General Chat

Beautiful sunshine and bright blue sky here, but oh so chilly :-0
It's quite breezy too.

It sounds as Vera has had a busy, but interesting holiday and packed a lot in to the time there. What a lovely place to explore.
Safe journey home :-D

I hope you get your appontments sorted Ann.
I am just managing to cope this last week, before I go for my next 3 monthly visit to the ENT nurse next week.
Yesterday was 'back to school' day for me and I coped, but it will be great to hear them better next week.

Some of you have been rather accident-prone :-0
I don't recall any bad tumbles, but younger daughter had to have stitches after having what children here call 'a backy' ie. sitting on the saddle of her brother's bike, while he rode the bike standing up on the pedals. She had a nasty gasty gash in her head.They were on the pavement, when she fell off.
Son was upset, as he felt it was his fault, elder daughter felt faint at the sight of so much blood and all the youngest was bothered about was that there was a mess all over her favourite T shirt :-) She was only little, but was very good being patched up at A&E.

Morning girls,

The suns been out here this morning but its now disappeared pc is saying record low and 13 degrees so as Anng said Autumn is definately on its way.It was lovely nd bright and sunny when I got up to go to the bathroom at 6.40am so I went back to bed for a couple of hours.

Don't know if I am going to Stuarts today or tomorrow shall have to ring him if I can get hold of him.

safe uneventful journey Vera.

Good morning all

Hello Jude. You reminded me of a bike accident I had aged about 9 or 10. I had my first “grown up” bike. Our road forked and my Dad had drummed into me that I must look to see what was coming down the other arm of the fork. I was so busy doing that I forgot to look at what was ahead of me and rode straight into the back of a milk float, bashing my head and cutting myself across the bridge of my nose badly enough to need 3 stitches.

it’s 10.30 am here and we’re showered, breakfasted and packed. Not sure what we can do for the next hour and a half till the taxi comes. At the moment it’s 19 degrees here but I see it’s only 10 at home. I reckon we’ll freeze when we get to Stansted.

Hope you all have a good day.

Good morning all. 6 degrees here and feels really autumnal. But the sun is shining at the moment.

I have stripped the bed and the bedding is in the washing machine. I next need to sort out stuff for packing as I have a meeting here tomorrow and out Friday. packing can be done Saturday but I like stuff sorted beforehand.

Hello "Jude" Would not be a good thing to do these days. You obviously lived to tell the tale. Welcome to the thread.

Falling off my 3 wheeled bike when l was 6 yrs old into the road, fortunately no traffic!!

Oh dear Ann now it looks like you could have two appointments booked now ,which one is the right time I wonder , hope you can get it sorted out .

Safe journey home Vera ,that week went so quickly and the journey home sounds a better travelling time .

Started raining here this afternoon, just a light drizzly rain .

Safe journey Vera. Gosh it did go quickly but you packed a lot in.

What a pain AnnG. Nothing ever seems to be straightforward.

Today we went on a tram to the Belvedere Palace. That was an interesting experience as we hadn’t got a clue where we were going or how many stops it was. We managed to get ourselves there and back without getting lost. This is a big area divided into Upper Belvedere and Lower Belvedere and both now house museums and art galleries. My back wouldn’t take standing around or slowly sauntering so we didn’t do the galleries/museums. However there are Alpine Gardens and Botanic Gardens in the same area so we visited those. They are not prettily set out beds of plants. They are a bit of a wilderness. They are owned by the University of Vienna and I think are used for botanical research. It was pleasant walking down all the serpentine gravel paths. There’s a small charge to go in the Alpine Garden and the Botanic Garden is free. We spent about 3 hours there.

Mandy I can’t send a photo of an ice cream concoction as we haven’t had any. The ideal time to have one would be mid-afternoon but because we’ve been out and about we are never here at that time. In the evening I feel we ought to eat a proper main course and I haven’t had room for one of these enormous treats after that.

I can’t believe our holiday is already over and we’ll be on our way back tomorrow. There’s so much more we would like to do. I’d better start packing I suppose but at least we don’t have an early start tomorrow. The taxi is picking us up to take us to the airport at midday.

Why is nothing simple?

At the moment I am fuming.

Just picked up a message on my NHS app telling me that the appointment is at 10.20. As I am going on the bus that is nowhere near as convenient at 12pm. I will have to wait until tomorrow now to see what has happened.

I am not likely to meet hi. Mel so would not have caught it from him but it is in this area which is a concern. One member of the gardening group has it and will only come to the meeting if she tests negative. But there are many following instructions that once they are symptom free they can go back to work.. my sister had it recently, she tested positive after five days her symptoms had gone but it was eleven days before she tested negative..

Evening all

I’m glad that both you Anns have your appointments fixed for hospital and door repairs. That will be a relief for you, particularly AnnG, but why does everything have to be so stressful these days?

Mel, I also read “smoked kippers” at first and wondered what that had to do with socks. The afternoon cakes are mostly pastries like small danish pastries or croissants filled with chocolate plus there is always a Gugelhupf cake which is a flavoured sponge with chocolate icing. Annx asked about breakfasts. They are typical continental breakfasts and are very good. Lots of fruit salads, melon, prunes and juices, cereals, a variety of breads, croissants, jams, yoghurts. pastries, different hams, cheeses and so on and they always ask if we would like eggs cooked in any way we want.

OH is waiting to go out for his dinner so I’ll post this and, if I have time, finish it later.

Gosh Anng you don't want to catch covid so its just as well he had'nt made your appointment. So only two days to wait for it then.

I have baked 18 spicey buns this afternoon as I have been fancying a cake. I think I put a bit too much sugar in them for my taste and shall have to remember in future to put less in. I even sprinkled a bit of demerara on top when they came out of the oven!! but they have a nice lot of sultanas in which I love.

Yes I have been fancying a cauli cheese which is why I bought the cauli. Think I will be able to get enough out of it for me anyway and it may not be as bad as it looks but they have refunded me for it.

Better go round and corn the chickens now its been raining steadily and its down to 14 degrees here now.

Ah he has just got back to me has been off sick with covid. anyway looks like Friday at 12pm so that is a relief.

I feel really stressed now. I have not heard anything about my appointment still so I emailed the main booking office to ask the manager to check with ENT booking why I have not heard. He looked at his list and said their is no appointment at all for me this week. What!!! So I have email the man from ENT booking again (third time last two no replies). If there is no appointment booked I am just going to give up, it is too stressful. and then I can't go for an appointment until after the 25th. :-( :-( :-( I will just have to assume that everything is as it should be I suppose.

Afternoon all,

Its not been a bad morning here ,got all my washing dry and it's nice and sunny .
We had the cooker out and the fridge ,oh my goodness the bits underneath and cobwebs behind the fridge :-0 all nice and clean now just got to clean the oven shelves.

We sat chatting when to had our coffee and I said to Colin we mustn't forget that we have to renew your driving licence ,good job I went and looked at the letter as Colin thought it was on or around his birthday that it needed renewing, no it runs out on the 17th September ,I rangson and he's coming on Thursday to do it on line ,I must remember to ask him about ths storage on my tablet its saying its full so I can't take any more photos and I wanted to take one of my Christmas gnome to show you.

On Ann that sounds as if that garden centre has a lovely display I bet it all looked nice .
Our binmen are here really early, twenty past six last week they usually wake me up with the bins lumping .

That cauliflower wasn't a good one Mel ,I might get a cauliflower this week as we haven't had a nice cauliflower cheese for a while .

Morning All,

Breezy and rain clouds thankfully scooting across the sky and not dropping their rain, at least not yet. It's 16 degrees here now. OH has a packed week ahead, so we nipped out and paid the papers, then went for a small breakfast at a garden centre. They are already well into getting Christmas decorations out and had a bigger than ever 'villages' display set up with two working little trains and two tunnels. They have half the building turned over to Christmas decorations, lights etc and since a couple of years ago they have added another large building that usually has garden furniture in it and filled that with christmas decorations as well. They've been quite innovative with storage too and the carpark extension now has at least 30 of those big metal shipping containers along the back that they can use for storage.

Vera the museum does sound interesting and a good choice for a rainy day. What kind of breakfast do you get at the hotel? I can't rememember what we had for breakfast in Tuscany many years ago. AnnG made a good point about your back and strange beds, as I can have back trouble if a different mattress isn't firm enough. It was our good pal Frank that put me onto the mattress I next got and it has been brilliant. I can go to bed with backache and wake up fine since I had it. OH says it is like sleeping on a board!! lol. I wonder what you will do today.

After berating the window and door company yesterday they have been quick and emailed me a date for the engineer to come and it's a week on Thursday so not too bad after all. I just hope they don't send the grumpy individual that has been before and was keen to try and find the fault was ours. I know the lock will probably behave perfectly for him and he will be smug, so I shall have to dig my heels in and insist on it being changed, even though it will mean buying more spare keys which are expensive.

The binmen were here very early at 6.45am this morning for the garden bin according to OH but they still haven't collected the recycling yet.

AnnG it will be good when you can wash your hair without having to be so careful with the water and the wounds, but at least you have managed to do it.

Mel, it seems very autumnal here too with leaves beginning to fall and the darker mornings are making me oversleep my tablet time so I ought to set the alarm. I need to give the invasive weed we have another blast with the weedkiller this week before they stop growing, as the first dose seems to have worked well.

Better crack on now with admin and some short bursts of HW. :-)

Shopping arrived and my cauli has lots of black marks in the middle.

Rain in the air here and still 15 degrees and cloudy and feels quite cold.

Morning girls,

Dull and cloudy and 15 degrees so not uch change there then.

No subs on the shopping today so thats good but I could'nt pronounce the name of the driver if I tried.

Just had a sneezing fit!!.

For some reason, and I don't know why, I could'nt drop off quickly last night I seemed to lay there for ages. Perhaps it was because I was colder last night. Its certainly Autumnial here and the leaves are starting to turn and quite a lot are falling already.