General Chat

Evening everyone,

It's not been a bad day here today ,we had a little sun this afternoon .

Hubby's been at sons most of the day helping him to lay his new floor tiles in the kitchen, got to go back tomorrow to finish laying them and to grout up the ones they layed today ,its son and DIL's wedding anniversary tomorrow , six years !!

My friend has a Damson tree ,i don't think she has picked them yet ,if they're Bullace Jane you could make Bullace Gin !!
On the market today they had Greengages , i love Greengage Jam !!

Your picking your cookers early Frank, !! i was always told they were ready when the pips were black inside .
Cor... i could just a nice bit of Apple Crumble and Custard !!

Summer puddings lovely ,not hard to make either , just add cream yum !!!
I think i might make one for the little ones they love any thing with fruit.

We were talking today about Meat Paste, use to have a lot of Meat Paste sandwiches , haven't bought any for years .

Every now and again there's an unexploded bomb found on our coast , out come the bomb disposal to blow it up !!!

Frank.Chris says those patches are good.Ros doesn't have to have them on her back.Any hairless bit of skin.Top of the arm or the Buttock are good places to stick.He also said they might not kick in for about 3 days.
They are slow release so will just gradually release the medication.

SORRY LIZ--DON'T KNOW SUMMER PUD---

FRUIT BATTER PUDDING IS GOOD XXX

TORONTO HAD SOME SHOWERS BUT HOT------

Have had two failure notices for the two emails sent with Maureens pics on. Will send them one at a time.

Jane the pick you sent to me are bullace but red ones. Don't know if they will make good gin as never tried them.

Well my walk round the garden ended up with me in the tunnel doing the watering. Then I picked about a 1lb of runners beans two courgettes and two cues. Just got three lines dug for some carrots and the heavens opened up and it poured with rain. OH was digging out a big tree stump and was cross that he had'nt got it out before the rain. He was quite pleased though because he had sown grass seed where he leveled off the lawn along the new build and the earth he took from the veg garden was already damp so the seed should come up quite quickly.

Did'nt do any more ironing.........................

Jane get Chris to use a fork next time on the sloes it is much quicker.

Frank i will ask Chris about those patches when he gets home.I do hope they work for Ros.I can't imagine what it must be like for her.

Kim I hadn't realised you had collapsed I'm sorry I didn't comment.Did it happen while I was away?
I quite like the sound of Raspberry Gin.Do you all remember the pic I sent last year of Chris sat at the patio table pricking each of the Sloe Berries for our Sloe Gin lol.it took him ages to do the whole 1lb.

Mel I think these could be Damsons but they are very small and not ready at all.

Chester is still not himself today he wasn't even bothered with a walk this morning.(not like him at all) :-S :-S.Maybe he is just feeling worn out like me.
It's ridiculous!Maybe there is something in the air.I had to get up at 4am to take a Zirtec I had such a claggy throat.I kept having to clear it every minute or so.But just 15 minutes after having the Zirtec it had cleared and I went back to sleep.Must remember to take one upstairs with me tonight to save me coming down .
I have just realised it is 6.15 I thought it was much earlier.I better get a move on with dinner.

Shirl I don't know exactly where, I'll ask Laura when I talk to her! No takers for 'Summer Pudding'?!!!

LIZ WHERE IN TORONTO DID POLLY GO?

I'D LIKE GIN RECIPE PLEASE XXX

Afternoon All,

We were both weary today so kept out of the garden. We went to Derby instead to look where the Liversage Almshouses were as OH has seen a manager's job advertised that he quite fancies. When I say quite fancies, one minute he does the next he likes being retired! lol There are 13 pretty almshouses buit in the 1800s with a lovely rose garden walled around with decorative railings and a really pretty, fancy wrought iron gate. The trust has several other properties including a care home opposite. The man who bequethed the money in the 1500s was buried 20 feet deep under the chancel!! I never knew burials were ever that deep!! Afterwards we went to the Westfield Centre and looked around the shops, then on the way home we called in a garden centre and I found a really nice pink potentilla for the garden.

Frank, I would have been annoyed about that too. It's a good job they delivered it to you. Poor Ros is having a hard time of it and must be losing weight. Fingers crossed these patches will help her. I shall definitely be drying some of those tom seeds to plant next year!

Mel, hot water on your back in the shower is a real help isn't it. You will have to be careful again for a while now.

No I never got Maureen's pics! I think they needed to be resized to send for me to get them or be sent 1 at a time. I did get the boating lake one when she sent it on its own.

Kim, you must take it easier on your treadmill as you say! It is a good job you weren't still on it when you collapsed.

I wonder how many more unexploded bombs/grenades there are lying around!!

Have I imagined this? Mum never had gas until she was in her 60s and then only the cooker hob, but I seem to remember seeing a gas fire lighter at a friend's house when I was a child. It was like a pole about a foot long with holes each side where the flames came out which you pushed into the firewood in an open grate to light it. It was attached to a flexible gas pipe.

MEgirl,
Your bit about the unexploded bomb reminded me of something, apart from the fact we also used to collect the tail fins off the incedary bombs!
Anyway, when I was in the RAF in the 50's, one weekend I was 'duty armourer' and I had a call from the guardhouse, where a civilian had dug up an old hand grenade! It was still live and the pin was in, but the SP on duty wouldn't touch it and I had to take it from the shelf and get it back to the armoury. I locked it up in a safe room until everyone was on duty and our sargaent and I took it up to the range and exploded it safely out of harms way. I've always wondered how a hand grenade got into someones garden? Maybe some relative brought it back from the wars - a braver man than I, the longer they hang about the more unstable they become.
I love the tales that appear in here, they should all be put into book form and published for prosperity.
Have a nice day everyone <3

Oops ,sorry Liz I said Laura instead of Polly.

Mel I wlll send you a pick of the fruit.Maybe you can tell me for sure what they are.

Had lunch so now I suppose it's back to the ironing. poo!

May have a walk round the garden first and see if I can get side tracked :-D

Frank that is very early to be picking cooking apples ours are not big enough yet but nice and rosy for Bramleys.

I have just looked at my keyboard and am surprised at how a pair of small hands can polish certain parts to a beautifull shine when they should be rough like the rest of the plastic on other parts not touched by human hands. I also have no letters on the t e and r keys which really gets up oh's nose when he comes to use my keyboard. Gets my SIL too. They should have learnt to touch type at school.

Would love the recipe for the Raspberry Gin Mel.

Yes I'm now finished. Goodnight 10.26 pm EST

That gin sounds wonderful. Mel, intoxicating is good. I'm having a Bailey's at the moment. I remember drinking Gin Slings when I was younger.

Thanks for those explanations, it's very interesting especially as I haven't known about it before.

Frank I dropped a couple of my patches before I actually got it on my arm. Yes it does say DO NO COMTAMINATE. What a clutz I am :-S Hope when they kick in they do some good Frank. Am thinking of you both.

Off to watch some telly. Have the best day you can everyone. xx

Used to love drinking Mead when I was in Somerset. Just thought of that after all these years.

Afternoon all,

Late today as Conrad and Jan are here. They had to bring their Merc. over to Northampton for a service, and got a loan car for the day. So they called in.

Yes, I am a little more settled this morning, but still feel cross that the surgery couldn't have treated me a little better. The woman who delivered the perscriptions, did apologies for them not being ready when they should have been.

Mel, We got a patch on Ros last night, after I had droped one face down on the carpet. The instructions cleary said "DO NOT CONTAMINATE" There are only four in the pack, and have to be changed each week, but not on the same place, and not near a scar. That dosn't leave me much space, on her back. The side effects go on and on and on. Jane they are called "BuTrans" transdermal patches 5 microgram/hour. What is Chris's opinion, if he is allow to say. ?????#

Kim, We go for a sloe walk in the autunm. to collect sloes for "SLOE GIN" That is so good, and very warming on a cold winters evening..

Now LIZ, put the claws away :-D :-D :-D :-D

Have just dug a root of potato's for Conrad, also picked the first cooking apples. They are the best I've had for years, Last year I did give the tree a good "HAIRCUT" and it seems to have worked. He's been round and picked a few tomato's and a couple of courgettes !!!!!! I havew also given him a pot of PEPPERS that he can feed and pick as he wants them. Good old DAD.

Jan has taken Ros up to the Garden centre for a walk round, she might use a wheelchair, as she's not good again today. She didn't eat again yesterday, and drank milk instead, but was still sick.

Ironing............................................oh has no clean shirts ironed.

It's for Gymnastics Jane. Polly's going for 10 days to a host family. Laura will then be having a child back on a return trip, if you see what I mean!!! sooner her than me!!! Does anybody know of, or remember having Summer Pudding? It was made either in a Pyrex or china basin. You lined the basin with bread and filled it with blackcurrents, cooked it for the allotted time, and then turned it out onto a plate, with custard or cream it was really scrummy, so was Steak and Kidney pudding made in a basin with suet, Rissols come to mind as do Fish Cakes. My mother was a brilliant cook, things seemed to go downhill a bit after she died!! Laura, however, is an excellent cook, and keeps up the good work. Me? I'm average, Like you Frank, Ian is a good cook and makes a lot of the meals, unlike you, he DOESN'T clear up or do housework!!!

Ann and Shirl I have downloaded Maureens pics and sent them to you both. Let me know if you get htem please??

Mel xx

Kim it tastes great!! Soft smooth sweet and intoxicating..............hic



I also make raspberry gin!