General Chat

Ah hat was disappointing, there I was thinking there was another epistle from Vera and it was a repeat. Wonder what caused that then Vera, how odd. Sorted now though.

Well that seemed to have worked out ok then Vera but I do think we may have all read it. Must have been a gremlin in the works.

I have picked 3 more toms today and 4 oz of short beans and three cues. Not up to Mandy's amount but I only have one cue plant. I have had 7 off it so far I think I ate three and BIL had one and the three I picked today and there's still one that needs picking really.I must take one up to Aaron as he came down at lunchtime and said he was going to cut more of the dead tree up up the top tomorrow. I did give him more eating apples as he said his little daughter enjoyed them.

I do not know what was wrong with that post. Knowing it was a long post I had typed it in Word and done a c&p. It wasn't as simple as resting my hand on the space bar Mel. I was on our main computer with a large keyboard and I am a touch typist (though a lot slower these days). It wouldn't have been easy to touch the space bar for it to create that much of a blank. However, I did waste an hour this morning trying to edit it out and nothing I did would get rid of the blank space. So.......I have deleted it but I will c&p it again in case anyone hasn't seen it and wonders what the ice cream queue was all about. Here goes:

Good evening all

Another stupid, sleepless night. I think my body has actually adjusted itself to sleeping from 5 to 8 am. As long as I can more or less function during the day I'll just have to put up with it.

I hope your telephone conversation with the rheumatologist was helpful Gwyn. Are you completely recovered from your pneumonia now?

I got two wash loads on the line and a third was in the machine when down came the rain so it was a race to get it back indoors again before it got drenched. The car was collected half an hour early. OH told the chap who was taking it to the workshop several miles away and also put a note in the car to say that we would like them to replace the driver's side wing mirror. We just hoped they wouldn't have to order one in from Sweden (the car is a Volvo). Apparently they rang late afternoon to say service and MOT were complete and all fine and they were getting a wing mirror in from another branch and it would be with them tomorrow. So we are hoping to get the car back late tomorrow.

Our handyman was unable to come to look at painting our fence and give us a quote as he had misunderstood what he could do after his mini stroke. Apparently he can drive from today but has to be accompanied. He reckons he'll be able to come to us in a week or so. So, yet another delay.

This afternoon my lift picked me up and we went for tea and scones to the friend who was 80 yesterday. There were about 15 of us there. As we arrived we met the birthday girl's closest friend on the doorstep and she asked us not to leave before 5 as she had arranged a surprise. She told us what it was and recruited us to try and quietly stop anyone else going before 5 without telling them why. My goodness it was windy in that garden. We had to take down the sunshades and parasols as it was getting dangerous but we only had some spitty, spotty rain so we stayed outside. We all started with a glass of fizz, with a choice of alcoholic or non-alcoholic, then lots of chat and laughter before helping ourselves to some really delicious scones with butter, jam and clotted cream, raspberries and strawberries, tea and coffee. More chat and just after 5 pm the dog barked and raced to the back gate - the surprise had arrived. Everyone was asked to step outside and there was a Mr Whippy ice cream van with a very jolly gentleman attendant. It caused a lot of laughter. Birthday girl was presented with a large tub of soft ice cream with 4 candles stuck in it and a magnum type ice to put in her freezer for later in the evening. Then we all got to choose anything we fancied I just had a small cone . I laughed at the expressions on the faces of a few passers by when they realised the van was surrounded by all these elderly people with not a child in sight.

I got back just after 6 pm and I was very glad I had prepared a chicken salad before I went out. Tomorrow's another busy day as I must do some h/w and I have a Tesco delivery. Then friends are coming in the afternoon for a cuppa.

Fingers crossed for a good night for all of us so that we all wake up bright eyed and bushy tailed

Shopping came and I ordered the three snack boxes as they are ideal for puting overs in. They came but with only one lid for the three boxes. What a bl**dy nuisance.

Morning girls,

What a great afternoon Vera had yesterday it sounded really good with the icecream wagon coming and the ladies all queing up. I think Vera must have put her hand on the space bar and thats why the post came out with a long blank bit but if she could go back and edit the post it should be ok.

Shopping comes today and I woke late so I am all behind. I was up at 5.25 for the loo and went back to bed and fell asleep again till just past 9am.

Could have trying to find the end of the Mr whippy queue :-D

must have been something in the ice cream Mandy

Morning all,

Suns shining but it's still quite windy .

Well I honestly thought I had posted yesterday , I wondered what was going on after Vera's post such a long blank bit wonder why that was .
That must have been fun having the ice cream van turn up ,I haven't a Mr whippy for years ,loved them with the flakes in , I bet everyone wondered what the queue was all about with the ladies all waiting giggling and laughing.

Good morning all. 13 degrees and sunny and the wind has dropped. slept ok, still got up 3 times but sometimes I think I don;t really need the loo my brain just thinks my legs need a walk,

I don't know what has happened to the thread as I only get blank pages after Vera's nice long post. the afternoon 'party' sounds to have been a success Vera and the ice cream van will have been a great surprise. :-D

The rest of the thread seems ok just this huge gap after Vera's post. hopefully it will adjust itself.

No everywhere is just the same as it was this morning as I got sidetracked on minitures and the dust will still be there tomorrow even if it is a bit thicker. I did take the bin up for recycling this morning but I hav'nt even fetched that in yet. Its good they have halved oh's statin what was his reading for his colesterol?

I am about to do a meal for one beef stew and dumplings with broccoli.

Evening All,

Windy and showery here today but not too bad. OH went to the docs this morning as his BP checks I do showed him to be quite low for a while and the physio nurse he saw yesterday agreed. He's been taken off one tablet and has been put on half the statin dose he was on before, after he asked about that as well, with a blood test needed after 3 months. We did the big shop run after as I forgot to order any milk with my Asda order. After we unloaded everything at home we went to Topps Tiles down the road as I wanted to see what you can get these days. I did like some of the tiles that look like wooden boards. It's good there as they don't pester you and you can browse at your leisure.

I hope you heard the rheumatologist's call Gwyn and it was good news. I never thought before about the trees with leaves being more easily blown down. I hope you are feeling a lot better now.

We had a salad lunch and I pulled a few weeds and we put the recycling bin out and have just sat in the conservatory reading this afternoon. We've left the cardboard boxes till the tip opens again on Thursday as we didn't want the garage door open with the heavy rain.

I hope you sleep better tonight Vera. I checked out the spider and it was a black house spider that has a nasty bite that can cause swelling and nausea. I would happily pick spiders up as a child, but not now! We used to get those jumping spiders years ago. They lived on the Cordyline outside the window and came in through the window air vents. I didn't like those and they disappeared once the Cordylines went. I didn't know about that system at major horse sales and it sounds like the auctioneer benefits from the £5. It's lucky you managed to get a couple of those chairs and folding chairs are always handy and fit in the car easily. I hope the car passes with flying colours and doesn't involve extra expense. You have a busy time lately.

It's our bin day tomorrow too AnnG and OH put it out between the showers. I wish we still had Sparrows like we used to. I wonter why the disappeared.

Is everywhere spick and span inside now Mel? It sounds like you got a nice amount of backberries with the plum.

Still windy hoping it will died down a bit soon as, of course, it is bin day tomorrow and they have to go out this evening. No rain though.

Its been windy here too but its died down a bit at the moment. Still rianing 19 degrees and pc says rain stopping in 1.5 hours.

We have had a shower here, but not much. It is very windy though so our share of the storm I assume, I have just been watching the sparrows out there and have added it to the bird thread on the hobbies board.

It was sunnyish for a bit and I tool the recycling box up and on the way back I picked a little trug full of blackberries and one plum. Now its raining.

Morning girls,

Grey day here this morning but dry so far and its 18 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy. Must ring the library and renew my books. Remind me please as they don't open till 2pm on a Monday.

Nice to see you pop in Gwyn and I hope your test go ok and that you can hear him.

Need to do some housework today as the place is in more mess than usual.

Quite a mild pleasant morning here and dry.
We might escape the fury of storm Floris being so far south, but I feel sorry for people in northern parts.
The trouble with high winds at this time of year is that trees are in full-leaf, so more potential chance for many to be uprooted :-|

A morning of this and that, then later waiting for an expected telephone appointment with rheumotologist following our recent meeting and subsequent blood tests.
I hope I can hear him!.

Good morning all 17 degrees and a bit grey this morning. mo rain yet though.

Nothing planned for today. I made three cards yesterday, Just ordinary birthday cards for my box of cards as stocks were running low. So maybe I will make some more today. I have just put a wash load in so there is that too to do.

Spiders in the bed - ugh. I'm not at all surprised you wanted to be rid of it Annx. I chased a big one all round my bedroom recently and eventually got it in a tooth mug with a tissue held over the top. But I'm a bit of a softie at heart and couldn't have killed it so late at night I toddled downstairs and unlocked the back door, trotted outside and shook it out of the mug on to the garden. You mentioned horse sales and guineas recently. I think at the major sales horses are still priced in guineas but there is an odd system in place. It's difficult to describe but as an example and using an easy round figure - if the horse goes for 100 guineas the buyer pays the equivalent in pounds i.e. £105 but the seller gets the number of guineas as pounds i.e. £100 so he loses out a bit. I bet that's now as clear as mud.

Mel, how can you go all day without eating? I'd be very droopy if I didn't have something at breakfast time and lunch time.

It was another bad night for me so least said about that the better. I don't seem to have achieved much today. After I had showered, washed and dried my hair and had some muesli we popped to Sainsbury's. A friend told me they had some fold up camping type chairs for sale at a cheap price. As the mice we had in the garage a while ago had managed to eat through the two we had I wanted another couple. They only had 4 left so I was glad I didn't leave it any longer. They are nowhere near the quality of the ones the mice demolished but you get what you pay for and they were only £14 for 2. They only get used very occasionally when we are asked to take garden chairs to a party or event and they will be fine for that.

After a snack lunch we went to our friends for an afternoon cuppa and didn't get back from there till well turned 5 and I still had to get our meal ready. Anyway we've now eaten and cleared up.

Tomorrow will be busy as the car is going in for a service and MOT. It will be collected at around 9 am. It's an old car now (2008) so I expect something will need replacing or repairing. I'm just hoping we don't have to wait for a part to be ordered in as that might mean we're left carless for a while. Also at 9 am our handyman is coming to quote for painting our garden fence. Then I am out in the afternoon for tea and scones and cake with one of our group who is celebrating her 80th birthday today. She lives the other side of town but luckily I've been offered a lift.

At the family 'do' at my daughter's last weekend a cousin showed me a couple of family group photos and asked if I could date them and say where they were taken. I've narrowed it down to 1994 or 1996 and to 2 possible locations so I am now going to enjoy myself for an hour or two going through some old photo albums to see if I have any photos that would help me pin it down.

Mel as I said in my post they are having trouble with refunds they are trying to sort out that may take 72 hours. I have often asked for and been given refunds before with no problem before the change. I am going to try but can't now as there isn't even a place to ask for a refund on the site at the moment. It might be because the order doesn't even show it's been delivered yet online and that hasn't happened before. They said in an email before doing the update to the site there may be problems. We prefer the Longley cottage cheese to the Asda one too. I see you've been busy sorting cupboards. I have things I'm sure I won't ever use again, but am trying to get rid of more as they are just taking up space I could use for things I do need. Some things I haven't used for years and doubt I ever will, but there's that bit of me that seems to think I might do and have to rush out and replace them.

AnnG ......students, that is a likely reason and it hadn't occurred to me.