General Chat

Good news. Stu has been in touch with the fella selling the car and we are going to see it on Sunday. Stu said he'll take the trailer so we can bring it home. He also said it has a chain cam instead of a rubber belt so thats good. Its a lot younger than my old girl but still not a youngster.

I suppose it might be a busy time with his work for Stu Mel, so it slips his mind. You might have to keep reminding him. Yes I think my nail must have taken 6 months to grow out this far. At first half the nail was growing out black for ages and I thought I would lose it. I caught my toe on the castor wheel and end of the bed leg at the corner. It hurt that much at first I was wondering if it was broken.

That's typical that just as you manage to get a lift to the shop the label printer went wrong. I'd ring them to make sure it's working again before someone takes you. You've not had much luck lately and it's all made worse by not having a car yet isn't it.

Pill time for me and then I'm off to bed as I've done nothing but yawn this afternoon.

So do I Annx. Not sure if he's too bothered. I have a stuffed hedgehog against one of the bed legs which I stubbed my toe on ages ago but this time I did it on the next leg. It very painful and the nail has gone blue at the mo, no doubt it will go black and I shall have to wait ages for it to grow out.

BIL came today as he is going out over Exmoor tomorrow with his camera. He has a sandwich with me lunchtime and then fiished off and took me down the shop to post a small parcel. Well they said they had done 13 parcels today but would it print the label for mine.....no. They tried 7 times with no luck so now I have to find someone else to take me up there with it again.

Afternoon All,

What a lovely sunny day! The snowy white little Egret was in the brook in the next village today. He didn't seem bothered about the Ducks or Moorhens and the Moorhens have become very bold and tame in the past few years. I think with the pandemic and then the yarn bombs more people feed them. We did a few errands, then ended up at a garden centre and the Works. I used to buy most of my paintbrushes and pads of paper there, but they have changed their supplier and no longer do the packs of tiny detail brushes I liked and now the pads of painting paper are sealed so you can't feel the texture and thickness of the paper. :-S We did see a lovely jet black working Cocker Spaniel in there who was keen to meet everybody. His coat was so shiny and he was 18 months old and full of beans!

I I've booked the boiler service for November and contacted the man who did the ensuite floor. He has got a discount from his supplier which he was expecting, but we are just not ready to do the bedroom or bathroom floors yet.

It's surprising what your PC or Ipad does to your words at times Mandy! lol. It always pays to read what youv'e written doesn't it. I hope you've managed to buy/do everything you wrote down.

I hope you had a nice meet up and lunch with your friends AnnG. I struggle to remember what things like USB stand for!

Ouch Mel! I know how painful that is as my toe went purple and the nail black doing the same thing. I thought I would lose the nail and it grew all lumpy for while. It's almost back to normal now and I think the next time I trim my nails the last of the black will be gone. I hope Stu cooks something nice for you and that he has news on a replacement for your car.

Back to more admin now. :-(

Morning all,

Its 10 degrees here and a nice bright sunny morning. Got up for the loo while it was dark and on the way back to bed I stubbed my toe on the bad leg. I already have a soft toy on the first leg so now I need to find something for the next leg. Its my middle toe on my right foot and is showing signs that its going to go black, its a sort of bluey colour on the nail. Took me ages to drop off again after that but I did. Thought as nobody was coming this morning I'd have a lie in but was wide awake by 8,45am so not much of a lie in.

Dinner at Stu's tonight he said he or James will pick me up.

Enjoy your trip to Cheltenham Anng and Mandy hope you get everything on your list.

Morning all,
14 degrees here ,a nice sunny start to the day ,should be like that all day.
Shopping day so I have my list ,giggling now as when I looked the tablet had put I have my lust lol
Enjoy your lunch with your friends Anng

Good morning all. bright and sunny again and 3 degrees Brrr!!. Going to Cheltenham to meet a couple of friends for lunch later.

:-D I like to think I am quite knowledgeable regarding the computer etc. abut despite using them every day I didn’t know they were called ports.

Oh that's good your all OK, you do wonder when someone doesn't post if they are OK.

Oh my word Ann can't say you should have gone to spec savers as they did , what a shock for ths people in there ,glad no one was hurt .

Mel thats good you got sorted in ths end ,I have no idea what plugs in where I'm very lucky that I can leave all that to son and he soon sorts it ,Jake is good at things like that too.

We had a nice shepherd's pie tonight went down a treat.

Yes, as well as plugs with ports you can also get port hubs that plug into the port on your PC as well. I have one that has 4 ports in the hub so I can plug in my new keyboard and extended drive as well as other USB sticks. It's handy when you run short of plug sockets. I hope you find your plug.

We just saw on the local news that in the next village a car managed to mount the pavement and run inside the Specsavers Shop doorway at 9.50am this morning. It isn't a bit of road you can speed on as it's between traffic lights and a zebra crossing. Also there is usually a solid row of cars parked that side of the road. Luckily no-one was badly hurt and they haven't arrested anyone. Imagine looking on racks for some new specs and a car smashing through the doorway. It's only a small shop as well.

Yes Annx ports that the word I could'nt think of. Somewhere I found a plug with two ports on it and I suppose I could use that to charge up my cd player and speaker and the camera if only I can find it!

Afternoon All,

Yes we are both ok although OH was a bit dizzy this morning after I'd popped to the shop. Although it's probably his meds, it's happened a few times now so he's going to get a check up with the doctor and take his BP checks he's been doing with him. He needs to ask about the MRI scan he's supposed to be having as that seems to have gone off the radar anyway and also about having the blood test to see if the lower dose of statins is ok.

Well Mandy that was a bit of drama having the CID visit and some of your camera footage taken! There might be something saying what it was all about in the local paper in the next few days. It does show though how useful household cctv and door ringbell footage can be to the police. Someone was obviously up to no good by the fact they were running away.

It's amazing all the cues you have had. I think you may struggle to beat the 98 next year but you never know!

Things are so expensive now it's no wonder people are eating out less and cutting back what they have. OH found the receipts for the tuna jackets we had last week. There was a small portion of finely chopped salad no bigger than the potato and a small pot of homemade coleslaw with them and we had two teas and it came to £26!

I used to freeze half a loaf when I lived on my own AnnG. It saved a lot of waste. Now I just have the small Warburtons wholemeal with no added sugar, or their small seeded wholemeal, but tend to eat less bread now anyway. OH has their large seeded and sometimes the half and half. Regarding Cillit Bang, I just couldn't cope with the fumes from it, even with both bathroom windows and the door open. I've not found anything to remove old mould from the silicon sealant. It's probably best to get it resealed, which first OH did in the past and is an easy job for a handyman and I've noticed there's a mould resistant sealand now called XPRO 365 which might be better. I stopped the man who did the ensuite floor from sealing round it with white sealer and made him use clear sealand as white is so noticeable when it gets grubby. I was too late when the fitter did round the shower tray though or I would have got him to use a grey colour.

Well yesterday we went back to the blind place to choose another blind. The lady spent ages trying to find the blind we ordered in their many pattern books, (which I didn't understand why), but when she found it, she pointed out that it did indeed come in blackout option. Off she went to their factory across the road and to cut a long story short, it seems the manufacturer of the material for the blind had sent the wrong type of fabric, despite the shop ordering the correct black out material. So all is well, more has been ordered, and they will still be able to have the blind ready for when they come next week. It was a nuisance they didn't check it when it arrived, but on the other hand, if they'd said nothing and just made it up I would have just thought it wasn't a very thick blackout material as they do vary.

I've made an appointment for the people who built the wardrobes in to come and see if they can make less deep cupboards under the bedroom window where I have cupboards at each end with drawers and a window seat between across the square bay window. It looks nice and I doubt they will still have the same material the wardrobes are built in and it would give me a bit less storage, but I need to be able to get closer to the window without climbing to wipe or clean the windows properly. Thinking of the future when I won't be able to get my leg up!

I'm glad all went well at the clinic with your eyes Vera and hope you can get your cataract done soon and can see what impact that has. It's good your granddaughter has managed to stand in like that as it will have helped her to ease in too. I had a silly thought and imagined she would be speaking Chinese, but I suppose it's in English! :-)

I was right about there being three baby Swallows then Mel. Will they be big enough to migrate do you think. I don't know whether they stay here if not.

Edit: I didn't see your latest post till after I posted. By 'thingies' do you mean the ports where you plug things in? You must learn the lingo or we won't understand what you are talking about. You do seem to have a lot of problems and I wonder if it is the same for your neighbours. I had trouble with my laptop yesterday as it wouldn't let me enter all of my password for some reason, despite me closing it down and trying several times. Then I unplugged the seperate keyboard I have now and it worked with the old keyboard after a few attempts. I plugged the new keyboard back in and it was fine with that then, so I have no idea what was the matter. It's good you have contact with the outside world again as it must get lonely with no car either.

Afternoon all,

Glad I was missed! I had no internet this morning and it took me over three quarters of an hour on the phone to a lovely chap called Joseph from BT who was in Ireland. He was great and guided me through all these steps and eventually between us and over the phone we managed to get back onto Wi Fi and all it was was an ariel thing that my neighbour took out of the back of the pc when he got me back on ages ago. Only last week I had put this ariel thing away but today I could'nt find. I did in theend and between Joseph one end and me the other we managed to get the Wi Fi back and me into my emails and back on the net. I'm glad it was an 0800 number I had to ring. This was given to me by my neighbour this morning and I am going to keep it in my phone now. The only thing is this small ariel thing is plugged into one of the two thingies ion the pc box where I usually charge my camera and other things in. I can't take out the one for the new keyboard as when I did that this morning the new keyboard did'nt work. This small ariel thing used to be plugged into the back of the pc box but I can't see round there to put it back in where it was. I shall have to wait until BIL comes on Friday and see if he can do it for me.

Anyway its been a wonderful sunny day here all day but I lost the morning with the blimmin pc and Em came and took me up the post van to bank my cheques and get some money out and then I popped in the shop for an anniversary card and some hame and bought a telly paper for next week which I can't understand at all. O to be able to have the Mail on a Saturday once again when I eventually get another car. Not having the pc this morning I felt very alone, no car no pc no one to talk to very strange. The poor girls did'nt even get fedtill 1.15pm but they did have food still in their trough so they did'nt go hungry.

Enough of my moans hope you all slept well.

Hopefully Mel and Ann and OH are all OK. They are probably just busy and Mel sometimes seems to have a bit of trouble with her internet so perhaps that's the reason she isn't posting.

It's nice and sunny and computer says it's 16 degrees but it's still quite breezy and there is a real nip in the wind.

I've had the lights go in both display units in the kitchen so we went out this morning to try to get some new ones. We went to a couple of proper electrical places that OH knows. One just said they are no longer made but the other was more helpful. They also said those particular lights are no longer made but said if OH could get one out and take it in they will see if they can match it for size and fitting etc in their stock. So back home we came. OH has taken one down and we will have to go back to the shop in the next day or two. I think the lights were put in when the house was built in 2008 or 2009 so they don't owe us anything.

It did feel like a wasted morning so I've tried to get on with a couple of jobs this afternoon though I don't feel like I've achieved very much. I think I'll now go and pot up 3 or 4 argyranthemum cuttings that I've rooted in water and they now have good roots on them. There are 2 or 3 more that look as though they are just starting to make roots so I'll leave those for a while.

I expect tomorrow we will go back to the electrical shop with this light and then go on to our usual Thursday coffee meeting.

I had not noticed that Mel has not been on so far today and also hope ann and OH are OK. I expect they are just busy.

Got all the cucumber plants cut down but haven't emptied the pots ,cut seven more cucumbers that were hiding so the end count was 98
It's quite warm out there in the sun today.


No Ann yesterday so hope they are both OK
No Mel this morning either ,I know she said Em was taking her up to the post van so perhaps she took her shopping as well .
Hope Gwyn is OK too .

It is horrendous Mandy when you stop and add it up. I have the sliced best of both bread I put it in the freezer and take a slice at a time.

Morning all,

Grounds wet so I think we must have had a little rain in the night ,its a very cloudy morning but I'm hoping it will stay dry as I need to do a bit in the greenhouse ,the cucumbers are finishing now so if I can cut some down then I want to get three of my tomato plants in there that stand outside and are loaded with green tomatoes .

The prices of a slice of cake seem expensive and if you have to buy for a family when you are out it soon adds up ,I was looking in the bread shop in town and just a small white loaf was 3 pound something now that's a lot if you have a family to feed so I can understand why lots buy the sliced loaves in the supermarket , I buy the seeded sliced loaf and we get through two loaves ar least a week as we have toast for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch ,if I bought those small loaves from the bakers we'd probably need three of those that's nine pound or more just on the bread without the filling ,what ever would our mother's think of the price of bread now or the cost of everything .

Good morning all, very grey but still dry and a wee bit warmer at 8 degrees.

Slept ok in 2 hour 'bits'. Out this morning visiting the ladies who were spinning at the Butterfly garden,

Vera that was a huge amount for a piece of cake, I hope it was a decent size. We always, for a long time, shared one piece of cake, and sometimes still do that with daughter. although usually out with her cake is off the menue because of her diabetes.

It was quite sunny this morning but the sun was deceptive as it was definitely on the chilly side. It clouded over this afternoon and then we had some rain

You've certainly had a bit of excitement in your road Mandy. I wonder what those men had been up to. I expect the police were pleased to find you had some recordings even if it did take them a long time to transfer them.

AnnG, the tea in Dobbies was OK. I think it was £5 but we had a big pot of hot, strong tea. We had 2 cups each and there was still some tea left in the pot. It was the price of the cake that really threw me. It was £4.50 a slice. Even the scones were £3 each. I assume you got some butter with them for that price but if you wanted jam it was another 75p. That's the way things are going I suppose. I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon and nearly everything on my list seemed to have gone up again. It was a big order as I only order every 2 or 3 weeks anyway and I had bought extra stuff to take advantage of some special offers that were ending today. Even so there was only 1 sub and that was to my advantage.

I went for my blood tests this morning. The phlebotomist was a real no-nonsense sort of woman. Usually whoever does the bloods spends ages messing around trying to bring a vein up. Not this lady - it was a case of tighten the strap round my upper arm and shove the needle in. She kept filling 1 tube and then putting another in till I wondered whether I'd have any blood left. It reminded me of an old Tony Hancock sketch called, I think, The Blood Donor. When the doctor said how much blood would be taken Tony Hancock exclaimed "How much! That's nearly an armful".

From the surgery I went to the hairdressers and she got a bit scissor happy. My hair, particularly round the sides, is quite short. As she usually brushes my hair upwards I feel you could turn me upside down and sweep the floor with me.

Then it was over to the bank for my last visit there. I had a nice chat with the teller that served me and she said she'll probably see me again as she has got a job on the tills at our local garden centre.

OH was supposed to have an appointment at the memory clinic tomorrow but the specialist nurse he was seeing rang this afternoon to say she wanted to discuss with the consultant psychiatrist whether OH's episode of transient global amnesia a while ago could have any lasting effect, The consultant is on holiday so his appointment is put off for a week or two and we now have tomorrow free.