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Thanks for all the anniversary wishes, we ended up making a start on the bath panel and never went out in the end as it was far to cold. All I need to do now is silicone around the panel and the bathroom is finished. We had another look at the kitchen today but didn't do any work, we just talked about what we were going to do as I had a migraine and didn't fancy listening to the jigsaw OH needs to use to cut the side panels to the right size. My migraine was just easing off then I banged my head, I then decided to make a hot water bottle to put on my head as that always helps with migraines and scalded myself pouring the water into the hot water bottle. I seem to be having one of those days so have decided not to anymore work today.

Well Genes have sent me a receipt for my subs so that went through okay and now I've got access to Genes for another year. I haven't tried to get onto my emails again yet, but hopefully it'll work properly and not have a repeat of the last time I tried.

Your meal in your slow cooker sounds lovely Mel. OH bought me a slow cooker last year and I haven't used it yet. You mentioning yours reminded me about it.

I'm like you Mandy where the snow is concerned, it's lovely to look at from indoors but not so nice to walk, or drive in it. I don't think we're forecast for snow here, but did noticed down south are in for some snow which I was quite surprised about and of course Scotland, but then they always have snow, so no surprise there.

Pleased to see you made it home okay AnnG. Hope your boiler doesn't stop again, that's the last thing you need with the cold weather, I wonder what caused it to stop in the first place.

Going to check my messages on here, then try to check my emails.

Iv'e got the slow cooker on with lots of veg and some cut steak but I forgot to order butter beans but it has some barley in it too with onions carrots parnsnip and spring onions and a bit of tom purea and stock cubes, pepper and parsley.

Don't mind snow if I'm in and looking out at it but don't like walking in it .

Well lunch has now stopped play ,I haven't done much this morning just the veg for tonight then we had a go at the jigsaw this ones a 500 piece so a lot easier as the bigger ones seem to make my neck ache when I lean over the table to reach the top.

I totally agree Mandy when the sun shines I too get on much better. I* saw on the news yesterday that there may be snow but I thought it was too cold for snow as it always seems warmer when it snows.

Morning all,

Just a little frost this morning but it's gone now and its 2 degrees no sun yet its very cloudy ,I see next week there might be snow so we got the wood delivered just right .
Got pork steaks out of the freezer for tonight and sausages for a sausage casserole tomorrow.

Gill belated anniversary wishes I hope you enjoyed your day ,glad you got your computer problems sorted now .

Better get a few jobs done now ,wish the sun was shining I always seem to get on better with a bit of sun don't get on the same when it's a dull day .

good morning all. 2 degrees here fairly bright, no frost. House is now warm we shall see how long the boiler stays on. Lots to do so I will BBL.

Morning all,

Bright and sunny again this morning and pc says cold weather and its 3 degrees and it sdays mostly cloudy with a low of 2 degrees. Its still frosty out in places the suns has'nt reached such as my car out the front but its not as bad as it has been.

How did you sleep? well I hope.

You crept in before my post hit the thread Vera. This house is still cold even now the heating is on but it was without heat for 13 days. We are all wrapped up.

No Ann it was'nt icy but he must havemisjudged he distance . I don't think the white marks that are left behind will ever come out but she is 20 years old and I am not really worried about it as it will soon be covered in muck off the roads. At least its not dented but peopl;e may think I have backed into something which I hav'nt.

Glad you're home safe and sound and still have company but when they go you are bound to feel lonely for a while. Just come on here and natter thats what we are here for, each other. :-D

Hello all. We had a good run with very heavy traffic, lots of lorries and a long stretch of 50mph for roadworks that should have finished last year on the M6. Got home at 1pm. Got some stuff unpacked and Oliver came and activated the boiler again. He doesn’t knoe why it went off so I have to monitor it. If it happens again he will have to have a rethink of what could cause it. Apparently it is a puzzle as it started first time he switched off and on again. It often takes three goes before starting. I am still surrounded by Christmas decs so those will come down over the weekend.

Daughter and SiL are staying until Friday.

Goodness Mel, how did he manage to hit your car? Was it icy?

Not for long Mel. I'm here but I don't really have much to say.. You seem to have been having a heck of a day with everything happening at once, including a damaged car. Thank goodness it wasn't too bad. Why did the waterboard man come if he wasn't going to do anything? The "fairy" in the glass gave me a smile.

Happy anniversary and happy New Year Gill. It's good to see you post but, gosh, you seem to be having problems as well. At least you are getting some jobs done and your bathroom is almost finished.

I hope AnnG is safely home and her boiler man has sorted out her problems.

It's been another bright, sunny and bitterly cold day. I've been busy catching up on jobs - ironing, mending, a bit of cooking, replying to some emails and so on. Nothing interesting at all.

I need to take my glasses back for a bit more adjusting as one side is digging in the side of my head. I think that will have to be on Friday now. I've also had an email from the hospital giving me another eye appointment on 23rd January. At least they've given me a bit of notice this time. I often get a phone call asking me to come the following day. I think they often slot me in where there's a cancellation. I keep hoping the doctor will discharge me but they seem to want to hang on to me. I'm pleased really that they seem to take good care of their patients when you hear of the problems other people have just getting an appointment.

I'm going downstairs now for a warm-up. We haven't got the heating on upstairs and I'm sitting at the computer with a big fluffy dressing gown over my clothes but my hands are frozen.

Nobody's there. I'm all on my own.................................................

Gosh what a morning I have had and not got anything much done. Firstly I had an offer on something on Ebay so I wraped them all up and went to the post van and posted it as she had paid me.

Came home and started to wash up and Richard came drove straight into the back of my car on the drivers side corner and pushe dthe car forwards reversed a bit and did it again. I flew out and he had got out of his car and was looking at the cars. He then got back in his car and reversed and had'nt actually dented my car but took a lot of the paint off. He had more on hiss car than I had on mine. He said he would go and get some T Cut and polish it out so I gave him mine and two dusters and some bounty roll. I now have a very clean patch on the back of my car still with some some white scratches which I think is the undercoat of my car it being metalic.

While he was here the postman came and could'nt turn round as Richard's car was parked right across my road so he gave my post to Richard and backed up to get out.

Then while he was still polishing my car the waterboard man came so we were all talking out the front. He had'nt come to do any work so I still have no water pressure.

I just managed to get the washing up done while Richard was still here and then the phone rang again when he left and it was the waterboard man ringing me to give me the meter reading I asked him for.

Now I have just sat down and tried to get this antivirus thing sorted on the pc with no luck they want to do it on my email address SIL put on my phone and I don't use that as I don't understand it. :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S

Morning all,

Nice to see you post Gill and Happy Anniversary and New Year.

Well todays the day the waterboard are supposed to come and sort out my low flow of water but I hav'nt heard anything so fr today.

Its a nice bright morning with sunshine and blue sky but there is also a frost but not as thick as it has been probably because its been dry over the last few days.

Hope you find a bath panel today Gill and then thats one room finished and you can concentrate on the kitchen.

Hope Anng has a safe and easy journey home today do take care and that you can get the heating sorted out. You really need it in this weather.

I had better get on as I need to get my hair up just incase they turn up.

Hi all, so sorry I haven't been on here for ages I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. Happy new year to you all. <3 <3

As you can see it's very late, or early depending on which way you look at it ;-)

I've had no end of problems with my emails, first of all I couldn't remember my passwords and couldn't find the book I'd written them in. Well I finally found the book but for some reason neither of my email accounts would except the passwords. I was starting to get really upset as I thought my subs had run out on Genes and needed to gain access to one of my accounts to pay.

Well tonight I thought I'd try again and still I couldn't get onto the account to pay my subs and was asked to put a code in that they'd sent to my other email account. I couldn't get onto that one either so couldn't get the code. I kept trying and in the end I managed to get the code which I used for the account I needed, only to find out the email wasn't there.

By now I'm almost in tears as this has been going on for quite some time, so I thought I'd see if I could get onto Genes, not expecting to but hay ho I got on here. I checked my messages as sometimes Genes send me a reminder to pay my subs but there was no message. I thought I was going to have access to Genes for free lol, but when I checked my account I'd got the renewal date wrong and it's tomorrow it's due and not only that it renews automatically. I feel so silly now but also relieved as I thought at one point that I might not be able to ever get back on here.

So again I'm so sorry I've not been on the thread for ages, but hopefully there shouldn't be any further problems.

I think the problems with my email accounts is down to me not using them for over a year and they just wanted to make sure it was me trying to access them.

OH has a week off work so we're hoping to finish what we can on our kitchen, it's been very slow going as he only had one a day a week off where he wasn't in bed off nights but we're almost there. Once we've finished making the last unit we'll look for some worktops then see if we can find a plumber and carpenter to put the worktops in and replace the old sink for the new one.

We finally had our bathroom flooring put down two days ago and it makes such a difference. We're hoping to sort out the bath panels tomorrow then that room will be finished. So at the moment we're splitting our time between the bathroom and kitchen.

It's our wedding anniversary today so I'm not sure if we'll go out or do the bath panel today. We'll see how cold it is when we get up.

Well, I'd better go to bed now the problem with the emails has been sorted. I've also got some messages on here to read when I'm not so tired.

Safe journey home AnnG

I'll try and get back on here later if OH and I don't go out to celebrate.

Oh my posts got a little extra space at the end too .

Evening all,

It's been a nice sunny day so we got all the wood is stacked away .
Our garage man came and collected the car as it needs a new alternater so hopefully we'll have it back tomorrow.

Ann I had to smile at the thought of your OH in and out of bed and the Benny Hill music came to mind :-D hope tomorrow you can enjoy a lay in .

Safe journey home tomorrow Anng, hope the boiler man gets your heating going for you when you get home .

Whoo Vera thought I'd never get to the end of the post lol but nice to see a few smiles at the end .
That's sad you couldn't see the live service for your friend things always play up just when you need it but hopefully it was recorded OK and you can watch it later.

Mel thats good you now have your teeth back ,I hate it when the suns low at this time of the year and it's even worse when the roads are wet .

That was strange Vera. I thought I was never going to get to the end :-D

How on earth did that happen and where did all those smiley faces at the end come from? I’ve tried to edit it to get rid of all the space but nothing I do seems to make any difference

Vera that was a LOOONNNNNGGGGGGG post!!!