General Chat

Poor you Mandy. What a horrid time you and your OH are having. Like AnninG I wondered if it could be something like a disgruntled neighbour doing it. It’s almost as if they knew you had managed to patch the pool up and came back a second time to make sure they ruined it for you. I hope the police will be able to help you when you see them.

I hope you enjoy your meal with your political friends Pippyn. At least it won’t be boring.

I’m glad your steps are nice and strong now Frank. They always say that if you want something done well, do it yourself. Now you must take care going up and down them.

Gill, whether OH has a claim for compensation for his broken tooth might depend on what he was told before the operation. These days you have to be told of the risks before an operation and if he was told there was a chance of tooth damage then you wouldn’t have a claim, and in any case it would be difficult to prove negligence. Sometimes with the best will in the world accidents happen. Unless he has really suffered badly I would let it go rather than go through the stress of a claim, but that is just my personal opinion.

I got my bathrooms cleaned and I hoovered through downstairs. AnninG, we supposedly downsized when we moved here so how come I used to have 3 loos to clean, and now I have 4? We looked at 3 bedroomed bungalows but we were used to space and all the rooms seemed so small. We nearly didn’t view this house as it was advertised as having 5 bedrooms but a friend who knew it thought we should see it and she was right. In fact, the two downstairs bedrooms had been knocked into one, but in such a way that they could be made into 2 again. There are 3 bedrooms upstairs but we use the smallest one as a study. However I can put 2 futon type beds down in there when needed. It is nice to have space for family to stay, particularly son and his tribe from Yorkshire. The other good thing about this place is that if the time comes when we can’t easily get upstairs we can live totally downstairs.

I spent about an hour and a half in the garden this afternoon but came in shattered with backache and a headache. A shower soon perked me up a bit and I think at last I am beginning to make things look a little less wild and overgrown. I quite like the natural look but this was getting ridiculous.

Well, time I got cooking I suppose. It’s just egg, beans and chips tonight. A bit of a comedown from last night when I cooked coq au vin. I didn’t tell OH how much of his good red wine had gone into it ;-)

O I got on here but Mandy not AGAIN. It is just too much to take. You certainly need to have a camera put up either by the police of yourselves as this has gone too far now. Once you can take although its not nice but to have it happen again........ Well...

What do they drop down on after coming over the wall? I would be tempted to put some buckets of water down or a string of tin cans or two so they make a racket. How about some trip wires????

I came in to put the oven on and the thing would'nt work so had to take the meat out of the tray and put it in a covered roaster as you can't use foil in the top oven so bunged it in there. Went back outside and suddenly thought I wonder if the timer is on? It was and now its working again. Silly me I must have set it when I cleaned the front of the cooker down.

Mel I always use post date to get to the last post then trawl down to the last time I posted to read.

Having trouble getting to the last page so posting this to see if I can get there or if I get the error page.

Afternoon all,

Well our day went almost as planned. We went to get te tyre repaired. It was a very small TACK stuck in the tread. He took the tyre off the rim, cleaned all inside, put a sealant round the alloy rim before replacing the tyre, after repairing the puncture of course. He then checked the pressure on the other tyres, All at the great expense of £10.00, lol lol. They are Eastern Europeans, and we always go there for our tyres and any problems. They are so polite as well.

Ros also wanted to go the HOBBY CRAFT. I thought she was buying the shop out, I sat in the car for half an hour with the sun beaming down on me. Not a HAPPY BUNNY. We then went to get some "0" rings to replace the one one the bathroom sink pop up plug. I have fitted a new one, and figures crossed it's holding water now. !!! Onwards to Tesco for a few bits, then lunch in the "COLLINGTREE PUB" Always a good welcome and the food is always fresh and served with a smile.

I have watered the front garden, patio and greenhouse. We must pick some Cherry toms, as there are lots ready to pick.

Mandy, when we had our shop, and having it refitted, we had a spat of breakins. The police set up CAMERA's on a shelf, and left it there recording. It was there for a week or so, but never caught anyone. Why don't you ask if they could assist you it catching whoever is doing this to you. You must be at your wits end. WHAT HORRIBLE PERSON/ or PERSONS. They need to be caught, as quickly as possible. It might be an IDEA to get a demonstration from a security company, for CCTV in the garden. You can always say NO THANKS LATER. !!! It might just work.

The steps are as firm as a ROCK, so I am well pleased with my efforts, even though today I can hardly walk.

No cooking tonight, just a sarnie if we need one. I think a casserole tomorrow will also save me standing at the cooker.

Enjoy your evening PIPPYN (I don't think) lol lol. The rest of you enjoy your evening also.

Spoke too soon, had the error page then but came straight back in via the logo and the home page. Irritating.

I haven't had the error page yet today but it is very slow downloading. We seem to get phases of this sometimes and admin never understand it. Wonder if the techies are working on something or have changed something that affects us. We get the error page because the site takes too long to download so it times out.

Oh my goodness Mandy, that's really dreadful! Who on earth can be being so awful?!
Even if you completely replace the liner (insurance)there will be nothing to stop whoever it is doing it again to the new one!! They need to be caught before they can cause you more grief! I wouldn't like to tell you what my OH, and I come to that would like to do to them!!
I can't believe there are any more weeds left in our garden!! We're stopping now for a COT, and to watch 'All Creatures Great and Small' on freeview!

I am getting the Error Page again.

Have you checked CCTV again in the area? Is the wall damaged again. Is there any chance it is a neighbour maybe objecting to the noise of the children in the pool? There are some strange people about.

Have you thought about getting a camera yourselves? They are not expensive on line.

Afternoon all,

Nice sunny day and we've been shopping .

The pool patches that Colin put on were holding lovely ,came down this morning looked out the window and the water was down again .......another great big slash under the patch and it looks like they've stabbed at the patch too. :-(
Back on the phone to the police we're given another crime number, not much they could do as he said they carn't get any prints from the wall ,when we came back from shopping there was a message from the police asking us to ring them as they would like to speak to us so we now have an appointment tomorrow evening at half past seven .
We now need to ring the insurance company as there's no way the new slash can be patched

Frank what a lovely surprise having the new mower from Harvey ,i bet you carn't wait ti try it out .

gill I agree with Pippyn but I also think if it was negilgence you would have to claim it and probably through the small claims court. Maybe a smallish bill is not worth the hassle. Hope this paint works on the ceiling. Does your bathroom get very steamed up then?

Mel, lovely to have Bramleys to pick. My parents had a lovely bramley apple tree that was still going when Dad went into the residential home. It was about 60 years old and still producing apples. Our apples this year are very small and some are going rotten on the tree while not yet ripe.

Vera pleased you had a good nights sleep last night (or a better one). Goodness all those bathrooms to clean. We only have one main bathroom and one cloakroom and this is a 4 bed house. Good job there are only two of us.

Frank hope Ros managed to find a bracelet she likes. Have you checked on Amazon or was that where you were buying from?

I know Gill that you always have to sign a waiver before any operation but I'd have thought that your OH's situation would have come under negligence and not be subject to the waiver! As you say though, its done now!!
Lovely day here so we shall be in the garden. This evening we're going to supper with friends. They tend to be a bit (very!!!?) political, It should be a bit (very?!!) lively!!!? So that's our day sorted!

Morning all,

We have sunshine too at the mo but there are clouds in the blue sky so we may get some showers today.

I want to pick more blackberries today up the border. They grow in the corner of the west wall and I can't get in there to remove them so make use of them each year and cut back what I can reach.

I shall also go up the top field and pick some nice big cookers (Bramleys) for Di and Emm and some plums if there is any left on the tree that the wasps hav'nt munched.

Pork loin for tonights dinner with homemade apple sauce runners and new pots nice and easy then the apple and blackberry crumble for dessert with custard.

Good morning fair maidens, xxx

Nice surprise this morning. Door bell rang, it was Parcel Express with a box for me. It was a NEW Qulcast Electric Mower from Harvey. I rang him to thank him and ask how much I owed him. It wasn't a lot of money Dad, so have it on me. He has already paid for the New Boiler. We are determined to pay him for the new shower, when he brings it up tomorrow.

He has had a recall on his Nissan Truck. The chassis's are corroding, to the point that some are collapsing. He will take his in after his holiday. They will clean the truck and check the chassis. If it is bad, they will scrap it there and then, and replace it with a nearly new one, or a 50% voucher off a new one. So watch this space. !!!!

Ros had a pleasant evening last night. They drove out to the Banbury area, and ended up at the Pub that the landlady of our local took over recently. The food was not up to scratch, and a lot of women sent the door back. So we won't be popping in there anytime soon. I was in bed and asleep by the time she got home around 11.00 pm.

We are going to have the rear tyre checked this morning, hopefully it's only a slow puncture that they can repair. Also to B & Q to see if we can get a new washer for the "POP UP PLUG" in the bathroom sink. If not I will have to buy a new one, as this one keeps letting the water seep out.

Ros is ready for the OFF, so see you later. xxxx

Morning all

Sunny here today and quite warm, I've just been sitting outside having my morning cuppa.

No error page so far today, I had trouble signing in then couldn't get to the end of the thread and when I sent my post nothing happened so I wasn't sure if it had gone through, it was like that for hours so I gave up in the end. I noticed today that my post did go through yesterday but it stayed as I'd typed it in the little box at the bottom, so I thought it hadn't been posted.

OH can't claim compensation Pippyn as he signed a form to waiver his rights, it makes you wonder if anything serious had happened, got forbid he'd of died what would of happened. I always thought if something went wrong like them knocking his front tooth out they would cover the dental costs, but no they don't. Never mind it's done now and he's putting a coat of paint on the bathroom ceiling as we speak. He's using the paint he used outside, it's a smooth white masonry paint, so hopefully it's work and won't flake off with the damp from the bath like the normal emulsion paint does. We've tried all sorts of different paints designed for bathrooms and nothing has worked, he was getting fed up of having to sand it back and repaint it all the time. If this paint can withstand the bad weather it should be okay with a bit of steam........time will tell though.
How lovely to see your granddaughters. That was nice of them to bring cake.

I hope you are less stressed now Mandy, did the patches work on the pool? I hope the police could see who it was from the Church camera's and they have been caught now and punished. That's the thing with insurance, you pay them for years but if you make a claim they expected you to pay more the following year, so basically you'll have paid for the damage yourself eventually through the extra payments to the insurance company, it doesn't seem very fair does it.

I see you've done your steps Frank, hope you're not to achy today. We have the same problems as you where people say they're going to help then don't bother. If we'd of lived closer to you we'd of done the job for you and not let you down. Like Mel said though keep off them until they are set, you don't want them coming loose again. Sorry to hear about the trouble you're having trying to find a nice bracelet for Ros. Did she find one she liked at the shops?

I'm pleased you have been in touch with your friend Jane, at least you know how she is now and can chat via text.

I started OH's tree around 15 years ago Ann then went onto my side of the family, we thought we'd finished his side but then remembered a Will I was given, which is why I started his tree in the first place, and when I took another look at his tree this year I noticed I hadn't finished most of the people on the Will, that's what I'm doing now and between his and my tree we have almost 8000 people now, most of them blood relatives with the exception of a bit from one of his ancestors wife's family.

The reason I did her side is because there is a secret in the family that no one will tell us about and we think it's to do with the children of this couple and that they may of given them to his wife's sisters to bring up. It's still a mystery and most of the people who would of known the story have passed away now so there's only one person left we can ask but unfortunately she has early stages of Alzheimer's.

We think her husband knows the story but whether he'll tell us or not we're not sure. So we may never find out the truth. All we know is this couple moved to New Zealand and he never saw his mum again, he didn't even attend her funeral. The couple were born in the late 1800's and had their children before they left the UK, they married in New Zealand. They both mention two girls who they refer to as their nieces in their Wills but don't leave anything to any of their other nieces and nephews which we found very strange.

Once the woman with Alzheimer's said they had two boys so we know they had two children, but we're sure they were the two girls mentioned in their Wills. I don't know why everyone is so secretive about this couple and their two children, OH would love to know the full story, but like I said no one will tell us. OH's late uncle asked me once if I'd found any children for them and nearly slipped up to tell me something, but kept quiet at the last moment, which has made us want to know more now. Maybe one day she'll tell us the whole story or her husband might.

Good morning AnnG and all

Sun shining here too and I had a slightly better night so all’s right with the world :-D

I don’t have much planned for today but will clean the bathrooms (2 en suites, main bathroom, downstairs loo), and maybe do a bit of gardening or pop into town for a few bits and pieces.

Probably BBL

good morning all, Tesco shop this morning. sun shining so far. Back later.

From what you say Mel, they are the probably the same. OH is changing most of our garden equipment to rechargeable battery models. His big strimmer, chain saw, electric drill! Even our vacuum cleaner is rechargeable. My mower and strimmer are still electric, but its only a matter of time!!!
That's great that you are managing communication with your friend Jane, I'm sure she will be very comforted to know that you are thinking of her!
Money to burn!! You could say! I'd enjoy the African trip though!! OH and I love a train journey, although we haven't had one for a while now :-\
Our granddaughters live about 30 miles away Frank, like you, now they are grownup (nearly!) we don't see anything like as much of them as we used to. The elder one starts University in the autumn with a view to joining the police force, the other is starting at a 6th form college to begin her A levels. She wants to go into medicine, so its going to be a long haul!!

That was nice to be able to send a text to your poorly friend Jane. What good ideas Hannah has sometimes.

Pippyn your hedge trimmer sounds like something my oh bought lst year. His one is batery operated so he can go anywhere in the garden with it without worrying if he gets the wire in the way and its much lighter to hold than the petrol one. He bought me a little battery strimmer too which is great.

Fancy spending £200,000 on an extension. Most people would buy a house for that much. Whatever job or business does her husband have?

I still can't get my head round this Morrisons shop. It dos'nt matter which way round I go I always forget something. Whilst putting the shopping in the back of the car today I suddenly thought I had'nt bought a lettuce or a pepper for oh's lunches. I had to back back into the shop and get them. There are no bags of grapes anymore only ones in punnetsand all the veg is not in one isle but the packeted stuff in one isle and the loose stuff in another. Its all upside down and backsyfore.