General Chat

It is my son in laws father Joan, the girls other grandfather. There is quite a difference in ages between the grandfathers. My OH is 74 and he is 99.

It is very sticky and humid here, but we had dinner outside, that was Esme’s idea. They are going away for the weekend, leaving at 5pm tomorrow, so we will have a couple of days peace

Oh sorry Linda, I have been reading that bit incorrectly, I really do need to get myself to Specsavers.

Enjoy your few days peace & quiet, make the most of it whilst you can, you deserve it.

Joan.

Morning all
Well the heavens have well and truly opened, its bucketing down!

But yesterday, a friend came and took me out to lunch. Was lovely and great to be out of the house. Met a few people I knew so was chatting to them too.

So indoors day but at least I dont have to water the plants....yay

Plenty of chores and washing...daughter is home lol

Hope all is well with everyone looking in today

Florence in the hebrudes

Well day one of peace, but I have all the cleaning to do which I norm do on Friday, but left.
Annoyingly the dish washer has stopped working. It is filling and emptying, but the arms aren’t spinning round, so nothing is getting clean. I guess something on the control panel has gone, it is very old, so I can’t grumble. It is a fully integrated type, the door panel is one of the kitchen unit doors, so it will be important to get exactly the same size. What can possibly go wrong :-(

Oh no Linda, what a disaster for you. So you will have to empty the dishwasher and do it all by hand.

Might be worth having a look online at where you bought the kitchen units from to see if you could get a matching panel incase you need to replace the dishwasher. Gosh what a start to the day and what a nuisance disturbing your so called peace and quiet.

Hope you get the problem sorted.

The front panel comes off Florence, so it will go on the new dishwasher. The one we have is a Whirlpool, I can’t remember when we put it in 2003-5 ish, so I can’t grumble. The kitchen we took out was only about five years old, but had been designed by an idiot. We spent ages trying to decide how to tweak it, but in the end decided to rip the whole lot out and start again. We had all new appliances then. I have been measuring and will probably go for a new Whirlpool as it seems to be the same size as the old one. OH has gone out for one of his bike rides, so we will decide when he comes back. The dishwasher was full, so I had to take everything out and wash it by hand.

Hello to all.
Not a bad day here not very sunny but not cold,a litttle wind but not unpleasant.

Had a lovely day looking round Home Bargains yesterday & as usual spent far too much, I did have a list but bought several other things that I just had to have ! lol.
We also went to the local Garden Centre & I spent even more in there, they had a lot of new plants in stock & as usual I couldn't resist !

I have been busy this morning planting all 8 new plants, they are quite big, well grown & look as though they have been in the borders for ever, lol.
One of the plants was a CROCOSMIA, a yellow one & I was able to split it & so eneded up with 4 plants from it, I love that plant & already have an orange one which has been split several times & so have been spread around everywhere.

Shame about your dishwasher breaking down Linda, but it would seem to have been a good one & has lasted a long time .
My dishwasher is no longer able to wash the pots anymore, he's now confined to his room due to his illness & mobility issues & so I have to wash the pots myself , not a job I enjoy doing at all.

Well I must go & give my new plants a watering, talk again soon.

Joan.


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Linda do you have anyone in the area that can repair kitchen appliances? The reason I ask is that my dishwasher is probably about the same age as yours and it was filling and heating up but not washing. I got somebody to look at it and he sorted it out for me. I was ready to get rid of it and get a new one but it was something to do with a furred up pipe somewhere. Might be worth getting it checked. (Unless you actually want a new one of course.)

Happy new plants Joan :-D OH cleared out some invasive plants from one bed, so we need to go and get a couple of bushes to fill the space.

I have ordered a new dishwasher and it is coming tomorrow. I toyed with the idea of getting someone to look at it, but it has plenty of water coming in and heating up. Nothing seems to be blocked up, but neither of the two spray arms are turning round when they should be. The water is coming out of them, but they aren’t spinning round. It is probably a problem with the circuit board. If one of them was not turning, it might be something mechanical, but who knows. Anyway, we decided to get a new one, we were going to go out for lunch tomorrow, but it can arrive from 7am to 7pm, so we will have to stay in. I could have paid extra to get a narrower time frame, but it wasn’t worth it.

Afternoon to everyone looking in.

Mixture of sunshine and heavy downpours here, same yesterday. Feel like summer has gone already and we only had a good dose of sunshine back in June!

We have now finished all the card making. Xmas, blank square and 7x5 sizes.

Just waiting on me tassels to finish off bookmarks and that's it all sorted.

Looked at me carrots yesterday and have been wondering why the 3rd box had hardly any growth! All became clear when i suddenly spied a green caterpillar eating away at the leaves!! Oh yes it had had a feast at my expense.

Not much i can do about that now as the others are nearly ready to pull up.
That's the first ever caterpillar I have seen around any of my plants.

I wonder what type of butterfly that will become?

Last night I watched Casino Royale but a remake with Daniel Craig. Must say, it was action packed and I really enjoyed it.

Well not sure what to do for tonight's meal as we had chicken curry last night with all the trimmings, so something like jacket potatoes and salad maybe.

Linda, I hope you got your new dishwasher and all working again ok? What will you do with the old one or will they take it away for you?

Joan, when I have been to the garden centre, I cant help but buy more roses and fuchsias, just love them and like you spend far more than i intend to!

Oh well better clear up the craft mess all over the kitchen table !

Florence in the hebrides

The new dishwasher was delivered this afternoon, they took the old one away as part of the deal. Poor OH had a terrible job getting the old one out yesterday as we didn’t have the original fitting instructions. It was a really snug fit and he didn’t realise for ages that there were two clips on the top front sides with screws going into the sides of the units. Once he got those free he still had a long job to get it out. Since it was put in we had changed the flooring, there was cheap laminate downstairs in the house.We replaced it with much thicker oiled oak flooring.. That meant the he couldn’t just slide the dishwasher out. He needed to alter the height of all four little legs to make it shorter so it could lift over the deeper floor. Of course the legs were all seized up, so it took him ages.
He has just fitted the cabinet door to the new one, thankfully that went on easily. He just has to push it in and connect it up. Except - there seems to be a part missing. It is just some sort of plastic strip which goes across the top out of sight. We rang them, but their spares department closed two minutes before we spoke to customer services, so they are going to sort it out tomorrow. Why isn’t anything ever straightforward these days?

It is annoying about your carrots Florence, but I guess caterpillars have to live on something. We have lots of apples on our tree, but by the time they are ripe, the birds have pecked them all

Such jobs are never straightforward are they Lindad, always something to make things difficult.
I hope the missing piece hasn't stopped the dishwasher being used !

I forgot to say yesterday about my trip to the garden centre, whilst we were walking round in the outside section there were 1 or 2 garden "toys" on display, a small solar item of a Butterfly flittering round the plant of the plant pot it was fixed to, it was brilliant & I just HAD to have one, lol.

I'm not a big fan of brightly coloured solar garden decor things but the Butterflies look so prett , I can feel the purchase of another one coming on, there were 3 colours in all, & I reckon the other 2 would look just as nice. LOL.

Joan.

good evening all, glad you now have the new dishwasher in Linda, it is such a performance to change things these days isn't it.

Oh dear Florence, so sorry about your carrots.

It is my birthday today and I have had a very good day. I went out to lunch with five friends and then an outdoor performance of The Mikado, not my type of music but it was fun and good to spend my birthday with friends.

Hello Ann, & many Happy returns.
It sounds as though you really enjoyed the day.

Joan.

Happy birthday Ann, I am pleased that you enjoyed your day.

I can’t use the dishwasher until tomorrow as I need to get salt and rinse aid. I don’t normally use that as modern dishwasher tabs have it built in. This machine has flashing red lights when the rinse aid and salt need filling, so I will be good and get it some. I will be glad when I can use the thing, I am tired of washing up the old fashioned way.

The troops are on their way back home, no doubt the girls will be very tired. They were glamping last night. Eve and the friends she was meeting up with were all in one bell tent for a sleepover, more likely a no sleepover

Oh Happy Birthday AnnG. Glad you had a lovely day out :-D

Still pouring hard here and full of midges so def have not been outside and had to shut all the windows.

Linda, years ago mum got a dishwashwer to help at xmas as she would spend all day in the sink! But noone could ever be bothered to empty it so in the end she sold it for £50 when she moved.

There are only 2 of us so never that many dishes to wash up and only takes me 10 mins so I don't mind.

Joan, the butterfly thing sounds lovely.

Feeling quite tired tonight already as last few nights haven't slept that well, so maybe tonight I will.

Well what a horrible rainy day, it hasn’t stopped all day. I have spent lots of time playing with Esme.
I had a go with the dishwasher this morning as you had to run it empty, it seemed to be fine. It has just gone on with the first full load now, so it will be interesting to see how it goes. It is supposed to have a couple of screws going up into the worktop to stop it moving, but we can’t put those in until we get the missing fitting, so I hope it won’t move around now. We managed to get them to send the missing bit, but it will take 5-7 days to arrive.

What a shame about your weather today Linda, it has been a lovely day here, too warm for me but there was a bit of a breeze which helped to keep me cool outside, different story inside though, the house is far too hot & I have the back door wide open & all the windows as well.
No rain so I have had to water all the new plants again & refill the brdbaths.

You will be happy to have your new dishwasher doing all the pots again Linda, not the best of jobs when doing them in the sink.

Managed a bit of work in the garden mainly weedkilling, it should work quickly in the heat & sunshine.
We had a very light & simple tea today, sausage sandwiches, really enjoyed them, it was much too hot for a big meal.

Off the tidy round then off to my bed, so I will say goodnight.

Joan..

I envy you your sun Joan. It is much better when we can play out in the garden, better than being cooped up indoors

Good morning. It is sunny here today, so I have a load of washing which can’t be tumble dyed out on the line.
Our electricity was supposed to be going off between nine and one so they can trim tree branches. So far it hasn’t gone off, so maybe it will just be off for a short time within those hours rather than for the whole time. Last time they said they were doing it, it was cancelled on the morning because it was too windy, but we did get messages then.
I know a few weeks ago, they were supposed to be putting it off in the town centre for the same reason. It never went off and the cafes were furious because they had closed and lost a mornings trade for nothing.