General Chat

Just checking in from my sunbed on the beach, complete with free wifi :-D
It was a very long day yesterday as we left home at 4 am. I slept like a log and didn’t even wake up for the loo, which is unheard of.
The hotel is excellent, it wants to be for the price, I dread to think how much weight I am going to put on, judging by the food I have eaten already. We were talking last night and thinking that at our age, we don’t have many years left when we will be capable of making such a long journey, lugging the cases around etc , so we might as well go for the best we can afford while we are capable of doing it

Have a lovely holiday Linda and OH. Reading about all you do you certainly deserve a lovely time doing whatever you want. I agree with you about enjoying yourself now while you can.
My late sister was the opposite she saved her money and went without and there was no need to. When she died (no will left) her estate was divided and family she hadn't seen or spoken to for years benefited. I would have sooner she had made her own life comfortable.

Joan I hope your new pharmacy continues to deliver your meds. to you.

Linda a wise decision. We decided the same and booked an up market hotel in Lanzarote for our foreign holiday swan song. Unfortunately that was for September 2020 so you can guess what happened there. and then T died in January 2021

Enjoy your holiday . Not at all jealous of course.

Good afternoon to you all.
Enjoy your holiday Linda, you certainly deserve one.

Ginnie, I hope the new chemist continues to deliver the meds,I would be stuck otherwise, yes I have our daughter but she has a busy life, she has a family to take care of & with 3 of them at diffent schools she has a lot to deal with getting them all to their various activities outwith school.

Even when at school she has to be seen to attend various things that might be going on! she also has a wee job now.
The chemist is in the town & trying to get parked is a nightmare,

It doesn't help my stress levels worrying what might happen re the meds, I have 4 different types & not all can be re-ordered on the same day, which would mean she would constantly be having to collect them

A lovely day here, warm & sunny & little wind.
Spent the morning hoovering the downstair rooms, it takes time nowadays but I get there eventually, lol.

Hope everyone is having a nice day.

Joan.

Afternoon all from a very lovely sunny village but.....very very windy! At least its dry.

This week has flown by as something on everyday. Tesco came earlier and then at 3pm, we have the vets in town. Thankfully tomorrow a day at home to catch up although have just stripped beds and done ironing so a busy day so far.

Linda, hope you continue to enjoy your break with OH . I did put on weight when we went to jersey but I have now lost 7 lbs....just in time for going to Iceland on the 6th Oct lol. Then another diet before xmas!

Joan, you are on the go and busy busy. Im sure your meds will get delivered so dont fret too much. The guy has been once so no reason for him not to come again.

I started crocheting 2 pumpkins complete with a black pompom. Nearly finished and the stuffing has arrived now so hopefully carry on tonight whilst watching the tv.

Daughter is back next Friday so my next job is to remove all the xmas presents that are sitting on her duvet!! Im fairly organised as per just a few more things to buy.


Ginnie, my mum hardly spent her pension etc and never went anywhere. Always scrimping and saving when she didnt need to. When we cleared her flat apart from loads of old trinkets and things from holidays many years ago, she really didnt have very much to show for her life, yet she could have had decent furniture etc but she always went to the charity shops!! Her bank account told a different story!

Well better get ready for going off to the vets with poochie which hopefully will be the last visit as her eye had recovered now, thank goodness.

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Good morning all from the wild, wild west!!

Oh my its wild and the rain is lashing down so def a day for indoors today.

I still have a few candle centrepieces to make so shall complete that by tomorrow and nearly finished my kitted pumpkin as well.

Hope everyone else is well today

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It isn’t lashing down here :-D :-D I have been on the beach all day again. My tan is coming along very nicely, what a pity it will all be covered up as soon as we get home to wintery conditions
As usual I have some nasty bites and OH has non at all :-|. I have just spayed myself in evil spray before we go out for dinner. I will smell strange, but I hope won’t get any more bites.
We have managed to find a channel on the TV which is showing the ladies rugby final. Pity it is in German as I don’t speak a word of that , but at least we can watch it for a while before we need to go for dinner

Afternoon all.

Windy, dull & overcast here by dry for now.... The weekend is looking very stormy in this part of the uk so have been outside tidying up pots and making sure all secure.

I have finally found out that my chairs I returned to Argos have been received back on the 17 Sep but.....it will be 30 days before i get my refund grrr!! At least its in progress but why oh why does it take that long?

Linda hope you & hubby are still having a lovely time and good weather?

Looking forward to next Monday when we are off to Iceland. Apparently the Northern lights are everywhere there at the moment so hoping we will catch some of them on camera.

My bedroom floor has numerous bags all containing xmas pressies waiting to be wrapped but that will happen after we get back.

Looking forward to seeing my daughter as she has been elsewhere for the last 6 weeks so looking forward to hearing all her adventures etc.

Hope everyone looking in today is well and keeping safe.

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Have a great time in Iceland. Not been there in winter but it a wonderful place, except one lava field looks very much like the next and the next and the next ;-)

names Ill take your word for it lol :-D :-D

I hope you have a nice time in Iceland Florence, it is somewhere I have never been.
The weather here hasn’t been very good for a couple of of days, but we have still gone out and sat by the pool to read, we’d also visited the local town even though the taxi fare was fifteen euros each way.
Today it is raining very hard, so we are just stuck in the hotel ,not what we wanted, but there is nothing we can do about it. We normally go on holiday earlier in September, but we had to wait for our son to move before we could arrange anything. It is still a nice change from being at home.

Good morning Linda and everyone. It is always frustrating when you go away hoping for good dry weather and get rain. Unfortunately the weather ecerywhere is changing, maybe where you are, like here it is a couple of weeks earlier to get twardso winter weather. Not sure if where you are is affected by the latest atlantic appraoching storm which appears to be far reaching.

I hope you have a Kindle or similar and plenty of reading material. At least you are re-charging your batteries. I hope that the weather improves for you. I go away with my daughter and son in law on Friday but we are only going down to Devon and already know the weather is not going to be that good.

Florence enjoy Iceland. I have never been but daughter has and liked it.

Morning all looking in.

Oh dear linda, sorry for you having wet weather but at least you dont have to cook & clean!

Ann take care going down to Devon. Im not sure if that part of the uk will be hit with the storm but now on Fri/sat am its showing 77mph!! Although we are used to that, anything over 70 is a worry but all the flower pots have been moved now into shelter and the tunnel and bins are secured with rope.

Daughter is worrying she may not get back but its after 7pm when the storm hits and shes is arriving mid afternoon so she will be ok unless something changes very quickly.

Im busy now ironing and then hanging clothes ready to pack. My other half headed off to town for a haircut and post a parcel for me.

So better crack on. The sun is shining but very windy.

Take care all

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Well yesterday was Jab day for us, I had the flu jab but OH being older got both flu and covid. We had them done at the local pharmacy and we had booked appts.as told but when we got there it was also a walk in so we ended up waiting well over our appt time. Popped into the Drs surgery as well to change OHs phone appt as he was given an all day appt. which he can't do as he has another appt. that day. We managed to change it till after 2pm . Don't see why they can't give am or pm appts instead of expecting people to wait all day for a call.

Ann I hope the weather is ok for your holiday, hopefully the forecast storm won't be your way. Enjoy yourself.

Florence enjoy Iceland.

Hope everyone is keeping well .

How annoying, I would have thought drop ins filled gaps in the list, not those with appointments waiting.

OH gets both on Saturday. He wasn’t sure about the Covid but when seeing the dr this week he was told to get it as it is definately out and about in our village.

I am also too young :-D :-D, so he asked his much the pharmacy was charging. £98, so have to think harder than I have been.

Apparently they haven’t had a drop of rain here for six months, but the weather is making up for that now. The rain is just continuous, so we are stuck in the room. Yesterday, it eased off at lunchtime, just enough for us to walk to the seafood restaurant on the beach for lunch, but today it is impossible go outside, so we had lunch in the lobby bar.
Even with the rain it is still about eighteen degrees, but to the Greeks, that seems to be the equivalent the middle of our winter. We always have the air conditioning on at night, because if you don’t the room gets really stuffy. Last night we woke up in the middle of the night because the room was like a sauna. We couldn’t get the cold air to come on, so we had to switch it off and open the patio door . Luckily because the rain was torrential there were no mossies to bite me. This morning we discovered that they have turned the cooling option off and put the central heating on. As we don’t want the hot air blasting out ,we have turned it off, but have to leave the patio door open or it gets muggy. It is supposed to stop raining tomorrow morning, so fingers crossed that it does

Morning all

Just to say we are expecting very severe wind speeds up to 100 mph later on. So anyone else in the storms path stay safe and indoors.

We may lose power but are well prepared up here.

Take care all

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I hope that you will stay safe Florence.
Last night my mobile phone started making a loud siren noise. It was an alert like the practice one we all got recently, only this was a real one. It was warning about immin flooding in the area. It was in Greek, but also English. During the night the rain was torrential.At 3.30am, I looked out of the patio door which we had partly open ad the water was coming down like a sheet. We are sheltered because the balcony has a solid roof, so the water doesn’t come in the room. The rain has finally stopped this morning, but it is only about fifteen degrees, so not quite what we wanted. At least we will be able to go and sit outside

I thought I'd pop in and say Hello to everybody. I should have come a few days ago, maybe Florence would have given me some virtual lemon drizzle!

Stay safe in the storm this weekend everybody.

Morning one & all
Survived the storm but it wasnt as bad last night as we thought. However its now at 60mph and will be until tomorrow so still very stormy.

Aginrocker as I say to all on here, if you ever find yourself in my area, please feel free to knock at my door where a coffee and maybe some lemon drizzle or Victoria sponge would be waiting for you, all very welcome.

Hope you are ok Joan in your corner of the north?

I know many are without power throughout the highlands and north Scotland so hope if you are affected hope you are safe and warm indoors.

Im supposed to be going out for dinner tonight for a belated birthday meal for daughter but its wild at the moment so maybe decided after lunch if we go out!

Better head to shower whilst we do have power otherwise with wet hair I will look like a shaggy sheep dog :-D :-D :-D

Stay safe all

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