General Chat

Had a bit of trouble opening the pics and videas Frank but love the horse one and it brought a tear to my eye. That bird is amazing sewing the leaves together to make its nest.

NOOOO!!!!

I could weep!

I just typed up a chatty comment, clicked 'submit', connection lost, reconnected and &^%$£ GR said 'an error occurred'! My comment lost. Blatheration!

I think I'll stick to a few words until our connection is sorted. :-(

Mandy do you take Omeprazole? if not ask the doc if you can have them as they stop indigestion. Oh and I are both on them.

Island I have pm'd you.

Mel i take Lansoprazole for the indigestion ,i have to take one about an hour before i take my other tablets .
How lovely having a little Robbie feeding from your hand again .

Going to have a look at AnnG's photo's on the blog now .

Lovely photo's of your garden AnnG that's a pretty Poppy ,well all the flowers are pretty and look nice and healthy and what a nice idea of using the photo's of the garden flowers for your cards too.

It's been cloudy all afternoon and still quite windy ,i did get the coffee sponge made but haven't really done much else it's been one of those days where i just can't get motivated

Iv'e been the same Mandy. I shall have to go and see these new pics of Anng's.

Just lovely and magical. don't forget I want you to save me some of those poppy seeds please? I have a poppy thats perennial which I bought at Bideford market years ago (over 24 years) It seeded itsself along the road to the bantams and flowers and flowers. I have lost it up the border so must cast some seeds up there. If anyone wants any seed let me know.

When I was wee I asked for a cowboy outfit so my da bought me the shipyard.

:-D :-D David

morning all,

Dull grey and wet again here this morning and windy with it.

Just the shop for the bits and bobs and do the egg delivery. I was going to clean the chickens out but think it is too windy for that so may just do the nests which are on the sheilded side from the wind. Will see how it goes.

Good morning all, yes very windy here too again. Seems to be what we are going to get nowadays. I don't like it because it spoils the garden, it is looking very windswept. OH is picking the last of the gooseberries in case it rains and they get spoiled. May have to freeze them until I can make some jam maybe next week. Can't do it while OH is around Lol!!!

Popping round the local garden centre later for some bark, other than that not sure what we are doing. We ought to make ourselves go for a short walk I think.
First day that the pubs, hotels, and hairdressers etc can open as we crawl out of lockdown slowly.

Morning AnnG ,morning Mel ,

Still windy and its keeps trying to rain ,that fine drizzly stuff that clings to you .
We have been out to the garden centre to get the compost for the veg trough ,it was nice and quiet going early as soon as they opened .

Not sure what we will do for the rest of the day ,i wonder how busy the restaurants and pubs and bars will be today ,we certainly won't be going out to eat for a while its still to soon to be mixing .

Grey and windy here too but no rain is forecast. Grandson and his partner have invited us to a BBQ in their garden with daughter and granddaughter. We all had a text from the girlfriend to say that if we have to go indoors she has arranged all the chairs at least a metre apart, all internal doors will be open so no-one has to touch the door handles and there will be disinfectant wipes in the bathroom with a bin on the landing so we can drop them in there after we have wiped the bathroom door handle. Bless her, she is trying to keep us safe. She hasn't said but I have a feeling she may have invited her parents too which will make 8 people. I can cope with that outside where we can space more but if we have to go indoors and I feel uncomfortable I may just have to develop a strategic headache and come home.

Yesterday was a bit of a busy day. OH brought in the old sewing machine from the garage. It was one I inherited when mil died but there was no instruction book so I never did find out what some of the dials and controls were for. It is so long since I used it - at least 7 or 8 years - that I had to work out how to thread it up again. Anyway I sorted it and made myself a new mask for my hairdressing visit on Monday. The ones we have already have elastic that goes right round the head and I need one with elastic ear loops that the hairdresser can cut round.

After that I went and got my meds. It looked very busy in town. We didn't hang around. OH dropped me right outside the chemist and then just drove round the corner and waited for me.

I had a Tesco order arrive just after 8 last night so a late night wipe down for me. I was shattered by the time I went to bed.

:-D :-D @ David. I remember my younger brother having a cowboy outfit.

AnnG, I've just looked at the photos on the blog. Lovely pictures as always. Your garden is looking very pretty.

Must go and get ready to go to Grandson's. Have a nice day everyone.

On Facebook I have my wedding day photograph.
Somehow there is a square around mine and Ellen's heads.
I think someone used this feature to identify us. Their choice.
How do I remove those squares ?

David I don't think you can unless you have photo shop and do it by hand on the pc by putting very small dots on the squares. I used to have that app but not any more.

Still raining that awful fine stuff and its all dripping off the trees and then the wind blows and you get soaked.

Well that was nice of the doctor to ring me (not) and now they are closed so I don't know quite what to do, carry on taking the pills and don't take the statin or what?

Picked the Blueberries this morning and have quite a lot but I have left them in the shed as I had to go and do the big girls and was quite wet by the time I had finished that so I shall pick them up later and weigh them. Vera did yopu get Blueberries in the end as you thought the flowers were all on the floor but they may have been polinated and thats why they fell off. Mine do that. I have just two bushes of different types but can't remember what they are now. One is supposed to be later than the other but they both seem to do their thing together.

Mandy we are still waiting to see a picture of the troughs before planting and filling and after. What compost did you buy for them?

Sorry David i can't help you with that ,maybe start a new post as i'm sure some one will be able to help you .

Vera have a lovely time at the BBQ and i hope it stays fine for you so you can be outside but if you do have to go in it sounds as if they have it all organised with the seating to keep you all safe .

Mel the trough has to have a couple more coats of paint yet so we won't plant until Monday probably .
We have peat free all veg compost so i hope that's ok for the plants .

Really dull here but dry at the moment .

David I just looked at my FB photos (I assume you mean the face identifying square is on a facebook photo? Whereabouts on facebook are you seeing it? I can see it appear in my albums but it goes off when I move the cursor from the photo.

Afternoon all, Going through a very funny time at the moment. It started yesterday afternoon, and is still with me.I keep going HOT and COLD. At times I have to strip off, the next I am loading cloths back on me. It went on through the night, so didn't get a lot of sleep. Ros wants to take me to A & E, but I won't let her.

Horrible weather forecast for Devon next week, so no walking along the sea front for me. Must take a new book, as I am almost finished the present one. The weather here is awful COLD and WINDY. So much for th SUMMER. !!!!

After my haircut at 3.45 pm I am taking Ros to a restaurant for a meal. At the moment I don't feel like eating anything, so hope I see something, I fancy on the Menu. Otherwise it will be a starter of some sort, for me.

David, I have no idea how you can get rid of those squares. It might be a good idea to ask on F.B. There are a lot of clever people out there.

Ros has just made a coffee, so I had better go and drink it.

If I remember to pack the computer, I will stay in touch while we are away. I think we should be back Thursday. Not that I am keen on going anyway. But Ros won't go on her own, in case I have a fall, with nobody here to help me.

Tak care all. xxxx

Frank have you taken your temperature? I wonder if you should call 111 and ask advice. No I don't think you should just go to A&E while you don't know what it is. Sounds like some sort of bug.

Vera very windy and showery here so i hope it is better where you are. Enjoy the family gathering anyway, be nice to socialise even if at a distance.

Pleased you all liked the photos, I will email out the photo of the gooseberries OH picked this morning later.