General Chat

!0 times I emptied the baking tray. I have my bedding in it now but I shall need to go and get a new machine as I can't go on like this.

My back is still a bit bad after moving the bedside unit thats in the bottom of his wardrobe. I shall also have to have the top shelf out to see if the mice have been up there as I did'nt do that yesterday.

Wish me luck......... :-(

Miin C'tane typ Morning all,

cloudy 11 degrees pc playing up.

Caught another mouse in the wardrobe. Went to put washing machine on and it just filled up with water and says its on a anti crease finish and its half full of water which I shall probably have to drain.

May be back later if I can.

Morning all,

Dreary morning here with rain I think it should ease up by lunch time so glad I got my washing dry yesterday .
Not sure if we'll shop today we could go in the morning as I checked the time for our hair cut and it's later than normal she usually comes at 11 o'clock but tomorrow its 1.30 so good job I looked at ths calendar.

Enjoy your lunch Anng hope it stops raining but you might need your umbrella.

Good morning pouring with rain here at the moment and 9 degrees. I am hoping it is not going to continue all day. I need it to stop by 12 o'clock when I will be walking out to the local pub for lunch.

Just couldn't get to sleep last night dozes off and woke an hour later then tossed and turned for over two hours, eventually dropped off, woke once for the loo then slept until 7am.

I have to say that a lot of rather large spiders were released into the garden today. Hope they are not making their way indoors here. I also checked the hedgehog house. There is a nest in it so it has been lived in but not one in there at the moment.

No Mel, no greenhouse as I don’t need it. I only grow tomato seeds and that can be done in the conservatory.

Mandy I suspect if will be here sooner than expected that will not be a problem and would be good to get it done.

Vera I doubt if Mac will bother about getting a fence panel up, I am not sure of his age but he must be about 86/7 at least. He is Scottish and watches his money. He will probably tell me it is my fence but I know it is not.

I have just seen the horrific number of pharmacies that have been lost in the South West. Some towns left without one at all. Lack of staff, huger rents, no government funding. Why do they always high light these problems when it is almost too late to solve them.

Are you having a new greenhouse too Anng?

I have had the bottom of the wardrobe out and sorted everything I want to keep and thrown some stuff away. Blocked up the hole where the pipe comes through with the metal scourer in two places so hope that will stop anymore coming in. I shall have to keep my eye out for droppings incase one can get in again.

I darned a hole in my cardi that I caught on a clip in the kitchen cupboard and hurt my back doing that and now its playing up. Hoovered all the spare bedroom and some of the hall and the uti room.

Now my tping ss plauy.. I ge up

They have had a good day in the garden Anng so you might get the shed up sooner than you thought if they can find one you like so that will be good .

Hip hip hooray hang out the flags Vera has got her tablets :-D :-D glad it's all good now Vera it's a worry when you need tablets and they mess you about .I'm like you I only have my cocodamol now and again as I have 100 at a time too
Oh dear poor OH he tried his best bless him you never know he might have planted a few in the right pots lol but you won't know until the spring.

I hung the bedding out and it all got dry ,I just let Max out and its just started to rain ,tomorrow should be a wet day and we wanted to shop tomorrow as the hairdresser is coming on Thursday so we'll see how it goes if it's tipping it down we'll stay in the dry.

Sorry Vera I missed you there. Oh thank goodness for that, ok too many pills but that is 100% better than none.

I think your OH does it on purpose to make us smile. Trouble is I was already grinning before you got to the point of him getting it wrong. Predictable poor man. He really doesn’t seem to take it in.

I have just washed on a low wash in the dishwasher, 16 China (mostly) pots for holding plants in flower pots of all varying sizes from very small to quite large that were stored on a high shelf in the shed.. I am hoping that some may find a home when people come to the garden interest group on Thursday. Otherwise I have to take them down to the charity lady

It was all finished. By 3pm. Looks strange there at the moment. Have to wait now until Jake sources the new shed.

They finished at about 3pm. All down, and cleared away, just the bases left and a large gap into next doors garden. Good job neither of us have a dog. I have to wait now while Jake sources the new shed.

Oyez, Oyez, Oyez.......town cryer announces Vera has tablets. Put out the bunting and give 3 loud cheers :-D :-D

I went to the pharmacy and said to the assistant that I hoped she was going to say they had a prescription for me because if she didn't I was going to have hysterics in the shop. Poor girl looked a bit worried but came back and said it was there and the chemist would make it up straightaway. The chemist himself brought the pack out to me and was almost grovelling as he had to tell me that the prescription said co-codamol capsules and they didn't have any capsules so he had to give me the tablet form. I had to laugh - I didn't even want co-codamol.. 3 items are on repeat batch and I get them every 4 weeks, the co-codamol is separate and comes 100 at a time and I just order when I'm getting low. I'd gone from having nothing to having everything whether I needed it or not. I think both the surgery and the pharmacy are tiptoeing around me a bit as I certainly made my feelings known when I went in yesterday.

My neighbour who goes to the other doctors' practice in town is also having problems so it isn't just my surgery. As AnnG said, if you had read this sort of thing a few years ago you wouldn't believe it would happen in our NHS.

Well, AnnG, you have had a busy day but good to have some help getting your shed cleared. They do seem to be good workers. We could do with someone like that round here. Do you think whoever owns your fence will put a couple of panels up now you have a gap there?

That's good you found your mouse hole Mel. I hope you can manage to block it so they can't get back in.

You have been doing well with your garden Mandy. It sounds almost winter ready. I was fretting a bit about not getting all my bulbs planted so OH said he would make a start. I went round the garden with him showing him which big pots could be used for the taller plants (mostly daffs and tulips), then we went into the garage and I showed him all the smaller, shallower pots that I use for things like mini-tulips that only grow a few inches. These fit nicely in an area I can see from the kitchen window and give me a bit of colour there. Did he listen? Did he, heck. We have a large half barrel filled with mini plants that will barely be seen over the top, and nothing is where I wanted it planted. I also told him to label the pots so I knew what was in them. He decided I should do that so came in and told me that on each pot he had put the marked paper bags the bulbs were stored in so I would know what was in the pot and could label it accordingly. Of course, it didn't occur to him that it might rain. It poured, the names inked on the bags got very smudged and the bags started to disintegrate, so I can't read what's planted where. Grrr, what would you do with him? The stupid thing is I feel guilty for being cross because I know he was only trying to help. Sometimes I think common sense flew out of the window when he was born.

I must go and get dinner ready. I have Ladies Club tonight so we need to eat about 6 pm.

Well my day was sorted for me. I had a message to say Jake was coming to finish off the sanding of the drive. I had put my bedding in the washer and was just having breakfast when he and his Dad arrived. After putting the sand down they wanted to look at the shed and greenhouse. I had already opened it up as I was still sorting stuff to go in the garage. So Jake said he would help me empty both of them if I told him what I wanted to keep and he would take the rest away. so I sorted and he carried it all to the garage. then they decided to get on with demolishing them both. They are halfway through and have stopped to go and get some chips for lunch. Not sure when they will do the new shed. No doubt they will tell me.
They do work fast and work well together. I had forgotten there was no fence behind the shed. It is not our fence so I don't know why there is not a bit there. so it will be a gap until the new shed goes up.

Found where it got in the wardrobe. Its where the central heating pipe comes through for my bedroom. It had started to make a nest and has chewed a suit liner I had hanging in there over oh's suit. I shall have to get one of my wire scrouers and see if I can stuff it in the hole.

Morning all,
Lovely sunny morning here ,I nipped out to get the bin in as they are always here about half six to empty it and it was very chilly .

Yes Anng we've done well getting the garden tidy this year ,I stil need to get all the dead leaves off the hostas in the pots out in the front garden but they look like they need a few more days they are not quite dead enough to just pull off easily.
I have stripped the bed and thats just finished in the machine so I might hang it out although there's no wind so it might come in as wet as it went out .

Oh Mel thats good you've caught the mouse let's hope it's only the one :-0 if the plastic bag has all gone it does sound like they might have used it for a nest so i hope you can find it ,we had an old tilt in the wood shed a few years ago and a mouse shredded it and used it for a nest .

Fingers crossed you get your tablets today Vera.

Morning all,

8 degrees here and once again bright and blue sky with clouds but a bit of rain also. Just had a lovely rainbow out the front. I was up at 7.24am and it was a bit chilly so I turned the heating on and went back to bed for half an hour.

Mandy yes I remeber Weekend chocs. I liked the marzpan and the jelly and the nutty almonds and there was a fudge and I think a nouget. You had such a nice selection for all the family. I wonder when they stopped making them and why not bring them back now?

Shopping comes today and then the rest ofthe day is mine to get on with some ironing and HW. I need to hoover.

I caught my mouse in the spare bedroom wardrobe so now I have to get all the stuff out to see if it made a nest in there. Its oh's wardrobe and lots of thing on the floor. When I went in there the other day on the carpet in front of the door there was lots of plastic carrier bag bits so I opened the door and I had a fan in there covered in a polythene bag. The fan was bare so the mouse must have eaten it and left just crumbs of it. It must have been one of these starch bags the bio degradable ones. I put the superdooper mouse trap in there on the side cupboard that in there and popped some sunflower seeds in it. Then I looked once and nothing in it and forgot for a day or so and when I ooked yesterday there was the mouse in it but it had died. That needs a good wash now and I shall reset it incase he had a friend.

good morning all clear and cold here this morning. I slept very well last night and was up just after 7 and put the bedding in to wash. 7 degrees here so chilly but at least it is dry. I hope to get a bit more cleared from the shed today. I am almost down to the rubbish now. At least I don't have to clean it out when empty. Still have things in the greenhouse and bits on walls , hooks etc I might try and keep so will have to remove them.

Vera, you really couldn't make it up about the trials of getting a prescription from your surgery. It is beginning to look/sound like a Two Ronnies sketch. It is certainly a farce. But it is no laughing matter now is it? The real trouble is that none of us have a problem believing it. Who would have thought it could happen if we had red about it 10 years ago?

Mandy you are well ahead with your garden by the sound of it well done.

Evening all,

We've had a nice sunny day it was really warm in the conservatory with the sunshine ,we took son his presents and came home and did a bit in the garden ,just pulling out the last of bizzie lizzies and Colin got some wood in .

Oh Vera I hope when you go tomorrow your tablets are all sorted for you what a palaver ,my sister had that problem she went into the surgery and was told she needed to go home and ring up ,when she did that she spoke to the same lady receptionist who said oh yes I remember you've just been in haven't you I can sort that for you , now why couldn't she do that when sister was there in front of her and they wonder why people are short with them.

I saw on fb the other day a photo of Weekend Chocolates, who can remember them, I like the round one in the little red paper case and the marzipan one.

O Vera I did laugh when she told you to ring the surgery the silly woman culd'nt she see that you were there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am being to think that all the surgeries are getting a bit like that at the moment. I seem to slways have trouble with mine too. Today I had a thing come through the door with the post saying that your postman can now deliver prescriptions. I pick mine up at the local shop in Shebbear but they are not always there when they should be and the drive to Black Torrington is a bit hairy if you meet tractors coming over a very narrow bridge on the way there.

I hav'nt done much today but I have painted a couple of miniatures and fed the chickens, fish and wild birds who are eating me out of house and home at present and the Long Tailed Tits have been today again on the feeders.

It’s been quite a nice day here; no rain, a slight breeze and sunshine on and off. It was a bit chilly but not bad for November. I did 3 loads of washing. It was still quite damp when I brought it in but some is hanging on a clothes airer and some got a short spell in the dryer.

I didn’t know about cauliflower and broccoli being diuretic. I have a lot of both but it doesn’t seem to affect me, at least not so far.

The saga of the script goes on. I rang the pharmacist again this morning - still no script sent through so this afternoon I went to the surgery dispensary. I explained the situation as best I could and the lady there said they couldn’t deal with prescription queries, I had to phone the surgery, press option 2 from the recorded menu and speak to the dispensary clerks. She looked a bit bemused when I pointed out, again, that I had done that last Wednesday and got a promise that my script would be at the pharmacy that afternoon, a promise that wasn’t kept. Also why did I need to go away and phone the surgery when I was at the surgery right there and then. I still got a lot of muttering about one sent 18th October and next one not due to be signed off till 15th November. When we left the house I had grabbed the box of tablets that are about to run out. I suddenly had an inspiration and showed her the box and the label which clearly said 4th October. My goodness, once she saw that she was like a whirlwind, dashing to speak to this person and that person. Eventually she came back and said there had been some sort of glitch though they still had to work out what had gone wrong. The doctors were all in surgery but as soon as surgery was finished my script would be signed off and sent to the pharmacy for collection tomorrow morning. So that means another trip to town. If it isn’t there I will have the screaming abdabs.

I think everyone at this practice is so overworked that, to ease the situation, they have made a load of staff regulations about who does what and when. Unfortunately these rules don’t allow for any flexibility or allow anyone to use a bit of initiative or even use a pinch of common sense.

All this dashing about hasn’t done my back any good and the stress has given me a headache but I suppose it’s all part of life’s rich pattern. I’m hoping for a nice relaxing evening.