General Chat

Good morning all 12 degrees here, dry and sunny, maybe another nice day. but that means more watering. I only did the tomatoes yesterday but better do all the pots today I think.
Probably going to cheltenham later to meet a couple of friends for coffee.

Evening All,

I'm late to bed tonight and OH has already gone! I hope you enjoyed the talk AnnG and I would love to see The Mousetrap if it was near here Vera, so I hope it was good!

That sounds quite a lot to cut your Ash tree down Mel, but I suppose if it's very big and with how costs have gone up it could be about that much. When we and our neighbour both had our tall Pine trees cut down a couple of years ago it cost £650 for the two of them. No cherry picker was needed as they climbed the trees with safety harness and spiked shoes to near the top and used chainsaws to cut the branches and trunk in sections they toppled to the ground as they came down. Is your Ash tree dead, only I expect it wouldn't be safe for workmen to climb it if so? I can't remember what you said about needing to cut it down.

OH had headaches again last night so had a lie in while I went to have a look around the factory shop. When I got back he had hoovered all through and done a bit of weeding. I went out for a short weeding session this afternoon, but only had half a humper full when I decided to stop, as the sun came out and it was too hot for me. Still every weed pulled out is a weed and it's seed less! At the moment I think the weeds are winning as the rain has made them easy to pull out, but has also made more grow!

Felt tired at 5 past 5 so threw myself on the bed and woke at 7.25pm. Had'nt done the chickens so I shot round there as they weere ready for bed.

Yes I have but you have to understand that things have to come through my archway into the garden and this chap has a very narrow cherry picker that would come down here very easily. The other thing is its very near my shed.

Mel, have you thought about getting a second or third quote for that?

I took it as the RNLI as I could'nt think of anything with the letters that way round. :-D

Been to the post van and had a man down to look at my Ash tree. Its going to cost me about £1200 to have it down but they would leave the fat trunk. They said it would be three men all day and they don't take the wood away just chop up the small branches in the muncher and it would be up to me to sell the wood.

its 19 degrees here now and pc says partly sunny and I think its right but there are some grey clouds coming over.

:-D :-D @ AnnG

yes Vera it was a bit early to get those letters in order sorry. Good to give you a puzzle to solve early morning :-D RNLI Sorry.

yes Vera it was a bit early to get those letters in order sorry. Good to give you a puzzle to solve early morning :-D RNLI

Morning all

Bright and sunny this morning and 17 degrees. It’s supposed to get hot this afternoon. I was very hot during the night and had to have the fan going.

Enjoy your U3A talk AnnG. Who or what is the LNRI? I couldn’t find anything when I googled, or did you mean the RNLI?

I’m just going to shower and then we are off to Colchester. We’re having lunch at the theatre there and then going to a matinee performance of The Mousetrap. It’s the 70th anniversary touring production so should be good. Can you believe that play has been running for 70 years?

Better get on. Have a good day whatever you’re doing.

Morning girls,

Quite bright here and a glimps of blue sky and 16 degrees pc is saying high pollen cloudy and a chance of rain.

I slept really well too ad did'nt get up in the night for the loo.

Enjoy your meeting and talk today Anng hope its something interesting.

Have to get up the pot van this morning so BBL.

Good morning all. sunny out there and 11 degrees. Slept really well last night. Must be the effect of all that lavender. Not that this time the perfume was very notable, it need to be sunny for that but it obviously absorbs into the body.
Nothing planned this morning but it is U3a monthly meeting this afternoon. I am being picked up at 1.40. Somebody talking about the LNRI.

I'm backj from the dentists another £24 lighter. He still wants to take the rest of my teeth out!!!! he gave me an examination which is why I was charged and told me they would repair it and I could pick it up on Thursday or I could go to the place they repair them in Barnstaple. I think I am going to have the same thing happen again so watch this space as my bottom tooth is the one that the top tooth clicks on since the repair. Somehow they have changed the bite when they repaired the front teeth that broke off.

Anyway went to Lidl afterwards and bought a few bits and then went to Torrington common and had a lovely Hockings icecream and came home. On the way there they had diversions up so I could'nt go the way I knew but turned round to try and get through Langtree but there were diversions there to and ended up back where I started and this made me a bit late to get the car parked and walk up the hill which took me ages today. Then I got stuck by a lady who wanted to talk outside the dentists and she was going in there too. My appointment was for £.30pm and I got in ther at 22 mins past so I was on time but had to wait twelve mins before I was called to go up the stairs.

Ann I am mostly doing the garden with afew miniatures inbetween. I did have a little go at some polyclay things yesterday and made myself another hanging pheasent for when I do my Tudor kitchen. I made one a while ago but do you think I can find where I put it. I had'nt painted it and was so cross I could'nt find it as I fancied having a go at it yesterday when I could'nt get in the garden for the rain. Its been a lovely day today it had rained inthe night but was dry by morning.

Sounds like you enjoyed your day at the Lavender fields and walked around while it was dry which was good. Shame about the cafe' but you had a nice meal booked anyway.

I meant to tell you that over the last few days since the begining of the weekend the Swallows have been going int he filter shed. I had removed Jeny's nest but they don't really like me being inthere and I don't want t stop them building if they are going to but its a bit late I think.

Tired now and hav'nt sorted anything for dinner tonight that I can eat so I better do the chickens and see whats for dinner.

It sounds as though you were lucky rainwise at the lavender fields AnnG and managed a walk round while it was dry. The wild flower meadow sounded nice but it's a shame the proper cafe has gone, but a nice lunch to follow was good.

Your talk was good then Vera and you came away with a bottle of wine as well. I have the same trouble with cleaning our fixed kitchen window behind the sink and, as OH washes up by hand the few things we need every day, it gets splatterings from the sink as he isn't as careful. It's a smallish window and the conservatory is behind it which means the outside of it is easy to clean and OH seems to be deaf whenever I ask him to do it, so I try to clean it with a microfibre pad on a stick standing on a stool. Gone are the days when I would get onto the worktops to reach to clean! I suppose being a small window it wouldn't cost a lot to replace it with one of those windows that pivot in the middle so you can reach both sides. Too much other expense just now though. When my first OH gutted the kitchen at my last house I made sure the sink wasn't under a window which was much better although there was no view from the sink then.

It's always a relief when the car passes the MOT Mandy so that's good and done for another year now! I'd never seen Linseed fields till a few years ago either, but as we drove by the field today it has either gone over now or the flowers were tight shut because of the rain, so no blue anywhere. I've never seen a field of Borage. It's good young Lewis felt well enough to go back to school. I remember we did more fun things at the end of term.

Mel we've had no blue sky here, just shades of grey with a bit of white. You were lucky having no subs this time. It isn't often that I get none. Are you mostly making your miniatures now or do you think there will there be more Tudor people?

It’s been dry this morning though it keeps coming over very black. I think we had our share of the rain last night. Just as we got in from the club meeting the heavens opened and it rained heavily on and off all night, with plenty of thunder too. At least I got the bedding washed and dried this morning. I hope it stayed dry for AnnG.

It was a good meeting last night and brought back memories for us as we had 3 lovely holidays in the area so had been to all the places he showed. As an added bonus we won a bottle of wine in the raffle. We pay £2 subs and for that we get a talk of some sort, tea/coffee and biscuits and a raffle ticket. You couldn’t get better value than that.

As we’re driving around we do pass fields of blue, though from the road you can’t always tell if it’s linseed or borage. It always looks pretty and is easier on the eyes than the fields of rape that are in bloom earlier in the year.

Hope you get on OK at the dentist Mel. I’ve got a similar problem. I’ve got a metal plate with 4 teeth. A couple of years ago I dropped it and just chipped 1 tooth. It wasn’t causing any problems so I just left it but now a bit more has chipped off and it looks as though the tooth is splitting vertically. I’ve rung the dentist and got an appointment on Thursday. MORE EXPENSE as Frank always said.

I was wondering why I was aching so much but then remembered I had a burst of energy this morning and cleaned the windows in the kitchen and utility and the glass in the front door and it involved a bit of bending and stretching. There are 2 glass doors and 2 full length panes between the dining part of the kitchen and the conservatory. The biggest problem is a pane behind the sink area. There are 3 but 2 of them open outwards so I can clean them from outside. The middle one is a fixed pane and I have to get the heavy indoor steps, stand on these and try and reach right over the sink and taps to get to the glass. What a silly design, no wonder my back aches.

I’m now waiting for Tesco who are due between 3 and 4 pm. Apparently there are no subs but one thing missing. As it’s only a couple of leeks I’m not bothered about that.

Oh good, it’s raining again.

Back from our trip. We got to the Lavender at 10.30. It has changed since we were last there and now there is not a proper cafe but a hut with take away drinks and a few seats around, with a few under cover. It wa dull when we got there but stayed dry long enough for us to walk around the lavender and the wild flower meadow. Thos of us who had been before felt it was not as good now there was not as much lavender to see. However the wildflower meadow was stunning. At about 11,30 it started to rain and there was quite a heavy shower. I was able to get under cover so didn't get very wet. We stayed there until about 12 then drove to the Snowshill pub where we had tables booked. There should have been 15 of us but some were unwell and there were only 9, but just as well really as they were very busy. The food was excellent. I had fish and chips and it was really nice. When we came out from lunch it was torrential rain so a good job we went to the lavender in the morning.

When we got home there had not been any rain at all.

Afternoon all,

Rainy morning here but its brightened up a bit now ,took the car and son picked me up ,son looked on the mot app thingy and it's passed with few advisories so thats good .

Hope Anng has a dry day for her trip to the Lavender fields ,we went to the Lavender farm near Hunstanton years ago and I remember they had a nice tea room but with the coaches it was very busy .

Mel hope you can get your tooth sorted out without to much expense.

Ann I remember seeing linseed in the fields a few years ago we wondered what it was at the time but it's such a pretty blue flower and the field looked so blue in the sunshine .
The children finish school here on Friday, poor Lewis was a bit poorly over the weekend he had a high temperature but they didn't know why so he had yesterday off but he's gone in today as its his last day in this years class then they have three days in next year's classroom and he didn't want to miss it, up until then he had 100% attendance and got an excellent report .

Oh Vera I shall have to look in Roys for the Bisto thanks for mentioning that ,Tesco only have the little one .
I'm not sure who was driving the learner car but there was a lady there so the he driver might have been a she driver ,whoever it was must I hope it hasn't put them off trying again .

Going back to the Bisto ,mum would put all sorts in her gravy Bisto ,oxo ,Bovril and cornflour or flour to help thicken it .
She also made a lovely coffee blancmange with cornflour too .

Shopping came and no subs this week. Sun has come out here now and its quite pleasent. Theres huge white clouds but blue sky inbetween.

Hope its nice where Ann is so she can enjoy the Lavender fields in comfort. I remember going to the Norfolk lavender farm years ago when I lived in Suffolk.

Hope you can get a pic of the Flax field Ann. They used to grow that on the fields near the river just outside Sudbury and Borage too. I wonder if they still do it after 31 years?

Morning Everyone,

Managed to be up early and have done three errands looking at bathroom stuff so next will be to pop to the shop on the way to have something to eat, probably Ullesthorpe Court. The children have broken up for their summer holidays here, but we don't see any there so it's less noisy!

It was pouring with rain when we set off and puddles everywhere on the roads, but it's stopped now. Not sure whether I will get a photo of the linseed. I hope it stays fine for your lavender visit AnnG.

Good luck at the dentist Mel.

Good morning all. dry so far 13 degrees but it doesn't look settles. And anyway the Lavender fields are over on the border of worcestershire near Broadway, slightly higher up than here so not necessarily the same weather, So fingers crossed. Being picked up at 0930.