General Chat

Afternoon All,

It's windy here again and dull with a few spots of rain earlier. The Windows 11 I installed from a prompt on my PC was obviously an older version that didn't have the temperature icon as I've seen that they have put it back on the new versions. How annoying that they even took it off!! The operating menus on the pictures now are driving me mad as you seem to have to go through extra menus to do things now and at first you have to go through them all to find things that were straight in front of you before. As soon as I get familiar with it they will be changing again won't they. :-S

We used up the old tests yesterday and the newer ones are easier with just the nose test and more liquid to drop on the test strip. I am still positive and OH can't do his just yet as you can't do the newer tests till half an hour after eating.

I agree about these dark tv programmes AnnG. I expect they think it creates atmosphere, but it's a bit extreme and for too much of a programme sometimes, like going back to the days of black and white tv! No happy ending as you say.

Vera wise choice not to try walking with your OH today! Just try some exercises instead. I am frustrated at not being able to do my short walks now I was just coping with them so much better, but like with you it would be silly and exhausting at the moment. That is an unusual Daffodil in your photo. Do you think it might not be a Tete a Tete and got mixed in with them by mistake? If you had them flowering in the same pot last year, were any like this one then? It is rather nice though isn't it. :-)

Mel, that's handy your OH has a retreat to the caravan. It means you can get on with things! It's a nuisance when things don't stick like that but at least the glue gun did the trick for you. It sounds like you are nearing the end of the project?

I'm going to look at some seeds on line next. I fancy growing something new this year as well as the usual things. :-)

Still raining here and windy. I did manage to walk down to the post box when It was just spitting a bit. It is free book stall weekend. I had three to take back and got four more. When I checked them when I got home I had read one of them so that can go back on sunday. good job I went when I did as it is raining harder now. So that means the garden will be a soggy mess.
4 weeks time covid and petrol allowing, I will be in the Lake district.

Morning AnnG, Mel and all

It’s about 12 degrees here and sunny, but it feels a bit cooler as there is quite a breeze. I didn’t go into town with OH as I hadn’t mentioned it to him and when he got up he said he was going to walk. I know he would have got the car out if I asked but I didn’t want to stop him getting exercise while he still can.

There’s no way at the moment that I can walk a mile and a half each way and walk around town as well. Having a shower exhausts me! Poor old girl ;-). I have just showered and washed my hair. Now I am going to dry it and then try and dust through downstairs at least.

I hope OH has had a second negative test Ann and that you are feeling less like you are full of cold.

Enjoy your day everyone whatever you are doing.

Raining here now Mel and 10 degrees.

Morning Anng and all,

Raining here this morning and pc says 10 degrees. Its a bit windy too, they say we are in for a windy weekend I think.

Did Mandy post yesterday?

Nothing to report yet so I hope the others slept well and sorry Anng did'nt. I was out like a light the min my head hit the pillow and up once for the loo and fast asleep again till I got up.

Sending love to Frank and Island and where's our Gill? <3

Seems to be a habit lately of me waking before 7am and not getting back to sleep so I get up. Does make for a long day though.

good morning all 9 degrees here so fairly mild again, slept badly last night so a tired day ahead I think

Ann no happy ending there then. Not bad but I do wish they would lose this obsession of filming everything in the dark, such a strain on your eyes.

So you enjoyed your meeting Anng even if it was a little noisy at time. You must be getting used to being on your own without chatter around you so notice more when it happens.

Are you talking about the tv program The Housse because I watched a little of it by mistake and think I may enjoy it if I watch it on iplayer although it takes me a bit of time to get used to the back and forwards clips like most of you.

I have only done one thing today I stuck something together with all purpose glue and it did'nt stick so I wiped all that off and tried wood glue. Blow me if that did'nt work either!!!!!! so out came the glue gun and that worked thank goodness. I had ruffed the two sides up a bit to give it more bite. Done a little more to it after that so I am getting there but I did'nt think it was going to take me this long to get it finished.

Oh has been up the caravan most of the day so its been nice and quiet down here.

Pasta tonight so nice and easy.

Evening All,

It's been sunny and quite warm here this morning but the wind got up again later. I pottered up the garden to the greenhouse and checked my Geraniums and gave them a dribble of water and they look fine up to now. I checked the Aconites on the way back, a patch about 2 foot diameter and just 1 flower has opened, but maybe there are buds under the leaves. I hurried past the weeds as we can't start on those just yet!

I was surprised OH tested negative today which is good, so he is hoping for the same tomorrow. We have both felt better in ourselves apart from tiredness, but I have a nice red nose with the cold, but am glad the throat's much better and I'm not croaking now. Brain fog has set in though and I forgot a password I use almost every day this morning, then it just popped back into my head! It's a shame it was OH's birthday, but we can enjoy the F&C he fancies next week! He has 6 new books to keep him happy, so he smiled when I asked when we will be renting external storage! He's also got CDs and some clothes. He's doing a zoom meeting now and one of the people said he has it for a second time, but not as badly the second time.

Thank you Gwyn, and yes that's right and now furlough has stopped people won't want to be off work, especially if symptoms aren't bad. Unless they roll these boosters out faster I think there will be more risk again. We will carry on with masks and other precautions in shops etc, but it seems OH's work in the schools is our biggest risk now they aren't wearing masks. He does sit well away from everyone, as people who are too lazy to print documents off for themselves think they can help themselves to his if they are handy and he needs to refer to them as he does his notes.

I do like tulips too and do have some of the short, alpine ones in the front garden, but the Squirrels or mice get any round the back and in pots so I gave up on them in the end.

Oh Mel I expect those plates did think they were getting a second firing. :-0 That's men for you, they don't think when they do these things and him a fireman too! :-S So the project has a lot of pieces???? Still no wiser! It's good your back is better. Did you get a new mattress topper?

Yes, we are just looking at all the jobs Vera and waiting a few days! At least you have a process started with the physio now with an appointment that will follow so hopefully they will narrow down what the problem is. I hadn't heard of that condition either. So the poor chiropodist is stuck at the moment and can't advise you just yet. I hope she gets sorted soon......before you have Yeti feet with long nails

It sounds like the group enjoyed their noisy chat at your AnnG and it was good that it was a bit warmer today! Well, I'm puzzled about where Toby fits in! I don't see how that accident could have been set up either. It was a bit convenient to help them blackmail Bram to get the couple's money and proceeds from the house? That signature needed examining by an expert too. I don't see why Toby needed to form a relationship with her either, although he was too keen to see the whole of their house. I'm not sure about that neighbour either! It should be good to see what happens next.

I’m glad your meeting went well AnnG and it was warm enough to have doors and windows open. It’s been about 12 degrees here as well and sunny on and off. I unzipped our mini greenhouse and took the fleece off my pots of agapanthus to give them some air but I will get OH to cover them up overnight for me.

My back seems a little better today but I am being very careful. It could be 2 or 3 weeks before my physio appointment comes up. It’ll be s..d’s law that, having been in agony for nearly 3 months, I’ll be nearly recovered by then.

It would have been a good day for gardening but I can’t manage that yet. However I did check on cuttings and overwintering plants in the conservatory and on some indoor plants; tidied them up and watered where necessary. I also did some odd jobs around the house and prepared tonight’s meal which will be shepherd’s pie. OH cleaned all the bathrooms/loos for me.

OH has an appointment with the doctor in the morning and I might go into town with him. I need some birthday cards and other bits and bobs. With the price of fuel at the moment I try to fit as much as possible into one trip.

I hope you and your OH aren’t feeling too poorly Ann. Hopefully you will soon be testing negative.

quiet on here today. Hope Ann and OH are ok and getting better now. Had the meeting with all doors and windows wide open luckily, although cloudy it qas 12 degrees here so not too cold. Gosh 11 people can make a lot of noise, especially when they all start having private conversations in their little groups. Anyway all gone now, chairs put back and cups in the dishwasher. Meeting went quite well.

Mandy I posted the parcel this morning first class.

I love purple tulips Gwyn I hope they are as good as last year.

The sun came out here at 11.55am and I got on well this morning. Just have to wash up as I have been putting it off. Going back in there again now.

A beautiful start to the morning here. The sun was streaming down so brightly, when I was making a drink just before 7.30 a.m.
It's a bit more cloudy now, but still dry with large patches of lovely blue sky.

The tulips I saw locally were full size, of average height and deep pink in colour.
They were in a flower bed right under the south east facing window of a bungalow, so perhaps quite sheltered.?
Like Vera, we have tulips in pots near our front door. They are in their 2nd year and are just showing their colour, - a really rich, dark purple. They did well last year, so we are looking forward to watching them bloom again.
They were from a pack that we just picked up in Aldi, when we were doing a shop and we were quite impressed by the show of flowers we got from them.

Morning Anng and all,

Glad its brighter where you are Anng for your meeting as its dull dreary and wet here. Not raining now but it has been. It dos'nt look as if there's much wind out today though. I hav'nt been out yet.

If its not windy later I think I will clean the big girls out. I did give them some clean shavings in the nest box yesterday so we'll see apart from that a little HW and back to my crafting.

Last out and first in again!!! good morning all, fairly bright again and 9 degrees so a bit warmer which will be good if it stays that way as it is all doors and windows open this afternoon. Hopefully now we are into gardening season the meeting will go well. this sort of meeting does rather rely on people having questions they neem answering. (often you don't know that you actually needed the answer to that question as well). Usually somebody who knows the answer as well.

Ann well One more episode to go. my brain hurts tonight. I am confused by Toby. When in present day rather than flash back, is it Toby that is the male half of the couple? If so why didn’t she recognise him. Maybe I have missed something there. Shall look forward to the ending.

Vera looks like you are making progress. I looked that up when Tawney mentioned it and thought if you. I also thought if Tiny and his left leg that kept giving out. But I shall never know the answer to that now.

Mel you were lucky the plates didn’t crack.

I’m sorry to hear that you have the dreaded lurgy now Ann but it’s good that neither of you are feeling too bad. Take it easy for a few days and don’t be tempted to do too much as, like any virus, it is bound to make you feel a bit tired.

I am not happy that the rules about isolating have been downgraded to “advice”. I wonder if it is an attempt to build up herd immunity with a fairly mild variant so that the population will not be hit quite so hard if a less mild variant comes along.

I managed to finish the ironing this morning and this afternoon I had a Sainsbury delivery. There was just one sub and that was an item I had ordered but in a different size. I decided to stop wiping everything and just concentrate on the goods I would be handling in the next couple of days so I was a bit quicker than usual. Even so my back let me know I had been standing for too long. I’ve cooked tonight’s meal and now I am sitting down and doing nothing much till bedtime.

Did you enjoy your F & C Mel? I love my fish but I’m not a big fan of it fried in batter so we seldom have it.

As you know the doctor told me to ring the physiotherapy group but I remembered the trouble we’ve had before getting through to them and I think the phone number they give is for people who aren’t able to use the internet. So I filled in their online form which is quite comprehensive and submitted it. I got an immediate acknowledgement and a couple of hours later I got an email saying I had been triaged - doesn’t that sound painful? They had attached some information sheets and exercise sheets. I have to do the exercises for 2 weeks. Sometime during that period they will send me a link to book an appointment online. The exercises are ones I have been doing anyway but I’ll carry on with them. The information sheets were interesting. They said that scans are seldom useful and a clinical examination will pick out the minority of people who need one. There was also an explanation of the symptoms of Cauda Equina Syndrome which I had never heard of till recently when Tawny mentioned it in a post on the boards. Although he didn’t explain I realise now that was what the doctor was considering when he was asking about bladder, bowels and numbness and prodding me in strange places. It’s reassuring to know that he was being so thorough.

Apparently the chiropodist is leaving the centre where she rents a room for 2 or 3 days a week to set up elsewhere, but she is behindhand because she got Covid and couldn’t check out possible premises or see any patients for a couple of weeks. She finished at the Centre today but doesn’t know how long it will take her to sort out new premises and get set up. She will email me when she is ready to go again.

Gwyn, I also have some miniature tulips in bloom in a trough and some in pots just on the point of opening. It is lovely to see the spring flowers showing their colours; makes you feel more cheerful and more hopeful somehow.

On that happy note I am going to say goodnight, sleep tight, sweet dreams.

It was only amatter of time before you caught it off of oh Ann but I hope you both feel better soon. I could'nt tell you how many pieces there are in my project but there's a lot.

F & C's were'nt as nice as last weeks but they were still nice. I had forgotten to put the grill just on to warm the plates so rang oh to do it for me. When I got home with them the kitchen was full of a burning smell and he told me he had turned the grill up high!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its a grill and top oven. Well it shoudl be well and truely clean now but the kitchen still stinks. The plates were so hot when he got them out and I waited a little while but when I put my fish on the plate it sizzled. My plate was on top of his and instead of putting the plates on the bottom he had moved them to the shelf which is even nearer the element. I reckon they thought they had gone back in the kiln.

That is early for tulips Gwyn but a nice surprise for people to see. We have both stayed as local as we could though this and I think it is so silly to stop restriction but I supose they are thinking of the herd thingy as oh said when it happened.

Backs better today if I stay sat down and don't walk about too much. Had one egg this morning and a broken one and a broken one this afternoon too.

That is very early for tulips Gwynne nice to see them though.