General Chat

Morning all,

A promising looking morning with a nice bright sky so I think we will have sunshine again today. It looks like there may have been a frost so I hope it has'nt hurt anything.

Oil should come today and BIL too I think, well he said so yesterday but we'll see.

I want to drink my coffee but I have made it too hot.

Pc is saying humid partly sunny and 4 degrees. Better get showered and ready for the day.

No bleed yesterday so the cream is working.

My oil did'nt turn up so I rang late afternoon and they sais they had sent the 6 wheeler and that will come sown the f=drive but its a very tight squeeze. I have to have the small tanker so now its coming tomorrow. I also have to move my car up on the top grass and BIL was here so he had to move his car out of the way too.

He cut all the lawns today and took away 12 old car and lawn mower batteries. He recons he will get about £6 each for them and that can buy petrol for the mowers.

I cleared a bit more of the front of the hoiuse and went up and set the mole traps on the front field. I had caught one but there's still a peskie one shoving great hill of earth up so we will see if I can catch that one and then we can start getting the field ready for the coronation picnic and the children can play on the field.

Tired now and I have had my meal so will watch a bit of telly and then go to bed. Night night all.

Hallo all

It was a nice bright morning but was dull and showery this afternoon. It’s been windy all day.

I’m glad you got safely home AnnG. Does your daughter and sil return tomorrow or are they with you for a bit longer?

We met friends for coffee this morning but the rest of the day has just been spent doing a few odd jobs. OH has spent a couple of days on and off completely clearing the semi circular bed round a bird bath. The 20 hebes edging it all died this year as did the penstemons in the middle. There was also a large rosemary bush there. It was supposed to be an upright one but sprawled everywhere and the more we trimmed it to shape the more sprawling shoots it grew. So that has gone too. All that is left are 2 salvias. It looks very bare and “new garden” in that area now but we have ordered 20 low growing euonymous to go round the edge of the bed and I’ll probably put some more penstemons in the middle.

My poor neighbours - wife came out of hospital at the weekend and yesterday husband was taken in again. They really go through it. One or the other always seems to be in hospital and, of course, the one left at home is constantly worrying about the one who is in. It must be so stressful for them.

OH is watching some noisy film on TV so I think I’ll either watch something on the iPad or have a read. Night, night all.

Hello all
Back home now, got here at 1.30 pm and son in law has already cut the lawn. It is all a bit of a mess out there so I need it to be dry next week please. it was sunny with clear blue skies all the way home and is still sunny here and 15 degrees. I have almost unpacked so many bits to put away.

Morning all,

Our Anng will be well on the road to home now and i hope they have a safe and holdup free journey.

Suns out here and its a beautiful morning but Iv'e not been out there yet.

Connie from Watsons rang to say my oil would be delivered today so I must go and move the car up the top so the lorry can get down here.

PC says 8 degrees and sunny so lets hope it stay that way as BIL is supposed to be coming today but I never really know when he's going to turn up. He told me last week he was having Thursday off and would come then but he could change his mind by now and as its a nice day he may go off with his camera over the moors. You just never know.

It sounds as though you have had a pleasant last day AnnG. Safe journey back tomorrow.

I hope the cream helps Mel. It’s good your mower’s back and you can get all your grass cut again. Wouldn’t you think someone, somewhere would have a plan or at least a note of where pipes and cables go? We had a similar problem last year when we needed to find out where some pipes were. Our house wasn’t built till 2009 but not even the Council’s building and planning departments could tell us where pipes were laid. In the end we had to pay for a man recommended by a local surveyor to come and carefully dig a deep hole next to our garage to find out what pipes, if any, were there.

What a performance with OH’s tablets Mandy? If it’s something he needs to take regularly the doctor must find him a substitute quickly. They can’t leave him without his meds. I picked mine up today and saw a lady I think of as the friendly, efficient assistant. She is often working in the pharmacist’s other shop so I don’t always see her but I always hope she’ll be there as she never gets the order wrong. I hadn’t seen her for quite a while and as I walked in she said “Hallo Mrs M…”. I said what a good memory she had to remember my name when she hadn’t seen me for quite a while and there must be hundreds of people passing through the shop each month. She said “I always remember the people who smile at me”. I felt quite flattered.

We’ve had a lovely day. It was dull, cold and very windy first thing but later the sun came out and it warmed up. After I picked up my meds we went to a garden centre near Braintree and I managed to get 3 tomato plants for £4.50. I just got cherry toms but 3 different sorts. Usually I do my own from seeds but I didn’t buy any seeds this year. I found an old packet with a few Gardener’s Delight seeds left in it and sowed those in a little tray but I think they were past it as only 1 germinated. I also bought a little solar light shaped like some sort of bug that you can hang from a shrub or similar. It was only £3 and I wanted some bits for a friend’s birthday so she will get that.

Then we went from there to Freeport just down the road. It’s one of these shopping villages. Shops close and others open. The Hotter shop recently closed down and I was disappointed about that as I’ve bought a couple of pairs of shoes there for about a third of their normal price. We had a good wander in and out of shops but I only bought a gadget that is supposed to make opening bottles and dealing with ring pulls easy. That’s for the same friend as the bug light.

Then we went to Zizzi for a meal. We had a voucher worth £49 that had been a present to the two of us so treated ourselves to a really good meal. I wasn’t going to have a starter but OH ordered garlic bread with cheese and caramelized onions and when it came it was nearly a meal in itself. So I had a couple of pieces of that. Then OH had a herby pork dish and I had chicken Milanese. They both came with spinach, rainbow heritage carrots in an assortment of colours and rosemary and sea salt fries. There was plenty of it as well. I would have liked a sweet but I was so full that I couldn’t even manage ice cream. With a glass of wine and a coffee each I just had to pay £10 on top of our voucher.

Now I must go and pop a birthday card in someone’s door. It’s only about a 15 minute walk there and back but I still feel so full up from my lunch that I’ll probably stagger down the road.

I hope you all have a good night and sleep well tonight.

Went to Ennerdale water this morning, sunshine and lovely view but extremely windy not too cold just very strong wind. We only did a very short walk but the views were lovely.

Back to Ennerdale Brudge and lunch in the Fix and Hounds. Very nice, I had fish and chips and it was huge. Then Lyn and I shared sticky toffee pudding and ice ream. She had pasta carbonara and garlic bread and Joe had hamm egg and chips.

Wind has dropped for now but its still cold out there.

I have just had an email telling me that the hose pipe ban will be carrying on from the 25th April. I did'nt know we had a hosepipe ban!!!! It dos'nt affect me anyway.

Also had the open reach man down here asking if I know where the cable comes into the house. I have nop idea and neither has he!!!! He has looked in most rooms and all round the bungalow and can't find it. I told him it came across from Hazel's on a pole to the top gate and he thinks it must go underground from there and may have to dig a trench down the garden becase they are doing away with the copper cable and replacing it with soemthing else. He did say it would'nt affect me if they can't find it.

Really windy here and its a bitter one at that. Had one little bleed today so far and put my cream up my nose once so just three more times for today.

Enjoy your last day Anng and it will be nice to see the grandson and the children.

Good morning all. My last day here sunny with cloud and wind. Got to get everything packed as we leave at 0730 tomorrow.

A short walk today at Ennerdale then a pub lunch my treat. And later a visit from Grandson and the girls to say goodbye.

Morning all,

Dull and dreary here this morning and pc says 9 degrees raining on and off and it is as my cars all wet.

Had a lie in this morning as nobody is coming today that I know of . BIL is coming tomorrow and I hav'nt told him the mowers back yet. Must doi that but if its wet today he won't be able to mow the grass. Why could'nt we have some nice days that follow each other for more than a day?

That's good your blood pressure was ok Mel and you have some cream for your nose should it happen again ,good to get it checked out .

Anng that was nice taking a picnic to have in the sunshine ,you wouldn't have sat out here with a picnic its been really chilly even in the sun .

Called in Boots for Colins tablets now they are saying the doctors won't buy the tablets as they are expensive so we should see the doctor to get a substitute .

Back home now. Saw a different lady doc who took my blood pressure which was very good and she has prescribed a cream to put up my nose four times a day!!!!!!!!!!!



You had a nice day then Anng and a picnic too, how lovely.

We had a really lovely day at Aira Force and Ullswater. The sun has shone all day. Back here the sun is still out but there is a strong wind off the sea, not cold though. Aira Force is pretty but the climb up and down all the steps to see the waterfall from higher up was hard on the legs. Good exercise though and we had a picnic sitting in the sun. One of the paths was closed because of several trees being down which was a shame. Still we saw most of it and I am pleased I managed it. We actually didn’t go right to the very top but that was not just my decision. We then drove to Glenridding, stopping along Ullswater to take photos of the Lake, then down to the quay at Glenridding where the boats go from. Lots of reminiscing from daughter and I as we plus daughter, late son in law and two of the boys as baby and toddler stayed there for a week in about 1990 and daughter and son in law climbed Hellvelyn. Although the road there is twisty and narrow, the views were lovely

Shopping arrived ok and then the mower man drove down the drive from the car park and I could hear it coming down and thought thats my mower. BIL said it may come back on Tuesday or wednesday and he is coming on Thursday so will be able to cut the front lawns now with their stripes.

Just had a knock on the door and it was Em's mum my friend Val and she brought me a lovely lemon drizzle cake for doing the scarecrows and I shall cut it in half and put one half in the freezer or else I shall eat it all.

Going to get ready now for the doc's so see you all later and tell you hhow I got on.

Afternoon all

What a change from yesterday! It's dull, grey and very windy. Apparently it's 10 degrees at the moment but the wind is making it feel much colder.

It's good you got a quick appointment to see your doctor Mel. I am sure he will be able to reassure you.

I hope you are having better weather at Ullswater than we have here AnnG. When I first read your post I was really puzzled by Arrange Force. I wondered if it was a shop I hadn't heard of or some strange tourist attraction, then the penny dropped and I realised it was probably a waterfall. I googled and think you probably typed Aira Force and the iPad has kindly "corrected" it for you. Or am I completely wrong?

We've been for our dental check ups this morning. No problems for either of us. I had a couple of x-rays again as my teeth have had a few problems and the dentist likes to check from time to time what's going on under the gums, but she said there are no changes since the last lot of x-rays so she was happy. Next appointment is already made for 6 months time.

I heard on the grapevine that our doctors' surgery is now doing the next lot of Covid booster jabs so we called in on our way back from the dentist and got ours booked for 29th April.

We had an interesting talk at the Club meeting last night. It was a lady talking about a trip she and her OH made to Sicily. She had lots of lovely slides for places they visited and talked about those but she also talked a lot about the history of the island, particularly during WW2. She also talked about the rise of the Mafia and the people who have stood against them and who tried to curtail their power. I didn't have to be "tea lady" last night. Our friends M & V did it. All I had to do was show M where she could find a large jug and a plate for biscuits. OH won a bottle of wine in the raffle so it was a good evening all round.

I'm now going to get myself a slice of toast for lunch. I don't fancy anything else. OH has got some cold beef and I expect he'll put a bit of salad with it.

Morning all,

Sunny here but not so warm today ,its quite windy so thsts making it feel cooler .

Mel thats good you've got an appointment today it will put your mind at rest .

Anng hope the sun stays out for your trip to Ullswater .

Not doing much today ,we're resting up ready for our log delivery tomorrow ,we're going to have some loads through the summer so we get stocked up .

I need to go to town to see if boots have Colins tablets ,they were having problems getting them in ,good job he had some in his box.

Been up the post van and had another coffee. Bent down toput a bit of plastic in the bag for recyling and had another bleed at 11.14am.

Morning all,

I am pleased to say no nose bleed in the night and nothing yet this morning. I have an appointment at the doc's this afternoon so will see what they have to say.

Quite bright here this morning and some blue sky with big white cloudspc is saying 8 degrees and a high pollen count.

I havet o go up and post a parcel this morning so I better get on as the shopping too is only 4 stops away.

BBL enjoy ullswater and hope the sun shines for you.