General Chat

Anne I went for a fasting blood test a couple of months ago but had forgotten it was a fasting one and had breakfast !!!!!!!. Silly me.

Back in time for school but also the Secret lives of 4 year olds. I have never wached Death in Paradise although I know my Sister loves that. I thought Manhunt was done really well and Martin Clunes played his role so well.

Mel I did all the ironing here yesterday but now there is already another blooming pile building up :-S . That can wait now :-D. Its always shirts. :-S

What a shame the Banties don't like OH .He can't be that scary !!

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Glad you reminded me of Back in time for School Anne as I had forgotten it was on a Thursday. Still not done much but I did damp dust my desk so thats all nice and clean now. I am just going to do a bit of ironing now as I seem to have a rather large pile.

Good luck wiht your test in the morning.

Sausages tonight and I made stuffed jacket pots last night so only have to do a bit of bross to go with them and the jackets can go in the oven with the sausages so nice and easy.

Good afternoon all

<3 <3 HAPPY ANIVERSARY Gill & Glynn <3 <3 hope you enjoyed your day. The cards from Sandra sound very pretty I expect she got a lot of pleasure in making them.

Good to see you back Frank but sorry you are having so much pain. It must be good to have your laptop back .As Gill mentioned could you get a carer to come in once a day to help with the shower and shave.

It's been cold and overcast all day. Had the Sainsbury delivery this morning so fridge and freezer are now well stocked.

I have my Diabetic blood and urine test tomorrow morning so it's nil by mouth except water this evening and tomorrow morning. Amanda the phlebotomist always has a job getting any blood out of me, last time she told me to drink plenty of water to make it easier the downside is many trips to the loo .
We also watched manhunt I remember the case for murdering Millie Downer I didn't realise at the time he also murdered others .What an evil man We are going to watch Death in Paradise later before that Back in Time for School.

O my boys back at last.

Sorry to hear you are still in so much pain, Are the stronger painkillers giving you any more relief or not. Ribs can be as a long while healing especially when your older. I remember my dady broke some ribs years ago when I was young and he had this tight bandage wrapped right around his chest but they don't do that now.

How long is your beard if you can't shave? I would love to see a picture.

Not getting on well today I still hav'nt washed up after lunch as I took a nice big pot of warm mash round to the girls and walked back to the back gate and our neighbour came over to talk to me. We talked for quite a while. He was trying to find metal posts amogst the brimbles which he want to clear but dos'nt want to hit any metal or wire with the cutter. He is trying to follow a line through the brimbles to where there are a couple of post further up the field.

O its sooooooooo good to have our Frank back. <3

Afternoon All

Happy Anniversary Gill <3 <3. How lovely to get 2 cards from Sandra :-D. They sound very pretty.

Welcome back Frank :-D :-D :-D.You have been gone for so long and now come back in the wars again :-(.. I hope that you make sure to take your painkillers on the dot when they are due.It is so important to do that as you need to keep breathing as deeply as you can.The last thing you will need is a chest infection. Maybe in a few days you will be able to manage a shower.I'm so sorry that this has happened to you .You certainly don't do anything by halves do you !!!!.

I am just back from having my nailvarnish taken off. It was the varnish I had done for the wedding so it has done well :-)

It is really cold again this afternoon so I was pleased to find Chris has lit the fire.I am going to get a nice cuppa and warm up .

Thank you for the pm Frank. Oh dear, so sorry that you're in the wars. Hope you feel better very soon. Time for Father Brown! Liz x

Pleased to see you back Frank, we've all really missed you <3

So sorry to hear of all the pain you're in. Look after yourself and rest as much as you can. Don't worry about not posting to much, it's just nice to know you can come on here when you feel up to it, even if it's only once or twice a day with short posts.

Maybe you could get carers in to help you shower and shave.

Sending get well wishes from your friends Gill and Sandra <3 <3 <3

IT'S ONLY ME. !!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.

The laptop arrived back today, over 500 emails and 500 more trash. Have cleared them all from the system.

Doctor called this afternoon, checked over my back, and confirmed my ribs are broken. .Tell me something I didn't know !!!! Didn't go to bed last night, just couldn't lie down, so sat in the chair all night. Still in lots of pain, and dare not take a deep breath, or cough, having to use TWO STICKS to get to the bathroom. Needless to say, I am not able to shower and shave, can't lift my arms up, as it strains my back.

As you can imagine I haven't read any of your posts. But am glad to be back with all my FRIENDS.

Beginning to get a lot of pain in my back, sitting and typing not agreeing with me yet. Will try to get back on tomorrow. in the mean time love to you all. xxx

Thanks for the Anniversary wishes Mel, it's raining here at the moment, that fine rain that soaks you through, so we're glad the water feature wasn't going in today. It's on at the moment and looks really nice.

Pleased to see you are keeping your mobile library, they tried closing the library around here but thankfully just cut down the days it's open.

Mum's been around to see us and now I'm going to have a cuppa soup and watch a bit of TV while the washing machine is on. I decided to give the bedding a really hot wash so it's taking longer than usual to do. I really could do with some new bedding, ours is looking a bit shabby and old now.

Are you all hybernateing?

Been to the library and fed the wild birds who are feeding like crazy and just had a COC but now its time to get lunch so we can see Doctors.

If its like this where you lot are you will have had to clear you're windscreens this mroning.

O I must defrost the bird bath even though they have somewhere to drink and bathe by the ponds.

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<3 <3 <3 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GILL AND GLYNN <3 <3 <3

Have a happy day whatever you do.

Morning all,

Bright and sunny this morning after last night heavy frost. There is still some on the roof of my car at the moment.

I have library today. They decided they would keep the mobile library going once a month so thats good as there were talks of stopping it altogether at one time. We had to fill out a form if you remember me telling you.

Shall have to get my skates on and get a few things done before going up there.

Morning all

There's a bit of a nip in the air today, but no frost.

There are window fitters next door, so that's good as the place will be more secure now Having said that the bi-fold doors aren't going in till next week, but at least the rest of the windows will be in which will deter anyone from going into the property and will also make it look slightly better. I offered them a cuppa but they'd just had one so asked if they could have a drink in about an hour. I've stripped the beds and I'm getting on with some washing. We've nothing planned for our anniversary, just pottering around here doing a few jobs. Sandra made us a lovely card, in pink of course, covered in beautiful stickers and a border of diamonds.....very pretty. She also made another one with a black kitten on it which was really cute. She couldn't wait to give them to us so we ended up opening them at midnight before we went to bed.

Thanks Mel, I'll see if I can watch that programme on my laptop later. I watched Manhunt to.

I assume you have nicer weather today if you had a pink sky last night. Yes, Sandra would of loved to have seen it, she always gets excited when the sky is pink here. I must admit it does look nice.

I was thinking the blackbirds might bath in our water feature at some point as we used to have a large pot that had water in it and they used to bath in there, which we all loved watching.

I think my washing machine has finished so I'd better go and check it.

You just wait and see he will be in there for a bath next. One of our Blackbirds bathes in a soak tray oh has on his potting bench over by my pond. I was watching it today and was going to take a pic but by the time I got out there with the camera it had gone.

We had a beautiful pink sky tonight. I called it a Sandra Sky. All the clouds to the east were pink too as well as in the west where the sun sets.

Gill if you go online and get Channel 4 Iplayer look for Escape to the Chataeu and its the Christmas program, the last one of the latest series. Angel hung the buckets as an advent calender for the children.

Hope James enjoyed his cup cakes and his birthday.

Naughty Ruby spitting her pills out. Does she like honey Anne. You could perhaps dip them in honey and pop that in a piece of meat. I think you can get antibiotic injections????????

I am going in the shower now and then going to watch the last bit of Manhunt. I could'nt see it all last night as I was so tired.

I should sleep well tonight as I hav'nt stopped all day for long.

We did exactly the same thing with our cats Anne, tilted their heads back popped the tablet to the back of the throat then gently rubbed their neck so they'd swallow. At first we didn't do it properly and they would spit it out, then we'd have to start again with a soggy tablet......yuk. We soon learnt how to do it properly and above all else quickly, there's nothing worse than 20 claws and a bunch of teeth to make you do the job as fast as possible lol :-D :-D
What a horrible thing for the man to chuck his dirty tissues under the table, how disgusting and poor Paul having to sit next to him. I hope Paul can find somewhere else to sit for the rest of the course and he doesn't catch that man's cold.

I'm still feeling under the weather. I hope I feel better tomorrow as it's our wedding anniversary.

I was worried about the little puppy and had visions of him stuck outside in the cold for ages Ann. I'm pleased to see that's not the case. I hope you manage to get a photo on Friday of Cleo, Sandra would be thrilled to see it. The Genes tree is back to normal now, apparently someone reported it, still don't know what the problem was though.

Poor Frank, maybe he should go and have an x-ray it might be worse than he thinks. Hopefully the strong painkillers are helping him. It's been a while with his laptop, I hope he gets it back soon then he can join us all on here again.

Sorry to hear about Em Mel, what a worry that must of been, at least she has peace of mind now knowing her scan was clear. Did they say what caused her to pass out? Let's hope it doesn't happen again. Her poor MIL sounds quite poorly to, hope things improve for her soon.

We mentioned the first lot of damage to the new owners who weren't impressed and couldn't apologise enough Jane, but we haven't seen them since to let them know about the two fence posts. We have fixed the post around the back, it just needed some more concrete putting in and so far it seems to be okay, but the concrete one in the front is to big a job for us and knowing the boss he'll probably take it out eventually anyway as I believe the new people want to put a gate up there and the post is to short to attach a gate to. I think they'll probably take all the concrete posts away and put in a new higher fence, but what type that'll be I don't know. The new people said they would talk to us first before they do anything with the boundary, I just hope they keep to their word. There's another skip there now and today the builder has taken the old tin shed down, so that's in the skip now. We also think he knocked the small wall down they had in the middle of the back garden. We couldn't see what he was doing but it sounded like that to us. Not much else is going on at the moment and the new people told us they wanted to move in, in February. The way things are going I can't see that happening.
I meant to ask earlier, did James have a nice birthday? That was a nice idea with the cup cakes.

I didn't see the programme with the buckets Mandy, but it sounds a good idea, I'd love to see a pic when you've done them. Yes you could put them on the tree or maybe make two lots, then you can have them on the tree and as a chain to hang somewhere else.

I forgot to say, the other day a Blackbird landed on the bottom of our water feature and had a drink, he kept tilting his head back when he swallowed, Sandra couldn't stop laughing. I must admit it was funny to watch. I was surprised he drank from it as it was turned on at the time and the water comes down quite quickly, maybe that's why he drank from the bottom as that is like a small pond bit. He'd been looking at it for days and finally plucked up the courage to drink from it.

Sorry to hear that Frank is in a lot of pain after his fall, does anyone know how long before his ribs can be expected heal up?.

James's birthday cup cakes were a good idea Jane so he will be popular at work tomorrow. We always got our birthday off when I worked at the Park the downside was if your birthday fell at the weekend. Mine being in December was a good chance to do Christmas shopping the downside was having to book a meal a way in advance.

I wish Ruby was more like Max, Mandy, Paul bought her some treats she hadn't had before which she loved and kept asking for more so we inserted one in her tablets , no luck, now she won't even look at them even though we only tried it once she must have a very keen sense of smell little madam..

I'm so pleased I got the wrong idea about the puppy being left in the cold Ann.

I just had to mop my eyes laughing at the thought of Max gobbling his tablets down. It sounds like they don't touch the sides Mandy!! LOL. :-D At least he isn't a fussy eater bless him.

The cup cake with the 33 sparkling on it will be a nice treat for him Jane! That brings it back.....the buying of cakes for work on your birthday! Oh goodness, that could be expensive at times. Sometimes if you were working on two sections at the time you could end up buying twice as many!! I used to bake cakes to take sometimes as did the others, but fresh cream cakes were usually the order of the day. The nearby cake shops must have made a mint from our office with all the birthdays.

I think it will be an early night for us too after we've watched the GP Surgery prog as we've both been yawning all afternoon.

We had a new bin rule over Christmas that any extra rubbish could be put in a plastic bag for collection, but it had to be a clear bag. It doesn't seem to have gone down well judging by all the black bags up the close this morning. They took them though.

No Cake Ann. Just some Cup Cakes . I got him a big tray of different cup cakes to take into work but there were to many so we have kept back 3 and I have 2 sparkler candle things in the shape of 3 so 33 :-D.. James is still at work :-S :-S

That is good Em is ok Mel ,but her poor MIL still sounds very ill and not really having any improvement . Pneumonia is not a good sign now :-(

James is at last on the way home so I will get the rice on . Chris is beginning to fade but hanging on . I think as soon as we have all eaten he will be away to bed.

Oh no poor Frank , thanks for letting us know Jane , he'll be in a lot of pain with cracked ribs ,i hope these strong pain killers help to ease it for him and that he doesn't need to cough or sneeze :-0 <3
My dad cracked his ribs ,he slipped getting out of the bath and he was in so much pain i remember he was all strapped up but i don't think they do that now .

Gill ,i don't have a photo of the little buckets that i saw they were on the television but they are hung on a chain and i have to decorate them with christmasy pictures ,i did wonder if they might look good hanging on the christmas tree .

Anne i don't have any problem with Max taking tablets he will gobble any thing down ,is there any thing that she really loves that you could pop the tablets in ,it's a pity they don't do liquid drops as they might be easier .
Oh goodness Paul needs to keep away from that chap with the cold ,fancy him chucking the tissues under the table !!!

I'm off to Norwich shopping with DIL tomorrow ,it's Lewis's birthday on the 15th ,i think he needs some new trainers so we'll see what we can find ,much more choice there than in town .

O no not another fall from our Frank. The silly boy how could he do this to himself when we are not around to give him support. Like Ann said he could do with his laptop to take his mind off things. I hope the strong painkillers work and he can get some sleep tonight. Sending Love Frank even though you can't see it. <3 <3 <3

Well I did'nt get the bathroom cleaned but I did change the bed and washed that but it did'#nt dry outside even though its been out there all day. Its now on the airer in front of one of the rads.

The other thing I have done is get rid of the old printer copier off my desk and the second screen that gave up the ghost. I am half way through cleaning the rest of the desk as it has got so dusty with the Christmas decs and tree up. I picked up my brass M for Mel off the front of my big screen and there's an inprint of it in the dust!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Out with a damp sponge methinks.

Must get the chicken in the oven now too or we won't be having dinner tonight and oh dos'nt like it too late.

BBL

Ohhh poor Frank Jane! What a shame he's fallen and hurt himself. OH cracked his ribs once and couldn't breathe very well or drive it was so painful. I hope he has the strong painkillers now and that they are helping him. It must be miserable to not have his laptop to take his mind off it either. It seems to be taking a while to repair.

Gosh, James 33 already! Doesn't time fly..........have you got him a cake? :-D :-D