General Chat

Afternoon all

Gosh Joan! Snow eeeek We don't have any snow but rain, rain & more rain plus gales so ferries have been cancelled and some planes earlier in the week. Tomorrow the gales are getting worse and through to xmas day.

I have been busy making my xmas cake. It's now on the board cooling down and then later on I shall marzipan and ice it. I love decorating it as I love the scraps of marzipan lol.

Turkey was taken out this morning and is defrosting ready for cooking tomorrow. I always cook it on xmas eve so it frees up the oven for everything else on xmas day.

Linda, hope you travel safely and have a lovely time at your daughters. Hope Eve will be much better for xmas day too.

Joan, sorry to hear hubby wasnt well earlier but glad hes ok. I hope it wont be too long before he can be transferred to the cottage hospital. How far is that from you?

My dads speech is becoming clearer and he is at home but its not good news! His left side of the heart is only 15 % working and not repairable. He is at a high risk of another stroke and heart failure. So he had meds to keep him stable but sadly its just a matter of time before his heart gives out.

I just hope he can" hang on" for a bit longer until ,myself and daughter can get down to see him but right now, its just not possible. He has been phoning in short bursts everyday so that's great we can still chat.

Well I have a wash on that's nearly finished and then in the dryer. last wash I'm doing this side of xmas.

Joan hope you managed to make the chips. Lovely you got flowers, lovely surprise.

I shall look in later on but things to do right now.

Take care all

Florence in the hebrides

Oh Florence, that is very sad news. I hope that you will be able to travel in the New Year. Sadly as our parents age, we know that one day we will lose them, but it is still very hard accepting that.

I am pleased that your husband was able to have a chat this morning Joan. I can’t remember the last time I used a knife to peel veg. Why don’t you buy a peeler? That would make it easier for you.

I ended up going to Tesco this afternoon because when my daughter got her Morrisons order it was missing some vital things. Also I didn’t realise that she was expecting us to go for dinner tomorrow night, I thought we were going over in the evening, but apparently not. Esme has declared that we are all having popadoms for dinner. So a full on curry meal with all the side dishes has to be made. It was easier if I just went and bought all the ingredients. Tesco was actually quite quiet and I managed to get the things Morrisons didn’t have

Sorry to hear about your Dad, Florence and do hope you can both get down there in the New Year.
Hope Joan’s hubby gets up the list and into the Cottage Hospital soon.

Re peelers. I hate those Y shaped ones, either loose a finger nail or a chunk of skin. Much prefer the knife shaped ones with a slit in them Not so easy to find.

Well call me old fashioned but I have a sharp small veg knife and can peel very quickly with it lol

Joan glad you enjoyed your meal. I use a peeler but one with a thicker handle for arthritic hands.

Florence, I am so sorry about your Dad it is. Dry hard when you live away. I hope you can get down to see him after Christmas.

Linda enjoy your curry sounds nice. I think a lot if on line orders will be short of a few things.

I hope that everyone is OK this morning.
It s very peaceful here, the calm before the storm :-) After lunch we are going to my daughters, then it will be non stop playing :-(
Just in case we were tepmpted to set off early, I put a load of washing into the machine. It is now in the tumble dryer, so we can’t level until it is dry and folded way. A very good strategy I thought.

Good thinking Linda.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year everyone <3 <3

I bet no one can beat this. We settled down to watch a movie late afternoon. They have a log burner, so SIL decided to light it. He was just going to open the glass door, when he said that there was a squirrel inside. Sure enough there is. Every time we go near the door, it scrambles up onto a ledge at the back of the chimney out of reach. They can’t open the door to let it out because this is a barn conversation, so it is a very big room full of open beams. They have given it water and nuts from the bird feeder. It has drunk all the water and is eating. I have no idea how they are going to get it out. It will take some sort of trap and help from a wildlife expert , but in Xmas Eve that isn’t going to happen. All they can do is keep it fed and watered In the meantime we can’t have the fire on which is very annoying

Well that is a Christmas story that nobody else will top Linda.

Oh Linda, this is one xmas you won't forget lol.

Merry Christmas to all you lovely people on Chit Chat <3 <3

Have a wonderful day <3 <3

Happy Christmas to everyone on here have a lovely day <3

Wishing everyone looking in on here today a very Happy Christmas <3

Florence in the hebrides :-D

Happy Christmas to you all, have a good day <3

Happy Christmas everyone. Santa came here with an enormous pile of presents . Esme woke at 4am, but after half an hour she went back to sleep. We all got up at 7.30 am and I have been playing since then
I hope everyone has a lovely day

Happy Christmas, all!


Pouring with rain here, and I have a horrible cough, but it's been a good day with family company.

And plenty of leftovers for the Christmas sandwich!

Good for you, Joan - I hope you enjoyed your meal, and that your husband will be moved soon.

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you are all having a lovely day

Best Wishes to you all

Duncan

Good morning all. Hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas Day.
Joan I am sure the actual cooking of the meal helped to normalise the day a bit and I hope that you enjoyed eating it.
Our meal was cooked by youngest grandson with a bit of help from his wife who made sprout mousse which was very light and different and very nice.

Good morning, here is your squirrel update. It is still in residence in the log burner :-(
It is eating and drinking and sounds cross. They have appealed on the local Facebook groups to see if there are any wildlife people locally who would help. If not, they will have to wait for the trap to arrive tomorrow and see if that works. If it doesn’t the latest thinking is to try and construct some sort of tunnel from sheets to try and guide it towards the front door. There is a door from the lounge into a porch, then a door to the outside. If it can sense the light it might head in that direction . The problem is that one of the doors opens the wrong way, so blocking the light. If it got out into the lounge, it would be a disaster as there are skylights to attract it upwards and it is going to be covered in soot. Once it got into the beams they would never get it down

The others have gone for a nice walk, but I have drawn the short straw and have to stay behind. Eve is too ill to go and Esme wanted to stay here as well. She wanted grandma to stay and play. Luckily she had gone for a lie down to watch her iPad, so I am getting a rest. She is starting to cough as well, so probably has Eves bug :-(

We are heading home this afternoon with our son. He is going to stay with us until Thursday.We are coming back here for New Year. While we are enjoying ourselves,it will be nice to get back to normal. - I think I must be getting old