General Chat

Apologies Gill for posting magpie re your injury

Complete error sorry if my mistake inconvenienced or embarrassed anyone.

Morning all and evening Kim,

We've had a little sun this morning but just now it was tipping it down so hard you could'nt see up the garden for rain and hail. Little tiny hailstones left on the car roof outside the kitchen window which melted quickly once it had stopped.

Di is calling in at about 12.30pm so I shall get any gossip thats going around if she has heard any.

Frank hope you had a better nights sleep last night in your own bed with peace and quiet...........or did Ros make up for it with a tantrum?? ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Morning and Evening Friends,

PEACE and QUIET I can't get use to it.

We didn't eat last night (cooked meal) but had a cheese sarnie Ros with sliced onion mine with Branston. Slept well till 6.00 this morning so that feels better.

We have got all the box's in from the garage and Ros has started stripping (THE TREE) !!!! :-D :-D :-D That's going to keep her busy for a few hours.

Have just had my AA renewal notice £69.00 for just breakdown. (Cheeky beggers) That's been cancelled and I have gone to the RAC with the full monty on Tesco Club Card vouchers only £48.00 in vouchers. Which we have, and more in the cupboard, So you could say we got it for free.

I have bought her a video cam that fits on the windscreen, just a little extra that might come in handy.

Bright sunny start here, but now clouding over.They say we will get rain later.

Very quiet on here last night I see.

Off to get the perscriptions up to the Doctors. We need them for the HOLS <3 <3 <3

Morning all

Dry but dull here today and not very warm

Don't worry about your mistake David, we all do it from time to time. My wrist is a lot better today with no more pain, so that's good.

I liked the joke you sent me Ruby, it did make me laugh.

I recorded War and Peace Ann and will watch it when Sandra has finished with all her Christmas films, I thought I'd finished recording them but noticed there is another 3 of them recording today, think they maybe the last ones. Hope so as I don't really have the time to sit and watch films every day. Sandra is enjoying it though and it's nice to have the company as she's normally in her room listening to her music most days

Pleased to hear you had a good nights sleep last night Frank, there's nothing better than sleeping in your own bed.

I've got the same idea as Ros and have decided to take the decs down today, I normally do it on twelfth night but OH is working the rest of the week apart from Thursday and we're off to mum's that day so we only have today to get it done. Then of course they'll be all the hoovering and dusting to do, so quite a busy day for me. OH has decided to touch up the paint on the bathroom, and kitchen ceilings both of them had a bit of mould on them which he cleaned off the other day with mould remover so now they are both patchy and need sorting out. The ceiling part of our bay window in the bedroom needs a bit of paint to, so he'll be busy doing that. I'm hoping there'll be enough time to do the weekly shop later and to also try and find a table for my sewing machine so I can use it.

You got a good deal on your breakdown insurance, I didn't realise you could use Tesco club card points for that, might take a look into it myself ;-) ;-)

It sounds like you've had some bad weather Mel, let's hope you don't get anymore. Have a good natter with Di getting all your gossip LOL

I had someone contact me about someone in my family tree yesterday, we were in contact last May and I'd forgotten all about it until he PM'd me saying he had lots of information he'd just found on his computer. He asked for my email address so now I'm waiting to see what he has found. It's rather strange really as there isn't a connection between our trees, we just had different people with the same name, so it's very kind of him to pass on information on my relative.

I haven't checked my emails yet so will do that now before I tackle the Christmas decorations
BBL

It's all go here. Ros has stripped the tree, and the Mantle, window sill, fire place. All boxed away which I have dispatched to their position in the garage for another year.Door swag all boxed, that has to go out now. Just the front lights to come down and we will be back to normal.

I noticed as I walked to the Drs, this morning, the number of DAFFS. Forsythia and other plants that are in bloom. At this rate we won't have any SPRING FLOWERS to look at.

Very overcast here, and who do you think has put a line of washing out. You guessed it My Neighbour. It's got as much chance of drying, than me flying to the moon !!! :-D :-D :-D

Roast Lamb, Roast potato's and parsnips, Cauli carrots peas and Brussels. I have made a Yorkshire pudding also.

Better go a sort out a bit of lunch, as I haven't had breakfast. NAUGHTY BOY !!!!

Afternoon All,

Glad you had a good sleep Frank, it always helps. Ros has soon got cracking taking the decs down. I always find the tree and all it's baubles the biggest job. That sounds an ideal bargain with your car breakdown. We have ours with Brittania rescue, discounted as we were civil servants but not as good a bargain as 'FREE'!

I had a second night of being awake till past 3.00am so feel very unlively again today. In fact we both said how lethargic and tired we feel. Still, we were up quite early and went to look at some dressing gowns and jackets for OH, first down the road and then over to Nuneaton, but there was nothing he fancied at all. :-S I was well warm in just my cardigan but OH pointed out how many people were in hats and scarves as well as coats and boots. My thermostat is definitely wonky!! lol. On the way to Nuneaton, on a busy road, a little Jack Russell was diving to the middle of the road to get at some road kill. It was obviously a youngster and was filthy as if it had been running over and rolling in the puddle strewn fields. You could hardly make it out against the muddy road. It had near misses with several vehicles but kept rushing back into the road. I would have stopped but OH was keen to get his errands done and kept going saying someone else would stop and catch it. :-S When we came home we spotted it again trotting confidently up the drive of a bungalow so don't know if it had just got out from somewhere. There is a site with a few caravans nearby so maybe it came from there.

I'm glad your wrist is pain free again now Gill. Despite having a stronger fan put in the bathroom a couple of years ago we still get some bits of mould come around the bathroom window and ceiling that end, particularly in winter. I don't know what the answer to it is really when you have the shower going every day and baths as well some days. We open the window every day as well, but it is only a small opening one in there.

We've had drizzle here today Mel so I hope we don't get your hailstones here later. Hope you've been filled in on the gossip from Di now!! lol.

I loved Ruby's joke too! :-)

Sandra said she wants me to leave the Christmas decorations up as she'll miss them and since we have a few more days left to twelfth night I've decided to leave them, save upsetting her. She loves her little tree in her room and has a routine of switching all the Christmas lights on around the bungalow, so I thought it would be nice for her to do it for another couple of days.

We've watched a Christmas film this morning and will be watching another one in a moment.

OH has finished all the painting so it looks as if we're going to have a quiet afternoon. I've not long got it from the weekly shop, but couldn't find a table suitable for my sewing machine, so I will have to take another look on Thursday when OH is off work again.

It sounds as if you're well on the way to clearing away your decs Frank. I find it looks very bare at first, until you get used to it. At least it'll be easier to dust once they are all put away :-D :-D ;-) ;-) Your meal sounds nice, I love roast lamb, it's my favourite :-)

I shall take down the last few baubles tomorrow, just leaving the lights, which will go on Wednesday which is twelfth night. You can't leave them any later than that else it's bad luck!!
Did loads of shopping today, talked to son, taken Cas for a good walk, and finished my book!

Afternoon All
Well we are all back to normal.What a jog putting everything away and findin th right boxes for baubles etc.The Wreath and outside lights are drying off in the garage.The Wreath was sodden.So one that is dry everything can go back in the loft.The dust !!! :-S :-S.One thing Iam not happy about is that the tinsel I had on my stairwell windowsill with the lights has stained the frame of the window .I am having one heck of a job to try and get it off.
Tomorrow we are going to MK to look at Suites.....Already fallen out as to how many settees /chairs etc :-S :-S..I can see it is not going to be a good day out :-S.Chris disappeared out to the Summerhouse :-D..That was good as it has given us chance to cool off..So while he was out there I set too and wrapped James's presents ready for his 30th on Saturday..He will be home from Paris tomorrow so I thought best to get it doen now.

Oh Ann ,I do hope that Abbie WILL talk to a teacher about her worries.I can understand in a way her not wanting to speak to her Grandad.She may be able to open up more to someone else not closely connected .If the teacher is concerned about what Abbie has to say then it will be their duty to get Mum and Step Dad in to discuss.He should not be barging in to her room like that especially if he is drunk.Poor girl might be very scared :-(...What does the Mum have to say about it?
I am glad though that she has you to confide in.It doesn't sound a very happy household does it :-(

Frank I bet you are feeling far more relaxed now you are back home :-D.I see you have your Chef Pinny on once more :-D

Gill does Sandra have any 'fairy lights ' in her room other than at Xmas.There are some lovely ones that can go around a headboard or just on a surface .I must admit I have kept one lot of battery lights out just in case I fancy putting them into a big Crackle Glass Bowl I have :-D

Thomas had me up at 2.30 this morning :-S..I think he had slept so much yesterday because of the rain .So I let him out then and didn't see him again until about 10am.Then he was out at 12.30 and has just come in.He can't say he hasn't had enough fresh air today.Trouble is I don't know where he goes when he is out so he might well have been having a kip somewhere lol

We had a nice day yesterday with Janice and Larry.I cooked the 3 bird roast before we went down to Fitzy and just kept it warm .Then we went for about an hour and a half .Came home and got the potaoes and veg on the go.It was really late when we ate.About 3.30 !!.But all went down a treat :-D.Janice left about 6pm.

Larry has sent me a pic of the Nature reserve he works on.It is totally flooded.I will send it on.There is nothing to see other than water !!!!!

The 5th is twelfth night and thats tomorrow.
TWELFTH NIGHT is the Eve of Epiphany, Epiphany being January 6. The early Christian Church had no festival of Christ's birth.


I have the dentist in the morning and then we will go to Lidl afterwards.

Di did'nt have any gossip today but she did tell me someone in the village died a couple of days ago and he was only our age.

Gill I used to use mums card table to put the machine on. It is one of those that has legs that fold into the top so you can store it. Mum used it for her jigsaws.

Evening all,

We saw the sun this morning and then it clouded over ,i really thought we we're in for some rain as the clouds were so black.
All decs put away that i can put away there's just the christmas tree in the box to go upstairs in the cupboard but that's to heavy for me and hubby carn't do it so it will have to stand in the hall until son can get it up the stairs for us.
Every where was so dusty and glittery and now it looks so bare every where even with things back out that had been put away .

Oh goodness Jane i had the colour come out of some tinsel last year that i laid on the tiled conservatory window sills the colour went on the plastic window frame as well as the tiles ,it took some shifting i think i tried Ciff and then a mild solution of bleach ,it was because we had some condensation on the windows which ran down onto the sills were the tinsel was, i didn't lay any there this year .

I was going to ask too Gill if Sandra has any little lights in her room through the year ,you can get some pretty ones with feathers and flowers and all sorts they'd look nice round the bedhead or round a mirror .
Have you got any second hand shops near you that you could get a little table for your sewing machine from ? you wouldn't want a very big one would you .

Oh Ann i hope the little Jack Russell was all right it must have been hungry if he was after the road kill .

So it's back to head chef for you then Frank , How did the Ham go down that you cooked in Coke ? did everyone like it ?

Nice photo of the ducks sitting on the gate Jane not nice to see that much water though .

Just had a look at the ducks too. There's a lot of water about everywhere. I just wish those that have far too much get some dry wether soon so the waters can go down a bit for them.

Mandy I won't be putting tinsel on that window sill again next year !!!!!!. Chris has chopped up our tree and got it in the recycling bin.I am so pleased now that I can't smell that very strong pine smell.I think it was making me feel quite ill :-S
Yes it all looks pretty bare here too.I will have a good dust tomorrow if we aren't too late getting back from M K.If not tomorrow it will be on Wednesday :-D.No -one will see it so I am not bothered lol

Ann ,hopefully the little dog is safe.I would be worried sick about it.But like your OH Chris would have said someone else would catch it ! :-S..The thing is what would you have done had you caught it ????.
Fingers crossed it is safe at its home now.

The reserve the Larry works on is meant to be flooded (if the river over flows) but it is pretty drastic !!!!!!!..That gate in the pic is a 5 Bar Gate leading into the reserve from the car park !

Crikey it's deep water as well at the reserve isn't it Jane. I was amused to see the ducks that would be quite happy in the water decided they preferred the gate!! lol. :-) I can't believe it will be James' 30th, where does the time go. I was trying to think back to what I was doing when I was aged 30. We'd moved into our second house a couple of months before, a chalet bungalow that an old man of 87 lived in and built for his retirement in the garden of his bigger previous house. It needed completely gutting and the garden was all overgrown with hedges all round, front and back and one 5 foot wide. The big garage was timber with a sagging roof. We did most of the work ourselves as we hadn't much money, but I can't imagine now how we found time to do it all and both work full time as well.

Mandy I still feel worried about the little dog as I thought it must be hungry to be brave enough to keep trying to get back to the road kill in the road. I will go and see if it's still around tomorrow as it's only a few miles away. OH said if I managed to catch it I wouldn't want it messing up my new car with all the mud on it, so I told him it was tiny enough to pop in the boot which is covered in my old car mats now. :-) I could then take it to the dog's home near us.

We are still dusty everywhere so I really must start some cleaning tomorrow even if I only do a couple of rooms. The washing is piling up too. :-S

Did anyone watch War and Peace last night? I thought it's shaping up very well! Mind you goodness knows how they'll concertina it all into six episodes!! Tonight a new Silent Witness, so TV looking up a bit!

Yes, we watched it Liz and thought the same. I've recorded Silent Witness but will be watching it next. OH is watching the Egypt prog instead.

When Paul Collected Abbie from school, she seemed quite happy, I think the message from me that I would call the police if his behaviour persisted hopefully put an end to it , he is at the very least a bully , Sue her mother has kept well out of the way when Paul called round. Abbie is also going to tell Jessie her cousin who she looks up to,she's 19 and the daughter of Sue's eldest sister, Jessie tells her Mum everything so that will go back to Sue's parents and her brothers.

Paul has gone back home now so its just Richard and myself now,

I watch War and Peace yesterday too. thought the same about how they are going to get it all into 6 episodes but perhaps they will do another series. Who can tell?

Anne I hope the situation can be sorted out without any trouble.

I'm dusty here too and shall have a good go through as soon as the decs are down and put away. Oh hoovered for me today before Di came so that was a help.

Signing out now so see you later tomorrow after the dentist and shopping.

BED TIME, but I thought I would pop in to say goodnight all. GOODNIGHT ALL. :-D :-D :-D