General Chat

Moprning girls,

Lovely bright misty moisty morning here and its 12 degrees.

Slept well as I hope you all did.

Where's Vera and Mandy and Annxx hope they are all ok.

Made it to town ok and got a few things I wanted. Also got to the chiropodist. And the only heavy shower was when I was in the Chiropodist’s.

Today I did it. Had lunch and watched a bit of telly and felt tired so threw myself on the bed at 3.40pm and woke at 6pm still feel tired and I hav'nt got to cook tonight. My mouth feels like the inside of a dustbin so I am going to go and clean my teeth. Only had 1 cig and a half today.

Suns been out all morning and its now 16 degrees.

Popped up the top to deliver some eggs to Angela and gave them some damsons and they gave me another big sweetcorn cob and a load of tomatoes so I shall be having toms on toast lunchtime.

Morning girls,

Bright at the mo here and 12 degrees so quite a chilly morning and pc is saying light rain so that will make a change. We've had so much rain that it has filled the big pond up by 4 inches.

I have the foot doctor on Friday and I am hoping BIL can take me. Hope you feel better abit later on Anng.

Good morning all. very dull out there and drizzly 13 degrees. I have to go in by bus to gloucester this morning for a chiropodist appointment. I hope I am not going to get too wet. I didn't sleep that well last night so feel a bit muzzy this morning.

Stu rang late afternoon and said he could come to dinner. I had been painting miniture barrels so quickly had to tidy up and get a dinner onthe go. I did sausages, my runners and mash and garlic button mushrooms with nice gravy and it went down a treat. I used the LARGE elephant garlic with the mushrooms which my neighbour gave me and they turned out lovely and I only used half the clove. I'm thinking garlic mayo with the other half.

Sounds lie the visit worked out well with the weather Anng. We had a huge clap of thunder this afternoon as I was ironing but nothing more just rain.

Fortunately it stayed dry when we were walking around the butterfly garden and rained as we walked in for coffee. We did meet with the spinning ladies again and have arranged to see them the end of the month when they say they can teach us to crochet. We shall see..
Then while we were at the meeting this afternoon in the other local garden centre we had several heavy cloud bursts which found or the leak spots in the overhead glass roofing over tender plants. Luckily not over the restaurant where we were.

Good afternoon all

Oh dear Gwyn, that bout of pneumonia really has affected you badly. I hope the medical team can sort you out soon. You want to be fit to face the winter weather when it comes. Keep warm and look after yourself in this changeable weather. You have something nice to look forward to with a wedding and meeting up with family from NZ.

It’s been very wet and quite windy here today. I hope your visit to the butterfly place wasn’t too soggy AnnG and your friend enjoyed it. I will be taking a cagoule and a brolly with me when we go to Hatfield House tomorrow. I suspect we’ll be spending more time in the house than the grounds and parkland.

Son rang this morning and we had a long chat which was good. He’s got this week off work and has been doing a bit of building work on his house but is now on a 3 day fishing trip, camping somewhere along the Avon river. He said F is now settled in HK. She wasn’t sure what sort of accommodation Disney would provide for her but she has been put in a small suite in a hotel. She has a large room with a sleeping and a sitting area, a small kitchenette and a bathroom on the 15th floor, overlooking a park. She now has 3 weeks of rehearsals.

As we have had rain on and off every day this week our fence is still not finished. Painter rang Monday morning and said that Friday looks as though it might be dry so he’ll come then. To think a couple of weeks ago I wanted it to rain and now all I want is a dry day. Never satisfied are we.

Good morning all, although it can hardly be called good, when looking out of the window!
It's wild, wet and very, very windy with bursts of howling wind forcing the rain right up under the large porch area, to the side of the house.
September has certainly brought a change in our weather here :-0

It's been a really busy time lately here.
Monday we had smart meters fitted- not by choice :-| but because the signal will be switched off. They are sited in the garage, so we had to make space for the worker to have room. Goodness, what a lot of stuff was stashed in the garage. Alot has now gone, either in the bin or to a charity shop and now we are on a roll to get rid of a lot more 'surplus to requirement' items, so we have more space for what we want to keep.
I've still got lingering issues, after my bout of pneumonia, so that meant another echocariogram and also a CT scan with dye injection last week. I have some phone calls booked with the hospital team later this month, so we'll see what they have to say about the results then. Like AnnG, I don't always hear too well on the phone, but hopefully I will manage OK.
Who would have thought that nearly 4 months on, there would still be effects? :-0 :-|

Local school started back on Monday.
I will give the new children time to settle into their new class, before I go over to help.It will be good to see all the staff again too.

Next week, we will meet up with OH's sister-in-law and niece, who are coming over from NZ for a family wedding and staying a couple of days at my son's house. He has most room and spare bedrooms ;-) It will be great to see them again and chat over a meal.

Strange isn't it? Day to day here is fairly routine, then suddenly there is so much happening in the space of 2 weeks.

Wishing you all a good day.
The sun has just come out. Things are looking up :-D

No news on a fresh car yet.

I have just picked a 1lb and a quarter of runners and some are over a foot long!!

The suns been trying to come out but its all very wet out there. and most of the sky is grey.

Morning all,

Raining here and quite dark ,I did manage to just nip out when it eased up to get the bin in .
Glad you got the car sorted in the end Mel, any news on another one yet .

Anng what a shame its going to be a wet visit to the butterfly place this time it does sound a lovely place with so much going on there .

A day of catching up with inside jobs I think ,ironing to do and a dust and hoover to start with then we'll see what else we can find

All back to school here today .

Morning all you lovely girls,

When I logged in this morning there were no avatars on our posts but they appeared after reading Anng's post. Its dull and dreary and pc says rain coming later and its 16 degrees.

Cars all sorted now Em and Ed came yesterday evening and Ed did it straight away no bother. Yes I do have 0's in the number plate but I don't think that was the problem. I was probably putting the wrong numbers in the wrong places as you had to have numbers off the log book and the tax renewal paper. They just don't make it very clear on the form you fill in. Ed had two vintage cars which I think he only taxes in the summer sometimes and then they are locked away in a nice warm garage so I think he knows just what to do. He has an old Austin pickup in a lovely soft green and a Vauxaul the same as I learnt to drive in when I was 18.

Good morning all. what a horrible morning it looks to be too. 15 degrees but a very low grey sky and raining. This morning it is a re- visit to the Butterfly garden for a couple of us to take a friends to see what she missed. I think we will be shower dodging Then this afternoon it is a meeting of our new ladies U3a group being held at the local garden centre to discuss further plans. At least that will be in the dry.

Mel, do you have the letter O or the number 0 in your registration number. It’s very easy to press the wrong one by mistake. We have both the letter and the number on our number plate and I’ve got caught out more than once.

That is strange Ed doing the form was accepted Mel, but these things get so complicated it's easy to catch a key a bit different. I often have to put a password or code in again. You only get whole months tax back as far as I remember so I think you will lose this month. OH gets fed up with all the different email systems the schools use that he has to log onto, as well as different online video meetings. He has them on Zoom, Teams and Googlemeet now. He'd set one up for a meeting this morning and couldn't find the link anywhere to click onto for himself and he'd set up the meeting! In the end he had to set up a fresh meeting 15 minutes before it was due to start and he got a link then. The trouble is when you don't know what you did wrong you don't know whether it will go wrong the next time!

AnnG it's not easy walking when you limp or hobble is it and it gets very tiring. I hope your leg soon improves. When we order our meds online we have to wait 3 working days before we collecrt them. They used to have them made up ready for us at first, but now we usually have to wait while they do it and often have to go back again for some meds. I don't think they keep much in stock. I had to ring our surgery today as I had another request to book a flu jab and I've already booked one. I also needed to ask for more of a tablet I will run out of before it will allow me to book it online. My prescription for it was increased in January when I saw the doctor, but it never got changed online! Now I have to wait for them to contact me. Everything seems to be a right faff nowadays!

I must have a peep online at Bon Marche Mandy. I went to a garden centre this morning that Has an Edinburgh Mill outlet and it was all taped off like a police scene as they were stocktaking and shoppers weren't allowed in! It's good when you can find something when the sales are on.

How strange. But I am sure these on line forms are set to be as complicated as possible especially gov ones. I was trying to register again for postal vote on line. It kept throwing me out so I requested a paper form. It will cost me postage but it was just very frustrating.

No it just said the vehicle was not recognised in big red letters and start again.

Em and Ed have just been round and Ed did it first time now why could'nt I do it. I have probably lost a months tax now.

Still its done now so thats one less thing to worry about.