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Jojo_16

Hi frogmorton yeah I think I'm mostly sorted ready for them going back to school I'm at my mams house weve just been to a donkey sanctuary near my mams house with the kids and husband and my dad we all enjoyed strokeing the donkeys.

Jojo_16

Hi bosh I hope you are well and I hope you have a good day.

Jojo_16

Hi dachshund I do the ironing standing up. I hope you are well and I hope you have a great day.

toady

Hi all 👋 lovely day 🌞 well until it just went overcast a few mins ago, but still very nice & much appreciated.

Glad to hear Paul is doing ok frog 👍️ if the danger is over so to speak then Elfie can indeed return to the fold 😊 a perfect guest (there was dancing, yes 😄 what a neat packer he is btw, an exemplary overnight bag!) and like Sleek, assures me he will be discretion itself as to all the bits of my house that are untidy 😄. Although much fewer than usual, after all the recent reluctant clearing of the decks. Really must keep tidy after this so I'll be better placed in future, even if not 'the' Swedish clean, maybe at least the Morbid Midlands clean? Slightly less drastic? 🤔😄. I hope you got in the garden today and not just housework, I have myself, for a nice little spell 😊 and I couldn't have arranged a better week of weather coming up could I, to have to myself 👍️. Yes very glad everyone has departed, I have decided to try and have an in lieu of Easter 'holiday' week, & not take anything on if poss. Hope everyone else well and you get some nice walks in etc yourself, I did go for one yesterday. Have a good Sunday 😊 xx

Hello Joan, hope you are having a good day - I have got some washing out, very nice week for that hopefully 😊. Robin is singing up in the tree as I am writing this. Yes I am very pleased to have no-one coming now and also it is a few things off 'the list' that I don't have to worry about another time 👍️. How is Charlie getting along? Have a good Sunday and love to Pepper. I will be having shopping tomorrow. I read this week that chocolate digestives were originally intended to be served & eaten with the chocolate underneath, for the life of me I can't see what difference that makes 😮. xx

Hi bosh, sorry about the stomach hope you have felt better as the day goes on. Your insect bite has not come up to a nasty bump I hope or acquired a friend 😱 (loved that scream cabbage btw!). Yes what bitey insects are around at the moment 🤔, you'd think I would have got some from the garden, they are biding their time probably I usually do. Sorry you haven't had a walk today. Hope everyone is ok and there are no custard-less littleys 🤞. Just re-reading last poem, like Toni I love the title, and I liked the first line a lot 'I am my own border', that's a super piece of writing 😊. I am not doing much today planning a quiet day tomorrow too I hope 👍️. Take care :) xx

Thanks again SK, via Loanda, for the plant info, just couldn't place it. I'm sure they are on my 'have tried but failed at' list but I'm quite likely thinking of something else - I don't have any, anyway. Will make mental note 👍️. Hope family well today and you have had less inflammatory symptoms 🤞 and can get the best out of the weather, for your visit to Snetterton etc :) xx

How lovely to go to the donkeys Jojo 😀 one of the sanctuaries, I get their newsletter etc send a little at xmas, I love them and wish there was a nearer place. Hope you have a good weekend are you in tomorrow as usual I think, such nice weather will be doing as much line drying as I can this week 😊. Hope the low grade pain is in the background as poss. and you are sleeping not too bad. xx

How are things with you Stuart, how are your tomatoes? 🍅😊 have a good weekend as poss take care xx

Love to Carol too 👋 xx

Take care all 😘 xx

Jojo_16

Hi toady I swear that strokeing the donkeys took away the stress and mabye some of the pain especially since I lost my footing on the path going down because it was uneven mabye I should have sneaked a donkey home no one would notice. I hope your pain isn't too bad today and I hope you are having a good day.

bosh

hi Toni the owner of the rotary phone

How are you this evening?

Yes MV has cooled down thankfully

My cold isn’t too bad thanks for asking

But my stomach was really ookey in the morning

I also felt weak and slept a lot, but the sleep somehow didn’t feel satisfying, I felt weak for a long time basically

I think i ate something ookey yesterday when I was hungry and before the al fresco shopping arrived

Good that you’re being careful even though P has recovered 👍

And of course great that L didn’t catch it

Thanks so much about poem

Hopefully Louisa will lead the Way and more little sportswomen will be joining the boys team

Did you ask if there’s a girls team? I can’t quite remember now what you asked sorry but if that was your question - no, not as far as I’m aware, so it’s a good job that Louisa is taking initiative indeed

BR will be leaving nursery soon as he is a very old boy of almost 5 and he’s learning this song “ this is graduation day, hip hip hooray” I have heard an extract of this special ballad and thankfully I must report that it is in no way as annoying as “fruit salad, Yummy yummy” thank Mother Nature

LA Has told his granny that poor innocent BR does not have the right table manners to be a schoolboy because he drank some squash and then did a little burp. Oh dear me, that seems a bit strict in my eyes, and after all if he eats enough fruit salad which looks very delicious by the way, Thank you Toni, Then the authorities will allow slight slips in etiquette and also because We are all in fear of BR flattening us 😂

Have a good evening Toni and take care xx

Stuartknee

Hi Toady

Toms are 7 inches tall & about to flower 5 red ones 5 yellow toms, 6 baby cucumbers. Just put my maincrop potatoes (Cara) in. Ankle still pounding still being a pain in the butt..

bosh

Hi toady

how are you doing tonight?
Glad you enjoyed the weather

it was a very ookey morning really with the fatigue related to the stomach and the stomach Problem itself

I only really started feeling better around 6:30 in the evening.
I ate considerably less than usual but that won’t kill me ha ha

I’m glad you liked the poem. Thanks for that

it’s not really a very bumpy insect bite, bit more rash like but from the itchiness I know it’s a bite and Sudocr*m helped thanks for asking

It hasn’t doubled in size or something like you implied thank mother nature

Yes the biting insects are definitely a plague as it were at this time of year I agree

I think possibly the problem was that I walked on the pavement That’s near the football field or mini football field Really, to avoid bumping into dogs and annoying people ha ha

sometimes has to be done but I think that’s maybe why the insects were having a party or getting their hair cut and conditioned at the insect HD or that kind of thing

oh well I have survived the experience Thanks

Yes a bit annoying that I couldn’t walk today but hopefully I can walk as normal tomorrow just as long as the whole street isn’t swimming in custard or something which may be a possibility if LA gets angry enough oh dear

Glad you liked the cabbage art lol
👋 good night, toady Toni Joan, JoJo, SK and S knee Take care xx

Ps. Pic of nasty M and her Demon, which one is the Demon though? I don’t quite understand. I may have to ask the all - knowing LA at some point ha ha Xx

Jojo_16

Another night struggling to get to sleep I just keep tossing and turning all the time.

Stuartknee

Join the club Jojo I seem to wake up at 2am & cannot get back 2 sleep

frogmorton

Morning Joan I'm so glad your cold is going Paul's is too thank you for asking. Yes Eric was a boy Sleek a girl. I have had 4 boys in the past too and one other girl. I loved them all but the girls are better hunters. In her hey-day she could catch 4 small animals in one day. The vet was sick of me. Take care ((())) xxx

Jojo how lovely I love the donkey sanctuary! I have a memorial plaque to my parents in the garden of the donkey sanctuary in Devon. Their ashes we scattered according to their wishes, but you sometimes need somewhere to go. My Mum loved the donkeys and used to sponsor one each year for my girls. It actually makes me really emotional. Hope work isn't too bad today and Well done being ready for the children to go back to school on Monday. Take care ((())) xx

Morning Reshmi I am glad your Mum is ok but how is your stomach today though? I do hope much better so you are able to get out for a walk.

It can make you feel proper weak can't it if it's really bad😕

Louisa will indeed pave (or tackle) the way for more girls to join in the football at school hopefully. She is a trail-blazer ⚽

Oh no! BR is growing up far too fast the little sweetheart! Already nearly ready for big school?!😯 I am sure a small burp is acceptable there will be worse behaviour that that I am sure. Lucy was caught with another girl in the toilets eating chewing gum at 4! The other girl had brought the offending item in and as far as I know she never did it again. Tia wouldn't eat at all at school. Anyway as you said anyone who says anything will be as flat as a pancake!

Love these funny little cat pictures you keep finding😁

I am happy to sit near Paul again now his is unlikely to pass on any germs!

Take care and feel better soon((())) xxx

Morning Skinny Keef hope all is well with you all. Back to school (nursery) for a certain small boy tomorrow is it?

Weather definitely picking up this week so you can get out of the bikes - one at a time please safety first😉

take care ((())) xxx

Hello Stuart Look at that adorable little boy all curled up❤️ Hello Ollie!. Sorry about your ankle. My toms got off to a really slow start this year only two took but to be fair that is enough for me and Paul. I ahve never grown yellow ones although i ahve eaten them. I will be very interested to see how they all get on. Take care (())

Morning Toady hope you are still ok and yes so much the best idea to have a super quiet week if at all possible. Rest and recuperate R&R.

Elfie is a great packer so tidy (I believe it's an Elf thing?) he is horrified by my packing when I bring my case home after a holiday😳 There is every possibility you will find some of your drawers extra tidy when you take a look. I rather like your idea - Morbid-midlands clean yes that could work. Just be nicer to leave in a less cluttered environment wouldn't it?

If you want help just shout Sleek is pretty good too although she does tend to get straight on catazon and catsy etc looking for new stuff to buy….

I did indeed get outside and have a good pile of weeds to show for it. Take care and enjoy the weather ((())) xxx

A quick hello to Carol in case you pop in I hope all is well with you all. Any results from your blood test yet? ((())) xxx

bosh

good morning Toni

Wppl xx

dachshund

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) have a good day. Yes I read that about the chocolate biscuit I dip mine in the coffee chocolate side up. But I have ginger nuts at the moment. Do you have a quiet day tomorrow. Charlie has a blood pressure monitor fitted for 3 days.

Toni (()) have a good day we have the sun. I still miss Aidan and his cakes and his tiptoe walk. Enjoy your coffee the days go so quick.

Jojo (()) have a good day sorry you hurt your foot.

Reshmi (()) I hope your cold is going love to your mum (())

Stuart (()) have a good day lovely photo of Ollie love to your mum (())

Skinny Keef (()) have a good day I hope you haven’t got a migraine. Love to Loanda (()) and Sucr’e (())

Carol (()) and Mr T (()) have a good day

Jojo_16

Hi frogmorton yeah donkeys just seem very calm well these ones did I need to see them more often. Yeah work isn't going to bad thanks I hope you are well and I hope you are having a good day.

toady

Hi all 👋 hope your Sundays are going well.

I am trying to behave frog but still seem to be doing things anyway, a bit like when the boss comes into work when he's meant to be on holiday 😳 never mind all good stuff this weather, like washing. Yes me & Sleek both, with the tidying & shopping, that's the thing - you tidy something, you notice x or y looks a bit faded or out of date, you go browsing for replacements 🤭 can't say I'm a good influence there, more like we egg each other on heehee. Oh well it's only pocket money 👍️. Well done weeding 😊 I bet Elfie couldn't wait to go and check on his seedlings 😀. I'm v envious of Stuart and his flowering toms, and you both have cucumbers doing well, I will have to buck my ideas up. Well I have had 'other stuff' on I suppose. Btw I never said, the seedlings I posted were Euphorbia they did indeed look very beet-y. The daft thing is I think that in fact I did get them to grow last year, wrote them off as a weed, and chucked them 😳 silly fool. They just didn't look like pics I'd seen but they sort of have to be right🤷‍♀️. Must get some salad in now - I saw some good compostable seed trays recently, made so you can plant out a trayful of lettuce etc as is, if you're in the market for such a thing. Have a good evening love to everyone 😘 xx oh another thing I meant to say, have you ever tried 'cat soup'? just thinking of Sleek's diet.

Hello Joan, such a nice day, am getting towels etc out on the line so nice to have things dry so quickly. Haven't had ginger nuts for a while I only get them if I shop from 'Fresco', do like ginger very much though 😊. Glad that Charlie has at least agreed to let them monitor him, that's good I hope. Have a good Monday yes I intend to not do much, though I do have my grocery shop as I put it off, but that's no trouble. Have a good day yourself love to Pepper, how is your garden? 😘 xx

Hi bosh, yes there was a rather pessimistic slant to my bite comment wasn't there 😂😂 glad it isn't too nasty, annoying though that you skirted two dangers people & dogs and ran into another, rather sneaky of life. Did you manage a walk and not a custardy swim down the road 😬. It will get hot for walking this week I don't want to go later in the afternoon when the kids come out of a school so unless I find a sudden talent for getting up early like you & Toni it may be midnight rambles for me again 🌘. Have you done any interesting shopping lately, online or otherwise? Hope you've had a less tired and less ookey all round day today, take care :) xx btw I love that knitted frog so much! what beautiful work, he's gorgeous 😍 I want.

Jojo oh a donkey of your own just imagine 😀 glad it was such a nice calming experience they prove this sort of thing scientifically I believe. Sorry you didn't have a good night last night though 😞 hope you have a better one tonight 🤞 xx

Stuart I am very impressed with your toms, they sound brilliant 😀👍️ thanks for the update. Sorry you were awake too, I was at around 4 I think, between us in the cafe we covered most hours of the night I think 🙄. Hope your day is ok, lovely picture by the way 😊 xx

Hope all well with you today SK & family 👋 xx

Love to Carol hope you and Mr T are having a nice Sunday 👋 xx

Kettle on ☕️ xx

Jojo_16

Hi toady yeah I hope to sleep well tonight I've never stopped at work working cages way to many customers as usual. I hope your Sunday is going good for you.

bosh

good afternoon, Toni

how are you today?
Mum is okay, thanks👍

my cold is a lot better today thanks I’m wondering if it wasn’t actually allergies for the most part

so I followed SK’s advice and had some organic honey just a little bit this morning and it seems to have helped a lot already which is great
I don’t always like the taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney - did anyone else study that play in school? - sorry I digress, but this particular honey was very nice, so that was good as well
Yes ookey temperatures again, but I did manage to walk so that was really good

and my foot is healing and it’s almost fully better. I’m wearing the soft shoes and it does get a bit sore from time to time but it’s definitely improving and it’s not like before when going on a normal walk was difficult

yes Louisa of the trailblazer I like that👍

oh dear, chewing gum in the toilets - very naughty indeed

that was a shame about Tia

Yes, little BR is growing at a rate of knots, indeed my goodness, before you know it he’ll be a grandfather I think according to the physio will be a grandfather by Easter next year. Let’s hope he doesn’t feed all his grandchildren the dubious diets of double jam toast, and not much else.

Someone - probably Bill - needs to be flattened like a pancake but that seems an extreme weight loss solution ha ha

👋 hi toady, how are you today ?

I did manage to swim through the custard- filled streets thank you and today I have acquired no more bites and the honey seems to have helped with both my throat and allergies

Yes midnight ramblings are not ideal I understand it is a nuisance when the weather gets ookey like this so we have to decide the best time to brave the Sun or not, as the case maybe

Interesting purchases of late nothing really springs to mind I’m still very slowly reading the book called the burning Chambers by Kate Mosse - Definitely not the model ha ha if that counts

and I got some posh no added sugar free choccies that I purchase occasionally

other than that nothing really springs to mind to be honest, how about you?
👋 hi Skinny Keef

how are you today?
Thanks for the tip about the honey that was really helpful my allergies and throat are already starting to feel a lot better

👋Joan how are you doing today? My cold and allergies are a lot better today Thank you

Mum is okay too

have a good afternoon

👋 hi Jojo how are you doing today?

have a good afternoon everybody take care xx

Ps bills plant - based diet - oh dear 😱😱xx

Jojo_16

Hi bosh I've survived my shift at work but really tired now I hope you are well and I hope you had a good day.

Stuartknee

Hi

Some little slug stripped all the leaves of my RHS tomato & left me with the stalk.

bosh

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hi Jojo that’s good my day wasn’t too bad thank you. Have a good night take care xx

bosh

hi toady

I found a knitted Gandalf to guide you through the street - custard at night lol

Night tc xx

Jojo_16

Good night bosh hope you sleep well.

Jojo_16

I didn't realise excessive sweating was a rheumatoid arthritis symptom I'm sweating buckets lately. I thought I was going though early premenopausal. Anyway I hope everyone sleeps well tonight.

toady

Night bosh hope you sleep well. The local honey tip of Keef's is an interesting theory, having looked it up, it's a bit like (well roughly along the same lines) saving seeds from your own plants because they have a head start at being suited to your local environment. Glad it's helping you 👍️. I haven't done much shopping lately just practical things really I think, or read much either 🤔. You mentioned Shelagh Delaney, she was never on my school curriculum and while I was thinking about that I tried to remember what happened in my 3rd and 4th years because I know we were doing Lord of the Flies and then I moved schools, but was I doing it for O level? oh dear it's all slipping apparently 😬. Excellent knitted Gandalf, I predictably failed to find a custard related quote from the books 😄 but I liked this: “I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. [..] Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.” Oh dear we all know that feeling I think. Glad you have some of 'the nice' chocolate 😀 I have ordered some reduced price Easter eggs in my next shop, bet I don't get them, sale things are usually 'sorry, unavailable' on the day. Stay tuned 😂 xx

Glad you survived work Jojo but that does sound a long day 😣, hope you do sleep, even if it's just from tiredness; someone will no doubt be in here putting the kettle on, if all else fails, good job the cafe never closes 😉 xx

Oh Stuart your poor tomato that's awful, I'm mortified for you, frogmorton will be too ☹️ we've all had it it's so dispiriting. I've had to admit defeat on quite a lot of things I'd really like to grow and moved towards plants that are less attractive to pests but I'd much rather grow what I want 🙄. Hope you can save the others 😟 have a good night love to cats xx

frogmorton

Morning Joan I hope you are doing well today? I am so glad Charlie is attached to a monitor he needs to be and they can sort it out for him. Oh our Matron nurse Bubbles AKA Aidan yes very missed. Whenever it snows and you have to be careful tiptoeing!!!! Take care ((())) xxx

Morning Stuart what?! WHAT?!!!😠I am so cross for you SLUGS Grrrr! Take Reshmi's knitted frog they eat slugs don't they? Toady has had a fair bit of trouble with slugs - not so me I've been quite lucky there not sure why probably a poor garden to be fair. Hope you and your Mum and the cats are ok ((()))

Morning Jojo they are so calming donkeys how anyone could hurt them I do not know😕I used to have the CCTV camera feed of them up on my phone I don't know if you can get that up for your sanctuary too? Hope the kids enjoy their first day back. Be warned the perimenopause starts roughly 10 years before the actual menopause so if you are even 41 it could be, but cloud just as easily be RA. Lucy my youngest had them on chemo - steroids can cause them too in my experience ((()) xxx

Morning Skinny K how the diddly are you? I bet you've got sunny weather and tell me have you got a hosepipe ban yet? can't be far off it's driest I think over your side than anywhere in the UK. Hope Sucré and Anda are doing ok too. ((())) xxx

Morning Reshmi how are you today? Wow so did the honey help? If it was local there is evidence to suggest it's actually possible. Good old Keef! Glad to hear your foot is almost completely better and did not stop you from going for your walk yesterday.

I never thought of getting BR to flatten BIL that would be far quicker than putting him on a diet which must be doomed to failure thinking logically. Louisa is a modern day female hero trailblazer. One day they will erect a monument to her at that school and so they should. In fact shall we start a crowdfunding page?

Imagine BR as grandpa - I rather think he'd be a sweet and kind one though💖

You have been busy knitting. I adored the frog particularly. He is adorable. I want him to come and live with me. If that's possible thanks you😉

A hamburger tree! BIL is joining in the gardening is he? Well I am not sure that counts as plant based😁 I think we have to avoid ultra processed foods don't we🤣

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

Morning Toady you do sound far more your normal self I must say I am pleased. Recovering slowly and here's to a good week!

Yes I had noticed you and Sleek are cut from the same as far as shopping is concerned😂 Still as far as we know we only live once so why not?

Did you see poor Stuarts RHS tomato plant was chomped grrrr! Not at all impressive is it? Poor Stuart. Elfie did indeed run straight in to check in on his seedlings. I am sure you can trust me really to water them, but never mind I am not offended at all.

You do have lots on the go that neither Stuart nor I have got going. Euphorbia not beets wow well well done you and let's see it grow this year not go on the compost heap😯

Compostable seed trays? Wow. I have some bamboo ones. One is cracked (butterfingers here dropped it) they are supposed to be compostable but how many years would that take it's like solid plastic? Surely a fair few. Must check on my compost…..that reminds me🤔

Well you have a good day speak tomorrow ((()) xxx

A very quick hello 👋 to Carol hope all is well. Any results yet to those bloods you had taken? I hope some considerable improvement ((())) xxx