General Chat

Good morning, looks nice and bright and dry and no wind out there, might get a few garden jobs done I think.
slept well from 11 to 0530 then lay awake but still had a good sleep. Tesco shop this morning so I had better get on. I have had a shower, washed my hair and cleaned the bathroom so a good start.

Morning Ang and all,

You beat me Anng I hav'nt done anything yet just having a cuppa.

Weathers dry here but grey and mostly windless. Not been out so don't know what its like yet the weather thingy says its 3 degrees out thereand nearly 15 in here.

Do need to sort my new lights out onthe patio netting and do some ironing and maybe a bit more family tree.

Hope others have slept well and got enough ZZZZZZZ's in.

Just done a load of washing and half is in the dryer. Not very warm outside although it says it is 5 degrees. I have been out and cleaned out the main water feature and also pulle a few dead grasses.

Iv'e got washing in but oh has been prssure washing his filter shed and the mess the blackbird made on what he had already cleaned.

redid my red roses but I think they are really over now and they did'nt open.
Tidyed round and fed the wild birds and chickens and picked up a load of dead branches that had fallen off the BIG oak tree on the side of the back field by the chickkens run.

Now I have to clear all the plants off the front of my shed so oh can wash that all down as we have paint coming for it. It has'nt been done since he built it for me years ago and is now looking a bit sad.

The wind out there is bitter and cuts right through you buit the suns out now so thats good. 7.4 degrees now.

Suns shining brightly now but itd still extremly cold outside int he wind.

We had homemade soup for lunch and I am so full I can hardly move.

There is a very cold wind here. I have just taken tqo carrier bags of shirts and odds and ends down to the charity lady's house and the wind was bitter.

Seen two things of interest in the garden this afternoon. The Long Tailed Tits looking for cobwebs and flying off with some and a hedgehog who worked its way across the border and into the orchard and I got a few pics in the orchard. They are not very clear as it was a long way away.

Sent a few pics.

AnnG, I forgot to mention your garden pictures last time I posted. Nice to see plenty of colour. We have a similar hellebore to your dark pinky red one which always blooms for weeks. I think ours is called Penny's Pink. The new yellow hellebore I bought in January hasn't bloomed yet but it seems to be doing OK. At least the leaves look nice and healthy. Perhaps it won't bloom till next year. Our daffs seem to be doing well this year. I have some later ones in pots but in the garden we have one called February Gold and they are a mass of bloom this year. I love daffs. They are my favourite flower.

Talking of flowers, I bought some tulips and some long stemmed narcissi for our two neighbours today and they were so pleased. One, a single lady in her 70s, has been really poorly with a spinal problem for a few weeks now and the other one is our next door neighbour whose husband is back in hospital and who has a heart problem herself. I thought they might both need cheering up a bit and the narcissi had a wonderful perfume. After I got back home I wished I'd bought myself some.

I was up for a lot of the night again and saw my neighbour's lights go on around 2 am and they were on for a couple of hours., Apparently her husband had rung her from the hospital under the impression that it was 2 in the afternoon. He was really confused and after she had spoken to him she had to wait till 4 am for the doctor to ring to tell her what was going on. He seems to have some sort of infection but they can't work out what the infection is so I think they are just gradually eliminating things.

I've been on the drag all day today. I didn't sleep much last night so I didn't get up till 9.15 am which is late for me. I sorted out a Tesco order for delivery Monday but then decided to brave one of the shops. I am fed up with eating out of the freezer and fancied a nice fresh chicken to roast for Sunday and I wanted to get some flowers. On the rare occasions when I have gone to a supermarket it has been the Co-op as that is never very busy, but they don't have such a good selection of products and I can't always get what I want so I decided on Sainsbury's. I went at lunchtime but it was really busy. People were generally being careful but it was impossible to keep much of a distance when everyone was trying to get to the same shelves. I was glad to get home. I did manage to drive myself which sounds stupid as it's only a few minutes in each direction but, apart from going to the bottle bank which is only a 1 minute drive away, I haven't been at the wheel of the car since breaking the bones in my foot.

It's been a cold, grey day again today and might get as low as -4 tonight!!! That'll mean a heavy frost, just in time to ruin all the new buds coming through :-(

OH is cooking tonight. I told him I wanted to use some eggs so I expect he'll just do eggs, chips and beans.

Stay warm and have a good night everyone

Evening All,

Another good night's sleep and no rain today!.

Glad you liked my latest paint and brush effort and I had a chuckle at your OH's comment Vera! It was very encouraging to see it and would have been good to hear it. Good idea to get behind the wheel and I hope your foot managed ok. It was very thoughtful of you to get the 2 ladies some flowers and I must admit I love Narcissus flowers myself. That phone call your neighbour had at such an ungodly hour must have been alarming till she heard who it was. I hope they sort out her husband so he is back at home soon. I shall be glad once I feel comfortable visiting the farm shop for some really fresh meat and veg, your chicken sounds very tasty.

That's good to see one of your Hedgehogs around Mel, or should he still be asleep? He looks ok anyway.

i see you are getting things done AnnG, all steps forward in sorting things out and getting straight. The walk to the charity shop lady would be good too and it's clearing things you don't need too.

I still seem to be lethargic today. I caught up with friends in a zoom meeting, but none of us have much to talk about anymore as we aren't doing anything much. My hairdresser, who is also the salon manager, has contacted me on FB and has booked my hair appointment for the day after they open, before they open their phones and the masses start ringing as she put it! I think by then I will have mutton chop sideburns to go with the Marcel waves.

OH had to make an appointment to see the nurse again today as he has earache and some blood from the other ear now!! They squeezed him in so they could take a swab and send it off today, but the nurse thinks it is another fungal infection like the other ear had. :-( It's back to the eardrop regime again for now till the results are back).

Vera that was a nice thing to do, buying flowers for your neighbours. I am sure they appreciated the thought. I hope the infection and confusion doesn't lead the poor man in the same direction it took T. He too got confused thinking day was night in his case.

Our/my hellebores all seem to have lost their labels, there are two that lovely dark pinky red colour and they have held the colour for two or three years.

I noticed with the photos that the lawn needs cutting eugh!

Annx I think we are all getting stale and fed up now we have been incarcerated for so long. Hopefully not for much longer.
Yes it is getting rid of stuff but I have taken about 16 shirts out of roughly 100 so a lot of carrier bags to go.

A golf club friend of T’s came today and took three large coffee jars of golf tees and a large carrier bag full of golf balls plus a pair of golf shoes So that cleared another shelf in the garage.

Your getting there Anng. A bit each day is a good thing to do.

That was nice to give your neighbours flowers Vera and I bet they really appreciated them and the thought that went with them.

Hope you all sleep better tonight.

Good morning all, lovely sunny morning out there but still -2 degrees so not sunbathing weather yet. Hoping it will stay dry and be a bit warmer. Would like to give the lawn a bit of a cut.

Morning Anng and all,

Nice bright sunny morning here too after a hard frost which is still around in places the sun has'nt reached.

Shop for the paper this morning and drop some eggs off at em's.

One lot of washing to go out on the line and then another lot in to take advantage of the sun.

I put the solar lights around the patio wire yesterday with pegs, 35 of them and they looked ok when it got dark so today I have to wire them on the netting 35 ties to get them to stay where I want them and its a back breaking tasdk so I shall do it in stages.

Hope you get your lawn cut today Anng and the garden will look nice and tidy then.

Morning AnnG, morning all,

Dull morning here and so cold , Colin is out finishing off the pressure washing ,I don't think he will be out there for long in the cold but he only has a little bit left to do .

Mel is that hog about early ,with still getting frosts you would have thought he would have stayed curled up ,perhaps some thing disturbed him or he was hungry .

AnnG sounds as if you have a big job sorting through all T's shirts but his things are going to good homes by the sound of it .
Do you have a light weight mower so you can manage the lawns ,we use to have a petrol one it was a devil for me to pull the cord to get it started ,the one we have now is electric and so much easier to use.

I had my letter to book my vaccine jab but I will hold on for them to ring me as the appointments are miles away .

Vera that was a lovely thought to buy your neighbours some flowers I bet they were surprised, I hope the poor man is soon feeling better .

Still no Gill ?

It would have been my Mum#s birthday today (112 years), and it is my second Grandson's birthday as well. <3 <3

Morning Mel you popped in while I was typing :-)

Happy Birthday to your grandson AnnG.

Just taken about 14 shirts to the charity lady with some other bits including a lot of silk ties, golf caps etc and I have counted, in the two wardrobes there are another 67 shirts, two jacket, numerous pairs of trousers and in an adjoning cupboard there are 16 sweaters (all good ones) and then there are all the T shirts. I have kept the sweaters that fir me (wearing one at the moment, can't even remember him wearing this one.)

Yes Happy birthday to your grandson Anng. Someone will be very pleased withT's shirts and I am sure they will go to deserving people. Don't forget to keep the nice ones for the cushion and the bears.

Still not got the washing out.

Oh is clearing all my plants from the front of my shed so he can pressure wash it today ready for repainting.

The hog should'nt have been out during the day but they do start to come around in March. I expect he was hungry and he had a good snuffle around everywhere up the orchard under the gras cuttings so should have filled his belly.

Afternoon to you all,

Nothing going on here, Ros has just come back from shopping with Martine. and is now getting a bit of lunch.

I Have been sitting in the conservatory reading most of the morning. Very cold and dull outside. So not going out.

Lunch is now being served. !!!!