General Chat

Why is everything so complicated these days. Its bad enough chnaging our inches etc and our coins years ago and all these new fangled digital things scatter my brain. I have no idea what temp our chest freezer is all I know is it needs defrosting and goodness knows what in the bottom of it.

I went to the post van this morning and Dave looked up those two parcels I sent and one person did'nt recieve hers but the post office said they have it somewhere. Well the lady messaged me today to say it had turned up with her postman and he delivered it this morning. She is delighted and has bid on something else of mine. We were chatting over messages and I said something about being as old lady . She came back and said she could beat me cos she was 72 so I had to reply that I beat her cos I am 74.

I am pleased you got away with your deep clean Anng. It would be good if you only have to have it each year now. I also agree that you did'nt need all those injections on top of the covid and flu ones.

I had a nice pilchard salad tonight with homemade trifle for pud and am feeling very full now.

Well, our freezer engineer managed to fix our problem within the hour. I must have misheard him on the phone as it was only £79, not £89 so I was well pleased. The only problem is that I had the freezer set at -17 which seemed to be keeping everything well frozen but he said Health & Safety say it should be at -18 and pressed things on the touch pad. I was upstairs while this was going on and, of course, OH didn't ask about it. The engineer said it will take about 3 hours to reset itself. 4 hours later I have a strange symbol on the display and I've no idea what the temperature inside the freezer is. I'll have to try and find the original instruction book and hope I can work it out.

Good to get a lift, Cynth next door gave me a lift to the dentist this morning. It is so difficult relying on the goodness of friends but I have been lucky since being in my own. I do still hate asking. Cynth volunteered because it was threatening rain.

Ann, I googled Dentist Deep Clean and found some good explanations of why it is done. It does sound very uncomfortable and you are probably wise not to have all the different jabs at much the same time.

That doesn’t seem a bad price at all for the gardening you had done. I’ve just been out to fill a bird feeder and ended up pulling out a few more weeds. That seems a never ending task.

Well, I maligned our freezer engineer saying he probably wouldn’t turn up. He has just arrived. He’s given us a price of £89 for call out and an hour’s labour so I am hoping that he can fix it within the hour.

(Pause to take a phone call)

That was a good call. A friend has arranged to pick up some glasses at the opticians at 10 am tomorrow which is the same time as my appointment and in the same road so she is going to give me a lift :-)

re the deep clean Vera, I think I did hear of somebody else who had it done. I think it started because I seemed to make more than the usual tartar and cleaning under the teeth was to protect the gums from receding. It has worked so it remains to be seen if dropping one lot will affect the gums. I really didn't want it done this time as the fist appointment would have been next week that would be three injections and the following week the same again the the covid and flu vaccinations and I was not sure if the injections would stay long in my body and affect the covid and flu.
A reason for the injections is because my teeth are ultra sensitive and I can't stand the thing that he uses to clean the teeth. I jump all the time which makes it hard for him to do the job.

I have had my garden sorted by a nice young man called Jake. His Father owns Newent Landscapes but I think Jake and his partner are starting up on their own

The garden looks so much lighter. Jake did a really good job, used an industrial hedge trimmer thing and cut the roses right down. His Father was here to start with and he agreed the roses would grow again ok if cut low. He did the two roses on the centre trellis and the two over the arch, He also did the three buddleijas and the jasmine outside the conservatory, and removed the clematis tangle from the thug that grows in the buddleija by the gravel, and lastly he trimmed off the top of the holly tree by the greenhouse. He took all the stuff away with him in his truck. The father said the biggest part of the cost was the disposal of the cuttings etc. He tidied up afterwards and I am really pleased with it. Next week he is coming to pressure wash the front and get rid of the weeds then treat it to prevent more weeds growing. Today cost £150. and the front will cost £50. I am quite happy with that price.

I'm glad your check up was OK AnnG and you can put the deep clean off for another 6 months. I've never had one and, tbh, I don't know anyone else who has but they don't sound much fun. Our next check up is in 4 or 5 weeks so I might ask our dentist about them. On the other hand I might not! She might decide I need one.

It rained overnight here and then was quite nice this morning but now it's looking rather grey and gloomy. We're supposed to be getting strong winds tomorrow. I hope they hold off till the afternoon as I need to walk the 1.5 miles into town tomorrow morning and I don't fancy battling against the wind all the way. I could get the bus that goes at 8.15 but then I'll have about an hour and a half to hang around before my appointment. I'll have about 50 minutes to wait for a bus back after my appointment but that's not quite so bad as I can pop into the bank and one or two shops.

I don't seem to have done much today. It's been a morning of doing silly little jobs - a bit of mending, a bit of this and a bit of that. I've got a pile of ironing to do but I am not in the mood. It's mostly OH's stuff. His summer shirts all seem to need ironing but his winter shirts don't. Can you tell me how he's managed to wear 9 shirts in 7 days? It's not as though he's changed to go out in the evening. We can only think that he's got up in the morning and put clean clothes on (he doesn't wear a dressing gown but gets dressed as soon as he is up). Then he has probably had breakfast and read the paper, then gone to shower and automatically put the clothes he has taken off into the laundry basket and put another clean lot on. There were 9 lots of underwear and socks too but they certainly don't get ironed. I've told him that if he keeps doing that he will find himself doing his own washing and ironing, lol.

We are currently waiting for a refrigeration engineer to arrive as we have a slight problem with the upright freezer in the kitchen. He is supposed to come between 12 and 5 pm but I have a feeling that he might not turn up at all

I hope your arm is feeling better today Mel and anyone else who often has aches and pains is having a pain free day today.

Back from the dentist, only 20 minutes late today which is an improvement. And I decided to be pro-active. I have thought about this before so, when he finished the check up and had done whatever measuring of the gums he does. And then said 'great, you are doing really well'. I asked him if it was absolutely necessary to have the deep clean (3 or 4 injections for each side so 2 appointments). And he said 'no not really, it is up to you, I can do it yearly'. :-S so it told him not to do it this time and I will have it done in March. Why haven't I challenged this before? Of course if I now get something that would have been prevented by having a deep clean, that is my problem not his. But he said to go in immediately if I have a problem. So next appointment is actually 2 April 2024.

Morning Girls and Will if you're looking in,

It was sunny when I got up but its clouded over a bit now and pc says partly sunny and 15 degrees.

One of my favorites drivers is bring my shopping today and I have one sub a bigger pack of strawberries than I ordered so thats good. Last weeks was a large double cream instead of my usual so I hav'nt bought that this week as its still in date for a day and then I can have icecream with the others.

Got up while it was dark nd had a job to drop off again and tossed and turned for a bit but must have slept in the end as when I woke the sun was out. Asda always send a message saying the driver is on the was at 7.01am and that woke me to start with then I dropped off again till 9am. y shoulder is aching this morning too.

Glad you enjoyed your visit to Tewkesbury Ann it sounded so interesting and just my cup of tea with making the Tudor things at the mo.

Good morning all, wet and 14 degrees and I have to walk to the dentist for a check up this morning so not a lot of fun.

Vera Tewkesbury is a medieval market town in the 7th century known as Theocsbury. It has some lovely old black and white buildings and a beautiful abbey, (Medieval cottages exist alongside Tudor town houses and Georgian architecture. There was once a network of 90 alleyways around the town and 30 still exist today)
It has two rivers that meet, the Avon and the Severn (really just tributeries) It has a battle field (War of the Roses) and a lot of history
So far we have done two walks around and T and I visited the Abbey more than once. There is still a lot to see. However it has a big problem in that the road through the town is always busy as it is a main through road heading towards Worc and the M50.

Hallo William, nice to see you. Belated congratulations on your wedding anniversary. How lovely that you and your best man want to give something back to your church. I hope the book sells well and makes a good amount for their building fund.

Mel, I know I shouldn't laugh but I had a vision of you with dressmaking pins stuck all over you. I assume they were acupuncture needles. It might help. I had acupuncture years ago to help with migraine and my sleep problems I asked my then GP about it and she said it might help and wouldn't do any harm but it wasn't available at the surgery so I had to go private. I had quite a few sessions and it did seem to help a bit, at least for a while.

Funny how what suits one person doesn't suit another. Like Island I prefer capsules as I find it's tablets that stick in my throat.

It sounds as though it was an interesting walk you went on AnnG. I don't think I have ever been to Tewkesbury but the name alone makes me think it must be an attractive place.

It's been a beautiful day today with lots of really warm sunshine, although it's now beginning to feel chilly in the early mornings and in the evenings. It's also been quite a hectic day. I changed bedding, did four loads of washing and a little bit of gardening before lunch. At the moment I'm clearing pots and troughs of dead or dying annuals and doing some general tidying up. I did mention to OH that I was thinking of clearing the troughs of weeds and moss and then covering them with black plastic through the winter. Well, I am now definitely doing that as the 2 cats living over the back from us seem to think my newly cleared troughs are their personal litter trays. I found some strong black plastic bags in the garage so before I came in for lunch I covered the four troughs that I had cleared and pegged the corners down with some short wooden spikes I also found in the garage.

I had plans to shower and wash my hair after lunch, then come on the computer for a while but the best laid plans.... We had two separate unexpected visitors, one arriving as the other left so from 2.30 to 6 pm I was kept busy making tea and chatting. It's a hard life, lol. It put me well behind with what I was going to do but I'm not complaining. It's nice to see people and one of them has offered me a lift to a birthday lunch on Thursday which is great as I wouldn't be able to go without a lift.

I'm getting tired now and have a few things to do before bed so I'll wish you all goodnight, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.

Acupuncture Mel? I wish my surgery did that - I wish they did something! I'm not sure if there's a gp there these days, seems to be nurse run.

How strange, I prefer capsules as they go down easily but tablets get stuck. I'll take caplets if no choice.

William, I think you'll find it's Bed'uth LOL No, I don't live there, just in the know. Unless you're posh of course.....

In my neck and round my shoulder 10 in all.

Glad you got some tablets Mel. I hate taking capsules, they get stuck in my throat as well. where did she stick pins?

O how lovely to see our William pop in with some nice news.

Belated congrats for your 44 year anniversary and give my wishes to Carmel please. <3 <3 <3

You had a lovely time at church Will and flowers too. I hope you have many more anniveraries too. Keep up the good work.

Back from the docs and have to go again on Thursday. She stuck pins in me today!!! I hope this does the trick and she gave me tablets for paracetamol instead of these capsuals which get stuck in my throat.

Good morning William. good to see you posting and to hear that you are both well. Belated congratulations on your wedding anniversary.

Of course I meant 'The BARD of Bedworth', I'm hardly Brad Pitt!!! The spell check didn't pick that one up or else it was flattering me LOL.

Good morning all. Just thought I'd pay a surprise visit and say hello with a brief update. Last weekend Carmel and I celebrated our 44th anniversary, nothing too fussy but we did attend the church where we were married here, Bedworth UR 'Old Meeting' church and were duly mentioned in dispatches and generally made a fuss of coming away with a floral display nobbled from the Harvest Festival display. On Friday afternoons we attend the 'Welcome Space, there in the church hall adjoining and over last winter made lots of new friends. They love my poems there and have nicknamed me 'The Brad of Bedworth', as I have done a lot of local poems. So far since January 2021 I have penned about 85 poem's and about 35 short stories, most of which I post on my Facebook site. I have just self published my third booklet of poem's, this one in conjunction with my artist pal, who was also my Best Man at our wedding. John and I have financed it and all the proceeds are going to the building fund at the church as my way of giving something back for all the welcomes we have had over the years. We plod on in our senior years, I'm 88 now and Carmel is 91 and we still manage to draw beath each morning. Carmel has little mobility these days and a lot of health problems but on the bright side, none are life threatening. Well, have bored you all I shall now go and rustle up some breakfast and enjoy some sunshine while it lasts. Best wishes to each and everyone, those who know me from old and those who don't. Hope you get your post off OK Mel.

Morning all,

I woke early too and I have the docs this mroning so need to get ready. I also have to go to the post van with a parcel and the two thing clash a bit so I am off to get ready.

Its 13 degrees here and pc says partly sunny but it is a nice bright morning but the first time I have seen all my bedroom window misted up.