General Chat

Morning AnnG and Mel

It's 2 here. Put another log on the fire! - which song is that from? It'll ear worm me now LOL
7 hours sleep through! Now that's made a very nice change :-D

How nice to have a trip to a garden centre to look forward to Mel. That'll blow some cobwebs away :-D

AnnG, so is grandson coming sooner or later? I expect you're ready for him. being an organised person. Enjoy your trip to town :-D

I enjoyed catching up with you three yesterday and really appreciate the encouragement re art/craft. It was a shame to have that spoilt, not rising to it, I have far more important things to deal with in RL.

A neighbour has just rung me and is taking me to a garden centre this week sometime. Is'nt that nice. I have never been there before and she says its really nice.

Morning Anng and all,

A very grey day here and its 6 degrees and quite cold out.

I must ring my friend to see if she wants a ring this year and I need to get the rest of the plate rack down and wash it all.

Ann you have been so lucky with Ernie this year l;ets hope it continues. Its nice to think you can spend the money on your courses which I know you enjoy. You like doing landscapes.

Got up at 7am fr the loo and turned the heating on and went back to bed till it warmed up a bit.

good morning all, grey and 5 degrees so a bit warmer. Hoping to go into gloucester this morning to see about a phone battery. Arrangements have changed with Grandson, he is now coming on Friday.

Talk about blatant LOL

Evening All,

Yes Stephen was right about being able to see out of the eye Mel. I went to a consultant's cataract lecture at the hospital before the pandemic and I specifically asked about seeing anything out of the eye during the operation with me needing cataract surgery in both eyes and he told me you could. OH could see when he had his done too. Frustrating when someone beats you to the finish on ebay isn't it! There was me thinking you were needing to sell things not buy more! lol

The good news today is that ERNIE shelled out £50 for me and that I managed to book both a landscape and another portrait course for after Christmas. The bad news is that having decided to visit a good garden centre in Rutland tomorrow, OH has now cracked and split a piece off one of his newly filled teeth, so will be visiting the dentist instead. I don't know what will happen if the dentist still refuses to extract his teeth with this ongoing thing between him and the hospital.

It was good to have got your first injection done Vera so you know what it will be like. The pain afterwards doesn't sound nice though. I wouldn't have realised about washing my hair first either, but you know for next time. It is silly how they are leaving parcels on the doorstep now. As AnnG says what if there is a downpour? We've had them leave parcels in our recycling bin on the front before now. I think some might have had complaints because the lady delivering one parcel to me recently had me in the photo as she handed it to me!

Well we sat and sorted the heater in OH's car yesterday by going through various menus. Brilliant we got each side of the car sorted to suit both of us, but guess what............doing it seems to have wiped all the saved radio stations that the garage did for us when we fetched the car!

AnnG I wouldn't know where to start with printing labels on this printer but it's something I need to find out about. It must be very useful at Christmas when you have a lot to write.

Let us know how it goes, It sounds like fun anyway. Could be quite relaxing as long as you keep fingers away from the needle. :-D

It's not that special Mel, just a few automatic fancy stitches but I'm thinking of free motion where you drop the feed dogs and move the fabric yourself. I'm not sure how my hands will respond though :-( I just want to be doing something.

Yes Anng she has a special sewing machine that does all sorts.

Do you have a sewing machine that does embroidery Island. If you do why not just have a play?

Ann, I didn't feel a thing with the first needle, anaesthesia, because they use powerful numbing eye drops beforehand. I asked how they could tell if my eye was fully numbed (surely only I could tell?) The nurse said 'follow my hand' which I did, left right up down, 'right eye not moving, yep, you're ready'. That must have looked so funny, very Marty Feldman LOL
I'd love some of those eye drops for the rest of me.

You're tough Mel, having all those outdoor jobs to do in the cold and damp. I keep thinking I'd love to do some sewing but other things crop up and knock my slowly returning enthusiasm back. I'm not into clothes making any more but fancy doing some machine embroidery and applique just for my own amusement - and sanity :-0 I really miss sitting outside sketching.

Lost it on ebay. I was the only bidder up until the last few seconds and nearly put in a higher bid but someone else pipped me to the post.

Its 5 degrees here now and I have done the pond filter late morning but the air is so cold it nearly froze my hands off and I did'nt even have them in water.

Had a nice bubble and squeak with bacon and a couple of eggs for lunch so I won't want much tonight, perhaps just a bowl of fruit and custard or rice.

That was bad of them not to put enough blocker in you so you could'nt see the op Island and with a bad result too. Have you done any sewing lately?

I had one of my shelves in the kitchen diner down this morning as I want to get my strings up for my cards once they start arriving. Now I am going to do the other one. I also swept down all the cobwebs off the wall behind the plates and off the Christmas lights on the ceiling. Then I shall be happy with what I have done today.

I am also bidding on something on ebay and it comes up very soon.

I wonder why that is more painful Island, more nerves there or no padding? Hope I don't have to find out.
At least you were able to stay calm with your eye. some people maybe me included might freak out at the experience. It was bad enough hearing, after a minor op on my abdomen under a general, that they were worried they might have left a small piece of equipment inside me. Well they sent me home eventually and didn't say if they had found it and I have had no problems and it was about 20 years ago now.

Dismal here again.

Ermm..... I had not choice over watching my eye op LOL It was because I hadn't been given enough 'blocker'! By the time the tool kit went in it was too late. I didn't know I could be spared that but it was actually quite fascinating. End result hasn't worked out well unfortunately.

Have to say, I'd rather have a needle in my eye than one in the palm of my hand (carpal) that, I hear, is very painful which is why I never say anything to the RA nurse about having occasional 'claw hand'.

Mel only 3 degrees here.

Vera I was going to say have you checked the freezer, fridge, washing basket, down the back of chair or settee, rubbish bins?

I always look at the photo of the inside of my eye at the opticians but I don't think I could watch a live op on me or anyone else. Not even too keen on TV.

Morning everyone

You’re not wrong Mel, it is cold. IPad is telling me it’s 5 degrees but feels like 2 and that’s apparently the warmest it’s going to get.

AnnG we used to print our labels, then we got a new printer. It was quite a while ago now and was only an updated version of our old one, but we’ve never got the labels to work properly. I can print one at a time and set it all up again between each label but it’s quicker to write the addresses. I don’t ask OH to write any as his handwriting is atrocious. Even he can’t read it. When my writing gets iffy I try and make sure the house number and postcode are clear.

Rant away Island. It is annoying when you try to do someone a good turn and all they do is complain. I won’t know until March/April whether my eye treatment is going to be successful as I have to have more injections and then more tests before I will know. I think lots of people would be too squeamish to watch an op as you did. I wouldn’t have been able to see anything going on with my eye as the position of my head and the clamps holding the eye open only allowed me to see a large hand in front of me and, because of all the drops, even that was blurred. However, I have watched two internal procedures done under local anaesthetic and found it interesting to see what my insides looked like and what the docs were doing.

Yesterday I was a bit chilly sitting still indoors so put a silk scarf round my neck. I took it off during the evening and it has completely disappeared :-S. I’ve hunted everywhere and OH has looked but there’s not a sign of it. I’ve got plenty of other scarves so I don’t need it but I am baffled. I’ve probably had yet another senior moment and put it somewhere stupid like in the freezer. Several weeks after losing them and after paying a lot of money for new ones a friend found her glasses in the freezer so I’m not the only idiot :-)

Morning Anng and all,

Its blimmin cold today but dry and cloudy and only 5 degrees.

Slept like a log last night and was awake at 8am but have fished the leaves out the big pond and I am just going to make myself a coffee.

I think when oh had his eye done he said he could see what they were doing. He had a new lens put in his eye.

good morning all.

I will remember that next year if we have another hot spell Vera!! What a pity we can't bottle the heat.
Pleased that your eye allowed you to write and address your cards. I am so pleased that my addresses for cards are all printed out on labels, nobody would be able to read addresses I hand wrote after the first ten.

OOh Island I would be too sqeamish to watch that even on somebody else.

That's great that you sold lots Mel and fed yourself well :-D

Vera, I saw my own eye being operated on Grown men have blanched when I mention that lol I wasn't supposed to see it but it was a bit 'wow man'. Not so good for a fortnight after when I had to do 'posturing' - face down for 50 minutes of every hour and sleeping on front. Eye was ok but shoulders didn't half hurt.
I hope your eye pain has worn off now and the op a success.

Going back to slow cookers.... my first one didn't have a removable crock so was a pain to wash but it was a boon at the time. Later we bought a larger one - all removable crocks by then. Being veggie we used it for veg stews through the winter - it's great not to have to think what to cook in the evening for two nights because it's there and waiting :-D I now have a smaller one - cookware from Argos - which does me for two meals. Offered our bigger one to bro and wife, was told she'd like it so bro collected it. Reported back that she was disappointed because it was a crock!!! Talk about gift horse and all that. No mention of 'thank you'. As if I'm not struggling enough without that attitude coming my way. :-| :-| :-|
Sorry, had to have a rant