General Chat

Morning girls,

I have been on the phone this morning trying to send this parcel again and I actually did it so thats saved me a trip to the village for the post van and I have just remembered it won't be there today.

Its 7 degrees here and sunny and no wind which is a blessing as its always cold when theres wind or breeze. We did have a frost this morning.

The other thing I did'nt tell you about the pond yesterday was that I started to fill the big pond back up with the well and the well ran out so its use the tap water and thats goingf to cost me. I did a bit yesterday but turne dit off after it had filled about 5 inches and now this morning I have had to turn it on again. As we've had no rain over the last month to speak of it not filling up. I do do some silly things!!!!

Enjoy your lunch Anng and I hope you find something to buy this time out. A bit of retail therapy does you the world of good. You too Annx hope you can find a suitable shrub for the garden.

Morning AnnG and All,

Sunny and 7 degrees here so not very warm. OH has gone to a council meeting and found another suit he can wear, also a new white shirt he hadn't been able to wear, so with grey suit and tie and white shirt looked very smart and how he used to look for his full time job. He is eating more now and hasn't lost any more weight, but now has the flat tummy he used to have when I met him. (I wish I did!!! lol)

I am going to a garden centre out in the sticks that closes through the winter and is owned by another, nearer, smaller garden centre. It is more like the old nurseries with a good stock of shrubs. There is a particular, compact pink Camelia I have seen flowering in gardens just now that I would like to find if I can.

Good morning. dry here and clear sky, quite bright and 2 degrees.I don't think there was a frost though. I slept well again. Bed at 10.30, loo at 1230ish and didn't get up again until 0650.

Meeting friends today at lunch time for fish and chips at 'Ye Olde fish and chip shop' near Gloucester cathedral. Probably a quick look round town before I meet them.

Last day of march. already three months into 2025.

I had forgotten about you seeing a whie pheasant and I was trying to think what the bird was in the photograph. Lovely isn't he/she?

Just been up to put the recycling out and the white pheasent was up the side of my garden behind the old workshop. Another female close behind her so I| went past very slowly and put the bin out and came back and she was on the edge between me and Beccy next. Came back down to get my camera thinking she woul dhave gone by the time I got back up there but she had'nt so I will send the result plus the new toy in the sky and a strange cloud I saw when |I went out to see the drone flying.

I don't think it's that likely to be someone in the close AnnG as most of us are retired, elderly and incapable of lumping mattresses around. The only van in the close is Mr O's and he never uses it other than for his work with the water company. I can't imagine his houseproud wife having stained mattresses either! lol. I used old baking tins as drip trays in the greenhouse once. They eventually went rusty but could be handy to stand plants in when you go on holiday to save as much watering.

You ladies have had some nice Mother's Day gifts and the flowers will be nice and cheery. So the box is put together now then Mandy and ready to use. I like the garden bins as you can often wheel them to where you are working and put stuff straight in them. No having to put bags in the car to go to the tip either.

Mel, BIL will be able to take photos from the drone too, also do videos. :-) It's a nuisance when they change things that were working fine as you say. I expect they must be getting complaints from other customers too so I hope they soon fix it for you.

BIL did'nt stay too long this morning so when they left I decided to do the pond filter. Did my pond and it needed topping up from the well so I turned the pump on and came in to eat. I had done the big pond too and just left it as I knew it would fill the filter and that would be that one done as well. Came in and did lunch and sat and ate it and watched a bit of telly and went out for a ciggy and saw that my pond was full to the brim so turned the pump off and looked in the big pond and it was down about a foot six inches. Changed the pump over to fill the big pond and went round to the filter shed and I had only left the bottom drain tap on. It just as well I went out when I did or they would have only had about thrre foot of water left in their pond. I had checked everything but the bottom tap on the filter which let the dirty water out from cleaning the filter.

Just tried to send another parcel online and it still won't do it it maybe because its the weekend and the banks ar'nt open as they have put a 3D security thing on it now. I did manage to get the three numbers in this time which was an emprovement on the laast time I tried. As Vera said why do the change things when they were working ok before they made changes? If it ain't broke don't mend it.

Ah I see what you mean ann. Yes it needs somebody to report it it doesn't sound very nice. Wonder if it is somebody on your road that dumped them.

You are getting on well with your garden. I find little and often works. My bin is three quarters full but a lot of stuff was taken away by Jake so not in my brown bin.

I sat down the garden with a cup of tea. the sun is nice and it is OK if I can find a sheltered spot as the wind is still very cool.

Mandy that was a nice lot of presents. I am pleased with my flowers and I will probably spend daughter's money on something for the garden.

No they haven't been left outside a house front AnnG. The top of our close on the left just has a long tall fence along the back gardens of the bungalows in the next close and the field hedge is opposite along the other side of the road. I will ring the council if they aren't picked up soon as they are stained and not very nice to see. My word you have been busy with the garden and sorting in the kitchen. I need to replace a shallow round tin that just fits in the microwave and that I use on the conventional oven setting for tray bakes. I got rid of a big heavy tray that came with the cooker a little while ago. I still have some hardly used stainless steel saucepans that MIL had. They are far too heavy for me and I think she hardly used them because they were heavy.

I have done a wash and went in the garden and filled another humper with more shrub prunings. The garden bin is full now but the contents will settle with room for more in a day or two or can be pressed down. OH cut down more of the Bottle Brush and there is only a bit of it left to do now. He also did a half hour walk this morning down the remains of the Fosse Way a short distance away.

I'm waiting for the food delivery now but the hour change seems to have changed the usual delivery time as he's later than usual. Two subs this time and one will go back.

Afternoon everyone ,

Not a bad day here nice and sunny but a bit chilly in the wind .

Happy Anniversary to you both Vera I hope your having a nice relaxing day together.

Son and family came this morning with chocolates ,flowers , pink roses and a nice mug with an A Initial on for Amanda , not many people call me Amanda these days .
They stayed quite a while as he put the box together for us ,ordered a brown garden bin for us and some seeds for the garden . Oh and a new coat stand .

Anng I had a sort through my tin draw just before Christmas ,there were lots in there that I don't use very often so I put those In a cupboard in the corner but that's a cupboard that could be sorted through as I seem to put alsorts in there that "I might use one day "

Ann thats good your pleased with the fitter and July will be here before you know it ,also it gives you time for any little tweeks to be made if you change your mind about things .

Oh I wonder where your Sunday vanished too Gwyn ,its bad enough losing the hour it always seems to be a quick Sunday when the clocks go forward but I don't know why as we try to go to bed a bit earlier to make up for it , the day always whizzes fast but then so do the weeks ,nearly April already .

Mel you'll get to see all your property from above with bil's drone handy for having a look at your roof .

Ann fly tipping is disgusting. Although maybe the stuff is outside a house waiting to be picked up by the council. I know that most councils have the scheme whereby items can be collected for a charge.

I think I have finished for the day now. Potatoes all planted. two lots in potato pots and thee charlotte potatoes in the planter, a different position to where they were last year.

I have also changed the bed and washed and dried the bedding. And of course cleared out that cupboard under the oven.

I just have to go and dsort out the flowers that son had delivered.

Well that was not as hard as I expected so, another kitchen cupboard sorted and washed out and stuff put back. several bits in the bin and a collection on the dining room table waiting for me to find a home for it. Possibly it will go to Irene.

Morning All,

<3HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Vera and B <3. I hope you have a lovely day.

Thank goodness most clocks change themselves these days! I have to change my little travel alarm and still need to do my car clock and OH usually does the big lounge clock and the cooker.

Well the 2nd fitter arrived and exactly on time which was good. He was very helpful, but it seems we can't have a shower as close to the floor as we'd like, being a bungalow with concrete floors. They would have to be dug up to lower the drainage pipe and we might not get enough flow to drain the shower properly, but it can be a bit lower. Otherwise everything will be fine. He sent us a quote overnight and would be looking at July to do the work. The quote seems reasonable and he's enthusiastic. It will seem a bit disjointed as we order the materials from the shop and for the skip the day before the work starts and he does the work and organises his electrician. As I said before I think the bathroom shop is reducing and may do away with their own fitters. It saves them paying them when they aren't as busy and saves them paying sick pay and the new extra NIC employers have to start paying as well as not needing as many vehicles. I suspect more places will start doing the same. We think we are going to go with him as his price was less than expected and he seems very obliging and helpful and organised and has done a lot of the same work.

The end of our close is round a bend before an 80 yard straight bit of road with hedge one side and a high fence the other to the junction at the end. As all the bungalows are beyond the bend we can't see the end straight bit and yesterday we saw someone had fly tipped three mattresses, leaving them propped against the fence. The tip is only half a mile away as well. I hope they don't start making a habit of it!!

Gwyn I was measured for and had some of those compression stockings made for me last summer. I can't get on with mine at all as they slide down my calves despite gripping so tight they leave a deep ridge in my legs round the top. They seem too loose around the ankles where most of my swelling happens, so don't help where it is needed most either. My ankles improve during winter so I have left them off and will go back to my GP in the summer. A friend has a contraption to help put hers on, but she asked and was referred to a lymphodaema clinic and they are ordering some different ones for her. She has an infection in her leg. I am hoping doing less sitting and losing some weight will help mine.

Better get lunch started so will catch up later.

And then I fotgot to say Happy annivesary Vera.

Managed to get the actually shelf/wire tray thing back in. Some stuff already gone in the bin and some put aside for taking to Irene.

Just had some lovely flowers delivered from son.

So much for not having anything to do. ent to put away a baking tray in the pull out tray in the lower cupboard of my built in cooker and the whole tray collapsed. So I have had to empty the whole cupboard. I can well see why it collapsed I will do a tally in a moment of the number of baking trays etc, I have obviously not got rid of some of the older, hardly used very heavy trays and just put new on top. The next thing will be to work out what to do with surplus trays. But it looks like being a long mornings work.

Morning All,

Happy Anniversary Vera and Mr. Vera enjoy your day whatever you do.

Its bad enough losi g an hour let alone a day Gwyn, I wonder what happened there?

It bright and sunny and 11 degrees and no wind so as soon as I got up the phone rang. Guess who? BIL to say he and his wife would be over in 40 mins. I was'nt even dressed thinking I had the day to myself and slop about and have a nice long shower etc. Now I have to go and get ready. They said they would do it another day but BIL has brought a drone and he wants to test it in the garden and yesterday it was too windy. So I am off now to get dressedd and do my hair.

Hope the others had a good night I got up once and then went back for a lie in as nobody was coming and woke at 1015am.

See you later.

Happy Anniversary Vera and your OH.
I hope you enjoy your special day.

Ann, you've been busy sorting your clocks. How lucky that the battery went before you needed to alter the clock :-)

Daughter came down this morning and said that she could cope with losing one hour in the night, but when she looked at her phone to complete a daily puzzle that she does with her siblings, it told her that it was Monday 31st March :-S
What happened to Sunday?

Supposedly 12 degrees and mostly sunny here, but I hope the chilling wind from yesterday evening has eased or it will feel much cooler.

I hope you all have a good day, however you spend it.

good morning all. It is bright and sunny here Alexa is saying it is 8 degrees and there looks to still be a breeze so maybe a bit of gardening or maybe a lazy day. I had a realy good sleep last night. Deliberately stayed up later so the 'hour' didn't mess me up. All clocks done except the kitchen one on the wall. Went to do it and realise the battery had stopped so will do that today. At least it didn't go the day after I changed it!

Hope you are all in the same time zone (i.e.put your clocks forward!! :-D :-D :-D

I am sure you are.

Good morning

It seems to be a bright, sunny day but very windy. I haven’t put my nose outside yet to see what it feels like but weather app is saying it’s 10 degrees but feels like 4. I have no idea what I’ll be doing today. It’s our wedding anniversary but we’re not doing anything special, our plans for lunch out having gone awry.

Enjoy the day everyone.

So most of us have been in the garden today pottering about. BIL came and mowed and I went up the shop for my paper and bits and bought him a hot pasty which he ate whilst mowing the front field. I swept part of the front of the bungalow and potted up some plants and weeded my big pots of those tall things with blue flowers on long stalks. Can't think of the name at the mo!!! O Agapanthus???? One had docks and grannies bonnets growing in it so they came out of their pots which was a struggle and were put back in with a fresh bit of compost.

Having trouble with Ebay as they seem to have lost the button where you can get an invoice sent and I need to send one for three items bought by one lady.

Hope you all sleep well tonight, see you in the morning. :-D