General Chat

Afternoon All,

It's mild again here with splashes of sun now and again. We were fed up of Christmas food so went to the village cafe for brekkie this morning despite OH's conviction it would be closed. We nearly didn't get there as just up the road there were police cordons and "incident tape" all across the road. We had to go back and approach from the other side of the village, then to get home afterwards the police had to move one of their cars so we could get to our close. Goodness knows what's happened, but it's obviously serious. Maybe there will be a report in the local paper tomorrow. The area that's cordonned off is where the church is and some of the big old houses and vicarage.

OH has gone to another footie match so I may go out with my camera if the sun comes out again.

Sorry to hear you are still suffering Gill, but at least with something to soothe your cough you get more chance of a good night's sleep. I bet Sandra felt really useful being able to help and do the chicken for you all. Did she get a cook's apron from Santa?

David, drinking more fluids will help with the problem too. ;-) I bet the cats weren't impressed at getting the treatment! lol.

I couldn't believe some of the flood pictures, so dreadful to have your house under water like that. I think I'd have fold up furniture after an experience like that and flagstone floors with rugs I could roll up! I'd always worry it could happen again.

That sounds interesting Mel......send us a pic hen you've made some please. I've sent off for some wool to knit a Bluetit from the pattern I mentioned a while back. I'm just finishing off the loose ends on my snowflake necklace at the moment.

Busy old day here. OH wanted some new waterproof trousers!! so, off we went to a gun/game shop in Cirencester where he managed to find a pair to his liking!!! It's a shop we've been to before and it's full of country things from china to books, to clothes, to doggy bits and bobs, really lovely. OH bought me a fab body warmer as an early birthday present, so I was well chuffed!! (think he wants to keep in my good books! not sure why!!!)
Not a bad day here weatherwise, but clouding up now and a bit windy! I can't get over those poor people in the North. It must be just terrible.
Have made stock out of the duck carcass, so that's ready to make soup with. Fish for supper tonight with rice, nice and easy!! Tomorrow I shall get some of the decs down, just leave the little tree with the lights till after New Year.
OH making a cuppa with a slice of Christmas cake!!
Hope you're feeling better Gill, and all is well with everyone else.

Annx, I drink as much as I have capacity for. In my opinion the occasional tendency to be a tad costive is my immobility. A bit o motion puts some motion in the motions.
I remember my Father was crippled with arthritis in his old age. This affected his frequency of bowel movements. Had he been more regular I feel he would have been happier and perhaps lived longer, who knows?
Hoping Frank and Gill and all the others are feeling better.
Before buying Ellen those 3 bras I had previously bought her some of those elasticated extensions for her existing one which were getting to be tight on her. She's put a little weight across the back. As good as the extensions are she wasn't using them. So her drawers will have a bit of a sort out when the next charity bag is put through the letter box.
Sadie does house calls for privacy if you're interested :-D

Well I hav'nt got on very well today as I seem to have a lot of clearing up to do and feed the birds and hens etc and before it was dark I walked around the garden looking for bits for a fairy house. Why is it that when you are looking for a particular thing you never find any and when your not you always find some?

Anyway I was told off by oh for joining a site who he said took him ages to get off his pc. So I have been taking all the things off this site I want and emailing them to myself and have filed them. The good thing isa they copy the pictures too.

They are good projects for Mandy and the grandchildren so if you want them Mandy let me know.

Ham is boiliing away now after boiling over on my clean stove. :-(

Yes i do think you have to keep moving to keep 'moving'.Not easy though in your case David.

Ooh Ann I wonder what has happened by you?Is it worth googling your local radio station for up to date news? It does sound something quite serious dosen't it.

Liz,Chris was saying today "When is the tree coming down" !!!!...Not just yet says I.
It will probably be at the weekend and then we can get back to normal again.
We finally watched Downton..It was good.Such a shame there will be no more :-(

Oh Frank.You aren't having a good time are you :-S.When are you coming home?

Jess is sitting in Thomas's place..he is not amused lol .She is plugged in to her lap top and has big ear phones on so she can't hear any sound from the room as she is revising for her finals for her Masters .I moved Thomas's blanket over to the other settee but he refuses to sit there !!!!.He is just sitting on the floor give Jess Evils :-D :-D
Hannah will just be setting off from her house in London for Heathrow.Her flight is at 10 tonight.They fly to Doha (sp?) and have a wait of a couple of hours before the next flight on to Bangkok .So it is going to be a very very long journey.

I have been having a rethink for a holiday for us.I am very keen to go to Dubrovnick ,but I don't think Chris is.So I was thinking of the Eurostar to Avignon .Maybe May time.I can see him rolling his eyes each time I say I have been looking something up
But I feel we need to decide at least when we want to go as Hotels book up so far ahead.The Eurostar cannot be booked until the end of January(I think)
Ann are you having your Cornish Holiday again next year? How about Wales again?

Well it is Turkey for the last time in a minute with my lovely Lemon and Garlic Roast Potatoes.Sprouts ,Rainbow Carrots,and Broccoli .I may even bung in a few Yorkshires curtesy of Aunt Bessie :-D

Oh dear Mel! I think we all have days like that!!! How did the site you joined end up on your OH's P.C? Anything I join only ever comes up on mine, OH's only comes up on his. OH hasn't a clue what I'm up to on line, nor me on his come to that !!!! Can't you make yours individual?!
Quite windy now, and a bit chilly! Supper in the oven, rice in the steamer and we're both extremely thankful that we are not affected by flooding as we potentially were in our last house.

How did that happen Mel? Nothing I do comes up on Chris's emails and vice versa .You must have a different kind of set up.
Crikey Liz I bet you are counting your lucky stars that you moved when you did.At least you have no worries now about being flooded and no more trouble with neighbours !!!!

David you have reminded me I need to do Frontline on Thomas.That will be tomorrows horrible job :-S

When I'm in the bathroom or in the kitchen watching the kettle boil I move the injured leg backward and forward several times. Also when laid down I do half sit ups twisting middle to the left then to the right, elbow to knee, works wonders, soon have a 6 pack.
I hope Frank and Gill both have a good nights sleep, same apples to the rest of you, it works wonders. Had the strangest dream last night, Driving and walking :-)

We had a look at the local police site Jane and it seems that at 9.50pm last night there was a collision in the village involving 3 cars and a caravan. I also looked at the local paper site as we thought there must be more to it than that.

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/road-near-Foxhunter-Island-Enderby-closed-crash/story-28430295-detail/story.html

If you click on the 5 comments some are suggesting the caravan was rammed and that firearms were involved! A 20 year old has been arrested. The road was still closed tonight so we took a walk up to the village as far as you could go and they were sweeping the road where there is a junction to the left and a truck was taking away a damaged car.

This afternoon when I went out there were black plumes of smoke in the sky over the city and apparently some old mill buildings were on fire. It looked as if it was near the Space centre at first.

You are on the ball looking at holidays Jane, but you are right about the best hotels being booked up first. We went to Annecy by train a few years ago. I remember it being very fast over lots of open countryside. I expect we'll go to Cornwall again this year, but I'm not sure when this time. We'd also like to go to Scotland and do some of the picturesque rail trips, but I don't want to go when the midges are about! I also want to go to Norfolk for a few days to see the sawmill and those nice gardens where Fitz went.

The exercises are a good idea David.....helps keep the flexibility you have and strengthens the muscles. I still do leg raises in bed at night!! lol. It helps keep the muscles strong round my dodgy knees. :-)

Not stopping as we are still eating. !!! PIGS.

Yes Jane, we were very thankful to move in more ways than one, and we got the asking price too, so we were lucky!!
We've been discussing a holiday for next year as well, it wouldn't be till the autumn and probably France, bit of sight seeing maybe!

Evening all,

We have been to son and DIL's for eats today it made a nice change as there was no Turkey LOL we have a little gammon left which will get eaten tomorrow and then we'll get back to normal meals again .

Yes please Mel i would love to see the prodjects , i feel at a loose end at the moment as i nothing on the go which isn't like me as I'm usually doing some thing .

Hope you manage to get a better night tonight Frank maybe a bit of the sea air will help .
And Gill i hope you and your OH will soon be on the mend too.

All happening near you then Ann , must have quite serious for the road to be closed for so long.

Did anyone read the thread on here about not stopping for an unmarked police car ? Well worth a read .

It did'nt come up on his pc he had looked up something to do with wood turning I think and went into that site.

Mandy I have sent you it all. Have fun.........

Morning all,

WE HAVE SUNSHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing more to say really but I slept well once I dropped off which took ages.

Lovely sunny morning here after early rain. All the cards, and the decorations in the passageway taken down!! Shall leave the sitting room decks till after N.Y, then they're coming down too!! Leavening the little tree + lights till twelfth night, else it'll be unlucky!!
Today we shall have a bit of a tidy up, inside and out and get back to normal!!!
Hope everyone is OK this morning.

Morning all

Sunny here

Had an early night last night and feel much better today, it's the first day I've felt normal for ages, OH just has a bit of a cough but says it's much better than it has been, so all in all we're almost back to normal, which is good as OH is back in work tomorrow.

That crash sounded bad Ann, was it road rage?

Hope you had a better nights sleep last night Frank and that you are feeling much better today.

So you have another project on the go now Mel, love to see some pics when you have finished. I'm hoping to take some pics of my Christmas village and other bits and bobs I've made for Christmas then I can email them to you all before they all come down and put away till next year.

Got a text off Michelle last night to say that the floods in Leeds are just down the road from her so she's staying at her boyfriends, luckily she lives in the middle flat so none of her things will get damaged, she just can't get to the flat with the road being flooded. She has bronchitis at the moment but said she couldn't find a chemist open, I suggested that she phones the hospital as they may have one. Our hospital has an out of hours pharmacy.

Sandra and I will take the decs down on twelfth night, OH is working that day so will pop everything back in the loft when he gets in at 9pm. It'll be nice to get back to normal. I'm planning on reading my sewing books OH got me for Christmas then hopefully find something to sew. I have done a bit of sewing over the last few days. OH needed a zip putting on his new coat on the pocket as things kept falling out with it only being a press stud. Luckily Sandra had a black one on an inside pocket of a white coat she has so I used that and then replace the black one for a white one on Sandra's coat, it took me most of the day to do but both coats are now the way they want them. I then attached some ribbon to the dressing gown I got myself the other week to stop that opening. I got a lovely sewing box off Michelle for Christmas so now have all my sewing things in there.

I've just run a bath so will go and have a nice soak now, then catch up properly on all the posts
See you later

Gill, you are going to have to get a sewing machine!!!! As I've said before our daughter is an excellent needlewoman, and makes a lot of their clothes, even repairing and upholstering furniture!! but there's no way she could possibly do most of it without a machine!! You'd find it would take quarter the time and be far less tiring.
I've hung washing out this morning as the sun is quite warm!! Now going to make some soup for our lunch with the stock from the duck.

Afternoon all,

I don't seem to have time to breeth, let alone anything else.

We have sunshine here today, with the rain clouds starting to roll in. We are all showered and dressed rrady to go for a short wak down the front.

The stairs are proving very difficult for me, After getting down them this morning for breakfast, and having to go back up to shower and shave, I had to have a lie down on the bed for half an hour.

Once again I haven't realy studied the posts, but it's nice to see you are all well.

I have booked a table for 6.00pm New Years Eve. At a Restaurants where they cook the steaks on the Stone. We have to be careful where we go as Conrad with his funny tummy. He can eat a good steak thow.

Everyone is waiting for me to go out.

So see you soon.

I am going into Holsworthy for a few bits and bobs and chicken corn.