General Chat

All sorts don't seem to be be working as well as they did. Last night I saw a warning about OH's Rampiril tablets. The manufacturer makes another BP tablet and some had got in the wrong packets and it was saying to check what was in your packs. Then this morning OH's appointment letter arrived in the post at last. It was dated the 28th January and was for his appointment on 9th February, so it's arrived a month after the appointment! It's a good job he got a text. It's going to be busy at Melton where he is today as it's Pork Pie day there. His friend with him had an interview at an undertakers yesterday so I wonder what sort of questions they asked him.

Vera I tried some supermarket brand heat pads once as they were cheaper and they fell off and wouldn't stick. I've stayed with the deep heat ones since, but if I bend and twist a lot even they move sometimes. You could try a couple of strips of plaster across them. I would have expected all the quality checks to be done before the bus passes left the manufacturer as well.

Yes your water company soon got the leak sorted Gwyn. Thanks for mentioning about the stamps too as I need some 2nd class ones. I hadn't noticed they were going up in price either.

I did notice some saying how much domestic oil price had gone up with all the trouble going on with supplies and thought about Mel.

Oh dea Mandy, I am sorry that you had to go to hospital but at least they seem to have found what could be the cause. I know my sodium was checked with my last blood test so maybe your had got worse since your last blood test. I have taken a diuretic for about 25 years now. Anyway hope that is the solution and that you soon feel better, just as everyone says, take it easy.

Vera maybe buy some new patches and see if that works.

I would have thought the bus passes should have been quality checked by the manufacturer before leaving the 'factory'. I wouldn't expect the council staff to have to run a check. But a good job it has been found before everyone started to use them (at least I assume it was before and not found by people using them.)

Poor you Mandy. Sorry to hear you had to go to hospital but at least you found out about your sodium levels and hopefully things will start to improve now. Take it very easy and just rest.

The weather here sounds just like yours Annx - damp, dreary and cold. OH, bless him, is faffing about this morning and driving me mad. I am trying not to get cross with him but I know I am a bit grumpy as my back is giving me a lot of pain this week. I’ve been using heat pads but I am sure the quality has gone down. They don’t stick as well as they used to and sometimes just fall off. That’s enough moaning from me.

Your water company were quick off the mark Gwyn so it’s a bouquet for them and a brickbat for our local council. A week or more ago we and most of our friends received our new bus passes, valid for the next 5 years. Today we received another one with a letter telling us to destroy the first one as a manufacturing fault had been found during a quality check. Is it just me that thinks they should have checked the quality before posting the passes out. Just think what it has cost in staff time, stationery and postage.

Better go. OH has just called out that he has made a sandwich.

Morning All,

Perishing and dull here.

Oh you poor thing Mandy having to be taken to hospital. After all the tests they did it sounds like those tablets could be the problem so I hope you are soon feeling much better again. Just have an easy time this weekend while the effects should hopefully wear off. <3xx

Morning all,

Just a quick one to say I am about but I've been in hospital as I got so bad I went in by ambulance ,they did loads of tests ECG,blood tests ,chest xray and he thinks the reason I have felt so unwell is because my sodium level so very very low so I have to stop my indepamide tablets as they are a diaretic and take the salt out in your wee apparently and this can make you very dizzy too I have to do another blood test for the sodium in two weeks to see if it begging to come up again .
So this morning I didn't have that tablet so I'm hoping my head will begin to feel better in a few days .

Mel love the Cockerell.

Thanks for that Gwyn I had not seen that, they have got wise, they have not given much notice this time. I must buy a couple of books.

Have just seen online that postage charges increase in April.

It might be worth buying a few stamps before then, as they will still be valid at the new rate too.
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As of April 7, 2026, the prices for UK postage stamps are as follows:
First-Class Stamp: £1.80 (up from £1.70).
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Second-Class Stamp: 91p (up from 87p)

You must have saved them quite a bit of water. I wish I had a business where the stock came out of the sky for nothing!! I know they have to make it safe for us to drink and pipe it everywhere, do repairs to maintain everything etc etc.....

Good morning.
Misty and moist here earlier, but now brightening up nicely :-D

Photos received now from AnnG and Mel... Thank you.
What a proud bird he looks displaying his feathers!

Very impressed by the local Water Company, for a change.
On Thursday lunchtime, I noticed a large puddle in a side road gutter. Water was gently bubbling from below, so I went online and reported it at about 12.30 p.m.
Daughter passed the road about teatime and noticed signs and barriers.
By yesterday lunchtime, the repair had been completed.
Credit where it's due. They did well with this.

Just heard from Gwyn and she now has all the pics ofd the cockerel. Thanks to all who tried to send them to her.

Morning Anng and all,

It seems I had left a letter out of her email address in my contacts as she messaged me to say last night so I corrected that and sent the pics again so I am hoping they went through this time as I have'nt had a notice saying they failed.

Its 7 degrees here and pc says partly sunny but still also says rainy days ahead. I have been enjoying the dry weather and the girls appreciate it too. Better that paddling around in all that mud. They need cleaning out today so thats on the list.

Not sure if BIL is coming again today or not he keeps talking about giving the grass a cut if is dry enough.

Good morning all. very grey here but dry so far. 6 degrees a bit different from the 16/17 of Wednesday.
Washing in. I slept well last night, well still got up for the loo but was up about 0715 so got the washing in early. Tesco due this afternoon 3-4pm.
If it stays dry might pop down to the book stall to return the ones I picked up that I had already read.
Mel, message from Gwyn last night to say she has now got the photos I forwarded.

I have tried forwarding them and not heard that they have not gone so maybe Gwyn has them now.

I won't send the email to Gwyn Mel as mine was incomplete with pictures missing.

I hope Mandy is ok too and just resting or busy.

I am just the same with the laptop keyyboard as well AnnG and I notice other people catching adjacent keys in their posts too so it's not just us.

Oh it is annoying when things are on the wrong hangers and easy to forget to check the garment. At least you noticed when you got home and were able to take it back today. Those camisoles are a bargain price.

The garden centre was family owned and then Dobbies bought it a few years ago when they bought up a few other garden centres, but the family bought it back again about a year ago and refurbished it. I was looking for reviews and see that there are complaints about some Dobbies garden centres being mazes! It must mean a lot of legwork for the staff too.

Vera that's good the tv is fixed and at a reasonable price too. I lost an old Choisya, a golden leafed one just after the pandemic. The leaves just curled up and dropped off. I ought to replace it really as the flowers smelled lovely and It was a splash of colour in the winter. The height of my motivation today was to force myself to clean the microwave, but I left cleaning the cooker hob till tomorrow. OH will be at a match at Melton Mowbray with his pal so I might get the kitchen floor mopped while he's out as well. Yes I had read about those dreams being due to feeling overwhelmed and I think it's right with all the things I need to sort or arrange soon.

Mel I have what sounds like a similar silver charm bracelet with a heavy curb chain and padlock fastenening, but with far less charms on it than yours. I just looked online and was surprised as they are worth more than I expected. I might think about selling mine as I can't see me ever wearing it again, as I haven't for over 35 years now! Fancy you not being able to find such a bulky thing in your bag at first, but at least you found it in the end. I don't remember if I said that we found the garage remote. Like you, OH had been through all his pockets more than once to look for it, then found it in his jacket pocket. That was very lucky your OH found the stone for the ring.

Mel, I have tried forwarding your email to Gwyn but it won’t send.

I have just tried again to send the pics to Gwynn without any luck its saying this mail box is disabled.

Been out with BIL this morning all morning we went to Holsworthy to my solicitors and both had our will's done and BIL's wife as well. Just been lazy since I came back but I did spend time looking for my silver charm braclet which I had this morning and when I got to the jewelers I could'nt find. Spent ages going through all the pockets on my handbag, pockets of the cardi I had on this morning and the one pocket I never looked in was the small pocket in my handbag for an old mobile phone and thats where I had put it. I had looked in the solicitors and when I came back home I had my whole bag out. I wanted to ask him if it was worth anything as it has a very heavy chain and 19 charms on it. I saw some in the shop for £5 each. I had gone in there because I wanted the silver ring oh bought me repaired as I lost the stone in the garden years ago when BIL and wife came to dinner one day and I had made a steak and kidney pudding and thought maybe some one had eaten it. Any the ring went in my jewery box for years till one day oh was fiddleing with the side of the road up the garden and shifting earth and he came down and gave me the stone and I have been meaning to get it fixed ever since. The jewers is not open every day and other times I have been into town he's been closed. He has just taken another shop over in the town opposit the original one. When a friend owned the jewelers thats where my engagement ring came from. Whist in there I saw a brooch the same as the one I bought in Sudbury years ago for £5 up for sale for £18 so that pleased me. Its Sycamore seeds.

Now I seem to be having trouble sending you all pictures now and Gwyn dos'nt get them at all. My pc has changed the way I send pics and BIL sowed me how to do it a long way which is what I have been having to do. So if anyone got all the pictures could you please forward them to Gwyn. I ahve tried send them by forwarding the email again and by emailing her on her own but each time it has come back as failed.

I'm posting this before I lose the lot.

When I took the bra in the lady smiled and just said 'it happens a lot' and apologised for it being on the wrong hanger.

I actually picked up 6 books but it was very busy, difficult to concentrate so I was nnot surprised that I had already read three of the books. So I will go back over the weekend. I have some books to return anyway.

Yes I was wondering where Mandy was. It must have been upsetting to not get her problem looked at, that is the trouble with having to have a locum who has no history of the case. Mandy's normal doctor would have been aware that there was a possibility of medication needing changing.

That garden centre doesn't sound very pleasant Annx. I can't think anyone would be tempted to browse and spend time there. Your dreams don't sound very nice either. I gather that "toilet" dreams are quite common and might mean a need to set boundaries and look after your privacy or might mean you are a bit overwhelmed at the moment. Whatever the meaning, your brain is processing your needs or worries. The most sensible thing I read about dreams is that there is no "one size fits all" interpretation. At least your car seems to be starting for you so that's a good thing.

Getting home with the wrong size bra must have been annoying AnnG. Things do get put on the wrong hangers but when you are in a hurry, as you were, you don't always think to check the garment itself. Did you pick up any books at the free bookstall? I grabbed Stephen Fry's "Mythos" from a free bookshelf at the local centre as I thought his interpretation of various Greek myths would interest me, thought it seemed familiar and discovered I had already got it on my kindle! My memory is definitely getting worse.

I hope Mandy is OK as she didn't post yesterday or so far today. Perhaps she is just busy.

I decided that I would spend today on all those odd little jobs that get put off when I'm busy and I've managed to get through quite a lot. There hasn't been any sun or even a patch of blue sky so I haven't been tempted to get into the garden even though there is plenty of tidying up needed out there. Against the back fence we have 2 different varieties of choisya and the one I like best looks as though it is dying so we need to see if we can rescue it.

TV man came this morning and has got us up and running again. There seemed to be a few things gone wrong but he sorted it all out (I still think OH had been fiddling with the remotes and knocked something out of gear. He's a great one for fiddling ;-) ). The chap was here quite a while and I was thinking it might be a bit pricey but he only charged us £45. Like a lot of small traders he no longer takes cheques or credit cards because the bank charges are so high. We never have much cash around as we hardly use it but on this occasion OH did have enough to pay him cash. However, he would have been happy with a bank transfer and he did give us a proper invoice.

I've got a couple of other small jobs I want to do before thinking about the next meal so I'd better get on. Enjoy the rest of the day.