Val's Cafe

hi Toni

How are you today?

Thanks so much about mums friend at the flowers, that was very kind.

Mums bs is ok thanks

I’m ok too but I really struggled with getting out of the house this morning I was feeling so sluggish and didn’t sleep well as it was too stuffy - but am feeling like a human being now, or at least like a Vulcan.

Booked a hospital blood test (routine) but if it’s too late for the Rheumo guys I’ll just push them into the biccie cupboard whilst toady bricks up the entrance lol.

Yes BB is quite unkind these days unfortunately.

Yes Bill is the ultimate biscuit(s) - taker I agree

Bill said this morning he went to work late as he was taking his friend to the bakery!
he was worried because there was a camera crew filming something for news and he’s concerned that the camera might have been pointing in his direction and that his boss could have seen him stuffing doughnuts into his mouth when he was allegedly cooking breakfast from scratch for his sons or something like that.

What a character, I hope it gets caught 😂

Oh my goodness- The S*docrem Chronicles- I will warn my sister!

I think I’ll leave it there for now Toni

Ablutions are calling

Bye for now tc xx

Afternoon all 👋 sunny for now have been trying to get on with my jobs dependent on dry weather as it's going nasty later I think.

Ooh aren't your chaps getting on well frog 😀 I would not have liked to see that nasty situation under the tiles, I'm glad it's a case of being able to take it back to a sound surface & start over. Nice to have a break before next stage too 👍️. Hope you like all your new kit when in situ, if you aren't too sorry to see the corner bath go that's something. Yes I do hope all your parts are there too🤞. Sinks with legs I always feel I'd spend all my time kicking them & apologising 😂😂 nice look though. Thanks for the guided tour 😊 ok have added mini pic of my smallest room 🤭, nothing glam but bear in mind it had a makeover of £20 tops, all in, inc new seat which was a 'second' 😄, it all needs doing from scratch so no point fussing. I do love my nice eco bleach I must say, sad though that is 😂. Hopefully leaving the seat in pic is acceptable it is brand spanking new out of packet honest and I couldn't show how the colours go otherwise, ie not meant to match more a complementary, but the worktop & cupboards in utility are in that new grey oak I did, so it does sort of tie in vaguely as you 'go through'. I wasn't even sure grey suites were a thing but yes apparently, so it can't look too odd I guess! For those not interested in my downstairs loo (& excuse loo roll sitting on cistern btw; took old holder down not done anything about it yet), my sweet little asparagus pea flowers are out 😊. The polygonum is pink, yes, don't know about the pachysandra, for 50p quite happy to have it surprise me. Will still add a pic in of all the plants, I did take one it's on the comp somewhere 🤔. Oh hollyhocks are out round your way, lovely, yes perhaps not inc the churchwardens numberplate 😬. Mine are only in bud, I have new little ones for next year if I can get them all to thrive. My dwarf peas have outgrown 2 sets of bamboo canes do I pinch or is it too late 😬. The broad bean flowers are going over, & making pods now. Much going on in your veg dept? 😊 Hope everything else ok with you today :) btw my work quote came in before 8am this morning so they've redeemed themselves! 😮 xx

Hello Joan thank you my parcel was picked up in yesterday's collection so it's got on much better than if I just rebooked for today 👍️. Yes I like Ken he was one of a kind wasn't he. I remember reading how his stage shows went on & on and he just sort of kept audiences there til the early hours sometimes 😂. Brilliant comic timing he had. I love your story about you & your Dad and the curlers 😄. Hope you have had a good day I'm so sorry you have a drip, for all this time, anything plumbing is bad enough but the worst sort is not knowing where the problem is 😣 I hope someone who knows what they're doing can diagnose it properly for you! My day has been quiet apart from grocery delivery, I ordered custard doughnuts this time but didn't get them 🤷‍♀️ never mind there are things I would have minded more. Take care :) xx

Hi to bosh, having a quiet day hope you are too 👍️ and a not too bad post mxt day. How are brother LA and brother BR 😄 very funny I like them having their own little 'chapter'. Hope sis is coping too 😬 will the guest be gone by her birthday it would be a near thing by my calculations but they are never very reliable tbh. I loved the running frog and actually very true, frogs would be a different matter altogether if they ran, not like the pic necessarily I mean but even just on all fours like an animal, quite odd to think of! Well toads crawl rather than hop, so I think there's even less chance of them suddenly up & running 😄. Hope your mum is ok today and not feeling too bad after her sad news and an unsympathetic BB, I know some men don't like tears & all that but still 😕. Love to all have a good evening :) xx

Ooh I have found Colin's post now, back where it would have been, nice to see updates; what beautiful views and lovely sunsets 😊 that weather sounds just about perfect. All the best to everyone and hope your joints & skin are behaving as well as poss, hope all arrangements go well too 👍️ take care :) xx

Wave to @sandeelilly and anyone passing :) xx

Kettle on I think ☕️

Hi bosh, no I didn't see your afternoon posts, I just clicked mine and walked away with a toss of the head and nary a backward glance, in a very JA style 😉 ooh yes that would put the wind up Bill wouldn't it, oh dear well it could happen 😬 not that his boss would see it necessarily anyway but then again in these modern times someone would probably post it on something and before you know it it would be a doughnut face-stuff 'mash-up' set to music and become a meme and everyone would have seen it 😱😂. Sickled bunion, yes well, maybe not for me thank you 😂😂 but as good a rhyme as any. I see I might be called upon to get my brickie's trowel out again to deal with any 'difficult' rheumos, well that's fine by me as I can unbrick my workmen now they're back in my good books, and it will be good to keep my hand in as they say. Blood is thicker than mortar you know 😉 to coin a phlebotomist themed but not entirely relevant phrase. Hope the tests are good and the waiting room not too full of trainee vampires 😬👍️. Have a good night :) glad your mum was able to have some nice phone calls today xx

good morning Toni

wppl xx

Thanks Joan I was hoping the seizures would have eased off by now too. At least she's OK that's the main thing. I'm dreading the vet Monday but best done while she is healthy I'm sure you'll agree. Take care Joan ((())) xxx

Reshmi l do hope you feel better soon watching TV is probably the best idea when you feel rough.

Get you in your fancy outfit!!😂😂😂

See you later ((())) xxx

For Toady

Hi all 👋 has been a bit cold & grim & drizzly til later, but for once can't grumble if only because of how much of a close call it was to almost get a nasty day like this instead of the one I had for people to look at the job on Thurs, never say I don't look on the positive (occasionally) 😉.

Little trayful of the plants for you frog 😊 sorry about all the bits of boiler &c in pic, didn't want to cut off the polygonum's fuzzy little head 😄. I could get 2 out of the alchemilla already I think but division is supposed to be spring or autumn, so might hang on. I have pinched the peas thank you so they should be better off for it. Too wet for outdoor pics today. I am so behind with GW I daren't even look to see how far 😳, a couple at least, maybe I could do a session tomorrow. Hope things have been ok as poss with you today, so sorry to hear about Lucy, for both of you, after your week of builders &c life could have let you have a quiet day or two; no such thing apparently 😔 did she have to be looked over after the fall in the street? Hope she's been ok today, good that it's the weekend I suppose, hope her flatmate is around. Hope everything goes as well as can be on Monday, Sleek mostly ofc 🤞, and your tiles for next phase of work on Tues. Oh my quote is fine thanks about what I expected, just a couple of little things to firm up on. Thank you for the thumbs up for my little bathroom, I've looked at it so many times, like you do mid-project, you start not to know what you think yourself. At least it's respectable now. (The bleach brand starts with D then rhymes with elf plus 'is'. You may well have come across them already actually, stocked various places, mine was from catazon. It's for wc & limescale rather then general bleach but they do other stuff. Vegan friendly plant based etc, hope there aren't any downsides I haven't spotted.) You can see my grey oaky worktop in the plant pic btw. I am excited to get on with the wardbrobe now; possibly slightly overexcited, I am mentally styling it with nice baskets & things forgetting the fact it's half full of stuff that must be turned out yet 😣. Quite like the little handles I've bought although I really am still quite tempted to those cast iron rabbit ones I posted 🤭. That breakfast looks so nice, might try that! unusual. Oh dear you have to be on hostess duties soon, eek, can you get away with pineapple hedgehogs and twiglets? 😬 Love to all and take care 😘 xx Ooh hollyhocks! just spotted them. Thank you 😊 lovely pink!

Hello Joan, 'what a beautiful day, what a beautiful day for dropping your Gaviscon and saying how's that for making the medicine go down ..' oh dear it's not easy to write your own is it Ken! The chemist must have thought you got through that bottle quickly 😄. Yes 11pm sounds about right for one of Ken's shows if not more, is it true you were more or less forbidden to leave early 😄. Hope your day is going ok we had a lot of rain earlier. I have enough alternatives to doughnuts thanks, that's the main problem with online shopping you have to allow for maybe not getting everything so you add extra in, you could end up with too much. I get a mix of fresh and things that keep longer or you would have everything going past its best all at once. I had a cinnamon bun today. Have a good Sunday :) xx

Hi bosh, glad I amused you, I will restrain myself from any trowel puns today it might be sensible saturday 😂😂. Hope your day has been ok but if your stomach has been a trouble then not the best 😔 glad it's turned around a bit now. Joan would have loaned you some Gaviscon I expect 😬😄. Hope your multitasking has been going ok 👍️ I've been mostly fiddling with my new phone which developed a bit of an odd issue probably because it's not very up to date, so I think it's trying to contact the mother ship for updates that it isn't going to get unfortunately 😂 never mind worst comes to the worst I've got another newer one, I'm just experimenting at this point. The fibre broadband salesman did look at me very oddly the other day when I sent I was having a non-fibre setup, I think he thought I was making it up to get rid of him haha. That escalator is a bit hypnotic isn't it, would be if you were standing there watching it in action definitely. Ok sis should have a breather then before her b'day, that;s something 👍️. Have a good night :) xx

Love to everyone 😘 xx

good morning Toni

How are you?

I’m not too bad

Mum is asleep 👍

Wppl xx

Thanks Joan yes Lucy has had more than her share of bad news hasn't she? Still she is a bit of a coper so just gets on with it. These are the plants I got it's all for the hospice the same one P died in. ((())) xxx

A poem about the brudders and their antics Reshmi! Yes please I'd love to read it😊

Ah right a whole boX of chocs…..I am not at all surprised although i am surprised they weren't sick!!!!

Hi Toni

I was behind with stuff and forgot to post the poem! Oh dear!

I’m thicker than both blood and mortar it seems lol,

Here it is 🙏

Chocolate in the morning- poem
Mummy told the brothers to play nicely in their room
But the prospect of that, to LA , seemed like doom and gloom
So he took his “brudder” BR down to the kitchen and opened up a box
Of chocolates from the “uncle”, sly as the proverbial fox,
It was a birthday, it was Christmas, all the special days together
When mummy later said, “LA, what is this?”
He replied, “ It’s BR’s fault, he made me do it, can I have some medicine, I’m feeling under the weather ?” 🤢🤢

Ps I’m sort of doing mima - ish multitasking again lol

So this is an instalment

Ps pic is just Kashmir India for a bit of a change

Bye for now Toni tc xx

Hi Toni

How are you?

LA was indeed unwell after choc - eating extravaganza, then he lied about it so he could have sausages and mash!

BR was fine though

Got to do a bit of talking therapy stuff so have a good night tc xx

Ps this can apply to mimas too lol xx