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bosh

hi toady Joan and Stewartknee

How are you all doing today?

I’m a bit tired after my non - serious but somewhat nasty gastric episode

So have a good evening and night everyone tc xx

toady

Hi all 👋 buckets of rain out there, ark time again 😣 tailing off before too much longer mercifully but ugh really not welcome. Nor is the fact that his nibs has just had a late little random burst of drilling 🙄 has been at it all day on & off, with someone else too, really rather wearing. It's the on & off bit that is the worst; the noise isn't fun but it's the comings & goings and sudden noise when you're not prepared. For the first couple of weeks it looked like the chap was going to go out and keep regular work hours, which would have been lovely, sadly no obviously. Sigh.

Thank you frog glad you like my things 😊 sorry I couldn't step back & take a proper distant pic of the whole room but in a room that size there is no stepping back 😄. The little rattan thing is just a pot actually but you've made me think, a lamp yes I don't have one! Quick Sleek, back to the browsing & shopping, we can't be getting out of bed and going a whole 3 yards to turn the light off at night can we. Yes the summer motif was definitely to the fore, I am looking forward to the room coming into its best next year, for now I can see me putting the nice blankie aside for then 'for best' as we say, and getting in something even warmer and 'serviceable' for winter. I do like fan heaters I must say I like the instant heat, will probably alternate a bit. Yes I can smell the old radiant heat smell to this day, and it used to 'tick', heating up and cooling down. I love your tweedy toad aren't all his fabrics fabulous! what a super chap, really a character 😍. Hope your day has been ok and I see that maybe the shoulder is relenting a little but yes we will keep that under our hats 🤫 along with all our luxuriant hair. I combed the knots out of mine today for washing tomorrow, even less fun than usual in this weather 😣 I think the shears should come out again too 😒. I have got so far with the loft but I won't post it, that's an instagram pic too far I think 😂. Oh no not wasps, have you had a chance to peer at them closely, & see where they are coming & going - hope it's not an actual nest 😬. Have a good night love to all :) xx

Hello Joan, oh yes I wouldn't get on at all well on payg my credit is always running out or I let the number hibernate, then the battery is dead when you want it etc. I do use payg for calls & text though but the internet on phone goes on the wifi. No I didn't get outdoors really it just wasn't nice as you say and worse this evening. There are better bits to come supposedly we'll see 🤞. How is your neighbour, did you say he has a dog I think? Hope both are well. Have a good Thursday :) xx

Hi bosh, sorry not such a good day later on even though group etc was ok 😔 hope you feel 100% soon. Glad nice M had seen her son that's nice 😊. I meant to say too the other day that I'm glad you have sensible people to be in touch with on catsnap, and a manageable number of them. The FB friend sounds good to be in touch with, the internet is a help to people that might not manage social things so well but don't want to be cut off because of it, that includes people like me to a certain extent too really. Have a good night there is not much going on with me, I am still trying to shop for clothes, so far I've had another item refunded as unavailable (even though they had already marked it as dispatched 🤔🙄) and another is a suspiciously long time being dispatched so I may never see that either. People seem to see me coming and take their stock away 😂 oh well it's one way to keep your money in your purse. See you next visit :) xx

Sorry you woke up stiff @Stuartknee but that was quite a decent innings of sleep 👍️ hope you felt better for it in yourself xx

Hope everyone else ok 😘 xx

frogmorton

Morning Joan how are you? All is well here still doing shoulder exercises thanks I really hope I can get it better finally if not I will brave a scan. We had a small visitor yesterday! Yes the girls brought our Grandaughter over❤️ Paul held her for the first time too. How are the dogs? Is everything ok with them? Have a good day((())) xxx

Morning Reshmi

Hope you aren't struggling too much with TOTM and your Mum is well too.

Well done getting out to the group it is good to talk to adults it really is. Charley and Annie brought Arya over (no funny stories for me yet I'm afraid she just eats and sleeps mostly!) they needed adult company too.

You talking to Nice M will have helped her a lot. I'm so glad she saw her boy I know she had missed seeing him so much when she was really poorly. Was her Dad with her?

I hadn't realised RR had so many female admirers perhaps though, they are just admirers of his works if literature after a first edition signed copy of his book?

I like some of your words for FB Chase book or Disgrace book (or substitute the book for hook?) in reference to these men who see it as a place to chat up women🙄 So annoying that you can't go about your business without hassle isn't it? Shame hassle doesn't rhyme!

You are kind to support a young autistic man on there though and to speak to the older chap on the phone from time to time too.

Nope we are not bald - yet I think BR knows something anyway I'll get us all in some grass seed ready just in case. Personally I think cress seed might grow quicker?

Take care my friend have a good day ((())) xxx

Morning Stuartknee I am very glad indeed to read that you had such a long sleep I bet you were stuck in position😣, but at least you had a long rest. Hope it carries on🤞

Morning Toady

I am not going my our loft I think there maybe a wasps nest up there😮 I saw some on the window outside yesterday looked above and they were going in and out. The pest control guys will fill the hole in at the right time of day that should lock them out for now. Must do it quickly so they can rehome elsewhere. Well done working in yours though.

My Toad is called Morpeth because I found him there and fell in Love Paul bought him for me. He is a lovey texture.

I think a wintery bedspread/blankie is a very good idea. Just be aware Sleek is often to be found inside the bed on wet/cold days on top is for spring/summer🤭 I'll try to get a photo. Yes a lampshade to match your lovely rattan pot. No-one wants to have to climb out of bed to turn the light off. Paul can reach ours from his side of the bed.

Yes radiant heaters did tick! The smell was like burnt dust😁 Shall we get a fan heater too then? That's sort us out for the winter.

I washed my hair the day before yesterday the amount that comes out I really should be bald like BR says! Could you have a go at Sleek's lugs too please she hates it, but if I don't keep on top of it she could easily get dreads.

Well onwards and upwards I reckon. Time to get ready for my walk.

Take care and have a good day 🙂

bosh

good morning Toni

Wppl xx

dachshund

Good morning everyone

Everyone in the street are having new cupboards. Mine are being put down lower because I cannot reach them so the plugs are going down as well. He came yesterday for me to pick the colours not nice bright ones they are dark. It will take a week to do each one. I don’t know if this one will take longer has it’s a disabled one. They start in November. It’s luck we have a patio window in the living room I can let the dogs out there.
Toady (()) sorry about your neighbour. I hope he’s quiet at night. You don’t need that. Have a good day.

Toni (()) sorry about the 🐝 I hope you can find the nest you don’t want that inside. What about Racebook everyone is in a hurry to get there. That was lovely you having a visit from little Ayala. I hope the shoulder exercises are working (()) have a good day. Love to Paul (()) and Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Ayala (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) have a good day you do so well. Love to your mum (())

Stuart knee (()) that was a good time to sleep I hope it helped to make you feel a bit relaxed

bosh

hi Toni

How are you this afternoon?

I’m feeling a lot better thanks

Mums ok 👍

I’m going to answer questions later

As it’s mxt day etc
But I am putting a poem in the bank

Ok just kind of checking in otherwise I’ll run out of energy again

Yes nice about nice M’s son 👍

Bye for now Toni tc xx

Ps pic courtesy of the vampire dentist maybe lol xx

toady

Hi all 👋 bit tired today so might be a bit of an IOU, but knowing me I'll say that and then go on & on anyway 😄.

Ooh the wasps are loft-related then frog 😬 it's the theme of the week apparently. None in mine I do hope! You will feel happier once their 'door' has been locked, hope you haven't had too much activity from them today - what's your loft access like actually? Hope it all works out. Haven't done much up there today but I have some hardboard coming tomorrow I thought I might board off a section of the eaves it will look tidy and a bit less dark & s**dery. Really very warm today! 😮 I expect it was the same for you, even a nice bit of sun, wish I'd done some washing. Tomorrow may be ok too though. I was saying to bosh that I suspected I might be about to get a clothes item refunded as unavailable, but I was wrong, it was in fact two items refunded 🤨 both different things. That's 3 in a week or so and the ones I couldn't buy again, very bad of people to not know if they have stock or not 🙄 what is a poor toad supposed to wear 🤷‍♀️. Yes combing out & washing out hair is a big disincentive to wanting to tackle it, for sure, me too 🙄 I will have a turn at Sleek's lugs, only fair, we can both yowl it will be company. In the bed is the proper place for cats in cold weather - wet weather, hmm, well I will be prepared now thank you 😄. Morpeth is a super toad name, part of my ancestral roots are round that way 👍️. Hope everyone well love to all and little visitors :) xx

Hello Joan, gosh what a shame not to have nicer colours for the kitchen, is it for the cupboard doors etc? Why pick dark ones? 😔 I wish you could have what you liked. Glad you will have the access to the garden that's handy, I wish I had one. Next door has been in & out and doing things again but no noisy drilling etc, also out most of the afternoon 👍️. Seemed to be having a bonfire of some sort later, in a suitable container I hoped, who knows, your guess is as good as mine 😬 - the tip is at the end of the road so why burn stuff? 🤔 Hope it has been nice where you are it was so much warmer today 🌞 :) xx

Hi bosh hope things going ok with you, poetry banking and so forth, hope there were no queues 😄. Love the pic you posted, bit of a classic isn't it, would it kill you to smile etc 🤨. Smiling, I mean, didn't they prove it's an urban myth it takes more muscles to frown? How about expressionless, if it's good enough for Whistler's Mother it's good enough for me 😄. Not much going on here, it was surprisingly nice and oddly warm, which helped. The PN and his shadow were both here at the same time so what that tells you about their relative ghostliness I couldn't say but it did not set off a matter/anti-matter explosion, so there are no ST alien forces at work at any rate. Have a good night I hope, see you anon :) xx

Love to everyone 😘 xx

bosh

hi Toni Joan toady and Stuartknee

How are you all tonight?

Sorry for the communal post style today

But I really am shattered today

👋 Toni Yesterday’s stomach debacle was quite terrifying really it wasn’t “call the ambulance “ serious thankfully but I was in a lot of pain and at one point I was just wondering if the pain was ever going to stop, may have also had a fever didn’t take my temperature but it felt like that

The elderly gentleman did want to me to phone him but it was late evening and like you I’m not at all the nocturnal type so I’ll maybe try with him another time

👋 thanks Joan how are you? Mums ok today thankfully 👍

Have a good night tc xx

👋 greetings toady I see a possible plethora of ghosts how exciting

I had a mxt day today but quite frankly it was quite joyous compared to yesterday’s “Fall of the house of mima” type stomach pain day ( as written by Poe and LA of course 🤥)

Yes more muscles to frown, that sounds about right, lol

Oh I’ve got one joke - it’s terrible but it’s relevant lol,

poor Captain Kirk has aged a bit like us all, but he still “baldly goes” and so on

Yes remind Toni to buy cress seeds for him too - I’m just a bit concerned about the intergalactic delivery charge - can you consult with the relevant nosegay department please?

The poem is definitely in the bank no problems there👍

I’m just rather exhausted really plus brain -forest thermostat issue

But I’ll try to complete the financial transaction tomorrow lol

Good night everyone tc xx

ps I know not time - relevant lol but he’s using his facial muscles lol xx

Stuartknee

Thanks Toady. Woke up early today cramp decided to pay me a visit I had it in both legs & one hand, this pain sleeping for 5 hours has got to change. I use to sleep for 8 hours straight not anymore, I sleep when I can.

Have a good pain free day everyone

frogmorton

Morning Joan how exciting a new kitchen. I bet you are looking forward to that. What colour have you chosen then if they are all dark? Glad you have another access to the garden for the dogs. Arya has clinic today to be weighed but she's already over 7lb! Doing well.

Racebook!! Love it although I am in a hurry to get away!

Spent the afternoon with my lovely neighbour bless her we had a good old chat about everything😊

Have a good day ((())) xxx

Morning Reshmi

How are you and your Mum doing today? That stomach ache sounded pretty dreadful😫

I hope you are recovered a bit from TOTM and MTX. I can wait for the bank to open so you can withdraw your poem. Yesterday was a day for you to rest and look after yourself.

Such bad manners when men say that to women 'you'd be prettier if you smiled'! Cheeky things. 😠 Mind I can imagine the dentist saying it. Mine is a lovely lady but I still hate going. She thinks I've got TMJ disorder (temporomandibular joint) I think she's right unfortunately.

Ok I have added extra cress to my list for Captain Kirk. Bless him he used to be a good looking chap back in the day.

Take care our friend we'll see you later hopefully far more yourself ((())) xxx

Morning Stuartknee I seriously am sorry that you are getting 5 hours sleep max, but it seems to be par for the course here so many of us struggle to get enough restful sleep.

You'll see a lot take naps like our Bosh does in the day time.

I hope today is a good day for you.

Morning Toady

Hope you are doing ok?

The loft yup the loft all lofts for us atm…there is a hole by the water pipes going up the loft - the same ones that nearly burst into the bathroom? The loft access is small and not easy to access the roof has a low pitch almost a crawl space, but pest control are coming today. If there aren't many inside they will just block their access from outside. I have done my best to block the hole with balled up masking tape - I really needed that foam stuff but didn't have time to get out yesterday.

Yes a bit of boarding out would be lovely. Reduce the sp****s and look much better all round. Shame they don't do it when they build houses🙄

Poor Toad has nothing to wear it is so stupid of sellers not to know what they have in stock I agree. 3 items refunded recently. Jolly bad form what?!

I'm glad to approve of Morpeth it so suits my Toad. I love it up there myself. My friend's caravan is at Newbiggin-by-the-sea. Lovely😊

Thank you for helping with Sleek's lugs. Yes you must prepare for wet weather cats getting in the bed. I put a towel underneath the pillows between them both she favours that spot mostly up towards the headboard.

Well have a good day let's hope for another nice one Toady ((())) xxx

dachshund

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) that’s not very good people not saying they haven’t got the things to sell. Disappointing has well. There will be a bungalow in our street empty soon the lady has gone into a care home. Have a good day the sun is shining here.

Toni (()) I always think when a lady goes out with their new baby they feel so proud. (Sorry if I spell her name wrong.) that’s good she’s putting weight on. Good luck with the man coming about the wasps will he be wearing the get up they wear. I’m going to keep my carpet in the kitchen. All the colours were dark or light grey. The walls will be Magnolia that’s what they are now. I’m glad your neighbour is well (()) love to Paul (()) and Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Anya (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) Sorry you have pain I hope it’s eased off a bit now (()) you don’t need that. Love to your mum (())

Stuart (()) I read if you have milk be for bed it helps you sleep. I know things go round and round in your head it’s hard.

bosh

good afternoon Toni toady Joan and Stuartknee

Wppl xx

bosh

hi Toni

How are you?

Mums ok 👍

She and dad had covid and flu jabs today

So far mums feeling ok after them 👍

Thanks about cress seed lol

My stomach is feeling a lot better today thanks 🙏

👋Greetings toady and Joan and Stuartknee

How are you all today?

Thanks about stomach it’s a lot better now

toady I may to write an ode to the supernatural activity surrounding you at some point 😱

Ok poetic financial completed - please see below 🙏

Brace Hook (A Facebook- related diatribe)
The dentist hangs up sets of braces on his brace hook
Changed your hairstyle? Believe me the dentist his pals and all the pests in the world will take a second look
And a third and so on, these are the realities
These guys are not generally friends but hypocrites with dualities
In fact they have more than two sides, they are many - sided coins indeed
They pretend they are a knight in shining armour carrying Milk T*ay on their steed
Yes Brace Hook where a “Like”
basically means “ Get on your bike”
And a “ Love”

is no peace - symbolising dove
It really normally symbolises an intention of the sleazy variety
Also remember many use Brace Hook in a state of complete insobriety
So before you take it seriously and feel flattered, intrigued or just pleased
Remember Brace Hook is just a root canal or the mess on your sleeve when when there was a nasty virus in the world below and the fallen angel coughed and the fallen angel sneezed

Bye for now all tc xx

Ps Pumpkin mochi pic xx

toady

Hi all 👋 well for a while there that was really a very nice day, an unseasonal little gift 👍️ two lines of washing and welcome sun. Going over a bit now but you can't have everything.

The hardboard is here and cut down all ready for its loft duties frog 👍️ (delivered with just a hint of the 'what do you want with yards of hardboard, small female person' Iook, if I'm not very much mistaken - funny how delivery men never engage you in matey manly chat about what your project is and whatnot 🤨). As you can probably tell I am warming to my plans & tidying etc 😂 it really is a very good space, if I could trade it for a room that size downstairs, it would be fantastically useful! Anyway am focussing on one short side & part of the one long side for now, then I will have a nice tidy right angle. Sorry yours is not much use to you storage-wise but all the better for not sharing it 😬 🐝 glad you did your bit of hole filling without incident. How will they know if/when there aren't many in there? 🤔. The clothes thing is becoming rather annoying; all you can say is if it turns out that I hated the item & gave it to charity then it cuts out the middle man 😂. Right, towels for cats it is 👍️ damp-woolly-smelling cats by the headboard, what's not to like 😊. Hope you've had a good day and the weather was a help to you too in anything you were doing - love to all :) xx

Hello Joan, those cupboards don't sound all that nice 🤔. Stick things on them like jolly photos and pictures 🖼️ 👍️. Hope somebody nice comes into the bungalow near you, they will just get the chance to have a say about their kitchen in time I suppose? Yes it was lovely sun here today too so nice, washing dry &c, such a help 😊. I do get disappointed if people don't send things, it's not a big deal but you waste the time looking for something then you have to start again. As I said to Toni I might not even have liked the items so who knows 🤷‍♀️ I should just try to get to a proper clothes shop sometime I suppose, then you don't get all this. Never mind, maybe another thing I buy will turn out to be nicer & fit better &c. Have a good evening :) xx

Hi bosh, ooh I do like your poem, how very expressive and observant. Love the bit about the real meanings of 'likes & loves' 🕊️ 👍️. Look forward to 'my' ode too 😊. Weirdly after I mentioned Whistler's Mother, it was one of the questions last night from the online daily quiz I do 😮 she is following me round apparently. Lots of grey and black, suitably ooky but maybe not quite the role model style-wise, think I'll stick to aspiring to be one of your ethereal gothic fairy ladies haha. Oh poor Kirk baldly going 😧 so sad, yes I think we all need to be 'cress-heads' and stick together 😬

Are they smiling a bit too much though 🤔 that was definitely 'the face' in your pic yesterday 😂. Well I hope your stomach is definitely v much better today and the rest of your day is ok - hope your parents get on alright after their jabs too. Cheerio for now :) xx

Sorry the cramp woke you up @Stuartknee 🙄 one things that really does annoy me is when another factor like cramp or indigestion or noise etc interrupts a night of not too bad sleep; they may as well choose other nights when you aren't sleeping anyway. My sleep is hit and miss I do sleep in the day if needs be but I can wake up from that sort feeling a bit jetlagged 😬. Hope you get on better tonight 🤞 xx

Wave to anyone not in today 👋 xx

bosh

Hi toady

thanks about the poem toady

I like the cress heads lol

It’s getting a bit sauna - ish in here 🥵

Have a good night and tc xx

Ps a cheese guide for us all - but I’ve yet to meet the cheese that’s smellier than Big Babu lol xx

Stuartknee

Still no progress forward still awaking up early, knee still crunching,stinging. Even with pillows/cushions still end up on painful side.

frogmorton

Morning Joan hope you are feeling well today? The wasp man did indeed wear all the gear! Did you go for the light grey then? I hope it's not too dark once it's in. Grey is the fashionable colour at the moment. Mind you a lady in the village went for dark (and I mean dark) green😶 I don't mind you spelling Arya's name wrong - it took me a few goes to get it right!!!! I had to actually write two cards for her mummies😳 They are incredibly proud to be seen out with their baby, but very anxious to keep her away from germs as you can imagine. Have a good day Joan ((())) xxx

Morning Reshmi

How are you and your Mum doing this delightfully rainy morning🙄. Good news is the rain will desist by about 9 if you have it like we do.

I was wondering whether your parents had sore arms today after their double vaccine hit? I won't let them do that to me. One at a time please I need at least one usable arm😁

Well that is a great poem I love it the analogies and connections between dentistry and FB are just spot on! Watch out for those likes and the 'loves' especially. It hadn't even crossed my mind that half of the users might be inebriated 🙄but I bet they are.

Thank you for the cheesy chart. Very useful now we all know which cheeses are stinky and which are very stinky😂

Pumpkin mochi oh yes please I love mochi 😋

Have a good day I hope you manage a walk ((())) xxx

Morning Toady

I hope all is well with our Toad? I think it is I can feel the excitement as the project moves forwards😊 Is your wood cut to size ready for you? I expect the delivery people thought you were taking it in for some burly husband not doing the work yourself with the aid of a small cat and a doughnut for sustenance.

My Dad turned their loft into his own space for doing paperwork and his amateur radio malarkey. It was fantastic and huge he put a skylight window in and everything. I imagine your space being similarly large and useable. I think the area you ahve in mind is probably sensible. Don't worry about me we have a basement for our junk I will have to take you a photo.

The man said it would all be done in an hour so I think we are safe now from my wasps. I feel sorry for them not able to go home now though😓

Yes regarding the clothes - they'd have been rubbish anyway. Definitely you'd have hated them all.

Gosh I was busy yesterday cutting out Christmas trees for the Christmas fayre

and wrapping raffle prizes for the quiz tonight.

I have a really good scissors blister. Meanwhile in the washing machine were my gardening overalls and gloves. Needed doing they were quite filthy😳

Have a good day Toady it's going to be nice later on.

Morning Stuartknee

I am so sorry you are still struggling I hope you're getting an extra nap in when you can in the day? Not much fun this arthritis business. Getting closer to your appointment with the Dr though. I also wonder whether your knee might be getting close to being ready for surgery? How long ago was your last X-ray/scan on it?

Take care.

dachshund

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) with the clothes is it a toss up if they fit you. The workmen haven’t checked the bungalow yet there is still furniture in there. Good luck doing the loft. Have a good day no accidents.

Toni (()) we haven’t put anything on the walls or cupboards since we moved in. That’s good the wasps have gone they have probably found another home now. Have a good time at the quiz tonight I hope you win. Love to Paul (()) Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Arya (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi have a good day. Love to your mum (()) how is she.

Stuart knee (()) I hope you have a good day. How is your pain in the day time.

bosh

good morning Toni

Wppl xx

bosh

hi toady

How are you?

No promise about the ghost poem by the way but it’s given me (smelly) cheese sandwich for thought lol

Thanks about the poem

I do have a true story about the phantom birthday balloon though

But I think I’ll probably put that in the bank

And complete the transaction later with help of cashier Toni - as long as she’s retained a dignified level of “baldness” of course lol

It’s definitely too hot too rest in this house now unfortunately 🤷‍♀️

ok I’ll go for now toady

Have a good afternoon tc xx

Ps I’ve found you a new hat, it’s a bit scary though, sorry Toni xx

bosh

Greetings Toni

How are you this afternoon?

Mums ok 👍

Dad too mostly

Basically they both have some jab side effects

They are feeling a bit under the weather but I think they said it’s not too bad thanks

Thanks about the poem and the likes and dislikes and also the dentist theme lol

I remember once a private dentist said I should avoid all sugar - even tomatoes 🍅

In a salad - what?! Silly lady and her surname was actually an evil piece of confectionery!

Let’s just call her D.I. Drudge (Dentist / D***l Incarnate plus cavity - rhyming slang lol).

You’re welcome to cheese- themed educational charts and pumpkin preparations haha

The ghost balloon story needs to some developing actually

But I’ll let you know when it’s ready

BR is having a lot of tantrums apparently- oh dear 😱

👋 Joan

How are you?

Mums not too bad thanks

The patch is really helping her

👋Stuartknee

Sorry you’re still in a lot of pain

Have a good afternoon everyone

Ablutions time

Bye all tc xx

toady

Hi folks 👋 quite a nice day again, although the weather means you feel you should be doing 6 fine weather jobs at once so I've just ended up doing bits to everything & finishing none 😬

A bit more loft work frog, as I say, you can't waste these temps; it's warm up there with the sun on the roof of course. I cut my own wood because as is mostly the case with sheet materials it's so much cheaper by the big bit - 4 cut pieces 'my' size would have cost almost £30 more than just quartering a large piece 🤷‍♀️ manoeuvring it is another thing, but it's done now. Yes lots of loft floor space although the roof pitch means not too much of it is stand-uppable in. You could only do so much with it, your Dad's sounds more practical, lovely. Basements are good and I suppose actually it's better taking things down than up maybe? 🤔. I'm sure the wasps will philosophically recompose themselves and find somewhere new quickly 👍️ but I know you wouldn't really like to do it for choice 😔. Clean garden overalls, oh goody, you can see what actual colour they are now can you 😄 haven't been in the garden much because I will have to tidy up failed & disappointing things in pots which I'm putting off. You have been busy with your things for local fayres etc (Christmas, how could you 😒) and yes a scissors blister is often one's 'reward' for it, nasty sneaky things. Good luck with the quiz, if Whistler's Mother comes up that will be 3 times 😄 have fun. Love to all & a nice Sunday :) xx

Hello Joan, yes getting clothes to fit isn't easy especially being skinny, it's like draping things over a broom handle you can't expect them to look how they're supposed to 😂. It would help if the makers sized things well, going by the size alone is no good they can still come up big or tiny from one brand to another 🤷‍♀️. It's nice if you find something suitable you can buy again & again but it doesn't happen that often. I see about the lady's bungalow and the workmen thanks. I should have said yesterday, I hope she gets on alright where she has gone and it is a nice place, does she have any relatives? I have finished up the loft for today so I will be safely down on ground level 👍️. Hope you have a good Sunday there was a fair bit of rain in the night but nice since :) xx

Hi bosh, oh yes no deadlines at all to submit odes, they are at the writer's discretion of course 😊 true stories as well. All quiet here today well so far, I did have some cheese with my lunch but it was not a hard cheese it was the one in a tub with the name that is the capital of Pennsylvania 🇺🇸. Good cheese poster 😄 I don't know all those well and a couple not at all, cheese-board connoisseurs would look down on me, though I did used to like Port Salut actually I thought of it as quite a mild cheese, didn't buy it for ages because I got the idea from somewhere it wasn't suitable for vegetarians but it is apparently 🤷‍♀️. I notice there is a fossil & dinosaurish themed g**gle d**dle today, and something 'to do' by the looks of it, that would suit cheese-sandwich loving littleys 🦖. Will have a go myself. Did you really have a dentist with a drudge-rhyming name, oh that's excellent 😀. Good bat cartoon too 🦇 saints preserve us from apps that tell anyone where we are 😂. Have a good afternoon hope your parents' post jab symptoms abate quickly 🤞:) xx

Sorry you ended up on the wrong painful side for your knee Stuart, crunching sounds horrid 😔 not too long for your appointment do hope they are helpful. Take care hope you have a restful evening & a good Sunday as poss :) xx

Love to all 😘 xx

bosh

hi toady

Sorry lost the thermostat wars 🤷‍♀️

But still had a better day than yesterday on balance 👍

The phantom balloon story is really funny

I just have to find the right wording 👍

Glad you had a productive day

Have a nice night tc xx

Ps two pics here - a bit greedy I know, the second is a sign for your neighbours of the undead variety xx

Stuartknee

Still waking up early before 5 am , still sore left ankle feels liike its been runover, shoulders aching, I may have broken a small bone in my wrist cos the little finger is constantly numb.

frogmorton

Morning Joan how are you doing? Have you had rain overnight too? Our team did not win the quiz nor even a raffle prize! Typical eh? Yes I hope the wasps have found a new home. A more appropriate one at that. Bless them. Your new kitchen will be lovely how much notice will they give you so you can empty the cupboards? ((())) xxx

Morning Reshmi

How are you and your Mum doing today? I hope not too bad and any vaccine consequences have eased off for both of your parents. Funny thing isn't it? Actually making ourselves ill! Still it's all for the best isn't it?

Oh dear me our adorable BR is throwing tantrums? I am shocked he is a sweetheart😮 What age is he now though? Must be 3?

I can't wait to hear the latest story the Ghost balloon one sounds very intriguing, but of course you must fine-tune it before releasing it to your audience (us).

I shall be ready to do cashier duties when you are I have my 1970s comb over style chosen what do you think?

You lost the thermostat wars again?! Oh Reshmi😕

I hope today is a better day all round.

Morning Toady hope you are doing ok today?

I thought you'd have your wood delivered in one piece so question is…..what do you cut it with?

Sleek's saw takes forever (fur-ever).

It's much cheaper to do the work yourself.

It can be difficult taking stuff downstairs as it's a spiral staircase so slightly tricky. With larger items you can go through the garage into the door down there. but looking for something in there is a lot easier than going up.

I might go outside this afternoon if there's time in my clean overalls. Toady they are BLUE not black!🤣 Like you I have so much to do and so little motivation to actually do anything outside.

We didn't win the quiz not so much as a raffle prize🙄 Whistler's mother did not come up again just stupid photo rounds which none of us can do.

I know Christmas! Terrible, but I do what I'm asked if I can. considering starting my cards now what do you think? Then they might get there before 2025?

Have a good day Toady ((())) xxx

Morning Stuartknee I wonder what on earth has happened to your finger that isn't right. Did you do anything to break it? If not it might be a nerve. Write it down on a list for the Dr's appt next month.