General Chat

Good afternoon to you all, we have a beautiful sunny day here, not rain for several days now so I have had to water my newest plants & fill up the birdbaths.

have dead headed the Roses but there are still lots of buds that are ready to burst open, they have done really well this year.

I noticed a fower on my Hydranga today a lovely blue-lavender, so chuffed as I didn't think it was going to flowere at all.
I have also gathered up some seed heads from my Poppies & Geraniums/cranesbill plants, fingers crossed they will take some time.

I have also gathered some of the frods from the Ferns, & pushed them into the bottoms of the garden hedges, in the hope that some of the spores will germinate .

Stew & Dumplings or Yks puds for dinner today, lovely smell coming from the kitchen.

I hope all is well with everyone & you have had a lovely weekend,

Joan.

Ty Linda. Sometimes when I speak, i do have some local accent but even after 30 years, im still English lol

When my pal came to stay, the house was spotless because I spent 2 weeks clearing daughters rubbish and shoving it all in her wardrobe and chest of drawers but i led my friend to think the house was spotless all the time lol

That was a very good interview Florence, though I thought that you would have picked up more of a Scottish accent by now :-D

We had a couple of hours of sun this af, but apart from that,it has been raining all day. I did some housework as my sister and her husband are coming tomorrow and are staying overnight. They will have Eve’s bed and she will have a fold out bed in the study. I will have to change the bedding in the morning and try and clear up all Eves junk, so they can get in the room. Then I just have the bathrooms to clean and I can relax and pretend that the house is that tidy all of the time

Well names,I am very lucky to have such incredible views here.

I dont think many of my friends down south appreciate what I have here. They crave all the shopping centres, bars etc still but as long as i can get things online, this is my home and after 30 years here wouldnt move anywhere else.

Every eve, I get the most fabulous sunsets looking out the back towards the sea on the west coast, pure magic sometimes.

If anyone is ever visiting my part of the world. you are very welcome to stop for cake and a cuppa and a blether of course :-D

Thanks Florence, OH came home and gave me the password.

Wow. With a view like that I think we are all coming to stay.

Oh lovely Florence, enjoy.

We will be having Fish from chippie on the 30th Aug, reason, I have my B12 jab due that day & the appointment is right on tea-time so we will treat ourselves to chippie fish for a change & it will use up one of the chippie vouchers that our daughter bought hubby for fathers day, LOL.

Joan.

Aw ty SuffolkVera, that's very kind of you to say that. I am confident at speaking so it comes quite natural to me. I chat to anyone that's listening lol

When my daughter was very ill back in 2003, I was on tv launching the blood doning appeal for Scotland, ITV & BBC. Strange I didn't feel nervous at all.

Anyway that's my 30 seconds of fame as they say! :-D

I had a listen to your broadcast Florence. It was good. You come over a lot clearer than many professional broadcasters. Some of them could win a gold medal at mumbling. Maybe you could start a new career doing podcasts from your kitchen table. Well done :-D

Daughter is bringing home fish & chips tonight Joan....yummy :-D

names this is the link but you need to sign in so if you havent got an account already you can sign up and then sign in to listen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p7pj

try this link and see if it works

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Florence , You could do Christmas gift labels to use up scraps as well as bookmarks. I used to do that with my scraps as well. When I worked in the charity shop I used to make both and the bookmarks were given with a book. The tags always sold as well not for much but it all helps toward the shop target. I used to put maybe 10 tags in a cello bag. Good luck with your stall at the fayre hope you sell lots.

Names , yes an interim was offered.

Been pottering in the garden this afternoon as the rain has kept away, always something to be done lol. Our forecast is rain tomorrow so housework will be done then. (Maybe).

Ginnie

Must try and work out how to listen to Florence.

Gin ice, has the solicitor not made an interim payment?

Morning Florence & others looking in.

We have a rather windy day today, which is so annoying, I went outside for a bit & did some more painting of the porch, I have had to stop now as I can't quite reach the top bit up by the guttering that are along the top of the windows, I hope our daughter will manage to do those bits for me, I could get to it if I went up the steps another step but not happy to do that.

The sun is shining at the moment but the wind is spoiling the day.

I really hope you do well selling the cards Florence.

Salad for hubbys tea today, he has gone off my home made Fish & Chips, his appetite is up & down at the moment so somedays we end up having different meals, I'm having Fish & Chips though, lol.

Hope everyone has a nice day & weekend.

Joan.

Morning all. :-D

Well the sunshine has returned and is a lovely day here. 3 lines of washing out and drying nicely in a good breeze.

AnnG, yes very aware of people expecting goods for nothing. i have done many fayres selling Avon and even shower gels for £1.00, people would complain. I use to joke and say, same price in the pound shop but this is better quality and they soon shut up lol.

Cards is new for us but we asked a few friends who go to craft Fayres and they all say around £2.50 although as you say, they are worth more.

You have given me an idea though about making some bookmarks. I have a laminator so could easily make a few, hole punch and put some ribbon through. I have lots of scraps left over. Thankyou for that suggestion.

Daughter has gone to town for various things today and wont be home until 6.30 so I shall have some peace and quiet. i need to do my hair so at least noone will need the bathroom when i'm in it lol.

Not wanting to boast but I had my 30 seconds of fame yesterday. R4 farming today 3rd Aug episode .its on the BBC I player and I''m on 3rd at 3m 18 seconds.

They were interviewing people in rural areas about services like prescription deliveries but I was the only customer willing to be interviewed. Think it sounded ok!

Well off to do me hair now, back later on

Have a good day all

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Good morning all, still coughing a bit but it is not going into a five minute choking fit at the moment so I think I am definitely better.
It is dry here and 13 degrees but I think rain is forecast for later. (So what is new?)

Florence you are doing well with the cards. Have you sold them before? If so you will know that you can't sell them for what you think they are worth. People always seem to want something for nothing and are not prepared to pay for your time. Still hopefully you have a captive customer base and not too much competition. good luck with it when it comes to time to sell. If you have scraps over, are you making book marks? They seem a popular buy near to Christmas. :-)

Yes Florence sisters house was sold a while ago and everything else has been done but the HMRC and the council are holding things up . It's only paperwork about tax and a refund from the council tax but they keep saying it will posted asap but it never arrives.. That is all the Solicitor is waiting for now everything else is done.
I hope the flat sells soon for you

The rockery sounds good Joan , we don't have one in the garden now but we used to many years ago Oh changed it into a fish pond as you do..lol.

Lovely that Esme enjoyed the show and took part in it.

Wow, you have been busy Joan. The rockery sounds good. I made a one about four years ago in the front. OH cut a large tree down, but the stump was left, so I piled rocks around it to create a rockery, it worked well.

Esme played with me very nicely this morning and we went to the puppet show this afternoon. It wasn’t really puppets, but three actresses doing a silly version of Midsummer Nights Dream. It sounds odd, but it was funny and aimed at very young children. The children were on cushions at the front, with the adults in a semicircle of chairs behind them. Esme always joins in, but she doesn’t usually put her hand up to volunteer to go “ on stage”. This time she did and one of the actresses chose her, she had been interacting with her before, so she said to me, I will look after her. Esme did her bit very well and was so pleased with herself afterwards

We,then went to Tesco cafe for a snack, then did the shopping. I always use the hand scanner, not the tills. Esme did all the scanning, she did very well and enjoyed it. Of course, she wanted to buy a toy, they were selling off the summer stuff, so we bought a unicorn bubble machine. She is out in the garden now with her daddy having a great time

Well done Joan on making a rockery. I did that years ago and I painted all the rocks with white paint. Mine was 3 tiers high and yes had to fill the cracks with soil but was a nice addition to my garden and I'm sure yours will look lovely when you get all your plants.

Settled on a pizza but no chips for tea as i suddenly felt crumpets wouldn't be enough lol.

Yes you do need patience with card making but its very rewarding. I do have the patience of a saint which is just as well with everything I have to deal with!

Off to switch on the tv as River City is coming on now.

Florence in the hebrides

Hi again girls.
Buying & selling houses IS sooo stressful, not good for ones health is it.

I went outside & got my new Rose into the border, as for the 2 Rockery plants I decided against putting them at the front edge of the flower borders & instead I would make up a rockery, lol.

Several large stones / rocks later I had got them into position, really pleased as to what I have done so far, just need to fill up between the rocks with plenty of compost & get the 2 new rockery plants in place.

Of course I need more of these small / low lying plants & so I have just ordered a group of others from my catalogue so hopefully the rockery will be completed in about a weeks time, it's not big but should look nice when finished.

It sounds as though you are doing really well re your card making Florence, I wouldn't have the patience to make them, lol.

Joan.

Afternoon all
Well the bad weather hit us this morning and has been chucking it down all day long and windy too so not a day for venturing out anywhere.

So daughter and I decided to do crack on with our card making for the fayre in November. We had a count up just now and have 66 cards so far, A mixture of birthday, blank and a few xmas cards. Next session will be xmas cards only as need to boost the stock up.,

JustGinnie, its also just a year since mum passed but its just selling her flat thats hard although we dropped the price again this week and now have 2 viewings on sat so fingers crossed.

I thought you had sold her property so what is holding up you receiving the proceeds? When the flat is sold here, the funds go to sol and then tf to me/sibling and that's it all sorted. i did have an enquiry with DWP but we sorted that awhile back.

Joan, glad you got out for awhile to town, change of scenery works wonders but as you say, its tiring on the legs walking round a supermarket. Enjoy the good weather whilst it lasts lol

Hope the puppet show went ok Linda and Esme enjoyed it. But when your daughter moves to their new house, I presume they wont expect you to carryon looking after her surely? Sounds very tiring for you.

AnnG, I made 3 scrapbooks with all of mums photos so my children will at least have some memories of her when i'm gone as they didn't get to see her often being far away.

Not sure about tea tonight, something light I think, maybe crumpets with cheese and marmite although home made soup would have been good today as its like winter now but too late to make today.

Got some sewing to do later as a pair of trousers needs a new elastic waistband and the elastic arrived today so can do that later whilst watching me soaps.

Take care all

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