General Chat

Back from Currys and the new cooker will be here a week on Monday. All the staff from yesterday were back on duty. They were all fine thank goodness .One of the girls had had to be taken to hospital because of her coughing and she was given steroids and a nebuliser.
Frank the thief ,I really hope gets a jail sentence because of using that spray.He deserves to be locked up for sure.

Gill, I bet you will be getting that dust for a while yet which won't be helping with your throat . So it is April now before they can move in and having to deal out more money too. At least he has promised to get your post fixed. They must be at their wits end with it all now.

Ann,I missed your post yesterday about your Sisters Funeral.I wonder if her partner will change the day with it being her birthday.I would be the same as you and say I would be fine with it. 28 days is no time at all to find somwhere new to live and to empty the property . If as you say your Sister was a bit of a hoarder you will be very relieved it is not you who will have to go and sort and clear things. Is Burton on Trent far for you to go?

The weather is quite strange now.One minute it is really dark and then the next thesun is still tyring to get through.Chris has done a lot of cutting back this morning and is now feeling quite pooped . He said he thought he had slept well last night but feels he needs a nap. I actually think although he did sleep it was quite a disturbed sleep as he seemed a bit restless.Maybe to do with my scary experience. I slept like a log :-D

I hope that James and Hannah and the others are having a nice lunch now in London before they go for Shuffleboard in Shoreditch.I must look this up .I think they are having lunch at a Mexican Restaurant .

Frank, have you stopped chucking your pillows about and attacking Ros :-D Sorry it was yet another bad night for you. At least you have some good reading material to get stuck into when you have to get up in the night.

Afternoon all,

Not a lot of sun here today and it's quite chilly ,the girls are now coming tomorrow for their sleep over as i was up in the night with a dodgy tummy and feel quite tired ,i need to have had a good nights sleep before they come so i can keep up with them :-D
Ann they love making things and cake making ,i think it's the licking out of the bowl at the end they like :-D
I wonder some times if we should cut out the bedtime drink as we need the loo in
the night and it's after getting out that i some times have trouble dropping off again .

We need to get the cover off our kitchen light as i noticed we had some tiny flies in it ,Colin tends to go in heavy handed some times when doing things and why do they never read the instructions when doing things ,because they think they know how to do it and they don't ,then they moan if they have to do it all again

Jane i hope you have better luck today with the cooker ordering what make did you settle on ?

We just posted about the same time there Ann.
I didn't realise your Sisters partner was so much younger.Everything must feel all a bit up in the air at the moment for him.

Staring at dead flies LOL that made me laugh but I know just what you mean. Our upside down ceiling lights in the lounge were like that for ages ,but thankfully they aren't clear glass .I could just see little dark shapes. The shades are too heavy for me to take down and they hang on chains.Eventually I managed ot get Chris to get them down for me and oh my word the flies, moths and just dust was horrible. Last week I cleaned the glass shades from the hall and the upstairs landing . It all looks a lot lighter now when they are switched on :-D. Please can I see your coaster?
I am looking a vase of dead Irises :-S. Little trip down to the compost heap I think.

Just a look at the Shuffleboard Jane it looks fun ,made me think of the old Shove ha'penny we used to play but on a much smaller scale than the Shuffleboard.

Somehow I missed you off Jane so have sent the email again to you and Gill.

The Shuffleboard looks like a cross between bowls and ice hockey with the pucks, but my word the tables are expensive! I've never been anywhere where they have had it so it must be a very old game? What sort of cooker did you decide on in the end?

Gill your tale of woe doesn't get any better with the renovations next door. You just can't trust them with any of the dates they've given and the new people must be really fed up too. I hope the masks help and save your throat. I know how bad it is getting all the dust and dirt, as when our neighbour one side moved in years ago, while we were out they decided to jetwash all the roof which is huge on a bungalow and took them several days. We had just cleaned our patio for the summer and everywhere including our chairs and table, window sills and windows were filthy with moss, lichen, dirt and sand from their roof tiles. It took ages to clean everything and sweep up the mess. It was all over the front drive and my car as well!

Sorry you had a bad night Frank. It's good you are getting some rest reading though. How was Caroline and did Ros think she would still be able to go on holiday? It's a shame when Lollipop ladies can't be paid by the council. They still seem to be wasting money though. The other day we pulled up at traffic lights at a crossroads at the edge of a village on the way to where we have the lamb! :-) They had ripped out the old lights to put new ones in and were fixing railings in the middle of the road where the pedestrians walk that hadn't been there before. We both made the same observation that in all the decades we had travelled this road each week at different times of the day we had never seen a single person waiting to cross the road at those lights!!!

Are they playing shuffleboard on a table one or a floor one?

Turned a buit chilly here today so I have got the heating on. Skies are still grey here.

We had a chat with Ralph and Jim this morning. Jim's wife has just bought the land that borders our east side and Ralph is his brother in law who owns the big house. They keep on about what is our boundry and is the ditch Jim's. Our garden has stone drains across it and they go into the ditch on the east side of the garden. Jim's talking about putting that drainage pipe in the ditch but I don't think that will take all the water that get in the ditch at certain times of the year when it pours and pours with rain.

The ditch behind our bottom fence is about 2 foot six deep Mel and that is a raging torrent after a lot of rain and has been known to overflow into the neighbour's garden and from theirs into ours. I think you are right to be concerned as the field at the back of us is pretty flat and none of our gardens along the edge of the ditch have any drainage pipes into it although some water probably runs off and into it. I wonder why they suddenly want the expense of piping it?

Well finally done and took him 3 hours to get it right. He is usually a whizz with electrics but there were apparently one or two strange things with this fitting which necessitated trial and error, each time going out to the trips in the garage to see if it was right. I am pleased for him it is finished though and the bathroom is now clean and tidied. exhausting afternoon!

Jane yes we have grandson, his wife and Inara coming tomorrow for two nights before Daughter comes on Tuesday for one night. So with a two and eight month year old things have had to be put away, not easy to do with it being so dark today and no lights. Pleased that you got your cooker bought Jane.

Gill, pleased to hear that you have got the masks. Don't forget to use them. A pity for the new owners that the work has gone on much longer than promised and that it has cost them £5000 more. Hope they didn't have to pay for the other neighbour's tiles.

Just made scotch pancakes and we are going to have them with some nice strawberry jam and clotted cream and a cuppa to wash them down.

Mmm sounds a nice treat Mel. :-) :-)

I bet he was glad to get that job done AnnG. How often we start what seems to be a quick and simple job and it takes ages.

Mel that sounds so yummy!

It sounds like bombs going off here with fireworks somewhere. I don't know what that's all about as I thought you could only let them off at certain times now. :-S

You sure its fireworks Ann and not a gas gun. We have them going off around here at the moment.

Funny you should say about fireworks I thought I heard some a few minutes ago.

What's a gas gun Mel?

Your sweet treat sounded lovely Mel, Sandra would of loved them with strawberry jam, it's her favorite.

I didn't think of the boss maybe trying his luck to have the new neighbours pay for the extra roof tiles that went on the other neighbours roof AnnG. If that was the case he's been very crafty as he also managed to knock £500 off the roofers bill by crying poverty, the roofer felt sorry for him so knocked that amount of his bill and don't forget the boss is having his cut on the tiles the roofer is taking to sell, mind you he did tell OH last night that he's only giving him a small amount of money as the roofer has now decided to keep the tiles for other jobs he might have in the future. I see your bathroom is all done now, I find sometimes jobs you think aren't going to take long, seem to take the longest to do.

I still haven't received the email of your coaster Ann, have you sent it to my old email by mistake? How annoying must that of been to have to clean your patio and garden again after the neighbour had his roof cleaned. It's no joke when you try to make your garden look nice and the neighbours do things to ruin it.

Pleased to see you had a good nights sleep after what happened yesterday Jane and that you managed to order your cooker. What type of cooker are you having? Pity Chris has a bad night though, maybe he was more worried about you than he thought.

Sorry you're not feeling to good Mandy, I hope you are feeling a little better now. Good idea to put the girls off for a night, you need some sleep to keep up with them.

good morning all, nice day outside but looks like there is a wind so might be chilly.

We will spend our morning clearing the decks for the arrival of miniature 2 year old whirlwind. Might be back later for a rest. enjoy whatever you are doing today. :-)

Morning AnnG, morning all

Bright and sunny here to Ann and it's nice and warm, I've just cut around the edges of the lawn and OH is cutting the lawn now. I also put my salvia cuttings out now it's warmed up a bit, they were getting to big for the kitchen window sill. Of course that meant cleaning the kitchen and I've also picked up all the leaves outside that keep falling off our Red Robins. I'm going to look online as I think they may have a fungal infection which I think are starting to effect the two 12 foot ones we bought around Christmas, they were to expensive to lose. I might have to get rid of the old ones and start again if I can't find anything to treat it. I need to find out what the problem is first of course.

Once I've done that I'm going to take another look at my family tree, I managed to find a bit of information on one of the brick walls I had, so hopefully I'll find more while Ancestry have their records open for free.

Still got this horrible cough but the masks seem to help so long as I don't start coughing while I'm wearing it, that's not nice at all.

Enjoy your time with your miniature 2 year old Ann. Do you have anything nice planned for the day? Is it your grandson coming around? Sorry I can't remember what you said :-S :-S

Morning all,

Grey sky and sunshine now and then here. I went to bed at 12.05am and got up once for the loo and then slept till 10.55am so you could say I have had a very good long sleep. Now I am hungry.............AnninG, I am sure you love him really and will be pleased to see your grandson and his wife also.

Right I think a cuppa is in order as my mouth feelsl like the bottom of a parrots cage as Frank would say. ;-)

Mel it is a 'her' She is lovely but on the go all the time. She is 2 years and 8 months and wears four year old clothes. Grandson and his wife and littly live in the Lake District. They are staying here for two nights breaki8ng their journey on the way to the funeral of his other grandmother who was 94 and lived near Salisbury. Daughter travels down tomorrow also from the Lake District, and stays in a hotel overnight then stays here on the way back. I think Grandson will be going all the way back on Tuesday, unless he is staying with friends in Hampshire.

You have had a good nights sleep Mel, almost 11 hours of it ;-) ;-) ;-)

Well, I'm very pleased at the moment, I've just Googled my Red Robin's as the leaves are falling off and there is black spot all over them and I've found out it's just the plants under stress. We moved them and where they are now they're not happy. Our garden is very windy and with the really cold snap we had the other week, the plants are now telling me they're not happy.

All we need to do is move the three of them to another place. We did have one of them at the bottom of the garden and it was fine, but we moved it about 10 weeks ago and now it's showing the same signs as the other two. We know the two 12 foot Red Robins will probably go the same way, but unfortunately we can't move them anywhere else because of their size, they just won't fit, so they'll have to stay where they are, plus they are hiding the ugly extension from next door.

The one thing we did noticed is that the leaves are falling off near the bottom rather than the top so they should still hide the extension when it happens to them. Another way to thicken them up is to prune them, so we'll do that around May when the last of the frost has gone.

So all in all, although I'm not happy at the plants losing their leaves, it's something we can sort out. Once that's done the plants should grow new shoots and recover nicely :-D :-D
Well, lets hope so anyway.

Going to take a look at my family tree now, then watch the Gladiators with Sandra and OH. Sandra is really getting into it now, but there's only a couple left. She also likes 60 minute makeover, which I record on a Sunday morning, there's about four of them each week, so that'll keep her happy for a while yet :-)

Good morning to those who are around, see the others later. xxx

Oh what a night it was. After watching Midsummer on ITV 3 it finished at 9,00 pm I went to bed. Ros tells me this morning I came into the lounge "SLEEP WALKING" and saying "they are all over the bed, but I have saved a place for you" I was laughing like a drain, I then turned round and went back to bed.I supposedly came out an hour later, with the same tale. When Ros followed me back to bed. She said the wires to the radio and light were on the bed, my pillows were on the floor, as were my covers. She remade the bed around me, and I settled down for the night, until 6.15 am. AND I only had two cans of beer. lol lol.

We had to tuen the bed this morning, what a JOB. I did most of it on my own, as it's SO HEAVY, I didn't want Ros straining herself. She has changed the bedding and it's all washed and blowing on the line.

I have prepared a shoulder of lamb, with home made mint sauce, roasties and parsnips, Cauli, carrots, peas and runner beans. For whatever reason Ros has bought Aunt Bessies Puddings. I aways make my own. !!!!

AnnG. your relatives must be happy as larry, living in such a lovely part of the Country. There was a programme on TV last night, (I don't know where) about Lake Windermere and a group of ELEVEN SWIMMERS, swimming the length of the lake TEN AND A HALF MILES 10 finished the swim. Also :-Showing the wardens going about their everyday choirs. Very interesting.


Ros is in the back garden giving the top bed a tidy up. Everywhere is showing what a mess it is after the winter. Once the lawns are cut and the edges done it will look much better. Not sure if I will attempt it,or wait for Barry to come. It's very wet this morning, so I will leave it today.

Hope you all have a nice afternoon, with or without family. See you soon. xxxx

What are we going to do with you Frank !!!. Poor Ros must wonder what you will do next LOL

Well it is not a good time here at the moment. It seems like James and Jess are splitting up.James is in a right state . Shuffle board was off for him and Jess so Hannah ,Gareth and Matt just went. James stayed though with Hannah last night. He got home a couple of hours ago ,but he is not talking and looks totally drained.I have said ot go and have a nice soak in the bath and try and relax a bit. So what with this and the work problems life is a pile of poo for James right now :-(
He and Jess have been together for about 11 years. The only thing he did say was that they do still love each other but arent good for each other . Not sure what he means by that at the moment. He is seeing her next Saturday in London but again I am not sure why . It is just horrible seeing your children so sad and troubled (no matter how old they are) . Hannah just messaged me to say he has told her he has just taken down the big pics of Jess he had on his bedroom wall
:-( He hasnt said anything to us.It is good that they are close and Hannah is being big Sister :-) So that is my day so far.

Mandy I hope your tummy upset has cleared up and that the girls are having a nice time with you.
AnnG has the whirling dervish arrived? :-D :-D. I expect you will be worn out after all your visitors.

That was one long sleep you had Mel last night!!. Does it make you wake up feeling tired still when you have slept for so long?

Someone asked what cooker I have bought. It is a Zanussi. I have never had a Zanussi before . The last 2 have been Stoves and I think a Belling before that.
What amazes me is many oven dont come with a handle for the grill pan!!. I find that really strange. I dont think my new cooker has one but the man in the shop says that they can be ordered . I have a handle for this grill pan but I doubt it will be the right ft for the new one. I decided against an Induction hob as I would have to buy all new pans .

All weekend we have had the rumbling noise of the huge earthmoving trucks in the field by the lane. They are preparing the ground to put in these HUGE water or sewerage pipes.The pipes are really massive.I think cranes will have to be brought in to get them in the ground.The whole landscape around us is changing now and I find it quite upsetting.If we had known nearly 30 years ago when we moved here that we would be surrounded by new housing we would not have come here.
I wonder what has happened to the Badger Setts and other wildlife who are all going ot be displaced .Are Badgers protected .Hopefully they will have been moved.We don't have the Cull of Badgers here.
It has become dark since I started typing all this.Time I went I think :-D. Tray bake Chicken dish to get sorted. Nothing as grand as Franks dinner :-D :-D