General Chat

Morning all and evening Kim,

Dull and dreary here today with a little rain in the air now and then..

Poor Ian it must have been quite frightening to be so ill like that I do hope he gets better soon Liz. Please give him my regards.

Fiona the pictures look great displayed up there where you can see them as you research.

Gill I wish you could take the car to my little man down the road to us. He sorted my emissions out on my old car and did'nt charge me anything like th e amount you have been quoted.

Ann pleased your eyes are seeming much better now. It is not nice when something happens to your eyes. We don't realize just how much we depend on them for everything until something goes wrong.

I could'nt sleep again last night. Tried not to toss and turn and even had a cuddle from oh after he had been to the loo. Don't know what time I went off eventually but I think it was after oh got up and I turned over and stretched out on his side of the bed.

I think it is about time I threw away my birthday roses. They have lasted three weeks and are now looking like something out of Miss Haversham's house. The only one that still looks good is the one that was broken off when they arrived and I put it in an egg cup on the windowsill above the sink.

Jane hope Hannah's cold clears up for her meal out on Saturday and she can enjoy the lovely flavours.

Thank you all for your good wishes, the patient is progressing really well now, so I think we're out of the wood!!
Clouding over this afternoon so no gardening! I shall do Merlin's field and clean his water trough, then think about supper!
I've heard that Llama's make excellent guards for sheep, and can be quite alarming for a would be burglar! A bit like Geese!! I remember when I first worked in care in the community, I was sent to a farm that had geese, and they were really frightening. The old lady I was visiting insisted on letting them roam free to attack 'robbers' as she put it!! I could write a book about my time on the 'bunny run', My time in the Office was nothing like as interesting, but the money was a lot better!!

I'm back. Still numb and I can't have a drink yet........boo hoo. I did'nt finish my tea after our lunch and I really need one. :-( No pain (yet) and it is still bleeding a bit.

A farmer on the way to Bideford has three llamas in his field with all the chicken houses where he raises those big white chickens for the table. He is always moving their tent like houses around the field. He keeps them all very well and sometimes the llama's are in with cattle.

Oh dear Mel, I hope your mouth doesn't feel too sore when it comes round. Is that the end of your extractions? Let's hope your tooth saga is over and done with very soon now as it has been an unpleasant marathon for you!

It now feels very cold so I have a scarf round my mouth........ Oh just came out and laughed at me.

I bet you are glad that is over now Mel.If I were you I would take a couple of painkillers just before all the numbness goes.Don't forget NOT to rinse out tonight .You don't want to dislodge any nice clotting.

The film was OK this afternoon but I wouldn't rave over it.I must been sitting awkwardly in there as I have chronic backache now :-S.Fitz drove....I have to admit I was hanging onto my seat.I wish he wouldn't drive so fast ,and also wish he concentrated more instead of talking all the time and waving his arms about :-S :-S :-S

I feel like I could sleep for England..I don't know why as I slept well last night(maybe too well)

Evening all,

Spent a good few hours in the greenhouse/garden today. Have set onions lettuce seed, carrot seeds, parsnips. Potato's chitting away, so they will be ready by next week. I also have to put Garlic in, and pot up my runner beans. I have also potted up Broad bean seeds. I think they will survive better going in the ground as plants.

Nice piece of Lamb tonight roasties, parsnips, peas, carrots and cabbage.

Hope your mouth isn't to sore tonight Mel.

Jane I am getting like you, I hate Ros driving to fast. But all she says is I AM THE DRIVER.!!!!

Glad Ian is improved Liz, worrying time, when things like that happen.

I see that Copper has admitted he gave the order to open the gate at the Hillsborough disaster. What sort of person is he. To keep quiet about it for TWENTY SIX YEARS. Hope he can live with himself.

I have donated the two flowering cherry trees that I bought for Sid's memory for his wife to put in the garden, to the Village Spinney down by the canal. I will get Tony to paint a couple of "IN MEMORY OF SID BARKER" signs.. Then Alan and his wife can put them in place when they plant them. I have asked so many times for Valerie to take them, and still they sit on the patio. They are all in bud now, so hopefully will flower later in the year.

Off down the PUB for the Chelsea match, so see you later.

I didn't see my card on Shirl's photo, so hope she got it !!!

Evening All,

I see Frank has been assisting the HEAD gardener this morning. :-) All I've done gardenwise is go and buy some white Violas for the front wall pots. They were looking very straggly so replanting them is a job to do tomorrow. That was a good idea for the Cherry trees , they will look beautiful in flower in the Spinney. I can't see my card on Shirl's photo either, maybe our cards were too big to fit on her table!! :-D

We went to get the slates for the birdboxes after lunch and got halfway there and discovered neither of us could remember the name of the place or even exacty where it was!! :-S I thought OH would remember but no, he just had a vague idea. Anyway we drove up and down a few streets and managed to find it in the end. They had some old slates around the back in different sizes and I sorted half a dozen. They only cost 50p each which was cheaper than I expected so that's another job to do as well now.

Oh Jane, it's awful sitting next to someone driving fast!! My dad was awful, went everywhere with his foot down to the boards, you'd leave your seat over hump back bridges. OH rarely goes fast, but I must admit I tell him about waving his arms about as he talks and he does talk a lot!! :-S I hated it when he did 70 on motorways with one hand at the bottom of the wheel and the other waving about. He's better now than he was, maybe because I said I'd do it myself and see how he liked being the passenger........... and that I would go on holiday in my own car without him if he kept doing it!! lol. They don't think about tyres blowing out and controlling the car one-handed do they.

Fiona, you have grouped the photos beautifully and made a real feature of them!! It all looks very orderly and smart. :-)

Gill, I hope that run to your mum's is far enough to burn off any carbon deposits as I think they reckon 10-15 miles to do it and get it at it's best for the emissions test. I hope it passes for you and will keep my fingers crossed. You have had a run of bad luck this year as you say and need something to go right for you now.

It's good you've done at the dentist's today Mel and I hope your mouth feels more back to normal now. I had a chuckle at your 'Miss Haversham' roses...... they would fit nicely in our dusty study at the moment!! There are Llamas with flocks of sheep around here too and there is a Llama farm near Loughborough that one of my beading friends went to where you take them for a walk!!

Iv'e taken a pic of my roses!!

Morning all

Dull and windy here today. We got a bit of rain yesterday so I'm glad OH managed to get the grass cut before we went out.

We took the car back to the garage yesterday but they were busy so we've had to book it in for Tuesday for the emissions test. The man at the garage said that doing another long journey might not work and that it might be the exhaust or maybe something worse. It's only a cheap car so the repairs might cost more than the car is actually worth, in which case we won't bother getting it repaired. It'll feel strange not having a car after having one for over 30 years but until we can afford a new one that's the way it will be.

I hope your mouth is better today Mel and you can have a nice cuppa this morning. Thanks for the further info for my tree I've PM's you.

I'm off to my mum's today and then we might take a trip out to Chester in the hope the journey might sort out the emissions problem. Chester is about 10-12 miles away from where we live so the round trip might do the job. Thanks for your advice Ann about needing a longer run in the car before the test. <3.

I've got to be at my mum's in 20 minutes so I'd better go
BBL

Morning you lazy lot, Evening Kim,

Looks like being a fair day here, with promise of rain from the West later.

Ros got up this morning with a stiff HIP. She can hardly walk. As she sat down she got cramp in the other foot. I did laugh but she didn't find it funny. :-( :-( :-(

Hope the car gets sorted Gill. It must be hard to be without one. How close are the bus's and shops.??

Didn't get your thing in the post yesterday Jane, will try today, if madam can drive.

I have found a couple of blank plaques on Ebay this morning, and Tony says he will do the message, then they can go with the trees.

Will try to spend an hour in the garden later. But I must admit it gets harder each year !!!!

Morning/Evening All

Gill I do hope that it is just a simple problem to sort with the car emissions and can be sorted without too much money coming out of your pockets.Nothing is cheap when it comes to car trouble is it :-S.

Mel how is your mouth? I hope you managed a good sleep and that the bleeding stopped.I bet the gaps feel strange now.

Nice morning here with hazy kind of sun.Chris has just got in with loads of compost and a haircut.So I am guessing there will be work going on in the garden later.

Frank the Flowering Cherries will look a beautiful sight when they come into flower.The Spinney will look very pretty. :-Dand what a great memorial for Sid <3

I'm going to have a coffee and then take some bags to the Charity Clothes Bin(the animal one today) so BBL

Morning all and evening Kim,

Dullish mornng but it looks dry at the moment. Oh said he had 11 female pheasents and Phil the male down here for their corn this morning so they are gathering...........so now I am feeding 12 pheasents and 17 chickens. I only have 7 big girls now and 8 bantam hens and two cockrels.

My mouth is fine today and no bleeding in the night.

Great pics from Shirl this morning of her at the frozen falls.

Weren't those pics great Mel...It can't be that often that Niagara Falls freezes !!!!!
Shirt looked like she was having a fantastic time :-D :-D What a Birthday too remember.

Glad all is ok in the mouth department today Mel :-D

Just had a call from our decorator to say he will be here at 8.30 onMonday ........

I thought it was the following week he was coming!!!!..So now I really must decide on the colour scheme.No more putting it off.
I bought a Bird Box this morning it is now up :-D

Pleased you got another bird box Jane. Did Chris put it up for you straight away?

I am now starting to look for hedgehogs in the garden at night. They should be about quite soon now so must be vigulent (sp)

Afternoon all,

It's been another nice sunny day ,we've been out to the carvery for our lunch which was nice then we called at a garden centre and bought a metal obelisk for one of the roses in the front garden .

Hope your mouth is healing ok now Mel and the gums not too sore , you'll have to careful what you eat for a day or two .

Glad to hear that your OH is now feeling better and on the mend Liz, bit of a scare for you both.

Can some one send me the photo's of Shirl please i'd like to see them .

Oh crikey Jane you will have to pick a colour quick if he coming next week ,do you have to get the paint or just pick the colour for him to get ?

No sign of any birds in the bird box yet ,we usually have a look out there while we have our breakfast .

Yes Mel he did.It is on the big pine tree down the garden .Hope it is in the right place.Time will tell :-D
I have a headache now trying to think about paint colours.I was wanting to go for a really different colour below the dado but think now we will still to something very similar to what we have now.It's too complicated lol I just wish I had a good eye for colours.I have just been going around in circles .One change will be though to get the window sill changed fro the dark brown it is now to the same as the rest of the woodwork..So there I have made a monumental decision :-D :-D

I also bought a little Roosting Pouch (wicker) and have put that on a branch in amongst other branches not far from the window feeder.So I am hoping I may see some activity there at some point.

Mel how nice to have so many Pheasants :-D.I had the big male one here again this morning.I think he just pops in for a feed now and then goes back next door.The Squirrel was looking in at me again just now on the window sill :-S.So I quickly shooed it off much to its disgust.

How is Ian today Liz? Improving now I hope :-D

Oh how sad I just heard Terry Pratchett has died :-(..(well I think that is what I heard).
I better double check on that.

Pics sent to you Mandy

Yes Terry Pratchett has died.He was only 66.I thought he was older

Edit..Mandy the decorator will buy everything..Just need to get the deciding head on