General Chat

We drove through Far Sawrey Ann, I should have waved to you.
We were staying in Winster near Windermere Actually if you have a spare million and a half, you can buy it as it is for sale :-D. Just google Broom Hill, Winster, Windermere and you should find it. The estate agent is ashdownjones.co.uk

Hello to all.
Well the heavens have opened up this afternoon, quite a deluge & no sign of any let up just yet.

The water bowie must be full now so that's good, & the plants are getting a really good soaking so I won't have to trek around the garden several times filling & carrying the watering can for a while, lol.

My Oil boiler ( outside) is playing up today, it's trying to fire up but not getting there, our wonderful family friend has taken a look & is hoping to get the spare part that it needs.
I have to keep the heating on & ticking over as it loses pressure very quickly if it is switched off, something to do with the low pessure of our private water supply !!

I have been cleaning our bedroom today, in a fashion, not easy on my own, hubby was a great help when it came to moving the furniture around.
The only thing I can't shift is the bed so left it till last & now waiting for daughter to come over & help with the mattress & & then hoover under the bed itself, I soo hate having to ask for help but I just can't do it on my own.

Joan.

A late good afternoon to all

making the most of a day with no rain....yet, no midges....yet and pleasantly warm but not hot. So was outside most of the afternoon watering, weeding and repotting etc and now garden looking very good. Just need some sun to open some more roses.

My first rose opened today, a beautiful yellow one and 2 on my coco rose are nearly opening and they are pink. A lovely pansy self seeded itself into one of my rose plants and grew so big I had to lift it and put it in its own pot. I dont have any pansies this year so who knows how it got there??

Joan , when it rains, it saves so much time watering. The cans are heavy and it takes forever watering everything.

i have in the oven a chicken casserole in the roasting dish and should be ready at 5.30. I just threw all sorts of veg and 4 chicken breasts together with some herbs, pepper etc plus some small roasties. The aroma in the kitchen smells wonderful.

OH is putting up his new weather station I bought him for his birthday. It comes with an I pad so from indoors you can see allsorts like wind speed, temp and a host of other things. He is currently attaching it to a fence post with nuts and bolts so hoping in the the winter, it wont blow away!!

Well better sort out the kitchen ready for dinner and get the last lot of towels in before the rain comes. Luckily the breeze has been enough to dry all the towells we had to use to get the car seats dry. The car is now all dried out and back to normal.
leaving the windows open all night is not an exercise that will be repeated ;-)

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That looks lovely Linda and good for large parties.

Where is everyone i wonder?

Well had a busy busy day painting the kitchen. I suggested to OH he could wear my pink shower car so he wouldn't get "highlights" in his hair. he replied, he already had plenty of "highlights 50 shades of grey in his hair" :-D :-D :-D

So all finished now although in the morning, we may give another coat, just have to see when it is fully dried. Its only magnolia emulsion but a few marks on the wall were making it look scruffy.

I have a pan of red and white potatoes cooking straight from the polytunnel and some peas to go with the breaded fish yummy :-D Cant be your own grown veg.

Turned out nice and sunny but oh my it is very very windy and struggled to water my pots outside!

Hope all is well with everyone else today

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It’s so cold !

Met office says it is only 12 or 13 degrees and won’t go much higher. It’s because I sorted my wardrobe out so the summer tops were easier to reach than the winter tops. Now I’ve got to get back in and find my woolly jumpers. At least I know where my vests are.

13 degrees here names and not a glimpse of blue sky.

Well, I could manage the vests, but this morning I've just washed winter jumpers and cardigans hoping I can put them away for a while.
Lighter-weight cardigans readily available ;-)

Looks like we are in for an unsettled and wet day.
At least we've so far escaped the thunderstorms, which were forecast last week.

Morning all

Wet and windy here too and we have to go off to town shortly!

I nearly thought about putting the heating on last night as it was def chilly and heating has been off for weeks.

Def no signs of any heatwave up here even though I keep reading about it.

Hate thunderstorms and thankfully up here very rarely get them.

Happy Saturday all

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Heavy cloud here, but warm and no rain so far.

Yesterday, unexpectedly, turned out to be dry, too, with a good breeze, so I got a load of washing dried outside - wow! - and have hung another load out today.

Cut about half the grass yesterday evening, until the midges drove me indoors, and hope to cut the rest this afternoon.
I've also sprayed the drive with weed killer this morning.

So, a couple of productive days!
Nothing gets done when it's raining - which is more often than not - so there has to be a rush of activity when we do have some dry weather.
I can hear lawnmowers in several nearby gardens!

It is cold here as well and has been raining in and off for a couple of days. I am back in trousers and jumpers.
I had my sister and brother in law staying for a couple of days at the start of the week
After that Esme started complaining about her tummy hurting again, the sharp pain, not the migraine which is a separate issue. She ended up staying in hospital overnight while they did various scans, but they couldn’t find out what is causing it. They sent her home on Wednesday night with antibiotics because they thought that she might have an UTI, but that was just coincidental. She wasn’t very well on Thursday, but picked up late afternoon, so they were hoping to get her back to school on Friday, but she woke up at 7am, said she was ill, turned over and didn’t wake up until 11.30. She seemed fine after that, so her mum made an appointment for her to collect her new glasses this afternoon I was planning to take her to Lightwater Valley tomorrow, but when she woke up this morning, her tummy was hurting and she was sick. This is the stomach migraine which she gets every month, so everything is cancelled. Poor thing has had a bad week.

Good morning all from a bright, dry but cold and windy North Cumbria.


Or Esme Linda she has had a bad week. I hope she is better now.

Morning all

Cold and windy here too so bang goes a walk later!

Waiting on Tesco but they havent taken the money or sent me a receipt yet. Delivery was from 10-12 today.
so i tel and they said there were no delivery problems but to phone back by 11 if i dont hear.

Won't be amused if its cancelled as we shall have to drive to town ourselves. certain items like milk and coffee we need today

Sorry to hear about Esme Linda, hope shes much better today.


Ann, hope your weather brightens up.

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Good morning to you all.
We have a lovely day here today, it's nice & warm & the sun is shining a wee bit of a breeze at the moment,but not a bother, yesterday was pretty much the same so managed some garden tasks.

Hoping to get outside again today but not until this afternoon, busy putting together my Sunday "roast" this morning, not exactly a roast but does consist of a chicken fillet, roast potatoes, stuffing, & veg, & my own made gravy.

I ordered heating oil yesterday, the price quoted just under 88 p per litre, better than the last lot I got about 11 weeks ago.
Just need a top up, approx 1/2 a tank !

Linda, I hope your grandaughter is feeling better today.

Florence I hope you get your Tesco delivery.

Joan.

Phew!! Just got a message to say Tesco is on its way which is a relief but......no milk grrrr Shall ask the driver when they come as maybe they had a delivery early this morning but didnt put it out...wishful thinking.

Joan, your roast dinner sounds lovely, hope you enjoy later on. Glad you have the sunshine and you are able to get outside. certainly the day passes more quickly.

I'm making a cheese and potato pie for tonight and salmon fillets. Been using up from the freezer to try and empty it a bit. Some things have been lingering in there awhile!
Picked a few more peas last night so shall have them too.

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I am glad that you are having good weather Joan, it is still cloudy and cold here.
I am having a campaign to use things in my freezer as well Florence as it is too full. I always keep some long life milk in the cupboard in case of emergency. These days it tastes just like fresh milk

Esme is till ill today, so no Lightwater Valley, but she is eating and drinking small bits, so that is an improvement. She won’t be going to school again tomorrow, so that will be a whole week off. Her attendance is down to about eighty percent, but it can’t be helped. My daughter is now ill, she says that she feels very gluey and has a sore throat. She was supposed to be bringing Eve over today to look through my jewellery. It is Eves prom next Friday, so she needs some decent jewellery to wear. I have quite a lot of expensive stuff which I have accumulated over the years, so I am sure that there will be something to suit her

I am glad that you are having good weather Joan, it is still cloudy and cold here.
I am having a campaign to use things in my freezer as well Florence as it is too full. I always keep some long life milk in the cupboard in case of emergency. These days it tastes just like fresh milk

Esme is till ill today, so no Lightwater Valley, but she is eating and drinking small bits, so that is an improvement. She won’t be going to school again tomorrow, so that will be a whole week off. Her attendance is down to about eighty percent, but it can’t be helped. My daughter is now ill, she says that she feels very fluey and has a sore throat. She was supposed to be bringing Eve over today to look through my jewellery. It is Eves prom next Friday, so she needs some decent jewellery to wear. I have quite a lot of expensive stuff which I have accumulated over the years, so I am sure that there will be something to suit her

Well Tesco provided all the things that the order said were out of stock :-S :-S

But when I mentioned the milk, he said he didnt understand it as there was plenty of milk in the shop :-S :-S

Luckily someone had cancelled their order and he had some green milk which I dont normally have but on this occasion was grateful for his help and it was free of charge so a bonus.

So all put away, fridge was emptied cleaned and all things back in except for a few things lurking in jars which went in the bin!

sun has come out, rain stopped but it is stil very very windy so not sure about a walk.

Linda, is Eve 18 and leaving school already?Time flies.

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No, she is only 15 Florence, she will be 16 in July, she is one of the youngest in the school year. These days secondary schools have proms at the end of year 11 ( 5th form in old money ) They do it because in most cases, children move on to sixth form colleges, but Eve’ school has its own 6th form, so there will be a second leavers ball then. That will mean another expensive dress as obviously you can’t use the same one. Proms are a dreadful American import in my opinion