General Chat

Good morning ladies

It started bright and dry this morning but then came over black and windy and I’ve just noticed that it is now raining, though not heavily. No sign of Mr Fence Painter today. OH says that when he left on Saturday he said he would be back “sometime next week” to finish off. How vague is that! OH did politely say that we couldn’t just sit in and wait if we didn’t know when he’s coming but he said that he only needs access to the paint so we don’t need to be here. I don’t know if we will be able to continue using him for jobs. I feel desperately sorry for him as he’s had a rotten year with his own ill health and deaths in his family and, because of that, he’s struggling to get work now and I think money may be tight. He’s a good worker and his charges are very reasonable but there’s a limit to how supportive we can be when we need to get the jobs done.

I know meteorological autumn starts today but astronomical autumn doesn’t start till around 22 September so I’m sticking with that and having another 3 weeks of summer, lol.

What a performance getting your T shirts returned Annx. Why do Ebay want them back as 2 parcels when they were sent out as 1 and why do the Post Office say they have to be boxed? It doesn’t make sense. It sounds as though Jake has had problems and now Mandy having to photograph the thing she bought. I think these companies make it as difficult as possible for you to exchange your goods or get your money back in the hope that you will give up. Our surgery, like yours, contacts me every so often for up-to-date BP readings but their email says if I don’t have my own monitor to ring the surgery for an appointment with the nurse. Our pharmacy drives me mad. Every time I go to pick up my meds they offer me a BP check. I’m sick to death of saying I have my own monitor and the surgery check on me regularly. I may be wrong but I think perhaps the NHS pay the pharmacy for every check they do.

Mandy, daughter has booked a 3 bed cottage at Felbrigg which is only a couple of miles from Cromer and is just over a 2 hour drive from here. We all like the area around Cromer/Sheringham/Holt and there is plenty to do there and not too far to drive to get there, though daughter will be doing the driving. As we’re only there for a short time we’ll be limited in what we can do but we certainly intend to enjoy ourselves.

We didn’t have a brilliant weekend as I had another flare up of my old tummy problems. Sometimes I can be fine for months on end and then suddenly it all kicks off again but I’ve had 2 sessions of it in recent weeks and it does pull you down. I’m a lot better today. Then OH went to bed Saturday night, got up at 4,30 am to use the bathroom and was fine, woke again at 6 am in agony with pain from a knee affecting his whole leg. We can only think he must have turned over in his sleep and somehow twisted his knee. He did start taking Ibuprofen which made me realise how painful it must be as he won’t normally take any pills. He’s had 4 doses now and says it feels a lot better and he is now hobbling about. We’ll have to see how he is tomorrow and make a decision about a day out on Thursday. We are supposed to be on a coach trip to Hatfield House but there will be a lot of walking about and a longish journey there and back sitting on a coach. It was quite expensive and at this short notice we would not get our money back. We have been there before but many, many years ago. We are looking forward to it so I hope he is OK to go. Coach outings are the route we’ll have to go down now as neither of us want to tackle long drives any more.

I’ve changed beds, done the week’s washing, cleaned sinks, rung the doctors about my prescription and got a couple of birthday cards ready to put in the post box later. Now it’s time for lunch I think.

I did this a couple of hours ago but got distracted and forgot to post it. We’ve just had a real cloudburst. It only lasted a few minutes but outside the front looks like a pond. Now the sun is shining again.

Its been tipping it down here I shall send it over to you mandy after your washing has dried. How many squares have you done for the new blanket?

Nothing from Stu yet so I expect he will bring the car back after work.

Morning all,

Nice and sunny and 17 degrees ,I think we might be in for rain later but I hope to get the bedding on the line and get that dry ,there's a nice blow out so it should get dry.
Yes where has August gone ,the whole summer seems to have passed so quickly this year ,I don't like it when we start getting the heavy dew in the morning leaving everything so wet.

Ann I meant to say that was a lovely thing to do sending the birthday card ,imagine his face when he sees all the cards it will make his day extra special, your good deed for the day :-)

Morning girls,

Yes Anng where did August go? Everything is down hill from now on and it seems to be starting here today. Its dull and dreary, wet and windy 14 degrees and raining for most of the day on and off.I have admin to do today so that will keep me quiet and out of mischief. Got to sort the car out.

Good morning all, 15 degrees here but dull. Still dry at the moment. Kept waking last night so a bit tired this morning. Leg still not right but going out to lunch with friend who lives opposite. Just to the little nursery/gareden centre where the Butterfly gardeb is,

And another month has gone. First day of autumn today. :-)

Evening all,

It's been a nice sunny day, I got washing dry as there was a good blow ,we've just had a lazy day really ,a few little jobs like tieing a bit of rose up and watering the cues .

Vera I hope your granddaughter arrived safely and that she has a wonderful time in her new job in HongKong .
That will be lovely going away with your daughter for a few days ,where is it your going on our coast .

Oh Ann why have your parcels got to go back in boxes when they weren't delivered in a box ,that's naughty of them to make you pay for two parcels .
We bought ons of those garden caddies to use for the logs ,we have two already but one is now getting old and the other has a roller bit underneath that makes it hard to pull and we wanted one with wheels ,it came but the spindle bit with a split pin on one side was missing so we couldn't put the wheel that side ,so son sent them a massage and they wanted a photo so now we wait to see what they are going to do .

Jake bought a microphone for his computer from argos ,got it home then decided he didn't want it so packed it back up and took it back ,when the lady unpacked it she said it needs to come back in the condition you bought it you haven't got the twist tie on the poly bag :-S a twist tie !!!!!! then she said this code on the box doesn't correspond with the one on the product, so Jake said well, that's the one you sold it to me in ,son was with him and he said he was getting ready for them as it was getting ridiculous, as it happens when the manager came over it was a girl he went to school with and she soon sorted it ,told the cashier woman that the numbers didnt have to match ,how many has that happened too ,think they need to train them a bit more.

Afternoon All,

I wrote a long post yesterday and whoosh it was gone, so I gave up then. I know I should C&P, but you think 'just this once' and it's when it all goes wrong! Windy and cloudy here, oh and I can hear rain on the window so that will be good for the garden. Crikey I think it's stopped again.

My car MOT isn't due for a few weeks yet but I get it done early. If it fails but is still roadworthy eg things like brakes ok and no bald tyres I can still use it then till the old MOT runs out and it gives me time for it to be fixed without being off the road. They still start the new MOT from the date the old MOT runs out. I said in the lost post yesterday that Stu would know if the car was ok for Mel to potter up and down her drive and I see he is bringing it back for her. Don't forget to claim back the road tax Mel as a new month starts tomorrow. It looks like Stu has found some potential replacements already so fingers crossed one is okay and you will soon be mobile again.

Ebay and the Post Office are upsetting me now! I bought 2 items on Ebay from the same place with free postage and they were sent together in a polythene bag. They both need to be returned and I was going to return them together like they were sent to me and in the same bag. Oh no, Ebay deals with them as 2 seperate parcels and I have to pay postage to return each one seperately. Then the Post Office say each item has to be returned in a BOX, so I need to find 2 boxes as well. (They are fabric T shirts so not breakable).

Mandy you will have to mix making the squares with sewing them together won't you to ease your back. It must be nice to be using different colours now. I see you got stocked up with meat, but no crab as it was a wrong day for them.

Vera that will be a nice treat to have a break in Norfolk and see your daughter too. A nice change of scene before winter starts. I hope your chap has managed to finish painting your fences now. After never, ever reviewing my meds by any contact with me in the past, I got a text yesterday to ask me to send a BP reading before they could issue one of them. The best of it was as well, they said if I didn't have my own machine to do it to go to a pharmacy to get a reading. I thought that was what the surgery nurses did!! What if I couldn't or didn't drive which may be the case in the future. Will we all be expected to pay for taxes out of our diminishing income as the govt keep taking from us? Then I had to complete an online survey to notify my BP, with many questions that simply didn't apply to post menopausal women, like questions about your periods!! It's all a bit worrying as we get older as even if we can manage to use the internet now it isn't a given that we will always be able to manage to.

Waiting for the food delivery now. For the third delivery now they have no chicken and bacon salads that we ordered and for the second time they have substituted a half cucumber for the cress we ordered, although there are already mini cues on the order. :-S

Good morning Mel and all 15 degrees here and a bright autumnal morning.

Have to have a think about what need doing today. I did catch up with my ordinary mail, wrote four letters yesterday. Not sure what else needs doing

Mel will you just keep the car until you get another one to replace it.

Morning girls,

At the mo its a nice bright sunny day and its 16 degrees pc says mostly sunny and now its changed to rain coming!!!! In that short space of time between starting my post and now ( 8.59am)

Can't wait till tomorrow to get my car back outside so at least I can go up the top and pick apples and get the bins out..

That was a nice surprise Vera and something to look forward too not too far away.

That will be a lovely break Vera and not too far to travel from yours.

I hope one of the cars turns out to be right for you Mel. I doubt if F will text when she arrives. She'll probably just let her boyfriend know and possibly her Dad.

Just had a nice surprise. Daughter just texted to find out what appointments we had towards the end of September as she thought she might take us away for a couple of days. A few texts went back and forth and within 20 minutes she had booked a lovely cottage in north Norfolk for a couple of nights, so that's something to look forward to.

Will she text you when she arrives Vera or will the time not be right? She is a brave girl to go all that way on her own.

Stu has just rung me to say he's seen a couple of Mariva's localish, one in Culumton and one in Bideford and one somewhere else,maybe Barnstaple. He wants to know if any need a new cam belt as that will add about £400 to the price.

Iv'e not eaten yet and don't know what I really want or if I can be bothered. Its all so unsettling but he did say he would bring my car home on Monday so at least I can get the bin up the top and the recycling bin and go up to my neighbours without going on the road.

Yes, Mandy, our chap got here fairly early this morning to make the most of it being dry. He's waiting for some sort of procedure on his heart and needs to rest more than usual so he doesn't do a full day but he works pretty solidly for about 4 hours and we can be flexible. As long as it's done before we really get into autumn we'll be happy. Weather permitting he'll be back on Monday and, with luck, that will get it finished. If the butcher where Jake works is so busy they must sell good quality meat. Lacey has picked nice colours for her blanket. That's a lot of work for you - you'll be seeing squares in your sleep before long.

It was dry and warm this morning but after lunch the wind really got up and late afternoon it started raining again. It's been raining on and off ever since though not as heavily as yesterday. I managed to get my ironing done at last but didn't get around to any h/w. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.

I texted granddaughter last night to wish her Bon Voyage but didn't ask her the time of her flight so I've spent most of the day wondering if she's in the air yet, how the flight's going and if she's getting any rest on the plane. It's a long flight to Hong Kong so I hope she's got someone pleasant in the seat next to her.

I keep thinking its Sunday!! Not done anything today just sat about and watched a bit of telly fed the fish and chickens twice and thats it.

Mel you should have asked bil to take you to empty your car while he was there it would save stu loading it up and then taking it back again.

We got all our jobs done in town ,was served by Jake again in the butchers ,it's only a small shop but they are so busy there was six serving today .
Went into the wool shop and got the other three balls in a darker pink ready for Laceys blanket , I have started to sew up Katie's blanket but I find leaning over it makes my neck ache so I've started Laceys squares .

It's been a nice sunny warm day but it's going over very dark now as if its going to rain ,we wobbled the water butts and they have started filling up nicely after all the rain yesterday ,they haven't had any water in them for a while as the shed roof was covered and the cover was over the guttering so after the roof was done we gave them a good clean out , my word they had some gunge in them .

Vera hope the chap came today and managed to get the fence done in the dry .

BIL has been and gone. He brought down petrol for the mowers he is going to swap the mowers over so he will use the older one to cut for the rest of the season and put the new one in for a serice and wrap it up for the winter.

Its an outdoor festival of music. All the tickets sold out its on for two days.

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I wondered that AnnG. My best guess would be a village fete in Shebbear.

What is the Sheb Fest Mel.

Stu has trade plates and a trailer so it could be brought back here safely.

We have the Sheb fest on this weekend and I expect he has gone to that with the family.