General Chat

Forgot to say, still no call from my sol so I have emailed them first thing and told them its urgent. Shall see if i get any reply today...

It has been very chilly here today Florence, but not as bad as your weather.

Yesterday was the monthly litter pick, nineteen people turned up, but some of them were little children. Eve didn’t go because her toe is very sire. We went back to the same area we were in last month and in an hour and a quarter, we picked sixty two bags of litter plus assorted larger stuff.

Morning all and its not a good morning! Horrid day, gale force winds and torrential rain and I'm feeling it chilly but no heating on until later on in the afternoon.
Linda, oh my , so many rubbish bags!! Good grief, that's a disgrace. Hats off to you but surely its very disheartening when you have only recently cleared the same place?

Joan, glad the well has had a clean out so your water supply will stay on! Its amazing re flowers etc in the garden. My plants in the pots, roses, carnations etc never died off and have new shoots and buds already. The hydrangea has also new foliage.

I love the spring when gardens have carpets of flowers, so colourful.

I am working on my friends family tree which I have neglected for awhile. She is coming to stay in May, so I need to try and get it finished by then but it is huge!!

So many families had 12 children or more and then they had big families too. I cant imagine living in a small terraced house with 10 children and 2/3 bedrooms. must have been a squeeze.

Well better get a quick cuppa and horse on and be productive.

No reply to my sol email grrrr

Take care all

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We went back to the same area because there was still parts we didn’t clear last time. So far in the first 44 days of the year, we have cleared 500 bags in the area.. it is appalling, but imagine what it would be like if we didn’t do it. We do have a street cleaner who does a good job in the town centre, the near bye town also has a street cleaner. They only cover the very centre of the towns, we do all the outer streets and the country roads.

Afternoon all.
Well I have been a busy bee today. I have ironed everything in the basket including bedding grrr and done a small load of washing which is all done and dried.

Spent the middle of the day working on friends family tree and I managed to get a huge branch written up, so well pleased with that.

But the time flew by so quickly, before I knew it, it was nearly 5pm so have thrown a pizza and a few chips in the oven for me tea.

Friday we have a deep depression heading our way and winds once again at 75mph...never ending this winter.

Hope everyone else had a good day

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Hello all, everyone seems to have been busy bees either at home or out and about.

Got my Dr app. and had to have some more tablets as cellulitis had not completely cleared . OH had his tests done and all was normal so no problems thankfully.

Sorry to hear you have more bad weather on the way Florence it must make the winter so long . I was reading about the awful time they are having in New Zealand with floods and a cyclone also had a 6.5 earthquake near Wellington. We have family there and it has been awful over there and it is still summer there I believe. I read that they had a whole summers rain in 1 day and that caused the flooding in Auckland .

Hoping to get the kitchen and living room decorated this year just got to decide on colour or just leaving it white.

Take care all.
Ginnie

Morning all.
JG good to hear from you. Glad your OH is fine and hopefully the new tabs will sort you out too.
Yes I saw a bit about NZ on tv and it was awful!! Hope all your family are safe, such a worry so far away.

Ooh decorating, so paint or wallpaper? personally, i dislike wallpaper as it makes it hard to match other things with it if it has a pattern on so I prefer paint in light pastel colours.
This is a new house and is magnolia throughout which is fine as I bought new furniture and accessories and they are mostly black but with teal curtains, lamp etc.

Depends on the natural light of the room.

I'm sure you will find a colour eventually.

The skies are very heavy and dark and the rain is on just now. Daughter is on her way home and my Tesco order coming 2-3 so pleased for that.

So until after lunch, I'm plodding on with research whilst I have peace & quiet lol

Hope everyone else doing ok today

Take care

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I hope that Florence and Joan are fine up in Scotland.
The weather near us was dreadful overnight with lots of trees down and lorries overturned. I slept like a log and didn’t hear anything.

hope everybody up in the wild north are OK. It is a bit windy here but nothing to worry about. Stay safe up there.

Afternoon all
Well the storm was worse at around 4am when woke for the bathroom. The wind was very strong then about 70 mph but have to say it passed fairly quickly and was not as bad as the one more recently that damaged my garden box etc.

So we actually got off lightly this time.

Linda, I'm not sure where abouts you are but it sounds a lot worse than here? Glad you slept through though.

Joan, hope it didn't hit you too hard and damage anything in your garden etc.

Finally after another call to sol this morning and complained, a man tel back within the hour. He said he was a locum filling in for 6 weeks ,so I'm guessing my sol is off sick...again! Anyway, he was extremely helpful. I thought i would also ask his advice about another matter and he gave me some sound advice for free so that really pleased me. My faith has been restored.

So my list for today is nearly all ticked off. I find it satisfying making a list of jobs to do, then crossing off as the job is completed. So 2 things left to do and then that's me sorted and I can relax awhile.

Stay safe everyone looking in

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Pleased it soon passed for you Florence. and well done, a result from the solicitor. I suppose it is difficult to know why the solicitor is off but hopefully it is nothing serious. I suppose they are only human but provision should be made for clients surely. Anyway you are ok now so that is good.

I am in North Yorkshire Florence. The wind has died down now, it was only about 70 mph, but the near bye motorway was closed in several places because so many lorries had blown over. The local news is full of pictures of trees blown over and there are lots of people with no electricity.

My little town has been in gridlock for most of the day because a car broke down just off our main roundabout. It bust into flames and was completely burned out. Apparently it was almost new, but the woman and baby in it got out safely. It was only about two hundred yards from the fire station, but it took fifteen minutes for them to come because the station isn’t manned permanently, they all have jobs and have to get to the station from work before they can go out. The car was right outside the Tesco petrol station, but on the other side of the road. Luckily it didn’t blow up, that would have been a catastrophe if the petrol station had set on fire.

Oh Linda, that was awful but so lucky the woman and her baby got out in time and near a petrol station too, so lucky.

I looked at the SSE power track map and i can see that Inverness area, along the east coast and a large part of Aberdeenshire are without power so likely that Joan is off maybe. It would seem those areas got it the worse.

Morning all looking in.
Well the next storm is upon us and increasing all the time up to about 65mph.

I am busy finishing off the laundry and doing some ironing incase we lose power.
I also quickly need to wash hair again as off to Glasgow at 6.30am tom morning for me brain scan.

Just as well as the planes are on strike Tues -Thursday! With no ferries because of the wind too, many islands are really cut off, Uist in particular, so supplies will be running low. Parts of Harris are without power already.

Joan, think you will fare better than us today.

Hope everyone else is fine & well.

Shall be back on Tuesday and let you know how the scan went etc

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That could have been nasty Linda at least it was only the car and the woman abd baby got out ok I wonder what caused the car to catch fire.
Joan hope you can soon get out and start to clear up the branches etc.

Florence hope all goes well with the scan, safe travelling there and back.

12-13 degrees here and still breezy but no storm thank goodness. Had a friend in for coffee which was nice, she has just gone off to meet another friend for lunch. I must go and deal with the cobweb I spotted in the lounge while we were talking. :-D

on a more mundane note ya know these so called easy peel labels on meat n stuff....


is there a technique to actually get them to "easy peel?"

i always seem to lose the instructions on the cooking....doesn't come off cleanly... if you get my meaning..

yep Bob, get it loud and clear and aren't they a pain? As soon as I see easy peel on anything I prepare for a struggle. and with meat, why it the cooking instruction bit always in the part that tears???

And why the obsession of using pale grey font which makes it so difficult to read

Not to mention so small that even with my glasses I need a magnifying glass.

When you’ve found the cooking instruction on the underside after you’ve a,ready opened it.