General Chat

Well i thought i would go shopping this afternoon only needed a few bits ,got in the car and off i set ,hadn't got very far when the car started to rev ,it did it every time i put the clutch down and braked to stop so i turned round and came home ,so it will have go to the chap who does our repairs .
I hung some washing out today ,well only Max's towel that i dry him off with but it did dry on the line .

Hope you get the books Frank that's very cheap for paper backs ,i usually look in the charity shops some are only fifty pence a book and once read i take them back in ,my sister passes me her books and i pass some onto her .
Your right the nights are drawing out i think you notice it more when its been a nice sunny day .

You must have been really tired to sleep for two hours Gill ,i hope you sleep ok tonight .
I didn't have a very good night ,i went into the other bed last night as Colin was in and out of bed but each time he got out i woke up ,the last time was twenty past three and after that i laid there wide awake until gone five ,so i hope i sleep better tonight .

Sorry to hear your Sciatica is still playing you up Jane , with it being a bit milder you would have thought it might have helped ease it a little but perhaps the weather doesn't effect it as it does Arthritis.

That's why we have been to see Colin's sister in hospital with having all these bugs ,that's the last thing she would want after being so poorly ,she's still on the high dependency ward but seems to be coming along nicely , Colin's brother has been going in to see her plus her daughters and son so she's had visitors ,Colin's brother and SIL go off on holiday tomorrow for two weeks to Barbados so we'll have to ring her son for the updates .

Max is soon due for his next lot of flea treatment but i'm going to ask for the tablets this time instead of the little tubes of stuff as he doesn't like it going on at all , he twists and turns for ages after it's been done .
I didn't know you could get the flea tablets until i was taking to a lady down the road and she told me about them so i'm going to ask for them when i go in the vets .

Yes that shooting in America is awful those poor families .

That was a nice freebie Jane :-D

I forgot to say yesterday when I was paying for my hair appointment I was given a free perfume. Hugo Boss called Jour. The Salon had them on some promotion thing and had many left after Christmas .It's quite nice and would normally cost about £52 !!!!!. That is what I call a great freebie :-D :-D

Afternoon All
What a different day it has been today. Blue sky all day but still very cold in this blustery wind. I have had a painful day today with this Sciatica .I am getting so fed up with it now . I have been good and done my excercises just now. All painkillers and heat patch dont seem to have helped much at all today. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

Frank, when did you say Ros will be home? I bet she has missed you too. I bet it wont be long before you start grumbling about the Soaps LOL . I sometimes think a little time away from eachother is quite good. I shall probably be going down to Plymouth sometime next month to stay with my friend Sue who has just moved back there from Wales. Chris seems very keen for me to go :-D :-D

Liz I can often see the steam from the horse manure pile over at the stables across the road. They used to have a board up at the end of the lane for Free Manure,and some people along our road would go down with a wheel barrow for it :-D

Gill your house will look grand spanking new when all the work is done :-D

Glad to see you are on the mend again now Mandy.Hope OH wont be up again in the night . I was reading in our local paper about visitors having to be stopped at the hospital because of so many cases of Influenza and the Norovirus .

Easy meal tonight.I dont think I can spend time standing at the cooker for long . So it is a ready Curry for James and Fish and Chips from the freezer again for us. Chris says he is fine with that as long as he has the sprouts that he found in the fridge :-D

I need ot go and call for Thomas as he scarpered in a flash after I did his worm treatment. I did ring the Vets and they said it would be safe for me to give it a couple of weeks early.

Oh my goodness.I am just watching more school children fleeing for their lives YET AGAIN in America after another shooting :-( :-( :-(... When will things ever change with the gun laws there???? . I dont think they will :-S

You sound fed up Frank, not long now before Ros is home then you'll have some company again.

I've just slept for over 2 hours, I must of needed it. OH has finished the gloss painting where the electric fire and TV go so we'll move those back, then I'll make the bed up now all the bedding is clean and dry.

Sorry to hear Colin is still ill Mandy, but pleased you're feeling a little better now. I believe 60 minute makeover takes all day, or so I've heard. OH uses a very low odour gloss paint so there isn't any smell and doesn't make me ill like the other gloss paints do, it also stays white instead of going yellow over time.

Yes, I think you did send Sandra some card making stuff Mel which she's probably used up by now. I can see how much trouble it would be moving your girls, although it might be worth doing if it means they don't end up with wet feet all the time.

Well, I'd better move this furniture back and make the bed, they won't do themselves ;-) ;-)

Food all consumed and washing up done. All clear for tomorrow. I get my cup ready for the morning, my aspirin in a glass and my tablets ready to take when I eat. Organised or what. ;-) ;-) ;-)

Nights are drawing out nicely, it won't be dark for another half hour. It's getting better every day.

Posted the same time as me Mandy. Sorry that Colin is still poorly, and pleased you are feeling a little better.

Yes the sun is nice and warm, I can feel it through the conservatory windows, it's like bakehouse out there. I've just opened the door into the lounge to let some of the heat in here. So disappointing that this wind is so cold, or it would be nice to sit outside.

Those poor chickens. They must look forward to getting into the garden and having dry earth/grass under their waterlogged feet. !!!

I have just put some Jacket potato's in the oven with a large portion of chicken. I will have that when they are done. I cn then get washed up and clear away, ready for another boring evening on my own.

I see Arsenal are playing at 6.00 pm So I can listen to that on the radio, and catch up with the news at 10.00 pm. Not that there will be much excitement in the NEWS.

I have put a bid on 6 books by that Author I mentioned. The opening bid is £2.00. So who knows I might be lucky and win the Auction. Books at just over 30 pence each can't be bad. I can read them and pass them on to Tony, who reads books everyday. lying full length on his sofa, while Valerie sits and watches Television.

I haven't looked to see what I might want to watch this evening. So I will surprise myself later.!!! Well it will be something to look forward too.. :-( :-( :-( Roll on the weekend.

Mandy I wonder who that card could be from with the Exeter post mark?

I too had a nice card from Shirl. The one I sent you was one of the nicest ones I have bought. I hust loved the colours and the fact that it was imbossed too. I should really get back into my card making as I have'nt done any for years now. I still have some I made when mum was alive. Perhaps I will use some of those. I think I sent some plain cards and envelopes to Sandra as I know she likes to make cards.

It sounds like you had another good nights sleep Frank! a good natter to people too and no cooking if you ate in the pub.

Trouble with the chickens run drying out is the trees behind it in the field. The low sun dos'nt really get to it and we can't move it since oh put the chicken wire run up. It was'nt so bad when it was the electric fencing cos you could just move that easily but now it would mean taking all the wooden posts out adn the staples out and rolling the wire up and I don't want him doing all that. Also he has leveled the ground all around it and grassed it over for easy maintainance.

suns still out here.

Liz, a man I worked with had two horses, stabled at a local farm. The dung heap was many years old, and I use to go and fill plastic sacks with the well rotted stuff for the garden.

It's certainly has been a nice day. Carole down the road called to see if Ros was back (she saw her car) She drives passed here a dozen times a day, so I can't think she hasn't seen it this week. I told her Ros will ring her at the weekend. I felt reasonable warm standing on the door step, I didn't invite her in as I don't want to cause any gossiping with the neighbours. You can't be too careful, can you.!!!

Have only a couple od chapters to read of Tony's book, then he can have it back. He will take it to the Charity shop, now the we have both read it. I quite liked the Author, so might see what other books are available on Ebay.

I have booked a table for Lunch on Sunday. A treat for her returning home to me. !!! It's only at the local TOBY, but they do excellent food, with three choices of meats and loads of Vegetables. It will save me cooking as well.

If it wasn't for this wind, I think it would be warm enough to sit on the patio, but I won't chance it. !!! ;-) ;-)

Afternoon all,

Lovely sunny day here and so much milder ,the sun feels so warm through the glass .

Colin was up a coupe of times in the night for the loo so his tummy is still not right ,but i feel a little better ,i managed to walk up to Boots to pick our tablets up .

Well my birthday cards are still arriving :-D had a nice one from Shirl today and i nearly opened another but when i turned it over it was for Master Max :-D it's his birthday tomorrow ,Exeter post mark i see ;-) :-D :-D

Sounds as if your getting on well Gill , your turn to rest now while OH does the painting ,i hope the paint doesn't get you coughing to much those fumes can be so strong when you carn't have windows open
I've watched those sixty minute makeovers ,how the devil do they paint walls and get all the furniture and pictures back in place .

So lots of mud for Cas to run in Liz ,i bet your careful now after your fall those ruts can soon have you down .
I see i have a couple of Dafs well in bud now and the little mini ones are poking through the soil and the Snow Drops look nice ,we don't have that many but the ones we do have have lovely long stalks .

I bet you enjoyed your trip to the pub last night Frank ,bit of air probably helped you sleep .

How lovely that was card from OH Mel ,was it one he bought with a heart on or did he make it ?
That was a nice surprise to get the call from your friend .
Hope the sun helps to dry out the girls run but if it's so flooded it will take a good few days to dry out ,they must longing to get out for a good old peck about .

I do the wallpapering Frank and OH does the painting, we can each do both jobs but prefer to do the ones we do. I'm not keen on painting and OH isn't to keen on papering, so it suits us this way. I was going to do the hall Frank, so you're not going mad LOL ;-) but have now decided because there isn't much wall space to speak of with all the doors in that room that I will leave papering it and OH will just give it a quick lick of white paint. Although the room is quite bright it's also small so any colour other than white would make the room look dark and smaller. Plus it's easier to paint the ceiling and walls the same colour, then there's no cutting in.
It'll be nice to see Ros again at the weekend Frank. Good to see you had a night out.

You mentioned 60 minute makeover Jane. I found some old ones on Sky a few weeks ago and have been recording them and watching them each day, after looking at the programmes I noticed how boring and out of date our place was so now I'm adding a bit of colour in a few rooms. We've only had white or magnolia walls for almost 20 years in all our properties so adding colour is taking a bit of getting used to ;-) It'll be nice to drag myself into the 21st century LOL.

Talking of 60 minute makeover I've just put today's on so I'll go and finish watching it while I have a sandwich. I've just had a lovely bath and feel a lot cleaner and relaxed. I decided to strip the beds as well, so I guess I'm not having the afternoon off I thought I was going to get. At least I'm not doing as much as I normally do, which makes a pleasant change :-)

Just back from our run!! Goodness there are some very muddy ruts where the hedge has been cut, BUT, at least it's done and looks really good and it was for free, so can't grumble!!
OH has just cooked beans, bacon and fried potato for our lunch! It's very welcome I can tell you!!

My Valentine card from oh said Melanie My Heart and then a picture of a heart with a big YOU then coming down from the middle of the heart are three lines and the first one says Jaffa Cakes, the second one says G & T and the third one says Cider. So I know that at least I am above the other things in his life. Inside it says Its not from me. and then loads of kisses and at the end its says So who is it?

The winds still a bit cold here but it is warmer and the suns still out at the mo.

Over to Glynn then for the next stage Gill. He'll soon get that done and then its back to you again. I hope the paint smell dos'nt get to you too much.

We have a manure heap Frank just outside the gate at the bottom of our yard. It's boarded on three sides and about every six months the local farm come in and take it away and put it on their fields! Merlin on his own doesn't make an enormous amount so the system works well. You're supposed to leave it for two years before putting it on the garden so we don't bother to use it ourselves.
I think it's because Cas's coat is a bit too big for her that it looks as if it has leggings and it is in fact the sides hanging down over her legs!! I've just been giving it a good brush, and the mud was phenomenal!! It could do with a wash, but at the moment it's in constant use!!
Might do a bit of weeding this afternoon if the rain holds off, I do prefer to be out if possible!!

Good morning Ladies,

Lovely sunny morning here. Blue sky's and fluffy clouds. I spoke with Ros this morning and it's the same down there. Could it be that THEY have run out of RAIN up above. !!!

Mel, That was nice of your old friend ringing you. It's nice to be remembered. <3 <3
I often have Baked beans on toast at lunchtime, if I haven't had a breakfast . I don't have mine with an egg. Roa likes a bit of bacon with hers.

Gill SORRY I thought you were doing your hall. Where did I get that from. Doesn't your OH do any papering ?? Both Ros and I can do it, in fact it was her who decorated the bathroom last time. She use to do all her own and her Mum and Dads, before I came along. She was on her own for EIGHT YEARS. But couldn't refuse me, when I came into her life. ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

I didn't know what type of pony you had Liz, Now I can understand why he likes to stay out in all weathers, he was breed to do so. !!!
What does Ian do with all the horse manure ?? surely you can't use all that on your garden. ??

Tony very kindly offered to collect the scripts this morning. When her bought them back, he was amazed by the amount there was for Ros and I. He had never seen the quantity before. His passing remark was "Keep taking the tables" Cheeky begger. lol

Glad everything went off well at the get together Jane. I bet you did sleep well last night, after all the wine and food.

I ventured out to the pub last night. I looked out and the rain had almost stopped but the wind was still blowing. I put on my big coat with a hood. I didn't take a brolly as it would have been blown inside out. There were a couple of couples sitting at the window able having a drink when I went in, so got chatting to them, and ordered Ham Eggs and Chips. Which came just as the football started. I had that and another pint and decided to go home. It was only 8.20. But I was happy to get home in the warm. I watched the last part of TRAUMA and the highlights of the Football. So didn't miss the other lLverpool goals. They won 5--0 Then into bed, was up this morning around 8.00 am.

No plans for today, I will sit and read my book. Roa will be home SATURDAY. Great I will have some company again. !!!!

That was nice to receive two daffodils Liz. My OH used to do that, not so much now though.

I'm going to take it a bit easier today Liz now the wall paper is off the walls. I've decided not to bother doing the hall as there isn't much in the way of walls, so the paper that's already there will do after a lick of paint. It'll also save me another job as I think I've got enough to do at the moment.

I'm going for a nice soak in a hot bath now. My hair is full of dust from earlier and I'm a bit achy in my shoulders. So hopefully the bath will easy my muscles a bit. I might do a bit more sorting later, I'll see how I feel after my bath.

Would you believe it OH has just come in from de-pooing the field with two daffodils! a belated valentine apparently!! who says romance is dead!!
No, the idea of Cas's coat was to get one that protected her tummy from getting so muddy and wet. Her legs aren't the problem as they towel dry easily enough. The coat she's got does a brilliant tummy job and has made a big difference!
Not a very nice day again sunshine and showers!! at least it's warmer
Don't overdo it Gill! ;-)

Morning Mel morning all

Bright and sunny here and like you Mel a little warmer than it has been lately.

How lovely to have a phone call from your friend, I bet that was a surprise? Your poor girls in the wet again. Does it put them off laying their eggs?

What a funny card off Chris Jane. ;-) ;-) I've just finished stripping the wallpaper off the living room walls and now I'm having a break watching the ice skating from the Olympics. I had to put it on pause for 10 minutes as I was stripping the last of the paper behind the TV. OH is in the loft looking for the old TV stand as I noticed the one we're using at the moment is starting to come apart and needs tightening up.

I think I'll make myself a cuppa, I'm really thirsty with all the dust about. At least my job is finished for the time being and now it's over to OH to do the painting before it's back to me to re-paper the walls. We work well as a team. :-)

Morning all,

Oh woke me just before 9 this morning as he had the phone in his hand. It was my best friend from when I lived in Suffolk. She still lives in the village and so by the sounds of it do a lot of the people I knew when I lived there. She had'nt sent me a card as she was away and could'nt remember our address so she rang me this morning to wish a happy birthday for yesterday.

Its quite a bright morning here with sunshine at the moment. It got a lot warmer yesterday and I was actually able to go outside without a coat on. When I shut the big girls in last night the run was completely flooded again after the heavy rain we had .

Liz I was sure Cas's new coat covered he little legs too. I thought that was the whole idea of having a new one. We even had a pick from you too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, Exmoors have virtually waterproof top coats, with a warm thick coat underneath which stays dry ,so they are pretty cosy! In the summer they moult the whole lot off and have quite sparse coats. Cas loves her coat but it hasn't got leggings I'm not sure that she'd like them, on the other hand she might be ok!
'Watching Yorkshire Vet', a repeat! but well worth seeing again!