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Just stopping by to wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year <3

Hello all from a lovely sunny but cold day here. beautiful seeing the sun and makes one feel happier somehow!

Daughter has left the nest until next Thursday and also left another pile of washing...oh my life never known someone to get through so many clothes! Anyway last of it in the dryer.
I have my lovely new friend/neighbour coming for lunch tomorrow. We decided not to go to town given the high number of cases here.

So Im making lentil/veg soup, smoked salmon & cream cheese sandwiches, warm crusty rolls and xmas cake with coffee to finish. Table all laid out so quite organised and really looking forward to seeing her.

Thank goodness the blue recycling bin was emptied today, it was full to the brim!

Well better finish off the washing and then mop the floors.

JustGinnie, daughter always asks me how do I know all the words to the songs on R2 and I tell her, some are old songs recycled lol :-D :

Florence in the hebrides

Well back to normal now, we had a lovely Christmas just 6 of us on Christmas day now down to 3 as usual. Didn't have the tv on at all on the 25 & 26, G/son attached his game box thing and we play quizzes and games on there. Sometimes in teams and there were cries of ' Nan how did you know that?' and 'Nan will know it's her era' Such a cheeky lot my family. All in fun of course.

OH watched some wild life programmes last night on channels I didn't know we had , no idea when they were added but he enjoys those type of things.
Managed to speak to family in NZ after the laptop camera packed up by borrowing g/sons phone might have to get one myself. :-D


Take care all.

Good morning all, a sunny day with blue sky in Cumbria so hopefully we can get a walk in this morning..
Hope everyone had a good Christmas ours was noisy but fun, a bit different to the solitary life I am used to. Lots of nice presents and lovely food that I didn’t have to cook.

Good evening peeps
Just to say hope everyone had a lovely day yesterday either with family or on your own.
Daughter & I had our xmas dinner and was very enjoyable. Spoke to parents and brothers etc throughout the day on phone and all was ok with them.

Been very quiet really, no neighbours either side as they are away elsewhere.
Made a lovely buffet today though, vol-u-vents with tuna, coronation chicken, a pasta dish and lots of salady things plus a huge cheeseboard!

I havent eaten my xmas pudding yet as i was too full yesterday lol but it will keep for another day.

Have to have a clear up tomorrow as mountains of boxes & bubble wrap cluttering hall cupboard.

Hope all ok with everyone
Take care

Florence in the hebrides

Wishing everyone on the Chit Chat Thread a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year <3 <3

Have a good one. :-D

Afternoon peeps.
Well thats me cake iced but Im not so pleased as I ran out of icing sugar grrr. I so thought there were 2 boxes on the top baking shelf but there was only one so...its not a thick covering and wasnt able to do peaks. However Im sure it will taste good on xmas day.

Taken out the turkey as cooking that tomorrow evening.That freed a whole drawer of space in the freezer which is great.

My bargain suitcase on wheels arrived today, so quick to deliver especially this close to xmas.

No more washing, drying or ironing now til after xmas so even the machines need a break!

Joan hope you found your little milk and found everything else you needed.Glad you have someone to help you.

Its a little breezy today after a week of still weather but its jolly cold.

Ann enjoy your time with your family and so glad you got to see the new arrival.

I may not be on here tomorrow as have lots of prep etc to do but I hope everyone enjoys whatever meal they have on xmas day.

Eat, drink & be merry

Florence in the hebrides :-D

Good afternoon from Cumbria where it is very wet and not very warm.
Nice to be here with family and I have already seen the new baby twice. Will see her and big sister on Christmas Day. Wow Joan that sounds like a lot of tree reducing, well done so. In law, and also son for Re-siting the bird house.

In case I don’t get on again have a lovely Christmas everyone and don’t eat too much <3

Just a quick look in to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. :-D <3 <3

Merry Christmas to you all and hope 2022 is a better year for us all.

I have had post today Florence a reminder for our house insurance. No cards today for us lol.

It is a lovely thread Florence and I hope it continues .
Take care all.

And a very Merry Christmas to you Ann. Hope you have a lovely day wherever you spend it.

And to all who drop in on this thread daily, weekly or just randomly, keep your contributions coming, its lovely to chit chat about anything and everything.

A Happy & Healthy Christmas to you all.

Florence in the hebrides <3 :-D <3

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the lovely peeps on here. <3 <3 <3

Afternoon all
Well xmas cake all cooked and looking good. I covered with foil for first hour, then took it off and all is ok. Its now cooling before I remove it from the tin.

Joan its only a Mrs Robbins light fruit cake not a traditional heavy fruit cake so thats why I make it 2 days before otherwise it would dry out. I shall ice it tom, take a pic and post on here hopefully.

Dr tel with my blood results today and so far all is good with liver and kidneys, iron level very good. Just waiting on the tests for Arthritus/inflamation ones, they take longer.
She also said my appointment for scan should be towards end of January. Letter should come out around 18th so fingers crossed for that.

Glad you got your bird table fixed Joan, your son did a good job for you.

Hardly any post today, 1 xmas card and thats it.

Last bedsheets in the dryer and thats all im doing laundry wise for a few days.

Hope everyone else keeping well.
Stay safe
Florence in the hebrides

Hello all
Well as I dont sleep that well, i tend not to get up until just before 9am. The phone rang at 9.10 today and it was a physio telling me she was on her way to do a home visit for my assessment. eeeeek.!!!

Put me all in a tizzy trying to get dressed and make my bed etc all in 30 mins.

Anyway she came and was very thorough, gave me some tips to keep my left foot moving and improve circulation. She looked at my bathroom too to see if there was anything that would assist me. All in all, she was here an hour and very helpful.

She said she would be in touch beg of new year but i could ring in between if i needed to.

On the downside she told me MRI brain scans, even urgent ones are taking around 6 months!!! Non urgent up to a year because the Neurologist is fully booked months in advance.

Anyway, I soldier on. I stripped my bed and ironed all that needed doing so resting now. Tomorrow making my xmas cake and cant wait as I enjoy that.

Trying to live on light food so i can enjoy the feast on Saturday. Toast & cornflakes is on the menu for tea lol.

Hope everyone else is ok.Very damp again and getting foggy and still no wind!

Stay safe

Florence in the hebrides

Afternoon peeps
Aw Just Ginnie, I just saw this, how tragic and only 53!! This virus doesnt discriminate in any way, rich poor, young old, it takes them all.

I have done 2 loads more of washing and finished off all my jobs i started yesterday so getting there.

Its still calm but very damp and almost freezing so heating on already.

Found a lovely medium suitcase on wheels in a sale today. Reduced from £100 to £15.oo so thats my xmas pressie to me..what a bargain.

Hope your BP has settled Ann.
Joan hope all ok with you too amd anyone else looking in.

Stay safe all

Florence in the hebrides

Hello all, hope you are all ok , today is better weather wise. Yesterday was very damp and foggy .

Ann hope your BP settles down ok, I have high BP and it is always a bit higher when I go to the nurse for a check up. This year has been difficult for you as you say so that doesn't help.

Saw on line today Carlos Marin, one of the group Il Divo has died due to Covid . He was only 53. I have several of their CDs and a dvd . Very sad.


Need to get a move on and do some h/w . Take care all.

Evening to all.
Had such a busy day today. I decided to put all my 60th birthday cards into a scrap book and the photos we have taken, i shall get some printed and add them too as i have 6 pages in the scrapbook spare. I covered the book with a lovely piece of spare wrapping paper covered in hearts. I just had enough glue stick too before it ran out, so a good job done.

Feeling in a cooking/baking mode, I made 2 fish pies with puff pastry. One each for myself and daughter but mine had lots of mushrooms in which she doesnt like. I then cooked 12 sausages, cut them in half and with the left over pastry made a dozen sausage rolls.

With just enough pastry left, i used some of my blackcurrant jumble jam and made a strudel for pudding dusted in icing sugar.

Gosh, the dishes i washed up!!! My back & legs were aching but the pies were delicious as were the sausage rolls and the strudel with ice cream was lovely.

I also did 3 loads of washing, dried and ironed the lot...I really was on a mission today and although I tired now, Im glad i achieved so much, very satisfying.

I have on the Royal variety performance but sorry to say, Im bored with it! Not really making me laugh and Alan Carr, whom normally does make me laugh, I think is struggling with his jokes!

So Im chilling with me coffee and not moving until i go to bed.

Still, calm day but damp again...not used to no wind up here lol

Hope all ok with everyone

Florence in the hebrides

Afternoon all, a damp but not cold day, very gloomy though. I had a nurse appointment for prescription check for BP and blood. BP is up from 16 moths ago (who is surprised given that we have been in and out of lockdown and various other restrictions and my lovely OH died) so I now have to take a weeks BP night and morning. and that was the first time I have ever felt any pain when having blood taken. I have not had that nurse do it before (maybe one to be avoided.) anyway regardless of the result I shall be away for the next 3 weeks. So that will have to be sorted when I come home.

glad you got yours done Florence.

Good morning peeps
A very still but damp day here today and also not too cold. I managed out to the bin with lots of cardboard and packaging for recycling.

The nurses came yesterday afternoon and took oodles of blood from me....vampires!
Probably be after xmas til i get the results but at lease something is being done.

Tesco coming for the last time tomorrow so just need to finalise the list before tonight.

Hard to believe its xmas eve a week today...yay

Have a good day all :-D

Florence in the hebrides

Hello all, Florence good the doctor let the call go on over time. Awful that she had not been kept informed of your condition. Hope she can move things forward now.
Good that you feel able to have the jab now.

Joan hope your grandson is not too poorly with chicken pox. At least he will have got it out of the way before he starts school. Hope he has recovered I effectively enough to enjoy Christmas.