General Chat

Morning girls,

Happy birthday to all the rellies that have birthdays today and I am sure they will all have a wonderful day.

The suns shining and its 21 degrees and its going to be mostly sunny so not much being done here today but I have to cook a dinner for tonight as Stu's coming.

Rang the doc's and have an appointment with the nurse at 3.20pm to take this little blighter off my hand. Thats the trouble with having the deer foxes and rabbits in the garden and also having long grass in places.

I don't think you all understand about the telly. I can get the U channels on my telly I wanted the iplayer for those channels so I can watch the programs later than they are on the actual telly. Sometimes I am out in the garden till way past the time the programs are on I wish to see and as it was free I downloaded it to the pc but did'nt understand how to get it on the big telly. I did a bit of exploring and mucked up the programs on the telly but think I found what I was looking for. Anyway Em's hubby came last night and between us we got it sorted found the cods and put it in and I gave him a dozen eggs for his trouble. They are such a lovely couple and would do anything for me within reason. Last night I watched the first episode of Lovejoy and a bit of the next one. I could'nt believe how young Phyllis Logan was in it as Lady Jane. Tonight I am going to watch the new one on Channel 5 too and no I hav'nt seen Reuben yet either.

Morning all,

Oh lots of birthdays today Happy birthday to them all and I hope they all enjoy their day.

Another day of not doing much with it being so hot ,isn't it nice that we can when so many have to work in the heat.

Thats good your all sorted with the channels Mel ,we get the u channels in our BT package.

Ann I have recorded Reuben and the Greens so haven't seen it yet ,there's a crime drama on channel 5 tonight I might record it has Phyllis Logan in she played the house keeper in Downton ,don't know what it's going to be like she plays a newspaper puzzle writer and helps the police with a murder .

Keep cool everyone and stay out of that hot sun ,goodness it wasn't that long ago we were saying how cold it was .

Meant to say I tried to look at the posts last night and it said it was down for maintenance.

Thank you Vera, Happy birthday to your granddaughter and step Grandson.

Good morning AnnG and all

It’s definitely going to be a hot day. Not yet 7.30 and it’s 18, feeling like 21 degrees. I had the fan going all night and I did get a bit of sleep but kept waking up. I haven’t got any plans for the day but I don’t think I’ll be doing much.

I was surprised about the U channels as well. I thought they were on all TVs as they are on Freeserve.

Happy birthday to your great granddaughter AnnG and to my eldest granddaughter and my step-grandson.

Good morning all sunny and 13 degrees at 0630 so another hot day. I am not planning on going anywhere. except for watering the pots and baskets in the two houses.

I do need to iron the new duvet cover, I am not looking forward to that, or to changing the covers over when done.

It is my Great Granddaughter's 9th birthday today so happy birthday to her.

I had not realised that some people can't automatically get U and Drama on the TV It is automatically in my V Media pakage so never though about it.

Ed came round and I am up and running on the tv now with the U channels.

Felt sore on my left hand at the base of my thumb and thought it was a rose thorn cut but on looking at it I think it may be another tiny tick so I will ring the docs in the morning to see if the nurse can take a look and if it is she will remove it for me.

That was good AnnG. I bet a lot of people wouldn't think to do that. See I'm up later than I told you tonight! I'd made a mistake on one of my spreadsheets and it's taken till now to find it. I would have lain awake thinking about it if I hadn't sorted it!

I did wear rubber gloves to deal with the pigeon and washed them in very hot water afterwards.

Neither I nor OH could get into our emails when he got home but everything seems to be alright again now. I've had a load of spam emails and two spam phone calls this afternoon.

I would hate dealing with the dead pigeon too AnnG. I think we are supposed to use gloves with all the bird flu still being about, but I wouldn't even want to touch it and I used to breed Canaries and never minded handling those or picking live chickens up that mum and dad had..

Mel after Mandy mentioned Sky having U&Drama I had a look and found a few other of the U channels on there too. One thing I want to watch is The Miniaturist. It has a Dolls house in it, but isn't about making Dolls' houses.

Did you watch Reuben Mandy? I was surpried they found what they did being actually inside the house. I won't say more in case you haven't watched it yet. Another lovely rabbit finished then! Yours seem to be multiplying like the real ones now! They are beautiful and beautifully made though and it must be interesting using different colours for those detailed clothes they have. The spray seemed to come out fine, but obviosly from the shape of it wasn't where you should press it.The lid has a dented in bit that looks as if you should press it there, but it won't move. two thin plastic bits each side of the button look as if they should break the firsty time you use it, but they probably need Charles Atlas to do it. The first thing I just saw on the label is ' For indoor use only'. I have something I used for the miner bees we were infested with in the garden a few years ago, but I'm blowed if I know where it is! The brilliant white Polyfilla I have might stand out.

It's good the gardener came and did a few jobs Vera and that the builder turned up with materials. The poor man must feel overwhelmed with what's going on in his life just now.

It's reached 27 degrees here according to the PC so I think it could be a really uncomfortable tonight like it has been for some. My hot water bottle is in the fridge with cold water in it, but I should have done it earlier.

Thaat one seems fine Mandy but I did have the messages come up and no avatars early today and at times yesterday.

Done a bit of sweeping in the garden and got very hot so came in the kitchen in the cool and had a sit down.

Annx there are some good programs on U & Drama old one some of them but so long ago I don't mind watching them again.I want to see this Outrageous and the Miss Fisher murder mysterys and I shall watch Lovejoy again. That should keep me quiet for a while but I do tend to binge watch things as I can't wait to see what hapens next and then I fall asleep and have to go back to a bit in the program I remember the next day.

I have heard the chain saw going out the front again this morning so I am going up to get my box and have a nosey.

Just thought I wonder if I have it on my ipad????

Well I think the heats affecting the thread my post came up nine times took ages to delete them as it kept saying an error has accured, see what happens to this one

Mel I bet Ed will soon sort it out for you a few clicks here and there and it will be done ,I don't know what we'd do without son sorting things out for us .

Ann I should think those cargo pants will be nice and cool if they are cotton and the big pockets on them are handy ,he'll have to keep an eye on the sales and get some more .
Perhaps the hole in the spray can is blocked have you tried putting a pin in the end .

Vera it sounds as if the poor man has a lot on his plate at the moment with all he has going on .
Good the garden man turned up that's one job ticked off the list.

Oh goodness Anng you don't need to be in a hot hall in this weather so no lift has worked out better for you today .
I think getting the fidgets are the worst thing in bed I just have to keep getting out and having a walk round , i think Vera has to do that too.

I did a little dead heading first thing but I could feel the sun getting hotter and hotter so stopped and we sat and had coffee in the shade and of course I did a little knitting lol any excuse to get the needles out I had to use the liquid talc on my hands though.
One more rabbit finished , now shall I start another one lol

23 degrees here now and very 'sticky' I am quite pleased that I was unable to get a lift to the U3a main meeting this afternoon, it can get very hot in the hall. And I do sislike AGMs.

I don't watch any TV on my PC or Ipad. I have watched it many years ago on the Ipad when away from home but I usually record everything I want to watch and if I am away I watch when I return home.

I did have coffee down the garden in the shade of the tree and it was pleasant but as soon as I moved into the sun to walk back up the garden it was sooo hot.

Ann, Ah, so you go to bed and watch TV? My sister, who has fibromyalgia spends every evening in or on her bed watching TV. Sitting up in bed is, for me, more uncomfortable than sitting in a chair downstairs.

Sorry you didn't have a good night Mandy, once the fidgets start it is hard to ignore them.

Phew is the right word at the moment Mandy. BBC weather is telling me it's 24 and feels like 26 degrees and the thermometer is still going up. Not much sleep again as it was so hot and sticky. OH had a doctor's appointment at 9 am so I had to stay here in case various people turned up. I had wanted to go and get my script first thing before it got too hot but have now decided to leave it till Friday.

Our U & Drama channel is 20 on the TV, the same as Mandy but I've never tried downloading the channel on to the iPad. In fact the only one I have got on my iPad is BBC iPlayer. That's more than enough for me with all the different BBC programmes available. I enjoy some of the programmes from BBC Scotland.

Ugh, AnnG. That would have been nasty finding that mutilated dead pigeon. I'm a wuss with birds. I can't pick them up. It's not the feathers as I'm fine handling them. I just can't manage if there's a bird inside the feathers. When OH was awway one time and there was a dead pigeon in the garden I had to fetch the man across the road.

The builder turned up while OH was out and left all the materials he had bought. He reckons to be here at 9 am tomorrow and should be able to work through Thursday and Friday. Poor man doesn't know if he's on his head or his heels. His mil died last week and everyone is pulling out the stops to rush her funeral through for early this coming week so that her son (builder's bil) who is on palliative care himself will be able to either attend or watch it streamed. Builder is also sorting out all bil's paperwork and documents. Anyway he is doing his best to fit our work in as well.

Just after he had gone OH arrived back and then the gardener arrived to trim a couple of overgrown shrubs, and take the tops out of a crabapple and a hawthorn tree and reshape them. That's done now and he has just left.

In between all this I finished the ironing and now I feel ready for bed again. OH will get lunch in a minute and I've put in an order for a banana sandwich but he's probably forgotten and I'll get pate or Boursin as that's what will be in his view when he opens the fridge.

I've just registered and got U&Drama on my laptop Mel. Unlike with tv there was no code needed to pair it, just a password to get in. I'm glad you mentioned about it as there are progs on there that I like and can watch on my laptop when all the footie is on tv! :-)

Well I popped to the shop and bought an icecream as well so that was a nice treat. when I got home I noticed bees going into a hole in the mortar in the bedroom wall when I got out of the car. We've had them nest in the bedroom front wall before. I thought some wasp killer sprayed round the hole might put them off, but could I get the spray can to work. I took the top off in the end to see if the plunger bit worked.....it did and sprayed all my hand and top. I put the top back on and it still didn't work! I spent half an hour weeding at 7.00am this morning, but after yesterday's efforts the aches were getting worse so I went in and had a shower. I'm starting to pack things away off the surfaces in the main bedroom today, as there will be a lot of dust when the men come to do the ensuite. It's less than three weeks now and if it stays hot I will be slow emptying the ensuite and moving things in the garage in the meantime so I thought it best to make a start. I do stay up late sometimes when I have an interesting FH lead!

The neighbour OH did the watering for brought a bottle of wine round for us this morning. It was totally unexpected and very nice of her, but why do people assume everyone drinks alcohol or can with their meds they may be taking? Still it will be a nice gift we can pass on to OH's footie friend though.

AnnG we both usually go to bed around 8.00pm unless OH is out, but he goes to bed as soon as he gets home then. Sitting is often uncomfortable or painful for me, especially by night time so even though the pain often doesn't settle for over an hour lying down, at least I am resting and I watch tv. I've always been in bed early from childhood as I was never allowed to be up after 8.00pm in my schooldays and then I usually wasn't allowed out late after 9.00pm till I married at age 22 so I would go to bed rather than sit in the smoke in my parents' lounge. I suppose I got used to being early to bed from a young age.

Vera, as a past ironer of daily long sleeved shirts when OH worked full time you have my sympathy! Once I showed him how to iron them though, he seemed to start buying more short sleeved ones! He took over all the ironing eventually, but now neither of us iron unless absolutely necessary. He also buys mostly non-iron shirts now and wears the warmer, tartan patterned long sleeved ones in winter. Now he's changed to wearing mostly plain tee shirts around the house and changes just before he is going to a meeting, which means he can wear a shirt a couple of times with only wearing it half a day. A new venture for him is cargo pants! I bought him a pair years ago that he never wore as they were a bit tight. I think they were a bit out of his comfort zone too! Since he's lost so much weight, they are almost too big now, but he dug them out and has done a few of his walks in them and wishes he'd bought some that fit and started wearing them years ago. They have big pockets for his phone and spray and he says they are so comfortable and cool! It's nice to have a meal outside in your garden restaurant when it's hot inside. It reminds me of the pandemic when we set up a couple of places to eat in the garden to have a change of scene with staying in.

I'm glad you had a cooler night Mandy, but what a shame it ended up a restless one.I bet you had moved your knee to a position it didn't like that set it off with the twinges. I go to sleep, then sometimes wake up with one aching and I'm sure it must be from changing position. Oh my word an attack of the fidgets and now the gall stones playing up. I hope they soon settle down.

I am able to watch U & Drama on the telly and I have registered the on Demand on the pc so I can watch that but I want to watch the On Demand on the tv too. I just don't know where on the telly I find the page that will have the code on it. Thanks for that Annx i will have another go later on.

Its blimmin hot here and hardly a breath of wind today a real scorcher buit pc says its 21 and sunny and temps to drop by Sunday.

Had a spider sucking up this morning and oovered the kitchen and diner. When I go outside the heat hits me so I come back in in the cool house.

Morning all,

Phew hot already time to get the big fan out ,we sat out last night until about twenty to ten it was lovely and cool infact when we went to bed I had to close the window up slightly as it was really blowing in ,had a restless night my knee twinged in the night and then I got the fidgets in it now blow me my gall stones are niggling.
Got the bedding in and that won't take long to dry I'm sure.

Mel we watch a few things on u&drama it's number 20 for us on free view looking in the book it's 143 on sky, 158 on freesat and 116 on virgin so all different.

Vera hope your chap turns up today or at least let's you know if he not coming so you can plan your day .

Oh washers finished better get it hung out before it gets to hot .

Stay cool everyone and keep hydrated .

Morning All,

Just a quick post for Mel. As well as downloading U & Drama, as far as I can tell it looks like you need to register with the site, then a pairing code should come up on your screen which you enter to connect to it. I've never tried it and don't know, but that's what it looks like to me. To use it on your PC I would think you need to register again on there. I have to whizz to the shop now so will BBL.

Vera I hope your builder comes today, its horrid waiting for somrone to turn up and not being able to get on with other things untill you hear from them or they do turn up.

As to answer your questions about U & Drama I can get it on the tv and yes its a smart one but I wanted to watch these programs on the iplayer or whatever you call it. My U and Drama is on 158 on my telly.I was surprised when a few of you said it was on different numbers. I did look into it a bit more and it told me on one onscreen message that I would get the code come up on my tv. I seem to remember diong something similar for channel 5 iplayer but can't remember how it came up on the screen. I think I shall have to ask Ed next door and see if he knows. At least I have a big enough screen to watch the programs on my pc. Oh would have known how to do it for me. He even had my pictures on Echo and on the telly. I would'nt have a clue how he did it.

Good morning all, sun is shining and it is 16 degrees, I was not too hot over night and slept reasonably well woke around 6am but got up around 7 not dressed yet.
This is a 'nothing planned week. Sometimes it seems to be all or nothing.
I do have a few jobs left on the list besides whatever is waiting for me in the garden..
Yesterday when I went in to water the pots and baskets fro cynth I also had to pick up a very dead pigeon. I think the Sparrow Hawk might have been around as the bird had obviously provided a meal. I could pick up and dispose of the bird but there were feathers all over the lawn. She will probably need to pick them up with the lawn mower.
I am wondering what I will find this morning.