General Chat

We,ve got thunder rumbling around but the suns still out.

Bless him Mandy it would be good if he could break the record and get his name in the guiness book of records.

Got hot strimmed all the trees in the orchard and some of the side and top by the wall.

Oh the little blue bag in the crisps ,the times I pick it out and bit into it before I realised.
Jake will be nineteen he's a lovely young chap ,I asked him if he'd seen the young lad on the tele the other day he had done a record of making 85 sausages in a minute for
the Guinness book of records ,Jake said I think I could make about 50 so he has a way to go :-)

O yes Lincoln biscuit that was another I liked as a child but I hav'nt seen those for years. I seem to have mostly liked the plain biscuits.

When my best friend and I used togo down the local stables to look after the horses we would look around for lemonade bottles and take them back to the hsop and get the 3d back on them and go to the offy and get three huge osbourne biscuit as they were 1d each. If we found two bottles we would get a packet of Smiths crisps for the 3d and lick the biscuits and put the little blue bag of salt over the biscuits and we thought that was lovely!! Then they brought out flavoured crisps, I think there was bovril or beef ones and cheese and onion ones. I did'nt eat cheese when I was young hated it.

I have taken it easy today but the suns still shining and I have the urge to go and do a bit of strimming as I can't see the plnts in front of my shed the grass is so high. I also want to go up and take some pics of my bearded iris which I keep forgeting and I have roses out on the wall. The lantern bush is covered in flower this year. I have also had a blue iris out in the garden it flowers before the bearded ones and was given to me by a friend who is sadly no longer with us but I always think of her when I see it in the border so thats nice.

DIL and son will be glad of those garden chairs if the weather holds. How old is Jake tomorrow I lose count.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TOMORROW JAKE, HAVE A LOVELY DAY.

Morning all,
Very dull here today and we should have rain later.
Had a better night woke at twenty to three and had a pain killer then woke just after six,got out to the loo and felt very sick but it went off .

Son ,dil and Jake its his day off on a Tuesday they called in with a bag of dog food and dil went to boots for our tablets, tomorrow is Jakes birthday so we gave him his card and money its hard to know what to buy him now as he's earning he gets what he wants .
We also gave them two garden chairs as we'll never use them now as they have the bit at the bottom that comes up for your feet and we find it a job to get up out of them now .

Take it easy today Mel with your knee have a rest today and do a bit more tomorrow.

Gwyn I haven't heard of those Lincoln biscuits ,good you mentioned your bin ours needs to go out today and I said to Colin he needs to do it before the rain comes .

Anng sounds like you had a lovely day yesterday a nice look tound the gardens and water features, a nice lunch and a nice evening on the balcony.

Good morning all. Another sunny start. Seahorses today I think. Yesterday was lovely at Alnwick gardens. It is too early for summer flowers so it was mainly looking at the formation of the gardens and, the bit I liked, the wonderful clever water features. Sadly we didn’t get to go in the poison garden. We went for the 12 o’clock tour but that one was cancelled and there was a half hour wait for the next one. We walked into town and had a lovely lunch in The Tavern daughter had mussels. SiL had sausages and I had a really tasty shepherds pie with red cabbage. We then visited Barter books and I bought three, so it was a good day and the sun shone with a clear blue sky until 10pm. It was warm enough to sit outside on our balcony but not hot.

It's interesting to read about your favourite biscuits. My family also like custard creams and the malted milk, but I don't think they do the nibbling. Daughter bought some of the sports picture biscuits just last week. When I was young, I liked the iced gems, which we were sometimes bought for a picnic with our friends in the garden.I also liked Lincolns - a plain standard biscuit with raised dots all over one face. I haven't seen them for years now.

A dull and really dark day here and light rain started about 20 minutes ago, but at least I was able to put the bins out for collection without getting wet.

Morning all,

Another bright sunny morning at the moment pc is saying 14 degrees and sunny.

Left knees a bit stiff and achey this morning but I expect its all the walking around I did yesterday in Holworthy and mucking about with the pond scimmer in the morning standing on the edge of the pond.

Shopping comes today but I can't get into my emails at present it just won't load but says I have 6 emials. I expect one at least is from Asda telling how many subs I have.

O I am in now so I better go and have a look.

Hope you all slept well and that Mandy is'nt in so much pain today with the new painkillers.

Custard creams were my maternal nan's favorite. Dad liked them too and so do I but when young I would only eat ginger nuts, rich tea, iced gems bourbons, marie, osbourne and never chocolate digestives but the plain ones. I also liked the iced party biscuits covered in icing with a patern on. You still get those now but the icings a bit hard n the old teeth now. I think one of my favorites was Cafe' Noir which I hav'nt seen for years now, a coffee flavoured iced biscuit.

Ann thats no good then putting the bin there if the drive has a slope ,maybe a few good old tin tacks to give him a puncture.
Colin's favourite biscuits too custard creams ,I quite like a ginger biscuit and the Oatie biscuits.
Oh yes Garabaldy biscuits or fly biscuits as we use to call them .

That's good they are checking you out with a blood test and scan Mandy and that she has prescribed some better painkillers. I didn't know you could get diarrhea with gallstones. We are a lot aren't we with one thing or another. I thought about a nice icecream while I was out today and then remembered they have sometimes upset my tum in the past, so swerved by them quickly!

Yes, I have wondered about sticking the wheelie bin in his way, but then I'd have to keep moving it when I want to go out and our drive is quite steep near the bottom and not great on my knees, especially if the bin is heavy. I'll get OH to put it in his way on bin days though as the bin is usually emptied before I go out and then OH goes out and fetches it straight after, as one of our neighbours is prone to taking our, cleaner bin than his up his own drive, despite our number being on it. lol.

I like malted milk biccies with the cow on too. I don't see them often now but I used to love the sports biscuits years ago that had different sports on them. OH's favourites are custard creams.

First OH loved garibaldi Mel, but they and jaffa cakes are two things that never tempt me! The lemon drizzle cake does though. Could you just get a much newer, but not brand new mower? As Mandy says, the cost of the new parts mounts up. It sounds like you need one of those harrow type things to tow with the mower round your trees before mowing to scrape up the twigs. It will be nice to see your bearded Iris if you can get some pics. I don't have any now, but I love the flowers.

Mandy I still buy Malked milk and eat all the edge of, you just have to. Asda do sell Rich Tea but not the fingers which are the ones I like. They changed the flavours of the Iced Gems. They used to have lo9vely scented tops but they're not the sam anymore.
I bought a packet of Garibaldy (sp) down the shop the other week as I had'nt had those for years. Just the same as ever.

I have tried to light a bonfire but its not working so shall have to go down and try again. Iv'e potted up a couple of plants and done a little weeding. I must go up and take pics of my Bearded Iris as they have been in bloom about a week now and I shall miss them if I am not careful.

Better go and dive down the freezer for something for dinner as I don't feel like cooking now.

Gave BIL more eggs today as Em's not buying so many cos Sam has gone off his plain buns. I shall have to buy a couple of lemons and give her some eggs and ask her to make me a lemon drizzle cake as her are delish.

She just said that the iron tablets don't agree with everyone but I stopped taking the new iron tablets when the diarrhea started again ,she did say you can get that with gall stones .
That's odd that asda doesn't have rich tea biscuits I thought they were one of the more poplar ones, we like the malted milk biscuits I can remember having those as a little girl and I always use to bite round the cow lol another one mum used to buy me was those little iced gems I use to eat the little bit on the top and leave the biscuit.

Pleased you have seen the nurse practitioner And got some stronger pain killers. Did she say anything about the new iron tablets you've been taking? I hope you can now get some comfort tonight without pain.

Got back from Holsworthy just before 4.30pm. I think I remembered evrything today. Got some potting grit which I badley needed, bought myself a new Rosemary plant in Waitrose and some Rich tea fingers as I can't get those in Asda so I bought two packets. Posted a little parcel and went to the library for my book and found another one too so plenty to read now. Also got some peppermint creams in the Factory shop so all set for the week now.

Now I need to do a bit of sowing aand potting on.

Suns lovely now so warm.

The paper man doesn't sound as if he's taken any notice of you waving him off your drive Ann could you stand a wheelie bin out so he can't turn .

That's a lot of money for a new mower Mel but if your having to buy all these spare parts perhaps you'll have to bite thd bullet .

I saw a nice nurse practitioner she gave me some strong pain killers and I also had blood taken to test activity on the gall bladder ,she's also getting me a scan organised so hopefully we can see what's going on .

Done some weeding and dug up my snowdrops by mistake but will sort tthose later. Done the big pond filter and had to muck about with the skimmer and then I realised there was'nt enough water in the pond for it to work properly so had to turn the pump on from the well. Did that and now I am having a rest and something to eat.

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BIL got the mower going ok but has now heard a strange noise and had a look and the drive belt has now split so has to buy another belt. He wants me to buy a new mower but they are £5,000 and I don't want to pay out that sort off money especially as he drives over all the branches that fall off the trees and dos'nt pick them up first.

Sun's out now but it's cooler today. It's good you got an appointment Mandy and I hope they can give you something to help. It's horrid being in pain and I understand gall stones can cause bad pain.

Mel I bet you were surprised to see BIL's car when you thought he would be working. Farnborough is a long way for him to travel if he lives at Barnstaple, but maybe he works at various places with his job. With him fiddling with the mower it sounds like he was keen to do more mowing which will be a help.

Gwyn I must look out for Craster as I record Countryfile but am a bit behind catching up with the episodes. I imagine it must smell kippery and smoky around that shed.

I didn't get any plants for the front wall pots and think I might be better trying another garden centre for those. I did get more French Marigolds tor fhe pots either side of the arbour. These are red centred with a yellow border. I usually have violas in those pots but thought we'd have a change this year.

I need to ring the other location for the bathroom people now as I want to look at the shower cubicles and their place near here has them upstairs and no lift. I thought shops had to be disabled compliant these days. I hope they are all on one floor at their other place. Washing will need putting out then.

Morning all,

Little bit of sun peeping through the clouds I think it should be a nice day .
I managed to get an appointment with the nurse practioner for 10 30 so hopefully she can give me something ,son is going to take.