Val's Cafe

This is me hoping for some sunshine today!

Morning Joan I was hoping the weather would improve and get warmer not colder 😕 Still if there's less rain at least I'll be happy! How is Jaki's ex husband doing? Love to you and Sue ((())) xxx

Morning Skinny K Hope you're ok and got back to sleep.

Get you and Charlestown having a full-blown night time conversation. Years ago we used to have two threads, a bit like the café. One called early birds (me and a few others) and the other called night owls for the late night chatters. It can really help when you're struggling to be able to chat with others in the same position - you feel less isolated don't you think?

Well done finally getting rid of the cab sounded a right faff. At least it's gone now and well done being so persistent. I have been known to give up with returning parcels especially with evri and gone to the post office instead paying for it to go back instead of wasting time.

I do not currently have any decent headphones I am inclined to lose them unfortunately like Charlestown's boy or break them. The ones I 'sort of' have at the moment don't actually work very well I wonder whether that store to which you refer is still selling them or was that going back in time?

Lucy had a serious chipmunk face on steroids with her leukaemia it does go back to normal pretty quickly thank goodness.

Have a good day!

Morning Charlestown Have you got your iron tablets yet? If so you lose nothing by taking them an hour before food and drinking the orange juice with you food. Definitely dodge tea/coffee with your food though as the tannin I think affects iron absorption too.

You are doing well recovering so quickly now, but I'm glad to see you are doing the 'feet up' bit too ☺️

Maybe you can get the blue flowering bush in a smaller version? 28 is quite a lot of money I think. Is it possible to take a cutting from next door's? Just a thought.....

Take care I hope you got enough sleep last night.

Morning Reshmi

I am very glad to hear your Mum is ok and that her mood improved after a good sleep. How are you though? I hope doing ok.

Poor shy grass😁cute translation. Who gave you that pic of Toady's hair on a 'good' day🤣 Mind mine is not much better. Ok we will not mention ETB if you are low on medical supplies🤐.

Not a lot of choice is fine at a restaurant l think as long as what they do provide is tasty (and in our case does not adversely affect our stomachs too much). Of course BIL would have coped with a restricted menu just by ordering extra portions or just trying everything available. Bless him. He has not yet learned to respect the stomach oracle like you, Toady and myself. Foolish man.

How adorable is LA's scientist outfit more white coat or more David Attenborough explorer? I am trying to picture him. You sister is right to encourage him I bet he looks dead cute.

It's definitely warmer I am having extra hot flushes while I adjust particularly at night.... Hope you sneaked into that shower without being caught😉

Take care Reshmi ((())) xxx

PS love the cat sofa, but can't quite work out where a human cat sit comfortably 🤔

Morning Toady

Looks clear outside here although there is evidence of overnight rain. It may well be chilly in the sun, but I still want to be out in it!

Now I know pinching out id important as per Monty's instructions, but do you feel guilty like I do? I hate potentially 'hurting' anything. I think your sweet-peas will be lovely and bushy this year. No I am also behind with GW but will need a sit down at some point to catch up. So excited spring is really here!

Like you I did a little more weeding not a huge amount but better than nothing. Less disturbances yesterday. Glad you liked Brian. Wasn't he adorable? So tiny. Yesterday I saw a vole scuttling across the lane he was sweet too although l failed to get a pic he was very fast.

Sleek is trying to late the sofa that Bosh found expect her to spend quite a bit of time on that today Toady.

Yes I must grow something fast I mean fast and wear my headphones and practice my 'deaf' face. Bland and unaware like this😐️

I will go directly to my PMs... thank you.

Harrrods Tiffany's breakfast for us all. Pinkies out everyone!

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) we have a lot of rain this week so they say. We get our plants from Parker’s. Have a good day.

Toni (()) Have a good day. Jaki never mentions her ex husband she is more worried about her Dad. How is Paul getting on with his Arthritis (()) love to Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) The weather man says it’s going to be colder at the end of the week. Love to your mum (())

Skinny Keef (()) I’m sorry you have so much pain I hope it calms down today (()) love to Sucr’e (()) and Loanda (())

Charlestown (()) yes sue goes out every day she don’t like staying in. She hasn’t got Arthritis. Have a good day

Afternoon all ☕️

Sunny again 😄 will be going to & fro today putting seed trays in the sunniest windowsills or outside while the brightness is here. Yes I do wince rather when pinching out frog 😬 doesn't come naturally (also I always think well there's no pinching out in nature so the plant must sort of know itself best 🤔). Anyway I'll do what I have to. Ta for the other (better) code 👍 your sources are superior apparently haha, that may well be handy 😊 as you know I expect, that firm sell on nosegay & catazon as well, the prices vary such a lot I was surprised 😮. Will get some more done today I hope, you too, good luck with the seeds when you get them. A vole, oh a vole! Fabulous! Have I ever seen one? 🤔 Not for a long time anyway, something came to mind but a shrew I think it was. Yes I wouldn't shift from that sofa in a hurry either, well you could sleep on it really, if a cat (or a lot more flexible than some of us 😬) so as I'm making a shopping order today I'll add a few things from Sleek's favourites list in absentia, save disturbing her 😄. Have a good day :) xx

Hope you feel better for some sleep bosh, especially as you went into town and have stuff tomorrow too, will call in later & see what's going on, no worries as always about replies there was no news from me just admiring my lovely hairdo 😄.

Hello joan, rain due again?! I jolly well hope not 😣 you soon forget how awful it was when it's been fine for a day or so. Will hurry a few jobs while I can and hope maybe the rain will veer away over someone else that deserves it more than us 😉.

Have a good day Charlestown 👍 I will be pottering again I hope. No more painting for me at the moment though I should do another radiator really while it's nice 😒. Yes I do nearly all my clothes shopping online but it's almost as hard to find stuff as if you were trying on in-store, hate having to send stuff back for not fitting it's disappointing. I quite liked trawling round the shops in the old days though 😄 but they were better shops, so I guess the timing of the internet and the arthritis was kind of lucky if you can call it that 😬. Clothes and nosegay, well that's a very funny one, lovely things go round unsold and others sell for no reason you can see in particular, sometimes with quite high post 🤷‍♀️. There is certainly a lot of turnover though if you just looked at what sells in a day. Interesting about your pricey headphones I always wonder if this stuff is any better really; not always, apparently. Hope the ankles are behaving today 🤞xx

Ooh SK what a palaver to get the speaker cab returned! I hate this stuff. Someone sent me a wrong item off nosegay this week, they sent my item to someone else & me theirs. I returned that for a refund intending to start again, now the other buyer has sent my thing on to me directly, it's a right mess 😬 😄. The plot thickens with the people away til the 19th, my seller marked my item dispatched yesterday by supposedly RM 'special by 1pm', but then marked themselves away til the 22nd. 1pm has come and gone, surprise surprise 🙄 shan't hold my breath. Have a good afternoon hope you got in the bunker, and that everyone's ok :) xx

Teas/coffees/sandwiches/lunches as applicable 👋 xx

Hi toady

how are you?

a serendipitous choice of restaurant indeed

definitely beats chicken nuggets too

i actually saw a short subtitled Korean tv comedy on “That ain’t W****bix” as the Americans call it lol called “Chicken Nugget” about a girl who turned into the aforementioned snack, hopefully it wasn’t Ellie The Biter, mind you if biter became “bitee” so to speak, there maybe some poetic justice of sorts- just be sure LA has eaten a whole block of cheese, as no one should eat their friends or rather their brother’s friends at the age of 5 - at the age of 6 - I can make no guarantees haha.

The nosegay sellers are having a communal holiday? How strange, maybe they’ve gone down to the woods for a teddy bear - related picnic? As long as the salted ibuprofen is not in the sandwiches that’s ok I guess.

ok I’ll go for now toady

have a nice afternoon tc xx

For anyone following the thrilling saga my nosegay parcel did turn up, ordinary 1st class post, but that was still very quick for someone who was supposedly away 😀. So I take back everything I said about the seller and will leave glowing feedback.

Have defrosted the fridge, done a line of washing and unclogged my very slow draining kitchen sink, oh the glamour 😂 actually I think I am almost as excited about my new sink plunger as SK about his bins, so yes being boring has got me too 😂.

Waves to bosh 👋 I'm ok today thank you, not a bad day, just have to finish my grocery shop now. They keep taking things out of my basket and because the offers are complicated I have to choose a different 'so many items for £x' combination to make it work. Never mind. No cheese whatever in my order so any biters or bitees will have to look elsewhere. That short 'comedy' you mention, more like horror film 😱 just imagine! How did it end or dare I not ask 😄. It made me think of the band Half Man Half Biscuit, well a biscuit half has to be a better fate. Yes I do definitely think the nosegayers have gone down to the woods today, it's all very mysterious, maybe if I had marked myself away that's the trigger for receiving an invite - think I may have missed a trick there. Good luck with the dentist tomorrow I hope things are ok :) xx

Sorry your paint is stinky Charlestown, yes you need a very good airing everything out day for that. My radiator paint is quite strong too but not horrible just very 'painty'. Luckily the emulsion is great you could practically do the room you were in and not mind too much. Going back to clothes shopping, I used to also shop with a really nice catalogue I liked a lot, such nice things loads of choice, then they went downhill over time and now sell a lot of other brands stuff instead of their own, which I hate, seeing the same things everywhere. Seems to be the way with lots of companies now. Anyway I am bidding on a totally unsuitable pair of shoes on nosegay tonight so wish me luck 😄 I mostly wear boots but once in a blue moon buy something just because I like it, well I can look at them and imagine I'm someone else 👍️ can't just buy stuff like sink plungers all the time can you 😂. xx

Kettle on ☕️

👋Charlestown, I’m not sure what the supper repast will contain yet maybe I could come round to yours? 😂

👋Toni,

how are you this evening?

I’m not too bad thanks.

I went out to the town centre today instead of going to the group because of the dentists torture tomorrow, well I hope it’s not a torture but it may well be anyway even if it is it won’t last long.

I think you’re right about LA scientist uniform. It’s a bit David Attenborough- esque, but don’t tell him that he’s very much into his new senior scientist role as it were.

Mum is ok today thanks I think she was just tired

I’m ok thanks Toni,

I’d timed the shower wrong yesterday so I didn’t get time to rest when I needed to but i survived had a relatively early night and then was fine thanks, I do have a bit of a cold though but I feel better after resting just now 👍

Yes I agree with you limited choice in a restaurant in not necessarily a bad thing, the bowls were not quite large enough to eat comfortably as it were, it would have been easier if the bowls were a bit wider, but apart from dad playing up and the standing near the menopausal frying area it was a good experience thanks.

I take your point about the large boxes of the Japanese pancakes, but i know I have too much of a sweet tooth so I’m not buying them unless some littleys or their greedy father visit lol, yes you’re right there, most people don’t blatantly ignore doctors advice or their own common sense when it comes to important health problems- very strange indeed.

Yes LA looked very cute indeed in his explorer/ ultimate scientist garb lol, he was also photographed holding the certificate with a look of false modesty on his face, it was so funny.

I’ll stop for now as I’ve just got a few things to do

bye for now Toni take care xx

ps mini blueberry cakes xx

Morning all 👋

Too much time online for me yesterday so will be good today 😇 do anything I want early then try & stay off it a bit. I put my shopping off til tomorrow frog so Sleek is in plenty of good time for any small requests, no furniture, don't really want any 2 man deliveries (or 4 man for the sofa I expect? or 6?!).Then again she would have it delivered directly to yours wouldn't she, at which point it becomes your problem 😮. How about you & catalogue shopping, talking about clothes last night, did you like it back when there were some nice ones? Browsing and making notes & bookmarks was always quite fun I thought. Internet bookmarks just add up & get out of hand as we all know 😱. Drizzly here shan't expect much of a day but will just have to do indoor stuff - not many seedlings yet, so more sun would have been good 😕. That's a good wheelbarrow, fun for Mabel (they can take turns, I don't mind pushing, just to be noble you understand not because it's fun for me😉). Ladybirds, yes they are definitely around, have seen several outdoors, I suppose it's been mild people would say. Hope for no real cold snaps now. Have a good day :) xx

Good morning to Joan & Sue, yes too early for me really, odd to be before you, Joan, will wish you a good day in advance 😊 xx

Hi bosh hope everything goes as well as possible for you 👋 not so windy today I hope, emergency hair clips, yes not surprising yesterday 🌪️ok for washing, not for people. Take care see you anon 😊 xx

Love to SK and a sympathetic cup of tea on the house whenever you're next passing, the table in the quiet corner is good for feeling a bit down I find xx

Have a good day Charlestown, hope you had an ok night even though you were awake & in here, & that you have room for some breakfast 😄. Glad you got some skirts you like, when did I last wear one 🤔 a wedding I think, must have been the nineties 😮😄. I really must have another turnout but I worry there would just be one big 'don't like/doesn't suit me' pile on one side and nothing left on the other.. I know the sorting TV prog you mean I have seen a few mins here & there, oh gosh the likes of SS would be so ruthless with me I dread to think 😬😂! xx

Have a good day all 😘 xx

Good morning everyone wppl xx

ps funny spelling humour and look someone is impersonating the toady ! I’ll have to consultant the scientist about what to do next xx