General Chat

You're right Frank it IS dragging on! mind you after the last fiasco it seems that it has been going on for ever and ever! in fact our present chap has been with us now for 6 weeks, though it feels like 6 months! The survey should be OK as it's the same surveyor as did one for our first people, and that was OK except for a few minor things. Our place is, what my Granny used to describe as a 'Between Wars' house,ie built in 1937, with an extension put on in 1972. (I know you know that Frank, but younger members might not,- ouch! I felt that!!) It's really these wretched searches that are taking the time, getting 'Local Authorities' to move other than at snailpace seems almost impossible. So sorry about Ros, it must be getting you both down, ill health is just wretched, lets hope that help is just round the corner. Making beefburghers tonight, a speciality,with herbs and pepper, should be good,new spuds and baby carrotts, have to keep our strength up!!!

Morning one and all,
Jane, DON't FORGET THE TROUSERS.!!!!!

Not much to report here. Ros had a better day yesterday, not feeling sick. The leg and hip are still playing up. Wish there was something I could do.

I was going to start moving all the branches today, but the barrow is full of compost from the potato sack. I will have to spread that round the garden, before I can move the branches. There's another day tomorrow.

It's a mizzly sort of morning here, you can feel the rain in the air. but not making the ground wet YET.

Glad everything is going along in the right direction David.I am sure Ellen will settle down once she is in, and got all her things around her.

Liz, The sale is starting to drag on now isn't it ???? Is there any chance they will find anything with the survey ???

Jane have a nice couple of days, and hope everything goes to plan.

Looks like your day is taken care of Fiona, hope you find lots of info.

I got a chicken out of the freezer last night. So will get that stuffed a little later, and ready for the oven. You could have cooked mine as well Jane :-D :-D :-D New pots, cauli, my runner beans and broard beans carrots.
BBL

Have a good day Jane, I hope all goes well, I'm sure it will, at least it's a bit dryer today!! David I'm sure all will be well with your move; A new place always takes a bit of getting used to, and getting cold feet before a move is quite usual and should soon pass once you've actually 'done it'!
Our move trundles on! After weeks of fannying around our buyer now wants a survey!! SO Thursday morning a Surveyor will duly arrive!!! We've also had a load of questions to answer, ie, Building Regs for our stable! (You only need Planning Permission which we've got!) When were our new windows put in? is there a guarantee with them?(Yes, you've got in in the paperwork we sent you!!) and so it goes on!!! Still, hopefully, we'll get there in the end!! Weather a bit better today, but not brilliant! Have been doing some research into a G.Uncle, he was a dear old boy, but some of his exploits during both wars doesn't seem to quite add up!!!!! He obviously never bargained for the Internet where ALL your 'daydreams' can be discovered!!!!!

Morning All
Well it is all go here.Chester has just gone shivering and shaking like a jelly.He doesn't like going in a cage in the back of a car .He is used to sitting on the front passenger seat lol
Then the phone rang and it was my neighbour asking if I could cook her chicken as she just discovered her oven was cold.So that's in mine now.
Hannah car is due back in a few minutes from the Body repair place.Then I'm off to pick up the trousers and quick trip to Tes**.I reckon we will be away from here about 12.30 ish.
Camera on charge,and clothes hanging everywhere.Plus handbags,as I don't know which one to use.

David ,I hope everything goes well for your move on Thursday.Just 2 days to go!

I may be back before I go(if that makes sense :-S

Morning All,

David I do hope everything goes well for Thursday and that Ellen feels more settled once in your new place.

Fiona have a good hunting trip at the library.

Dryer today here but still overcast. OH has just gone off to Barnstaple to get paper and thin card to do some printing for our friend who is an undertaker. He does the hymn sheets for burials and cremations. It gives him some pocket money.

I must go up the tunnel and water today as I did'nt even go up yesterday.

Morning David.
Glad all is going well so far with your move, I hope Ellen settles ok in her new home. we woman become attach to a house and it's memories more than men I think, if our children were brought up there we tend to remember little memories that once happened through their childhood.

Weather dull & cloudy . just hope the rain stays away,
Slow cooker on with tonights dinner. OH off to Germany today. he is going to drop me off in town before driving to Edinburgh to catch his plane. I want to go to our local reference library . I believe they hold records on burials at the local Cemetery, I have quite a few ancestors who died in Hamilton and most of them so far were buried in BENT Cemetery, so I have a list of names and dates of more people I wish to look up. Don't have any baby sitting today so I can relax and there's no need to hurry home.
Hope everyone has a good day.

BBL

I love the bungalow Sheila.
We shift on Thursday.
All the new neighbours Ive met are friendly.
Yesterday my carpet was delivered,it's being fitted today.
The gas cooker and washing machine and dishwasher were delivered.
The cental heating and every thing else work (as they should).
Ellen's not liking it as much as I yet which over a while is bit :-( :-S
I'm hoping when we are moved in and she is surrounded by her furniture etc that she will be much happier in it.
Were getting too old to choose to be unhappy.

Amazing how much we have to give away isn't it :-)

Hi everyone posted another piccy with the permed hair not very clear though so will remove its my grandad my brother and me sat on the back of the bench with my ball and frizzy permed hair abouit 1950 Southsea on hols.

Frank I agree with you about Sil he did call this afternoon for the clothes
and said he was going to mum still just having a short break with his brother in Milan my hubby said you will have a short break your neck.
I kept out of it and walked off when he said Sheila I will be back with a fortune one day. My ho said whoes some foolish womens who is mad enough to fall for your patter. I am glad of your opinions I sometimes feel
my mind is clouded by the fact I did like him but what a low life.

oh gosh wasnt that naughty about the carrier bag though i have felt guilty
all day.

Amanda what a cute little girl in her pink I loved the photoes.
More for my album.Glad your pool is up whats the weather like your way dreadful here. I tried twice to walk the dogs and a gale got up and it rained.

People do like to cause trouble anything to have a moan I would have said the same about the trees.

Well off to have a bite to eat. I am late again more like supper.
got a salmon salad but my husband bought pink instead of red he said I did not know it came in different coulours I will bring blue next time cheeky
monkey.

Sheila that is awful for him to make such things up. If he's capable of that, what else might he lie about. Michelle must tell herself she deserves better and I wouldn't give him the money!! I had a chuckle about the bag too! :-D

That little boy playing the violin was Akim Camara I think. He saw Andre when he was age 2 and afterwards asked his mum for a violin. A year later age 3 he was playing for Andre. I often watch him on You*ube, so cute and so good on his tiny violin he always brings a lump to my throat.....aahhh!

Some paint fumes give me a headache and runny eyes Kim...........and I do most of the painting too. Good that Joel appreciates the efforts with his room though. I hope your trip to school got things sorted out.

OH had his last lot of school minutes done for me to check when I got home today. He always had someone else (PA!!) to do any typing when he was at work so it is not his strongest point! I must say he words things brilliantly and has a real knack of how to phrase things though. After months of nothing at the start they have offered him 2 more schools now!!!! He is thinking about it as he doesn't want too much to do!!!! lol

I cooked a dinner today, pork chops with apple, cauli, carrots and beans and pots from the garden! I managed to spill stuff down my top too!!

Pat, what a cheek just taking things like that!! I must say the chaps who did our bathroom and ensuite got through a fair bit of tea and coffee, but I told them it was to keep them going and they only stopped for a lunch break. If I went out, they would wait till I got back. They kept the floors covered and made no mess so they got biscuits the last day!! lol

Jane, you have been busy getting everything ready....and found time for cleaning too!! I do hope Chris is ok too.......can't have the good doctor getting ill for Wednesday!!! :-S :-S

Mel I will finish the rest of the cleaning on Thursday.(still a lot to do) :-S :-S
I can't believe how mucky things are.I am sat looking at some wonderful cobwebs on one of my ceiling lights.Must look out my fluffy duster.

Sheila I just saw your post about your SIL lying about giving his Mum his Kidney.. :-S :-S.That is just so awful.I'm not surprised you want his stuff out .What a dreadful thing to lie about.The mind boggles as to why he should make up something like that.
Must away and dish up dinner now.

Done the shopping and as I came out of Mo**isons it fell out the sky. Looking a bit brighter now I am home and got all the shopping away.

Jane what a good girl you are!! CLEANING......................

Hope chris is alright for Wednesday ;-)

Sheila it seems you can't take anything for truth from your SIL. Naughty boy :-(
I had to laugh about the carrier bag though :-)

Would you believe it, the sun has just put in an appearance with a small patch of blue sky.

Well I have been a good girl today and had a day of cleaning.I didn't dare turn on the pooter as I would have been sidetracked lol
I haven't read all your posts yet as there are loads.But I will catch up.

Tomorrow morning I must collect James's trousers ,and make sure I have his shirt ironed and hung under his jacket.Bought some new black socks for him earlier.I think he has taken a couple of ties with him.So I just need to sort my things out now and get Chesters suitcase packed for his 2 nights away.He is not going to be impressed :-( :-(
Chris just said he doesn't feel quite right.he better not be going down with something :-S :-S
Will be back later.

The neighbour from across the road, came over this morning, said are you going to take the trees down. "NO" I said, just trimming them up. He then said When I sit at the back of my lounge, I can't see the skyline. My reply was NEITHER CAN I !!!!! Move closer to the window. Cheeky sod. He causes trouble all round the village, poking his nose in, where it dosen't belong !!! He dosen't want to push his luck with me. !!!! The nurse down the road stoped to have a word with Ros, When Ros told what he said. She said he should live by me, I have conifers 25 feet high, and I wouldn't cut them down for anyone.

Ros is sitting trying to start a jigsaw. She loves doing them and finds them relaxing. I am sitting nurseing my aching good arm and shoulder, My back is killing me.!!!! Wish I still had a bath, I could lay and soak for an hour !!!!

Maureen, What is it with us "OLD UNS" who lay awake till all hours :-D :-D :-D only joking really. but it does seem strange how some nights the brain just won't shut down.

Where's SHORTY this afternoon, late lunch with Fizz ????

Shelia, If I were you, his cloths would be thrown out into the yard, he could pick them up there, if he wants them, if not. TOO BAD. What a lowlife to say he had given his kidney, to his Mother, when he hadn't. Sorry, but thats my feelings.

Am having a bit of a break from filling in my tax assessment. I think it's a real cheek that they take my little bit of earnings add it to my pension and tax me on all of it. Sometimes you wonder whether it's worth working at all.

Aren't Huntsmen spiders very poisonous Kim, I wouldn't be able to settle knowing one of them was in the room.

Yes that's my brother Sheila, I always thought he was a bit 'goofy' as a kid but he got better looking as he got older, was always modelling himself on Cliff Richard with that turned up lip, he'd never admit it now though ....lol

Lucky for me I don't have workmen in, my son usually sorts out problems or if he can't he'll get one of his mates to.

It's horrible Mel, when you toss and turn trying to get to sleep, I have a few of those nights too, at least we don't have to get up for work the next day.

Daughter's wedding is next June, they both live in London but are getting married in a village in Kent, a very pretty church there.

KIM did not see your message how are you. now. Paint can be hard on the old sinuses I have trouble with paint it makes me dizzy. Once I painted a garden dwarf and had a dreadful sinus blocked up nose I was out of the world with medication for days I just wanted to sleep.I would sleep in the garden sat in the chair upright.

Good job I did not see that Huntsman spider with my heart problem.
I had a daddy long legs fall on my head it was dead stuck to the ceiling and swept it off and it landed in my hair that gave me the creeps.

Why is it workman always help themselves the ones I had in used to make themselves pots of tea and eat my biscuits.

Oh theres the bell it is trouble I wonder.

Oh Maureen what a lovely photo of you on the donkey take it that is your brother he looks handsome.

Mel I watched Australia and Charlotte Grey what fab films they were. Loved the red outfit Charlotte wore and the fashions of those times.
what a sad little film though those poor little boys.
Mel my saucepan is very burnt doing my best to clean it.

Frank Ros is feeling better then chopping trees she is very brave lady then sometimes pain makes you determined to do things when able.

Jane that sounds interesting what James is going to do.
I hope he gets a good job after his studying.

I love the apprentice it is my favourite programme I wish Lord Sugar lived near me to sort a few people round here. I had a horrible women in the shop this morning she moaned at a penny on a bottle of pop and she said I will go up the road and get it cheaper so I said ok then and she said well give me a bag no please I said flimsy bags are free and strong bags are two pence she said flimsy not paying two pence after a penny extra for pop I said oh do you want the lemonade then and she said yes stupid.
I did something awful I have to confess to. l saw the bag I gave her free had a hole in the corner and said nothing and she plonked her lemonade in and went off slamming the door. About five minutes she came back moaning my lemonades fell on my foot and fizzed up the bag broke. I had to hide a smile and said oh yes you needed a stronger bag those little ones are free just for sweets and stuff the stronger ones are better. do you want your pop replacing and she said yes I do. I said well help yourself and leave that one. she did and plonked the money down on the counter and went out. my ho would have killed me had he known.most customers are ok.

I watched Andre and loved that cute little fellow playing in his orchestra the voilin so sweet . He seems very popular with the men Andre and I love the way he brings guests in from all over the world Annx
The Irish fiddler went down well with Les. bet you had a fun night both of you.

I do only have one brother Maureen it sounds like you had a lovely time.I love Regents park it remInds me of when we lived in London I miss those
kind of outings.I loved St James park with the deer also. I used to watch the guards parading in Battersea park on a Sunday the kids loved it Ashley
when small would march up and down with a umbrella.
My ho is terrible with bananas he often gets a banana peels it plonks it on bread and butter on the workspace and leaves it there. I said why dont you eat this banana it goes black after its peeled and he said well throw it then
but what a waste and they are not cheap. I could kill him.

David do you like your new bungalow it must be exciting a nice new place
wish we could get a bungalow instead of this big cold place.It is dark in the wet dreary weather also it does my head in.

Pat be careful do not injure yourself.
I love Harry Potter I watched it and loved the moving chessmen
Well will go now my son in law the cheeky man just got a shenko visa for 6
months and asked Michelle for two hundred pound so he could go travelling around europe that business of his mums kidney was rubbish.
I hate him now and asked him to come so he would take the rest of his clothes he left my ho s going to be here and he wont mince his words.
Michelle is heart broken but throwing herself into work.

Sorry its long but I am waiting for him and at a loss to know what to do
would go out he had better turn up. Somehow I do not think we will see him again. Give him to 4 oclock and then will walk the dogs blow him .My ho will fall asleep and not answer the door proberly.

Busy as usual Frank. Hope Ros feels better today and give her my wiahes please.

I am waiting to see the new Harry Potter movie. I have'nt seen the first half yet!! Want to see them both together. I loved the first one and still think it was the best.

Kim sorry to hear you have been upset by the smell of the new paint in Joel's room but I hope you will soon feel a bit better.

My grandfather had those shirt bands and braes with the button fastenings. Don't think he ever had the sock suspenders though.

Anne, We all have our Cross's to bear.!!!

Kim, Yes both of them were full of it when they returned from the cinema,

Would you believe it. Ros wanted to chop some of our big tree overhang on the next door neighbour lawn. She started out with a little pair of clippers. and the wheelie bin. I went out with the tree loppers and the saw. The bin is now full (only emptied this morning) and the footpath is covered in branches. I will go out again soon, and transfer them to the drive at the side of the bungalow. Then as I can will load the barrow, and take them to the allotment tip.

Greertings
The sun is shining outside and I have hung out the washing but I do not know just how long it will last as more rain forcast., I have also tidied away all my research papers as they had taken over most of the downstairs rooms along with my next mailing for the operatics. Hubby is home on wednesday but i am going out all day tomorrow and going to an outdoor production in Harrogate tomorrow evening so not a lot of time left to tidy.
Reading posts it looks as though I am taller than most being 5ft 7ins but I think you shrink with age.
Frank It is amazing just how tired you can get cooking for others. I hope you have a quiet day today and that Ros is feeling happier.
Pat Workmen are naughty and I would let me know that you are not happy with them helping themselves.
Loved the Apprentice last night and I was pleased that Tom won although Helen seemed the best person to employ but did not have a good business idea.
Going to see MIL this afternoon :-) :-)

Morning All,

Well I never knew that about the armbands Frank.......you are a fount of knowledge. :-D :-D For what it's worth, I think it's not poor Ros that should be upset not being able to help, the family could have mucked in to help a bit. I hope you feel calmer again this morning and so sorry to hear Ros is feeling like she is. I hope she has perked up a bit this morning and feels a bit more like food.

Mel, I meant to watch Charlotte Grey too, but it had started before I remembered it was on!!