General Chat

Morning all,

Cloudy here but I think it should be brighter later ,shopping day and we have one or two other places to go too so a busy morning.

Vera I'm glad your beginning to feel better after that funny turn it must have a bit worrying for you , have a nice rest today after your trip out to the coffee meet.

Ann I hope your arms not to achey after your jab ,did you have both covid and flu jabs .

Anng if I'm not on later have a safe journey tomorrow and a nice break away with your family .

Better get ready to go shopping.

Good morning all grey here but not cold 10 degrees and I was hot in the night and threw back covers. Weird weather.
Pleased that you are feeling better Vera hope your legs ease soon, I know how achy legs feel.
thank you for good wishes, we know we are going to have a wet and windy journey tomorrow and a wet Saturday, but that is life and at least we go expecting it, not expecting hot weather.

Hairdresser today but at least I will get a lift there.

Good morning

It’s not a bad morning, cloudy and 10 degrees. I don’t think we will see much sun today but it is supposed to stay dry and the temperature might get up to 20 this afternoon. I had a reasonable sleep last night. I did get very hot in the night and had to throw off the cellular blanket which I had put over my summer weight duvet.

Mel, I had forgotten the numbness I used to get with migraine until you mentioned it. I haven’t had that for a long while. Half my face used to go numb and sometimes my arm on that side. I’m feeling a bit better today, my legs still don’t want to function but I can walk normally even though I’m slow and achy still. The brain fog has more or less disappeared too.

I don’t really have any plans for the day. I might pop in to our Thursday coffee meeting but I won’t be staying. I just want to drop off a present to the girl whose birthday lunch I should have been attending yesterday and a card for one of the men whose birthday is today.

In case I don’t get on the thread before you leave tomorrow, AnnG, I wish you a safe journey and a happy holiday.

I seemj to have done a lot of nothing today. I did go to Stu's as I said before and I have got all the banking sorted for taking down the post van tomorrow. I have cooked mash pots for tonights dinner and some left over for the freezer and cooked runner ( the last of them) and sprouts. Some for tomorow and some for tonight. I'm having mince and mash with the sprouts. I have got the meat out for tomorrow when Stu comes and done a bit of sorting and chucking away done the dustbin and thats about it.

Vera that sounded a nasty turn you had and it could have been migrain connected. When I used to get them sometimes half my body would go numb or one arm. I never had headaches with mine but did start with a fuzzy spsot that got bigger till I could only see the one thing I was looking at. I used to lie on the bed with my head hanging over the side near the floor in a darkened room.

Hope your arms are not too achey Annx. Iv'e not heard when mine is yet.

Right dinners ready so I hope you all have a good nights sleep and feel refreshed in the morning.

Daughter and SiL are here now, they wanted a rest day between travel days. We go Friday.

Vera that sounds strange, hope it didn’t spoil the break for you all. I wonder if it might be a good idea to check with your surgery if it could have been a migraine.

Ann hope the arm is not too bad.

Glad the dentist didn't find any work to do AnnG. I hope your legs soon recover from the walk.

Vera that sounded like an unpleasant exerience on your walk. I just mentioned it to OH and he agreed that migraines can affect your whole body and cause strange things. He used to get a strange sensation happen years ago, but not so often now where he would be walking along and suddenly lurch forward and duck his head as he had a sensation of a weight being on his head and that he would lose balance. He never did get an answer as to what might be the cause. It was a good idea to miss the birthday do today though and take it a bit easy. The easy weeder gift you got sounds like a good gift for the Secret Santa.

Mel couldn't you get at least half a dozen banking envelopes at a time to save you having to make more trips if they run out? My bank is a building society so the Post Office won't deal with my cheques to pay in.

My shoulders are aching a bit now after the jabs.

We had another lovely day yesterday, although I had a strange “funny turn”. It was more overcast and a bit cooler than Monday but dry and quite pleasant. We went to Felbrigg Hall which is only 5 minutes drive from where we were staying, arriving at 10 am when they opened. The house didn’t open till midday but there are gardens and parkland to explore. There is a very large walled garden and we spent a lot of time in there. Then we started off across a field to find a church and a lake shown on the map. Suddenly. I couldn’t walk normally. My body from the waist up was leaning over to my right while my feet were trying to walk to the left. Talk about having a list to port; it was most peculiar. If I tried to make myself straighten up I got terrible pains from the waist to my ankles. OH and daughter wanted to shove me in the car and hurtle back but I was determined to enjoy my few days till we had to leave. We made it to the church with OH making sure he hung on to me and kept me upright and daughter carrying my bag.

I decided the lake would be a step too far. I could see a path straight across the field to the house, cafe, shop etc so we took that and got something to eat and drink at the cafe and I took a couple of my migraine pills which did help a bit. A Quick Look in the shops with daughter helping me and where I bought a book and a Secret Santa present of a “Speedy Weeder” and we drove home. We got back about 5.30. Daughter had a coffee and then dashed away again as she had to be at Witham at 7.30 pm.

The iPad insists on putting Quick Look with capital letters. I have retyped it with a lower case q and l 3 times and each time the iPad has changed it so I’ve given up and it wins.

I am more upright today but still don’t feel very good and am wondering if it was a strange form of migraine. I still have some pains in my legs and my head is foggy and migraine can do strange things to your body. I was supposed to be at a birthday lunch today but cried off as I just couldn’t face it, particularly as I would be driving and didn’t feel I was very safe.

I think that’s enough looking at the screen for today so this is your odd friend signing off and wishing you a good, sleep filled night.

Our bins have to be out by 6 am so they go out the night before as well. The bin lorries can’t or won’t come up our narrow, private road so we have to wheel the bins down to the recreation ground at the end of the road and line them up there. First person around after the bin lorry has been brings everyone’s back It can be a real pain if the weather is bad and you’re going up and down for 6 bins.

I hope your jabs this morning are not making your arms ache too much Annx. Yes, parking at the doctors’ surgery is a bit of a nightmare. I try to go to our local surgery if I can as I can walk there but if I have to go to the main one in town I go into the pay car park at Roy’s and then walk through town.

AnnG, I’m glad your dental visit went OK and Cynth could take you. You’ll be off on your hollibobs in a couple of days. Does your daughter arrive tomorrow? By the way our car with the gear change on the steering column was also a Renault.

Mandy, Holt does have some lovely independent shops. I nearly bought a dress there too. I like dresses but I’m not a standard fitting so usually have to buy skirt and top outfits. This dress would have been just right for me and I really liked it but then I found out the price and decided I didn’t like it that much.

I’ll be back later but am going to do a couple of other jobs now so I’ll post this in case I lose it.

Ooops, I came back to do another post and found I had forgotten to send this one. My head is full of cotton wool at the moment.

I glad yu got to the sentist ok with Cynth and hope you enjoyed the wlk home even though your legs ache.

I went to the post van this morning and they had the banking envelopes so I got two for me and two for Stu. Then I went round to Stu's to ask him for a paying in slip and said I would pay it in the van in the morning. He had his Wayfare cheque sop I said I'd put that in for him too. He looked and looked for a paying in book through two cupboards and two drawers and after a while he found on ewith his old address on it but I said that was ok as long as I had the sort code and account number which he knew off by heart. So thats another job for tomorrow now.

The sun came out about 10am and its been nice and sunny since.

I always put my bin out on a Wednesday night as our bin men come at some rediculous hour in the morning. They come once a fortnight. This week I have sorted a few nmore things to throw away so its quite full this time. Still not put the recykling bin out and it must be three weeks now.

Had two eggs this morning and putting one in the egg tray I smashing the end in so I may make a cake this afternoon.

I put my bins out the night before.

Dentist was ok. Just the deep clean to be done now, as he only works one day a week he gets really booked up and because I have commitments as well, the next appointment for one side of the deep clean is 12 November, and that was the last appointment on that day.

Yes our surgery car park gets full. There is a dedicated Doctors car park which is always overflowing.

Anyway, Cynth took me round to the dentist and I walked back. Legs are sore now.

Morning All,

We were up with the lark to be showered and at the surgery for our jabs at 7.30am! The nurses must be starting earlier this year as we've been among the first at 8.30 am before. We thought being so early we would sail the couple of miles to the surgery, but there was more traffic than ever to hold us up queuing. We'd thought parking at the surgery would be easier too, but only two spaces were left. Karen, the nurse doing our jabs, was in a tizzy about the new rules from today and was already behind. My right arm is starting to feel a bit stiff in the shoulder and that was the covid jab she said normally causes less aches than the flu one. We came home, had our pills then went for the coffee and cob deal down the road and called in the shop. When we got home I hoovered through and tidied the bedroom ready for the wardrobe man coming. Blow me, he then rang to say he couldn't come as his child had to be fetched from school as she'd fallen. He's coming tomorrow afternoon now. These things can't be helped but it is hard to make other plans when things get cancelled and then another day is disrupted. Friday the blind man is here fitting rails and the blind.

It's stopped now but was raining here earlier AnnG which I didn't expect. Too wet to do anything outside though, so I am doing paperwork just now. OH is happy as the cattle in the field have gone, so he can walk across there now without having eyes in the back of his head! Good luck with your dental appointment.

We tend to put our bin out the night before now as well Mandy unless it's very blowy. To think the binmen used to come round the back of your house to carry your bin on their backs and then carry it back again. No rules about what you put in it either. Now it has to be put at the kerb and have the handles facing the road, but they don't put it back there.

Our parking at the surgery got worse when they needed spaces for more doctors, due to so many deciding to work part time. When it's busy people have to queue at the entrance till another patient drives out of a space. I feel so sorry for the very elderly with all these rules. It must be very confusing and put some off seeing a doctor. One very old lady with a stick walked in and didn't know how to use the booking in screens and another patient in the queue waiting to book in helped her and then explained how the big screens in the waiting room would tell her when it was her turn and which room to go to.

I hope you are bright eyed and bushy tailed after your good sleep Mel. I think AnnG is right that your mind was relaxed now you are sorted with a car.

Morning all

Very grey here this morning 13 degrees not sure if we'll see any sun today .

Ann our binmen were here at 6.15 this morning ,they use to say have your bin out by 7 but if you do that you'd miss having it emptied so we've always put ours out the day before .
All this change at the doctors ,I wonder if we'll ever see a doctor again ,we've no idea how many doctors we have at the surgery but every time we drop our prescriptions in the car park is always half empty ,years ago it was hard to get a parking spot .

Sounds as if Vera's enjoying her break ,Holt is a lovely little town with nice shops thats where I bought my dress for sons wedding .

Just my cup of tea so better get some jobs done

Good morning all in a new month. Mel maybe the worry over the car had gone from your brain which is why you slept well.
It is very grey here but already 12 degrees.

I have my least favourite occupation this morning, a dentist appointment. Just a check up, the cleaning will come later on.

Morning all,

A very misty moisty morning here today it is 10 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy.

Don't knw if Stu is coming today or tomorrow I am hoping it will be tomorrow as I know he has a clinic to go to today.

Slept really well last night went straight off and woke once for the loo.

Afternoon All,

It's been sunny here all day with few clouds and was quite warm by lunchtime. I was fast asleep but OH said the binmen were here at 6.30am! I bet some people had to rush out with their bins. Then the windowcleaner arrived with his sidekick at 7.45am!! I hope he didn't think the old, stained sheets drying on the fence that I use as dust sheets were off our bed!! He should have been here on Monday and it's very difficult knowing when to shower when you neither know what day he will come or even how early in the ,morning he might come now. He told OH he only does a day and a half a week now himself (he is in his 70s) and he seems to pop in some houses for a coffee so doesn't do much of the cleaning when he does come now. A chap who is a windowcleaner knocked on our door and left his card in the summer, so we might try him as he seemed ok and his price was reasonable.

Yes wasn't it good when we got power steering. Dad had big cars, a Vauxhall Cresta in 1963 followed by a Vauxhall Ventora and Triumph 2000 PI and I would drive them to the bank in the city on Thursdays and drive up the winding, narrow ramp into the multi storey carpark. On a hot day it would be exhausting parking them. It was the first multi storey car park in the city and the winding ramp was closed in with perspex like a tunnel. Then when people were waiting and queuing on it to drive down out onto the busy road again, some were passing out with the trapped car fumes and they had to take the perspex roof off it. As with many cars from the 50s, the Austin A35 van I drove when I was 17 had no syncromesh on first gear and a local boy I knew taught me to double declutch so I didn't have to stop to go into first gear. ( he worked at the motor racing chap Roger Clark's parents' garage.) Dad's cars all had 3 speed column gear changes and bench seats, but first OH's Austin A55 had a 4 speed column change which took a bit of getting used to. For reverse you you pulled the end of the lever out and inch or so, lifted it up and pushed it right forward in the raised position. My friend's mum's Renault R8 had the gearstick high up coming from the dashboard next to the steering wheel.

Mel you were very lucky being given a car by your parents. I never actually had a car to call my own till around 1988.

Yes rust ruined many a nice car AnnG. We had a new lovely Simca Rallye in 1975. It had black leather bucket seats, unusually disc brakes all round for that time and a slick gearbox made under licence from Porsche. We even paid for it to be sprayed underneath with rust protection, but it still went rusty and the firm that sprayed it had gone bust by then!

I'm not keen on this new way of making Drs appointments that starts tomorrow and having to wait for them to ring you back/contact you with your appointment within 24 hours. How on earth can you plan your day or the next day till they ring you back. I read that a doctor has to wait to triage all the calls for the day to decide who needs to be seen or not and whether by a nurse, doctor or pharmacist. If they phone, then some people could be driving or be in a meeting and couldn't answer. If they just text an appointment it may not be convenient so you have to contact them a second time in order to change it.

Vera, a friend who has friends in Norfolk often visits Holt too and likes it. It sounds as if you are enjoying yourselves and lovely to spend some time with your daughter knowing she can be 'herself' with you. I think the two little rescue dogs sound a brilliant idea and I look forward to hearing about them.

I forgot to say I had four subs this week, all ok but a lot for me.

Shoppings been no subs. The suns tryiung to shine.

Yes Mel you are right about the rover 2000 not having power steering We had several of them but they were all OH's and I rarely drove them, however in 1990 I acquired one myself and couldn't wait to get rid of it which I did in 1982

Morning Anng and all,

Its 8 degrees here and a misty moisty morning and pc says expect rain on Friday. O its just gone up to 9 degrees.

Transfering stuff from the old girl into the new girl today and cleaning its windows its also shopping day.

When the shopping has come I shall attempt to post the parcels again at the shop as the post van dos'nt come on a Tuesday. Its good being able to post them in the hsop as the van only comes 4 days a week and the hsops open 7 days a week but not long on Saturday and Sunday.

I had mum and dads old Zephur 4 when they bought the Rover 2000 and that had a bench seat in the front and column change but the gears were really easy. I used to driuve the Rover but it was like driving a tank it was so heavy on the steering. No power assisted then.

Good morning all bright here and 6 degrees now. A small load of washing in as I am trying to keep on top of it before going away. Slept reasonable well, just packing sorting to do today.

Vera, in the 70s I had a new car (I think it might have been a Renault), It really worried me that we bought it despite the fact it had the gears on the steering column. I loved that car and loved the gear change, never ever had a problem with it, Was sad to have to get ris of it when it had a rusty sub frame. that was the problem of older cars in those days. After that I had a Vauxhall Viva which I never got on with, hated it.