General Chat

I agree AnnG. Sainsbury's and Asda are the same re us oldies who are vulnerable but not shielded. It's good you got your order though. I wonder if ASDA are the only supermarket that will give a recurring slot as it has lifted a weight off my mind. OH has been so impressed by their service and good prices. He had a pepperoni pizza today that was nice and only cost 82p! He thought it would be no good as it was so cheap till he tried it. They have been early delivering too so he put our boxes out half an hour early yesterday.

Vera, some people just have no idea about migraines! OH's became visual ones with no headache as he got older which was a problem with driving when he travelled long distances with work. Mine were connected with hormones at different times of the month and car fumes and cigarette smoke would bring them on too. The monthly ones would last the week before I was due. Yours sound even more severe, but I know what it is like to not dare bend down because of the crushing pain and to lift my head off the pillow with my hands. Horrid things! :-(

The organisation that runs the craft club I go to has put some on line webinars you can join so I logged onto the crochet one tonight, but had to switch my picture off the screen as I had my nightie on!! lol. There are some others this week, like printing, art for wellbeing etc so I may join those too.....suitably dressed next time!

Gill I am not sure if I put the right email address for you on the communial email. I did the aol one should it have been the other one?

Vera so pleased you have felt much better today and have been able to get on with some jobs in the garden and house.

Trouble I had with my asda order was I did'nt pay on Saturday as I was in such dicomfort with my mouth. When I looked on Sunday it said I was too late. Neither of us could get through to Morrisons today after many attempt and emails from them to me it just kept telling me my password was not recognized. Tehy accepted it when I first did it with them only to tell me they did'nt come out this far and then Em told me they had a Morrisons delivery this week which is why I tried to get in touch with them again.

I hav'nt done much today and feel worn out. I did a bit of painting but them oh wanted me to do something so that was that.

Tonight while I was cooking dinner and standing by the back door I heard two squarks and an owl flew out of our beech tree followed closely by three blackbirds all giving the alarm call. They chased it right up the orchard but carried on with the alarm for ages. The two Robins came out of the box hedge one one side and one the other. I think both the Robins and the Blackbirds and the pigeons are nesting in the box hedge this year.

Just seen the first May Bug of the year tonight at the outside light.

Good morning all

Grey and very wet here today. I know the garden needs a good long spell of rain but It doesn’t do a lot for my mood. I didn’t have a very good night and read from about 1.30 till 4 am but I was still up early this morning.

Not sure what I will do today. I might try and finish off the cupboards in the utility and polish the furniture in the hall (sideboard, grandfather clock and small round table), then the kitchen diner, uti, conservatory and hall will all have had a good spring clean.

Have a nice day whatever you are doing.

<3 <3 <3 <3 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA <3 <3 <3 <3

Hope you have a great day. Lots of love and kisses Mel xxxx


Morning Vera and all,

Raining here too and it started last night about 1.30am when I went to bed.The garden seems to be loving it and the grass looks much greener and the leaves on the trees seem out more this morning.

There no breeze or wind at the moment just the pitter patter of the rain.s I am not having a delivery today I think I will have a clean of the bathroom and hall and maybe hoover through. The plate rack in the hall needs a good dust and polish too. Then If I have more time I shall do a bit of clay work as I have a couple of things to paint.

Gill did you get the Gummy Bears today?

Didn’t notice the date when I first posted

:-D :-D :-D <3 <3 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA <3 <3 :-D :-D :-D

I hope you have a lovely day

Morning All,

:-D :-D<3 <3HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SANDRA <3 <3 :-D :-D and I hope she has a lovely day. Not sure if she will see our Happy Birthdays on here though.

Yes it's been raining here since last night too, but the garden really needs it. I think the weekend is looking dry and more sunny, at least at the moment.

More paper shredding for OH today and I am weeding more of my papers and tidying some craft stuff away in here first. I might tackle the filing cabinet then or do some bedroom drawers. I've already tried the holiday people and the other garden centre as soon as they both opened but continuous engaged tone with both.

I meant to ask how are Fitz and his wife Jane? Is Georgette fully recovered now?

Happy birthday to Sandra. Sorry I didn't send a card Gill, not going out I couldn't go to the post office. I hope she has a nice day and is as spoilt by Michelle as she would be if at home with you.

Ann it sounds as if they have the phones off the hooks.
Also sounds like a busy day for you. so far today I have prepped the meal (slow cooker pork) for tonight, done a load of washing and started on the four bags of shopping that I put in quarantine yesterday morning. Still giving them a wipe but I am sure they will be fine now. did I tell you I had 17 bags of shopping. and now have 17 empty plastic bags. Have to recycle them at the shop when this is over as they don't take them back on the vans. and OH has hoovered upstairs and cleared out one of his drawers in the bathroom.

I shall finish off the other shopping bag and then make coffee. After that I am not sure but there will be something to do I know.

Pouring with rain here and the garden is loving it.

Mel, and vera two more busy people today.

Morning everyone,

<3 <3 <3 Happy Birthday to Sandra hope she has a lovely birthday with lots of cards and presents .

Raining here now it was dry when we got up ,yes this rain seems to have washed the leaves on the trees and they look a much brighter green.
Things will come on now in the garden with a nice bit of rain but then so will the weeds ,I have lots of buds on the yellow rose and some nice orange poppies now flowering

Don't know what we will be doing today ,Colin 's just starting another jigsaw and I have just put the hoover round .
The carpet washer came yesterday so that's still in the box in the hall ,well be leaving it there for a day or two before we touch the box although i did wipe it over with my
antibacterial wipes

Frank did Ros manage to sort her sewing machine out ? Maybe it just needed a bit of a dust out its surprising how many bits get round in the bobbin casing bit.

We had a nice stew yesterday and there's more left for today so a nice easy meal
tonight just need to do some more veg .

Son came and did the canopy when he came in the gate we sat down the garden it did seem strange having a shouting conversation ,he was only here about quarter of an hour but at least now we have a bit of shade when the sun shines .

Right better make a coffee next ,Max is snorning away at my feet :-D

and at least you got to see him Mandy, that is worth a lot. glad you have it fixed now anyway, even if too wet to use it.
We have yellow and pink climbing roses out at the moment, they are very early as even the ramblers are not out although it is covered in buds.

I have a few red roses out on the south wall and big orangey poppies in the borderAND MY BEARDED IRIS ARE FLOWERING TOO. tHE wISTERIA OVER THE WALL FROM THE TOP GARDEN WAS A PICTURE THIS WEEK AND i MEANT TO WALK UP AND TAKE A PIC. Blast blast blast I am not typing that lot again as I want to get on. Sorry. The white lilac is out too.

Its good you got to see your son Mandy and he put the gazebo up for you so when the sun shines again you will have shade.

Good afternoon to all you lovely people. What a treat we are having this morning. RAIN. I didn't water last night, as we were promised this today, and they were right for a change. lol lol


HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA. I am sure she would be HAPPIER to be with her MUM AND DAD, but I am Michelle will give her a nice day. Bless her.

Simon has just been on the phone. He is moored up in Nuneaton, waiting for the boat yard to fit an emersion heater to the boat. He had SOLAR PANELS fitted a couple of weeks ago. That will save him having to run the engine to charge his batteries. Ford's at Daventry are shut until 11th April. Then he will have to see if the shutdown continues. Sally is back at work today and tomorrow, and will drive back to the boat on Thursday.

Dear Ros is felling a bit under the weather today. So I have told her to have "A ME DAY" and a break from the sewing machine. She hs the T.V on and is knitting for the baby, thats due in August/September. She just has to be busy. !!!

A nice loin of Lamb for this evening. The order from Sainsbury's included some lovely Runner beans and carrots with the leaves still on. So they will be part of the Veg. The other is Sweetheart Cabbage, Roast Potato's and Roast Parsnips. Peas, and a few NEW SPUDS. Any over, Ros will eat cold, or I will fry up with eggs, and bacon. etc.

Still raining here. I will end with the usual, BAD NIGHT. Was in bed by 11.00 pm. Still wide awake at 1.30 am, so got up and read until 4.00 am. Slept then until 7.30. All showered and COTd before Ros came out at 9.30. Didn't feel like breakfast, so might have a bowl of soup now with a bit of B & B.

Take care my sweet things, and STAY SAFE.xxxx

Afternoon all

Raining here today but not much so I doubt it'll water my plants properly.

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes for Sandra. She rang me to say the parcel arrived and to say thank you to everyone. I was right two of the cards were the same, Flamingo's, I sent her a Flamingo card and so did other members of the family, she is thrilled with everything and was so excited on the phone. Michelle has bought lots of birthday food to have a little party with her and they got her some glow in the dark balloons which she's put in her bedroom, so I think she's going to have a lovely birthday, even though she can't go out anywhere.

I've PM'd you my email address Mel, the aol one is the old one I don't use anymore.
How lovely to see all the birds, the Blackbirds soon saw off the owl, mind you the owl may well try again. Did you manage to sort out another Asda order or have you given up now? Fancy Morrisons saying they don't come out that far then go to your neighbour, very strange. I'm lucky as OH goes to the shops for me after work sometimes or on his day off. You garden sound like it's full of colour, ours is starting to fade now and I don't have anything else, so it's going to look pretty dull for the rest of the year. It always looks it's best in the spring.

Pleased to see your migraine has gone now Vera, I know exactly how you feel, when I have them sometimes I'm sick, it's awful isn't it, especially when they go on for days. I've been in tears with the pain sometimes, but then have to tell myself to calm down as crying just makes it worse. I can't even take someone whispering and have to sit with my eyes shut in a dark room and even then it doesn't always work, so don't feel like you're on your own and no one understands, I definitely do. No one thinks any worse of you on here if you have a moan, sometimes it helps. Sending you a gentle hug <3 <3 Sorry you didn't have a good nights sleep last night, hope you have a better one tonight.

Just read your post about sending the gummy bears again Mel, so I've just looked at them, thank you to AnnG as well, for sending them. They look great Mel

Your granddaughters look pretty Mandy and very proud to be wearing the necklaces. That was nice of your son to put the canopy up for you, when the sun comes out again you have somewhere in the shade to sit now. Our rain is very fine so I don't think it's going to do much. OH's been watering the plants most nights so everything looks okay at the moment, apart from the ones that are now fading. I'll have to move some pots around once they've finished flowering, not sure how I'm going to fill the gaps though as I don't have much to replace them with.

Your climbing roses will look nice when they start to flower AnnG, we used to have some red ones in our old house, I do miss them but don't have anywhere to put some here as all the fences are full of plants already.

Sorry to hear Ros is under the weather today Frank, hope she feels better soon. Do you think she's over done things a bit, she never stops and now she's knitting baby clothes. At least she's sitting down and watching a bit of TV as well, which will be more relaxing than working on the sewing machine. Did she manage to sort the machine out in the end?

Well, I'm still plodding on with my family tree. I'm trying to keep my mind occupied as OH might lose his job today. He and another 19 staff have all got meetings with the boss over the next three days as they are over staffed, so it looks like they maybe getting rid of a few people. I hope OH isn't one of them, trying to find another job right now will be almost impossible. His meeting is at 2pm, so just over 20 minutes time.

O Gill I hope his job is safe please let us know as soon as you her. <3

Glad you got the pics in the end. I will delete the old email.

gill I hope your OH's job is safe. I don't understand how they could have taken him on and are now overstaffed. Hopefully he won't be one of the ones to go, he must be in danger because he has not finished his training and presumably others are well trained already.

Gill, I hope OH’s job is safe. He’s put in a lot of time and effort for them so let’s hope they recognise that.

You don’t think your plants will even get properly watered Gill and mine are in danger of drowning. It hasn’t stopped raining since last night. Every so often there’s a heavy shower, then it eases up a bit till the next bout of heavy rain. When I went outside just now a lot of the blossom had been knocked off my blueberry bushes by the rain, it was that heavy. I hope that doesn’t mean I won’t get many blueberries this year.

I wasn’t having a go at anyone on here with my rant about people not having a clue about migraine. I know several of you have suffered yourselves and you have all been sympathetic. I was feeling very grumpy because someone had told me on the phone that she gets migraine but won’t give in to it. She takes paracetamol and carries on. She genuinely thought she got migraine because she got the occasional bad headache. Gill, if it’s any consolation I used to be very sick but that was one of the aspects that got better when I got older and I am hardly ever sick now, so I am sure it will improve for you in time.

I didn’t get around to polishing the hall furniture but I did finish cleaning the uti cupboards. It’s surprising what came to light. I found some large muslin squares that I occasionally use to strain jams and jellies but couldn’t find when I wanted them a few months ago and some bottle brushes I was looking for recently. The charity shop is going to gain a “sonic scrubber” which was supposed to be wonderful for cleaning the grout round bathroom tiles, but didn’t seem very good to me on the one occasion I tried it. But the biggest treasure was right at the back of the cupboard - a large bottle of Milton sterilising fluid :-D. I’ve no idea how long it has been there but there was no “use by” date on it and it smelled right. At least if I run out of wipes and Dettol spray I can make some up and use it with a disposable cloth to wipe things down.

I am going for a shower and hair wash now. My hair is just getting to the stage where it needs cutting. I checked my diary and saw that I had booked an appointment for tomorrow. That won’t be happening now so just call me Tatty Bonce :-)

Afternoon All

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA <3 <3 <3 It sounds like she is going to have a lovely birthday Gill with party food and balloons.

I am keeping everything crossed for your OH and hope that he keeps his job.I am surprised how overstaffed they are as usually Care Homes are very understaffed.

What a miserable day.Non stop rain.The garden will be lapping it up :-D

I have started a new jigsaw too today Mandy .I did nt know your OH liked doing them too.it passes a bit of time on a day like this. I shall get back to mine now .

Oh I know how you feel Vera, our hair appointments were for last Friday and mine is now making its way up and outwards as well as down. It is not curly but is very thick and a bit wavy so I will soon look as though I have had an electric shock. The second chiropodist appointment since lockdown should have been today so it is 16 weeks since I last went. I am just about coping with that. He is open but it means going into town and, for the life of me I can't think how, if he is doing me feet, he can be 6 foot away from me.

You had some good finds then. I did find a new handwash when I climbed on a stool to look in the high cupboard in the cloakroom (where bleach etc is kept away from Grandchildren when they wee frequent isitors when they were little.

Just skirted the posts.

Any news on your OH job Gill. ?? I hope it's safe, as you say, finding any jb now will be very difficult.

Ros just won't do as she is told. !!! She has ironed lots of BED SHEETS and cut them out, into the bag sizes, ad made a load more. She's also made some more face masks.

I asm expecting a phone call from the nurse at 9.30 in th morning re my Testtostrine. Also a call from the Hospital, regarding my eyes. How on earth can they examine the condition of my eyes OVER THE TELEPHONE. This will be interesting. lol lol

"Lazy old begger " That's been me today.. I haven't even opened my book today. But did prepare dinner for tonight. Which I will be putting on in the next half hour or so.

I watched the NEW CHASER last night, didn't think I would enjoy it, but I did, It's on every night this week, I think.

The CORONAVIRUS programme is on now, o will catch up on the latest news.

STAY SAFE, my dear FRIENDS. xxxx

Thanks everyone for your good wishes, OH won't be home until after 8pm so I won't know anything until then or even later in the week as there are 20 staff having meetings over 3 days, so I doubt anyone will know what's going on until they've all seen the boss. OH told me the big boss is staying there this week, maybe he's going to watch the newbies and see how they all work. OH said they were suppose to have the builders in the do a new part of the home and that's why they took on extra staff, but because of the lockdown the builders can't do the work, so now they're over staffed with taking the extra 20 people on that they don't need now. OH was the 2nd person they took on, the other 18 were after him, so with a bit of luck he'll keep his job as he knows more than them, some of them have only been there 2 weeks. Luckily OH finished all his training, he went in on his day off to finish off the last few bits he didn't have time to do the day before. Hopefully that will stand him in good stead, but no one knows anything at the moment. If they do lay him off they may well need him back once the lockdown is over, we can only hope, or better still they keep him on, as that would be the best thing for us. I don't have any money coming in now I'm no longer Sandra's carer, so if OH loses his job we'll have no money coming in to pay the bills. Luckily OH still has some of his wages left over from the work he has done, but that won't last for long. I'm so anxious at the moment and the time feels like it's going so slowly because I'm waiting for him to come home.

I hope your blueberry bushes produce some fruit now the heavy rain has taken all the blossom off Vera. It's started raining heavy here now and I have blossom on my apple and plums, so I'm in the same position as you and wondering if any fruit will appear this year and just when we need it to. I know you weren't having a go at anyone on here, I just felt for you with someone saying to just take a paracetamol, they don't do anything do they, you might as well take one of those Smartiies sweets for the use paracetamol are for migraines. Nice to know the sickness will ease with age, at least I have that to look forward to. I see you've found a few things hidden away, the sterilising fluid will come in useful, like you said. You just reminded me I need a bottle brush, I hope our small shops sell them. I did smile when you called yourself Tatty Bonce lol :-D :-D :-D I have long hair, which I colour, it'll need doing soon, but I do it myself, which means I don't need an appointment. I also use the home colouring and have a box ready, so I don't need to worry about finding it in the shops this time around. I buy them in pairs, it works out cheaper that way. It looks like we're all going to have long hair by the time lockdown is over. ;-)

You made me smile too AnnG when you said you'll look like you've had an electric shock if you don't have a hair cut lol ;-) ;-)

Good idea to do a puzzle, especially with the way the weather is, what puzzles are you both doing Jane and Mandy's OH? I put a pile of puzzles in a box in the wardrobe but to get the box inside OH had to take the door off, so I can't get to them when he's not here as the wardrobe door is to heavy for me to do.

Well, I'm going to take another look at my tree, I haven't got anywhere so far today, I just can't seem to concentrate, all I'm doing is clock watching. I wouldn't mind but the whole point of doing my tree was to take my mind of things.......that didn't go to plan did it?