General Chat

Thanks Allan, Perse, Barbra, Tec.

When my dtr brought me home this morning, I mentioned that I miss my DVD recorder and want to buy another. Half an hour later, she rang me from a department store and gave me details of what is available. I could hear the salesman in the background, offering her 'deals'. Ten minutes later, she walked in with a new DVD (bought on MY credit card). Now, I am studying how to connect it up, but she has already rung her brother and he will be here soon to do just that!

Tec - you are right. I won't let it get the better of me. I always win this type of battle and don't intend to start losing now! If determination is all I need, it will be a pushover. However, my children do a lot for me, so I'm very spoiled that way. If my son has problems connecting up, I can always ring my other son's wife - she is a whizz with electronics and connected my last DVD, video, TV and computer. My only problem is that I'm losing the knack of it - no practice!

Hello all and goodnight
morning all and goodday

posted just so you know I'm around ( even if it is late, sorry Berona )

Diane

Hello Diane

Are you apologising to Berona for not being in bed?

I sometimes get up in the middle of the night and pop into the office to see what the boards are upto during the night.
There is generally something norty going on which disappears by morning.

Weather report - black skies - rain nothing more than a few spits - and most of them evaporated before they reached me or ground level.

Ronan Keating here on 7th of Feb Sue - my friend said he betta come as it is her Birthday present.

Just watched the final of Billy doing the Northwest Passage - the trying to catch a moose was rather amusing.

How was the movie Carole - do I need to go and see it?

Perse xx

Good evening Persey...

Yes Persey..you have to go see "Its Complicated" I laughed so much - nearly wet myself. Ive also just watched Sherlock Holmes, I really like that, too:-)))

Berona.. I'm happy your test results were what you wanted to hear, now you will have to start working on strengthening your leg muscles to get you mobile again"-)))

~~~~~~waves to everyone.

Carole xxx

Every see "Hot Fuzz" Carole?

That was hilarious like Midsomer Murders on speed.

Pxx :<}}

No I haven't seen that one Persey, Meryl Streep smoked some wacky backy in her film last night..she was mighty funny:-))

Carole x

Thanks ladies. Yes, I will have to get cracking on the walking practice now.
Diane was probably apologising to me because she thought of all of us as being in our fifties - then she found out I was old enough to be her mother - so she has adopted me! I have already told her to "go to bed!" - and doesn't that bring back memories?!!

Midsomer Murder on speed??? Now, that's something I would like to see!!
We have an episode on here to-night (I suppose I've already seen it as I think I must have seen them all by now). A bit late for me, but I have set my new DVD to record it. Don't know if I've done it right, but I'll know tomorrow, won't I?

Hi Berona

Why don't you do a practice run, now.. before you go to bed to see if your DVD works??

I knew Diane was apologizing to you, made me giggle:-))

Carole x

When you come on tonight Tec - I guess you will be shaking off some more snow all over my office. There have been a lot of snow posting on the boards this morning (my tonight).

Well - must shut the back door and lock up for the night - phew, hope I sleep better tonight - it was too hot last night took ages then kept waking up.

Let us know if you have recorded ok Berona? You will have to get Hot Fuzz out on DVD it was made a few years ago now. Timothy Dalton is in there doing a James Bond spoof of himself. All the characters are well known.

Night all Persephone

Perse - Yes you're right, it's snowed on us again, but not very deep this time. Because the temps are below freezing my back yard is a sheet of ice, and very treacherous to walk on.
Poor dog went down the garden skidding about like Bambi.
I will take my boots off before entering your office.

Berona.......If it's any consolation to you, you are not old enough to be my mother - but you could be my big sister if you like.

Carole.....Watched that programme on TV where they look for property for Poms settling in Australia. This time the featured Victoria, and an area called Sherbourne ? Forest area, and a place called Apollo?, largely built by a Pom who emigrated in 1958, and is now a farmer/landowner.
The properties shown for sale were of a much higher spec than you would get here for the same money. They featured a few at around £200,000 ($400,000) I think. We wouldn't get much for that here - the houses were beautiful and so spacious.

Tec

Good morning/evening all. Hope you are all well:-))

Spent yesterday (Saturday) morning helping to move furniture out of mum's bedroom and a spare bedroom. She has someone coming in on Monday to repair her ceilings. As we are going away next Thursday for a few days and the job will take a couple of days I suggested that she ask my brother to help her set the two bedrooms up again. I know he'll do that. However she then asked my OH if he could paint the ceilings before we go away next Thursday and he said no as there were things he wanted to do at home before we left. So now she's going to sleep in a little room on an old single bed despite the fact that OH said that he didn't need an empty room to paint the ceilings......."sigh" Why do mums have a knack of making you feel guilty no matter what you do for them? Do I do that I wonder - or will I as I get older? Oh dear - all I seem to do lately is moan on this thread. To be honest a few things are getting on top of me at the moment and I will be happy when we go away.

Sue xx

Good evening/morning all

"Hot Fuzz" is a fantastic film. We recorded it when it was shown on the telly some time ago. We still watch it from time to time.

Along similar lines but from the criminal side was "Lock Stock and Double Barrel"

Weather report from WA, still warm but not until late afternoon which is great. Also cool at nights, which is also great as it means it takes longer to heat up the following day.

Yesterday was the first of our "blue" moons for this year. They normally only occur every two or three years, but we have another one in March.


Allan

Good morning Sue

Remember

"Nil carborundum illigitimus" :0))

Stay strong

Allan

My apologies to all

That other film was "Lock Stock and Two smoking Barrels" .....not the title I gave in my other post

Allan

Hello, Allan - thank you:-)) I guess we all go through times like this.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is one of my OH's favourite. Isn't there a number of sequels to this movie? We bought my mum a DVD player for Christmas - something she resisted for awhile. She's now enjoying the fact that you can buy some really good movies very cheaply.

Sue xx

Hello everyone. Tec - I'm honoured to be your big sister!

My courtyard is 'damp' with dry patches, so it seems we might have had a light spray of moisture (rain?). That was the third day in succession, we have been promised thunderstorms and got nothing. A few rumbles in the sky a couple of nights ago was the closest it got to us. To-day is forecast 27 with rain. How is it down your way, Sue?

Morning everyone -

we have a cool breeze blowing and the sun is desperately trying to get through the clouds to stuff it all up - was lovely outside this morning while I was filling my wheelie bin... It asked to be remembered to you Allan and apologises for its outside being so dirty and that its owners very rarely give it a hose down.

Guy Ritchie did Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and yes it was very very funny - but his sequels never measured up to his first one. It has
been compared to Pulp Fiction - I think I prefer Guy Ritchies movie myself.

Sue - whenever I even think I am about to sound like my mother (and all us daughters seem to do it) I say to myself "don't go there" and change course completely. Then my girls will look at me with expressions like "well that's a new one - where did that come from? "

Pxx

I was wrong - It wasn't Midsomer Murders, but Dalziel and Pascoe, which was on here last night. My new DVD was only bought and connected up yesterday, so I'm still on page one of how to use it. I did a 'wide' sweep of setting it to ABC1 to take in The Bill, Taggart and D & Pascoe, however, I cut the time about 20 minutes short of what it should have been and couldn't find my way back to alter it or put a further instruction into it - so that won't be worth watching! I could see on the set that it was recording the right chanel and I watched The Bill just to make sure I didn't miss it - so when I find out how to play it back, I hope I'll be watching Taggart! It's a different brand from the one I had before and I've never used a hard drive DVD before - but I won't let it get the better of me - I'll keep going until I'm a pro!

Hello Persey and Berona.

Berona - it's muggy, overcast and we're getting the odd shower. Not enough to give the gardens a good soak.

Persey - I'm more like my dad than my mum. Having said that I sometimes say things that pull me up short. My dad was a soft-spoken very courteous man but he had a sharp tongue when he was irritated. I'm afraid I have inherited this trait. My sister is very like mum and - I don't mean it in an unpleasant way - they can both say silly things that leave us shaking our heads. Mostly it's to everyone's amusement. However sometimes they can both be quite...nasty. That may sound harsh but it's caused a number of arguments between the two of them.

The thing I need to curb - I do notice it in myself - is that I forget my children are adults. I sometimes tell them what they should be doing - giving advice before I'm asked. My children know that they can tell me to "butt out" and I won't take offence so that's why we very rarely argue.

Sue xx

Don't you hate it when that happens. or you tape something and the powers that be shift the timing and you miss the most important part.

I have also taped the wrong channel - go to watch and it is an American Sitcom and I cannot stand their canned laughter and these women who keep shaking their long hair around in these affectated poses.

Pxx.