General Chat

Morning all

Sorry I haven't been on here for ages I've been feeling really down lately crying all the time. I'm very lonely the only person I see is OH and he's working all the time and sleeping during the day so I'm on my own almost all the time.

It doesn't help when the woman at the bottom of our garden, (her garden comes over ours slightly on the right) keeps sending workmen into our garden where they wonder around even going right up to our side gate looking for access for a shredding machine as the woman is having two very large trees taken down. She told them it was waste ground and it was okay to dump the trees there but if they got access through our garden they could shred them and spread the sawdust all over the bottom of our garden.

There were four big men and they've been in our garden at least twice to our knowledge although they said it's been four or five times. They act like they have a right to do it and it's very scary.

The sun is out today and we were going to cut a couple of small trees down in our garden but now I think it might be better to put a fence up between us and the woman at the bottom, hopefully that's stop the men wondering around our garden when the fancy takes them.

I thought they were going to come today to make a start on taking the trees down but they haven't turned up yet so we should be able to put a fence up before they start if it isn't to hard to dig down for the fence posts as the roots from the big trees might be in the way.

Can you imagine how much sawdust there would be from those trees, it would be horrendous and blow everywhere. They can't get the machine down there without access from our side, but we don't want the trees cut down and left at the bottom of our garden either. I don't know why they don't cut them down and put them in her garden. They're her trees not ours.

Sorry for going on, I suffer from anxiety and this isn't helping. I just needed to get it off my chest.

Going outside now to see if they've walked all over my plants, I hope they haven't.

On a positive we've done a bit more DIY in the kitchen so that's almost ready for the new kitchen floor to be put down, we're going to put some ply wood in there instead of the cement boards, then varnish it so it's easy to mop until we decide what floor covering we want. Then the new kitchen can go in.

Morning girls,

I was rudely awoken by my pond man at a very early hour. He is on the way so0 I had to get dressed quickly and do my hair.

Its a lovely bright sunny morning and pc is saying its 4 degrees. I wonder if the sun will last all day?

At least I may get the pond sorted but I shall be frighten to turn the pump off to do the filter if this is going to happen everytime. I wonder what he will charge ne this time?

Just when I thought I was going to have a day to myself again..... no such luck.

He's here.

good morning all. 2 degrees here too and chilly but bright and I hope that it is going to be a nice dry day so I can cut the lawn. I do also have to start the packing as well, mostly stuff is sorted so it should not take long.
Oh and I have a load of washing in the machine.

Good morning all

It’s bright sunshine now but it was a very cold night with a frost. It’s only 2 degrees at the moment. Very brrr...

I’ve got lots of washing to get done this morning and a couple of phone calls that must be made today. Friends are coming for a cup of tea this afternoon.

The hyacinths we were given are opening up now and are all white. They are beginning to smell lovely.

Strange a I have read both of those and liked them. Not saying he is a favourite there are others I like better but I seemed to be on his wave length.

AnnG, that is odd. Goodness knows where that post went. Basically I said I had tried another Douglas Kennedy called The Pursuit of Happiness. I don’t think he’ll ever be my favourite author but I thought it was a more interesting story than the first book I read and I quite enjoyed it.

Re. the chaffinches. They seem to have disappeared again.

Vera nothing from you on the book thread but a post on the bird thread from you re chaffinches.

I have just come in from the garden after posting last time. I am clearing the front of the bungalow. There is so much moss and I had'nt cut back the old Mollis. I am nearly up to the front door now but feel tired now so had to stop and I want a COT and its just getting dark here now the suns gone down over the wall.

ANNG - HELP

I definitely submitted a post to the book thread just before my last post on here. Just went in to slightly edit it and there is no sign of it. Where on earth can it have gone? Am I going mad? (Don't answer that ;-))

Dinner was nice AnnG. I am sure your gammon will be good as well. For some reason, unless we are out to lunch, we always eat in the evening during the week but on Sunday we have our dinner about 2 pm. I have just put a post on the book thread but I am not sure why I am bothering as there only seems to be you and me left on it now.

Oh Mel, you did make me smile. I could just picture you in your jammies with scruffy hair and no teeth in. I wish I'd been there with a camera :-D Why do people always arrive when we are wearing our tattiest old clothes and haven't brushed our hair? I suppose it's s-d's law again.

I sat in the conservatory for a while after lunch but the sun through the glass was making it so hot in there that I started to feel heavy headed. I opened the door to let some air in but it was really too windy to keep the door open. I'm off now to water the seedlings and cuttings in there as they are drying out quite quickly in the heat.

Dinner sound nice Vera. I am just starting to cook mine a small piece of gammon that will do me two days with roast potatoes, carrot, broccoli spears and cauliflower.
I see Mel and Vera have been busy in the garden. It was not nice here this morning although it was dry but the sun came out this afternoon. I potted on the last plant that needed doing and moved the pots around on the gravel. If I don’t lose any more it should look good.

I was reading back through my on line diary as I was looking for something and I was pleasantly surprised to realise that whereas I have in the past bought very small tots in March and brought them on for baskets, as I am not doing as many baskets this year it won’t cost me a lot more to buy bigger plants. The tots when big enough were put in baskets mid April so doing it with larger plants I will not be any later with the baskets.

I woke early this morning and thought no body is coming today so I will stay and have a lie in. Got up just before 9am and thought I would have a nice shower and wash my hair today. Made my coffee and sat down at the pc to drink it and take my morning pill.

There I sat no teeth in and hair all over the place and sticking out everywhere in my jim jams and heard a noise looked out of the window and there he was parking the car outside the kitchen window. I unlocked the back door and put the kettle on and he came in. He said he would go and open the garage so I put the kettle on and rushed in the bathroom to put my teeth in!!!!! and put some trousers. He came back in and made his own coffee and went pout again saying he had only come to pick up some more rubbish to take to work to put in the skip. I fed the chickens and we talked in the garden for a bit and I mentioned something about small chisels and he said he had just put some in a box in the garage. They were the ones I had been looking for. They were oh's fathers tools and I had found the case they were in my naughty oh had left them on the workbench and they have all gone rusty. BIL did'nt know they were his dads tools as he never saw him doing any wood carving.

Anyway he did'nt stay long and put the bags of rubbish in his car and off he went to mow his grass. I have never seen the grass in this garden so long as it is now. Sti8ll no joy with the mowers coming back yet and BIL is frightened to get the zero turn one out incase he breaks that on too!!

I have had dinner got the washing on the line and sorted out the clematis outside the patio steps so a good mornings work I think and it was'nt so cold out there this morning and the suns been out.

I have just copied this message as I see Mandy lost one today and I don't want to lose that lot so I am posting it now and then going to corn the chickens and do a bit more in the garden.

Good afternoon

It’s lovely and bright and sunny today but there is still a bitter wind from the north east so it doesn’t feel very warm.

After I had showered this morning I wrapped up warm and managed to work in the garden for nearly an hour before I decided my back had had enough. OH was out there about an hour and a half so between us we got quite a bit done and it looks tidier now.

I hadn’t dried my hair much before I went out to the garden. It dried well in the wind but is now curling every which way.

Your bil was early Mel. Perhaps you could persuade him to phone you when he’s leaving home so you get a bit of warning.

I’m pleased your swans are back and nesting Gwyn. We’ll expect regular updates on the state of the eggs, chicks etc. Last time we looked our swans weren’t back. We need to walk down to the river and see if they are there now. I’m frightened they may have been victims of avian flu.

I’m currently cooking the Sunday roast that OH loves. Today it’s roast loin of pork, apple sauce and roast veg I.e. potatoes, carrots, parsnips and cauliflower. To follow we have heck pudding, so called because anyone who tries it is likely to say “What the heck is that? :-D. I hate wasting anything and I had discovered 3 of those rectangular trifle sponges at the back of the cupboard, so it was a case of “what can I do with these?” I split them, spread them with bitter orange marmalade, cut them in small pieces and soaked them in orange juice, then put them in a dish and tipped a tin of custard over them.

Time to take the meat out of the oven to rest and get the gravy made. Have a nice afternoon everyone

Afternoon all

Lovely sunny day but still a bit chilly ,family came this morning and son fixed our dripping hot tap in the kitchen ,he soon put a new bit on its been a nuisance for a few weeks now but he's been so busy we didn't like to worry him .

Anng I am on my tablet and my thumb sometimes touches the top left hand corner of the screen and whoosh its gone but it also goes if I try and scroll down on the thread to read the last few posts and comment ,I can't always remember what's been posted to comment on so scroll back and then I lose the bit I've been typing .

Mel your bil was about early this morning good job you were up and hadn't over slept
I suppose he's trying to get the mowers ready for a cut .

gosh he was early for a Sunday Mel.

Morning Anng and all,

Yes i did enjoy my egg and curried beans with toast last night thank you. I use half a tin one day and put the rest in a plastic box and have those with something the day after so I don't waste the other half. Always liked beans on toast from a really

BIL is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I sm not dressed

Good morning all. 6 degrees so far but it is early. I woke early and couldn't get back to sleep so gave up. Not dressed or washed yet though.
Gwyn that was good to see the swans back nesting as usual. Hope there are babies later for us to share.
Mandy that was frustrating, hope we didn't miss anything important were you on a tablet? Sometimes if you touch near the edge of the screen something appears on the screen and it is as if you have lost what you were doing but if you cancel what is on the screen, sometimes what you were doing is still there. anyway, glad that you are ok as we had missed seeing you for three days I think. We can't afford to lose any more from this thread, it is a lot smaller than it was as it is.

Mel I assume that is tinned spaghetti and tinned curried beans? Strange, I have not had either for years. Probably because I wouldn't eat a whole tin. Hope you enjoyed it anyway.

Nice to see you pop in Mnady and its so annoying when you write a post hit something and it diappears. Glad you are alright.

Changed my mind I am going to have poached egg and curried beans on toast.

Evening all ,

I'm OK just fed up as I've just lost two posts so I'll keep this short and sweet .

Vera glad you enjoyed your trip away despite the weather and how lovely to have pressies waiting for you on the step when you got home and then the win topped off the day nicely .

Anng nice to have a day with the grandchildren, bet the cat didn't show up with the dog there .

Gwyn are the swans nesting ealier this year I thought it was a bit later when they nested last year.

Right I'm posting this before it goes again .

How nice to find more pressies on the step Vera. You have had some lovely things and a good win on the draw too. Lucky girl.

Gwyn I'm pleased your swans are back as you were a bit worried as to whether they would come back this year but now they have. Great idea to put the hazel fencing up to give them a bit of protection as well.

Been doing a bit of painting of my minitures. I was going to sort out the clematis on the left of the steps down to the garden but there's been an icy wind blowing across the front today and its north facing so feels really cold. The sun has come out now after a grey day with rain blowing in the wind and it certainly makes you want to do things. I just wish it would warm up a bit and I can get some jobs done in the garden.

A big branch fell off of one of the old apple trees in the orchard yesterday so I walked over to have a look but I don't think I could lift it. I'll have to ask Jonathan if he wants it for firewood. It was a dead branch and in the way of mowing so its no great loss.

I had a big hot pasty for lunch from the shop so I am going to have spaghetti on toast tonight and the last bit of coffee and walnut cake that'll do me.

Its 11 degrees here now and pc says mostly sunny!!!! which it is.