General Chat

O nice to hear from you Gill we all missed you. Its good to know you have at last got the bathroom done and are now starting on the kitchen. Hope all goes well for the garden in the spring and summer. We really need to see some pictures you know. Could a friend take some that we may see please?

Just a short note to say gill, it is so good to see you. we were puzzled, then worried and then I think we thought you might have internet trouble so we almost but not quite gave up on you. But so good to see that you are both ok and great news that you have your garden ready for designing and your bathroom finished. Hope it won't be too long before you can get going with the kitchen, but, plenty of time, it will be worth waiting for.

I am just off to bed but wanted to get this on here. Stay with us now we will want to know all about the plans for the garden.

We hope Frank is OK we haven't heard for a long time. Annx is fine, she is busy with craft courses (painting0 and taking a bit of a break from the thread.

Ann x

Hi all

I'm finally back after such a long time. With the cost of living we've had to stop the Internet and a few other things until we got back on track. I went to come on here and my sub had run out so I've just sorted that for another year.

We've finally got our bathroom done, all we need now is some flooring and a blind, it looks so posh :-D :-D We're hoping to have the kitchen done next but that depends on how much it'll cost, so for now we've been busy taking all the flaky paint off the walls and the old tiles around the sink. Unfortunately some of the plaster came off around the window so that needs fixing but we've decided to have the kitchen window replaced as the lock is broken first, then fix the wall around it.

The garden is almost cleared and looks massive, we're hoping to have someone with a digger to level it all off as it's to large an area to do by hand. We'd like to take one more large tree out and the old garage as it's asbestos then we can put some fencing around and start building a new garden. OH got me a couple of garden design books for Christmas so I'm going to take a look at those for some ideas. I can't get over the size of the back garden it's massive so is going to take a lot of thought and planning to get it right.

Both OH and I have just had bad flu which laid us both up for over a week. OH is back in work but I'm not quite over it and think I might need some antibiotics for a cough that I can't seem to rid of.

I noticed Frank and Ann aren't on here, are they okay? Maybe they're on another page and I've missed their posts. I hope everyone is keeping well and the weather isn't to bad, it's been very wet and windy here lately, so no gardening just yet as it's like a swimming pool out there. ;-) certainly not gardening weather.

I can't find my address book so don't have anyone's address, could you PM them to me please. I hope no one thought I was being funny not sending any Christmas cards last Christmas. Hopefully things will start to get back to normal now, could you let me know your birthdays as well and email addresses. Thanks <3 <3

My dad sang that to me when I was little. I still have my teddy beaar called Tessie.

Oh I know Anng :-D I remember singing that to son and bouncy his Teddy on my knee while singing it .

Raining here now and heres lots of really black clouds about .

aawe Mandy me and my Teddy bear!!! :-D

skinny has visited every day since I got home except today, although he may have looked in while I was upstairs as the door is shut and he won't wait around if it is not open.

Afternoon all

Mel looking on the storm tracker it looks right over head for your area,hope it doesn't take your electric off again .

Clouded over now but we have had sunshine all morning and when I went out in the car it was quite dazzling, its quite windy here too.

Was it yesterday Vera was having her next injection in her eye, hope she's OK .

Anng have you had the cat round lately ,I suppose in the summer with doors open he just comes in but this time of the year with doors closed he has to wait to be let in .

I had a song going round my head yesterday.
Me and my Teddy Bear
Got no worries got no fear
Me and my Teddy Bear just play and play all day .
Goodness knows where that came from haven't heard that for ages .

No thunder but we have had really heavy rain and gale force winds. Glad I don't have to go out today.

Its back with avengance.

We've had a heck of a thunderstorm that kept knocking the leccy out lashing hail and rain. The hailstones settled for a long while and the wind is gale force. Loads of really loud thunder so I shut down the pc and waited.

Just had thunder and the skies now dark grey and its pouring with rain lashing against the windows.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo

Boiled beef and carrots boiled beef and carrots. It just came into my head. We used to have it when I was young with pease pudding from a tin. I wonder if they still do pease pudding?

They do it in Sainsbury's and its still in the same tin, Foresight pease pudding. Now where on earth did that memory come from?

Morning Anng and all,

Quite bright here too this morning but its 9 degrees here and pc says cloudy and its a bit windy too. We have blue sky with white clouds but they are noving quickly across the sky.

Nothing planned here either so I shall do a bit of HW (UHG) and some casting maybe and get a few more coats on the moulds I am making.

Its bin day tomorrow so I have toget that sorted and up the top as they come quite early.

Good morning all quite bright here this morning and 7 degrees. feels colder though. At least we have some blue sky. Not sure what I am doing today, no plans but still quite a few jobs needing doing.

Yes it was me who copied and pasted William's post so you could see them again.

Been an awful day here with wind thats so cold it was biting.

I did a bit of hoovering and sucked up some of those leggy spiders in the hall and little loo so I feel like I have done enough housework for today.

Had my liver and bacon tonight and I must admit it was really tender but I over cooked the sprouts so they were a bit soft. I like them with a bit of bite to them.

Wonder if that was because it was a repeat. Gwyn, you will have seen that I thought one was undelivered so sent a repeat.

Very odd ... I've just found an e mail with photos from AnnG in my spam box, even though others came direct to 'in' box :-S

Afternoon all,

Thanks for the photo's Anng, like Mel I liked the building with the ivy too .

Wet windy and really dreary here its supposed to be 13 degrees today but when I nipped out to the recycling bin it felt like the Arctic out there .

So you have a bit of colour in the garden with your Forsythia in flower Gwyn ,I noticed some of the leaves on my Camellia have gone brown with the frost so I pushed the pot more into a corner by the woodshed to try and protect it .

Oh I see the rain has eased a bit and the green household bin needs to come in as they have just emptied it so I'll go and get it in .

William Mel reposted I think so that you could see what you have posted. At least I surmise that is why she has done it with the dates. yes confusing!!

Good afternoon all.
Thank you Ann for sharing the photos. Interesting to see all the different types of brick and stonework.
Great to see reflections in the water.... and even a hint of blue sky too... Lovely.

A bleak miserable day here. Laptop tells me it's cloudy :-S
but that's a bit of an understatement and it's wild winds and wet really.

Gardens round here are rather sodden, but still flowers are blooming. There is a lovely pink camelia in the next street, my forsythia continues to have more flowers and there are 2 large trees of lovely pussy willow in the school grounds.