General Chat

Well I'm not happy with Asda. Sorted the subs to go back, plus a damaged item and started putting the rest away. The damaged item was on offer so I had bought two to get the offer. So I lost the offer price and when I picked up the remaining item the packet looked almost the same but ingredients were different and not something I would buy. The new website is harder to navigate and worse than the original site, but I found the refund page and clicked on it and the items the driver took back were listed, but nowhere to add further refunds. Eventually I tried 'problem with your order' and there was a refund choice on there. Confusingly it was referring to an order made on Thursday 2nd October, (I never ordered then!) so I started all over again with today's order only to find that although the order number was today's it still said 2nd October. However when I clicked on 'select item' it actually was today's order. I found the item and clicked on the reason and none of them applied and also the details box where you could explain things has been removed. If I clicked 'missing item' or 'damaged item' Asda are going to think I mean the damaged item the driver took back! I'm sure before there was a 'wrong item' option you could click. I think when my delivery pass runs out next year I shan't renew it and try another supermarket.

There once was a mouse who lived in a bed
?Of delphiniums (blue) and geraniums (red),?
And all the day long he'd a wonderful view?
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

This popped into my mind and I don't know why! It may be from Winnie the Poo.......

Afternoon All,

Lost my post earlier when OH asked me to look at something else for him so here goes again. I'm waiting for the food delivery now, 5 subs, 3 going back and one thing out of stock. OH walked up to the village shop about a mile away and came back with a few things. I decided it was too cold to fancy being in the garden so I cleaned the ensuite and hoovered through.

It was turning in bed that made me realise my arms were tender after the jabs at first. My tum was out of sorts a day or two later as well and I was just tired all the time for a few days.

As promised I will send the leaf picture later. The trees are losing leaves so fast now.

You've braved the chill and got some garden jobs done AnnG. I suppose it does seem quiet after you have been with people for a week. When I lived on my own for a long time there were some weekends when I wouldn't see anyone, but I was working so saw plenty during the week.

Vera I hope the door is looking good now with no paint where it shouldn't be.

Oh food's here.

No catastrophe AnnG - OH was calling me because he had finished the painting so he had made some coffee. So he got some brownie points today.

It's good that your daughter was able to get the flu jab Gwyn. That will help protect both of you. You certainly don't need flu after that nasty bout of pneumonia. You are right about the early mornings being so dark now and, of course, it gets dark so early in the evening as well. It's all downhill now to the shortest day. As neither of us can drive after dark now it makes our window for going out by car quite small.

Isn't it odd how every surgery has its own system with the Covid and flu jabs. Ours book us 2 appointments, one after the other, but always take us in together. Yesterday we met a friend there and she had the appointment before ours. She was delighted to find we were getting the Pfizer vaccine as she always has 24 hours of being unwell with the Moderna one.

Your poor wall does get a hammering from some of the drivers Mel. Is it a tight turn there or do they come along too fast? It's good that this one put the bricks back for you and very naughty of others not to do that. If they damage it, they should put it right.

We've just had a very nice dinner - a pot roasted beef brisket with carrots, sprouts, roast parsnips, roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding. We followed that with Trifle a la Vera. In the freezer I had a largish wedge of a failed orange sponge cake. There was also just a little drop of orange juice left in a carton, half a packet of orange jelly, about three quarters of a packet of lemon jelly and half a carton of double cream, I do hate wasting food but mixed up and arranged nicely in a bowl it looked appetising and tasted good. We had a large helping each and there is still half of it left. I don't think I am going to want much more to eat today.

I like dinners that can last two days it gives you a day off from cooking. That reminds me I need to put mince on my list as I usually buy a pack of that and I can get 4 dinners out of it 3 for the freezer and one for that night.

BIL has been again this morning and moved all the mowers up to Em's dads as his shed is'nt as damp as my garage. Now I have a lovely big space in the garage where I can put things if I wnat!! :-D :-D :-D At least I can move about in there and sort some stuff out to be thrown away.

Had my big breakfast and am now going to have a nice rest. The package came and it was my jointace I had ordered. That was good but the van driver knocked another part of the little wall around the west grass ddown. When I told him he did put the bricks back for me which none of the others have done.

Been fishing the leaves out of the pond again this morning and klater before lunch. The ones on the big Ash tree were falling like rain this morning straight down.

Brightened up a bit here but still misty in the distance .
Vera I felt very tired last night just before our meal and I wondered if it was the reaction to the flu jab infact when strickly was on I did nod off .
Just making a shepherd's pie for later and if theres some over it will do us for tomorrow too.

Hope he was not calling because of a catastrophe Vera. No dropped paint everywhere?

I have to wait until next Saturday for my jabs and am still hoping I am not going to develop the cold. siL is not fussy I notice when he coughs and sneezes and generously likes to share with the whole room and as he was coughing and sneezing a bit after we got home here ai am hoping he doesn't have the cold. It will be a misacle if I have escaped.

Good morning all

Another grey day but at least it's dry. I'm feeling just a bit off colour generally and don't know if it's a reaction to one of the jabs or the fact that I didn't sleep much because whichever side I lay on felt bruised and achy. We're all in the same boat aren't we, and it's usually only a couple of days before the soreness goes so it's grin and bear it time.

You are busy AnnG. If you've got any spare time I have a garden that could do with getting winter ready ;-) I don't think I even caught up with having it summer ready.

OH is painting the door between the utility and kitchen on the uti side. It does need it but why did he have to do it on a Sunday morning when he is expecting a full roast dinner at around 2 pm and I've got other jobs to do as well. I did tell him Tuesday might be a good day but I think he'd turned his selective hearing on.

I'm being called so I had better go and see what the lord and master wants. Will probably be back later.

8 degrees here and I have just spent half an hout out in the garden, it is garden bin day tomorrow so I have [ulled out the endo of the tomato plants and weeded the big planters and cut back the hardy fucshia down the garden it was chilly but not too bad, very dull and feels foggy too. I have left all the weeds in the gravel which are very bad now as I want Jake to treat them. At least I have made a start on getting it winter ready now. Might go out there again later.

Morning Anng and all,

Grey morning here again but dry and its 7 degrees and saying partly sunny so we will have to wait and see if the sun puts in an appearance later on.

I was awakend with the phone this morning telling me I will have a parceldelivered today but not a cluie what it is. Probably some thing I have forgotten I bought online.

I had the reminder for setting things up on the pc come on this moorning but I just clicked on remind me in three days. Then I tried to download the file about the parcel today to see what it was and I got something else come up so I crossed it out and came on here incase I lose it all again..

Morning Anng ,morning all ,

Very dull and a bit foggy here this morning not sure if we'll see any sun today ,we took the cover off the greenhouse yesterday and today we were going to take the frame apart but decided we'd do that tomorrow, it should be a dry all week so we have time to get it done .
Arms a bit tender from the jab and I could feel it in bed when I turned and laid on it .
I like Michaelmas daisies I had two in the front garden but lost them ,I really should get some more.

Mel the acorns are all done along with a little mouse and a little toadstool I've done for you they just got tucked away when I started the squares, out of sight out of mind , I will get them in the post one day this week .

Good morning all. and just like that!!!! The house is silent again. I hate these first hours when the holiday is over and they have gone home. I will recover. and the washing is in and there is a house to put back tidy.

I do miss T's Michaelmas daisies, we had loads but they got thrown when I had the first gravel done. Maybe I will get some more and put in pots for next year.

I too have had the blank screne and the instruction to log on to google. I usually just shut the PC down and open it up again.

Evening All,

I was going to post in the morning as late posts don't always get read, but I don't feel tired so here I am! It does seem weird to not be connected now we have the internet and must be more so living where you do Mel

I lost my pink Michaelmas daisies a few years ago Mel, but my dark purple ones are beginning to flower now. It was so dry in the summer and we didn't water much, mostly just enough to get the bedding plants established, so they are shorter than usual and have less flowers. I hope to divide them in the spring and plant them where they aren't shaded by a shrub to see if they will do better. I'd like to have more clumps of other colours and not double ones like this purple one as the single ones attract the butterflies. It's good your PC is back in action now. Mine did something strange today. It's happened once before where it just came up with a screen I couldn't close that said I needed to go into my google account to get an ID Key number. Ctrl + Alt+ delete didn't shut it down, so I had to do a long press on the on/off key to close it. Started it up again and it's fine again. I can just imagine Little Red allowing for the cart and keeping away from the kerb as they don't forget once they learn something. In my teens I knew a chap who was aged 84 and he told me that he worked on a farm years ago. He said after the war they had one of the horses that had been used to pull the guns/gun carrier. He told me when they first tried to use the horse for ploughing it knew two things which were to run flat out when they told it to go and to stop dead when they told it to 'whoa'.

Every time we drive out of the close now we see Squirrels collecting the acorns off the road near the end of the close. When I went to the shop the trees by the brook were really getting autumn colour. I took a photo of the leaves on one tree through the car window and will send it to see if anyone can identify what the tree is as I don't recognise it.

I see some more of you have been jabbed today. We usually book for both of us, one following the other and one year the Nurse came out and fetched us in together. This time we had appointments a few minutes apart, but went in one first then the next. I suspect with having the screens in the waiting rooms that beep and come up with your name and which room to go to, it probably hasn't been designed to take two names at once, which is why the nurse had to come and call us both the time we went in together. It could be you will get the covid one because you had pneumonia and the chest infection Mandy. Gosh you've nearly done another blanket!!

Well I've finished the food order for tomorrow, so I'm off to bed now to watch Strictly I recorded and speed through all the shrieking and suspense building!

Where's our Annx??

Don't feel like cooking so I am goingt to have beans on toast followed by something with custard..

As the sun went down there was a glow over all the garden to the east and I took the camera out but it did'nt catch the lovely warm light. It was truely magical.

Annx I have been thinking of you over the last couple of days as my pink Asters ( Michaelms daisys) are out and I wondered if yours were?

Nice to see you Gwyn and hope you and your daughter stay away from those nasty bugs now you've both had the flu jab. Not heard anything about mine yet.

Hows the blanket coming along Mandy we want to see the colours of the new one please? Any news on the acorns???

Our agapanthus don't even get fleece!
They thrive on neglect and always have managed in the spot where they are and are multiplying into several plants now from an original tiny seedling brought home from a bed and breakfast stay in Herefordshire. The owner had brought on several, so gave us one. It sits in a pot next to our neighbour's house wall, so is sheltered from any cold easterly winds.

I also had my Covid vaccine today. There was rather a queue of traffic going into town, where the surgery is, so I was glad we'd allowed plenty of time. In fact I was a bit early for my appointment, but the chap taking names at the door said it would be OK and by the time I was actually shown into a room to see a nurse, it was only a minute or two before my appointment time.
Last week, with my flu jab, I was in and out of the building within about 2 minutes.
My daughter did an e- consult to ask whether or not she qualified for the flu jab, as she lives with me and they decided she did, so she had one mid-week too, so we are all set for the winter bugs now ;-)

You went to some interesting places, AnnG. I have been to Dartmouth, Dartmouth Castle and then we took a small boat back along the river to the town. We visited Brixham too on the same holiday- very steep streets in places, if I remember right.
Although not great weather, you seemed to make good use of your time.
Aren't the mornings dark now? Today it has been gloomy all day and no sign of the sun. Without the cold wind though, it hasn't seemed too cold and it was mostly dry, but with dampness in the air a couple of times. Not enough use and it was more like light mist than rain, so no good for the southern reservoirs that are very low level, so much that parts of Sussex have called a drought this week.

I love my Agapanthus Mel but I never put them inside in the winter. I just put some fleece over them and leave them to get on with it. I wouldn't have room to bring them in anyway.

Just remembered the name, Agapanthus.

Oh and I always had ours together I would have thought you both could too Mandy.

Hoovered up more leaves off the top decking today and dead headed thingson the patio then I went down the shop and got some bits. When I parked opposit theres a huge tree stump in a garden and on it was themost amazing fairy muchroom city. I took a pic on my phone but don't know how to download pics from my phone so shall have to wait till BIL comes again or take my camera down there and take more pics.

The suns out here now and its really lovely but there is a very chilly slight breezy wind. I think I am going to go back out and do something in the garden. I need to get some room in the shed so I can put my drumstic flowers in there for the winter. Can't think of the name of them, Vera has some in pots they are blue.

Just back from getting our flu jabs ,we were early and walked up to the desk and booked in my appointment was 7 minutes past two and Colins was 10 past rwo and just as I was asking about my covid jab she called us in it was only two oclock so we never even sat down apparently the person before us never turned up ,anyway on the way out I went back to the desk and it seems when they checked I was down to have the covid jab ,they said just ask when I go in a fortnight and they could tell me why I could have it I wonder if its because i had pneumonia a few years ago and chest infection last Christmas.
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