off so can do that (he is a bus driver). He has to be here before Sunday though as that is when the presents move south as other grandson and his wife drive over to collect them and take them back to Hampshire. Christmas is very complicated in this family.

What a horrible world we live in.
I've just been reading about a homeless man who was chased through the streets of Cleethorpes by a gang. Later his tent was set alight while he slept in it, destroying everything he had.
It's nice for us to have the luxury of reaching out and sharing what we have on chat forums and FB but I really feel for the likes of this man. :-(

Morning AnnG and Mel

It's 2 here. Put another log on the fire! - which song is that from? It'll ear worm me now LOL
7 hours sleep through! Now that's made a very nice change :-D

How nice to have a trip to a garden centre to look forward to Mel. That'll blow some cobwebs away :-D

AnnG, so is grandson coming sooner or later? I expect you're ready for him. being an organised person. Enjoy your trip to town :-D

I enjoyed catching up with you three yesterday and really appreciate the encouragement re art/craft. It was a shame to have that spoilt, not rising to it, I have far more important things to deal with in RL.

A neighbour has just rung me and is taking me to a garden centre this week sometime. Is'nt that nice. I have never been there before and she says its really nice.

Morning Anng and all,

A very grey day here and its 6 degrees and quite cold out.

I must ring my friend to see if she wants a ring this year and I need to get the rest of the plate rack down and wash it all.

Ann you have been so lucky with Ernie this year l;ets hope it continues. Its nice to think you can spend the money on your courses which I know you enjoy. You like doing landscapes.

Got up at 7am fr the loo and turned the heating on and went back to bed till it warmed up a bit.

good morning all, grey and 5 degrees so a bit warmer. Hoping to go into gloucester this morning to see about a phone battery. Arrangements have changed with Grandson, he is now coming on Friday.

Talk about blatant LOL

Evening All,

Yes Stephen was right about being able to see out of the eye Mel. I went to a consultant's cataract lecture at the hospital before the pandemic and I specifically asked about seeing anything out of the eye during the operation with me needing cataract surgery in both eyes and he told me you could. OH could see when he had his done too. Frustrating when someone beats you to the finish on ebay isn't it! There was me thinking you were needing to sell things not buy more! lol

The good news today is that ERNIE shelled out £50 for me and that I managed to book both a landscape and another portrait course for after Christmas. The bad news is that having decided to visit a good garden centre in Rutland tomorrow, OH has now cracked and split a piece off one of his newly filled teeth, so will be visiting the dentist instead. I don't know what will happen if the dentist still refuses to extract his teeth with this ongoing thing between him and the hospital.

It was good to have got your first injection done Vera so you know what it will be like. The pain afterwards doesn't sound nice though. I wouldn't have realised about washing my hair first either, but you know for next time. It is silly how they are leaving parcels on the doorstep now. As AnnG says what if there is a downpour? We've had them leave parcels in our recycling bin on the front before now. I think some might have had complaints because the lady delivering one parcel to me recently had me in the photo as she handed it to me!

Well we sat and sorted the heater in OH's car yesterday by going through various menus. Brilliant we got each side of the car sorted to suit both of us, but guess what............doing it seems to have wiped all the saved radio stations that the garage did for us when we fetched the car!

AnnG I wouldn't know where to start with printing labels on this printer but it's something I need to find out about. It must be very useful at Christmas when you have a lot to write.

Let us know how it goes, It sounds like fun anyway. Could be quite relaxing as long as you keep fingers away from the needle. :-D

It's not that special Mel, just a few automatic fancy stitches but I'm thinking of free motion where you drop the feed dogs and move the fabric yourself. I'm not sure how my hands will respond though :-( I just want to be doing something.

Yes Anng she has a special sewing machine that does all sorts.

Do you have a sewing machine that does embroidery Island. If you do why not just have a play?

Ann, I didn't feel a thing with the first needle, anaesthesia, because they use powerful numbing eye drops beforehand. I asked how they could tell if my eye was fully numbed (surely only I could tell?) The nurse said 'follow my hand' which I did, left right up down, 'right eye not moving, yep, you're ready'. That must have looked so funny, very Marty Feldman LOL
I'd love some of those eye drops for the rest of me.

You're tough Mel, having all those outdoor jobs to do in the cold and damp. I keep thinking I'd love to do some sewing but other things crop up and knock my slowly returning enthusiasm back. I'm not into clothes making any more but fancy doing some machine embroidery and applique just for my own amusement - and sanity :-0 I really miss sitting outside sketching.

Lost it on ebay. I was the only bidder up until the last few seconds and nearly put in a higher bid but someone else pipped me to the post.

Its 5 degrees here now and I have done the pond filter late morning but the air is so cold it nearly froze my hands off and I did'nt even have them in water.

Had a nice bubble and squeak with bacon and a couple of eggs for lunch so I won't want much tonight, perhaps just a bowl of fruit and custard or rice.

That was bad of them not to put enough blocker in you so you could'nt see the op Island and with a bad result too. Have you done any sewing lately?

I had one of my shelves in the kitchen diner down this morning as I want to get my strings up for my cards once they start arriving. Now I am going to do the other one. I also swept down all the cobwebs off the wall behind the plates and off the Christmas lights on the ceiling. Then I shall be happy with what I have done today.

I am also bidding on something on ebay and it comes up very soon.

I wonder why that is more painful Island, more nerves there or no padding? Hope I don't have to find out.
At least you were able to stay calm with your eye. some people maybe me included might freak out at the experience. It was bad enough hearing, after a minor op on my abdomen under a general, that they were worried they might have left a small piece of equipment inside me. Well they sent me home eventually and didn't say if they had found it and I have had no problems and it was about 20 years ago now.

Dismal here again.

Ermm..... I had not choice over watching my eye op LOL It was because I hadn't been given enough 'blocker'! By the time the tool kit went in it was too late. I didn't know I could be spared that but it was actually quite fascinating. End result hasn't worked out well unfortunately.

Have to say, I'd rather have a needle in my eye than one in the palm of my hand (carpal) that, I hear, is very painful which is why I never say anything to the RA nurse about having occasional 'claw hand'.

Mel only 3 degrees here.

Vera I was going to say have you checked the freezer, fridge, washing basket, down the back of chair or settee, rubbish bins?

I always look at the photo of the inside of my eye at the opticians but I don't think I could watch a live op on me or anyone else. Not even too keen on TV.

Morning everyone

You’re not wrong Mel, it is cold. IPad is telling me it’s 5 degrees but feels like 2 and that’s apparently the warmest it’s going to get.

AnnG we used to print our labels, then we got a new printer. It was quite a while ago now and was only an updated version of our old one, but we’ve never got the labels to work properly. I can print one at a time and set it all up again between each label but it’s quicker to write the addresses. I don’t ask OH to write any as his handwriting is atrocious. Even he can’t read it. When my writing gets iffy I try and make sure the house number and postcode are clear.

Rant away Island. It is annoying when you try to do someone a good turn and all they do is complain. I won’t know until March/April whether my eye treatment is going to be successful as I have to have more injections and then more tests before I will know. I think lots of people would be too squeamish to watch an op as you did. I wouldn’t have been able to see anything going on with my eye as the position of my head and the clamps holding the eye open only allowed me to see a large hand in front of me and, because of all the drops, even that was blurred. However, I have watched two internal procedures done under local anaesthetic and found it interesting to see what my insides looked like and what the docs were doing.

Yesterday I was a bit chilly sitting still indoors so put a silk scarf round my neck. I took it off during the evening and it has completely disappeared :-S. I’ve hunted everywhere and OH has looked but there’s not a sign of it. I’ve got plenty of other scarves so I don’t need it but I am baffled. I’ve probably had yet another senior moment and put it somewhere stupid like in the freezer. Several weeks after losing them and after paying a lot of money for new ones a friend found her glasses in the freezer so I’m not the only idiot :-)