General Chat

Lost the themom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was hanging on the end of the tunnel inside but not there now. Perhaps it has exploded and gone into cyber space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

I do miss Frank's posts when he is away. Dos'nt he usually take his pc with him?

Shame your weather is'nt as nice as ours Jane. I must go and open the top doors in the tunnel as I have forgotten to do it today. Everything will be roasting in there and I won't have to cook the veg thats comes out!!!!!!!!!! Will have a look at the thermom and see what temp it is in there.

Morning/Evening All

Mel the photo was the Grouse !!! (4.30 am ).I haven't got a pic yet of the Chaffinch.That is the one who eats the Fatsticks on the window sill.
No it was all peaceful this morning :-D :-D.Thank goodness.We actually slept in !

No sun again :-S.So I have decided to do a proper Roast today.We haven't had a full one for so long.I just need to get Potatoes and some more veg.

I don't know why you get sideways pics Mel.I emailed myself too from the phone and it came up ok.Can you not click something to turn them around.I think I can on my laptop.

Well so much for having sunny weather until the middle of the week.I think it is going to be all cloud :-| :-|.

Ann your garden is looking absolutely lovely.All the hard work has certainly paid off.I love your waterfall.Wish I could hear it tinkling away.Janice used to have a pond with running mini waterfall and it was left on all the time.When I stayed with her I could hear it when I was lying in bed and it was so soothing.

Well I better get on so will BBL

Good morning all and evening Kim,

Another beautiful day here today. Nice and quiet as oh is out ringing.
I ache a bit today after working in the tunnel yesterday.

I have taken a garden table up there so I can do some potting etc. It was a round metal one. Maybe thats whats made me ache but I did have it in the wheelbarrow.

Jane were you awoken by your noisey friend this morning?

Thanks for all the pictures Ann William and Jane.

Jane why do the ones from your phone come out sideways. I get a crick in my neck trying to look at them. I take it it was the chaffinch.

Fiona ,I just love the new pic of Matteo :-D :-D
I really can't believe we have the heating on tonight....it's crazy...but is needed.

Just waiting for the final results of BGT.I think it has been the best finals in a while.(mind you I say that every year)
Who was the silly idiot who managed to get on the stage and chuck eggs right in the middle of a performance by those 2 lovely lads????Shame on them for doing that :-S :-S
I'll say night night now ,watch the results and then be off to bed .See you all tomorrow x

Oh Jane , heating on!!!!!!! :-0 :-0

Another sunny and a very hot day, weather lady says Scotland will have it nice till about Tuesday then the weather will break.

Sat watching a lot of wasps going in and out of next doors air brick this afternoon so he must have a nest in there, then OH went round the side of our house and we have wasps going in and out of our air brick too, so I went next door and told them, neighbours plan to go away next week so they better sort it out before they go.

Just couldn't resist this photo of Matteo pulling this funny face, he has just realised he can blow rasperries :-D :-D

William we have just put the heating on !!!!!....That shouldn't happen in JUNE :-S
Love your Sunset pics :-D.No such luck tonight me thinks :-(..
The Baby Woodpecker has just been to visit.It's a funny little thing and quite noisy.

Is it the final of BGT tonight????......Frank will be pleased :-D. I would love the young Comic to win (the 14 year old with Cerebral Palsy).I think he is brilliant.Also the act Attraction (the Shadow act)
On the TV theme.I remember hiding behind the settee when Dr Who was on back in the early 60s,with the Daleks (? spelling)...It was so scary lol.I watched it trying to be very brave :-D.I still don't like it today

What a funny old day weather-wise, just can't make up it's mind weather to be sunny, cloudy or just plain windy! Regardless I've spent ages out in the garden and just got four hanging baskets and one planter made up. The rest is what I suppose you would call 'garden admin', moving things around, tidying up sorting out compost etc. Still got plants left to do more planters when my back stops aching.

Ann, nice to think we would have passed but I go the back lanes way from our place to Atherstone, via Astley, Ansley and Birch Coppice/Ridge Lane. Takes us about 20 minutes that way if there's no tractors about and a pretty route too.

Well Bully for you Mel :-P..Not a sign of the yellow thing here :-S.It's been a very disappointing day.

Mandy I think Fuchsias are lovely plants.I don't think we have any though.My friend Margaret in Cornwall only has Fuchsias in her garden and has hundreds.

James and Jess went off to a Farmers Market in Oundle this morning.Came back with some smashing Radishes,Spring Onions,Foccacia (sp) bread,and a couple of bottles of Cordials.They then went to some little village fete on the way back.They said there lots of the traditional games like the Coconut Shy,and Hoopla etc.

Yes I do hope the noisy little blighter hasn't decided that our gatepost is it's early morning perch Mandy.I wondered if it had got lost and was screeching for its mate.I did take a pic on my phone camera but you can't make out what kind of bird it is.I still reckon it was a Grouse as we see them in the field opposite.

Hannah and John go on their trip to Peru in exactly 1 month today.They have had the
Yellow Fever jabs but need to get the Typhoid one now.The next few weeks will fly by and they will be off before they know it.
I see I have just had an email come through from Rachel(Dubai ) so will read that now.BBL

Oh Jane thats lovely. We have a bees nest in the wall just as you go through the arch to the top garden. I have to pass it every time I go up there. When I was fishing leaves and bits out the BIG water tank and chucking it on the ground the bees were coming to the wet muck and drinking off it!! I love to have bees in the garden, don't forget they do a lot of gardening for you!!

I see you have all been busy this morning as Janes post was at 2.41pm and my first post was 9.39am. I did come back and have a look to see if anyone had posted but then went up the tunnel when oh went out. He was back by just before 4 and I gave him a couple of sarnies and a coffee and now he is out digging the back field again with the digger. He has a bigger bucket on it now.


By the way WE HAVE ALL THE SUNSHINE TODAY AND IT'S HOT HOT HOT.

We have a Bee's nest in an old bird box that is on a seat down the garden !!!

Afternoon everyone,

No sun here either , it has been very cloudy and looks more like rain !!

I bought four lovely Fuchsias this morning to hang on my stand ,only four pound each ,they came in pots all ready to hang too.

We now have working house phones , the man came this morning and fitted a new box which was faulty, but so were the new phones !! so we're now back using the old ones, good job i didn't throw them away .
The new ones have been returned ,so we now have to have a look round and pick some more .

Oh heck Jane 4.30 a bit early to get woken up :-S hope he's not going to take up residence and wake you every morning !! :-D

Wonder if Frank has any sun in Rutland , it's a shame when you go away and end up with this cloud .

Afternoon/Evening All
Where is the sun?? It's not here. :-S.It is supposed to break through sometime today and it is definitely taking it's time.
I was woken at 4.30 this morning by a right old racket going on.I looked out the front window and there sitting on the gatepost was (I think ) a Grouse !!!!!!!! .It looked so funny standing the creating such a noise.It better not try that again tonight lol.I won't be amused :-S..Chris never heard a sound !!!!

I need to put my food shopping away .It's been sat on the worktops for a couple of hours now :-|

Morning All and Evening Kim,

So nice to see you posting. I hope something gets done with your neighbours mess as it could also attract snakes!! They like to get under boards and bits of pipe and general rubbish. I suppose that Jag could be worth a bit!

Lovely and sunny here with a fresh breezy wind. We had no rain in the night either so forcast was wrong for this area. Mind you on the weather map the clouds just missed Holsworthy which is 9 miles away from us.

Oh has to ring for a wedding today so will be out for an hour or two so I will just potter in the tunnel I think. See if I can find another pack of peas that are going to come up.

Morning Everyone, Evening Kim

Sun here and warm, just put the washing on and OH gone out on his bike won't be back till 11.30am so I have plenty of time to say hello then go for my shower and washing my straggly locks.

Have a nice weekend everyone :-D :-D

Hello all,

Very dull today, no sun at all. Yes we have taken more photos of the front and will submit to cancel with a complaint. Keith has spoken to him on numerous occasions, given him a card for a scrap metal man who will come and take everything away, Keith even offered to help him clear out some things. Can't say we haven't given him plenty of chances. There have been numerous complaints by other neighbours and a Council rep. has been out, but to no avail.

The fellow on the other side sold up and didn't get the price he wanted because of the mess. He also took photos and submitted to Council. You must have stricter authorities over there who will take action. Will just have to bite the bullet and ring them and demand they look at the front and backyard. Yes the car has petrol in it, he tries to start it up occasionally. The windows facing our fence are open so dampness and everything else would be in there.

Frank have a nice weekend in Rutland and everyone else too whatever your plans are. Might BBL. 5.48 pm AEST

Evening All,

I might have passed you today William as we went to the aquatics place on the A5 (got a pink dwarf waterlily there) and then carried on to D*bies Garden Centre!! I bet you had a lovely time playing with the little ones.

Frank, as we usually eat out on Sundays ........the table would be BARE !!! lol :-0 I hope you have a nice weekend in Rutland, it will be a pretty place this time of the year. You are a good guest taking a 'packed lunch' with you!! :-) It sounds like the mice have had your peas, so I hope you have better luck next time. I've been successful growing them in gutters before.....so easy to push them out along a shallow trench when they have sprouted.

The cue I thought had 'had it' is growing again and the new baby cues are green and healthy, not yellow and dropping off!! Now I have got another one I'll have to plant it somewhere else!!

What a shame about the Bantam eggs Mel........still, not all of them will be good mothers I suppose.

Kim!!! What an awful mess nextdoor.....you weren't kidding!! The lot wants taking down the tip by the look of it. It makes you wonder if the house is a mess inside too.I can see why you want to get to the bottom of what's leaking, hopefully not a drain. Do you have mains sewers where you are or do you have underground tanks that have to be emptied? Mind you that would definitely smell if it leaked. :-S I see you were right about the kitty staying!! lol.

The friend whose hubby took us to the craft show said he had a stroke while they were away at a hotel last week. (even more frightening and worrying when you don't know the area or where the hospitals are), but she said the hotel was brilliant. Luckily it didn't sound like a bad one, but he is at risk of another over the next few weeks so is on medication to reduce the risk.

That's good James and Jess cleaning the splashes off your new windows Jane.......a few brownie points for them. ! ;-)

Evening All,

Been another lovely day, very hot about 2-4, I have been under the brolly, making the most of these sunny days that's the 4th BBQ we have had , it's so much easier to eat outside , chicken, sausages and ribs, with Salad and chips, followed by Strawberries and cream , YUM YUM as Katherine's dog Kiah would say,

going for a shower as I'm all hot and sticky. this weather is forecasted till Next Monday GREAT :-D

On tracing my family back, I found that in the late 1700's they lived in Rutland and were tailors. A lot of them slowly moved south, but the Rutland roots are a bit sketchy. That was news to me and probably would have been to my Dad too.

Lovely time over in Atherstone this afternoon playing with g-children Ralph and Maggie. Had a look round the shops first and got a few more plants, as you do!