General Chat

She's probably having a great time with the family. I thinkshe'll come and tell us all about it soon and we will have a lovely long post to read about what they all got up to.

You back now?

How long was Vera's family staying? They were due the afternoon of Sunday and we have not heard from Vera since Sunday morning. I hope all is ok there.

My cream cakes were like that only had two days on them and I had bought two packs of two. The last one tasted off so the birds had that and it did'nt last long out on the feeder. Whiuch reminds me I must look at the date on the new box but I only bought one this week. I had two last week cos I thought BIL was coming.

Hope you got to your appointment ok without much trouble bus wise.

We had sunshine this mroning but it now overcast and grey and very cold out there its 9 degrees but feels like -2.

Haven't heard from her yet so I guess she is out somewhere. No rush though. The buses are doable except it is not a stagecoach but so I have to pay. It is also time consuming, I would have to get a bus from here about 1.10 to be sure of catching the bus from Gloucester at 205 for my appointment at 315.

Mel, I think that the pickers are either not so well trained or are getting 'slapdash' as they don't seem as good as they were a year or so back. Last week I had prawns that only had a really short date. Delivery man was very good, he refunded the money and told me to keep them.

How annoying Ann I hope your friend can take you to save you the bother of all the buses. Perhaps today will be an annoying day all round for all of us.

Shoppings come and I am missing my lasagne. Their system is'nt up to date and dos'nt say my order has been delivered. I am so cross as I like the lasagne best out of all thier meals for one. Now I have to wait till it comes up as delivered and by that time I will have forgotten all about it. Its so annoying. I sent back the sub of the cut chicken breast.

I was fully expecting my referral to be to Glos Royal, I have just received the appointment.

For Tuesday 5 March at 15.15 At Cheltenham General Hospital with Dermatology medical photographer, at the medical Photography suite . Never had that before so I am assuming it is because of the location. Or the medical photographer is cheaper than seeing the consultant in the first instance.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that my friend can take me as Cynth will be away. If she can't I will either have to get a bus to Gloucester and then get the number 99 - the hospital bus to take me it runs every 30 minutes or find a taxi.

Morning Anng and all,

Hip really bad this morning again and I need to take some pills.

We had frost last night before I went to bed but its 2 degrees here now pc says cloudy and it is.

Shopping comes today with Mohamid, not had that driver before and he's 8 stops away so I better get myself dressed and ready. I have one sub this week, diced chciken instead of the mini fillets.

Good morning all, quite bright at the moment but 0 degrees and a frost last night.

Thank you for the pics Mel, what a great photographer he is. What does he do with his photos. Those latest would be good calendar photos.

I have heard from Jake and, all being well he will be back here on Friday. He says his hand is healing well now so I hope he is right. Also hope the weather is ok on Friday so they can get on with it.

Have sent some pics from BIL.

Yes why does it happen at the end of a post?

I have some hair for my dolls in a couple of different colours. Gwain the first one looked good with his white hair and I have a soft sort of grey I am going to use for the currant one, or should that be current? I am going to see if I can find a bit of green velvet for his hat if not it will have to be black or a lovely tealish colour I have.

I can't have a garden bin as I would'nt be able to get it up the top and I would only have to cut down one or two shrubs and it would be full to overflowing. You should see the amount of grass cutting BIL managed to do last year. I told him not to pick up the cuttings from outside the wall and the back field just on the front grass outside the house.

Just remembered something I want to add to the shopping and I only have 31 mins to get it on there.

Crikey Mel I'm surprised you managed to get all that done after the state you were in yesterday with your hip, but I expect you had a few breaks between jobs. I'm wondering now what you use for the hair for the Tudor man? The wool I use for wool felting would probably work, but might be a bit too frizzy in appearance for a Tudor man!

Mandy your DIL is doing really well to have got through and passed the first 6 of her 12 assignments. It must be quite hard to get back into things like that after a few years so she must be rightly pleased with herself. It sounds like she really enjoys the work too which helps.

Yes the changes must confuse the binmen as well as us customers! When we aren't sure, we wait till we see someone else stick their bin out first! Our bin lorry has been replaced with a posh, all electric one now and is bigger than the old lorry. I must remind OH to order a replacement garden bin again now we can put them out. Ours has a split down one side and I can see it spilling all the garden rubbish over the road before long. Reminding OH he would have to clean it all up if that happens should prompt him to send the email to them. :-D

I keep losing posts too the last few days. I must brush against one of the keys and zap! It always happens at the end of a post too.

No Mandy I did'nt et cold hands as I only have to turn off the filter and the green light change the air over to the inner tank so it bubbles the plastic round things, leave it for 5 mins and drain that out and fill it up again and bubble it and then let that out take out the plug tube and run the filter again till it fills to the top of the inner drum and take out the tube plug from the middle and turn it all back on and its done. I have to let it bubble twice and let it out then fill it again turn the light back on and the pump and away it goes. I do swill it out with the hose but don't get wet hands. Did my pond filter too which is a bit different but bubble that one too with the air pump and then let it out and swill it turn it all back on and the air off and awy she goes.

Now I have bored you all with that I did some ironing and hoovered the bedroom and hall tidyed the uti room and flung away two t shirts and a jumper of oh's which I found in the bottom of the linen basket and thats the first time in years the bottom of the lined basket has seen the light of day. Corned the chickens and fed the wild birds but never managed to put the hair on my Tudor man.

Mince, mash and cauliflower cheese or broccoli tonight all out of the freezer so it will all go in the micro.

Evening all,

Just done a post and it whizzed off so I'll try again .

It's been a nice sunny day but so cold out ,I stripped the bed this morning and did wonder if I should hang it out but I didn't bother as it was cold .
We nipped to get eggs and potatoes and dropped some off to son and stopped and had a coffee with him ,dil was at work at the school she's doing really well with her course she's done six of the twelve assignments and passed all six.

Ann they have changed our bin day again its now back to Wednesdays instead of Tuesday, it's suppose to make the round easier for the men but it must confuse them when it keeps changing .

Sounds as if you've had a good day Mel but didn't you get cold hands doing the pond filter ,I bet the water was cold .

Hope Gill is OK it's been a while since she posted.

Right posting this incase it wihizzes off like the last one did.

Afternoon All,

It was sunny, warm and dry when we went to get OH's new glasses, but it's windy cold and showery now. We went out for a carvery for lunch, hardly a soul in there which was peaceful and the children went back to school after half term today. OH has now gone back to the opticians as his glasses need another adjustment!

Mel I was going to suggest you checked what notice you need to give when cancelling an appointment as I know ours used to fine you if you didn't let them know in good time. I think it was sensible to get fresh appointments as I know with dodgy joints it can take a while to get them going first thing in the morning!

That's good news about Jake's return next week AnnG. He will hopefully be able to get more jobs done for you then.

Having sent off objections to the warehouses yesterday, I now need to respond to correspondence concerning Colin Pitchfork's appeal and some questions that have been put forward. We have been asked what we think as we live in the area where he committed the murders of the 2 young girls. Suggestions have been put forward as to whether family, the public, the media should be able to attend the parole board hearings, which I find worrying. Having naturally highly emotive people or the media present could be very disruptive to the process and the 'baying mob' springs to mind and may influence what gets decided or reported in the press. Too much is influenced by ill informed public pressure as it is these days.

I've noticed some have put their garden bins out for tomorrow's collection so they must be restarting again. No excuse now for not getting out there and filling ours!

Yes and the second appointment is to fit them properly.

I spent just over an hour in the garden this morning doing both pond filters, both nice and clean now. I should do them more often but its been so cold or wet lately they have nly had a quicky. I actually got the air going in my pond little filter and that a first. It certainly giggles it all about the get the muck out. Pond water is good for your plants and mine drains onto the hosta bed with two Acers in it too.

Iv'e also had a hoover of the bedroom and cleaned out the pipe to the little wire free one. I wondered why it was'nt sucking up a few woodshavings off the eggs I dropped on the floor. It had a piece of polythene biscuit wrapper in it which had collected a load of fluff and a bit of grit so the pipe was'nt sucking at all and I was blaming the hoover but she was doing her best under the circumstances.

Now I have hazd something to eat I am going to do bit of ironing and hoover the hall with the other vac and open a box of birds fat pellets to fill the bin. They love those and go through two feeders a day and the LTT's are still coming so I want to keep them. I have two Goldfinches too that feed off the road down to my shed. I tried to get a pic but they would'nt stay still enough. I did get one of the big corvids on the wall this morning.

I assume you have to be early if you want a quick return for the denture. I know I did when I had my new one.

I have cancelled my appointment for Wednesday and she has given me one for April at 10.15am and then the Friday for 2pm. I would never have been able to get tere for 8.45 am on wednesday.

Morning all,

We have sunshine tis morning after another rough night wind wise yesterday.

Got up about 4.30am for the loo and could'nt get back to sleep again. Lay tossing and turning and even tried to sleep on my other side to no avail. Last time I looked at my phone was 7.56am and then I must have had a half an hours sleep so not feeling the best today now.

Worried about the dentists as I don't think I am going to beable to get there as early as they want so I shall ring them todyay and see if I can go in any later another day.

Good morning all. 4 degrees here and no frost as far as I can tell. I need to nip into town this morning to take those old notes to the post office or bank. Not raining so far so hope it will stay dry.

Heard from Jake yesterday. His hand is healing well and he hopes to be back in a week or so. I will be pleased when he is back as the little jobs that need doing are frustrating. But anyway it is good that his hand is healing well.