General Chat

Good morning all showered and hair washed and dressed but not had breakfast yet.
8 degrees here now so quite mild. Nothing planned for today. slept well but seemed to crawl out of sleep feeling like I had been drugged with a thick head. Better since I showered and had a drink. I do find a dream a lot lately so maybe that was the reason (and no, it was not alcohol :-D I just had one light G&T

Ah sorry Island, I was obviously talking to myself. :-D I am easily confused even by me it seems.

Gosh that was a good delivery, glad you got it in time, I assume you paid for the quicker delivery. Hope you have fun with it but if you are stuck I may be able to help. Sorry again for muddle brain!!! :-(

AnnG. Delivery was a minute early - 8.59. £3 well spent I say :-D

Morning Mel!

Morning all,

it rained last night and its not nice this morning either its all dampy out there. Pc says 10 degrees and it is warmer but miserable with it.

Nothing to report and I will download the pics today and send them. The dogs did'nt do any damage but when I first heard them and went out and looked because I could hear them barking a deer shot across the back field and across next door and then the dogs came in here. I think thye smell the fox and thats why they come in here.

Morning Vera, cross posting. You are correct.
I hope you are well.

Morning AnnG and all
'Confusion' - 1 Feb 2023 20:48
'Well done Ann I hope they don’t run out before I order but I can’t risk it being delivered Friday'

As I couldn't see a post from Ann, I wasn't sure if you were referring to mine re Lakeland? Never mind, just trying to be helpful - if you order before 7pm it will be delivered the next day, £3, express delivery. Mine is due 9am -10aam today.

I haven't so far had any problems with Hermes/Evri but that wasn't the :-S

Good morning

It looks a# though it is going to be quite a nice day here. I haven’t got any plans apart from a bit of h/w but I might persuade OH to go out for lunch, then I won’t need to cook a proper meal tonight.

I hope the hounds didn’t do any damage Mel. If they did the person in charge of the dogs should get it put right for you.

AnnG, I think Island’s “confusion” was because you apparently called her Ann in your response to her post.

Mel, lucky there were no animals or small children loose in the garden like the deer. I think they can be fined for the dogs getting out of control.

Why the confusion Island? Maybe it has not happened your way. but my facebook is full of parcel;s being delivered or not as the case may be and delivery firms leaving things and photographing them outside doors etc to prove they were delivered when the recipient was out. But no sign of the items when the recipient returns home. Evri does seem to be the main problem but it has happened with other firms as well. I try to make sure I will be in when I order something to be delivered.

But can you clarify if that was the reason for the confusion please. :-)

Yes ???????????

We had the fox hounds through the garden today. They got away from the Master and he was blowing his horn and calling to them but they took no notice whatsoever. Eventually they went to him and he and a lady rode off with the dogs following. Got a couple of pics but not very good will send them in the morning as i have come over very tired tonight.

:-S @AnnG :-S :-D

Well done Ann I hope they don’t run out before I order but I can’t risk it being delivered Friday. Can’t risk it being left on the doorstep.

Good to see you are on line again Gill

Hi Ann I've just replied to your message, lovely to see you back on here. <3 <3

Thanks Mel for posting for me about my laptop. As you can see I have another one now so hopefully I'll be back to posting again.

Going to watch Emmerdale now

Thanks for mentioning Lakeland Ann. I've been trying Argos, Currys, John Lewis for a few weeks now - out of stock! or not delivering to my postcode :-|
Ordered soon after seeing your post - dual basket, £20 off. free standard delivery. 3-5 days but express for £3 delivers next day if ordered by 7pm.
Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Mel, how lovely I would love a photography trip in Iceland I bet he gets some fantastic photos.
Good luck with selling the compressor.

I have just spent 20 minutes weeding around where the bulbs grow, the soil is good there so the weeds love it mostly one specific weed that grows in clumps a bit like cress, small leaves and low growing white flowers in summer. And seems to self seed. I have got a lot of it up now.

Just thinking of buying a slightly larger air frier (Lakeland but it is difficult as, if I order it today I don't know when it will come and I am out all day Friday. Maybe if I order it tomorrow it will be ok and not come Friday.

Morning Anng and all,

Quite bright here this morning and its 9 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy so how long the sunshine will last I don't know.

Had someone come and look at the commpressor yesterday I said I would let him know how much I wanted for it and all the nail guns that go with it when BIL gets back from Iceland. He's on a photography trip with friends till Sunday.

Good morning all fairly bright here again and 7 degrees so milder than it was. I might have a look to see if i can do anything in the garden today although the soil is still very damp. still that makes for easier weeding.

I have been going to this dentist for almost 51 years now Vera, they were originally NHS but are part NHS and part private these days. During my time there the dentists (and I have seen 10 of them including two private 'locums' and also the owner and his wife. I now have the young son) originally the dentists would do a manual clean (no hygienist), it was not until the 'new' automatic drill type cleaning tool came into being that I had trouble. and the current dentist stopped using it on me and continued with the manual clean.. My teeth have never been very good and I had loads of fillings before we moved here with in other places, some nightmare dentists. My teeth have always been ultra sensitive. I assume it is the make up of my teeth and the nerves. Some people seem to be more sensitive than others, but they did get more sensitivity in the last 20 years. anyway as dentists left and different ones came they insisted that it was better for teeth health to use the auto cleaning instrument but quickly learnt that I was unable to stop jumping when they hit a nerve which was not safe. So one private dentist suggested numbing and she found it worked as she could clean under the teeth as well (hence the term 'deep clean').
My problem was if the deep clean was not done teeth would start to get 'mobile' which was happening and also the tartar under the teeth would eventually cause bone problems. Still it works, after a few deep cleans my teeth did start to tighten and I only have one that is a bit loose now which is apparently good. Each inspection my dentist measures 'something' by putting a probe down the sides of the teeth. He was very pleased yesterday.
although I do hate going to the dentist and don't look forward to the two cleaning appointments. When I am there it is fine. I am ok with injections and they soon wear off. I would only have it done one side at a time though and that does cause one little problem with front lower teeth as two of the teeth have crossed nerves so are actually on opposite sides when it comes to the injections. I just have to try not to jump too much when he does those. :-D

Good evening all

I’m glad you feel better and your dental visit went OK AnnG. Is your dentist keen on these deep cleans? I’ve never had one nor have any of my friends and I’m sure you must clean your teeth as well as we do, so I wondered why he/she thinks there is a need for it.

Thanks for letting us know why Gill isn’t posting Mel. Do the bird watch next year if you can. No-one will be looking at individual gardens but the results will be fed into a computer to get an overall picture. You tell them if the area you are checking is small, medium or large, if it’s town or country, how far from farmland, if you have a pond and if you put out food for the birds.

I’ve had a couple of friends in for tea this afternoon. I made a Victoria Sandwich which was OK but not one of my better efforts I had some fancy biscuits as well and a couple of hours passed very quickly with chatting and laughing.

I’ve got a haircut tomorrow morning. My hairdresser, who owns the salon, went on holiday today for 2 weeks. My hair is growing so quickly lately that I can’t wait another couple of weeks to get it cut, so I’ve been booked in with another girl. I hope she’s OK.

Lately, I’ve been having a few restless nights full of weird dreams but I slept well last night. It was about 1 am before I got to sleep but then I didn’t wake till just after 7. I’m hoping I’ll sleep as well tonight but right now I had better go and sort out tonight’s dinner.

She said it maybe today or tomorrow.

Just waiting for the shopping to arrive. He's one stop away but that could be 15 miles away!!!!

That was a long call Mel. She seems to have had a few problems with that laptop. I hope it is not too long before she gets the replacement.