General Chat

Anyone watching planet child? Scary stuff for the parents.

I'm watching Rich kids go homeless AnnG I'm then going to watch Planet child on ITV
plus one.

Worth watching Gill

Morning all,

I hav'nt seen the forcast but it looks a promising day today. Still early so we shall see how it turns out. Skies a bit cloudy.

Library day today and then pick up the scripts this afternoon from the shop in the village which is about a mile and a half up the road. We will see how we get on with this system as you can't see what your getting till they arrive. I have to speak to the doctor as to whether I can have my Doublebase gel as last time they gave me a different make and I did'nt like it as it was greasy and sticky on my skin. I told them I did'nt want that one again.

Five lovely little puppies in the end then Frank. He has his work cut out with that lot. Do you think he will keep the little mother after this as you said you did'nt think he was going to keep her now she was healthier.

How is everyone today? Did you all sleep well?

Good morning Mel, and All.

AnnG you sound as though you had a lovely day out yesterday, It's so good when a little place like you mentioned gets re-juvinated, and turns into a thriving little business area. Is it tucked out in the Country. ?? We have a place down the A 5 thats on a farm. It has various business, which are located in coverted barns. Ros loves to go there as there are so many different outlets there, including a Cafe, where she can get a snack and coffee.

Mel, another soft egg. Aren't they eating the grit.?? We find the our Dr. keeps changing the manufacturers of various items, in our prescriptions. I expect the REPS. are offering major deals to them for changing to their brand of product.

Ros is at Stitchery-Do, today at the Scouts hut,up where the football club is. It was built a couple of years ago and is very large. They tend not to use it in the winter as it's so COLD, and takes too much money to heat it. This is why they go to the Chapel in the Winter.

The old back is still giving me a bit of pain, but nowhere near as bad as yesterday, but still hobbling around on my stick. Ros did a coloureds wash this morning before she went out. I have emptied the washer, and put the cloths HORSE up in the garden and put it out. It forecast rain for today, but as yet we haven't seen any. It's going to get colder with frosts on Friday night. So make sure you protect any tender plants.

Our water pressure keeps changing, some days it's very low, but yesterday when I put the hose on to water the garden pots and baskets, it was strong, IT BLEW THE HOSE of the connector on the tap. It sprayed everywhere. Denis's car next door got soaked. Good job he never had a window open. !!!

It's Sally's 50th in August, and we have had an invite to a place in Daventry. I spoke to Simon this morning, he has invited all my nieces and Nephews to the party. I just hope it doesn't include Ted's son DOMONIC as if I find he is going, then I will not. As I have an enormous SCORE to settle with him, which I have promised I will settle, if ever we meet again.The last thing I would want is cause a scene at a family get-together .

No breakfast yet this morning, so will go and raid the fridge to see what I fancy, ;-) ;-) ;-) and have a coffee.

See you al later, I do hope Jane is O.K. xxxx

Good morning Mel, and All.

AnnG you sound as though you had a lovely day out yesterday, It's so good when a little place like you mentioned gets re-juvinated, and turns into a thriving little business area. Is it tucked out in the Country. ?? We have a place down the A 5 thats on a farm. It has various business, which are located in coverted barns. Ros loves to go there as there are so many different outlets there, including a Cafe, where she can get a snack and coffee.

Mel, another soft egg. Aren't they eating the grit.?? We find the our Dr. keeps changing the manufacturers of various items, in our prescriptions. I expect the REPS. are offering major deals to them for changing to their brand of product.

Ros is at Stitchery-Do, today at the Scouts hut,up where the football club is. It was built a couple of years ago and is very large. They tend not to use it in the winter as it's so COLD, and takes too much money to heat it. This is why they go to the Chapel in the Winter.

The old back is still giving me a bit of pain, but nowhere near as bad as yesterday, but still hobbling around on my stick. Ros did a coloureds wash this morning before she went out. I have emptied the washer, and put the cloths HORSE up in the garden and put it out. It forecast rain for today, but as yet we haven't seen any. It's going to get colder with frosts on Friday night. So make sure you protect any tender plants.

Our water pressure keeps changing, some days it's very low, but yesterday when I put the hose on to water the garden pots and baskets, it was strong, IT BLEW THE HOSE of the connector on the tap. It sprayed everywhere. Denis's car next door got soaked. Good job he never had a window open. !!!

It's Sally's 50th in August, and we have had an invite to a place in Daventry. I spoke to Simon this morning, he has invited all my nieces and Nephews to the party. I just hope it doesn't include Ted's son DOMONIC as if I find he is going, then I will not. As I have an enormous SCORE to settle with him, which I have promised I will settle, if ever we meet again.The last thing I would want is cause a scene at a family get-together .

No breakfast yet this morning, so will go and raid the fridge to see what I fancy, ;-) ;-) ;-) and have a coffee.

See you al later, I do hope Jane is O.K. xxxx

Morning Mel, Frank and all

It's pouring with rain here today, luckily it stopped as we went to vote and again when we were on our way home, then as soon as we came in the heavens opened again, so that was good timing.

I nipped to mum's but she wasn't in, I noticed the back door open so went in that way calling her name, the cleaner was there and I gave her quite a shock as she had her music on, on her phone so didn't hear us calling. We ended up having a nice chat with her then came home and left her to it as we weren't sure how long mum was going to be out.

Planet Child was really good last night AnnG, although I don't think I'd be happy letting my children walk around London on their own under the age of 7 even if there were people keeping an eye on them, it would be so easy for the children to run into the road and be hurt, things like that can happen very quickly can't they? I was very surprised all the children manage to follow the instructions in the end, the two cousins from the farm were having a great time in the play ground completely in the wrong direction, but got there in the end......bless them. I'm looking forward to the next one now.

Hope all goes well with your scrips today Mel. I'm sure it'll be okay, new things always seem strange until you get used to them.

If you want to go to the party Frank and Domonic is going to be there, I would still go and just ignore him if he starts........be the bigger man and enjoy yourself, don't let him spoil it for you. Pleased to see your back is feeling a bit better today Frank, let's hope it heals soon.

Going to catch up with a few programmes off the planner now and have a nice cup of tea.

Good your back is a little easier today Frank. They do take a while to get back to nornal though so take it easy for at least a month.

Done the library and she had four good books for me all the authors I like. She has taken down more titles I want so lets hope next time at the end of May she will have some more for me.

Suns been in and out today but the breezy wind is enough to freeze the wotsits off a brass monkey.

Pleased that your back is better today Frank hope it continues to improve. Yes the craft centre is in a small village out in the country. The restaurant was very popular with ladies meeting for coffee and chat.

Gill, it was a bit scary for the children but I don’t think the needed to cross any main roads and I am pretty sure they were more surrounded than you think by chaperones and cameras and the bus drivers were obviously in on it. None of them paid for a ticket. I am guessing they had several instructions before starting which may have consisted of warnings about keeping away from traffic and going upstairs on the bus. Did you notice there were not that many people upstairs? I also noticed at the end that it had all been cleared by health and safety experts. I liked the play session when the twins climbed the ladder into the tree.

But what about that little Japanese boy? Now that is scary.

I know AnnG I couldn't believe the journey the little Japanese boy had to take just to get to school and it was busier there than in London by the looks of it. I think they said the only people upstairs on the bus were the chaperones. I thought they needed to cross a road to get the first bus, but thinking about it now the bus was on the same side as them. I liked it when they were discussing the best time to get off the bus when they saw the London Eye, some of the children had it all worked out which was very impressive given their ages. Yes the twins climbing the ladder to get up the tree and was that their mother watching and worrying about them? All in all a brilliant programme and one I'll be looking forward to watching again next week.

Have you been watching Rich Kids go Homeless? I felt so sorry for the girl last night, it's bad enough the men doing it but for a girl to try the experiment, well I couldn't do it, she was very brave, but I think she was glad to be home again. It was nice how she stayed in touch with the woman who helped her, I thought that was nice.

The sun's come out here to Mel, but it's not very warm, I think it's tomorrow we're suppose to be having snow showers, although it doesn't look as if that might happen given how sunny it is at the moment. Pleased to see you got 4 books by the authors you like.

When we came home from voting there were a couple of workmen next door so I guess the inside jobs aren't quite finished yet. The drive people haven't been to seal the drive either, so we're not sure how long it's going to take for everything to be finished. We just wish they'd hurry up as we're all getting fed up of it now.

Oh pressure washed some decking this morning and got so wet he took his joggers off on the patio outside the back door and came in and had a shower. We have had lunch and he opene dthe back door turne dto me and said "There's a bloke out here thats been blown out of his pants" Its just like a cartoon the way he has left his joggers on the floor.

Just a quick one from me
I just want to say a HUGE thank you to you all for all your kind messages.It means a lot at this really horrible time.I am really grateful xxxx

Loved Planet Child last night :-D :-D WOW !

I am reading all the posts ,so keeping up to date even though I am not joining in right now.

Not very nice here now. I bought the washing in just as it started to spot of rain. SODS LAW, it stopped as soon as I did. !! Ros has now transferred it to the radiators, as the heating is on.

I have been trying to get into a new book, but after five pages, I have given up. I have so many to chose from I don't know where to start. lol lol

Ros is going to iron her bits that I left the other day, then she is going to make some jewellery. She had a package from her Jewellery Chanel, this morning. ;-) ;-) ;-)

Chinese seasoned Spre Ribs tonight, with Corn on the Cob and Chips. It will make a change from roasts.

Nice to see Jane is keeping an eye on us. We will have to be good, and no talking about her, behind her back. lol lol <3 <3 <3 to Jane. xxx

Even though I haven't been doing anything strenuous , my back is starting to ache. I think a lay down on the lounge floor, might be good for it. It's worth a try. I know in the passed, people with bad backs, swore by laying flat on a hard surface.

I see Liverpool got stuffed by Barcelona last night. Conrad won't be a HAPPY BUNNY..
Update on puppies. She has been leaving them alone, so Conrad called the vet, who called and has taken three away, as she thinks FIVE are to many for her to feed and handle. She (the VET) will hand rear them for a few days, to let Mum have an easier time of it. I am so PROUD of him for what he has done for a stay dog. In fact the VET is having Mum and the pups over the weekend, as he is coming back to Paignton for the weekend, and Jan is going back with him for a couple of weeks. She will be ablate BABY SIT while he is at work.

Should'nt that be Puppy Sit Frank. Its a long job raising puppy's by hand as it were. I know as I have sone it. You have to tickle their privates to make them wee as they can do it on their own at first. Mum licks them to make them go. I do wish we could see a picture of this mum with her pups. Could'nt Conrad send you one so you could forward it to us please?

Jane keep reading the posts, we will keep you company while you spend time grieving it is, as you say a hard horrible time for you all.

Frank poor mummy dog with too many mouths to feed and well done that vet. Don’t blame you not continuing with a book if you couldn’t get into it. Life is too short. Find a good one.

Lol laughing about the jogging pants Mel.

Today was a pre driving home easy day for the driver so we drove a few miles to West Bay and had a good walk round. We were watching all the workmen on various sites but especially on East beach where huge boulders are being delivered from a container ship out in Lyme Bay. These I believe will be buried to stabilise the shingle and sand for future flood defence. They have a huge job ahead of them but hopefully it will make it safe for the residents in the cottages behind the beach.
The weather was grey and windy but not too cold, I had a sweater and light fleece on.

We next drove a mile or so and had a look round a garden centre we had not been to before, we didn’t buy anything but were very I pressed with it.

Lunch we had in Morrison’s I had scampi and T had fish and chips both good value for money and saves cooking this evening. We will just use up bits.

We came back to the cottage and made up a flask etc. Drove down to the bay and sat looking at the sea reading the paper. The sun was out after lunch. We walked onto the cliff and sat with our cup of tea watching the few people on the beach and the sea, it was a beautiful end to a lovely holiday. Came back to the cottage, had a chat to To. And packed. We are always sad to say goodbye to our little home from home. Hopefully we will get back here again sometime.

Safe journey home AnnG. You have a nice lot of memories of that holiday and lots of nice pics to show us on your blog.

Guess what I went up to get our scripts from the shop in Shebbear and they only had mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing at all for oh and he's the one thats run out of a coupe of things. The medical center tried to ring us twice today and we coudl'nt get the call. Whether they know how to get through to us once we press 1 on the handset to accept the call or what but oh took a call at 20 past 8 this morning and he could'nt speak to them then and I took a call this afternoon latish and I could'nt speak to them. I shall have to get the number and ring them in the morning and see whats going on.

I am so fed up with it all. :-(

Oh dear Mel, it gets worse doesn’t it? Not good enough.

Yes a great holiday and good memories. Will get some pics on the blog ASAP.

Morning all

Dry here at the moment but it's gone dark with lots of clouds so I'm expecting rain soon or even snow flurries as forecasted.

Don't worry about posting Jane we all understand. Sending lots of hugs to everyone <3

That was nice of the Vet to take some of the pups to give mum a break and to offer to have them all over the weekend so Conrad can go to Paignton. Yes, we'd love to see a pic of mum and her pups if you can get hold of one. How is your back, did it help laying on the hard floor Frank?

Oh dear Mel that's not good about the scrips and not being able to talk to anyone about it, I hope it's sorted soon for you both.

Safe journey home AnnG, what time are you leaving? Does it take you long, hope the weather isn't as bad as it was for Frank and Ros.

OH was talking with the new neighbour yesterday and they are having the carpets put down today, he was telling OH there is only the kitchen to be replaced then everything inside will be finished. The insurance are sorting out the kitchen so we're not sure when that's being done. The neighbour told me a while back that he was hoping to move in on 14th of this month, OH doesn't think the insurance will sort the kitchen out by then, but we don't think it'll be long now. We're still not sure if they are staying or going to sell the place. At least it's quiet so we don't mind how long they take now.

Morning Gill and All,

Its sunny here at the moment and not a bad day really.

I have been on the phone about oh's scripts and they are saying I have to go to Hatherleigh to pick them up. The receptionist said she was trying to speak to the supervisor about how to get htem to us but I may still have to go there. They did'nt have two of oh's pills in which is why they did'nt deliver them with mine. I think its about the same distance to Hatherleigh as it is to Holsworthy so another 18 mile trip if I have to go there.

BBL