General Chat

Afternoon all,

Showers here today and the wind has now go up so wet ,windy and dreary here .

Love the headbands Mel they will sell very well ,unicorns are all the rage at the moment .
So it's smelling like christmas with the cake cooking ,i could just eat a nice piece of fruit cake .

AnnG don't mention the bag ,all i have to do is sew it up and add the strap but i just carn't get into the mind to do it .

Jane you do sound uncomfortable i hope you can soon get it sorted out so you feel more comfortable ,no wonder you've lost weight with not being able to eat properly .Is there any thing you can take to help with the acid until you see the doctor ?
I see Country file is from Wembury tonight .

Oh Frank are you feeling down again ,it might be that the new tablets take a while to get into your system before they start working .
I hope you can manage to enjoy your meal out today ,perhaps just have some thing off the childs menu that way you don't have a full plate in front of you to put you off eating .

Ann i take it OH found his thermals :-D did he ask where you had put them :-D
Did you get any nice photo's ,the leaves are now starting to turn on the tree near the church ,i think it's some sort of Maple the leaves are huge and have turned all orange and red they look so pretty .

Oh Vera i hope your head soon clears and the throat isn't so sore today.

Gill sounds as if you'e made a good start with getting all the bits for Sandra's garden ,i bet she's so excited and keeps looking at all the bits you've bought and carn't wait to see every thing set in place .

I was so cross this morning i was putting some mugs away in the cupboard and thought i would just sort them out a bit to make a bit more room , i pulled out the top of the milk frother caught it on one mug handle and down came the two new christmas mugs i only had bought the other week , one chunk of mug has taken a small bit out of the floor tile too so i made a good job of the tidy up !!!

Sent a pic of the headbands.

The suns come out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so pleased we have heard from our Franky Boy. I do worry so when we don't hear from him.

AnnG is right Frank if you don't do anything you won't get hungry. Now your not mowing or doing the veg patch and just sitting reading your body dos'nt need much fuel.

Cakes in the oven and it smells like Christmas in here. Its such a nice cake I don't know why I don't make it more often instead of buying the rubbish in the shops that dos'nt last but a few days.

I am going to start some more crafts today but have been putting stuff away as I find I just leave things around and have piles of stuff out on different boards. I think it will be Pagan wreaths today.

Will send a pic of the headbands in a min.

Afternoon All

Laptop all sorted at last. I have no idea what the problem was. I just need to get me sorted.This problem I am having with the acid reflux/inflammation is not good. I am in bed as lying down on my side seems to be the most comfortable position . Just eating soft things and milky drinks at the moment :-S. I had a Weetabix earlier even though I didnt fancy it. I have o doubt when I see the GP on wed he will recommend I have an endoscopy.

Frank, why dont you leave off the big roast dinnners and have several small plates of something through the day.As for tripping over the mats.They are so dangerous for anyone not too stable on their legs. Could you not remove the ones that are likely to trip you up.

Oh Vera you too are not feeling so good. What a lot we are !!!. It sounds like it is your OHs fault for passing on his cold. I hope today your throat isnt so sore.

I am going now as sitting up is uncomfortable. I wil pop in and out :-D

Frank you are not eating and you have no energy. Do you think the two might be connected? It is a vicious circle, if you don't use any energy you won't need any fuel and if you don't eat you won't get any energy. I know what Ros means about pick up your feet, My OH does tend to shuffle a bit when in his slippers but luckily we don't have any rugs. could your rugs be moved out of the way to save you tripping? I hope you feel like eating.

Ann we find it very useful having the two rooms we can use as our own 'offices/craft rooms. We are stuck with a four bed house as we wouldn't want to move away from our neighbours at the moment we do both help each other. Luckily we are still both able to climb the stairs.

The bad penny always turns up. LOL GOOD MORNING ALL, What a horrible one it is too. Rained like mad as I went to Denis and Pam's. It's Denis's B'day today, so had pop round with card and present.

Sorry I didn't show yesterday. Just not feeling great at the moment. I am not very steady on my legs lately. and tends to trip on the mats all around the bungalow. Ros keeps telling me to "PICK UP YOUR FEET" I certainly don't like feeling like this. I am not eating. Friday I did a nice Pork Loin with Mash and Veg. I dished up, and put mine in the oven, as I didn't feel hungry. I ended throwing it away Saturday morning. Yesterday I had some toast and marmalade at 10.30. A ham sarnie around 1.30 and last night, Ros fancied Fish cake, Pineapple Ring and chips. We went to Towcester to get it, but didn't get anything for myself. I'm defiantly like the weather, DULL AND DISMAL. I don't seem to have a bit of energy, even though the Dr. changed one of my pills, to give me more "UP AND AT IT Felling" They don't seem to have worked.

That's enough about me for today. lol lol. I see you are all getting on with life, and hope this weather isn't stopping you getting out and about. That planter sounds big enough for an allotment Gill. You will need a lot of things to fix it ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) Sandra will be kept busy looking after that.

We had a MASSIVE BOX turn up Friday night at 8.00 pm It's a CHRISTMAS TREE from QVC. Val Barker rang Ros when they were on a show for ONE DAY ONLY. So they both bought one.

Yesterday, Harvey rang to say he couldn't do any mowing at Ian Poulters as it was tipping it down, so would come and fit the shower. When he came in the lounge he saw the box and said QVC. He had his turn up also on Friday, Neither of us knew the other had ordered the same thing. :-0 :-0 :-0 We haven't opened it yet. and gawd knows where I will put it until Christmas.

I am off to get showered, and shaved and get dressed. The table is booked for 3.00 pm. I hope I will feel like eating by then, as I have had nothing to eat since yesterday's HAM SARNIE.

I will try to be back to see LOCATION. I will ring Conrad, so he can watch it. He came home Friday for Ella's birthday yesterday. He will go back to Spain on Tuesday and Jan will go with him, as KERRY and ALEXANDER are going out there for a week next Friday.

Be good see you all later.

Morning All.

Miserable and wet here too so we are eating in today .

AnnG we have a 3 bed bungalow at the moment but ideally would like a 4 bed one so we both have a small study/ craft room. There are very few bungalows being built round here now but vast amounts of large detached family houses with up to 5 bedrooms. Older 3/4 bedroom bungalow seem to have huge gardens which I would have loved once but we would find more work than we want to do now and at some point there will be just one of us to do it! I hope you both feel better soon and there seem to be sickly headache bugs about just now.

Mel you have been busy with your crafts! I think I will be starting again with what I did yesterday! lol.

Vera I hope you both feel better soon. It's annoying when our OH's share their bugs and in our case it's usually that way round, as you both feel grotty and have to struggle along together then.

Gill the lights and things you bought will look lovely! You could always muffle some wind chimes by wrapping some tape on them or small rubber bands. I would worry about annoying neighbours with them if they were close to the bungalows. The plugs sound ideal and I think our waterfall pump plugs into something like that.

Still no Frank!!! I hope he's ok.

Good morning, we have the same weather as Mel, horrible.
I had a bit of an iffy night , also had a day of not feeling quite right. I felt very queasy all night. OH Has a runny nose and catarrh. It was a week since our flu jabs yesterday I am wondering if that is significant.

Gill you did well to get all that and well done for getting the outdoor box for the lights. Sandra is going to love it. The flowers seem just right too. You can get some wind chimes that just tinkle but I did wonder about the louder ones keeping her awake.

Vera sorry you feel under the weather as well, hope you both feel better soon. If your weather is like ours, stay in the warm.

Mel you worked hard on your craft then yesterday.

Hope Frank is OK I think he is supposed to be going out for lunch today so hope he is well enough. If you look in Frank there is an episode of Location Location on this afternoon (4.15 I think it might be) from Mercia.

Jane I hope you are going to be able to get back on here soon we are missing you.

Annx what a shame the bungalow was not suitable. You wouldn't want to be backing on to Iceland, no knowing when their deliveries are and if you now have 4 bedrooms two is a big drop. We have four and like having the space.
Yes strange how medication can affect your body. I did wonder if I was feeling a bit off because my med change but I think that might be likely if the dose had been increased but not with it having been halved.

Mandy are you busy working on that bag?

Morning All,

Dull and dreary and very wet this morning as its been raining in the night. The washing on the line is as wet as when I put it out yesterday so I think it will have to come in today.

Vera I hope the headache goes today and you feel better than you have over the last few days. Sometimes once the cold really breaks the headache goes. Take it easy and get well soon.

I am going to attempt some more rings today so will let you know hw I get on later.

A short post tonight as I feel really tired and a bit below par. OH has got a cold and I think he has passed it on as I have a sore throat today. I’ve also had a headache for a few days and it just won’t go. It’s not a migraine, just a grotty headache but it’s making me irritable. Moan over.

I love your sheep Ann. They’ve got real character and made me smile.

I hope Frank is OK. Perhaps he’s having computer problems like Jane.

I have read all the posts but am too tired to respond to them tonight. I hope you all sleep well. Night, night.

Iv'e finished 5 unicorn headbands.

Hi all

I'm very late on here today.

We took Sandra out to buy some things for her planter, she chose three butterflies on sticks that had some glow in the dark flowers on them, they look really nice inside the planter, she also found some lovely glitter butterflies in various colours including her favourite colour of pink which clip onto things, so I'm going to clip them onto the screening at the back. I tried to clip them on when we returned home but the clips are pointing upward so they kept slipping off, so I'm going to use some wire and wire them onto the screening. OH and I found some lights, so we bought 240, they are like little balls, we bought soft white ones rather than coloured ones as they looked a bit Christmasy and they are for all year around. The only problem with them is they're very bright, so instead of putting them on the screening behind the plants we've decided to put them inside the planter so the light goes upward through the plants.

We struck lucky with a way of plugging the lights in as we found a waterproof box type thing that has an extension lead inside that can stay outside and the wire is then put through the wall of the bungalow and plugged in inside, so all we need to do is drill one hole through the wall and plug it in. The lead is 10 meter's long so plenty long enough to reach. The waterproof box is so good we're going to buy another one as they are only in the shops in the run up to Christmas and OH wants another one so we can buy some lights to go into the waterfall we bought last year.

So all in all we're had a good day. Oh and we bought some flowers for Sandra's garden as well. She chose those to. I found the Michaelmas Daisy's in a lovely dark pink about 1 foot tall, they didn't have any taller, but Sandra loves it and she chose 10 Primular plants which I'm going to re-plant into larger pots for her planter, we also bought another pink plants but I can't remember the name. Apparently if we were to plant it in the ground it would grow quite big and it flowers from summer right through to the first frosts so should give her some colour for most of the year. Unfortunately they only had one of those, the same as the Michaelmas Daisy, but it's a start. When we got to the garden centre there was a craft fayre on so we had a look and found a lovely butterfly wind chime, but unfortunately it was very loud and Sandra thought it might keep her awake so we didn't buy it. I didn't think about the noise right outside her bedroom window, which is why she chose the butterflies that clip onto the screening instead.

She's had so much fun choosing everything and although we couldn't find exactly what she wanted she's very pleased with everything we did find. She asked me if it's going to be finished by Thursday as she wants to take a photo to show her Nan as we're going to visit her for her birthday. I checked the weather and unfortunately it's going to rain apart from one day, so it looks like we're going to be busy trying to finish it all for her on that day. She understands that if the weather is wet we can't sort out the lights and electric but at least we could put all the flowers and butterflies in place for her, even if we have to put on a water proof coat and do it in the rain. OH needs to make the shelf for the inside of the planter as I'd like to sit the lights on that. I know they're water proof but I'd feel better if they weren't sitting on the floor where possible puddles could form. At least we have almost everything, so it should look lovely for her very soon.

I haven't caught up with the post ,so will do that tomorrow. Hope everyone is okay, see you tomorrow.
Night Night

Now we have lost Frank again??????????

I know just what you mean Ann about not replacing good old friends. Being where we are we only see people if we go out and oh dos'nt go out hardly at all. He does talk to Phil next door when he is mowing the front field and they have been friends with us for years. They are Em's mum and dad, Phil and Val.

So you thought they looked like Shaun the sheep too then? and it was'nt just me.

Yes, the sheep got more like Shaun as I did them Mel although I didn't set out to make them like him at first. Your Christmassy cake will make the kitchen smell nice and might last for a while if your OH doesn't sneak too many bits! With OH it's bits of cheese that go missing from the fridge.

I went to look at a bungalow for sale in the next village is. It is newer than ours, with some rooms bigger and double garage but has one bedroom less (not ideal!) and is at the end of a cu de sac, but with a big drive to park about 6 cars. Within a 5 minute walk is our doctors' surgery, an Aldi etc, so good in that respect but pricey for 2 bedrooms. As usual, the advertising doesn't show the full picture. One back fence has the new Iceland car park the other side, the side fence has a jitty along it and is only a path width from the side of the bungalow. The double garage plus the neighbour opposite's single garage are both built onto the neighbour opposite's bungalow?? Not sure how that would work with repairs, repainting! A nice modern bungalow, but not for us with those drawbacks. I thought I'd found another earlier in the week at the edge of the same village but they had built a multi storey care home at the back of it so no privacy at all.

It is weird AnnG and like your daughter with her medication I was told that thyroxine I take can cause some overheating. When I could walk ok, on a Sunday morning we would do some of the walks that they would suggest in our local paper. We did laugh one frosty morning as OH had hat, scarf, gloves, jacket, anorak, jeans and 2 pairs of socks on and I had just jeans and a T shirt on. I heat up anyway with walking and after about 10 minutes OH was grabbing my hand to warm his up on. :-) It is horrid though as summer heat stops me doing things and in the winter these days, shops are far too hot for me and can make me feel overwhelmed. I smile when I see old ladies (even though I suppose I am one too!) in shops protesting to each other that the cotton tops are far too thin to keep you warm, whereas it's the thin ones I look for.

I had an email from FMP earlier showing probate records were now available to 2019, so had a google and found that an old work colleague that I thought must have passed away many years ago had only died last year aged 96! He was brilliant when I started in the Civil Service, as with staff shortages they tended to overload you and it was easy to get disheartened when you didn't know what you were doing either. He used to be on hand to answer all my questions, called me his adopted daughter, had a wicked sense of humour and his wife even baked bread for me when there were shortages in the 70s and used to save women's magazines for me. When he retired he moved to Yorkshire and I visited once or twice but his wife felt it made him more homesick afterwards (she was a Yorkshire girl and he had promised they would move to Yorkshire when he retired) so they decided his weekly letters and contact should stop in order to help him settle. I have some Christmas pillowcases he drew for me somewhere. He had perfect handwriting (his father had been a signwriter.) It's silly because I hadn't seen him or heard from him since 1983, but I felt quite upset as it seems all the people that I knew really well in life are popping off and they don't seem to get easily replaced as you get older.

Ann I loved your picture it reminded me of Shaun the sheep. Hope you sleep better tonight and not still awake at 3am. Did he find his themerals? Its unusual for him to lose things as he is so methodical.

Been busy this morning and this afternoon. I have done the egg delivery and the shop for the paper and more milk, done lunch and washed up and got a big fruit cake underway to cook tomorrow. Its the same one I make for a Christmas cake but I left the walnuts out and put more cherries in. That should last us a while if oh dos'nt nick it in the mornings.

Done a wash today too. Its been dry today so far with a couple of brighter spells but the sky is now cloudy.

Think I shall go and do a bit of craft now.

Hoppe Jane can get on here later today. Did she say she was going away this weekend?

Mel glad you feel better today.
and Annx your turn to be tired then, weird isn't it? I am a very cold person and wear a long sleeved T shirt or rugby shirt under a sweater once it is too cold for short sleeves. If I wore short sleeves I would have to have the heating on all the time I was sitting around indoors. Strange how we all vary, our daughter is always hot but that is her medication that causes hot flushes Tamoxafen (I think). She will be 58 in November so it could also be a bit remaining from the menopause. So when we visit it is either me feeling cold or her feeling hot.

We did go into town bought a couple of bits towards C stockings in the 'one Below' shop (everything a pound or below and all good names/makes. also bought a pair of pull on trousers in M&S although not tried them on yet.

I do use email on my phone if neither Ipad or computer are available. Usually have to correct as I go along as the keys are not very big but it is better than nothing.

Found out what daughter's new address will be today and strange coincidence, her road name is exactly the same as ours!!

Afternoon All,

At least it's dry, sunny and no wind here at the moment but I think it said rain later.

OH is about to go to a match near J30 on the M1 but is in a flap as he put his thermals away and now can't find them!

Glad you liked my little felted picture AnnG and Mandy. Now it's back to finishing some of my beading as I seem to have too much craft stuff around now.

I was thinking Jane was in London or at Hannah's with going to see Calendar Girls. I suppose the internet on her phone is fiddly to use compared with her laptop. I find my tablet not as good as the laptop for posting as it seems to have a mind of it's own.

It will be good if you get a couple more chucks Mel and nice that your OH has offered to buy them for you. I was shattered and yawning the other day and had a lie down for a while but then felt better. Sometimes you just have to give in to it.

AnnG I was opposite and had another night of being awake till after 3.00am. That's good sorting your clothes out and putting some away. I need to have a sort out of mine too, but I wear my short sleeve tops all year as I'm always too hot and I haven't worn a jumper for over a decade as I have to use a cardigan I can strip off easily. Luckily (for me) at least! 2 of my beading friends are having hot flushes now so at beading yesterday we had the conservatory door wide open. They still had their cardigans on, but I was in short sleeves. lol. They say they always know when it is really, really cold as I will have a coat on! lol.

Gill you are making good progress with Sandra's garden and ideas for it and I'm sure you will come up with even more. Some of those flowers on spikes make little bird drinkers when it rains in them too and they have them in at one of our garden centres now as I saw them the other day.

Better go out with my camera now while the sun's out. There are some nice autumn colours starting to show.

Morning AnnG and all,

I have heard from Jane to say her lap top is playing up and thats why she has'nt been on here so don't worry about her and she'll be back probable today or tomorrow.

Well it rained all day yesterday and looks very wet out there this morning. What its going to do for the rest f the day I don't know but I expect it will be dreary and wet.

I have half a doz eggs which I may take to Em this morning and go and get the paper and buy some milk as oh has drunk a lot of it this week.

I slept well lst night even after those few hours in the afternoon. I went out like a light and woke at 9am. At least I feel more like myself this morning which must be a plus.
Felt so bad yesterday I did'nt even want to do any crafting so I must have been out of salts.

Good morning all Slept quite well last night which is good. raining this morning which is not. We were going into town on the bus but will have to see. Yesterday put all y T shirts and summer stuff away and got my sweaters out and almost finished tidying my wardrobe. Now have another box full for charity shop. ( did my trousers on Thursday.)