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No Moving shed today, non stop rain getting heavier too :-| :-|

Morning All and Evening Kim,

Been raining here and the sky is sloudy.

Dos'nt make you want to do anything.

Did anyone see the program on Pride and Predergist (sp) the Ball yesterday night? It was very interesting.



Forgot to thank William for the pics yesterdy. Frank too love the pics of the procupine which is an American hedgehog.

Ann and Gordon should be there by now if they left early. Hope they had a safe journey.

Done it again wrote the post and did'nt post it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Morning at last.

How are you all ??

Will. You can always try Weetabi# with warm milk. they soften down very well, and somehow I like them.

Jane You will be through the tunnel before you know it. I have only been through it in a car. You can then tune into a radio station that tells you all about the digging of the tunnel, and where all the earth was placed on the French side. Are you going on a coach, or train ??? Behave yourself !! we don't want to have to bail you out of prison lol lol

I bet Ann is on her way by now, SAFE JOURNEY SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. .

Not a very special morning here, still cloudy, and rain promised for later. Was going to clean outside windows, but don't somehow fancy it.

Will, I am pleased to say that nothing really puts me off, I love the sea , high bridges, helicopters, looking down from cliffs to the sea below. When in Las Vegas, we flew the Grand Canyon in a helicopter. It was the most amazing thing and thrill I have ever had.

Morning All, Evening Kim.
Morning William.

Pouring down here, OH did go out for a couple of hours on his bike, but said in this weather there was not so many daft folk on the roads, (He said it :-P)
Waiting till lunch time to find out if he is moving shed, I told him I think it's to rain all day, will text the rest of the family later.

Good morning everybody, another EROOR message day on GR. Had to come in via Google & 'steps' again this morning. Looking changeable out there.

Had to go back to the dentist again yesterday afternoon, an infection where the root was taken out, oh hum, back on the antibiotics. At least I'm getting used to the 'two toothed' plate a bit with the aid of Polygrip! Gosh, I never thought I'd get this old and loose my tooth. Do you recall in our parents days, everyone over the age of 30 seemed to have dentures. It was nothing unusual to see their sets of gnashers in a little pot in the bathroom - they were normally 'in-soak' overnight. I susppose I've done well to keep what I've got as long as I have given the wartime food that we had - but then again, maybe that's the secret - no junk food then!

Carmel has still got blisters in her mouth, we don't know if it's from this virus she has or from the lichen planus that's been added to her ailments. At least she can brag of having more teeth than me :-D

No plans today, take it easy I guess and see how the weather pans out. I'm still trying to get soft foods down and it's a time for innovation with food. Malted milk biscuits dunked in warm tea are a bit like when we used to give the kids Farley's rusks!!!

Hope Ann has a good holiday and a safe journey. Jane you said you don't like tunnels, it's long bridges that I don't like. One's like the Severn, Hull and Menai make me feel like I'm being hypnotised, I get the feeling that any minute I'm going to jerk the steering wheel and crash into the side. Does anyone thing that's allied to vertigo? I can't stand heights and yet I've been up in a helicopter and that didn't bother me?

Right, lets go and see what mash I can get for my breakfast. C Y A L

Night Night Ann .Hope you have a good nights sleep and are raring to go in the morning.
I will be taking a big deep breath going through the tunnel.Tunnels give me the willies.I start to feel a bit claustrophobic .But I think Janice and I will be so busy nattering that we will be the other side before I know it :-D
Have a safe journey tomorrow ,and a great week .

I feel just about ready for my bed too.I have a new book to start on my Kindl* :-D

Maureen I hope little Harry has a lovely Birthday on Saturday.
and Frank hope Conrad manages to sort your computer out for you.I think you said he would do it this weekend.
Right that is me now for the night .........Where is Pat???? It's been a while now since we heard from her :-S

Well, that's me done and 'done in' now and really needing a holiday! This afternoon I found a top I meant to return and it would be too late if I left it till we got back, so I had to go haring off to the shop for a last minute refund!! :-S There's always some last minute thing isn't there.

Thanks for your good wishes and please, NO rain dancing next week, I've banned it!! I've decided to take a thicker coat as well now......thoughts of bracing wind on the coast.....also stuck a scarf in my shoe bag. :-S The 3 small pots of little seedlings are in a box ready to go!! They can live in the utility when we get there!! lol. No Mandy, they won't be going on any daytrips. :-)lol. OH made a thoughtful comment earlier......'you usually bring some plants back, don't you'. What with seedlings and shrubs/plants I think he was imagining peering through foliage like a japanese sniper driving home.

I haven't finished the bag yet Mandy, I've just been too busy. The teacher was expecting to take a pic of it today as well. I just need to sew on the little flowers and beads, but will send a pic when it's done. :-) One of the ladies at class wrote me a little list of out of the way places we must visit next week. She does her family tree as well and had rellies from Cornwall way back and one built his own cottage, so I want to see that.

Jane I hope you and Janice have a lovely time in France. It will do you both good ..........you will enjoy the tunnel on the Eurostar. I think a Croque Madame would be much nicer than frogs legs....yuk!! I will catch up with you when we are both back as I am off to my bed now as I was awake with 'things still to do' buzzing around my head till nearly 4.00am this morning. :-S OH has already said he will be up early tomorrow!! :-S His car is absolutely gleaming now, I'd forgotten just how red and shiny it was. :-)

Nighty night ............ xx :-D

Mandy my French is just what I remember from school days.I can understand more than I can speak.I think janice will be the same.I do like to have a go though even if I sound like a right idiot lol Janice is more likely to have snails .I'm afraid I stick the the safe things that I know.I bet horse will be on the Menu somewhere,but I'll give that a miss too.I'm not very adventurous with food.I tend to stick with what I know.But when it comes to puddings etc I'll give anything a go :-D

Back to wet cozzies.Remember trying to get changed on the beach under a tent thing that your Mum made??.Trying to lift one foot and shaking off wet sand so it didn't get into the costume.It never worked .It always ended up in the awkward bits :-S.How uncomfortable was that...Very scratchy!.....Going home and rinsing out the swimsuit ,and the sink would be full of sand.Tar on the feet and flip flops or plimsoles and having to use that stuff called Tar Off (or something like that).The smell was so strong it nearly knocked you out.I remember going to the beach one day in my white school plimsoles and coming home with them looking black because of all the tar.It would often get walked into the carpet :-S :-S.Then I would get a right old rollicking.

Chris has just arrived ,so will go and see what his day has been like....and get dinner on :-D

Yes Jane i get a stabbing pain and a burning sensation too,i think it;s the change in the weather ,although sill no rain here ,the suns now shining !!
I don't think Chris and James will starve ,you said you had filled the freezer so they are bound to find some thing in there , i suppose it will be Frog Legs and Snails for you and Janice LOL
Do either of you speak any french ?

Ann, i had to smile when you said you were taking the seedlings with you :-D are you taking them out each day with you :-D :-D :-D :-D LOL i hope they don't get car sick :-D :-D

Frank, i tried having a sweep out side near the back door but the bits just kept swirling round and round so i gave up in the end !!

Ewww yes chewing gum under the school desks yuk !!
and swimming costumes :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D so hard to get back on and all the sand that would gather in the back side too !! :-D :-D :-D

Frank it is still too windy here to sweep anything.The good is that the washing is whizzing around nicely :-D
I just looked up the longer range weather for Lille next week.It only looks about 14 to 17 degrees.I still don't know what to pack :-S.I know I am not taking a coat or jacket.Just a thin rain jacket and medium thick card.They will do to go over anything.I don't feel the cold much so that should be ok for me.
James is going to cook a Curry for him and Chris on Monday,and I will get something easy for them for the rest of the time I'm away.I don't think I should have to bother really as they are quite capable of sorting themselves out.I'm sure they won't starve lol
I had a couple of little faces looking at me through the kitchen window just now.....the Robins :-D.I don't know if one is Buster or not.There are too many different ones now.I think a couple are young ones.

Fitz has just lent me a little book.....It is called 'I Remember' and is by someone called Joe Brainard .Each little memory begins with the words I Remember.He grew up in the 40's and 50's.It brilliant .
I will pick out some of his memories and put some on the thread when I post.
To start off
I remember sitting on top of a horse and thinking how High up I was
I remember rubbing my hands under the table and feeling all the gum
I remember very old people when I was very young.Their houses smelled funny.
I remember trying to put on a not quite dry bathing suit (ugh)
I remember not trusting pressure cookers

I too remember trying to get on a damp or wet swimming costume .It was a nightmare trying to pull it up and getting the straps to get to the shoulders lol

Jane you must be kidding, who's ever going to trust Dr. Death with seedlings :-D :-D :-D

Still having trouble with getting internet connection, when ever I get to what I want it tells me I have lost the connection. I am tearing my hair out (what I have left)

We had another letter this morning from Sandant## saying about being accepted for new credit cards. We haven't applied and have reported the fact to their fraud dept. TWICE and the police. I sent them a very stern email this morning, saying if this persists, I will take it further.

Have just watered the front garden, all the bedding plants are starting to wilt. I'm sorry to say. We do need some prolonged night time rain. Ros is having a sweep up on the patio. When she's finished I will go and water out there.

All this trouble with joints, is down to arthritis, I suffer terrible in my fingers, wrists, knees and shoulders How about you Will. ??

Ros is doing one of her curry's tonight, so I have a night off.

It's warming up lovely now,and the sun is shining :-D.I just told James to get his washing out quick lol
Have just got back from Fitz.he had a great time in North Devon with plenty of sunshine.The cats he was looking after weren't that impressed having him stay.I suppose he was a stranger but they were fine.One kept hissing at him :-S

Mel I can't believe your hair is nearly down to your knees !!!!! Do you ever trim the ends off ?

Fiona I think we are due rain tomorrow but hopefully up with you it will be dry enough for OH and the others to move the shed.

Mandy does your thumb and wrist get that stabbing pain ?Mine does and it makes me yelp :-S.

Well I changed my cardigan and got another,only to get home and see I picked up the wrong size :-S.So that is another trip to town tomorrow :-| :-|

William what smashing pics of the sunrise this morning :-D :-D

Are you all set now Ann? are the little seedlings going with you? lol Iwould have looked after them for you if we were nearer........mind you after Chris's tomato plants disaster I doubt that you would put your trust in me ;-)

Afternoon Everyone, Evening Kim.

Spitting rain here, but not cold, I had stripped the bed and hug the sheets on line, but have just had to do a quick dash to bring them in.

not doing anything much today, on and off the computer and finishing some ironing.
Hope tomorrow stays dry, OH wants to move the wooden garden shed with the help of Son in law and daughter no 2 boyfriend to the back of the garage where he already has finished laying down the new slabs.

Afternoon everyone ,evening Kim,

Still a bit on the windy side here this morning ,black clouds keep appearing but we've only had a few spits of rain !!

I see William was up with the Lark this morning to get the lovely sunrise photo :-D
Hope your gums are not to sore this morning after the extraction ,no more biting on chocolate William with these new teeth .............you'll just have to let it melt in the mouth :-D

If i don't catch you before you go Ann i hope you both have a lovely relaxing time away in Cornwall, and i hope the weathers kind to you ,did you finish the felted bag ?

My thumb joint and wrist on my left hand seem to be really painful today :-S think i might have to find my strapping and put it on :-S

BBL

Morning All and Evening Kim,

Dull and cloudy, miserable and grey here but it is'nt raining......yet.

Fiona I see what you mean about your hair but you will feel much better when you can go and get it cut and coloured.

William you and Carmel have a quiet day today and recover from all the things that have happened over the last few days. I think you deserve a day off.

I have had this post on the screen for nearly an hour and forgot to post it!!!!!!!

Morning Ann,Frank and all /Evening Kim

It's still blowing out there ,but not as fierce thank goodness,but it is pretty dark and threatening rain :-S

Do you have an early get away tomorrow Ann?.I know when we go on holiday Chris always says a time we need to leave but then it's usually an hour later lol

I'm off on Monday Frank.Janice will come here on Sunday ,then our train from Kettering is at 11 .The Euro Star from St Pancras is at 1 and we arrive in Lille an hour and twenty minutes later.Brilliant. :-D.Not sure about trouble Frank but you can never tell when the 2 of us get together :-D :-D

Right I need to take a cardigan back It's horrible,and I have no idea why I bought it

:-S BBL

Good morning all/Evening Kim.

Oh what a lot of trouble trying to get on here yesterday. After my first posting I tried 5 different times, and I just couldn't make contact. I tried everything, but no luck. So this morning was to be hit or miss, then I would have emailed Jane/Mel to say I couldn't get on.

Glad you have your teeth sorted now Will. You will be able to do an advert for COLGAT# toothpaste with a big smile lol lol

Hope the weather improves for you Ann. If you don't go till Monday, this wind and rain should have cleared. I won't be around Sunday, so if I can't get back on have a nice few days break.

Shirl. You know you love having the FAMILY to take over your house, have they been looking after you or vis versa??? I'm sure the "HORRORS" look after you lol lol.
Hope the biopsy turns out O.K. keep us posted <3 <3 <3

When are you off Jane, I'm sure it won't be long now !! LOOK OUT FRANCE Trouble is on it's way :-D :-D

What a day yesterday was, :-| :-| That wind blew everything around the garden that wasn't NAILED down. The number of time I had to go out and pick up plants in pots, and move them. Where ever I put them the wind seemed to get at them. I packed them tightly together in the end.

Still breezy this morning but nothing like yesterday. Very cloudy, so I expect we will get rain later.

Hope you all have a good day, I will try to get back later, but who knows !!!

Morning All,

It was sunny here an hour ago but now it is spitting with rain and OH has just gone to get the car washed. :-S

I think Gnasher was Dennis the Menace's dog, not cat, Mel. I can just picture him now.

Oh Shirl, I wouldn't know if I was coming or going with a houseful like that. Was it the weather or the plumbing that caused the flood? I just hope there wasn't too much damage. I hope your biopsy results are good and come through soon. It's been one thing after another for you lately.

I'm glad yesterday's ordeal is over for you both William and hope the gum soon heals over. I think a quiet day is in order for you both today, hope Carmel's throat isn't too bad this morning.

Yes Jane it was last year we expected rain, rain, rain but got sun, sun, sun!!!
:-) I don't think it will be the same this year though!! Is it Monday you will be setting off with Janice? I just have to pack some tops and shoes now after a last minute look at the forecast later. I'm determined to go to Dingles Fairground Museum on the way back this year.......might even manage to clamber on the gallopers!!

Shirl you have certainly been busy with the family and appointments. Hope the results are clear. How long before you get them?

William I bet you and Carmel can't wait for this year to be over. You have had such bad things happen to the both of you.

Dennis the Menace had a cat called Gnasher.