General Chat

good morning. 6 degrees here but looks bright. when I was awake at about 5am there was a beautiful moon.

Garden centre this morning then Tesco to pick up some food for tonight. Last night we had a take away Indian and it was really nice. Daughter goes home tomorrow.

Afternoon all. We got home at 1pm after an uneventful but bust journey. we left Mawnan smith at 0815, the slowest bit of the journey was from there to Truro which too half an hour. We stopped for half an hour for coffee and loo so we made good time even if the traffic was heavy. I have already unpacked and we have had lunch. the garden looks fine there has obviously been some rain so it all looks healthy. Like you Vera there is till a bit to do before winter sets in. Today has been beautiful, all the way home and it lis still lovely now,

sorry you are still suffering from bad nights Mandy, maybe that will improve when the casts are off and hopefully the pain will ease soon

Sorry you too are still suffering Island Hope your pain eases soon too.

My Jabs are next Friday will be glad to get them out of the way, Unusual for me to be the last to have mine, should have been last week. be just my luck for them to run out.

Thats ok Mandy we all quite understand. I think you are doing very well to get a post on here anyway but we do like to hear from you. The splints will be like a fingerless glove with a metal plate underneath to support the wrist probably in that old fashioned pinky flesh colour. I found one in oh's study from when he had a carpol tunnel done.

Arms not too bad during the day but hanging the washing on the line was a bit painful as its a kingsize quilt cover and its cotton so quite heavy.

BIL came before I was dressed and is fiddleing with the digger and mower.

Sorry to hear you had a bad night again Mandy. You must feel shattered. Get some shut-eye whenever you can. Don't worry about not commenting on posts; I'm amazed you are managing to type at all. I think you will probably find the splints a bit easier than the plaster casts.

We are now all jabbed up. Our local surgery has been used as a vaccination hub since the beginning of the pandemic and have got it down to a fine art now. We were only out for 40 minutes and that included a walk in each direction of 12-15 minutes, going through all our details and giving us both 2 injections.

My flu arm is fine but my Covid arm feels heavy and achy already. It's good gardening weather but I don't think I'll be doing anything much in the garden today. My back just aches a bit and I don't want to set it off again and the arm ache isn't helping. I must get out there again soon as there are troughs and pots to clear of annuals, quite a bit of cutting back to do and all the geraniums to lift and pot up or take cuttings from, and loads of bulbs to plant up once I've got enough pots and containers free. I suppose it'll all get done eventually.

Bad night waking seems like every hour ,restless with leg and knee and finding a position for arms to rest with these slings
Bottoms getting sore too but I do try and walk every hour during the day .
Booster jab Wednesday suppose they will do it after an op
Plaster off wednesday at the Norwich hospital in the afternoon and splints on so what they are like I don't know
Left wrist still painful like cramp right wrist a bit easier.
Sorry not commenting on posts but I have a job to type

Morning Mel, Island and all

Sunshine here as well. Hope your ribs don’t give you too much trouble today Island and hoping Mandy is coping with her poor plastered arms.

Your aches will ease in a day or two Mel. I generally just get a very heavy feeling in the arm but nothing worse, except my booster in April was done by a cack-handed nurse and I ended up bruised from shoulder to elbow. We’re shortly off to the surgery to get our jabs done so I’m hoping I don’t get the same nurse again.

Safe journey back AnnG

Morning Mel

My ribs had me up early, woke about 5.45, couldn't lie there any longer, much easier sitting up. Cheesed off! :-| Perhaps I need knock out drops.

Mandy must be fed up with her plaster casts, hopefully she has found ways of coping but must be so uncomfortable.

I hope your arms are aching less now Mel. I seem to get away without jab after affects except for lying on them sometimes. I think it's down to how the jabber does it and where.

Bright sunshine here.

Morning all,

Dry sunny moisty morning here and Autumn has definately arrived. Leaves are turning colours if they hav'nt already fallen off and there's a chill in the air.

Usual this mornig eggs for Em and the shop for the paperand bits.

Hope Anng has a safe journey home if she's coming home today and that Mandy is feeling better and getting some sleep.

Island hope your pain is easing too, you feel every movement when its your ribs.

Both arms are achey thismorning and I nearly could'nt get out of bed in the night for a trip to the loo.

Arms are both a bit achey now. Hope I can sleep tonight as I only lay on my right side.

Sending love to Mandy and hope as each day passes she feels a bit better.

Evening all

You're brave having 2 jabs at once Mel. Lack of information had me booking two different dates at two different places but in any case I would have been concerned about which side I could lie on. As it happened, I had no discomfort at all from the covid one.

Oh Vera, I wish I could busy myself with h/w if only to keep myself warm lol

Anng, I was surprised to find myself in the Lost Gardens on google earth. I was even more surprised when I was trying to locate somewhere local on google earth and found myself in an estate agents back office :-0

Still sore, still not showered or hair washed - anyone want to visit me? LOL

Island that is interesting. I will have a look after we get homrpd tomorrow. Where did that week go?

Ooh try not to hiccup then or the pain will be on repeat.

Well the weather has been good again today for walking around another garden. Glendurgan today. I had forgotten that this was one of the smaller gardens with no shop or restaurant, only a small tea house outside the garden. Still it was a very pleasant walk round, a few hydrangeuas but no other flowers really. But there is the added advantage of the small beach where we sat on rocks for a while the sun was in and out from the clouds. After that we drove to a pub in Mabe Burnthouse and had fish and chips for lunch. Then back to pack.

Here I am all stabbed and jabbed and I was in and out and ordered my scripts in about 8 mins. The nurse was waiting for me and she did the flu jab and then a young man came in from outside the out door and he did my covid jab in the other arm.

Its been a nice sunny and quite warm morning here but its let itself down as its just rained and the wind blowing a hooley. All the leaves are nearly off the big ash tree and lots blowing into the pond. I have to keep going out and play at fishing which reminds me I hav'nt fed the fish today yet!!

You'll feel nice after that hair cut Vera. All tidy for the next few weeks.

I thought BIL was coming today but perhaps he will come tomorrow instead if his wife is working.

Afternoon all

It's quite a nice day today, a mix of sunshine and cloud, 16 degrees and just a little bit breezy.

It sounds as though you need to rest up for a while yet Island. Rest and pain relief seem to be the only treatment given for ribs these days. I'd say try not to laugh but there doesn't seem to be much to laugh about in the news and most of the people who used to come on here for a bit of a banter seem to have gone now.

Hope your aches have eased now Mel and you are all jabbed. I hope you're finding it easier as well Mandy. Each day you're going through is one day closer to getting the plaster removed.

I've had a boring h/w morning. I did a few tidying up jobs and then cleaned 4 loos, 4 wash basins and 2 kitchen sinks. Now my back aches and I'm feeling quite tired, even though I had a good night. OH is just getting us a sandwich as I have to go out in a while. I need to go to the bank and then I've got a haircut booked.

Morning all,

I think it may be nice today as the skies blue with grey and white clouds and the suns up so I hope it stays that way. 14 degrees and cloudy by the pc and it says they are having trouble to connecting to the local one.

Punctured in both arms today I have to be there for 12.30pm. BIL coming to fix the mower today. At least its down here now and not right up the top.

I did a bit of strimming yesterday, bad move shoulder hurt last night and my left hand had the shakes. It is done though on the corners of the lawn where the mower dos'nt seem to reach anymore.

Hope you all slept well and those under the weather are feeling a little better today. <3

Yes Anng but only momentarily.*

I've just logged in to say some of The Lost Gardens of Heligan can be toured on google earth :-D

*edit. and when I get hiccups :-0

Yes Island I think just take it easy for a few days. Does it hurt to cough or sneeze.

Vera, that's interesting about the goings on with Disraeli and the chance comments which led to the discovery of the wartime mapping centre.
You'd think they'd have a contingency plan for outdoor talks :-0

Those poor birds :-(

I rebooked my flu jab when I cancelled so it's all in hand, well, arm I suppose :-D
I wonder if it was the walk down to the covid hub but mainly back up which may have caused the increase in rib pain as it was worse that evening. I had a sofa day yesterday with a bit of gentle pottering. It still hurts but not big spasms. I think rib injuries just have to run their course as nothing much can be done - unless the bone's sticking out I suppose.

Mel I had been a couple of times the latest about five years ago. A lot of new things to see. We stayed mainly in the garden area and visited the frnery but not the jungle, it was steep down so would have been the same back up and we were tired by then.new really enjoyed it and managed to get another pasty for lunch so that was a plus.

It was quite a long journey and traffic was really busy but it was a lovely day sunny and mild.

I do like the back story of hiw the garden started.

Poor Mandy you will be so bored, hope you have some good TV to watch. Hope you improve soon.

I think it was late 90s the first time we went, it was interesting to see the Mud Maiden, the grey lady and the guant sculptures still there but gradually returning to nature.

Vera that was a long day, as you say a mixture. Shame it rained though, good job you had a brolly.

Heard yesterday that my 21 year old great niece has had a baby girl they have called her Skylar, she was 7 pounds.

Island sorry you had to postpone the flu jab. Paracetamols not working? Hope you improve soon.

Sorry to hear you have been in the wars Island. I hope you’re not in too much pain. It’s good that you were able to get your Covid jab at least and hopefully you will be able to have the flu one before too long. I’m due to have them both on Saturday. I hope yours are OK tomorrow Mel.

Mandy, you must be so frustrated at the moment. It’s horrible when you have to keep asking other people for help. Are you managing to get a bit more sleep?

I hope you enjoyed the Lost Gardens AnnG. I expect the time is going quickly now. Holidays never seem to last long enough, do they?

What a palaver with OH’s teeth Ann. It seems as though he’s been shunted backwards and forwards for ages. It’s about time either the hospital or the dentist did something to help him. No, I haven’t taken my geraniums up yet either. They are blooming so well that it seems a shame to lift them. I have been in the garden for a short while this morning and cleared a couple more pots and troughs of dead or dying annuals and I’ve cut down most of the penstemon by about a third to a half. There’s just a few more of those to do, but I had to stop as I could feel my back starting to give me problems and it’s really giving me gyp now. OH gets cross and says I shouldn’t do gardening and things that hurt my back but I can’t make him see that I need to do something for the sake of my mental health.

It's so sad but I’ve just been reading in the local paper that in just one week our Common Lands Rangers picked up the corpses of 18 mute swans, 2 black headed gulls and a heron from our water meadows. Avian flu certainly seems to be hitting hard now.

Our day at Hughenden Manor was very mixed. It’s quite a way from here, about two and a half hours by coach, but we had a good journey there, nice and sunny and no hold-ups. We had a quick coffee and then went for a wander around the small garden area which was very well tended and colourful still and must have been well watered through the summer. There is a lot of parkland to roam around when time permits. OH and I had a short walk through a bit of woodland but by then the wind had got up and was blowing the trees around like mad. At 12.30 we met outside the house where a NT volunteer was to give us a talk. That’s when the heavens opened but there was no suggestion that we could go under cover so we all stood huddled under our umbrellas while she tried to give her talk and show us pictures which were getting soggier by the second. Eventually she had to cut it short. What we did learn was interesting. We already knew the house had belonged to Disraeli but we heard how he lost his money in poor investments, was often in debt, made an advantageous marriage with a lady 12 years older, managed to buy Hughenden with the help of an unrelated lady who lent or gave him a large sum of money on condition that she could be buried at the church there. He later inherited quite a sum on her death and she is buried there. Though we didn’t get to see it the gravestone names Disraeli, his wife, his nephew and this unrelated lady.

During WW2 the house was used as a secret mapping centre by the RAF as they compiled maps of targets for the bombers. This was so secret that it didn’t come to light till 2004 when a volunteer overheard an elderly man telling his grandson that he worked there during the war.

Once the talk ended we were free to do as we chose till the coach left at 4 pm. After a jacket potato lunch OH and I spent a couple of hours in the house which was a manageable size; not too grand. A couple of rooms had been set up as they would have been during the war, and there was quite a lot about Disraeli’s relationship with Queen Victoria. We enjoyed the house.

We didn’t enjoy the trip back. First our driver announced that he had just heard part of the North side of the M25 had been closed so we would have to try and go round the southern half which would take longer. Because it took longer some of the older people on the coach needed a toilet break so that meant a stop at Clackett’s Lane Services, then the area around the Dartford Crossing was really slow because of sheer volume of traffic. Instead of arriving home around 6.30, it was turned 8 before we got back.

Doing this on Word I’ve just noticed how long it is. I’d better stop before you all fall asleep. Enjoy the rest of your day.