General Chat

Ann I try not to get concerned about people in our vicinity as they do say you have to be near somebody for fifteen minutes to be in danger.

Gill around three am the moon was very clear but I could only see what appeared to be one planet.

We’re still wiping down the shopping - or at least I am. I’ve got it down to a fine art now and have got a bit of a system going, but I do keep wondering if I am being over cautious. I gave up on the post as OH kept forgetting and opening everything straight away so I decided it would be better to train him to scrub his hands thoroughly afterwards and he’s pretty good about that. We have a newspaper delivered and there wouldn’t be much point leaving that a few days before we read it, so again we wash our hands thoroughly after reading it.

At last we have a few tiny toms on our plants. I’m hoping they will grow and ripen. We don’t have room in our little garden for them so I have them in pots on a path that runs between the side of the house and the garage but they don’t get much sun there. Oh well, if the worst comes to the worst I can always turn them into green tomato chutney.

Mel, you asked about compost. We generally buy whatever’s cheap or on special offer. Very often it’s an own brand pack from Roys, a local company that sells a bit of everything. I don’t buy lots of different ones, just a multi purpose one, but I might add some grit or some sand depending on what I’m potting up. I got your email. It’s a nice moon and planets picture you sent. You do all take lovely photos.

You and Flappergirl do have interesting ancestors, though that is such a sad story.

I had forgotten about the moon last night but just before going to bed I went to close a skylight in an upstairs bathroom and the moon and Jupiter were perfectly framed in it. It was like looking at a picture. I couldn’t see Saturn though. Perhaps it was covered with clouds.

Jane, I hope you have had a lovely birthday and enjoyed your time with Janice and Larry.

At the moment I’m aching in muscles I didn’t know I had as after lunch I went to tidy up a plant in the garden and one job led to another and another and another....so I stayed out there a bit longer than I should have done. I also had to put quite a lot of effort in removing a firmly rooted but very dead shrub. It was in a half barrel and I had no spare room to manoeuvre my fork so it was a bit of a job. I’ve been asking OH to sort it for ages and he said he would but I got tired of waiting. At least I can now use the barrel for something else.

I haven’t got any plans for tomorrow, apart from the ironing, so it’ll be see what the day brings. In the meantime I’m hoping for a good night and I hope you all sleep well too.

Goodness Mel what a story!! Thanks for the full info! The sugar planter is the only person of any real interest SV, apart from a 4 times G.Grandmother who ended her life aged over 80, in a Workhouse! I was quite upset by her story, illegitimate baby when she was very young, a life of real drudgery, husband and several children either died or abandoned her! Mind you I don't know their full circumstances, so I can't judge.
I think when we venture into genealogy we have to be prepared to find things that make us uncomfortable!!

Iv'e also had a gt grandparent killed by a train and one other far away ancestor killed by a cow!!

good morning all, a bit grey here but I think the wind may have dropped. (fingers crossed). Cynth next door always picks up a few bits for me on Tuesdays and I have told OH he should 'wipe' them so that next time we have a dekivery he can help. I was absolutely whacked yesterday and he came in and not only did he play golf, they have opened the bar facilities (all socially distanced apparently and outside) so he stopped for a coffee - no wonder he was later than I expected so I had finished when he got home!! So, we shall see. :-) :-)

Morning AnnG and all,

it grey here at the mo but oh said we were going to have a nice day today. Not much in the way of wind though so thats a bonus.

Big wipe down day today and I hope he dos'nt deliver it too late as it takes it into the afternoon and if its nice I want to get up the border this afternoon if poss.

Time to make some toast so I can take my first pill.

So intent on my toast i forgot to post this.

Had to sit down with a coffee just been giving the kitchen what passes for a deep clean here ;-) Who knew so many crumbs could hide in a toaster???
Took me longer than usual to do the main three rof the kitchen, as well as doing a load of washing. I will go back and finish after coffee and after showing OH the wiping of the five things Cynth got for us.

But does your OH do this. I am concentrating on what I am doing and he wanders into the kitchen to tell me about the next job he is going to do in minute detail. And he is soooo slow I could say what he says in two sentences but it takes him a whole A4 page worth. All he needed to do was to tell me he was going to look at the CCTV camera and see if it can be connected to the main TV as the old one was. By the time he'd finished I could probably (If I wished) fix it myself. Meanwhile I am stopped to listen with my hand in the sink, waiting to wipe down the work tops.

Good morning Mel, hope the shop is not too late.

They came quite early today a different driver. Took me about an hour and a half to do I think.

Hav'nt fed the chickens yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mines just the same Anng. When I am watching the tv he always comment on the way people are doing things or have said wrong in his eyes and I miss whats said next to get the hang of whats going on. This is why I stay up late and watch my programs when he is in bed then I can hear every word thats spoken.

We have a copter going over at the moment.

Good morning AnnG, Mel and all

Sorry, just noticed it’s already afternoon. Where’s the morning gone? I’ve chatted to a friend on the phone and done the ironing but that’s about it.

You sound as though you have been busy AnnG. I find my motivation to get on with things comes and goes and at the moment it’s gone. I know exactly what you mean about husbands going into every detail of what they have been doing. Sometimes I wish my OH had a key for me to wind him up a bit. Today he has put a few nails and hooks in the garage to hang up a few more tools and I have had all the whys and wherefores.

I think this afternoon I am going to move some geraniums. We had a dozen little plugs of white geraniums. These things are usually left to me but OH planted them into one of our small troughs - all 12 of them! I would probably have put in 5. It didn’t seem to have crossed his mind that little plugs grow into big plants. Now the trough is so densely planted that the flowers are struggling to force their way up through the leaves. I’ve now got a big pot and a half barrel going spare so I shall be doing a bit of transplanting.

OH just answered the phone and I can hear him chatting to one of my friends so I must go and talk to her. Have a good day everyone.

Hi Mel and Ann and all

Another day of nothing here so far. Shoulder easier but still painful to move, I don't want to take more painkillers though.
Gave the kiss of life to some shed plants which were very thirsty :-0

Reading back, I have to say I haven't found any ancestors to be a bit naughty - aside from 'early babies' lol. My mother would have been horrified and unaccepting of her mothers short pregnancies - by both husbands.
I found a Marmaduke once - now that's a criminal offence for starters lol - who was a bit of a scoundrel but the record disappeared :-0

My runner beans are coming on apace. Who's going to be first with them on the dinner plate? Can't wait :-D

Vera, you snook in while I had my head down :-D

Lol My mother was very Victorian and prudish! She would be horrified to know My Dad's Grandmother (a sweet old lady) had a child when she was a teenager and not married.

My runner are flowering but no beans yet. I always find the first flowers come to nothing.

I wonder how Frank is and I bet he did'nt take his laptop so we're not going to hear from him. The weathers quite nice here today and very warm with sunshine and a breeze. Second lot of washing in on a 60 wash. Tea towels flannels and pillow cases mostly oh's as he gets his dirty with all t he mowing and working on the mowers and he showers but it just goes to show it a lick and a promiss most of the time.

Gosh those poor geraniums Vera. I feel for them with no room to spead out.

Better get some lunch now or you know who will be saying where my food.

I have a wry chuckle Ann because my mother was so 'proper'. I'm sure she would have found a reason why both she and her older half sister were 'born early', likewise my dads eldest sibling. I would never have let on that I knew though.

Mel, I'm surprised to be getting beans on our lowest flowers this year. Some are about 7" long already. Not enough for a meal though.

Washing machine has just finished so I better get the washing on the line in a min. Its all cotton stuff and thin so won't take long to dry. A bit of a wind up now and grey sky but still dry and warm.

My mum bought a marriage licience for her parents and they were married cos she was convinced they married a year before her birth but they did'nt. They married on 19th April 1924 and mum was born on 13th June 1924. I only found this out when I starte dthe family tree and mum told me.

OOOO baby Bob has been on my hand four times today already and yesterday while down by my shed I was topping up a potato plants in a bag and he landed on my back twice to tell me he was waiting for worms. He's getting quite cheeky....... <3 <3

Afternoon All,

Got the washing dry, but it's steady rain here now which the front garden is desperate for as it has to fend for itself waterwise.

Some very interesting FH tales to read from you! I have nothing as exciting as Mel's baby farmer though!

Our excitement for today was dropping our prescriptions off and going home a longer way!

Our beans are in flower but no beans yet as we find the first ones don't usually come to anything unless we plant them late. The french beans are doing better and have a few beans about 3 inches long now.

AnnG I know just what you mean too. OH will come in the kitchen and start a long explanation of what he intends to do and stands in my way, even though I am watching something on the cooker, mixing something else and trying to get things out of the cupboards. Whatever he does he has to come and tell me afterwards too like he needs a gold star or pat on the back and worse, he expects me to stop what I am doing and come and have a look!!! We women do so much ourselves we wouldn't have time to explain it all to them!!! :-S As Mel says it is the same with TV. Mine's main interest I think is who is in a programme, what else he has seen them in before etc and I miss the bits I like while he tells me all this. Reading the papers at lunchtime he tells me all the snippets he finds interesting in his and I end up only half reading a couple of pages of mine. After the last trip in my car I said he wasn't coming in mine with me any more, so this morning he had to promise to say NOTHING and for once we had a peaceful, uneventful journey going the way I wanted to without the whys and wherefores of his way being better and without me getting stressed. Being keen on photography I like to vary routes or do detours, but he is an A to B person. I think our men need a new kind of face mask......'gag masks' lol.

Anyway he is doing a complaint to the Council now so that should keep him busy! When he fetched the bin back up the drive, instead of being clean inside as we use bags for our rubbish, this young man had tipped a neighbour's rubbish into our bin as well so it had liquid all in the bottom and old smelly grass cuttings stuck to the sides. (they shouldn't be putting those in an ordinary bin anyway). Surely they shouldn't be spreading rubbish from one bin to another like that with Covid either.

I was really tired after the wipe down on Sunday AnnG so if you were putting all the things away as well no wonder it took that long and was exhausting. I have been looking at some compact folding stools online and might get one as I think it would help me. I meant to thank you for the info about your photocards. :-)

Vera OH tells me and I have checked and it seems the process and print on papers and magazines mean they pose little risk. We have been leaving our newspapers till the afternoon and magazines and post till 24 hours later, but I shall treat the magazines like the newspapers now. Your poor squashed geraniums will be happy to get a bit of space to breathe. Men don't seem to have much common sense when they do these things. Mine has no idea of spacing plants, even after years of seeing me plant things out.

I don't think Frank can have taken his laptop and other than a few days I can't remember how long he was going to be away. I hope they are both okay and that the patio was finished!