General Chat

We’re all jabbed now, flu and Covid for both of us. Hope your flu jab went OK Mandy. It was quite pleasant walking up to the surgery and getting a bit of fresh air. The skies are still grey but it’s dry and not cold at all. It’s only just over half a mile each way so not far.

Not sure what I’m doing for the rest of the day. Once I’d showered and dried my hair, had some breakfast and tidied up a bit it was time to go to the surgery and I know I won’t feel like doing much after lunch. It might be a blob around sort of day today :-D

Morning all,

Very grey here too and I'm not sure about hanging the washing out as there's not a breath of wind .
We have our flu jabs today and I must ask about my covid jabs as there was a bit on the television the other day saying lots of people weren't eligible for the jab this year .

Anng enjoy your lunch out today.

Morning girls,

Its very grey here today too and its 10 degrees but pc says temps to plumet by Thursday.

Do enjoy your lunch out today Anng.

I have the shop to do and BIL may come over some time this wekend as he has the batteries for the mowers to deal with. He's getting them ready for the winter and they are both going up the top in Em's dad sheds as they are better than the old workshop which is drafty and damp.

Morning Ann, morning all

2 different weather apps are telling me that it is bright sunshine. My eyes are telling me it’s very grey and getting darker by the minute. Think I’ll rely on my eyes when we go out later. We’ve got our jabs this morning, one in each arm, at our local surgery so we can walk there.

Have a nice day ladies and enjoy your lunch AnnG

good morning all, very grey here 9 degrees and dry. Going to the local pub for lunch today, just a short walk up the road.

Well until Jake lifts the butt up I can’t tell if it has split so have to wait and see.

Glad you had a good journey home Anng and the traffic was'nt too bad. Shame about the water butt but I am sure your lovely Jake will sort something for you when he comes.

Annx when I had Little Red at the age of three he was only broken to pull a cart. After breaking him in to me riding him when we went out on the roads he would always walk 3' from the curb allowing for the cart. We would start off next to the curb and then I would look down and we were 3' out again.

My man would never read instructuions either it must be a male thing but having said that I hate instructions too and read one bit go on to the next bit and have forgotten the first bit!!

So Mandy a nice clean chimney to start of the cold season. It so good when a man can do lots of little jobs around the house. I like the colours Chelsea chose too. Always liked grey and pink together.

Well I better start getting myself something to eat as I am quite hungry tonight.

Not read the posts yet but BIL has got me back on the pc.

He mowed the grass today and then came and looked at the pc did loads of looking and said he could'nt find out why it was'nt connecting and then went into the antivirus and clicked on default settings or something and we are now back in but how long for I don't know.

I have done both pond filters today but my special hose in the filter shed is broken and leaking all over the floor so I had to l;ug the garden hose round there and use that.

I am so pleased to be back in contact with you lotand thank you all so much for being my friends. xxxx :-D :-D :-D :-D

I'm glad you had a good journey home without holdups AnnG. That week seems to have flown by! Shame about your water butt stand, but as you say I bet Jake will fix something for you. At least the water butt didn't split or crack.

Oh Vera there's no hope then as you've already tried detailed instructions for your OH and even hung them where the garden tools are. Still my first and 2nd OHs never bothered with instructions for anything unless they had to!

Your GD is quite intrepid isn't she. I wouldn't fancy driving something so big to the vet's with a horse in either. It's a good idea to lead a young horse out with older, sensible ones they will watch, copy and learn from. I had one mare and she lived up to the reputation some mares have of being a bit moody and fickle! She certainly would let me know she didn't like her girth done up no matter how slowly and gently I did it. I had a foal straight from the Welsh Mountain annual sales at age 16 and he hadn't been touched, so was a real handful at first. I vowed if I ever had a bigger horse I would have someone else to break it to riding. My word you must have been surprised your OH had his appointment for his scan come through so quickly! :-)

Mandy you sounded like me when I put our old sheets with brown stains on we used as dust sheets out to dry on the fence out of sight, so I thought, and then the windowcleaner came and walked right past them. :-( I think it's nice how you and your son and family chip in and help each other. You've reminded me the remote on my car seems sluggish opening the boot. It probably needs a new battery as it's still using the original that's ten years old.

It’s a nothing sort of day today, no sun, no wind, not much of anything but cloud. I washed another big duvet cover and hung it on the line but when I brought it in a little while ago it had hardly dried at all so it’s now in the tumble dryer. I might just as well have put it in the dryer in the first place.

Mel, do you have a computer company nearby or just a local man who deals with computers? If you have I would contact them and ask them to look at your pc. You might get it done more quickly than waiting on friends or neighbours to help you. I know this sounds silly but I assume you have checked that everything is plugged in properly. A friend of mine had a nice young man on the phone for ages trying to help her work out why something wasn’t operating properly on her pc. At one point he told her to look at the back of the hub for something and that’s when she discovered that she must have knocked something out of place when dusting. She felt very silly telling him but he was charming about it.

I hope you are safely home now AnnG. Is your daughter and sil staying with you for the weekend?

Your son is a good handyman Mandy. He seems to be very practical and able to turn his hand to most things. He must be a real asset to the school. By the time you have finished all the blankets you’ll be all “squared out”. I like the sound of the colours Chelsea has chosen.

I hope OH doesn’t have to wait too long for the appointment to find out the results of his scan Annx. My OH had a phone call from the memory specialist nurse this morning to say the consultant wanted him to have a brain scan and he would get an appointment in due course. Blow me, at lunchtime the post came and there was his appointment for 31st October but I did laugh at the instructions which told him not to wear an underwired bra! I don’t think he had any plans to do that, lol. As for making a plan of the garden, been there, done that, got the T-shirt and it didn’t work. When we first laid out our garden there was a plan but I also drew up a table which showed the name of every plant, where it was, when it flowered, when it had to be pruned or cut back or split up etc. It went onto several pages but it was split into sections so easy to find things. I hung it on a cupboard containing a lot of the gardening tools. I don’t think he looked at it once.

I had a long chat via WhatsApp texting with granddaughter last night. Her horse was sent away for some proper professional training as gd had taken her on completely unbroken. She is generally very good but apparently can be a bit of a diva. However, she is still a young horse. As to the cancer, she had sarcoids and had chemotherapy for them. Gd has driven a car for about 3 years but to get her horse to and from the vet she had to learn to drive a 3.5 ton truck with an animal inside. I wouldn’t fancy that.

It's clearly my week for receiving videos and photos. Gd in Hong Kong today sent me various photos and a short video of her singing on stage so I just need the youngest of son’s 3 girls to send me something now and I’ll have the full set.

Dinner is all prepared and won’t take long to cook. I fancy a cup of tea right now so I’m off to boil the kettle. I might even treat myself to a ginger crunch cream biscuit or two. Enjoy the evening and sleep well tonight everyone.

mel. maybe BiL doesn't feel he is capable of fixing the PC as it seems to keep having problems. Is it old, maybe a new one would be a good idea.

I can't understand why you keep losing posts on the Ipad though. I was using my Ipad all week when away and it didn't keep losing posts.

Journey home was fine. Traffic was not too bad until after Brdgewater when it thickened up and was them fairly heavy until we left the M5 nearly home. No hold ups though.

While I was away the contraption holding up my water butt collapsed and the butt is now empty and on its side so that is something to ask Jake if they can fix it.

Chimney all swept and I've got all dusted and hoovered , son got about half a small bucket of soot so not to bad, he also put a new battery in my car remote, put the joiner on the dishwasher pipe and sorted the front camera which had stopped doing a full record it hasn't worked properly since the CID came to get some recordings so I think it might have been them that mucked it up but all sorted now.

Ann I hope OH doesn't have to wait to long for the results of his MRI scan .
I'm getting on with Laceys blanket just 6 more aquares to do ,I did ask Chelsea what colours she wanted for hers and she said White,Grey and two shades of pink so I might buy the wool tomorrow so I can start her squares while I'm sewing Laceys together .

Mel perhaps bil is a bit worried he might make the problem worse on your PC ,didn't you say Ed would look at it.

It's lovely and warm in the sunshine, I have two old sheets on the line that we laid over the carpet ,I hope no-one thinks they are off the bed as one has a hole in it.

What's wrong with it Mel? Can you even get into it with your password? Is the screen blank?

Been in the garden all morning sweeping the leaves off the decking so he can no them up. sived one lot of mealworms and sorted another lot of nice big ones for Robby.

I have to send in bits and pieces as I keep losing the posts.

Yes still on ipad thing. Bro in law is here and mowing. Asked him about the pc but he dos,my seem to want to know and keeps telling me new ones are cheaper now. He doesn't seem to want to do oh,s for me either.

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Afternoon All,

I hope it's a good journey home AnnG. I know Fridays can be busy with commuters on some roads on a Friday.

Vera it sounds like your grandaughter's horse is being exercised with some lungeing if she's been longreined doing circles. I bet your granddaughter is looking forward to and excited at thoughts of hacking with her. I think your OH needs you to do a map of your garden you can make photocopies of and hand him one marked with what is to be planted/moved and to where. Come to think of it, I should have done one for my OH too!

It will be a good job done getting your chimney swept now Mandy before it gets colder and I hope it doesn't make much mess. How are you doing now with the other blankets?

OH has been for his MRI scan this morning that the NHS rheumatologist wanted. I wonder how long he will have to wait now for the appointment to see him with the results.

Are you still on your Ipad Mel?

Morning girls,

Grey and chilly here this morning but dry.

Is it today you come home Anng? If it is I hope you have a good journey.

Did you all sleep well?

Morning Anng, morning all,

Bright and sunny but a bit fresh out ,I nipped out to the shed to get the things in for son to sweep the chimney, he'll be here early so we want yo be ready for him .

Safe journey home Anng hope the traffic isn't to bad should be a dry day for travelling.

Just having my cuppa then I'll get on .

Good morning all, up early to check out, first up so I get to empty the dish washer :-D