General Chat

Afternoon all,

We've had a little sun and it's been dry but it's not very warm so we've just lit the fire .

Mel we bought one of those lights that go under the wall units from Lidls a few years ago I use it quite a bit but ours plugs into a socket ,the ones your talking about sound better as there would be no wires , they are very handy on a dull day , I did say to Colin we could do with some the other side of the kitchen .

Nothing planned here ,I just feel so lazy so I'll sit and knit I think , Katie took the little rabbit home the other day and I realised I hadn't taken a photo of it , I have made a few bits to go with the rabbits, a handbag, a backpack ,a suitcase and some carrots ,I need to think what else a can do .

Morning all,

Slept well but had a funny dream that I can't really remember this morning.

So where did February go? That makes it 10 months to Christmas!! Pinch and a ounch and all that. Its 11 degrees and the suns out at the moment but it feels cold. I have put a cosy cardi on as I wnat to save the oil incase we get a really cold snap with snow as we've had snow in March before a few times since I have lived here.

Now Annx asked if the light I bought was bright, you can get them in three brightnesses bright white, warm white and white whatever that is.

Anng you asked about magnet. The back of the light is metal and you stick pads on the metal put the other pads on the magnet pads andstick it up wherever you want the light. They are rechargable and the charge is supposed to last a year. When I got oit out of the box and plugged it in a red light on one end came on. Before you put it where you want it you have to set it to whichever mode you want by pressing the swith so manyimes before it will work. I think it was four times for the motion sensor bit which is whar I wanted. Also I bought the warm white one but the other one I have ordered is the bright light one.

Take a look online and see what you think. You can get them in a lot of different lengths.

Good morning all. 7 degrees, dull light cloud but dry so far. Nothing planned so far so will see what comes up.

Ann that must have not been a pleasant drive out with all the floods, shunting traffic into the least flooded roads doesn't help either. My wardobe light is not really in the right place eith, it helps if I put the overhead bedroom light on but I still have a problem with seeing colours of tops on the lower rail.
Hope you can get the plastic chain sorted, that could be a nuisance if you can't

Mel how do those light fix to the wall? I thought you mentioned magnets but that would only work if attched to metal.
Hope BiL managed to get his photos of the long eared owl, if so, hopefully we can see one.

Vera, I can imagine that you would have been rather aggravated to meet yet another problem with the pharmacy even after sorting it with the surgery. Sometimes it is hard to see who is in charge with our prescriptions and it seems that often it is the pharmacy and not the doctors.

My head and eyes have cleared now and I am fine but very tired. The bad head kept me awake most of the night and it's been another hectic day and I have only just managed to get on the thread so won't be posting much again. I have read all your recent threads and apologise for not commenting a bit more.

It's been a drizzly, showery day with a bitter cold wind and the temperature seems to be dropping quite fast tonight. I dashed out without a scarf or gloves this morning and came back from town frozen. I got my tablets but only by standing my ground in the pharmacy when they tried to tell me I wasn't due to collect them till 6th March. I will definitely be going to the surgery in the next few days to change my "nominated pharmacy".

Mel, you asked about the car. We are getting it back on Monday. OH feels fine to drive now and seems to be almost back to normal but I will go with him so I can take over the driving if necessary.

I'm now going to take the last 2 tablets of the day, clean my teeth and take my book to bed. Have a good night everyone.

PS Mandy, I paid our annual garden bin bill at the end of November and it had gone up to £69 so ours seems to be the most expensive. We do get a fortnightly collection all year round apart from the 2 weeks over Christmas and New Year.

OH had to avoid floods when he went to footie and our local news shows so many roads impassable with the police trying to find accommodation for rescued horses from flooded fields, two were up to their chests in water. I know the weather is getting more rainy, but the massive housebuilding going on around here is to blame as well. Also every housing development seems to cut down all the trees and hedges (unecessary) and they absorb a lot of water.

I've just finished the food order, but there seems to be a shortage of tinned sardines for OH. He usually has the ones in olive oil but they haven't had them for a month and now they haven't got them in sunflower oil either. Maybe it's just Asda though so we'll have to try elsewhere.

Thanks for mentioning it Mel, as I was looking at some of those lights online recently as they came up on my homepage. That showed them being used under eye level kitchen cabinets. I have a built in wardrobe in a dark bit of a bedroom and the electrician put a light in there, but not where I asked him too and so it doesn't shine on the lower clothes rail with my tops on, so I can't tell the colours without lifting them out. The builder built this wardrobe in and it has double doors with a door frame around and I thought I could attach one of those lights to the side of the door frame. Is yours quite a bright light as I wondered if they would be bright enough?

I meant to tell you this. I bought from Ebay a light that goes under my kitchen cupboard in my dark corner where the kettle is. Its a motion sensor one and was expensive and its rechargable and is fixed up by magnets. I have ordered another one that 50cm as the first one is only 10cm. Now everytime I goto the kettle it lights up and I hav'nt got used to it yet.

You should take a look at them on Ebay butlook through as some are cheaper than others.

LED Motion Sensor Under Cabinet Closet Light USB Rechargeable Kitchen Lamp Strip

I did have an egg but forgot to put that on the post. The eggs come from my friend Loraine who I get my chickens from when she has to have a chuck out. She does eggs for Waitrose thats why I had to have white hens that lay white or blue eggs.

We too must have had a lot of rain in the night as down the side of the chicken run its about two inches deep water where the ditch used to be. It usually drains away quite quickly but its still theretonight when I corned the girls.

BIL did'nt come with me today as he wanted to go and see if he could get some photos of the long eared owl. Not sure where he went, he usually goes over Exmoor and goes with a friend. They own a drone together and both love their photography.

Afternoon All,

Well it certainly rained hard here last night. So much so that when I went to the shop this morning the floods were worse than ever. I had to turn round again by the station as the few cars attempting to pass through the flooded road were only the tall SUV's and they were making high bow waves. Others like me were turning back. I went along the main road and had never seen water all across that road before, but it was shallow. Driving into the village, as expected the road the brook goes under was closed, so I drove another way to the Co-op, turned into that road and saw a sign saying 'road flooded' but carried on slowly thinking the flood was the one further past the shop. I turned a bend by the old folks' bungalows and the road was completely covered in leaves and debris for about 40 feet, but luckily the water had drained back into the brook. On the way home on the main road, the very shallow water across it had three waterfalls in the middle where a drain cover was lifting!

Mel that sounds like a good filling breakfast you had so you don't need a lot more today as you say. I suppose your own eggs are nicer than most. I certainly thought so! It reminds me of the Olympic Breakfast that the Little Chef used to do. We always used to have one when we went on holiday. That had the same without jam or marmalade, but would also have fried potato slices. It had orange juice and tea and you got a free Daily Mail too. Nowadays I wouldn't have the bacon, sausage or hash browns, but probably an extra egg instead! I bet BIL enjoyed his breakfast too and well done winning a raffle prize.

I'm glad you are a bit better today Mandy and gave the hoover a run out. Has Jake been out for a solo run driving yet? :-) Our garden bins have gone up in price too. The small bins from £30 to £33 and the bigger one we have has gone from £41.70 to £48. Our service stops from December till 10th of March though so not a full year. OH decided at the last minute to go to a match a few miles away, but it's raining again now so I expect he may get a soaking. Yes I have one more place to search for the sketch I did and then I may get the paints I need out. I need to finish the food order first though.

I hope you feel better today Vera and manage to get your tablets. It does sound a good idea to use a nearer pharmacy with the problems you have been getting. We changed to one near the little co-op I use, but there is a closer one in this village, but that is harder to park near. We may change in the future though or get our meds delivered.

It sounds like a few jobs have been ticked off the list AnnG! Also some HW done so that is good. I've just added a job to my list as we've noticed the plastic chain with clips on the vertical blinds on the front windows seem to have perished and a few have broken or come unclipped. I need to dig out the warranty and see if it is still valid. I expect last year's heat may have caused it.

Mandy our brown bins have gone up to £60. but as we can have them empied every two weeks all year that is not too bad. The only time they don't get emptied is if it is bad weather over a bank holiday, we might well miss a week then.

I think that will be the last job today. I have on my dressing table figure that has hooks on it for mecklaces and I have just sorted it out and cleaned the silver chains. Anything gold is elsewhere, these tend to be less expensive chains etc. I now have a small box of necklaces for charity I have mainly only kept the ones I can put on over my head, so longer ones. I can't do up the ones that have to be fastened these days (well have not been able to do that for quite a while now.

Afternoon all,

Very grey here now but we did see a little sun at times this morning but we also had a little light rain, the road was very wet when we got up so we must have had some in the night .
I didn't have to bad a night and today I have hoovered through ,son and dil brought the shopping in but didn't stay for coffee as son had to drop Chelsea into work .

Vera I hope your head is a little easier this morning and you've managed to get your tablets .

Anng our garden bin is due for renewal the end of March its gone up to 62.50 ,so 2.50 more this year ,I'm not sure if ours do any labels as this was our first year with ours .

Mel that sounded a tasty breakfast ,was it serve yourself ? Well done winning the raffle , son and dil went to a bingo evening at the school last night ,they never won anything but they did say there was 72 people there and they raised twelve hundred pound for outside equipment for the school so that was good .

Ann I expect OH is off to a football match now the weather is a bit better ,time to get your paints out lol

Breakfast sounds nice mel but I would have to have an egg. I suppose that would be a bit 'coals to newcastle' for you. Good raffle prize. Not going to drink all that on your own I hope!!

I have sort of pottered this morning. written up some notes ready to re-write in an email to the photography group and for the U3a web site, vacuumed and dusted downstairs, Got a card ready for Grandson's birthday next Friday and written name and address in permanent marker on the brown garden bin as the council is not sending out labels this year and the bin men need to check if we have paid.

Back from my big breakfast. I had one hash brown 2 sausages, 2 bacon, half a tomato, beans and mushrooms, two slices of brown bread and butter and on the second slice I had marmalade and a big glass of fresh orange juice. Brought home the bacon fat for Robby and the bread crusts for the girls.

Full to the gills now. Forgot to take my pills with me so I am going to take those now.

I bought three strips of raffle tickets and won a large bottle of Italian Prosseco. BIL had given me the money for the breakfast so I got the raffle prize with the three tickets I bought £1 a strip. Its a very long while since I have had a raffle prize for any of the funtions up at the village hall.

Morning Anng and all,

I hope Mandy feels better tis morni ng and that Vera's head has cleared. It is a good idea to change to the other pharmacy if it nearer and if you don't have to get a bus to get there should the car breakdown again. Any news on when the car is comeing back.

Its the same temp here today as you Anng 6 degrees and we have sunshine and blue sky at present but pc says rainy days ahead and it did rain last night.

For the breakfast thats the choice we have it dos'nt mean we have to have everything.

Better post tis before I lose it.

Good morning all. Slept well last night. 6 degrees here this morning, the temperature does yo-yo up and down lately.Cloudy bright with a small patch of blue sky out there. Nothing planned for today except Tesco delivery 3-4pm. So I shall see what the day (and my ever growing list) brings.

Thanks Mandy for the photo of Jake. Don’t worry about short posts. Just get yourself better we understand.

Mel that is a huge breakfast I don’t think I could eat it all if it was put i. Front of me. Still I hope you and BiL enjoyed it.

What a shame if the lady now feels she has to sell the bungalow. Sad that he died so soon.Ann.

Vera hope the headache and blurry eyes soon improve. A good idea to move to a pharmacy in walking distance might save a few bus trips.

A short post from me tonight again as I have a headache and my eyes are sore so I don't want to be looking at the screen for long. I have managed to read through today's posts which are always interesting.

This morning I decided I needed to gradually work my way through the house and do a bit of a spring clean. I started with my en-suite thinking it would only take me a couple of hours. It took me nearly all day and I still haven't washed the floor. There are a few cupboards which all had to be emptied, washed out and contents sorted and I was very thorough with the rest of the room. It's not as though it was really dirty anyway as I try to keep the kitchen and the bathrooms clean even when the rest of the place is going to pot.

I've tried ringing the pharmacy a couple of times today to check they have got my tabs but no-one answers the phone so I shall have to get the bus into town tomorrow and hope to get them. I chose to have my scripts dealt with by this chemist as it was opposite the place we used to meet our friends for coffee on Thursdays so was convenient but I think I will change to our nearest one which is a 10-15 minute walk from home. It's just a very small offshoot of Boots.

Eyes are going blurry now so I am going to close the computer. Hope you all sleep well and you feel OK when you get up in the morning Mandy.

Its cooked by the village hall committee memberss. You get sausage, egg,toms, bacon, hash brown beans and toast butter and jam or marmalade and as much tea or coffee as you want. Its always good and it means another day of not cooking as I usually have a bowl of cornflakes or cheese and biccies in the evening.

BIL bought pasties in for our lunch and a sausage roll so I shall have that tonight and then some fruit.

I find hygeine doesn't seem to be on OH's minds. Not long after we moved here I caught OH wiping the sink draining board dry with the tea towel!! He puts things in the wrong places in the fridge too. He thinks if raw meat is in a sealed pack it doesn't matter what you place on top, but you have no idea what may have dripped on it or if raw meat has touched the outside. I'll probably get food poisoning if he ever has to look after me.

AnnG I think the bungalow will be up for sale again before very long as her husband passed away just after Christmas. It went up for sale after she had a stroke last year as she intended to move nearer her daughter, then her husband got Leukaemia and they took it off the market. I suspect whoever buys it may take down the lean to additions so that will be noisy. You asked whether my sister's ex kept our family photos because he was unpleasant and the answer is 'yes'. He took everything he could, including things that had been promised to each of us children for decades.

These feelings do sound awful Mandy so it's good it didn't happen today. Hopefully reducing the dose means you will gradually start feeling better. Well, Jake does look pleased holding his pass certificate doesn't he. Thanks for sending a pic. He.s looking tall now isn't he.

Stu's meal sounded nice Mel, but as you say, it was a pity you didn't know you would be having lamb again. I think it's my favourite meat.Do you set up seperate folders to sort your photos into? You could make one your miniature ideas, then you could find those quickly. I have one for painting ideas. The big breakfast tomorrow should be good. Who actually cooks it all?

Afternoon all,

Dreary here and we've had drizzle most of the morning, it doesn't seem that mild but the wind has dropped a bit .

Didn't have a funny turn this morning thank goodness but I felt dreadful when I first got up ,it has eased a bit through the morning and I did manage to get the slow cooker on with a piece of braising steak and veg in .

Sorry I'm not commenting much but by the time I've typed this much I've had enough .

I have a nice photo of Jake with his test certificate I'll send .

Annx I put up what we had for dinner at Stu's just before you posted. Funny thing is, and I did'nt tell him this, but the night before I had a nice lamb shank. Don't have them very often but treated my self this week. If I had known we were going to have lamb last night I could have put it in the freezer for another day.

BIL showed me how to clean up the C disc on the pc and where those things are on the D disc but I think I may have forgotten already........ :-(

The thing is I take pics of things I think I may make in miniature and if I need togo back to it for ref. if Iv'e put it on the D disc will I find it again? Anyway I shall delete some of the photos from years ago as I have all those up to 7. 2. 26. and that will give me more space. I did find today the pics oh took of the Kingfisher that came in the garden.