Val's Cafe

hi toady

How are you?

Thanks about the poem

Mum and I are just about ok after the guest - extravaganza

The early morning walk sustained me today

I’m attempting an early night and early start tomorrow

So I’ll just say goodnight and take care xx

(I’m selling used tubs of ice cream on nosegay - hush 🤐)

Ps what a painting lol xx

Morning Joan thank you I did get on alright at the Drs I am going to have another blood test in 3 months see if the statins stop raising my liver results if not either come of them or change them. My cholesterol is only 3.8 so not high. Sleek is still very kittenish for her age which is lovely. I bet the dogs don't act their ages do they? Guess what? I have nothing at all planned for today so I can get lots of bit done I hope. It's supposed to be 9 degrees cooler here today yippee! Have you got anything planned? ((())) xxx

Morning Sandee please don't ever worry if you can get on or reply to everything just post when and what you can manage we just love hearing from each other.

It rather sounds to me as though you have an extremely unappreciative boss there I think. Male or female? Roughly what age? Has he or she got problems at home maybe?

I am from bang in the middle of the country in the Midlands although as it's my 25th move (I thought it was a mere 24 but missed one out!) who knows where I'll be next eh?! This has never included too close to London probably the closest to you was when I lived in either Essex or Kent.

I am so glad to hear the potato crisis has been averted for now😊

Morning Reshmi

You were still feeling rough yesterday i am so sorry. I hope as it cools down today you will start to feel better. This pollen count is just stupid isn't it? Totally oooooookey!

Your poor poor Mum how upsetting doing all that work for NOTHING BIL feeding them on the way. That is just so disrespectful after all her effort and worry. I am quite cross for her. Well at least I hope the visit went well for everyone apart from the food issue. Were they nice people and id the maid come with them?

Ah right so Freya is at school and little M is the visitor. Got it. I knew little M would love BR I mean who wouldn't love him? I bet he's been her little shadow❤️

Please don't tell me we'll have a rainy and dry season?! Can I stay in the MH tent in the dry season and in maybe an Ark in the wet season - or even a house on stilts? I can get travel sick on boats🤢

Great Shakespeare poem there Reshmi it really made me smile. I do not know where you get them from, but please carry on writing/composing.

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

Morning to Colin who is probably very, very busy trying to get organised for the trip to SA hope all is well and getting sorted for you🤞

Morning Toady

Is it going to rain? It would be helpful for all your lovely, lovely plants you lucky girl!

The pachysandra - white blue or purple? The polygonum - pink? I am thinking anyway a Violet for keep little Vi company and some alchemilla which had better behave and not go rampant so pretty after rain. Lovely cottage garden plants excellent choices there Toad. Do go back they sound my kind of people to be growing that lot.

Odd visit next door yes get that hedging border finished ASAP it's quite urgent now methinks.

The catmint is rather fabulous but prolific some serious serious pruning needed this year the colour is so vivid Paul and Kari love it. Oh Might pop some in a pot for Mabel maybe🤔 Sleek loves it, although as I was tiding around it the other day as you saw, I got a midgy bite so not too happy about that 😕 Itchy itchy itchy.

Survived nurse and Dr although less helpful than I had hoped for as far as Dr is concerned. She suggested just codeine as pain relief happy to go back to that one for a while. It's been a while since and she understood about the Arcoxia being a no-no now😕 What I did like was her 'standing station' - instead of her computer screen on a low table and her sat she was stood up - perfect.

Oh and she didn't ask me to get on the scales either!! Pleasant change😁

Have a good day Toad I must now get dressed so i can water some hydrangeas which myself and the farmer at the top of the village planted (well got a man to plant actually but we got them) in the 'tyres' as she has done her back in.

shall we breakfast here?

Morning all, @frogmorton Thank you I love reading all the gang's posts but I never seem to be able to reply these last two weeks, working at a newspaper the flaming elections have got everyone crazy!

My manager is 52 2 years younger than me, and male, I am not sure if he is unappreciative or just a man lol no disrespect just they do not notice these things, he does have issues at home so it does not usually get to me I do understand yesterday was just a rant day again elections lol I HATE POLITICS!!

Living near London is horrible, and working in the centre is worse lol I am a country girl who spent my summers running around Cork so all these tall buildings and smog kill me, I just want to be somewhere green and near water I would be in Heaven. 25!! times! ARE YOU MAD! I have moved 9 times 8 of those in this country and hated every time you are something special managing that many moves and still sane lol

@bosh How rude! if they knew your mum was cooking! it is a minefield with families mine is huge and there are some who I avoid like the plague lol

@toady Thank you I love my job as a whole yesterday was just one of those days I suppose. Catmint or a bottle of Vodka not sure which would work better lol, G loves catnip he goes crazy I just bought these stick things that are similar and good for his teeth, but I am not sure he is keen on them,

@dachshund Hi No he does not, he is a northern Irish older newspaperman from the old school where women were not meant to speak I believe, Unfortunately as I have spent a lot of my life in an abusive relationship I do not take crap anymore lol so I tend to poke the bear and give as good as I get and usually he quite likes it but with all the pressure at the moment he very hot and cold.

Hi to anyone I missed and Thank you all I do not know how I got by without you all before, Have a wonderful day and lets hope it not as oppressive as it has been I like the sun just not the heat

Sandee xxxx

I hope you have all had a good day with not too many problems

My friend is coming in the morning to help sort out some of sues jumpers for the charity shop they are to big for me.
Toady (()) I hope everything is alright there.

Toni (()) that’s good it all went alright with the Dr and the nurse I hope your tablets are soon sorted. Yes Lexi is a puppy in her eyes. Pepper is like an old dog.

Reshmi (()) I’m sorry all the trouble your mum went through with the cooking. How are you (())

Colin (()) I hope everything is going well for you and your wife.

Sandee (()) I hope everything is going okay for you today.

hi sandee

How are you?

I also hate central London, once I worked in west London and had to commute there from East London every day- that was a nightmare, Cork, that sounds nice 👍

Yes families are a massive minefield I agree

Once I had to live with my sister and I was almost late for work as she spent hours straightening her hair in the bathroom- oh dear.

Have a good night tc xx

Hi all, sorry so late, just been slowly simmering down from half the day waiting for a workman who was sort of coming at short notice but then (ever so slightly my fault but mostly theirs 🙄) wasn't. No idea where this leaves me tomorrow either. The worst is always that it's two days down the drain because I couldn't do much with today, and I had stuff I wanted to get on with while it's nice 😕. Love to all and see you tomorrow, hopefully, sorry not to catch up; am ok, was mainly just annoying - not having one of my full-blown 'all workmen must be bricked up in the biccie cupboard for eternity' moments 😂 (yet!)

Have a good night everyone 😘 xx

not sure what I’m doing yet so bear with me my names Kathleen I’m from Durham a big hello to you all

Hi Kathleen, it's my first day too and like you, I don't know what I'm doing yet! My name is Moira and I'm from the Gateshead area.

hi Toni

How are you today?

Mum and I are ok 👍

Mxt day for me

Cleaners coming soon

I have to run to the shower like Usain Bolt aka dad during his gym class 😂😂

More later bye tc xx

Ps toady forgot her sun cream lol xx

hi Toni

How are you?

I think you told me about your DIL’s insulin, that’s really good, also about the kicking 👍

I think dad was thinking about the cultural society and not listening properly thankfully 😂

Thanks about mxt day, that’s good to know 👍

Thanks about the poem, it was quite funny though because I went to the local supermarket and while I was paying at the ultrasound scan machine- oh no - sorry - self - scan machine - I thought about the “contactless bard” and I almost started laughing, it reminded me of a programme I saw once with a comedian interviewing other comedians and the main person laughed so hard at the jokes that he would laugh at them alone in the street, pounding the rubbish bin lids in his enthusiasm, I guess I’ve been tempted to do the same, but I can just imagine a whole cauldron of warlocks or psychiatrists passing by lol, you know what I mean just joking, but my point is it’s good for our stress to laugh yet we can’t do it publicly.

Ok I’m still a bit tired

So bye for now

Have a good evening Toni tc xx

goodnight toady sandee and everyone tc xx

That's a big big toe!

Morning Joan the baby is kicking too and now Annie can feel her kicking❤️but the nurse has to increase insulin just carefully not too much. I hope you've managed to find good homes for Sue's bigger clothes or they have gone to charity maybe. It's not easy is it I think it's the hardest job to do when you lose someone you love 😔((())) xxx

Morning to two new people I hope you did want to pop into the café? @kaflar and @Three We are a friendly little group who just pop in most days to chat to each other and 'eat' virtual food drink virtual tea/coffee☕ You are both very welcome if you fancy popping in and chatting😊

Morning Reshmi Glad you and your Mum were both ok yesterday.

Very pleased your Dad was too busy thinking about his cultural society to pay attention to the visitor's risqué story😮

Ah well yes….laughing in public when alone. That has unfortunately been me if I remembered anything very funny, but what can you do? If it's funny you have to laugh. I do occasionally run the risk of a passing psychiatrist having a 'chat' with me! I would be careful not to bash on any bins though. I think that can draw too much attention to oneself. 😣

Best when at ultrasound mach…..I mean self scan checkouts…. to try not to think about the contactless bard😂

Toady has forgotten her sun lotion or even her sun hat AGAIN! Oh dear me.

Hope your Usain Bolt impersonation got you a shower yesterday? and the MTX went ok? Yukky oooky boo🤢

Village clear up today now I will NOT under and circumstances get an ant in my eat I fully intend to stick cotton wool in my ears this time. Nope😯 today there is not a Dr around to help.

Have a good day my friend. ((())) xxx

Morning Sandee Hope you are having a good day in sunny (I hope) Biggin Hill. It was sunny here it is now cloudy😕 Village clear up here I will do my usual which is to be in charge of tea and coffee…. Take care ((()))

Same here Toad

No sign of the saniflo man not even a call to arrange when….frustrating. No idea what we should do about it other than try to stay tidyish.

I did however hear from the bathroom delivery person to say all the bathroom stuff is coming on Tuesday. As is our regular builder who i do like honestly just not in my house. I might have to take extra codeine so I don't need the loo too often🤭

Saw Charley and Annie yesterday so they could print of maternity forms for work. There is COVID t Annie's so she isn't allowed in AGAIN!

Oh and guess what? We didn't come last at the quiz! No! we came 3rd🙂

Take care Toady have a good day safe from builders for 2 days now anyway.

Above is 'the gardener's nosh' looks a filling breakfast anyway🤨

hi Toni

How are you?

What a funny vegetable lol

Mum is ok 👍

I’m not too bad thanks

Bit of a headache though

Nasty heat again isn’t it Toni?

I foolishly hoped that maybe the weather had started to cool down a bit

I can’t remember if I told you or not, but at LA’s party Louisa pushed a boy because she was angry that there weren’t many girls, then the little boy cried - oh dear.

Unsurprisingly though the only girl LA cared about was Freya, he asked her if she’d eaten and if she’d got one of the gift bags, he was being a gentleman! A chivalrous Sir Lancelot no less - haha.

That was indeed a turn up for the books.

Yes laughter is hard to control, I usually just about manage though, but sometimes the potential laugh becomes a smile and people think I’m smiling at them, which can be a bit embarrassing.

Mxt was not as bad as it is sometimes

Ant in the ear, oh dear painful and ookey

Yes managed a shower yesterday thanks 🙏

Yes toady is both lotion - less and hatless again

Not a great idea, especially on Sensibility Saturday lol

Ok I’ll go for now Toni tc x

PS I know it’s Saturday but Mr Darcy aka the milkman certainly should not be dancing in this manner or in this attire, what will the freshly sunburnt toady say? Xx