General Chat

Been shopping and yes where is our Frank. I hope everything is ok with both of them???

Bought a cooked chicken for tonight so no cooking.

I love home made jam and do most of it in ther microwave but you can only make so much and not a great load at once. If you do it on the hob you have to be there with it all the time. You can't beat it for flavour though.

Go for it David!!.My sister is booking a holiday after their moving house.She has had a lot of work done like you and just want's and NEEDS away for a little while.
I hope that pain of yours eases soon.It must be wearing you down now.

Who is on WDYTYA tonight?I must remember to watch.I have a feeling it is JK Rowling

Lol Mandy.Chris is always saying I should budget better.Yeah right!.I can't believe how much things have shot up in price.I often think my bill might be say £25 and it's neared £50 :-S :-S

Well I have been and got the signature from Hannah's ex.It did feel a bit strange seeing him again.It was just very polite conversation for a couple of minutes and that was it.He was probably dreading seeing me lol

I have never made jam Mandy.Never want to either. :-S.All that sticky mess and getting things to the right temperature.I remember Mum making strawberry jam and I would put the bit of paper on top of the jam and then the cover with elastic band.It did smell lovely :-D
Spreading whole Strawberries on hot buttered toast!!!!!!! Oooh my mouth is watering.
Now I have to go and turn the blasted cooker on :-S.Just Pasta ,sauce and garlic bread.No fish and chips :-S :-S

Got an appt for tomorrow afternoon.
Ear ache or sinus problems ? God knows.


Do you ever fancy,no,NEED a holiday?

Could do with a fortnight or more elsewhere

Evening everyone,

Been a nice day again, i have been making Jam ,got some fruit from a friend , Greengage 's and Damsons,have made the Greengage Jam ,but i need more sugar to make the Damson Jam.

Ann, have you tried Orajel for your tooth ache , son tried some the other week and said it numbed all the gum and eased the ache , he got it from the pharmacy in Tes*o's ,hope you can get an appointment soon ,nothing worse than toothache.

Went to Asd* today , hubby came ......wasn't to pleased to see how much i spent !!! lol think i'll go on my own next time !!! i told him he has to eat !!!

Yes were's our Frank today , hope every things ok !!

Where is Frank?I hope all is well.

Maureen ,it may be very temporary :-D.It feels very hard on my teeth and not nice.I have a pot to keep it in just like false teeth :-S :-S
We go to Northumberland in September.I can't wait now.

Do any of you grow Florence Fennel?How big should the bulb thing be when it's picked.?I have pulled up the first one thinking the time is right but it is very flat.

That's exactly how I do my jacket potatoes Jane, rub olive oil all over them then sea salt and wrap them in foil and leave them to bake.

You have some good friends Sheila, kind hearted even if they do get it wrong ....lol. I'm such a fussy eater, wouldn't eat soup even if Gordon Ramsey had made it, it smells like B.O. to me ........ My mum's cooking didn't help, she would boil cabbage till it was a watery mess but her baking was fantastic, apple pies and fruit cake, if I could have got away with it as a child I would have by -passed dinner and just had pudding.

All this talk of selling on e.bay has got me thinking. I've got a banjo in the loft, must be at least 50 years old that belonged to my uncle, he also had some very smart looking cameras, German, think I'll go and have a rummage around up there. How did your clocks sell in the end Frank?

That guard sounds like it will take some getting used to Jane, must have missed the posts about it, is it just a temporary thing to get your jaw right? When are you off on holiday?

Anyone else going away? I'm still waiting for summer ....lol

goodnight Kim.

Just popping in to say goodnight. Have been farting around on Faceb**k with all this school information.

Will catch up on your posts tomorrow. Good to see you back Sheila.

Cheers everyone, 11.55 pm EST

Ann my sister always swears by oil of cloves for a tooth.I hope your tooth doesn't get any worse before you get an appointment.Good job you got your car sorted without any big expense .

Pat it would have been funny if you were in Weston SM at the same time as Beryl and Donnie.I think you would have spotted them a mile off lol.
Sheila ,poor Sophia won't be bringing you anymore of her delicious soup after seeing it down the 'plig' hole lolol

Mel the knobs on the cooker are large round ones from 0-8.They just push in a tiny way before I can turn them.It is the Halogen one that is iffy.I will be glad when it is sorted.I keep needing to remind myself to turn off the main switch each time I have finished cooking.

I don't like this bite guard.Not sure if i will be able to put up with it at night.But will give it a good try.

I have to meet Hannah's ex this evening as he needs to sign something.I haven't seen him in over 3 years!.It will be a little awkward I think,more for him than me.I will just smile sweetly and say sign here lol

Rachel (Dubai ) just rang and Ethan seems much happier and the projectile vomiting seems to have stopped.Just normal baby sick now she thinks.It is a big relief all round.
It's breezy here and quite dark.Had a few spit spots earlier but it didn't come to anything.
Cup of tea now I think.I'm parched.

Morning All,

Didn't have a very good night, tooth was aching until about 1.30am and then started again at 5.30am! I have rung the dentist now and will have to go there at 8.30am tomorrow to see if I can get an emergency appointment for after 2.00pm. I remember my old dentist years ago would stay late to see you if you were in pain. How things have changed. More painkillers till then!! :-S :-S Hope your appointment and fitting go well Jane.

I got the car sorted. No puncture, it was leaking where the tyre joins the rim.....the chap showed me. I could see the £ signs in front of my eyes when he said that, alloy wheels are not cheap. Turns out they get corroded and sometimes the weights they attach cause it so it was easily fixed. They did the tracking too and adjusted that.

How is your back today Mel? Mine is a lot better now, but it sets it back if I spend too long in the garden. I think OH must time me......tells me when I aught to stop!! lol

Pat, you are nearly there now!! :-D :-D Soon you can get straight again.

Maureen, the good thing about sitting in the garden on your own is being able to watch nature and read in peace!!

Fiona...I get my husband to ring me too to make sure Im up when something is happening very early in the morning..

I didnt know the Elecrrician was comming the other morning..got caught in the bath ..had to answer door with towel round me and wet hair. told him to wait a few mins lol.I hope you feel better soon...Some tablets I have been taking have affected my stomach now.. rang doctors this morning perscription not ready...will have to try this afternoon..


Mel... OH picked some beer up last week as Im away for a few days.. but he wont be relaxing much...He has another coat of paint to put on the kitchen that we are responsible for....not the insurance company...
He is dropping me half way to my daughters tonight and then Im being picked up by my S In L
He still has to work this week..

Morning All
Raining here, OH was going to phone me this morning to make sure I would be awake in time for the Shed man( Somewhere to put patio table and chairs, and other garden furniture in over the winter , Garage already full with bikes) lol they said the would be delivering between 7 & 9. They came at 2mins to 7 this morning luckly I was just coming from the bathroom when I heard them drive up. so they were putting the wood behind the back of the house when the phone rang.

Daughter no 1 & Sofia will be down at 12.00 noon, daughter off to her SUMBA class after lunch then off to work at 5.

Still feeling sick, but had a lovely phone call from Jane yesterday and that cheered me up lots. To Jane <3 <3

Morning All,

Glad to hear from Sheila so we know she is alright. I do worry with her bring in a place that has so much trouble anyway and what with all this rioting thats going on, or has been..............

David your mind must be at rest now after your visit to the dentists. Perhaps now it will go away on it's own as this sometimes happens.

Jane has your cooker got buttons that push in and out like mine? I have one that shows it is on when it's not and it is the duel one that has a small ring and a large one. When the man came last time he put a knife down the side and twisted it and got it back in the right place. Now when it's off it is showing 1 again now!! I always have to to it on the big plate and then turn it till it clicks so I know it is off.

Cooked toad in the hole yesterday and we had the first peas out the tunnel. They were so sweet and lovely. I picked about 13 oz and there was just enough for both of us when they were shelled. They could have got a little bigger really but I could'nt wait :-D

Well I suppose I shall have to go shopping today as OH is out of beer once again :-(

We had a phone call yesterday to say the tin roofing hsould be here tomorrow so OH is pleased about that as he has had the roof off for a few days now and it keep raining.

No William for a few days??? Hope he has'nt left us............

Love and wishes to all those who are a bit under the weather and wish you all better soon.

Morning All

Kitchen now finished,,,just the bathroom now ...

Sheila Weston Super Mare must be popular we are there next week
I had to tell my grandaughters off the other day..They had crayoned on my black rocking seat out in the garden..One is 3 the other 6..She said you cant tell me off grandma...I said I can it is my house... They do try to cheek you..But at my age now I can keep my cool better..

David...When my kitchen was gutted hubby took a lot of things to the tip. what I didnt want to hold onto the rest went to the charity shop...

A few months prior to that we cleared the attic out..I have 3 children so everything I was storing in there was either going to be thrown or handed back. to them...
Im off to my daughters tonight found something else of hers to take.
Its hard throwing things out I have some things of my mums here and my grans..I had to say (sorry mum ) I cant keep these anymore...I lost her 14 years ago..

Mandy I remember my daughter taking all her Enid Blyton books with her Secret Seven and Famous five...I dont know if she has them still or they have been donated to the chairty shops by now..

Morning All
I got a shock just now as I couldn't find the thread.Thought it had vanished again :-S
Off to the Dentist now BBL

David, at least it is good to know it is nothing nasty. My tooth is still playing up a bit, especially at night. I just wish I knew which tooth it was!!Jane I hope the guard fits well when you get it and that you can sleep with it in ok.

Sheila, what a shame the other man is in such a bad way too. I wonder if they were using the gas to do the distilling. You brought back a vivid memory for me with the buckets. lol My gran had no inside loo and no lights other than candles upstairs, so when I went to stay, it was chamber pots under the bed. They were adult size, so with my little botty (it was once you know!!!!!!) I had to 'hover' over it in the dark and hope I was in the right place and that my nightie wasn't dangling. I remember I hated making any noise too and would take ages so it would be quiet!! lol I'd forgotten that.

Kim, I love the names of the places you mention. What a nice surprise that was that you have passed on to the 'girls'. I bet they will be thrilled too.

The place we are going to meet the lady at is only about 3-4 miles from me, it has horse livery, a pet hotel and fishing lakes too. It is up a lane I have never been up before so today OH said he would take me there to see where I will be going as it was on the way to where we were going. Well, talk about narrow and potholey, OH was lurching me all over the place!! Then we met a combine harvester jiggling backwards and forwards to get through a gate. The next bend we met the tractor and grain truck that was obviously following it. I had to shut my eyes once as I thought we'd be in the ditch. We found the place and I told OH if he kept going the lane came out on another road. Well the lane deteriorated fast to grit and mud with a high hump in the middle so we had to reverse back until we could turn around and go back. OH said good luck bringing your car up here!! lol My friend offered me a lift, but I had such a game climbing in and out of her high vehicle I thought I'd meet her there. I will see if I can sort out a few of the pics to send you Kim.

I have to take my car in tomorrow for a puncture to be sorted out......OH was red in the face today by the time he pumped it up. Last time I had a puncture I had to have a new tyre, so I hope it won't be that this time.

I just popped out to put something in the bin and jumped out my skin.......a little hedgehog was legging it like mad across the drive. I followed him and he went up the path into the back garden. We were only saying the other day that we don't seem to get any in the garden since those poor things drowned in the pond.

This morning after his potter down the garden to look over the field at the back OH reported seeing a BLACK bunny!! I wonder if it is an escaped pet that has joined the wild ones or maybe the offspring of an escaped bunny. OH said the others didn't seem to mind him at all.

Yes Ann, i have posh buns !!! lol
She also saw the cherry's in the cupboard !!!!
They were taken home in a cake tin , but the one i tried was quite dry !!! so my few went in the bin !!! but theirs went the same way , i think i got the mix wrong , but Chelsea was happy making them .


Oh Sheila, poor Western Super Mare ,it won't know whats hit it with Beryl and Donnie in town !!!!lol you'll hear all about it when they get back, lets hope they've behaved themselves lol

Evening Everyone,

Well, who has the poshest cakes (better not put the word you used Mandy!) in town then! I bet Chelsea loved arranging all the decoration on them......are any left? :-)

Frank I hope the new stronger patches work for Ros, it looks promising. I bet she enjoyed being out in the fresh air for a bit doing a bit of snipping in the borders. I used to put small twigs of Holly in the heather bed I had at my old house to deter the cats. Let them try squatting on that!!!! :-D :-D There used to be 4-5 coils on the heather each week to clean up, some with maggots in. Yuk! It did put them off though. I know I grew carrots in trenches of sand one year to get nice straight carrots.......fatal.....the cats loved it and dug the carrots up as well scratching around. OH thinks the best way is to get a cat of your own.......but you already have!!

Hope you have cheered up a bit Fiona. I know from my own experience it isn't much fun feeling unwell and having a hubby who travels and is away quite a bit. It was nice of him to do you a meal ready for tonight.