Val's Cafe

hi toady of of the toad - and - rabbit warren

How are you?

Are you still having intentions issues?

Obviously if you are you can’t send me a carrier pigeon lol

But if so, i hope things get sorted out soon 🤗

Ok I need a stretching break

By the way I’m glad I’m influencing someone 😂😂
bye for now toady tc xx

Ps Moroccan theme again lol, just liked this image xx

Just an IOU from me, bit tired after yesterday & the walk etc, so here's a spot the hedgehog pic & little closeup as promised frog - hope to see it again. Another cabbage white too today. Other garden pics to follow, hope you've been able to do some nice outdoor stuff yourself today. I saw 6 lovely big black birds yesterday I wish I could tell whether they're crows or rooks, I never can from a distance. More likely to be crows maybe 🤔. Have a lovely weekend at the vegan festival look forward to hearing about it 😊 xx

Love to Joan and see you tomorrow 😘 thank you the problem with this website seems to be on their side but I suppose it could be a mix of that with the browser I use 🤔. Haven't seen the hedgehog again yet I'm not sure how many gardens it can get through to from here. Any sign of the foxes lately? xx

See you soon bosh, the internet is ok today except for just irritating me, I only wanted to get into a bank account quickly to make a deposit and the app said it needed updating, then it told me I couldn't do that because my phone needs updating, so I went on the website instead and they said to add funds, you'll need the app 🤪 could have gone to the branch in less time. Or I could always just not use outdated versions of things I guess 😂. Have a good night glad to hear BR is ok and hope HV settles down 🤞. More chat soon 😊👋 :) xx

Have a good evening with your friend @sandeelilly , and on Sunday, baggy trousers at the ready 👍️😄 xx

Take care all 😘 xx

morning Toni

Wppl xx

Ps bill is baking lol xx

hi Toni

How are you?

I saw the pic of the festival- looks great

Paul may not fit through the door? Oh dear time to send in the workmen, Bill will serve them the lime cordial.

So that’s what’s happening, LA will be a hairdresser, cutting fringes wherever he goes 😱

Mum is ok 👍

I had a mxt day today, one - off so I can gradually get back to the normal routine

So I’m conserving energy

EF are going on holiday on Monday night and the kids are already highly excited lol

Had some tea at home that was fish - free! My goodness 😂

Ok bye for now Toni - have a great time at the festival, tc xx

Ps Lorenzo as an adulk? I hope not lol xx

Hi all 👋

Lovely day where you are frog, lovely sky 😊 hope all's well. I'll have a bao bun please despite not knowing what it is 😂. I was listening to one of my guided meditations last night which is set in a camper van, always rather amuses me because you start by driving through snow in poor visibility, then pull in and set a wood burning stove going, heat some soup, and leave a candle burning, those of a nervous disposition may not find that all that relaxing 😄 but I like it and it's nice to have the camper van experience sort of! Don't suppose you wave naked flames about quite so cavalierly. Nice here today will try and get out later. Few more pics below, the agapanthus are being difficult but will try again. The purple podded peas are coming along, will probably have them as mangetout. Meant to be 3ft (Desiree Dwarf Blauwschokkers) I suppose they aren't too much more but I think I took that as an upper estimate; the non-dwarf are double that. Isn't it sad that hollyhock and buddleia are no sooner out than the early flowers are already going over 😔. I meant to say that I saw the hedgehog much more closely than when it was in the shrubbery, because I went out and it was coming straight along the paving out in the open! We both froze and it went back the other way, squeezing between the leg of the bench and a plant pot with a lovely bristly noise 😀. Oh I also have two shocking insect bites 😣 but not like any flea bite I've ever had, so I don't blame Hedgie for those. No other news, have a lovely evening & Sunday, hope all family well :) xx

Hello Joan, glad your neighbour has butterflies it's not all a gloomy picture then 😊. No hedgehog again yet I will go out when it's more towards dusk. Ooh a 'Beetle' radio & CD player, well people do love VWs don't they there should be a home for that. I know nothing at all about concertinas 😮 how old is it? Someone would want that surely. I have a violin a guitar and a zither in the loft!! no idea where they should go they were the sorts of things my parents picked up at sales etc., probably all need attention by now. It feels like Sunday to me all day so hopefully by tomorrow I'll feel like that's a 'free' bonus Sunday without post etc 👍️. Love to the dogs 😘 xx

Hi bosh, hope the mxt-moving works well & you can edge it back to where it was. I meant to tell you that there was another twist to the cream crackers saga, I'd already bought mine & was queuing in al fresco for something else, the cashier was chatting to the customer in front (obviously knew each other from shopping regularly), as the woman was going the cashier said 'don't forget crackers & cheese'! 😮 it didn't really seem to be related to shopping, like a reminder, I think it was code myself 🤔😄. The cashiers also were wearing badges saying how long they'd worked there, cheek I thought, not hard to work out your age in some cases! I'd want to refuse, I mean we aren't all deceptively youthful 😉. I love the kitchen roll cake (it is kitchen roll isn't it.. 😬). Sorry you didn't get your dark choc in the end. Oh another little thing, the funny nosy owls sort of reminded me, I was listening to a slightly strange Dr Chew audio story that was like an Agatha Christie style murder mystery with some real-life Beatrix Potter type characters (I'm fairly sure I heard it not dreamt it!!), sadly no owl in that but there was a bat called Miss Nightheart, and I thought that was such a fabulous name I may have to change mine to it; it does exist apparently. Have a good evening as poss 👋 :) xx

Love to everyone not here today 😘 xx

hi toady

Crackers and cheese don’t spread disease

If the cheese isn’t soft

vampire bat toady Nightheart consumes it in the loft

I think that’s all mxt will let me say at the moment.

👋Good night toady Toni Joan sandee and everyone else tc xx

Ps cast pewter cheese crackers apparently lol xx

Pps let’s say it was kitchen roll, haha

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) your plants are lovely. I remember a lady on to used to play the zither. Would the fleas jump from the hedgehog and have a walk around. Good luck with the results of your blood test. Have a good day

Toni (()) that’s good news about your arm (()) now you feel more relaxed. I have to go on Wednesday morning for a blood test blood pressure and be weighed and measured(()) that will be fun. I’m still waiting for an appointment about my hip. Have a good journey back home. Love to Paul (()) and Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) have a good day and your mum I hope she is well (())

Sandee (()) have a good day

Colin (()) love to you and your wife (())

hi again Toni

Glad you woke to a beautiful day

You’re right, bill is the youngest boy lol

Apparently BR had a tantrum at the toy shop and broke his daddy’s designer sunglasses, I must admit I laughed, bill and his designer hair gel and accessories lol, whereas most of the time he’s slobbing around in the same orange shorts from around the time of the Ark.

Yes Portugal again, BR will be ecstatic bless him.

Lobster infused coffee I meant, for bill at least 🦞

That’s nice about Paul, maybe bill will do something helpful and kind like that, I’m not sure, I hope so, I remember the time though when he said he loves Chinese takeaway more than his wife, in front of his wife, oh dear 😂

The FB choc cake lady is going on holiday too, probably Greece and has proudly photographed her daughter eating doughnuts for breakfast, poor girl her mum’s feeding her this kind of stuff all the time and she putting on weight, oh well no one can stop her really, maybe when the girl is older she’ll change.
No not really a multi - purpose cake that’s true, haha.

Yes good point, if it’s all - inclusive Bill’s eating may become totally unfettered lol, but it’s not exactly fettered right now to be honest, haha.

Yes doors may need to be widened nationally, if not internationally, lime cordial supplies are running low

The workmen are in control and are being paid in so much cash that toad has retreated into her vegan - pastry hole

And I may be selling broken designer sunglasses on nosegay

Don’t tell anyone 🤐

Enjoy the rest of the day Toni tc xx

Ps Why I have to buy stationery on nosegay now lol xx

hi toady

Are you hiding in the vegan pastry hole today?

Only joking of course

Yes badges that hint our confidential ages - very ookey 😱

What’s the heat like today?

Here it’s less stuffy, inside at least.

I know - everything needs updating- very annoying

My why? - pad says I need a mushroom emoji update, it’s not a joke, even though it sounds like it lol, but it won’t let the update happen or delete the reminder

Has GI Joe got inside my tablet? Is this The Physio’s Revenge? Now these a novel - title, lol

Have a nice evening toady tc xx

Ps A bad pun, but at least it’s not it’s not one of mine, haha xx

sorry to hear that Joan

good night everyone tc xx

Sorry about the uncouth tea party guest lol xx

Morning everyone

Morning Joan. Thank you the injection made a huge huge difference I am so pleased long may it last I think I can do my physio exercises again now. So you have your MOT booked for Wednesday. Still no date for the hip yet though? That's annoying 😠 Enjoy the sunshine🌞 ((())) xxx Thanks for telling me about Cookie I have been on and given my condolences to Carol.

Morning Sandee hoping all is well with you all sending love and ((()))

Morning Reshmi

Hope you and your Mum are both well. The foot check up ought to be fine for your Mum.

All is good here home and thanks to the lime cordial I got Paul back too. The amount of bloke he drank honestly! He got sunburnt too, but sunglasses are ok so he looks a bit like a panda in reverse. Basically he sat in the sun (eating) while I went to hear the educational talks in the big tents.

Oh dear BR not the designer sunglasses😎 oh dear dear me. I am sure Daddy has forgiven him - and Reshmi I am also sure he will leave the orange shorts behind. He has no doubt stocked up his wardrobe with holiday clothes for their Portuguese holiday. The partaking of lobster tea and coffee requires new clothing. I mean everyone knows that🤣

The FB lady feeds her daughter doughnuts for breakfast?! no wonder the child is gaining weight😲 now that's who GI Joe needs to chat to not the likes of you and me🙄

EF will be off today I do hope they have a lovely time I think you'll miss them though.

Take care ((())) xxx

Morning Toady

I hope you are ok and Hedgie is too even if you haven't seen him. I imagine you've put water down so he is probably keeping cool somewhere private. Sleek reckons she's seen him and had a chat. She has her 3rd jab this morning don't tell her.

Only two cabbage whites still? At least I have seen some different coloured butterflies 🦋 not many admittedly but at least 2/3.

These are my bao buns I had one yesterday (Paul had the other and 2 out of 3 of the spring rolls)

I have brought home with me in the fridge some Chinese food and two different curries the latter two are frozen for now.

I felt quite sad to be home yesterday. I managed several of the educational talks which was fabulous ( very very hot though) when someone says something and everyone cheers and claps oh it makes me well-up to be part of it🤗To feel 'normal' and accepted for a change.

Oh dear you gardened like a mad dog/english-person did you?! I would have done too probably it's irresistible when the weather is so good.

Well done you making the banana muffins - cinnamon and chia seeds were also in my porridge delightful. Sleek had one or two crumbs still on her whiskers so i thought she'd had some😋. Waste not want not.

I have some new T shirts and a vegan belt made from cork. It's lovely and reversable too.

I also crop out a bit when I take pics😉 I shall take some for you today myself. The 'Gay feather' looks rather lovely from here.

Have a good day!

morning Toni

Wppl xx