General Chat

Morning all,

Nice dry bright sunny morning but a bit fresh out ,I have some washing to go out and then I'm having a relaxing day .

Anng I'm really stumped on all your photos so it will be interesting to hear what the devil they are .

Vera safe journey to the coast, hope you enjoy your break away with your daughter.

Mel I hope you get the car today ,I expect Stu will go over it and make sure its OK for you .

Ann hope OH doesn't come down with something just as your jabs are booked
A lot of the curtains I've seen have the holes in to go on poles but I just need the pleat ones for the bedroom .
We do have poles in the lounge but I still have the pleat ones on hooks on the rings of ths poles .

Gwyn I hope your test result are good when you hear ,these forms are sent to try us ,things just seem to get harder to do as you age , years ago we wouldn't have had any trouble trying to fill them in.

Soon be coffee time but I need to get my washing out ,I've just looked up and it's now gone over very cloudy ,do I hung out or not :-S

Morning all,

Woke early for the loo at 7am something and went back for a lie in but did'nt fall asleep again. It rained here last night quite heavily before I went to bed.

Its quite a nice bright morning here and its 11 degrees and pc says partly sunny so I hope it stays dry and brightish today for our journey to Newton Abbot. we are leaving about 4pm. I'm quite excited but I shall be sorry to see my dear old friend go as she's been good to me over the years.

Anng did you all have to take three photos to the meeting the other day ?

Better get showered as I have someone coming for eggs this morning and I have to speak to a neighbour whose been away in Scotland who messaged me this morning.

Good morning all bright here now but looks as though we had a shower over night. I seem to be in a wake up every 2 hours pattern but went through until 7am so didn't do too badly

Friend is coming at 11 o'clock to help with the vivo box. so better get on and have breakfast soon.

I will probably put the second lot of photos up later as Vera has not got time to study them. Strangely the one everybody in the photo group got first seems to be the hardest and the one nobody got there seemed easiest here but maybe it is the difference between a large and small screen.

Vera enjoy your two days away. I am just starting sorting all the stuff I need to take for the week. Daughter and son in law can never understand why I always have a bag full of 'extra' things I need while away. And all they have is a small case and their medication, although SiL who is older does always have a small rucsac with all sorts in it. Daughter also always manages with fewer clothes than me.

It's a quick hallo and goodbye from me tonight. I slept very badly and we have had such a hectic day with all sorts of things happening. I even managed to mislay a credit card so had to waste a lot of time looking for it. I was on the point of ringing the card company to cancel it when I decided to have one more look and found it.

AnnG I haven't even found time to have a proper look at your mystery photos but I'm not good at recognising bits of objects. It's something to do with my spatial awareness which is not good.

Annx, granddaughter is confident and resourceful but organised? No, she can be quite scatterbrained. When she said she was going to Hong Kong the first thing I said was "Look after your passport". When I have more time I'll tell you a saga about F and her passport.

Mel, I hope you like the car tomorrow. It looks pretty good and I expect Stu will give it the once-over.

I hope your scan results are what you would wish Gwyn and hope everyone else is OK. I'm off now to finish sorting out what we need to take away with us. It's only for a couple of days but we still need to take all our meds and washing gear and I haven't yet sorted those out.

The car looks good Mel and has plenty of room for the chicken feed etc. It should do you nicely so I hope you find it good to drive.

I've felt tired this afternoon so have done very little. OH didn't bother going to see the last half of a second match like he sometimes does and seemed a bit sniffly so I hope he isn't getting a cold as it is our jabs next week.

I haven't seen any curtains online at Dunelm in pinchpleats and blackout in the size I want that I fancy, so I will look around at some more on line.

Did you like it when you saw it mel? Looks good for its age and a good run around as you don't need it for long distances. did you ask how long before the new tyrew is needed?


Ann you got 2 of the three. Well done. Mel was really quick at getting all three.

If you go on here you can see the car.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/vauxhall/vauxhall-meriva-mpv-2015-manual-1598-cc-5-doors/1503501812

If you go on here you can see the car.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/vauxhall/vauxhall-meriva-mpv-2015-manual-1598-cc-5-doors/1503501812

I don't know yet what time we are going to leave but Stu said he would message me.

BIL turned up this morning to do something with the petrol he keeps here for the mowers so I asked him to pop me up the shop[ and I actually got the parcel sent today. That reminds me I shall have to tell Trudy its now gone. I forgot to take the card to post to my sister in law for her wedding anniversary but the postie came late and I managed to catch him so that now gone. I am now up to date with all the post so thats another thing I don't have to worry about.

Dos'nt it make you cross when you get yourself into something so you can take a delivery and then they say is not coming on that day. It happened to me a little while ago and being right off the road I have to make sure I don't go up the top or into next door for a chat etc.

I was cleaning inside the shed when BIL turned up and hav'nt managed to get back out there yet and I want to wash my hair before its dark so I may just go out and wipe the windowsills over. I have swept up all the cobwebs and dead flies or whats left of dead flies as Jenny and Robby go in and eat most of them. I should be ready to do my Advent ring for the church and the two rings I do for oh and a friend up in the village and then maybe some Christmas table decs for the shop.

Afternoon All,

It was chilly and overcast this morning, but the sun's out now and it's 16 degrees. I've bunged some of the old dust sheets in the washer to do tomorrow as the forecast is dry for the start of the week. I popped to the shop but was back in time for the Evri delivery slot as OH was out. After an hour into the delivery slot I got an email to say they wouldn't be delivering today! What a nuisance, as I daren't do any gardening in case I didn't hear them. Still there's always plenty to do inside.

Good to see you Gwyn, but I see you have had another scan so I hope the results will be good. A lot of forms seems to have too small boxes for the answers don't they. OH had his appointment for another MRI scan come yesterday for about a fortnight's time. They told him a fortnight ago when he phoned for an update that it would be months yet so he was pleased.

When I think of chinese food I think of chicken feet Vera. :-D I do like sweet and sour dishes and chicken chow mein though. I haven't really ventured into much else. OH likes some indian curries but I only remember liking Lamb Balti we sometimes used to have. I had quite a few Indian colleagues at work and they would often bring food in for us like bhajis. They would insist they were 'mild' to try and convince me, but often I would have streaming eyes and reach for a glass of water to douse my burning throat. I think they did it on purpose, although they would tuck in themselves with no reaction.

It's great your granddaughter is using her time in Honkong to explore the area when she can too Vera and to make the most of her time there. She sounds a very resourceful and organised young lady.

I didn't do well with your photos AnnG and could only get the middle one. I bet everyone at you meeting enjoyed the guessing though.

Fingers crossed all will be good with the car tomorrow Mel. I bet you can't wait to see it. Is it in the morning that you are going?

A beautiful sunny day for us in the south east corner.
I haven't been out yet, so can't comment on the temperature, but I think having bright sunshine lifts one anyway.
Thank you for the 'before' photos Ann.
I think I've got the first one and possibly the 3rd, but need to take another look.

Nothing exciting planned. We will go shopping for some stewing steak or similar to put in the slow cooker later. We have plenty of various root vegetables and I don't like to waste them. It takes a bit of prepping, but we make enough for at least 2 days, so it is time well spent.

Another scan during this last week.
The questionaire beforehand wanted all sorts of medical history including any operations. The nurse filling in the form said it meant ever, so I started to tell her. When we got to the 3rd one, she said "Are there many more?" as she only had a small box approximately one and a half inches by half an inch. :-0
I've had 4 in total, but I'm sure some people will have had many more.
This was at a building in the grounds of our main hospital, but not actually NHS, so may be they don't have access to full notes of people they see on behalf of NHS.
The respiratory team at the hospital will chase up the results, so I'll have to wait to hear from them.

Morning all,

Nice sunny morning and the tablet says its14 degrees but it feels a lot colder out than 14 .

Well I'm stumped on all of them Anng but I'll keep looking .

Well done Mel got them all.

Have sent a message Anng.

Think I have it now.

I know the first one Anng and possibley the second but my pc won't load the third one.

Morning all,

Overcast here this morning andnot nice afyer thed ;ovely mornings we've had lately so I suppose we've lost the nice spell and its back to dreary skies and rain.
Its 11 degrees and pc says heavy rain.

Woke in the dark for the loo and could'nt get back to sleep so just lay there for a while.

Vera I suppose being frozen it may not have looked like salmon at first glance but they doput some strange things on labels nowadays just to cover themselves.

Must make a coffee.

Good morning all. It is 10 degrees here this morning so a bit warmer than recently but is quite grey. no rain or wind though. slept fitfully but probably had enough sleep all together.
Going to spend today checking saved programmes to make sure nothing I saved will be a problem once lost. Some things will have been recorded a long time ago because I wanted to keep them but unfortunately modern technology doesn't believe in forever.
Vera the 'quiz' went well. It was not competitive. There were some photos that we just couldn't get what they were. Very clever.
I will send out my before photos so that you can see is you can guess

99 cucumbers now Mandy. Wouldn't it be good if you could find another one and then you could boast about reaching a century. Yes, the electrical shop were very good and found us lights that were the right diameter to fit in the existing round holes. It still took OH most of the day to fit them as he had to work through the top of the wall units and there wasn't much room between the top of the cupboards and the ceiling. He also had to rewire them as they had been so badly done in the first place that he said we were lucky we hadn't had a fire.

It's good that a friend can help you with the Tivo box AnnG. I am hoping that when daughter brings us back on Tuesday she will have time to help us put our TV right as we are having trouble getting it started. Once it's woken up and got into the channel we want it's fine. As it was her TV originally and she knows more about this sort of technology than we do I am hoping she can sort it for us. How was your photo quiz?

Annx, granddaughter won't have any problem liking the food as son has brought his 3 girls up eating a very cosmopolitan diet from babyhood. They all cook and quite often make Thai food at home. Her problem might be that she is vegetarian. I don't know whether the Chinese have much vegetarian cuisine or not. Something else for me to google now. I am sure she'll pick up a smattering of Chinese but I believe it is a difficult language as so much relies on the intonation in your voice. When I spoke to son recently he said that she was feeling cross. Apparently she had 3 days off and planned to fly to Korea but she hadn't yet received her salary so couldn't afford it. I did ask why she wanted to go to Korea and he said she plans to travel all round the area, going somewhere every time she gets a break. As you can tell she is a confident young lady.

I checked on my blood test results on the NHS app this afternoon and everything appears normal and needing no further action apart from one of the cholesterol readings. Overall my cholesterol is fine but the reading for the so-called "good" cholesterol was very high. Next to it were some abbreviations that I couldn't get my head round and then it said "Appointment to discuss?" so whether I will hear from the surgery or not is anyone's guess.. They did, however, ring this afternoon and say that the clinical pharmacist wants me to have another bp review, this time with a specialist nurse. It doesn't seem to be particularly urgent so I've asked if I can see her at our local surgery rather than keep going into town but she is only there from time to time.. They offered me 17th Oct. which is the day my cataract is being done so I'm now going to see her on 24th Oct.

We had a lovely piece of salmon tonight that I bought ready frozen a few weeks ago at a farm shop. The label made me laugh. It said "Two pieces Salmon Fillet. Allergy advice: contains fish". I know the producers have to cover themselves but I would be very miffed if my salmon didn't contain fish.

I'm feeling quite tired now so I think it's time to shut the computer down and have a quiet read of my book. Have a good night everyone.

Evening all,

We haven't seen as much sun today and that's made it feel a lot cooler ,I did get all the bedding dry as there was a little wind blowing .
I have cleared all the cucumber pots to one side of the greenhouse and moved some of my tomatos plants in , blow me when I moved a cucumber pot there was another cucumber on a little bit of stalk behind the pot so 99 cucumbers.

Oh I hope the car is OK for you when you go on Sunday Mel you'll be glad to get mobile again .

Ann hope you can find some curtains you like in Dunelm it would save making them, I need some new curtains for the front bedroom but we keep forgetting to measure them ,in the spring we're going to get new blinds for the two bathrooms and the kitchen .

That's good you've got the new light fitting Vera sounds as if this place was more helpful than the first place they must have somebody there with more experience .
As Ann said I expect your granddaughter will pick up a bit of Chinese while she's out there ,I hope she's enjoying her new job .

We haven't had the heating on yet, we usually light the woodburner but we haven't had that going yet as we're waiting for son to sweep the chimney first.

Tomorrow I need to give my oven a clean its not to bad as I've been using the airfryer and the slowcooker more than the oven .