General Chat

Afternoon all,

Sorry I was a no show yesterday, but after watching the Rememberence Service, and preparing dinner. I just sat and read the paper at bits I could see without hurting my eyes. and completely forgot to go on line.

Been to the Nurse this morning for my injection, she told me I need to speak to a Doctor regarding my ECG. I appears my pulse is very low, and they are concerned it might have some effect on my HEART. So I will make a Telephone Surgery Appointment for this week. The nurse thinks this might have something to do with me feeling so out of salts, and being tired all the time. Mind you, being awake at 5.00 am. can't be that good for me either.

Nice bright sunny day here, but windy and very cold. So we have no plans to do anything today.

I will have to ask Conrad to send me the Video of LOLA, as it was sent to Ros's phone, and we don't know how to send it to my computer. I am not into all this HIGH TECH. lol lol

I have treated us to a new 1 1/2 Litre Air Fryer. You only need a spoonful of oil to cook chips, chicken and almost anything. I will try it tonight. I have some cold pork over, I will cook chips and Corn on the cob to go with it.

As I don't get out much with Ros, I have bought her Christmas Card on line. I used the same company for our wedding anniversary card and her Birthday card. They are excellent quality with EIGHT pages of verse. The other great thing is they are better than half price, that I would pay in Tesco. It turned up this morning.

I do hope you can find somewhere to take Sandra for a Carol service. As mentioned there are bound to be a lot around different venues coming up to Christmas.

I had another Phone call this morning about "PROBLEMS WITH MY COMPUTER" The second word I used was "OFF" and rang 1572 and added the number to my BLACK LIST. It's a great service from BT.

Having no breakfast this morning AGAIN. I am going to get myself some soup and a sarnie. Hope to get back later. HUGS to JANE. xxx

Gill try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2k144pZw0g

Gill I think the trees grow in the Phillippines and won't grwo in this country.

We have just had a huge rail and hail shower. the hailstones have melted now.

Frank can Ros not forward the video to one of us from her phone and we could forward it to the others?

Its good your seeing the doc about this low pulse thing. Good luck with the fryer we will want to know if its good or not.

I look forward to your comments on the air frier Frank. I have heard good reports from people using them.

A RAIL and hail shower Mel, hope it was rain and not railways!! rained a bit here and getting dark quickly and very cold.

Evening All,

Where did today go! :-0 A bit brighter here but still chilly. I popped to the craft shop this morning as I never went in the end on Saturday. The lady was busy dismantling a small ring with an Easter theme. There were pompoms in different greens at the base with moulded bunnies hopping. A little arch with bunting across and sprigs of flowers. She is doing straw coloured pompoms at the bottom this time, painting the arch brown like a stable and putting a Nativity Scene in it with a gold star in place of the bunting. I shall be looking out for it next time I go. I got some felt in different colours, snowflake buttons and found a ball of green wool I wanted in the 'reduced' box. That should keep me busy for a while! :-D

Frank I hope the Nurse was gentle with the needle this morning! It's good they have picked up your low heartbeat. I expect the Doctor will have some ideas as to the cause. I know some of my medication can affect heart rate.

I've never done it as I don't have the internet on my phone, but if Ros opens the email with the video on her mobile, there should be a bit near the top of the screen that says 'FORWARD' (It will be near the 'REPLY' box she presses to answer emails) and she should press on that and there will then be a space to type your email address. When she's done that , she should press 'SEND' and it should go to your email inbox then.

Yes, I have wondered about getting an air fryer before so will be interested in whether you like it.

Glad you seem a bit better today AnnG, despite a disturbed night. It was dry coughs that I always got and they tickle the most I think. Hopefully you will sleep better tonight as you will be tired after last night. Going through the kitchen cupboards is overdue here too and I'm sure I will be finding some old stuff. I like to do it while OH is out or some will find it's way back! :-0 ;-)

I can just imagine Sandra giving your OH a shove towards the door Gill. She was really ready for her hot chocolate wasn't she? lol :-) I used to like the band as well. It's lovely she is so appreciative of her new garden and lights, but it's a pity you can't send us a pic. If you told us what kind of camera and model you have we might be able to help with downloading your photos? Just an idea. You are forging ahead with your OH's tree and I hope you find the missing children today. I can't believe we are so close to Christmas!! I must get a move on and ask OH what he would like.

Annx my OH was happy for some stuff to go but did say a couple of times that oh that will be ok it is sealed in the tin. I made sure it all went a cough is enough for me to put up with let alone tummy problems. Cupboards look empty now.

Sounds like you got plenty at the craft shop. You will be busy now.

Hallo everyone

I don't know where the last two or three days have gone. There are too many posts for me to respond to, but I have managed to read them all.

Sunday was a bit cold but a lovely bright sunny day here. I should have done some gardening but I kept finding other things to do. Then it rained overnight and most of this morning again. It brightened up this afternoon but there was a very chilly wind and the ground was too soggy to do anything much. I just tidied up a few pots.

On Saturday we went to the old Wyevale Garden Centre at Bury St. Edmunds, which is now a Dobbies. At the moment I'm not very impressed but I think they are in a state of flux between the two companies and it was all a bit chaotic. We ordered a sandwich in the restaurant and waited so long that OH went to the counter to ask where it was and was rather rudely told they were very busy. Actually the restaurant was half empty and the people who had ordered immediately before us had been served, eaten their food and left. The sandwich appeared within a minute of OH complaining and it was very good but we thought the staff could do with a lesson in customer service. We will go back in a few weeks as it may just be things are a bit awry during the changeover period.

My chilean guava jelly wasn't very successful. Mel, I did add a little lemon juice although I had found two recipes from New Zealand, one without any lemon and one with the juice of half a lemon in about 3 times the amount of fruit I had. The guavas are supposed to be full of pectin but the mixture never really reached setting point. I boiled half of it away and it was still very liquid and quite sweet. In the end I poured about two thirds of it into my ice cream maker with a mixture of milk and double cream and turned it into ice cream.

I hope you cough less tonight AnninG. Frank, it's good that the doctor is going to check on your pulse rate etc.

Going to say goodnight now as I have a few emails to do tonight and I am beginning to get a bit tired.

Give Dobbies a month Vera besides the one we now have which took over Wyevale we have been to one in Milton Keynes and one in Cirencester and they are very good. Ours took a month before it eliminated all the Wyevale stuff and train the staff in Dobbie’s ways. They will be fine.

I wondered where you were as you had not been on here. We miss your long posts.

Morning Everyone
Just popping in to say hello and to thank you all for all your love/hugs /cards and thoughts <3.
I am ok .I have a good day and then a weepy one.Sometimes the tears come at really inappropriate time (like in the supermarket) I know it will happen again this mornng as I have a dental appontment .Hannah has already spoken to the dentist and explained things so I dont have to go over it again. My family are just flipping amazing and I am so lucky. Hannah was here all last week ,Gareth for the weekend.hannah is coming back again tomorrow.

I am waiting for an appontment still with Oncology .Probably another week . I dont like this waiting.I just want to know if I am able to have any treatment or not.

It is a beautiful morning .The sun is shining and the leaves are tumbling off the big tree inthe front garden.Our drive is a carpet of leaves.

Tomorrow Chris and I are going to see Janice and Larry. I will make sure to take plenty of tissues as I reckon it is going to be pretty emotional when we arrive

Frank, I hope you manage to get your appointment this week regarding your slow pulse.That will definitely be makoing you feel tired and lethargic .It could also be something to do with all these falls you have had. Good luck.

I will probably still not post much but will read the posts.

Jane, lovely to see you popping in, we all miss your posts but we do understand why you find it difficult. I hope that Oncology call you in soon as it is I believe, the waiting for information that is hard. Once you have the whole picture you will be able to know what is what. Tears are good, tears will help, and these days even tears in public seem to be acceptable.

I am sure Janice will be pleased to see you and you her, have a good cuddle and cry.

Good that Hannah is able to take time off to be with you and so good that your family are so supportive. Why wouldn't they be you have supported them in recent years.

I am pleased that you read but also do feel free to come on here and shout (or PM if it is easier) sometimes it is easier to shout at people who are not close family members because you are aware that they are suffering for you and will not want to upset them.

Look after yourself and stay strong and know we love you and feel for you xx <3 <3

Jane, it’s good to see you popping in and I echo all that AnninGlos has said <3 <3 <3

Morning girls and boy,

Jane I too echo all AnnG has said and you know we are always here for you. We all understand and am glad you pop in to read the posts even if you don't post yourself but it is lovely to hear from you.

Its a nice bright morning at the mo and its shopping day and I have to do both Lidl and Morrisons so think of me as I trudge my weaery way around today and my knee is not playig the game this morning too. I just hope it holds out.

Yesterday we changed our doctor, well we have forms to fill in and I have an appointment for the 22 Nov to see the doctor I like. She has bought the practice in Black Torrington which is only 2 miles away from us. I don't know why we hav'nt done it before but we were really hoping they would open the practice in Shebbear again but I don't think thats likely now.

Morning Jane and Mel, morning all

Dull, damp and windy here today, not as bad as last night the wind was terrible and Sky kept flickering as the dish got blown about. OH has tightened the dish up so it seems okay now and he's raked the leaves up before they spread around the pots, it's a lot of work getting rid of them if that happens.

Nice to see you pop in Jane, it sounds like your family have been your rock lately. You're bound to have tearful days, it's normal and I'd be surprised if you didn't. How nice of Hannah to explain things to the dentist so you don't have to. Hopefully it won't be to long now before you know what treatment you can have, I'm sure that'll help, knowing what's going to happen next. Sandra will be pleased you popped on here, she's been asking about you. Sending lots of hugs from Sandra and I <3 <3 <3

I had to throw some food out the other day to AnnG,not much just a box of shredded wheat, but that was only one month outdated not a few years lol. It's so easy to miss things if they're at the back of the cupboard though, so I wouldn't feel to bad about it.

I see you found the green wool you needed Ann and in the reduced box.....bargain.
I got on really well on OH's tree yesterday and managed to finish a whole family, all 8 of them, I also found their spouses and a few children for some of them. Ancestry had their records open so that helped and I'd just finished it all when the free records stopped. All I need to do today is copy them all over to my Genes tree, I use Ancestry (free account) to make a copy of our main trees, that way I can have them separately rather than all together like I do on Genes. So that's my job today, copying them all over. I ended up putting around 30 people onto his tree, but I put a lot of notes for each person on Genes so it might take me another couple of days to complete that part. I roughly counted how many people are left to copy over from the tree match I have and it looks like there's around 30 to 40 so with a bit of luck it should all be finished this week, then I can sort out Christmas as that's not far away now. Luckily I bought far to much for OH and Sandra last year so kept a lot back for this year. I only need to buy a few bits and bobs now so it shouldn't take to long to do. I'll take a look at the make of the camera when I've finished OH's tree, thank you for offering to help me.

Morning all,

Lovely to see you posting Jane it's a very difficult time for you so we all understand ,that was so lovely of Hannah to tell the dentist so you don't have to keep going over it,I hope you don't have to wait to much longer for your appointment.
I'm sure tomorrow will be tearful but it's good your letting it all out its not good to bottle things up ,have a safe journey there and just pop in here when your able <3

I had all my towels out on the line as it was nice and sunny with a good blow this morning ,now it's just started to rain ,another hour and they would all have been dry .

Good morning GIRLS. xxx

Jane I sat last night thinking of you, and was tempted to ring you, but I don't want to impose on your family life. All I can say is. I AM HERE if you need a good ear to bend.

My nephew John has HEART PROBLEMS. He has to go into hospital for STENTS to be fitted. I told him how well Ros has managed since having FIVE fitted last September. Where has that year gone. ??

I have just filled Ros's washer bottle with fluid and water. It should last her a few months. The water bottle is so BIG.

The Air Fryer does what it says on the tin. Ros did say some of the chips seemed under cooked, so next time I will set the timer for a little longer. With it only using a tablespoon of oil, it's very economical, and a lot healthier than a chip pan.

Ros has the dentist this morning, and will post the Australian and Canada cards. She needs to get a lot of root VEG, as I am going to do a Stew tomorrow. with DUMPLINGS. Tonight I am doing a Chicken Casserole, So nice and easy with everything in the casserole dish, apart from the potato's

I have bought Ros's Christmas present this morning A Victorian Rose gold Bracelet with a padlock All links are stamped 9 carrot gold and it's long enough to go round her wrist.So that's out of the way. Just odds and sods now to buy.

I must have a sort out in my wardrobe, I have so many shirts and trousers that need to go to the AIR AMBULANCE . Ros sees a shirt or a pair of trousers, and thinks I would like them (which I do) but there is no room to put them, and most of my things are hardly worn these days, as I tend sit around in Jogger bottoms and T shirts.


Enjoy your shop Mel, and to you all, stay warm, and behave yourselves. lol lol. See you later. xxxx


Bitter cold morning out there so I am not planing on going out.

Gill I think my OH would have eaten the shredded wheat if it was only a month, I wouldn't as I don't like eating straw :-D But my things were years more than months out of date.
Well done on getting on so well with the tree while Ancestry was free. since realising that probably nobody in my family will be interested in my tree after I pass on I have more or less lost interest in going back further. Some of my lines are back to 16th century, most to 17th so I feel quite happy with that. And I know that a cousin on each side has also got our trees.

Mandy frustrating when it doesn't quite give time for the washing to dry. It was sunny here first thing, and still sunny when we went out at 1015. But it started raining/sleeting around 11am and is wet cold and very nasty out there now. OH had intended getting out in the garden this afternoon but he is not going to be able to do that now. We have a trip to the tip planned for tomorrow and were hoping people would have gone today so it wouldn't be so busy (it shuts Thursdays). But I can't see anybody going there in this.

Mel hope you got your shop done in the dry.

Frank Thank you for the video, she is gorgeous and obviously very contented.
My OH Has a wardrobe full of shirts (well actually he has two, one with long sleeved and one with short. He really needs to go through them.

Just lost a long posting, informing you of a FALL I had earlier. I have cut my right eye lid and my cheek, grazed my knee and hands. I rang the Doctors and have an appointtment with the nurse later this afternoon to check my over. I will let you know how I get on, later.

I'm having a job to keep awake, and I feel to cold. Eos has made me a hot drink and put a sleeve round me.

Oh Frank, I hope you are OK try and get warm you are probably suffering from delayed shock. Let us know how you get on.

Oh dear Frank sounds as if you've hurt yourself a bit there good idea to get checked over with the nurse ,you rest up until you go .
Lovely to see how settled little Lola is Conrad must be pleased she has a nice home .

Still raining here and blooming cold so the wood burner is lit so we're nice and warm
I'm knitting Lacey some dolls clothes as she's having dolls for Christmas.

Evening All,

Brrr it's chilly here too!

Nice to see you pop in Jane and that you are reading the posts. I think AnnG and the others have expressed so well what we all feel. It's good your family are so thoughtful, but you have been there for them too as AnnG says. It's good that Hannah is able to get time off to be with you as well. I hope you will get your appointment any day now as you need to know where you stand with treatment. It will be good for you to see Janice and Larry tomorrow, you all need to have those tears.

Oh Frank I'm sorry to hear you've had a fall and hurt yourself. It's sensible to get checked out though. Thank you for the pics and videos of Lola. She looks so happy and is a sweet dog, enjoying her tummy tickle. I was interested in an air fryer because they use less fat so it sounds as if it is good.

Vera its a shame your Guava Jelly didn't gel as you hoped, but that was a great idea to make icecream with it! I wouldn't have thought of that. Your Wyvale swap over doesn't sound impressive but I suppose it is early days. We have 2 Wyvales that are now Dobbies and ours have changed quite a bit in character with far more gifts and house goods like clocks. We have an original Dobbies a few miles away on the A5 and that is quite upmarket with what it sells, so we expect they will work towards the same standard with their old Wyvale stores.

Well OH is feeling rough today as his sore throat has developed into a streaming cold and cough! I asked if he wanted to eat at home, but no, he thought the fresh air might be good for him, so we ate out. He just wanted to go home afterwards though and went to bed for a few hours and is now catching up with his emails. I've cancelled his dentist appointment tomorrow for the filling he needs, as he isn't well enough and the prospect of coughing with a drill in your mouth doesn't bear thinking about! lol. :-0

I was cross this morning as I use WiFit to weigh me and the remotes had cursors that suddenly wouldn't move. I found and looked at the instructions this afternoon though and have managed to get one working again and will have another try with the other tomorrow. I was thinking it was due a trip to the tip!! :-S

OH likes shredded wheat Gill and would have eaten them! lol. I'm more with AnnG though, although I don't mind the bite size ones so much. I love the taste, it's just the chewiness I'm not keen on.

No-one will be interested in my tree either AnnG, but years ago the local Records Office said they would have it to make available to others researching any family members. I thought that would be a good home for it and all the photos on it.

Those trees were beautiful Mel! That's good you won't have to go to Holsworthy to see a doctor now. Is there a chemist with the surgery? I hope you got everything at the supermarkets today and that your knee held out on the corners.

Oh Mandy I can't wait to see the doll's clothes you are knitting for Christmas for Lacey's dolls. :-D You make such lovely little outfits! :-D It was lucky you got your towels in before they were really soaked again.

It's a good idea to separate your trees Gill. I keep meaning to do it too, but it's a big job and getting bigger the longer I leave it.