General Chat

Oh is cleaning out something to do with the pond. Keeps him happy.!! :-D :-D

My knee is not too bad today and I am not wearing my usual slipper type shower shoes as they seem to have been worn down on the inside of the left foot which is the bad knee. I have on a very old pair of very flat sandels with a criss cross on the front and a butterfly bow on them. You must know what I mean as they were in every shop imaginable a few years ago. Floral patterned. I seem top hurt it if I turn on it quickly so am being very causeous.

Had our lunch so it's only a sandwich tonight and I have some nice tin salmon with no bones in for that and a cue out the tunnel, with fresh fruits salad and icecream.

Blast and dam, just lost a long post. Will close now, ready for lunch. Catch you later

Afternoon everyone
I was a right old lazy bones this morning.Got up just after 10 !! .Then before I had my shower and hairwash I decided to clear all the ironing.I eventually came downstairs at 12.30.
It's a funny day weather wise dark ,cloudy and a bit close.

ooh Mel that bite looks sore and all swollen.I haven't had a horse fly bite for many years but remember how bad they can be :-S
David is your hair curly? Does it look like a mop? :-D...Don't forget ,if you have trouble with rabbits in the garden Save your cut hair and sprinkle it about the edges of the garden .Rabbits don't like Human hair.It worked a treat here for a while.

Frank you will be going home for a rest by the sound of it lol.Ella has certainly taken a shine to you :-D

Pat I hope your new fish settle and survive.I just love watching fish swim about in the tanks.It is so relaxing.

What meat is cooking then Fiona?We are doing another BBQ.I say we .Chris is :-D
I'm just thinking of doing the Normandy Pork today so it will be done for tomorrow,just needing the Creme Fraiche ,Mustard etc adding .It makes sense to do it today as it is not hot.Tuesday it will be Pasta.So thats us sorted now until Wednesday.

I have had some brilliant pics through from Hannah from the floating island .Goodness I can't imagine living on Reeds and my house and everything made of reeds.It is quite incredible.Apparently Hannah became very itchy when she was on the island (because of the reed) and has had to take antihistamine.
I will send a few pics out later.Some might be a bit hazy and not too clear.
I think now they are heading back to Lima to get ready for the flights home.

Chris is calling so off now.

We have the sun but like you Mel we have a few clouds which is keeping it cooler :-D :-D not a lot on to day going to go up to the cemetery to put flowers on parents grave after lunch,

Family down for dinner as usual, Victoria not working too late so might make it for something to eat later on.

must turn the oven down can smell the meat, :-D :-D

Morning all ,evening Kim,

Cloudy here again ,feeling much fresher outside , i think it should heat up again tomorrow .

Ann, thanks for the photo's ,what a good idea putting the stones round the rotary socket , veg is all looking good too.
I have picked seven cucumbers ,but i noticed that some of the small ones where they are just forming from the flower are turning yellow and not growing .

LOL Frank, little ones can certainly keep you busy , you can imagine what it's like when i have three of them here and a little one crawling about !! :-D

They have all been here this morning ,son had hubby up in the loft looking for his
tent !! they thought they would put it up in the garden for the children to play in over the holidays ,when we pulled it out of the bag the inside was all stained !! so i bunged it in the washing machine , but what ever it is hasn't come out , but at least it has had a wash and freshened it up .

Goodness David i should think you will be glad to get your hair cut ,it must be quite long after all these months , get that cut you'll feel like a new man :-D

Pat i had to goggle the fish , they are very pretty ,lets hope they can survive then .

Mel, you have some nasty bites there , get plenty cream on them .

Love to Shirl if your looking in <3 hope things are getting better .

Hubby's still tiling in the kitchen :-S

Lunch time already , BBL

Afternoon all and evening Kim,

Still hot and sunny here but we have a few white clouds today and a good breeze.

Oh is out ringing and will be back soon so I better get the breakfast ready.

BBL

Well peace all around us !!

Jan, is busy on her computer, Ros is in the shower then packing the bags. I will get those in the car out of the way. and relax till we go home late afternoon/evening.

Where is everyone, sitting in the garden in the cool ???

I don't know about a haircut David, I think you will need an ESTIMATE first. to see if you can afford it in one go :-D :-D :-D

Conrad has been on Skype. He has clients going to his "OFFICE" porta cabin to see about signing up on a purchase of an apartment at 1.00 pm our time. So lets hope it all goes well. It was over 30 degrees this morning out there. and we complain !!!

I think it's starting to brighten up, Jan said keep thinking that way, you never know you might be right. ;-) ;-)

Oh it is quiet here. <3 <3 <3 I think Jan is picking Ella up at about 1,30 pm, so I suppose we should enjoy the peace while we can. Bless her !!!

What you all up to today then, any nice surprises ???

Morning all evening Kim.

Well the weather has certainly been cooler these last 2 days..Been overcast here,but no rain.
Mocha was really feeling it..I feel sorry for the people who cant move around.

Went to my brothers yesterday he is in sheltered accomadation...He has his own flat in the main complex..The corridors were so hot and airless...his room is only a little better.he bought himself a air conditioning unit...which was definatly needed in there..and the fan was going but it still made me feel light headed.

With our platties now getter old and dying off we have bought some more fish

We have some more cardinal tetra and rummy nose tetras..I hope they all survive..Have read up since that the rummy nose ones are not so hardy with the water..Havent seen their before ..they are quite pretty...

The avatar is my late Father Samuel.

I'm getting my hair cut tomorrow tea time.
A neighbour asked the barber hu uses if he did house calls.
Going to get a lot cut off.The lsast time it was cut was at The Head Shed in Bedlington about February.That'll give you an idea how much its grown.

Was cooler last night but I didn't sleep much, my knee was going dolally (sp)

Sadie the bra lady LOL They're not that bad,just lying around so long has made parts of me go flacid.

I lost weight in hospital despite a healthy appetite.

Morning all/Evening Kim,

RAIN last night. Nice and cool this morning, very still, so it could mean and looks like more rain due.

We had Indian for three of use last night and Chinese for Ros. Ell had a bit of Jans.

Kerry who stayed last night is taking Ella home with her for a few hours. She lives at Weldon about 10 miles away. So we (ME) can have a day off from her.

I have been trying to read a new story in my E book but the bedside light is so dim it's impossible . and with Ella around me all day, as soon as I start all I hear is FRANK FRANK can you come here. and do this or that. So with a bit of luck I should get a few chapters in today.


We were going to do another BBQ today, but it has been decided Jan will do a Roast. She has never cooked one for us before, it's always been Conrad's job.

I think the shower is empty, so I had better gram it before someone else.

See you later.

Yes, the light breeze here has been nice today, but the supermarket down the road seemed to be saving on their aircon today and it was really humid and stuffy in there......or maybe it had packed up through overwork the last few days. :-S

Frank I would love to have seen those haircuts!! :-0 lol

Yes Mel, the beans do turn green when cooked as do the purple mange tout we have. I had a surprise with the runners this year........the flowers are mixed red plants and white!! The 3 toms are all going to be different I'm sure! A few are nearly ripe on the Gardeners Delight (which all 3 plants should be!) , but the toms on another are going to be yellow I think and maybe much bigger toms on the 3rd plant!

William. OH and I sleep in separate rooms we have done that now for over a year , since I started with this head problem, also I didn't get much sleep with OH snoring I always ended going into the back bedroom when I couldn't stand it any longer, , also OH is like a hot water bottle, and my hot flushes were awful , on & off with the sheets, it's so much easier at the moment with this hot weather too just being on my own. :-D

I managed to sit under the brolly all afternoon, it was so much better with having that breeze

Just put the dishwasher on after our BBQ, so will go back out and sit in the sun till it goes down behind next doors garage .

we had chicken, ribs, and sausage, with new pots for me, chips for everyone else, with salad, and apple pie and ice cream to follow, yummy :-D :-D

William ,nothing wrong in having separate beds/rooms.I get a far better sleep if I have to sleep in the spare room.Chris often says why don't I just stay there :-S :-S
Frank ,I often have to give Chris a bit of a nudge when he stops breathing !.I lie there waiting for the seconds to go by and then decide it's long enough .He normally does a bit of a snort ,turns over and has gone again.
Do our OH's notice if us girls do the non breathing thing??????I doubt it very much :-S.It is pretty scary though .
Chris has lit the BBQ ....just for 2 steaks !!!!! I'm doing everything else in the oven.Bonkers or what ???

I hope all horsefly bites have calmed down .Nasty things :-S

Making sheep sh*t pie for tonight with cabbage. Just boiled the mince etc over on the stove!! What a bl**dy mess. That will teach me to go and feed the fish whilst cooking.

Must corn the chickens.

Good day everybody, bit cooler here today, cloudy with a nice breeze. Having said that, it is still very muggy in some of the shops, even with fans running.

Ruby, I'm not worried about 'the little people'. Being married to an Irish Colleen, I've believed in the 'little people' for a long while now. When the winter comes along, I just tell them that the shed is 'home' and they are quite happy to stay in there till spring :-)

We went shopping locally yesterday and then Carmel suggested we went on to Lutterworth where we could have some lunch in M*rrisons. Was it the heat, but we went in about four shops, including the last ones café and the people working there were so miserable. In the café, where there were about 4 others, the girl was adding up on the till for our meal and asked if we wanted a drink. I said I'd have a coffee but would go back and order it later. She said "you could pay for it now and avoid queuing", I turned round to the empty space and said "what queue?" - She just said it could get busy later - which it didn't. All that without any humour! We did buy a few things in the store after and to break the gloom, the girl on the till was pleasantness itself. Good for her.

Today we used our bus passed and went into Coventry. It was the same old same old and even more shops and market units closed down, what a sad state of affairs. On the return leg we made the mistake we had made before. Thinking we had got on the No 20, and thought to ask a lady sitting in front during the journey if was the 20, and she said it was the 20E, which goes part way then diverts. We got off further down the road and switched to the next bus.

Ann, the flowers usually are good in both Nuneaton and Bedworth. At one time the council had their own greenhouses in both Riversley Park and Bedworth Miners Park. Sadly, it's now contracted out but the blooms are still good. What we do miss is that in late spring they would have greenhouse sales in both parks and you could get some great bargains. I saw your photo of the flower display in Abbey Street, and you can see the dear old Ritz cinema in the background, now sadly neglected. Have some happy memories of times spent in there. Sometimes they used to have concerts and I was privileged to see the Australian 'Seekers' there with Judith Durham and her beautiful clear voice. My kids grew up listening to Morningtown Ride.
The modern looking chapel on the right in that photo (think it's Baptist), I sang in there with the choir and the acoustics were brilliant.
Like yourself, I couldn't get over the term 'batches' when I first came to the area. I was once asked if I'd wanted a batch and I replied "No, one will do, thanks" No wonder they smiled at me!!!

Oh, yes, last night about 9 ish, I was on the computer up here in my den and I couldn't keep my eyes open. I popped down to Carmel and said I would have a rest for half an hour on my bed then go down and share a bit of TV with her. I woke up at 11.45pm and Carmel had gone to bed and locked the place up. I had been unconscious so I must have needed it. In case anyone's wondering, we have a bedroom each, we would never get any sleep now if we were in the same bed!

Ann I meant to ask do the purple french beans go green when you cook them????

Why is everybody epeating themselves???? :-S

My horsefly bite is now about an inchand a quarter across and it is just on the muscle of my right arm. Knee not getting any better today and keeps catching me out.

Am making a shepherds pie in stages!! We have a breeze outside today but it is still hot and we have the two fans going in the kitchen at the mo.

Hi to Fatty Frank, ;-) Don't let Ella wear you out. She sounds a barrel of laughs to me.

Ann I do like the colour of your rocks and the way you have put them round the rotery socket, it looks great and covers the bit sticking out the ground. Very clever.

You don't have to REPEAT it JANE !!!! I*'m not fat really at 5' 11" and weighing `13 stone 4 lbs, you can hardly call that FAT.

Had a nice forty winks in peace and quite, thank goodness Kerry is coming this evening it will give me a break from Ella. I have never known a child that can talk all day. The only time we get any peace is when she's asleep.

She had the film "HAPPY FEET" on before they went out. She didn't want to go, giving the excuse that she would stay a look after Frank.

I've just had a cup of tea, but can't fin d any biscuits !!!

Yep, I'm hoping this weather will help my greenhouse a great deal, I will be out there tomorrow evening, watering everywhere, and the neighbours. What a good bloke I am, pat on the back, I think !!!

I'm glad Chris has got you on your toes, running around after him. I thought that was what wife's are for. I'VE JUST PUT MY TIN HAT ON :-D :-D :-D

I see Jane and Ann have the HIC CUPS.

Fiona, It must be a lot better for you having a cooler day. Keep cool, and have plenty of cool drinks. !!

David, I remember as kids Mum giving us haircut money, and we went into the shed, with a pair of scissors and a comb, thinking IT CAN'T BE THAT HARD to cut each other hair, well after cutting a bit off here and there, and again an again, we ended up almost bald. Have you ever seen three boys walking around in mid summer in balaclava's , Well that's how we ended up.!!! So don't get the idea of doing it yourself lol

It's just perfect here now. Doors open with a nice cool breeze blowing through.

I have just had in here the BIGGEST BUMBLE BEE I have seen for years. I managed to catch it in my handkerchief and release it into the garden. I hate to kill them.

Afternoon all
Hello Fatty Frank :-DI love that lol It sounds like little Ella is enjoying your company.
Your plants and veg should be ok now it is so much cooler today.I think it is warming up again though.

David you will just have to have a pony tail if no volunteers are found to give you a trim.As for the fan that went walk about in the hospital .I bet another nurse pinched for another ward .Maybe you will have to have a visit to Sadie for a fitting lol if you now have t*ts ;-).I'm sure once you get moving and exercising again you will get those pecs back :-D :-D

Frank that helicopter hotel email was brilliant .I did say to Chris I wonder why we hadn't heard about it on the news lol and how on earth would it stay up in the sky !!!!
A great April fool :-D

Black Christmas trees are definitely not for me.I do like my real ones.,and
as for the upside down ones well how ridiculous.I do remember seeing them a few years back.

I have been in and out like a yoyo today.I went to As** and managed to get another sundress .one of these Bandeau ones (no straps) which comes just past my knees.
Trouble with it being the Bandeau type Chris thinks it funny to suddenly pull it down :-S :-S.Silly boy.
Then I came home,got a shout from Chris from down the garden.He was waving a watering can at me.He only bought it yesterday and it leaks !!!!! so he wanted me to take it back to the garden centre to change it.I did that and then got started on hanging the curtains upstairs....I ran out of glider hooks for the rail so then I had to traipse off again all the way to Dun***.I have finally got the curtains up.What a job that was trying to get the rail hooks clicked on .I can hardly move my wrists and thumbs now.

:-S

Ann smashing photos again and whopper Cucumbers.I have had to give some of away as we just haven't been able to eat them all.Your rocks look really nice,just sets everything off nicely :-D

I'll be back in a while .I think I'll go and join Chis .I see he has just sat down outside so will get a cold drink.