General Chat

Afternoon All,

It's been mostly dull and a bit breezy again here and we had a bit of steady rain this afternoon. There was a bit of sun this morning but that's all. The Magpie nest has been rocking in the wind and the parents have been seeing off the Pigeons using my lily water feature as a bath, so I now have some guards for it which is good.

I noticed the avatars disappear recently too and forgot to say as they soon came back again.

That's a lot of watches Mel and I wonder if they all work? OH has two, one a nice gold one left to him by an uncle who thought he was a lovely chap. The other is a cheap casio digital that I hunted for and managed to find for him to replace an identical one he wore every day for many years and only had the battery replaced once. OH seems to have a drawer he keeps similar stuff in too that I don't touch, the exception being a few occasions when he's gone out without his wallet and has asked me to check it is in his drawer. When I got a new passport a few years ago, they sent the old one back to me despite it having run out, but I don't know why. Perhaps some people like to see all the places they have been to.

I hope your OH's eye continues to improve now Vera and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him! I hope it was nice cake you had today and wonder if there was a candle on it

I hope you got your washing dry before any rain came Mandy. It has been another day for some crochet or knitting with the weather.

AnnG the place we take the shreddings to have big metal boards they put out, one advertising pregnancy testing for dogs, another for vegetable peelings as well as the one for paper shreddings and all the others except the shredded paper one have been stood out, so I just think they have more than enough shreddings at times. We'd hang onto the bags for now if it wasn't for needing to make more space in the garage just now. Our tip re-opens on Thursday so we are taking them then with some excess, big cardboard boxes we have and an old steam mop! It will be nice to meet family members and I expect you will notice the two year old is growing fast.

Iv'e not had that happen to me.

Just finished changing the bed. I have to do it in stages and did'nt have Em to help me today. I do struggle with the king sized quilt as I don't seem to be able to give it a good flip up being short.

Not done any gardening today thought I would have a day off and I have cleared out, well nearly, a drawer in the spare room. It is only a little one that I had completely forgotten about as it was oh's bed side table thing. So far I have found 7 watches in it. As it was his draw I never cleaned it out as it had his personal things in like bank books, receipts watches meds, empty bottles, gubbins for various things he had for the garden and allsorts. I have a bucket load of receipts and bank books so far and many other papers. I have a nice picture of him in his passport I shall cut out though.



Happy Birthday Mr. Vera

Hope you enjoyed your day and the eye is a bit easier today.

That has happened a couple of times lately Mandy. Very strange

Well that's strange posted and now they are back .

Son in law is daughter’s husband Mel, I am staying with them. His daughter are in their 30s One is married and has Maya 2 years old. I should not assume that you can all remember the complexities of my family. Still don’t know what we are doing as I am the only one up. It is not very warm here, quite bright still windy

Morning all,

Little bit of cloud but the suns shining and it's quite blowy so I have put one lot of clothes washing out now got the bedding in so hopefully I can get that out and dry before the rain us due later.

Anng shame the weathers not so good but it's nice to have a change of scenery and a bit of company so what ever your doing enjoy your day .

Oh some nice home grown strawberries sound good Mel you can't bet the smell if a nice sweet strawberry.

Ann hope the little bit of rain has made it a bit easier to get those weeds out ,it's easier on the back when it's not so dry .

Vera hope OH's eye has settled down now and the soreness isn't as bad .as it was .

How strange we've lost the avatars on the side but Ann's is still there .

Morning Anng and all,

Nice bright morning here but when I came into the kitchen there was water dripping off the gutters so it must have rained. Its still windy too and pc says mostly cloudy and 13 degrees.

enjoy your day whatever you do Anng it will be nice to see the children and catch up with SIL.

I had three home grown strawberries after dinner last night, you can't beat the taste of homegrown.

Nothing doing today so I may have a day off of gardening, we'll see how I feel.

Good morning all. Looks dry out there but still very windy and feels chilly indoors. Slept well but not dressed yet. Not sure what the plan is today, forecast is not good. I think we might be catching up with SiL’s daughters and the little two year old. And Am er the dog of course.

Sorry had to stop there for a couple of hours. Ice to see Grandson, wife and two girls. But the trouble is they don*t have regular hours for lunch etc so by the time
they left at 1.40 I was starving as was SkL and also he and daughter are going g as they always do to rugby. He was the chairman of the club for many years so they always go. I gracefully declined

Just had a really heavy shower of rain but it only lasted a few minutes and the patio has already dried up.

Thank you for your concern for OH, Mel. The doctor warned him that every eye is different so not to be worried if things aren’t the same as last time. In fact the watering has eased in the last couple of hours and he can open his eye now. We do have an emergency number to ring if necessary but, in fact, the clinic have rung to check on him and reassured him. They are very good. As for drinking water I don’t need to encourage him. He drinks gallons!

Tomorrow is his birthday but I am cooking him a birthday dinner today. He likes a roast so I’m doing roast chicken with all the trimmings and lots of veg. I gave him a choice of a few things for a dessert and he’s decided on oaty plum crumble and custard. His favourite wine and cheese and biscuits if he has room should please him

Tomorrow we have been invited round to local friends for tea and cake in the afternoon.

Better go and check on the chicken now.

Good afternoon all. We just popped out to the big store which sells all sorts of things you didn’t know you needed I just bought a pizza cutter and a tin opener. Both of which went wrong last week. (Both were quite old). I rarely need a ti. Opener so just bought a basic one.

A lot of people in there having coffee. It is sunny and cloudy no rain yet. Children just arrived.

BIL has been and gone and all he did was empty the trailer and take the old grass box over the leanto shed on the west wall then he was off again. I thought he was going to see if I could get windows 11 on my pc. He thinks it could be too old as windows 10 was put on it in 2009 so I don't know if I had it before then or not!!

Vera do you think you should contact something about oh's eye if the other one did'nt react like the last one has. It horrid when the eye keeps watering. Get him to drink some water if he's losing it through tears.

Its very windy here today but the suns outand also the sky is a bit grey and its 15 degrees and the pc is telling me to expect 4 rainy days in a row starting tomorrow. I just wonder how much rain we are going to get cos if its just showers you can work between them if its not I shall have to do HW!!!!

Annx you could just ask if the place needs some shredded paper before you dump it, they may not put the sign out if its too windy.

Morning All,

It rained quite a bit here in the night, but is just mixed cloud and sun here now and a bit breezy. OH went for a walk earlier, but not in the cow field. I might get out later to dig up a few bigger, tougher weeds, but maybe after the food drop this afternoon in case my back plays up.

I've just repacked a parcel to return which we can drop off at a Post Office that sell rather nice home made cobs next week. We need to take the big sacks of shredded paper (5 of them) to the tip next week as the place we usually take them to to use don't have a sign out requesting them at the moment and we will need the space in the garage soon.

I need to do a couple of emails and do a catlick with the hoover in the lounge and kitchen before the food arrives.

AnnG I watch the 1% Club too. I quite like Lee Mack. I often find that I can answer some of the later questions more easily than the earlier ones!

Better get lunch started now and put some washing away.

Morning Vera we posted at the same time

Morning Mel, morning all,

Cloudy here but the sun keeps peeping through the cloud now and again , it's very windy the trees are really swaying in the wind but I don't think it seems as cold as yesterday morning .
Just having a cuppa and then I'm sure I can find a job that needs doing .

Good morning

It’s alternating sunshine and cloud here this morning. It could be a nice day but it’s very windy which is making it feel quite cold.

We haven’t made any plans for the day. I was hoping to do some gardening but I need that wind to drop a bit first. OH’s eye is a bit painful and driving him mad as it is watering non-stop. He’s getting through tissues by the bucket load, just mopping round his cheek. The last thing he needs is this cold wind blowing into his eye so he won’t be going outside today.

Enjoy your day whatever you are doing.

Morning girls,

Not a bad morning at the moment the suns trying to shine and it 14 degrees. It rained yesterday afternoon which stopped me gardening which was a shame as I was getting on well cleaning the moss off the path down to my shed. The shower of rain loosen it and its easier to sweep up. Anyway I am knowing this morning that I did a lot of sweeping as my hip is playing up and also my back.

All day yesterday I thought it was Sunday and I forgot to go to the shop!! I shall have to go this morning now.

What with all that and then watching and trying to compete in 1% on TV goodness knows if my brain will let me sleep now. So goodnight I hope all.

I've just done a bit of 'digging'. I have OH as my ICE number, but didn't know that if you edit it and put a dash - in front of ICE it will become first in your list of contacts, so I've changed mine now.

What started me with this was when fingerprints and facial recognition came out as I thought if someone stole your phone after taking a snap of your face with their own phone, they could perhaps access your phone to try and rob you. I also laughingly said to our solicitor recently when she was saying it was difficult with everything password protected these days, that it would be awful if people had to go to the chapel of rest to use facial recognition to get access to a relative or friend's phone to be able to sort something out! Not surprising, she did look a bit startled. Anyway I've done a bit more 'digging' now and found that a photo can't be used with an Iphone, but a 2D photo can be used to unlock some other makes of phones, some well known and expensive makes and including Samsung which mine is. Which? Labs did the tests so should be reliable. Needless to say I shall be sticking with the PIN on my phone despite facial cognition and fingerprint recognition available on it. Several of the manufacturers in response said that fingerpring technology is more secure than facial recognition.

Well at least that has led to some of us updating our ICE feature, me included!

I think you started something with your query Annx and AnnG made me think a bit more. I knew you could make a call in an emergency without having to put in a password but thought I'd better do some checking. I have fingerprint recognition on my iphone. I used the wrong finger to try to open it so that it would ask me for a password. I then pressed on emergency and it came up with a keypad for me to make a call but no ICE number, so all anyone else could have done was dial 999. I investigated further by going into ICE in my contacts where I had OH's mobile and our home number. I put them in several years ago and whether I got distracted part way through or whether I just didn't realise I hadn't completed the process but I hadn't marked up which one was to show as an emergency number so neither was showing. I've updated it now and anyone pressing that emergency button will also come up with OH's mobile number.

So thank you Annx. Your question has helped AnnG and me to update our systems.