General Chat

Evening all,

It's been nice and sunny and I nipped to town to get our tablets from boots but oh the glare from the sun shouldn't complain as it was so nice to see the sun and there was a lively sunset tonight .

Ann it sounds as if the physio might have found the problem with OH let's hope these blood tests can show something .

These ipads are strange in the words they can type and you don't notice ,but i now have a vision of Vera with a ginger bicycle .
Your granddaughter would have no trouble sorting out the bus and trains if she uses public transport in Manchester , young ones just take things in their stride and if just comes as normal to them .

When I went into town this morning I bought well Colin bought me a new handbag ,he asked me what I would like for my birthday and I said a new bag so he said have a look when you go up , there's a nice little shop that had some nice ones in a size I like ,I don't like a big bag .

Oh the weather woman has just said might be snow at the weekend .

Good morning all. -2 degrees here now and a really hard frost. I was intending going on a walk through the village today but I guess they didn't leave me with sufficient blood as I feel really exhausted today. I barely slept at all and felt really unwell through the ight. No actual physical symptoms, just felt weird. So I have cancelled the walk and am just going to take it easy and remember I am not 48 any more. Can't keep going without a rest period. Friend I was going with is ok with not going. I gues the fact that it is a thick fog out there and a hard frost helps the decision.
Hope everyone has a better sleep than me.

Morning all,

Very very frosty here this morning 2 degrees and pc says expect light rain tomorrow.

I hav'nt read all of yesterdays posts yet so I better catch up now.

Morning all,

Very frosty here it was foggy when we got up but that's cleared a bit now and the suns shining .

Anng have a rest today you've had a lot going on the last few days with one thing and another.

Not a lot happening here today just the usual jobs like a dust and hoover through and maybe make a cake .

Good morning all.

No frost for us, but it is rather chilly, although there's lots of blue sky and the sun is shining brightly.
No school today, as they are off on a trip to Canterbury. I sometimes go with them on trips, but they are quite a large class now and there has to be room to transport 2 wheelchairs plus all the support staff to have the correct adult to children ratio.
Coaches became so expensive and now the school, like many others, have their own mini buses to use.
One more week of school next week, then it's half term!

AnnG, Sorry to hear that you felt so unwell. As suggested a calm quiet day might help towards a better night tonight. I hope so <3

Mandy, I hope you enjoyed your weekday roast, the other day. We went to a carvery last weekend and there was a choice of gammon, beef or turkey. I have a child size meal, but all that means is that there is less meat ( but probably still more than I'd have at home) We are served the meat, but help ourselves to the lovely variety of veg. they have cooked. I prefer beef to be rather more cooked than they often serve, so I chose turkey, - 2 lovely thick slices, well cooked, but moist, - lovely. We were marking a family birthday, so it was nice to get together with all 3 children. Afterwards we went for coffee and birthday cake at son's house, so more time to chat together <3

Vera,
So lovely to read about how much you enjoyed your grandaughter's visit with her boyfriend. It's always good when the young folk want to introduce their friends to the family and it seems he got the seal of approval too ;-)

Annx, It's good to read that you are starting to do some of the simple things that you enjoy, like going out and about. I hope that OH improves each day, so that you are able to venture out even more.

Mel, you do seem to have quite hard frosts. I bet your wild birds are glad that they have such a good 'hotel' to visit for feeding in this cold weather.
Are your snowdrops out yet? A friend and I like to visit a country park fairly near here during February to see the magnificent display of snowdrops there, but are unsure of getting the timing right.

A day of this and that for me today. I might go into town to pick up my prescription tablets. I don't run out until the end of next week, but it is dry and bright even though it is cold today and who knows what the weather might do next week?
I have to go in next week anyway at some point to take in some blood pressure readings, which I'm taking at home for a few days. The nurse rang the other day saying they didn't have up to date readings. Home life is hopefully a bit calmer now after a flurry of birthdays and grandson visiting, so hopefully the readings are likely to be satisfactory.
So far so good ;-)

I still have a picture in my mind of Vera on the byke!!

Just been hoovering and then went round to do the girls and feed the wildies and something has killed a bird by the feeder and I thinkit may have been one of my Robin as there are ginger feather and dark grey one with white tips. At first I thought woodpecker with the white but on closer inspection there are brown wing feathers and ginger (like Vera's byke) ones too.

Gwyn my Snowdrops have been out since the end of December. I also have some yellow crocus out there too.

As its a nice day with plenty of sunshine I'll go and get a pic for you all.

We have been having a lot of very noisey planes around here this morning and they hurt my ears. Just as I was going round to the girls it started again. Not sure if there are manuvers around here as we do get them sometimes but they are so annoying.

I'm going to shout this!! I HAD MY FIRST BROWN EGG OF THE SEASON TODAY. I was so surprised to see just the one egg in the nest box and so one of the very old girls has started to lay again.

I have been seeing rabbits in the garden again last week. First one and then I saw two together so I put the fence back up the top garden and set the trap and I have just realised it shut so I have caught something and I hope it not a pheasent as I have a job to let those out.

It was a very large doe and I think it may have been carrying a lot of kits. Its now over the back field waiting to be collected by a passing bird.

Just tried to send some pics but I keep getting a message up saying we are experiencing problem. I had all your email addresses up and all the pictures on it it came up again and I lost the lot so I have to try again.

I also have my hellebores all out in flower.

Its gone this time. Enjoy. The pics with the snowdrops on my hand are my double ones and there not so many of those in the orchard.

Thanks for the photos Mel.
Lovely! So many snowdrops and lovely crocus. I love the inside of the snowdrops, so pretty

I'm like you Gwyn my meat has to be well cooked ,a lot of places have pink beef and I just can't tackle that .

Lovely to see your garden Mel with its carpet of snowdrops ,I always think its a shame the little heads of the Snowdrop hang down and you can't see how pretty they are .

Well so much for having a dust, hoover and making a cake, got a bit side tracked with the knitted doll ,but she's all finished now and I'm now crocheting a floppy rabbit ,only the body /head ,feet and hands are stuffed the legs and arms left to make it floppy, all done with oddments so nice and colourful.

Looking through the documents saved it is not as good as it first appeared. Many of the docs are corrupted so they will need to be checked and deleted if they are no good. Looking at them though it is not a big problem as much of the saved stuff is out of date anyway so I need to do new docs. Going to take a while though.

It sounds as though you have a job on your hands sorting out your docs AnnG. Wait until you have had a good night’s sleep and feel a bit better before you tackle it. Give yourself a rest today.

Mel, the snowdrops are lovely and the crocus look so cheerful. I was pleased a couple of weeks ago to see our two little patches of snowdrops are in bloom. We bought them at Anglesey Abbey last February so this is their first year of blooming here. We have 3 patches of winter aconites in bloom and, being bright yellow, they always look sunny. My few hellebores are in bloom as well but don’t look quite as good as usual. Enjoy your dinner with Stu tonight. It’s good your “old lady” has laid you a nice brown egg.

Gwyn, I hope your blood pressure is at an acceptable level now your family birthdays etc are over. Do you have to take the bp readings to your surgery? Every so often my surgery send me an online form by email, I do a few readings and email it back. They then contact me if they are not happy with my bp levels. It does make me laugh a bit because I could fill in anything on the form and they wouldn’t know if they are genuine readings or not.

Mandy, you should set up a little hand made toy shop. I am sure you would make plenty of sales but you would need to be on hand all the time in case your light-fingered lady popped in. I usually cook my meat quite thoroughly but if I am out I don’t mind roast beef or lamb being just a little bit pink as long as it isn’t bloody. I couldn’t cope with that.

I hope your OH is improving daily Annx. I had to laugh at him worrying about Valentine’s cards as this is where our 2 men do differ. Mine wouldn’t know what a Valentine’s card is if it jumped up and bit him on the nose. I’ve only ever had 1 from him. That was when we were engaged and I am still convinced that his mother sent it. Strangely enough, he always buys me a beautiful Christmas card.

I spoke to my daughter yesterday and she is doing well though she said she has days when she gets up and can’t seem to do anything. I know some of you ladies who have lost your partners will understand that. However, she has had a walk with a small village walking group she has joined and enjoyed that. She also went along to a meeting where they were asking for volunteers to help in a small local garden. She was happy to spend a couple of hours a week doing some weeding, planting etc. However, once they found out the sort of person she is and the job she did they asked her to become a trustee and set them up with a 5 or 10 year development plan and an educational programme for local primary schools. I’ve told her not to take on anything at the moment that is going to put pressure on her. All she has agreed so far is that she will go along to the AGM at the end of the month and see what it’s all about.

It was very frosty and foggy first thing but did brighten up later and we had some sun. We went to our Thursday coffee meet – 7 of us today. It’s starting to cool down again now and is getting quite gloomy so I must go and put some letters in the post box before it gets really dark.

Vera, The same thought occured to me. I could just write down the figures which I think they'd want to see, but that would be foolish of course, because high blood pressure can be very serious, so I will be truthful.
This is a follow up to my annual review, when my 'in the surgery' blood pressure was just a little high. They want readings for a few days to see that everything is generally OK.I will take them into the surgery next week and they will contact me if they want to discuss the results.
The same thing happened last year, so in fact the nurse doing the checks said I was to take recent readings with me, the next time I have a review ;-)

I have done a bit on the PC but tried to not overdo it. The long job is going to be checking all the word files and deleting the ones that are corrupted. I am just very tired now but otherwise feel ok.
Yes I thought that about BP when I had to do it. They are very trusting. I suppose it would be us who suffered if we gave made up readings if something was wrong.
I don’t think my Hellebores are as good as usual. Some of the flowers are muddy fall the rain we had.

Evening All,

A sharp frost here this morning and I noticed a favourite red pot I have had for years is broken now, so that will have to be dumped. Thanks for the pics of your snowdrops and crocus Mel. You have quite a carpet of them here and there. Do they get mowed once they have flowered or do you leave them for a while? How nice to spot a brown egg today from one of the old girls! Hope you enjoy your meal tonight with Stu. It's good you have some company.

Sorry you had a bad night AnnG. That feeling weird mat have been a bit of underlying anxiety due to the pc and windows change. I'm glad you felt ok later. I had the opportunity and think I did a purge of my files before I changed to W11, but you will soon get there.

Well done getting the doll finished Mandy and I see you have been changing to crochet now and doing a 'floppy' rabbit.

I hope your BP readings will be good Gwyn now things are calmer at home! OH has to have daily ones done at the moment too and his are are always higher at the surgery.

Vera, he always sends me more than one card too, same with Christmas and my Birthday! I've never had a love letter from him, although he did used to write to me when he stayed away at hotels on courses with his job. Yes, your daughter doesn't want to take too much on just yet. Is she retired now?

We are back at the surgery tomorrow for OH's blood tests the physio wants. We were at the pharmacy today to collect tablets he was running out of and I asked if they would check if a sore spot on my foot is a corn or verrucca as it is behind a little toe and I can't contort myself to see it properly. They confirmed it is a Verrucca and I have some stuff to treat it with. The only place I can have picked it up is at the surgery when I had to undress a few months ago and was barefoot on their floor. :-S

Morning girls,

There was a heavy frost last night but when I got up this morning it had all gone. I was up at 7.55am for the loo and I had slept right through from 1.30am. It must have been that huge dinner I cooked for Stu and I last night.

I wonder if BIL will come today?

Hope you all slept well last night too and are bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning.

Hope the blood tests and physio go off ok today and that you can get a good parking spot.

Good morning all slept quite well last night. Really strange waking up though. I 'woke up' and there was a lot of noise like a noisy room, looked at the bedside clock it was 9am. I thought gosh, unusually late to wake up. closed my eyes for a snooze, woke up and it was 6am and what went before was a dream.

Just had a fight with the WFi I am hoping Dom has not disturbed it with all the getting the printer on WiFi etc on Tuesday, although it has been ok since and it was ok on the Ipad this morning. anyway, went into settings and it was turned off (strange), turned it on, still no wifi, turned everything off and on again and Wifi is on!!!! But at the moment still can't get google. So no mail or facebook. Happy days!! :-S

I walked down to Irenes with a load of CDs and also went to post a letter. It is book weekend so stopped off there and got a few books. I was glad to get back indoors though as there is an east wind, temp is5 degrees but it feels a whole lot colder my hands were frozen.

Afternoon All,

A chilly start this morning and now the wind's got up a bit as well.

It was just blood tests this morning Mel. The physio won't touch him at the moment. There were a few parking spaces at the surgery with us being so early. We set off early, as yesterday we saw there was a queue on the road to the surgery and thought there may be roadworks. There weren't any and it worked out well as OH was in and out in a few minutes, so he may have been seen before anyone else as he was there. The parking spaces are very narrow, but we went in my car, as I find it harder to judge the width of OH's car until I've driven it more. OH finds my heavy doors harder to open though and it is less easy for him to get in and out with his bad back and neck with the low roof. I ought to consider changing my car, but was hoping not to yet as it is very low mileage and I wouldn't know what to get anyway.

I've shredded some papers I've decided I don't need to keep and will do some more tomorrow and have cleaned the ensuite and hoovered the lounge and porch and dusted them as well. We can't always read each other's notes, so need to type up some of the important stuff to access certain things for each other if needs be. It makes you think with all this fingerprint and face ID, how could someone else access your PC or phone if they needed to and you weren't with them.

That was an odd dream AnnG, but it's good you cleared some more CDs and got some more books to read. It sounds like you may have to ring Dom to sort out your PC. It sounds as if the PC isn't connected to wifi now for some reason.

Afternoon all,
No frost this morning but it feels really cold in the wind ,no sign of any sun ,it is very cloudy and looks more like rain .

I made the cakes for the family this morning ,Apple cake and Old School Cake so that will fo them for the weekend.

Ann I hope you managed to park OK for OH's blood test today ,I suppose it will be a few days before he gets the results .

Any more brown eggs Mel .

Anng these dreams seem so real at the time don't they ,I was dreaming that someone asked if I would like some wool as they had a shop that was closing down and when they dropped it off there was bags and bags of if and jumpers all bagged up in clear plastic bags .