General Chat

Good morning.
We have a nice day here so far, the sun is shining & nice & calm, a wee nip in the air but not too bad.
I'm hoping to venture outside & do some tidying up, something I had planned to do yesterday but didn't manage.
Yesterday started out a lovely day flat calm, sunny & really warm & so my first job was to sweep the leaves from the driveway, & then did some final weedkilling of some stubborn weeds around the edge of the drive, plus shifting some mossy stuff that had settled within the cracks of the drive way blocks !!

That done I took a rest before making a start on tidying up the flower borders in the front garden, the sun was still shining & still flat calm, however not 5 minutes doing that the rain came on, but not the shower I thought it was, it absolutely chucked it down, what a deluge, it only lasted 2 or 3 minutes but everything was soo wet it stopped me from doing any more outside jobs.

Complete waste of the weedkiller & not only that the heavy rain brought down a heap of leaves which covered the drive !
Here's hoping I will mange to get something done outside today including of course sweeping up the 2nd load of leaves.

Our Swallows are still here but I'm thinking they will be on their way very soon.

Joan.

I can fully sympathise with your biting problem, Linda.
My last denture (two top front teeth) was terrible - wouldn't stay in at all without fixative, and even then dislodged easily. I had to cut everything into bite-sized pieces in order to eat - or else eat soft stuff which didn't require biting.

I had to plan every day around my teeth, as the fixative only lasted a few hours.
Couldn't hygienically or without embarrassment remove the denture, clean it and reapply fixative, in, for example, a café toilet.

My current denture is, sadly , because of the loss of two more teeth, one on each side, further along.
But what a wonderful difference to my quality of life!
I don't have to worry about it wobbling embarrassingly when I talk, or coming adrift in the middle of a meal in public.
It stays in securely , doesn't need any horrible gungy fixative, and while I can't bite into a whole apple, for example, I can eat a slice of toast without having to cut it up first! Such simple pleasures!

Andysmum -
when I go to Glasgow or Edinburgh I always go on that Ft William - Glasgow bus, and can clearly imagine the pair of you waiting at the bus stop!
It's so convenient changing buses in Glasgow - a walk of only a few yards along the bus station, and bus staff lift luggage in and out of the hold.
But as you'll know, it's essential to book in advance for the FW-Glasgow bus. I've seen too many people left standing at bus-stops because they hadn't booked and the bus was full.

Florence -
today is calm and sunny, though cool.
I hope it's the same with you, and that your sideboard and poly tunnel arrive when they're supposed to.

Joan -
I hope you've been able to attack your shrubs by now.

I can chew at the back of my mouth, but I daren’t bite anything at all with my front teeth, not even soft things. It is still sore, but not as bad as before.

This afternoon, OH and I went out for a walk with my daughter and Eve. We did a three mile circular walk through woods and along the river bank. I think I need to buy some walking poles because it was very rough and I am starting to struggle especially on slopes. Anyway I made it, but the annoying thing was that we had planned a coffee stop , but the cafe which was supposed to be open had closed early. That was annoying as I was looking forward to cake :-(

It's pretty wild here too. OH has escaped and is flying to Greece for a fortnight's sailing. He is not as mobile as he used to be so we worked out that the best way to get to Edinburgh Airport without lots of walking with heavy luggage was to catch the Citylink bus from Fort William to Glasgow and then the bus to Edinburgh. (This also has the advantage of being free with his bus pass.) So I drove him to a bus stop on the main road along the side of Loch Lomond where it was dry and fairly sheltered from the wind.

Having put him safely on the bus I did some shopping and drove home. It started raining about half-way and got heavier the nearer I got. Since then it has been very windy and non-stop heavy rain - most unseasonal for September

Good luck with your new teeth, Linda. it sounds as though you need a liquid diet for a bit - or baby food! :-) Stuff you don't have to bite or chew.

Afternoon all from the windiest place in Britain lol!!

Just when will the gales do one fgs and its only September grrr.

So another indoor day. im getting cabin fever and running out of jobs to do just now. I had been doing a lot of family tree stuff but took a break from that today.

My new sideboard is stuck on the mainland as we have no ferries until Tuesday. Oh the joys of living on an island! :-(

So hope it calms down by the 23rd as that is when ,y poly tunnel is sipposed to be going up...weather permitting and assuming the others before me have been done as otherwise, that will put me back again.

Sorry having a moany day lol, blame it on the weather :-D :-D

Hope everyone else is ok

Florence in the hebrides

Ah Yes probably the adjacent tooth nerves re-acting. Hopefully it will calm down I have a four tooth clip in denture top front. Had two on a denture since I had abscesses when I was 21 post baby birth. two added over the years.

I have had a bridge since 1979 Ann. I was watching a men’s hockey match with OH. It was a county match and well attended, so everyone was standing on the side lines. One stupid man cleared the ball by hitting it as hard as he could straight into the crowd. The ball flew up straight into my mouth. I had to go to hospital and had fifteen stitches inside my lip. One of my front teeth at the top had to come out straight away, so I had to have a false tooth on a denture plate which I hated. I had to wait as the other front tooth next to it was loose and they needed to see if it would recover. It died so that had to come out as well. At that time the NHS would only bridge one tooth, they would only supply a denture for two teeth. That is why I ended up on Denplan because I could pay privately for a two tooth bridge. It has been replaced twice over the years, the current one has been in for at least fifteen years. It has had a crack in it for about nine months and would have been fine if I hadn’t bitten into a very hard pear :-(
There isn’t any point in going for a quick appointment with my own dentist as there is nothing she could do in the short term. I need a whole new bridge and apparently they are made differently now. Mine has a metal base with the porcelain teeth stuck onto that , the new ones don’t have a metal base, so the porcelain can’t crack. It isn’t aching quite as much this morning but is still very sore. That must be the real tooth which has been filed to a point to attach the bridge to. It really was a loud crack when I bit the pear, so I hope that I haven’t rocked that tooth in its socket and damaged it.
Time will tell, I hope that it us just that the nerves on that stubby tooth have been exposed where the porcelain has come off

Oh dear Linda, you must feel very disappointed. It must also affect your speaking as well and feel very uncomfortable. Is your own dentist back next week? Maybe a visit to them on Monday to find out what the soreness is caused by. How long have you had the bridge?

It is a lovely sunny day here Florence, but only fifteen degrees.

I rang the dentist at 8 am when they opened. They have a new receptionist and she wasn’t very helpful. She wanted to have me wait until next Tuesday for an appointment, but I wasn’t having that. I pay for Denplan and they have an emergency service, so as my own dentist wasn’t in today she went to speak to the other one. He agreed to see me this morning for ten minutes. When I went in, I had the remains of my broken tooth in a plastic bag. When he saw it, he hadn’t realised that the whole tooth front had fallen off, just leaving the metal frame behind it . He said that it will mean a whole new bridge, but that will take a couple of weeks to make. In the meantime he used some white stuff to try and build up the front of the tooth, but wasn’t hopeful about it staying on. It looks much better, but he warned me not to bite on it. I have just had some lunch and think that some of it has fallen off already :-(. The worst thing is that it is very sore. He said that it shouldn’t be, so that will need investigating before the new bridge is made.
Not being able to bite is going to be very difficult. I am cutting the food up into very small bits and putting it to the back of my mouth to chew. I have an appointment for when I get back from holiday to have the preparatory work done, so I will be like this for a month at least

Afternoon everyone

Linda, oh my what an unfortunate thing to happen and also just before you are going away. I hope you get into the dentist today to see if they can do something for you before you go away.

Where about's in Greece are you off to? My father is away to Corfu on 21st Sep for 2 weeks. He goes at the end of the season as its quieter with less tourists and not so hot. But he does stay in a small village not in the busy town on Corfu.

Its a grey and overcast day and quite still!. hmmm hate it when it goes like this as usually a gale follows behind it. I know Hurricane Francine is in the USA just now, so likely we will get the tail end of that.

A few more parcels arrived for me today so my xmas shopping is well on the way to being finished.

Gosh, I got a fright just now as I have the lounge window open and then was a roaring noise :-S :-S i looked up to see my plants moving about and the wind out of nowhere has become very gusty!! obviously spoke too soon.. It is also very cold outside as i found out when I nipped to the bin wearing a thinnish cardie. I didnt hang outside for very long.

Right off to get a sandwich for lunch and looking forward to a chicken breast supper for tea as daughter is in town....yummy.

Hope all is well with you all

Florence in the hebrides

Oh dear Linda, not a good time for anything like that to happen. Not there is ever a good time. I hope you can get it fixed I. Time, you so need that holiday. Good luck with it.

Bother, bother, bother and lots more words of a much stronger type. I was just eating a pear when there was a horrendous crack and the whole front of my two top teeth in the middle has fallen off. It is a bridge of two teeth. It looks horrendous because the grey metal inside is on show. The dentist is closed so I can’t do anything until the morning. The worst thing is that we are going to Greece on Wednesday for two weeks . They will have to take the old bridge off and take an impression and make a new bridge. The lab work will take some time, so I can’t see that happening before Tuesday. :-( :-( :-( :-(

It is cold here as well. We have had quite a lot of rain on and off through the day, Eve said she had hailstones at school.
This week is Heritage open days, so we went to Knaresborough Castle where the sallyport was open for the first time since the lockdown. The tunnel was dug out of solid rock in the 13 th century and goes from the central grassed area of the castle to the moat. It is really large 7 ft high and 6 ft wide and was dug out of the rock by hand. It was very steep and slippery to go down, but I managed it and it was worth seeing it. There was a second tunnel going in the opposite direction, but it was filled in when a car park was built. A crying shame, but that’s what they when they didn’t value our heritage
After the tunnel, we bought cakes from an excellent bakery and went to my daughters in time for Esme coming home. I got to play schools for an hour and a quarter :-( At least it kept her busy while her parents were working

Good afternoon everyone, though it's not that good re the weather.
Another chilly & windy day with showers here & there, the wind is not quite as bad as yesterday but still a pain, no outside jobs done again.
I was hoping to make a start on the cutting back & tidying up the shrubs etc before it gets too cold to go outside.

Florence, I know what you mean re moving the large pieces of furniture, I can actually manage the sofa (just) as it's just a 2 seater & I tip it on it's front t get behind it, not too often though.

It's my bed that's the biggest problem, a double & soo heavy, I have to get my daughter to help with that but even then it's not something I deal with very often & of course it's gets very dusty behind the headboard.

Not done much today, just hoovered through the living room the hallway & the back porch, can't be bothered with any more than that, lol.

Joan.

Afternoon all
Another day of yesterdays awful weather. The whistling through the kitchen vent is driving me mad. We covered it with a shower cap which did quieten the sound but its so windy, its still making an whistling noise grrrr

Had a spring clean today and moved the sofas out into the middle of the room and oh my the dust behind was terrible. Anyway the 2 sofas got a good clean and now all back where they should be.

So having a sit down as quite puffed out with all the moving of things etc.

Not sure what to have for tea tonight so better have a mooch in the fridge and freezer and see what needs eating up.

Hope everyone looking in today is ok

Florence in the hebrides

Afternoon all.
Gosh the weather is just dire!! I was woken up early witgh the stound of torrential rain on my bedroom window, like a power shower that wouldnt stop. I got up and opened the kitchen blind and then....blooming hailstones!! Oh yes and gale force winds.
Neve mind Autumn, this is winter

It is freezing outside so cold, unreal really as a few days ago was about 16 degrees and pleasant.

Oh Joan, sorry to hear about your pan. I once left a pan on with carrots cooking and the water ran out and the pan burnt so black it was un repairable and went straight in the bin. My own fault as I was distracted at the time and completely forgot it was on the cooker.

I made lentil & veggie soup yesterday and there is enough left for tonight with crusty rolls again. Was really tasty. I grated all the turnip and carrots instead of making chunks. This was one way of getting my children to eat their veg!

I finished off my xmas cards I was making and now have about 30 for the fayre which I think will be plenty along with the gift tags. I put 10 in a bag for £2.00. Cards £2.50.

JustGinnie, any spiders up in the corners of my rooms get sucked up the hoover hose!

Well time to clear up. I just needed a break from the crafts and now to get rid of all the scraps etc. Then to sort out the soup for later.

Florence in the hebrides

Good afternoon everyone. It is fifteen degrees here, but the sun is making a bit of an attempt to shine through this afternoon. OH has gone out for a long walk this afternoon, so I have been pottering catching up on small jobs I planned the menus for the rest of the week this morning and went to Aldi to get all the ingredients. The only thing that they didn’t have is Dill, but there is still a small amount growing outside, so hopefully there is enough.

You seem to be settling in well Sylvia. It must be difficult for your husband to understand why he isn’t with you, especially as he won’t think there is anything wrong with him.

It was lucky that you had spare pans Joan, I have burnt a few in my time :-D

Hello Ann, I have "burnt" this particular pan before, a long time ago & not too serious so I managed to rescue it then, probably why it was worse this time.
Thankfully, burning pans is not something I do often, lol.

Joan.

gosh Joan I have never had a pan burnt so badly that it has eaten into the metal. Good job you have a spare set of pans to use.

Hi ArgyllGran.
Unfortunately the pan is ruined, the burnt bits have eaten into the base of it, fortunately I have a spare set of pans, unused & still in the box, I bought them some time ago as they were in a sale & the same ones that I use at the moment.

And so I now have my new set in place & I have put the 2 large ones from the previous set to one side,I have never actually used those 2 as I used different cooking pots for different things, someone in the family might want them but if not they can go to a charity shop.

Still blowing a gale here & trying to rain now.

Joan.