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Anng not when you are making a meat pie or 2 should I say.

I think the wind has finerly dropped a bit but its still raining and I have to go and corn all the girls so I shall have to get wet. I think this is the first day for a looonnngggg while I have worn a hat.

May just have a peep at my craft though when the pie is done.

Enjoy your stay away even though the weathers bad today it may be better tomorrow when you see the family.

Good afternoon all. We had seen that the weather here in the Solent coast area was going to be dry for the morning but rain was coming in at 2pm. So after a very good breakfast we drove to Gosport and parked the car. Walked down to the waterfront and caught the ferry across to Portsmouth. The big aircraft carrier Princess Elizabeth was in and we had a good view of her as we crossed the harbour. There were several yachts going out heading towards the Isle ofvWight where it is Cows week. We had a coffee in The Spinnaker tower cafe then had a look round the shops. Got a few bits in Boots and a reduced long sleeve top in the M&S outlet but we didn’t think they had such a good selection in there today. Watched the Wight Link car ferry go out, goodness they are huge boats.

Back then across the ferry to Gosport and a look round some of the shops buying a Tbsjirt and cotton sweater in M&Co in the sale. By now it was spitting with rain so we drove to Stokes Bay for lunch at Pebbles fish and wine bar. Had a lovely lunch if (sorry Mel) calamari, battered king prawns and two types of bread, one was olive the other was very light and was yellow coloured so I guess saffron. It was tapas sized dishes so just right not too heavy and we had a glass of white wine...... Pinot Grigio with it. We came out of Pebbles at just gone two and true to the forecast it started to rain heavily..
we decided to drive out to Monk Hill at Hill Head where there is a free car park. Parked and sat looking through the rain at a very rough sea. Then drove back to the B&B to read. And write this.

Frank I am guessing that starter you quoted was not all for you but a sharer. It all sounded very nice.

Gill although we will see my sister tomorrow and our Grandson and family on Sunday any getting out and about will just be the two of us.
Good that you got the bungalow finished.
Our lounge walls are white with a hint of pink. They don’t look pink but the white has a warm tinge to it.
Mandy looking forward to seeing the bag when finished. Hope Colin can sit down ok today.
Mel a wet afternoon an excuse to do some craft work.

No let up in the weather here in fct the winds stronger now than it was this morning so you are lucky Gill only having the rain and no wind.
That was a great sleep you had and you must have needed it to sleep that long.

Mandy I'm pleased you managed to get the rust stain out and how is Colin this morning. Not too achey I hope and I bet he has a lovely bruise. Its just as well he did'nt hurt his new hip. I did'nt know they still used scrunchies Mandy. How many did you make in the end before runnin gout of elastic. You'll have to buy more now. Can't wait to see this unicorn bag.

Oh just told me the wind was only supposed to be for three hours so lets hope it stops soon.

Afternoon all,

It's been dry all morning ,we've just had a few spots of rain but it didn't come to much and now the suns out again .

Frank that was quite a feast you all had last night ,the starter dish you had sounded more like a main course :-D
Hope you all enjoy your lunch .

Mel are you and OH speaking today ? i'm sure a tasty pie will break the ice :-D
I've got the rust marks off the shorts with some stuff i bought in the DIY shop it's HG some thing or other i forget the name now but it worked a treat .

Have a good weekend with your Grandson Pippyn ,it sounds as if the weather is rough your way if your battening down .

Gill you must have been tired to sleep that long your body must have really needed the sleep though .
More painting !! you do keep busy you make me feel tired just thinking about it :-D

I have now finished all the bits i need to put the unicorn bag together so i'll probably get that finished over the weekend .
We made hair scrunchies when Chelsea was here the other day that was until we ran out of elastic :-D

Afternoon all

Raining here, I've not long woken up I can't believe it was almost midday when I woke up. OH and Sandra were both up before me and Sandra said to her dad, "What are we going to do, should we wake mum up" I've always said they'd be lost without me. When I got up Sandra was watching one of her programmes in the other room and OH was reading a book.

The weather turned out nice yesterday so OH managed to finish painting the outside of the bungalow. It looks great and is another job out of the way. Next job sorting out the bathroom ceiling, the paint is starting to flake again with the damp in there. I suggested to OH to use the paint he bought for the outside as it's designed to stay on in wet weather, so hopefully a bit of steam off the bath won't harm it. He can only try and you never know it might work.

Sorry to hear about Colin Mandy having a fall, hope he's not to sore. He was lucky it was just a bruise. It sounds like you've had fun with Chelsea staying and have a bit of time to recover before Lacey arrives. Pleased to hear Katie had a good time to. Hope you can get the rust stain out of Colin's shorts, it sounds like Mel might have the answer.

We used to paint everywhere white Ann, but decided to do something different and put a stone coloured wallpaper on our living room walls, it looked cosy at first but now it feels dark with it being a north facing room, so we're going to paint it white again. I have a few cushions on the spare bed which look nice but wouldn't put any on a bed that's being used, like you said they'd end up on the floor where you could trip over them if you needed to get up in the night. When we used to sell houses we'd put cushion on beds, but that was just for show. I didn't like the black bedroom the woman did, apparently she decorates her own house like that, it must feel like a cave and the pink living room, what was he thinking of? Still, I'm looking forward to watching next weeks, when I think they have to do rooms in a hotel.

Poor James, Jane, he doesn't really know whats going on at the moment does he? At least he's earning like he said so can put a bit aside for the future.

Hope the weather isn't to bad for your few days away AnnG, it'll be nice to see your family and get out and about with them.

It sounds like you needed to batten down the hatches Pippyn with all the wind, I hope nothing is damaged and the wind blows away soon.

What a big meal Frank, I don't think I'd of even been able to get through the starter let alone anything else. Pleased to see you all had a good time.

So it's pie making day for you today Mel? Good idea to make two and freeze one.

We've got a steady stream of rain, but no wind thankfully, I really don't like wind when it's strong, especially at night when you can just hear it but can't see the damage it causing. Hope it's not to bad for everyone.

Just the same here Pippyn.

Frank is it the sme with you?

Dos'nt it always seem to rain in the school holidays?

P.S. It's now raining and blowing hard! As you say Mel it is AWFUL!!!

We've spent the morning battening down the hatches as the weather is getting progressively worse!! OH went out to a few bits and pieces and is now unpacking and putting away! I've stewed some plums and prepared courgette for the freezer! A friend called yesterday and took a whole lot with her to make plum gin!
Our Grandson has a school project that he must get finished before the beginning of term, so he's bringing it with him tomorrow. As the weather looks so awful it will be something for him to do!!
Frank, OH and I couldn't have eaten a quarter of your delicious sounding meal!! I don't think any of us could, even our son who can eat for England! Still, it does you good to go out, and see family!
OH has made a COC, so have a good weekend, keep dry, warm and safe!

Morning all,

Gosh Frank that was some meal they all had and you only having the starter but I don't think I could have had anymore than that if I ate prawns or prawn toast. I may try the chicken though as I like satea but the squid is definately a no no for me. I don't eat any seafood only fish and then only smoked haddock, tinned sardines and tuna and salmon and smoked mackeral O and tinned pilchards. I like those on toast for lunch sometimes in the winter.

It raining here too this morning and its very dreary and dark. I hav'nt seen the forcast but after yesterday which was anice day with a breeze this is awfull.

Today I plan to make a couple of steak and kidney pies. One for dinner and one for the freezer. so I better get the meat on or it won't be cool enough to put in the pies.

Good morning all,

RAIN AGAIN HERE. Ros is just going to pick Jan up from the hotel to take her to get her nails done. Conrad will come here.

Jan has left all her sun tops and swimming costumes in France, so has to go and buy some new bits for there Holiday, Tesco has a lot of the things she needs so Ros will take her there after the nails.

We all had a very enjoyable evening. Carolyn and John picked us up at 6.30 we met Conrad and Jan there. The meal, as usual was faultless. Steve (the Manager) greeted me with a very strong hand shake, and the staff were very attentive. As I am not eating very much, I just had the starter dish, of all the ribs, Prawns, chicken Sata, Prawn toast, seaweed, chicken wings. Squid, the list just goes on. The rest of them had the middle dish of Crispy Duck and pancakes, followed by their main courses. While I sat just watching them tuck in. !!!!

We were home before 10.00 pm and sat watching her soaps until I went to bed.

Lunchtime the girls will ring, when they are finished shopping and we can meet up at the "Greyhound" for lunch.

Jans daughters, their children and a lot of the family from Torquay, are going "GLAMPING" to Southampton area. There will be over 25 of them. I hope the weather is better for th=em than it is here or it will be a TOTAL WASH OUT.

Must get on and get showered and dressed as Conrad won't be long before he is here. We won't be doing anything, as this rain will stop any outside activity..

Have a "NICE DAY" everyone. Might see you later. xxxx

Good morning
It’s grey and cold here and the forecast is for heavy rain later.

Yesterday OH came into town with me for our usual coffee with the “gang”. Anyone who is free meets at Wetherspoons on Thursdays and Saturdays (market days) and this was the first time OH had been since the beginning of June. I was so busy keeping an eye on him that I completely forgot I had a hair appointment. Later I found hairdresser had left a message on my answering machine so I had to ring up this morning and apologise and make an appointment for next Thursday. I felt a right idiot.

I hope Colin is OK after his fall Mandy. I expect he’s a bit bruised this morning.

No time to respond to all the posts now as I want to do a supermarket shop before the rain starts. I hope the weather is brighter where you are and you all have a good day.

Mandy I have some stuff that takes out rust marks. I did the readers church robes and now she has some too. Mum got it from the kleeneasy man. I think you put this paste on and lemon juice. I shall have a look and see if I can find it and see who makes it.

Or you can just use salt and lemon juice and leave it to soak and then rinse it out. Try it on a patch that not noticable first though if its a coloured garment. You put the salt on the stain first then squeeze the fresh lemon juice over the salt.

Not a week away no, just three nights. Staying at a favourite B& B in Lee which is a few miles from where Ivwas born and grew up. Main aim is to see eldest grandson and thevtwo great grandsons but also to visit favourite haunts if the weather lets us.
The wind has dropped a bit tonight Jane although we have not been down to the sea front. We are hoping it stays dry tomorrow long enough for us to get over to Portsmouth and back visiting the big outlet centre. We will have to see. This evening we went to a pub we usually eat at called The Bun Penny.nhad a very good meal. Shared a few crisp fried prawns with a sweet chilli dip then I had scampi, chips and peas and T had gammon egg, peas and chips and it was a huge gammon. The we shared three scoops of ice cream. We also had a large glass of Syrah each. So a good evening.

Evening all,

Haven't we been tired :-D with Chelsea here it's been all go ,i think we both breathed a sigh after we had dropped her off ,she had a few minutes with mum and dad and then she was off with her friend to Gravity in Norrwich for the day i think it's a Trampolining place and then they were off to do some rock climbing ,she just has so much energy .
Were now resting up ready for next week when Lacey will be coming :-D

Katie had a lovely time away she came home stinking off bonfire as that was the last thing they were doing before she came home ,so she went straight in the
bath :-D

There are so many posts so forgive me for not commenting on all, i see James is still at work does he know how much longer he's there Jane ?
And Larry is now retired from the Nature Reserve i see ,he'll be off for some nice bike rides .

We've had some mishaps here first was Colin fell down near the shed ,i think he caught his foot on a pipe that goes into the shed ,he landed on his hip and bottom ,it was a bit of a job to help him up as he carn't get on his knees ,i had to get a chair for him to lean on and he managed to haul his self up ,no damage done just one sore botty with a nice bruise .
Then his shorts went into the wash over night ,with the shed key in the pocket ,so it left a nice rusty mark from the key on his light grey shorts ,how do you get rust off material any one know ? i've washed then twice but it hasn't touched it .
But the best bit was his phone was also in the shorts pocket !!!
Only a pay as you go phone but it's full of water so son has ordered him a new one .
AnnG i hope you enjoy your time away, is it a week your away ?

Frank i hope you all enjoy your meal tonight and that they made it in time with no traffic hold ups .

Gosh Mel that was some Egg :-D oh dear i see you've had words with OH is it all better now ?

Well we've had a busy day! OH needed to go to the machinery shop to see if he could get an extension arm for his rechargeable hedge cutter! We have quite a long hedge down the side of our veg patch and its so much easier to do it with a long arm, saves climbing (dangerously!!) on a step ladder or platform as he's always done in the past and is a lot lot quicker! After that we did a bit of shopping for the weekend, after that we came home! This afternoon we've done bits of gardening including picking a load of plums while the weather was good, (something to freeze tomorrow!!) and had 40 winks! Our Grandson is staying the night with us ( new plan!) which will be lovely as he's such a grand lad, then we're taking him back on Sunday staying for lunch then drifting back in the afternoon ! So that's our weekend sorted!!!!
All the talk about dyeing!!! I can remember years ago dyeing children's clothes and really giving them a new lease of life! In those days it was a right old performance! these days of course you can dye things in the washing machine which has made it all so much easier!!
OH is doing the runners for supper, so better get on!!

Frank, I hope that Conrad and Jan arrive in time for the meal tonight. Maybeshe will do her makeup on the way :-D :-D. Where are you going for the meal? Have a lovely time.

Ann,is it a cold wind? I imagine it could be .At least you got there even through awful traffic. How long are you staying? I would love some good sea breeze here right now.It might blow away all the dust and muck from the works and the Harvesting that's been going on in the fields .It was like a sandstorm yesterday :-S Trying ot keep this place dust free is just impossible. As for wearing shoes indoors .Yes we do and I am always moaning about it. The grit and all sorts that gets brought in sometimes is not good. I say we should all be like the Japanese and it is shoes off at the front door.
When we stayed with friends in Tokyo I kept forgetting to take my shoes off but was never allowed to get any further than just inside the door before being reminded to take them off and wear the little slippers provided :-D. I have to say that since laws about not picking dog poo up we no longer come in with poo on the bottom of shoes.
When I was a girl and lived by the beach I was always coming in with Tar on the bottom of my plimsoles or flip flops . There was always a bottle of Dab it off on hand .

Larry had his retirement do last night.Retired from the Nature Reserve. They put on a lovely meal at (SALERNO AnnG) He was presented with a fantastic cake .I will forward a pic of it. The bike and rider is Larry :-D He is a very keen cyclist.
I am not sure what the 2 brown things are on the cake.I think one might be a Watervole or something similar and the other brown blob possibly a frog.

Are you exhausted now Mandy after having Chelesa :-D

Arrived ok in the B&B at Lee on Solent. Sun has shone all day but it is very windy here and the sea is very choppy. Traffic was very bad all the way down, motorways were very busy but no hold ups so hope Conrad has a good journey to you Frank.

As James says Jane, at least he is earning so will be able to put something by for his redundancy. It does seem as though they are doing it all by the book.

Are you like us and walk in with your shoes on? That will be where the grit comes from. Did you get my message that the dies look as though they will cut ok(paper or thin card)? So you can post them to me if you want them cut.

Annx and Gill I watched part of that design programme, some of what I saw was too arty for me and those cushions would drive me mad. I did like some of the wall colours but didn’t see any finished rooms. I stopped watching when the female was bemoaning that the blue she had mixed was like baby blue :-D

Had a busy morning as I got up late. Did a wash and got that on the line then hoovered the kitchen and dining area and sucked up all the leggy spiders which seem to be breeding like mad lately.

Did lunch and we had words during 800 words as oh was talking through it as usual. He has gone off mowing again and we arn't talking............

There are only the two of us here but there is always plenty to hoover up with the grass cuttings that come in and all the stones off the tarmac and the dust. I don't know where it all comes from. I am sure my hoover blows out dust and it blows in the front too.

Nobody to talk too, I expect you are all busy in the garden or shopping. !!

Conrad rang earlier. They were late leavingDevon and expect to be here around 5.00 pm. The table is booked for 6.30 pm for 7.00. So I hope they don't get held up on the way. By the time they pop in here, then go to the Hotel and book in and sort themselves out, it will be time to leave for the restaurant. As I said Jan is never on time. (she will be late for her own funeral) That's a good old saying. ;-) ;-) ;-)

Sun has been out for sometime now, even though there is plenty of clouds around.

Ros has just popped a Get well card in the post to my SIL.

Going to water greenhouse now, FORGOT IT YESTERDAY. Naughty boy !!!!

Morning again. Ros went for her Blood Test at 9.15 while I got showered. When she came back, she took me for my haircut.

Sorry about the post just after midnight, I was in such a state, and didn't sleep that well when I got back to bed. Was awake again before 5.00 am. I feel as though I am ready for BED now.

It's Sally's 50th tomorrow. The party is on Saturday starting at 7.00 pm. We won't arrive that early, and as I said by taking our car, we can leave when we are ready.

Conrad and Jan are going back tomorrow afternoon, as they have booked a CHEEPY WEEK in Majorca and fly out Saturday. Even though he can take time off in Spain, he gets pestered with phone calls, and clients who see him around, asking if he could get someone to look at this, or that in their property. They just don't think to contact the office, so this way he will be able to get away from all that.

Ros is busy hoovering through, not that it will look any different, as with only two of us, we don't make a lot of mess. WELL I DON'T ;-) ;-) ;-)

Spots of rain in the air when we came back from Town, but the sun is out now, so lets hope it stays dry.

So James is still working Jane. I would have thought that as he is leaving, they would let him go NOW, rather than whenever it suits them. But as you say they are doing everything by the book. !!!!

Had a COC and sandwich, now I will read the paper. and relax for an hour before they come. xxxx