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Gosh that sounds strange Mandy. Never heard anything like that before.

I have been in the shed all day making table arrangements got two done and one started but now I have to do the tatoes for tonight. BBL.

Oh Vera sorry to hear your back is still bad hope you can get a better night's sleep tonight .

I have been and got some antibiotics got to take two today and then one a day so fingers cross they help .
Quite strange how I have to take them ,a full glass of water but in an upright position and not let the sun on my skin and no sunbeds

Afternoon all

Sorry to hear you are still poorly Mandy and hope your docs can give you something to help.

I’m also sorry I haven’t posted for a couple of days. I’m OK, apart from not sleeping and my back playing me up a lot this week. However, there is a lot going on at the moment and things are a bit hectic.. By the time I’ve been free to post it’s been late at night and I have been too tired. I have just caught up on everybody’s posts so I know what you have been up to.

We had heavy rain and strong winds during the night. It stopped early morning and has been dry since, We’ve even had a few gleams of sunshine but the wind is bitter cold. I’ve got half an hour free so I’m off to prepare a dinner for tonight and crush a load of digestives to make the base of a couple of cheesecakes that I am hoping to get made in the morning.

Rang the docs and they are full they suggested I go to boots ,did that and they said I need to go back to docs as they think it might be a chest infection , rang docs again and she has triaged me and will get back to me after getting advice ,hopefully they can give me something

Morning all,

Lovely sunny day here but very chilly ,I don't have any energy this cold seems to have drained me again .
Son called in with Lewis's new bike he's stored it in our shed until Christmas eve.
Chelsea came later she had been and had her nails done ,they are so pretty all white with little white flowers on ,they cost an arm and a leg but good old dad paid she knows just how to get round her dad lol

Enjoy your stew tonight Mel ,I think stew is better the second day .

Yes hope Vera's OK I expect she's just busy .

As I posted the heavens opened to hailstones they're bouncing off the windowsills but its still bright.

Morning all,

Its quite bright at the mo but how long wildl it last as pc is saying rain on Saturday and it says 6 degrees and l;ight rain today.

I have to finish of the stew today and make some colcannon mash I have also a savoy cabbage and I will make dough boys.

I have to do some things for the shop and mums and Oh's graves so thats going to keep me busy today.

Hope Vera's ok as we did'nt hear from her yesterday. Hope she's just been busy.... <3

The stoat is also brown but it has a black end on its tail. It turns white in winter and that the pelts on the Emine robes of the Royals. Just think how many it took to edge those robes!!

You aked what time I went to bed last night it was 2.10am. Naughty girl but I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

You'll have to keep your camera with you if the Stoat and Weasel are becoming visitors Mel. I thought Stoats had bushy tails but not sure? I watched a lovely film of a family of Stoats once and they were playing with each other and racing about so fast.. It sounds like Stu has a busy social life! Like you say, the irish stew will be fine to have tomorrow. All of our berries on the Holly have gone now and I saw a Blackbird in the Berberis this morning in a right thicket of the thorns, but it saw me and flew away. That only has just a few berries left. I've recorded Stacey Solomon's craft prog tonight and also The Dog House which I love to watch.

I wonder what Vera's Secret Santa presents turned out to be? I haven't had a Secret Santa present since I was at work and it was called a bran tub! Once I had a Rupert Scarf and I remember one year getting black socks with Robins on to wear to my Tap Dancing evening class!! lol. We used to draw a name from a hat and buy for that person.

I keep meaning to say I had a little Weasel on the bird table two days ago. I had put a bit of ham fat on there so think he may have gone up there to eat that. Hazel up the top said she had one who used to look in all the cracks in the stonework behind her pond and she had a little vole that lived there but she had'nt seen that lately so she thinks Weasel has had that for dinner. It was a darkish beige with a beautiful cream tummy and qhite a busy tail for a Weasel so it could have been a youngster. It saw me and I could'nt make out what it was at first and it spun around and shot off the bird table into the box hedge.

Its so annoying when that happens Annx. I have worn the e out on my keyboard and when BIL goes on it he can't find the e. It looks like an I now. The D is wearing out too but all the other keys are fine. O no I have just noticed the R looks like a P.

I lost the sound on my pc on Saturday and was so cross I could'nt find out what I had done so rang Em but her hubby was in Brighton at a rugby thing with there eldest sun. Em said soemthing about on hers she presses the F!! or F12 and gets in that way. Tried that and it did'nt work. I then looked hard at the keyboard and noticed some buttons on the top I never use and low and behold I must have touched one of those when moving the keyboard to dust the desk and bingo I had sound again. Silly old woman I thought to myself. :-(

Stu is not coming tonight as he has a date. Someone he knew 10 years ago has split from her hubby and he is seeing her tonight and Friday night so he's coming tomorrow. I had the lamb out of the freezer so had to make the Irish stew and I can probably have it tonight and there will be enough for the two of us tomorrow too. I may not do potatoes just some dumplings.

Needless to say with all that ringing and waiting to be rung back I hav'nt got any flower arrangements done. I have start one and wired 12 bunches of holly berries (plastic ones as the birds ate mine in the cold spell) I even put plastic ones in the church advent ring as last year a mouse ate all the berries off the ring and nobody noticed but me.

I think I could do with a cuppa and a crumpet now amd maybe make some bows.

Morning All,

It poured with rain here last night and was raining when OH got up to shower and go to a meeting, but it had stopped when I got up. Now the sun is actually out. I've been to the shop and there seems to be less staff every time I go. I said to the manager that he seemed to be doing 2 people's jobs rushing around and he said he has to check in the food the lorries deliver, serve and fill the shelves as well as other things as well as split his time between 2 stores now. He said if he complained or didn't do it though they would just get someone else who would. I never see the handyman there now who used to clean the floors and weed the carpark, sweep the paths and clip the hedges. Everyone is making cuts. My art magazine I have is being amalgamated with another they publish.

Mel OH has warned me last night that both the DM and Telegraph have given a slamming report of Strike, so he told me not to get my hopes up! As you seem to have enjoyed it we'll have to see when we watch it over Christmas. Yes I record Canon Farm and the Yorkshire vet as I like the Greens. Sometimes they seem to add in a special episode. I watch Canon Farm videos on FB too.

It's horrid when you get a bunged up nose like that AnnG and it isn't surprising your operation has narrowed the nostril. I have always had trouble with breathing through my nose properly, especially at night and think I breathe through my mouth more, which I know isn't good. I must have narrow nostrils! My worst nightmare scenario is being robbed and left bound up and that gaffer tape stuck across my mouth as I'm sure I'd suffocate! I suppose some of that Vick may help at night too.

I'm a bit fed up with getting meals just now, and fitting round OH's times of being out as it makes it difficult to get on with things I want to do, so the slow cooker is going on shortly to do a chicken stew for tomorrow and I'll freeze half for next week with rice and we'll have a salmon traybake today. I have to be in in the morning for someone to drive here to deliver this ipad he needs to have, as he's out. Sometimes I feel as if I've replaced his PA .Still mustn't grumble as he runs me about when he can.

After a lot of googling I managed to find some drivers needed updating on my laptop and tentatively did that but it still hasn't cured the numbers that stick on my laptop. I've already tried shaking it upside down in case it was crumbs under them but itmade no difference. I rang someone in the village who does repairs but they can't look at it till the New Year now, but after a chat about it he thinks it may need new parts. I wish I'd kept my old seperate keyboard to my old PC now as he said plugging that in to see if it worked would have helped. I'm going to have to change my PIN to one without the tricky numbers too before it gets any worse and I won't be able get in at all. :-S

Is that series or episodes Mel? We watched the latest of the latest series last night. What time did you go to bed?

There is a glimpse of the sun here at the moment. It is still windy but, despite a 60mph weather warning it is not that strong.

Morning all,

Blustery here too the sun has peeped through but we've had a little rain as the ground is wet ,we were late waking up this morning it was half past eight and I woke with a start now I feel all behind we're usually up by quarter to eight .

Ann have you tried olbas oil just drop a few drops on a tissue and it soon clears your head ,hope you soon feel better its rotten to have this at Christmas.

Gwyn thank you for your pretty card it came this morning .

Poor you Anng I hope you feel better later on and get rid of the cold for Christmas. Enjoy your three year old today.

Good morning all. Blustery and dark again here.not going out though as having three year old this morning and repacking this afternoon..

Glad you found your bin relatively quickly Ann. It is a pain when that happens. I am quite fortunate, our bin men do seem to return bins more or less where they belong.

It was 2am before I got to sleep last night, then I woke again for the loo. The cold has exacerbated the stuffiness I have had since the op so I found it hard to breath

Morning all,

Dull and grey as usual but the sun did try to put in an appearance but it ooks wet out there now. Pc says expect light rain by 13.00 and its 12 degrees now.

I must get ht emeat out of the freezer for tonight. I forgot to do it yesterday evening.

I'm a naughty girl I watched all of the Strike programs last night 2, 3, and 4. I just had to . Each time it ended I wanted to know what happened next.

I watch all the Cannon farm programs. I love the tiny goats and the shire horses. I don't have trouble with dustbins as we don't have one just put the bag out. I don't have a garden bin and I don't use the food waste bin as the chickens eat anything I leave or I cook all the peeling and dtuff for them.

I don't know if you know but you can see all the episodes of Strike on Iplayer. I'm watching the second one now.

Hope you sleep better tonight Annx and everyone else have a good night.

The same thing used to happen with another neighbour like that Mandy and we used to keep our bin clean by using bin bags and he didn't!! We've always had the house number on our bins. We didn't know where our bin was until he put it out the next time and it was a right dirty, smelly mess inside by then! It's happened a few times that he just takes whatever bin they leave near his bungalow without looking at the number on it, but OH has gone and asked him to check since and now when OH hears the bin men he usually nips out and checks we have our right bin and brings it in straightaway, Sods law this morning that he had a lie in and Mrs O (or her OH) took our bin!

I noticed that Canon Farm was on too and will be watching! It's such a well run place with all the animals well fed with clean beds and the 2 brothers are good.

Yes Mel Colin had a sore throat a couple of days after me , the Covonia we've only started today ,we had a cough mixture for a tickly cough first and the honey and lemon but the coughs a bit chesty now ,I asked in the chemist and Covonia was what they recommended.

Ann thats naughty Mrs O taking your bin ,I bet she would have just used it even though it had your number on , one of our neighbours took our bin but just went and swapped it over ,his bin was mucky and ours we keep clean so no way was I going to use his and he had our nice clean one to muck up, we've now put big numbers on the top so it shows quite clearly who's it is but the bin men who come now are very good putting the bins back where they need to go .
I haven't seen any of Kirsty yet but I have recorded them .
It's Christmas on the farm tonight at 9 o'clock on channel 5 we like that .