General Chat

Yes.

Do you have naturally curly hair ,straight or do you have a perm...?

mainly at home although we did go away for a short break over the New Year last year, some years I have to work though.

Do you buy Charity Xmas Cards?

My parents and parent's in law have died, my sister lives in the US and my bil
lives North Wales, so it's a bit impractical.lol
My closer living cousins all have their own large families, so it will just be the 4 of us:))

Do you celebrate the new yr out or at home..?

Sorry Sandie, I never have liked beetroot. Although now you can get crisps of mixed root veg, I like it in that.

I've been growing veg for the first time this year. Never had enough space before except for a few pots of tomatoes. But my tomatoes came to nothing this year - they were doing beautifully and suddenly keeled over. Similar with potatoes, but I did get a very small crop of them at least. And everyone says they do taste better home grown. They both succumbed to a disease, I can't remember what it's called, but I'm not the only one apparently and the two plants are related so that's why they both collapsed.

At the moment I still have a few cucumbers in the greenhouse to finish off, and I have leeks, celeriac, jerusalem artichokes and brussels sprouts which all look to be doing well. My daughter wanted me to grow the celeriac and the sprouts for Christmas.

People are very divided over the Christmas sprouts. We all love them in our house but are you a sprout lover or hater?

| don't like the smell of lavender, dad always grew it in the garden , but I never liked it, with no disrespect it was like an old women's smell. Don't like sage either, dad used to grow all herbs. Don't like mint, everyone else in the house does tho so we grow it ,. Love parsley but not thyme
I like rosemary tho. And chives I adore.

We have a large garden and hubby grows loads of veg, unfortunately it's going over now expect for the sprouting broccoli, I do hope that comes thro cos I luv it

Do you like beetroot..? (Home grown is wonderful)

I'm a pretty healthy sort so far, luckily. But I do get migraines and I use conventional medicines for that when it's really getting to me, but if I feel a headache beginning to come on I will try lavender oil on my temples and getting some sleep to try to prevent it becoming major. Seems to work sometimes but not all the time.

Actually l'm a bit of a fan of lavender oil and find it's helpful for lots of minor probs. I also grow quite a few herbs in my garden and like to make sure at the moment that I have something with sage n it reasonably regularly, being of a certain age. So I sort of mix and match a bit.

Have you ever cooked with lavender? It's lovely instead of rosemary with lamb. And I've tried it in other things too.

My husband went through a phase of making our own wine and my dad also, we still talk about dad's experiment with pea pod wine, UGH !!
The best wine my husband made was plum really nice.

Have you or do you still use herbal medicine over conventional?

Done a sky water flight on hols! Never again !
Love to go up in a WW2 plane or helicopter tho

Dad used to all the autumn picking, living in the country,and eat them or make wine with them.

Have you ever made home made wine...?

The autumn colours are really coming along now. It's been so lovely the past week or so watching them develop, especially on my drive to and from work when I get lovely views over the Wiltshire Downs. Reminds me - must look where I'm going. There was a balloon flight going over on my way home today.

Have you ever done anything like that? I missed out on holiday last year as I was ill on the day but I've been up in a WW2 plane which was fun.

I pick blackberries to go with apples for a pie and blueberries to sprinkle on ice cream or cereal. I also like to roast the chestnuts from the nearby forest.

Where I live the colours on the trees are just like America in the fall, have you been lucky in your area with the same thing ?

Not so far, but I'm thinking it might be soon. We have an aga so the heat does go through the house a bit taking the edge off the ground floor and upstairs, but we all like to sleep in cool rooms anyway so no-one complaining yet. We haven't even lit the lounge fire yet and that's downstairs where the heat doesn't get to so that's always the coolest place in the house.

I see we've had our first frost last night. Our gardens seem to have been protected from it but it's still lying on the farmland over the back the other side of the river. I protected my tender plants yesterday so not a moment too soon. And now I can go off and pick my sloes for gin as the best ones are on the footpath over the farmland that got the frost.

Do you collect and use country harvest for anything during the year, and what do you make?

No, they seem to be ok, we have more chestnut trees in our area, although not many people bother picking them up in the woods.


Have you put your central heating on yet ?

No I've never done that, but this is my 2nd year making sloe gin so we've been out on a few sloe hunts so far this autumn. Where we used to live there was a whole long road that had horse chestnuts along it so it was fabulous for conkering with the kids. Used to collect them and put some of them in a bowl on the hall table while they were really shiny. I don't see many conkers on the trees in our new area. But some of the trees have had to be taken down.

Have the horse chestnuts in your area been affected by the disease that's been going round?

Ronan Keating..

Do you nutting in the autumn for hazel nuts. .?

Dad an I used to when I was young, but he continued for yrs after, and he used to put a box at the top of the stairs and his dog used to go and nick them :)))sometimes ate the shells also!

I do all my housework myself, never had any one come into my home and pay them to do any jobs apart from general workmen,(carpet fitters, Gas men etc)
My Hubby is very good at DIY so prefers to do the job himself rather than paysome one.


Off to a Cliff Richard & the Shadows concert to night. have you ever been to a concert to see a favourite person on stage?

It depends
I'm a libran ...sits on the fence ,.... tries to see both sides .(whichever way you look at it .lol)

At work I always speak my mind , sod the consequences !
With personal issues I tend to be the opposite as I don't like upset.

Do you have a cleaner (or like me ) do your own?
My friends have them and send their ironing out!!

Getting married, closely followed by the birth of my second child ( first was horrendous very close to an emergency C Section)

What was your worst memory ?

I love the house we have now. We will have been here a year at the end of the week. It's in the countryside, it's big and detached, I have an aga in the kitchen, and we have a river at the bottom of the garden and the other side of the river there is farmland with cattle on the field and sometimes we see deer over there. But we have lived in a couple of real shockers on the way and it's taken a lot of determination and a leap of faith to achieve what we have now. We moved from London (which I also liked for other reasons but I wouldn't go back to the rush and hustle) and it's surprising how much further the pennies go here.

If you had the choice what sort of home would you like and where?

I still do thank goodness. But I get unnecessarily scared of the dentist. Luckily when I went a few weeks ago I didn't need anything doing. Also I'm always scared when I have to have all the little MOT checks to do with all my girly areas too and am naughty and try to delay them as much as possible. But I had to have a biopsy after one of them a few years back and somehow I was brave about that. It's not made me any better though - I wish it had - I know I'm being silly to myself.

Do you avoid doing things you really should get down to?

Yes.. my dau and I fall out big time regularly.
She couldn't see why she should pay board and lodge although she was working and bought loads of clothes, jewellery etc, although we paid all her uni fees! She has' been working 2 yrs!
She is now contributing to the household fund::::) by direct debit! into our account.


Do you have all your teeth, or dentures or crowns ? I had to have a replacement crown today!