General Chat

Good morning all, 6 degrees here sort of bright but showery. Not going anywhere today, bedding in the wash. Just pleased that awful day is behind me. good to re-live a lot of good 60 year's worth o memories, but back to living in the here and now. Slept well anyway.

:-D Thanks Vera good to know we don't suffer alone. I like to think that we do all keep our sense of humour though.

Things did get a bit better in that our landline seems to be working again now. The problem was that we thought they were only bringing full fibre to the house to speed up the internet a bit and it was only a casual sentence at the end of an email that made us think that we were being switched to the digital voice system at the same time. Then, as he left, the engineer said that everything is up and running now and didn't mention anything about a delay to the phone. Anyway, OH is saved the frustration of trying to get through to BT in the morning. I've dug out a small powerbank that we have had for a few years and will get it charged up tomorrow. We've never needed to use it but I'll have to remember to keep it charged from now on.

Thinking of AnnG with her painful leg, Annx with her sore foot, Mandy with a swimmy head and now a scalded thumb, Mel with coughs and aches and I think I read somewhere that Gwyn has a cold on top of the problems she has had this year. Oh, and I have sore eyes, can't see properly and am exhausted from lack of sleep. What a sorry lot we are. I hope you all feel better in the morning. I am now going to read the local paper and then try for an early night.

Openreach have covered the channel they cut across the road with sheets of metal so we can drive in and out. They are obviously coming back in the morning so if I want to go out I'd better be up early. It is supposed to rain a lot here tomorrow as well.

Vera, I'm hoping our landline will work after the changeover, I know we use broadband Fibre, so fingers crossed it will. It's going to mean keeping mobiles charged in case of power cuts in future though. as the internet won't work with things like Messenger on FB. I.m glad Mandy told me about power banks now and that I got one although the car would charge a mobile if needs be.

Yes a third trip to the pharmacy tomorrow Mandy. OH has managed to be booked up with things, so I will go again. They are rationing the aspirin now because of the shortages. I might go to TOFFS if the foot isn't too bad, but rain is forecast again.

I think when Mel said the paper sack we all thought it was made of paper but it's polythene and she calls it the paper sack :-)

Ann your heel sounds painful , so you thought you'd do a good deed getting OH's meds for him and you've still got to go back again .

Vera when we changed to BT for our Internet, tele and phones ,our phone didn't work we had wait a couple of days for them to be connected .

I have a sore thumb today ,yesterday I lifted the lid on the slow cooker and I always use a piece of foil on the top under the lid for a good seal , stupidly I lifted the lid then got hold of the foil and the steam shot out on my thumb , I thought I might have a bluster but I've been lucky .

Just heard a funny thing on our local news , the city council in Norwich have been trying to reduce the pigeons round the market in Norwich and had brought in a hawk to scare them away which hasn't worked and they payed a few thousand to do that ,now people could get fined for feeding them but the latest today is they are now going to try giving them the pill for birth control :-D

Just a quick post to say we are back online. I have read your posts. It’s always interesting to hear what you all have to say. I’m feeling a bit uptight at the moment as I’m not sleeping much so I am feeling very tired and since last March when we had to call a plumber in it’s been one thing after another. Today the engineer has been and spent a couple of hours bringing this full fibre broadband to the house and, as part of that, our landline phone has been changed to this new digital system. Well, the internet seems to be working fine on both computers and my iPad but the phone is not. We have just discovered that we can’t make or receive calls. Great! So tomorrow morning OH will have to try to get hold of BT before we go to the surgery for his blood tests and for me to talk to a pharmacist about my meds.

Hey ho, things can only get better.

Its the sack I put the papers in and it has papers printed on the front of a green polythene sack.

No problem Ann, but you know how it is with FB you can never find the threads that interested you once they are swallowed up. I just like to look back at things sometimes but it really doesn't matter.

I can't work out why my 'other' leg has started to be painful like it was two years ago (that lasted a year then).

It was really odd when I got in to see the nurse for the blood test (earlier than my appointment time), She looked at the screen and said to me 'Do you know why you are here for a blood test?' apparently it didn't give a reason. I just said 'well I can have an educated guess but no idea why it is 3 months after the ast one. I suggested it could be blood sugar and she said, ah the other one is kidneys but no reason given. So I said it was probably because of my meds. so she agreed with that and decded to do two tests one for sugar and one for kidneys. I wished I had kept quiet as sugar won't be good given that christmas is right in the 3 month period.

Afternoon All,

Cold with some drizzle here so not pleasant and a pneumatic drill is going and barriers are across our bit at the bottom of the close. It is Openreach and no-one has told us they were blocking off our bit at the end of the close or starting work here today. OH is out so won't be impressed if he can't drive down to park the car when he comes back, so hopefully the road will be open again by then.

Sorry AnnG, I thought as you and Mandy had already seen the card you wouldn't want me to email it as well. I'll forward it on to you. I can well imagine you having those weird feelings and as you say where have all those years gone. It's seven years since my sister suddenly passed away and at times I still think I will ask her something, then remember. I think it will be uplifting at the garden centre now the spring flowers are blooming and the nice scent is in the air.

Mel you have me confused now as in your post on the 26th you said the paper sack for recycling had blown away. Now you say you have found your paper sack for the recycling, but say it is a polythene sack not paper? Do your papers go in a different sack that's polythene then and the other recycling in the paper sack? At present, all our recycling including papers goes in a tall wheelie bin.We just have wheelie bins and no sacks and the foxes would rip sacks open if we had them. I know the city has sacks and you see them ripped open and mess everywhere sometimes.

Mandy I was going to go to TOFFs this morning but didn't risk the journey there as my heel is still very painful. I seem to remember jolting it a bit when I got off the cross trainer a few days ago and it seems more like a similar thing a few years ago when I did the same with the other foot getting down off a step stool! I didn't want to get stuck anywhere. OH would have come with me and driven his car only he had an online thing to join. I decided to pop to the next village instead to see if the pharmacy had his aspirin that are owed to him as he had tried to ring them a few times and no-one was answering. I had to wait ages shifting from one foot to the other, but they gave me half and said there should be the rest tomorrow. I then went to the farm shop and got a shock at the price of the barnesly lamb chops we like, Two chops cost £16, over double what they used to be. An older lady standing next to me with her partner was looking wistfully at the meat selection and looked at me saying it looked nice, I said the prices didn't though did they and made her chuckle. I got a few more bits like Coxs apples and marvelled at the size of the goose eggs, but my foot was saying 'no more' so decided to go. Maybe TOFFS tomorrow. It would be good if the employees keep their jobs and a shame to lose the stores which I like.

Thank you for all your thoughtsIt was a good trip to one of the larger garden centres, one that has Pavers shoes and E Wool. so I bought a pair of sketcher trainers and a waistcoat from EW. the Sketchers are the new step in ones that are really easy to get on without bending down.
blood test now done so that is out of the way.

My recycling are a black box, no lid for glass, a green box no lid for plastics. A poly green sack for papers and a beige poly sack for cardboard. I have a food waste bin with a lid that I use in the shed with chickens food in it as |I don't get any food waste as the chickens eat almost anything in the way of that. The papers fit ncely into the green bag and I am able to fold it in half and put it on the top of the recycling green bin. I hardly use the black one for glass and if I get one wine bottle or large jar from Mayo that goes in the ordinary recycling bin and they don't seem to mind that. I always put it on top.

Afternoon all

Thinking of you today Anng <3

We went shopping and I dropped my blood pressure readings into the doctors, not much traffic on the roads I think people are staying away from the town as its in such a mess with all these alterations to the bus stops in town, there's another 9 weeks to go yet .

Had a word on the phone with Colins sister and I asked her if her sons wife had any news on TOFS closing she said they haven't been told yet that they are closing ,they are hoping it will be taken over so you might be lucky getting your socks Ann.

There's talk of us having all these extra tubs etc for recycling, at the moment everything recycling goes in our black bin and everything else goes in the green .

Not as frosty or misty this morning but just as cold out so we're in now in the warm .

Gwy <3 And you thought 'if only!'. Strange moments these things that catch us out.

Thinking of you AnnG <3

I know what you mean too.
Yesterday we were shopping and I saw the back of a man in an unusual colour coat like OH had and just for a second....

Glad you found your sack Mel. It had blown some distance.
Our paper and card goes in a box, a bit like a child's toy box. I don't put it out if it's really windy or raining. We used to have a large carrier bag, a bit like your sack, but so many took off in the wild weather, so they gave up on them and issued boxes instead.
The rest of our recycling goes in a wheelie bin, all collected alternate weeks to household rubbish wheelie bin. Food canister is collected weekly, but often I don't have anything to put in there, as we compost a lot.

No fog for us or frost, snow or rain.
It's chilly, but we can cope with that.

I found my paper sack yesterday for the recycling. It was behind the Hydranga bush outside the front door to the left. So it had blown from the back door on the east side of the bungalow to the north facing side a long way away.

Let me get this straight, its a polythene sack I put the papers in for the recycling. I think you lot thought it was a paper sack!!

Me too Anng I know how you're feeling <3 <3

Morning girls quite bright again at the moment and its 6 degrees with a moderate rain warning. I do hope it will stay dry today i'm so fed up with the dull and dreary weather.

All the daffs are coming up inthe orchard and the snowdrops are in full bloom. The little daffs in the tubs are showing buds deep in their leaves and the piunk Hellibore is in flower too.

Thinking of you today AnnG <3

Good morning all. 3 degrees, still dark and up early as I am being picked up at 0930 by me friend to go to one of the garden centres. Not sure which one but anything to take my mind off the date. We always say time goes so fast but where did those 5 years go? I still, at times, probably late in the evening, feel he is just going to come downstairs to watch something on TV. Only for a split second but I still do. Weird feeling.

And this afternoon I have a blood test ay 3.50pm, Cynth is taking me.

Have you sent it to me Ann? I know I saw it on FB but I have not received an email

Well I had two chuckles today with your posts first from Anng and then Vera with her oh forgetting to make the tea and burning the crumpets.

Your pharmacy certainly gets its knickers in a twist with your scripts Vera. It not right they should do double scripts and not do the one thats important. I order a cream to wash with and put on my skin and they keep sending me the one I don't like which seems greaseyer than the Doublebase.