General Chat

I had my own tool box with my tools in but oh would ask me if I had so and so and if I did'nt remember to ask him if he was finished with it it would be given back. After he died I found one of my screwdrivers he had borrowed all rusty where he had left it out on the old workbench. Mine mum bought me and they were nothing like the ones he had which I bought him.

I hope you three ladies all have a better night sleep wise tonight. See you all in the morning. Night night.

Sorry to hear about your nosebleed Mel. AnnG's right, you should perhaps mention it to your doctor. The NHS website says that after a nosebleed there are various things you should avoid doing for 24 hours and one of them is strenuous exercise so perhaps you should let garden work and pond clearing wait and have a more restful day tomorrow.

Oh those phone calls are annoying AnnG. I usually google Who Called Me to see if there's any information about the number or if it looks like a scam. I haven't had the silent ones for a while but lately I've had several that start by asking me to add their number to my WhatsApp list and then telling me they have seen my CV online and have the perfect job for me! Yeah, and pigs might fly.

I hope you've had some joy from your door company Annx, and they will come and fix your handle soon. You do seem to have had a lot of problems with that door.

Well, I got my hair washed, cut and blown dry. I think she got a bit scissor happy as she seems to have cut it a bit shorter than usual. While I was in the hairdressers OH went to the only proper men's clothing shop in town, a small independent, and bought 2 pairs of trousers. I had to laugh as apparently the chap serving him asked him if he wanted to take them home to show me before he bought them. OH gets most of his clothes there so they have got to know us well over the years. I hope he's made a reasonable choice as they are now being altered to fit him so he's committed to keeping them.

Within 2 hours of ordering my tablets on the NHS app I got a text from the pharmacy to say they had got the prescription and they would send a text when it was ready for collection. So in future I shall let them sort out the meds I have every month but will order this odd one on the app myself.

It has stayed dry but there has been an icy wind blowing all day. I went outside just to water a few pots and nearly froze. I've been busy all afternoon doing lots of little jobs that individually only take a few minutes but added all together take 2 or 3 hours.

I'm yawning away here so I think I shall be going to bed shortly. I always either read or watch something on my iPad so won't go to sleep for a couple of hours but I can get warm and comfy in bed. I didn't sleep so well last night and it looks as though AnnG was restless and Mandy didn't have a good night either so fingers crossed we all do better tonight.

EDIT Sorry Annx, I missed your last post and now see you have fixed the door. Oh yes, I forgot to tell you about our talk. I'll try to remember that tomorrow. I'm too tired to do it now.

Evening All,

I slept well again but was up late. I popped to the shop, but felt so weary I didn't get as much done today as I hoped. I did fix the door lock though and tightened two screws I found on the inside of the door. Ever since I was first married I have kept two screwdrivers in one of my bedroom drawers, as I can never find where men put them! OH never even noticed I'd fixed it when he got home! He seemed more interested in where I'd found the screwdrivers, so I hope he's not made a mental note so he can use them when he can't find his!! I did hoover through all the bungalow except the conservatory though.

Oh Vera how disappointing after limping your bruised toes to the latest pharmacy! I used to quite envy you having so little trouble with your first pharmacy too! After seeing the chap add a note as well. I hope you having ordered the missing item is successful now. I hope the talk on the land where you are was interesting. I unearthed a little book the other day about this area that OH bought for me ages ago. The photos are fascinating how things used to be.

AnnG I was toying with the idea of some sort of display of Spring flowers for our front patch of garden until I read how many they have to plant for that wonderful display!! Plus the Squirrels dig up any tulips I've planted in the past, so maybe not. I hope your meeting was good and interesting. We had three scam calls on the landline today, all foreign voices. We go for weeks without any, then get a run of them, as if a batch including our phone number has been sold on.

Mandy it was breezy and chilly this morning. I see you have been tired today as well. Hopefully an early night will help if Colin is quieter!! Have you been using your new tablet and finding it ok?

I hope your nose has stopped bleeding now Mel with more cream on it. If you sneeze, remember to do it with your mouth open a bit! I meant to say that the Factory Shops are all closed now and most of the staff have lost their jobs, with just a few kept on to help with finalising things at the moment. I will really miss them as they sold some good clothes and all sorts of other useful things.

Better get to bed now and I hope everyone sleeps well. OH went half an hour ago.

Have you always had nose bleeds Mel.? Maybe you should mention this latest one to your GP.

Like you Mandy it dried the washing I did today. Its been sunny here and very windy with it coming from the east. Its been blowing all the husks off the red tree over the big pond and the husks off the beech tree too so both are now covered in trash. I have taken it out ofthe big pond three times today with the net and once where I can reach it in my pond as the winds blown it all to the side where the decking is.

I went to the docs and got my new inhailer and tried to load it while I was in the surgery niether I or the girl there could do it. we looked at the instructions many times but in the end I did it so I came home and forgot to say about my nose bleeding and it started again just now. Iv'e put more of that nasal cream up it and hope it does the trick.

Evening all,

It's been a sunny day but the wind has made it a really cold day and it been really gusty ,the only good thing was it dried all my washing .

Oh Vera your poor toes that must have been so painful having to have shoes on with all the bruising ,we lost our Lloyd's pharmacy too and they were the ones that would deliver .

Mel I hope you've managed to stop your nose bleeding and didn't have to go to the doctors .

Feel really tired today as I was still awake at two o'clock and just as I started to drop off Colin started snoring , I think it will be an early night tonight.

Basically I had a nose bleed while out fishing husks out of both ponds and filled my hanky so came in for another one and then the shopping arrived. I answered tthe door and it was a girl driver, she asked if I was ok and I said yes but I could'nt find my cream to stop the bleed. She was very good and put all the hsopping in the box and put it up so I could get the sack barrow under it to bring it in. She also said she would take back my plastic bags which a lot of the men drivers won't do.

Came in nose still bleeding and found my cream nose still bleeding and put some up it and waited a while, still bleeding had to do it again. That was three quarters of an hour ago at least and its still bleeding a bit if I put a hanky to it.

May have to ring Em or the docs.

Read the post can't comment at the mo.

TYhree times I have written a long post and its gone.

I think I must have had to add my main line phone number to something I have filled in recently. I have an answer ohone which I don't pick up when it rings. I had a few missed calls when I got home. All silent when checked and yesterday and today the phone has rung a lot, yesterday afternoon 4 times, so far this morning 4 times. I have checked some of the numbers, they are all mobile with no documentation for them so just ordinary people with phones. Interesting and aggravating.

Good morning

Computer, iPad and phone all agree for once and tell me it is 11 degrees but it doesn't feel anywhere near that to me. At the moment the sun is out but it does keep clouding over.

Thank you for the pics AnnG and thank you Annx for forwarding them. I can only repeat what the others have said, your son is the image of you. The flowers are lovely with some vibrant colours. I've been to Waddesdon 3 or 4 times. I know I've been twice at Christmas for the wonderful house displays and lights and outside markets. It's a huge place isn't it. There's some wealth there.

Enjoy your main U3A meeting today. Will there be a speaker?

Yesterday I limped to the pharmacy and back with my shoes pressing on my bruised toes and came back spitting feathers. Would you believe this new chemist didn't get my meds right either!! My prescription isn't that peculiar. It's 5 things every 4 weeks regularly and 1 item I request the chemist to add to the list when I am running low. This is because it is a strong painkiller which I take when required rather than at regular intervals. I get 100 at a time and take as few as possible so a box can last me anything from 4 to 6 months. When I collected my first script from this chemist I asked that they order me the painkillers for this month and saw the chap serving me write a note on my script. Was it done? Of course not. Their suggestion was that I take the script into our GP's main surgery in town and ask them to sign it off quickly. I did point out that all these visits I have to keep making to town cost me fuel and parking fees as well as time. I told him I would order them myself on the NHS App which I have done this morning. In the 12 years we have lived here I've had 4 different pharmacies. One was great and I remember bragging on here about how good our system was but it was a Lloyds and unfortunately they closed.

Just seen the time and I have a hair appointment this morning. Must dash, might BBL

Morning Anng and all,

Nice bright morning again today 6 degrees and a high pollen count today. Had two messages while typing this all about nothing really.

Shopping comes today two subs one going back and the other I'll keep as its crumpets. Apart from that and posting another little parcel the rest of the day is mine to do whatever I wish. May sow some more seeds or clean out the girls or just potter.

I slept well up at 6.15am for the loo and went back to bed and fell asleep again till 9.05am.

Enjoy this afternoon Anng you'll have lots of pics to show.

Good morning all. didn't sleep too badly but seemed to get up for the loo more often then straight back to sleep.
A load of washing is in the machine so that is most of last week's washing done now.
U3a main meeting this afternoon so need to have early lunch and be ready for lift at 1.30.

Must shower and wash my hair first though.

OO Mandy what a lovely gesture from Jake. So now you will be well away. I posted your pattern today second class and it was this afternoon.

Yes Annx I did miss your post, sorry.

going back to the gardens. the garden team planted 16500 plants and 8500 bulbsin the parterre.

Yes Mandy, having a house seems to mean there's always a job to do doesn't it! I stayed up tonight looking on the internet how to tighten the handle, but although I didn't have a proper look I couldn't even see any screws. I had to stop OH keep going out to the dustbin on the front with things as he hadn't thought if it gets worse we might not be able to lock it. Anyway, I remembered the door might still be under guarantee and knew where I filed the papers and it is still under warranty, so I'll ring them tomorrow and let them fix it in case we make things worse! I've never known so much trouble before with a front door in my life. I like the spotlights in the kitchen. Our kitchen is square so I had a round fitting with three spotlights. It's handy being able to angle spotlights where you want them. I hope Max doesn't remember she is the lady who does the jabs or perhaps he likes her and doesn't mind. How nice of Jake to give you his nearly new tablet and set it up for you. He seems to be a nice young man and he didn't expect any payment for it, makes you more sure he accepts something and you were going to buy one as you say.

Evening all

Just started to rain here but its been nice and sunny just a bit chilly with the wind .

Thanks Ann for passing on Anng's photos, what a lovely lot of flowers so pretty and yes I agree with Mel your son is so like you .

Ann there's always some needs fixing ,we need a new kitchen light ,this one is a fluorescent light and we keep putting in a new starter but this time it's not working so we think we might go for a row of spot lights ,son said he would soon wire them for us so I just have to find some we like .
Son came this morning to take Max to the vets again ,he had to have his second part of his yearly booster jab ,saw the lovely lady who's been there since we started going with our first dog Bonnie ,she stated off on the reception and can now do the jabs etc .
Jake came with son as he has a week's holiday this week ,he bought me a tablet that he doesn't use now ,it's only a year old and he knew I was thinking of buying a new one as this one is getting old and I now can't take any photo's on it ,its saying storage is full .
He set the new one up while we were at the vets ,I now have to get use to using it , I did give him some money for it but he really didn't want to take it but as I told him I was going to have to buy one anyway .

I forwarded the email with the pics almost an hour before you said you hadn't had them Mel. Maybe you don't read all the posts.

Well the garden centre was full of bedding and pot plants, some unusual Million bells too and lots of courgette, cue and even some runner beans. They need to stay inside a bit longer though, so I might wait another week. Also the garden centre in the sticks might be a bit cheaper.

The front door handle seems to have become loose, so something else that needs fixing now.

No problem ann. I sent it last night so wondered if I had forgotten to ask you to send it as I was very tired.

Mel. yes my son is like me.

Love the pictures and is'nt your son like you. You know I like behind photos so guess which one if my favorite? Yes you've guessed it the behind of a Ladybird wonderful.

Iv'e not had anymore pics either.

BIL popped in to do the mower deck but has driven his car away now so I don't know if he's gone or not. He had the eye clinic today which is why he was'nt at work.

I too only have your pictures but like Vera said if I put the cusor under the pic the words come up.

Forgot to post this but he came back on the mower and finished the mowing as he had mended the deck. He's gone now as he has to get ready to go to work but first pick wife up from her work then leave for his.