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It has been dul here today 14 degrees but it stayed dry. That was the IPad era and I had not noticed.
Seahouses (And it did it again), was very crowded and quite cold. We had a walk round the town and down to the harbour, looked in a few shops then had a nice coffee in the cafe bar attached to the leisure centre as we had been unable to find anywhere else. We then drove to a beach that is the extension round a large bay of the beach two minutes walk from here. I need to check out the name of the place as I have forgotten.
We came back to our lodge for lunch then later had a walk out across the sand dunes. Daughter and SiL walked on further than me. My leg is playing up a bit this week and is wuite painful at times. Not sure what causes the pain. I turned back and took my to
I e taking photos of some of the wild flowers.

Edit Beadnell is the name

Evening All,

It's been a drizzly day here and cooler. We were up early and went to a Dobies near the other bathroom shop, but the traffic was bad through the village, so OH went another way and that didn't work as a road we wanted was closed! Another detour down a bumpy little lane and we eventually got there and had brekkie first and a browse round The Works. I got some wool and OH found a bargain £3 book he fancied that was an inch and a half thick! Then we went to the bathroom shop, but it wasn't as good as the one near us. As we weren't far away we drove past OH's old house and were shocked at how the little close of new houses he lived in had gone downhill and was mostly a park for cars. His house was at the end and had a long half moon bed that was just a bed of knee high weeds now. and the front border with the wavy path we made with a silver birch tree in front is just a patch of gravel with a car parked on it. As his parents used to live not far away we went to see what their house looked like now and it had 2 cars parked on the front sticking onto the pavement. The porch had gone and the windows and doors were replaced and most of the front gardens on the road had been turned into parking spaces.

Mandy have some food when you have the painkillers and try an extra pillow if you haven't already as it may help. My word, Jake is nearly as old as my first OH when I started seeing him! Money always goes down well for teenage birthdays. A lot of the pleasure is deciding what to buy! I can imagine you trying to get out of those chairs as I would be the same so it's good your son can use them now. We have had some lethal garden chairs in the past, starting with deck chairs. Others have started folding up as soon as you move as well. Yes, I did think about tacks on the drive, but then I would get punctures driving over them as well!

I'd forgotten all about the Lincoln biscuits that Gwyn mentioned. I liked them too and the Nice ones although I was never sure what to call them. I didn't like to say, but a girl I used to work with called Garibaldi biscuits fly cemetries! I like bourbon biscuits, but OH doesn't and we both like jammie dodgers.

I remember hunting for the salt in the blue paper in the dark at the cinema with first OH when he was my boyfriend. I never used it though, just threw it away. We have the Walkers factory in the city, so I've always liked their crisps. Like Mel I never liked cheese as a child, except the dairylea triangles, but my favourite crips are cheese and onion and even more the plain cheese ones that Walkers no longer make sadly. I used to ride on the bus from school past the Frears and Blacks factory and in the summer when the windows were open the whole area seemed to smell of custard creams.

A nice day at Alnwick gardens then AnnG. I remember it had some interesting water features, but like you I never got to go round the poison garden. It had a locked gate when I went to make sure no-one wandered in. It must have been warmer there than here if you were able to sit on your balcony.

I'd better go and check I'm set to record the sewing bee now.

Evening everyone

It wasn’t a bad day yesterday - cool in the morning but warm in the afternoon and dry all day but today’s not so good. It was grey and cool till late morning, then light rain and heavy rain since lunchtime. That put paid to my plans of doing a bit more in the garden.

I hope the stronger pain killers are helping Mandy. It’s hard to believe that Jake is 19 already. I hope he has a lovely birthday tomorrow.

You are working hard on your land Mel. I don’t know how you do it. I struggle to keep up with the jobs in our tiny patch. Be careful of your knee. You don’t want to be hobbling around again.

I laughed at your typo, AnnG, or was it an iPad autocorrection? I imagined you galloping across the waves with your seahorses. I hope you enjoyed your day at Seahouses and the weather was kind to you.

You have all started some memories with the biscuits you like. I had forgotten Lincoln which I liked. I think as a child my favourite biscuit was Marie. I haven’t seen either of those in the shops for years. When I was young we lived near the Chiltonian biscuit factory and my mother used to be able to buy a very big paper bag full of mixed broken biscuits for a shilling so we always had a great variety of biscuits. Occasionally we even found a whole one and thought we had got the jackpot.

I am typing this while trying to cook dinner and things are starting to boil over so I’ll post and maybe come back later.

We,ve got thunder rumbling around but the suns still out.

Bless him Mandy it would be good if he could break the record and get his name in the guiness book of records.

Got hot strimmed all the trees in the orchard and some of the side and top by the wall.

Oh the little blue bag in the crisps ,the times I pick it out and bit into it before I realised.
Jake will be nineteen he's a lovely young chap ,I asked him if he'd seen the young lad on the tele the other day he had done a record of making 85 sausages in a minute for
the Guinness book of records ,Jake said I think I could make about 50 so he has a way to go :-)

O yes Lincoln biscuit that was another I liked as a child but I hav'nt seen those for years. I seem to have mostly liked the plain biscuits.

When my best friend and I used togo down the local stables to look after the horses we would look around for lemonade bottles and take them back to the hsop and get the 3d back on them and go to the offy and get three huge osbourne biscuit as they were 1d each. If we found two bottles we would get a packet of Smiths crisps for the 3d and lick the biscuits and put the little blue bag of salt over the biscuits and we thought that was lovely!! Then they brought out flavoured crisps, I think there was bovril or beef ones and cheese and onion ones. I did'nt eat cheese when I was young hated it.

I have taken it easy today but the suns still shining and I have the urge to go and do a bit of strimming as I can't see the plnts in front of my shed the grass is so high. I also want to go up and take some pics of my bearded iris which I keep forgeting and I have roses out on the wall. The lantern bush is covered in flower this year. I have also had a blue iris out in the garden it flowers before the bearded ones and was given to me by a friend who is sadly no longer with us but I always think of her when I see it in the border so thats nice.

DIL and son will be glad of those garden chairs if the weather holds. How old is Jake tomorrow I lose count.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TOMORROW JAKE, HAVE A LOVELY DAY.

Morning all,
Very dull here today and we should have rain later.
Had a better night woke at twenty to three and had a pain killer then woke just after six,got out to the loo and felt very sick but it went off .

Son ,dil and Jake its his day off on a Tuesday they called in with a bag of dog food and dil went to boots for our tablets, tomorrow is Jakes birthday so we gave him his card and money its hard to know what to buy him now as he's earning he gets what he wants .
We also gave them two garden chairs as we'll never use them now as they have the bit at the bottom that comes up for your feet and we find it a job to get up out of them now .

Take it easy today Mel with your knee have a rest today and do a bit more tomorrow.

Gwyn I haven't heard of those Lincoln biscuits ,good you mentioned your bin ours needs to go out today and I said to Colin he needs to do it before the rain comes .

Anng sounds like you had a lovely day yesterday a nice look tound the gardens and water features, a nice lunch and a nice evening on the balcony.

Good morning all. Another sunny start. Seahorses today I think. Yesterday was lovely at Alnwick gardens. It is too early for summer flowers so it was mainly looking at the formation of the gardens and, the bit I liked, the wonderful clever water features. Sadly we didn’t get to go in the poison garden. We went for the 12 o’clock tour but that one was cancelled and there was a half hour wait for the next one. We walked into town and had a lovely lunch in The Tavern daughter had mussels. SiL had sausages and I had a really tasty shepherds pie with red cabbage. We then visited Barter books and I bought three, so it was a good day and the sun shone with a clear blue sky until 10pm. It was warm enough to sit outside on our balcony but not hot.

It's interesting to read about your favourite biscuits. My family also like custard creams and the malted milk, but I don't think they do the nibbling. Daughter bought some of the sports picture biscuits just last week. When I was young, I liked the iced gems, which we were sometimes bought for a picnic with our friends in the garden.I also liked Lincolns - a plain standard biscuit with raised dots all over one face. I haven't seen them for years now.

A dull and really dark day here and light rain started about 20 minutes ago, but at least I was able to put the bins out for collection without getting wet.

Morning all,

Another bright sunny morning at the moment pc is saying 14 degrees and sunny.

Left knees a bit stiff and achey this morning but I expect its all the walking around I did yesterday in Holworthy and mucking about with the pond scimmer in the morning standing on the edge of the pond.

Shopping comes today but I can't get into my emails at present it just won't load but says I have 6 emials. I expect one at least is from Asda telling how many subs I have.

O I am in now so I better go and have a look.

Hope you all slept well and that Mandy is'nt in so much pain today with the new painkillers.

Custard creams were my maternal nan's favorite. Dad liked them too and so do I but when young I would only eat ginger nuts, rich tea, iced gems bourbons, marie, osbourne and never chocolate digestives but the plain ones. I also liked the iced party biscuits covered in icing with a patern on. You still get those now but the icings a bit hard n the old teeth now. I think one of my favorites was Cafe' Noir which I hav'nt seen for years now, a coffee flavoured iced biscuit.

Ann thats no good then putting the bin there if the drive has a slope ,maybe a few good old tin tacks to give him a puncture.
Colin's favourite biscuits too custard creams ,I quite like a ginger biscuit and the Oatie biscuits.
Oh yes Garabaldy biscuits or fly biscuits as we use to call them .

That's good they are checking you out with a blood test and scan Mandy and that she has prescribed some better painkillers. I didn't know you could get diarrhea with gallstones. We are a lot aren't we with one thing or another. I thought about a nice icecream while I was out today and then remembered they have sometimes upset my tum in the past, so swerved by them quickly!

Yes, I have wondered about sticking the wheelie bin in his way, but then I'd have to keep moving it when I want to go out and our drive is quite steep near the bottom and not great on my knees, especially if the bin is heavy. I'll get OH to put it in his way on bin days though as the bin is usually emptied before I go out and then OH goes out and fetches it straight after, as one of our neighbours is prone to taking our, cleaner bin than his up his own drive, despite our number being on it. lol.

I like malted milk biccies with the cow on too. I don't see them often now but I used to love the sports biscuits years ago that had different sports on them. OH's favourites are custard creams.

First OH loved garibaldi Mel, but they and jaffa cakes are two things that never tempt me! The lemon drizzle cake does though. Could you just get a much newer, but not brand new mower? As Mandy says, the cost of the new parts mounts up. It sounds like you need one of those harrow type things to tow with the mower round your trees before mowing to scrape up the twigs. It will be nice to see your bearded Iris if you can get some pics. I don't have any now, but I love the flowers.

Mandy I still buy Malked milk and eat all the edge of, you just have to. Asda do sell Rich Tea but not the fingers which are the ones I like. They changed the flavours of the Iced Gems. They used to have lo9vely scented tops but they're not the sam anymore.
I bought a packet of Garibaldy (sp) down the shop the other week as I had'nt had those for years. Just the same as ever.

I have tried to light a bonfire but its not working so shall have to go down and try again. Iv'e potted up a couple of plants and done a little weeding. I must go up and take pics of my Bearded Iris as they have been in bloom about a week now and I shall miss them if I am not careful.

Better go and dive down the freezer for something for dinner as I don't feel like cooking now.

Gave BIL more eggs today as Em's not buying so many cos Sam has gone off his plain buns. I shall have to buy a couple of lemons and give her some eggs and ask her to make me a lemon drizzle cake as her are delish.

She just said that the iron tablets don't agree with everyone but I stopped taking the new iron tablets when the diarrhea started again ,she did say you can get that with gall stones .
That's odd that asda doesn't have rich tea biscuits I thought they were one of the more poplar ones, we like the malted milk biscuits I can remember having those as a little girl and I always use to bite round the cow lol another one mum used to buy me was those little iced gems I use to eat the little bit on the top and leave the biscuit.

Pleased you have seen the nurse practitioner And got some stronger pain killers. Did she say anything about the new iron tablets you've been taking? I hope you can now get some comfort tonight without pain.

Got back from Holsworthy just before 4.30pm. I think I remembered evrything today. Got some potting grit which I badley needed, bought myself a new Rosemary plant in Waitrose and some Rich tea fingers as I can't get those in Asda so I bought two packets. Posted a little parcel and went to the library for my book and found another one too so plenty to read now. Also got some peppermint creams in the Factory shop so all set for the week now.

Now I need to do a bit of sowing aand potting on.

Suns lovely now so warm.

The paper man doesn't sound as if he's taken any notice of you waving him off your drive Ann could you stand a wheelie bin out so he can't turn .

That's a lot of money for a new mower Mel but if your having to buy all these spare parts perhaps you'll have to bite thd bullet .

I saw a nice nurse practitioner she gave me some strong pain killers and I also had blood taken to test activity on the gall bladder ,she's also getting me a scan organised so hopefully we can see what's going on .

Done some weeding and dug up my snowdrops by mistake but will sort tthose later. Done the big pond filter and had to muck about with the skimmer and then I realised there was'nt enough water in the pond for it to work properly so had to turn the pump on from the well. Did that and now I am having a rest and something to eat.