General Chat

Morning girls,

Bright and dull here this morning and it 16 degrees here so 1 higher than Anng.

I need to get a little parcel done up and posted today.

Happy birthday T x

Good morning all. Would have been T's 87th birthday today. so more memories.

Nothing planned but be back later. 15 degrees and sunny.

Oh Ann that was annoying then after you'd cleared and covered ready for him to start work .
No I never saw any vanilla angel delight perhaps that one wasn't as popular.

No Vera no fish man on the market again so no crab ,I say market but can a veg stall and a plant stall be called a market ,years ago the whole market place was full to bursting with so many different stalls , we have a Friday market too so as we have to collect our prescriptions we'll see if the fish man cometh then :-D

It's been a funny day nice and sunny but lunch time I looked up and everywhere was soaking wet then out came the sun and the ground was dry again ,it's cloudy now again and I think we might be in for a few more showers .

Came back, did another post, pressed submit and everything disappeared. Now when I try to get back in I get to our posts of last February. I’m giving up for tonight. Sleep well everyone

Warm and overcast here as well. Every so often the sky gets really black and we wait for the deluge but then the sky clears again.

That is annoying about your electrician Annx. That seems to happen more and more lately. We are still trying to get our painter to give us a date. OH has worked like billyo today so that everything is ready for him when he does eventually come. OH has taken down my small plastic greenhouse which means he can get to the back wall of the garage to paint that. He has cleared the gutters again as the heavy rain brought a lot of lichen and moss off the roof, gone round the base of the fence clearing all the muck that accumulates and swept away all the cobwebs etc ready for the fence painter in a couple of weeks. I have to close my eyes when he is up a ladder but he's only had to use step ladders today.

I hope you have enjoyed your trip to Slimbridge AnnG and the weather stayed dry for you. Did you manage to get your crab Mandy?

I had a chiropody appointment this morning. For 3 or 4 years I have had a problem with the nails on my 2 big toes and have been using Curanail weekly. It's almost cleared up but it seems to have plateaued now and the last bit is being obstinate The chiropodist thinks I would benefit from something the doctor can prescribe which is similar to Curanail but has some different ingredients so she's suggested I get an appointment with him. It seems wrong when so many sick people are struggling to see a doctor that I take up their time with my mini problem, so I think I'll fill in their online form first and they will say if they want to see me.

Phone's ringing. Probably bbl.

Afternoon All,

Lay awake for ages last night but slept well once I was asleep. It's overcast but warm today. I nipped to the shop and had to pip my horn at a car in front of me at traffic lights. Three cars to my left moved off when the lights changed to green, but not the car in front of me that was first at the lights in my lane. The lights were going back to red by the time the car moved.

At 2.30pm I texted the electrician who was due here at 2.00pm. We'd got everything ready for him, including the loft ladder and unlocked the gate, cleared space and put an old towel on the bed with the things to be fitted. So disappointing when you are all prepared but suspect they will let you down. He then replied he will be here after 3.30pm as he's running late, so why didn't he let us know?

Thank you Mandy. That's good there are some other varieties of Angel Delight still available then, but I wonder why the Vanilla one doesn't seem to be. Your DIL's bouquet of crocheted flowers was an unusual gift and sounds lovely.

Hope you are having a nice time at Slimbridge AnnG. I expect there will be some young ducklings to see.

Nothing exciting happening here Mel, just more planning, paperwork and cleaning up. Have you had emails about the new Asda site yet? I wonder if it will be better for the customer or give us more headaches.

Blow me the electrician's coming Thursday now, as the job he's doing now has become more complicated, so everything needs moving back again now!

Morning Mel,morning all,

Nice sunny morning here blue sky and fluffy clouds ,off to town to get another crab last weeks was so nice we want another one this week too .
So nice not having to water last night ,well I did have to do the greenhouse but not all the other pots.

Ann there were quite a few different ones of Angel delight in tesco ,choc,banana,and butterscotch I think as well as the strawberry one .

Vera hope you enjoyed the talk last night and it was something interesting.
My tablet is a Galaxy ipad its the second one I've had when I need a new one son usually sorts one out for me or dil she looks for all the bargains .

Talking of dil she had a lovely teachers gift from one of the parents, if was a bouquet of crochet flowers white tulips and lavender it looked really pretty .


So another shopping day for you Mel , its a while since you did a donkey day .

Where's Anng this morning ? Oh I see you have posted Anng

Good morning all off to Slimbridge later with my friend. picking me up at 0930ish so have to get a move on, not used to early starts out these days.

Mel, you make some lovely stuff why not make the effort and put something in and the show will be a way of meeting up with people and chatting to them. <3

Morning a ning girls,

Was brightish now its grey and I suppose we are going to get more rain. Its 16 degrees and pc is telling me that rain is 20 kl away.

Shopping comes today so I better clear the top shelf of the fridge, it needs a wash.

Nothing else planned for today. What are you lot doing?

I don't do anything with the beech nuts but sometimes I can't resist picking up the hulls as they are so pretty. I have used them in the past round a scallop shell with a bead in the middle and they looked quite good like that.

Its our show on Saturday but I don't know if I can be nothered to put anything in.

Afternoon All,

Big grey blobs in the sky although it's sunny and a couple of short showers this morning. OH had a short online meeting and he managed to weed a bit of the front border while I popped to the shop for a few bits and to pick up a couple of Amazon deliveries. The girls there are not very good at dealing with the scanning of them, even the manager and my knees were protesting after about 20 minutes. They gave up then and just gave me the parcels. It must have worked the first time they tried as when I got home I saw emails from Amazon confirming I'd picked the parcels up.

What a shame about your lovely cheesecakes Vera, but good that you had a plan B. At least you froze them to use them yourselves, so that will be a nice treat to enjoy. I hope tonight's talk will be about somewhere interesting. That's nice that your neighbour still brings you some cakes he makes at times.

Yes, I did get told off by OH for climbing on the step stool and was told I should have woken him up! I think it was knowing I may have to do these things on my own one day that made me determined to see if I could.

I agree about the throw away society AnnG. I remember a fuss being made about it years ago, but nothing seems to change. At least we won't have to climb up changing bulbs but I'll be asking questions when we get a new light for the bathroom. My word you've been busy and got a lot done! It's our bin day tomorrow so OH has wheeled them down ready.

Mandy I've tried finding blancmange some time ago. It seems to have vanished from the supermarkets, but you can order it online from Amazon. We like Angel Delight, but I only seem to see Strawberry ones in the shops now. You are getting on well with the crochet squares already! Sewing the squares together will take time too as well as a border. I hope you have enough wool. That's a handy way to get the water off the canopy so you can water the plants with it as well!

Mel Squirrels are fast and I would worry I might just injure one rather than kill it. You aren't doing well with the gun lately are you. Out of interest what do you do with the Beech nuts?

It's looking like rain again here soon.

It is odd how different bits of technology show different things. Is your tablet an android one or an Apple one Mandy because I think they differ? Mine is an Apple iPad and my back button like AnnG's is top left but if I google something and click on a website from Google then the back button is bottom left. Confusing isn't it?

It stopped raining earlier though we still have a thunderstorm warning in place and it's likely to rain again later. OH is taking advantage of a window of dry weather to pick the rest of the blueberries. He says he is going to take the cage off and let the birds have the remainder. Your blackberries seem early Mel. Maybe the hot weather and sun have been ripening them early.

I don't think changing the amounts of the ingredients in my cheesecakes affected them because I was careful to keep everything in proportion so the mixture should have been the same but just a larger amount of it. I also checked that absolutely everything was well in date. I wish I could work out what went wrong as this is my go-to party piece. I get asked to make it for parties as it's light and fluffy and refreshing and everyone seems to like it. I've been making it for years so goodness knows what went wrong this time.

Annx, do be careful of your knees. Climbing on step stools is probably not a good idea, though it is fascinating what you find on these top shelves

Tonight's talk at our Club is by a man who comes roughly once a year and does a travel talk on one or other of the places he's visited - he has been just about everywhere. He usually has a good selection of slides to show which gives us something to look at while he's talking. Most of his talks are about places overseas but now and then he'll do an interesting talk on some corner of Britain.

Our neighbour has been cake making again today. He doesn't do so much nowadays but every so often he'll do a bit of cooking with his little granddaughter. This morning they made raspberry and white chocolate muffins so he came in with a couple for us.

I'd better get moving. I've got a couple of jobs to get done and we have to eat early tonight if we are going out.

Towels washed and dried and put away. Bins out for tomorrow, Cynth's baskets watered, Front garden and most of drive weeded. Not doing any more today as the humidity is back and it is 22 degrees.

Mandy ah, that is a shame. Yes I have done that as well and try now to hold the tablet firmly at the lower edge.

although that is a bit confusing to me as it is where it says genes reunited across the top and other tabs that the back arrow is. Just shows how many different things we are all communicating on.

Anng I can't see a back arrow on this tablet ,I just have a x and a v shape in the lefthand corner, it's how I hold the tablet as my thumb is at the top left hand corner and if if slips I touch the cross and it's gone.

Just been out as its now stopped raining and got the rain water off the canopy ,I put a big tub on the side move a broom up on the canopy and the water pours off the side into the tub , I now have a good four inches or more of lovely rain water for the plants

Sorry but its raining here and it was quite hard but now it finer.

The leccy went out for just a mo when I ws outside cos the pond pumps went off and then back on again. It wiped out all the pc tabs and I have had a job to get back on the net for anything. Once it was back on I put the washing machine on and that knocked the leccy out again so I was back to square one not being able to get on the net.

I am back now and lets hpe it dos'nt happen again. Rang the gun shop this morning as I was told Rob would be in then and let me know if he could mend the gun cartridge, the chap I then spoke to told me he ws'nt in for a week so its back to square one. I have ordered another cartridge which should come in a couple of days by which time the squirrels will have eaten most of the nuts off the tree and then I shall have to wait till the beech nuts are ready. They are a real pest in the garden as they eat the strawberries, hazel nuts and my strawberries.

I picked the first few blackberries yesterday.

No sign of rain here and everywhere so dry still despite the few showers we have had.

Mandy sometimes when it all disapprears when you touch the screen, try pressing the back arrow top left of screen. sometimes it will get it back.

Morning,
Just did a whole post and my finger touched the screen and whoosh it was gone .

Pouring here so it will be inside jobs today ,just took the car for the garage chap to check it over for its mot tomorrow .

Posting this before it goes again .

Good morning

A week ago I was complaining because it wasn’t raining, now I’m moaning that there is too much rain. Never satisfied are we? It seemed to be raining most of the night and is still coming down.

I haven’t got any plans for the day apart from bed changing and doing the washing. There is a club meeting tonight. I can’t remember who the speaker is but I expect we will go.

Morning girls,

It was nice and bright when I first woke for the loo and it looked promisisng for the day. went back to bed and dropped off again and woke at 7am something and it was grey skies. Its 15 degrees now and pc says rain starting in an hour or so.

Put the recycling out last night and did'nt do much of anything yesterday.

Anng your dinner out soiunded lovely wish I could have come with you. Its good you have booked early for a Christmas dinner with your friends and I am sure it will be just as good for you then.

Annx you're a naughty girl standing on a stool to put your boxes up on the high shelf. Wait in future till oh can be with you or do it for you. Funny how we all seem to get sidetracked when we look in boxes we have put away a long time ago. My dads coin collection is up in the loft and is so heavy I could'nt get it down if I tried. I know there are Jenny Wren farthings in it and half crowns and florins, sixpences, pennies and bun pennies and ship halfpennies, thrupenny bits and tanners O and shillings. He started collecting way before they changed to decimal coinage.

I have some of the Peter rabbit coins and odd ones of other things as oh used to save them for me if he got them in change when we spent money and did'nt use our cards much.

Vera do you think its because you stretched the ingrediance for the two cheesecakes that they did'nt come out as expected? Such a shame when you spend all that time making them but I am sure they won't go to waste as you two can eat them up.

Mandy how many squares are you up to now? 40 is a lot to make so its going to be quite big when its finished. Did you say it has heart pom poms on it too?