General Chat

Thank goodness for mobile phones. When we moved into our previous house the phone hadn’t been reconnected and there was a power cut that night. Overhead wires would touch and everyone would go off. Over a week for a phone, the few neighbours we had were all away and the phone box was mikes away,

Good morning all. Sylvia hope you don't get too much and please don't send it this way, we are not so prepared as you. even when warned we are surpised when it happens. I think this area is still on a flood warning.

It snowed today, with more thought to come over night :-0 :-P

Well good morning all.

Never slept a wink last night as the wind & rain kept me awake. Daughter has put bins out but just now a really heavy shower came and wind was gusty. Thankfully, bins haven't moved and i'm wishing the lorry would hurry up.

I'm sitting in my waterproof jacket, scarf & gloves so the minute the lorry comes, I shall go out and put the bins back asap once they are emptied. I wanted to leave them them but it would be another 3 weeks and they are 3/4 full so they needed emptying.

Was blue recycling and organic which is full of cardboard so has to go.

Then another disaster with a bin! This time with the non recyclable kitchen bin. Daughter decided to empty that too except when she last emptied the bin she forgot to put a bin bag in first grrrrr. So Got a bin bag and tipped the bin upside down and had to shake hard to get all the stuff out. The bin needed a clean so is now upside down in my bath drying out( she washed it outside with the hose first).

Seriously, I think I am jinxed with the bins, there is always a disaster or something and the weather doesn't help the situation lol

So home alone until Friday afternoon so a very quiet house and all spic and span.
I have a few small chores to deal with and then will decide what i shall do this afternoon.

Seeing Openreach along the road at the junction box so hopefully they are sorting out the internet as ours has been very slow and keeps crashing. My friend in the north of the village was complaining too so its not just our line.

I remember when I moved to the previous house and we had to wait 6 weeks for a new number and the internet, I couldn't get 4G either so always sat in the supermarket car park on way home from work to check and send emails! Was a right pain.4g just wasn't working in the village where I was or until I got 6 miles up the rd which was unbelievable. I did ask my neighbours about it but they were all over 70 and none had a smart phone!
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Right lorry just came so had to leave this and glad message was still here!

So windy but the guy took my bins up to my gate for me which was very kind of him.

Hope everyone else having a good day.

Shall look in later

Florence in the hebrides

Glad to see you posted Linda and the move went ok. Oh what a pain not having the internet...you have my sympathy, I was without for 6 weeks!!

The Artex swirley, oh my mum has this on her ceiling. Was all the fashion years ago.

Hope you continue to get things done bit by bit,

Its freezing here tonight and had heating on full blast. Of course its bin day tomorrow and its blowing a gale....never blooming fails its become a joke here
:-D :-D

I re-potted all my seedlings and my Red Robin shrubs into bigger pots so a good job done.

Right off to make a coffee now

Florence in the hebrides

Glad that you are in the new house Linda, even if things are a bit chaotic. I am sure it will all be worth it when everything is finished. The internet problem is a pain though. Hope that gets sorted soon.

It's good to know that the move went well, Linda.
I'm impressed that all those tradespeople have made a start so quickly - apart from Talk Talk, of course!
But it probably doesn't feel quick enough to you!

Hello all, well internet has been on and off again hope they sort it soon. The neighbours have gone and fingers crossed the next ones will be ok.

It has been cold today , I ventured out into the garden but too cold to stay out for long so came in and started some housework , it has to be done sometime

Watching the new programme now, The Jury. Give it a go anyway.



Ginnie

Hello, I am just looking in quickly using mobile data as my internet provider has stuffed things up big time.

The actual move was OK although we didn’t get the key until mid afternoon. We managed to unpack as much as we could over the weekend, but most things have to stay packed because of the building work. My son scraped the horrible wall paper off the wall in the lounge. Miraculously it came off easily and we saw that the paint under was the same as the other three walls, so the wall is perfect with no need for skimming.
The fireplace people came and removed the horrible gas fire and capped the gas off. They took out the wooden surround and marble hearth. They will return with the new ones as soon as the builder has replastered the ceiling to cover the swirly Artex.
The builder started work this morning and us getting in well, every single room in the house is being skimmed to cover the Artex
The kitchen designer came this morning, so it will take about a week to come up with the new design. Once we agree, it will the four or five weeks to put the new one in. I can’t wait because the storage is dire. I still have three large boxes of kitchen things in the garage which I cant fit in.
One flooring company came to give us quote today and one is coming in the morning . We are having engineered Oak flooring downstairs as we did in our last house.

Talk Talk have totally messed up our internet change over which was all arranged before we moved. Tonight, I have had to cancel the order for the house move, so we are back to paying for the old house. Tomorrow I have to contact them again and set up the house move all over again and wait to get yet another appointment for an Openreach engineer to come to set up the internet. No doubt it will be several days before that will happen. In the meantime I am having to use the data on my mobile phone to get on line which is expensive of course

I hope everyone is well, I will look in when I can

Afternoon everyone looking in.
Its bright and sunny here with a breeze so washing went out but....its freezing out of the sun only about 6 degrees but feels like 0 because its a NE wind. Its set to get very windy late afternoon.

Neighbours are a gamble aren't they? When I moved in here in May 2021, I had a lovely couple at the end whom still are there. a single man to my left and to my right a young couple. Single man left and another single man moved in. Quiet and pleasant chap, works 6 days a week so hardly see him really.

Other side is another family, one young, one old and are ok but boy do they slam their doors!!! Why on earth do people do that? so unnecessary but on the plus side, they are very pleasant and don't cause any problems so we are very lucky.

My last house was a private rental and the neighbours were fab and always there if you need help with anything so cant complain really.

I need to repot my seedlings as they are growing so fast, the pots are now too small! So a quick sandwich for lunch and then to transplanting.

Hope Linda is getting on ok. Im guessing she hasn't got internet yet?

Hope Joan is ok too.

I just phoned my sol and they have received the paperwork sent at the weekend which is quite amazing given that usually post takes ages so very pleased with that.

Right off for lunch.

Have a good afternoon all

Florence in the hebrides

good morning all 4 degrees here cloudy bright and dry so far.

Sylvia. That must have been disappointing for his son if he was expecting to have the house. did he have the land to re-build on?

Goodness that Camellia has done well. I hope your weather doesn't kill off all the flowers if it deteriorates. that is the problem with the climate now, so many things coming into flower before they should. Although nice to see flowers early it somehow 'spoils' the proper order of things in nature. Well to me it does anyway.

Hope Linda is starting to get straight and getting used to the 'new' house.

Everyone else, have a good day.

JG ................ I wish you luck with new neighbour

The house next door to us was rented out for years between about 1980 and 2007, it was owned by the same guy who'd bought it in 1972 but they'd moved to another house and he kept the one next to us for his son, a cultural habit.

We alternated good and bad tenants until the late '90s when he got ones who stayed until his son did get married and needed the house. For whatever reason, the landlord believed in increasing the rent to the maximum allowed at the end of every year. Finding a new rental was not too bad back then, so all the good tenants moved out. Bad ones also moved out quickly ........ there was a midnight flitter, major damage, loud noise, etc etc. He also did very little maintenance though the last tenants did some quite major repairs, but the end result was that the old house had to be demolished because it needed too much doing. The son was really disappointed because he wanted to live in the old house!

Our very old Camellia is in flower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flowering is usually in April. It was here when we bought the house in 1972, and was probably at least 5 or 6 years old then. Now it is huge though we moved it to the "wrong" situation in 1977 according to all the experts ..... to the north east corner of the house! The flowers are white with red streaks, a cultivar no longer found as the colouring is apparently caused by a virus.

Cooler weather is threatened for early next week, so I hope no damage is done.

Hope that all is going well for Linda and the move.

Joan ....... I hope that you are well

Take care everyone

Neighbours are such a gamble, aren't they, Ginnie? Something one has no control over!

Yesterday and today it's been dry and sunny with blue sky. I've been able to get out in the garden with my loppers, and now have several big piles of twiggy branches which I'll have to get rid of gradually.
I love lopping - real job satisfaction - but not the clearing up afterwards!

Hello all,
Have been off line for a couple of days due to some area fault ,phone, tv box and internet all down . It came back for about an hour then off again but was back again today . Been off twice since but only for a few mins so something is still dodgy but hopefully it will be sorted properly soon.

Seems like our neighbours are moving they are really nice so will be sorry to see them go. they have only been here about 18 mths but since the house was sold to a landlord there have been several tenants in the house some good some not so good.
Have to wait and see now what the new ones are like.

Hope Linda's move has gone well and she enjoys her new home.

Florence hopefully all will be settled soon with the flat and you will be able to relax. A bit less to worry about.

Just started to rain again here but did get a line of washing dry today

Hope everyone is ok . Take care.

Ginnie.

Oh names :-D :-D :-D

Florence :-D :-D
Maybe Linda is sharing a cell with Charity Dingle from Emmerdale ;-)

More probably I expect Linda wants to throttle her new internet provider.

Morning chit chatters.

A lovely bright & sunny day but chilly. Good day for washing too so a load going out soon.

Ordered some grass seed with my food order and a garden fork from Amazon. Our back lawn isnt great with bare patches etc. My gardener last year said to sew some grass seed in the spring so getting organised for that.

Found I could also get Miracle grow compost from Tesco but it says "out of stock". maybe too early yet but would be good if I can get some delivered.

Slept longer today and felt I needed it hence not long up and sitting in Pjs with a coffee but off to shower & get dressed now as things to do.

Hope everyone looking in has a good day.

Joan, hope you are ok, still thinking of you & your family

Linda, have you strangled OH yet :-D :-D :-D
Hope its going well with unpacking.

Florence in the hebrides

Congratulations, Florence! I hope the sale of your mum's flat now goes ahead quickly.

Very cold again here. Sleet yesterday, and snow on the hills overnight.
Some lovely sunshine for a while this morning - before the rain came on again..
Extra jumper this evening, and the heating (old storage heaters) back up to max.

I hope the move went well, and that Linda is getting the house straight.

I don't have to have a move to have an OH putting things in the wrong places!

I'm forever searching kitchen drawers for items that we use daily and have a "home", although you wouldn't know it!

I'm also always keeping my eyes open for where he has put his own things ............. coat, cap, cheque book, keys, etc etc etc.

Yes, he is in the early stages of "forgetfulness", but is also clever enough to deceive the doctor!

We're having a brief break from rain, and even had a clear sky last night so I could see the almost-full moon (Feb 24 is full moon). I never saw even a slightest sign of January's full moon, and I'm not sure I'm going to see any more of this month's!

I did hear murmurs of "showers or flurries" for Tuesday in a report on the radio this morning :-P :-0

Well friend has been and gone, contracts signed and she will post them in town 1st class for me.

Went outside for a few minutes when saying goodbye ,but oh my , my hands were frozen very quickly. Brrrrr ventured back indoors straightaway and made a hot coffee.
Heating going on early today.

I'm thankful my last 2 house moves did not involve a man lol if it had of done, think I would have put him on tea duties and putting away empty boxes only :-D