General Chat

Well I managed to dodge the showers and actually now it is dry and quite bright still 7 degrees so not very warm. So hair is cut and prescription collected so that is out of the way.

Good morning all, hairdresser at 1pm otherwise nothing on which is just as well as I slept in until after 0930 it is so dark gloomy and if the rain doesn't ease off I am going to get very wet walking round.

mORNING ALL,

aNOTHER DAY OF RAIN AND WIND HERE AND DULL AND DREARY WITH IT. pC SAYS 10 DEGREES and cloudy.

Sorry did 'nt mean to shout I had been doing a file heading. Had a lie in this morning as I was up early yesterday because Tim was coming.

I am going to try and do some crafting today after I have been up the shop for my paper, scripts and ham. I don't think BIL is coming so I should have a day to myself.

Sorry to hear about the little Robin Mel.

Have you thought about keeping your old frames Gwyn and just have the lenses replaced, then you don't need to choose new frames all the time.

Yes, we're still busy, we've put the cement boards down in the empty room today and have 99% done now, all that's left are the pieces that need cutting which, hopefully, we'll do tomorrow. The room feels so much warmer now the floorboards are covered and the cement boards are waterproof so can be mopped. It's less dusty in there too.

Yes Mandy it's nice to be able to help Sandra when she needs it, she rings me to ask for advice to which is nice.

Lisa Presley has died. Aged 55.

try them on you can't really see what they look like cos you hav'nt got your glasses on.

I am waiting for the man to arrive to get this laser cutter. I have turned the pc on up there but can't get into it and oh has'nt got an account anymore.

Its just started with rain with hailstones mixed in but the suns still out round the back. O now it is hail!

Good morning all, bright and very breezy here ... and dry, at the moment.
It makes it much more pleasant for going out and about.

Mel, that's sad about Robby, but in a strange way it's quite fitting that they come to where they feel safe and you do know what's happened rather than be left wondering.
It must be distressing though <3

Good to see Gill back and William too.... both quite busy.

Opticians for me later. I haven't been for ages, so I expect new glasses will be required this time. I hate choosing new frames and usually end up with something similar to the previous ones.

Oh Mel poor little Robby :-(

Morning all,

Lots of black clouds here this morning but I can see the odd bit of blue sky ,still windy .

Anng my wrists still twinge when I twist them or if I hold any thing heavy and by the end of the day they both ache a bit ,the scar is still sore I have been putting e45 cream on them to try and soften them a bit .
I put the sweet peas three in a pot as that's what monty did ,I must remember to nip the tops out though if I do them again I haven't done any this year.

That's good Sandra is happy in her flat with her boyfriend Gill and handy you can visit to do odd jobs for her .

Morning all,

A bit brighter here this morning and pc says 9 degrees and cloudy so I don't expect the brightness to last long.

Tim is coming at 11 am so I have to be ready for when he comes and take him up the caravan to see what we can do about this air pump.

Last night when I shut the chickens in and went to come in the back door I stepped in the porch and saw a little brown flash and thought it was a mouse. It was'nt it was Robby and I was'nt pleased as later he was still there but this morning he is dead. Why do they always come to me before they die??? This is the third one now. The first one was the one that used to follow me around the garden and come up the border with me and even used to settle on my shoulder to let me know he was there. I still have a Robin as I have seen one this morning.

Oh dear Gill hope it recovered.

Good morning all dry here and 7 degrees I have a Tesco order coming this afternoon. Hope I don't forget to be ready, feels strange with it coming on a different day but with being away and then going and getting stuff myself when I got back I need to top up a couple of days earlier than usual. I will get back to normal next week.
I might walk down to the charity lady to return some books later. If it doesn't rain.

My laptop's just crashed, so if you don't hear from me you know it's my laptop and not me. Hopefully it won't happen again and I'll be back on here tomorrow.

Yes still lots going on AnnG, I'll ring the landscapers next week when I have a bit more time, there's nothing they can do in the garden right now with the weather being so wet so there's no rush. Your U3A group sounds great, just my kind of thing. We brought our greenhouse with us but until we have somewhere to put it it'll have to stay in bits on the ground. Unfortunately we think the fox ran over it as there are quite a few pieces of glass broken, so they'll need replacing when the greenhouse finally goes up.

I'm so sorry to hear about your fall Mandy, you must of been in such pain, I hope things have improved for you now and you are on the mend. It sounds like you timed it just right getting home from Aldi just before the rain. Sandra is still with her boyfriend in her flat and they're both very happy. We do the odd job for them including fixing her bath tap the other day. I don't know what she did but the tap was in two pieces when we got there. Luckily they'd turned the water off and it didn't take OH long to fix it. Sandra's been doing some painting so her flat is looking more like home for her and Ste now.

Did you manage to fix your bird feeder Mel or is it still to wet and windy? They reckon we could have some snow next week, I'm not looking forward to that. Sorry to hear about your OH passing away, i hope you are okay.

Did you plant them in special sweet pea pots or toilet roll tubes. And I think you should have pinched them out yes.

Do your wrists bother you at all now?

Evening all,

It's nice to see you posting again Gill we all wondered how things were going ,it sounds as if you still have plenty to keep you busy in the bungalow and the garden .
How is Sandra is she still living in her flat with her boyfriend .
At the end of September I fell over crossing the road ,I rung my ankle in a rut and the next minute I was down on the ground ,broke both my wrists grazed all the side of my face and grazed my knee ,I had to have an op to put plates in both wrists .

The morning started off dry so I decided to go to Aldi and do my shopping ,I just got home and it started to rain , boy was it windy in the night it woke me up but it seems to have calmed down now.

Anng I soaked my sweet peas and planted them in pots last year but mine just seemed to go all leggy I wondered if I should have nipped the tops out to thicken them up .

Mel I bet your girls have kept in out of the wind .

Still lots going on in your life Gill. It will be good if the landscapers can help with the garden.
The group is a U3A group that I facilitate. Tony and I started it off and I have carried on. We normally meet at my home and it is a gardening interests group which covers a multitude of subjects and basically we chat about everything (and nothing). There were nine of us today we discussed soaking and planting sweet pea seeds and putting them in the greenhouse when sprouted, and chatting and growing potatoes, plus more on organising and caring for our compost bins. All interesting stuff.

I will pm you my email address.

Hi all

Wet and windy here today. OH went to a few places to sort out the next jobs, we've got the cement boards arriving tomorrow so we can put them down in the empty room, once that's done and been varnished we can finally decorate and buy a carpet then sort out a spare bedroom, it'll be nice to finally move the wardrobes out of the hall :-D

We've got the double glazing people coming on the 23rd to see if the kitchen window can be fixed, the handle is jammed so we can't open it, they're also measuring up for a new front door and are going to look at the back door which isn't sitting straight. When the kitchen window is sorted I'll be able to sort out around the window, OH bought some filler for me today but I don't want to fix it if the window needs taking out and replaced. Hopefully they'll be able to fix it which should cost a lot less.

We had a leaflet posted through the door yesterday from a company who does extensions and also outside landscaping, so we're going to ring them about the garden to see if they can level it for us when the weather improves. So plenty going on at the moment.

I hope you managed to sort the bird feeder out Mel, it sounds quite a job. I'll see if my neighbour can take a photo of the back garden on her phone and email it to you all. I've lost everyone's email address though so could you all PM me it please, along with your addresses and birthdays as they were all in my address book which has gone missing. I put it in a safe place, but it's that safe it's hidden from me LOL :-D :-D

What is the group AnnG, it sounds quite a gathering, hope you all have fun.

That's early Will for shopping, i hope the weather wasn't to bad when you went out. I didn't know you had a book, what is it all about?

Well, better go and sort dinner out, or we might have a chippy meal for a change, we haven't had one of those for ages. I'll see what OH wants.

Good morning all, still windy but not as strong as yesterday dry so far but very dull so probably rain later. Got the group this afternoon 12 of us so have to get all the chairs ready after dusting around.

Morning all,

So very nice to see our Will posting again and of course Gill too.

Wiundy dull and wet morning here and pc says rain to stop and 11 degrees.

I did wonder what damage would be in the garden this morning as the wind was gale force last night. Came oiut this morning as I had heard a crash late last night, and found that the bird feeder in on the ground surrounded by birds trying to feed so that is the first thing I have to try and do this morning. It has two big weights off the turftrack mower on the base but I can't lift them to wedge them round the pole. I tried yesterday when it fell over so I think I shall have to get the pliers out and take out the rusted off bit that in the hole on the icecream sign that hold it up.

I'll let you know how I get on later as yesterday I was covered in dirt after tackling it.

Just closing everything down for the night and checking in. Being back after a absence of a while I also notice folk missing, such as Frank, Ann and Fiona (?) I see Ann on Facebook and follow her blossoming art and encourage her. I know she is always inspired by my own drawings and paintings which are on my Facebook pages. Fiona is also on there as a regular so I follow her too.
The absence of Frank worries my as in the past and being ex RAF like myself, he has been very kind to me. I hope he is alright and that sometime or other we learn how he is and that he is alright.
We have had a good day except I had to gather the washing in before it either blew away or got wet in the showers. So it's shopping at 8am for me tomorrow,. breakfast, then do the ironing. Meantime, as and when she is awake, I'll be looking to my caring duties for Carmel. I was out this morning to the post office to mail two more of my books, one to a pal in Birmingham and another to a lady in Sutton on Sea. I also had to drop a copy off to my lady barber who is just across the road from the post office.
Having said all that, I bid you all goodnight and sweet dreams.