General Chat

Good morning all a nice dry bright start to the New Year. I am hoping it will last but the forecast says otherwise.

Got to bed at 1am, we didn’t do anything special, watched a film watched a Queen concert then the New year program. Then stood on the doorstep and watched fireworks over the town.

I always find New Years Eve a bit hard and I am sure you do too Mel, a strange time going forward into another year without them.

Morning all,

A nice quiet day here this morning with no wind at the moment its 6 degrees and pc says cloudy but the sun is trying to shine.

<3 <3 HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL <3 <3 <3

I had a email from my dentist yesterday and my appointment is tomorrow at 2 pm so I hope the shopping comes early as it takes at least half an hour to get there.

At 1.16pm we had a hail shower and it made a terrible racket on the plastic roof outside the back door. we've had sun and rainbows and rain and very high wind all day. Poor chicjkens won't come out of their house and the water is running along the side of the chickens run. I have shut them in tonight for hte first time this winter. I had one of the old ones dead this morning so now I only have 4 three black ones and the one ginger one.

I am wishing you all a very Happy Healthy and peaceful New Year for 2024 and may it bring some very good times for us all. <3 <3 <3

Went out to Cockermouth to the Lakes Home store and bought a toaster. Special price £29.90 Russell Hobbs. It has for once been a dry bright day, blue sky in the morning and a glimmer of sun.

Enjoy the evening whatever you are doing and a happy new year to everyone. Hope 2024 is kind to us all and that all your health stays good. <3

Evening all,

Just sat down as I been busy getting veg done ready for the family coming tomorrow, I'm doing a Beef Cobbler one of their favourites so I've cooked the beef so I only have the Cobbler to do tomorrow, we will be one short for lunch as Chelsea is off to her friends tonight and tomorrow but she might be back in time for tea .

It's been a odd sort of day dull most of the time but we have had the odd bit of sun .

I have had a few nights lately where I've had a job to drop off to sleep but last night I must say was the best night's sleep for a while .

I don't think we are staying up to see the new year in so
I wish you all on the thread A Very Happy Peaceful New Year <3 <3

Goodness, I hope you’re not all turning into insomniacs like me. I’m sorry that you both had a bad night yesterday, Mel and AnnG. I was the same. I turned the light off around midnight and went straight to sleep but was woken at 1 am by the wind gusting round the house and making the security lights come on and off. Then the rain came down. I’ve never heard anything so loud. I think there was some giant out there hurling great buckets of water at the windows. I read for a while and then tried to sleep but couldn’t so I got up at 6 am and prepared all the veg for our dinner, made a plum and apple crumble and did some tidying. OH got up about 7.45 having slept like a log through everything. I did go back to bed soon after 8 am and slept for about 2 hours but I don’t think I’ll be staying up to see the New Year in.

Yes, Mel, where has 2023 gone? Time flies faster and faster as we get older. Looking back over the past year, it hasn’t been a good one for us. We’ve lost a number of friends and one rellie, our own health has caused a few problems at times and we’ve had sad news about the health of two people dear to us. Then there have been all the annoying things like not having a car for a month. But, and it’s a big BUT, we are still here, still able to laugh and enjoy the good times and best of all 2023 has given us a happy, healthy, wonderful great granddaughter. What could be better than that?

I wish you all a happy, healthy and peaceful NewYear. May 2024 be the year that all your hopes and dreams come true. <3

Morning all,

I did'nt sleep well either I was still awake at 3.23am hence my late post this morning. Its squite bright this morning but it has been raining and the winds still blowing a hooley. I feel like the weather this mroning, a wet week. Not a lot will be done today thats for sure on this last day of the old year and where did 2023 go I ask you?

Good morning all. Dry here so far with a tiny bit of blue sky shan’t get excited though as that is how it has been most days before the rain. Didn’t sleep well last night so a big copy today. BBL

No Ann been loose for donkeys yonks but they would'nt take it out and now they won't have to so thats two I won't have t o pay for to get out but the one next to the one that fell out is also very loose. I have bone degeneration. The teeth that come out have no filling or damage just a bit of tabacco staining but nothing much.

Oh dear Mel, was that tooth loose? Did the tooth break off? Maybe you need to see a dentist after New Year.

Its really wet and very windy here to and the wind seemed to build during the day. The poor chickens are paddling again and not wanting to come out of their house. They hav'nt eaten their breakfast and now it soaking wet I have just given them some corn on top of it and hope they eat it and go to bed with full tummies.

I had pate' on toast for lunch and thought there was a hard bit in my mouth!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have lost another tooth so now I have a gap at the bottom and a gap at the top on opposit sides.

Beans on toast sounds lovely Mandy

Afternoon all,

Cold and wet here today but not so windy ,a day for staying in I think ,we have a nice fire going so we're lovely and warm .

Anng if the poor girl feels like I did with the covid there's no way she could go in to work ,I think its dreadful expecting her to go in and in a care home too where it would spread like billio.
That's half the trouble people going about with covid and mixing with people ,covid will never go at this rate, I do hope she feels better soon .

We have had the last of the beef joint in a sandwich for our lunch and have decided we will have beans on toast tonight ,we've had so much rich food lately so I'm quite looking forward to them .

I have just thought back. I have spent eight of the Christmases since 2014 up here in the Lake District in three different areas and I don’t remember ever in that time such a wetter days as we have had. We have had it cold and snowy but not this constant wet and windy weather. And forecast looks as though it is getting worse next week.

Step granddaughter has tested negative today but she still has a terrible sore throat so her Mum is going over to take her to a walk in clinic. She doesn’t have a car.

That does sound dreadful AnnG and there was certainly no need for the manager to be nasty, but government advice is to go to work as usual. There’s no requirement to test or anything. I think there’s a lot of people who have Covid mixing with others. I believe our wonderful government found lockdowns didn’t work so they are now going for herd immunity. But in some cases you simply can’t work, either because you are too ill or because you are working with vulnerable people. Something like Covid would spread like wildfire in a care home and that manager needs her brains tested.

AnnG, you’ve reminded me that I bought some stollen before Christmas and had forgotten all about it. Goodness knows where I put it but I need to go on a hunt for it or it’ll still be there next Christmas.

It’s quite chilly today and yet again it’s wet and windy. It’s a day for staying in so I might do some h/w - necessary but boring :-(. I think I’ll make a start on the bathrooms.

Have a good day whatever you’re doing.

I keep meaning to say my snowdrops are up in the orchard. I spied some the day before yesterday.

Thats dreadful and should'nt be aloud especially with the patients they have there. Talk about CARE HOME, I don't think so.

Its stillo very windy here today as I went out to fill up the bird feeders. I hav'nt ventured out to the chickens yet.

I am wondering if the water people are leaving it till the date I was given previously, the 10th of Jan but its so annoying them not letting me know.

As to being on your own when people knock on the door when BIL came yesterday I was in the bathroom naked and the bathroom is in the front and the windows not that fuzzy glass. I could have pulled the bling down I suppose.

Good morning all.I can empathise re expecting callers and being in the loo. It is always during the time Tesco is due that I need to pay a visit. Hope they contact you soon. We have to wait in for a gas man here(always reminds me of the song about the gasman coming).

Stew tonight sounds lovely. Nice as chicken is it does get boring after a few days. I ususly freeze a cooked breast and curry it later.

We had the last of the gammon last night plus left over roasties reheated in the air frier and parsley sauce.

I think we are off to Lidks today for a few bits, think the Christmas food is nearly all gone except a Stollen I brought with me. We didn’t bother with a cake.

Looks dry out there at the moment. I am in my room, awake but not dressed yet. Daughter and SiL will no way be up yet.

Sorry SiL is still unwell Mel. Is it flu or Covid. SiL’s youngest daughter, in her 30s lives alone is feeling very rough with Covid. She works I. A cafe home and would you believe the manager was really nasty to her when she phoned to say she had Covid and was not going in. She was expected to go in despite Covid and just wear a mask. Which is no good because it has mainly mental health and Alzheimer’s patients who pull the masks off.

Morning all,

Pc says rain coming so that makes a change and its supposed to be in two hours. Its 10 degrees and theres a little wind.

Don't you just hate it when you are waiting for someone to come. I don't know where I am now with the waterboard. I have to go up the shop today but they have my mobile number.

I now have an annoying male pheasent who has taken over from Phil. He keeps coming in the porch and pecking at the front door and I think theres someone there as I don't have a knocker or bell so people knock on the glass. The first time he did it I was in bed and thought whose that. Got up nobody there. When he did it at ChristmasI opened the door quickly and it frightened him off so off he flew up the garden chucking up. Thought he won't be back but he is.

O forgot to say I am fiddling with my dolls house dolls. :-D