General Chat

I did sleep well last night without knowing the alarm would go off.

I have not and do not feel unwell at all. I feel irritated that the lesion should have been seen to sooner. But I am in a long queue feeling like that. Mainly I am frustrated at having to be so inactive when I would like to get outside when the weather allows and my leg stops me. It is mainly only a bit painful now. I have not got a dressing on which means one cold foot as I can't wear a sock on that foot. I just know that eventually I will get fed up, put a dressing on and just get on with things. But although the sun is shining the ground is very wet underfoot and at only 10 degrees it is very cold, so I will do some indoor jobs today.
I did make five cards yesterday, these were all re-makes from last years cards. The trouble with that is to try not to send to the person who fist sent them to me. You will all be examining your cards now and trying to remember. Amongst those 5 Mandy's was the only re-make and two were my sister's cards from the past two years.

Morning all,

Anyone got some spare sunshine you can give us here as it such a dreary rainy morning ,i was going to get the carpet washer out today and do the lounge carpet but ax it's so dreary I'm going to leave it for another day , I should have done it a few weeks ago but never got round to it .
Just having my cup of tea then will see how the day goes .

Morning girls,

My sunshine is still out at the mo. I got up for the loo when it was dark and did'nt drop off to sleep again and then the Raven started his knocking on the front door so I got up. I was going to have a nice long lie in this morning but got up.

Pc is telling me rainy days ahead and its 9 degrees.

As Gwyn said a good day to make your cards Anng and I hope today you feel a bit better.

Good idea to make some cards AnnG, as that should rest your leg.
I hope it is less painful today and that you are less tired, because you didn't have to have such an early start to take tablets.
I know someone in Bishops Cleeve. Haven't seen them for years, but we were near neighbours in Cyprus many moons ago.

Hope everyone sees some sunshine today. Ours has gone behind the many clouds, after a sunny start to the morning.

Good morning all. damp here and 7 degrees, I think it is going to be another wet day so indoor jobs again. Must get on with making Christmas cards. yesterday I made some tie on labels from last years cards. Should have enough to keep me going now.

I am, om facebook, on a group called Bishops cleeve gardeners. Although fairly local to me, BC gardeners is open to anyone who wants to join. One gardener who is very knowledgeable and lot who have good advice to give and I find the posts worth reading. However, as usual I digress. I have copied a bit about Penstemons Vera as I know you have some. sorry if you already know this, but I thought it might help.

Now is a good time to take penstemon cuttings. You could leave it later - just don't get caught out by the first real frost. As they take 8 to 12 weeks to root, taking them now means it will be approaching spring when they have to be potted up. Potting up then means you're less likely to have problems with either mildew or aphids. I just finished doing an audit of the entire collection both in the nursery and in the ground to work out which ones I needed. This morning I took probably my last cuttings this year.

Good we don't want to lose you. :-D

Thank goodness for that. :-D

Just renewed so you are stuck with me for another year :-D

Well I did do one load of washing I couldn't gp out in the garden in the dry spells as I was keeping my lesion uncovered, don't know if it helps or not all it did for me was give me cold feet as I could only wear liner socks, then they have elastic round the tops and they made my feet swell. So a dressing is back on. It was fine, inflamation seemed to go down despite the swelling and there was no pain. Then I had the Tesco order and the walking to and fro seemed to start it off again so it hurts now, hopefully that will ease when I stop walking around. Two swaps on my order both of which I accepted. one was 2 Heinz soups not available (I ony put it on yesterday. One was a big soup chicken with potatoes, they replaced it with Tesco chunky soup chicken with veg. I can't remember what the other big doup was but they replaced it with......... chicken with veg. I wonder if they employ people with brains or is it those who don't have the ability to think for themselves. Why 2 the same? I couldn't be bothere to refuse it. The other subb made me laugh I ordered the large prawns that were on offer. they sent a large pack of smoked salmon. I said to the delivery man, that will make a good curry. he laughed and shook his head. Still as smoked salmon is so expensive normally I accepted it.

I wish you joy trying to sort out that catalogue Annx. 350 pages! It's not a catalogue, it's a tome.

It's still dry and reasonably bright but there is such a cold wind out there. I've got 3 different weather apps on the PC, the iPad and my phone and for once they all agree that it's 13 degrees but disagree on how cold it actually feels. But it definitely feels a lot colder than 13.

After blobbing about for a while this morning I decided that I must do something useful so I stuck on an old, warm anorak and went into the garden. I'm still sorting the 19 troughs down the side of the house but I'm nearly there now. I think there is only 1 to go. 2 with geraniums in have come in to the conservatory, 3 have small,evergreen shrubs and have been tidied and topped up with some fresh compost, 1 has nemesia which is still blooming away. When the flowers eventually die off I'll cut them down and hope they will come back next year; they often do. The remaining troughs had annuals in. With these I pull up the dead or dying plants, make sure the troughs are weed free and top up the compost levels. Then I cover them with black plastic held down with stones which helps keep weeds down but more importantly stops the local cat population using them as litter trays. While I was out there I also cleared and washed out another of the big tomato pots. We had 6 and I've dealt with 4 of them now.

While I was doing all this OH cleared up a load of the leaves that have come down from surrounding trees and all seem to land in our garden. I have thought of leaving the ones on the beds to just rot down but the trouble is they provide a cosy spot for slugs and snails to spend the winter. So we put them into big plastic sacks and leave them for a couple of years and eventually you get some lovely leaf mould to go on the garden. The sacks are hidden down the side of the garage so aren't visible or in the way and can just sit there till they are ready for use.

When I came in it was 12.30. Our main meal was all prepared and just needed cooking so I decided we would have it at lunchtime which means I can spend some time this afternoon doing what I want. I am thinking that I might have a look at my family tree. I haven't done anything on it for yonks but a couple of times a year I check out a couple of brick walls in case anything new has been put online. Yes, I've convinced myself that is what I will do.

Good luck Annx looking through the catalogue.

The sun just went in and it came over so black and then it started with hailstones and a strong wind.

Afternoon All,

We had rain earlier but it's dry and sunny now and quite warm like Mel said. I was thinking as I drove back from the shop how it would be cold and foggy this time of the year in the past.

That's great the pud was fine Mandy so that you can do the others in the slow cooker. That will be a job done ready for Christmas.

Vera I think my motivation has joined yours and I've talked myself into thinking the garden is too wet to do anything outside today! Lots of inside jobs are nudging me in the ribs, the microwave and hob need cleaning but I think a COT and emailing Fitz are more appealing.

Yes the bathroom catalogue is a nightmare Mel. They issue a fresh one twice a year and the prices go up each time, so I really need to sort what I want quickly. What annoys me is that eg the contents page gives 'sanitary ware' and the pages from and to, but then you find other toilets are shown on other different pages as well! I end up with slips of paper trying to mark the different pages. Still I ought to face looking again now OH is out for the day so there won't be interruptions! Wish me luck.

Good morning

November already; I’m sure the years are getting shorter. Very heavy rain during the night. It’s fairly bright this morning but very windy again and that’s making it feel cold. No plans for the day. I ought to do some h/w and a bit more in the garden but I don’t feel much like it. My mojo has definitely gone walkabout lately. I’ll just pootle about and see what the day brings.

She was white with black markings Mel.

Sunny here at the moment but still only 11 degrees and feeels cold.

I'm glad that litte Kitty was so easy to catch Anng and now she will have a much better life and hope she finds a loving home. Just out of interest what colour was she?

The suns quite warm when you stand in it so I hope we are in for a better dayoday.

Morning all,

Its quite bright and a bit sunny here this morning and I am hoping it stays that way for a change. Pc says 11 degrees and partly sunny so we will have to wait and see.

That was good they had four of the toilets you liked Annx at least thats one part sorted. The catalogue must be quite daunting with all the pages.

Mandy its good the pud turned out ok and now you can do the other two in the slow cooker.

Morning all,

Quite bright out there today and it's 13 degrees, I got up for the loo about four o'clock and it was really raining hard I think it might have been hail as I could hear it rattling on something outside .
We're off to sons for coffee this morning and we'll call and get them some fruit and a tray of eggs .

Ann the pudding smelt lovely ,I turned it out of the basin this morning when it was completely cold and wrapped it in two lots of parchment and foil so I think I'll do the next two in the slow cooker as well.

Good morning all. too early to see what the day is like out there as still dark but I slept ok and, as I can't lay down after taking a tablet it is not worth going back to bed. hoping that is the last tablet taken.
It is ten degrees outside. Notthing planned except a Tesco delivery 3-4 pm.

The problem with the pain in my ankle/leg Vera is that it is not actually caused by the infection, it is the actual lesion that causes pain. sometimes they each sometimes they have a pain that is not sharp but like a clenching or tightening of the surrounding area which travels up my leg. The infection was a discolouring aroung the lesion and was very hot to touch. It is cool now so, until I stop the antibiotics I can't tell if it has cleared because the pain of the lesion won't automatically clear as it is flexed when I walk. So it is wait an see a couple of days.