General Chat

Afternoon everyone,

Well i think its hotter today than yesterday , got the fan going ,but its warm air that its blowing out !!!
We had a lovely evening and meal last night ,the only thing was they had the doors open and it let in a few flies and Daddy Long Legs :-S

Have a lovely time at the party Jane , they've got a good day for it ,is it in the garden ?

Pat, when we decorated our bedroom we moved into the back bedroom with the airing cupboard in, i was so hot in there !!! i said to hubby this is the bedroom we move into if the winter is really cold !! i don't think i could sleep in there all year round ,too hot !!

Mel, you must have really needed the sleep to lay in until eleven !! enjoy the Harvest Festival this evening .

Fiona, my sister has had her Gallbladder removed , mind you it was a few years ago now ,but she said it was the best thing she's ever had done ,no more pain now .
We've been to the tip this morning ,got rid of the old carpet from the landing ,staircase and hall, hubby's been undercoating the paintwork ,i feel we getting there now , i've been waiting so long to get this done ,hubby always seems to be busy , i nearly told him i'd get some one in to do it if he didn't pull his finger out .

I've taken the seat cover off the car seat that we have in the car for Katie , i had to get the booklet out to see how to take it off !! i hope i can work out how to get it back on now :-S
Washing machines just finished .... i hope it hasn't shrunk :-S

Just lost 10 minutes postings, Going for a cold beer. Be back later. loads to tell.

Afternoon All and welcome to Sappho!

We used to look for bottles to get the money back on to pay for swimming at the nearby baths. Sign of the times, there are houses built there now.

We always have 3 games of scrabble at christmas! OH gets fed up because I take too long on my turn!! Whenever I think of scrabble I think of Wilfred Bramble playing and putting all the naughty words down!! lol

Glad the monitoring thing is finished now Fiona......it didn't sound very pleasant. Any kind of anxiety or apprehension gets the tummy churning which is the last thing you want with that kind of complaint so hopefully they will have some answers on the 31st! Hope your OH's toe isn't too painful and that he can get his shoe on!

What a lot of tree chopping is going on!! I remember dad chopping down an old apple tree and us burning it on the fire over the winter. It was vicious stuff, prone to spitting and banging and firing sparks out on the rug so we had to make sure the guard was around the fire all the time.

I took a few pics yesterday........too misty for the ones across the vale but I got a few I wanted to get of the pretty country churches near there. One village had had a church there since 676ad. It was so quiet in the area, pretty stone houses, lovely old churchyards and the churches not locked for a change!! You could even hear the loud tick tock of the clock in one. Then we came back, had brunch and OH went up to Matlock and I went to Tamworth to Hob*ycraft to look for BEADS!!!! lol :-D :-D There had been a head on collision on the A5 which is notorious for accidents so the traffic was at a standstill for a while. One car front was virtually destroyed and a wheel missing. Glad I hadn't passed by a while earlier.

Lunched out and did shopping today and now relaxing before watering later.

Glad you enjoyed your meal Mandy. It sounds as if your hall and stairs will be looking a treat for christmas this year...... you hit the right spot in getting hubby to get cracking on it!! :-D

I hope Jane isn't overheating at her friend's party.......can't strip off like at home!!! :-0 :-0

Pat, I think a few people have coughs lately.....hope yours soon settles. I find they always seem worse when you go to bed. My OH has always loved Icecream Soda and has a bottle in most of the summer. He has never had it with icecream on the top though.....might suggest he tries that. We used to live near the Hoy*s factory when we first moved to Leicestershire and as girls we would walk by in the summer they would have the doors wide open onto the pavement. The clatter of the bottles going around on the machines would be deafening.

Mel, is your marrow going to the harvest festival too?

My goodness what a difference a little undercoat makes , it looks so much better ,you don't realise how yellow the paintwork has gone !!

Frank , i hate it when you lose all you've just typed out .

Oh Ann, see any beads you fancied ?
Lots of churches are kept locked these days ,too many thieves about !! when we went to see the graves of my Gt Grandparents we were surprised to find the church open as its out in the sticks with not much round about it , but it said that its open all year round ........and its a redundant church !!!

Still hot outside ,i'am sitting here with the fan full on .

Back again.

I finished a four hour shift, doing the lumberjack work. Taken down another eight branches. I'm having to use the big steps, but now I am at a height that I am going to need a ladder. Ros has been hovering, holding the steps, and counting my steps back down to earth. Four more barrow loads over the tip. It seems that everybody is cutting back on hedges etc. Loadfs of stuff in the alotment tip.

Ros is fast asleep on the sofa, I have just put the meat in the oven (beef) I have choped up pots, parsnips, sweet potato, and onions to roast. The veg is Cauli, with cheese sauce (JANE) Broc, peas and carrots. Will have that about 6pm. It would have cooled down a bit by then.

Have had loads of replies from my HOT MATCHES. but it seems they are all for other Bedfords/Barkers/Broads at around the same era.

I have taken a few photo's of the "TREE" will post when I have time.

Oh for the Lido and Whipps Cross MEL, we had so many wonderful days there as children. If I remember right, the bus fare was a penny 1d and thruppence to get in, most of the time we bunked in over the fence. In the "HOT SUMMERS" that we had as kids, when we played truent from school that where we headed. The whole pool to ourselves, They never did ask why we wern't at school. :-D :-D :-D :-D

It's a lovely afternoon here, still very warm. Shorts of course. Watering to do after dinner, my they do need it (the plants)

I'm sitting here with a COLD beer, with another dozen in the fridge. So not only will I enjoy them, I will be brames and list as well.

See you later.

Guess who!! back from our latest trip and very jet lagged. Had a wonderful time in very hot weather so pleased that the weather is good here.I am trying to do some washing and ironing but am so tired.I will try to read some posts over the next couple of days and catch up hopefully. Hope everyone is well and thanks for all the emails, photos etc.

Welcome back Anne and glad you enjoyed your holiday. What you need now is some good sleep!! I like to get the washing on as soon as I get home.

Frank, with your track record I'm not sure a ladder is a good idea!!! :-S :-S I think you need a cherry picker!! lol

Mandy there is too much choice!! lol Also I think with all the nightschool classes stocks have run down........especially black ones. I'm also trying to get some that can be used with those I already have on some old necklaces.

Just cooling off now after a lovely afternoon at my friends Birthday do.Boy it was hot in the garden.Her son in law did a lovely spread,and all her Grandchildren were there handing out drinks etc.The youngest one is 5 and has Downs Syndrome.He is a lovely little boy and happily doing his own thing.

Good to have you back Anne.I bed it will be a very early night tonight for you.
It seems so long ago that you went away.
Just need to get cracking on the dinner now.I thought James was going to be home in time but he just called to say he is still down with Jess and her family and has just had a big roast!

Hi everyone else .Hopefully will catch up on todays posts later.Toodle Pip for now.

Try cup o soup with some bread Fiona.It will feed you gently and doesn't require much digesting.

Welcome back Ann

Welcome home Anne, looking forward to hearing all about your travels.

We have just come in from sitting out in the garden ,it's now nice and cool out there ,we sat watching the bats flying about ,they seem to be flying pass the back of our house and round ,last year they were flying from the church pass the side of our house and back again .

Jane, thanks for the photo of the Beagles , Toby is part Beagle ,he has the beagle colors ,where Bonnie our other dog had the coat of the German Shepherd ,i'll see if i can find a photo of them both together ,then you'll see the difference.

Downton tonight , hope i can keep awake , this heat is so draining .

Since late morning its been much cooler and drizzling here

I remember going to the Lido at Westward Ho! when I was little.There was also a natural pool for swimming in the rocks.Golly thinking about those days now,what wonderful times I had there.The only bad thing I can recall was wearing Flip Flops and stubbing my toes all the time :-S :-S..and them rubbing sore bits in between my toes.I have really happy memories from Westward Ho!
My Nana or someone in the family had a beach hut there.Sadly those huts are no longer there.I do have some black and white pics of me at the hut.

David how are your ears now?And is your new home all done?
I wonder how Liz is?Hopefully settling in nicely now.

It's me again. Absolutey knackered.

Welcome home Anne, With all that's gone on we haven't missed you !!! We have really :-D :-D :-D

I just got out of the shower, was towelling myself down, and my shins are both burnt.Vever tender. Put a load of after sun on, will do it again later. It's not as though I have been sitting around in the sun all afternoon, like some of you ;-) ;-) ;-)

X blood# factor on again till 9.00 so going to catch up on some info. that our dear MEL has found for me. What would we do without her.

Annx, I wish I could get hold of a cherry picker, but a ladder seems the only other option.

Going to try to load a few photo's, so look out.

What a B idiot I am, been clicking away in the garden this evening only to find my SD card is in the computer and not the CAMERA. No rude comments from you Jane. Will take some tomorrow. to dark now !!!

Those Flip Flops use to make between my toes really sore ,and the post on one pair pulled through and i had a devil of a job trying to walk in them LOL

I remember having a pair of those Wooden Schol* sandals ,walking in them to town all grown up and i ended up with huge blisters under the ball of my foot :-S

Wooden Sch*** shoes have to be the most uncomfortable things ever made lol.
I never could wear them ,and yet my friend lived in them.
Yes Mandy the 'posts' did suddenly come out as you were walking along.Dratted things :-S
Frank you have just reminded me of when I was on Honeymoon in France back in 1981.I was clicking away on my camera at the most wonderful place,and then discovered I had no film in the camera :-S :-S :-S :-S.....

I found my old camera in a drawer the other day there's still a film in it !!! one of those on a roll, can they still be developed ?
Would be interesting to see what on it .

Thanks for the photos Jane and Pat. My cousin had a Beagle that was an escape artist. Any opportunity and he was gone like the wind!! Her hubby got a bit of ribbing from his colleagues at times at times as the dog would be handed in at the local police station.........and he was a local policeman! lol

Pat what a fantastic photo your hubby got of the Robin. I would love to take a photo like that.

Those old roll films were a pain weren't they. The times when I put a new film in and wound till it clicked only to find it had come off the reel and I was snapping away and the film not winding! :-S :-S

Off to watch Downton now......should be able to whizz through the adverts and catch up by the end now.

See you all tomorrow......hope you get a good nights rest Fiona........xx