General Chat

Morning All,

Windy and dull.

Shirl what an experience but glad you enjoyed your visit.

Mandy thanks for the pic of the choccy you bought yesterday.

Hope Ros gets on ok today at the hospital. Thinking of her Frank.

10.11

Morning All
We had problems with the internet late afternoon and evening and it is only just back on.Fingers crossed it stays on.

Anne I knew you would enjoy the film..I think it is usual to wait 2 weeks after the due date and then be induced.That will seem like forever if she has to wait that long.Maybe she will have baby on Mothers Day !

I don't think the film you saw Ann would have been my cup of tea.I forgot to say well done to your OH on getting the job.

I hope Ros gets on at the Woodlands Frank.I think you will still be there as I post this.
Must get dressed.Chris has done the walk today,so I have been slobbing lol

10.27

Shirl .That journey home must have been a bit of a nightmare.How long did it take?How far is Toronto from Ontario?It must have been lovely to see your cousin.It seems like you had a good time (except for the weather and the travel) lol.I'm glad you are now home safe and sound.
I am all ready to wash some floors and haven't got any floor cleaner !! I was hoping not have to go out today.But if I don't get it ,it'll be ages before I get around to it again.

11.08

Morning All

A horrible morning weather wise. Windy and really very wet
glad I don't have to go out.

Jane it's 11.30 and as you put it I'm slobbing too, I will get dress very shortly.
Didn't sleep all that great with coughing , got up took a couple of swigs of Butter*up Syrup then settled down, daughter no 2 says her throats a bit dry this morning so it looks like it it could be going round the family as usual.

Boy can I hear that wind, outside blowing not inside if you please LOL

Frank , hope all goes well for Roz. today

coffee time

12.02pm

Afternoon my lovlies.

We were on the road by 8.00 very heavy traffic going down the A45. Onto A43 an old woman in a little car was going at 30pmh all the way to kettering. Traffic coming the other way was heavy so could'nt overtake.Traffic behind us went on forever.

Everything allright with back. Go back in three months. We stopped off at Morriss### on way back. I had full English. 4 rashers 2 sausages, 2 hash browns, Egg, mushrooms,beand and tomato with a fried slice and a coffee.
Called in to see one of our friend Got home just before noon.

All you SLOBBERS around. I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go.!!!

Will sit and read for a while, then half hour doze in the conservatory. Up to early this morning

Afternoon everyone ,

Really windy here !! hope my washing stays put on the line !!

Frank , hope Ros got on ok at the hospital .

Shirl, sounds as if you had quite a weekend then !! should think the soup was good just what you needed to warm you up !!.

Soon be lunch time , i don't seem to have got much done today, been shopping with DIL again and then called in to hers for coffee , still got my pile of ironing to do .

BBL 12.22

Still got a pile of ironing to do as well Mandy. Think it could be an afternoon for that job as it is so cold amd wet and windy outside. Was going to clean the chickens out but thought they could go another day or two.

13.07

Had early lunch as I was hungry today.

That's all my ironing up to date , well until hubby comes home and strips off ,then it's more washing and ironing !!!

This wind it's really gusty out there ,but we have lovely sunshine ,i have the back door open ,it's not at all cold ,weatherman says it might be 20 degrees on Saturday !!
Next doors Gazebo looks like it may take off , it's really flapping about .

No Sheila!! hope she ok .
Time for a cuppa.

4.07

4.28pm

What a great day, sunshine and very warm. Wind is very strong, but keeping the rain off.

Had a nice afternoon reading the paper and my book. Ros still busy knitting all these chicks and bunnies. She bought 2 dozen cream eggs this morning to start to fill them. Will take a photo and try to send it to you all.
Our Shirl, seems to have had an excitting weekend, all that food and booze,, When will it all end. Glad you got the DVDs Shirl, Can you see them allright.????

Leek pie tonight, with mashed potato. An old Earles Barton dish. That Ros's family have made for generations.

Fiona,try gargling warm water with salt in it,then spit it out and gargle again.Don't swallow or it will make you sick
(sometimes a ready cure for nausea or a hang over)

Jane you did make me laugh - --- how FAR is Toronto from Ontario???
thats like how far is London from England lol ha ha xxxx
Toronto is IN ontario..------The bus was fine just took three hour's -- with no stpo but mine Kingston.----It was just the size of Toronto station, and ALL the people.--Once we had direction all was good.--

Liz very good joke --------Oh you to Frank ----

Dare I come back its been a long time since I threaded .Do hope everyone is ok .I went to Wales and what an adventure I had up there.

Jessica was in the process of moving to Rose cottage. Two days after she moved in a gentleman called Mr Reece Jones phoned Jessica and said I am the couson of the previous owners and I have left my bike in your shed and although it is very old I would like to have it for my son .Jessica went out to the shed and saw a bike and went back to the phone and said yes ok come and fetch it. Then in true Jessica style she said come to the house and I will get you the bike. No way I would have done that. The guy arrived on the Saturday evening knocked on the door and said he wanted the bike she let him in and he sat talking to her for
15 minutes and she said he was very nice and friendly and the stupid girl
went off to the toilet leaving him drinking a cup of tea. He took £49 out of her bag and stole a painting worth £400 pound and emptied Aprils piggy bank which had 27 pound in it.

Jessica returned and the front door was open and Mr Reece Jones had disapeared. April was fast asleep in bed anything could have happened.
I went racing off to Wales. Jessica was so remorseful after she cried for days admitting she was stupid. The police were not very sympathetic and uncle Bryn was very cross .But I was angry also since Jessica moved house shes been left alone to cope on her own.

April after a couple of days was talking to uncle Bryn and she said uncle Bryn can we go to that prawnbrokers which made us laugh.Uncle Bryn looked very red and said no April and walked out. It was of course a Pawnbroker I did not know they had them now and uncle Bryn had pawned all his mothers jewellery he lost 2 thousand pound gambling over the last twelve months. Bryn took April with him. He said it was his business what he did with his belongings but what a waste of money.

Poor Rashers who was called Porker at his new home then Bacon was looking a bit strange when we visited the children disabled park where Rashers now resides or Bacon or Porker whatever!! and he was shaved all down his left side due to some dear child throwing a firework at him.
I was furious and although a very nice lady called Mrs Polly apologised
I have had Rashers removed he is now the pet of a lady looking for a little black pig but could not afford one they are very expensive to buy. Matt loved his piggy and I felt I owed it to him. April was upset and she went running off to find a plaster for his side and tried to stick a finger plaster on him.

Ryan Mats American Friend is now residing with Jessica again they have become very romantic of late and Jess needs someone she is as daft as a brush .

I did two more chapers on my witch story the Witches Brew and on the Thursday before I returned had another pain round my heart and was whisked off to hos[ital. I had to stay for a night and was sent home ok.

Well dear people hope you are all well missed your threads , going to have a good read. I did read a very funny poem from Amanda which made me laugh.

Jane any good news on the house front with Hannah.
Margeret did the baby arrive yet.
Annx it should be your concert in Birmingham this year.Lucky you.
Andrew Rieu .My friend in Stratford regrets cancelling her ticket now .

I am researching Dennis Deaking my couson at the moment I had so many cousons this couson had a little house and he collected everything he had 400 Rubert Bear annuals which would be worth a lot now and so many toy lead soldiers and Matchbox cars all boxed up.Old clocks and some very nice war books leather bound. I wonder what he did with it all he moved to Wales and a cottage called Mandalay. I lost his address.
I have had another message about my witch lady someone sent me a cutting out of a paper and it said her cafe the Witches Brew was for sale.
The lady who sent it did not give her name.

Well I have done nothing all day now. I just had a few games on the pooter and now I feel guilty. I did dust the kitchen table and made the yorkshire pud for toad in the hole tonight. Does those things count as something done today do you think??

Nice to hear from you Sheila and glad you are ok. Has April got over her chicken pox?

17.53

Just having a cuppa and a piece of choc fudge cake.

18.27

Hi Everyone
Had a busy day shopping, looking at cars and an unscheduled trip to the docs.
Current antibiotics have not worked so had to get some others. Am now feeling woolly headed but in less pain.
News on the baby front. DIL saw midwife this morning and all well. Now booked in for next Friday if it doesnt come before hand. Son drove her home over all the speed humps and they are having curry again tonight.
Going to a meeting tonight in ther wind. Thankfully it is in walking distance so will be wind assisted at least one way.
Jane Thanks for the info.
Frank Thanks for the messages.
6.28

Frank what the recipe LEEK PIE------?? Have you tried Leek/pot/ and apple soup

Hi Everyone,

Yum, yum, Mandy.......what a good buy......I fancy the big one! lol

Mel is that the rest of THE cake.

Anne, I hope the new tablets soon do the trick and get rid of the pain. I wonder if the baby will arrive soon now a date has been booked.

Sheila, what a despicable man to do that to Jessica. Did he take the bike as well or was that just an excuse? Sorry to hear you had to be whisked off to hospital, but at least they didn't keep you in. Yes, I shall soon be seeing Andre, just a few weeks now......really looking forward to it!

A new metal obelisk arrived this morning. A pretty maroon clematis has been trying to climb the birdfeeder pole since we took it off the trellis to paint it and we didn't want to put it back on the trellis. This should be quite good as it has lots of places it can cling to. Funny, it took years to establish and I nearly hoofed it out last year. This year it has loads of new shoots from ground level!! Its as if it knew!!!

Shirl, glad you had a great trip......the food sounds delish....I've never had lobster! Toronto station sounds very busy. lol I like the sound of that soup......with some crusty bread.

Jane, they told OH he had got the job months ago, but not in writing! At a recent meeting they announced that everyone had now been allocated work . When some (including OH) said they hadn't been allocated any.......their answer was ......they'd 'slipped through the net' !!!!! Pathetic. Is James in superswot mode now ready for his finals? I wish him all the best in his exams.

Evening All

Thanks David for the tip about gargling , I remember something about gargling with TCP when I was little for throat infections.

Glad you had a good trip Shirl , I have never had Lobster either, only shell fish I like is crab.

Good news for your DIL Anne, she will be able to plan for the big event now.

Your'e welcome Fiona

There's a Toronto in county Durham