Val's Cafe

Hello all, hope you are as well as can be.

Barbara, how lovely having a visit from your daughter and the baby. How are your sinuses and your headaches lately? Have you had your ENT appointment yet?

Christine, OH still uses one of those tin openers, I could never get the hang of them, even OH is reducing the use of it and buying cans with ring pulls. :shock:

Oh Cate, how awful, I hope it settles down before your family arrive.

I've opened an online account with a certain dairy company who sell more than just milk. I was surprised to see they even sell bags of compost and bags of bark chippings. Difficult to get home on a bus. :? So we ordered two of each, along with fertilizer pellets, milk, bread, toilet rolls (9 pack) and washing up liquid. Arriving tomorrow hopefully. Getting heavy items like milk and other stuff will save OH's arms and back. I'll let you know how we get on.

Barbara, I didn't realise it could take such a long time to get braces sorted out. I didn't think it would be more than a few weeks. Mango still has about another 4 weeks before he flies to Oz. I could do with him back here. I was checking my big outdoor plant pots and found a cat had left it's calling card in one. I did tell my daughter that I thought Mango must have done it before he left but she doesn't think he could have reached. I hope you get a reasonable price for your furniture. It feels good clearing spaces. I need to do some more.

Kath, I don't blame your husband going for ring pulls. Those old openers weren't easy to use. What a good idea of the company selling compost and chippings. I've often done without things like that because I couldn't carry them on the bus.

Joan, wonder what the problem was yesterday. I'm sure others have had a problem logging in in the past.

I managed to make a start on clearing up around the pond today. I have a fir tree in the corner which I cut way back last summer and it is now covered in ivy. I noticed it has managed to creep under the fence and is now making it's way up next door's shed. :? I've been hungry all day but trying not too eat too much as my weight is creeping up a bit too much.

Hello Christine Barbara and anyone else who's in.
Christine what plant's have you got in you tub's.
Barbara I hope the man come's early for you.
take care
joan xx

I think I've spotted you on fb applerose so I'll friend request you.

Elizabeth

Barbara, so the furniture man didn't turn up. Hope he does come tomorrow. A whole day of staying in for nothing. You must have a good postman. I remember when my postman retired. He said he was going to spend time out on his motor bike and his bicycle. That was over 20 years ago and I still see him out every morning on his cycle. It's a proper racing bike and he wears all the gear. He must be in his 80s now. Hope you do get your appointment tomorrow.

Joan, I have quite a few tubs. There are roses, blueberries, a golden Delicious apple tree, a cooking apple tree, a twisted hazel, a silver birch, a Swiss cheese plant, and a few more but can't think what at the moment. I grow trees in tubs so they don't get too big. Hope your bruises have gone now.

Elizabeth, I bet you're glad the room is finished now. Hope your daughter likes it. It sounds as if Dan did have a good time. Hope he feels better soon. Yes you did find me. I've accepted.

I often email my MP asking him what he thinks about something or to ask him to support something. A few months ago, I got an email from him offering to show me round the Houses of Parliament. The email used my name. Today, I got an email to thank me for supporting him and hoped he had answered all my questions but it started 'Dear Resident .....'. I'm upset now. I think he's forgotten who I am. And I wonder if the offer of a visit to the H of P still stands.

Keep forgetting to tell you. In the window of one of the charity shops in our High Street is 'The dress'. You know, the black and blue/gold and white dress. It is being raffled. To be honest, I don't know if it's the one and only dress or just one of many.

Afternoon Barbara, Joan, Elizabeth, Christine, and whoever else pops in.

Although it's sunny, it's still very cold here. Especially in the wind.

Barbara, sorry to hear you are still suffering with your sinuses. Hope you get your ENT appointment soon. Mine isn't too bad, mainly catarrh now, which makes me deaf in my left ear. Last time it was my right one, which needed syringing. Don't think that's the problem this time. :?

Christine, I emailed our MP when they closed our Post Office down. This is quite an elderly community, many are disabled and can't manage the bus. We have to go into the nearest town to the PO there. The MP is leaving before the GE, and sent me a letter asking me what I wanted her to do with the information I'd sent her. It was in the form of a tick box.
1. Destroy it
2. Pass it on to whoever is elected in, no matter who they are.
3 Pass iton to (designated name) if they are elected.
I chose 2. But I doubt if we will get a replacement PO, as they need a shop to host it and none of the shopkeepers want the bother. I asked if we could maybe have a mobile PO once a week, just for the elderly to collect their pension.

Elizabeth, have you spotted me on FB yet? My profile pic is Tulips and my main page header is Daffodils. Trying to remind myself it IS actually spring in spite of the cold weather. :roll: Hope Dan gets better soon.

Bit late for breakfast, but will have some hot buttered muffins with an egg anyway - that's something you can eat any time of day.

How lovely that you gave the postie a gift. 35 years is a long time! Yes there are going to be photographs of Dan on his trip but I haven't seen them yet. I could see how some of the paintings were done and it did inspire me but don't think I'll ever be as good as them.

Our neighbours moved out yesterday. Now I wonder who will buy the place. I'm amazed at the price it is selling for and it is smaller than ours as we have an extension. It gave me hope that we could buy somewhere nice in the countryside after all.

Hoping Joan is now recovered from the bruising.

elizabeth xxxx

Hi, literally just to say hello & will be in tomorrow hopefully, things a bit of a scramble this pm as have had to pack an e*ay parcel and have someone coming tomorrow to pick up a bit of furniture too (must be catching barbara! hope you got a fair price in the end.. if he turned up) - oh and I have 10 mins to get into the site that sells dairy goods of which Kath spake. No panic or anything. For heaven's sake no-one mention the clocks changing. Oh, they already have. Oh lordy.

Love to all xx

Hello Toni Barbara Cate and anyone else who's in.
I hope you all have a good weekend.
take care.
joan xx

Hi all I've missed a fair bit too, so I'll just pitch in ad hoc & hope I haven't missed too much. My furniture lady turned up ok (lovely bit of empty space!) and I then was 45mins on the phone to a friend that was going to be a quick chat, so I'm just sitting down in a nice little lull with a plate of coffee & walnut cake. Help yourselves.

Glad your chap was ok barbara and it sounds as if he was reasonable with you (as he could have stuck to 40-50, having started at that sort of figure). Spare space for you too, hopefully hard to stop things creeping back in though. :? What a nice postie. Lovely to have one all that while, especially as they get to know you and also then know where you like things left etc. Jolly good for applerose's cycling octogenarian I suppose, but I have to say, seeing him whiz past my house still going at that age would try my capacity to be pleased for others. :oops:

I don't have any outdoor big pots but I'd like some, have seen nice little fruit bushes etc but I know mine would not look like that, all compact & well-trained. Still contemplating pot-plant murder but will have to toughen up & not give in to qualms (I'll never make a trained assassin!) Have you sneaked up on yours yet applerose. Interesting to hear one of the dresses is in your local shop (definitely, white & gold). Wonder what they'll raise from raffling it.

Sorry to hear Dan has been poorly TK. Hope the SS are fair and open-minded with you today. Very nice to know your local properties are doing a bit better than you thought! though I don't care much for the idea you can look up house sales on the net quite so easily, if you are just anybody I mean, it's a bit intrusive. Much like g**gle maps, which I still think should have stuck to town centres etc. Glad the room got finished and you're warming to it a bit.

Thank you frog & barbara for your kind photo thread comments there's not really too much different in this one, but it was nice to re-arrange it and tweak it a bit. It will be lock it at some point, or that's the idea, just so that it stays simple - hope people will pm me instead though with any suggestions or corrections!

Yes it was a bit of a dizzy-smiley evening frog owing to the e*ay lady being short notice. Much quieter now. Did think I'd sold another little cabinet but it turned out to be too far for the person to come. Shame.

Hope the egg muffin was nice Kath. I don't think I've ever written to my MP, which I see makes me not very civic-minded. :? It is cold here especially with the wind & rain, I'm sure the forecast was for 15 or 16 today at one point, obviously they backtracked when I wasn't looking :roll: maybe the start of BST will make us feel warm. Sorry you are still deaf in the one ear currently, I will speak up (or repeat myself like Fred Elliott, I say, like Fred Elliott - whichever you prefer!)

Hello joan, hope it's not as cold for you. A peephole would be nice to see who's around but I have a very glass-y porch so I have to look out upstairs if possible - luckily I usually know who's expected, & if not, ignore callers (Jehovah's today).

Love to anyone else reading, going to slice up the cake. xx

ps barbara we are talking about milk & m*re, or I assume Kath is too, order online etc. I've had compost off them too, very handy indeed with no delivery charge.

Yes, Toni, my dad went to prison for a coffee. The carers have told me they threaten to leave him, and a couple of the other residents, there if they don't behave. Will leave the chocolate eggs here next weekend or they'll all be gone before Easter. I've found Elizabeth, Barbara and Kath, thanks. You have some fantastic prizes lined up for the charity do.

Barbara, glad your furniture has gone now and you got a reasonable amount. My left ear goes deaf quite often for a couple of days. It must drive you nuts lasting as long as it has.

Joan, hope you and Sue are having a good weekend.

Kath, hope you are having a good weekend.

Toady, coffee and walnut cake? Just reminded me, I meant to call in to M&S to pick one up and forgot so I'll have a slice of yours please. I've managed to cut back a few bits of some shrubs. Little by little and I'll have it done just in time to start all over again. No, the dress is definitely black and blue. Let's not start that again.

Went in to town today to get a birthday present for my GD who will be 2 next Friday, Easter eggs for 3 of my GC, some gluten-free pies from the farmers market and a couple of things for my dad. Got everything but the birthday present. Where's the Arg*s catalogue?