General Chat

Good morning all. Up early to be ready for the garage door tea. Should be 8 to9 but I bet now I am up it will be 9.
Not a good nights sleep as I expected with the alarm set.

5 degrees here and still very dark. I don’t think it is raining.

The last pic was of the right recipe and I have had some of those for tea with butter and lemon curd. The big one is the wrong mixture and should last the birds about 4 days. I'll let you know.

Have a lovely couple of days with your granddaughter Vera and it will be nie to finally meet him. We won't worry now we know it may be a couple of days before we hear from you again. Have a wonderful time. <3

I am now going to watch Miss Austin and Call the Midwife.

Night night all see you in the morning.

I hope you have an enjoyable time with your Granddaughter and her boyfriend Vera. It will be interesting to meet him for the first time.

Mel I thought your pancakes still looked edible if not the right taste! The birds won't mind their offering and I'm glad I'm not the only one to have 'disasters' like that.

That sure is a large pancake Mel.
Vera enjoy your special time with Granddaughter and her boyfriend. I hope all goes well for you.

Another quick post from me. I don’t know where the day has gone. I have been trying to do 3 days work in one as I want to spend my time with granddaughter while she’s here and not be doing other things. I haven’t seen F for well over a year and have never met the boyfriend even though they have been together for over 3 years. The first time we were due to meet he had to suddenly fly home to his family in Ireland and last time we were to meet up my OH went down with a bout of food poisoning so we’re all hoping it’s third time lucky.

We woke to a very heavy frost this morning which took a long while to clear. It has been a lovely sunny day but pretty cold. At the moment the BBC weather app says it’s 0 degrees and going down overnight to -3. The app that is on my Apple iPad says it’s 3 degrees and going down to -1. I wonder why the difference.

I probably won’t be posting tomorrow and maybe not on Tuesday so I hope you all have good days with garage door fitting and medical issues

The fence is'nt really fixed now but its stANDING UP at least. Pc is telling me rainn on Tuesday. Its been dry all day and we did get a little brightness for a while.

What a todo with the Scotch Pancakes. I read the wrpong recipe to start with so I had too much flour, I had put in 8 oz instead of 6 but I had all the other ingredience in there and tried to do a couple and they were horrid. First I had to put in 1/2 teaspoon of cream of tartar and 1 of bicarb and a pinch of salt. Still readng the other recipe I pout in a teaspoon of salt so tried to take it out but must have taken the other stuff out too. I had to start all over again and I now have a huge plate full of pancakes. I did'nt know where to chuck the other mixture but I think I may cook it in one and cut it up for the birds.

A disarster of a day and a waste of milk egg and flour. Iv'e not eaten anything much yet either just a couple of the pancakes to see if they were alright.

Afternoon All,

Seems a bit warmer today with a little sunshine.

It's a jolt in OH's car too AnnG! Both of our cars have cruise control too and the speed limiter, but we've never got round to using them. Even when OH did so much mileage he never bothered with them. It's the feeling you've lost control like Mandy said. I wish I had electrically heated wing mirrors though for when it's frosty. I'd even be grateful for a rear windscreen wiper on mine!

AnnG they were much quicker than I expected when they fitted our new garage door. It will be good to get it done. It's a shame you need a new desk top as well, but a new one should be reliable and last well. OH has hundeds of CDs, not many are my taste though. You got quite a bit done in the garden if you've half filled your bin.

Mandy I bet Jake is excited to be learning to drive. I remember I couldn't wait to have the freedom of going where I wanted to visit my friends, as my parents had moved house to the country a couple of years before and I hardly saw them since. I bet the meat Jake gets from the butchers is very good.

It's good you are getting more eggs again Mel and handy they lay different coloured eggs so you can tell which are laying. Is the fence fixed now?

Just went out for another ten minutes to cut a bit more off the buddleia. 8 degrees here now.

You've done well in the garden Ann. Its too cold out there today for me to go out and do anything. I am just going to make some drop scones so I can have them for tea.

Yes Mandy but hopefully both will see me out.??

I am sorting through the hoard of CDs in this house, keeping the ones I like and some can go to Irene for charity. It is annoying though when I find empty cases. T has probably had those in his car and they will have been left there.

I have just spent an hour in the garden. It is a beautiful day, I didn’t even need a coat, just had a sweater on. I have got a half full brown bin now for Tuesday.

Morning all,

Dry this morning and Iv'e not been up long so don't know if there was a frost. Iv'e had another nose bleed, not one that runs but when I blow my nose it starts. Iv'e put my cream up it as the doc told me but I think the dates run out so I better ask for some more.

Mandy I have 5 girls altogether, three white ones the newer ones and two old black ones. They are not laying but they must be 6 or 7 years od. I maybe will get a couple of brown eggs in the summer. The white ones lay either white or greeny blue eggs.

Morning Anng, morning all,

Blue sky and sunshine here but very frosty the cars really covered in frost .

Not a lot happening here today ,we like to have lazy Sundays then do jobs the rest of the week .

Anng your having an expensive time with having to pay for a garage door and a new Pc thats an early start for you tomorrow but once its done you have the rest of ths day to do what you want .

Oh Mel thats a nice lot of eggs each day from the girls now ,Colin asked how many girls you have now but I couldn't remember .

I will have to set the alarm tomorrow as they are coming between 8am and 9 am!

Good morning all lovely sunny morning out there but only 3 degrees

I slept well last night from 11 until 5 then dozed off and on until 8.

Nothing planned for today. Will have to be up earlier tomorrow as they are coming with the new garage door.

Has Jake driven a car before? I do hope he gets on ok. He'll love it and it will make him so much more independant once he has passed his test.

Oh's Audi had cruise control which is very handy on places where this is a long speed limit. It also had heated seats which was lovely in the very cold weather.

Had my picky salad and througherly enjoyed it with a slice of bread to mop up the juices.

Hope the op went off ok and he gets on alright at home. I did'nt know they could replace discs. Yes the girls are laying better now and I am getting three eggs some days.

T’s Lexus had cruise control but none of the other gizmos. Son in law’s car has the lane adjuster it is quite disconcerting sitting in the back if it corrects the car as it is a real jolt usually only happens on the motorway if the lanes are narrow.

I'll set an extra place Mel what time will you be here lol

Yes the lift will be handy for getting the ironing upstairs.

Another thing on sons car is he can set the speed ,say thirty and he can take his foot off the accelerator and then as soon as he puts his foot on it again it takes it off and he's got control again ,I must say I wasn't keen when he did that ,it was like he didn't have control of the car .
The hairdressers husband should have been operated on about lunch time today ,they wanted him on his feet tonight and he should be home tomorrow, what about coming home that quick after an op like that ,he said he could only sit for twenty minutes but he could lay but not bend down

I keep meaning to say Jake has his first driving lesson this coming Tuesday.

I have two tiny snow drops in flower I noticed them yesterday.

You and OH have been busy today getting the HW done Vera. Your OH's dusting sounds much like my OH, but it still helps as you say.Thank you for the info about those tablets. OH wasn't taking enough of the painkillers, as he is like me and takes as few as he can.

Yes I will get more used to OH's car controls the more I drive it, but I hate driving in the city now. I worked in the city for nearly 40 years, going in most weekdays, but the volume and speed of the traffic nowadays isn't pleasant and the signage and road markings are poor. What other city has a bus lane going down the middle of a road or a cycle lane between two car lanes? I suppose it's getting the same elsewhere though.

This car is the same Mandy and AnnG. My old car has 6 gears and I can cope with that as just 1 thing, but OH's car tries to pull you back if you start to change lanes as it thinks you are fallling asleep! It beeps if you are anywhere near a speed camera (handy), more beeps if it thinks you are close to anything. What is useful is that it displays the speed limit where you are on a clear screen in front of you together with the speed you are doing. I expect most new cars are the same now. I'm sure I read somewhere that garages can't sell them unless they have speed limiters on now that slow the car down if it exceeds the speed limits.

That's good you got the stair lift fixed in place Mandy. It's there for whenever it's needed now and you can use it to take things up or downstairs too. ;-) Lewis will probably want to try it out! I hope all goes well for your hairdresser's husband's op after hobbling so long.

Are your Snowdrops in flower Mel? My few are looking good.

I'm cming to dinner with you tomorrow Mandy as thats my favorite. YOu will be able to put all your ironing n the stair lift so it takes it upstairs for you and other thigns too I expect.

I have been watching you tube and got carried away with the parrots. They are so funny and reminded me of the one I had years ago, my Captain. He talked in my voice and my hubby's voice and my sons. He would say Hello when I answered the phone and many other things. He is buried up the top garden.

Must get something to eat as I had'nt realised what the time was. May do a salad as I have some nice ham and cottage cheese, cerlery and toms and I can just pick at it.

Evening all

I'm here Mel had a busy couple of days yesterday was hair cut day ,should have been next week but hairdressers husband has gone into hospital today to gave an op on his back poor chap has been hobbling for a year now since hurting his back and he's having new discs put in .
Today we had the stair lift put in ,lovely chap ,he explained everything so clearly and Colin had a couple of goes on it to get the hang of it

Vera it sound a nice resting place for your daughters partner and how nice that the helicopter went over just at that time .
Glad you got the electric back on ,did you ever find out what took it off .

Ann, I don't think I could drive a new car with the stop and start and the handbrake that comes on automatically, when I get in sons car there in front of you is all these lights and a camera showing you the back view of the car and then there's all the pipping when he reverses and it gets quicker the nearer he gets to whatever he's reversing up to ,then there's the six gears and cruise control lol

Anng well done sorting out the CD players leads ,it's so satisfying when you can do something like that ,you'll be able to play a few cd's now .

Mel are the girls laying better now and did you get the fence sorted out in the end .

Oh Gwyn I did look at the fat quarters but I already have so many in my stash I had to reluctantly pass them by but I did get four balls of wool :-D even though I have lots of those too :-D

It was an easy meal tonight Pizza and chips, we haven't had pizza for ages ,tomorrow we have a nice piece of topside from Jakes butchers .