General Chat

Yep, a lot of lazy ol' sods, aren't we. :-D :-D

Ros was first up, and bought me my cuppa about nine oclock Lewis slept till nearer 9.45. Had to get him a milky coffee and a bacon sarnie.

We then decided to put the bed back into a chair. What a game trapped my finger twice. Will be a nice B#### M### Pinch on one of them. All back together now.

As I said I got everything ready for dinner yesterday. H & J will come about 4/5pm and stay till about 8pm. It will give me a change to clear up after they are gone, and catch an hours T.V.

Not looking good out there at the moment. very dark clouds, just like yesterday.

Morning everyone

Its absolutely pouring with rain here again today so much so that I have a large pool of water outside the greenhouse door. One good thing......no watering today!! Yesterday was the same until 4pm when the sun suddenly came out and it turned into a lovely evening.
I am having a quiet weekend at home catching up on the dusting and other chores. I also watched the tele yesterday as there was a mountain stage of the TDF followed by John Barrowman and the last Matrix film which I had pre recorded. I will have square eyes soon.
I have done lots of baking as there was no cake in the freezer and have spent some time working on my family tree. I am hoping this rain stops soon so I can take a walk for some air.
Frank We have some runner beans forming now and the cauliflowers are beginning to heart. Picked the last of the strawberries a couple of days ago and have also picked two lots of blueberries and i can see more ready but they will have to wait until the rain stops.Everything has grown rapidly since the rain started and even the pumpkins are beginning to form.
Jane I hope you find some nice shoes and do not get too wet whilst shopping. As usual I am miles behind with posts but send love to everyone. :-) :-)

Morning everyone,

Nice and sunny here at the moment ,but a few black clouds about .
Family have just been for coffee ,hubby's just loading a few bits up to go to the tip ,and then we're off to the coast , we call in at the tip on the way .

Enjoy your day everyone .
BBL

morning all..I just lost my previous thread..am on a different pc and must have clicked something,,,,the sun is trying to come out here but we did wake up to rain..not a lot i can do in the house today
Alan didnt get the call back they promised him friday teatime...We know the tilers are in mon /tues but the decorators are in next week????and the tiles should be getting taken off the bathroom walls ??? but when they will be here we dont know...the air will be blue on monday morning when alan rings the head compant again..The insurance people found the unbrella company we are using..they then have the contractors for different jobs..but thecommunication is bad

They have to be here before i leave for work...we are on holiday on sat to majorca for a week..they are not being left in the house..dont have a kitchen light and cant use the extractor fan until the electrician comes and he is held up by the tilers and decorators lol

Watch this space tomorrow ;-) ;-) ;-)

Frank...i remember collecting car numbers in an exercise book when i was about 10....now as I travel on the motoway from time to time i collect the girls names off the cabs of the eddie stobart lorries :-0 have a note pad in the glove box for that...

I will make sure the tiles all match up Ann

We dont have our sunday dinner at lunch time...so no rush to get up....I am doing a casserole today but I only use the exp meat....


Enjoy your day everyone....

Must get up now and have my brekkie lol...Back to being up and dressed by 7am for the rest of the week....

Morning you lot

I beg your pardon ,Lazy indeed I if you must know I was up at 7.30 this morning after my cup of tea I had a shower. washed and dried my hair, had my breakfast ,got dressed then applied make up and went to church for 10.00. got back at 11.30. the rain is pouring down.

we have a man coming at 1.00 this afternoon from Pen*cuk to measure up for our back porch. making no decisions as yet till the other 2 folk we saw yesterday have been next week , as OH wants several costs so he can sort out what budget we will need.

lunch time I think
BBL :-D :-) :-D

Morning Just!!

Been catching up on your osts. Did'nt get up till 9.30 and oh had gone tinging. He has just come in now.

Rained on and off yesterday but I went up the tunnel in the afternoon and tied all the toms up and watered everything really well. Cut courgettes for dinner with our cheese and tomato sausages. Made a sort of ratat without aubs as I don't like those and had pasta too.

Well it is still wet today so I don't know what I am going to do today yet. Probably go up the tunnel as at least it is dry in there. I need to sow some more lettuce as my first lot are going up in the air!! High rise lettuce. ;-)

I had Bunty from when it first came out with the free ladybird pin. Also had beano dandy and topper comics too and later Mirabelle when in my teens.

Pat good luck for next week with the workmen.

Must feed oh now so BBL I hope.

There will be picture coming through to a couple of you.Chris would like to know what it is please.

Well that was quick the fella who came from Peni**ck , came at 1 and was gone by 1.10 they don't do what we want, we are very pleased that he was truthful about things , they only do glass & PVC roofs, we want a slate roof.

Have emailed you Jane.

Are they in your garden??

Thanks Mel.

Well I bought 2 pairs of shoes .One pair very comfy but not as smart as the other pair and they weren't so comfy.They will be going back.
I have a bit of a dilemma now .I was going to wear cream trousers to James Graduation,but have decided that my cream Jacket is not right with them .Have got some nice brown trousers which will look much better but they are too long.I doubt I will find anyone in time to shorten them for me now.
:-S.I don't know anyone with a sewing machine.Oh I wish I had taken more interest in needlework at school.I don't think I dare attempt to turn them up myself.Life is so blooming complicated :-( :-(

No Mel they are around in the back field in the hedgerow.Chris spotted them this morning.
I think he is looking for Damsons to make Damson Gin lol

They will make lovely damson gin Jane. Go round with a big basket and get the ripest ones and only use cheap gin. No need for the good stuff as the damsons will do thei best.

I must just tell you this. I use Car*x hand wash int he kitchen and had washed my hands with it after side shooting the toms yesterday. Then I decided I needed a wee so off I went and washed my hands after with soap. You should have seen the green that came off my hands with soap which had'nt come off with the hand wash!!!!!!!

It has stopped raining!!! I have managed a quick walk around the village before it starts again. I am having great difficulty with this site today as it keeps refusing me entry into my tree and tells me that there are no results for people in records. I am really getting tired of this and may change sites later in the year when my subs are due.
Feeling irritable so off to watch the cycle racing :-(

Sorry to say I am very lazy Frank never got up until 11.30 am
Fiona you do well getting up at that time 7.30 I get up early if I am going over to Beryls or somewhere but today it was raining so I stayed in bed.

Kim I did not realise it was Winter in Australia silly me sorry. How are you today
How lovely going to James graduation Jane what is he going to do and major in. Have I got the right word. well anyway you know what I mean.

i did what Amanda did some time ago and my poor peas were doomed that Sophia gave me. Sophia made such a fuss over giving me some garden peas and I forgot to use them.She saw them in my veggie basket and was waving her hands around like she was having a fit. I giver you the pea and you not use pea. I said ok Sophia sorry lets go and shell peas in the lounge. There we were sitting shelling peas round the coffee table. I nicked one every now and again and they did not taste of anything. I put them in the saucepan bunged in some salt and sugar while Sophia was not looking and popped them on the electric cooker.
Big ring. Sophia was sitting yaking for ages about her new knickers
that she had made and I suddenly smelt burning .Sophia goes rushing to the kitchen and is shouting Sheila my peases are gone up in flame .
I went into the kitchen and the toxic smoke nealy choked me took off the sauceman and tipped water into the remains of the blackened peas did it sizzle and there was a blackened pea pattern all over one of my best saucepans Sophia was spluttering in the smoke and you could smell smoke everywhere. Three heads came in saying is something burning I was like a gramaphone record yes peas. The place still smells of smoke and poor Sophia said I never givva you the pea again.

My ho is funny about Beryl he does not like her and to think he went out with her years ago. She lost my earing she borrowed necking on a park bench. Gave me one back. I pull my ho s leg over that. He once went out with a very busty young women in the days when white polo neck jumpers were fashionable and bras that made your chest look pointed strung up round your neck. I saw him one night after he had taken me out
kissing her in the bus stop. I never spoke to him for a week. He said it was
his couson I said you kiss your couson on the lips and he said yes I am
rather fond of that couson.

Oh my gosh someone else suffered like me on a perm machine I do feel sorry for you .I wanted plaits like my friend not frizzy straw hair .I will change my picture and show you all my frizzy hair later on. Can put the other one back later.

I find this site a bit funny just lately I get parrots up a lot.

Annx my hubby was dead envoius when I told him you had seen Andre.
He cannot wait for the cd i ordered for him to come.
Bye for now troubles just arrived in the form of Sophia bang goes my peaceful afternoon. I bet she goes on about peas.

Been lovely and sunny at the coast , but we ran into a shower coming home .

Jane, you could make some lovely jam with the damsons too.

You need some Wundaweb for your trousers it's an iron on hemming tape , you turn them up and just iron it on ,use a steam iron , no stitching needed at all ,its so easy to use ,if you go wrong with it you just use the steam iron to ease it off again .

Anne I haven't had trouble for at least 2 days with the site lol It is getting very frustrating.If it carries on ,I can see quite a few people on the boards leaving.
I bet my BIL is glued to the Tour de France .

Sheila ,James is Graduating in Anthropology.Not sure what jobs he is applying for though.
Just tried those brown trousers on with new shoes.I might just get away without shortening .As long as I remember to hoik them up now and then I should be ok lol.Oh I do hate being a little shorty
:-S :-S
That roast pork we had just now was the best I've had in a very long time.It melted in the mouth ,and I managed a good bit of Crackling too.
Ann ,you asked how my jaw was.Fine until I had the crackling!!!!!.No a serious note it has been a lot better thanks.I just have to remember to be careful(and not eat things like the Crackling) :-S :-S
We had lunch outside.Thank heavens for the Gazebo.It poured for a while ,but at least we stayed dry.I actually like eating out when it is pouring all around.
Chris has gone for a lie down.He has been sorting his wardrobe out for Wednesday.Sheesh it looks like a fashion show upstairs with all sorts of things hanging on doors etc.As long as James has decided what shirt and tie he wants to wear and leaves it here with his suit Jacket.I pick his trousers up on Tuesday morning.Please someone remind me !!!!!!!!!
He has had to borrow some black socks from Chris as all his seem to have holes in :-S
I feel quite exhausted with all this preparation for Graduations and Weddings lol.Just give me the simple life.I will enjoy it all though :-D :-D

Glad you put that Mandy........I couldn't remember what it was called!! lol It must be nice to pop to the sea like that and get some lungsful of sea air. Is it very busy at this time of the year?

Well I had to haul myself out of bed early for the flippin tablet regime!! I don't usually eat 4 times a day and on Sundays lunch is usually my first meal, so this morning I had to be up to have a bit of cereal. Still I feel a lot better today so that bodes well.

Called at FIL's this afternoon. He has to have has last 4 teeth out on Tuesday and is, as he put it a 'BL**DER' so has had to see his doctor to see what tablets he can take as he is on blood thinners. OH asked him if he still does his exercises and asked him what he does now. Every day in addition to his RAF arm flings.....think Barbara Windsor in the bikini......he lies on the floor to do crab stretches for his back, hooks his feet under a slightly opened bottom drawer to do a few situps and then does a bit of cycling on our old exercise bike we gave him.....pretty good going for his age!! MIL is no better with her bladder trouble and now has to go for an ultrasound again and a biopsy. The hospital had a look at her bladder with a camera last week and she wasn't impressed at the nurse making her feel a right old dear by asking her if she could manage and offering to take her arm. I tell you, consideration and a good bedside manner is wasted on MIL!!! lol. I would have thought how nice to have an offer of help, even if I could manage.

Sheila, my OH has said he wants to go and see the Cinema performance of Andre in Maastrict even if it is similar to the show we went to!! He said he would rather go to that than see the footie match he was going to that night!!! I was speechless!! lol I end up chucking stuff out like veg and fruit.......OH is always getting more bananas than he eats!!