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

frogmorton

Morning!

Morning Joan I do hope the throat eases soon. It ought to be better way before the 12th December if it's going to work. Well done for having an appointment ready. I know I think my friend misses just saying to her wife (for you Sue) oh dear what shall we do? When something goes wrong. I'm glad you have good people to call on - the pull cord is a good example. Arya was 4 weeks old yesterday😊 Bless her heart. Take care Joan ((())) xxx

Morning Reshmi I hope you are well today and your Mum too that her BS is nice and stable.

Sorry about the thermostat issues though do not let BIL anywhere near that bed it took me weeks to carve it for you😉

Ok on the subject of canines inside cafés. This is becoming a real thing I only commented to Paul about it on Saturday. Do they not realise some people are afraid of them! You know they actually provide 'pup-cups' (ice and mock cream I think?) for them and they are most certainly very, very rarely support animals. I have decided to take Sleek in with me see how they like that! A cat and dog fight could be the result. Dogs and their owners used to sit outside. ABSOLUTELY not your fault dropping your toast I hope the staff replaced it free of charge?

Hope the new autumn Ron Lewis tights survived.

Glad the plumbers repaired the damage they did in the bathroom Reshmi I was a bit worried. Sorry about no access to washing water though😕

Gosh that is a true Ella tale! Poor Ella eating with her mouth open I mean she is only quite young and being sneaked some growing up potion😂 Love the tale though as usual written beautifully by your very own self😊GI Joe does not approve of bananas possibly cucumber sandwiches minus the bread probably!

Liked the dreggs sausage roll heating method!

Take care Reshmi I hope today is a plumber-free one for you ((())) xxx

Morning Toady hope all is well at Toad's.

Hmmmm will i need warm bedding this year? Maybe maybe not certainly not yet I feel hot in bed ATM and really quite like it cool. I do however love a brushed cotton sheet for the dead of winter so cosy😊 Be warned small cat hairs to attach themselves really to brushed cotton. Well done though getting the room ready. there will be no need to be disturbed you can sleep well from now onwards anytime you want to.

Telephone extension leads yes hot choc sachets marshmallows, reading matter Sleek is writing one of her lists.

I know those knees!!!!!!!!! Totally adorable. Nothing as cute as a cat standing up is there?❤️ Good idea moving her tree to the window spot on! They like that do cats Ahem… easier for spotting birds outside.

Kari's Etsy is doing ok, but needs her to do the Youtube videos to sort of advertise her wares if you know what i mean? She's really wanting to slow down a bit, but is having to keep on going.

Families are funny things I mean it's wrong losing touch and secrets were kept. Hopefully there will be less of that into the future.

Well better get on now and get a walk inn

Take care Toady ((())) xxx

Morning Stuartknee Is it today your appointment? I feel like it might be. I hope you are ready list ready to discuss everything. Take care 🤞

Italian breakfast sausage! Must look into that🤔

dachshund

Good morning everyone

The kitchen is being done on the 25 November it take a week or longer this is a bigger kitchen than the others because it’s one for disabled. I’ve nearly finished the Nystatin I have so much trouble getting it out I can’t pull the syringe up and down. My throat is better I had a cauliflower and Cheese bill for my dinner yesterday.

Toady (()) I suppose it could be worse for you you could have noisy children or a dog barking all the time. Have a good day yes I think Martin got the weather wrong.

Toni (()) A cafe we had down town dogs were aloud in when we went in our dogs stayed on our scooters I saw other dogs sat under tables. Arya 4 weeks have gone quick. Have a good day. I know how your friend feels sometimes here it seems so lonely. Sue wouldn’t have liked it she always wanted someone with her she loved talking some people say to me now I didn’t know you could speak by the time I went to say something she had said it. Love to Paul (()) and 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 (()) good luck

bosh

good afternoon Toni toady Joan and Stuartknee

How are you all today?

👋 Toni

Mums ok 👍

I’m ok thanks but Shower - gate continues

The phantom plumbers amended their ways, sorry, errors, lol

But now the door of the shower and I don’t really know, some of the controls I guess, have changed

So we are all forbidden to even attempt ablutions until BB returns and explains how to operate the phantom washing - device

I got a takeaway today

From “Hub - pay”:

Just for a nice change I also didn’t want to attempt Canine A Packet as I’m running low on tights haha

Plus the dog - trauma was just a bit too fresh though of course I will return there in due course to Chaos A Packet

Thanks thermostat issues plus extra cooking going on house is at hot as a phlebotomist’s inferno

Yes i will ban bill, I’ll leave a trail of hot sauce droplets leading to toady’s house

Only joking of course

Ok Toni the shower window / door of opportunity has just opened up

So more posting later

Bye for now all xx

Stuartknee

I m back on strong co cadomol's & Amitriptyline. Been referred to a neurologist about a pinched nerve in my right hand. Physio going to give me steriod injections next month

toady

Hi all 👋 think I got even less done today, it's just so dull & dark you don't feel inspired to get on.

Quite a few fireworks this evening frog but they actually stopped really early, well unless they are about to set off again, hope the same for you too not too many & not too loud. Very little going on with me, trying to do a little shopping and mostly failing. I wondered if there was such a thing as a very low steam kettle for Sleek & I's retreat; if so, small & very expensive (still goes rusty apparently 🙄) or affordable but too big. Also wanted to get a spare phone bank/charger but the one I liked was branded as 'for taking fishing' so I couldn't buy that on moral grounds 😂 always the way. The more I tick off my shopping list at the moment the more I seem to need 🤔 glad Sleek is busy with hers. Hope everything ok with you today, and family and grandbaby, who can't possibly be a month old 😮. Hope Kari's videos aren't too much of a nose to grindstone and everything else ok with her, is she being hardy and keeping her running up in all seasons & weathers? I really must at least do more walking at least I can go out in the gloaming now and be fairly phantom-like 😬 or I will seize up altogether. Like quite a few people I internet searched 'cat's knees' yesterday just to check that's the right terminology and that's definitely what they are and where they are 😂 - technical name 'stifles', I never knew that. How are you off for appointments yourself these days, any coming up (any you don't mind mentioning that is). Have a good Weds :) xx

Hello Joan, don't speak too soon 😄, dogs I can cope with if not barking all day, but if there are ever children I'm off 😱. Not for me. Glad you have been feeling better and eating better too. I suppose like a lot of people I imagined twins both talking the same maybe saying the same thing or finishing each other's sentences, which is a lazy assumption I know, interesting it wasn't like that with you. It wasn't too cold I suppose today but still so dark not a glimmer. I only noticed today I have ignored a letter saying the gas may be going off at some point while they replace pipes, and someone will visit; no thanks 😬 luckily they said if out they'll just put in some information 👍️. Have a good day tomorrow at least there shouldn't be any more fireworks, hope Lexi & Pepper have been ok 😘 xx

Hi bosh, I forgot to say yesterday I'm up for the cafe toast-throwing contest, count me in 🍞😂. Glad to hear you slipped through the shower 'window' hopefully without a whole sheaf of instructions or taking a short correspondence course first. Nothing doing with me at all today, I like Temerity Tuesday, what sort of Wednesday will it be I wonder? 🤔 Have a good evening, take care 😊 xx

Hi Stuart, interesting to hear what the Dr said, hope the steroid injections help have you had them before? Good luck with the meds too. Have as good a night as possible 🤞 xx

Love to all 😘 xx

bosh

hi Toni

I actually threw the toast a bit later on as I will still suffering from dog - trauma plus the cafe was busy so I didn’t bother requesting toast - reparations to be honest

Sorry somewhat cream crackered again

Group tomorrow- but the gasman is also visiting us on that day 🤷‍♀️

My super - bug app told me “only £55.00” left till I can make a saving haha - oh dear

That won’t even buy me half a toast really

Sorry for inadequate post

Hope you had a good day?

Bye for now Toni tc xx

Ps accidentally found appropriate pic 😂, one toast that’ll be £110.00 please, just don’t throw it on the floor please Toni xx

bosh

hi Joan

How are you?

I’m ok thanks

So is mum 👍

I’m just a bit tired

Have a good night tc xx

Ps colouring in by nephew LA xx

bosh

hi toady

Yes I made it through the shower window thanks, but not the looking glass lol

Yes I know what you mean, starting the day with plans, but things then become ookey
You’re up for toast - throwing- very good I’ll make a note of that

I’m trying to retire to bed before the stitching hour

So have a good night toady tc xx

👋 Stuartknee sorry to hear about co codamol etc
good night all tc xx

Ps elite toast xx

frogmorton

Morning Joan I am so glad to hear that your throat is improving enough to eat again. You have a date for the kitchen that is so useful😊25th of this month it won't be long at all will it? You can get everything moved and find a temporary place for your kettle before then. Have you got a microwave or anything to heat up food in while it's being done?

In a sense then, it was best Sue went first really. Although it's been the hardest thing you have ever gone through it would have been much much harder for Sue😕 That's funny that she chattered so much bless her.

Well-behaved dogs are allowed i some cafés, and so they should be as you said under tables out of other people's ways. Some people are scared of them sadly that's the problem. I would take Sleek but she'd hate it. Take care Joan and have a good day. ((())) xxx

Morning Reshmi who finally got a shower! Was it a good shower was it any better? Like you couldn't have worked it out yourself!!! Honestly BB is such a control freak🙄

Hope you are your Mum are well today?

Yes group that should produce some entertainment for you.

I have entered us as a team into next years Toast throwing at UPenn somewhere in America I think see below. Looking into cheap plane tickets for us all.

I should think any old toast will do probably not even buttered to the corners🤔 Unless they have toast inspectors😯

Haven't LA's colouring skills come on an absolute treat since you used to have to guess what he was drawing?! That is really good well done LA!

Well only another £55! That might take a few years to get your super-bug reward😉

Have a good day Reshmi ((())) xxx

Morning Stuartknee that's great I have had amitriptyline in the past - take it at 7pm if you haven't had it before it takes a few hours to work else you'll be exhausted the next day. It is a tapped nerve causing that numbness in your hand. Good luck on eh co-codamols😊 I think you did really well you certainly got your point across to the Dr.

Morning Toady hope all is well.

Please see my post to Bosh you need to start honing your toast throwing skills please ready for next year.

My power pack is a 'bell-ring' pink and rather good I did have two though, one black, but the other went off with one of the kids🙄never came home again. No definitely you don't want to encourage cruel sport related power=pack making. Hmmmmm….what about a teas-made if a kettle won't work? You need something so you'll be settled in the 'escape room'. Sleek has found a biscuit tin (small-ish) and wants to go back on catazon if you don't mind later. I suspect she has ideas too.

Cats have the cutest knees or 'stifles'. Ok that's interesting I might say that next time I'm at the vets🤔I'm so not surprised many have googles them❤️

Thanks for asking Toady. I am still hoping my shoulder improves enough on it's own because i have a fellow Figgy friend who also had the same, but he opted for surgery and had it 6 weeks ago. It's so bad he is back in again today for it to be redone something went wrong! I have been good and done bloods as requested and got away with a phone consultation this time re markers everyone 'happy'. There are things I need to discuss really but I so hate going I will make no fuss just yet. How about you? Are you doing ok?

Kari is feeling quite exhausted with the YT videos it's the editing that eats up time. She does park run every single Saturday morning and loves it. Makes my daily walks look quite feeble. Meeting her before the foodbank for a walk later. Yes get out there especially in this murky weather no-one will see you at all🙄

Take care Toady have a good day ((())) xxx

dachshund

Good morning everyone

I’m being quick i at last got some one to give the dogs a bath they are coming at 12-00 to day I want to take them for a walk first.

Toady (()) I don’t like children screaming perhaps because I haven’t got any. Have a good day.

Toni (()) when our neighbour comes in sue would say Joan has something to tell you before I could say she had told him. It seems so quiet with out her. Have a good day love to everyone.

Reshmi (()) sorry about your problems love to your mum (())

Stuartknee (()) I was told you have 3 injections over the time then you can have aTKR. I’m glad you had tablets.

Stuartknee

Hi will the drugs I take for Arthritis destroy the enamel on my teeth? my dentist says it must be the meds?

bosh

hi Toni

How are you this afternoon?

So sorry for my silence

I had such a tiring day

Didn’t sleep properly, stuffy house

went to group

Just very briefly

Still tired

Mum is ok 👍

Bye for now Toni tc xx

bosh

greetings toady Joan and Stuartknee

How are you all today?

I had a very tiring day

But otherwise ok thanks

Bye for now all tc xx

toady

Hi all 😊 ooh have actually got some things done today for the first day this week. Got in the garden, popped up the loft and cleaned the kitchen after my own fashion 🤭. Mainly because there was no-one next door for most of the day, merciful heavens 👍️.

Haven't slept in the little room yet frog but I did have an afternoon rest & internet browse etc in there, oh the quiet 😀 (mind you it wouldn't have been earlier on, because life decreed there should be noise out the front today, naturally 🙄 in the form of one of my DIY nemeses, doing lord knows what to his - front garden is the wrong word - with a high powered compacting thing, crouching over it like some demonic underworld troll 😒). Anyway all well otherwise, and just to blow my trumpet one last time I do have to say I am very chuffed with my (and Sleek's) efforts in pulling everything together, even if I am being sort of exiled in there it does not feel like it, which I was determined about. Teasmade too big I think 🤔 I have seen some quite nice small kettles though will shortlist some. Yes a biscuit tin please 😺 what's a nice non-crumb-y biscuit 😄 garibaldi? Make use of catazon with my blessing not long left. Oh she will love the new grey blankets too they have super knotted mouse-tail-like fringes. Do try out 'stifles' at the vet, I don't think I will at the rheumatologist 🤭. I saw mine a while back nothing due thanks, I also say little and nod as long as the markers are ok. I hope your ought-to-discuss list will keep, and as for your poor figgy friend with the shoulder..! How awful for him (and would make you think more than twice! 😔) all the best to him 🤞. Well done Kari with the park runs, hope food bank and your walk were good and I hereby commit to fitting a walk in by end of week. Toast practising it is 👍️ I suspect it will be better than my school sports day javelin effort (a one-off! enough said 😄). Love to all :) xx

Hello Joan, yes crying children or babies like poor Stuart has next door, certainly takes a bit of forbearance 😔 really I don't even want quiet ones, they just aren't my thing at all, even when I was one myself & at school etc. I hope the dogs had a nice bath and the person was someone you liked 😊. I tidied out my food cupboard (under the stairs) and found a pack of little individually wrapped sponge cakes from 2021, ok to eat do you think? 😂 things are so highly processed they probably are, but I think they will have to go. Have a good day tomorrow :) xx

Hi to bosh sorry it's a tired day for you, perhaps a bit of rebound from all sorts of things lately, well done getting to group anyway even briefly. I had a slightly better one but it was my injection day too so will probably have a tired one tomorrow, hopefully turn & turn about and you have a bit more energy. I used to like super-bug too but they put their min order for free delivery quite a bit and then went in for all this marketplace sellers business like a lot of places, which I'm not keen on. Am I due a loyalty reward any time this century, ooh, I must check 😂. I love LA's colouring-in, that's fab very neat and artistic 🤩 super. Have a good night I hope, I went to sleep listening to a Dr Chew tape and dreamt I had to make D Tennant a cup of tea, which did not go well, never does in dreams 🙄😄. Cheerio for now 👋 :) xx

Ooh I'm not sure about drugs and tooth enamel Staurt never given it much thought 🤔 never had a dentist mention it either. Will have a look myself online as well. I know dental hygiene is important with my RA and immune suppressants etc but I worry more about gums with that I think. Hope you can get a good night 🤞 :) xx

Love to all 😘 xx