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ooww it's stopped............................ :-(

Morning all and evening Kim,

Blustery morning here with some sun and cloud but at the mo it is snowing a bit just as oh went to put the bin out. OOO it really is snowing now!!!! :-D :-D Just as I was going round to the chickens after posting this. I don't think it will stay as the grounds wet from the rain and hail we had in the night and earlier this morning.

Mandy I hope they have something on the CCTV to help with whoever damaged your poor little car. When oh knocked my side mirror off he bought one online as it was much cheaper than having the garage do it. It only took a couple of days to arrive.

Evening all,

What a horrible day, It was rain all afternoon, and that wind is so strong the trees were bent over.

I didn't realise that it was vandals Mandy, I thought it was hit and run. Lets hope they find the little so and so's who did it.

Glad you had a nice time with Hannah Jane. Did you stay over or all come home.??

Your MIL and FIL are a right pair, what with one thing and another. They always seem to be getting into a fix, what with tripping or falling over. Their middle name isn't "FRANK" is it :-D :-D :-D

Fell asleep after dinner 6.00 pm. Ros got onto me, saying "You will never sleep tonight" The way I feel I could go to bed now.

Nice piece of beef tonight, ran low on plain flour, must get more tomorrow. We don't keep a big tupper ware pot of it anymore as we got those little weavel's in the last lot. So we only buy a small bag now.

Another weekend gone, this time next week it will be another month gone. ONLY 10 months to Christmas ;-) ;-) ;-)

Mr S on at the Mo. so I am out of the way, then I think it will be an early night again. See if I can sleep the night through.

I bet Jane will be up the stairs to Bedfordshire anytime soon !!!

Sleep tight see you in the morning. <3 <3 <3

They probably just threw it some where Ann, more than likely it's laying in some ones garden.
It wouldn't be any use as some of it is still attached to the car .

I hope they manage to see them on the cameras Mandy and that it leads to catching them. There's no excuse for mindless damage like that causing people inconvenience and expense to get things fixed. Imagine if you needed the car everyday to take/pick your grandchildren up from school or did a job where you travelled about every day. I wonder why they took the mirror with them?

Police have been , they are going to do door to door to see if anyone heard or saw any thing and they are also going to look at CCTV ,there are cameras in the churchyard and in the old peoples places next door .

Don't think we will be able to drive the car until the mirrors are replaced ,we won't be able to see whats coming up beside us .

It has gone down as a theft from the car rather than criminal damage ,as one of the mirrors was no where to be found .

Thanks Ann. We tend to forget to look to see what's on BBC4, then wonder why we miss things!! Ian has just made some pancakes with the rest of the 'yorkshire' mix, and they're very good. He is a pretty good cook, and often gets lunch/supper, so I can't grumble too much!!! (but I do!!)

She was on BBC4 Liz at 8.00pm. We saw her doing the Royal bedrooms too. You are very lucky to have photos that old. The oldest I have is of my grandfather in 1912 ish but I do have a couple of older ones of 2 of my grandmother's cousins.

It sounds as if you caught up on some sleep last night Frank. I don't know, banging on the pub door to be let in......couldn't wait for them to open!!! :-0 ;-)

Here I am at last Did you miss me ??? Tell the truth !!!

I managed to stay up until midnight last night, and slept until 10 00 am this morning. I didn't know if I was coming or going till I got showered and shaved. I did a sausage sandwich with a pot of tea and Ros joined me.

I walked to the pub for the West Ham match. It was so cold the wind blew straight though my coat. I had to bang on the door at the pub to get in. You would think I was an alci waiting to get me first drink :-D :-D :-D

It was a disaster, We were TWO UP then went to 2-1. They then got a penalty in injury time so final score 2-2. It was peeing with rain when I went to come home, so one of the lads bought me home.

Had forty winks, now have to see about dinner. Will read the posts and comment later.

Ann which side was Lucy Worsley on? I know you've said but could you refresh my failing memory!!! Ian and I love her programs and always look out for them. She did a series on royal bedrooms not so long ago which was very interesting.
Glad you had such a nice time Jane. Family get togethers are brilliant particularly if you don't see that much of each other.
The beef was lovely, but the day had deteriorated and is dull and dreary!

Afternoon All,

Well Mandy, you can see where their brains are from what they've drawn on your car, the nasty little toerags!! Fancy ripping both mirrors off as well......they aren't cheap to replace these days. I bet you felt awful and your heart must have sank seeing that this morning. I wonder if any other cars got the same treatment as they walked by. There's always a bit of a fear they might be back after you get it fixed as well. :-S

We really enjoyed the Lucy Worsley 'A Very British Murder' prog last night at 8.00pm that I mentioned last week. OH likes her as she clearly knows her stuff and has a bit of gravitas, not like some of these airhead female presenters who think because they can present one type of programme it makes them experts on everything!! The subject last night was Palmer the Poisoner which I was particularly interested in as he was a doctor who committed his crime in and lived in Rugeley at the same time my gt grandparents lived there!! Mum said she remembered it still being much talked about in the area when she was a little girl.

Maureen and Jane's Chris might like a prog that's on BBC1 from 6.00pm to 7.00pm tonight. I shall be recording it.......The Big Painting Challenge.......from Alnwick this week. It's the first of 6 progs.

It sounds like you had a really good time Jane and good for Hannah planning the get together and preparing the feast for you all!

I bet your poor OH was a bit shaken up by that Gill and will have some colourful bruises next. It's lucky his bike wasn't damaged as well. It sounds like you are getting on well with your tree.

We went out this morning just as the rain started and it hasn't stopped since. It was more like sleet earlier and really cold. OH's car was sluggish starting up this morning.........I hope it keeps going till he gets his next one!! :-S

I'm trying to finish off some beading now.

Hello :-D :-D
Just a quickie now,but thought I better show my face.
We had a smashing day yesterday .Hannah did quite a feast .She must have been cooking and preparing for hours.James ,Jess and Matthew(janice's son) just happened to be on the same bus as each other so arrived at the same time.James and Matthew hadn't seen each other for many years.

Mandy how awful for you to find all that damage to your car :-0 :-0.I wonder ,was it just yours or had the thugs been on a vandalising spree !!

Gill ,your poor OH must have got a real fright coming off his bike like that .Thank goodness he wasn't injured more than he was.
Was the resident who passed away the lady who your OH wanted to give a Xmas card to?

I can't stay longer now .Sorry I haven't commented on everyones posts but haven't had the chance to have a good read through yet .
If I am not back again today I will tomorrow when Janice and Larry have gone.

Oh Mandy, how horrid for you to wake up and discover that! Daughter had the same thing happen to them about a year ago, wing mirror ripped off, vehicle scribbled all over with a coin/key? (if you know what I mean) front tyre slashed, and graffiti daubed on one side! It was horrible and made her feel quite ill. I'm sure your experience has made you feel the same, bit like a burglary. I do feel for you and hope they catch whoever is responsible and throw the book at them. Personally I'd knee cap them!
Raining hard here now, yuk!! Got on quite well with the photos! Some go back to the 1890's, and are of my maternal Granny as a baby(!!) along with her granny, sisters and parents. One or two are even on glass showing my maternal Grandpa and his sister with their young looking parents, again in the 1890's!! Altogether an interesting morning. Must get lunch now, beef, yorkshire's, new potatoes and leeks in white (not cheese!!!) sauce.

O Mandy what a shock to find that this morning. So it was vandalism and not hit by another car? if both mirrors were broken? What do you mean by "they had scrawled all over the car"? Was it the only car damaged or were others up the road done too?

I have been up the shop this morning for something I forgot yesterday and it's still pouring with rain here. The bird feeders need filling up and I am just sitting having a coffee and reading your posts.

Gill I hope hubby is not too sore from his fall yesterday. Did he have adrop of the hard stuff to get him off to sleep last night?? That was nice of the lady to give him the three bottles of whiskey as a thank you. I hope he likes a whiskey!

Wonder when Jane will be home. I expect they had a rip roaring time all together and a good old chin wag.

Morning all,

Frosty start and now the suns out .

Not a very good weekend for us we are waiting for the police to come as we had some damage done to the car last night , one side mirror smashed and hanging by the wires and the other side mirror gone ,just the smashed pieces left where it's screwed on to the car .
It was frosty and they had scrawled all over the car ,i took some photo's so i'll send them later.

Morning all

Dull morning here to and it's just started to rain.

That's a good idea Liz labelling all your photo's. I have lots of old photo's I got off my mum from my nan's place when she passed away and neither of us know everyone in them. My nan had labelled some of them but the rest are a mystery and unless I find other family members with the same photo's I guess we'll never know who's who. Such a shame as there are lots of them.

My Saturday nights TV are down to Sandra, she loves the Voice and Ant and Dec started a new show last night, so we ended up watching those. You're right though there's not much on TV on a Saturday anymore.

My OH had an accident on his way home from work last night on his pushbike. He said he thinks there was some oil on the ground and although he put his leg out to try and stop the fall, his foot slipped too. He banged his head and scrapped all his knee and ankle so he's a bit sore today. Luckily he's off work today and tomorrow.

The daughter of the resident who passed away was sorting out her mother's old room yesterday and gave OH a box with three miniature Whiskey's inside as a thank you for looking after her mum. They belonged to her mum and apparently she had drank one of them (there should of been four in the box). Well, after he got over the accident and had a cup of tea, to cheer him up a bit, I said are you sure there was only three bottles in the box not four and you hadn't had a little drink before coming home that's why you fell off your bike. He just laughed and said no. At least it cheered him up a bit.

I got lots done on my family tree yesterday and managed to get another person's line done down to the present day. The surname I'm trying to do at the moment is Allen, and boy is it hard, there are so many of them out there, its difficult to know for sure if I've got the right people sometimes, so having access to these few trees has been a godsend. Going to see if I can add to another person today, hopefully I'll be lucky with him and get his family down to the present day too.

Off to get a cuppa now and put the heating back on, it's quite cold here today.
BBL <3

Morning All, Evening Kim.

Dull and gray here too Mel, was raining but has now stop, still no news about my new living room suite, hoping they get in touch during this coming week. I managed to get some washing dried out side yesterday, and as I was pottering around the garden saw some little snow drops , Spring is on the way :-D :-D, daffs are sprouting up quick too, it's still very chilly here especially when it's windy, very nippy . Coffee time,

Morning all and evening Kim,

Dull, grey and raining here.......................what a miserable day. I'd much rather a cold and frosty morning.

Got up this morning to find oh is not going ringing, I was so surprized.

You're right Mel, last nights TV was just awful! So we watched the geographic channel, and then a film we'd recorded a couple of weeks ago. Tonight's a bit better, but the rest of week's a bit grim!??
We woke up to a lovely day, but now its clouded over and is dull and miserable. I'm going to sort out some old family photo's this morning and label them, people, date and place. (hopefully) As my two said, once I've gone(!!!) there's no one left who knows whats what or whose who!! I expect I shall come across St Agnes. In my search! At least I'll know who they are!!!

Do they think everyone goes out on a Saturday night??? What a load of rubbish on the telly.