General Chat

No we aren't going now Jane till later in the year.......half term and hot for walking around the reserve just now!! lol I think it is nearish to Wigan!! The garden centre I love there (Bents) is massive and won Best Garden Centre of the Year Award last year. It has uber modern toilets and a fantastic restaurant........everywhere spotless and immaculate. It had those full size Palm trees last time I went.

Am sending you an EM Jane.

Forgot to say that I hate the idea of cruelty to either animals or people.I remember crying when I went to see Lass*e come home and I could not finish the book of Marl*y and me never mind see the film.

What a lovely day. Been shopping in town this morning and washing this afternoon. Have also washed our bedding and it is now ironed and back in the airing cupboard.
Jane Yes we do have a lot of BBQ's and spend as much time as we can outdoors. We also have decided not to go away this weekend when we reolised it was half term. Instead we are going to a local garden tomorrow called The Himalayan Garden which is quite unique in this area. It is only open for a short time each year and, as its name suggests. features rhododendrons, azeleas,and eucryphia amongst others. We try to visit every year and I am really looking forward to it.
We have also ordered tickets for a concert in Richmond on saturday evening which is part of the Swaledale Festival so we will be out and about in the good weather.
Frank Sorry to hear that you are having the shakes. It is taking time for your system to settle down, please continue to take care.I always log onto the thread in the way you descrbed is there another way please? I told you that I am useless with computers!!!! :-S

I need a lie down now lol.All showered,mascara,perfumed and dresses.I can't be faffed with putting eye makeup on now.I would proably get it all in the wrong places anyway.
Ann is that the dog I heard about on the news the other day? Poor little thing.What I would do to those people can't be repeated on here.
Where is Leigh? I hope you have a nice stay.
Do you know your travel plans yet for next Thursday? I hope we get nice weather.

Mandy my Sister used to collect Lilliput Cottages.I don't know what she has done with them all as I haven't seen them for years in her house.I am wondering if she has sold them.

We have huge trouble with Magpies here at the moment.i think they are trying to get at all the nests.The noise is dreadful.

I see on the news we are the driest part in the country,and it is the driest Spring in a Hundred years !!

Ann the Menu does look nice doesn't it.I don't feel terribly hungry at the moment,but maybe when we get there and I smell the cooking I might get a tummy rumble.I didn't have much at lunch time so i should be ready for it lol

It feels quite muggy this evening,so I have a short sleeve top on and won't be taking a jacket .
I better go now ,and clean my teeth and put the old lippy on.

Hope Jane and Chris have a nice meal tonight.

The chick is doing ok but I think it is a bit lonely. I keep going in and picking it up and giving it a little tickle behind the ear and it closes its eyes. At least there is no blood on its back now but I don't know if the down will grow back or if it will just get its feathers a bit later on.

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Been to Holsworthy for chicken corn, getting through so much of it with feeding the pheasents too. One comes with our Phil and she has one baby. She is the female that I call and she comes to me.

OH just gone ringing. Think I may make quiche tonight as he likes that cold.

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Hope you enjoy your evening and meal Jane.......nice to try a new place at times......oh my, the menu looks good!

Mandy I have one of those Lilliput cottages. The detail on them is brilliant. How many do you have?

Mel, your box sounds like my washing machine when it gets an error message!! Press this and that together, after the 3rd beep press that and the other together etc. You need 2 pairs of hands.......as you say nothing in the instruction books telling you what to do!!

Afternoon All,

I have watched Bondi Vet before Kim, we get it here on cable tv. I'm like you, I hate seeing the cruelty that happens to animals, but feel I have to watch otherwise I feel like I'm burying my head in the sand. A little dog is up for rehoming at the rescue centre in a nearby village. Poor thing had been stabbed 13 times. Sometimes I wonder about the human race!!!

Glad you got your car fixed Maureen. I always think of all the places I want to go when mine is off the road. lol I bet after 2 weeks you are really looking forward to seeing baby Harry. Decking all finished yet?

Glad to see you on here again Frank. Those shakes you get must be horrid. Ros is gardening in comfort and STYLE now then!! lol :-)

We had some salmon (bet Jane's going euugggh! lol) with Jersey pots and salad tonight. Our own lettuce, rocket and radish......lovely and crunchy.

We were going up to Leigh to stay overnight tomorrow. OH wanted to see a Rugby match and the massive garden centre is there (for me!). There is a nature reserve over the road from the hotel we wanted to look at too. We have now decided to go a bit later in the year .........half term and the expected heat has put us off. lol

It's all rush this afternoon.Didn't get in from the Hairdessers until 4.40.Then thought I better water the garden and ,veg and greenhouses.Broke the hose and got soaked lol.Chris will be pleased with me lolol
Now I have to get all the bedding back on the bed and jump in the shower before going out .
Frank we are going to Rothwell to the Bakehouse.Never been before.It looks nice.You can see it on Google.
Must dash now.Maybe back later .It just depends what time we get in.
Toodlepip for now. ;-)

More settled now, been sitting all day in the conservatory reading my books. and supplying Ros with TEA. as she trundles on with the garden.

Can't abare curelty to animals in any shape or form. I would hang them by their thumbs, and let the public at them. Like in the olden days. They are not fit to breath GODS air. It seems that in many parts of Europe it is second nature to beat and ill treat animals. I know when we were in Malta, we came across a cat with kittens. Every time we went for a meal we asked for a "Doggy Bag" and would go and feed them. Ros would find a plastic tray and fill it with water also. Don't know how they went on after we left, but we did help them to get some food.

Ros is still in the garden, I found a cushion for the little seat. She says it's better than sitting on hard plastic. !!!Sore Bum.

Been a fair day here but very overcast, but warm. Have been in my shorts all day , have put a tee shirt on in the last hour.

Will get the hose out later (IF SHE LETS ME) and water the plants, she has put in. Easier than getting the watering cans out. !!!!

Might see you later.

Nice sunny day, ironing all done, car fixed, so all in all things looking pretty good.

Glad you are feeling better Fiona, a good nights sleep makes all the difference.

Kim, Sleepy Joe is a song by Herman's Hermits, probably from the 60's, you may not have heard of him in Australia but I think he was quite big in America.

Fingers crossed daughter will make it here tomorrow with baby Harry, third time lucky hopefully. I haven't seen him yet and he's nearly 2 weeks old.

Mandy, your mouse may be like mine and just need new batteries, or yours may not have batteries. My phones kept beeping and when I told my son he said new batteries, I didn't even realise they had batteries.

Afternoon everyone,
Nice and sunny here ,been to the car boot this morning , bought two Lilliput Lane Cottages to add to my collection , Chine cottage for £3 and a bigger one called Cradle Cottage for £5 ,so i was happy as they would have cost a lot more to buy new .

I don't like the animal programmes with the cruelty ,have to switch off , did anyone read about that poor little dog in Malta ,poor thing had its legs bound ,was shot in the head several times and then buried !!! the poor thing managed to dig its self out and there have been offers of new homes for it .
My friend brought a dog home from Malta that had been tied up for days on end ,there was another dog with it that died , she spent a fortune on bringing it home with here ,its now a very happy little dog with a loving owner .
The look on the little dogs face when she first saw the snow !! LOL

Got to get a new mouse this one is not working all the time keeps freezing on me .

BBL

What is up with GR. for me to be able to post I have to go into Community then my threads. link on to our thread,then go through the pages to get to the latest. Then I can BEGIN.

Good morning to oneand all,

Up at two this morning, SHAKES. sat and watched TV till 4.30 when I was so tired I had to lay down. Slept till 9.00am. when Ros bought me in a cup of tea.

Mel, poor little chick, do you think it will survive, ???

Ros is on her little stool weeding the big flower bed, trhat gets all the afternoon sun. She says she hyas never seen so many forget ne nots and up by the fence the bigest thistle youy have ever seen must be 4 foot tall.

Where are you off to tonight Jane ??? not the Pheasant .????

I ordered a bouquet for Ros this morning from out local garden centre. for delivery Friday AM. I will see if she wants to go out for a meal, If so will book a table somewhere.

Can't continue, getting the shakes


BBL

Jane I'm not good with any animal programmes either. I had my eyes closed most of the time, but felt I needed to know what was happening. I signed a petition with well over 140,000 signatures to get it banned. It is being presented to the Minister for Agriculture tomorrow afternoon. The might of the public could just turn this around.

Very glad you liked those pics. I get some very nice emails from time to time, as well as the rubbish which I try not to pass on. Some are really funny though.

Mel do you think you'll be able to save the little chick? Poor wee thing <3

9.32 pm EST

Kim ,I just love the email of the incredible pics.They are stunning! :-D :-D

Morning All
Glad you had a good sleep Fiona.It makes all the difference doesn't it.
Mel poor little chick.Do you think it's wing will be alright?

Kim I couldn't have watched that programme you saw.I would have been inconsolable .It's strange but i can watch things which are terribly upsetting with people,but cannot watch any animal programmes at all.Especially those Vet ones like the one you see.

I see people have been arrested after the showing of that Panorama prog last night.Good thing too.They were wicked evil people.
It is a beautiful day.lovely blue sky and a gentle breeze.I think I will change the bedding this morning and get it back on the bed this afternoon smelling all lovely and fresh.
We are out for a meal tonight ,and I realised how desperate my hair is for a colour.So I have managed to get an appointment for 1.45 :-D :-D

Morning Mel

What's happen to your faces mine are ok apart from the one sticking it's tongue out, it's called tongue now used to be smile?

Feeling much better today, slept pretty good too.
meeting friends for coffee at 11, then at 1.30 talking Sofia to her pre-school music class, if she stays awake, she fell asleep at 1.15 the other week so we could not go and she didn't wake till 3.00, mind you it was nice and peaceful managed to get a few chapters read of my book while she slept on the settee.

Dull, cloudy and windy and threatening rain.

Quotation no 39
<3 Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding <3

Morning and whats all this with the little faces today??

Did'nt see them yesterday.

Also my pages where we write has a line running down it about a third of an inch in, in old money.

Cloudy skies but quite bright.

I had to take a chick away from the two mums yesterday as Henny Penny kept pecking it. It is the last one hatched and she has pecked off the down on its back and its little wing is hanging down a bit. It is in the lopunge in that yelow plastic box I used to raise Henny and the other two, with the desk lamp over it.

OH did quite a bit yesterday on the new build.

The BT man has been and gone and told OH you have to reboot the box if you have a power cut and hold in three buttons! It dos'nt say anything at all about 3 buttons in the instructions for restarting it and nobody said anything about that when we spoke on the phone the other day. :-(

I remember Miss Polly too, used to sing that when I was at school with my skipping rope. If my dad had a few under the belt, which was quite often, he would sing "It had to be you" by Cranky Franky (not our Frank of course) and Heart of my Heart, which is a really old one. I had the organist play that at his funeral, we were lucky she found the sheet music for it.

We can have these storms Frank , although Sydney and the mountains usually gets all the hail. By the time it reaches here, the ferocity is usually gone. We are somewhat sheltered as the storms tend to go out to sea. We also get the tail-end of Queensland's cyclones which stirs up the swells, but this one has come across the continent from Western Australia. Last winter was very dry and cold, 2009 was very mild. I think we are in for a wet winter this year.

Joel turns 21 in September; would be good if he could grow out of this particular ailment. Just like a migraine only in the ear, with all the other horrid symptoms.

Twenty-five degrees by the weekend, enjoy everyone :-)

Maureen I like the words to the "sleepy Joe" song. Have never heard that one before either.

Watched the Four Corners (current affairs) programme last night after I left you all. It was about the live export of cattle to Indonesia. I have never cried so much - the inhumane, cruel way the cattle are slaughtered was too much. Have you had the story in your press in the last couple of days? The torture that went on was disgusting. I'm hoping there will be enough protesting to ban live exports as was done with Egypt. The Government is gutless to allow this to continue. I can't get those scenes from my head!!! It was filmed by an ex policewoman, who also filmed the Halal slaughter in Egypt. Hopefully, her good work can bring about major changes again.

Fiona I hope you will be feeling better when you wake. I think the stress has caught up with you.

I have sent a few emails off to Shirl, filling her in on your condition Frank. She has gone off to see her cousin today who has bone cancer. I have lost a few friends to that condition, over the years.

OH is off to Woy Woy tonight to attend a superannuation seminar. He is taking one of his clients, so I hope it will be beneficial for them. At least the wind has dropped, don't think it's raining tonight. We are supposed to get some fine weather over the next few days, fingers crossed.

We are off to Norah Head tomorrow for some brunch. It is just north of here, about 20 minutes. There is a lighthouse there as well, still in operation and beautiful views across the water towards Crackneck. The little cafe does a delicious Devonshire tea, so I'm really looking forward to that.

Off to watch the news now. It is 6.00 pm EST. Back later folks, bye for now. Kim

I'm off too now Fiona.
Just watched the programme of the most dreadful abuse of young people in a secure home.I am not easily shocked ,but found it quite hard to watch .I won't go on about it....I am speechless...and it takes a lot for me to be that !!!!!
On that note I am going off to bed and will try and lose myself in my book.
Night Night All xx