Val's Cafe

bosh

good morning Toni

How are you?

Plumbers damaged bathroom floor 😱

I hope they don’t return today

Bye for now tc xx

dachshund

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) good luck when your new neighbours move in. Have a good day today. The gardener came yesterday he said next week is going to be hot ( in the 20 centigrade ) I hope it’s not just for one day.

Toni (()) have a good time with your cousins love to them. (()) I hope they stay in touch. My throat is better as long as I don’t swallow food I had trouble with the inside of a sausage yesterday so today I’m having cup a soup. Sorry about your friends freezer (()) Have a good day. Love to Paul (()) and Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Arya (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) sorry about your workmen I hope they don’t take too long to do the job.have a good day love to your mum (())

Stuart knee (()) good luck with your appointment

Stuartknee

Hi everyone I am still having sleeplessness nights, I live in Buckinghamshire. Tonic water still helps.

toady

Hi all - just a quick hello, nothing much doing with me today - rather dank & dark not a glimmer of sun.

Do hope everything went well with the cousins frog! Have you all met up at anybody's or rendezvous'd somewhere neutral so to speak? How exciting for you to meet brand newfound relatives even ones that do/don't look like you 🤭 such possibilities now with dna etc. How awful for the people this week that found they were swapped at birth though, but would you want to know, goodness knows! All quiet here just low level comings & goings next door, fireworks have been restrained too, though you don't know that in advance so are still braced for the usual odd loud one going off when you don't know it's coming 😱. Your poor friend having a dodgy fridge freezer too that does sound alarming indeed in a very wallace & gromit way, hope it can go before it gets up to anything else! What a nuisance 😔. Hoping for a bit of sun soon Joan says it's going to be nice that would be very welcome. Will be quite glad it's Monday at least there might be post, Sleek and I (and yourself I seem to think) are of one mind where waiting for deliveries are concerned as you know 😄. Have a good start to the week yourselves :) xx

Hello Joan, nice to know it might be warm even for a while, I have 2 ice creams in the fridge I may even get a chance to finish them off 😄. Have you had any while your mouth & throat have been bad? Nothing much happening here it has been very quiet and actually quite cold I found it. Did the gardener mention anything interesting happening in the garden? Things have bloomed really late here some kept on or did a second wave almost like the lavender. Hope you have a good Monday :) xx

Oh no bosh what have the plumbers been up to 🙄 what an annoyance. I too hope you weren't bothered by them today, but at the same time hope they sort out what needs doing quickly, don't suppose your parents are any too happy 😕. Workmen are the real nightmares, I'll take my chance with the phantom world it's less scary 🤷‍♀️. Hope it was not showerless Sunday for you because of that and that your day has been ok otherwise. Just trying to buy some jeans off nosegay I don't recommend it, 99% of people seem to think you can manage without knowing the leg length and would be happy just guessing 🙄. See you anon 👋 :) xx

I don't think I've ever been to Bucks Stuart, it's not so very far from the Midlands I suppose (where I am) but I don't really travel since the arthritis and even less so since the covid 🙄. Are mother & baby at home all day next door or do you get a break? Also hope you haven't had firework disturbance. Good luck in advance for your appt in case I forget nearer the day. xx

Love to all 😘 xx

bosh

hi Toni Joan toady and Stewartknee

how are you all this evening?

👋 Toni

Nice ice - room 👍👍

I wish it were mine lol

👋 Joan

Mums ok today thanks

Phantom workmen have gone for now thankfully

What happens tomorrow I don’t know.

👋 toady

Thermostat woes again for me I’m afraid

sorry my eyes are hurting so the Ella story will have to wait unfortunately

Have a good night everyone

May the force / thermostat be with you and tc xx

frogmorton

and stretch!!!!

Morning Joan oh dear me your throat is not improving quickly is it? How long did the Dr say it would take? Lucy had it quite a lot when she had cancer. She had nystatin to take quite a few times a day i think it was. One of the cousins has a son who had cancer just like Lucy also at the same age! There's a coincidence. I do feel for my friend she's struggling when things happen and you're on your own no-one to discuss them with. You will understand. Anyway I hope you'll be ok with your cuppa soups for now, but will go back to the Dr if it doesn't improve soon? Hope your day is good ((())) xxx

Morning Stuartknee Sorry you still aren't sleeping, but the Drs appt is this week so fingers crossed they will help you. Glad the tonic water has fixed one problem at least. I am in Staffordshire. Take care

Morning Reshmi I hope you and your Mum are both well today?

What on earth has happened with the plumbers? What have they done? 😯 What were they supposed to be doing and are they going to fix it all for you?

Hopefully today will bring answers to some of those questions.

No wonder your eyes were sore yesterday with all that going on and living in a house in Dubai-cum-Reading.

No rush for the tale about Ella we can wait you have enough going on.

I thought you'd like the ice bed I rather think a certain your boy might like it too it looking like a boat☺️ Back to school for him today I expect. I also suspect your sister and BIL might be glad of it😉

Take care Reshmi ((())) xxx

Morning Toady I hope all is well at Toad's. Sleek reckons it is.

Today she is happier hoping for parcels to arrive. She will be over very soon (via costa packet again) so she can watch for them she adores a parcel. As you know the boxes are a particular favourite of hers.. She also wants to continue her neighbour surveillance next door……

I know that story is very sad for one of the daughters swapped at birth she feels like she's lost her whole family and a usurper has taken her life no doubt.

Luckily ours is fine - sad that our Mum was told her brother had died of course and she missed all that time knowing him - but good that we have met. We will go their way next time. Bath it is a fair old way, but maybe I can drive it if we stop several times for a cuppa break. Next year though I am in no rush at all. This time they were visiting someone in Blackpool so going literally past on the M6. So I suggested lunch in a pub just off the M6 so they could get straight back on afterwards. Oh they LOVED the Fig😊 of course they did who wouldn't!!

My friend's fridge freezer is a bit scary (very Wallace and Gromit!) yes you never know when it will bang and it's scaring the dogs so it has to go even though it's only leaking a bit and working otherwise ok. She has a small chest freezer and fridge though in the garage so will swap it all over.

I do hope Joan is right and this week we see some sunshine it's been so dark lately🙄

Take care Toady ((())) xxx

A last hallowe'en breakfast pic before I stop for this year:

dachshund

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) the weather doesn’t seem that good perhaps Martin got it wrong he watches Country file. No he didn’t say anything about plants. I tried jeans once I couldn’t get them on. You think your neighbours are moving in soon. Have a good day.

Toni (()) yes I have Nystatin I have to take it 4 times a day. My throat only hurts when I swollow food. I have another appointment on the 12 December. Yes that is a coincidence he has the same as Lucy had good luck to him. Sorry about your friends freezer. I’m lucky I have a neighbour and a friend I can speak to. The pull cord has gone in the bathroom so the light won’t come on I just phoned. How is Arya getting on (()) love to Paul (()) and Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Arya (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) sorry you still have problems. Have a good day love to your mum (())
Stuart knee (()) have a good day good luck for tomorrow

bosh

greetings Toni toady Joan Stuartknee and the other cafe dwellers

How are you all?

👋 Toni

Mums ok 👍

Boat - bed LA would love it

The plumbers wrecked the floor of the bathroom I’m not sure how exactly

A dog was in Cost A Packet and went on my legs i was really scared and managed to drop a toast on the floor,

A female customer gave me an extremely disapproving look

As if saying, “ Young lady control your toast - throwing tendencies”

First of all I’m not young of course, secondly I need some form of cardio, lol, whether throwing toasts or throwing entire tablefuls of cucumber sandwiches at phantom neighbours or phantom phlebotomists, I will do so with fervour

“Growing big Ella” true story now

BR has a pal called Little Ella

LA doesn’t like her as she has none of JA’s etiquette- related qualities

Basically she eats with her mouth open

And so he and a friend are making a potion to grow Little Ella until she becomes Big Ella

Big Ella will have perfect table manners and eat the old cucumber sarnies in inimitable style, she will also teach the poor uncouth little BR table manners

LA’s friend asked LA if banana should be added to the potion, what will GI Joe Physio make of that?

all true apart from the cucumber sandwiches

Thermostat issues prevail I am barely awake

👋 Joan

Don’t worry yesterday was plumber - free

The plumber is coming here today just very temporarily I think to fix something else

👋toady

I dropped a toast in cost a packet because a dog went on my legs including my new tights!!

If he wants to eat R Brek he just needed to ask not slobber all over brand new Ron Lewis tights, outrageous really

Why was the dog in Cost A Packet in the first place?

It wasn’t a guide dog

Oh well never mind

And a woman sneered at me for my toast - dropping tendencies

Mums cooking in advance for some ladies’ event here on mxt Thursday

toady even my hair smells of fish 🐟

Also one of the plumbers is coming today

So whether I’ll be able to shower and get rid of the fish odour today, well
it’s in the lime cordial suppliers’ hands, wart - rose’s hands? No too bourgeois, al fresco’s hands perhaps

Have a fish odour- free free afternoon

Bye for now all and tc xx

ps how not to behave at Cost A Packet (misappropriating coffee beans is a worse offence than javelin / toast throwing- new customers especially, please be aware)

toady

Hi all 👋

Tired today despite accomplishing er practically nil 🙄 well I ironed for 10 minutes and rescued some old nosegay drafts that were trying to drop off forever 😱. Must work on a couple of new ones before Nov progresses too far, just in case someone would like to buy something for a you-know-what gift 🎄 (like they never do 😂).

Glad all went well with the cousins frog 👍️ and the meeting point worked well. But yes such a terribly sad thing for your mother 😔 there was a cousin of mine who when we got in touch turned out not to know about various fairly close family members, not the same degree of relationship as your poor Mum but it shows this sort of thing is not uncommon at all 🤷‍♀️🤔. Yes the poor swapped daughters what a tangled web, the one had arguably a better life than she would have, but that's been upset too in hindsight as you say 😟, so many ripples. Your cousin's son, gosh yes there's another twist of fate so to speak, how good that he is alright. All ok here today, I have given up trying to work out the next door ins & outs despite Sleek's best efforts (and how very vigilant she is at that window! how clever to ask if she can have her scratching tower moved right by there, 'oh, no reason'! 😄. A word in praise of cat's knees btw, aren't they just the best 😍). I suspect I will not be keen on the arrangement whatever it is; there is no sign of any 9 to 5-ing, my last hope 🙄 so unless it's all change again, assume I'm just going quietly mad here making escape plans 🤨😂. Quite chilly here today, I have replaced the little room's summer duvet with brushed cotton & wool blankets and will probably hibernate from here on. Sleek will remind me if I have forgotten anything, sachets of hot chocolate, marshmallows, magazines, telephone extension etc etc 😺. Are you a flannelette fan or is that over the top for you as you don't like to be hot. Hope all's well with you today, & family, good luck to your friend with her freezer swap and any replacement. How is Kari's Etsy, is she managing to keep it on a nice manageable ticking-over footing? Love to all 😘 xx

Hello Joan, I am probably going to have to turn a blind eye to whatever happens next door, for my own good; as far as I know it might be a rolling succession of tenants or short term people, who knows. Que sera 🤨. Yes the weather is all wrong 😄 Countryfile wasn't much help was it, well not here anyway. I haven't looked ahead but there was no sun today for sure. Getting jeans to fit is an awful job I must say, I can't get used to anything else though. I buy cheap ones on nosegay to try for fit and if I like them I know I can buy the same again, though that's not always a guarantee either! I've asked 3 people this week for details of their ones for sale and had no replies 🙄 they don't want my money obviously! Have a good day tomorrow hope the Nystatin is doing the trick 🤞. xx

Hi bosh oh no not a dog 😱 eek. Sorry about the toast, I have just had a scone (and a few walnuts for the omega 6) if you need a carb substitute 👍️. Perhaps not pass one to little Ella not sure how much any of us need to see a mouthful of scone 😬 what a very good plan that is well done LA & friend 😂. I would have thrown my toast on the floor I'm sure and probably tried to get over the counter, so bah to snooty looks 🙄. New tights as well, typical. Cardio though lol like it 😂. Hope the fishiness has subsided as the day went on and that you could get a shower 🤞. My day has been très dull although I did finally beat the last level of the g**gle halloween game with the magic-wand waving cat, doesn't count as a huge achievement but it was one up for me over the arthritis, there's life in the old toad yet 😂 ✌️. Have a good day tomorrow and a good night 😴 xx

Very very good luck to Stuart for your appointment 🤞xx

And love to all 😘 xx

bosh

hi everyone

How are you all tonight?

I must admit it was Plumber - gate again today

But not as bad as 2 days ago

👋 toady I did manage a shower yesterday but today was Maudlin Monday well as far as personal hygiene went lol, because of the plumber situation

They fixed some damage to the floor and this and that

Very irritating really

👋 Stuartknee

I used to work in Buckinghamshire once, hated the job but the place seemed nice 👍

👋 Toni

I have a feeling Bill may break the boat - bed given the massive bottles of “Broke” he’s currently consuming

Well no other news right now really

I haven’t hurled any more toasts in public places

Well not in the last 5 minutes anyway haha

I cannot be held responsible for my actions on Temerity Tuesday through

Toni you know all of us here in VC should gather one day for a toast - throwing competition

What do you think?

Winner gets a packet of choccie biccies

Loser has to have an extra appointment with the vampire nurse perhaps?

On that rather strange note I say good night all and tc xx
Ps this is how to re- heat a (possibly vegan) sausage roll from Dregs apparently 🤷‍♀️ xx

bosh

hi toady

Sorry a bit of missed post - itis

You have a good night too tc xx

Ps I know it’s not Diwali - but just a nice candles - pic xx