General Chat

Afternoon all,

We had a good Christmas day son and family went home about three o'clock as they had dil's parents coming in the late afternoon, then yesterday son and family stayed all day so we've had a busy time ,nipped out for some milk this morning and dropped the rest of the turkey crown and beef joint round to sons for them to finish off it was nice to get some fresh air .

Mel I hope your cold symptoms soon ease for you ,Colin has had a cold and is still coughing ,he likes those old Fisherman friend for his throat ,I thought i might be getting it and I took some paracetamol and seemed to have nipped it in the bud.

Quiet afternoon for us today just going to watch some things we recorded .

Hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas.

I do that if I have a cough. It helps. How are you feeling now?

My nan used to put vick on my feet when I was little if I had a cold as well as on my chest.

Good morning Mel, sorry you still feel rough. Hopefully it will clear in a couple of days. Just stay in the warm and make sure you drink plenty. Have you got any lesions? If not, maybe honey and lemon, and rub Vick on the throat when you go to bed.

Drizzly here but not so cold.

Morning,

Dull and wet here and pc says rain to stop and 9 degrees.

Don't feel any better this morning still have a very raw throat and itchy ears, a cough and sneezing. O and itchy eyes too which keep watering.

Just as I got round to the big girls with thier corn it started to hail so I got very wet. By the time I got back to the cover of the patio it then stopped!!!! Typical.......

Suns out here too but its only 6 degrees here now and pc says cloudy. O its just gone up to 8 degrees.

Good morning everyone.
Sunshine now for us after a very dull start.

It sounds like you had a good day yesterday.
Nice that you got some surprise presents for your birds, Mel.
That is a lovely on-going gift, as you will enjoy looking out for any feathered visitors.
Ann,
Lovely to see the children enjoying their Christmas.
No little ones in our family now, but it was special last term to share the pre-Christmas preparations in school.

We had a good family day, at my son's and will meet up again at my daughter's later, when we will enjoy a cold meat and salad with pickles lunch together.
She is going to cook jacket potatoes to go with that and it's usually quite a leisurely relaxed sort of day..... Lovely.

Morning all,

Dark morning here and its 6 degrees so cold skies cloudy and I am full of cold....

It started yesteday my nose just kept running and my throat is dry and I have a bit of a cough. I am going to ring Hazel and tell her I am not coming today as her son is there and he had a kidney removed about 14 days ago so I don't think its fair to mingle with him.

Going to get nice hot coffee now and have a sit down .

Sounds as if you have had a good day with some really nice useful presents. And your meal sounds lovely too Mel

We have not had our meal yet, eating at 7pm

Had a surprise visit from BIL and he brought me 2 boxes 12.5kl of bird fat sticks 100 fat balls and 9 fat blocks. He knows I like to feed my wild birds and he takes pics of them when he is here. He had taken a pic of a Kingfisher whih he showed me on his phone. A little female one.

Cooked my dinner and ate loads. A really nice tender moist chicken with roast tatoes, parsnip, carrots, sprouts and yorky puds all went down nicely with a couple of glasses of rose'.

Had nice presents from Emm and the boys and Em's mum. nice gloves and a big tin of fudge and Em gave me a hedgehog coster a hedgehog pot hanger and a hedgehog tin. So I think I did ok for not expecting anything much.

Well, presents opened then a surprise visit fro Grandson and family. Colds seem to be better so hopefully not infrctiouslthey stayed a couple of hours while opening all their presents from us so it was a bit hectic but lovely to see the children
N. Inara is just the right age of really enjoying all her presents. At the moment she is Pokémon mad so anything related to that went down well. Senua was a bit mummyish as she is still getting over the cold but she was very good and liked her presents.

HO HO HO Good morning all,

Hope Santa came and brought you lots of nice presents my two are sitting on the side ready for me to open after dinner.

Its pouring with rain here and pc says rain to stop and 10 degrees so its not quite so cold today.

Enjoy your day might pop in later.

Good morning all who look in and Happy Christmas. Have a lovely day whatever you are doing. <3 <3 <3

Oh Vera that will be a house full but plenty of people to help get things done .

The family came and I had a lively couple of games of Scrabble with the children a few odd words at times lol but it was lovely.

Well I have done as much as I can to get forward and that will help but they all muck in and help on the day.

I wish you all a Happy Christmas and hope you all have a good day hopefully i might look in later in the day when they have gone home or I might be asleep lol

Vera how lovely to have such a big family get together, the noise is part of Christmas, hopefully if you need to you can creep away for a breather.

Have a wonderful day tomorrow and come back next week and tell us all about it. :-)

Not very quiet here AnnG. There are 12 here at the moment. One is leaving later and more arriving, either 3 or 4. We are all mucking in with preparing tonight’s meal and tomorrow’s. I have just prepped a huge pot of potatoes for tomorrow’s roasties and a large pot of carrot batons. Granddaughters are doing other veg. Dil, one of her sons and one of son’s daughters are busy preparing tonight’s Greek meal. It’s all systems go here :-). Luckily it’s a big house, with a big kitchen cum family room. There are 3 ovens with different functions so lots can be cooked at once.

Thankfully son is almost back to normal. He looks a bit tired and is laying off the drink but he had some breakfast today. Goodness knows what it was but no-one else has gone down with it.

Sorry to hear about the tooth problems in your family Mandy. I hope the antibiotics ease things enough for them to enjoy Christmas.

I suspect I won’t be on here tomorrow so I’ll wish you all a very happy Christmas now. Have a wonderful day <3

Oh dear Mandy, not a good time to get toothachevwith all the sweet stuff around. Hope it eases with the antibiotics

We just nipped to M&S to return the cords I bought yesterday and a pullover that daughter bought.new thought it would be crowded but it was quite empty and no queue at all. We were only out about thirty minutes altogether., now we are in, planning the timetable for tomorrow and sitting around reading etc, very quiet and relaxing.

Morning all,

Suns up and I can see blue sky ,yesterday it rained all day and was dark and dreary.

Vera I hope your son is feeling better and the bug hasn't spread to anyone else ,that was a bit of a trek getting there for you ,thats when the sat navs come in handy .

Yes Anng I bet there's lots of excitement with lots of families today and they take ages to go to sleep after getting so hyped up .

Jake has had tooth ache he got an appointment and he's now on antibiotics he has to have the tooth out on the 12th January, then blow me son got tooth ache and is on antibiotics too he has his appointment to have his tooth out on the 5th ,he should have had it taken out before but they cancelled his appointment.

Just got my turkey crowns in I always cook them the day before so it saves the oven a buf for tomorrow.
I'm going to do my roast potatoes too Mary Berry says cook them the day before and just heat them to crisp up on the day .

Better get on son and family are coming after lunch and I've lots to do .

Morning Anng and all,

Dull as dishwater here today and 7 degrees and all the windows were misted up this morning. There's a mist hanging over the west lawn today too.

Have to do the shop today for some fresh bread paper and bits and I think BIL is coming today.