General Chat

Evening All,

It's been sunny and quite warm here this morning but the wind got up again later. I pottered up the garden to the greenhouse and checked my Geraniums and gave them a dribble of water and they look fine up to now. I checked the Aconites on the way back, a patch about 2 foot diameter and just 1 flower has opened, but maybe there are buds under the leaves. I hurried past the weeds as we can't start on those just yet!

I was surprised OH tested negative today which is good, so he is hoping for the same tomorrow. We have both felt better in ourselves apart from tiredness, but I have a nice red nose with the cold, but am glad the throat's much better and I'm not croaking now. Brain fog has set in though and I forgot a password I use almost every day this morning, then it just popped back into my head! It's a shame it was OH's birthday, but we can enjoy the F&C he fancies next week! He has 6 new books to keep him happy, so he smiled when I asked when we will be renting external storage! He's also got CDs and some clothes. He's doing a zoom meeting now and one of the people said he has it for a second time, but not as badly the second time.

Thank you Gwyn, and yes that's right and now furlough has stopped people won't want to be off work, especially if symptoms aren't bad. Unless they roll these boosters out faster I think there will be more risk again. We will carry on with masks and other precautions in shops etc, but it seems OH's work in the schools is our biggest risk now they aren't wearing masks. He does sit well away from everyone, as people who are too lazy to print documents off for themselves think they can help themselves to his if they are handy and he needs to refer to them as he does his notes.

I do like tulips too and do have some of the short, alpine ones in the front garden, but the Squirrels or mice get any round the back and in pots so I gave up on them in the end.

Oh Mel I expect those plates did think they were getting a second firing. :-0 That's men for you, they don't think when they do these things and him a fireman too! :-S So the project has a lot of pieces???? Still no wiser! It's good your back is better. Did you get a new mattress topper?

Yes, we are just looking at all the jobs Vera and waiting a few days! At least you have a process started with the physio now with an appointment that will follow so hopefully they will narrow down what the problem is. I hadn't heard of that condition either. So the poor chiropodist is stuck at the moment and can't advise you just yet. I hope she gets sorted soon......before you have Yeti feet with long nails

It sounds like the group enjoyed their noisy chat at your AnnG and it was good that it was a bit warmer today! Well, I'm puzzled about where Toby fits in! I don't see how that accident could have been set up either. It was a bit convenient to help them blackmail Bram to get the couple's money and proceeds from the house? That signature needed examining by an expert too. I don't see why Toby needed to form a relationship with her either, although he was too keen to see the whole of their house. I'm not sure about that neighbour either! It should be good to see what happens next.

I’m glad your meeting went well AnnG and it was warm enough to have doors and windows open. It’s been about 12 degrees here as well and sunny on and off. I unzipped our mini greenhouse and took the fleece off my pots of agapanthus to give them some air but I will get OH to cover them up overnight for me.

My back seems a little better today but I am being very careful. It could be 2 or 3 weeks before my physio appointment comes up. It’ll be s..d’s law that, having been in agony for nearly 3 months, I’ll be nearly recovered by then.

It would have been a good day for gardening but I can’t manage that yet. However I did check on cuttings and overwintering plants in the conservatory and on some indoor plants; tidied them up and watered where necessary. I also did some odd jobs around the house and prepared tonight’s meal which will be shepherd’s pie. OH cleaned all the bathrooms/loos for me.

OH has an appointment with the doctor in the morning and I might go into town with him. I need some birthday cards and other bits and bobs. With the price of fuel at the moment I try to fit as much as possible into one trip.

I hope you and your OH aren’t feeling too poorly Ann. Hopefully you will soon be testing negative.

quiet on here today. Hope Ann and OH are ok and getting better now. Had the meeting with all doors and windows wide open luckily, although cloudy it qas 12 degrees here so not too cold. Gosh 11 people can make a lot of noise, especially when they all start having private conversations in their little groups. Anyway all gone now, chairs put back and cups in the dishwasher. Meeting went quite well.

Mandy I posted the parcel this morning first class.

I love purple tulips Gwyn I hope they are as good as last year.

The sun came out here at 11.55am and I got on well this morning. Just have to wash up as I have been putting it off. Going back in there again now.

A beautiful start to the morning here. The sun was streaming down so brightly, when I was making a drink just before 7.30 a.m.
It's a bit more cloudy now, but still dry with large patches of lovely blue sky.

The tulips I saw locally were full size, of average height and deep pink in colour.
They were in a flower bed right under the south east facing window of a bungalow, so perhaps quite sheltered.?
Like Vera, we have tulips in pots near our front door. They are in their 2nd year and are just showing their colour, - a really rich, dark purple. They did well last year, so we are looking forward to watching them bloom again.
They were from a pack that we just picked up in Aldi, when we were doing a shop and we were quite impressed by the show of flowers we got from them.

Morning Anng and all,

Glad its brighter where you are Anng for your meeting as its dull dreary and wet here. Not raining now but it has been. It dos'nt look as if there's much wind out today though. I hav'nt been out yet.

If its not windy later I think I will clean the big girls out. I did give them some clean shavings in the nest box yesterday so we'll see apart from that a little HW and back to my crafting.

Last out and first in again!!! good morning all, fairly bright again and 9 degrees so a bit warmer which will be good if it stays that way as it is all doors and windows open this afternoon. Hopefully now we are into gardening season the meeting will go well. this sort of meeting does rather rely on people having questions they neem answering. (often you don't know that you actually needed the answer to that question as well). Usually somebody who knows the answer as well.

Ann well One more episode to go. my brain hurts tonight. I am confused by Toby. When in present day rather than flash back, is it Toby that is the male half of the couple? If so why didn’t she recognise him. Maybe I have missed something there. Shall look forward to the ending.

Vera looks like you are making progress. I looked that up when Tawney mentioned it and thought if you. I also thought if Tiny and his left leg that kept giving out. But I shall never know the answer to that now.

Mel you were lucky the plates didn’t crack.

I’m sorry to hear that you have the dreaded lurgy now Ann but it’s good that neither of you are feeling too bad. Take it easy for a few days and don’t be tempted to do too much as, like any virus, it is bound to make you feel a bit tired.

I am not happy that the rules about isolating have been downgraded to “advice”. I wonder if it is an attempt to build up herd immunity with a fairly mild variant so that the population will not be hit quite so hard if a less mild variant comes along.

I managed to finish the ironing this morning and this afternoon I had a Sainsbury delivery. There was just one sub and that was an item I had ordered but in a different size. I decided to stop wiping everything and just concentrate on the goods I would be handling in the next couple of days so I was a bit quicker than usual. Even so my back let me know I had been standing for too long. I’ve cooked tonight’s meal and now I am sitting down and doing nothing much till bedtime.

Did you enjoy your F & C Mel? I love my fish but I’m not a big fan of it fried in batter so we seldom have it.

As you know the doctor told me to ring the physiotherapy group but I remembered the trouble we’ve had before getting through to them and I think the phone number they give is for people who aren’t able to use the internet. So I filled in their online form which is quite comprehensive and submitted it. I got an immediate acknowledgement and a couple of hours later I got an email saying I had been triaged - doesn’t that sound painful? They had attached some information sheets and exercise sheets. I have to do the exercises for 2 weeks. Sometime during that period they will send me a link to book an appointment online. The exercises are ones I have been doing anyway but I’ll carry on with them. The information sheets were interesting. They said that scans are seldom useful and a clinical examination will pick out the minority of people who need one. There was also an explanation of the symptoms of Cauda Equina Syndrome which I had never heard of till recently when Tawny mentioned it in a post on the boards. Although he didn’t explain I realise now that was what the doctor was considering when he was asking about bladder, bowels and numbness and prodding me in strange places. It’s reassuring to know that he was being so thorough.

Apparently the chiropodist is leaving the centre where she rents a room for 2 or 3 days a week to set up elsewhere, but she is behindhand because she got Covid and couldn’t check out possible premises or see any patients for a couple of weeks. She finished at the Centre today but doesn’t know how long it will take her to sort out new premises and get set up. She will email me when she is ready to go again.

Gwyn, I also have some miniature tulips in bloom in a trough and some in pots just on the point of opening. It is lovely to see the spring flowers showing their colours; makes you feel more cheerful and more hopeful somehow.

On that happy note I am going to say goodnight, sleep tight, sweet dreams.

It was only amatter of time before you caught it off of oh Ann but I hope you both feel better soon. I could'nt tell you how many pieces there are in my project but there's a lot.

F & C's were'nt as nice as last weeks but they were still nice. I had forgotten to put the grill just on to warm the plates so rang oh to do it for me. When I got home with them the kitchen was full of a burning smell and he told me he had turned the grill up high!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its a grill and top oven. Well it shoudl be well and truely clean now but the kitchen still stinks. The plates were so hot when he got them out and I waited a little while but when I put my fish on the plate it sizzled. My plate was on top of his and instead of putting the plates on the bottom he had moved them to the shelf which is even nearer the element. I reckon they thought they had gone back in the kiln.

That is early for tulips Gwyn but a nice surprise for people to see. We have both stayed as local as we could though this and I think it is so silly to stop restriction but I supose they are thinking of the herd thingy as oh said when it happened.

Backs better today if I stay sat down and don't walk about too much. Had one egg this morning and a broken one and a broken one this afternoon too.

That is very early for tulips Gwynne nice to see them though.

Annx
Glad to read that you are a little better and I hope you will both soon be Covid free.
I find the relaxing of the isolation rules quite worrying.
I haven't been going out much at all, but gradually have started mixing with a few people locally. All my friends choose to still wear masks, when in shops.

Since the pandemic started, I have attended many out patients appointments at 3 different hospitals in our area and was an overnight patient in one of them, when I had to have an operation the week before Christmas.....
All without mishap, but now I could easily be standing next to someone out and about shopping or wherever who is unmasked and infectious :-0

Turned out to be a beautiful afternoon here.
Lovely sunshine and bright blue sky and at last that bitter east wind had ceased.
I was surprised to see a lovely bed of tulips in bloom in a garden in the road next to ours.
That seems a bit early?

I only had a couple of plants in to overwinter. No these are bumble bees all different sizes, I can only assume there is a small gap somegere. I just wish they would find their way out the same way they came in but they just buzz at the glass trying to get through then they exhaust themselves and I have to revive them

Evening all,

It's been nice and sunny today but still very cold out no where near the 13 degrees they said it would be .

Oh dear Ann you were bound to get it really once its in the house but its good your both feeling a little better today .
When Lacey brought it home from school it was only a matter of time before they all got it ,thank goodness we've all been jabbed so it's not so bad when you get it now .

Anng you were up early is it the lighter mornings waking you .
Strange about the bumble bees could they have been in any of the plants that you've brought in for the winter with it getting warmer and the sun through the glass they are waking up .

Mel hope you both enjoy your F&C tonight and you get them quick like last week with no hanging about .

That Meena story is hanging on ,she's locked up but still causing trouble.

How is your back today Vera, hope you managed to get through to the physio people .

Yes, exactly AnnG, it was always the case that there will be days of infectiousness before there's enough virus to show on the test. I had my first of 2 negative tests the morning after I had a scratchy throat the night before. OH's symptoms were different at the start, more like a head cold. We wouldn't be breaking any rules if we went out and about anywhere with covid now and I expect a lot are doing. (we won't though.) OH says 13 teachers in his schools have it now.

Yes I agree the Meena story is dragging on a bit too long now.

I wonder if Vera found out what's happening with her chiropodist and replacement.

So that really goes to show that you must have tested negative when you actually had the infection.. so, as you tested negative you could have gone out into the shops when you were really positive. Or did you not test when you had lost your voice? Hope you both feel better soon anyway.

Do you think the Meena story is dragging out too long and getting a bit unbelievable.

Afternoon on this sunny breezy day......well it is here anyway.

Just lost my post when I noticed a bit of my paint on the keypad on the laptop and flicked it off!

Both tested positive today, but we both feel better than we did. I had no voice again this morning but as long as my bad throat doesn't develop into the nasty chest infections I can get and have to battle to get antibiotics for, I can put up with it. I must have caught it off OH before we knew he had it and took precautions. We also forgot he went to a school meeting last Thursday and the Head teacher has emailed today to say she has covid so he could have caught it there as well. Flipping lifting of restrictions!!

Mandy I'm not the only one that loses the plot when they jump forwards and backwards in programmes then! I hate it when they do it early on before I've even got a grasp of what's going on. Yes I miss Frank, Gill and Island posting too.

AnnG I have watched Emmerdale since it was Emmerdale Farm! I just rely on the recordings for it lately as it is all over the place. So many twists and turns in the Meena story. Surely she would be in trouble for not telling the whole truth (as she wants people to think) in the first place. Mind you, there were a lot of 'no comments' when she was interviewed.

Mel enjoy your F&C. Yum yum! We had decided to have them for OH's birthday tomorrow, but our appetites are NIL at the moment, so they will have to be a treat for another day. How many parts are there to your project.............or are you not telling!

I need to photograph a special delivery, to be signed for, letter envelope for OH that was delivered to a wrong address despite the address typed on the envelope being correct! The wrong recipient had written on the front that it was not their address (which they wrote on the envelope as well). I knew this would happen when they named 2 roads the same as ours in another village and the city. Are the Royal Mail still obtaining signatures since covid, as the postman just left the letter outside the front door for me? Special delivery with a signature needed costs more doesn't it.

Fed the chickens fed the wild birds fiddled about and now I am going in the craft room.

Morning Anng and all,

Bright then dark here this morning and I think its been raining too. Its 7 degrees and mostly clear by the pc.

Oh has ordered F & C's for tonight so I only have to go and fetch it so no cooking. Am hoping to get on today but should do some hoovering first of the carpets and a suck up of spider webs as when the suns shines I can see them.