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They have to be here before i leave for work...we are on holiday on sat to majorca for a week..they are not being left in the house..dont have a kitchen light and cant use the extractor fan until the electrician comes and he is held up by the tilers and decorators lol

Watch this space tomorrow ;-) ;-) ;-)

Frank...i remember collecting car numbers in an exercise book when i was about 10....now as I travel on the motoway from time to time i collect the girls names off the cabs of the eddie stobart lorries :-0 have a note pad in the glove box for that...

morning all..I just lost my previous thread..am on a different pc and must have clicked something,,,,the sun is trying to come out here but we did wake up to rain..not a lot i can do in the house today
Alan didnt get the call back they promised him friday teatime...We know the tilers are in mon /tues but the decorators are in next week????and the tiles should be getting taken off the bathroom walls ??? but when they will be here we dont know...the air will be blue on monday morning when alan rings the head compant again..The insurance people found the unbrella company we are using..they then have the contractors for different jobs..but thecommunication is bad

Morning everyone,

Nice and sunny here at the moment ,but a few black clouds about .
Family have just been for coffee ,hubby's just loading a few bits up to go to the tip ,and then we're off to the coast , we call in at the tip on the way .

Enjoy your day everyone .
BBL

Morning everyone

Its absolutely pouring with rain here again today so much so that I have a large pool of water outside the greenhouse door. One good thing......no watering today!! Yesterday was the same until 4pm when the sun suddenly came out and it turned into a lovely evening.
I am having a quiet weekend at home catching up on the dusting and other chores. I also watched the tele yesterday as there was a mountain stage of the TDF followed by John Barrowman and the last Matrix film which I had pre recorded. I will have square eyes soon.
I have done lots of baking as there was no cake in the freezer and have spent some time working on my family tree. I am hoping this rain stops soon so I can take a walk for some air.
Frank We have some runner beans forming now and the cauliflowers are beginning to heart. Picked the last of the strawberries a couple of days ago and have also picked two lots of blueberries and i can see more ready but they will have to wait until the rain stops.Everything has grown rapidly since the rain started and even the pumpkins are beginning to form.
Jane I hope you find some nice shoes and do not get too wet whilst shopping. As usual I am miles behind with posts but send love to everyone. :-) :-)

Yep, a lot of lazy ol' sods, aren't we. :-D :-D

Ros was first up, and bought me my cuppa about nine oclock Lewis slept till nearer 9.45. Had to get him a milky coffee and a bacon sarnie.

We then decided to put the bed back into a chair. What a game trapped my finger twice. Will be a nice B#### M### Pinch on one of them. All back together now.

As I said I got everything ready for dinner yesterday. H & J will come about 4/5pm and stay till about 8pm. It will give me a change to clear up after they are gone, and catch an hours T.V.

Not looking good out there at the moment. very dark clouds, just like yesterday.

Morning Everyone
Are we all having a lie in?We are very laid back this morning.I am just dressed.Chris is in the shower and poor Chester is patiently waiting for walkies :-(
I've just put a nice joint of Pork in the oven and now I'm off to Padders which is a Factory Shoe Shop to see if they have anything that takes my fancy.I really need a light brown pair of smartish shoes,but I won't hold my breath.

It seems to be getting a bit dark ,and looks like rain could not be far off.
BBFN

Frank ,he says he planted them a couple of months ago.I can just see one at the moment and it is about the size of a saucer

I feel for you Ann feeling iffy with your tablets.If they are making you feel a bit sick sometimes taking a travel pill may help.

I am ready for bed now.Just have to get a new book sorted and then I'm off.So
Night Night xx.I'm so glad it's Chris's turn to do the dog in the morning :-D :-D

OMG yes Jane, how sharp the back edge of the heel would be. The plasters didn't always stay in place either.....ouch!!!!

Frank it is fine here now as well. OH said there had been no rain all afternoon 20 miles further north.

We have some beige coloured caterpillars eating the actual tomatoes. I don't want to spray them so wonder if a watering of washing up liquid in water would shift them.

David, can you not hang on to 2 of the dining chairs for a few weeks and then pass them on to who Ellen is giving them to?

I'm off to bed now. The antibiotics today have made me feel iffy......only 14 more of them!!

Night, night and sleep tight......

We're all feed and watered. Ros only had crabmeat soup and spring roll. Lewis had chicken soup, spring rolls, sweet and sour chicken Hong Kong style, and I had Duck in plum sauce and rice.

All the veg done for tomorrow. Meat in the fridge, ready to go in the oven when needed. So I have a day to myself tomorrow, till Harvey and Julia arrive.
If it's dry, I might put some more veg seeds in. i.e. carrot, raddish spring onion and a few cabbage. My cauli's aren't anywhere near ready. When did Chris plant his Jane ????

Turned out to be a nice sunny evening here, How is it everywhere else.???

Another memory! New school shoes and rubbed heels!!!!!!!!!!!.Lots of Elastoplast on the back of the heels.Then it would curl up and you would still be limping in agony.Scraping the sticky stuff off with the finger nails.There was always a black mark where the plaster had been.

Frank,you may very well end up with a clipped ear(if I could get my hands on you) lol.
I have just been taken down the garden!! to see the first Cauliflower .I thought it was all cabbages.I love cauliflower.We have never grown them before.Not keen on all the cabbages though that are growing :-S :-S
Lawn mowed and I can see nice stripes again.Rachel (dubai) can't wait to come home and spend time in our garden.I am just itching now to see her and Ethan.It will seem so strange to see her as a Mum.

Pat when do you go on your Hols ?

I know Frank,I see my error on re-reading it

When we were kids, on a rainy day, we would sit at the window, and count how many cars went down the road Not many in those days, also see how many kinds of birds you saw. Mainly Sparrows and Starlings. the odd blackbird, but never the tits and robins. We had to go over the fields for them. Another horrible thing we did was to get the garden sieve, prop it up with a stick tied to cotton, put breadcrumbs under it and try to catch birds. If we did we would put them in Mum's hat bag, till we knew she was coming home, then scramble to get them outside and clean out the birds SH## from the bag She never caught us, thank goodness. or that would have been thick ear time.

What shaveing cream do you use Jane ???? I find the foam one best :-D :-D :-D No. you can't come and give me a trhick ear !!!!

I picked about three pounds of Runner beans this afternoon. Done a load for Dinner tomorrow, and frozen the rest in little bags, enough for meals for Ros and I. If more people come I can open more bags. Emptied anonther bag of potato's got enough for a good feast tomorrow for five of us. Must say I am not that impressed with the results.

Everybody seems to have been caught out in the rain today. I stayed in doors, so i'm allright JACK.!!!

Lewis and Ros are watching Harry Potter on TV they say it's the first one made. I have been in the conservatory reading. I get feed up watching TV.

David You are thinking of the wrong type of BUG. :-) :-) :-)

They are deciding if they want Chinese or Indian tonight. I will go along with either as I like them both.

BBL

Sheila ,I have fair hair on my face ,but some are a bit longer than they should be lol.They need to be zapped by electolysisI don't know that anyone else notices them other than my OH and Son.I get comments like oh Mum you are turning into Grandma :-S.Only takes a few minutes to do and it makes me feel much more at ease.I can't see them shining in the sunlight .

Anne yes it was me and the pants.These were the Magic ones.I have to say I think I looked even worse as the lining of my dress clung to them.They are going back.I did ask if I could return them.As long as you wear your own pants underneath to try them and keep the card thing that goes on the hanger they will refund.They cost £19.50 !! So Monday I will be taking them back.I have had the 3 pairs for £10,the ones with a NVPL(non visible panty line.They are brilliant.
Funny you should mention a wedding Pat.As I sat in the car at the traffic lights this morning just outside a Church in the pouring rain I thought about the weddings that would be happening today.Those beautiful wedding dresses being soaked at the bottom with wet muddy water :-S

Looks like you'll be sitting on the floor David :-S

Have you any garden chairs you could use ?

You can get get computer bugs,or viruses imported on e-mail attatchments that have been to other computers and trandfered God knows how many times.

Our 2 piece suite was given away to a neighbour today.
Until the new one arrives we have to sit on the dining room chairs,but Ellen's just advised me she is giving away the dining room table and chairs as well.

What do we do for 6 weeks,sit on the floor?
I'm not stingey,but I do feel very annoyed on this occasion.

The man employed to finish my kitchen was going to come on Thursday or Friday or Saturday.

It's now 17.05 on Saturday and I haven't even had a phone call from him :-( :-( :-S

Afternoon everyone ,
Talk about Rain !!! we were stuck in the car for a while ,it was tipping down !!!
I think it has now stopped .

Had Jake here this morning ,he didn't want to go shopping with his mum and dad ,he's been on the laptop playing a game of golf with Shaun the Sheep , he thought it was fun breaking the green house glass in the game ,hope i'am nt turning him into a vandal !!!!!

Pat , what a palaver with your workman , they just don't seem to be able to get things organised between them do they !!
Hubby's lucky with plumber he works with they seem to work well together .
Would be nice to get it all done before you go away .

Ann, what lovely photo's of the birds ,the poor little babies ,don't they look funny little things :-)

Kim, so although your in the middle of your winter ,you can still sit out on a sunny day , don't think we'd be doing that here on a sunny day in the middle of January !! lol

Glad your back is better Mel , i wonder were your Phil has gone , has he wander off before ? hope its not down to a fox !! you'll have to get your gun out !!

We've been renewing hubby's van insurance today , boy that's shot up !!
We went on line and found it cheaper with the same company (Avi*a), when we rang them up about it ,the difference was the no claim discount wasn't protected with the cheaper one on line , so we paid for the dearer one ,MORE EXPENSE !!

Those pesky little midges get every where , i had an ant crawl out of the key board the other day !!! :-S
I think son bought some sort of puffer spray thingy for blowing in around the keyboard to clean it , will have to get him to do mine .

DIL had her belly button pierced a few years ago , she fainted too !!
i don't think she puts a stud in there now i expect its sealed its self up now .
I had my ears pierced when i was in my twenties , one side the earring goes in no bother the other side i always have to pierce through the skin again each time, i only put ear rings in if we're off out any where special.

Time for a cuppa i think .

Afternoon everyone.
Nice sunny morning, got all my washing out and even had half an hour with my book then went food shopping came back had some lunch and decided to go and visit a few places that do conservitories/ sunrooms etc
we have a back porch which is all wood and is rotten so we have decided to get a new one built in the exsiting place so we went to a few places to arrange when they can send someone out.

we were on our way home when the heavens opened and it came down woosh!!!, All my washing is drenched, also sun umberella and a chair I left out
i think it's stopped now so I better go and bring in the wet clothes
BBL

Jane.....I remember the Bunty comic and those dolls.Does anyone remember Kellogs cornflakes when they gave out free bandsman in red plaster.

Sheila.....my mum had my hair permed the same as you with those horrible space things...They were heavy on the head..

Bought a few things for my kitchen...like a new washing up bowl..lol and some new doormats..Even the bathroom didnt get missed out..A new bath mat for the bath..

Was it you Jane that bought some new nickers lol...I got three pairs for £10 from M....and Spence..

Got soaked going from the car park to the shops this morning,,The sun is trying to come out now.

What a shame for a bride this morning...There was a horse and carriage in a layby under a bridge trying to shelter ..Its was bucketing down... .I bet the bride was in tears waiting...