General Chat

Ah, that would explain it Florence

Finally my shopping arrived but with a couple of substitutes but was ok.

However whilst waiting, daughter nearly flooded the kitchen!!! She put her new fluffy fleece duvet into the wash with far too much washing liquid which then started to come out the machine. the suds were terrible. I grunted a few choice words at her and 4 washes and rinses later its now all back to normal.

Oh my just need one more thing to go wrong as they come in threes lol

I could do with a stiff drink except I cant have alcohol with my meds but....no better not ;-)

Oh dear Florence, I would just sit down and not move for the rest of the day. Have a cold dinner, no cooking in case you set fire to the kitchen

Well linda, im sitting at the PC with a can of diet coke and a bag of wine gums :-D

Last minute decision for daughter and shes away to see her nanna for the weekend as shes off out tom for afternoon tea to celebrate the birthday.

So Im now on my own all peaceful, no dramas and long may it last. She may not be back until Wednesday so a tidy house, less washing and im the boss of the TV :-D :-D

I may well have a salad for tea...what could possibly go wrong with that? :-D :-D

Afternoon everyone
Well its a bright, sunny but very chilly windy day. Its forecasting snow here tomorrow...eeeek and as per its Black Bin day on Monday!

Courier came today and left this huge box in my porch but it was so light. I opened it and then realised it was my Nicky Soft Touch toilet rolls I ordered via Amazon.
Packet of 32 rolls for £8 but minimum order of 2 packs. So I got 64 rolls for £16.00 and they are actually better than supermarkets own and far cheaper.

So today, dusting and hoovering and general tidy up. My lovely neighbour who was away xmas & new year is popping round tom at 2pm tomorrow for a coffee and a catch up so looking forward to that.

Not sure what to make for tea tonight as I have a bit of a headache so not feeling terribly hungry.

Joan, hope you are ok as haven't seen you posting for a few days, hope all's well?

Take care all
Florence in the hebrides

You got your toilet rolls just in time, Florence!

There are no toilet rolls as cheap as that on Amazon today.

You are right AG, I just checked in my orders and now it says currently unavailable so I did well to get them.
I have been buying this brand since i couldn't get out and decided to keep a small stock.I still have about 12 rolls left from the last order so this order will last me quite sometime.

If i see it back in stock ,I shall let you know

I just had a quick look online and Sainsburys sell the 32 Nicky soft touch for £9.25 and they are in stock.Not sure where your nearest Sainsburys is? The packet has a red stripe on the left hand side.

Thanks for the thought, Florence.
However, the nearest Sainsbury is almost 100 miles away.

I just buy whatever is cheapest in the supermarkets in the nearest town, "only" 20 miles away.

Aw AG what a shame.

I had better make my supply last and not waste a sheet lol

Evening Joan
Glad to see you posting. Wow you have been very busy in the garden and those pesky sheep! When I lived elsewhere, I was forever chasing them towards the moor but they kept jumping the grid! They used to eat my hebes plant grrr

Hope your sil takes care with the chainsaw.

Well its blowing a stormy Hooley here just now and snow forecast tomorrow. I'm sitting with my torch on my lap as im sure the leccy is going to go off but i hope not.

Just watched my fav programme haven't seen in ages, Casualty.Was quite full of drama tonight.

i didnt sleep well at all last night so shall go off about 11 and hope to sleep tonight.

I think I had better make some scones tomorrow for my visitor so better get up early.

Goodnite all

Florence in the hebrides

We are just back from the monthly town litter pick. About eighteen people turned up. We collected about thirty bags of litter, plus another fifteen and a large pile of mattresses and other assorted junk from the dumping area just outside the travellers camp. That small are of woodland gets cleared regularly, but is always a disgusting mess.
Esme has been ill all day saying her tummy hurts, she was sick twice this afternoon, but feels better now. She had refused to eat all day, but has had a little bit now. That means she can’t go back to school until Wednesday at the earliest. She will probably be full of the joys of spring tomorrow

Well I had a nice catch up with my visitor, she stayed 3 hours lol but we enjoyed it. She gave me some lovely flowers too which was very thoughtful. i decided against making scones as i remember she said hubby & her were on a healthy eating programme so we had some plain biscuits instead.

It was snowing this afternoon but has gone away for now, however we do have a snow warning!

Aw Joan, you be missing your roast dinner today and home made soup.

Linda, how old is Esme? Hope she is feeling better soon.
30 bags of litter, Oh my, that is amazing.

Off to watch Call the midwife at 8pm, another old fav of mine.

Take care all and keep cosy

Florence in the hebrides

Oops, I got the number of litter bags wrong, it was actually 65. I thought they had added the two drop off points together when they said thirty, but that was just the area we were picking in. The other 35 bags were from near the travellers camp, so 65 in total plus the other rubbish.

The total number of bags for 2022 was 3180, from just a small dedicated group of people

Goodness Linda that is a lot of rubbish But it looks like the bulk is from the travellers' camp, do they not have a 'bin' collection. I am assuming this is a legal permanent camp?

Morning all from a snow covered village!
Oh yes, the snow is back and its brrr outside as i had to drag the bins out.

There was about 2inches on top of the bins and trying to drag them to the edge of my driveway was hard but i eventually managed. Bin lorry , no sign yet and the wind is picking up as another shower is approaching.

Im still sitting wrapped in my shawl ready to go out and bring the bins in as soon as unless i get the nice young chappy who takes them back for me :-)

Im coughing and sneezing since yesterday as daughter obviously left her germs behind...how kind of her :-(

I have my PiP review by phone tomorrow so need to get all my paperwork together later ready for that.

Linda, where do you put all the bags of rubbish you collect? I ask because there was a lady who decided to pick up litter in her street from bags foxes had split open and she put the rubbish in a street bin only to be fined for it. They said she was "fly tipping." She told them it wasnt her rubbish , but rubbish lying in the street and thought she would do the decent thing and clear it up.

Her council were awful to her and wouldnt budge on the fine(think about £400).

I think the traveller site where there rubbish is should be reported to the council.

Florence in the hebrides

Street bins aren’t for household rubbish however it is collected. That fine could have also been attached to anyone’s address that was amongst the litter. Mind you, householders should do their own checking after the bags are put out. Round here the bin men don’t even pick up the litter they have dropped out of the bins.

Organised litter picks have to make arrangements for the disposal.

True names. if the bag isnt actually in the bin, our bin lorry wont take it.

We have a local Wombles Group which started off in the near by town, but one of the main women works in my town, so she spends her lunchtime collecting here. She really is obsessed with it. We use special Keep Britain Tidy bags which are supplied to us.
The nearby town have a designated drop off place in the centre of the town, so they can leave the bags there . It has now taken off here, so we now have our own group and we have a monthly pick as well. We choose a different area to concentrate on every time. The bags are left out in one place and we notify the council and they come and collect them the next day.

Some of us go out picking during the month, some people collect vast amounts, but at present I don’t have much time, so only go out a couple of times. Annoyingly our. council won’t nominate a drop of point for us, so we either have to put the bags in our normal bin, or make a special visit to the council tip. Before the family moved in, I always had plenty of room in my bin, but we have more rubbish now, especially Esme’s nappies which take up a lot of room. I would do more if I could get it in the bin. We are trying to get the council to give us a place where we can take the bags, but they say if people saw our bags, it would encourage them to add to the pile and fly tip. I don’t know why they say that as it isn’t a problem in the near by town and it is the same council.

Each spring the local Friends of the Earth Group organise a 5K country Lane litter pick. A 5K circle is drawn around the town and every single B road radiating out from the centre is cleared. Being a rural area, that is an awful lot of roads. I take part in that as well. If we come across any fly tipping we use What Three Words and notify the council who come and clear it.

The travellers site is permanent and they do have normal bin collections, but they use the wooded area outside the gates to dump all manner of junk as well as extra bags which split and blow everywhere

While I was coming back from the supermarket this morning, I noticed quite a bit of litter on the road near my house, so I will go and get that this afternoon. It is freezing here, there were some snow flurries while I was out, but they have stopped now.

Well bin lorry came but they didn't help today! Anyway, I managed and it was a bit if fresh air into me lungs, fresh being the operative word lol.

The gritter has been up and down twice this morning eeekk.....never seen them at all usually they must have pots of money in the fund to use up!

Battling with a headache but nothing shifting it. I've decided t have a dry tea, a baked potato with beans and grated cheese. Good comfort food and warming.

Hope your soup tastes good Joan, we need something warming in this chilly weather.

The roads are clearer now but the temp is so low, its already freezing so will be icy soon. The box my toilet rolls came in was huge and so much paper packing. I sorted out the packing into smaller pieces, just got to tackle the huge box and break it down for the recycling bin.

Off to be busy
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