General Chat

It's been a mostly grey day with a chilly old wind.

I haven't slept very well for a couple of nights and we've had a couple of busy days so I am feeling very headachey. It's not helped by my eye problems as my sight isn't good right now. I've decided that for safety's sake I shouldn't drive till I've seen the doctor again in June. I am sure I couldn't read a number plate at 20 metres at the moment but I am hoping the doctor will say I can get now get new glasses sorted. Poor OH is having to drive me everywhere at the moment.

Yesterday our neighbour rang early in the morning to say her husband was being discharged from hospital and could we possibly take her in to get him and bring them back home. He just had to wait for his tablets from the hospital pharmacy. We're happy to help but we were just waiting around for a chunk of the day till he got the tablets several hours later and then we had a 40 mile round trip to get him.

Today I had a chiropody appointment and then had to go into town to pick up my tablets that weren't there last week and also pick up some medication for the neighbour, so I had to rely on my trusty chauffeur again to negotiate all the blocked off roads and roadworks. Bless him, he just puts up with it.

Tomorrow I am going to a friend's birthday lunch but luckily one of the other ladies that's going will give me a lift so OH can have the day off.

I'd better go and cook him something nice for his dinner now as a way of saying thank you. I might even pour him a glass of his favourite wine :-).

Suns been in and out here and I have fed the wildies chicken fish and cleaned out both pond filters. Nearlly had a fit when I turned the big pond pump back on three times and it did'nt go but I opened the window and gave the pump a jerk and it started so all running smoothly again now and I have the big pond filling up from the well.

Good morning all semi bright sky at the moment, some blue patches and 7 degrees. I slept well last night and finally woke at 0740. My bedding in the machine with spare bedding waiting for next wash. Just going to have a shower and wash my hair now.

Morning all,

Quite bright this morning but the sky is cloudy and pc says 6 degrees and mostly cloudy so that means its going to be miserable all day and probably rain too. I just wish that cold wind would go and blow itself away.

NOthing planned will see how I get on later. Still not heard when the oil is comimg.

Goit all the washing dry today and its all put away in the uti room now.

Its been a lovely sunny day but we've had that blasted very cold wind that gets right in your bones.

Stuart rang and said my tyre was ready so I corned the chickens and went down to his garage and he put it on for me as it was a match to the one the other side. I thought it was as I had those two tyres together.

I have been watching Springtime on the Farm. The baby goats and sheep are adorable and I think this is the last episode now so I want to see Pip's puppies.

Just turned the heating on as it has gotten quite cold in here.

At least you got out in the gaden for a abit Anng I did'nt venture out there today just to feed the chickens and fish and the Robins and wild birds. They are getting through food like anything.

It has been beautiful here all day. I planted the few potatoes I am going to grow (hopefully) and also planted two lots of tomato seeds and lettuce seeds. I also tided a couple of pots that had moss and weeds growing in them and also cut the lawn. Also I had a friend here for an hour and a half having coffee. I feel I should be doing a bit more but don't want to overdo it.

One lot of washing on the line and another one in the machine. I have cleared out the towel and sheet cupboard in the uti room and fed the birds and chickens. Found the pattern for my ironing board cover in there too so I can now make a new one. I am just giving it a wash first it in with some damask table cloths and a sheet.

It lovely and sunny but theres still that bitter wind. The sky is blue with very thin wispy cloud here and there.

Morning Anng and all,

Nice morning here too sunny and the temp is 4 degrees and pc says sunny so lets hope its right. The barometer moved up a bit so lets hope it stays that way.

Slept like a lof getting up at 6.10am for the loo and went back to bed for a while. Just having a nice COC and I shall start. What I will start remains to be seen. It is shopping day today so that should come this morning but I have'nt had my order emailed to me yet or a message on my phone at some ungodly hour like usual. I hope they hav'nt forgotten me! like the oil company. No doubt we will see later on.

good morning all. sun is shining, sky is blue and temperature is........2 degrees!!! So not a heat wave then. Hopefully I will be able to get out in the garden to start clearing it up a bit, although it is going to be very wet still.

Hope the sky is clear and you get to see the rehearsal Mandy.

Vera Tesco has very few eggs in either the big Tescoor our local but zi I did manage to get a more expensive half dozen last Saturday.

Evening all,

Nice and sunny here now ,I too hung three loads of washing out and then it started raining so I got them all in and they are now on the linen horse in the back bedroom .
I hoovered two bedrooms and will do the other one tomorrow as I wanted to get floors mopped and it was getting on for lunch time .

Mel I hope your OK after your fall ,please make sure you have your phone with you when your in the garden ,when I went down and broke my wrists there was no way I could have got up and I was lucky that son could come and he picked me up ,you'd be in a heck if a muddle on your own in the garden .

Must remember to look out tomorrow to see If we can see any of the fly past rehearsal for the coranation ,should be going over in the afternoon.

I had 3 loads of washing on the line and then it started raining so I had to get it all in again. I gave in and put some in the tumble dryer but I still have quite a lot drying around the house. it’s got really cold again.

Now I’m waiting for Sainsbury’s to arrive. They should be here sometime in the next half hour. They haven’t got the eggs I ordered and apparently they can’t find a suitable sub . I wonder if that means they haven’t got any eggs at all or surely they could have sent a different size.

Oh, here they are. Thank goodness I don’t do all that wiping down anymore.

Still raining here.
Hope Gill is ok she was not tooo good when she last visited.

Its been pouring here for the last 25 minuets and now just as I thought it had stopped to go and do the chickens it came back with hailstones and they are bouncing around on the windowsills.

Went into town this morning, dry when I went in but started to rain about 10.30 and still raining now. I was home by 12.15

I usually do carry it with me but I forgot it yesterday afternoon.

I have faffed about this morning and only fed the fish so far and got ready for the oil delivery. I wonder if it will come today as promissed?

I don't read the papers or watch much tv only on Iplayer so must have missed it all and Islands post. I don't know where I am most of the time trying to fit everything in now.

Good morning Mel and all grey but dry here and 6 degrees. But yesterday afternoon it lashed down. Not sure yet what I am doing today.

Grumpy this morning as I weighed myself and I put on 2 pounds while away. Ate too well I suppose.

gosh Mel I didn't realise anyone could have missed the alarm alert test. There was a lot about it in the papers, On the TV, etc. right back on 21 March Island had a post on this board about it.

That could have been nasty Mel, please carry your phone with you when you go away from the house.

Morning all,

Looks like we had a frost over night but the suns up and it looks as if it may be a nice day. Pc says the nearest rain is 39 km away and its 6 degrees and partly sunny.

The oil is supposed to come today so I wonder if I will get it at last?

Slept like a log once I dropped off. I did lay there for a while last night but was falling asleep in the chair before I went to bed.

O rained this morning sunshine all afternoon and its still out. Pc says 10 degrees and mostly sunny.

I did'nt know anything about the alarm call and it frightened the life out of me. I wondered where the noise was coming from and picked my phone up which was on the table near me opened it up and there was a message but I did'nt get it.

Did'nt do any pampering just muddled about doing what I wanted to do. Tried once again to get something on ebay without any hassle but know second time lucky.

I climbed over our fence this afternoon (without my phone) and a post gavve way and I ended up on the ground camera out of my pocket and stung the back of my legs on the nettles. Then I had to get myself up. Luckily the ground was soft and I did manage to get up ok. I was going round to take some pics of the little pink flowers in the back on the big houses land that runs the length of my back field. Also some fresh new cones on the larch tree. I have been wanting to photograph those for ages but never seem to find the new ones. Came back over the fence further up where the post were ok and I had a top wire to hang on to and duck under the top wire and I did that successfully. My Pheasents followed me all the way Phil and his wife who came right along the back fiels with me and through the fence when I climbed over and came right up to my feet nearlly. I will send the pics I took. The sun through the trees was lovely.