General Chat

Evening All,

A cooler, breezy day today. The binmen turned up at 6.30am and made such a noise and that was just their shouting to each other. We were up early anyway as we didn't know whether the window cleaner might turn up and we needed to shower before he came. He didn't, so I went to the hairdresser's for my 9.00 am appointment while OH went for a walk.

OH had a text to book his flu jab which made me wonder about mine so I looked online and they had supposedly sent me a text 3 weeks ago which I could not find. Also, surprise, surprise Vera, it said I needed to see my responsible clinician for a review of my meds! I needed to book my annual thyroid blood test so rang them. I've got an appointment for my flu/covid jabs five minutes after OH's flu jab on the first of October at 7.00am!! (should at least be easy to park then). I booked my blood test for next month. Then I asked to book the review and was told she would speak to their pharmacist and the note about me needing an appointment for a review would be removed before I needed to order more meds. She said the request was probably because I was more than a year overdue for my thyroid blood test. I checked when I got home and I'm not actually overdue at all. I told her friends were seen face to face but she insisted it was only because I was late for the thyroid test that a note had gone on. :-S Then I did some admin and little else all day.

We had just a few minute sprinkle of rain too AnnG, not enough to do any good though.

Mel I'm glad you cleared that up as I was confused about the house/garage. You wouldn't go out leaving a house door unlocked in these parts these days though. Mum did it all the time when I was in my teens/twenties and they lived in a village with just 6 properties on the road and surrounded by fields. She'd walk 15 minutes to the village shop, have a natter and walk home again. I would call sometimes and go inside and wait for her and tell her I'd pinched all her jewellery when she got home. She still did it when she moved to a bigger house in the city that had lockup garages round the back. Then one day, one of the old ladies said a strange man had been upstairs. She found out he'd stolen money, so she locked outside doors after that. Oh sorry to hear about your car. That wasn't what you expected or wanted to hear. Hopefully with Stu working with cars he will be able to find you a good one. I must admit I hate being without my car.

I hope your back has carried on improving Vera. It is so frustrating and easy to think you'll just get a bit more done outside and it ends up being too much. As for H/W I still have more of that infernal dust to remove. I discovered it has even clung to all the walls as well and throughout the bungalow as they had all the doors open. I think we will probably find more mouse damage when we start clearing more of the remaining side of our garage. OH is worried about all the footie programmes he was bequeathed and wants to reduce the amount and put the keepers in plastic boxes. I am worried about my old civil war cavalry saddle hanging high up above. I imagine they might like gnawing the leather. At least we don't get any now with the new garage door. We still have a lot of MIL's photos, papers etc to go through. OH said to chuck them away, but I will take photos of anything interesting first and keep them that way. You could do the same too. I have school reports in the loft and even my O Level exams Timetable and a thick binder of my O Level biology work and maybe more I have forgotten. There are also a few favourite clothes from the 70s like a black midi coat, a purple fishtail dress and a crushed plum velvet long sleeved dress with a mandarin collar piped in silver with a silver narrow belt. Once we have finished what work wabts doing inside we'll get someone to fetch it all down. OH's large gauge childhood train set is up there too. I wish I wasn't such a wimp, as your granddaughter puts me to shame flying to Hong Kong on her own to work.

I think finding cards for men is so hard. They either have beer or wine glasses, cars or golf clubs on them, none of which are interesting to OH.

My poor old car has now met its maker. Too rusty underneath so Stu is going to look for something for me. More expense. she's done me so well and she is 21 years old.

Boo hoo I really loved that old car.

It ws the same here Anng. No Stu lives in the house with his garage opposit where they work on the cars. He has a huge place there with fields for his wifes horses and Kate goes there twice a day to see to the horses but hse lives in Torrington. The front door was open when I went round so I went into the house and called out but no answer so thats why I came home. Stu dos'nt always get up early but James does but perhaps he was in the shower. Stu daughter Abby was probably at work as I think she works early or she could have stayed at her boyfriends. She has just passed an exam and is now a qualified accountant at 19 years old.

Just a glitch then Vera. We will have to wait and see if it happens again.

I am sure that the ironing can wait and even the dead heading can wait a few days.

How strange there was nobody at the garage. Is this the new garage Stu's brother?

I went out into the garden and started to cut some more ivy when it started to rain. It lasted, just a very light shower doing no good whatsoever, for about 10 minutes and the sun is shining again now. So frustrating we could really do with a good soaking.

and the washing is on the line. Its sll the bathroom mats and little loo mat so I'm glad I got those out early as the suns out again now and its 19 degrees.

Shopping not arrived yet so I could have taken the car round and they could have driven me back but its better to be safe than sorry.

They came and collected the car so now I feel stranded.

JUst hoovered kitchen and diner and part of the hall and now I need a sit down.

Good morning

It’s fairly warm here but not very bright. I don’t think it will be as hot as yesterday. I found one manly birthday card last night and walked down to the post box with it at about 9 pm. I couldn’t believe how dark it was. It seems only a little while ago that it was still light at 10 pm. I will have to go and buy another card and get it in today’s post. I don’t want to drive into town and pay for parking for one card but we have a tiny Morrisons in one direction and a larger Co-op in the other, both just about in walking distance for me so I’ll try one of those. There won’t be much choice but I should be able to get something.

Finding the garage shut must have been annoying Mel. They don’t seem to be very well organised. I hope you get the car MOT’d today.

My back is not too bad as long as I am very careful but it is so frustrating as there is so much to get on with. OH has done a bit of deadheading for me this morning and I might be able to manage a bit of vacuuming with the light weight stick vac but ironing is going to have to wait a few days.

I don’t know if any of you saw my post that said it was a test post and to ignore it. I only left it up a few minutes. I was experimenting to see if I could work out why I occasionally get these long blanks at the end of my posts. Well, I have constantly tapped the space bar, sat with my finger pressing on it, done the same with the return key and swiped in every possible direction and I cannot reproduce the blank space. So it is still a mystery.

Time for a coffee I think and then I’ll walk to Morrisons. Have a good day folks.

And now its raining........................

Been to drop the car off for its MOT and theres no signs of life at the garage. I rang from there and still an answer phone on. I even went in the house and called out but nothing so I came home. Its a nuisance as the shopping comes today and I must be here for the driver as I did'nt have a delivery last week with the muck up. I shall have to ring again and leave a vioce mail. Its so unsettling.

Good morning all 17 degrees here and bright cloudy. No sign of any rain here which is no surprise, despite the forecast showing it was going right across us. so still more watering to do. I haven't been outside (not dressed yet), but the patio looks dry.

I can't think what is happening with your Ipad Vera, unless when you are tired you don't notice that you are touching the screen as if deliberately moving down spaces.

Morning all,

Think it rained a bit in the night as theres water in my wheelbarrow.

Its 16 degrees and pc says mostly sunny so we'll see.

Car goes in this morning so I want to get there ealy because the shopping comes today.

Hope you all slept well or got enough to take you through the day.

I have no idea what is happening. If anyone can give me a clue I'll try to stop getting these long blank spaces. It only happens on the iPad. You now have the original post without the blank bit but out of order so you appear to be telling me about it before I've posted it.

I am definitely going to bed now.

Evening all

It has been very hot here but with a stiff breeze which has cooled things down a bit. When I couldn't even lay down Friday night I thought I was in for a bad session with my back but it's improving all the time. As the weather was OK I contemplated trying to do a bit more plant tidying and dead heading but then decided that probably wasn't a good idea. I'll wait for a few more days till I am sure I won't set things off again.

I don't like all this talk of h/w. It's making me feel guilty as I'm not doing much. Imho, h/w is for looking at, not for doing. I have done a lot of washing today; all our clothes and bedding for the last week and some dirty old working clothes that OH never seems to think need washing. Just for hygiene reasons I think they ought to occasionally get together with some soap and water.

Those mice in our garage got in to just about every box, bag and container possible. As he is clearing the garage OH is coming across more and more. Today he discovered they had got into a large box of Christmas decorations, wrapping paper etc. They don't seem to have done too much damage there and thank goodness they haven't had a chew of my lovely wreath that goes on the front door at Christmas but I've got to find something else to pack it all away in. They also got into another large box that contained all sorts of souvenirs, momentoes etc. and had a good feed of the stuff. I sat outside at a table shaded by our large parasol and sorted it all out. I've kept very little. Most of it is now in the bin. I felt like I was throwing half my life away but who is going to want things like a pile of silver wedding anniversary cards when we are gone? I did have a bit of a qualm disposing of all my old school reports which my Dad had kept as they really seemed like a bit of family history but the mice had really had a go at them and they were barely legible and did not smell very good. I did keep a packet of cards made by our son and daughter and our grandchildren when they were little but not much else.

I'm now going to look through the desk drawers and see if I can find a couple of reasonably masculine birthday cards. I have to send 2 cards to men, one for Thursday and one for Friday and I have left it very late so they will have to go first class. I keep forgetting that deliveries are so intermittent now and nothing much happens at weekends. If you want to send a card second class and hope to have it arrive on time you have to post it well in advance of the birthday. I did manage to remember to send a good luck card to granddaughter no.3 in good time. She flies to Hong Kong on Saturday for her 6 months with Disney.

I've been awake since 3 am and have managed to keep going all day but I am beginning to droop now and sitting at the computer is also pulling on my dodgy back muscle so I am going to look for these cards and then get myself to bed for an early night. Sleep well everyone

O dear not another long blank page after Vera's post. I wonder what she does that causes that? I expect she will right it in the morning.

Saying night night now as I am worn out tonight and I have to be up early to get my car round to Stu's for its MOT and get back before the shopping arrives.

See you all in the morning sleep tight. :-)

Vera, whatever you did before you seem to have done again. Or your IPad has done it :-D

The only gardening job I have done today was to start on cutting down the peony. I put the stakes away that was holding it up. Only did half as it was too hot.

Yes that is a good idea re pizza I suspect it would depend on how it tasted as to how much of each ingredient was put in. I modified it from one I saw on Facebook which also had basil in it and I haven’t got any basil. I used wine in mine but water or veg stock would be ok. I think it is something that can be played with I had olive oil to roast it in.

Thanks AnnG. I hadn't thought to do that. I wouldn't be able to email many at a time but it would certainly be useful to transfer a few that I want to send elsewhere quickly.

Yes, that sounds like a very healthy sauce and one we would both like. It would be good to top a pizza with instead of a plain tomato sauce too or with pasta or lasagne.

YOu can keep your prawn curry but I would'nt mind a bit of te sauce.

Had something to eat and don't want to do anything now. Just fed the fish and fished a few leaves out of the pond.

Ann with photos from my Iphone and Ipad I just email them to myself. They then appear in downloads and I can transfer them to my Pictures.

I have just roasted a very large tomato (Mel's with some sungold plus a small amount of red onion and a bout half a red pepper. Then I added some red wine and liquidised the lot so I have a concentrated sauce. One half will be used tonight in my prawn curry and the other half I will freeze.