Val's Cafe

Anyone for a brew??

kettle’s on 😁

Good morning everyone wppl xx

Morning all 👋 well nearly lunchtime I suppose, but tea & custard creams in my case, who cares 😄

Sun was shining when I woke up so I thought, 'going to rain, is it frog? I refuse to believe it!', but give it 10 mins & it clouded right over in my face 🙄 has dried up again now, that's something. More seedlings today I hope and more to sow, thank you I shall remember Sleek can be a little heavy-handed with watering 😂 but I do like her little watering can, I keep meaning to get one like it. Her shopping is all here, I have kept one spare treat back for when she has the trip to the you know where. I'm sure it's best doing what Sue does with Joan and the dentist, only tell her on the day 😉. 15? Never 😮 I must find out her secrets, does she use protect and purrfect? 🤔. A few cat hairs in the crochet, well that's a plus surely, like being 1% angora or something. Has Sleek put in an order for you to start one for her, that would solve what to do now you've finished 😬. Well done I bet it's lovely 👍️😊. I caught up on Monty and watched last night's on the actual TV so I'm ahead now. Lovely inspirational things as always. How is the garden furniture coming along? I hope you find some nice things at the book sale. I think I know the little catalogues, are they the ones with a million gadgets to open grip peel chop dice and serve stuff? among other things. Yes quite fun 😄. Have a good day love to all :) xx

Hello Joan, yes I expect it is clock changing day next week 😮 ooer that came round quick. Two bank hols as well I suppose, not keen on them myself 😕. The price you pay for the extra daylight. Oh an old-fashioned funeral procession, gosh, rather a spectacle, were there walking mourners going ahead with top hats? All quiet here today not much to do, have seen Robin yesterday & today, and the magpies. Love to both :) xx

Hi bosh, hope things ok with you today 😊 I had another late walk yesterday, remind me sometime I have to somehow wash out my coat pocket where a bit of mars bar melted into it 😣 I keep forgetting. I went to the little local shop too which is not deeply exciting by anyone's standards. Talking of choc, I see (about the Easter thing), oh very nice, yes BR will have to reach man's estate or whatever it is before he can go too. Fab VC poem I love it, especially the oops moment where our hero trips up over the lady scientists 😄 and the male mafia mosquitoes haha. Glad to hear the blood nurse revelries were not in full swing, it's not quite full moon til Monday so you probably had a narrow squeak there. Hope everyone well and all EF, is Bill all done with as far as drs and tests are concerned and just a matter of dietary management (🐖 might fly I suppose but you never know 😬). Have a good afternoon :) xx

Lovely array of things in that picture Charlestown, all look nice & healthy I could fancy some of those but ought to stick to my guns no more purchases, my seed potatoes were meant to be the last. I am sorted for containers now but will need more compost. I tried carrots once a long they were 'James Scarlet', I don't think I will this year. Beetroot again though, they did ok last time 😊. Do you grow veg all in containers or anything in the ground? I have bought seeds off Am*zon if I couldn't get them elsewhere but usually v pricey, same seller wanted £4+ for something I bought off their own site for 99p (I know there's postage etc but still works out better). I also once bought some white scabious plants & they came pink when they flowered 😣. I know, I know, the school books, I should part with, but... (there's always a 'but' with hoarding isn't there 😄). Illness has made mine worse I think, old things are a reminder of when you were well (& your brain could do geometry &stuff!), if I'd stayed well I wouldn't have the same relationship with them maybe. I have a charity bag collection Monday I will find them something I expect, good luck with yours. Have a nice trip to the garden centre if you go 😊. xx

'Lo SK ta for the tea 👍️ cracking brew as always 😊. Have a good afternoon hope everyone well :) xx

Interesting stories about people's blood groups. My Dad used to donate they wouldn't want mine whatever it is 😬 shame.

Love to all 😘 xx

There is a rumour that SK has just got back from a bass guitar safari 😳

Hi again Toni

BR has already expressed a desire to go to Reading on holiday, but he’s still a bit too young and also hasn’t spent as much time as LA did here at a comparable age, so in reality he’s still a bit shy of us sometimes, yes LA doesn’t like to share generally lol, would be hard too you’re right 👍

my mum said LA is coming here on Easter Monday, what’s happening the previous day etc I didn’t dare ask as she was in a bit of a mood, but not an extreme mood thankfully 👍

yes it’s funny how little boys only like to play with each other at that age

yes eyedrops, I still haven’t worked that one out either at the moment I’ve got a bottle of both types, but they are from “loots”, I go through the expensive ones so quickly you see, I agree my eyes are itchy and dry and “hay fever- ey” and sensitive and the list goes on lol, nothings ever simple is it?

ok I’ll go for now Toni have a good night tc xx

ps bill again lol xx

Hi all 👋👋😀

@toady i bought some charlotte seeded potatoes today 99p a bag. I also bought 2 Forsythia bushes a bargain £4.99 each. My son is in the growing game now he chose spring onions, chives & dill. Never tried growing beetroot thats a thought…. also got a really nice large pot shell planter, mini windmills & a lovely butterfly for the fence. Oh and secateurs which i needed badly last yr.I love mini windmills 😀The pic i posted of the veg is at my garden centre yes & there will be alot more there than that. I called at a store today a few mins drive from home, Foam Bargains Lol. They have a great selection of seeds,bushes, garden stuff cheap too 😀I need compost too. I grow in planters. I totally get the reason for keeping yr schoolwork. I attach good memories to things too.Didnt make it to the garden centre but ive done alright really today.but my ankles were burning by the time i got home but i had drivento the other side of town also to take my son to a hosp.appt so i had been out quite a long time. First time in about a month that so feet up for the night after that. I like the protect & purrfect pun 😀👍

Yes Bamazon is expensive i noticed that too so thats why i grabbed the forsythias today!

@Skinny Keef welcome bk SK how u feeling??? Sorry i missed u earlier been out getting stiff done!

@frogmorton yes the pic is at my garden centre they will have alot more than that. I slways grow ftom pkug if poss as i have nowhere to grow seeds indoors really & even outside it can get windy around the back i dont lnow where my son is planting his seeds, i see him stealing some of my troughs or maybe his shoe boxes he will use 😀you just reminded me i need cherry toms plant. My son is trying spring inions this yr. you have a good selection to grow & i agree only grow what u eat. I have one hanging basket at the front i plant it up myself but it has stm a big ivy in it then i add to it.have u made a blanket? That sounds nice 💕

@dachshund blimey Joan make sure you dont get blown away!!🤦🏼‍♀️Thats kind of someone to chase yr hat & retrieve it. Been terrible weather here today really overcast & dark, windy & more rain.The hearse horse look beautiful dont they? I always stop to look. Its a beautiful way to be transported to yr final resting place.

@bosh hows hows yr day been? Did u walk today??i have to have more bloods too. I hope yrs are fine.is it quiet at home this evening?

Good morning you lovely café peoples.

just having a morning cuppa as I slept right through from midnight, woohoo!!!! Lol.

hope everyone ok. Or as ok as can be expected. I am in the latter category.

did a small trip in Loanda’s car and am still paying the price headache wise. We should have done car and bike but I wanted to use the journey time to be with Sucré. They both currently snoring in the other bedroom. He was poorly again with cold whilst we away and I had to go on a special solo mission to secure supplies of calpol and Vapor rub. (No we didn’t pack any. Mistake noted and lesson duly learnt.) How did we cope before satnav talked us through journeys step by step? Although the built in one in Anda’s car had a hissy fit at one point and we ended up down a cul de sac on a housing estate. Think it needs an update. Mind you, so do I! Skinny Keef 2.0

Loanda says she thinks they both have long covid with this re-occurring cold/flu thing. They both caught covid together a while back and ever since have had symptoms on and off. No one could possibly contract so many infections, so I think she is right.

okay, that’s it wppl 😉 xx

Oh almost forgot, cold snap coming tonight and tomorrow so gardeners beware and cover up any vulnerable plants that think the frosts had finished.

Thanks Keef!! Will do👍

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) Have a good day. I read yesterday a 12 year old boy stabbed someone. I could not find anything about it has it came up on my iPad. I hope you have a good week.

Toni (()) have a good day. It must be different having 5 at a meal and now it’s two. Yes I hope your friend has a good time in the caravan. She must be feeling more relaxed than last year.if that’s the right word. Love to Paul (()) and Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) love to you and your mum (()) have a good day.

Skinny Keef (()) have a good day that’s good you had a good nights sleep. Love to Sucr’e (()) and Loanda (())

Charlestown (()) have a good day. We have the sun at the moment. I have cappuccino coffee pods.

love to Barbara and Kitty and anyone else who’s in.

Hi all 👋

Chilly start but has been really nice all day since, not a spot of rain. Cue the lawnmowing brigade, I swear there are only 3 people left here with any grass, but at least 5 people have been out mowing today 🙄 and I'm not counting the horrible strimmers twice, so I have no idea.

Some quite good sun for seedlings frog, until we get SK's cold snap which we could all do without 😔 have not done much today as I have some packaging to do and am writing Easter letters, one minute it was early but allowing for Good Fri they have to go off by Tues/Weds. Still managed a bit of clipping and tidying though. Watering cans are tricky 🤔 I have an old family one in the garden too but yes they do rust in the end. I've found myself looking at small ones sometimes and they are not functional, or meant for planters etc, yes all you need is what you say. I need a new mister too mine is a hopeless sprayer. Do hope the decking will behave itself now and not try and inflict GBH on people 😣. Yes a picture of blanket anytime please 😊 I learnt a new word this week, 'orts', the bits of thread you snip off when doing needlework. Not sure if this goes for wool ends too, Kari probably would. Glad you got some nice books, anything suitable for the cats' book club? 😸 Oh jaw slapping, yes I think that's what I'm missing, would Sleek be able to do me too I feel she would have the right firm touch 😬. Have a good new week, some fine weather I hope :) xx

Hello joan, hope you have had a nice fine day too. I am packing a parcel for Germany today, nearly done, then must go to the postbox too. How awful the stabbing incident, they seem to get younger and younger, horrible times to be growing up in 😕. Love to both and the dear dogs :) xx

Hi bosh hope your Sunday is going ok 😊 how are the temperatures for you, it's a bit variable isn't it. I love the Noah's ark pic, that's hilarious, 'I tried 2 of everything' 😂 so funny. School reunions, omg no, not for all the tea in China and VC combined 😱. I don't even keep up with what's happening to old schools of mine except I think most of the ones I went to have been knocked down, there's only one of those I'm quite sad about. Good luck in advance for the rheumatology appt 👍️ probably quite handy not to have LA this weekend. Might try a postbox walk later I'm afraid bill will have to go without my chocolate-trimmed coat it's my only suitable mid-weight one and even bill could probably only get so enthusiastic over the remains of a fun-size bar (not sure where the fun is at the price they are now and that's own brand I might add). Have a good evening 👋 :) xx

Hi SK, well done getting some decent sleep and on the various stuff you've got done 👍️ not good if family have got the long covid though, stupid covid, what a mess it's made for people. Hope the effects lessen maybe in the summer will help too. Hope you have a good evening, I will be having cold apple crumble at some point, home made of course 🤥 enjoy anything you're cooking. What did you bag on your guitar browsing/shopping, anything? or was that rumour fake news 😉 xx

We can all get on with our spuds now @Charlestown 😀 it will be interesting for me first time, and to hear how we all get on. I envy your garden centre, not that there aren't any near but not driving puts a bit of a crimp in things. It annoys me when sometimes I google a product and it's at a place that turns out to be a fairly small business that delivers only within a certain radius of where they are, but very often free local delivery 🙄. Well I've got several places in this area but none of them are ever free delivery 🤷‍♀️. Hope you get some good compost, reviews are often mixed online and I don't want to get the dreaded fungus gnats if I can help 😱 but you have to take your chances I suppose and anyway won't be using for indoor purposes. Glad you got some nice decorative things as well 😊. Hope the ankles are not too bad today🤞xx

Love to everyone 😘 xx

Hi Joan

how are you both doing today?

Mum is ok thanks

im not too bad thanks I’ve just got a bit of a cold

have a nice evening tc xx

ps green matcha tea pudding xx

hi toady

you how are you today?

” 2 of everything” that’s a good one. I didn’t think of that haha

temperatures are a bit variable. I agree this morning I got the layers wrong and went out without one of the extra cardigans. Never mind I’ve got a bit of a cold but nothing extreme Thank you

I see a medium warmth coat infused with chocolate of any kind will be a great temptation to Bill I’m sure. Oh yes, I agree about fun size chocs, normal people would not be tempted by just a trace of chocolate very true.

It’s been an okay Sunday thanks well compared to how bad it could’ve been haha, dad went out for a walk but not a postbox walk though, I like that term “postbox walk”, it Reminds me of the term “letterbox hampers” and “letterbox chocolates” that you can sometimes get on nosegay, but I’m not really sure what the point is of those because some of those things seem quite expensive considering that the quantity is only big enough to get through a letterbox, Very strange.

My rheumatology appointment is at 4.00 pm tomorrow so it’s really not a great time. I hope my stomach settles fully before then it’s just an odd sort of time really, morning would be no problem, lunchtime not ideal but okay, I guess I’ll just be waiting around all day and controlling food and hoping that there’s no gastric incidents - now there’s a name for the novel we may write together “ The mysterious expired chocolate infused coat and the gastric incident” lol. Oh well we can only do what we can do I guess

hope you have a nice night. It’s going to be cold one I hear so wrap up warm Have a good night toady

👋good night also to SK and C

Take care everyone xx