General Chat

Morning girls,

brightish here today and 12 degrees and pc says mostly sunny. It did rain a lot here last night and all the trees are greening up over this last week.

Don't know yet if I am at Stu's tonight or tomorrow.

So please Mandy has posted and they are both ok. Looking forward to see the tranformation of the cupboard to p[otting bench. What a good idea. It will be great for you to do all your plants on.

Won't G wear a nice thick cardi Annx it would be better than putting the heatin g on and cooking you and save on the heating bill. They do have some of those schools and offices really hot though.

Anng I hope you get Jake there today to do the rest of your tidying up so you can get straighter with the garden.

Morning all,

Yes I'm OK we had a busy day yesterday and it was late by the time I came on here ,did a post and lost the lot so I gave up .

Anng hope it drys out so Jake can get your jobs done, it's now getting sunny here after a little rain overnight ,we didn't have much as the ground is just wet there's no puddles.

Mel hope your hip is a little better today it was a good idea to rest it yesterday you seem to do long days in the garden but you do have a large garden to keep you busy.

Ann did you see the Chapel programme ,didn't think they would pick that colour for the bedroom ,won't say as you might not have watched it ,that was ths last ons ,wonder if there will be another series.
Next week there's a new Our Farm Next Door with the Owens it's on Tuesday on more 4 at nine o'clock.
Colin is going to make me a potting table well cupboard really as there was an old low cupboard that son brought over from the school last year it's been covered over for the winter behind the fence in front of thd shed so he's going to cut it up today ,I think its about six foot long and very heavy I don't know how son brought if round on the sack barrow , Colin's going to cut a piece off one end and raise it up a bit so I don't havs to bend and I can store all my little pots underneath .

I have a towel wash in so I hope it stays dry .

Hope Vera's OK

Good Morning AnnG and Everyone,

We seemed to have had plenty of rain in the night as everywhere looks wet, but it has stopped now. I hope Jake can get on with the work today for you AnnG.

OH has been for his blood test and we are taking his car in for the update on it soon in the city. I hope we can collect it before the rush hour. I was hoping to do some HW first, but OH feels the cold more now and the heating is much too hot now for me to do anything but sit here. I can't understand why he won't wear anything over his thin shirt, but he's such a creature of habit, having spent decades in overheated offices wearing a shirt without anything over it.

I started the food order, but is anyone else finding more items are out of stock lately. Asda have 5 pages of deodorants and antiperspirants, but don't even have the one I use listed now since I last ordered it.

Yes I hope Mandy and Vera are just busy.

Good morning all. Hope Mandy and Vera are OK.

Slept well last night so ready to get up at 0730. Alexa says 8 degrees and light rain and it is certainly very grey out there. It will be annoying if Jake is rained off this afternoon, or no surprise given the forecast for this week.

At the moment it is looking like a day for indoor jobs, not sure what just yet but I always seem to find something to do.

And Vera

Where's our Mandy today?

Raining a little this evening now but the garden will love it and so will the fish.

Cook a lot of mince, carrot and onions so I am having that with mash tonight and peas cos I can't be bothered to do the broccoli.

Not done any gardening today as my right hip is telling me to rest.

Phew it was hot outside but I managed a bit of trimming back and a few feet of weeding the smaller island bed. OH came out and got a few bigger weeds out of the bottom bed. We seem to be making good headway with this little and often approach without suffering much pain and the rain had softened the ground which really helped a lot. Plenty more to do though.

I suppose there tends to be less doorknockers on modern houses with all of these video door bells too AnnG. There's a nice doorknocker on one of the terraced houses near the station here in the shape of a bee, but I think it's a modern one.

My recent blood sugar test is back and normal but I need to keep trying to lose weight as it is at the top end of normal. I do wish my knees would let me do a good walk, but they might improve if I was lighter.......it's a vicious circle! OH has another blood test on Wednesday at 7.15am! I've never known the nurses start that early before, but at least parking will be easy.

Ann I have added your suggestion to the list. The door knobs one for me was not that good as I am so limited with where to look when I am not away in the time frame for taking photos. I was limited to around here and Gloucester . Managed to get 4 but one was mine and one was Cynths. However some people did get some really good ones.

Just as I put the washing on the line this morning it rained. It was only a short sharp shower and then it stopped but it is still a bit cloudy now. Washing has nearly dried though so thats good.

Anng that like when my plumber came to do the shower unit he said he would have to go and get something and I knew where oh had one and he was surprised that I knew what he was talking about. Oh always had spares of thing he may need to replace in the future.

Afternoon All,

Slept like a log last night after taking a paracetamol and lay in this morning. It's sunny now but rained a lot during the night and more due later. OH had to go and fetch our garden bin from next door, before our neighbour took it in. Neither he nor the bin men seem to look at the large plastic red number on both the side and front of the bin.

I'm all to pot with what day it is this week. With OH going to footie yesterday it feels like it should be Sunday today. We ordered a normal size carvery between us for lunch, but just had one roast potato each and threw the third away with half of the mashed potato. We noticed how the price had doubled since the pandemic though.

OH has had 4 MOT reminders, one from where he bought his old car, one from where he bought his current car and two from where it was first serviced. Even better this morning he had an appointment reminder for his hospital dental appointment on Friday this week, which is an appointment the hospital had cancelled last week and rebooked in May! :-S

AnnG it sounds like Oliver got a few of those annoying little jobs done out of the way for you. It's good to be able to surprise young men with knowledge they don't expect us older women to have isn't it. No wonder he was shocked to hear you weren't in your 60s. His face must have been a picture when you told him your age. Good news that the boiler is good as well. I thought of an idea for your photography group last night, but expect they may have already done it......OUTDOOR CLOCKS!

Mel I hope you had some breaks or seated jobs in your 2 hour stint in the garden or you will put us all to shame! I think I'd get indigestion if I ate that late, unless it was a small snack.

I'm nipping outside now to spend a few minutes pulling weeds before the next rain comes.

It is a bit like having your car mot'd. Hold your breath time.
Boiler passed No problems, working well. He still doesn't know why it had that hissy fir last year.
Oliver also changed both outside taps and tightened a jubilee clip on the hose down from the bathroom so I have two working taps and the one from the water butt is running much faster now. He also noticed a problem with the pipe down to the butt, it was not connected properly so he fixed that (no charge) He was working over an hour £130. Including £10 each for the new taps.
He remarked he was impressed at how I knew what he was talking about and knew what needed doing. He said (quote) 'a lot of women in their 60s don't have a clue' He was genuinely shocked when I told him how old I was.

He should hear me groaning to bend down to pull up weeds.

I have just walked down to Irene's with some stuff. Time to have another look and fill a couple more bags.

Can't get into anything till the shopping comes. He's one stop away but that could be miles away.

Had my shower anyway.

Morning girls,

Pc is telling me to expect 4 rainy days from today and its 11 degrees and it says mostly cloudy. There is sunshine out there this morning and I am hoping its going to stay all day.

Shopping comes today so I need to get in the shower early.

Good morning all bright this morning with a bit of sun 6 degrees so colder than yesterday but no rain as far as I can tell.

Boiler service this morning and hopefully a look at two outside taps. Other than that no plans slept well until 4.30 then just dozed.

Mel you do eat late in the evening. I wouldn't sleep if I ate that late these days.

Had a good 2 hours in the garden cutting stuff down. BIL left at 8pm put all the mower back together and tried it and the sweeper did'nt work so he's gone now to have some dinner and I am about to do mine now too.

BIL popped in and he's up the top fiddleing with his mower. Probably putting the shaft back on he broke. I am just going to feed the chickens their corn and do a bit of potting.

Afternoon All,

A wet day here up to now with a few dry spells, but hopefully it's loosening the weed roots ready to pull out once it's dry again.

That's a shame you were all ready for more work to be done in the garden AnnG, but it's been cancelled till Wednesday. Still, it won't be long to wait, but does throw out any plans you might have made if you'd known sooner.

OH managed to put my plans out this morning by coming to the shop with me as there were things he needed. I would have gone first thing, but we were later than I planned as he has to wait half aan hour between some tablets and has to then have breakfast after the last one. I was silly enough to mention that we should go to the new Jenno's coffee house that is near my hairdressers and Santander HQ and the old mental hospital Chapel sometime and he decided we should go there and then as it was on the way back. The building used to be Santander's canteen, but has been nicely renovated and I think extended, but it was very noisy and OH had to queue for a while. Also what we had would have been £7 less at Costa! By the time we got home the morning had gone.

OH and his pal have gone to footie and OH has more books to swap with him, so that seems to be working well as they both like the same sort of books! He gave his friend a tip that might be useful to any of you or your families if you get any books from Waterstones. Surprisingly, it is actually cheaper to order books from them online to be collected at the shop, than just go in the shop to buy them.

I remember having some red shoes to match a coat when I was little and mum telling me off for scuffing them! I only used to have one pair of brown sandals once I was at senior school. I was aged 15 before I had a another pair of different sandals for when I went on a school canoeing trip. I'd forgotten we only changed to our summer dresses and blazers for school after easter

Well, the washer has finished now and I think I will sort the bottom of the last wardrobe, or make a start as it means bending! I need to email Fitz too.

I think it is a do nothing afternoon now. dusted downstairs had a quick clean of the bathroom and cloakroom then cleaned all the inside upstairs windows (5 rooms.) arms ache now. good job it is raining so the garden can rest.

Some sunshine for us today, after a rather dull and sometimes damp Easter day.
I'm glad you had a chance to enjoy your daughter's company Vera and now can look forward to special time with both your children.- how lovely.
You all seem to have been busy with your gardens.

I can remember having Clark's sandals too.- serviceable brown mostly.
Towards the end of the summer, some children could be seen out playing in sandals which had had the top leather cut out near the toes, so that they would last the child a few more weeks until winter shoes were bought for the new Autumn term.

At secondary school, we had to wear plain black or brown outdoor shoes, - I had boring lace-ups, then change as soon as we got to school into Clarks type sandals for indoors and we kept our outdoor shoes in a liitle wire cage in the cloakroom, under our coat peg.
No fancy fashions allowed for us. It was a grey long gaberdine for winter and a dark blue blazer with school badge on the pocket for summer.
My coat and blazer were bought a bit bigger to last. I was fairly tall starting secondary school, but then didn't grow so much over the next years, so I think mine did infact last until I left school :-0