General Chat

Morning all,

Misty morning here but no frost that I could see ,I think it should be dry til just after lunch then we might have a few showers, I think I heard our weatherman say we are getting half an hour of daylight a week ,before we know it it will be time to alter the clocks.

Anng you are getting a taste for bus rides now lol I use to like going on the bus to Norwich you could look and see all the lovely gardens if you sat up top on a double decker .
Glad yesterday went OK did they say how long you had to wait for the results .

Ann thats not very good getting overcharged at the co op ,there could be a fiddle going on ,has it been the same girl on the till .

I keep wondering how Vera's meeting went and if it all got a bit heated

O you popped in just before me Anng.

Morning all,

Nice bright morning here and its 4 degrees and very frosty.

I have to do the dustbin today and get it out for tomorrow as they come so very early so must do that today. Apart from that I have some ironing to do and some wshing so that shoiuld keep me busy for an hour or two.

Hope you all slept well especially Anng after her day yesterday. I had a funny dream abpoujt someone coming to take two motor bykes away. One was a Matchless and had an orange tank and the other was a Honda and had a crome tank and there was two men standing outside the bungalow looking at them and they both had trilbys on and stripped suits. Then I woke up.

It looks as though I am going for board domination Lol!!!

Good morning all 0 degrees here and freezing fog, so pleased I don't have to go out to work, I would have been at work over an hour now. Sun is trying to break through, just hope the fog lifts. I was thinking of going into town. (just in case I didn't have enough bus trips yesterday. :-D

Slept well, hope everyone else did too.

A good thing was I could use the bus pass. Taxi would have cost about £30 all together

No appointment for surgery until they have seen the photos Mel. Apparently the photos will help inform them what to do.

No appointment for surgery until they have seen the photos Mel. Apparently the photos will help inform them what to do.

I'm pleased your home safe and sound Anng. What a lot of walking you have done today you should sleep well tonight but what a nuisance with the buses and just as well you left yourself a lot of time. have you got your next appointment for the surgfery yet ?

I have been up and got my recykling box back down here and took up my long handled secs to cut some of the willow down but some are so thick I need to take up my super dooper leccy ones to get through the thick branches. Well it was a little bit of gardening............ they are all stored away now in the airy workshop.

Well done AnnG I'm glad you made it ok and found some helpful staff to take you where you needed to be. I find hospitals very confusing despite their attempts at signage and those corridors are so long to tramp along, especially if you take a wrong turn somewhere. The traffic sounded as horrendous as here when the children are being picked up from school and people are finishing work. Still you did it and know the routine for another time. Hopefully the results will be through soon for you. Now you can have a rest and relax.

It actually worked out very well. I checked the bus times for 1.05pm just after 12 and that bus appeared to either be very late or cancelled so I caught a bus to Gloucester at 12.50. I was going to wait at the hub and catch the 205pm but (I am spotting a trend here). The departures board was a bit ambiguous so, as a bus came in - the 1.35- I got that one it was a very comfortable double decker not a Stagecoach bus, a coach bus so I got to the hospital at ten past two. Took a while to circle the very large campus to find the entrance I needed, then a lovely volunteer lady showed me the way through the Warren of passages to the medical photography suite which felt it was down in the dungeons. My appointment was three fifteen and I was forty minutes early. Not many people in the little waiting room, just two and when nobody else came in the young man photographer said he would fit me in. The actual photographer was no more than fifteen minutes and I was out, helped back through the maze by a young lady from the office. So I was at the bus stop thirty minutes before my appointment time 14.45. However traffic obviously delayed that bus which had to come from central Cheltenham town. Probably school traffic too as we didn’t see a bus for thirty minutes and this was an older large coach which was very full. Traffic was horrendous and the inward journey took more than fifteen minutes longer than the outward, stopping and starting and almost gridlocked in Gloucester. School time again of course. Got into Gloucester travel hub at 4pm and my bus pulled in at the same time. Not a lot of fun as it was obviously Churchdown schools bus and I am walking in the opposite direction to the kids. Got on the bus and left immediately but again it was stop start until we cleared central Gloucester and crossed the bypass. Got home at 4.30. So, it worked, I would do it again if I had to, it would be better at about an hour earlier though. But I am tired as I seemed to walk a long way.

That's good you sorted the bus times AnnG and have the backup plan for taxis if needs be. Hopefully you shouldn't be long at the hospital with them just doing photos this time.

I hope you enjoy your lunch Vera and I hope the AGM goes well without too much fuss from those that aren't happy. It happens with most groups I expect.

Because of covid our Co-op stopped issuing receipts unless you asked and it has continued since. We ask and noticed a little while ago that we'd been overcharged,. They refunded on our payment card. It's happened again this morning with a different assistant and OH noticed 2 charges for his Times newspaper. He went back and there was no apology and the girl gave him coins this time instead of refunding on his card. This seemed strange and maybe an attemt to hide the error, so if it happens again I will mention it to the manager in case something dodgy is happening. It may just be their system though.

Back to the bathroom catalogues now.

Its come over a bit grey here now just as the washing machine is finishing.

As it is only photographs Vera not the actual removal I will be fine by myself.

Our weather is like Mandy's; it's wet and grey with showers promised on and off all day.

I've washed some bedding and am just going to have a shower. We have to have an early lunch as it is the Ladies Association AGM at 1.30 pm. What a silly time. We're expecting a few fireworks as one little back stabbing group are trying to oust the current committee so it could be an interesting meeting.

I hope you don't have any problems with the buses AnnG. Will you be OK coming back by yourself or is someone picking you up?

Missed your question yesterday Ann. It is bus. Leave here to catch the 1.08 bus into Gloucester (about 20 minutes.) I have left time for delays so if I get there before 1.30 I will hang around until the 2.05 bus to Cheltenham hospital. They run every half hour. If there is a technical problem with the buses to the hospital there is a taxi rank outside the bus station.

Morning All,

It seems warmer this morning and is 7 degrees here now, very dull as well. I saw the man with his car on our drive again this morning and he even had to do a shuffle and back up to the side of OH's car to get out of the drive which isn't good either. OH doesn't want the driver's side denting having just got the other side repaired. The company will probably say it's nothing to do with them, but if they know it means we will cancel they might have a word with the driver.

Off to the shop with OH now and then to decide what to do today. I had a reasonable sleep last night, but found my glasses on the shelf behind me this morning and I've no idea how they got there as I never put them there.

Morning girls,

We have a nice bright sunny morning with plenty of blue skyand whispy white cluods and its 7 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy so I expect it all to disappear later on. We had frost last night but it was gone by about 8am.

Hope everything goes ok today with the hospital appoiontment and the buses Anng we will all be thinking of you. <3

Morning all,

No frost this morning as its raining and we should have showers for most of the day so no outside jobs .

Anng I hope your hospital appointment goes well and you manage with the buses OK.

Need to go to Tesco for a few bits later .

Good morning all 2 degrees and no frost here. Slept well from 10.45ish to 6am I don't actually remember getting up for the loo but I must have done sometime. Quite bright and dry at the moment.

I will be around in the morning, leave here at 1 pm. Thanks for good wishes.

Mel, love your Tudor gentleman, very cleverly dressed. Not just good at making the figures but good at making the clothes as well.

I have frozen baked beans as part of left overs half beans half cottage pie in container.