General Chat

You'll like Jerico Gill. Liz and I really enjoyed it last night. We do seem to have some of my kind of programs on at the moment. Anyone watching Beowulf Return the the Shieldlands or Endeavour? and of course War and Peace?

Gill, can't you fast forward through the adverts?!! Surely the people viewing your house must have realised how big your garden was before they came?! Perhaps a word with the agent might be in order to stop people wasting your time!
Lovely sunny morning here, but cold! We've had a busy a.m getting some outside jobs done, before it clouds over and probably rains!!!
Yes Mel, we're watching Endeavour, and War and Peace, but not Beowulf!

I can't or could'nt when it was in use fast forward on the ads only if I had recorded soemthing but as it dos'nt work now I watch things on Iplayer and you have to sit through the ads on that anyway Liz. :-(

Very quiet on here today. Are you all doing things?

I scraped out the bantams this afternoon and washed their drinker as it has been sunny and dry all day here.

Bet Frank is there by now and enjoying the warmth.

You do have to sit through ads on i player Mel, but not when you record on TV, at least we don't You can always fast forward through all the ads at various speeds. We have sky though, so perhaps it's different on other systems.
We've had such a busy day! OH spent the morning cleaning the chimney!! What a pig of a job that was! Then he connected up the new TV to wifi, so we can watch catch up, YouTube, and more besides. We also have freeview as well as our sky package. Not quite sure what else we can tune into, but there should be something to watch!!
This afternoon we cleaned the field, and pressure washed the veranda as it can get a bit slippery particularly if the weather gets cold!
OH is cooking supper, fish in white sauce with rice. He's just poured me a glass of Port, think it's what we both need!!! :-D

Oh I missed Frank this morning :-(..Bet he will have arrived in Tenerife now and will be wearing his shorts :-D :-D

Today is the first time this winter I have worn a warm coat !!! and even my long boots.There was quite a frost first thing and things were a little slippy in places.

I haven't done much today.Just took a shirt back to M&S for James that I bought for his birthday.It was a bit on the short side for him and not easy to tuck in.So hopefully the new one I got will be fine.I remember when he was at school he was always getting told off for having his shirt hanging out.He has a long body which can be a bit of a problem with shirts.
He will be off to Jess's this evening.But is coming here for his dinner and to pick up some clean clothes.It has been strange him not sleeping here since the 20th dec.I think he has enjoyed house sitting :-D.He friends come back from New Zealand on the 20th so he still has a bit of time to make the most of not living at home lol
One nice thing for me is I have so much less washing to do :-D :-D :-D..I am certainly not complaining about that :-D
So this time 30 years ago I was getting ready to go into hospital in preparation for a C Section in the morning.Of course back then I had no idea if I was going to have another girl or a boy,so it was a pleasant surprise to find I had one of each :-D..That was me done then .No more babies.I wouldn't have had the patience for any more.

Gill could you not take in a few sewing jobs? That would make you a bit of extra cash.I am sure there would be plenty of people who would be glad of your service.The lady who you are doing the curtains for might tell her friends and word will get around.It could be a nice little earner for you and you could decide how much to do.

I think I will put the outside light on out the back so I can see when Thomas appears if he has a little something in his mouth !!!.I almost got caught out the other night and just managed to shut the door on him before he brought his supper in.He had to eat it Al Fresco :-D

I have only just booked my appointment for my blood test !!.Chris reminded me .I had completely forgotten all about it.So it is on Monday at 8.50.I still haven't heard anything about an appointment for the CT Scan on my bonce.

Still doing this puzzle Mandy .I have just counted the number of pieces left to do and there are 75 :-S.I was seizing up so had to stop.It would be nice if it could be finished tomorrow or at least by the end of the weekend.I am sick of seeing it there on hte coffee table.I said to Chris we really should have bought one of those Jigsaw Rolls.I think I said the same thing last year :-S
I can smell Parmentier Potatoes cooking.Quite garlicky.They are Aldi ones .Never had them before from there so I will see what James thinks of them as he is the only one having them tonight.
Better go now and take them out of the oven.

I had my yearly check up yesterday Jane. Our surgery insists you have one if you are on bp pills and/or statins. If you don't you can't get your repeat prescriptions!!!
Supper was delicious, OH even cleared it all away, so I feel less frazzled now!! As I think I said Jane, I would never buy clothes for any of our 'young people'! Style size colour would all be wrong, particularly with the daughter and grandchildren!! best for us to give money then they can buy their own!

Yes I do fast forward the adverts LIz, I'd just let that ad break run through so I could post on here. It sounds like you'd both earned your glass of port with all the things you've been doing today, sounds like a very busy day.

I've finally finished all the cushion covers so will take them to mum's tomorrow, she said her friend might have the curtains for me to do tomorrow so after our anniversary on Sunday I will make a start on them for her.

Mum asked me yesterday if I would be willing to do some more sewing jobs Jane as she could probably get me some off her friends, so I said yes. I'm ok with soft furnishing but said that I'd have to learn how to alter clothes so wouldn't want any of those jobs. To be fair the whole point of getting a sewing machine in the first place was so that I could learn how to make or alter clothes, so the quicker I learn the quicker I might have a few extra jobs coming my way. I'm going to practice on the machine tomorrow with some of the scraps of fabric left over from mum's cushions, she's kindly said I can have it.

Good luck with your blood test on Monday Jane.

Emmerdale has just started and I've got it on pause so I'd better go as Sandra is waiting to watch it too.

Oh is having the other half of the chilli I cooked just before Christmas and had put in the freezer so no real cooking for me tonight just a bit of plain boiled rice for him and TWO HOME LAID BOILED EGGS for me, luverly.............mmmmmmmmm I have been dying to have them again and as I have 7 of my own eggs I know I shall have enough for our big breakfast on Sunday. I had one egg today but two yesterday so if I am lucky I may get two tomorrow.

O forgot to say I am using my pom pom makers I had from oh and making pom pom peg dolls. I still need to go and get some wooden beads for the heads and hands of my Wee Folk.

Oh, I see Gill! I wondered if you were unable to for some reason! One of the good things about recording is that you can shoot through the adverts!! We're watching Poiret, then Mr Selfridge at 9pm, then bed!!

Evening all,

Been nice and sunny here today ,but really chilly ,sharp frost this morning i had to scrape the car windows as we had to meet son and DIL first thing ,we are buying Lewis his first pair of Clark shoes for his birthday which is next Friday ,the lady measured his feet and he needed a size 6 and an H fitting ,she searched out the back and they didn't have one pair in that size !! so we went back to sons and he ordered a pair on line from Clarks .

I expect Frank will be there by now ,i don't know how long a flight it is to Tenerife, he will no doubt have a nice chilled pint when he gets there .

I forgot all about Jerico last night as i watched Death in Paradise ,but i have down loaded it on catch up TV .

Gill i'am sure you'll soon get use to your new sewing machine once you've had a few goes with it and as you've used one before it will soon come back to you.
It would be handy if you could get a few little sewing jobs ,you'd be able to buy some material with the money and make some new things for your self .

Jane i buy things for son from Debenhams they have the Big and Tall things for men ,son likes things nice and long too ,his Jacket we bought him for christmas came from there .
Your nearly there with the jigsaw then , ours is another oldie worldie one of a christmas street with a market stall and toy shop , we don't seem to get that much time to get on with it ,going on it is a bit slow !!
I was shopping most of the morning or should i say waiting in boots for our tablets !! it was 6 minutes passed 11 when i went in and nearly quarter to 12 when i came out
i had to wait while they did hubbys tablets then she when of to find mine ,came back with only two boxes in the bag !! i said there should be other tablets too ,she then found another bag with two more boxes of the same tablets as the other bag which were dated for collection in November !!
Then she found the other part of my prescription with my other tablets on so i then had to wait for them to be done !!
They must have been two prescriptions in November and i only had the one bag and as i keep a good supply in i never noticed that i hadn't got them, i must make sure in future that i have all i order .

I had a letter from the doctors ,i have to make an appointment for my Arthritis review but i have to have an appointment for a blood test first , they like to keep an eye on my kidneys and i think it's the liver too as the arthritis tablets i take can affect them .

It's been very cold here today as well with some rain earlier on. I expect Frank and Ros are now relaxing in Tenerife I hope they have a lovely time out there.

Nothing much happening here today, Amy had her usual walk but decided she wanted to come back home quite early on as she doesn't like the cold now she's an old lady, bless her. The cats have spent most of the time indoors asleep.

Haven't heard anymore from Abbie but as Paul meets her and Becky from school everyday I will ask him on Sunday when he comes with the girls for the day but they do know that they can come here at any time should they need to. Sue would be a lot worse off if they don't live with her, no family allowance plus what Paul gives her every month for them, both together it's far more than they cost to feed, Paul also buys their school uniforms and they have started buying their own clothes with birthday & Christmas money.

Gill you are very unlucky with selling your house, around here they don't stay on the market for long, I think it's because being near to the motorways and airports, and London is easy to get to. I am very happy here so wouldn't want to move anyway, we have such good neighbours and knowing from past experience that is worth an awful lot.

I watched Murder in Paradise last night as its very light hearted it makes easy viewing, the previous evening it was Midsummer Murders which was good,

I forgot Mr Selfridge started tonight, good job you mentioned it Liz ;-)

It sounds like you've done really well with your eggs this year Mel. I'd love to see some pics of your pom pom peg dolls and your wee folk when you've finished them.

Just watching corrie with Sandra now

Evening All,

We had a good frost here this morning too. I was outside hoovering my car out and clearing the frost off the windows at 8.30am ready to visit my friends. The clear plastic mats I bought for my previous car fit this one perfectly. There were delicious home made ginger biscuits and shortbread and some mini mince pies with viennese shortbread tops she'd made for us when I arrived. :-) We were all seated around drinking our drinks and nibbling the goodies like Last of the Summer Wine when her husband came through and asked who owned the beautiful car parked outside! lol He wanted to know all about it! The friend who is having chemo for breast cancer was well enough to come which was good. The poor thing, apart from the tiredness and hair loss, her finger and toenails are falling off and she said the bottoms of her feet had all skinned. She still has radiation treatment to come and they are still deciding about surgery. It was good to see her chatting and laughing a few times though. We were chatting a good 3 hours so after I picked OH up at home and we went to the tearoom at the garden centre in the village and I had chicken chasseur with a dish of mixed veg and no potato and OH had a tuna jacket.

I was notified this morning that this term's class is starting a week earlier than we were told which is a bit annoying as I shall miss the first one now as I've arranged to meet another friend that day. :-S She works the rest of the week so I can't rearrange it. There seems to be some doubt as to whether a class will be run as well as not enough have signed up yet. :-S

I think I might get one of those Karcher window cleaners as a friend has told me they are much better than a cloth for removing condensation from windows!! I hadn't thought of using one for that and we do get a lot in the bathroom window and some in the bedroom windows this time of the year too, despite double glazing. I suppose it might be good for doing the wall tiles after a shower too?? :-)

I've had to move the daffs I bought the other day and don't think I'll be buying any more which is a pity as they cheer the place up after Christmas. Last night a lot of the flowers had opened and the strong smell of them started such a tickle in my throat. Then today I had a bit of a runny nose and eyes as well so I think it's the pollen and hay fever!!

Gill you will soon remember what to do with your sewing machine. I always do a bit of practice on spare material to check the tension, better to spend a few moments checking it like that than spend half an hour unpicking!

What a to do over your tablets Mandy, it's a good job you got them all in the end. I am trying to get a bit in advance with mine. For one thing the chemist sometimes runs out and it's handy not to have to panic about running out at holiday times. Your jigsaw sounds good.......better than nothing but trees and fields like my last one. Fancy Lewis being nearly 1 year old!! Time is just whizzing by!! :-0 Is he on his feet and taking wobbly steps now?

My first OH had a long back and had trouble with some shirts Jane so I can understand James needing a longer shirt. So annoying to have to keep tucking them in every time you bend or reach up.

I bet Frank is in his shorts now. :-D :-D

I used to record films off the TV for myself or Ellen by entering a number through the remote control. Come the starting time of the film the video recorder would start recording for the duration of the film, even if the TV was off or you were watching the other channel.

I cannot do that now as I haven't a video recorder. Have 3 TV's one in the living room and one in each of the bedrooms that play DVD's not record.

Don't you have sky David? as you can record quite easily with your sky box. If not, perhaps another video recorder would be the answer. You can get them on line without any trouble. Otherwise there is always catch up on the computer.
Time for Mr Selfridges. We're recording Royal Wives, which should be interesting.
Lovely pic, thanks Jane.

No. I haven't Sky. Sometimes considered it but that is all.
There's not enough hours in the day to watch it all.
Beyond BBC and ITV there are several FV channels.
Then there's iPlayer on the PC
But I'm surprised the TV's I've bought don't record.
Not to worry, it becomes a habit.

While it's in my mind, thank you all for being good company <3

Ann, Lewis is walking really well now ,he has been walking about a month ,it's so funny as he lifts one arm before he sets off :-D he's also saying the odd word ,this morning i said to him "is that your cat " " yep" he said :-D he also says" that " as he points to things.

It will be a shame if they carn't get enough people for the beading class and it has to finish .
Your poor friend losing her nails ,i've never heard of people losing finger and toenails when they have had cancer treatment .

Jane i love the little dog cooling off in the water ,what a lovely view she has ,the waters so clear and that blue sky !!

Ann I hope the treatment goes well for your friend having treatment for breast cancer. I also lost all my hair everywhere my nails didn't come off but the ones on my feet looked very strange for a while, my worst side effect was a very ulcerated mouth it even hurt to talk. I had returned to work while having treatment which helped me take my mind off it, radiotherapy was no problem at all, having my lymph gland removed on my left side wasn't a nice experience. I attended the Parapet part of King Edward V11 hospital, Windsor and this was a specialised unit for breast cancer and screening, it was amazing how many patients they had including a couple of men. My surgeon was a lady and so caring.