Val's Cafe

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) the only thing I get on line is the groceries. Have a good day. Charlie went on holiday with is relations yesterday for a week near Newcastle. Your plant looks lovely.
I did some washing yesterday and dropped a peg I couldn’t reach it it went on the grass. I said pepper could you pick the peg up he made a noise and walked off I got the handy reach.

Toni (()) I hope you have a good journey back. Brenda is coming to screw the handles on the freezer. I had a text it said was your delivery good it was 1 till10 I did 1 I said the parcel was put through the letter box of number 6 I live at number 9.

Jojo (()) sorry you feel so bad. Good you have your appointment. Have a good day

Reshmi (()) have a good day love to your mum (())

Stuart (()) have a good day is Ollie better now. Love to your mum (())

Skinny Keef (()) you are good fixing all that. You are clever. Love to Loanda (()) and Sucr’e (())

hi lovely Toni

How are you this afternoon?
mums ok 👍

Bad night for me though sleep - wise

Only just made up the sleep really

Even the cold room didn’t live up to its name this morning

A breathable shirt for dinner - sounds like a plan 👍

Do they do breathable Hawaiian summer dresses in the same range? Lol

Thanks but I don’t think Bill even pretends to diet anymore haha

Maybe when sis fully recovers she’ll beat him with Jane Austen’s authentic casserole dish until he eats at least one cucumber sarnie a week

Yes poor innocent BR wakes up everywhere, bless

Yes I also hope you get on safely and return to lower temperatures 🤞

LA has been house - sitting for you

He told me that BR came for a brief sojourn and ate all the cashew cheese 🤥

Okay bye for now Toni tc xx

👋Jojo Joan SK toady and S knee xx

Ps biscuit- cushions for toady xx

Hi all 😊 tis warm isn't it, proper sticky today but v windy again so would be better outdoors, if you like that kind of thing.

Thanks frog lots more buds on the nasturtium now 👍️ have watered earlier and will have a 2nd circuit later if anything needs it or has been overlooked. Yes you will be coming back to some watering I think but maybe not too much, rain coming in here mid-week, depends if it's enough. Hope all travel going well today! not long now I expect 😊 cup of tea and Sleek and a sitdown 👍️. Yes that was what I meant, about Elfie, rather than how far you share the pics, do you take them on the QT 😂 I love the grand-enfants cover story except you can back it up ofc so it's not really a story 🤭. I love today's activities and he does look super in his shirt, what a good fit 😀 Paul is coming home with a touch of embonpoint is he 😬 (that's not just ladies is it? can't remember). Ah well back to the diet but worth it I expect. No news here, so cheerio for now & love to all 😘 xx

Joan what I used to like best was ordering from a couple of nice catalogues and they had proper sales, like end of season etc, not all this sales all year like they do now. All that means is they double everything and then say 50% off to look like a sale price, they do think people are daft 🙄. Hope Charlie has a good break wonder if he is anywhere near Jojo's neck of the woods my geography is terrible 😳. That was funny about Pepper and the peg 😂 "that's not my job". I use a handy grab for all sorts, jolly good things they are 👍️. Have a good rest of day and a nice Sunday 😘 xx

Hi bosh thank you for the digestive cushions 😂 they are fab. Such fun. As for the blue & white egg on toast that's amazing 😮. I will have to attend to the rich tea biccie crisis, unfortunately next stop for me is miceland not al fresco, and I don't think I can force myself to McKittie's prices 😱. Sorry you had a bad night, it wasn't the best was it, humid heat is not nice and it was definitely very 'close'. I was glad I didn't have to get up early. How is your sis doing now, is it just a question of steady progress? Hope everything else not too bad today 👋 sorry I missed the post with the volcanic bit in, hope things simmer for you, take care :) xx

Sorry you are having to get by with the throat symptoms etc sore throats are horrid while they last hopefully another day will see it improving, well done even getting out etc, and hope you feel better soon has your husband already got over the worst? Take care :) xx

Tea and croissants Stuart very suitable maybe Toni will bring us back a few spares 😄 it is very warm nights now probably should be drinking a lot more but tends to be tea and not litres of water here 😳 mind you they can never seem to agree how much water is too much 🤷‍♀️. Take care have a good Sunday :) xx

Hope you are doing ok Keef after your hat-trick of Very Good Jobs 🤞 xx

Love to all 😘 xx

Ollie is ok, Mum got half her pills due to GP screw up.

Knee aching🥨

Night all 😴 hope we all get some sleep, warm again tomorrow but less sun so it should be tolerable-ish

Hope you are on the mend soon Jojo, glad to hear your husband is, so hopefully you'll be over yours in much the same time he took 🤞. My day was ok thanks apart from noise on most sides from neighbours, I know it's mostly people just going about their normal weekends but I don't think they give much thought to the fact they can have their afternoon of having people over etc without being disturbed because I'm not making noise my side. Lucky for everyone that I don't 🙄. Hope we all have a decent night, wish you a better Sunday :) xx

Night bosh, I had the cold room scenario in reverse today sort of, had to be in the hotter side of the house in the afternoon if I wanted a rest which was annoying, thanks to the phantom neighbours 😕. Not sure what they were doing at one point but it seemed to involve dropping metal poles from a moderate height 🤷‍♀️ anyway hope to get some sort of reasonable night now & wish you the same. Oh the password horror 😱 just the same as you yesterday, couldn't remember a password for a site I wanted to buy something but didn't want to reset because I have it somewhere, on an older laptop; didn't have the energy to fish it out. Item sold by the next day, hey ho 🙄. That pic you posted of the awful password 'rules' is all too true, I still have a few older pw's just a word no caps no nothing would you believe, happy days! Ok insecure days but happy for the user 😄. Hope it's a nice cake 😊 I expect you've seen the strawberries & cream sandwich trend, I really did think they were joking at first 🤨. Take care hope everyone ok EF etc :) xx

Night to Stuart sorry your mum is still having troubles hope they get the other half sorted soon and she can manage til then, wish you a good night hope the knee behaves a bit better for you xx

Sleep well all 😘 xx

4am ☕️pills🥐🥐

morning all.
home then Toni? Hope you had a great time.
I was up at 00:30 for emergency migraine pill thankfully head virtually clear this morning.

Wppl

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) have a good day. Brenda came to fix the handles on the fridge freezer there was only two screws we needed four. I phoned the lady said scan the number inside the fridge and the engineer will come out to you. I said to Brenda the engineer coming to put the screws in. I said he will come he won’t have the screws. I hope your day is a bit quieter today

Toni (()) was sleek happy to see you. Have a good day. Not so hot here but nice.

Jojo (()) sorry you have lost your voice not nice I had that when I was at school.

Reshmi (()) have a good day love to your mum (())

Stuart (()) sorry your knee is giving you a pain is it the same leg has your ankle. Love to your mum (())

Skinny Keef (()) have a good day love to Loanda (()) and Sucr’e (())

hi Toni and toady

How are you today toady?

Guess what?
A little poetic endeavour by me 🙏

Vc poem called “What can void the Ron Newish (or Ron Lewis) guarantee? Will I be covered for every eventuality?”
I bought some crabapple pods from the posh shop known as Newish of the Ron’s today
Guess what? A two year guarantee! Hip hip hooray!
But wait, dear cafe dweller, remember to read the print that’s inconveniently small
You may feel that you have not kept your eye on the guarantee - ball
Acts of cod aren’t covered I’m afraid to say
So if I accidentally fry my pods with the fish, there’s tragically no payout today
Lightning and thunder are also not valid
Nor is low iron count , so if you skip the green veggies and your complexion becomes pallid
They’ll be no refund in the bank
Or new pods to bring music to your ears
When the tide was strong, the generous guarantee ship completely sank
Like LA’s face when the barman said he was to young to order beers
The only guarantee in life is that we cafe dwellers send friendly kind messages to each other when we can
And that before summer is over I will beat the weather gods with toady’s steel watering can

Thanks Skinny Keef

Have a good night tc x

Night all 👋

Lovely to see you back safe & sound frog 😊 I hope you are having a nice sound sleep sans flies or disturbances, and will catch up soon. Only a quick hello from me as I would only be a wet blanket today, didn't sleep that well (something outside disturbed me and never got off as well after), and have been doing some of my usual social algebra for the last couple of weeks trying to fix up a friend meeting for today which didn't come off so that was energy totally wasted 😕. Love to all proper post soon 😘 xx

Joan the 'freezer handle farce' is funny to read from outside but not all that funny for you 😮 oh dear will the poor handle ever be finally on I await the next instalment 😬. Yes much quieter today thank you that helped a lot and my ankle is now considerably better so am very lucky 👍️. Hottest day tomorrow (I have icecream coming in my shopping) I will not be doing much I think - it will not even be overcast it says, glad I don't have to go anywhere! Take care yourself and Pepper 😘 xx

Night bosh, I am not very jolly today but both your posts cheered me up 😊 the LA 'reading ages' thing was really funny I thought, that was so good, excellent thought process 😂 perhaps you have 8 still to come 😬 (or is reading age actually Reading age, perhaps that's different?!). And as for the poem I will do that proper justice tomorrow but I love it and enjoyed it very much 😀 so yes friendly kind messages did indeed help someone today thanks. I do have a metal watering can help yourself 👍️😄. All the best for your mum's bloods tomorrow and hope the heat is not too bad for her in the morning, & sleep well yourself, in or out of the cold room 🤞 xx

Hi Jojo, the neighbours have been much quieter today thankfully. The metal-sounding clanking they were making turned out to be a paddling pool going up, I swear I could have done that more quietly myself with arthritis, a sprained ankle and one hand tied behind my back 🤨. Sorry to hear your daughter is under the weather, if something is going round she could have got it at school etc sooner or later but I understand, not nice for you. Hope work was not too bad and you & family all get well very soon xx

Night to Stuart I have to get up for 3 different things from half 7 so I will be up making tea in the night I'm sure, as I never get on well when I'm worried I'll oversleep, even with alarms etc. It will be hot as well, so best we can all do is congregate here for a cuppa and make the best of it 😬 xx

Hope the rest of your day was ok after the midnight-ish dodgy bit Keef, take care tomorrow in the heat, aircon go go go I think 😬 xx

Love to all 😘 xx