General Chat

Pics are great Anng, that blue sky is amazing. What is the red tree hanging over the path please? it looks like it has bunches of red grapes on it.

Morning girls,

Yes do what the others say Vera your health is more important then reading our posts and replying. Hope you had sleep last night as it always makes you feel better.

Its 11 degrees here with blue skies and hardly a cloud in site out the front to the north.
I have the nurse today at the surgery and tomorrow the foot doctor. I hav'nt been to him since before Christmas with being in hospital and getting over the flu. I had an appointment on 9th Jan which was a later one as I did'nt want the one he offered so very near to Christmas. I have been managing myself but not very well.

Gwyn I bet you were glad to get your bag back and that was a good idea to do the front garden while waiting for it to arrive.

Looking forward to the pics Anng.

Mandy hope everyhing is now settling down for you now. A little at a time and then rest. <3

good morning all. another lovely sunny morning 6 degrees so still chilly but a good day for Jake to do the garden, when he gets here, Just had an email to say he was just having breakfast be here soon. 0915, definitely not an early starter.

I have just downloaded my photos from yesterday so will send a few out in a minute. Have to find a few jobs to do around the house now as Jake will be here. And have to be jobs that can bear with interruptions.

Vera, I do hope that you feel better today. If you do please take it easy for a day to properly recover.

Vera
So sorry to read that you have felt so unwell.
It must make each day so difficult, so I hope each day sees an improvement and each night brings restful sleep <3

Today has started bright and sunny.
Yesterday was very pleasant and I did a bit of tidying in the front garden, while I was confined to home.
One, it needed doing... and two, I could be sure not to miss the knock on the door, which would mean my bag had returned.
I noticed my bluebell heads were starting to 'blue'.
Surely this is a bit early for bluebells to be in flower?

I hope you all have a good day.

Hope you feel better tomorrow Vera and the cotton wool has left your head. Just rest and get back as soon as you feel better, we all understand.

Mandy I have sown my tomato seeds and my cues and some runner beans and sweet peas which I hae been meaning to od for ages. I sowed those too late last year and did'nt get good results. I like a few sweet peas in the kiutchen as they give off a smell I can take without tasteing it.

Not sure if any of you watch the channel U but the next series of The Murder Mystery Club has started tonight. I watched the first series and liked it so I shall watch the next one.

Oh Vera sorry to hear that the migraine has got you again. Hope you feel bette tomorrow. Must be frustrating to miss the sun that we had today. Well if it was over your way too.

Sorry I haven't been on for a couple of days. This will be brief. I developed a migraine on Monday afternoon and am having trouble shaking it off. It's not even that the pain is that bad this time but I'm struggling to hold my head up without support and my brain is full of cotton wool. I feel as though I am wearing someone else's head. I couldn't go to our club meeting on Monday but OH went down with the raffle prizes and milk and biscuits and a couple of the ladies there took over making the teas and coffees for me.

I haven't read the latest posts but will try to catch up with them tomorrow if I can. In the meantime I hope you are all free of aches and pains and are sleeping well. I'm now off back to bed.

Mel, yes we started with a fortnightly order when we first booked our recurring slot. We can still book one off extra slots if we needed one. The easiest way for you to try it out would be to go online when you want to miss a next order and you will see a box with 'skip a slot' above the order and you can just click on that each time you want to miss a delivery till you are sure fortnightly works ok for you.

I would have enjoyed the talk about the meteorite AnnG. I went to an exhibition of the Barwell Meteorite not far from here a few years ago and enjoyed that. It does make a difference when you get good speakers too. The garden visit sounded good, but a shame you didn't stop for lunch. I had to go a different route I knew past where I lived when I was first married to go to the garden centre I went to this morning. They are building a really massive estate in what was a lovely field with great views on the corner of the tiny island you turn left at to get to the garden centre It has 3 way traffic lights that are causing horrendous traffic jams at busy times and have been causing OH to go miles out of his way to get to some of his schools in time. It's due to carry on like this for months too.I was pleased to get the baskets I wanted. I see the other papers are saying what you said about the ages of the students meant they haven't had vaccinations for this strain of meningitis.

Mandy that must have been a relief that the ECG was all normal and it's good your head is a lot better. Just take it easy for now and rest when you need too. I have a feeling I got some courgette seeds a while ago and must check. I want to do them in pots outside this year.

I hope Vera's back isn't still causing problems, but expect she is busy giving support to her neighbours who have the poorly granddaughter. I hope she's ok.

Thank you Anng I couldn't remember when I planted last year ,I should write it on the calender

Mandy, if you sow tomatoes too early they will be leggy, the next couple of weeks will be soon enough.

Still 16 here. Just come in with my sown tomato seeds to put in the uti room. Its really hot out in the shed today.

Hungry now so something to eat I think. I have forgotten to take my bread out of the freezer so it could be crumpets for lunch and a cuppa soup.

Oh thats good Gwyn ,hope you've managed to get out and meet up with your friends .

Mel what seeds have you sown? I keep wondering if I should sow my tomatoes and cucumbers ,I can't remember when I did them last year .
Mel you said about putting Lime on the garden to help the runner beans , do we put it on now so it soaks in before we plant the bean plants or after we've planted .

Home now as, sadly, my friend who took me didn't want to stop for lunch. We got to the garden ok, traffic was heavy with lorries obviously following their satnavs as they would usually all be on the M5. It was clear when we ame home though and we were not help up at all. One of the things about the visits we do this time of year is that there are not many flowers so we can see the bones of the garden. It is a huge Arts and crafts garden with a lovely old Arts and crafts house, wonderful view they must have from their windows. We enjoyed it, there were a lot of levels and steps so I was glad of my stick. Might have a couple of photos to send later.

It is 17 degrees here, had a coffee in my garden when I got in and it is really hot out there.

Mandy good that the ECG was fine so one less thing to worry about. Just continue to take it easy.

Put the washing on the line. I had washed 9 dusters with other stuff so that all blowing nicely in the sun. Its now 16 degrees and I have been in the shed sowing seeds and just come in for the ones I forgot to take with me. :-D

I have my bag :-D :-D

Its 15 here now I wonder if it will get any higher and we have a high pollen count?

Good results on your ECG then Mandy thats another worry off your mind. Yes little and then rest thats the best way to do things. <3

Morning all,

11 degrees here and we should get to 15 later ,suns shining and there's blue sky, i have washing to get on the line so nice to hang out and get them all dry .

Oh Gwyn that goodness someone has your bag ,your heart must have skipped a beat when you realised you didn't have it , hope it's returned so you can have your trip out later .

Ann ,enjoy your poached egg and hope you can get the baskets you want , good idea to save petrol, I don't think we've had any queuing for petrol yet but it might come to that again.

Mel hope you can get your puffs from your inhaler ok ,probably takes a while to get use to doing it .

Anng hope you can find another way ok to do the garden visit as you say the traffic all has to go another way too if the motorway is shut ,was there an accident or shut for roadworks.

Had my ECG yesterday and after I had it I had to wait in the waiting room while the doctor checked it ,the nurse came out and said all was fine so that was good , my head is a lot better and the tiredness is easing but I just do a little then rest .

Hope Vera's back is feeling better .

Morning All,

A sunny morning with higher degrees forecast for today. OH has gone to a council business breakfast at a Marriot Hotel about a mile or two away and I am shortly going to a garden centre about 4 miles away where they do nice poached eggs on toast and to have a look around and get some plastic baskets. I did think about going to the big retail park about 45 miles away but thought I'd save my fuel today.

Gwyn I bet you panicked about your bag for a moment, but at least you know it is safe. We all have these 'moments' where our minds are on something else.

I'd better get going if I want a good parking space so will catch up with yesterday's posts when I get back.

I hope you manage to get to the garden AnnG.

Yes, I was concerned not to keep the lady waiting, who was giving me a lift, so I scooped up my laptop off the table, put it in my bag and merrily went on my way.
Probably because I was then carrying something, I didn't notice the missing bag!

Morning girls,

A bright sunny one here this morning too and its 9 degrees and pc is saying a record high.

Hope there's not too much trafic when yo9u go out Anng and enjoy the visit.

O Gwyn we all do these silly things sometimes but you were lucky someone was looking after it for you. Hope it arrives in time for you to go to town.

Just going to read the instructions on the inhailer again before attempting todays puffs.