General Chat

Morning All,

I seem to have losingpostitis as I lost another last night! Slept well last night and we have a dreary sort of morning weatherwise and it doesn't look like improving.

You are bound to have 'moments' like that AnnG. You have been through an awful, stressful time of uncertainty, mostly on your own and then the worst loss we can imagine in such difficult circumstances. Any loss takes a while to come to terms with and you can't hurry these things and everyone is different. You seem to have a good attitude so just be kind to yourself and just live a day at a time. I'm wanting to see a photo of those pussycats please. :-)

Must dash......lunch is demanding attention!

Morning Anng and all,

Drier here this morning but still a grey sky.

Anng if you comb your hair up at the top and cut a bit off straight it will lie nicely when it falls down same with the sides comb them out sideways and cut straight across and follow this line over the head leaving the top a little longer. Same applies for Vera.

I do hope EOS is ok as its two weeks now we hav'nt heard from her. Sending love and wishes. <3

I spoke too soon about it being dry today as its raining now but the dreadful wind has gone and it seems warmer now 9.5 degrees out there.

Do hope Elizabeth is ok. She is so good looking after us that we rely on her being here.

Good morning, I shall endeavour to stay upbeat today.. at least it is dry and bright part of my problem yesterday was the weather..

I do know I have to allow myself to grieve but I don’t intend to allow myself to ‘wallow’ in grief. I will always endeavour to lift myself out of it. Daughter and I are quite good at finding the funny side of the situation which is why it is good to spend time with her and her OH he can make me smile.

On another subject, when I washed my hair this morning I realised how much of it there is now. Not only long but growing upwards and outwards. And it is looking like a couple of months before it will be cut.

No EOS again this week I hope she is ok and am thinking of her.

Anng I know you go on other site as I have read many of them myself. Keep your pecker up he's still with you and always will be. <3 <3

Came through it ok, just a blip. This grieving thing is hard. I get so angry inside at him for leaving me. Then I do know , given the choice he would still be here.

Mel, I do go on quite a lot of the other threads when they are moving.

I will get there.

Be kind to yourself Ann. You’ve barely had time to grieve yet. There will be times when you feel very down and tearful and that’s normal, but you are stronger than you think and you will come through this period of grieving. Just give it time and remember we are all here for you <3

We are all here with you Anng. I am just about going to get the chops on and prepare the rest of the veg. Could you not have a go at some of the other threads or the Find ancestors boards? I always find that makes the time go quickly.

I must admit it is nice not to have to plan the meals for a change. Your roast pork tomorrow sounds nice we have a mixture of nibble stuff tonight, includes onion bhajis not sure what else, chicken wings maybe.. and tomorrow is sil’s birthday not sure what we have then either.

It has been a long afternoon very dark, very wet, daughter and SiL are I the other room think she is doing a jigsaw, he is reading. I have been on my own in here for three hours, did some colouring and reading but so missing my man.if he was here he would be in here with me. Felt very down this afternoon. You can be lonely even when two other people are in the house. Shall have to pull myself together,

I'm never there when Robby lands on oh's head and he would'nt let me take his picture anyway.

Lamb chops for us tonight and a bottle of Rose' toms mushrooms peas maybe and chips or just the veg. Will have to see what oh wants. I gave him new pots last night and I think he ate one of the 7 I put on his plate. He seems to have gone off of everything at the mo.

Oh poor you Frank. That can be very uncomfortable. Try to relax as getting stressed can make it worse.

It’s great that you have Robbie back taking food from your hand Mel. I wouldn’t be able to cope with that. I love the birds, I feed them and enjoy watching them but I couldn’t have one touch me. Silly I know but some people can’t handle spiders or mice and I’m fine with those.

Ann, we don’t pay for our current account. We don’t get any perks with it but we don’t really need any.

It’s been beautiful here this afternoon. I was going to go for a walk but thought it might be better to do a bit in the garden. I was out there for quite a while and got various pots tidied up and cleared away some dead stuff from the beds. I see we have a few daffodils on the point of flowering.

Our council haven’t collected garden waste since the beginning of January and our bin is full to the brim now. If they don’t start coming again soon we will have to take our garden rubbish to the tip.

Enjoy your roast chicken Mandy. I haven’t even decided what to have tonight but I’ve got some pork out of the freezer to roast tomorrow. I’ll probably do fish today.

Oh dearFrank I know that can be very painful as it was how Tony was after enemas. It was five days before his body adjusted again. Make sure you drink plenty of water and eat some fruit.

Ann my bank doesn’t charge me anything for current accounts. I hope they don’t start charging..

I have to learn to use the steamer when I go home.

We need a photo of Robbie on OH Mel.

Pouring with rain here again.

Still very windy and wet here and it dos'nt look like its going to change any time soon.

I don't think our bank charges us anything. They closed all the banks in holsworthy and Bideford which I used to go to so now I do my banking in the mobile post office.
I don't think we knew you had a primrose to paint Ann. Was that from the last lesson?

Yes its lovely to have Robby back but he dos'nt stay on my hand yet just bounces off with a worm in his beak and then comes back for another one and so on.

It must be hard to know whether to get your travel insurance or not, is it very expensive as I have never been abroad I would'nt know. Hope you have a better night tonight Vera.

Hope you feel better soon Frank and get your long awaited clear out!!! ;-) Not long till Monday now when the scooter arrives.

Afternoon All,

Just lost my post as I finished it.......very annoying! A bit breezy here today and dull, but no rain yet. I slept quite well, unlike poor Vera!

I'm glad you liked my last little picture, I enjoyed doing that one once it was set out.

Good news you have your scooter coming on Monday Frank. I hope you are in less pain with your back now and that you are managing to sleep.

A friend had a hospital dash for a scan after seeing her doctor last week as she developed thrombosis in her leg. She is slim and fit with horseriding and doing her allotment on her own, but I think she may still smoke which is a risk for it. It made me think I must drink more water and at least move around more often with not being able to walk much or use the exercise bike, as being overweight and less mobile are two risks!!

I need to change my bank now to one in the next village. My bank has let me know my free current account with insurance perks will have a £15 per month fee from June!! They closed 2 nearby branches meaning I have to travel into the city and pay costly parking so that's another reason to change. The only perk we have used is the travel insurance and I must be nearing their age limit, The bank in the next village has an account with a fee of just £2 a month, so the saving would pay for travel insurance, not that we go abroad these days. The new account would also give a 15% discount at some retailers. It's still hassle though, although the banks transfer things like standing orders etc. There will still be sites to update like Asda etc. :-S I'm not sure any free current accounts still exist anymore??

Mel how lovely this Robby is and he seems even tamer than the last one! :-D All we have just now are the Pigeons and Magpies that have returned in numbers, plus our little Robin.

Hubby broke an egg yesterday just getting them from the fridge and the cleaning up wasn't up to standard, so I said I would steam it today if he hoovered the kitchen and uti and cleared the floorspace. I told him the edges needed doing with the dyson, but as soon as I was steaming it found the dusty edges he'd missed. I kept very calm (Vera ;-) ;-) and explained again that the steamer would clump and push wet dust around if it wasn't all hoovered up and would need wiping up after so could he do that when it was dry! :-) (hopefully he won't miss any!)

I see the thinking is that Boris won't open hairdressers till April, but we should know on Monday. My hair is just on the turn now and not laying as it should, so should be a bit wild by April. I might get an appointment booked as soon as it is confirmed before the rush!

Now I must get on with my Primrose to paint. OH is working then has some footie to watch. It will be good when we can get the lounge tv working again, hopefully before summer. It has been a long year managing with the small ones!

Hi all, Not stopping as I am feeling terrible. Since Wednesday when in hospital, and they gave me an enema, I haven't been able to go to the loo (sorry to much info) I get the feeling I want to go BUT CAN'T. Keep going into the loo, but nothing happens. Just taken a small medication, and now waiting.

Hope to get back on her tomorrow.

Oh Mel that's lovely having Robbie feeding from your hand again ,is it the same Robbie from last year .

Vera it's hard at the moment to know what to do with the travel insurance ,hopefully we'll hear a bit more from Boris on Monday but I can't see holidays abroad happening for several months ,I would be worried that if the holiday Country goes on the red list it would add a big big cost to the holiday having to qurentine .

Colin has been pressure washing again so I took our coffees out and we sat on the bench in the sun and it was quite warm out there but I did put a coat on.

I keep meaning to tell you lot that Robby is feeding from my hand again. He comes every day and has about three or four worms from my hand and oh's too. He lands on oh's head soemtimes just to let you know he's there.

Morning M andy and all,

We have the ususal weather here blustery wind and much rain so it been like this for about a week now and we are getting fed up with it.

I have a little ironing to do today too Mandy and need to hoover the bedroom and down the sides of the bed.

I need to pop up the hsop for the paper as usual on a Saturday and drop off Em's eggs then the rest of the day is mine.

Morning Mandy and all

Grey and overcast here and very windy. My phone is telling me it’s 11 deg and my iPad says it’s 13 deg but feels like 11. It doesn’t even feel that warm to me. I’ve got towels in the wash but I’ll probably tumble dry them.

Wednesday and Thursday I had good nights but last night was terrible. OH was in snoring mode and I swear he’d turned the volume up, my right hip and leg got the “jumps” and I had waves of pain through my left foot, the bad one. Eventually I got up, took a couple of painkillers, went in the spare room and read.

I went for a walk yesterday so maybe that set my foot off, but I must get walking or I’ll end up never going outside the house. It’s 5 months since I injured it so it must be healed by now.

That’s enough moaning for one day. It would be nice to post some happy news but there doesn’t seem to be much around.

I’ve got to decide whether to renew our annual travel insurance in the next couple of weeks. I renewed it early March last year as we weren’t yet in lockdown and I thought we’d be able to go away later in the year. Now who knows when we’ll be able to go abroad again. We really want to go back to Vienna when we can as OH was so ill when we were there that we didn’t see anything of the area but I am now in a quandary. If I let the insurance lapse and then take out a new policy if we do get to go away it will be a lot more expensive. If I renew the insurance now and we don’t get away it’s money wasted. Decisions, decisions. They are offering us a very good deal. No increase in price from last year and there was only a slight increase then, in spite of them paying out for our problems in Austria, and they have added some corona virus cover. They have also said they will extend the insurance from 12 months to 15 months so we will be covered up until June 2022. I’ll think about it for a couple of days and then decide.

I can hear OH putting the kettle on and I must go and check on the washing machine. Have a good day everyone.

Good morning all, really blowy here again today and looks like rain. Not cold though. Kept waking up last night , not sure why.. still slept enough though.

Morning all,

Nice bright morning ,just going to hang some washing out as there's still a nice blow out.

Hope everyone had a good night's sleep I got out a couple of times but soon went off to sleep again.

Frank hope your pain is easing a bit ,how is Ros now has she had any more pains in her chest .

I've got some ironing to do and I need to hover through as it wasn't done yesterday .
Doing a roast today Chicken again but it is one of our favourites.