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I loved the moaning coffee mornings!!

I don't go out for coffee much these days, but OH goes down to the local coffee shop most afternoons, then comes back with a soy latte for me, but also complaining that "all they could talk about was darn cars", or "it was that xxxxx, she talks all the time and is so loud, I've got a headache'! ;-)

It's a lovely day here today .................... it all began yesterday when we had rain for most of the morning quite heavy rain at times, but then the rain stopped, the wind got up and by early afternoon it was sunny and the sky was blue. We started off today with some early morning fog, but that quickly burnt off to sun and almost cloudless sky. The same if forecast for tomorrow :-D

Dinner tonight is "spaghetti with meat sauce", except the "spaghetti" is gluten-free rotini! I had a container of meat sauce in the freezer, so that's thawed out and waiting to be re-heated. It looks as if there is a lot there, so we might be having another spag meat sauce night!!

Tomorrow is lamb ............... OH got a nice small boneless lamb leg from the butcher this week.

I feel your pain Ann, I have been cutting back ivy too, we've got it running down both sides of our garden and it swallows everything up, evil stuff it is. Our bin is full and not due to be emptied till Monday week so I'll be filling black bags I think.

Now something is bothering me. Who has nicked 5 pages from this thread? I am sure when I last looked it was on page 160, now tonight there are only 155 pages. This is bothering me much more than our overgrown ivy is!

Florence - flat pack queen!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D

Wow, it is lovely to see so many people posting.
I need to find a moaning coffee morning here as apart from my daughter, I don’t know anybody at all here. At the moment it is fine because the house is swallowing up all of our time, but once it is sorted, I will have to find some new voluntary roles.

The electricians came on Friday and checked the house circuits. While all were fine, three circuits technically failed because the regulations have changed and circuits such as bathroom lights have to have an RCB fitted. Oddly some of the circuit breakers in the fuse box are the correct type, but others aren’t . Maybe tithe previous owners have had some work done over the years and have had some changed. The electricians are going to send a quote to replace the necessary ones and a second quote for the replacement of the whole fuse box with a new all singing and dancing one. Then we can choose what we want to do. They are also going to come back and check the garage electrics and sort out a problem with the security light

They also put up ten new light fittings, I am very pleased with our choices, they are definitely better than the dangling bulbs we had been putting up with since all the ceilings had been replastered. The only one I am not sure about is the one in the kitchen. Originally there was an old strip light there which had to come down and definitely wasn’t going back up! As the new kitchen is not going in until June, I wasn’t sure what I wanted, so just got a cheap silver fitting from Argos. It is the type with four bulbs which you can angle. They were very yellow , not a good effect. I find these new bulbs very confusing. We have gone for cool white bulbs in all the new lights because they seem brighter to us. The under cabinet lighting in the kitchen will be cool white as well, so OH went out yesterday and came back with some new cool white bulbs which have made a huge difference

I managed to get out into the garden yesterday and sorted the greenhouse out a bit . I gather the previous owners never grew anything in it. Maybe that would explain why there was only one single plant in any of the gardens when we moved in. They have staging all round the greenhouse, so I need to take some of that out so I can put some tomatoes and cucumbers in

Afternoon all.

Its windy, showery and cold so not a great day The wind doesn't seem to abate at the moment its constant and getting on my nerves!

I have made some more candle centre pieces but have now ran out of pine cones and other things so have placed an order for more supplies. I found a large plastic storage box with lid to store them in so they don't get dusty.

Agingrocker :-D :-D :-D yes I am the flat pack queen so if anyone wants something putting together I'm your lady . I still have a pine chest of drawers I built over 25 years ago and its still as good as new in my bedroom.

Ummm no pages are missing from this thread but just maybe a trip to Specsavers maybe :-D :-D :-D that did make me laugh hehe(must have been 150 you saw not 160)

Linda, glad the light fittings are getting sorted. It's all coming together quite well for you now. I am sure once you have free time, there will be plenty of voluntary things for you to do in your area.

Sylvia, hope your spaghetti was tasty for your tea and you also enjoy your lamb.

I'm not sure what to have tonight as was going to have salmon fillets with a stir fry but don't fancy that now. I think a cheese and onion toastie maybe.

Yesterday tea time, we had showers of hailstones and I really though it was going to start snowing!!

Right off to clear away the craft stuff before starting on my tea.

Florence in the hebrides

Agingrocker, I am so glad you mentioned the pages! There are definitely pages missing!!
I rarely post but look in every day or two, and the last couple of times I read through we were on page 159!! I came on yesterday to read, wondering will it be page 160 , and was shocked to see pages missing! Glad it's not just me.

re missing pages.
Is there a problem with that, is it against the rules, I ask because it was probably ME that did it having deciding to remove some of my looong ago responses on this thread.

I have always removed anything I might have said on various threads IF they were NO longer relevant !
I did so yesterday, some that went back to 2020/21, it wasn't my intention to upset anyone by doing so, I just felt they were of no more interest after 4 + years.

Personally I have never felt it was necessary to list how many pages there are or for that matter to show how many have viewed the thread, but each to their own !

My apologise for upsetting anyone because of what I have done.

Joan.

Aw Joan, thankgoodness for you posting lol. No you haven't upset anyone but rather stopped some from thinking they were losing the thread...excuse the pun :-D :-D :-D

I hadn't noticed anything amiss at all :-S

So there we are mystery solved :-D

Are you having a good day Joan in the garden? Hope you have the sun as I think it has emigrated elsewhere or gone into hibernation as its sooo cold.

Florence in the hebrides

Joan, you haven't upset anyone at all. I was trying to click on to 'more pages' that weren't there any more.

I don't count or list the pages, but notice when they move to another section. I was just glad someone else noticed and that it wasn't in my head ;-)

Hi everyone

Been sorting draws out not the wearing kind :-) Got more for charity shop,

Facetimed the twins hope will leave me alone now for rest of the night,

Well sun has gone hope have more tomorrow,
Will go to moaning morning for awhile its to hot in the room for me no windows or door open all heating on high. No air in there.

Picture is of Caitlin she will be 18 at end of the month

Will say night all speak tomorrow

Joan

You haven't upset me at all, please don't think that you have.

I was curious about the missing pages, but when I said how much it bothered me I was entirely joking, it really doesn't bother me in the least.

Regards

Duncan x

Morning everyone dark and wet here :-(

Well may go down to moaning morning coffee.

Most of children be back at school today. So buses be packed again when I come out of cross stitching group Wednesday so hope I can get first one that comes a long the other week it was the 5th one I just about got on but had to stand all the way home.

Hope everyone is okay and has a good day.

Good morning all. Wet here and very windy but 8 degrees so not too cold. Although the forecast did say there would be a wind chill. I thought we were moving forward with some nice weather over the weekend. Although the promised 'mini heatwave never did materialise here. so an indoor day today, no gardening.

Hazel, yes, go and brighten up the moaning coffee.

Joan I don't think anyone will miss the posts that you deleted. I vaguely remember you deleting before. I just leave mine, eventually they will disappear off into the ether. Strangely sometimes I have checked back on my previous posts on this thread If I want to check what I was doing on a certain day. Using it like a diary.

Morning everyone looking in today.

The wind and rain kept me awake most of the night so not feeling the best just now.
It is about 4 degrees so very cold and def not opening the door to go outside.

I have a huge basket of ironing to do plus I have 4 plants to repot so that will keep me busy for awhile.

I complained to the seller of my Red Robin plants and sent pictures and they have agreed to send 2 more plants even though its over a month since I bought them. Hopefully the new plants will grow much better.

Treehunter, hope you enjoy your cross stitch and hope the "coffee moaning" isn't too bad.

Ann, yes sometimes, I have looked back if I was trying to remember a date as you say, its like a diary so can be quite useful.

I have just had an email from my cousin in Australia and he and my aunt use to live nr Bondi Junction In Sydney and used that shopping mall. Aunty died 3 years ago and he moved elsewhere but the whole story was frightening. Together with what's going on in Iran/Israel its a worrying time wherever we live at the moment .

Right coffee drank so off to be busy now. Shall look in later.

Florence in the hebrides

Good morning everyone. It is only just past 10 am, but I feel like it should be lunchtime. I was up and out early to take Esme for a doctors appointment before school, just an annual check up, a waste of time really given all the specialist appointments she has. We then took her to school and I dropped my daughter off at home.
As I wwas out and about, I continued to the local Boots branch to get some of my multivitamins. They are always on a three for two offer, but when I got there, they only had one box. The next delivery is coming tomorrow apparently, so that was a wasted journey :-(

I want to buy al large floor standing floor plant to go in the dining room next to the new dresser. The best place is always Ikea, but that is a long drive, so it is probably better to pay for a more expensive one locally. I need to find one of course and as I am not familiar with the local area that is not easy. I saw a large Yuma in Morisson’s yesterday That was good value at only £20, but I want a more leafy plant.

I hope that you survived the coffee morning without throttling any one Hazel :-D

We decided to go to a local garden centre for lunch because it had a specialist houseplant concession in it. The lunch was fine, if a bit pricy, but the plants were ridiculously expensive, so we didn’t buy anything. I did buy some garden clogs though as I am ruining my leather ones on all the wet grass. They had two brands and one fitted much better than the other one. Amazingly, it was the cheaper ones which were best. That doesn’t usually happen to me.

I decided that I had earned the lunch out because I had been very industrious this morning. OH had put some of the silver reflecting sheets behind the radiators on the outside walls. He said that the radiators were incredibly dusty on the back. I have a special duster to get in between the gills. He was right, they had obviously never been cleaned out before. That raised a lot of dust, so once it had settled down, I had to dust all of the rooms as well.

It is very cold outside, but the rain has stopped thank goodness. This morning, it was just constant showers.

How about a swiss cheese plant Linda?

Well the hailstones keep coming and the wind is stormy. Its howling through the bathroom vent and makes a racket.

I re-potted my Coleus into a bigger pot and it looks good. However the other plants seem to have wilted after repotting grrrr. I hoping they will settle overnight and root. I have no idea what they are either as daughter put the seeds into this pot and I cant identify the plants yet :-D :-D :-D maybe if they grow and flower, I shall know then.

Some more supplies for my crafting arrived and between us we have just painted 200 pine cones with a gold paint and 20 large slices of wood for the large centrepieces.

So after all that and the ironing I did before, I am now sitting with a coffee and having a rest as feeling quite tired.

I am not surprised that you are tired Florence after all that work. There is some ironing to do in the cupboard, I suppose I had better do it :-(

Oddly when we were looking this morning, OH said, “ Do you remember when everyone had Swiss Cheese plants”. I know the sort of thing I want, I just don’t want to pay the exorbitant prices

OH is busy dismantling the bathroom in preparation for the plumber coming to take the bath and shower out tomorrow. There is a right mess under the bath and behind all of the boxing in, empty crisp packets, an orange tango can and lots of rubble. I know you can’t see it, but it offends his sense of tidiness

:-D :-D :-D oh my god, really Linda!!! Who leaves their rubbish under the bath, that's unbelievable, Maybe it was the original plumber who put the bath in and he was having his lunch and was too lazy to put his rubbish in a bin..

Im gonna have to put the heating on as it really is chilly now in the house.

Hoping Masterchef is on tonight but cant remember tbh. You get some right characters taking part. Final of The Apprentice is also on this week Thursday so looking forward to that too.

Well, making a stir fry of something for tea to use the packet up otherwise by tomorrow, the veg will be not usable. I don't have any prawns though so better go and look for something in the freezer.

I hope you enjoyed your dinner Florence. We had some left over chicken from yesterday. There is still lots left because the extra large size was on offer for only 30p more than the large size. I will make some soup tomorrow.

I just got an email to book my spring Covid jab. I had lots of choices for the pharmacies in town, so I am going to the nearest one in a couple of weeks.

We also received our invitations to get our Booster shot yesterday (Sunday). I booked mine online for next Friday at a pharmacy near us. OH phoned up and booked his for tomorrow (Tuesday), early afternoon, same pharmacy.

I just decided I would wait a few days until the end of the week :-D

We've had boosters done at this pharmacy a couple of times before, so we know them. Our shots last October were really strange ............... we were in a hurry because we were going away in about a week, so we went to one of the big chain pharmacies/drug stores that sell all kinds of things because it had the earliest vacancies. It turned out they were employing specially trained pharmacists to do the double vaccination for Covid and Flu. It was the strangest vaccination I think either of us had ever had ....... right on the point of the shoulder, both flu and Covid in more-or-less the same place so only 1 plaster was put on. Our shoulders were really quite sore if we moved them in the wrong direction, and that lasted for several days. Then we realised that she didn't give us any printout of what vaccines we'd been given, but it was too late to go back and get it.