General Chat

Well, we have worked hard in the garden so far this weekend. Yesterday we pollarded the tree that was reaching for the sky ( A twisted hazel I think) Took that lot to the tip as our brown bin was full. Today we completely cleared a bed that was mostly full of cranesbill out of control, moved a couple of other plants as well so we had a completely empty bed except for a hardy fuchsia. We then we to a couple of garden centres, where they didn't have what we wanted. went on to B&Q and they did. Got membrane gravel and log roll edging. That was this morning. After lunch we put round the log roll, laid the membrane then put down the 4 bags of gravel we had. have to get another three bags of gravel tomorrow as we didn't dare put too many in the car which is quite low slung!! all in all this bed will cost about £60.00. Still it will be worth it as it will be very labour saving, the cranesbill (hardy geraniums) took a lot of cutting back every month or so, they are thugs!!)

Hi Everyone,

Again is just a short one as I cannot think of anything to say like you lot of
Authors...LOL

Sallie happy anniversary for yesterday ,I 'm sure you and hubby had a great day.

Getting worried about Mo's little friend RAT ...I think he likes Mo's house, and Mo I think you'll will miss him when he passes away LOL

Got lots of connections on Hot matches yesterday...long lost cousins of my mother....to be met later next week. should be interesting, wonder what they will be able to tell me, hope they know more about my Irish lot than I do.

Hello Jean. not forgotten you .

Back to my tree........ !

Marilyn xx to everyone..

Hi everyone.
Liz,Broadstairs is lovely and quaint. Theres not a lot going on at Whitstable,but Herne Bay has a lovely prom,and bandstand. Out of the three,I prefer Broadstairs. And as someone said on your thread,do not bother to go to Margate,it's a dead and alive hole now. Most of the shops have been closed down. And dreamland has also been shut for a few years now,so theres nothing left on the front.
But if you are down this way ,you could always go into Canterbury,and visit the Cathedral and the shops are great there. It's not far from all the places
you have mentioned.
How are you Huia. Is Phil o.k?
Sallie,I hope you are having a great time with your family around you.
Just to update you. The rat came back again last night,it knocked my table lamp over.
It has eaten some of the poison bait, that was put down by the rat man.
So hopefully it will do what it's supposed to do,and kill it off.
The blooming thing left a load of droppings behind my chair. So when we are sure it's not going to return,we will have all the carpets downstairs steam cleaned. yuk it's an awful feeling when you wake up,and look around and find the droppings.
I have had to buy another two bottles of bleach today,cant stand the thought of that creature climbing all over my home.
A big hello to Jean,Marie,Debbie,Ann,Debbie,Sue,Grace and all our friends if I have forgotten your name please forgive me.
Have a lovely weekend,I will pop in tommorrow.
Take care one and all. Love Mo xxx

Hi all.

can't bear to think of those rats, I had one visit a storage area I was renting, I hadn't realised it was so rotten and it ate it's way in and chewed some papers and stuff and left droppings. My doctor and I checked on line and found that once their urine has dried it can't pass on Weil's disease, but like you I wiped everything with bleach wipes and still felt unclean. i hatge the things. The storage area I had to vacate so the owner could have it demolished as he hadn't realised how bad it was either, I was really peeved as I had hoped to use it as a sorting area for all my things and get more organised. All my plans for this summer went out the window when that happened and he hasn't got back to me to say if it is available again, even if it is it will be too cold and dark soon to do much there so I won't bother renting it again, will have to find some other way to sort out my things.

I am still busy trying to find holiday accommodation for three weeks today so forgive me if I owe emails and such, my head is spinning!

take care, enjoy the weekend
Lizxxxxx

Ann, just seen your reply to Debbie, it made me chuckle.

Hope you have had a good day and managed to get some of the garden done. The weather hasn't been very nice here today either, showery, windy
and a bit chilly.

Love, Sallie.x

Hello Girls,

First of all thank you all for your good wishes for our anniversary. Alun was working this morning, so we only went to Derby, but we had a nice couple of hours there.

Mo, good to see that the rat catcher has been and laid the poison. I was thinking like Debbie, lets hope that the rat goes outside to die. I've been thinking about both you and Roly throughout the day, and hoping that it won't be long before you lose your unwelcome guest.

Sue, pleased to hear that Luke is getting better day by day. Bless him, it must be uncomfortable having to keep his arm straight up, but as long as the bone sets properly, it will be worth the discomfort .

Huia, how are you today? I hope you are feeling better and are starting to get into a routine sleeping pattern again.
How on earth did you manage not to scream out loud when you seen the rat on Phil while he was sleeping. I'm sure that if I had seen one on Alun I would have gone hysterical and probably woke the whole neighbourhood
up.

Debbie, good to hear that your Dad is home. It must be lovely listening to your Mum and Dad sing together. Have any of their grandchildren inherited their lovely singing voices?
Please wish them a Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary from me, for tomorrow.

Jean, I hope your legs are feeling better and are not so painful. Have you done anymore scrap pages? I'm still getting on slowly with the scrap book that I'm doing. I bought a few more things that I needed while we were in Derby today, so can get on a bit more now.

Not sure how much time I'll have though, as Richard and Christie are coming up tomorrow evening until Sunday evening, just a flying visit this time. Alun and Michael (son-in-law)are going to change the points and leads on his car. I'm afraid Richard doesn't know one part of a car from another, so Michael offered to do them for him and Alun volunteered to help. So that's our weekend taken care of!

Thinking about Marie, Grace, Ann, Liz and Marilyn. Hope you are all okay!

Hope everyone will enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend and that the rain will keep away for us all.

Best wishes to you all.

Love, Sallie.xx

Debbie thank you for the good wishes - Sallie & I together Lol Lol!!!!

I hope your parents have a wonderful wedding anniversary and that they enjoy seeing all their family and then sharing in the Sunday lunch with you all.

Ann
Glos

Good Evening to everyone on here, I hope that you are all well. Happy Anniversary to Ann & Sallie (not together, you understand:-)).

Mo, let's hope the rat decides to eat poison and travel outside to lay his head. The smell could be quite bad if the weather is warm your way. At least you know he will have been caught. We have mice in our house on a regular basis. We do try to catch them, but they get into the tiniest of spaces. They come in under the floorboards and like the central heating pipes in the winter. We haven't had too many to sort out this year - yet.

All well here at the moment. Thank you for asking about my Dad. He is still waiting for results on all the tests they carried out in Hospital. He went home on Weds, much to mums delight. They think he may have built up some "odd" antibodies in his blood, which are actually attacking it. The blood and bone marrow samples have been sent to London, so we will probably have to wait a little while longer for the results to come through.

It is Mum & Dads Golden Wedding tomorrow. We are blessed that they have reached such a milestone in their lives, and will all pop up to visit them at some point during the day. They find it hard to cope with the noise of all the Grandchildren in one go, so we will stagger our visits. Then on Sunday we have the BBQ Lunch arranged at the local hotel. The weather forecast is good for the weekend, so that is pleasing.

Huia, I really wish we could all send you a huge Hug through cyberspace, as you certainly sound as if you could do with one occasionally. I wish you and Phil all the best during this oh so difficult time. At least you have your choir that you can go to and concentrate on something different. Sorry Ladies, my voice is only suitable for the Bathroom audience. My Mum does a lot of singing and is in the Festival Choir here. She and Dad both have lovely voices and we often catch them singing a duet together, which is great to hear.

Anyway, gotta go. The children won't go to bed until I have been to tuck them in. I probably won't be back on here now til after the weekend, so here's wishing you all a lovely Bank Holiday weekend, I hope the sun shines for you.
DEBBIE

Mo, you would not like it here, we have rats as big as tigers without the sripes of course.....lol.......You would have been most welcome.....


love Jean xx

You would be most welcome to move to Kent Ann. Erm when you coming,I am moving soon. lol
Hello Sue.
Good to hear that Luke is recovering,slowly but surely. I normally like to watch things like the rat catcher,but having one them there b--g-rs in the house,makes my skin crawl.
Well the rat man came,and yes it is a rat. He said the dropping was to big for a mouse. Mind you I suppose a mouse could have stored it all up ,and just deposited it in my house.
He has put poison down,behind the dish washer and fridge. There were more droppings behind there. But he does not know howthe swine got in. The only thing he could think of was,that it had just walked in through the patio doors.
I tell you what,it doesn't pay rent,so it's not welcome.
The man said he will be back next week. So if the flipping thing dies,we are really going to smell it.
It's a good job I can laugh about it. I think I have got the cleanest hands
in the kingdom,They have been in so much bleach the last two days,they are beggining to shrivel up. lol
The dishwasher is feeling the strain,of all the things it's had to wash.
And the washing machine,is on a go slow,poor things.
I think I ought to go up to Jeans,for a few days,until the rat vacates the property. lol
Speak to you later,when I come back from town.

The sun was shining here but now it has clouded over. I did a bit of cutting back just now in the garden and it is really cold in the wind, more like October - think i will move to Kent!!

Mo, hope the rat man soon cometh.

Hello all

I did reply a couple of days ago but now see my thread vanished as well.

Luke came home the next day in a lot of pain,but he is getting better day by day. We should get a appointment to go back next week to check it is setting right. He is finding it difficult to hold the cast as the only position is to have his hand straight up. They didnt give him a sling this time.

Happy Anniversary Sallie the sun is out in the midlands to day so hope it is with you on your special day. Are you doing anything nice?

Mo me and Adam were watching the rat catcher on tv last night. I am thinking of you today. I hate Rats but Adam has seen them in the pet shop and thinks they are nice.

Huia hope the new meds work better for your Husband. Take care of your self.

Hope everyone has a good bank holiday weekend, make the most last one of the summer, lol.

Sue

Morning all.
First on my agenda,is to wish Sallie and Allun a very happy anniversary.
I hope you have a really lovely day.
I am glad you had such a special day yesterday Ann.
Huia,I had to laugh at my vision of you with that rat,climbing up your jimjams.
Update on THE RAT. When we got up this mornig,that darn thing had been back.
When we went to bed last night,Roly covered what was left of the cats food
in a double layer of kitchen roll. It had eaten through the paper,and gobbled up all the food remains.
It had also left us another dropping. So at least we have something to show the rat man when he comes.
Waiting for the man to turn up now. So when he's been,it will be back to bleaching everywhere.
Jean,I am still feeling horrid about this damn rodent. I keep hoping it's only a mouse,even though that is bad enough.
We have got brilliant sunshine again today. It's still windy though.
We have been so lucky in this part of the country,weather wise that is.
Hello to Marilyn,Marie,Sue,Liz, Debbie,Grace oh golly and all our friends on here.
Special HUGS for Jean and Huia. Love Mo xxx

Jean, I check my emails several times each day! I have replied.

Huia.

Huia, check your e-mails.....


Jean xx

Happy Anniversary, Sallie and Alun, have a lovely day. are you doing anything nice?


Huia, Rats dont even like talking about them !!! we had one many years ago we had a new bathroom put in and disturbed them, the rat man came and sorted it, seems they are on the up in Britain.....ugh....

Mo, are you o.k. I hated the feeling of knowing there was one in the house.

Ann, cant wait to see your photos, so pleased you enjoyed your day, has your sister heard any thing yet?

hope you all have a good bank holiday we are having very heavy rain at the moment....so whats new.......

love to all Jean xx

Talking of rats -
Many many years ago (about 48 I think) we were living in an old house that went with the job. Our son's playpen was in the area just outside our bedroom, leaving just enough room for us to squeeze through the doorway. One cold winters night (and boy, was it cold there) I heard a funny noise somewhere so I got up in my jimjams and put on my floor length dressing gown and went to investigate. I found the noise coming from the stove in the kitchen so I was moving it around trying to find out what it was when suddenly a big rat ran out from behind and went into the other part of the house. I had a torch and went through and looked in the dining room/lounge but couldnt see anything so then I went into the narrow gap in our doorway and shone the torch in and THERE IT WAS on top of my husbands sleeping body. It jumped down and ran towards me but just as it got to me I jumped up (had pictures of it climbing up the leg of my jim jams) and screamed as I did, but as I didnt want to wake Phil or the children I screamed quietly. The rat disappeared and I went to the kitchen and had hysterics at the thought of screaming quietly. As a result of my hysterics I woke Phil anyway!
The rats used to chew away in the night in the wall at the head of our bed. One night I got fed up and thumped the wall. Poor Phil had been asleep (lucky blighter) and did not appreciate being woken. A few years later when we moved out the council for which Phil worked took some of the weatherboards off the side of the house and you could see that every stud had a big chunk chewed out of it.

Huia.

Hi All,

Mo I hope they catch the rat for you tomorrow. I can understand why you feel like sitting up tonight--I would be frightened to go to sleep.
When we were first married we lived in a house belonging to Alun's parents--all the dowstairs rooms had concrete floors apart for the one front room--where the old floor boards were still down. We use to keep things like the hoover, ironing board and ironing in there. The council had been putting new drainage pipes at the back of the house, disturbed a lot of rats, somehow they had managed to get get under the floor boards
and gnawed their way into the room, and through some of the ironing.
It was a horrible feeling to know that we had rats in that room, The rat catcher soon got rid of them, thank goodness.

Ann, so pleased that you and T had a lovely day. The wood carving sounded very interesting, the wood carvers are very clever and gifted people. I would like to have seen them.
Thank you for your good wishes for tomorrow.

Huia, I hope you are feeling a bit better and not so tearful. You know we are all here for you if you need to talk.

Hope all is well with everyone.

Speak to you all soon.

Best wishes.

Love, Sallie.xx

Hello All,
Well we have had a lovely day today. We went to Westonbirt Arboretum and it was lovely and green, the sun shone most of the time and there were some very talented woodcarvers there doing chain saw carving, excellent, one had done a huge horse. We then went on to Tetbury, had a snack lunch (I had lovely chunky prawn sandwiches, T had a BLT baguette), then we walked around Tetbury, saw the Chipping steps and the wonderful cathedral like Gothic church. Then called in at 2 garden centres on our way home. This evening we had a take away Indian and it was really good. I have had a sherry and we shared a bottle of Cava so I feel great (and can still see to type straight!!!). Next year the Golden one DV.

Mo, don't envy you the rat, hope they catch it.

Sallie, happy anniversary for tomorrow

Hello everyone.
What a day I have had.
We woke this morning,to find that we have a rat in the house. How do we know this,well,a couple of years ago,we had rats in our attic. And we had to have the rat catcher out,to lay poison bait.
And as had happened the last time,the blooming rat had eaten,some of the lovely plums I bought yesterday,and those it didn't like ,it had spat on the side of the fruit bowl.
It also decided to leave some rat droppings on the window ledge.
We bleached every where. But I am left feeling very dirty. And I am not a dirty person at all,but just feel that way.
So tommorrow,we have got the rat catcher coming out again.
I would not mind,but we have a cat,and she had been sniffing around the skirting boards yesterday,and we never thought nothing of it.
So tonight,I feel like sitting up,with a brick in my hand,to knock it over the head,should it decide to pay us another evening call.
The council are renovating some garages near us,and we are wondering if they have been disturbed from there.
I do hope you are all well.
Thoughts and prayers for Huia,at this difficult time.
Love and best wishes to you all. Mo xxx