General Chat

Over the weekend, I realised that one of the nose pads on my glasses had split, so this morning, I got the bus into Harrogate and had it replaced. I also made an appointment for an eye test for when we come back from holiday. By coincidence making an appointment was on my calendar for this week.
I also went to Boots and bought lots of new bits for the first aid kit which we take abroad with us as most of the tablets were out of date.

I am not even thinking about Xmas, it is far too early for me.

Not too soon for the C wors here Florence, I already have some presents and am halfwat through making my Christmas cards.

Cooler here today, temp just gone up from what it was earlier (13 degrees) it is now 15. I actually have a sweter on.

Morning all
Autumnal day here and heavy clouds looming to give some rain I think.

Oh Linda, I remember having a goldfish that died and we buried it in a shoebox at the bottom of the garden and made a little grave. Its what we did as kids and Esme is no different bless her.

Ive been busy doing the usual chores but was getting a bit hot & botheres so just sitting for 5 minutes and then to tackle the bathroom.

Yesterday was so quiet with nothing exciting enough to put on here! Instead I carried on with my xmas shopping and found some really great bargains and stocking fillers plus some lovely silver crackers.

Sorry if its too early for the "C" word but as we are already in Sep I feel the days are flying by.

Hope everyone is ok today

Florence in the hebrides

Well what a miserable day, it has been raining for most of the day. We popped down to see my daughter to take some plastic storage boxes which she wanted , plus my hairdressing scissors so she can cut the back of Esme’s hair. I bought them during the lockdown when we needed haircuts. Getting proper scissors made the cut much better.
They have just FaceTimed and Esme held a funeral ceremony for Bert, one of her pet fish. He was buried in the garden, complete with a cross made from lolly sticks. We all had to say a few words about our memories of him :-D

Your rose sounds to be lovely Joan, I hope it establishes itself well

It's ben a really lovely day here today, it was misty first thing but soon cleared & the sun has shone all day & still shining.

Florence, my new Rose was delivered this morning in perfect conditon, & it's a beauty, a lovel bushy speciman with red / green shiny leaves, there are a couple of buds on it as well.
Not sure if they will open but the advice is to leave the Rose in it's plant pot to give it extra time to establish it's root system, I'm happy to do that as I have yet to buy a LARGE planter for it.
It would be nice if the buds were to open.

Joan.

It was horrible here this morning, really dark and drizzly., so I did more housework.
It has brightened up a bit this afternoon, but is very cloudy and humid. I managed to go into town to buy some eye drops as my eyes are really dry and feel gritty.

OH is still painting the large under stairs cupboard. He finished the far end and put his new shelf in, so I filled it up and discovered that I have two large plastic boxes which fit exactly underneath the shelf, so everything is tidy now. He has now moved onto painting the end of the cupboard by the door where the shoe rack and coat rack are.
The only things not tidied away were my feather dusters and flat dusting thing to get under cupboards. I wanted something tall and thin to stand them in, so I found what is supposed to be a metallic planter in Yorkshire Trader which is our cheap sells everything shop. It look more like a tall plastic plant pot to me, but for £2 it is ideal. I freaked the young girl on the till out by asking her if I had to pay extra for the huge dead spider which was inside , apparently it was free :-D

I have been playing school buses with Esme today, even though we are both at our respective houses. She FaceTimes and she is the teacher and I have to be a multitude of other people. I am the school bus driver, the various children and as we usually go out on a school trip, I am the staff members wherever we are. I have to do different voices for them all, it is difficult to remember them all. She usually lasts about twenty minutes before she declares that she is tired and goes for a lie down. At least it keeps her busy while her mum gets some housework done.

I hope that your OH settles down quickly Sylvia, it must be difficult for him coping with so many changes. It is a shame he had to go into the interim placement, but life is never straightforward

I grew up in Hampshire. We only wore summer uniform dresses in the term that finished with the start of the 6 week summer holiday. When we returned in September we were in winter uniform. (This was in High school. As far as I remember we didn't have a uniform in primary school (infant or Junior. My school days were 1945 -1951 (I didn't go on to 6th form.

I just don’t remember the autumn wear.i just don’t think Mum would have splashed out on a new summer dress just for a few weeks.

Where do I live. Southern England ( I can just about hear the M4). Used to live in East Kent bought up on Surrey / London border.

I lived in south of England until i left to come here so well remember that at secondary school, we always returned around 6 Sep and had to wear our Green/white striped summer dresses with a blazer right up until the half term holiday in October. When we returned it was winter uniform, skirt, shirt, tie, jumper or cardigans and green gabardine rain mac
We were not allowed to wear bottle green trousers until 3rd year.

But here in the far west, we always have had a good May, wet and midgy Jul/ Aug then a warm September except this year has not been that at all. So many gales through the summer months, back to back. Many were complaining their gardens were so behind and people growing veg etc had a very poor year.

I now have new buds of roses nearly opening on several rose bushes :-S

Joan, what a lovely rose you found and in jack's name, how wonderful. Hope it flourishes and does well for you.

So glad you got out for a coffee too. I hope you can meet up again soon and make it a regular meet up and that will be something to look forward to.

Names. what part of the country are you in? NSEW?

As for cyclists, they are still around in their droves. I have seen some today, soaking wet with the dense fog...torture nothing but torture!!

I got a couple of parcels today containing xmas pressies i have ordered online along with wrapping paper etc so I can get a good start. I shall have to order more stamps before oct with my shopping as they are going up to £1.65 for 1st class!!
Shall have to make sure all the family and friends cards that get a gift, get their cards in the same package to save on stamps.

Well, im feeling chilly and may have to put the heating on in a bit! off to make a cup of coffee to warm me up.

Florence in the hebrides

What is sunshine? :-S ;-)

So wet yesterday, very overcast today and more rain due tomorrow.

I was behind a father in the supermarket last week, he was buying school summer dresses :-S. Bet he wishes he hadn't.
I'm sure we went back to school in our winter uniform - I'm not sure summer dresses were allowed ( and probably didn't fit ;-)

so long ago - maybe we could wear the dresses until half term if it was warm. No one around to ask now.

Same here - not so hot as yesterday, but still a lovely sunny warm day.

You're right, Andysmum -
the west of Scotland always used to have beautiful weather in April/May. and again in September, but rain during the school summer holidays in July/August.

This year has been a return to that - but just a lot colder and wetter in June/July/August than usual.

The tourist traffic seems to be thinning out at last.
I usually try to avoid going to town on a Saturday, but I went today, and found the road quieter than I'd expected, with far fewer campervans and cyclists holding up the traffic than has been the case through the "summer".
A pleasant surprise!

Not the best summer here either - mostly wet! But yesterday was lovely, with very hot sunshine all day and a slight breeze. (Too hot for me, but there were lots of people swimming in the sea.)

I hate to rub it in, but today is the same, only not quite so hot. The forecast for the next few days is the same, although there's no guarantee it's accurate!! It's actually what September always used to be like - cool nights and sunny days - just as we all went back to school. :-)

I think it’s indoor jobs for most of England tomorrow as there is a huge yellow rain warning. :-\

Morning all.
Certainly was not the hottest summer up here either but the worse summer in 31 years....no sun!

Its thick fog again today and that has meant we cancelled our day out as where we were going is over an hour away on country narrow roads some with no markings so we are staying put.

So far planes are delayed. so no post and I think the ferry is also behind schedule. I now have Tesco from 7-9 that's if they comes

So indoors day today but plenty of jobs to be getting on with.

Florence in the hebrides!

Hi Ann, I’m not surprised having seen that huge band of rain on the satellite pictures yesterday, and it felt freezing when I got up this morning. I bet all those MP’s switched their heating on :-P

We might get a bit of warmer weather on two weeks.

Not the hottest in Glos either Names.

It has just been announced that this summer was the hottest for some time - just not here. So you are forgiven ;-)

Your poor OH. He is having such a time and so many new places and new people to get used to. You are his only constant - I’m sure he’ll get used to his new life eventually.

I'm sorry, I did debate with myself as to whether I should say that we had a heat wave having seen reports of weather in the UK! :-)

But it is going to be hotter today than yesterday, so it is nice to know that I don't have to go out, even just to get into and out of cabs and walk very short distances into either of the buildings, as I've been doing for so many weeks!

Instead, I will just have to walk a couple of corridors with fans blowing to keep them cool, down in the elevator, round the corner and into the area where OH has his room, and with a fan! We had so many fans at home and we moved all the ones that worked well into our new places!

I have to admit he has been a bit obstinate with the nurses and aides, telling them he doesn't want to try this on, and no he won't let them look at that.. So ..... guess what ............ I'm "cornered" when I go into his area and asked will I make him do whatever it is.

He then becomes meek and lets them do whatever test or exam they need to do!

It's so unlike the person he was. :-(

Hello Argyllgran.
I did see the other rose called Jacks Wish, but I thought it a bit pinky in colour & the name didn't seem right for me ! & my Jack wasn't one for wishing !
The one I chose is a Plum Red cololour & is also a Floribunda which I like & they seem to do well in my garden, so hoping this new one does as well as my other Floribundas have done.

You had a busy time yesterday tackling your grass, it's not a job I have ever done, far too much grass around my house for me to tackle, my hubby had a hard enough time doing it even as a young man. My son in law took it on when hubby could no longer do it but this year he has been so busy on the farm my daughter took it on, she found the 1st cut really hard going but has managed much better from then on, she actually does a better job than her hubby, LOL.

Joan.