General Chat

good morning all quite bright at the moment and 15 degrees. Nothing planned but quite a lot of odd jobs need doing so I will see. I just realised that I didn't come back yesterday. I managed to get some gardening done. Planted the two plants I bought to put in the garden after digging over that patch, did some cutting back and dead headed the Buddleija. Much to the annoyance of the Red Admirals on there and tied up the tomato plants in pots.. Was just going to cut the lawn when down came the rain. Maybe I can get that done today.
Didn't sleep so well again last night. I seem to be having alternate nights good and bad. I go to sleep ok but then just keep dreaming and waking up. :-(

Lovely pics.

She has some draws now....................................................

Morning ,

15 degrees here and still quite windy ,we should have a few showers today so far it's dry and the sun has poked through the clouds a little bit .

Nothing planned for today just see how the day goes .

Good morning all, went back to sleep after getting up fot the loo at 0600 and woke up at 0845. Slept really well. Now just going for a shower and wash my hair and then will see what the day brings. a bit grey but 17 degrees so not cold. BBL

Morning Vera and all,

Cloudy with a bit of blue in between here this morning and pc is saying high pollen and 14 degrees and mostly cloudy. It dos'nt feel that warm here either.

Nothing planned arms ok at the mo but I have only been up a few mins and its not done anything yet. Backs a bit sore too nd as for my hip well I have to remembner to get out of bed and stand with only my left leg not easy when you need the loo.

Good morning all

It’s sunny at the moment but it’s beginning to cloud over. There’s no rain forecast so it could be a good day for gardening but my back is still giving me so much trouble that I don’t want to risk it. I’ve slept well the last couple of nights but still have no energy or enthusiasm for doing anything very much. My get up and go has got up and gone.

Enough of my moans - i’m going to think positive and have a better day. I hope you all have a good day too.

It is like April here we had long sunny periods and 17 degrees and then really black sky and absolutely torrential rain, It battered the window, in fact it came in the little window in the bedroom, never had that before. Then, when I went downstairs I found I had left the conservatory door open about 18 inches and the rain had made the carpet wet. But it gets hot in there so soon dried. I did manage an hour in the garden this morning cutting back a Rosemary bush and some honey suckle and dug up two potato plants which had five potatoes between them so not a profitable experiment, Just for fun really and enough for two meals for me. Still 3 plants left in the tub. when I was out there I thought, good the lawn is dry I will mow it later. Well it was a good plan that won't be followed through now as everywhere is soggy.

Vera I feel a bit like you today not got a lot of enthusiasm for anything, just pottering. I didn't have a good night. awake at 4, couldn't sleep so up and wandering then awake again at almost six, then drifted off but dreaming such confusing dreams and awake finally at 8am I did change the bed and washed the bedding and a load of light coloured stuff.

sun is shining again ow.

We've had a very heavy shower with thunder now the suns out and its all dried up in the wind so you wouldn't even know we'd had any rain .

Its falling out of the sky as hard as it can.

Good morning all

We always seem to have different weather to everyone else. At the moment the iPad is saying it is 19 degrees, feels like 21 and there’s a moderate breeze with just a chance of rain. I must be on a different planet as it is actually quite chilly, pouring with rain and the wind is getting stronger by the minute. I don’t think I’ll be venturing far today.

I’m not really sure what I will be doing all day. There’s always cupboards to clear out but I’m not really in the mood for that sort of job and it’s not the weather for going out or gardening. I’m not an arts and crafts person and I don’t even feel like cake making. I’ve been up since 7.30 and am not dressed yet so I’d better snap out of this lethargy and get myself doing something.

EDIT. Sorry Mandy, I missed you there. Our car’s a manual one. I’ve never had problems with a handbrake before so I didn’t know about pressing the foot pedal down but I’ll remember it in future!

Morning all,

Well I have washing out ,it's bath mats and towels and they are blowing away lovely but how long for I don't know ,its sunny one moment and black clouds the next I will have to keep an eye out .

Got to have a hoover through and I also want to make a cake ,probably a sponge .

Vera I didn't know about that pushing down hard on the brake which would help to release the hand brake ,is it an automatic car you have or a manual .
Would it have anything to do with you having to brake hard because of that near miss with the biker ,there's certainly some bad drivers about good that your reactions were on the ball ,he obviously didn't look very well before coming out between the cars

Mel the shop people know you well after going every week ,they know who will pay .
I can remember when I use to shop with my mum we had a shop called Flats ,mum would go in and shop and they would write everything down in a duplicate book with the carbon paper between the pages ,she had the top copy and would get a bill sent ,if there was lot of shopping a chap called Bill would deliver it on his trade bike.

Right better get hoovered now .

Morning Anng and all,

Bright and sunny here too this morning but how long will it stay? its 15 degrees and still very windy.

I wonder if BIL will come today? I have the shop to do for my paper and bread and I owe them for a pie I had yesterday as I did'nmt have enough money in my purse I had forgotten I bought stamps at the post van and thought I had a tenner but only had a fiver. Thats the good thing about a local shop they know you so well they let you put it on a tab.

Need to hoover and do a bit more HW.

good morning all. sun is shining, wind is really blowing and 16 degrees. Not sure about gardening as it is all still very wet. Anyway, I have the bedding in the wash and Tesco expected 11-12 this morning. So I will see what else I am doing.

But I am all steamed up for you Vera :-D oh dear what an awful time you had. Sounds like that young motor cyclist was not paying attention. What a good job you were. It is not even the thirteenth today either. I hope your back is no worse for all the stress and the fact that your body must have been tense. And hope tomorrow is a better day. What a strange way to get the handbrake released I would not have known that.

It has rained, either drizzled or poured all day today a really horrid day and we really don’t need it now everywhere is soaked and roads are flooded.

Had a nice afternoon friend took me round to Norton garden centre to buy a gift card from our group for the man who let us see his oriental garden. So we stopped for a cup of tea and a chat.

O dear Vera I could have told you that about putting your foot hard on the brake but you will remember it for if it happens again.

This morning I dusted the hall and all the things on the plate rack and clean my little loo. Since then I have had some lunch and tried to do a bit of sewing on the machine. First off it mangled the tiny bit I ws trying to so so had to cut that off then the bobbin ran out and somehow the threading of the cotton from the spool went wrong. After three attempts and three times having to thread the needle which is not easy I managed to do it. It took me nearlly all afternoon so I switched it off and went and corned the chickens.

I am right fed up with myself today and my arm is now starting to ache again and my hips no better.

Shame you had such a wet trip to town AnnG. We’ve had plenty of rain today as well but I’m quite pleased to see it as we’ve not been getting much at all and everywhere is so dry.

I have not had a good morning. I may have gone a bit mad with the h/w yesterday as my back is really sore today and not responding to pain killers. Around 11 am, just as it was starting to rain I got in the car to go to town. Drove out of our cul de sac into another one and at the end of that turned right into a narrow road with parking all down one side. Just as I was turning a young lad on a motorcycle came out from between 2 parked cars. I don’t know how I missed him. Thankfully I was going slowly and hit the brake pedal hard and he slithered round me but I felt a bit shaken up.

By the time I got to town and parked it was pouring. I had an umbrella but it was a real pain keep putting it up and closing it down for every shop. Anyway I went to Boots and was able to get what I wanted there. Hooray :-). Then I went to the chemist where I get my meds. Boo :-|. A while ago I was bragging how good my chemist was compared to other people’s but over the last 3 months they have really gone downhill. Today it took 2 assistants 10 minutes of rooting through drawers and checking the computer to discover my prescription hadn’t been made up, even though it should have been ready Tuesday. Then it was another 15 minutes wait until the pharmacist was free to do it. During this time 2 other people came in for their meds and both had trouble getting the right stuff.

Next I went to Waitrose. I wanted either rocket or watercress but both had gone up so much I refused to buy them. Everything else had gone up as well but we had to have some food so I got the minimum and went to the checkout. Everything was fine until the girl tried to price the final item, a red pepper. Her till would not weigh and price it. After moving everything near her till and cleaning every surface she had several more attempts. No luck. She called for a supervisor and we waited and we waited. By this time the queue behind me was getting restless and I was apologising to them, so I said to the girl to just total the bill and I would leave the pepper.there. At that point the supervisor arrived and was another 5 minutes fiddling about with the till and eventually my pepper was weighed and priced. I breathed a sigh of relief and left the shop.

Are you all still with me or have you dozed off from boredom? It gets worse :-(.

Back at the car I put the shopping and my wet umbrella in the boot, started the engine, put the car in gear, released the handbrake and ............the handbrake is stuck and won’t move a millimetre. I nearly broke my thumbs trying to press the knob in. I tried pulling it up, pushing it down, moving it from side to side and it wouldn’t budge. In desperation I rang OH and luckily the rain had driven him indoors so he heard the phone. He suggested all the things I’d already tried and then said I should ring the breakdown people. I knew it might be ages before they could get to me so I wasn’t happy but was just ringing off to call them when OH said there was one more thing I could try. I had to put my foot down hard and fast on the brake pedal, then try to release the handbrake. It worked :-D. Of course I was terrified to use the handbrake on the way home and was very relieved when I reached our house.

What a morning! Sorry if I’ve bored you all but I feel better now I’ve got it off my chest. This is a very good thread for letting off steam.

Caught the 0950 bus in and got home at 1215. a very wet trip to town. Never imagined wearing my winter wet weather coat and boots in July but that is what I did to stay dry.

Morning girls,

Its wet here too and 14 degrees. I was hot when I went to bed last night but soon dropped off to sleep.

Its so dull and dreary it dos'nt make you want to do anything.

Not sure if BIL is coming today but it won't be to cut the grass its too wet.

I better have a tidy up incase he comes as I have material all over the place and miniatures.

Arm still hurting and back and hip too.

Good morning Vera and all. You beat me this morning Vera although I was around at 0700. Very grey and damp here at the moment. I have to go into town for my chiropodist appointment so I guess it will be a wet walk to the bus. According to the weather it is forecast to be very wet here. it is 14 degrees though, so a warm wet.