General Chat

12.05pm.
Better pop in in case you think I've done a runner !!!!

All quite on the western front as they say.

We have a smashing time yesterday, more food than we needed and plenty of beer and red. We got home about 11pm. so didn't bother posting then.
All showered and shaved. sitting in the conservatory, watching the ice/snow sliding off the tiles of the house, almost feels like summer today !!!!

No 1 son reported back yesterday, the neighbour had not only knocked Ros's christmas display off the pourch table. HE KNOCKED OVER a pot with a plant in that had water in the bottom. That went over the extention lead that held the plugs to the outside lights. Thats what blew the fuses. He didn't think to unplug the socket, in the wall. JUST KEEPT TRYING THE TRIP SWITCH. could have blown the "bloody doors off" ( the itialian job) Once Harvey got there he unpluged the socket and tried the trip switch and all was O.K. ( I'll have to find someone else to look after the cat) Every time we leave him in charge, there is an accident. He has broken and thown away a £45.00 dish.from the pourch, broken dishes in the kitchen, giving the cat some milk.triped ovev and trodden down an ornimental bush in the garden.

Trust you all have a nice quite day today, we are bumming arour today. Turkey and Ham for lunch. Roast Pork tonight for dinner.(Will be a fat as a PIG)

Conrad is going to load books on my Sony E reader. That will give me another years reading I have about 5 years already.

2.47pm.
Can't load my E book. Left the leads at home.

Conrad has built a snowman, brussels for eyes, carrot for nose, twigs for arms and mouth, and a upside down hanging basket for a hat. Will try to download and send later.

I see you are all quite, sleeping off your lunch. Might see you later.

Afternoon All--still very cold here dropped to 11 below last night---kept thinking about Dave &Ellen--if I was cold with heat--They must be in bad way--Do hope they found some help.------

Frank you are kidding me have a QUITE-day--with HAPPY-HARRY-????
But I'll tell you something Frank-- Guess what i got for xmas---NO Not Sean Connery xxxx-------A-SONY READER---XXXXXNow to find out how it works is the ???? MY No3 son whom i had told about you having one.Thought it would be good for me since my eyes are not as good wan't that nice of him?

Sounds like your neighbour is FOOTLESS--You been given him lessons
OH i'm just kidding you xxx
must away make a cuppa ------

sorry its 10.11 am cold canada

Hi Frank what a neighbour to have!! Think I would try and get someone else to do the cat etc for you in future. He sounds like a disaster waiting to happen!

Have'nt done much today just fiddled on the pooter helping someone with their tree. I did'nt get very far but did get them some info.

Off to do the chickens now and then I shall be back.

15.41pm.

It's raining here so that will quickly clear the remaining snow.

16.05pm.

Is'nt it quiet on here today!!

There must be someone there..................................................

Evening all,
Family have all gone home now, we have had another nice day , tomorrow will be a day of rest !!! no cooking ,we have cold Beef ,Gammon and Turkey to eat up and i don't care if i see another sprout till next year lol

Oh dear Frank ,it does sound as if you'll have to find someone else to look after your cat ,your neighbour's name isn't Frank Spencer is it ? lol
That's one way to use up left over carrots and sprouts Frank ,put them on the snowman !!!

It's been much milder today ,no frost this morning and lots of the packed down ice has gone , just waiting for the next lot now !!!
7.10

Meant to say , has everyone noticed that on New Years Eve you can search all records on here for free between 6pm and 8pm !!!

Thanks for that Mandy, l missed the last 'freebie'time so am really glad to know about this one! It's raining here and the snow is going really quickly, HOPE that's the end of it! Have just finished watching 'The Railway Children', usual tear jerker, particularly when she sees her Daddy coming out of the smoke! never fails!! Hope everyone is OK and survived the festivities, tomorrow is ANOTHER Bank Holiday!! Xmas is going on forever this year!

We watched Happy Feet ,with all the Penguins ,little ones watched it while they were here.
It gives you a few days to make a list of who you want to look up on the Census, there's always one you miss !!!

I feel really tired now i've sat down , bet i nod off lol
Hubby's fast asleep and Toby !! now which one will be snoring first lol

Evening All,

We were up early and off to get the new telly this morning. I was right.....free 5 year warranty is only given if you call in the store!! An old boy shopping there asked us all about it and while I was waiting for OH to bring the car as close as he could to the shop I noticed the old chap was counting out his £20 notes buying the same one too, ........glad I found him a bargain as well! lol

We got OH an xmas pud at the supermarket this morning......half price!! As we never eat one on Christmas day anyway, we have decided next year we'll have the half price ones again after Christmas!! lol Well someone's got to eat them all up.

Frank, that neighbour of yours is a liability isn't he. Talk about bull in a china shop......he must come round after he's been on the ale I should think!! Look forward to seeing your pic of the snowman with sprout eyes!

Mandy, we will all be looking up our ancestors on New Year's eve. Same as you I'm noting down what I want to look for.......can do more searches in the time then. I've told OH he will be BANNED from interrupting me!! I have finished the sock, just enough wool, so I will need more if I do another. I have been nodding off in the evening too.....it's all the food I think!

I'm beginning to fancy beans or poached egg on toast now......fed up with all the rich stuff but there's more still to eat......turkey, ham, cakes, biscuits....

Glad your snow is going Liz........you had much more than us so I bet you will be glad to see the back of it now.

Off to watch Upstairs Downstairs again at 9.00pm. It isn't as good as Downton Abbey so I bet I'll be zedding before the end. lol Night, night.xx

Hope David got his heating fixed today.

Hi All
I'm off to bed. Won't be back on till Thursday now so I hope everyone is well and still enjoying the holidays,

Goodnight to all
see you sometime on Thursday when I get home.

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9.55am


M O R N I N G A L L,

Damp misty morning here, snow is melting in the gargen,so roads should be o k.

The SARGA continues, my neighbough rang to say he didn't think my heating was working. (I'd turned it down to 15 degrees just to let it tick over) he thought he would increase the heat a little "FOR THE CAT"
FIVE PHONES CALLS LATER> HE still hadn't worked out how the timer worked. I said leave it alone I will sort it when I get home (FRIDAY) I bet I will had the bungalow like a freezer or an OVEN. joys of going away.!!!!!
Should have put down a weeks supple of food for the cat when we left. He would have survived. and without all this hazzle.

Have offered to send the girls out fot the day with £200.00 shopping money, for themselves Jans daughter is off to visit her FATHER in BEDFORDSHIRE for the day. and is arranging to bring Lewis back up here when she comes home. We will take him home with us Friday. (WE WOULD HAVE RUN OUT OF TABLETS BY THEN).Not sure when his M & D are collecting him.
Are you all over the Christmas spirit now, and looking forward to NEW YEAR.

BBL

Morning Frank and All,

It has turned much milder here too and we have that horrid mizzle. There is only a few piles of melting snow where we had cleared it to get the car out. Everywhere looks dull and dingy now after the lovely white outside.

We had cold turkey and rosti last night with lots of pickles and that is the end of the bird. Still have a bit of ham left and I did'nt cook the beef so we will have that for the new year.

I did'nt know it was free to look things up over the holidays! Is that on here? and does it include the 1911 census?

10.27am.

Morning Frank and everyone.

Your Neighbour sounds like a disaster ! and a bit useless Frank.I think I would be worried that I still had my house standing if I left him to look after things lol

Yes over the Xmas now ,but still have a ton of food left in the fridge.Including a massive Trifle that my sister brought yesterday ,another huge pud that I already have,and the Xmas pudding.
We had a great day yesterday,and Fitz came too. The only down side is this blasted cough.Every time I laugh I get a fit of the chokes lol
Not sure if we will go to the New Years Eve Party.

We have just said bye bye to Sarah (Oz girl) .She is on her way back to London.She said it was so nice to somewhere that was so quiet.No Traffic.sirens etc.

It is a miserable morning misty and murky.Yuk!
I now am just about to go on a Pants hunt.Chris says he is just about down to his last pair lol.Laundry is my massive job for today.But first I think it is Toast and Tea for me.
BBL 10 36

I just had toast with honey on it. Have'nt had that for ages and I just fancied it.

OH has been out to look at the pond under it's cover of net and bubble plastic.
We have lost one of the big kio that was like mums ones. So sad...............

Jane hope that cough leaves you soon. They can be hard to get rid of in this weather.

12.03pm.

11.51am.

The girls are getting ready to go out. Jan dosen't think it right that I am treating her, after all we did for them for Christmas. But if I can't do something to cheer them up, It's a bad old lot. and they will enjoy being out together. I have even given them £10.00 for coffee. !!! What a STAR I am. No comment from you lot either.!!!!

The ceremony takes place tomorrow for my sister. Will just be the daughters and grandchildren. We will have a send off for her in Febuary, when her daughter will come back to Woodford Bridge, with her casket. and will be placed with my MUM AND DAD. and her HUSBAND. Hope one of my relatives go to the cemetery and clean the grave up a bit. !!! If not I will have to go down and do it.

Trust you feel better by the weekend Jane, or you will be like cinderella but not going to the ball, Where's the Party going to be Wicksteads Park.????


When we go home Friday, we will be on our own. and get back to the normal routine. Be nice to do what you want, when you want. without having to consider others. ie Dressing gowns till lunchtime, getting in your dressing gown at 7pm. if you want too. snacks and dinner to suite.

You are a wonderful man Frank,just be careful your hat doesn't get too small lolol.Seriously though you are a very generous hubby.I just told Chris and batted my eyelashes.He just said Oh that's nice and then disappeared lol.

Mel died your Koi die because of the cold weather ?Poor thing.

The party is at some neighbours Frank just 5 houses down.The last time I went their for a New Years Eve Party I got home and fell over my old dog I had a black and blue face for 2 weeks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes Jane one of the big kio. Just laying on the bottom of the pond. At least it was'nt mums one but the one very like hers.

OH is out doing one of the burst pipes. I think the other comes straight off the main so it means going out to the road and turning it off at the meter which is a bum because the hole is full of water.

13.03pm.