General Chat

Afternoon All,

Horrid wind and rain earlier but it's stopped now and brightened up! Thanks for your good wishes Anne and Gill......I shall be off to the docs in half an hour for the injection. I've told OH he's not coming in with me as he's so squeamish about injections, he will make me twitchy as well!! lol.

The glass problem is thought to be due to one of the heating elements in the kiln failing as some of the glass was ok, but most not! The teacher will take all our glass to hr own kiln and refire it and we can collect it next Wednesday. The kiln was only installed last month as well and is new!! Having seen the tiny squares we decorated looking so similar, I doubt we will know our own out of the 80 there are when they come back. :-S

My sister does some scrapbooking although I have never seen them. She also makes cards and some of those are really nice. You got a bargain there with your cheese AnninG!

It's nice to meet up with old work friends isn't it Anne. I do that occasionally and so does OH. I have stained glass on my list of things I want to do and the dragonfly would look nice. The fused glass we have done is pieces of glass that are cut and layered together, then the glass melts and fuses together in the kiln. I have 2 bowls and a coaster I made before.

I hate changing computers AnninG as I have to set my own up and I always think I won't be able to find everything on the new screens!! It's bad enough Talktalk have updated their emails a few days ago. I couldn't find where to log off and now it's only when you hover over an arrow pointing to the right that it says 'sign off'. What was wrong with 'Log off' anyway?

Looking forward to seeing your Harry Potter candles Mel. The new paint sounds better.

Gill they made a bit of progress next door while you were out yesterday. I expect you have to watch the wind doesn't blow things out of the skip and onto your drive.

Better get ready to go now.

We actually have not had any rain at all since we went out at 10am. Shopping done, quite a large shop this week as last week we went to the small Tesco near to us because of the weather. It is actually nice out there now, still a bit windy but not too strong. It is 30 degrees in our conservatory

If you shop in Tesco, watch for bargains as they are closing their deli counters soon. We bought a very large piece of Caerphilly with cranberries, obviously the pieces they have on the deli counter to cut up. It was reduced to £3.80 and we have cut it into seven and six pieces are in the freezer.

Where's our Frank this morning?

Suns out again now and there's lots of blue sky at the moment with grey clouds here and there.

I have just given the HP candles another coat of paint and I think that will be the last one.

The rain's stopped here and we have sunshine now,

OH has just nipped to the post box for me to post your cards Mandy and Mel. Going to watch salvage hunters with OH, he's just come in, then I'll catch up with the soaps with Sandra before they're back on again this evening. I just need to add another baby to my family tree first, OH's cousin had a little girl just before Christmas and I forgot to pop her on my tree.

NOw its pelting down and we've had a rainbow and the winds up now too.

I managed to fill all the bird feeders up and feed the bantams and pin their polythene back which the gale blew off but hav'nt got round to the big girls yet.

And now the suns out again..........but the sky still looks a bit grey.

Is it today Ann has her injection in the knee? I seem to have lost count of the days this week.

You spoke to soon Mel, sorry to hear you now have the rain :-( :-( Hope it doesn't last to long.

It must of been someone else on the roof as the roofers van isn't here and the remaining roof tiles are still stacked up on top of the new flat roof extension. I did noticed the fella who is suppose to be doing the rendering is parked outside, but I can't see the rendering being done today, so maybe there's a bit more plastering to do inside. At least some workmen are here which surprised us when we saw how bad the weather was when we got up.

And now its pouring...........

It sounds like you have the same weather as us Ann, hope you don't get to wet when you're shopping. What a pity you didn't wait a bit longer for your computer, you would of had the £30 off too. I've just watched the weather forecast and it's going to be even windier tomorrow and Saturday......not looking forward to that. We've just noticed the roofers are back finishing off next doors roof, I hope they don't get blown off, it's awful weather out there. The door hasn't been put in the skip yet, so that's good.

Hope the chicken drinker is okay Mel, it does sound like we've now got the weather you had last night. When I saw the weather forecast earlier it looks like you're in for some more rain, I hope it's not as bad as we're got now.

Morning all,

So you lot seem to have the wind today. :-S we had gales last night and rain so I think it may have passed up to you. We now have sun and clouds of white and grey and blue inbetween. It blew he chikens drinker off the blocks it stands on so I hope its still in one piece as its a plastic one and Mole Vally don't sell those ones now.

good morning Gill and all. bright showery and very windy here at the moment but it is Tesco day so off out to stock up for the week. I don't dislike food shopping as long as it is not raining too much when we have to unpack the car. I guess we won't be out long as OH got himself a new computer yesterday and is busy installing it and setting it up. He has had a practice recently as he set me up with the same model a couple of weeks ago. And blow me he got his £30 cheaper!! :-D

Hope all stays safe Gill with the door, could be nasty.

Back later.

Morning all

We have a storm here at the moment, very strong wind and the rain is awful. I'm just hoping none of the tall plants blow over.

Good luck with your injection today Ann. I'll be thinking of you. <3
I hope your glass is okay and it's not been ruined.

We were out all day yesterday visiting MIL and doing some shopping, I'm so glad we didn't go today in this weather. When we got back home, we noticed the scaffolding was down and the gutters were up. They had a damp proof course done to, we noticed them doing that as we were going out. I think the rendering was suppose to be done today, but the weather has put paid to that and the roof hasn't been finished either.

It sounds like you got some bargains for your crafts Mel. I'd love to see some pictures when you've finished everything.

Hi Ann, pleased to see you on the thread, see I told you you'd be made welcome. Please stay, we'd all love you to. Interesting what you were saying about the glitter. I didn't know it was made up of tiny bits of plastic either. That's my something new learnt today :-D :-D

It's nice to see you had a good nights sleep Frank, hope you had another one last night. Sorry to hear about the lab, I hope there's something the vet can do. The hat sounds fun, love to see a pic when Ros has finished it, especially if you can take one with Buddie wearing it ;-) ;-)

That was nice catching up with our old work friends Anne, like you say it's nice to see them face to face.

We're not going anywhere today with the weather the way it is, so I've decided to watch call the midwife I recorded then take another look at my family tree after that. The heating's on and it's lovely and warm here. I feel sorry for the workmen next door, even though they are doing work inside it's still cold in there. OH's just told me they have taken the front door off I think that was the last to go in all the other windows and doors have been done. He's hoping they put the door on the floor and not on top of the skip as it might get blown off onto our drive. Luckily OH has parked the car on the road but he'll need to bring it back down the drive later, so if they do put it in the skip then he's going to have to ask them to take it out as the skip it full. I hate it when it's so windy it causes so much damage, it's like living in a wind tunnel sometimes.

Sounds like you had a lovely afternoon with your friend Anne.

Mandy I have two cards put on the side. One arrived ages ago and the post mark is January.

Good evening all

First I hope your injections don't give you any discomfort Ann and they make walking easier for you.

Sorry to hear about your glass, they do a stained glass workshop where I worked, not sure it's the same as yours when I left for the 2nd time they presented me with a window hanging made by the tutor it's mainly of a dragon fly and very pretty .When I left the first time I had a gold watch, a bouquet and a cheque so didn't expect anything that time. .

It was nice to see you posting again Ann in Glos please stay with us now. When I was young I use to make scrap books encouraged by one of my Aunties, I wish I had kept them.I also use to collect film stars' photos

The little dress you made Mandy is so pretty as the others have said you are very clever lady.

Would love to see the little French Bulldog wearing his hat when Ros has made it for him, Frank

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon meeting up with old work friends for a coffee and a chat, the others still work at the Park and although we keep in touch on face book it's nice to have a face to face chat now and again :

Not quite finished today’s, only just got back into it again been doing @2x 12 scrap books for over ten years. I prefer to use more photos on a page than most people. My favourite is one I did on my family history but later ones are full of Grabdchildren and great grandchildren.

I will see what I can find to photograph.

Yes I am sure a lot of people read the garden and bird threads. Do add if you have anything we would be interested in. :-D

O whats it like Annin we'd love to see a pic. Mum made scrap books when I was young and always bought me one too. I mainly put things in it I would like to make and still do nowadays. I always seem to be making something inbetween the chickens and the housework which sometimes gets left if I get into something.

Ann do let us know how your glass work turned out after you've had a look at it tonight. Such a shame it was'nt fired enough and I think we all want to know if it can be refired.

Put another two coats of paint on the last three Harry Potter candles today and still some of the writing is showing through on them. I should have covered them in white paper before I made them like I did the kitchen roll ones. Soon be able to take a pic to show you.

Hi AnninGlos :-D hope your going to stay ,like you i read other posts but don't like to comment ,i usually have a read of the Garden thread and the Bird thread .
I didn't think about Glitter being plastic ,i don't know what i thought it was made of really .
Scrapbooks might be an idea for some thing to do with the grandchildren when they come ,they could add bits and pieces each time they come .

Frank i have loads of those open ended needles ,they were my Nanny's ,now i think they sell the needles with the wire attached to each needle so you can knit the round .
No i won't spend any money ;-) i'll only buy the things i need ;-) ;-) :-D

I think you should get a refund Ann but as you say you still got a little practice in ,hope there is some thing there though that can be saved after all your time and effort.

I meant to say i have had a blue envelope arrive in the post :-D it's propped up on the side for Monday :-D

There was some thing else i wanted to say but can't for the life of me remember what it was now !!!!!

Thank you for the welcome I promise I will not lurk but will post. Maybe Annx at least something will be salvageable and usable, hope so anyway.

Haven’t been on Genes much today as after coffee at the community hub and a wick call into Tesco for a paper and tonic (main shop tomorrow) I spent the rest of the afternoon doing a scrap book page.