General Chat

Same here, coffee has just about gone and I best get on the move. Catch you later DET have a good day

well i have done the top cupboards still got clothes to do The shower engineer is due shortly so just clearing a path through I have loads of space to put other bits and bobs that are just cluttering up the area I still have to pack the stuff away in the attic but it is in a tidy pile
Froggy goes mad as i have all my birthday cards since i was little and the kids too .He keeps nothing lol I have post cards ,books from holidays and trips out lol

Maz you are a magpie just like me but thank goodness OH is also like it. Some bits although very tatty I just cannot throw away

Fiction books are my downfall, although I am trying to apply the one in, two out principal. But it is so haaarrrrddddd!

Been tidying up some of the flower beds, interspersed with cups of coffee in the sun. Did you know that Ladybirds bite???

evening lol yes they bite DET have you been bitten ?
i have just done the shopping lol

Evening everyone.

Had a busy day at a meeting in Birmingham today and got back home around 5.50pm. Just put my dinner in the oven and fed the fur!!

I didn't know ladybirds bit! Best watch out in future! I emptied out a couple of plant pots of compost yesterday and they were full of red ants!! And loads of eggs. Got the spray out and finished them off because they have a lovely little nip!! Our area is built on ant's nests, so always have plenty to share around, but not usually red ants. I don't like them one little bit!!

You all sound as though you have been busy today! Good girls, keep up the good work and when you have finished you can come and do mine!!

No way YG :-P :-P :-P. Evening all. Mini Gooner has sent you an email :-D. All her own work LOL(well with a teenie bit of help)

Thank Mini Gooner A for the e-mail LG!! I will collect the kisses one of these days!!

Will do YG. You would not have wanted yesterdays kisses all barbeque scraps and chocolate cake LOL

Yuk!!!! Sounds as though she loves her food though!!

They both do, they pinch ours too LOL

I like to hear of children with good appetities. My eldest gd was so fussy and ate like a sparrow. It didn't seem to affect her energy levels!! She's much better now though.

Morning running late again. When my kids were little I vowed never to use the same eating rules my father did with our meals.

You do not leave the table until you have eaten everything on your plate.

What a miserable struggle most meal times were. Tears, arguments and an absolute hatred for some types of food. It took me many years before I even went near most vegetables.

With my lot it was eat what you like leave what you don't, and more importantly learning not to give a child the food they absolutely hate. Unless of course it is on the plate for "decoration".

So how did they turn out. One eats hardly nothing, mostly unhealthy food, and I wonder how he survives. The next one is a healthy food fanatic with a vengance. The third one eats almost anything, normal foods, no complaints.

I did not know ladybirds bite. I have handled them many times without one chewing bits out of my hand. How large a hole did it leave. I hope you didn't squash it. Ants, yes, we have black, red, green, bull, white, meat, and I've probably forgotten some. And all of them bite.

Must go have things to do, wash, places to go, work, people to see, meetings.

Evening/morning - watch out for the car in front and red lights Auntie.........and the speed cameras in your haste to get to work. Just cos the younger generation like chatting up policemen, you don't have to follow suit!

The ladybird bite was more like a little nip, with no after effects thank goodness. We don't have an actual plague in the garden, but not far off.

Now ants (shudder). YG's ants probably have cousins under our drive. We had to have the slabs in front of the front door relaid as the nest had caused it to subside :-0

BM used to be a nightmare to feed. If it was green (veggies) it was 'off' so not to be eaten. All changed when he went into catered Halls at Uni - eat (within reason) what was available, or starve!

Having had to cope with diabetics, vegetarians and the waste of space who would only eat carbs or meat, the offspring now reassure us that any new romantic interest 'eats everything'!!

Good grief, its the Marie Celeste on here! No LG sneaking in last night, and no Maz with a cheery good morning. Aunty has been toiling away, so she is forgiven.

Wakey, Wakey, rise and shine!!! A new dawn and a new day. Get with it gels!!

OK DET, I'm with it............... been without it for a while though.

I didn't know that ladybirds bit either, I often pick them up and put them on plants that need them.

We've got ants in some of our patio pots, I tried killing them but they just keep coming back, as long as they don't come in the house I don't mind.

Did you get the mouse Auntie? We keep traps set in the garage. We put chocolate on them.............. works every time.

I am about. Just frantically trying to order a new part for my cooker. Very enthusiastic in cleaning it I broke the knob for the oven.

No comments :-D. Must away catch you all later <3

Good excuse for take-aways then ;-) That'll teach you!!! But at least you can use the hob and perhaps the grill.

V pleased with meself - ironing up to date and it only came off the line yesterday!

It is simply not fair. Just because the mouse ate some of OHs bread he bought yesterday I am not allowed to keep it for a pet. The mouse that is not the bread or OH.

There are now three traps in close proximity of the bread box. This morning I heard a loud plastic click. Went to investigate. Found the first trap with no bait and not set off. Picked it up and it went off in my hand. The second trap, that's the state of the art black plastic technological super trap empty. The third one had activiated and there was a mere morsel of bait left near the trap.

OH rolled his eyes when I gave the morning's mouse news report.

This evening the techno trap has disappeared. Consigned to the bin I think. The two functional grey plastic stick your finger in and lose it traps are bristling with bait and waiting.

If the stupid mouse would stay outside or wear nappies so it does not leave deposits everywhere I would go set off the traps myself. But there are probably twenty more of them hiding behind my fridge waiting for the all clear signal, so he has to go.


We have a burst of spring weather for the next few days. Between 17 and 20 C which is a little more bearable than what it has been. Things are quite busy at work work. Like painting the Sydney harbour bridge. Everything up to date and it is time to go back to the beginning and start all over again.

hi folks had a busty one here been in to the team meeting then a supervion now applying for internal vacancies so am hopeful i can get one of them
Aunty pms can just see a little mouse out in nappies lol
I have just been doing the washing to attempt to dry this evening its not as warm as yesterday but is breezy it was raining this morning but is not as warm as Aunties winter or Spring lol