General Chat

Morning all,

Dull here with rain and a bit breezy, I think we should have showers today .

My head hasn't been that good again yesterday I was quite swimmy, I'm beginning to wonder if it's a touch of vertigo .

That's enough screen time for now might bbl .

Good morning all, a night of mixed sleep, first 4 hours good then patchy sleeping and waking.

It is dull, 6 degrees and very windy again and Jake is supposed to be coming to paint the seat and also maybe the little arbour. He will be here at 0930,

I need to do a bit of dusting I think.

Good morning all

Dull, damp and windy today. I slept fairly well but was wide awake by 6 am. I haven’t got any plans for the day but I don’t think I’ll be doing any gardening.

Morning all,

Very very windy here this morning and its 6 degrees and pc says Windy!!!! I think I can hear thateven though I have double glazing.

Shopping comes today and then the rest of the day is mine so perhaps I can get some HW done or I may get sidetracked by my miniatures, we'll see how it pans out.

Anyone going anywhere today? or been anywhere last night?

How did you all sleep? I thought I may have trouble after an afternoonish sleep but I drifted off straight away. Had a strange dream again but can't remember what it was. Probably after I had been up for the loo and gone back to bed. Something aboiuut a lot of grassland.

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I felt so tired when I had had something to eat and I was cold too so went and lay on the bed and fell asleep and woke at 5.58pm. Had to rush around and do the girls corn and turn the heating on and make a COT.

I had sold two things on Ebay which had had bids on them yesterday so I had already boxed them up but the annoying thing is the post van dos'nt come till Wednesday when the car is due in the garage. Things are certainly not working out for me lately. I shall have to try and get up the post van on Wednesday and leave the car running if it will start in the first place, and then go on to Stuarts.

I do hope they can do something with that little chapel Ann and they don't knock it down or let it get too bad for anything to be done with it. I think if it was decommisioned they would be able to knock it down but I am not sure as its grade two listed. If the windows are broken the damp is going to get in and that can do a lot of damage if left. These kind of building were very precious to the people who used them its so sad they fall into disrepair and are unloved.

More traipsing to and fro to the dentist then Mel. It's a nuisance your plate repair won't be ready sooner. As AnnG says it's back to mince again and maybe mashed potato and soup.

AnnG we were commenting on yet more road works today on the way to the carvery and had to come back another way. Our meal had OH vowing yet again to give the place a miss. Two of the tucked away tables we usually head for had large groups near them so we went for a corner table right at the bottom of the restaurant. It's a bit dark there and the music was loud but no-one else was there. Someone different was taking orders at the bar who said they had no decaf tea, so OH said not to put the teabags in the pots, The silly chap forgot so I only had half a cup as I have to avoid caffeine. The till played up and OH was ages trying to pay. Then 3 noisy, young women arrived with a baby about 10 months old, all talking at the top of their voices and shrieking. We gave up trying to have a conversation. Our carvery was ok today, but as I cut into my Turkey, I really didn't need to hear one of the women shriek out that the baby girl had a smelly bum did I!! Then all 3 women plus baby went to order food and OH said to look across at their table. I couldn't believe they had left a handbag, purse and two mobile phones on top of the table in full view for anyone to steal and they couldn't even keep watch as their table was behind a wall. I wouldn't put a handbag on a table where people eat anyway. Some also plonk them on toilet floors or on the floor in cars and anything could end up on a table. At the factory shop there was nothing I fancied but OH found some much better stick on numbers for our bins than the green flowery ones I put on. These are bigger and flourescent yellow so show up better. Another job for me and now all three bins to do. :-S

On the way home we found our way onto the huge site that used to be a mental hospital built in the early 1900s. It was closed in the 90s, mostly knocked down and Santander have their head office there now and my hairdresser is there as part of a gym. The NHS has some buildings and there are things like a childrens' nursery and a golf course. The original lake is still there. I had read about a chapel to the hospital still being there, so had gone to look for it after my recent haircut. It looked small, was fenced off, covered in ivy and overgrown all in front of it. When I looked it up it said it was grade 2 listed. OH was interested and said we might get closer to it from a road to the site from the other side of it so we had a look today and found it.. It has fencing and safety warnings all around it and ivy growing across the back too but is much bigger than it appeared to be. The tiny windows are broken, but there is an atmosphere with it among the trees and I couldn't help but think of the tortured souls from the mental hospital praying for peace of mind in there in the past. I hope they don't let it decay so it's past repair and have to knock it down. The developers would love that, but it is a much more interesting building that the modern boxes built near it. I'm curious about the inside so will do a bit more research.. I'll see if any photos I took are good enough to send. I couldn't get very close due to the fencing and there was too big a big bank for me to climb along the side.

It’s been dry and fairly warm, though not very sunny today. With a bit of a breeze the washing all dried well. We’re forecast rain this evening again.

You’re not having much luck at the dentist Mel. I hope they can get you fixed up quickly so you can eat properly again.

AnnG, it sounds as though you got on OK once you actually got to the dentist but it wasn’t a very easy journey was it. It’s our turn for the dentist later this month and we find now that, if we are going to the dentist or hospital, we leave plenty of extra time as we never know where there will be road closures.

I hope you enjoyed the carvery and didn’t spend too much in the shops Annx. I think you are right about BBC iPlayer. It is now set up on my new iPad but I had to sign in to it again before I could check that stuff I was watching on the old one had transferred over. So far, so good. My next problem is the Mail app. Again everything has transferred over OK but, even though it is supposed to be synced with my desktop and my phone, there are no emails appearing and the iPad is telling me it needs my password. I had to have a think about what password they meant. Back to check the old one again (sigh) where I found that there was a 9 character hidden password in the mail settings. I tried everything I could think of to get the password showing but I couldn’t get anything more than 9 black dots. Then OH had a vague recollection of setting the original mail system up on our computer and filing a note of the p/w ............somewhere! After a lot of hunting with his head buried in the filing cabinet he emerged triumphant bearing a scrappy bit of paper with the p/w and it had 9 characters. Great I thought, we’ve cracked it now. Wrong again. :-|. I typed in my 9 characters and the system accepted it. Hooray :-). Then up came a box telling me my email address was invalid and didn’t match the p/w. Boo :-P. So I am back to square one. Still can’t get my emails on the new iPad and don’t know what to do next. Suggestions on a postcard please.

Now I’ve bored you all silly I’d better go and decide on dinner. OH wants cold beef and salad so I expect that’s what we’ll end up eating but I don’t really fancy that tonight.

That was a nuisance mel. will you have the repaired plate back on Friday? So it is back to mince then?

The worst bit of my appointment today was actually getting there. Traffic was awful and just as I though I had solved one problem by going part way on a different route, I came to the corner where everything should be fine and the whole pavement was blocked off as they were re tarmacing it. so I had to actually cross the traffic, walk further down the road, cross back (pedestrian lights this time) and walk back on myself to join the road to the dentist.

He said all was fine no problems he could see and I could book for the deep clean in June hoping that the op was out of the way by then.

I'm back and not had anything done as he said he has to take out another tooth before I can have new dentures. I am really pi**ed off as that means I have to go again to have the impressions taken and then again to have them fitted plus the fact he took my top plate to repair AGAIN so now I have no teeth I can eat with. They had'nt told him the tooth he was going to take out had fallen out either so I suppose he wanted his money for taking a tooth out.

Went into Lidl afterwards as Em said I could. Its just as well the boys were still on half term otherwise she could'nt have taken me. At least Friday is not so early as its in the afternoon.

I would rather have your day than mine Ann

Morning All,

Good luck with the dentist AnnG and Mel. I am leaving for the carvery and shops next. Toodle pip till later.

good luck Mel

Why is life so complicated when we get older?

I am ready to go just need to take some paracetamol as my knees are hurting a bit and I have a lot of stairs to climb once I am there. I am hoping Em will drop me at the door so I don't have to walk up from the car park.

Its 10 degrees here now and pc says light rain but theres no wind today which is a bonus.

good morning all. Dry but dull and 10 degrees. My dentist appointment is 12.30 so no rush yet. I can walk but I have a problem with crossing the busy main road where the cycle path is still being put in as there are no pedestrian traffic lights. I will likely have to walk another quarter of a mile if the traffic is as heavy as usual, to cross at the belisha crossing (no lights so hope they stop). So down one side of the road and back the other to get to the road that leads to the dentist.

Morning all,

Dry at the mo but I exspect it will rain later.

Just taking a pill and then getting ready for the dentist. Em is going to take me which is great as I don't have to worry about the car starting when I come out of the dentists. I was so frightened I would get stuck in Torrington.

Hope you all slept well and aare all bright eyed and bushy tailed! He he he.

Yes we enjoyed our lamb shanks thank you. We buy the packs of ready cooked ones from Asda. You can buy single ones too and I think they are bigger than the ones in the twin packs. We had onions, cauli, broc, cabbage and carrots with ours. I couldn't have managed your lovely sounding pud as well though Vera.

I have been trying to grasp what is happening with the BBC iPlayer too. I thought your tablet wouln't be affected Vera, as the app for that won't change and is the mobileplayerapp, the same as for mobilephones. The info and different reports are utterly confusing aren't they. It appears that a FEATURE of the Downloads APP for laptops and desktop PCs will be removed and will mean people can no longer download or save programmes etc on them to play later when they are offline with no internet. Otherwise we can carry on watching iPlayer programmes on our laptops and PCs as normal.

Enjoy your lamb shanks ladies. That's one of my favourite dinners though I admit I struggle to get through a whole one. At the moment I feel bloated having just eaten a large dinner - beef pot-roasted with onions, yorkshire puds, roast pots, roast carrots and parsnips and steamed broccoli, and gravy with a good slurp of port. We followed that with apple strudel and cream and a cup of tea. I may never be able to move again.

I've now just read online that it is only BBC iPlayer on desktops that is being stopped and that phones or tablets with IOS 15 or above will still be able to get it so I think the person who told me early on that I wouldn't be able to get it on my old iPad was correct. I wish these organisations would just issue one clear statement in plain English so we all know what we are doing.

OH asked a short while ago if I want to go for a walk to the river to see if we have ay cygnets but I was in the middle of something that I couldn't just leave so I had to say no. He very huffily said he was going anyway and stomped out. With luck, the wind will blow away his grumps.

snap I have lamb shank tonight as well Ann. that will do me two days, I can't eat a whole one, too much meat. the remainder will go in a stir fry tomorrow. I have done the veg sprouts and purple sprouting broccoli. I will do asparagus just before eating, I managed to get some English which is good. I might do some potatoes in the air fryer or I might not do any at all.

I haven't done a lot today, read the mail on line, changed the bed and washed the bedding and written a letter to a friend then messed around on here. Time soon goes. when you are looking at different sites on here.

Afternoon All,

Patchy sun today and still some wind, but not as bad as in the night.

Thanks for putting the link up about the table Gwyn. I don't know why but it seems to have passed me by about the table. It's amazing they could make such a huge table from it after 5,000 years, but they must have a big transporter for it when they move it and oak is a very heavy wood to carry as well.

Yes Mandy, the match must have been just like blow football mustn't it! :-D Apparently there were a few goals for him to see, so he enjoyed it.

I decided it was too windy outside to do any gardening, so just did the veggies to go with our lamb shank lunch. The children are back at school tomorrow, so OH has suggested we eat out at the carvery. I'm getting a bit fed up of the time I spend in the kitchen lately and it will be an opportunity to go to the factory shop nearby and see what nighties they have as well as the new stock they seem to be getting in now.

I need to put our house number on the new garden bin, as we need to put it out on Tuesday and OH wants his hair cut as his meetings will start this coming week. There are always jobs to be done aren't there! In fact the sun's out now, so I'll go and put the numbers on. OH offered to do it, which is good, but he'd probably put them on upside down or like the leaning tower of Pisa! I'll swap a job with him, he can get me a COT. :-D

I'd forgotten about the table. There was a lot on the News about it at the time and I remember being disappointed that we weren't able to go and see it. I think it has been at Rochester for about a year and I gather it's going to Lincoln Cathedral next.

It's sunny on and off today but it doesn't feel as warm as yesterday and it's even more windy. I don't think there's going to be much blossom left on the crab apple by the end of today. Don't think I'll be getting any gardening done either.

Oh dear Mel, your bil does seem to be a bit heavy handed with your mowers. It's good of him to come and cut the grass for you but not much help if he regularly damages a mower.

I am not feeling very happy at the moment. I was told around Christmas time that BBC iPlayer wouldn't be supported on my old iPad for much longer and that was one of the reasons OH bought me a new iPad. Now I find it's actually closing down completely - TOMORROW! I use it all the time. We don't have TVs in the bedroom and anyway OH and I don't want to watch the same things. Apparently I'll still be able to stream stuff through the web but I've now got to find out how to do that and it's another hassle.

I'm pot roasting a piece of beef brisket for Sunday dinner. It's not my favourite meal but OH likes it. I'll just have a little bit of meat and lots of veg.

Enjoy the rest of your day and good luck at the dentist tomorrow Mel and AnnG.