General Chat

Hi all,

Jan called over this afternoon with Ella her grandaughter. Made Ros smile a bit, not that she really needed a 3 year old as company this afternoon. They didn't arrive till about 6.pm, so Ros was up and lying on the sofa. Not feeling much better, I did myself some egg sandwhiches for tea, and she did eat half so thats am improvement. Hasn't wanted her dinner, so that will have to go in the bin, will try again tomorrow.

Hope the car sale went through Jane, Should have had me on hand, my patter never let me down. Use to sell 40/50 cars a months. It was a ploy of mine many years ago, to always give the wife a bouquet of flowers, when they took delivery of the car, it seemed to work as I had a lot of repeat business.

Haven't ventured out today. was going to see how the festival was going, but didn't like to leave Her Majesty. :-D :-D :-D :-D

just popped into say goodnight,
Frank sorry to read Ros is still not well, I know what it's like to not want to eat, I never feel hungry these days, but know I must eat to keep the acid down, hope I get good news from the doctor tomorrow. daughter no 2 and boyfriend coming down to be in the house while OH & I are at the doctors.

Gas man coming again to connect radiators to boiler for central heating, so I will not be back on GR till later tomorrow, catch up then.
night night All
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Evening All
Well I haven't heard yet if this young lad wants the car.He came with his Mum.needs a small car for his wife but I think he needs to get rid of one of theirs.Maybe I might hear something tomorrow.I took them for a little spin as he wasn't insured to drive Hannahs car.
Just had an offer in on the washer dryer.James said he will sort that tomorrow for me.
Fingers crossed all the work is completed tomorrow Fiona.
Mandy I think you sent me a pick of a gigantic Toad in the Hole you did a year or so ago.it was a whopper lol
Shame Ros's dinner had to go in the bin Frank,but at least she has had a little something.

Hannah rang to say she has got the flat share in Stoke Newington.She is very pleased and will move in near the end of this month.When she is settled we will all troop down there for a visit.

I made up a little dish of cooked dwarf beans,olive oil,chopped walnuts,feta cheese and chopped fresh Dill and mint plus salt.it was very nice,but I only did a small one as I had picked all the beans.

I am now ready to go up to bed.Chester has dreadful wind so it will be good to get out of this room :-S :-S :-S
Pat I hope you sleep better tonight and are up raring to go in the morning .

Right that is me done for the night now so
Night Night xx

Evening everyone.

I have the painters arriving tomorrow morning at 7.30 to carry on working lol..
Head man is comming to see about the bath that hasent been put in high enough for the panels to be fitted ..He will be here about 12...hubby alan will be taking more time off without pay..he will just have to have a longer dinner break..

My youngest son and family spent a few hours with us this afternoon..They are staying in a premier inn near by and will be leaving in the morning or Butlins in Skegness..

I was Just about to start our evening meal when My eldest son called in with his family...They missed each other by about an hr....So I saw 6 grandchildren today..Just tided the toy box up when it was pukked out again.

I had a good tidy up this morning tryin g to find a new home for everything..
Looking a bit tidier now.

Catch you tomorrow..Im just going to have 5 mins in the bath while washing machine is on...Bathroom should be getting painted tomorrow so grabbing the bath while I can..

Goodnight :-)

Just popping in to say goodnight all as oh has'nt diconnected me from the web yet.

The problem he had with the caravan today was that when he turned the water this morning as it had been off over the winter, was that when he drained it down the water to the shower in the bathroom had'nt drained right out. It must have frozen over the winter and split the pipe which is only small and plastic. This pipe was in the bedroom which is next to the bathroom. It flooded the blimmin bedroom!!!!!!!! He had to take out the bed which is a full size fouton with fouton mattress and a proper double mattress. He blew up the vax so has put the little bar heater on in the bedroom and the de humidifier hoping it will dry out by Tuesday. The pipe split on a bend bit and there is nowhere we could get one today so he just tried a stop on it and it worked. I had to man the water off and on while he looked to see if it was going to leak. So there is now no shower to use in the caravan. Just as well I have cleaned all the bathroom. I had a good clearout of all the lotions and potions on top of the cupboard on the wall too. even chucked out a plant or two.

What I want to know is why men put things back when they are emtpy?? Why not just throw them in the bin? If I saw the empty shampoo bottle in the bin I would buy him another instead of him asking me if I have anymore shampoo :-(

Nothing on the telly tonight....................

Looking forward to the new WDYTYA with Emelia Fox as I like her and her mum who is usually in old fashioned things.

Oh well off to bed now I think.

Night night sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.

Hope that helped today Mandy.

Mornin All...Just sitting waiting for painter now..I need to get my hair washed this morning.not awake properly to do it yet..While he is doing downstairs i will wash my hair..
Byeee

Morning Pat and all,

Hope everything goes well for you today Pat. Too early for me to wash my hair as it comes down to well below my bottom so I have to be fully awake to wash mine.

Cloudy here this morning but dry at the moment.

Today I have to do the kitchen and the shopping, two pet hates.

Morning has started of with mishaps already.....Painter given the wrong paint...So while he went to change it I amanaged to wash my hair.

Then got a phone call from one of the head men to say ours has called in sick...this one will be here at 8 in morning...Didwant this one to9 come.
We have bought the bathroom suit our selves and are paying for it to0 be fitted,,,not on the insurance claim

Bath was put in...tiler asked him if it was correct height before tyling...yes he said...When plumber finished his work he said it wasent his job to fit the panels around the bath as more boxing in was needed.

So Alan got one of the panels and found the bath hasent been put in high enough...hence the reason we are waiting for head man who has called in sick today..



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Poor Pat you are haveing trouble with this are'nt you. I do feel sorry for you and yours with all this upset.

Where is everyone??

I'm here Mel :-D :-D
Have been a busy bee .I have sold washing machine on eba* (I think) lol
Dog walk ,quick trip to get mince I forgot yesterday,and have made my lemon and olive meatballs which are now in the slow cooker.Just having a coffee now.

Oh Pat!!!!!!!!!!.This is getting ridiculous isn't it.I do feel for you.

Mel I hope you get all dried out soon.What a palaver :-S

Is it today Ros is going for her MRI scan?

The sun is shining and a fair breeze so I must washing in and out before any showers.I have the dentist at 4.30 to get this bite guard thingy.

David I hope your antibiotics are working now and your Jaw is not so achy.I know the feeling well :-( :-(

Izzy Wizzy Lets Get Busy................as dear old Sooty would say.

Afternoon everyone ,

Oh Pat , i do feel for you ,its just one thing after another !!!
I'd be getting really cross by now ,i hope you can get things sorted ,it's getting beyond a joke now .

Mel, yes thanks again for the info ,i did try to Google the White Hart ,Honiton but couldn't find anything .
Just what you needed a flood when you have family coming to stay !!
Hope you can get it all dried out in time .

Tried to renew my prepaid prescription on line ,was doing fine,filled it all in ,then it went off so not sure if i had bought one or not !!
So i rang the number and paid that way , what a palaver !!!

Few spots of rain !!

BBL

Afternoon All,

Oh Pat, I bet you are not optimistic about anything they do now!! Still, at least you are able to fill a few cupboards in the kitchen.

Mel, I hope you get the caravan dry for tomorrow. If it is as blowy there as it is here it should help. It is annoying when OH's run out of things without saying. Mine does that with pickles......uses the last scrape so there is none left for me ........then tells me we need some more!!! Why not mention it before the last shopping trip!! What are they like!!

Jane, you are doing well on ebay and at least you have had an enquiry with putting the car out on view.

Mandy, that sounds a hell of a yorkshire pud!! lol It's a wonder it didn't fill the whole oven.

The book I ordered about the early Quakers in Pennsylvania arrived this morning. It has a few pages on my ancestors as there is a chapter on each family. There are a few of their signatures from the 1700s. One is on a petition for a new road. There is also quite a bit of background on how the settlement started and grew so I think it will be interesting. Sadly none of the portraits are of any of mine!

Chris is the opposite with bathroom things.He always buys more of his things like deodorant,toothpaste and mouthwash way before he actually needs it.Then just leaves it on a shelf or the windowsill in the ensuite.So there is double or more of his mess :-S.Plus the empty loo roll.Does he ever take it down to the recycling bin? NO .He is as bad as James for that.Maybe it is a man thing.

Hannah was in Brixton yesterday afternoon with a friend having a lovely time at some street festival thing with market stalls etc.Thank god she was back in Stoke Newington by the evening when the rioters moved on to Brixton.

Must fly..........Dentist
She said she wouldn't be surprised if some of her clients turned up at the centre today in new trainers etc(looters) !.Mind you if they did the new stuff would soon be sold for more drugs :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

Hi folks, bet you thought I’d forgotten all about you. No, just been off celebrating my fine young grandsons 18th birthday – where did all those years go?

Talking about where the years went, I used to have to travel on the London Underground a fair bit (the Tube) and was always fascinated by the artwork on the little posters above your head on the top side of the carriage. One cartoon that always sticks with me is ‘Coughs & sneezes spread disease; trap the germs in your handkerchiefs’. If I think of any more I’ll post them on here. The steam railway carriages, the ones with individual compartments, used to have some lovely framed prints of areas that railways used to travel to. With my Dad working on the railway (LNER – Late and Never Early Railway) we used to travel by train when the occasion arose. I still have two of my Dad’s old whistles here, nicely displaying the LNER lettering. Pity we can’t show photos on here.

I was looking through the TV magazine for this week and what did I find, ‘Bell Bottom George’, a 1943 film starring George (turned out nice again) Formby. It’s on BBC2 on Thursday at 11.40am. I’ll bet everyone is now trying to conjure up the old Gracie Fields films! Catch phrases ought to be another item for us. Tommy Trinder, “You lucky people” – Arthur Askey “I Thankkkk You!”. Arthur askey would often refer to ‘the char lady from Chadwell Heath’ – that was where I grew up!

Anyone believe in coincidences? While checking out my family data, I realised that my Mum was 38 when I was born. Then when I calculated when my paternal grandma had my Dad – yes, you’ve guessed – she also was 38. My birthday falls on St. Swithin’s Day, my mothers on St. Patrick’s Day – me, I married an Irish lass. My brother and his wife also got married on a St. Patrick’s Day. My Dad was born on March 26th; my wife’s Dad was born on 27th March. My mother-in-law and my son-in-law both share a June 4th birthday (not same year of course!). My daughters birthday is the day before my wife’s. It makes it easier for me NOT to forget special occasions!

Cor, that’s fair stretched me old memory banks, think I’ll go for a lay down now, what happened to me eiderdown and bolster?

Chat again soon, take care all

I tell you Ann, that was a Yorkshire and a half !!! LOL i was worried it was going to stick to the sides of the oven , it came up and then flopped to the side, i had to get a cloth to lift it out of the oven ,as i lifted it up it left the tin in the oven LOL

It is a man thing with the toilet roll tubes , mine never puts them in the bin , he stands it on the window sill, and he waits until he's on the last squirt of shower gel or shaving foam then says i need some more !!!

Wondered were you'd got to William , more memories !! i've only been on the tube once , that was enough for me ,i hated it !!
Who was that Chap who use to have a ciggie in the corner of his mouth ,he always acted drunk, was it Arthur Haynes ?

Better sort some tea out , hubby will soon be home.
BBL

Not sure about Arthur Haynes, I think I can visual them, wow, I nearly had it then - then cigarette was always broken in the middle. Used to slur his speech. Arthur Haynes always had a saying in one of his sketches (sort of mime) he'd say ' Welll done Oscar, you've triumphed again'.

One chap who was always drunk was Colonel Chinstrap in ITMA who would slur 'Don't mind if I do,Sir'.

Hello William.I am still waiting for grandchildren.I think i will be waiting a long time !I will probably be gaga by the time any arrive lol
My daughter travels on the tube everyday now.I have to I am not keen on them .Not so bad if there is plenty of room ,but I have a problem when they are packed like sardines.Hannah said when it was boiling last week it was like travelling inside a tupperware box :-S

Well my dental appointment was a disaster.My bite guard didn't fit properly so I ended up having to have another impression done.I was nearly sick,retching and gagging.I felt my tongue had got stuck to the gunk then started to panic.I think if the next one is wrong I will say thanks but no thanks to another one.

The chap is collecting the washing machine tomorrow evening.Just need rid of the car and I also have to advertise a Farmhouse Table and 6 chairs.

It is a lovely evening .The dark clouds from earlier seem to have gone.

Afternoon all,

I have cooled down a bit since this morning.

In the post this morning was a letter from the Pratice Manager of the Surgery. Saying that my outburst the other week was unaccectable, and if it reaccures I would be asked to find another Doctors. I was on the phone in a flash. Steam pouring out of my ears. Puff puff. I ask(ed for him by name only to be told he has just started two weeks holiday(GOOD JOB FOR HIM). Let me speak to his No. 2. a very nice woman came on the phone, and when I explained exactly what had gone on, see was most apologetic. and would be sure to get the perscription manager to call me next Monday when she returns from holiday. As for the Pratice Manager, I told her to tell him in no uncertain terms. That before he starts threatening me, to get the facts straight. My blood is starting to boil again !!!! They haven't heard the last of this.

Ros is right down again today, Only a glass of milk today. She is at Woodlands now having her MRI. Fortunatly Carolyn was back from Hastings last night and phoned this morning. When she realalised Jan had to come 50 miles each way to take Ros. She offered to take her. Should be back 6.30ish. I had instructions that she would not want a dinner tonight. So a meal for one tonight out of the freezer. Cat can have the rest of the meat from yesterday I can't be bothered to cook for myself.

Enough of my woo's How are you all.

Did you get the caraven dried out over the weekend Mel.????

Hope you have sold the car Jane, and the washer dryer. What a clever girl you are :-D :-D :-D

Pat. I think by now I would be doing my NUT. How long can they expect you to tolorate, all this toing and throwing.??? You need me in your corner, I would get them sorted, one way or the other. More than likely, they would down tools !!! :-( :-( :-

I think tomorrow I might do myself a Toad in the Hole, mashed pots and Onion gravy. I can almost taste it now. Will go and get the sausages out of the freezer now !!!!

M andy you are thinking of Arthur English, the spive with a little tash. and trilby hat sat on the back of his head.
Tommy Trinder, use to wear very tight trousers and do the "SAND DANCE"
Along with the old favourites was "WORKERS PLAYTIME" variety shows from the work places, during the war.