General Chat

I’d forgotten about your water source, another issue to raise when they try to send hubby home.

You need to let the ward know about the lack of water so you can’t wash his clothes, even if you could get there to pick up and drop off. Make sure they know that it is well water and not frozen pipes.

Oh Joan, the water problem is just what you don’t need. It makes me appreciate our mains services. I hope that your neighbour can get you up and running again

I have spent all morning answering queries from our new buyers solicitor. So it looks like they did buy the searches from the previous buyers and everything is progressing quickly. I just wish we had a timescale so we could have a rough idea when we will be going, assuming everything goes through smoothly of course

And then it was gone......

Afternoon all. Had a very sleepless night as my sinuses are really bad and just kept sneezing and blowing me nose every few minutes, just awful. But then the rain came and was lashing on my bedroom window at 4am!

However I eventually nodded off after sleeping sitting up with loads of pillows but when I got up at 8am, opened the curtains to find most of the snow had vanished as if by magic :-D

So daughter away to town to collect some things and then back at 2.30 . I have made another pan of lentil soup today as she really enjoyed the other pan.
We did do some baking but.... my cinnamon swirls were not the best. They were edible but not that tasty and wasnt worth the pile of washing up either afterwards!!

Anyway no baking today.

I am carrying on with the friends family tree to get it finished asap. Daughter is working on a Diamond Art I bought her for xmas and its keeping her busy.

Joan, Oh my no water upstairs!! Gosh what next? I so hope your friend can sort out the pump for you. Yes phone the hospital and explain your situation. about not being able to do any washing. Here's hoping you wont need a new one, maybe its just because of the freezing temp and snow maybe.

AG, that's a real nuisance with the freezer but its lasted pretty well. Think my mums old fridge was about 25 years when it finally gave up. I sometimes wish we had space for another or larger freezer to build up a good supply for when we cant get deliveries. My fridge freezer has 4 drawers so not huge but there is only 2 of us but like you we are rural. I don't have a garage or shed and although kitchen is a good size, there really isn't room for any other appliance.

The courier has just been and delivered me a large Thermos Flask I ordered last week. One of those things we just never got round to buying. Its 1 litre in size with 2 cups and will be handy especially as there is a big storm heading this way next few days so perfect timing :-D

Well better check on the soup and make some crumpets for me lunch then more family tree work.

Hope you get sorted Joan

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Oh Joan, what a lovely man and so glad he can help you by giving you a generator so you are not with out water. Those kind of people are hard to come by. thesedays and those that are ready to help charge the earth!

Daughter just made it for the bus and now home with bags of goodness know what lol
I have just put the heating on now as the temp seems to have dropped sharply so it will soon be warm in here.

Linda, my estate agent said that the local authorities are the ones that take ages to answer all the questions about land etc... we have no chain and just the buyer and seller and she said end of Feb beg of Mar hopefully. So until all the paperwork and land registry forms have been dealt with, they cant give you a date yet. The searches here have all been done and completed.

Is Florence’s daughter a fan of I’m a Celebrity……
A bit chewy perhaps.

:-D :-D :-D :-D

:-D :-D :-D @names def not :-P :-P :-P Cant stand to watch that dreadful programme, makes me feel sick first time I ever saw it!

Fav pizza, big fat chips for me, soup and half a pizza for her,

We still have loads of sweets from xmas, quality street, after eights, maltesas etc Im just fed up with them ,oh and a 24 tray of Ferrero Rocher.

I have a lot of Christmas sweets, too, Florence, and don't know what to do with them, as I very seldom eat sweets, and don't want to start.

I might donate them to the local foodbank - though not exactly nourishing for their clients!

No Ferrero Rocher, thank goodness - my least favourite.

If I eat too much chocolate, it makes me wheezy so have to restrict to like 2-3 squares of chocolate or 2 say milk tray. It's because of my asthma.

I just fancy a nice boiled fruit sweet like Foxes fruits but I haven't got any and couldn't see them on Tesco either. Infact there wasn't a great choice of fruity boiled sweets.
I cant really donate any of mine as they are all open with a few missing from each box ;-)

I am glad that you have your water back Joan. I hope that the electrical problem isn’t too bad and you neighbour can sort it out for you.

You are all very naughty tempting me with chocolates. That won’t do my weight any good :-0

Good morning all. 4 degrees here so a lot warmer.
Joan what a performance with the water, thank goodness for your friend, hope he can get it sorted for you.
Florence good that the snow has disappeared and you are now stocked up a bit more again.
Linda, it must be frustrating not knowing when you will be moving, hope it all goes through soon so that you have some sort of date to work with.
Chocolates, Hmm! yes three boxes for Christmas and I am slowly eating them before getting back on the low carb diet as I put on weight over Christmas.

Morning all

its cold here as a very windy NE wind and getting stronger. Storm Isha will make its mark later and so just now we have emptied the bins, secured them and shifted a few small flower pots into shelter.

I had a moving around morning and so shifted various vases etc. It now looks more streamlined in the lounge & hallway and less cluttered.

Postie just left me something I ordered but oh my!!! A pair of soft trousers, elasticated and loose fitting/wide leg. But they are at least 33 in side leg or more and look like they would fit someone who was a size 24 !!

So another thing to send back. I really despair when I order anything these days as clothes never seem to fit properly.

Here's hoping in Mar when I go for a hospital check up, I shall get to the big shopping centre and go on a spree then lol.

Joan hope your water supply is fully working today and the young man found the fault.

AnnIn Gloucs, I will probably end up throwing some of the chocs away. i had a box of the Shell chocs. Belgium ones but not a fan of them. The milk Tray dont even taste the same either. Oh well I lost 2lbs this week so onwards and upwards.

Hope everyone keeping warm and staying safe

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It is supposedly warmer here, but we have been out and it was still very cold. My daughter came with Esme and we went to the nearby town. She had ordered a sheet of Perspex for a project in the new house. It was cheaper to pick it up from here than order it in line.
We went shopping as Esme wanted some “perfume” of her own. Eve uses perfumed body spray and Esme has been coveting it. So we had a trip to Suoerdrug, so she could buy some. She also had her feet measured, but they hadn’t changed. The sale was on, so she bought a pair of very sparkly trainers with flashing lights on the sole. They were half price, so that was a bonus.

We then went to the garden centre and had a very nice lunch. Eve was supposed to be coming, but she stayed behind with her daddy. He was supposed to be doing his tax return, but I bet neither of them actually did anything.

I need to venture out to Tesco now as we are very low on fruit and we eat lots of it.

I am pleased that your snow is melting up north. I hope the storm doesn’t cause damage.

Despite eating chocs Florence I managed to lose a pound this week.
I am very naughty Linda I don't eat enough fruit. I would eat bananas but they are not good for a low carb diet (strangely a lot of fruit seem to fall into that category) I do like and eat berries and Kiwi fruit when I can remember to get them.
Joan glad you sorted the latest water problem.

It was freezing when I went to Tescos . There were massive gaps on the shelves, they didn’t have any bananas at all and a very poor selection of apples, no Granny Smiths for instance. Luckily Lidl is just over the road and they had plenty of bananas there. I also got some dishwasher salt which Tesco’s didn’t have. Everything must be stuck on ships having to come the long way to avoid Yemen.

joan do you mean on TV or radio. I find it easier not to listen or watch the weather and news sometimes.

good morning all, 10 degrees here and dry but dull and rain promised later.

Morning all

Joan last night we had what we call here the "pre gales" . It was very stormy and a local power cut affected a village several miles away but not us. It is now sunny and calm but its later tonight, the wind is supposed to strengthen. Here the local website give out extreme warnings etc every time but we are so use to it, i dont take much notice as quite often it is scaremongering and it doesn't happen!!

All I do is take sensible precautions like secure the bins and small flower pots by moving the pots into a sheltered spot. I have always a good supply of batteries for the torches and now a flask which i may fill again later on.

The problem with the news channel is, is that they do repeat every 1/2 hour. I prefer to have the radio on, at least news and weather is only every hour.

I have my friend and neighbour popping in later for coffee and a catch up so looking forward to that. I think she's quite happy to escape her hubby for an hour on sun afternoon as he watches a lot of sky sports and she cant stand it lol.
Tesco cancelled her order yesterday afternoon so she had to drive 60 mile round trip to buy her own things!

Call the midwife tonight and Vera(last one) so good viewing.

Stay safe everyone

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Linda, forgot to say, at least you have a choice of supermarkets!

Where you are moving to, are the shops as close as they are now and is there a lot of choice?I think as you get older, having a few shops within 5-10 mins walking distance is good as you can get a daily exercise and make a trip 2-3 times a week rather than drive for one big shop.

Home deliveries are good for me being immobile but if I could use the bus i would as it gets you out of the house and you see people. The downside of only getting home deliveries is that you are isolated if you live on your own and you dont get out to socialise.

For some doing a small shop in the supermarket is good for mental wellbeing .

Hope you get word soon from you solicitor

Good afternoon, the wind is starting to get up here, so the storm is on its way.
Someone came this afternoon and collected the dining table and chairs. I think she didn’t realise how big the table was, but that is her problem now, It is gone ,so that is good for us. I deleted the add and have made a new one with the dresser and corner cupboard on it. We don’t really want to take them, but it wouldn’t be the end of the world if we did as it will probably be a couple of months before the new kitchen and dining room cupboards will be ready. At least, I could use the current cabinets in the meantime.
We have a round metal patio table and chairs, so we have brought it into the dining room to use until we move and buy a new dining set. . The table has tubular metal legs and OH had to turn it on its side to carry it in. It has left a trail of black drops all over the floor which look like oil, bur will just be years worth of dirty water. Thankfully the downstairs flooring is wood not carpets, so I was able to just wipe it up.


We do have a selection of supermarkets to choose from here. There is a small Co- op just four or five minutes walk away in the town square, but that is expensive, so I only get the odd thing from there. Tesco and Lidl are just a ten minute walk away I sometimes walk there with my trolley, but usually I would be doing a bigger shop, so I take the car. We also have an Aldi a ten minute drive away.
The new house isn’t as convenient, it will probably take me about twenty five minutes to walk to the town centre, but there aren’t any supermarkets there. It will be a ten minute drive to an Aldi or fifteen minute drive to a large Morrisons . Twenty minutes would get me to an absolutely massive Sainsbury’s. I could get deliveries, but while I can drive, I prefer to go myself, or I could get a taxi easily

I hope everyone is OK, I read that lots of electricity is off on Shetland, so I hope Florence isn’t affected.
It was very windy last night and this morning, I saw that a recycling bin over the road had blown over and though they had picked it up, there was litter all down the road. So I have just been out and done a litter pick of the area and got a large bag full .. The wind seems to be picking up again after having died down, so I will stay in apart from popping next door for a coffee this afternoon

Here in northern Argyll we seem to have got off lightly compared with some other places.
It was certainly a very wild night, and some items were blown around in my garden, but nothing damaged, and all now retrieved. The wind is back to a more normal level now, though still with occasional strong gusts.
Our electricity stayed on, thank goodness.

Are you OK, Florence?
From Google, I can see that the wind is still about 50-60mph in your area, and there's a yellow warning for wind until Wednesday, because of the approach of Storm Jocelyn.