General Chat

Thanks for the Anniversary wishes Mel, it's raining here at the moment, that fine rain that soaks you through, so we're glad the water feature wasn't going in today. It's on at the moment and looks really nice.

Pleased to see you are keeping your mobile library, they tried closing the library around here but thankfully just cut down the days it's open.

Mum's been around to see us and now I'm going to have a cuppa soup and watch a bit of TV while the washing machine is on. I decided to give the bedding a really hot wash so it's taking longer than usual to do. I really could do with some new bedding, ours is looking a bit shabby and old now.

IT'S ONLY ME. !!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.

The laptop arrived back today, over 500 emails and 500 more trash. Have cleared them all from the system.

Doctor called this afternoon, checked over my back, and confirmed my ribs are broken. .Tell me something I didn't know !!!! Didn't go to bed last night, just couldn't lie down, so sat in the chair all night. Still in lots of pain, and dare not take a deep breath, or cough, having to use TWO STICKS to get to the bathroom. Needless to say, I am not able to shower and shave, can't lift my arms up, as it strains my back.

As you can imagine I haven't read any of your posts. But am glad to be back with all my FRIENDS.

Beginning to get a lot of pain in my back, sitting and typing not agreeing with me yet. Will try to get back on tomorrow. in the mean time love to you all. xxx

Pleased to see you back Frank, we've all really missed you <3

So sorry to hear of all the pain you're in. Look after yourself and rest as much as you can. Don't worry about not posting to much, it's just nice to know you can come on here when you feel up to it, even if it's only once or twice a day with short posts.

Maybe you could get carers in to help you shower and shave.

Sending get well wishes from your friends Gill and Sandra <3 <3 <3

Thank you for the pm Frank. Oh dear, so sorry that you're in the wars. Hope you feel better very soon. Time for Father Brown! Liz x

Afternoon All

Happy Anniversary Gill <3 <3. How lovely to get 2 cards from Sandra :-D. They sound very pretty.

Welcome back Frank :-D :-D :-D.You have been gone for so long and now come back in the wars again :-(.. I hope that you make sure to take your painkillers on the dot when they are due.It is so important to do that as you need to keep breathing as deeply as you can.The last thing you will need is a chest infection. Maybe in a few days you will be able to manage a shower.I'm so sorry that this has happened to you .You certainly don't do anything by halves do you !!!!.

I am just back from having my nailvarnish taken off. It was the varnish I had done for the wedding so it has done well :-)

It is really cold again this afternoon so I was pleased to find Chris has lit the fire.I am going to get a nice cuppa and warm up .

O my boys back at last.

Sorry to hear you are still in so much pain, Are the stronger painkillers giving you any more relief or not. Ribs can be as a long while healing especially when your older. I remember my dady broke some ribs years ago when I was young and he had this tight bandage wrapped right around his chest but they don't do that now.

How long is your beard if you can't shave? I would love to see a picture.

Not getting on well today I still hav'nt washed up after lunch as I took a nice big pot of warm mash round to the girls and walked back to the back gate and our neighbour came over to talk to me. We talked for quite a while. He was trying to find metal posts amogst the brimbles which he want to clear but dos'nt want to hit any metal or wire with the cutter. He is trying to follow a line through the brimbles to where there are a couple of post further up the field.

O its sooooooooo good to have our Frank back. <3

Good afternoon all

<3 <3 HAPPY ANIVERSARY Gill & Glynn <3 <3 hope you enjoyed your day. The cards from Sandra sound very pretty I expect she got a lot of pleasure in making them.

Good to see you back Frank but sorry you are having so much pain. It must be good to have your laptop back .As Gill mentioned could you get a carer to come in once a day to help with the shower and shave.

It's been cold and overcast all day. Had the Sainsbury delivery this morning so fridge and freezer are now well stocked.

I have my Diabetic blood and urine test tomorrow morning so it's nil by mouth except water this evening and tomorrow morning. Amanda the phlebotomist always has a job getting any blood out of me, last time she told me to drink plenty of water to make it easier the downside is many trips to the loo .
We also watched manhunt I remember the case for murdering Millie Downer I didn't realise at the time he also murdered others .What an evil man We are going to watch Death in Paradise later before that Back in Time for School.

Glad you reminded me of Back in time for School Anne as I had forgotten it was on a Thursday. Still not done much but I did damp dust my desk so thats all nice and clean now. I am just going to do a bit of ironing now as I seem to have a rather large pile.

Good luck wiht your test in the morning.

Sausages tonight and I made stuffed jacket pots last night so only have to do a bit of bross to go with them and the jackets can go in the oven with the sausages so nice and easy.

Anne I went for a fasting blood test a couple of months ago but had forgotten it was a fasting one and had breakfast !!!!!!!. Silly me.

Back in time for school but also the Secret lives of 4 year olds. I have never wached Death in Paradise although I know my Sister loves that. I thought Manhunt was done really well and Martin Clunes played his role so well.

Mel I did all the ironing here yesterday but now there is already another blooming pile building up :-S . That can wait now :-D. Its always shirts. :-S

What a shame the Banties don't like OH .He can't be that scary !!

:-D

Afternoon folks,

:-)HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO GILL AND GLYNN :-D

I see Sandra was busy making you some nice cards! :-) It's good the birds are getting used to your water feature so quickly. We see them drink from our tiny waterfall sometimes. It's much nicer than seeing those clumsy Pigeons splashing about in the pot I filled with water at the bottom of the garden. The poor little water lily in there gets bashed about every year and hardly manages to flower. I hope your throat is a bit better now.

That's good you have your laptop back Frank and so sorry you have broken your ribs. OH was in agony with just one rib broken so you must be in an even worse state! They ambulanced him to hospital at the time but said they would have to heal on their own. He came out in huge bruises all colours and I expect you may be the same. We were going on holiday a few days later, so we had to pack everything into my tiny Citroen and I did all the driving. It worked out well though as my tiny car was much better on the narrow roads in the Yorkshire Dales. We'll have to promise not to make you laugh for a while won't we? :-)

A lot of things seem to be coming into flower early this year. I noticed a lot of gorse was all in flower the other day and there were daisies open on a grass verge! Our white flowered Viburnum was covered in BEES and I've never seen those around this early in the year.

We did a big shop at the supermarket this afternoon, our Sainsbury's is huge, so I was limping by the time we left. I really must do like Anne and set up internet delivery and have a trial shop so it is set up for the future I don't know if it was because of all the bugs around but there was a huge empty space where the Paracetamol were. :-S :-0

There was no frost here Mel, but I was up late so maybe it had gone. Mum's chickens loved a warm mash in the winter too. They used to wolf it down! How is your cold/sore throat now?

I meant to say good luck with your test tomorrow Anne. I have the HBA1c tests done now instead of the fasting one I always had before, so don't have to fast now. I used to have to leave myself big notes in the kitchen to stop me getting a cuppa in the morning! :-S I hope you have a nice early appointment! :-)

Evening all,

<3 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GILL <3
Hope you've both enjoyed your day ,that was lovely Sandra making the cards it makes them so special

Nice to see you back Frank ,not so nice are your poor poor ribs ,have you got a chair that has a high seat so you don't have to heave yourself up? , that can be very painful if you have to do that .
I hope the pain killers help .

No frost here this morning but it has been so cold ,nice and warm in the shops in Norwich but i swear the heater wasn't working coming home on the bus i was so glad to get home in the warm and now i'm tired out so it will be an early night for me.

Did you find some trainers Mandy? I wore my hat today as it was cold and nearly took the pompom off getting in the car. :-)

Know what you mean about knocking the pompom when you get in the car Ann. I do it every time and if I catch sight of myself in something its always on the scew whiff.

Mandy did you get what you went shopping for?

Morning all

Another damp day here with lots of clouds around.

I hope you had a better nights sleep last night Frank in your bed rather than a chair.

Oh dear Ann, that's not good nearly knocking the pom pom off your new hat, it must be a big pom pom you made. You'll need to duck your head more next time you get in the car.

Thanks everyone for your anniversary wishes yesterday, we had a pleasant afternoon catching up with some programmes we'd recorded, I now have more room on my planner.

We watched the "Hunted" last night, does anyone watch that? It's about a bunch of people who have to hide away from people trying to find them and if they succeed after a few weeks, they get to keep 10k each. There's 10 of them in total and it's really interesting to see how they try to evade capture. We came across the programme last year just flicking through the channels and now we're hooked. They have real police trying to find and catch them using all sort of ways that the police use, it can become quite exciting sometimes when they're close to catching someone.

The boss of the build is sitting in his van, I think the window fitters are back today. It looks so much better with some windows in and I noticed the bathroom ones look like they have blinds on them, I've only ever seen frosted windows, so that's new on me. At least they can't see through it into Sandra's bedroom, she was worried about that.

I think I might take another look at my family tree again today. I don't have much else to do as it's all done now the bedding has been washed. All the housework is done to. I do need to put some more food out for the birds though, so I'd best go and do that first.

Morning all,

Another dull and cloudy day here too Gill. It rained a little last night when I went out to the bin. I did enjoy those few days of sunshine we had and so did the chickens.

I have a small lamb leg boned joint for tonight and think I will do hom rice with it. I shall have a couple of new pots with mine and cauli and carrots.

O forgot to say I watched that Hunted last year a few times but got bored with it in the end.

Afternoon All
Fitz will be here any second to have a bit of lunch and see the wedding and honeymoon pics.
I had sad news this morning. My dear old friend and Primary School teacher passed away on Wednesday :-( :-( I am glad now that I rang her just a couple of weeks ago.
So she won't make her 100th after all.

I'll be back later today

O Jane thats sad but at least you did talk to her for the last time. So thats two deaths this year so far that people we know or who are related to us on the thread.

Enjoy your lunch with Fitz.

Just going to put the washing out and then get lunch.

Fitz has been and gone now. Lunch was a bit of a damp squib really as Chris is just not right and then he went of to put all the logs away that were delivered just before 12.30. Fitz and i both went out to help but were turned down as Chris said it was easier just to do it all himself :-S :-S.. To say I was cross is an under statement . I have just managed ot hold my tongue. Now Chris has gone to lie down. So while he was slaving away with the logs I showed Fitz all the photos which he thoroughly enjoyed.

Mel has your washing dried outside? . I hung a load of shirts out this morning and have just got them in and they feel just as wet !!!!. It was a waste of time hanging them out.I will have to put them all on hangers on the stand in the bathroom now.

Can I have a list of everyones birthdays please as I am pretty sure I am missing some. I was just going through my old calendar to put dates on this years one and am sure I am missing some people.

I wonder how our Frank is today. Still in a lot of pain I am sure. Life is going to be a bit difficult for him for a while now with not being able to do anything without agonising pain :-(

How's the Pom Pom Ann :-D :-D. Still in place I hope :-D :-D ;-)

Mel it is sad about Ruth . I had really hoped she would have made her 100th Birthday.
She has been such a big part of my life since I was 9 years old . She taught me to sew too and always remembered how rubbish I was LOL . Her Daughter has asked me to let anyone I know who knew her Mum that she has died so I need to make a couple of calls . One to my old friend the headmaster .I will do that now.