General Chat

Evening all

We’ve had a very good day at Knole, but tbh I’m too exhausted to talk about it right now. We left home at 8 am and got back at 7 pm and since then I’ve sorted out our bits and pieces and we’ve had a sandwich and a cuppa. At the moment my back, which hasn’t been bad lately, is letting me know it’s not happy. I’ve spent a lot of time moving slowly around Knole house or just standing and that’s the worst thing for my back. I’m going to get into bed with pillows propped behind me.and try and get some rest.

We have another busy day tomorrow but I’ll try to find time to come online and tell you what we did today. In the meantime I hope you all sleep well tonight.

I washed my hands when I came in and I have the stings on both thumbs and index fingers. Why do they tingle more when your hands are wet?

Did a short stint in the garden but was mainly doing admin jobs indoors. Finally did the end of June accounts so that is out of the way. It was very windy here all day so not pleasant to work out there.

Yes Mel we've been out in the garden ,there was a few spits of rain but not enough to wet the ground .
Poor old Hare I should think he died from shock after going down the road like the clappers .
Oh no nettle stings, the times I have had them when little and out would come the vinegar bottle
We heard yesterday that a chap from the flats who use to have a chat over the wall if we were out in the garden had a heart attack in town a couple of weeks ago ,we thought it strange that he hadn't been about and thought that he'd gone on one of his holidays ,apparently he had been in intensive care in Addenbrookes .

Been in the garden nearly all day. Scraped a bit more of the road round the bend and pulled up more nettles nearly as tall as me then moved on to some I had pulled before and they were only a foot high and they stung me through my gloves. Now I have a prickerly left hand.

Have you all been in the garden? as nobody seems to have posted.

Morning girls,

Its quite bright here this morning with sun and big white clouds pc is saying 16 degrees and partly sunny so I hope it stays that way.

Its bin day tomorrow so I need to get my bags up there today as thye come so early in the morning.

I can't stand on the bed either and I definately could'nt look up to clean the light and its one of those with about 8 swirly arms with a light on each end. I do put the cobweb brush up there and the hoover pipe but they are a devil to dust and it seems to cling to them and not just wipe off.

I forgot to tell you coming back from Holsworthy the other day coming up from Dipper Mill up the twisty bit there was a young hare running towards me in the road and behind that was a huge arctic lorry I managed to stop and it ran past me and when I looked in the mirror it was still running in the raod with the lorry following it but the driver was being careful. The poor thing must have been so frightened it was just zig zagging across the road from side to side and could'nt seem to find a way into the fields either side. YOu could see the black tips to his ears as he ran past.

Morning all,

Very cloudy when we got up about half seven but now we have a bit of blue sky and sunshine shine .

Anng the new top sounds pretty with the flowers and butterflies on it .
I know what you mean about trying to stand on the bed I use to do that to dust the shade on the light above the bed but now I have to try to get the hoover on it and hope for the best .

We hope to get the new plants in today and cut the grass which didn't get done .

good morning all. slept well but couldn't get back to sleep at 0615 so was up early 15 degrees here now at 0720. Light cloud glimmer of sun.

Mel, that is the trouble with kitchen cupboard (or any other room cupboards. as we get older some are too low and some are too high (and gone are the days of leaping on a chair to reach the high ones. I have a large cupboard which runs across above the width of the spare bed , part of built in wardrobes. I have stored various bags in there and was fine at getting to them until yesterday. I have not tried to get up to it for a couple of years as not needed anything in there. Yesterday no way could I stand up on the bed, like getting up from sitting/kneeling on the floor, added to the mattress being 'bouncy', I just couldn't do it.

Ann, It seems all wrong to me that people should be made to pay for somebody else's bad driving. Why should the person who has suffered the error of somebody else have to lose money on their own insurance. All the cost should be on the person who caused the problem.

Vera, I had a friend (no longer with us), who couldn't iron striped shirts and her OH was banned from buying striped shirts.
Hope that you have a lovely trip out today. Is it far to go?

Evening All,

Rainy here early this morning when I went to the hairdesser and it was busy in the shared carpark with the gym so I had to park at the bottom to get an end spot so I could open my door enough to get out. Tia was showing me an app she has where you can photograph any plant and it will tell you what it is, which I thought very handy when looking around other gardens and see something you like and might want to get, but don't know what it is. She was telling me how nice the different salads are in Lidl too so I must go and look as it's nice to have a change from the usual. There is a code to punch in to get the carpark barrier to lift to get out of the carpark and they change it several times a day, but not for the first time it didn't work and cars behind me had to reverse so I could back up and stop blocking the queue. I wasn't going to park all the way down the bottom again and have to walk all the way back to reception, so I parked outside the entrance where the delivery drivers drop things off and nipped inside. The girll said to just drive back to the barrier and she would operate it from inside. She took a while and I was just about to reverse back again when up the barrier went! Hurrah!

AnnG you have been snipped and coiffed today like me. The different girl today sounds like she made a good job of doing your hair and took extra care. It's good when they take notice and do it how you like. It's good you had a better night with your leg.

That was a good idea and sounded like a nice place to pull off and eat your sandwich yesterday Mel. It's the sort of thing I do to enjoy the change of scene and relax a few minutes.

I had an early birthday card today and most unusual for me or OH, he said I should open it now instead of saving it. It was from an old work friend that I hadn't met up with for a few years, although we exchange Christmas and Birthday cards. Some sad news that her husband passed away at home a few weeks ago. This year alone that is 2 work friends whose husbands have passed away plus a achoolfriend whose husband has passed away and recently the lovely friend I used to bead with. It's sad we lose so many friends and relatives as we get older.

Vera, it's a pity I didn't live nearer and could have taken those files off your hands! lol. I asked OH about stripes and checks and he says he doesn't think they affect him but he doesn't like jazzy checks anyway. He pulled out a book from his packed bookshelves, (wouldn't you just know it!) called Migraine and showed me some artist's paintings in it of the visual effects he gets. He starts with a bright flickering in part of both eyes that grows slowly into a zigzag arc that flickers and grows and then slowly fades away to the sides of his eyes. It isn't known yet whether these new headaches at one side of his head are connected with the visual migraines. When he spoke to his doctor she still hadn't had the results back from his headscan, but she has now and he has made another telephone appointment with her to discuss the results, so she may be able to tell him whether they are connected or not. He doesn't get the visual disturbances when he has the headache. I meant to say before that we are still 'blue' as well.

I seemed to have spent all afternoon renewing my car insurance. That car backing into OH's when it was parked has cost us over £100 between us on our car insurances, even though OH didn't lose any no claims bonus. Then it took me ages to find where to stop them auto renewing it at the end of the year! The silly chatbot rambled on about everything else but! They don't want you to go elsewhere, so make it hard for you to stop them doing it. It had said proof of No claims bous would be needed, so I printed pages off the renewal, then the acknowledgement said it wouldn't be needed. I've just had a new credit card, but can't activate it till Asda have finished adjusting things that were out of stock etc, so used another card. Now our banks won't release our money without ushaving to use codes they send and I'm sure mine have added more numbers now. Things used to be so much quicker and easier before all of these 'improvements'. Then I reported anoth lot of scam emails.

Off to bed and see if I get more done tomorrow! I hope Vera has a better night tonight.

Been a very grey day here with some rian in the air. Put the shopping awayand then decided to have the bottom cupboard out. Well I was disgusted with myself as I found jams I made in 2003 in the back and a bag of mixed fruit that had been opened and shoved to the back. I really have a job to get down this low to clean the back but I have managed it. There was three tubs of butter icing very old chutney and the tins had made brown rings on the floor so out came the Cij and now it all gone. There was some glace' cherries that had sugar spot on them so they went in the bin and a tin of cherry pie filling from 2013 !! Bin man comes this week so I shall have a full bin for them to take.

I'm glad you were pleased with your hair as when you get someone new it can all go wrong. Two new geraniums too.

No I hav'nt found the pot lid Mandy but forgot to look around the workshop when I went in for chickens food twice!

Janine and Simon came down late afternoon with two pallets for me which they put in the chicken run. They actually went to investigate them and stood on them which is the whole idea if it gets really muddy in the winter.

We hav'nt heard from Ann today.

Must get soemthing to eat as I am really hungry as I have only had a black coffee a glass of water and a bowl of cornflakes so now I am going to have steak in ale with mash and asparagus to use what is edible then a nice slice of pineapple and some grapes and maybe a nectarine too.

Hope the weather is kind to you tomorrow Vera and you have a lovely day out.
Mandy yes I have dusky pink trousers and the new top has a white background and flowers and butterflies over it. It goes well so I am pleased with it.
You are lucky to be able to get compost that is not peat free.

Evening all,

The day started off dry so we went to tesco and to the plantman ,I bought a nice Jasmine a Penstemon a yellow Rebecia and two others that I've forgotten the names of now ,I wanted a Honeysuckle but he didn't have any so we went to a garden centre this afternoon and got one from there they had some ivy Geraniums for 99p so I got one of those too, we got two bags of compost from Roys which is not peat free so shouldn't dry out to quickly like the peat free.
The rain started mid afternoon and when we were eating our meal it absolutely tipped down with such a roar .

Mel did you find your saucepan lid so annoying to lose something you use often ,I was looking at the teaspoons in the draw today and I'm sure there's some gone awol I think they get thrown out with the yogurt pots.

Anng thats good the new girl at the hairdressers did your hair OK sometimes you wonder if it will be cut as you like it .
What colour top did you buy ,did you say you already had a skirt or trousers to change into for the evening that you can wear with the new top .

Oh Ann I hope there wasn't a poor chap stuck in that security van ,it probably locks all doors if there's a problem .
Let's hope these new tablets can help OH's migraines and he doesn't get any side effects from them .

Oh Vera I know what you mean when your ironing the striped things and it affects your eyes ,it affects me so you with your migraines it must be awful for you ,you'll have to hide your OH's stripey shirts or get him to iron them :-)
I hope you enjoy your trip out tomorrow and the weathers good for it ,I've never heard of Knole House and Park so don't know where it is so I'll have to have a Google .

Not a good night again but you’re probably bored with hearing that. It’s been mizzly all day, the sort of rain you can hardly see or feel but you end up soaking wet. It’s not cold at all, around 20 degrees so with the warmth and the wet it feels quite humid. I hope it improves tomorrow as we are out for the day.

We’re going on a coach trip to Knole house and park. I’ve been there several times before when young but the last time we visited must have been nearly 50 years ago. I’m looking forward to it.

Today we went into town to the bank and then stopped at the supermarket on the way home and got a load of shopping. I noticed that there were a load of packs of pate on the shelf marked Use By 7th July. I reported it when I got to the checkout and the girl did use her intercom to pass the message on to a supervisor. When we got home it was nearly time for lunch and since then I have done the ironing including 4 striped shirts of OH’s. Looking at stripes of certain widths can badly affect my eyes and bring on a migraine. The stripes appear to wave around in front of me. OH can wear them with a jumper or jacket as I can cope with seeing just a collar but the whole mass of stripes in front of my eyes is just too much. It’s very difficult if a visitor turns up in a stripes as I can hardly ask them to remove their shirt. I have been known to make an excuse to put dark glasses on as that does help. Certain size checks affect me like that as well. Does your OH find that Annx?

I hope it has stayed dry for you all and you are enjoying your day. Hope you didn’t get wet walking back from the hairdressers AnnG.

EDIT. Sorry AnnG, I missed your last post. Glad you like your hair cut and got yourself a nice top.

Is that Asda Mel? doesn't sound as if the pickers are doing a very good job.

Went to one of the independent garden centres but didn't really have long enough there with having to get back for my hair appointment. Still I did find a top to wear in the evening at the wedding which was good. sad they didn't still have any bedding plants left to fill in gaps but I got two geraniums instead. They seem to be managing to cope with our weird weather.

Anyway hair done, different girl again as my girl was off sick. This one was really good I liked how she took care to get it right. She is very young but did a really good job.

Order came and I sent back three items and watched the driver refund me for them. When I unpacked there was a mouldy tom in the pack and the asparagus tip were all mushy so I had to ring and speak to someone who was very helpful.

Morning girls grey day here again this morning and pc says mostly cloudy and 16 degrees.I slept well, got up at 4.29 am for the loo and went back to bed and slept till 8.12am.

Shopping comes today and I have 5 subs. Corse salt instead of salt flakes, carrots instead of organic carrots which I did'nt mean to order anyway so thats ok, steak and ale meal for one when I already have one on the list and smokey BBQ pulled pork instead of the slow cooked one and kerrygold butter instead of Anchor which I don't need as I have a butter in the freezer and am not eating it at the mo. So I shall keep the carrots and never had the pork before so I think that can go back with the rest of it.

Up early again. good morning all. 14 degrees here, dry and light cloud.
Slept ok Leg not too bad, didn't wake me up
Friend picking me up this morning quickish visit to garden centre as I have hair appointment at 1245. Must collect my prescription as well. She will drop me off at hairdressers. Then I will have to walk home and rain is forecast :-( :-(

Oh dear Mel, I hope you haven’t lost your saucepan lid. It’s so annoying when things like that happen. Your little picnic in the car park at Dunsland sounds like a nice peaceful interlude.

Isn’t it strange Annx; you’re looking for magazine files and I’ve just given 2 nice ones to the charity shop. I hope OH’s new tablets help him. I had heard of tryptophan but knew nothing about it so had to google. In fact, I misread it as tryptan at first as that is often given to try and nip the pain of migraine in the bud. I used to have Zolmitriptan. I wonder why OH isn’t given beta blockers as a preventative. Maybe they wouldn’t mix with other things he takes. After all, it’s easy for us lay people to say we should be taking this or that but the doctor has to take everything into consideration.

I did laugh at your early lunch AnnG but you have been getting up early so your body probably thought it was lunch time.

It came over very dark around 1.30 so I dashed out and got all the washing in. Most of it was dry and the rest just needed a few minutes in the tumble dryer. I also part cleaned the fridge this afternoon. I know it sounds daft to only part clean it but to do it properly takes ages and I keep putting it off “till I’ve got time” and it is long overdue for a good clean out. It’s a big American style fridge and just dismantling it to clean all the bits and pieces is a pain in the proverbial. So I decided I’d do it a bit at a time. Thank goodness it’s self defrosting so at least I haven’t got ice to clear away.

I’m beginning to feel a bit tired now but I must go and make a shopping list for tomorrow. I don’t seem to have planned my last delivery very well as we keep running out of things. I didn’t shop at all last week and tomorrow’s the only day I’ve got free this week so I must stock up then.

Hope you all sleep well tonight.

I think I have done a silly thing and thrown away my small sauspan lid in the recyling and they came today. I had cooked some chicken mash and took the lid off and put it in the bin till I came back with the pan and forgot it. I am just hoping I may have put it in the garage workshop when I went to get the pellets.

Back from Holsworthy and did the library so now I have books to listen to whilst cooking and washing up which is good. I seem to have aquired a bite on my which itches like anything. How can such a tiny bite irritate so much?

Bought a sandwich while I was out and on the way home I stopped at Dunsland which used to be a house owned by the National Trust but I think it burnt down years ago but you can still go in and walk the grounds. They have a little carpark under the trees just off the road so I ate my lunch there. t was so peaceful but would have been better if the sun was shining through the leaf canopy. Came home and had a COT and it has been raining ever since I left for the town and still is so those of you who have had sun today are really lucky to have seen any at all today.

Your getting there with the bathroom Ann it will be great when its all done and you're straight again. How strange about the security van calling for help. Thats a new one on me.

My tom plants are growing but I got them in so late I don't know whether they will do anything this year. My cue is growing well and needs tying in again as do the tom plants. The plant I bought at the shop, a Shirley, has one tom on it and has only just grown another set of flowers. Most of the flowers on the first truss did'nt take just one out of about 7 flowers I am hoping the next truss does better or it will be going on the bonfire.