General Chat

Annx
Glad to read that you are a little better and I hope you will both soon be Covid free.
I find the relaxing of the isolation rules quite worrying.
I haven't been going out much at all, but gradually have started mixing with a few people locally. All my friends choose to still wear masks, when in shops.

Since the pandemic started, I have attended many out patients appointments at 3 different hospitals in our area and was an overnight patient in one of them, when I had to have an operation the week before Christmas.....
All without mishap, but now I could easily be standing next to someone out and about shopping or wherever who is unmasked and infectious :-0

Turned out to be a beautiful afternoon here.
Lovely sunshine and bright blue sky and at last that bitter east wind had ceased.
I was surprised to see a lovely bed of tulips in bloom in a garden in the road next to ours.
That seems a bit early?

I only had a couple of plants in to overwinter. No these are bumble bees all different sizes, I can only assume there is a small gap somegere. I just wish they would find their way out the same way they came in but they just buzz at the glass trying to get through then they exhaust themselves and I have to revive them

Evening all,

It's been nice and sunny today but still very cold out no where near the 13 degrees they said it would be .

Oh dear Ann you were bound to get it really once its in the house but its good your both feeling a little better today .
When Lacey brought it home from school it was only a matter of time before they all got it ,thank goodness we've all been jabbed so it's not so bad when you get it now .

Anng you were up early is it the lighter mornings waking you .
Strange about the bumble bees could they have been in any of the plants that you've brought in for the winter with it getting warmer and the sun through the glass they are waking up .

Mel hope you both enjoy your F&C tonight and you get them quick like last week with no hanging about .

That Meena story is hanging on ,she's locked up but still causing trouble.

How is your back today Vera, hope you managed to get through to the physio people .

Yes, exactly AnnG, it was always the case that there will be days of infectiousness before there's enough virus to show on the test. I had my first of 2 negative tests the morning after I had a scratchy throat the night before. OH's symptoms were different at the start, more like a head cold. We wouldn't be breaking any rules if we went out and about anywhere with covid now and I expect a lot are doing. (we won't though.) OH says 13 teachers in his schools have it now.

Yes I agree the Meena story is dragging on a bit too long now.

I wonder if Vera found out what's happening with her chiropodist and replacement.

So that really goes to show that you must have tested negative when you actually had the infection.. so, as you tested negative you could have gone out into the shops when you were really positive. Or did you not test when you had lost your voice? Hope you both feel better soon anyway.

Do you think the Meena story is dragging out too long and getting a bit unbelievable.

Afternoon on this sunny breezy day......well it is here anyway.

Just lost my post when I noticed a bit of my paint on the keypad on the laptop and flicked it off!

Both tested positive today, but we both feel better than we did. I had no voice again this morning but as long as my bad throat doesn't develop into the nasty chest infections I can get and have to battle to get antibiotics for, I can put up with it. I must have caught it off OH before we knew he had it and took precautions. We also forgot he went to a school meeting last Thursday and the Head teacher has emailed today to say she has covid so he could have caught it there as well. Flipping lifting of restrictions!!

Mandy I'm not the only one that loses the plot when they jump forwards and backwards in programmes then! I hate it when they do it early on before I've even got a grasp of what's going on. Yes I miss Frank, Gill and Island posting too.

AnnG I have watched Emmerdale since it was Emmerdale Farm! I just rely on the recordings for it lately as it is all over the place. So many twists and turns in the Meena story. Surely she would be in trouble for not telling the whole truth (as she wants people to think) in the first place. Mind you, there were a lot of 'no comments' when she was interviewed.

Mel enjoy your F&C. Yum yum! We had decided to have them for OH's birthday tomorrow, but our appetites are NIL at the moment, so they will have to be a treat for another day. How many parts are there to your project.............or are you not telling!

I need to photograph a special delivery, to be signed for, letter envelope for OH that was delivered to a wrong address despite the address typed on the envelope being correct! The wrong recipient had written on the front that it was not their address (which they wrote on the envelope as well). I knew this would happen when they named 2 roads the same as ours in another village and the city. Are the Royal Mail still obtaining signatures since covid, as the postman just left the letter outside the front door for me? Special delivery with a signature needed costs more doesn't it.

Fed the chickens fed the wild birds fiddled about and now I am going in the craft room.

Morning Anng and all,

Bright then dark here this morning and I think its been raining too. Its 7 degrees and mostly clear by the pc.

Oh has ordered F & C's for tonight so I only have to go and fetch it so no cooking. Am hoping to get on today but should do some hoovering first of the carpets and a suck up of spider webs as when the suns shines I can see them.

good morning all. 6 degrees here at the moment and fairly bright. Up at 7am again, It seems if I sleep reasonably well my body is ready to get up at sevenish. Nothing planned for today, but, as I have the garden interests group meeting here tomorrow, I need to tidy the conservatory and the patio and dust etc the lounge/dining room.

I keep getting huge bumble bees in the conservatory, they get in even if the doors are shut and no way can I find how they get in. I did find one yesterday that has got caught in a cobweb in a corner behind over wintering tubs poor thing so I have to go on a web search today out there.

Mandy I am sure they intend it to be permanent. I just watch recorded programmes I have no wish to watch more than an hour of news.

Glad you all liked the little pigs :-D

Ann hope OH's test is negative tomorrow.

Anng we've been watching the one show after our Look East local programme why they have to keep changing things I don't know , is it a permanent thing this longer news .
I started to watch The House but when it started going backwards and forwards I gave up on it .

I know only Mandy watches Emmerdale but this mucking aroundvwith the schedules is a pain, just so we can have more news, more of the same.always depressing, rarely any good news. Well in my opinion.

I thought it was cold too AnnG. I'm having the same layers on the bed as last night.......can always chuck them off if I get hot.

Yes the pigs in blankets are so cute! :-D

Those pigs in blankets are lovely arn't they? I love the colours too and they all have their own expressions. I must get down to the post office van with this parcel for Mandy.

Love the pigs Mandy, so cute.

Ann I watched the house as well. I have read the book four years ago but can only vaguely remember it. I quite enjoyed it as well.
Hope your OH soon tests negative.
It is cold here, trying not to turn the heating up. But might give in soon.

I have a hair appointment too in the next fortnight AnnG and hadn't thought about the staff not wearing masks now. I hope mine still does as she lives on her own and wouldn't want to get it. It seems we will all be at more risk now.

Another early night for us I think. OH can do a test tomorrow as it will be his 5th day. I'll be glad when he stops being infectious as he doesn't think before he starts touching things let alone remember to wipe them afterwards. I'm following him round all the time with a cloth (at a distance!).

I watched the first episode of The House last night, a 4 part thriller. It jumps to the past which I hate, but I'm quite enjoying it.

Oh Mandy your pigs in blankets are so cute........lovely! <3 They are sure to sell well. :-D
I have a hair appointment too in the next fortnight AnnG and hadn't thought about the staff not wearing masks now. I hope mine still does as she lives on her own and wouldn't want to get it. It seems we will all be at more risk now.

Another early night for us I think. OH can do a test tomorrow as it will be his 5th day. I'll be glad when he stops being infectious as he doesn't think before he starts touching things let alone remember to wipe them afterwards. I'm following him round all the time with a cloth (at a distance!).

I watched the first episode of The House last night, a 4 part thriller. It jumps to the past which I hate, but I'm quite enjoying it.

It was a very cold walk to the hairdresser as the wind was icy.. This time none of the staff were wearing masks which was a bit off putting especially as one more has just gone down with it and the girl who did mine has not had it. I had my mask on but not sure how much they protect us when the others are not wearing them. Just have to keep fingers crossed. I suppose if I get it, I won't know the culprit, could be the bus last friday, yesterday at Evesham or today at the hairdresser and then local garden centre. Cases seem to be rocketting up all over England according to the published figures, gone up a lot since the end of restrictions.

Had a nice chat with my friend at the garden centre I was out early from the hairdressers and she had driven round to the post office so she picked me up as I was about to walk home. Which saved me a walk in the cold wind.

Missed you there Mandy! I think you are right about people not bothering as much, especially now there's no legal requirement to self isolate. As a contact I don't even need to self isolate either. OH said a lot of teachers are off with covid. You've got a lot done today already! It's nice when you can dry sheets outside with a good blow.

Morning All,

I slept well, but unusual for me I needed a fleece throw and my fluffy dressing gown on the bed as well as a hot water bottle to get warm. My voice had gone again this morning and I have a cough, but tested negative again so that was good. I had to throw one test away as I just couldn't squeeze a second drop on the test strip. They don't give you much liquid! I feel a bit brighter today, less achey and OH seems perkier and less of a cough so we'll have to see how we go over the next few days. He will test himself again after the 5 days they say.

We got our first test packs a while ago Mel in case we got symptoms and then in case OH had to test himself before meetings, but they soon changed to zoom ones instead until just now. I ordered the last 2 packs online like Vera said and I see the free cut off date is end of April not March as I said. It seems a very good service and saves you going out to get them. Your girls had a night out then last night. :-D I wonder what time they came out this morning.

Vera it's a nuisance that your doctors couldn't find a reason for your pain, but at least he has excluded the bones! I hope the chiropodist can come up with something more helpful for you to try.

It's bright and sunny here too AnnG so your walk to the hairdresser should be pleasant and be nice to get your hair shipshape again.

Better get on with paperwork now.