General Chat

I am sure you can't be shirty for long Daff, and hope all the blips are overcome very soon.

Glad Mr Daff is wearing his sensible hat and keeping you safe from those nasty bugs and such around us all at the mo. I know he will look after you well and support you as only he can through whatever comes at you.

take care, and try not to get downhearted.

love and hugs,
Lizxxx

Good Morning My Flower!
~~~ to everyone,
Whats this I read??? They want you back? NO!!! Tell them we need you here, they cant have anymore of you! Greedy wotsits!!
I agree with Jude, You do do to much, now sit back and TAKE IT EASY this weekend, or I'll have to come over and have a word with R!! (and you dont want Himself and Moi on your back at the same time, do you?).So consider yourself told!!LOL.
Well, 2 of my sons mates have had babies(their girlfreinds did, not the boys!) and they are going out to "wet the babies head" tonight..........................Dressed as babies!!!!!! I never thought I'de see him in a babygrow again!!, But he hired a very fetching pink one with Bonnet to match, and a bottle!!!!!!!!!! I wish he would let me take a photo of him! but theres more chance of being struck by lightning, So keep your eyes peeled on FB, there may be some on there!!
Love as always
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morning am just considering the days tasks gardening i think it looks like it is going to be a nice day

Morning all........ well, the sun is shining again, I am over my *blip* and my shirtiness........ and ready to face the world!!

Maz, I am doing a little bit of gardening, too! Hope the weather stays fine for you. Oh, and well done for getting your assignment off.... it must have been hard, knowing you had already done it once, and wasted so much time!

Easy weekend this weekend... we are going to Wyevale as they are closing down and everything is half price..... just to see what is left, as it has been closing down for a couple of weeks now... then to Blooms if we can't get what we want there... then back here, and I shall dead head and cut back... around the back... R will spray some weeds, dig up others, and remove the kitty dooh dooh, and put up the new arches we hope to buy..... I would have bought them weeks ago, but R likes to take his time... he wanted narrower ones, but was aghast that they were almost twice the price... so we have spent a fortune going from place to place to see if they could be got cheaper, lolol

So... we will be having the wider ones as he has measured and they will fit.... we won't tell him, again, that I had already measured and knew they would fit, lol.... he doesn't trust my method of measuring roughly... but it is almost exact, and if it needs to be exact then I use the tape measure. I am good at it... done it loads of times, and was taught the method by an old lady in Cyprus, in the material shop I went into.... the length, from tip of middle finger to tip of middle finger, is almost exactly your height... mine is slightly smaller, as I have short arms. R is 6ft 1in... he has long arms... so his stretch is just between a yard and a metre...... we've measured it, but he still doesn't use it.... so much easier than carting... and losing lol.... tape measures around with you!!

I come from a long line of master craftsmen, carpenters, ornamental stone masons, and similar..... even some of the women had milliner stores of their own..... the ability to cast my eye over something and know if it would fit, or was long enough to make an outfit, etc is in my genes!!

Right... off to start getting redy.... brekkie first, I reckon! What to have? egg, sardines or beans on my toast... run out of bacon!

Taff.... can' you sneak a photo??? Aw bless... I assume at least one of the new babies is a little girl, then? Congratulations to the new mums and dads. I don't have to be an inpatient for the Bone Marrow... they'll do an aspiration, but if that doesn't look brilliant, they'll trephine as well... but he is expecting brilliant, lol They will then make me rest for half hour... on a bed, so I can't run away, lol... then they check that bleeding has stopped, and then let me go home. If I am in the Gwent sooner than next Friday for the other plumbing biopsy, they might get the Haemotology consultant from there to do it while I am in... she was the one who did my first, and gave me my diagnosis... so I won't be gone for long, promise... just little bits of me, lolololol

Morning Liz..... and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I am fine now, I promise... and yep, he is being Mr Sensible, lolol More like a rottweiler crossed with a chook, actually, lolol

Ann, I slept well last night... Pol, Jethro and Hermie all on the bed with me, but in sensible places, not wrapped around me lolol.... well, they were there when I switched out the light, and still there when I woke up for a loo visit at about 5 this morning......... Pol was the only one still there at 9, when I woke again.... and is asleep on the window sill near me now....... so I clearly don't need fussing over any more!!

Love and (((((((((hugs)))))))) to everyone... have a brilliant weekend!

Daff xxxxx

Thinking of you Daff
get well soon hun and
GOOD LUCK from the Boro

afternoon everyone, sorry to hear you have had a set back Daff....am feeling quite queasy at the thought of the "aspiration", so sending you HUGE hugs from us!

We had my Grans funeral yesterday, she'd specified exactly what hymns etc she wanted, and my sister played her cello (as per Grans instructions). it was as she would have wanted. nearly all the cousins were there, and we met my cousins baby for the first time....she's gorgeous, but not as gorgeous as my two obviously!

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well i am done in now been hard at the digging mowing etc the little new bit is coming along I have had to line the sheds at the bottom as the ex left a job half done but i am hoping they will last a little longer that is why i needed to clear the rubble as it was backed up the sides of the sheds .so i need to find some wood to renew some of the bits that are rotten

Hello all, only just switched the computer on today, must be a record Lol!!!
Been out all day, went to Hidcote gardens ( N Trust), had a picnic lunch, then back to Cheltenham to the garden centre, then to The range to buy a couple of cushions for the conservatory and some craft stuff. had a lovely day!

Daff, glad you had a good nights sleep, that is half the battle. been beautiful and sunny and warm here today, could have done with this last week!!!! T going to barbecue this evening as well!

Ann xx

Sounds like you are winning there, Maz... what are you planning on putting into the new bit?

Mamiddau..... it sounds as though your Gran had the perfect send off..... sad occasion, but there is always something happy about them, in a perverse way... saying goodbye to your Gran, and Hello to a new baby seems fitting, somehow, doesn't it?

Ann, that sounds like a perfect day, too! We didn't do all we planned.... we got the arches from Argos... buy one, get one free, lol... so we ordered online and then trundled off to fetch them.... R put one up, and we have added some bamboo bits to it to support at the sides...... and the one rose is alredy looking good, fanning out against it. The other needs cutting back quite a bit... it has a lot of blackspot on it, which I have chopped off.... I'll finish it tomorrow.

We pulled zillions of weeds, and have worked out which plants I want lifted and moved to fill in bare spots, and what plants will do better in the space they left, lol... bit like musical chairs!! We tied up clematis, cut back all the plants that are going over, and generally had a lovely time... tomorrow, we shall have lunch out there, if the weather is ok.

BC, your little jasmine is not so little.... I have been pinching out the tips, and it has bushed right out..... so a week or so ago, I let it run riot, lol... it is now about 3 ft tall, very bushy.... and ready to fly!! It is right outside the doors to the conservatory, and there is a bench just the other side... so it will be glorious next summer!

Xxxxxxx, Joy Thank you xxxxx

Well.... dinner is in the oven..... a sort of fish hot pot, ...... with shellfish, and cobbler, broccoli, cauli, courgette, onion, carrots and potato... it is usually gorgeous..... but then, I love seafood! I just wish I could smell it, lol

See you all later

Love

Daff xxxx

Daff, take it from me, your fish stew smells delicious.

Chicken and sausages barbecued were very nice. having a bit of trouble eating as I have a tooth that is very tender, I jarred it on Thursday and it has given me trouble since. I am hoping it will settle down on its own.

Ohhhh Ann.... sounds painful!!

Well, the dinner was delicious, and I caught up with two old episodes of NCIS that I hadn't seen.... bliss.... now I am off to my bed, R bought me a new codeword book, he has a book to read, so it's an early night for both of us!

Night all.... see you in the morning.

Love

Daff xxxxx

Good evening Daff and all.. I have had a busy day and it looks like everyone else has too:-) Mammidau, it sounds like your Grandma had a great send off, the cello always makes me weep for some reason. When my Mum died, my brother played the uileann pipes (as per her specific instructions!) and there wasn't a dry eye in the church. Lovely!

Daff, I am so happy to hear that the jasmine is blooming and I hope in years to come it will be as rampant as mine! I never cut mine back, though, I can't bear the thoughts of it! lol I am the world's worst pruner...

Nighty night all.

BC XXX

morning all well it will have to be things that dont get alot of sun i have some bits that are already seeding their it is not a very big patch so will see what takes I have some honesty plants in and some aquilegas too

Morning all.... what a miserable day it is here! I do hope it clears up soon..... we would like our lunch in the garden!!

Also, off down to the garden centre, again....... got the wrong weedkiller, and we are almost out of the spray for the roses... it kills bugs and rust and stuff... but also nourishes the plant

We have to kill two of the hollyhocks... they are covered in rust... I am gutted!!

When I was doing the front yesterday.... underneath the cranesbill, I found a clump of little treasures... I planted them the year before last, but as annuals, little tiger lillies they are.... they will be transplanted today!! I shall be thinning out the beetroot, as well... and I found another potato hidden away, with lots of potatoes on it.. will dig them up properly and have them for dinner.

R is like you, BC... he hates to thin out, he feels as though he is murdering his babies.... he still has to thin out the carrots, lol!

Well.... lets go and get ready to go out!

Love

Daff xxxxx

I hate thinning out too Daff, sometimes try to replant in another container did that with the beetroot, don't know if it will be any good.
All the time T's nephew and his wife were here the weather was good, but we, of course were indoors chatting, they were here from 11.45 until 3.30pm!!! as soon as they left it rained and hasn't stopped!!!

Evening Daff, Mr Daff and everyone:o)))

Its still raining here, been doing so since mid morning:o((( We had visitors from Brummie, had a good time despite the weather. We watched the "Pigeon Detectives" last night at the Monmouth Music festival, not bad:o)) festival is on all week now, its usually very good.

Hope everyone is well, take care:o)

jude xxxx

Hiya Ann and Jude... well, I didn't get to play in the garden... we got back from shopping, and I was exhausted... felt a bit steam rollered... ate loads of chocolate, most unlike me... and then slept for hours... I am now ready for bed again... R has just made me a drink of hot chocolate to take to bed, bless him... he is watching a Segal film, but I am not in the mood.... I like some of his films, but not all.

So I shall love you and leave you..... hopefully I shall feel better tomorrow, more wide awake!!

Love and night night

Daff xxxxx

Daff. Eating all that chocolate isn't good for you, you naughty girl!!!

Hope you feel better in the morning.
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morning all not holiday weather here either but good to be off got doctors bank etc to go to today .and cleaning lol

Morning Daff and all and hope all the chocolate hasn't given you a hangover! lol Pouring rain here and seems like it has been through the night.

Am spitting feathers about Madame X and Madame Y . I wont go further as I don't want your lovely thread whooshed, Daffy:-).

Anyway, on with the day.

Happy Monday!
BC XX