General Chat

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Happy Easter.,
On Friday went to a garden centre for lunch and bought two large planters and some evergreen plants with white flowers to go in them. I can’t remember what they were called :-S. I also bought some more herbs as I left all of mine in the last house

It was glorious yesterday, so we spent the day in the garden.OH made plastic liners for two large troughs we had bought, we filled them with compost. They have a tall trellis on the back of them, which screens our view of the neighbours. We have two large Red Robins in them, which were just in pots, but now they have much more room to grow. He cut some slits in the bottom for drainage, but I think he should have made more, we shall see.
OH tried out his new smaller battery driven lawn mower, we did have a large petrol mower, but have given that to our son in law.

This morning we went over to see the girls. The Easter bunny had been of course, so there was lots of chocolate to add to the eggs we took over.
OH took our scarifier as son in law wanted to borrow it. They ended up scarifying the whole lawn which is really big. I helped with raking up the massive amount of grass which came out. I also did lots of playing with Esme. We used finger painting to make Easter cards.

I hope you enjoyed your meat Sylvia, I have a large joint of pork in the oven now as well as a ham. I cook a small ham joint every week with whatever roast I do. It is much nicer, not to mention much cheaper than buying sliced ham in the supermarket.
I think we are going to be eating pork all week as all the joints in Aldi were really big.

It us a shame about the fair Florence, maybe people were more into gardening this weekend

A beautiful day here too.
There was a cool wind this morning, but this afternoon it's been warm enough to sit outside without a jacket, in a sheltered spot.

Bees buzzing, birds singing, sun shining, spring flowers blooming! Lovely!
It won't last, but it's very enjoyable while it does.

What a shame about the poor attendance at the Fayre, Florence. Still, your cads will keep until the next time.

I hope you enjoyed your ham, Sylvia, even though it wasn't what you wanted.

Good morning all. Our weather yesterday was not as nice as the rest of you. It was dry so I was able to spend a couple of hours in the garden. But it was very overcast and dull and not very warm. Still quite a bit got done
It looks fairly bright out there at the moment but as it is still before 8am it is only 6 degrees so we shall see.
It was a shame that there were not many people at the fair Florence but it does seem a strange day to have it even though it is not such a bank holiday there as here. Maybe people still went away to family for Easter or, as somebody else said, they were all in their gardens.

Typos do give me a giggle.

Florence reported her Red Robins ( to whom I wonder) and now she appears to have a houseful of cads. I hope she chucks them out after making sure they buy her cards but the they wouldn’t be such cads if they did. :-D :-D :-D

names :-D :-D :-D I had to chuckle at your post!

Reported...hahaha

cads......hehehe

I think my inch long nails don't help either!!

Quiet overcast day but its nippy in the breeze outside.

I received the wood stain for my planters but the sandpaper hasn't arrived yet so shall have to wait to start that job.

Felling better but still very husky and daughter has it now but not as bad.

It would appear that many families have gone away on holiday hence the place is empty of cars and people. my own brother is skiing in Switzerland with his family for 10 days and a photo of the resort is packed with cars!

Not sure how to spend the day other than doing chores! Its so quiet, its like a Sunday!

Hope everyone else is having a lovely day

:-D

sunny here and 12 degrees. Just did half an hour out there, in for a rest as my back was stiff. Warm in the sun.

It is a horrible day here. Only 7 degrees and it has been raining all morning, but it has stopped now. We went to the local DIY store mid morning as OH needs some No Nails to stick the skirting board on the dining room before tomorrow. He had ordered some on line as it is much cheaper, but it is massively late in arriving. Our new dining room furniture is being delivered tomorrow, so the skirting boards need fixing on before tomorrow.
We called in to see the girls on the way back and I ended up playing schools with Esme as usual

Good morning from sunny Yorkshire.
Well the OpenReach engineer, a very nice young lady called Gemma arrived at 8 am.
It took her a long time, but she finally sorted out our telephone line, so we now have a landline which is connected to our correct number. She first went to the local cabinet, but discovered that the cable for our number wasn’t actually connected to the cabinet. So she had to go to the exchange and physically trace the wire among thousands of others all the same colour and connect it to the correct cabinet. It was a shame that it took her so long because she had offered to move the master socket to the study, but had to move onto her next job. Moving the socket arranged for next Tuesday. She said that she will look out for the job and pick it up if she sees it. I hope so because she was very good

Morning all
It is wild, windy, overcast and very cold so not a nice day.

Linda, so glad you got the landline sorted out and hope the nice lady will be back to move the socket for you.We only have 1 master socket as the lounge is where"my office" is along with the phone and PC.

In my old house we had 2 sockets but one had to have a filter on it as it used to make a shhhing noise. But was handy as we had 2 PCs and one was in the bedroom.

Hope you new furniture arrives on one piece today, thats so exciting.

No gardening jobs today sadly so confined to indoors. The hall cupboard needs its usual declutter so that will fill an hour lol.So hoping the sol or estate Agent will tel or mail this week with some good news hopefully.

Hope everyone else looking in is well and has better weather than us!

Florence in the hebrides :-D

Morning everyone,

We had some nice sunny mornings over the weekend and today but it is clouding over again now . I have washing out so hoping it doesn't rain .

Have been doing some veg seeds to start off in the mini greenhouse and have a tray on the kitchen window sill . Fingers crossed we get a decent crop this year, it keeps OH happy in the garden doing the planting etc. He also has his fish pond to look after which will need sorting out soon .

Window Cleaner just been so now have lovely clean windows , our windows get very dirty quickly due to being on a main busy road and the rain we have had doesn't help either. Rain can be very dirty.

Hope everyone is ok .

Ginnie

JG let us hope that it doesn't rain now that you have had your windows cleaned.

It has been a pleasant morning here, I spent over an hour cutting back some dead branches on the rambling and climbing roses and tying the rest into the trellis supports. It is garden bin day tomorrow and mine is almost full so will be glad when it is emptied.

Pleased that your phone has been sorted out Linda and hope the furniture arrives ok.

Florence do hope that now Easter has passed you get to hear from the solicitor.

Of course it took a woman to sort it out, Linda!

Yesterday the old leaky roof of my garden shed (sagging corrugated bitumen) was replaced by clear plastic panels.
Now full daylight into every corner of the shed - wonderful!
Once the damp patch on the floor has dried out, I'll spring clean the inside of the shed.
All the dirt and cobwebs are showing up very clearly now!

Dry and mostly sunny today - but such a cold wind.

We have inherited two garden sheds here. OH doesn’t want either of them as we have loads of space in the double garage. One is in the main garden, if we get rid of it, it will be a good place for a veg patch.
The dining room furniture arrived this afternoon, we are pleased with it. I have unpacked lots of boxes, but still have more to go. I can’t really get finally sorted until after the new kitchen goes in, but that will be mid June, so I will just have to wait :-(

I haven't been able to get to this Board for the last 2 evenings for some reason. GR would open, but then would just go round in circles for General Chat, although it would open Genealogy Chat.

That's a new problem for me! :-S

First ........... the Black Forest ham was an interesting experiment, but not one to be repeated!! Basically it was deli processed ham but with Black Forest "flavourings". We tried Major Grey's Chutney with it, and that improved it!

We will eat the last of it for dinner tonight!

Linda ......... I'm glad that you've finally got your landline sorted out. Took a woman to do it , as always :-D

Florence ........ I hope you feel better, and that you soon get good news from the sol.

We had a couple of lovely days on Sunday and yesterday, so OH got quite a bit done in the garden, pruning back the roses and the kiwi vine that really fell in love with the cherry tree last year :-( Tomorrow is compost and recycle pick-up, so he is filling the wheelie bin.

Today is cloudy with rain threatening, but it is still warmer than usual at around 13 or 14C. I'm having to find out my lighter short-sleeved tops about a month earlier than usual!

I have been having problems getting onto the General Chat as well Sylvia. When I try to open the board, I just get a list of the terms and conditions, yet all the other boards open normally. I had forgotten that I had the same problem last year. I use Chrome as my browser and the answer is to use a different browser for GR. If I use Safari, it opens normally. After a few days, it righted itself and Chrome worked again, but now it is playing up again, so I just have to remember to use Safari and I can get in

Morning everyone looking in.

The weather is just awful. Very wind and freezing cold with a promise of 70mph storm at the weekend!

My heating has been on for the last few days but usually in April, we dont need it on.

I sometimes have to wonder if the planet is heating up ? Maybe in other places but up here in the NW, def not.

I stripped bed yesterday and so the ironing basket looks full again but not in the mood for ironing today. Im a lot better and daughter too but still have a chesty cough that sounds like I'm a heavy smoker lol( I gave up in 2007)

Waiting on some crafting accessories for an idea for the next xmas fayre and I ordered a glue gun too. Cant wait to get started on that. Sandpaper still on route grrr and looks like rain so that project will have to be put on hold until a dry and warmer day arrives.

Sylivia, I enjoyed reading reading your saga of the black forest ham! Chutney is good with anything to boost the flavour.

I am making a prawn stir fry tonight as haven't made that in ages and wanted something different. I have beansprouts, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts etc plus prawns, onions and seasoning. Shall have it with some rice and hopefully it will be tasty.

Hope everyone is well today :-D

I hope you are keeping warm Florence.
I have had a couple of days on grandma duty this week. On Tuesday, I took Eve out, we went into town to follow a trail of painted windows- don’t ask! I have seen them before a few years ago, but we couldn’t find any so we abandoned that and went for lunch. After that we went to a small museum about the history of the town. I thought she would be bored, but she was actually reading all of the boards. We asked about the painted windows only to find that they had all been removed , but are still promoted on the tourist website. By the time we had done that, the rain had set in, so we just went home, but it was nice to get her out and spend time with her.

Yesterday, I took Esme to LIightwater Valley Theme park. We went lots last year and she loved the shows. The shows are different this year, but the cast are the same and they all remembered her as she was their number one fan. She had a great day, but I was very tired after pushing her wheelchair around all day.
Her mum is away in America on business next week, Esme doesn’t go back to school until Tuesday, also I will take her back to the theme park to fill Monday in.

I have had neither head banging session with Talk Talk today . We were supposed to have an Openreach engineer coming next Tuesday to move our master socket, but haven’t heard anything. Of course it turns out that there is no record of this job. So after going through everything for the umpteenth time, a new form has been filled in and apparently OpenReach will contact me. I was then told that I needn’t ring up, I can see everything through my account. Hmm, that is where I looked this morning to realise that the job wasn’t booked in :-(. After I came off the phone, I looked at the account and the job has been marked as being completed and the case closed, so I doubt very much that anything will happen.
I will wait for a few days and if nothing happens, we will find a telephone engineer ourselves and just pay to have the cable moved. You aren’t suppose to mess with the master socket, but we had it moved in our old house by someone else.

Morning all from the "wild west."

Storm Kathleen is coming now and the wind is getting stronger as we speak.

Indoors day so shall have to find jobs to do to keep busy.

Yesterday we filled a black bag for the charity shop so that made a space .

Hope everyone else looking in is ok and not on flood alert! Some snow in the highlands but not over here.

Joan, if you are looking in, hope you are ok.

Linda, what a nuisance with the socket!! I always think that the actual moving and packing is nothing to sorting out the tel and utilities etc, that's what causes the stress!

Right off to fill a flask just in case.

Shall look in later on.

Florence in the hebrides

I hope your power doesn’t go off Florence. It is warm here, with a high of fifteen forecast. It isn’t windy at all which is odd as the artisan market in the town was cancelled because of the predicted high winds. The sky does look very ominous though, so we shall see what this afternoon brings.
OH is busy putting up all of the Venetian blinds as the new clips arrived this morning, he is still having a struggle. They are the perfect fit type and stupidly expensive for what they are. We have decided they aren’t worth it, but we have bought them now.

Good afternoon all.Alexa tells me it is 17 degrees here. It does feel quite warm outside and I have been out in just a long sleeve T shirt but it is extremely windy, gusty so fifteen minutes putting copper tape round my hosta pots was long enough out there today. A bit bored now as nothing interesting to do indoors. Shall have to resort to card making.

Florence I hope the storm is not too bad and you don't lose power.

Linda hope your OH manages ok to get all the blinds up. When it is all finished he won't know what to do with himself. But it sounds as if you will have a house to be proud of.