General Chat

Afternoon all,

Blue sky and sunshine here today but it's very cold out ,I've only been out to the bin as I'm trying to keep in the warm ,we have a nice fire goings so its nice and cosy .

Yes the will be lots for Vera's family to sort out but as Ann said its not easy before a holiday .
Love to Vera <3

Afternoon All,

We have weak sunshine and no rain at the moment, so I hope we don't get Mel's heavy rain and hailstones or AnnG's snow.

Yes there have been a few sad bereavements between us this year. An old schoolfriend and work friend both lost their husbands, then my lovely friend who never recovered from her operation and then we learned of OH's mother's cousin recently. I hope Vera's family manage to start sorting what needs to be done at these times, but it's not easy near a holiday.

Lunch is ready so I'd better get my waitress hat on! BBL.

So sorry to read your sad news, Vera <3

We now have high wind and lsashing hailstones pounding the windows.

Morning all,

A bit brighter here this morning but the winds still blowing and its 7 degrees with a yellow wind warning. How nice when you have to go out and pick green stuff.

Thinking of our Vera and family today and my cousin Brenda, wife of my 2nd cousin Malcomb who I was informed died in May. He was quite close to me as we were together a lot when young him and I both only children. <3 <3

Ah that is fun. It is snowing :-D

Good morning all. Foggy here at the moment and cold as well but Inthink the wind has dropped.

<3 <3 <3 Vera

Thank you everyone

So sad to hear your news and am sending you all my condolences and love too. You are all in my prayers.<3

So sad for your daughter and for you and your OH too Vera.. my condolences and love to you all. Come back when you are ready. <3

Oh that's so sad Vera, your poor daughter. My thoughts will be with your family. Love from me too. <3

Oh Vera I'm so sorry my condolences to you all sending you lots of love <3

I don’t know whether I will be posting for a few days. It’s with great sorrow that I have to tell you our daughter’s partner died peacefully in the hospice this afternoon. He was 54. RIP dear S.

Hope you enjoy your evening with nibbles Vera and you have some good chatter, I'm sure you will.

I went out in the shed after corning the chickens and when I had had some lunch and BIL had gone and started back on the arrangment I was doing. I had wired all the 5 lots of holly berries and then had to attach them to some holly. I had picked very prickerly holly and on wiring them to the berries and a bit of varigated hollky I got sticky fingers again. I had to come in as I was bleeding over both hands from the holly prickles. I have a very sore left thumbjust above the creaseand pin pricks on other fingers andon my right hand I have prickled the finger I hurt last week and the one next to it. I know I should have worn gloves but its so difficult to wire thing right with gloves on. I don't always use the really prickly holly but boy has it spines this year.

Went down the shop for my paper and a couple of bits. I bought some of their nice granary bread as one of my subs this week was a Kingsmill wholemeal and its just like eating cardboard. It dos'nt make my mouth water to get it down either. The Warburtons is nice and soft and tasty and has no added sugar. Anyway They had sold one of the smaller arrangments so I was pleased about that. I shall finish this one and maybe do a small one and if they don't sell I can put them on mums and oh's graves or take them with me when I go to dinner with Kate and BIL. Still have to do a posy for mums grave though. I took her flowerpot posy off her grave inthe summer and threw it in the back foot well of the car where it stayed till the other day. There were four bit of my yellowish tree I use a lot of still in it as fresh as a daisy. I did wonder if it had rooted which would have been nice as the parent plant oh took the top out of and clipped it flat on the top it is now soooooo very wide and really needs to come out.

Time for a cuppa I think and a cake.

It sounds a lovely place Ann even with its bittersweet memories. Fingers crossed that your cough will have disappeared by Christmas Day.

I hope your chest infection clears up quickly Mandy. Just don't overdo it, you need to conserve your energy a bit till you are properly better. I have made a note to look for that apricot cheesecake recipe after Chistmas. It's ages since I made it and it was an old recipe then but I am sure I will have it somewhere amongst all my recipe folders and files.

Annx, I am sure my OH and yours share some genes. Mine never knows where he has put anything either. Yesterday was an example when I was asked where he would have put the outside lights he was looking at a few days earlier. After looking in all the obvious places I had a think about where they were when I saw them last and remembered seeing them on top of a floor unit in the lounge. Once I remembered that, it didn't take much working out. That day we had an unexpected phone call to tell us visitors were coming in half an hour so I asked OH to clear up some of the rubbish lying around. He had shoved the lights straight in the deep drawer under the surface where they had been sitting. Men!!

Someone asked about our Secret Santa gifts at a club party last Monday. Years ago when we had a bigger membership with more men they took a man type gift, females took something for a lady and we marked which gender they were for. That seems to have gone by the board so anyone might get anything. OH got a parcel with a strange selection - a box of biscuits, a shopping bag that folds into a little square and an "Emergency Christmas Jumper Kit". This contained bobbles, motifs, glittery things and a string of lights to attach to any jumper, so that was a bit of fun. I got a large scented candle in a very nice green glass bowl. I've already got a drawer full of scented candles but I do like the attractive glass bowl.

Time to get on with some more jobs I think. We are invited, with the rest of the Close, to our next door neighbour for nibbles and drinks at 7 pm. Neither of us feel much like it but feel we should make the effort as I know there are at least a couple of people not going. Hopefully we will be able to get away without staying too long.

I knew I had heard of bronco stop somewhere but forgot it was the linctus not the sweets. Would have been cheaper. Actually the cough is not too bad now (and I have not taken any medicine. I have to wait a bit longer since lunch to take it.

Mandy we are staying in accommodation called Sawrey Knotts at Far Sawrey. You can google it. It is a large old place, once a hotel, and in the early 19century the home of a Captain. In about 2010 our daughter and her husband bought one of the apartments it had two bedrooms and was called the writing room, bought as a holiday let. In about 2013 they decided to move in permanently and had it altered taking over the basement and making that a large bedroom with en suite. In 2014 sadly her OH died on 27 December from cancer. During the time of letting and of living here OH and I stayed here many times. Including the Christmas Jon died. The apartment they had was the one directly below this one. Which is called The Morning room. We also (the 3 of us) stayed in this one the first New Year after my O H died so we know the area very well.

We are staying here this year to commemorate the 10th anniversary of my late son In law’s death. A sad occasion with many laughs about the past. I should add T and I were staying in the basement bedroom the year Jon died and on the 24th December it was really torrential rain and it flooded so all over Christmas my OH was using a vax to soak up the water in the fitted carpet. It was a problem with the drainage. Daughter moved out in 2015 as it was too isolated for her so she sold it and bought other property.

No worries about flooding here as we are on the first floor.

Afternoon all,

Raining when we got up but we had a glimpse of the sun late morning but it's raining here now and the wind seems to have got up.
Had a good wrapping session this morning, just two to do and then we're done .
Jake was going to get my meat order on Monday but I asked if he could get it for Sunday as I would like to cook the gammon on Monday and then the turkey crown on Tuesday, son is going to cook the beef which will ease it for me a bit .
I use to make desserts for Christmas but I now cheat and buy them ,I do make a nice trifle and the Christmas puds .

Yes Ann I think the antibiotics are now beginning to work ,they are the ones you said doxy something so I hope when I've finished the course I'll feel much better ,does take it out of you these chest infections.

Anng I haven't had the bronco stop ,I had Covonia which is vile tasting but if it helps I put up with it .
Must be a lovely view you have of the lakes is this somewhere you've stayed before

Mel you sound busy today ,what a shame the shop didn't say the lady wasn't making any wreaths ,you'd have thought he would have mentioned that when you go in to shop as you used to make them for the shop didn't you.

Vera those cheesecakes sound lovely especially the apricot one wouldn't mind the recipe for that sometime ,not now as there's lots to do but perhaps after Christmas when you have time .

Did you get the 8p veg Gwyn very handy for making soup ,I usually buy extra store it in the shed and it keeps for ages although the sprouts don't but the rest does .

Ann, I think I might have mentioned Broncho Stop lozenges which are herbal and taste of thyme. I've found them very good for stopping a coughing fit, but I've never had their cough mixture. I hope your cough eases up soon.

Busy at the moment. Might bbl

Well it did clear out and the lake is clear in the distance now. The sun is shining and the clouds are scudding across a pale blue sky in the extremely gusty wind. We have been to Hawkeshead and, as usual spent money in the Relish shop and the Regatta shop. A light fleece jacket and a light weight striped top in the latter, and jam and slow cooker sauce in the relish shop.

Visited the chemist for cough medicine, not sure about the one I bought but did somebody on here say they had broncho stop? Just trying to work out when to take it. All sorts of instructions like not to take an hour and a half before or after food. And take 4 times a day.

Morning All,

It's bright sunshine here now but was quite breezy when I went to the shop with OH. He was up late and I wanted to be there early, but was then chivvying me along and I forgot my little shopping list. The roads seemed busy with people heading towards the retail park so I was glad we weren't going there.

I still need a few more bits I can get on Monday. I thought I must have forgotten to get a gammon joint, but found one in the freezer where OH put it away for me. I keep like things in the drawers together and put the Christmas food close together but OH just stuffs things any old where in there and had put the gammon away from the meat and Christmas food and underneath boxes of other things. :-S The trouble is if you ask him where he's put something he hasn't a clue. I've even known him to ask me where he's put things in the garage or bungalow, as if I would know! :-D

It's a shame it is so wet again for you AnnG and you can't see the nice view of the lake, but at least it's good you are feeling well enough to go out and potter round some shops. Having a good night's sleep helps too.

I'm not surprised you had a lie in after yesterday Mel and it sounds like you have another busy day today. Just keep that cut wrapped up to do your arrangement.

I wonder whether Mandy is starting to feel a bit better yet after starting the antibiotics. I hope so.

OH is off to footie in the sunshine soon and there still isn't much breeze here either YET. He's left me some of his financial stuff to sort for him and I want to have a tidy up in here too.