General Chat

I can fill my watrer jug up now and have a cot. He put a new piece of pipe in and a new fitting and olive and some yellow sticky stuff and then lagged it all with grey foam pippe and put cable ties on it to hold it in place. Suns been out all day but the pipe is on the front of the bungalow and that dos'nt get any sun in the winter. Theres still frost and bally snow on my road to just past my car.

He's been and its all mended now. Hooray. I wonder what my bill is going to be?

It seems to be never ending Mel doesn't it. Did the pipe freeze. is it lagged. it must have been a really bad frost for you last night. How annoying. Not only are you cold but you could see all that water escaping. I hope somebody can get out to you.

You think you have problems Anng. I had no water pressure in the cold tap in the kitchen. Tried the bathroom tap and thats ok so went outside and I have a fountain coming out over the road. I have a burst pipe to the kitchen tap so have had to turn the water off to the whole house. Rang my plumber but can't get through to him so rang a neighbour who was on the way to her mothers in Cornwall. Rang another friend he said he would come and look in an hour but I don't think he can do anything. I rang the local shop and Keith gave me a heating and plumbing place I rang and they are going to see if they can get someone down today.

What a morning and I was going to do so much today and at the mo the only things I have done is feed the chickens and wild birds. I hav'nt even washed up.

No other heating apart from my little electric rad in the kitchen as I can't have the heating on.

Fridge was delivered at 0915 so quite early. OK they put it in place and plugged it in. But then I have had such a performance with the shelves. They were all stuck in with sticky blue tape. to remove it I had to get down under the shelves. there is also a split shelf which so far I have not worked out how to put it in so it will have to wait. It just means I am a shelf short for now but that is OK. To get the back part of the shelf in means bending right down to see where it goes and I just can't do it today.

Jake and his father have just called round and the first job they are going to do is to dig up the lawn and replace it with gravel. Not sure when yet.

Just went outside to feed my robins and there was a young fox in the garden which went througha hole in the brick wall.

Morning Anng and all,

We've had a little snow in the night and there's a hard frost too so all the road up the garden is white and theres a deer sitting up there on the grass in the sunshine. Its -2 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy.

I ordered a new washing machine yesterday but forgot to pay for them to fit it so I shall have to go back and see if I can pay the extra and if not BIL will have to do it for me.

Good morning all. A very hard frost last night. Up early as no idea when the fridge will be delivered. They are supposed to phone before to let me know. Well the phone rang. By the time Ingot downstairs to answer it it stopped and didn’t wait to leave a message on the answerphone. Could have been them, could have been a scam. So I have had breakfast and just have to wait now.

Hope you can clear your head and that you and your emails are better tomorrow. It could be something to do with the broadband outage maybe it will clear itself.

Hallo all, I am here but not staying as I have a bad head and looking at a screen makes it worse. I think our broadband is back though we could still be on the back up system; we have no way of telling. Today the email system on my computer has gone haywire. OH has the same Outlook system and his computer is the same as mine but fractionally older, yet his emails are fine. If I go into the Inbox everything whizzes around as though the screen has gone berserk and then all the emails disappear. I hunt around and find they are all in trash, so I have to do a few at a time and transfer them back again. Then I find some goblin has “flagged” several of them. Every time I touch anything it all ends up back in trash :-S. OH has been fiddling with it for about 2 hours and hasn’t yet found out what is wrong.

I have managed to look at the posts and read all you have to say. Apologies for not making any comments or responding. I’m going to close the computer now and rest my eyes.

had my hair done ok, it was cold walking round but not bitter so not too bad and it didn't take as long as it has been doing as the roadworks for the cycle path have moved the pedestrian lights a bit closer to where I go. So that is done.
Most of the stuff from the fridge is now in a freezer bag with two ice packs and in the conservatory which feels as cold as the fridge.

tomorrow Jake is coming to talk about jobs, we may be interrupted by the arival of the fridge but that won't be too bad.

that was a strange dream Ann. Maybe it was talking to Mel about the deer in her garden that sparked that off.

Good luck to your OH off out in the cold to watch football. He is very keen.

Gwyn, I have chicken, mushrooms and carrot in the slow cooker in a tomato and basil sauce. It smells nice. should be enough for two days. probably do a jacket potato with it.

Hope his journey is a safe one Annx its not nice when the car is iced up and the roads are a bit dodgy too.

I have been taking a look at the post office site where you can order labels and the postman collects your parcel but there is so much to read that by the time I had read the first page I was completely in a muddle and could'nt remember what I had read by the time I read the second page. they talk about tracked but no mention of signed for which is what I usually send. I just got fed up in the end and came out of it once again. It owuld be a good service for me and my small parcels or large letters and would save me on deisel going into the village and that if the van did'nt come or I did'nt get there between 9am and 11 am.

I'm still none the wiser and very muddled so I shall carry on as I have been for now at least it gives the car a little charge there and back.

Morning All,

No frost here this morning either which surprised me as it's supposed to be -6 degrees by midnight tonight. I don't like icy pavements either AnnG since my knees aren't reliable. so it will be good for your walk to the hairdresser. As children we would love making slides, polishing them with our feet and didn't understand grownups' concern.

Gwyn your casserole does sound tasty and good for a cold day, especially with the bonus of enough for another day and no cooking.

Here's me saying I hardly ever dream and I had one last night. I was at the big wild park with deer and bracken at some sort of fair that was packing up as it was getting dark. OH had got split up from me and my phone was nearly out of charge and I couldn't work out how to phone him. He'd dropped me off near the fair and parked at the other end of the park, too far for me to walk to charge it in his car. Everyone else was going home and then I woke up. First thing I did was check my phone battery and how to make a call!! lol. I've hardly used it since I've had it so it was good to check and I must get a phone bank like Mandy suggested as I can keep that with me, unlike the car!

Vera OH had read about the BT outage and told me as he said it must be such a worry for all the people like himself who need it to do their work. I wonder what has caused it, but hope you will be back to normal soon.

Better get ready for this 1 and a quarter hours hearing test next. I hope it is a bit quicker as I am expecting a delivery of some unbleached toilet rolls. Then more clearing of paper in the study that's piled up again when I get back. I've noticed some new cobwebs as well.

One of OH's meetings has been changed to another school tonight and it's about 25 miles away in the sticks, so he's taking his de-icer for the windscreen with him.

To be honest, the chicken casserole is something we have fairly often in the winter months made with skinless and boneless chicken thighs pack from Aldi.
Yesterday's bacon addition was because some was lingering, but still indate in the fridge, so that went in too.
Waste not, want not ;-)
Daughter found the main menu somewhere. It has no potatoes, ( unless we want to use them up ! ) but pearl barley is added towards the end of the cooking. That was new on me. I had previously thought of pearl barley, when using in a lamb dish.

Morning girls,

Grey and cloudy here this morning and 0 degrees. The car roof is still icy but the ground is ok. Hope it ok to walk to the hairdressers Anng.

Gwyn that sounds a nice dinner I don't think I have ever made a chicken and bacon casserole in my life but it sounds delicious can you save me a bit please?

Need to have a go at the bedroom today. It needs a good hoover and dust and I may even hoover the curtains. Also there's always ironing.

Morning all,

No frost here this morning the sun is trying to peep through the clouds.

That's good there's no frost Anng not good having yo walk out when it's icy.

Gwyn that sounds a tasty casserole you've made there , I like to make meals that last a couple of days .
Hopefully the snowy weather will keep over the channel and not come up to reach you ,last week they thought it could come up over the south .

I need to get some ironing done and hoover the bedrooms today .

Good morning Ann and everyone.
I hope it stays frost-free for your visit to the hairdressers.
Our birdbath water is frozen, but there is no other sign of overnight frost.
I am watching a weather front lingering the other side of The Channel, as there was mention that it might move north to bring snow to southern counties :-0 :-0

A day mostly indoors for me catching up on little jobs and tidying. We made a chicken and bacon casserole yesterday with lots of added veg. and there is plenty left for today, so our main meal is sorted. :-D

Good morning all, still quite dark and -1 degree but I don't think there was a frost last night. Hair appointment at 12 o'clock so I am pleased that the pavements will not be icy.

O Vera its good you have a back up and have read the posts. I was getting worried when you had'nt posted. Hope its all up and running smoothly tomorrow.

Keep warm. There's frost on the car and its been there since 6pm.

I’ve just popped on for a quick hello. We’ve had internet problems today. There was broadband when we first got up but then it went. We went out for a while, then had lunch and it still wasn’t back so OH rang BT, our provider. Apparently there is a major outage and it’s likely to be tomorrow afternoon before it’s fixed. They have put us on an emergency back up system but it is inclined to drop in and out so I won’t stay online long. I suppose if we hadn’t rung up we wouldn’t have got on the back up system at all.

At least I’ve managed to read the posts. Will be back soon. Stay warm in the freezing weather everyone.