General Chat

Good morning all 0 degree here but no frost or snow sky looks quite bright and dry so far. going to meet friends for coffee in one place (community hub) walking from here, then going on to lunch at local pub. Hoping any rain or snow stays away.

sounds like the only thing to do is a doze in the warm Vera. so glad everything was good with your appointment it must be a relief to hear that. glad that you got there and home safely. Well done to your OH for driving you.
the sun is shining here but it is a very cold looking sun.

I first emptied the dishwasher which was full with all the stuff from the meeting yesterday. then I did a large colour wash then while it was washing I cleaned the filter and all round the outside of the tumble drier, it gets a bit dusty in the conservatory. The man is coming to service it on Tuesday so I thought it should look clean for him. then I walked to the post box and took a couple of books back to the charity lady. I did a few bits of admin on the PC including my shopping list, then had a bit of a tidy of my desk which seems to accumulate bits of paper with notes to myself on them.
Quite funny I must be going more dotty than I thought.
I made a coffee and sat in the lounge with it and a piece of the cake left over from yesterday. took my plate out to the kitchen and took some dried washing upstairs. After an hour pottering upstairs I went down for lunch and there was a full cup of coffee. Cold of course. I must have really wanted that. :-D

The weather was the same here at the time you were posting Mandy. It had rained for a lot of the night and was still raining when I got up but had turned to heavy sleet by the time we left for my hospital appointment which was at 9.45. By the time we were a couple of miles up the road it was snowing and as we were driving it was getting heavier and heavier. It's a good job we had left extra time as, with the snow and roadworks, it took us twice as long as usual and we got there just at my appointment time and I was called in immediately. It was still snowing heavily as we left but it stopped as we arrived home. Although it was laying a lot of it has melted already. It could be very icy tomorrow as we are forecast overnight temperatures of -7 or -8!!!

I got on well as the hospital. The various sight tests I have to do showed a slight improvement. That is unlikely to get better as I was born with poor sight in that eye. However the scans have shown a considerable improvement to the swelling behind the eye so it looks as though the injections have done their job. I don't have to have any more injections for the time being. The doctor will keep a watch on me and will see me again in 3-4 months. I'm feeling very relieved and pleased.

We were intending to go to Dobbies after my appointment as it is not far from the hospital but, as it was snowing heavily and we didn't know how long it would last, we decided to go straight home. My eyes are still quite blurry from all the different drops I had in them so I can't see properly at the moment anyway and I am probably better at home.

About 5 minutes after we got in the doorbell went and it was the next door neighbour. She had gone out and forgotten her key. I have a key for her house so she let herself in and then brought the key back to me. If we had gone to Dobbies she would have been stuck outside in the cold so it's a good job we did come straight home.

I'm not sure what I am going to do for the rest of the day. I'm not in the mood for h/w, can't do anything in the garden at the moment and my eyes are quite sore so I don't want to read or watch TV.

Whatever you are doing, stay warm and dry.

Morning all,

Raining when we got up but it's now snowing quite heavily and beginning to lay ,its 2 degrees .
Going to make a couple of sponges one for us and one for the family ,I made a fruit loaf for them yesterday, dil is busy so making a couple of cakes for them will help a little bit.
There's a pile of ironing that keeps looking at me so I might get that done and OH said shall we start a jigsaw saw so plenty to do .

Hope you all keep warm and don't have to go out if you have the same weather as us here take care going out.

good morning Mel and everyone.
A light coating of snow on roofs and grass but very wet and sleety stuff coming down. 1 degree here now.

Morning all,

Wet and windy here this morning and its 4 degrees and pc says cloudy. I did spot some blue sky out the back when I woke up but its gone now.

Nothing planned for today so shall take it as it comes.

Hope you all slept well. I went out like a light and just got up once, back to bed and fell asleep right away.

Its now 11.13pm and the temp here is now 8 degrees and mostly cloudy.

Ah really annoying Island but probably sensible to postpone.

Vera I am sure that, as you I think have short hair, if it was well cut it will soon just dry into the style. what a difference in price that was though

Meeting went well talked about anything and everything but most of it was garden related. On of the members had a birthday today so she brought us a cake. It did seem that we were all in the same boat as regards to losing plants to the frost. I had looked up a list of frost resistant plants so that was useful to read out.

I've postponed. Roads are clear but pavements and steps down from front door look treacherous. :-| :-( Sods law that it should snow yesterday and today.

Good day everyone

No snow here now but it’s a horrible day. My weather app is saying it’s 3 degrees but feels like -1, with light rain and a gentle breeze. Translation: freezing cold, no downpour but constant steady rain and a biting wind from the East.

I went to the hairdresser for a cut and blow dry. I got soaked just walking from the car park to the salon, but after my hair was done I put an umbrella up and went to the veg stall in the market. By then my fingers were numb and I couldn’t press the tiny plastic button that closes the dratted brolly. The stall is a large walk-round help yourself place and I tried to walk round with shopping bags, handbag and an umbrella that wouldn’t close. In the end I decided I wasn’t prepared to pay their prices anyway e.g £2.20 for a small cauli so I went back to the car, put my still open umbrella in the back, put my hood up and walked to Waitrose nearby. I got everything I wanted including a decent sized cauli for £1.10, and drove home. What with the front of my hair getting soaked and the back flattened by my hood you can just imagine what my expensive hairdo looked like when I got home.

I hope your snow cleared and you can get to your doctor’s appointment safely Island and I hope your aches ease up very quickly Mel.

Enjoy your meeting this afternoon AnnG.

Gosh your temperature is high Mel. It is still only 3 degrees here. Still raining but I don't have to go out, I do have wet feet to contend with better put the heating back on before they come so that their feet don't get cold.

Morning all,

No snow here this morning in fact its 7 degrees and pc is saying humid again!

Not been out so don't know if it raining or not as I can't see that fine rain if it blowing in the breeze.

Hope you manage to get to your doctors appointment Island.

I feel all achy this morning,both my heels are hurting now and my toes ache too in the morning when I get up.

Good morning all no snow here thank goodness, hopefully we had our share in December. Raining at the moment and 1 degree outside.

Oh dear Island. Could you call a taxi to get there? Are the roads really bad now?

Hope you can manage it somehow. Once doctors' appointments are obtained we don't want to lose them. <3

tidy up this morning for the meeting this afternoon. Had a restless night last night so feel a bit tired this morning.

There's quite a thick layer of snow here. I'm very concerned about the safety of getting to my docs appointment tomorrow. So dismayed :-|

Looking quite white out there now .

Well I hav'nt done anything much. I just could'nt get on today.

We've had rain most of the afternoon and its blowing in the wind. No more snow but what will come tonight I don't know.

Stay safe all and warm.

Well there has been a lot of snow in the South West, Bristol and Bath and North Somerset but we have just had sleet and only 2 degrees. I have not needed to go out so that was ok got the lounge cleaned for the meeting tomorrow, also cleaned my bedroom and all upstairs carpets and the bathroom then made four Easter cards., did a bit of admin and finance. Surprised how much I got done. :-D

No more snow since last night but we have had sleet on and off all day and it is very cold.

I wanted to go to the Co-op for a couple of bits. Normally I walk but it was so cold and wet that OH got the car out. Then he decided that he would come with me and we would take the car for a good run. It hasn’t been used much recently and he didn’t want to find the battery flat when I have a hospital appointment on Friday. It wasn’t very pleasant as the rain and sleet were coming down heavily while we were out but we went about 40 miles so the battery should be well charged up.

All I’ve done this afternoon is a tiny bit of ironing and prepared the veg to go with tonight’s meat pie. I can’t think where the rest of the afternoon has gone.

I’m getting my hair cut tomorrow. I hope it’s not too busy in town as it’s market day. There are also a lot of road works, road closures and diversions. It took a friend 20 minutes to get out of Waitrose’s car park last Friday. I hope it’s not that bad in town tomorrow.

Stay warm everyone and take care if you have to go out.

Very chilly here and I can now see a few fine flakes coming down .

2 degrees rain and snow forcast but it feels a bit warmer out there. Done the dustbin up to put out tonight if I remember it. Its in the car ready to go but by the time to put it out I could have forgotten it!!!!!

Its raining now.