General Chat

Morning girls,

So sorry you had a bad night Vera it seems it comes to us all at some point but you especially. I don't walk when I can't sleep I just lay there hoping upon hope that I drop off again.

Its 16 degrees here and pc is tellig me tomorrow high maybe a record. If it is then I am staying in my nice cool house. there are a few wispy clouds in the sky this morning. We had a lovely pink sky last night so I thought it may be a nice day today.

Mandy don't fall down that hole again we can't have you out of actio0n again. Hope you get the little plants for the table.

Morning all,

Little bit of cloud in the sky this morning but lots of blue sky and sunshine .

Oh dear Vera I can sympathise as I have had jumpy legs too the last couple of nights and have had to walk round for a while ,I hope your dentist visit goes well and you don't need any treatment, have a nice rest after you get home it will be to hot to do much outside today.

Ann I see you've been stocking up with ths plasters :-D hopefully now you have them you won't need them ,I use to have to buy them when the grandchildren were little and came here as you could bet ons of them would fall over ,dil would say see nanny she has a plaster .

We're off into town this morning ,walking as they have traffic lights up , they have two holes they have dug in town one in the bus stop and I had to smile whe Colin said oh they are filling the pot hole in where you fell and broke your wrists ,I said no they are making it bigger .
Were hoping the fish man will be on the market so we can get a crab for lunch we need to go to boots for our tablets and I'm hoping the plant man will be on the market as I need a little plant to put on the outside table .

Enjoy the sun everyone and don't forget to drink extra water to keep hydrated.

Good morning all 12 degrees and sunny and the third day running I have had a problem getting onto Genes before 0730. Oh dear Vera it is awful when you can't get to sleep If I have a problem with my legs I usually massage them with Jointace but have had a problem getting a replacement tube. When I found it on Amazon it had gone up from £8 to £11. I have waited a couple of days to see if there is a cheaper one. Jointace consists of aromatherapy oils plus Glucosomine and does seem to help my achy legs.

Hope the dental visit passes without problems.

Another day without any plans but no doubt I will find something. I do have a letter to post so will have to walk to the post box.

Good morning

It was a hot night and is clearly going to be another hot day. It’s already 11 degrees and bright sunshine. I’m not a happy bunny today as I had an even worse night than usual, only sleeping for less than 2 hours. The muscles in my legs would not stop jumping so 4 times I got up and walked round and round the house. Now my legs feel as though I’ve been on a route march and ache like mad. I shouldn’t be inflicting my miserable mood on you but I am not sure I have anything cheerful to write about as next thing is a trip to the dentist. It’s only our normal 6 months check up so nothing to worry about. If anything needs doing we’ll be given another appointment.

I hope you have all had a good night. Might bbl.

Evening All.

We had quite a heavy shower in the early hours, not sure it was forecast, but welcome anyway and all bone dry outside by the time we got up. OH managed to keep the dressing on all night Mandy so no extra washing thank goodness! We dropped my car at the garage in the village to have the non working window fixed and then filled OH's car up before going into the store(Sainsbury's). We got another roll of sticking plaster AnnG :-D, also some smaller plasters and dressings as well as eyedrops for me. We got the extra spare keys cut at Timsons in there. Then to collect our meds from the pharmacy (I have to go back for one of mine) then to the Co-op which is looking very sad with all the empty shelves. We remembered to go home a different way through the village where I used to live as they have the road up the usual way and traffic lights with huge queues.

The garage rang later, very apologetic to say they couldn't source the part for my car window other than a dealer part and the cost would be.......shock horror £536 to include labour!! Still so be it and it needs doing so the car should be ready tomorrow. I need it for Wednesday for my hair appointment as OH is out in his car then. This is what comes of having electric windows and other electric gadgetry. At least mechanical windows wind down if you can't open a door.

Openreach were at the end of our bit of the close today and also further up the main close, digging up the road and have put a big metal lid over something near us. I thought we might be losing our internet but no all is well.

AnnG it's surprising how the temperature can be so chilly in some parts of the house and I have been keeping a cardi or fleece handytoo.

Mel you've been busy tidying up with your strimmer. Whatever did we do before strimmers were invented, Was it hedge clippers. I used to hate doing the edges of mum and dad's big lawns with clippers as a teenager. Also helping dad with the hedges with handheld hedge clippers, no electric ones then. We just had a push mower then at first as well.

Good luck with the dentist tomorrow Vera. I hope all your plants are safely planted in the right positions now.

Mandy it sounds like you will have tomato surprises this year! The ones from Mel's seed may vary and not all breed true, as it depends where the insects have brought the pollen from to pollinate them. I expect they will all be tasty and nice though You've been busy outside getting jobs done and it's a good idea to have the box handy to get the chair cushions out when you need them.

Well according to the BBC it was going to rain here at 2pm. It has not rained yet.

Afternoon all,

Boy its hot out there ,we got out nice and early and filled some pots for the tom plants, planted quite a few and mixed them up I have no idea now which are Mels ,oh well we'll see when the tomatoes start forming .
I'm getting short on big pots so had to use two hanging baskets for the tumbling toms and I've hung them on Colins ladder on the fence ,I still have a few more to plant but ran out of compost so thats a trip to Roys again .
Keeping in now as it's really hot ,doesn't look like the rain is going to reach us looking at the weather map.

It is 21 here and feels very warm in the sun. I did a quick half hour weed having covered my face in suncream but came in when it felt too hot. garden bin gets empties tomorrow so goes out this evening. The rain over night seems to have done a bit of good as the weeds seemed to come up more easily.

Wall to wall sunshine, not a cloud anywhere and currently 23 degrees, feeling like 24. It is hot. Washing is drying almost as soon as it is hung out. If any of you ladies get rain please send some this way. We are desperate and I dread to think how the water bill is mounting up with all the watering we are doing.

It’s too hot to do any gardening but I’ve done all the washing and a few other indoor jobs as I won’t get much done in the next couple of days. We both have the dentist tomorrow morning and that’s in another town so more driving and Wednesday OH has his post op check up so we might combine that with a visit to Dunelm and Dobbies.

OH has just yelled out that lunch is ready so I’d better go.

Still cloudy/sunny here and 21 degrees.

I think we had rain over night as the plants are all wet. It is cloudy, sun now and 17 degrees. It is chilly indoors though so I have a cardi on.

Morning Ann and all,

Quite a bright moring but its clouded over a bit now and its 13 degrees here. Maps showing no rain here for today but sunshine and cloud so we'll see.

Nothing planned so I will take the day as it comes.

good morning all. already 14 degrees and sunny here at 0730. Looks like being a hot one but we are expecting thundery showers and have a yellow warning.

I have nothing planned for today so will find some indoor jobs. Garden jobs look unlikely if we get the storms. I have three lovely geums flowering in their pots and I just know that they will suffer if the rain is heavy. Not a lot I can do about that though.

I never liked the Germalene horrid pink stuff that smelt awful. When you use TCP the smell lingers forever but its good stuff and I can stand the smell of that funnily enough as you know what I am like with smells.

The afternoon ended up sunny and warm but I only managed a bit of ivy pulling off the fence in the back field behind the filter shed. Its grown through the filter shed but there's no way I can reach whats gfrowing up the actual shed.

Hope you all have a good night sleep tonight.

I actually like the smell of both those Mandy.

Oh TCP horrible smelly stuff I hated the smell of that ,I think we used Germolene and I wasn't keen on that smell either.

Talking about smells I ordered or rather son ordered some O'Keeffes working hands cream for my split thumb, it was six pound and he said did I want the scented or unscented, the unscented was six the scented was 20 pound .....14 pound for a little scented I don't think so .

Can you still get TCP? We always had that in before as long. I don’t know why we stopped buying it. My dad used to swear by it too. That very definite smell, and taste. Used to gargle with it too for a sore yhroat.

I don't know Annx what would they do without us? My oh would never have a plaster on just walk around with dried blood on his hands or fingers but if I cut myself he would insist I put something on it and TCP first too.

No Mel no rain here hardly a cloud in the sky .

Oh dear Ann good job you kept the dressings and the bleeding has stoped ,let's hope he doesn't catch it again and get it on the bedding tonight or there'll be more washing .

We sat out this afternoon in the shade as we got that new box out of the shed that we keep the chair cushions in and we now have a new padlock for it , it will save marching down to the shed each time we want a chair cushion .

Neither of us were that hungry tonight and as I hadn't planned a roast we both had a sandwich and an apple pie.

Just had a heavy shower although it didn’t last long but it smells gorgeous out there after even that short shower.