General Chat

Afternoon all.
Well finally its a dry, sunny and lovely day with little wind....yay :-D

Sadly, I got word yesterday from my cousin to say my late mum's eldest sister is unwell and in hospital. She has a serious infection which led to her having fluid in her heart and lungs. Stronger meds helped but she is very up & down and the outlook isn't very good. However she is very strong and stubborn and this may pull her through even though she is 89!! So the family down south is all on tender hooks.

I have been busy with family tree research and now discovered something that has thrown me completely so having to retrace my findings to double check my results.

Im home alone until tom eve, so at least i have peace and quiet to get on.

Linda, you do make me laugh :-D :-D :-D hubby sitting in the bath in the garden oh my!! Hope you get on with finding a suite you like for your en suite, how exciting..

Right Im all behind today so off to get a coffee, some toast and take my meds.

Hope everyone looking in is well and ok.

Florence in the hebrides

Good morning everyone.It looks sunny out there, but it is supposed to rain this afternoon.
I took a photo of OH sitting in the bath on the driveway, our daughter suggested we plumb it in as a hot tub :-D. It is currently in the garage with some very large wall boards which the previous people had put in instead of tiles. There will also be the sink and toilet to add to that. We will have to get a man with a van to take everything to the tip.
We are going to go to the bathroom showroom today to arrange delivery of the new things, we also need to choose some new taps. We aren’t having a shower over the bath, we are just having a hand held shower on a cradle on the taps. Not having a shower means we can just have a couple of rows of tiles around the bath to the same height as the basin. OH will do those once we have chosen some.
We are also going to choose everything to redo the en-suite, yet more pennies :-(. The current shower has the wall boarding as well. I think that is a good idea because there is no grout to go mouldy. The current stuff is white with a very feint grey mark which you can only see if you are really close to it. From outside the shower, it just looks like a plain white wall, so that is going to have to be replaced with something better.

Neither Linda. Well I did actually plant on some tomato seedlings but then decided to walk down the road with a few things for the lady who collects all sorted to disperse to various charities, then when I got back it started to rain. since then I have not really done anything, just messed around on here, done a bit of admin and had lunch. Sun is shining now but the urge to garden has left me.

I expect you can pay the council to take away the bath etc. Good job it is not your only bathroom.

So why was it Ann, garden or bus?

I went to the enormous Sainsbury’s supermarket this morning, it took me ages to find the things I wanted

The plumber is here and has taken the bath and shower out if the bathroom, it is now sitting on the drive. I assume that we will have to pay for a man with a van to come and take it away.
The plasterer is not coming until next Monday to skim the wall, then we van arrange for the new suite to go in

:-D Could have been anything last time then Sylvia but still you obviously survived. How strange to do it there, obviously they had been taught that.

Nice bright wind free morning so far. Might potter a bit more in the garden, or might go in to town on the bus. I shall see. Oh the choices!!

We also received our invitations to get our Booster shot yesterday (Sunday). I booked mine online for next Friday at a pharmacy near us. OH phoned up and booked his for tomorrow (Tuesday), early afternoon, same pharmacy.

I just decided I would wait a few days until the end of the week :-D

We've had boosters done at this pharmacy a couple of times before, so we know them. Our shots last October were really strange ............... we were in a hurry because we were going away in about a week, so we went to one of the big chain pharmacies/drug stores that sell all kinds of things because it had the earliest vacancies. It turned out they were employing specially trained pharmacists to do the double vaccination for Covid and Flu. It was the strangest vaccination I think either of us had ever had ....... right on the point of the shoulder, both flu and Covid in more-or-less the same place so only 1 plaster was put on. Our shoulders were really quite sore if we moved them in the wrong direction, and that lasted for several days. Then we realised that she didn't give us any printout of what vaccines we'd been given, but it was too late to go back and get it.

I hope you enjoyed your dinner Florence. We had some left over chicken from yesterday. There is still lots left because the extra large size was on offer for only 30p more than the large size. I will make some soup tomorrow.

I just got an email to book my spring Covid jab. I had lots of choices for the pharmacies in town, so I am going to the nearest one in a couple of weeks.

:-D :-D :-D oh my god, really Linda!!! Who leaves their rubbish under the bath, that's unbelievable, Maybe it was the original plumber who put the bath in and he was having his lunch and was too lazy to put his rubbish in a bin..

Im gonna have to put the heating on as it really is chilly now in the house.

Hoping Masterchef is on tonight but cant remember tbh. You get some right characters taking part. Final of The Apprentice is also on this week Thursday so looking forward to that too.

Well, making a stir fry of something for tea to use the packet up otherwise by tomorrow, the veg will be not usable. I don't have any prawns though so better go and look for something in the freezer.

I am not surprised that you are tired Florence after all that work. There is some ironing to do in the cupboard, I suppose I had better do it :-(

Oddly when we were looking this morning, OH said, “ Do you remember when everyone had Swiss Cheese plants”. I know the sort of thing I want, I just don’t want to pay the exorbitant prices

OH is busy dismantling the bathroom in preparation for the plumber coming to take the bath and shower out tomorrow. There is a right mess under the bath and behind all of the boxing in, empty crisp packets, an orange tango can and lots of rubble. I know you can’t see it, but it offends his sense of tidiness

How about a swiss cheese plant Linda?

Well the hailstones keep coming and the wind is stormy. Its howling through the bathroom vent and makes a racket.

I re-potted my Coleus into a bigger pot and it looks good. However the other plants seem to have wilted after repotting grrrr. I hoping they will settle overnight and root. I have no idea what they are either as daughter put the seeds into this pot and I cant identify the plants yet :-D :-D :-D maybe if they grow and flower, I shall know then.

Some more supplies for my crafting arrived and between us we have just painted 200 pine cones with a gold paint and 20 large slices of wood for the large centrepieces.

So after all that and the ironing I did before, I am now sitting with a coffee and having a rest as feeling quite tired.

I hope that you survived the coffee morning without throttling any one Hazel :-D

We decided to go to a local garden centre for lunch because it had a specialist houseplant concession in it. The lunch was fine, if a bit pricy, but the plants were ridiculously expensive, so we didn’t buy anything. I did buy some garden clogs though as I am ruining my leather ones on all the wet grass. They had two brands and one fitted much better than the other one. Amazingly, it was the cheaper ones which were best. That doesn’t usually happen to me.

I decided that I had earned the lunch out because I had been very industrious this morning. OH had put some of the silver reflecting sheets behind the radiators on the outside walls. He said that the radiators were incredibly dusty on the back. I have a special duster to get in between the gills. He was right, they had obviously never been cleaned out before. That raised a lot of dust, so once it had settled down, I had to dust all of the rooms as well.

It is very cold outside, but the rain has stopped thank goodness. This morning, it was just constant showers.

Good morning everyone. It is only just past 10 am, but I feel like it should be lunchtime. I was up and out early to take Esme for a doctors appointment before school, just an annual check up, a waste of time really given all the specialist appointments she has. We then took her to school and I dropped my daughter off at home.
As I wwas out and about, I continued to the local Boots branch to get some of my multivitamins. They are always on a three for two offer, but when I got there, they only had one box. The next delivery is coming tomorrow apparently, so that was a wasted journey :-(

I want to buy al large floor standing floor plant to go in the dining room next to the new dresser. The best place is always Ikea, but that is a long drive, so it is probably better to pay for a more expensive one locally. I need to find one of course and as I am not familiar with the local area that is not easy. I saw a large Yuma in Morisson’s yesterday That was good value at only £20, but I want a more leafy plant.

Morning everyone looking in today.

The wind and rain kept me awake most of the night so not feeling the best just now.
It is about 4 degrees so very cold and def not opening the door to go outside.

I have a huge basket of ironing to do plus I have 4 plants to repot so that will keep me busy for awhile.

I complained to the seller of my Red Robin plants and sent pictures and they have agreed to send 2 more plants even though its over a month since I bought them. Hopefully the new plants will grow much better.

Treehunter, hope you enjoy your cross stitch and hope the "coffee moaning" isn't too bad.

Ann, yes sometimes, I have looked back if I was trying to remember a date as you say, its like a diary so can be quite useful.

I have just had an email from my cousin in Australia and he and my aunt use to live nr Bondi Junction In Sydney and used that shopping mall. Aunty died 3 years ago and he moved elsewhere but the whole story was frightening. Together with what's going on in Iran/Israel its a worrying time wherever we live at the moment .

Right coffee drank so off to be busy now. Shall look in later.

Florence in the hebrides

Good morning all. Wet here and very windy but 8 degrees so not too cold. Although the forecast did say there would be a wind chill. I thought we were moving forward with some nice weather over the weekend. Although the promised 'mini heatwave never did materialise here. so an indoor day today, no gardening.

Hazel, yes, go and brighten up the moaning coffee.

Joan I don't think anyone will miss the posts that you deleted. I vaguely remember you deleting before. I just leave mine, eventually they will disappear off into the ether. Strangely sometimes I have checked back on my previous posts on this thread If I want to check what I was doing on a certain day. Using it like a diary.

Morning everyone dark and wet here :-(

Well may go down to moaning morning coffee.

Most of children be back at school today. So buses be packed again when I come out of cross stitching group Wednesday so hope I can get first one that comes a long the other week it was the 5th one I just about got on but had to stand all the way home.

Hope everyone is okay and has a good day.

Joan

You haven't upset me at all, please don't think that you have.

I was curious about the missing pages, but when I said how much it bothered me I was entirely joking, it really doesn't bother me in the least.

Regards

Duncan x

Hi everyone

Been sorting draws out not the wearing kind :-) Got more for charity shop,

Facetimed the twins hope will leave me alone now for rest of the night,

Well sun has gone hope have more tomorrow,
Will go to moaning morning for awhile its to hot in the room for me no windows or door open all heating on high. No air in there.

Picture is of Caitlin she will be 18 at end of the month

Will say night all speak tomorrow

Joan, you haven't upset anyone at all. I was trying to click on to 'more pages' that weren't there any more.

I don't count or list the pages, but notice when they move to another section. I was just glad someone else noticed and that it wasn't in my head ;-)

Aw Joan, thankgoodness for you posting lol. No you haven't upset anyone but rather stopped some from thinking they were losing the thread...excuse the pun :-D :-D :-D

I hadn't noticed anything amiss at all :-S

So there we are mystery solved :-D

Are you having a good day Joan in the garden? Hope you have the sun as I think it has emigrated elsewhere or gone into hibernation as its sooo cold.

Florence in the hebrides

re missing pages.
Is there a problem with that, is it against the rules, I ask because it was probably ME that did it having deciding to remove some of my looong ago responses on this thread.

I have always removed anything I might have said on various threads IF they were NO longer relevant !
I did so yesterday, some that went back to 2020/21, it wasn't my intention to upset anyone by doing so, I just felt they were of no more interest after 4 + years.

Personally I have never felt it was necessary to list how many pages there are or for that matter to show how many have viewed the thread, but each to their own !

My apologise for upsetting anyone because of what I have done.

Joan.