General Chat

Evening All,

Windy and showery here today but not too bad. OH went to the docs this morning as his BP checks I do showed him to be quite low for a while and the physio nurse he saw yesterday agreed. He's been taken off one tablet and has been put on half the statin dose he was on before, after he asked about that as well, with a blood test needed after 3 months. We did the big shop run after as I forgot to order any milk with my Asda order. After we unloaded everything at home we went to Topps Tiles down the road as I wanted to see what you can get these days. I did like some of the tiles that look like wooden boards. It's good there as they don't pester you and you can browse at your leisure.

I hope you heard the rheumatologist's call Gwyn and it was good news. I never thought before about the trees with leaves being more easily blown down. I hope you are feeling a lot better now.

We had a salad lunch and I pulled a few weeds and we put the recycling bin out and have just sat in the conservatory reading this afternoon. We've left the cardboard boxes till the tip opens again on Thursday as we didn't want the garage door open with the heavy rain.

I hope you sleep better tonight Vera. I checked out the spider and it was a black house spider that has a nasty bite that can cause swelling and nausea. I would happily pick spiders up as a child, but not now! We used to get those jumping spiders years ago. They lived on the Cordyline outside the window and came in through the window air vents. I didn't like those and they disappeared once the Cordylines went. I didn't know about that system at major horse sales and it sounds like the auctioneer benefits from the £5. It's lucky you managed to get a couple of those chairs and folding chairs are always handy and fit in the car easily. I hope the car passes with flying colours and doesn't involve extra expense. You have a busy time lately.

It's our bin day tomorrow too AnnG and OH put it out between the showers. I wish we still had Sparrows like we used to. I wonter why the disappeared.

Is everywhere spick and span inside now Mel? It sounds like you got a nice amount of backberries with the plum.

Still windy hoping it will died down a bit soon as, of course, it is bin day tomorrow and they have to go out this evening. No rain though.

Its been windy here too but its died down a bit at the moment. Still rianing 19 degrees and pc says rain stopping in 1.5 hours.

We have had a shower here, but not much. It is very windy though so our share of the storm I assume, I have just been watching the sparrows out there and have added it to the bird thread on the hobbies board.

It was sunnyish for a bit and I tool the recycling box up and on the way back I picked a little trug full of blackberries and one plum. Now its raining.

Morning girls,

Grey day here this morning but dry so far and its 18 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy. Must ring the library and renew my books. Remind me please as they don't open till 2pm on a Monday.

Nice to see you pop in Gwyn and I hope your test go ok and that you can hear him.

Need to do some housework today as the place is in more mess than usual.

Quite a mild pleasant morning here and dry.
We might escape the fury of storm Floris being so far south, but I feel sorry for people in northern parts.
The trouble with high winds at this time of year is that trees are in full-leaf, so more potential chance for many to be uprooted :-|

A morning of this and that, then later waiting for an expected telephone appointment with rheumotologist following our recent meeting and subsequent blood tests.
I hope I can hear him!.

Good morning all 17 degrees and a bit grey this morning. mo rain yet though.

Nothing planned for today. I made three cards yesterday, Just ordinary birthday cards for my box of cards as stocks were running low. So maybe I will make some more today. I have just put a wash load in so there is that too to do.

Spiders in the bed - ugh. I'm not at all surprised you wanted to be rid of it Annx. I chased a big one all round my bedroom recently and eventually got it in a tooth mug with a tissue held over the top. But I'm a bit of a softie at heart and couldn't have killed it so late at night I toddled downstairs and unlocked the back door, trotted outside and shook it out of the mug on to the garden. You mentioned horse sales and guineas recently. I think at the major sales horses are still priced in guineas but there is an odd system in place. It's difficult to describe but as an example and using an easy round figure - if the horse goes for 100 guineas the buyer pays the equivalent in pounds i.e. £105 but the seller gets the number of guineas as pounds i.e. £100 so he loses out a bit. I bet that's now as clear as mud.

Mel, how can you go all day without eating? I'd be very droopy if I didn't have something at breakfast time and lunch time.

It was another bad night for me so least said about that the better. I don't seem to have achieved much today. After I had showered, washed and dried my hair and had some muesli we popped to Sainsbury's. A friend told me they had some fold up camping type chairs for sale at a cheap price. As the mice we had in the garage a while ago had managed to eat through the two we had I wanted another couple. They only had 4 left so I was glad I didn't leave it any longer. They are nowhere near the quality of the ones the mice demolished but you get what you pay for and they were only £14 for 2. They only get used very occasionally when we are asked to take garden chairs to a party or event and they will be fine for that.

After a snack lunch we went to our friends for an afternoon cuppa and didn't get back from there till well turned 5 and I still had to get our meal ready. Anyway we've now eaten and cleared up.

Tomorrow will be busy as the car is going in for a service and MOT. It will be collected at around 9 am. It's an old car now (2008) so I expect something will need replacing or repairing. I'm just hoping we don't have to wait for a part to be ordered in as that might mean we're left carless for a while. Also at 9 am our handyman is coming to quote for painting our garden fence. Then I am out in the afternoon for tea and scones and cake with one of our group who is celebrating her 80th birthday today. She lives the other side of town but luckily I've been offered a lift.

At the family 'do' at my daughter's last weekend a cousin showed me a couple of family group photos and asked if I could date them and say where they were taken. I've narrowed it down to 1994 or 1996 and to 2 possible locations so I am now going to enjoy myself for an hour or two going through some old photo albums to see if I have any photos that would help me pin it down.

Mel as I said in my post they are having trouble with refunds they are trying to sort out that may take 72 hours. I have often asked for and been given refunds before with no problem before the change. I am going to try but can't now as there isn't even a place to ask for a refund on the site at the moment. It might be because the order doesn't even show it's been delivered yet online and that hasn't happened before. They said in an email before doing the update to the site there may be problems. We prefer the Longley cottage cheese to the Asda one too. I see you've been busy sorting cupboards. I have things I'm sure I won't ever use again, but am trying to get rid of more as they are just taking up space I could use for things I do need. Some things I haven't used for years and doubt I ever will, but there's that bit of me that seems to think I might do and have to rush out and replace them.

AnnG ......students, that is a likely reason and it hadn't occurred to me.

Annx just ask for a refund on both unsuitable items. I have done that and they do send a refund. I like the Longley reduced fat cottage cheese but I don't like the adsa one, its somehow too acidy and you get nice big bits in the Longley one. I did buy in the hsop up the road Longley cream cheese to try it but its not on Adsa. If they say it may take 72 hours its their fault not ours so give it a try for a refund.
I have had troubel with the bread I like, Warburtons Wholemeal they keep sending Hovis and I find that too sweet. They had it back this week and for the next order I have ordered a small one and a large one so thye may send the right one this week or just the small one, we'll see.

I had all oh's cards in one of his drawers and mine in one of my drawers.

I have been having one of those corner cupboards out today and its taken all day to do just half of the bottom bit. I can't reach right inside as if I get down to it I can't get up again. Lots of stuff gone in the bin for the recyleing and a lot in the dustbin. I am going to ask Em if she wants the new pizza baking tin I bought as I never used it and she was saying she had her grans 1lb loaf tins which were a bit worse for wear so I have put aside three of mine that I had for bread baking and they're not too bad and one is a new one. There also an oval pasta type dish hardly ever used and if she dos'nt want it it will go to the hospice shop along with other things.

Not eaten today yet so I am now going to feed the chickens their corn and get myself something to eat probably a bacon and egg sandwich, cherries and an apple for desert and maybe cheese and biccies later on.

Probably the same reason for weird subs etc at Tesco. When I mentioned something the other day the young lady driver raised her eyebrows and grinned and just said ‘students’. Apparently at weekends especially and now school holidays students are employed as pickers.

I first met him 4 years before that AnnG. Yes he surprises me what a softie he can be at times. That's very true about a purse full of coins. I remember my dad saying we would need a wheelbarrow to take our wages home in the future.

Mel you've taught me something as I never realised it was Thrift on the old Thruppenny bits. I won't be throwing out any cards now, but will have to find somewhere to put them all as he has never sent just one card each time!! Some of the old ones are in the loft which we will get someone to help empty at some point when the other jobs are done. At least it's good you have some new tyres and a spare now. We've had more rain here so no gardening done.

Three subs with my Asda order and I forgot to hand back the non decaff coffee sub. Their new site is having trouble with refunds and they say it may take 72 hours to sort which is too late to ask for a refund usually so I will have to see. I ordered the Longley fat free cottage cheese, so why do the pickers send the non fat free Longley cottage cheese when they could have sent me the Asda fat free one instead? You'd think they'd realise that the 'fat free' was the thing that mattered.

Mel Mandy was talking about cucumbers and that was my reply to her post. Sorry, I assumed the posts were all read before being answered :-)

Disappointed in what Anng?

BIL popped in and I was still in my pj's thinking I had the day to myself. He had come to mend the puncture on the new mower and actually said he must'nt be lazy and pick up stuff thats cut off before he mows. I always have told him not to go over branches that have been cut off but you can't tell some men anything can you. He leant the hard way and has now bought 4 new tyres which are supposed to be for thorny ground. He needs two for the old mower on the front so he will have a spare for the back of the new mower.

Its so good that G is feeling better with the diet and exercise. Yes I still have all the cards I gave oh and the ones he gave me so you keep them all as G is right they ARE ALL special.

Today would have been my best friends 76 birthday. We were at school together had children about the same time and kept in touch for years.She died in France years ago and her hubby did'nt even tell me.

aawe he is just a softie Ann. Had you known him before you became a couple or was it at first sight?
that is a long drive for him these days.

Mel, at least if you had a purse full of coins in those days it was actyally worth something.

Mandy I was really disappointed in the one my friend gave me but I haven't told her so.

Morning All,

I was looking forward to my nice clean bed last night, but as I pulled the duvet back what should scuttle under it again but a black fat spider, just like the one that lives in the bathroom! I moved the duvet back again and it scuttled back under it. No way was I going to bed with that cosying up to me so I grabbed my nightie as it was nearest and peeled the duvet back further and threw my nightie over it. Boy do they scuttle quickly! I scrunched the nightie under it and hoping I'd got it I made for the new toilet. No light in there though as it was disconnected for the plastering. I shook the nightie umpteen times over the toilet and hoped I'd got rid of it. It was too dark to see it in the toilet. Wondering if it was still lodged in my nightie somewhere I didn't fancy putting it on. I was about to get another when I remembered I keep a torch in the drawer by the bed. Luckily the battery wasn't flat so I checked the toilet and there it was. I quickly flushed it away and went to bed and lay there ages looking around to see if there were any more! Not the best start to a good sleep.

OH went for his walk first thing and I cut his hair next. He's meeting three of the ladies that worked for him on Friday. It's over 60 miles away but it will do him good to have a catch up with what they are doing now. It's started raining now so it looks like indoor jobs today and the food order comes this afternoon.

His appointment is a week on Friday Mandy. He's counting the days! The sooner they try some treatment hopefully the slower it will progress. He's doing everything he can himself dietwise and with exercise he can manage and is getting more sleep now.

I was clearing some papers to put in the bin and came across some cards from him for my birtday etc and said to him again that we ought to bin some now as we have kept them since we became a couple 35 years ago (today is the anniversary of that day!). I said we could just keep the special ones. His immediate answer was that 'they are all special.'

Morning girls,

Not a very nice morning here as its overcast with that fine misty drizzle in the air. I'm hoping it may cheer up a bit later on. Pc says rain by 2pm.

You talking about the old coins I too loved the old names of a tanner, a bob, etc but my grandad called the theepence a thrupenny Joey and I used to get given those to buy sweets with. I liked the picture of Thrift on those coins and their shape. Remember how heavy your purse was if you had those large coins in it, half a crown, and the big pennies and two bob bits.

The memories still keep coming don't they even after all these years.

Morning Anng, morning all,

Clouded over a bit now but the sun has been shining, nothing planned for today just a relaxing Sunday I think .

Anng the cucumbers are lovely ,crunchy and fleshy with a nice flavour I've grown those for the last few years ,I think they are La Diva .

That's a good saying from your dad Vera I shall have to remember that one ,hope your not to stiff today after your stint in the garden .

Ann thats good the physio is helping OH's neck pain ,not long now for his other appointment didn't you say it was this month .

Just forgot about my cuppa and now its nearly cold ,If I have tea it has to be hot when I drink it ,Colins always saying I don't know how you can drink it so hot , better go and make another one.

good morning all. 17 degrees and quite bright so far. had a strange dream filled night. Weird because when I woke and go up for the loo then went back to bed, the dream continued where it left off and it was more like I was watching it or reading it not in it.

Nothing planned again so I shall see what needs doing.