General Chat

Good afternoon all. A creature of habit then your OH Vera. Hope the meeting goes ok tonight. I suppose all the time they are paid for speaking they will come.

Still feeling the lack of sleep but a bit better for some fresh air and a natter.

Fridge all sorted, no problem a really large selection and helpful staff. It also helps to have shopped there before as all I needed to tell the girl was the post code and she had all my details. I looked for and found one the same as I have which is a Liebeherr, although with updated control switch. I hated the one on mine.. Must have had it over 10 years so it has done well. Very good service in the shop. ticket on the fridge said £399.00.  Came up at the till as £299. They have a sale on so it may have had something to do with that. In fact we walked back to check it was the right one I had pointed out and it was. £20 delivery, £25 to take away old fridge, and unpack and position new fridge. Delivery Thursday. They will phone an hour before getting here All of the fridges and freezers were rated F for energy I asked why and the answer is that anything that is running all the time can't be energy efficient. So they can't rate them below F.
Then Ann wanted a padlock so (Oh Joy) we went into B&Q. So I thought this will be good I can get a red fire bulb. Nope, not a red bulb anywhere so tomorrow is a trip into town for a bulb.

It looks beautiful out with bright blue skies and sunshine but it is raw. It’s reached 2 degrees but in the breeze feels like -4 and apparently that’s as good as it’s going to get. We’re also on a yellow warning for snow and ice though I suspect any snow might be a bit north of us.

We have a Club meeting tonight and I am very glad we only live a couple of minutes away as the weather app is telling me that by the time we are walking back it will be -2 and feel like -7. I haven’t got this year’s programme yet but I’ve been told that tonight’s speaker is from Trinity House, the organisation that looks after lighthouses, buoys etc and helps with the training and safeguarding of seamen. It could be interesting but I wonder how long these good speakers will be prepared to come to such a small group. Over the last few years we have lost at least 5 members who have died, 1 is now in a home, and 3 are in their 90s and getting too frail to attend now. Younger people don’t seem to want to join.

I hope you’ve managed to find the fridge you want AnnG. It’s always good to support local businesses if you can.

Mandy, I can just imagine the waves at Sheringham and Hunstanton. The North Sea can be a bit wild at the best of times. Happy birthday to Lewis. 9 already! Where has that time gone?

Lunchtime sandwich has arrived. Dead on 1 pm as usual :-)

Morning all,

Beautiful blue sky here this morning with plenty of the yellow stuff.

Got up in the night for the loo and fell asleep right away and woke at 10am and I have to be down the post van before 11.15am so see you later.

Morning all,
A little bit of frost this morning but the sky is blue and the suns out so it looks a lovely morning out there .
I was just looking at the Norfolk webcam in Sheringham and Hunstanton the sea looks really rough this morning big waves splashing up at Hunstanton with lots of spray.
I need to get some washing in and then I'm going to make some soup ready for our lunch.

I hope you feel better as the day goes on Ann.
Good luck with the fridge. I think it's important to actually see the fridge before you finally choose, so a good idea to go to a local retailer. We have a small and very obliging shop a few miles from here and they were happy for me to open and close doors of several fridges to get a feel for which one suited best. I did the same in their shop, when I wanted a tumble drier. Some appliances just didn't feel as sturdy as others.

Beautiful sunshine here and blue sky. It's chilly, but not raw cold, if you know what I mean.Light frost on some roof tops, but Wednesday is our weather warning day, I think . We might get snow coming up from France.

Mel, Interesting you mention box hedge.
So many people locally had their's devastated last year by box moth caterpillars. Whether that's because we are in the south east and the moths came over from the continent, I don't know, but the plants looked dead. Daughter was advised to cut her plant right back and hopefully new growth would appear, but the number of caterpillars clinging to the 'dead' plant branches taken to the tip was amazing.
The plant is now sprouting new growth, so she will be on the look out this season in case the moths are back.

Good morning all. After two good nights I had a rotten night last night so feel very 'off' this morning. Going with my friend to see about a fridge this morning. Going to a local retailer and hoping they have the type that I want in stock. Either larder of frost free, and the size I want.

I can get the 5 iplayer on the pc now but not tried to do what they told me this morning yet for the tv. I think my sparrows live in the box hedge and there are lots up at the village hall. They dust bath on the carpark in the summer. Iv'e had a goldfinch here today just the one it was having a drink in the water trough for some plants.

Evening All,

I wrote a post earlier but obviously didn't post it!

Snap Vera, After getting off to sleep reasonably well, I was woken at 11.00pm by a thumping noise outside. Some sort of party I expect at one of the houses on the main road with big gardens that back onto the bungalows opposite. The noise got louder (doesn't it always!) and carried on till after 1.00am. By then I was wide awake and couldn't get back to sleep till gone 3.00am. I would have thought it too cold, but when the wine flows......!

Mandy, OH takes the same as you for his reflux. I wonder if your meds might be the cause. I had to split my beta blocker and take half twice a day as it caused indigestion. If it happens for much longer straight to the doc to get checked. When OH used to get it, mashed potato with those fish in sauce bags you boil in a pan were ok and those pots of low fat mullerice with apple. What, Lewis 9 tomorrow! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lewis for tomorrow. <3 Where did all those years go! I still think of him wanting a bin lorry cake. lol. That was a strange dream you had. Yes, SKY is behaving fine now. OH was saying that if the lady engineer had come back she'd have made us have a cable put in. Thank goodness the chap who came last knew more about how the boxes connect.

Getting a Thank You card was much more personal wasn't it Vera. All we seem to get through the letterbox most of the year is bills! You have reminded me I must try roasting cabbage as I've never tried it nor roasting sprouts. It saves a pan to wash too when you are roasting other veg in the oven. I would swap our Magpies for your pretty Goldfinches that sing so beautifully, although they are handsome birds in their black and white outfits! I saw one do something the other day that I've never seen before. They are such clever birds and ours use the water feature pot at the top of the garden to dunk the bread in to soften it to eat. One Magpie had some bread in it's beak and was standing on the gravel. It pecked bits off the bread making it smaller, then dropped it onto the gravel and pushed it under the surface with a few stabs of it's beak, then moved it's beak across the surface to move gravel to bury it!

Mel, if the key is metal you could always try grips or pliers on it to get more leverage. I had to reregister for the iplayer when we had the new SKYQ box and it is annoying as you say. We have to put a code in for some tv progs too depending what time of day it is. With you doing the raking, is your shoulder better now? You get lots of nice birds visit your feeders. Sparrows vanished from here about 10 years ago. I expect it's all the building work. There are roadworks all the time with them connecting up the utilities to them.

BIL came just as it was getting dark and I was burying the big fish. It must have weighed 12 pounds at least. He did'nt even stay for a coffee but I sent him home with a quarter of my Christmas cake.

Then I did'nt pay him for the diesel......blast he gave me the bill too.

It seems ok this morning Mandy but I can't urn off all the other rads as some don't work any too stiff for old hands they need a mans hands.

BIL not appeared. I could have done with him here to help me retrieve the rabbit trap. The fox had taken it right into the top garden among the brimbles so I had to get up there and cut down a pasth to where I could see it and they had got it under a big branch off an old cherry tree. How they managed to eat as much of the rabbit as they did I do not know. I emptied it out and flung it up where their hole is. I thought they had fourt hard enough to get at that dinner they deserved it.

Then I came down and raked a lot of the branches that had fallen off the big ash tree and off some of the snowdrops and then needed a drink so I came in at 1.13pm so a good couple of hours doing some sort of gardening.

Its so nice when you see the birds feeding through the window. Iv'e had the LLT's and masses of sparrows, the Wagtail and the Woodpecker and the robins and they have emptied the peanut and fat sticks feeder so I had to put more fat sticks out and another fat ball.

Think I will get something to eat now as the thought of Vera's dinner has made me hungry. Its years since I have had a bit of brisket.

Afternoon all,

It's only 3 degrees here and no sign of any sun .

Mel I'm taking Lansoprezol, today the indegestion has eased so I'll see how it goes .
Colin said with your rad ,turn the heating on, turn all the other rads off that you have on so it puts all the pressure on the rad your bleeding and that should help .

Family came this morning ,its Lewis's birthday tomorrow so he had his presents a day early can't believe he's going to be 9.
Don't know yet what we'll eat tonight might be salad as we seem to have a lot of ham and salad stuff in the fridge .

Morning all

It’s dull and cold with a breeze from the north making it feel even colder. Apparently we’ll be getting sleet later. Oh good, I can’t wait.

I had another terrible night so my eyes keep wanting to close this morning. I didn’t dream much last night, just lay awake for hours on end. I think I fell asleep sometime after 4 am and woke at 7.30.

It might be worth seeing your doctor Mandy. He’ll maybe give you a check up and perhaps order blood tests.

We had a thank you card in the post yesterday. It was from OH’s great niece, 17 this month, thanking us for money we sent her at Christmas and telling us what she had spent it on. It was such a pleasure to get a nice, handwritten card instead of the usual texts or emails.

I’ve got a piece of beef brisket slowly pot roasting in the oven and later I’ll fill the oven with vegetables to roast - potatoes, parsnips, carrots and wedges of cabbage. There’s a shop bought lemon meringue cheesecake defrosting and a loaf cooking in the breadmaker. Now I’m wasting time drinking a cup of tea and watching the birds who are out in force this morning. There are lots of goldfinches and I’ve seen blue tits, a great tit, a robin and a couple of greenfinches. There are blackbirds throwing all the earth over the path as they try to find insects, also pigeons and collared doves. The biggest surprise was a magpie who flew down and had a drink from the bird bath. We hardly ever see magpies round here and that’s the first one I’ve seen in the garden in 10 years.

Well, it was morning when I started typing but I got distracted by the birds and now it’s afternoon. I’d better go and sort out my veg and see how the bread is getting on.

sunny here and 5 degrees.

O they had Beaworthy up and now its right and its 2 degrees.

You got in just before me Anng. Your warmer there than here.

Morning all,


Brighter this morning but pc says cloudy and 0 degrees. Not been out there yet so we will see just how cold it is when I do. The car looks all moisty as if there was a frosty but there was'nt any when I got up at 245am.

BIL is supposed to be coming today so I better get a wiggle on.

Good morning all A bit brighter out there this morning, not so overcast. But still only 3 degrees. PC says it will get to 5, oh goody almost summer!!!

Slept well last night went back to sleep at 7 and woke at 9am, good job nothing important planned for today, just a long list of smallish jobs.

Mandy I thought you were on Omeprazol my doc doubled my dose when I was getting heartburn and indigestion from the painkillers I was taking.

Well I have done the rad three times now and its still burping.

I can't get into Channel 5 iplayer which is annoying as I wanted to see the Madam Blanc Misteries. It keeps tell me about a code and to reregister and all sorts. Why do they have to keep changing things?

Evening all,

The day started off sunny then went downhill, its trying to rain now just fine rain but the sort that clings to you.
We've got on well with the jigsaw today we must have done a good third of it and I expect tomorrow when dil comes she will put quite a few bits in she's so good at finding the pieces .

Anng thats a good start with the meeting numbers ,I'm sure as the word gets round a few more people will join up .

Ann thats a good idea making the fleeces into a draught excluder, our front door has a slight draught near one of the hinges but we have a nice thick curtain up so don't really notice it ,it's only if your hand goes near the hinge you can feel it .
So your friend used a pot of wax to break the ice lol that certainly got people talking .
Is sky your behaving now .

Mel thats lovely the little Robins are waiting for you to feed them each day ,they soon get to know don't they.

I too had an odd dream ,mine was that someone or something had brought a rat in and Max was sniffing at it but the next minute it had gone and I said has he eaten it ,but it had gone beside the fridge and was now a tiny little bedraggled kitten ,I tried to go round to next door to ask her what I should do with it and I couldn't get round there as there was a huge lorry tipping out some shingle ,then I woke up.

Yours was an odd dream Vera but they seem so real at the time though don't they.

I think I need to go to the doctors as I'm having a lot of indegestion with so much heartburn it's getting really uncomfortable and I find it a job to know what to eat ,I do have a little gavescon after meals but it's not really helping ,I'm also tired all the time and have been tired like that since I had covid .

It sounds like they didn't quite finish off the polishing then Mel. It must be annoying as you say. My ttongue is always straying to the tooth I broke in half biting a mince pie 3 years as it is quite rough. Maybe the bit of air that came out was all that there was. You will soon tell if it stays quiet now.