General Chat

good morning all. Florence hope all is progressing with the move.
Ginnie, strange neighbours you have, how sad to pull up all the shrubs and plants, what a soulless garden it must be,

I have been busy in the garden too, quite hard work this time of year when there is only one to do it, turn your back and the weeds have grown again, bin was emptied on Wednesday is already a third full again. :-)

Nudge :-S

Had some rain overnight & this morning but fine just now

Hello all, hope you are enjoying the nicer weather . We have been busy in the garden . Our neighbours don't like plants and have been removing all the shrubs etc that the previous owners put in. This included an Ivy which had grown along the fence as the root was in their garden when they dug it out the top died. It looked awful so we had to remove it from our side as well. As they pulled it from their side of the fence the panels broke so meant 2 new fence panels. 20 years of Ivy growth will do that though. The only thing in their garden now are 2 stumps that are hard to remove and the grass. Each to their own though. We have been tidying our climbers to try to prevent the hanging over the fence as if they do the neighbour is out there cutting away . This is because they don't like spiders and flies which apparently flourish in plants :-S :-D

Beautiful day here has been for a few days now Florence all the Best with your move hope you & your Daughter enjoy your new home hope you have a good Summer after all your worry Take Care Barbara :-)

This time last week it was Devon rain that we ‘enjoyed’Dermot. But we did have sun Wednesday and Thursday. It is gorgeous here today, a lot of the jungle has been attended to. I was out there for ove two hours.

Aawe poor Esme, she is not going to understand and Eve will be feeling it is her fault as it is her class. Has she stayed clear of symptoms? How will you make it up to her?
I see you have been busy too Joan.

There's a fair bit of chit chat going on in the mature hedge by my front door all morning.

I'm monitoring the comings & goings of the 'dad' of the Pigeon family.- I assume it is mainly the 'dad' that provides the food.

Thankfully, I no longer have to worry about my pesky cat since he passed away some time ago. But the neighbours' pets do tend to hang around at a respectful distance. :-|

The Devon sun is blasting away & the fan is on a full speed in an attempt to keep the bird couple in comfortable circumstances.

Hope you have all got the beautiful sunshine this morning <3 <3

They are indeed Ann, the older one who is self isolating sobbed her heart out when she realised. Little Esme knew she was going to a holiday house with us. My daughter has taken her away for the weekend, staying in a Travelogdge ( not quite the same). She has booked various children’s activities in the area to keep them busy. That is all very well, but this morning on FaceTime, when she was reminding Esme of the plans, she then said they would be going home. That did not please Esme, she was yelling”No- go holiday house”. She isn’t able to understand why they can’t go because of the “poorlyness “

Oh Linda, what a shame, I know that you were looking forward to being away together with them. I am sure that the girls are disappointed as well.

Good luck with the move, I hope everything runs smoothly
We are pretty fed up here as we were supposed to go to Centre Parcs yesterday with our daughter, son in law and two granddaughters. It has had tho be cancelled because there is a positive COVID case in the class of one of the girls, so she has to self isolate for ten days. We will get the money back, but can’t rearrange it as it has to be in the school holidays and they are fully booked in the summer

Joan every time my OH fell I could not get him up and like yours he had no strength, so strange when only a month before he had been working in the garden. He never fell outside, only indoors, as far as I know he never regained any strength until he died in hospital 3 months later.

Just make sure your hubby has some sort of support when outside Joan. <3 <3

Afternoon everyone :-D :-D <3 <3 <3 <3

Trying its best to rain here :-( :-(

Hope you are all ok, good luck with the move Florence...hope all goes to plan
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Good luck, Florence. I hope you settle into your new place quickly.

Hope the move goes well and the weather is good to you, Florence <3

Good luck with the move Florence hope the sun shines.

Hope all goes to plan for you and the weather stays good.

Evening peeps.
We are getting the removal van tomorrow and so the packing up will begin. Our sofas have gone to the council skip as they were 2nd hand and did us a turn last 4 years but have 2 new ones on order. So we are sitting on kitchen chairs in the lounge, a bit hard on the rear..lol

So i shall not be posting for awhile until the internet is connected at the new house. They have said 1st june, but we shall see.
I will be able to read the posts from mobile though.

Reading your stories about being stuck in the loft ladies must have been awful. Very hot and scary too. Even when i hang out the washing, i keep my mobile in my pocket as i still have dizzy turns.

This afternoon the sun came out and out of the wind, it really was quite warm. Heres hoping it will stay nice for the weekend as i do not fancy loading and unloading in the pouring rain. If that happens, think i might just have a meltdown!!

So take care everyone and i will be back on her very soon i hope.

Florene in the hebrides

Oh dear Joan, I have only just seen this but am pleased that your hubby is ok now. Realising how T suddenly with no warning started falling I am aware it can happen to anyone as we get older because he was always so strong and steady on his feet. It didn’t take much to go all down hill from there. I do now try and keep my phone with me in the garden and available when in the shower. Haven’t ventured into the loft yet though.

It's good to know that Joan's OH seems to be recovering well from his fall.

We can all think afterwards that we should have done ....... whatever, but at the time we just want to get to a place of safety and comfort.

I can relate to Ann's adventure in the loft.
Our loft was boarded and housed our PC and was where I used to work on my family history research.
One night, when everyone else in the house had gone to bed, I had gone up the loft ladder and was working away when suddenly we had a power cut. Everywhere was pitch black and after some time I was trying to decide whether to shout in the hope that someone would wake and come to help or should I gingerly try to feel my way to the loft opening and try feeling my way to the steps. That seemed too risky, so I decided to stay put until there was enough light to climb down safely.
Afterwards, a torch was kept up there ready for any similar emergencies.