General Chat

Morning everyone. What a day!!

Its gale force winds and pouring down so def indoor day today.

Friend and I spent the day catching up and she bought some cards and bookmarks from me which was great. I feel uplifted after seeing her and she promised to come and take me out when the weather is better.

Linda, glad you are slowing down a bit lol. Hope your daughter and the girls are getting better.

Daughter came back yesterday but has been very unwell. She doesnt have covid but high temp of 38.5 and has spent most of the time in the "bathroom. Think it was something she ate that upset her.

So just pottering about and tidying up and having a lazy day today.

Hope all is well with everyone else.

Florence in the hebrides

I had sunshine this morning Florence, but it is clouding over now, so maybe it is on its way to you.

I walked into the market square this morning to get some more Covid tests from Boots. OH did a test before he went walking this morning, but it was negative. He is sharing a car with others, so he just wanted to be safe. I also bought him some Russett apples which he had seen in the greengrocers

I then went out for a litter pick as it is a few weeks since I did my local round, I got a very full bag full. I am going to have a lazy afternoon, probably doing some family tree.

Morning from the Wild West!!

Trip to town is def a no no as the weather today is just so horrendous with torrential rain and stormy winds, we would for sure be blown over and we both have sticks!

So coffee and cake at mine and a good chin wag.

At least she is making the journey over here bless her.

Was watching a lively debate last last re the Rutherglen Bi election. Did anyone see it? It was on very late and didnt finish til well after midnight?

Hope all is well with everyone looking in and if you have some sunshine, please can you send it north ty lol :-D :-D :-

Florence in the hebrides

Eve all

Oh Linda poor Esme, hope she feels better soon.

You have been busy again today Linda but remember you need to slow down a bit, Rome wasnt built in a day!

Well tonight its been like a disco in my house! Blooming power going on & off all evening so I have my LED torch on me lap. They have engineers investigating but not sure its sorted yet!.

Friend has confirmed 11 am collect me tomorrow and yep, we are getting strong gales, you couldnt make it up lol We will be flying to town at 70 mph not driving.

Linda there are no taxis out in the rural villages only in the town. A trip there and back by taxi costs over £100!! Also no shops here. Villages are just settlements really with the church of course and some have a small PO but nothing else.

Just sat and watched me soaps, Eastenders & Corrie which were quite good tonight.

Right off to make a coffee whilst I still have power.

Florence in the hebrides

Another one down. Esme has gone to school every day, having done a Covid test every morning. She went on a school trip today and apparently had a very good time. She was a bit snotty when she got home, so my daughter did a test and it was positive. She has just FaceTimed and her nose has suddenly gone really red. It is a worry that Esme will have given it to her class, but the school were happy to have her as long as she did the test every morning
My daughter still has a bad cold and isn’t feeling well, but she did work today. Esme is going to sleep with her tonight, so my daughter won’t get much sleep. There is only Eve to go now, being a teenager, she spends a lot of time in her room, but she has been in the car with SIL going to school each morning

Oh dear Florence, that was such a disappointment for you, I hope your friend turns up tomorrow. I can’t imagine not going out for so long. Do you have anywhere reasonably local which you could get a taxi to, just for some lunch or shopping?

It was miserable here this morning, then absolutely tanked down at lunchtime. It is sunnier now, but very windy. I just went to Tesco because I need a Butternut Squash for dinner. I only needed a few things apart from that. Of course they didn’t have one, so I had to go over the road to Lidl and luckily they did have one. While I had the car out, I took the second batch of stuff to one of the charity shops.

This morning, I went through the stationary drawers in the study. I got rid of quite a bit of stuff from there, so it is all tidy now. I need to go through a few box files of family history things, but that won’t take long. Apart from that I just need to go through the drawers in my bedroom and through out all the single socks!

Good afternoon to you all, shame about the cancelling of your trip out today Flaorence, but something to look forward to tomorrow, fingers crossed.
Not a bad day here, it was raining first ting, but it soon stopped & the sun has shone for most of the day, it is a bit windy but not at all cold.

Our daughter came over to collect our car, she needed to take it to the local garage, not far away in the nearby village to have 2 tyres fittted, another bill to look forward to, they are coming thick & fast at the moment.

Not done much today, written my shopping list for my trip to Morrisons tomorrow, also scraped some of our favourite mucky new spuds for our tea.

Goodness Linda you are still being kept busy toing & froing re your family, give yourself a break lass.
Hope everyone is keeping fine, bye for now.

Joan.

Afternoon JG and anyone else looking in.

Another miserable wet day here too and quite windy.

Not having the best of days :-(
A friend had promised to come take me out for the day awhile ago but things kept cropping up and she kept cancelling!

So this morning, she messaged at 9am to say are you ok for today, hubby just fixing the car and then Ill be over? Well i was just out the shower and then the power went off twice but thankfully came back on. I rushed to dry hair which isn't easy as halfway down my back and takes ages.

Anyway all ready by 10.30 and was just about to try and get my boots on when she messaged to say" so so sorry, I meant tomorrow(Thurs). As you can imagine, I was more than upset as I haven't been out since May of the house when my friend stayed.

Just seems to be the story of my life. people say they will phone the next week and then they dont or they promise to visit for coffee and always seem to have better things to do.

When you cant drive anymore and have no family who drive, its pretty awful as I am totally reliant on someone offering to take me out.

So indoors feeling rather down today and just hope no hitches tomorrow.

Threw myself into doing a basket of ironing and dusted all the shelves.

If I wasn't such a strong minded person, I honestly think I would have had a nervous breakdown by now!

However Linda, you saved my sanity today by making me howl with laughter when i read you post about SIl and him not feeling too well :-D :-D :-D :-D Thankyou for restoring my sense of humour :-D :-D

Well well, looks like the sun is finally appearing lol and its dried up.

Florence in the hebrides

Morning all,

Well it's a really horrible day here so no chance of gardening or outside work for OH and washing is staying in the basket for today Done the ironing as didn't have much in the basket.
OH has been watching the Jeremy Vine show and my goodness the woman on there likes to shout over everyone. JV doesn't seem to be able to control the discussion at all.
Has anyone been watching The Woman in the Wall with Ruth Wilson on a Sunday evening . I wasn't sure at first but have continued to watch and now like it although not a Ruth Wilson fan.

Looking forward to Strictly starting properly and hopefully some new programmes starting in the autumn as fed up with the all the repeats that are on.

Ginnie

Good evening everyone. It has been a horrible rainy day here, very chilly as well, I am contemplating putting the heating on tonight.

I was going to get up early this morning ( for me) to give my next door neighbour a lift to the station at 7.45 but OH decided he would take her instead. Her partner is away this week, so she is on her own., it is a mile and a half from here. She was coming back late afternoon and said she would walk.As it was such a horrible day, I insisted on going for her. It was just as well I did as she was exhausted. She hadn’t realised just how much her recent bout of Covid had taken out of her.

This morning we drove over to my daughter’s house to take Esme’s prescription. They have filled in the forms to change doctors, but the change hasn’t happened yet. We also took the box of stuff OH forgot last time. We just put the stuff on the doorstep and talked to her from a distance. She is slightly better today, but still feeling poorly. She had Covid before, but this time it is much worse. SIL and the girls have been testing every morning before school. The girls are clear, but SIL had a very feint line. That means he is getting it. He has been looking after the girls since the weekend, while my daughter has isolated. Of course tonight when they FaceTimed my daughter was in charge wearing a mask and gloves. He said that he has been feeling ill for a couple of days :-| :-| :-| I will stop there and you can fill in my thoughts on that for yourself

This afternoon, I took a lot of stuff to one of the charity shops. I have two more batches to go to different shops, but there is no rush for that

I still have a headache, sore throat and cold, but I did a Covid test this morning and it was negative, so I am just ignoring it and carrying on.

I hope you are all well and no one else has annoying bugs.

I am having an easy day. I went for my weigh in this morning, only half a pound off this week, which isn’t good. I then went to Aldi and did a fairly small shop. I usually plan the menus for the week, but I haven’t bothered, I just grabbed a few things which I know Incan turn into meals. My next door neighbour came for coffee this afternoon, she had Covid two weeks ago, so it was fine fir her to be here.
I did sort out the under stairs cupboard after she left, but that didn’t take much doing, just a few things to throw out which we don’t use.

OH has started taking the sealant off the bath and all the sinks. He will do the shower room as well and round the kitchen worktops. Taking the old stuff off and cleaning it down is tedious, but he really hates putting the new stuff in as he isn’t very good at it.

My daughter is feeling a bit better today, but she isn’t working. SIL and the girls tested negative this morning, but Esme stayed off as she said she wasn’t feeling well. By late morning, they decided that there was nothing wrong with her, so she went willingly to school.

I hope your daughter enjoyed the buffet Florence, it is a shame about her cards, but you can’t trust the post these days.

Hello girls.
Florence what a shame the cards for your daughter haven't arrived yet, like you I also send off cards 7 to 10 days well before the due date.

A wet day for us today, not heavy but a steady pace, the new gutters seem to be working well, LOL.
A pottering about day for me today, not much to do indoors but I can't get outside to do what I had hoped to do, just have to flick the duster around the rooms...again, LOL.

A light meal for the 2 of us today, sausage banjos, I love a sausage sandwich & having had the usual large portion of the Sunday dinner yesterday we need to be gentle on the stomch today.

I hope everyone is well & Linda, I hope you are having an easy day today.

Joan.

Morning chit chatters

Raining still and very low misty clouds here. Grass cutters have not turned up but not surprised there as it is very wet.

I have seen a wonderful sight today, my little robbie appeared on the fence post after months of not seeing him. So delighted, he came back and I hope I shall see more of him.

Linda, I hope you are still negative and feel a bit better today. Dont be so busy today, just pottering as we say and rest in the afternoon until you recover. How are the girls today, do they have Covid?

The post office is dreadful. 3 cards posted 1st class last Wednesday for my daughter have yet to arrive!!! Such a disappointment for her and they were posted with 4 days grace.

I now post cards at least 7 days early in the hope they will arrive either before or on the day. Receiving cards after the event just isnt the same. She has very few on display :-(

Joan, glad all your guttering etc is finally finished. Its good to get a job like that done before the winter sets in but as you say, just waiting for the bill now!

Nothing special to do here today, just the usual chores and then I shall crack on with friends family tree i'm working on.

Have a good day everyone looking in

Florence in the hebrides

It is a nice feeling when you have maintenance done on your house Joan and it all looks smart.

I cleaned the Venetian blind in the loo, then decided to tackle the dining room as well, so all the furniture has been moved forward and cleaned behind. We have a dresser with glass cupboards on top. It isn’t long since I turfed a lot of things out of the bottom cupboards where our best dinner service resides, but the top cupboard and corner cabinet were full of glasses and trinkets. We went through everything and have packed lots up for the charity shop. The local Salvation Army shop had an appeal on Facebook this morning for bric-à-brac, so it will all go there. We also had two boxes of china etc which belonged to the aunt who brought IH up after his mum died. Originally it had gone to OH’s sister, but a couple of years ago, she had a clear out and gave it to us, that is on its way to the charity shop as well. They will probably chuck lots of it out, but I won’t know that p, so it doesn’t matter :-)

I just have the cupboard under the stairs to do, but that can wait until next week. I also have the stationary drawers in the study to do,goodness knows how many pencils etc are in there.

Hello to everyone looking in.
Goodness me so many of you have been so busy recently, especially you Linda, your house must look lovely after all the cleaning & de-cluttering, & then all that help you have given to your daughter during her move, time to take a back seat now & put your feet up for a wee while at least.

It been quiet here for most of last week, the guttering etc is finished & the problem we found re some slipped slates has been sorted, man has to come back to finish off one of the down pipes (was short of a turning piece for the bottom) & that will be it completed.
It all looks very smart, just have to pay the bill for it now !

Our eldest son came over yesterday with his lady friend, he lit a small bonfire within an old metal drum that we turned into an incinerator, so handy, we burnt some bits & pieces, small branches & bits of old wood from a broken gate & seat & a couple of bags of his own rubbish that he brought with him, LOL.

Not done much in the main garden this week, the borders are quite tidy, & still lots of the plants are still in flower so not touching them just yet.
However the leaves are starting to fall from the trees, & I have swept up quite a few in the past few days.

Well that's it for this time, need to get the pots washed etc, not a favourite job !

Bye for now.

Joan.

Afternoon everyone.

Oh gosh Linda, I hope you don't get Covid. But probably with all the cleaning and moving you have been doing, you are probably a bit run down and now need a rest. Hope the paracetamol eases your headache and just rest now.

Cant imagine if your Sil gets it lol Oh my it will be the end of the world no doubt. But I hope the girls manage to escape it, such a worry.

Well I am now sitting as been up since before 9am and in the kitchen cooking, baking and prepping food.

Cake all made and decorated and now in my bedroom out of site until later. All other food in dishes, fridge or on the table. Just the spiced wedges to do about 5pm. I made cupcakes as well and a summer fruit strudel which looks delicious.

I sliced up a cooked chicken, made a bowl of salad, dish of indian snacks, 2 dips, prawns, tuna vol u vents plus popcorn and sweetie snacks.

The table is so full, you would think I'm feeding a dozen people not just 2 lol. But there will be leftovers for tomorrow as well.

Daughter had a headache so went for a lay down and is currently sleeping. Quite good in a way as I got on far better without her wanting to see everything!

Anyone watch the double episode of Casualty last night? Oh my, left me in tears as was a very emotional episode. Wont spoil it incase some haven't seen it yet.

Joan if you are looking in, hope all ok with you and hubby.

I have an upright fridge freezer and thankfully never needs defrosting but back in the day, I had a spray which helped to speed up the defrosting process as took an age to do.

Well, coffee time now :-D

Florence in the hebrides

I did a Covid test and it was negative, somI took some paracetamol for my headache and finished the utility room :-) I am the sort of person who doesn’t give in to illnesses, I just get on with things until I can’t.
My daughter works in London once a fortnight and she was there the day before they moved, so with a long train journey and an office full of people, she had plenty of exposure. I hope the girls don’t catch it, but they probably will :-(

Fingers crossed it is just the flu jab and exhaustion from all the work you’ve been doing.

How on earth is the SIL going to cope, after all, he must be worn out after putting up the door camera ;-)

Oh no, my daughter has just send a photo of a positive Covid test. She said that she didn’t feel very well last night and is much worse this morning. I felt really Ill last night, shaking with cold, but put it down to my flu jab. I have a horrible headache this morning, so had better do a test as well. I did one sometime last week because I didn’t feel well, but it was negative.My next door neighbour who I see often got Covid about ten days ago, so we were expecting it. Eve had spent a whole afternoon with her doing craft work when she was at her most infectious, but she is fine so far

Defrosting a freezer with huge chunks of ice on it brings back memories Ann, it is very satisfying when you break off a huge thick section of ice. I don’t have a freezer in the kitchen, just a fridge, but a door from the kitchen opens into the double garage. I used to have a chest freezer, but I got rid of that a long time ago. I have a tall drawer freezer and a second tall one which is half fridge and half freezer. They are just through the door into the garage, so very handy. They are both the frost free type, so no defrosting needed.

I had a busy day yesterday. We had our flu jabs in the morning, then came back and I washed down all the paintwork on the landing and in the hall, eleven doors in all. I also did some of the utility room. We then went off to our daughters. It is absolute mayhem there, an unbelievable number of boxes everywhere. SIL was putting a door camera on the front door, it took him all afternoon to do that and set it up. I brought him the hoover and shamed him into clearing up all the mess he had made.

My daughter was hoovering out the boarded loft, so OH helped her to put up a huge number of IT boxes, just boxes full of IT bits and pieces which will never see the light if day again. They also got all the empty suitcases up there as well.
I played with Esme to keep her occupied and managed to unpack some more boxes of her toys.There is not much more I can do in the playroom until they buy some storage.

They have a very large galleried landing, but you could hardly get on it for cardboard boxes and polystyrene.from the beds and new all singing and dancing sitting/ standing desk SIL had bought for himself. So we set about flattening all that and lots of boxes from downstairs. We filled our car and my daughters car, so she can go to the tip this morning.

My daughter was trying to build a bed and bedside cabinets for the spare bedroom. No divan types for her, everything is flat packed and had to be assembled :-( So we built that, it is very nice, but the divan type is so much easier.

I was glad to get home to a clean tidy house :-D

It was very cold last night, I think I will be soon joining you Florence in putting the heating on.

I am having a lazy morning, OH has gone off to the tip with all the cardboard. I am going to sort out the cupboards in the utility room which won’t take long. I will then clean the downstairs toilet, not much to do in there apart from take down the wooden Venetian blind and give that a good clean. That will do for today, I am counting it as a day off :-D