General Chat

Ann I hope 111 has got back to you and has given some advise ,also hope it's not a trip to A&E for you on a Saturday night .

Iv'e just come in from the garden. I potted on three courgettes, pricked out 48 box seedlings. I put them two together in a new 12 hole plug trays. Still have loads over so I may ask my neighbour if she wants any.Sowed the last 4 yellow cougetts and some other things repotted a large leggy Heuchera from the patio, the one Annx liked its called Marmalade. Mixed a load of compost ready for the tom plants when I put them in their big pots to go inthe greenhouse. Potted up a load of cues and other things I can't remember now and came in for a cuppa.

I could'nt believe what the time is I just looked at it on the pc. Iv'e been out there since after lunch. Time flies when you're having fun.

Ann if you google plants inedible for rabbits there are some suggestions.

Sorry Ann I missed you there. I hope 111 has phoned back now as it is obviously worrying and, if the rash is itchy it will be uncomfortable.
Mel should be able to tell you if there are any plants bugs bunny won’t like otherwise not worth risking buying plants for rabbit food.

I’m still not sleeping and not feeling very good with a swimmy head and a feeling of not being “with it” at all, but I’m trying to ignore it and get on with a few jobs.

AnnG, I hope your pain round the waist area has gone. I suspect it was twisting to get at that cupboard that did it. You have been busy in your garden. Your nemesia sounds nice and I need to get some more as well. It’s a pretty little plant and doesn’t take much looking after and I’ve got some gaps to fill up.

Mel, you’ve bought some nice plants again. That recipe from your grandmother was a find. I don’t make Xmas puds anymore but years ago I used to make them from an old wartime recipe of my mum’s and they were really lovely.

Spring must really be underway now as everyone seems to be gardening. You’ve been busy too Mandy. You’ll have to let us know how your pepper seeds grow. We have peppers and I’ve often wondered about planting a few of the seeds. I like Cromer but you can keep its crabs. From what I remember from the one time I had crab I really enjoyed it but unfortunately no shellfish likes me and I was quite ill after eating that crab.

Annx, it sounds as though you had a good old chinwag with Fitz and it’s good that the restaurant had a pleasant seating area. I hope your scalded finger is less sore now. My hand is fine with hardly a mark to show where the hot oil landed. Oh dear, your poor OH. It’s one thing after another isn’t it. I hope you’ve heard back from 111 by now. We’ve used 111 a few times now and they have always called back pretty quickly but I guess it’s the luck of the draw. I hope it turns out to be just a minor reaction that will clear up quickly.

I think we can all agree that prices have increased by a ridiculous amount over the last couple of years. The trouble is it’s a chain reaction - there could be a few different companies involved in getting a product on to the shelves and they all have to cover their own increased costs somehow. Of course, there may be a little bit of profiteering along the way but I doubt if there is much because companies can’t afford to price their products out of the market.

Looking at the time I ought to be cooking our dinner which I hope to have around 6.30 pm so I’ll post this and, if I can, I’ll come back later this evening and tell you what I’ve been doing over the last few days.

Drizzling a bit now but I had already come in. Had the Tesco delivery and that is all put away.
Mandy you are going to tease us now talking of fresh crab. :-(

Mel last Friday I bought three of those small petunias. I thought they were million bells before I saw the label

Sounds like you have a nice mix of colours.

Afternoon All,

A dull morning here, but a weak sun is shining now. I slept well last night and didn't wake till after 7.00am which is unusual.

You are all cracking on with your gardens and planting up veggies and flowers and pricking things out. Here am I wondering whether it is worth planting anything with Bugs Bunny visiting and things in the garden being changed. At the moment I think I will stick with planting up 4 taller plant pots with flowers we can see from inside. Otherwise I need to start relocating some geraniums and house leeks from the front garden to the back garden. I have a dark maroon clematis in the back garden that needs moving from where it is, but I don't think they take kindly to being moved so may well lose it.

Your begonias are a good choice to not need so much watering AnnG and I had thought of those to get myself to go with some house leeks in a pot for outside the front door, especially as I will be digging some of the house leeks up.

We have had a disruptive day as OH's injection site became a 50p sized angry red blotch last night and by this morning he developed a faint rash on his chest which spread to his chest, shoulders, back and even his head by lunchtime. His new medication warns that this is common, but doctors like to check as with reduced immunity the medication causes they have to consider infections etc. He tried ringing the hospital number he was given, but of course no-one was answering it being the weekend. He then rang 111 who said they would get advice and phone back by half an hour ago but haven't as yet, which is what happened when I had to phone them a few years ago and they never did phone back. Why do these things always seem to happen at weekends or Bank holidays.

Did the shop and they had more nice plants outside so I bouight a diasia and mini petunia that looks like a million bells. I seem to have gone for lavenders and pinks and peachy colours this year. O and a pot of sweet peas as I am having trouble getting my sown ones up.

Forgot to put my wash on the line so I better do that now then I am going down the shed to do some potting.

Still got sunshine but there is a few grey clouds ,washing is dry and I've filled three hanging baskets with compost ready for the tumbling tom plants plants , the morning has flown by and I seem to have just pottered about ,I did tie the runners up to help them up the canes ,we've just had a tuna sandwich for our lunch and I said to Colin I think the Cromer crabs will be about now so I will have to catch the fish man on the market on Tuesday and see what he has .

Spent over a hour in the garden, tidies up some empty pots, took the soil off the top and added some new compost. Planted up 20 bedding begonias in pots, these are all up on the patio near the house so hopefully it won't be too cold for them overnight. They were out growing the plug tray so needed potting on. I thought they were very good value when I bought them 20 plugs £3.99, all healthy. I have also potted on the nemesia I bought and that is now outside as well, these have all been well hardened off. The Nemesia (pink and white) is lady penelope and it has a lovely scent.

My pc is telling me that light rain is stopping in 1.5 hours but its not raining here. Its 11 degrees so a bit colder than you today Anng. Sky is pale grey but there's not much wind.

I too have the washing machine on and its not got long to go now so I better get ready to get that on the line.

Not done much either just a bit of varnishing and had a good strip wash, too cold this morning for a shower and I'm not wasteing my oil on heating the house I'd rather save it for hot water.

it is grey here too, no sign of sun but 12 degrees. I have done a wash load but nothing else so better get on and find something else to do.

Morning Anng ,morning all,

Nice sunny morning , I have a towel wash in the machine so hopefully I can get them dry before the rain comes later.
Yesterday we pricked out the little marigolds and I had some peppers that I grew from seeds from a pepper ,don't know if they will do much but there's loads of seeds so we pricked those out too .
Today we want to go into the front garden and do a bit of weeding ,hopefully the rain we've had will have softened the ground so they will pull up a bit easier .

Vera hope your tummy soon feels better .

Morning Anng and all,

A grey morning here and pc says rain to stop but I was'nt aware it had been raining till I just looked out and the cars are wet. Its 10 degrees here.

Only the shop to do this morning and the rest opfthe day is my own to do what I want.

I too hope all aches and pains have eased but take it easy if your gardening. My hips and knees are still playing up but I need to have a sweep round by the garage where I scraped some weeds up. the big trailer is round there so I have that Ican fill and BIL will empty it for me next week.

good morning all, I was up at 0710 but have been 'wandering' around facebook. It is quite bright outside sort of ehitish sky with small blue patches and 7 degrees. I am hoping for some dry spells today as I want to pot up some bedding begonia, the forecast looks frost free for the next weeks. Vera I hope tummy is starting to feel better, don'y overdo the gardening, stooping/bending won't help.

Ann Hope aches and pains will ease so a bit of gardening can be attempted.

Good evening all

It's not been a bad day, alternate sunshine and clouds, and it has stayed dry but there's still a definite chill in the wind. I needed a fleece when I had to go out.

I've had a hectic couple of days and, as I am still hardly sleeping, I feel exhausted. I also have a longstanding tummy problem which is OK most of the time but every few weeks gives me a couple of bad days and that started playing up yesterday. It does drag me down a bit but I'm sure I'll be fine again by Sunday so I haven't really got much to complain about.

I hope you are all feeling free of aches and pains tonight. I have read all your posts with interest and hope to be able to find the time tomorrow to tell you what I have been doing over the last couple of days (nothing very exciting). In the meantime this is moaning Minnie signing off and wishing you all a very good night.

BIL has been and mowed evrywhere accept theorchard again. I think he leaves it because of all the bulbs in the grass. The smowdrops have alldied down but the daff still have green leaves on.I think he said he would leave the daffs till the end of May and then do the lot.

I ordered a smallish watering can from Temu one with lot of handles so I can dunk it in and pull it out. It came just now and I opened it and its good but on the bottom the plastic is very thin and a bit dented in. I suppose you can't expect much for a fiver. I have a dustbin and a big dumpy bucket behind my shed which give me a drop of rain water when it does rain and it saves me coming back to the house each time I ant water down the shed. There is also a metal watering can that collects rain water too.

Going back to the recipe I noticed there was only 3 oz of sugar in it. I wonder if it was a war time recipe. Mum had a cook book the was wartime which she gave to me but Ithrew it out years ago but I did keep the bred pudding recipe from it as it was a good one.

Afternoon All,

Alternating sunshine and cloud here but no rain forecast for today so a wash is on the rotary line.

Yes I agree prices have certainly gone up, along with wages and other costs. I have just compared the prices at the pub we get the occasional carvery delivered from to see what their eat in, weekday price would be for two small plate carveries. Theirs would cost £14.98 and yesterday we paid £23.98 so quite a difference. If we get the regular size carvery to share from the usual place it is still much less at £15.48 and that's delivered to our door. Where we went yesterday have served smaller meat portions to me in the past and I remembered when I saw what they gave me!

Mel that was a great meal to have instead of the curry and good you were free from indigestion afterwards. A news item that came up on my PC this morning said that there can be a rebound effect when you stop the antacid tablet you were taking, so it means it makes things worse for a while, so maybe it will improve before long. How nice to find your grandmother's handwritten Christmas Pud recipe. Less and less is handwritten these days and I have nothing except a note in a book my grandmother bought me for Christmas, a Ladybird book, The Wise Robin.

AnnG we had plans for getting on with a bit in the garden today, but gave up on the idea due to various aches and pains from all we've been doing this week. We both have paperwork to do, so we are doing that and will hopefully be in better shape to make a little progress outside tomorrow. At least you got something done, but it is frustrating as you say.

Good to have those memories Mel. I have a written recipe book from my Mum. Recopes she thought I would like when first married in an exercise book

I have just battled the road works and walked down to Irene's with some books. that was ok, legs a bit tired. Then put all the plants out of the conservatory onto the patio, it is very grey but not rained yet. Spent 20 minutes cutting a few bits back then decided to pull up some grass growing along where the lawn used to finish, that was tough so disn't risk doing too much and came in, now feel as if I have run a marathon. So frustrating getting old.

Whilst getting a note pad out of the desk yesterday a plastic envelope fell out which had a piece of paper in it with mums writing on. On closer insspection I started to read it. Can you imagine my surprise when I was reading my materal grandmother Chirstmas Pudding recipe. Mum did make the puds when I was young and she told me it was nanny Beech's recipe. I had'nt the hear t to throw it away but I have'nt anyone to pass it on too. It makes two puds and you have to boil them for 6 hours. Imagine the steamy kitchen and I can remember them boiling away on the Rayburn in the kitchen and my parternal nan keeping a watch on the water. Funny how some as silly as an old recipe can bring back so many memories. :-D