Val's Cafe

Morning all

Sorry yesterday was a nightmare garden cleared but paying for it now.

Hope you all have a great day xx

hi Toni

How are you today?

Mums bs is ok 👍

I just about managed a walk before the somewhat unbalanced canines and (other) Englishwomen went out in the midday sun lol

I guess yesterday I was too hot to rest properly in the afternoon

So that may have made me feel drained

To be honest am a bit on the drained side now - but that’s just toady and her 3 am thermostat adjusting again lol

BR actually took four crackers upstairs in case mima was hungry, but he ate three on the journey up those stairs - bless

LA mostly believes my stories- but once he said “ that’s not true, in fact you are lying” - my goodness I must learn my place and stay downstairs with the rest of the help, wait that’s not right lol.

Ok Toni

In desperate need of ablutions

Bye for now tc xx

Ps toady’s in charge of transport control 😱😱

@toady Thank you, it needed doing and all the rubbish gone it's a different place now lol Hope today has been a good one x

@toady it cost me 150 for the rubbish scrap they collect for free, I try not to use the council as Croydon is the worse! it was a great place while the kids were growing up but now it's too big for me but I have found someone who wants to put a compost bin in my garden and he will keepthe grass cut so win/win

hi Toni

Jigsaws are great by the way

Wish I was better at them though lol

I haven’t got the Toni - expertise 👍

LA’s birthday celebration on Saturday of next week we’re going to MH

LA and BR went to the library with Bill and got a storybook simply entitled ‘ Grandma’ -how cute ❤️

Have a good evening Toni and take care xx

hi toady

How are you today?

I trust you’re leaving the thermostat alone overnight at least? Lol

I’ve got a new job for you Enterprise- upgrader! Yes we still need it upgraded, it was confirmed by chief scientist and boffin LA - after all he will be 6 years old soon - so, respect your elders please 😂

Have a good night toady tc xx

Hi C

How are you? I know what you mean, sometimes I get very tired during the daytime too.

Have a good night tc xx

hi Joan

How are you?

The fatigue wasn’t so bad today thanks 👍

Mums ok too, have a nice night Joan tc xx

👋 @sandeelilly how are you?

I’m not too bad thanks

Good night tc xx

Good night to SK too of course

Good night everybody xx

Ps an insight into to bill’s office life lol xx

hi toady

I was on the wrong page of messages and only read your penultimate one just now

Sorry about that

Diithium indeed? Let’s hope NASA isn’t reading this lol

Good night tc xx

Ps pride rabbit - who only bites “accidentally” lol xx

Morning Joan hope you're doing ok today? That puppy was adorable to young to go on the floor not having had all her jabs yet. You'd have loved her so much. Arm not so good in the end yesterday especially on walks not sure why - I'm not walking on it am I😁Have a good day ((())) xxx Oh Sleek is having her first solensia jab this morning.

Morning Skinny Keef I do hope everything is ok and that you have only been busy enjoying the nice weather and are not struggling more that usual ((())) xxx

Morning Sandeelily wow your garden is HUGE!!! Let me at it! (as If I could manage yours as well as mine!)

If you cleared all that I am not at all surprised you needed a day to recover. I hope you have some help doing it all? Such a huge job. I hope that having someone to cut the grass while using your land for a compost will help loads in future. Or 'going forwards' as they say these days🤭

Morning Reshmi How are you today? I hope not quite as exhausted and that your Mum's bs is ok.

Cooler again today i think so we should be ok today.

Has Toady been at the thermostat again?🙄

I think with jigsaws it's time and patience you need.

A birthday 'do' coming up then for our LA please don't tell me he'll be 6😮 when did that happen? I bet it will be a very entertaining day anyway plenty of escapades to report back to his 'fans' in the cafe😊

I am very impressed BIL took them to the library at all where there is almost certainly no food🤔 BUT the book choice was just adorable I love it so sweet l bet your Mum was chuffed.

When LA grows up he will remember a lot of your stories and tell his own children about his Auntie Mima's imaginative story-telling. You are absolutely not relegated to 'downstairs' with the help😂

BR can eat 3 crackers in one go?! Wow and still be slim? How kind to bring you one up though🤗

Take care today ((())) xxx

Morning Charlestown how are you?

I see you managed a bit of a potter yesterday i did too not as much as ; wanted but there never is enough time. I did some ironing as well🙄 Getting ready to go to France in search of your hydrangea……

Of course I bought some plants it was a great morning. Apart from the left handed tea pouring and the left handed washing up! Wouldn't it have been fun if you had popped in. Well all of us from the cafe imagine that?!😊

Hope your day is a good one I am off to the vets this morning. I think a TC from GP for meds review too.🙄

Morning Toady

Hope you're ok Toad? Sleek is having her arthritis jab this morning The birds are making a racket outside (babies trying to flay perhaps?) hope that she doesn't recover so well that she starts trying to catch baby birds again😥 Isn't she beautiful though?

Did my ironing to GW yesterday I am up to date!!!!! Get me! You too I see and I noticed you were ahead of him too with some of your jobs. He did look well no doubt his comfrey tea😉

I agree about your euphorbia I was thinking the same about my 1 cosmos and 5 ageratums🙄 Definitely not enough to fill our gardens for summer. I will come back from France before I hit and GCs for bedding plants. Don't want to give Kari too much to water do I?

I have @ted Woofy and linked her a bit back so far with no luck. We need her out of the Foyer and in here where she can get a cuppa and slice of cake.

Sleek will no doubt be over later cussing me for taking her to the vets for yet another jab😕 Darcey's language was atrocious no idea who taught her I know it wasn't Kari herself. Yes the tube of Yews is a nightmare Kari is thoroughly sick of it. I hope that poor man sorted his algorithm out what a nightmare not at all restful😯

Better get something done Toad hope you have a good day.

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) Years ago we moved into a maisonette the lady said I had to have a new bath in the gentleman before used to grow plants in the bath. I heard the weather for the rest of the week it’s going to get colder. Have a good day.

Toni (()) does sleeke mind having injections. I hope it helps her. Sorry about your arm I hope it’s not too painful (()) love to Paul (()) and Annie (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) Do you know you can do jigsaws on-line. Love to your mum (())

Skinny Keef (()) How are you all. Thinking of you love to Sucr’e (()) and Loanda (())

Charlestown (()) I have a Mock orange plant. Have a good day.

Sandeelilly (()) you have a lovely garden hard work. Have a good day

hi Toni

I’m putting a down payment on the grey faced witch story

Unless I get too warm then I will come after toady with my broom 🧹

Bye for now tc xx

ps pic of toady at 3 am - only joking of course 😂😂

That is a wonderful story Keef I love it your little boy loves his Daddy❤️❤️❤️

Small children are so wonderful - hard work but so worth it😊

hi Joan

How are you?

Thanks about mum she’s ok today 👍

That’s good to know about the online jigsaws 🙏

Have a good night tc xx

Ps message from vampire nurse lol xx

hi C

How are you?
that sounds like a nice dinner

There was some rain here in the morning but not much

Have a good night tc xx

Hi toady
how are you today?

I found some images cuddly dr who characters for you

Another day in the tropics here 🤢🤢🤢

Have a good night tc xx

hi SK

Nice story about your son

Good night tc x

Hi Toni

How are you?

A bit of an exhausting day for me as I had this talking therapies’ telephone appointment it’s just a kind of online very basic CBT online course with a few phone appointments with a therapist, my mum wanted me to do it, I’ve done it before, it was ok but it was at an odd time in the morning so I’d had a walk but I was so tired and couldn’t rest, so was basically keeping awake and alert with face wipes, gum and dressing lightly so the relative cold would keep me awake, but never mind.

It went ok in the end👍

So the promised story, it’s just a small one, i put psoriasis cream on my face, it looked grey in the dim light, so I told LA that I was the grey - faced witch, but he wasn’t impressed and that was when he said, “ That’s not true, in fact you are lying” lol.

Maybe bill’s library was near a coffee shop? I wouldn’t be surprised lol

This heat is really nasty isn’t it Toni?

BR said he is 3 years old but when asked how old mummy is, he scratched his head in a slightly harassed manner and said, “ one year old?” Bless.

I’m somewhat cream crackered

So have a good night Toni tc xx

Ps look at bill’s makeup! On the plus side at least he’s working out lol xx