General Chat

Its come over a bit cloudy now but the suns still out.

3 degrees and sunny but a cloudy not blue sky.

Back from the doc's and the leccy is back on now. When I went in at just before 11am and registered she said my appointment was not till 2.15pm. Why on earth did I think it was 11am? What a ninny I need'nt have rushed about.

Hope you are ok for the coffee meet Vera and enjoy your visit with daughter and granddaughter. I hope she is coping ok in this difficult time. Ann and I know just what she is going through.

I smelt bacon on the way home so I think its a bacon butty for an early lunch and a nice hot drink.

By the way we have sunshine and blue skies, sorry for those who are having a dark dingy day but when you get the sun I get dark days it seems.

Right where's the bacon????????

I think the sun is burning the fog off here but it is only 0 degree out there so not going out.

Vera hope the coffee meet doesn't make your head worse, especially as you will want to have a good chat with daughter and granddaughter. I hope your daughter is coping ok. I can't remember when the funeral is/was (if you ever told us). Until that has passed she won't be able to start rebuilding her life.

Good morning
Grey and murky but not as foggy as last week. At the moment it’s 5 degrees but I haven’t put my nose outside yet to see what it really feels like.

Mandy I might have misunderstood which recipe you wanted. I probably said I had been making lemon cheesecake but mentioned that I used to make an apricot one though I haven’t made it for years. I’ll look through all my recipe folders when I get a moment and dig the apricot one out for you.

I have read the posts but won’t be staying on here any longer as I am still not sleeping much and my head and eyes are not good at the moment. We are going to our usual Thursday coffee meet and then daughter and granddaughter are coming at 2 pm for a couple of hours.

Have a good day everyone.

Morning,
Very foggy here but no frost don't think it should clear all day so another dull dark day.
Not sure what I'm doing today the two bathrooms need a good clean and I might make a cake .

Gwyn no luck with the mincemeat in Aldi ,not one jar left so you got a bargain .

good morning all. only 1 degree here but no frost that I can see. Thick fog though so very dark.

Morning all,

Frosty again but at least its dry and its 3 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy.

Today is the day when they are going to turn the leccy off at some point to do the new poles and lines etc so I hope its not off for long with my two ponds on a very cold day.

I also have my MOT today at the docs so must get on.

Yes its quite rightening really when you know what they were really about.

Stu rang while I was washing my hair over the bath and said to come to his for dinner so off I went. He did a chilli and rice and it was very nice.

Watched the film on Film 4 about the life of the cat artists Louis Wain and it was very good but also very sad.

I went to the U3A main meeting as my friend was going and offered to give me a lift..
The talk was on the real meaning of nursery rhymes. It was interesting and none of them are how they seem.

Done some washing and its been out on the line since this morning but dos'nt seem any drier than when it went out so I shall bring it in and it will have to go on the airers but should smell nice with a bit of cold air through it. Ita still bitterly cold out there even though the suns out but its so low in the sky this time of year.

Dusted the bedroom and cleaned the little loo. Had lunch and I am just going to go and corn the chickens. We've had sun all day blue sky and no clouds but the heavy mist this morning did'nt lift till about 10.05 am when the sun eventually burnt it off.

Can't get in touch with St. Hope he's ok......

Going to wash my hair after corning the chickens as I have my bloods tomorrow morning.

Afternoon all,

Misty here and it doesn't look like it's going to clear over the next few days ,I'm sure at the weekend the weather was sunny for today .
I've had a good morning giving the bedrooms a good hoover and dust ,I haven't done it since before Christmas so it badly needed doing, I hoovered the stairs and then Colin hoovered downstairs so we're nice and clean now.

Vera thank you for the recipe ,I could have sworn you said it was Apricot cheesecake ,this one was Lemon but it sounds lovely so I'll be giving that a go when I can get a lemon jelly .

Morning all,

Woke to frost and fog this morning and its still foggy a bit now but the suns coming up. Its 7 degrees at the moment but is very chilly and pc says its rising to 9 degrees by 12 noon.

Had a reminder by phone this morning that the leccy will be going off tomorow for a while as they are working on the lines. They've put a new telegraph pole outside so I suppose its something to do with that and I have a big leccy box on my front on a pole.

Need to ring Stuart to see if he's coming this week and it could be today so I better get on and get dressed as I am not yet.

Good morning all 8 degrees here still a bit dark though.

I had just written a long reply when my computer decided to go down for some reason. Actually when it came back up it was firefox pdating. I did copy what I had written but had not had time to paste it into word so lost it when the pc came back on.

Mandy I wish I still had a 7 in front of my age. I loved my 70s we had lots of good holidays, months in Tenerife and weeks in Spain and Lanzarote plus weeks in the UK. Life seemed to be one long holiday then.

I didn't have a washing machine until I had been married over ten years, I just had a baby burco and a spin drier. I have to add that for the first 8 years of marriage all bed linen and T's white RN shirts and collars went to the laundry (collected and delivered). and for a couple of years if the weather was bad, all the rest went to the local laundrette.

I didn't cook before I was married. My first cookery book was a small A5 Mcdougalls book which I still have stuck together with cellotape.I also had an exercise book with lots of recipes collected from Mum and added to through the years by friends

I had the Dairy Book of Cookery when I was first married and yes I still have it. I also had the Dairy Book of Home Managment. I was really into cooking with a young baby and at home all the time. No pc or mobile phone to take my mind off things but just get on with it. I cooked a cake for Sunday every week and most meals were cooked from scratch with just a few frozen fish cakes or rissoles. I loved making pies fruit and meat ones and always a Sunday roast. I had a bit of trouble at first with the roast and always worried about getting everything done at the same time. After the Sunday roast it was always cold meat and chips on a Monday same as mum used to od. Washing day was Monday which was done in a twin tub washing machine and spinner. Had those big wooden tongs to get it from one tub to the next with a hooked pipe that went into the sink. In fact I did'nt have a washing machine until the mid 70's and I can remember watching it go the full round the first time I used it. It seemed so easy to just let the machine do it for me and I could get on with other things.

Just watching the next pottery programme.

Ann that good if OH's eyes are less pink already ,sounds as if he caught them before it was really bad , oh that good you don't have to dothe drops through the night I had visions of alarms going off every hour :-0

I've got a Mrs Beeton cook book too ,I just learnt as I went along ,it was gravy that puzzled me I use to ask mum well how do I make the gravy ,she use to say well you need a bit of this and I put that in and her gravy was lovely I could never make gravy like her .

I like Jamie Oliver he's been making his £1 wonder meals some of them look really tasty ,he made some nice looking rustic pies with pork mince and he added piccalilli to the pork they did look nice with a bit of grated cheese on top .

Son and dil always cook they don't have takeaways very often ,son say we make ur own fake aways, they make curries, sweet and sour chicken ,egg fried rice , pizzas ,lots of things , some times they treat themselves to steak if it's on offer at the butchers and Jake gets his discount

I’m feeling a bit better now thank you. I’ll type a bit then come off screen till tomorrow.

Annx, I think iritis is rare. I’ve never come across anyone else who has had it but I’ve always said our OHs could be twins. Yes, I read about all that food being thrown away because the younger generation won’t take it. I never did any domestic science at school but mum and grandmother both cooked and I think I just absorbed a lot without knowing it. I also bought a cookbook when we first married. It was Molly Weir’s cookbook and cost 5/-. I’ve still got it, held together with parcel tape.

I am sure your hair looks good now AnnG and I’m glad your legs stopped aching. We’re probably all a bit out of practice even with gentle walking as we haven’t been moving around as much in the horrid weather.

Mandy, I wish I still had a 7 in front of my age. You know what they say : you’re as old as you feel.

Mel, sunset here today was 4.15 pm and sunrise tomorrow will be 7.58 am.

My head.and eyes are telling me that’s enough. Sleep well everyone.

They made some lovely things in the first week of the pottery prog didn't they Mandy. I remember when I was 70 I told OH I was going to go backwards in future and be 69 next! I don't think we need to do the drops through the night. I can't remember doing it last time so it will just be last thing at night and first thing in the morning and an hour between each drop during the day. I think his eye already looks less pink.

I read today that food banks are having to throw the fresh veg away. Apparently the young don't want it as they don't know how to cook it! They aren't in desperate need are they if they can't look up what to do on their phones. It sounds like they are too lazy and just want to microwave or heat up things that are already cooked. I couldonly cook simple things with any confidence when I got married and didn't do domestic science after the first year at senior school. We we sewed our aprons and headbands and made a skirt in that year so didn't do very much cooking. I got Mrs Beeton's Cook Book with my pink stamps and learned from that. Now it's even easier with the internet and the videos ahowing things step by step.

I have watche dthe first pottery throwdown but not the next one. That man did do some great painting on his pots and I liked the sheeps face.

I was hoping someone would tell me their sunset times and thats why I put mine up. It did'nt actually get dark till 5pm.

I'll do it again tomorrow and see if its gone up.