General Chat

Evening All.

We had quite a heavy shower in the early hours, not sure it was forecast, but welcome anyway and all bone dry outside by the time we got up. OH managed to keep the dressing on all night Mandy so no extra washing thank goodness! We dropped my car at the garage in the village to have the non working window fixed and then filled OH's car up before going into the store(Sainsbury's). We got another roll of sticking plaster AnnG :-D, also some smaller plasters and dressings as well as eyedrops for me. We got the extra spare keys cut at Timsons in there. Then to collect our meds from the pharmacy (I have to go back for one of mine) then to the Co-op which is looking very sad with all the empty shelves. We remembered to go home a different way through the village where I used to live as they have the road up the usual way and traffic lights with huge queues.

The garage rang later, very apologetic to say they couldn't source the part for my car window other than a dealer part and the cost would be.......shock horror £536 to include labour!! Still so be it and it needs doing so the car should be ready tomorrow. I need it for Wednesday for my hair appointment as OH is out in his car then. This is what comes of having electric windows and other electric gadgetry. At least mechanical windows wind down if you can't open a door.

Openreach were at the end of our bit of the close today and also further up the main close, digging up the road and have put a big metal lid over something near us. I thought we might be losing our internet but no all is well.

AnnG it's surprising how the temperature can be so chilly in some parts of the house and I have been keeping a cardi or fleece handytoo.

Mel you've been busy tidying up with your strimmer. Whatever did we do before strimmers were invented, Was it hedge clippers. I used to hate doing the edges of mum and dad's big lawns with clippers as a teenager. Also helping dad with the hedges with handheld hedge clippers, no electric ones then. We just had a push mower then at first as well.

Good luck with the dentist tomorrow Vera. I hope all your plants are safely planted in the right positions now.

Mandy it sounds like you will have tomato surprises this year! The ones from Mel's seed may vary and not all breed true, as it depends where the insects have brought the pollen from to pollinate them. I expect they will all be tasty and nice though You've been busy outside getting jobs done and it's a good idea to have the box handy to get the chair cushions out when you need them.

Well according to the BBC it was going to rain here at 2pm. It has not rained yet.

Afternoon all,

Boy its hot out there ,we got out nice and early and filled some pots for the tom plants, planted quite a few and mixed them up I have no idea now which are Mels ,oh well we'll see when the tomatoes start forming .
I'm getting short on big pots so had to use two hanging baskets for the tumbling toms and I've hung them on Colins ladder on the fence ,I still have a few more to plant but ran out of compost so thats a trip to Roys again .
Keeping in now as it's really hot ,doesn't look like the rain is going to reach us looking at the weather map.

It is 21 here and feels very warm in the sun. I did a quick half hour weed having covered my face in suncream but came in when it felt too hot. garden bin gets empties tomorrow so goes out this evening. The rain over night seems to have done a bit of good as the weeds seemed to come up more easily.

Wall to wall sunshine, not a cloud anywhere and currently 23 degrees, feeling like 24. It is hot. Washing is drying almost as soon as it is hung out. If any of you ladies get rain please send some this way. We are desperate and I dread to think how the water bill is mounting up with all the watering we are doing.

It’s too hot to do any gardening but I’ve done all the washing and a few other indoor jobs as I won’t get much done in the next couple of days. We both have the dentist tomorrow morning and that’s in another town so more driving and Wednesday OH has his post op check up so we might combine that with a visit to Dunelm and Dobbies.

OH has just yelled out that lunch is ready so I’d better go.

Still cloudy/sunny here and 21 degrees.

I think we had rain over night as the plants are all wet. It is cloudy, sun now and 17 degrees. It is chilly indoors though so I have a cardi on.

Morning Ann and all,

Quite a bright moring but its clouded over a bit now and its 13 degrees here. Maps showing no rain here for today but sunshine and cloud so we'll see.

Nothing planned so I will take the day as it comes.

good morning all. already 14 degrees and sunny here at 0730. Looks like being a hot one but we are expecting thundery showers and have a yellow warning.

I have nothing planned for today so will find some indoor jobs. Garden jobs look unlikely if we get the storms. I have three lovely geums flowering in their pots and I just know that they will suffer if the rain is heavy. Not a lot I can do about that though.

I never liked the Germalene horrid pink stuff that smelt awful. When you use TCP the smell lingers forever but its good stuff and I can stand the smell of that funnily enough as you know what I am like with smells.

The afternoon ended up sunny and warm but I only managed a bit of ivy pulling off the fence in the back field behind the filter shed. Its grown through the filter shed but there's no way I can reach whats gfrowing up the actual shed.

Hope you all have a good night sleep tonight.

I actually like the smell of both those Mandy.

Oh TCP horrible smelly stuff I hated the smell of that ,I think we used Germolene and I wasn't keen on that smell either.

Talking about smells I ordered or rather son ordered some O'Keeffes working hands cream for my split thumb, it was six pound and he said did I want the scented or unscented, the unscented was six the scented was 20 pound .....14 pound for a little scented I don't think so .

Can you still get TCP? We always had that in before as long. I don’t know why we stopped buying it. My dad used to swear by it too. That very definite smell, and taste. Used to gargle with it too for a sore yhroat.

I don't know Annx what would they do without us? My oh would never have a plaster on just walk around with dried blood on his hands or fingers but if I cut myself he would insist I put something on it and TCP first too.

No Mel no rain here hardly a cloud in the sky .

Oh dear Ann good job you kept the dressings and the bleeding has stoped ,let's hope he doesn't catch it again and get it on the bedding tonight or there'll be more washing .

We sat out this afternoon in the shade as we got that new box out of the shed that we keep the chair cushions in and we now have a new padlock for it , it will save marching down to the shed each time we want a chair cushion .

Neither of us were that hungry tonight and as I hadn't planned a roast we both had a sandwich and an apple pie.

Just had a heavy shower although it didn’t last long but it smells gorgeous out there after even that short shower.

Ann :-D :-D :-D does that mean he had used up the last of the plaster. Better get a new roll tomorrow then. Hope it has stopped bleeding now.

It has come over very black and looks thundery, but no rain so far.

Afternoon All,

It's hot here today so we were up early to go to the art exhibition a few villages away. It's the first one I've been to there since the pandemic as I missed the first ones when they started up again. OH wanted to come so we went in his car. The standard is very good, but there were fewer paintings than there used to be. There was a lovely large painting of the late queen in 1953 on one wall. A photo had been blown up and divided into squares and each member of the group had painted a square each, then they had all been put together to make the big painting which looked very effective.

Well Vera I can imagine my OH doing that too! I just told him what your OH had done and he smiled but looked a bit sheepish. He has done something stupid himself today and not used his perfectly intelligent brain either. We went outside to do a bit more weeding and he found some longer loppers in the garage and was using them to cut more branches off a taller shrub. As usual he managed to injure himself by gouging the back of his hand on a cut edge of branch, so off he went inside to put a plaster on it. Well he came out a bit later with a long piece of fabric plaster wrapped from one side of his hand over his knuckles to the other side to cover a gouge the size of my small fingernail. I don't think he'd thought to cut a piece off the length of plaster. Well would he stop fiddling with his hand, flexing his fingers and pressing it till a small spot bled through. I'm sure he was convinced then that due to his blood thinners he was going to bleed to death. I pointed out that he hadn't bled to death at the dentist with an extraction, in fact he didn't bleed at all. He looked at me amazed when I asked him why he hadn't worn his leather gardening gloves that were at the side of his sun hat he'd remembered to put on. It was only yesterday, he'd pushed cuttings and twigs down in the gardening bin and the red berberis I'd trimmed back had stuck in his hands. I'd asked him then why he didn't have his gloves on. He said I should have warned him, but he usually uses the empty humper to push the twigs down in the bin. I told him he needs to get better aquainted with the Berberis that has been in the garden for at least 10 years so he should have known it was prickly. Worse is to come! After lunch he usually plays his music in the kitchen while washing up the things we need every day, the rest going in the dishwasher. He has some large rubber gloves in the drawer, but did he put them on......no! He plunged his hands and submerged the fabric plaster and the blood of course oozed through. So what does he do, he grabs first the teatowel, then hand towel, both of which were clean and I'd put out half an hour before and gets blood on them. He then goes into the bathroom and manages to get blood on his bath towel too. A woman would have used a paper towel or even toilet paper! I had to sort him out then with an out of date first aid dressing in a first aid box I keep in the car. He'd told me ages ago to throw them away, but I'd kept them saying they were better than nothing. He's been under strict instructions to not fiddle with it and keep his arm up since and it's not bled through again. So with having my nurse's hat on and doing an extra wash I never got the kitchen floor mopped or the fridge cleaned before the food delivery. He did say I was good to him, but what are they like eh! lol.

Rain did'nt last that long this morning but it seems to have freshened everything up and the leaves on the trees look more colourful.I had lunch and then pulled a bit of ivy off the fence at the end of the decking but I really need to have a good go at it as it is behind the Albertine rose its a bit hard and I can't stnd down the hwole off the deckking and get back up again easily as its quite a drop. I need a couple of breezeblocks down there to stand on.

Have I sent the rain over Mandy?.

Oh Vera, we would be a very dull lot without your OH. Please tell him not to change. Obviously he took what you said very literally. But, as you said, why didn't he question it. (Maybe he was scared to!!)

Mandy the trouble with our climate is we get all or nothing. It would be lovely to have two days of gentle steady rain then up to a week of sunshine and not much wind. But it never works like that.
You have reminded me I ought to weed outside the front fence. Trouble with that is, when Jake and his Dad put the fence up they trapped a lot of the weed roots in concrete for the posts. Why they didn't weed it fist I am not sure.