General Chat

Hello Argyllgran.
I did see the other rose called Jacks Wish, but I thought it a bit pinky in colour & the name didn't seem right for me ! & my Jack wasn't one for wishing !
The one I chose is a Plum Red cololour & is also a Floribunda which I like & they seem to do well in my garden, so hoping this new one does as well as my other Floribundas have done.

You had a busy time yesterday tackling your grass, it's not a job I have ever done, far too much grass around my house for me to tackle, my hubby had a hard enough time doing it even as a young man. My son in law took it on when hubby could no longer do it but this year he has been so busy on the farm my daughter took it on, she found the 1st cut really hard going but has managed much better from then on, she actually does a better job than her hubby, LOL.

Joan.

I hope your new rose does well, Joan.
There's also one called Jack's Wish.

It's HOT and sunny here today - lovely! We're not used to this!
Yesterday was beautiful, too, but today is hotter.

I cut most of the grass yesterday. It was a long and tiring job, as the grass had grown so long during all the wet weather when I couldn't cut it, but I'm so relieved to have had a chance to do it at last.
I'm just about to go and cut the last bits which I didn't have enough energy to finish yesterday. Making hay while the sun shines!

Have a lucky evening, Florence!
I'm glad to know that your moves have gone well, Sylvia. Now you can take your time to settle in.

Hello to all.
It's been a nice day here today, the sun has been shining & no wind so it has been nice warm, no idea of the temp but warmer than yesterday.
It was a really dismal day yesterday with a very "wet" mist hanging over us pretty much all day.

I was out to Morrisons to get my weekly shop but before that my daughter & I met up with a good friend & his daughter for a coffee in the Morrisons cafe, this friend used to work with my hubby (Posties) for many years until their retirement & we became good friends over the years.

We didn't actually socialise but kept in contact & had good long chats whenever we bumped into each other when out & about, this Postie friend was always there for us over the years particularly if we ever we had car problems.

Our friend lost his wife just before I lost my hubby, & since then we have chatted to each other several times over the phone as a result of all of that, that's why we met up yesterday, him & his daughter & me with mine.
His daughter has been ill since she lost he mum but is doing well now, so it was good to see her as well.

We had a lovely hour chatting about soo many things, it was actually the first time I had been OUT for a coffee in many a year, hubby was never that keen, preferring to go home for a cuppa, LOL.

I ordered a new plant (online) this week & hoping it will be delivered tomorrow.
It's a Rose called..... Jacks Rose..... & so I hoping it thrives, it was rather expensive but it was the only one I could find with the name of Jack.

Joan.

Well the 18 degrees promised here didnt happen and the fog is very dense as can hardly see up the rd!



I will have to take my rain jacket over my new suit jacket as I can see the fog/mist being moved across in the air and i think one would get pretty wet if you were walking outside. :-(

Well it was 17 degrees most of the morning then an hour ago the sun came out and it is now 22 degrees.

It is a lovely day here Florence, sunny, but only 23, not the 25 degrees we were promised. I have the washing line full outside and it is windy, so they should dry.

I am glad that your moves are over Sylvia. Having aircon will be good for you even if it is noisy. I am sure that you will get used to that and it will be much better for than trying to survive the heat in your old house.

Fog, fog & more fog :-( It hasn't lifted and def no sun grrrr More like November today and def no heatwave here!

Good morning from a very drizzly, dark Gloucestershire. It is 17 degrees so not too cold but so cheerless. Hopefully it will brighten up soon as it feels like it should be November at the moment.

glad you and OH are more or less settled Sylvia. Hopefully a few good nights sleep will sort you out, it sounds like OH's moving day was a bit traumatic/tiring.

Morning all

Sylvia, so glad to know the move has gone smoothly and now the hard work is done, you can unpack at your own pace. So glad your OH has accepted the move and is happy in his new surroundings as I hope you will be.

Looking forward to hearing about your new adventures once your settled there <3

Names, i was listening to R2 and a guy from Hastings was on yesterday afternoon and he said then it was bouncing off the roads! We have fog just now as we did yesterday but when it lifts, it will hopefully be another nice day. Although sunny and warm it has been, there is a nip in the air when out of the sun which reminds us its now really Autumn!

I have on ly just woken up as neighbour was crashing and banging at 3am and woke me up :-( I didnt back off to sleep until nearly 5am and then zonked so now a bit behind today.

Off out to a Bingo tonight with my friend. We were very lucky last time so heres hoping we have a good night but even if we dont win, its a chance to see some old friends and catch up.

Yesterday when I was typing a post, the phone went and then a knock at the door, hence I ended my post very quickly and didnt get back on!.

Linda, all children but especially those with SEN take up to 2 weeks to resettle back into the school routine. I have worked with many who prefer to stay in school as its a routine & structure they enjoy best so having 6 weeks off with no real structure can be hard for them. Im sure Esme will settle in her own time.

Well id had now better crack on as had me coffee and now to shower & dress and then get on with chores etc.

Have a good day all

Florence in the hebrides

Heatwave!

It is pouring down here in southern England and it looks as though the heating will have to go on next week. Daytime temperatures down to mid teens and night time temps down to 5 or 6 :-0

Hi everyone

We got OH moved into his room in the Multi-Level Care Unit yesterday (Wednesday), he seems reasonably happy, but, boy, was I tired and hurting by the end of the end. And all I did was supervise the packing/unpacking, and take OH n a taxi from the "old" place to the "new" place.

I'm still hurting today!

But I thought I had better pop in and say we'd survived the move, and he's only causing a little bit of a problem to the nurses and aides!

We've got a heat wave again here, but I have an air conditioner in my suite, which keeps it cool although it also makes a lot of noise!

I don’t think it will rain for a while now, cos’ OH is wrapped up in all his wet weather gear for his trip to the pharmacy :-D

Oh no names poor OH. Gosh hope it passes soon..

So if I said we have another glorious day here would that be rubbing salt into the wound! I havent actually sat outside today as was busy with loads of stuff indoors but shall venture out later to water all the plants....as long as the midges are not out!!!

I have just made a cauliflower & veggie bake for my tea

The storm has just hit here in the south. Thunder, lightening and heavy rain - which OH can atest to as he was popping out to the pharmacy as they had given him the wrong tablets. Didn't get far before he came back - clothes now in the tumble driet.

It takes a while to get things sorted Linda and then we leave them in that place for ever!!

Brr, it is really cold today, but the lunchtime weather forecast says it is going to be 25 degrees tomorrow.

I had an early start this morning as Esme had a podiatry appoint at 8.20 am She gets lots of hard skin on her feet as part of her syndrome, so she has it shaved off every month, she doesn’t seem to mind and actually asks for an appointment because the hard skin makes her feet hurt. I had to provide a taxi service because their car was in use taking Eve to school. It wasn’t far away, but it took twenty five minutes to get there because the traffic is horrendous in rush hour. She was not in a good mood ,she just wanted to go back to bed. She isn’t back into school routine yet, so would have been awake late last night. I must admit that I didn’t want to get up either :-D

OH is doing DIY, he has made a large shelf for the under stairs cupboard so I can empty out some boxes. When the new kitchen was put in, there were quite a few cupboard shelves which we didn’t use, I don’t know why they supplied so many. Anyway, he is using some of them to make a wine rack to go into one of the small kitchen cupboards. All the alcohol bottles have been in the under stairs cupboard since we moved in, so that is something else out of the way. I have been moving things round in the kitchen and dining room because after using the kitchen for a while, I wasn’t happy with where some thing were

You have stolen our sun Florence, it is cloudy and only seventeen degrees here, it has just started raining. I don’t begrudge you your sun though as you have had a horrible summer.

It is the first full day back at school today for both of the girls, so I am redundant :-D. I cleaned all of the downstairs floors this morning and washed the outside of the doors and windows, so that is enough for one day.

I am expecting three things from Amazon today, one of them has just turned up with the postman, so it must be from a small business . Annoyingly they have made a mistake with the order. As Esme has finally decided that she is a big girl and is out of nappies during the day, I ordered a black waterproof chair seat cover to put in the car “ just in case”. The delivery note says it is black, that is highlighted, but the item is actually a bright turquoise colour. I have gone through the return item process and printed off the return label. Normally with Amazon, you get a prepaid return label and just take the item to the post office. This label says that I have to pay the postage. I am not having that, why should I have to pay to return it when they have made a mistake? I have sent the seller a message expressing my displeasure and asking for a prepaid label, so I will have to see what happens.

Its official....summer has arrived :-D :-D

What a beautiful day here, warm and sunny with a tiny breeze keeping the midges at bay.. I have just come indoors after being outside for about a hour or more. i weeded all the pots and de-headed, pruned etc and now everything looks tidier.

So glorious for a change. i took some pics of the loch in the distance as the sun was reflecting on it and looks very pretty. Daughter is coming soon and we are going to put up the windbreaks in the garden and sit out with an ice cream. I have a few cornettos etc in the freezer.

Hoping everyone else enjoying the sun and hope Joan you are outside in your garden too making the most of this weather.

Florence in the hebrides

Well, after the poor start this morning, the sun came out and it has been a glorious afternoon.
The new Hawthorn whips are doing well AG. Out of the hundred we planted, there are only about six which haven’t grown. OH is still painting the fence boards, he is over half way through. The fence is not for where the Hawthorns are. We left a length of the ivy infested hedge from the back of the garage to the bottom of the garden. Having taken the ivy out of the other part of the hedge, we realised that if we did the bottom part, it would leave our back garden totally open, so we decided that we would put a fence up inside that part of the hedge. We will pull all of the ivy out when OH is ready to put the fence up, but it can wait until after we get back from holiday.

The sun has been out for about 20 mins today and then went behind some very grey clouds . Yesterday was window day and our cleaner once said that he doesn't mind cleaning windows in the rain and since then I think most times it has being raining. Yesterday the rain was on most of the morning and then dry for the afternoon.
Hope you get your Polytunnel put up with no problems , I imagine you have lots of plans in mind for growing things. I know I would have.

I was doing a bit of tree work last evening and looking through my dad's record and one popped up that I had not seen before , it is a record of a form that he had to fill in after he was released from POW in 1945 . It gave details of were he was kept and how many times he was moved. I knew he had been a POW but not details. Nice to find new (to me) records . I don't do much family tree work now but just decided to check last night and picked dad's this time. Last week I found my mom's and aunt baptism record but still one aunt missing . I did know them all in person so I don't really need the records but it is nice to have them. Only 1 niece has any interest in family history and we do share any new things we find .

Florence we did watch Platform 7 and found it good . It makes a change to have something to watch that isn't a repeat. We are also watching Grace and OH is watching Sherwood but I'm not so keen on that one.

Hope everyone is ok and take care.

Ginnie