General Chat

Morning all,

Another lovely morning with sunshi8ne and blue sky and at the mo theres not a cloud in it and it 20 degrees.

Must book the car in for its MOT today as thats due in August and have some admin to do then the rest of the day is mine to do what I like.

Good morning all. already 16 degrees here, blue sky and sunny so looks like another warm/hot day. I have no plans to go anywhere so will just be conyinuing holiday preparations.

First a word of warning !! Never put strawberries in your cardi pocket and go and clean the pond filter leaning on the side. I have two very red paper hankies in my ocket and 4 squashed berries only two survived.

I can't use jungle juice becasue of the smell as I can taste it all day. so that puts paid to that and I just have to suffer the bites but if I put antihystamin cream on them thats ok smell wise.

Not done much this morning just fed the girls and will now report that I am getting three eggs for the last two days as none of them are now broody. Then I picked the strawberries and then did the pond filter and thats about it.

I am now going to peel some pots and parsnips to roast as I am not paying for any leccy at the mo. Its 22 here and pc is saying partly sunny but its lovely out there with a slight breeze.

Afternoon All,

It's reached 23 degrees here now, but I expect you are a couple of degrees higher where you are by now Vera, as it usually is. Good idea to rest your eyes and poor head from the PC for a while. Enjoy your chicken roast, I could just fancy some roast chicken now.

We've tried some salmon encroute with lots of veg and a packet Hollandaise sauce. I enjoyed the puff pastry, but there wasn't much salmon and it was lightly smoked. We won't have it again as we don't have smoked foods because of the health concerns with it.

We did a bit of weeding early on while it was cooler, but I think the weeds are holding their own at the moment. I sprayed some of the deeper rooted ones and we've noticed the ones on the gravel round the front are beginning to droop at last. The garden bin is half full, so it should be full again by the tuesday collection. Then we both did some hoovering inside, not thorough, but looking better in case the engineers do come knocking in the morning to come inside!

OH has been wielding the battery fly zapper as we keep finding flies coming inside. Now we are just relaxing as it is getting hotter.

Good afternoon all

Sorry I didn't post yesterday but we have been busy and I am also trying not to spend much time looking at a screen as my head hasn't been good and my eyes have been very sore. I have read all the posts but won't comment now as I want to keep this brief.

It's very hot, currently 23 degrees but apparently feeling like 25 and going up all the time. There is no breeze at all at the moment to cool things a bit. App is telling me that Tuesday it will be 28 and feel like 31. I can't wait!

Mel, you do seem to get very bitten. Annx has mentioned DEET. Have you tried Jungle Formula which is 20% DEET plus other stuff and can be used everywhere on the body except eyes and lips?

Eyes are hurting so I am closing the computer and going to finish cooking my roast chicken dinner. Enjoy the rest of your day.

Morning girls,

Sunny bright morning here and its 19 degrees and pc is telling me SWIMMING!!! must be results. O its gone back now to 19 degrees and sunny.

Nothing planned here either Mandy will just see where the day takes me and what I can manage to do.
tside for today.

Been bitten in the night again and I don't have windows open so it must be the ill fitting one in the bedroom.

Morning Anng ,morning all,

Blue sky here and it should be a lovely day ,going out to feed the pots and baskets in a while I did the toms and cues yesterday .

Nothing planned see how the day goes don't think we'll see son and family as they have friends visiting for the weekend.

Hope Vera's OK don't think she posted yesterday.

Good morning all 14 degrees here now and sunny. got to get some of the holiday stuff sorted today.

Yes Ann it is an interesting subject but quite difficult unless you are able to visit places with shops in the evenings when shop fronts are not obscured by people. I shall have to have my eyes open when up with daughter.

I have sent my hidden beauty photos, the best I could do but as good as everyone elses.

Sorry AnnG, yes it was shop fronts, silly me! Another interesting theme though. :-)

I asked the doctor what might help when he decided to run the blood tests and he suggested them. You can buy them off the shelf but then the fit wouldn't be as good. The doctor didn't need any details other than to write a prescription as the pharmacy does the measuring and ordering. When I go to be measured in a week's time I'll ask how long I'll have to wait for them and how long each day I need to wear them, as they won't be a good look with the knee length trousers I usually wear in summer to keep cool! My last thyroid test showed I was borderline too low which can cause it (and make it hard to lose weight!) and another cause is sitting too long which I do because my knees hurt standing or walking for long. I'm ready for the knacker's yard really, but I need to do whatever will help, so the kitchen timer is next to the PC so I get up more often and raising my legs should help. Losing weight will help as well. I'm hoping that just wearing them around the house will be enough. In the morning my ankles look fine.

With my reactions to bites I put a few smears of Deet on when I go out and it keeps the biters away Mel. It's better than being eaten alive as well. It sounds like you need a beekeepers outfit on otherwise!

Ann you say ‘doorways’ for my next subject. It is actually shop fronts but I suppose that will include doorways.

Not sure I remember you needing compression stockings. Florence in the Hebrides is waiting for some. I think there is a long waiting list for hers but that may be because of where she lives.

I hope that they finally get your internet sorted on Monday. We didn’t see you yesterday and I thought we had lost you again.

Maybe GPS don’t have all the details about the stockings as Florence had the same trouble. (See the chit chat thread)

Ann thats what I meant thaat the man who came connected your cable to next door. When we had the koi they were only about 4 or 5 inches long.

Went to the show and had a look around and there were classes I could have gone in under arts and crafts so I could have put my whitches cottage in and there was no Raspberry gin but mainly sloe. The photos were'nt that much either but a couple of nce ones that had first prize of trees in the nature class and nothing else I can remember so not much good I would say. I usually go inthe bookmark class and most of them this year were crocheted. There was some wonderful painting though. A beautiful large cockrel in one and third prize for that but the big one of a sheeps head got first prize, all in nuwteral colours it was wonderful you could just reach out and touch it. Lots of flowers and potted plants in various size pots and lovely veg and fruit. Some great runners a huge tomato, gigantic onions and cues so fat I would'nt like to eat them I like small skinny ones.

I was naughty and had a burger while I was there so son't know whether to have my steak tonight now. Did'nt win anything on the raffle and there were'nt that many prizes there.

Well I better go and corn the girls and make myself a drink, Iv'e had a glass of water so I think a black coffee is on the menu.

Afternoon All,

It's only 20 degrees here now but after a sunny start is dull and feels quite muggy to me and I'm hot now just from preparing veg for the slow cooker. I was hoping to use up some tomato sauces I'd forgotten were in a box in the conservatory. They were well out of date though and remembering the heat in there last summer I thought better of it!! I found one in the kitchen that was less out of date and which tasted ok and checked online and it said it would be ok to eat, just the quality might not be so good. So that's been added to sliced mushrooms and onions, chopped peppers and chicken pieces. Something to squirrel away in the freezer to have with wholewheat rice when I don't have a clue what to have to eat!

Gwyn it's only this year that we have started seeing Red Kites. I saw them once where Jane lived about 30 miles away from me, so I think they must have spread further north. We have a large quarry a couple of miles from here and I expect they may hang out there with the Buzzards, although I think they like tall woodland trees.

I love the 'doorways' subject for your next meeting AnnG. It will be interesting t see what people come up with for that one.

I was really missing growing beans when I saw your lovely fresh ones Mandy. I bet they were lovely! Yum yum! I love the little doll you knitted, complete with her little bag with the flower on and sweet little shoes with buttons! You are so good at knitting!

I can imagine how it must be a worry to see Colin so tired, but just make sure he is still drinking enough now things have 'moved' as dehydration causes fatigue and can cause dizziness. If he's still the same by Monday seeing the doc again is a good idea. You asked about the courses, but I have only done the 3 week one on figure drawing, which was useful to get proportions right, but there haven't been any others from the teacher I had, except some beginners portrait ones. He also teaches local to where he lives in the south as well since the pandemic, so may not have as much time for online ones now.

We have had an update on the internet saga that they hope to finish the work on Monday, quicker than we expected, so we expect to be offline at least some of the day. Mel it was our neighbour's line being cut and their engineer disconnecting our cable to use for them that caused us to lose the internet and landline, not the engineer cutting our line.

That was a beautifully coloured Koi you lost Mel. Were they all small when you got them? I didn't realise you were having a shingles jab either and don't remember whether mine was painful after.

Yesterday we went to Boots for me to be measured for compression stockings and wouldn't you know it we have to make an appointment now. I suppose I should have checked before we went. They have a silly system in place with various places to queue along the counter according to what you want, but the markings are on the floor so people are standing on them and so covering them up. They told me I need to get a prescription from the doctor and then they get them made to fit you properly and of course won't cost me anything then. So why didn't the GP or nurse I saw tell me this and issue a prescription? At least my blood tests were ok so hopefully it isn't the leaky heart valve causing it which I was worried about. That was discovered after a panic attack and an echocardiogram over 10 years ago and has never been monitored since by my GP surgery like the NHS site suggests. I'm hoping my weight is the cause which I am starting to reduce again now, but I still need to see the doctor now he has the results.

OH has gone 60 miles to Wisbech to a match today, so won't be home till later.
It's pouring with rain now and cooler and will save any watering.

BIL turned up just as I was having something to eat, with icecreams and a magnum for me.

Lovely day bit more sun now and really warm out ,bedding all dry and folded ,gammon cooked for tonight and I think we'll have soms salad with it .

Just watching the Olympic cycling and they keep going down like flies as the roads are wet .
What did everyone think of the opening ceremony I turned over after a while as I didn't think it seemed that special with them going up the river.I did see the end where they light up that balloon with the torch.

BIL has'nt turned up so I don't think he will come now.

I do hope Colin can get some answers to his tiredness and feeling so down.

Its our show day today and no I did'nt put anything in it this year but I am going up there this afternoon to have a look round. There's some smashing motor bykes up there I saw them in the school playground when I went up the shop.

Sometimes sleeping is because of boredom but you will know if he has no energy. I didn't realise that he had a covid test, must have missed that. Hopefully it is just a virus and he will sleep it off. But If he is still sleeping a lot after the weekend there is no harm in contacting your surgery again.

Anng the water sample came back as satisfactory so he hasn't got any antibiotics, the doc wondered if it was a flu virus but he's had no flu symptoms, he did take him off one of his blood pressure tablets he said they can lower the blood pressure he just said see how you go, that's also why he did a covid test but that was negative, so I don't know I just don't like seeing him like that .
He's watching the Olympics now and is more awake but I bet within half an hour he'll have nodded off sgain .

I'm just knitting the doll for something to do really when I'm watching the television in the evening .

The doll is a good size then Mandy. Who is that one for?

It may still be the UTI or the effects of the antibiotic making Colin sleep. But if he is not gettting up and walking around much it won't help his tummy trouble.

Morning all,

Bit cloudy but there is sun ,stripped the bed this morning so thats on the line ,just given the bathroom a wipe round and now putting a piece of gammon on to cook .

Things have moved for Colin but I'm still worried about him he just wants to sleep all the time, everything I look at him he's got his eyes closed so I think its back to the doctors next week I expect it will be blood tests etc.

Anng thats the bit I don't like having to put the shopping all away , you asked on the email what size the doll is, it's about 15 inches it's bigger than it says in the book it should be 11 inches as it should be knitted in 4ply but I used double knit on a smaller needle .

Mel time your bil has finished repairing the mower it will be purring .

I have a really large order from Tesco due today (well large for me. And not one sub or not available (£76 worth.) don't look forward to putting all that away.