General Chat

still only 8 degrees here. Mel I try not to buy the smaller sizes but buy a medium size of the persil I use than keep that bottle and buy a large one when on offer to fill up the medium bottle. Shampoo I usually buy a large bottle but then have to find a bottle to put some in when I go away. However, this time the two smaller bottles came to the same price as a large bottle. That was the benefit of actually shopping in store instead of on line.

10 here now and the suns out, sorry Vera. How lkong it will last I don't know.

Rung the waterboard again this morning and they say they will ring me today. They said they rang on the 21st but I did'nt here the phone ring but I may have forgotten to take it out in the garden with me.

Just going to feed the girls and then do some ironing.

Don't know when the washing machine man is coming but I am ready if he calls.
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9 degrees and very wet again. There was also fog around earlier but that seems to have lifted a bit now.

We’re just off for OH to get his blood tests and then we’ll get a bit of shopping. I’ll probably be doing h/w this afternoon. Boring!!!

Enjoy your time with the boys AnnG. I haven’t even thought about Christmas yet but I do need to start getting a few bits.

OH has called out he’s ready so I had better go. Might bbl

Morning Anng and all,

9 degrees here cloudy and cold and I think theres rain in the air but Iv'e not been out yet.

I wonder if any of you have noticed the size of the fairy washing up? It used to be 433ml for the small one but its uch smaller now. I buy the bigger one and fill up the small bottle as my hands don't like squeazing the big one.

Nothing planned for today but I do need to do some ironing as I still have piles of it.

good morning all, 7 degrees here this morning, getting more like winter is on its way.

I have Ex Granddaughter in law coming with the two boys today to see me so that till be a 'loud' few hours. She won't get her until lunch time though so I have plenty of time to get ready. Her main reason this time is to collect their Christmas presents. Early but half term and the easiest time for her to do it.

:-D it seems the only things that don’t shrink are us!

It must cost a lot when things shrink if they also make packaging smaller and all the printing of labels because they must all have to be redone if the amounts have to be changed.
Have you got a home for all those plants Vera. They sound lovely.

It's not just toilet rolls that are shrinking Mel. I've just done an online Tesco order for delivery Friday and noticed how many items seem to have got smaller e.g. ice cream used to come in litre packs, now they're 900 ml, and everything seems to have gone up in price.

We had dental appointments this morning for check-ups. OH was fine as usual but I've got another appointment in November for a bit of work which is annoying. Then I went to the chiropodist this afternoon. My feet do feel a lot more comfortable now.

We had a lot of heavy rain yesterday evening and overnight and it was raining fairly heavily first thing this morning but was much lighter by the time we had to go out. Apparently there is plenty more to come.

This afternoon we got our final delivery of plants from the present our daughter gave us last Christmas. There was a Kniphofia (red hot poker) which looks a pretty colour, an echinacia and they don't do very well in our garden as the slugs and snails love them, and a nice colour helenium. There was also a leather leaf sedge, a penstemon and a couple of plants whose names I forget but I had never heard of them so will have to google.

My eyes are beginning to ache now so I think I am going to close the computer down and do something else. I hope you all sleep well. I had a lovely night's sleep yesterday so I'm hoping for the same tonight.

I thought you would like it. It brought a tear to my eye.

Aawe lovely

Aaah :-)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CnlkbBWbtEI

Don't know if this will go straight to the bee video or not. If it does turn the sound on.

I just had my Asda delivery this morning and I had ordered 6 Andex loo rolls. I swear they get smaller each time I buy them and they cost more than they used to. I found one mum had stowed away in the bottom of her wardrobe in a case I had'nt looked in before thinking it was empty. I will take a pic and show you. Even the cardboard middle is bigger in the smaller roll.

I enjoyed my mince and mash too. I just phoned the washing machine man and he is coming this week but not today. He said it did'nt sound good!!! asked me to show him the grit and I said I had saved it. I did a wash today so thats on the line as I wanted to get that out of the way before he comes.

11 degrees here now and sunny so the washing is on the line.

Good morning all 10 degrees, dry but gloomy so far. nothing planned at the moment beyond washing my hair. Slept well last night.

I did enjoy my mince last evening Mel, I made cottage pie with it but instead of potato I used mashed swede with grated cheese and it was really tasty. Swede still has carbs in but not as much as potato.

Morning all,

Looks like we may have some sun today but showers later. Its 9 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy.

Shopping comes today and I have two subs so one will be going back. I thought I would treat myself to a black forest trifle and they are sending a millionairs trifle instead the other one is my strawberries but they dn't look any different from the ones I ordered only they are cheaper. They are the same weight. Whatever I shall keep those but the trifle goes back.

I am having mince and mash out of the freezer so mines easy too.

I had a lovely tortoise called Tobias when I had the pet shop just outside Colchester but had a break in one night and they took Tobias and two other tortoises I was looking after for a customer while they were away.

How's your throat now Mel? It does sound as though you might have caught a cold. I hope you feel better soon.

You are good to get your lawn cut again AnnG. I am way behind this year with getting the garden ready for winter. If I don't get the rest of the geraniums up soon they won't survive. I think I'll pot up a couple more of the smaller ones and then just store all the others bare rooted. I have got the same problem as a lot of people; when it's dry I have other commitments, when I'm free to work in the garden it's always raining.

We have quite a busy week ahead. We both have the dentist in the morning for our 6-monthly check up and that's in another town so that will take a couple of hours out of the day. Then I have a chiropody appointment in the afternoon that I must keep as I cancelled one a couple of weeks ago when we didn't have a car. On Wednesday OH has blood tests at the Health Centre and I thought I would go with him and try to do a bit of shopping while we're out. Apart from anything else I need to get a present to take to a birthday lunch on Thursday. I want to organise a Tesco delivery this week and it looks as though Friday will be the only day. Daughter has also just texted to say she has had an email telling her that the last delivery of plants that were her Christmas present to us are arriving here tomorrow. That means 8 little plants to find a home for.

My poor daughter is quite stressed at the moment as her partner has had to undergo a serious operation today at a specialist hospital a distance from their home. She was up at 5 am to drive him there and is still at the hospital but is driving back home tonight. It will be some while before they can tell how successful the op has been so they have a worrying time ahead.

I forgot to say in earlier posts that son still has Buster, his English Bull Mastiff, who is now nearly 10 which is quite old for that breed and he acts a bit like an old man. He's not grumpy but just wants to be left alone to doze. A while ago the family took on a rescue tortoise called Terry and Terry is the funniest tortoise I've ever seen. He moves really fast and wants to be around everyone and particularly Buster. He snuggles up to Buster and the dog puts up with it till the tortoise starts fidgeting around too much or climbing over his paws, then he gives Terry a gentle swipe. Terry also enjoys being picked up and cuddled and will settle down on son's chest or shoulder when he is watching TV. When the tortoise thinks he is slowing down a bit he makes his way back to his home in the utility and plonks himself under his lamp for a while. He is the funniest animal and everyone loves him.

Right, I'd better go and start cooking. We've fed very well over the weekend so it's an easy meal tonight - sausages, chips and beans.

Never too old to learn Mel. Thanks will remember that.

You've been busy then Anng and got the lawn cut for the last time this year.

Its clouded over now but we had sun for the morning and into the early afternoon.

I have painted one little cottage, been to the post van this morning and had lunch but I hav'nt taken my pills so I must get a drink and take those now.

Anng if yoiu have had the page of the thread up and not refreshed it the posts don't come up. That caught me out a few times so now I just refresh each time I come on here.

Sounds like you have picked up a cold Mel, but you don't go anywhere to catch germs really so that is strange.
Spent an hour in the garden this morning tidying up, cutting back and weeding. It wa all still very wet.

However this afternoon the lawn had dried out so I have given it its last cut for this year. Still a bit damp but it looks fine now and hopefully will last. I then, instead of putting it in the leaky shed, put the lawn mower into the garage, I had already put the strimmer in there and I also took the newer garden tools out there too. There is still a lot of junk in the shed to be disposed of.