General Chat

Hi Brenda, Fred, and John.
Just got back from the Wilderness, Came back early cos my generator packed up.
Still havnt fixed my car from the Deer strike.
Back in Swifts Creek for a week or so. No communication with fred on messenger,
last couple of days ?. Nice to see you around John, are you still looking at the mountain ?. And also nice to see you again Brenda.
Bill in Oz.

Afternoon folks,we had a good weekend weatherwise but today has been miserable very damp and even a bit on the misty side,!!!
Did not have chance to get the washing out today to dry.
Think Fred is busy refurbishing his kitchen Bill,he is on the other site Canucks inbetween doing that and coming on here.
Sorry about the generator Bill and the car ,hope you get something fixed soon.
John I di dnot see all the match but agree it was a bit of a nail biter.
But the right team won in the end.
Yes the fire works cost a lot but you woulkdnot think so the way some people let them of at night.
I am hoping to see Dorothy back in the next few days ,she was trying ti sort out getting back at the start of November.
Need to start the tea soon,just sausage and mash tonight.but something we all like.
Take care Brenda

Morning All ,weather looks great today nice and sunny and bluw skies ,not sure how warm it is yet not been out.
My sister is coming for lunch and then has an appointment at the local hospital,so I will take her round.She is on crutches so would not be able to get from thecar park to the clinic,she can drive but the long walk is too much for her. She has aproblem with her knee and will see a consultant on Thursday,she will be with her husband then so will be ok.
Hope you are all enjoying what ever you are up to .
Take care Brenda

Morning all,weather looks great again today,looks nice and sunny but abit nippy .
Out later to do a bit of shopping and then take my neice to the hospital for her treatment,she only has a few left after this .
Need to get some more christmas shopping in the next few weeks ,so I do not have to do it after my holidaysfour weeks and counting >!!!
Hope you are all ok,speak later
brenda

I am starting to feel like Billie no Mates!!!
Hope evryone is ok
take care Brenda

Hi Brenda Just letting you know that Fred has injured
his back and the Doc ordered him to rest in bed for a week.
We miss him on the Canucks thread as well.
Edith

Hi Brenda, and Edith. I was chatting to Fred yesterday, He was lifting too heavy a load. Like me I have to be careful these days.
Its Thunder Like Ive never heard it before, and pelting rain
Better close this computer down before the power goes off'

Brenda, Just for you hehe. From my Vast records of GR.

Billy No Mates
By BillinOz

26 May 2004 00:31

When Billy blew his bubbles,
Oh what a great surprise,
They all grew little arms and legs
and mouth and nose and eyes!

He heard his bubbles laughing,
He saw them leap and prance,
He stared at them in wonderment,
And watched them gaily dance.

Then Billy joined up with GR
he thought it was a blast
he found a lot of new Mates
But GR wasnt very fast
He shouted to his mother
But when at last she came
his new mates had disappeared
Now wasnt that a shame.


Bill in Oz

Morning to all.Fred is Back.pardon the pun .he he ,like Bill said ,that plurry cooker was a tad heavy ,too much for me anyway ,specially as the first one had to go back .
The new one arrived at 7.30 pm last evening and by then i was ready to go back to bed ,and did so with a horlicks and a nice book .
I wasn't too bad when i got up this morning ,and even managed to kneel down behind the cooker and hard wired it in ,so ,it's now in place ,job finished ,and by the time i had commisioned it ,and pre burned the special linings ,it was ready to go.
While i was burning the linings ,i sloped off onto the patio ,woolie on ,and sat with a cuppa until the fumes cleared ,not the sort of rubbish to get in your lungs.
Half an hour later the son arrived ,and slid the cooker back into it's place ,so ,it's all done now ,apart from the kick boards which the son will do for me during the week.
We kept Hissy indoors last night after her tea ,which i gave her an hour early ,and then kept her in the front room with us ,poor mite hates fireworks and i remembered that she freaked out last year .
Sorry to be missing so long people ,but i found out the hard way that us oldies have to be careful as to how things have to be lifted as you get older ,no fun is it?
Going to give the new oven a work out now ,using the smaller top oven to do the roasties and pork ,saving a lot of pennies too ,don't think we will be using the main fan oven unless we get company.
I think our government needs to rethink the upping of the motorway speed limit after the crash in Devon ,bad enough as it is ,can you imagine it if the limit had been 80 mph ,the carnage would have been a lot worse than it was .we should be going DOWN to 60 mph ,quite fast enough for anyone but the loonies.
Back later peeps ,going to see to dinner,Fred. :-)

Hi all,glad to see you all.was beginning to feel a bit lonely.!! Glad you are up and about again Fred, and thank you Bill for the little ditty,
we all forget how old we are getting and still try to do things we had no bother with when we were younger.!!!
Got ny email ok on the other pg now it is telling me my anti virus is turned of and i keep trying but can't get it on, Am waiting again for my neices fiances to come and help.!!
Not sure if i should be using the lap top but it has got Norton the other only has Virgin security.
Brenda

Evening Brenda ,and hopefully Dorothy who could be looking in,from a darned cold Newcastle upon tyne ,where we have had the heating on nearly all day.
Thank goodness it is supposed to warm up slightly for the rest of the week.
Now the kitchen is finished and straightened up other than the kick boards which the son said he will do ,i can relax until the spring ,when the next job is to get the hall and stairs done.
One little chore still to do ,is to go to B & Q Wednesday and buy three big thick foil radiator reflectors to go on the inner wall to reflect the heat into the rooms.recommended by my heating wallah.
In a week or so ,i will get the greenhouse cleaned out ,and shut down until spring ,the last job being to move the Nectarine bush in there for frost protection.
Hope everyone ois keeping warm ,i am off to do some tea ,making myself a toasted cheese& ham sarnie with a bit of hot mustard mixed into the grated cheese ,too cold for salad tonight ,he he :-0.
Catch you all in the morning ,soup making day ,and staying indoors :-D, Fred. :-|

Not too bad a day today,a tad warmer than yesterday but a stay in doors sort of time ,lol.
We have spent part of the day making our soup,two large pans worth ,one mushroom and one parsnip ,lovely ,he he ,guess what's for tea tonight along with a nice short French stick.
There are three rows of leeks out back too ,plus a large sack of tatties which should be about ready to tip out meaning plenty of soups to make yet.
You okay out there in the cold Dorothy ,must be a lot colder over there now ,you need to keep yourself tucked up and warm.
Catch you again later ,Fred. :-)

Morning all.well with a lot of help and advise from Fred I hope I am now fully secure on this pc and the lap top.!!!!!
weather to day very grey and drap.going out later for some veggies for tea and also taking my neice for her hospital appointment,this will be the last one I take her for ,she has at least one other appointment but I do not take her on Saturdays ,
Hope Dororthy is looking and and knows we miss her,hope she got the email I sent her last week.
Still busy I see Fred,going to make some soups myself later a Butternut squash and pepper soup and leek and potato,might try and freeze one and see how I go, not froze any before.
Not been sleeping again just lately ,but get so tired in the day and trying not to have any catnaps as I am sure they contribute to not sleeping at night and its getting to cold to get up and come on here at 3am.!!!
Take care Brenda

Hi Brenda ,the Leek & Potato soup ,freezes well ,but i don't know about the Butternut ,because we don't like it and apart from tasting it when made by my younger son ,we have never frozen that.
Very dull and cool up here too ,but when all said and done ,it's that time of year.
and to be blunt ,i can't see it improving until well after the old gadgy in his white and red suit has been and gone.
Hope Dorothy is well wrapped up Brenda ,there was a bad storm front moving in to Alaska today ,and it may spread over to Canada proper later ,don't know what's going on with the worlds weather ,Bills side of the world is suffering bad storms and rain ,and the states are suffering too,it seems us brit's are the lucky ones.
The cat is creating ,she likes her tea around this time so that she can go for her walk before it gets dark :-).
Be back later on ,Fred :-D.

Hi Fred and any one else looking in.I do hope we have some sunshine on Saturday ,we have a wedding to go to,
But you are right mother nature can still show us who is boss.!!
Went to the supermarket for four things this afternoon,came out with four items but when I got home I realised I had not got shallots ,which i needed and did get teacakes which i did not really (just faniced one)
So I had to use a couple of onions just quartered ,it wasn't bad ,no body complained.any way!!
And the teacake was nice toasted.
Better get on having my hair coloured ,
Take care Brenda

Hi Fred and any one else looking in.I do hope we have some sunshine on Saturday ,we have a wedding to go to,
But you are right mother nature can still show us who is boss.!!
Went to the supermarket for four things this afternoon,came out with four items but when I got home I realised I had not got shallots ,which i needed and did get teacakes which i did not really need (just faniced one)
So I had to use a couple of onions just quartered ,it wasn't bad ,no body complained.any way!!
And the teacake was nice toasted.
Better get on having my hair coloured ,
Take care Brenda

Hi Fred and any one else looking in.I do hope we have some sunshine on Saturday ,we have a wedding to go to,
But you are right mother nature can still show us who is boss.!!
Went to the supermarket for four things this afternoon,came out with four items but when I got home I realised I had not got shallots ,which i needed and did get teacakes which i did not really need (just faniced one)
So I had to use a couple of onions just quartered ,it wasn't bad ,no body complained.any way!!
And the teacake was nice toasted.
Better get on having my hair coloured ,
Take care Brenda

Morning to our Brenda ,who ,by the way ,seems to have hiccups,he he maybe the onions were a tad strong in that dish,lol,you stick to those shallots instead :-D.
Your weather for Saturday is supposed to be a tad warmer ,with sunny periods ,so i will keep my fingers crossed for the wedding,but the bride and groom normally ,are so tied up in the day ,and themselves ,that they won't notice,even if it piddles down .
Hope that storm stayed in Nome and didn't get into Canada ,it was supposed to be a bad one ,by any standards ,lots of snow and very high winds ,not nice at all .
Looks like the demolition of the flats over the road will start any time now ,hopefully before the spring ,while the rain and snow help to keep the dust down ,but i think i will get some dust masks just in case ,better for Liz to go round for a few weeks looking like a Daggit ,than getting a load of that crap in her lungs,it's bad enough getting the dust indoors over the floors every time you come in from shopping ,without health problems from it too :-| .
Hope everyone is okay ,and looking towards the weekend,catch you later ,Fred. :-)

I really don't know what I did last time to have two messages!!!
The casserole was good,but not sure I would do it again,as John and David were not that keen !!
Still not heard from Dorothy ,will send her an email and see if she is ok.
My sister reacons the sun will shine tomorrow ,so it had better or there will be trouble ,!!!
John is just back from golf and we are now supposed to be cleaning the inside of the car,but the big black cloud hanging up there might put a stop to that !!.
Hope they do demolish those flats while its wet etc Fred ,Liz should not have to put up with dust etc.
See you after the wedding.<Take care
Brenda

Morning Brenda ,just a few lines before we go out for our weekend shopping.
I have to get a rattle on ,lol,going to be busy today ,i was going to do those kick boards yesterday ,but i got vetoed by the missus who said ,wait until tomorrow when the weather will be better ,which is all very well ,but i was at a loose end,today i am busy anyway ,and trying to finish the kitchen off as well,thats me tied up until it gets dark [sigh] but what's the use ,argue the toss with the wife ,and she goes into a hissy fit [sorry Hissy],but any male knows just what i mean.lol :-| .
Yep .i used to get the same up here ,so much as take a hoover outside ,and open the cat door ,result ,instant cloud and rain ,grrrrrr , now take mine to our local car wash and have the outside ,and inside done while i sit and watch ,he he ,so much more genteel and civilised ,and ,i am helping to keep a car wash team in work [that's my excuse anyway,and at £8-50 ,it's a steal. :-) .
Enjoy the weekend all ,could be the last decent one for quite a while ,Fred. :-D