General Chat

Morning AnnG, Vera and all,

Lovely sunshine here and about 10 degrees, Colin is just getting the garden chairs out as family should be here later so I hope it warms up a bit but we can put our coats on .

Might do some planting later I have my Dhalias coming along nicely but not sure how big they need to be before I can plant them they are about four or five inches high .,I've been waiting to see when money plants his out as he put Dhalia seed in too

Right better gets some mugs out ready for coffee.

BBL

Good morning AnnG and all

Sunny here and 9 degrees as well at the moment but lots of rain forecast. I got very little sleep again as this muscle pain is worse lying down so I half sat, half lay in bed. No plans for the day. I’ll just see how things go.

Good morning, had a better sleep last night.
Sun is shining and 9 degrees out there, however, the forecast was for a lot of rain today so who knows. Bedding is in the washing machine other than that I have no plans for today.

Been out int he garden all afternoon and we have had sunshine and no rain. Oh did some mowing but then the grass box broke so that put an end to that.

I have washed out the soak tray for the little greenhouse and oh cut my canes shorter as Mole Valley did'nt have the size I wanted and mine were too big. I will leave them in the shed for tonight and put them in the greenhouse tomorrow weather permitting.

O that was a nice surprise Anng we could all do with some of those. Bought another Osti this morning its pale yellow called Serenity blue eye. It dos'nt look blue but has a lovely magena centre to the petals. I'll take a pic. Had'nt seen this one before.

Vera it does sound like you have pulled a muscle so take it easy for a couple of days and no heavy lifting.

Just ordered some things from Mole Valley and they hav'nt got potting grit or 5' canes so I had to order 6's and oh will saw them off for me.

Just potted my 4 tom plants and shall leave them in the shed for a day before venturing them into the greenhouse their plastic pit.

I am now going to corn the big girls and then take some cuttings of my erm erm forgotten the name of it!!!!!!!!! O Penstemons.

it has been raiing here and is very wet outside but it is dry at the moment, black clouds around though.
I have done the Tesco wipe down don't think I am as thorough as I was but I did wipe it all. Not a terribly big order this week.

OOh Vera, It is difficult to do gardening when you want to move plants and things are harder than they used to be. It does sound as if you have twisted and pulled a muscle in your side. Do you have any heat rub. I put some on my stiff neck when I had it and it seemed to work as it soon went. Just do what it allows you to do without hurting.
So that means you are taking two medications to lower BP then? The one I take with the long names is a diuretic. (hence the numerous trips in the night).

Just had a nice surprise from daughter as T's executor. She has had a nice cheque from HMRC without her first contacting them, a refund on his tax so that has paid for the replacement glass with a bit towards the car battery.

Morning Mandy, AnnG and all

Same weather here: wet, grey and chilly. They’ll be no going in the garden today, not that I really want to as I now have another problem. I seem to have either strained a muscle in my side or damaged a rib. A couple of days ago I moved 2 small shrubs. One was fine but the other one didn’t want to come up and I really had to attack it with a fork and spade to get it out of the earth. I think I did something then. Every time I moved in the night the pain woke me so I’ve not slept much. I think this poor old lady is falling to bits ;-)

AnnG, the doctor has put me on Amlodipine but will change it if it doesn’t suit me. I have also had Propranolol for 20 years. It is a beta blocker given for things like angina and it also lowers blood pressure. It can also help prevent migraine which is why I have it. I have been into town this morning and picked up my tabs and a blood pressure monitor at the pharmacy. We then stopped off for some compost and beer at Roy’s (I think some of you know Roy’s store). I had to wait in the entrance for OH for a couple of minutes and I couldn’t believe how many people walked straight past the sanitizer without using it. I doubt if they had all used their own. We all want to get back to normal but I think people are getting complacent.

My neighbours are among the complacent ones. You’ve heard me moan about them before. Some days their house is like Piccadilly Circus in the rush hour with all the different people in and out. Yesterday I joined her and 2 other ladies from our Close in a chat outside. This is always quite funny as she keeps stepping closer so we all step back a bit. Sometimes we end up travelling from one end of the Close to the other. At one point she went with my OH into our garden to look at some plants. As they were coming out again she mentioned that the hospital appointment she had been waiting for is on Monday and she had had the Covid test yesterday morning and she and her OH were self isolating. What! When OH said that she shouldn’t be outside her house she just shrugged. I can’t decide if they genuinely don’t understand (but they seem intelligent people) or if they are of the “it’ll never happen to us” school of thought.

I’m a right Minnie Moaner this morning aren’t I? It might not seem it but I do feel quite cheerful. OH is just making me a cuppa and I might even have a little Kit-Kat with it. That’s something to smile about :-). I hope your day has lots of smiles as well.

EDIT Missed you there Mel. You snuck in when I wasn’t watching. It’s stopped raining here at the moment but I think there’s more to come.

Its pouring here coming down like stair rods.

Morning Mandy Anng and all,

Dull dreary and grey and I think its just about to start raining. Oh woke me this morning and it was quite late. I wanted to get up earlier to see if I could catch who was breaking eggs but managed to get three this morning and one broken one instead of two.

Yes weatherwise I too think its inside jobs today or there's always the shed but must remember to take a brolly with me. Something I have never used for years and years. I have two big ones in the back of the car so I will take one of those.

Must ask oh to fill the corn bin for me today and put a new compost in the shed.

good morning all from yet again a wet Gloucester. Although we did have a dry day yesterday and the afternoon was lovely. so sunny and warm that I took my G&T down to 'our' patio for 20 minutes but went in about 6.20 when it clouded over. No sitting out today though it looks set in for the day.
Tesco shop due 11-12 so that will be something to do.

Vera, well done on getting your appointment at the doctors and maybe you are right and the high BP is causing your headaches. That seems logical. I hope the meds bring it down anyway. What are you on? I have been on two for BP for over 20 years now Amlodopine and Bendroflumathiazide (I think that is how it is spelt), They have kept my BP down, in fact last year I had to halve the dose of the Amlodopine as it was too low!!!!

Morning all,

Raining here and looks like we should have rain for most of the day the sky looks really black.
So its a day of inside jobs I think , just having a drink before I start .

No sun here all day. We had heavy rain all yesterday evening and during the night, in spite of the forecast saying a few light showers. Today there hasn't been much rain but it has been grey and a bit chilly all day.

As I said in my email Ann your pots of violas are really pretty, a nice splash of colour. It's good you have had your dental appointment now. I would just leave the tooth with the lump for now. If you are not in pain with it and it's not damaging any other tooth, why go through root canal treatment or an extraction? What a shame your woolfelting class didn't go as well as you hoped.

It's good that you are getting your washing machine fixed Mandy. I'm going to have a look at Blinds2go as we need to get some new blinds. We have vertical ones in our bedroom and lounge and want to replace them as the lounge ones are damaged now. We have 3 windows in our bedroom and a window at the front and big patio doors at the back in the lounge. My OH would have loved to share your crab. The poor man hardly ever gets shellfish because I am allergic to it.

I know it's not funny Mel but I did laugh at OH getting his jab and giving blood at the same time. I hope he doesn't suffer any after effects. I see you potted up your million bells. I couldn't get any this year and am really disappointed as they were so good last year and gave me a couple of troughs full of colour all summer.

It's all happening at your house now Gill. You must be relieved to have found a builder to do the job at last. Your poor OH, even with ear plugs it must be impossible to sleep with building work going on around you. It's very difficult for night workers.

I'm sorry you didn't sleep too well AnnG and you seem to have had quite a busy day.

My day seems to have been quite hectic but I don't seem to have achieved very much. Last week at the hospital one of my problems was that my bp was dangerously high. Eventually it dropped to just being high but I was told to speak to my GP about it, particularly as I have never had high bp before, though I haven't been tested for 2 years. Today I thought it might be the reason my headaches have been so bad lately and I had better do something about it. Since Covid the easiest way to get to our doctors is via an online form. It's a one size fits all form so I had to fill in reams of stuff that was totally irrelevant but I sent it off at about 11 am and got an acknowledgement that I would hear from the surgery by 6.30 pm Monday at the latest.

Just as I submitted the form Sainsbury's arrived. Nothing missing and no subs so that was pleasing but wiping down seemed to take me ages today. Did that and got us a bit of lunch and just as we finished eating just before 2 pm the doctor rang. He wanted to see me and said he could fit me in if I could get to the surgery for 2.30. The result was that my bp is too high so I have more tabs on my script and he wants me to get a monitor so I can send them readings periodically. If I can't do that I will need to go regularly to the surgery to have it tested.

There has been loads on TV and in the papers recently about people unable to even get a telephone chat with their doctor so we are really lucky with our surgery. Between 11 am and 2.30 pm I had submitted an online form, had a telephone chat with the doctor and a face to face appointment. I call that good service.

I've also had an emailed letter from the hospital after last week's scan saying the consultant is going to phone me on 9th June. As that's nearly 4 weeks away I can't think he has found anything that needs urgent treatment.

As we like to eat about 7 pm I'd better go and start preparing something. We're having a veggie quiche tonight but I am not sure whether to do salad with it or something else. I'll have to go and investigate the fridge.

I hope everyone has a good night tonight.

Well my sunshine lasted for all of five minuets then it went cloudy again. There was one little spot of blue sky but that soon blew away. I was at the fish pond looking at my fish. I have a load of small black ones and at least two pinky ones.

That was a bad price for the washing machine Mandy just as well it could be fixed or you would have had a much bigger bill if you had to buy another one. More Expense as Frank would say.

Yes could'nt go without fresh undies everyday. The old joggers are getting a bit thin now and all seem to have knee marks in them but I don't often kneel dowon!!!!!! Oh says its because I don't have proper knees just points in the middle of my legs. Cheek. :-|

When oh went to Florida he had a bucket of oysters and lots of seafood but he likes it all mostly anyway. He has mussles in the fridge for lunch tomorrow.

I have taken two of my 4 tom plants down the shed and taken tiny side shoots off them. I thought it best to take two at a time so they could get there safely. I have taken a lot of lavender cuttings but not sure if they will take as I cut down a lavender I want to repot. At 4.25pm it fell out of the sky and I was stuck in the shed till it eased off and went and corned the big girls, I'd done the bantams. Then I cam ein and we had a coffe and a bit of chocolate cake and watched Tipping Point.

Boris on soon with an announcement worrying!

Afternoon All,

That's good you seem to have got the ball rolling at last Gill and have some changes to see now. It will be good today to see the size of the garden without the rubbish!

Mandy I didn't realise you could get patterned vertical blinds now. I've made a not of that site as we need a new roller blind in the en suite. I daren't pull it down anymore as it won't go back up! That wasn't a bad price for mending your washer as you say. It will be good to have it up and running again. They were bargain cues you got!

I put million bells in the pots afterwards last year AnnG, with Bacopa I think. Not sure what will go in this year yet. We are the same with clothes since the lockdowns AnnG. Clean undies though like Mandy said and I've worn out more of my older clothes too. We tend to keep some things for gardening and don't wash those as often. As Mel says they soon get dirty again.

yes the sun came out here about an hour and a half ago.

I am envious of your crab Mandy, I love it, even like the tinds of crab meat. But I like all fish and seafood except never fancied oysters. Loved it when we were in Florida and could get snow crab legs eat as much as you like.

I did an hour in the garden this morning but it was dull and chilly and everything was very damp. I did plant out into pots the last four petunias and four Osteospernum and tidied up some of the other pots on the patio. The only things left to plant are four tomatoes grown from seed I will put them in pots next week.

I also cleaned the bathroom and walked down to post a couple of cards so I think that is my lot for today. The lawn does need cutting but I daren't lift the mower out of the shed because of my back so it is going to get long with the rain and then sun.

Mandy you'll make Frank jealous if he reads about you having a crab. Mkaes no difference to me as I don't eat crab or any shellfish at all not even fish in the way of smoked salmon or fresh salmon. I will only eat tinned salmon and pilchards or sardines, smoked haddock or fries cod. I have had a couple of whitebate when oh has them them when we were out. I kept thinking of all the little bits I have to pick out when doing pilchards though.

Had lunch. Tidyed plans on the patio before lunch and cleaned up a couple of primroses and washed a ceramic pot.

O GOSH THE SUNS JUST COME OUT SO I AM OFF.

Afternoon all ,

Cloudy here but dry and not so warm today ,the chap rang and said my part for the washer should be here on tuesday so he will ring so we can arrange a time to come and fit it ,the part is £43 and we paid the fixed call out yesterday so all together £90 so not to bad to be up and running again .
I went up Boots to get Colins cream that he has for his knee as they never had it in when i went for the scrip and while i was up town i went on the market and bought two big cue plants they were a pound each so i'll get them in this afternoon .
We then went to get some eggs and i got a nice dressed crab from the fish man that is in where they sell the eggs ,oh it was nice went down a treat for our lunch today .

Gill sounds as if things are moving nicely now ,what fun you can have planning your new kitchen and bathroom ,well all your rooms really it will be like a new build .

Ann the Violas are so pretty as i said in the email just like little faces

So a bit of a disturbed night /morning for you then AnnG
I wear my tops for a couple of days ,trousers for three some times but clean undies every day .

Ouch Mel poor OH having to give blood when not asked for it lol i hope he got a badge for not making a fuss :-D

So do I Anng I don't see the point of putting on fresh clothes and then going in the garden or shed and getting them all dirty again.

Been to the docs for oh's jab and he said she made him bleed!!!!! She said he was due for a blood test anyway!! All in fun....

Must get on as it will be lunchtime before I know it and I want to do somethng this morning.

Those violas are so pretty Annx They go on for ages don't they? what will you put in the pots when the violas go over?

I just walked down to the post box to post a couple of cards and it felt quite cold even though it is supposed to be 8 degrees. It has not rained here this morning but it has that sort of misty feel about it.
I have done a wash load and have some of it in the drier. I suppose if we can get out and about a bit more there will be more washing, I have to admit to throwing on the same clothes for more days than I would have done normally.