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Good morning everyone I’m going for a trim at 10-30

Toady (()) are you in the middle of the road I mean your house or the end. Have a good day.
Toni (()) have a good day I saw skleek sat in your garden that’s a lovely garden.

Jojo (()) have a lovely time.

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

Stuart (()) sorry about your bad nights love to your mum (())

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

Hi all 👋 tiring day have achieved v little 😳

No not even anything outdoors frog, not like good little cats sitting there so prettily in the sunshine 😊 doesn't she look a dear. Tomorrow should be fine and they have taken a lot of rain off from the next day 🤞 we did have it overnight here. Your lavender is still looking lovely, and everything is very tidy. Yes things are going over far too rapidly, I took an agapanthus pic one minute (must find it) and now it's making seed pods like there's no tomorrow 😮. The buddleia is fab and once again I do wish it could be left as interest, it makes all the difference in that corner. Glad to hear Paul is doing ok and hope he notices continual improvement. Hope Elfie enjoyed his lie-in, I was (by chance) reading some feedback for some 'inferior' elves on shelves last night on nosegay and amusing myself, a lot about them being smaller than 'normal elfs', well you know what they mean but it took me a minute 🤭 and even this: 'Elf’s head is too small for its body. I am wholly disappointed and cannot do anything with this as the child will notice the head is too small' 😂. Then there was another item I looked at which the seller had photographed on a table with a whole page of medical paperwork visible, patient name d.o.b. drug info and dose and consultant, gosh can you imagine 😮. Hope your roadworky bits aren't too bad when the times comes and they do a good job. Have a good day tomorrow 😊 xx

Good point Joan, yes I am in the middle of the road, probably the worst place to be in this instance 😂 ah well I would be, wouldn't I. Boilerman expects me to keep him posted if bits of the roads are closed, not sure how he expects me to know unless I patrol it every day both ends 🤨. Hope you have had a good day, it looks a bit better for Thurs now, so I may be lucky and not be rained on at drs appt 🤞. Have a good evening love to Pepper 😘 xx

Hope all's well Jojo, I didn't see your update yesterday when I posted but I spotted it later on, glad to hear arrived safely and the kids were having fun. Hope weather is good and you are getting on alright 🤞 xx

Hi bosh, that pic of me/the owl in the morning is more like me than you will ever know 😂 even the little feathery tufts, any HDs worst nightmare to deal with. Not much happening with me today, I have managed somehow to have a week with no early postmen or milkmen or anything else, so I have been able to stay in owl mode til a decent hour. Except that means I have not got much done because nothing made me get up 😬 oh well chores will keep. Glad you had a relatively peaceful day yesterday yourself hope today has been ok too. Funny about the white chocolate mousse diet 😂 there are probably all sorts of justifications you could come up with by that logic haha. Glad the pasty was nice and added cheer to your day 😊 I am about to embark upon a scone myself. I saw a gadget on nosegay, a butter applicator' that seemed to involve stuffing butter in a square tube so you could use it to apply like lipstick 🤨 never seen anything quite so odd (let alone messy and unhygienic?) I mean to lightly grease a frying pan I can understand, but to butter bread, most sorts would go into holes surely. May have to edit in a pic it was so odd. Talking of lipstick look forward to the poem whatever coin of the realm it is 😊. Have a good night :) xx

Wave to SK, hope you are doing ok 👋 xx

Hope you have a good night Stuart and maybe squeak past 5am 👍️ xx

3am pills 🫖

Morning frogmorton yeah we having a good time just had a rough night with my son his stomach was playing up so we had to go back to the caravan earlier he missed the entertainment but he's bounced back plenty of calpol and he seems pretty much back to himself. I hope you are ok and I hope you have a great day.

Mum finally got her pills that the consultant authorised.

My joints are aching got braces, heat patch on deciding what puzzle to do 1.000 or 2.000 piece

Hi all 😊 nice day.

Too nice not to go outdoors so yes I have frog 🌱👍️ bit of tidying & inspecting mostly. Bench is ok ta, hasn't had a thorough exposure to the elements as I've had it covered on & off but seems alright, if I can shuffle it into a fairly respectable angle for pic taking I will do so 🤭. Yours will give it a run for its money whatever you do with it, as mine only had a £2.99 pot of something lavished on it, so Elfie will not be drawing any comparisons 😄. Yes the agapanthus really went for broke this weather, the pics below were only a week into July or so, one white just coming out of its 'shell', one blue out - now all well into seed podding as I say. We will try and get second flushes out of anything we can 😊 I can't think beyond that! It really is nice weather so I do hope it's like this with you for today's activities. Catering 'again' you say, no fair, how did that happen, sudden lack of volunteers? 🤨. Meanwhile cats and elves get to watch tv & do jigsaws, maybe Elfie will nip and give Stuart a hand with his and leave you some of yours? Being as you say a sweet and thoughtful Elf. Anyway hope all goes well and it's a good evening. Cobs buttered without the aid of the revolting butter thing 😣 ew not for me either, mad idea. Yes there are all sorts in pics on nosegay, I blame people snapping with their mobiles for some of it (someone put a pic of their birth certificate once 😮) I think they just upload without paying attention to what else is on there. Generally it's just not caring what's in the background 🤷‍♀️ taking pics against all sorts, like clothes hung up in the kitchen right next to breakfast muddle and ketchup bottles &c. Can't understand it myself, how hard to make one tidy nosegay corner? Hope you have not too late a night and Paul is getting on ok too 😘 xx

I am watching the weather like a hawk Joan it only needs to move the rain up a bit tomorrow and I may still be ok for the drs 😄 I will be back before yours anyway. I want to walk back if I can rather than have to get a taxi if it's really wet. If I get a chance I can walk so far and see where the roadworks are starting, hopefully they won't be too long doing each stage but it is all new pipes they can't do it silently can they 😒. Hope your phone appt goes well and your other one in Aug. Take care how is Brenda? 😘 xx

Hi bosh, hope your walk to and for group was nice, it seems quite pleasant walking weather not too much of anything. Well I have been browsing some makeup today so your poem is very topical, I was looking at some lipliners in Superbug that were reduced and on a 3 for 2, then they went up again while I was thinking, now they are reduced but no multibuy, oh it's too much like hard work 😂. Maybe if I go out tomorrow I will just go in the branch for 5 mins and look for myself. Yes the make-up bag is very much as you describe it something nice to have but often you do just fall back on minimal makeup & your tried and tested simple things 😊 half the stuff I was looking at online I barely know what is for it has become so ultra rarefied, I mean "[brand] Cloudlight Soft Glow Veil Golden Hour"? (face powder to you & me). I never watched Seinfeld no I'm not sure why 🤔 and I think I also blur it into one with Home Improvement and a few others from round that time 😄 one day I should watch an episode back to try it. No to the butter shaving though 😱 lol. Have a good evening I am off to the vampire nurse on the morrow 👋 xx

Hope things are ok with you Jojo, sorry your son had a bad night that's not fair 😔 I hope he is feeling ok now and you are all able to have a nice time. Take care :) xx

Glad your mum's pills have finally materialized Stuart 😀 and I hope things will go ok from here on. What subjects have you got on your choice of jigsaws? Don't think I have the eyesight for anything other than a smaller simple puzzle these days! 😕. Have a good evening :) xx

'Lo Keef just leaving you a cup of coffee and a wave as usual ☕️👋 all the best :) xx

hi Toni

Good evening

How are things with you?

Thanks about the poem

I agree, minimal makeup

Yes the low folic acid lip balm does taste rather ookey all things considered- a balm with a soapy aftertaste, I’ve not encountered that before, maybe it’s an appetite suppressant? Haha

Sis is doing relatively ok thanks 🙏

Yes I much prefer Marge, healthy and nice tasting indeed 👍

I must admit I do have a bit of naughty food consuming - pain au Chocolat - but I’m going to be strict with myself for a while to compensate

I somehow managed a good sleep as well as getting up early enough to go to group in good time, which was most unusual but very good thanks

The cleaners were even fairly punctual - which was a bit like finding a test tube of butter in the pathology lab or something like that- ok that joke sounded better in my head lol

RR has become too posh these days Toni, I’m not part of the elite he generally converses with I’m afraid

But he was wearing his beloved dungarees - as originally worn by that top Milan catwalk model Lorenzo Pig, sorry George Pig apparently

He did get in a bit of a strop though, because I was saying to nice T (the lady on crutches) that dad isn’t too good with personal hygiene and she commented that one of her sons is the same and she said just casually and without thinking that men can be like that, but obviously it wasn’t meant seriously and she’s in a lot of pain too of course, anyway RR decided to take it personally for some bizarre reason and went on about his hand washing method, what a silly guy honestly, no one said he had the hygiene - level of George / Lorenzo Pig- just the fashion sense haha.

Dad had some society meeting today so mum and I relaxed for a few hours I just watched tv and mum had a rest on the St*r Tr*k sofa which has moving leg rests! The leg rests even dance the waltz like in Jane Austen’s time - ok not strictly true

Have a nice evening Toni and tc xx

Ps a possible card for LA’s next birthday! Xx

Hi toady

I just came across a funny thing, I may have posted this pic before, but it’s still funny in my book

okay have a good night xx

Ps sign invented by gastric god no 13 of course xx

Morning Joan. I was hoping the Fig won't cost much more money, but she is 34 so deserves it😊 Car village meet last night so she made it there. Good fun lots of car chat and the cobs always go down well. Take care Joan stay dry it's raining here - again🙄 ((())) xxx

Morning Stuart yes always feed the cats. Now we don't have meat in the house normally but I made food for teh classoc car meet yesterday in the village and I bought some ham. I hadn't even opened the pack when there was a sweet little meow. Of course she had to have some!

Great news about your Mum's meds too😊Rain here again. ((())) xxx

Morning Jojo oh your poor boy still if he's ok now. Gosh I remember my eldest being sick on the floor in the caravan me heaving cleaning it up one night. When Lucy got cancer I got used to it I can do it now easily.

So glad you and Michael are enjoying the entertainment and a good rest too ((())) xxx

Morning Reshmi how are you and your Mum? Lovely for you both to enjoy a couple of hours together mum resting in her posh recliner😊 No BB he otherwise occupied organising another social event no doubt🙄

Oh dear my RR got all defensive in his fancy dungarees woo-ooo! Like anyone was talking about him! Having said that I am not sure hygiene refers to hand washing only🤔 Glad you had a good chat to Nice T though and woke early enough to get there easily. That's what I prefer no stress or rushing about.

Oooh a lovely pain au chocolat as i always say the occasional treat does us good. Kari recommended a chia chocolate 'cake' mix you put the spoonfuls of the stuff in 120ml of your milk of choice and leave it in a basin overnight. I've made it and will report back. Chia is of course good for us full of omega 3's if it's to easy (and nice) it might not be so good for me!

Did you really say the cleaners were actually pretty punctual?! Wow😮

Perfect card for one/both of the boys😊

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

Morning Toady I am very pleased to hear Bench is well Elfie likes benches mind might be ok with a scrub and polish and some paint if it ever stops raining🙄 To be fair yesterday was lovely but what with the foodbank then cob making then getting 2 cars to the field I had no time at all outside. Also it;s the meeting (here😣) about the afternoon tea at 2 so some cleaning was required….. Elfie!!!!!

Paul came back early from Ireland yesterday. He is feeling worse I am worried about him. I don't know when to wake him to see if i need to take him anywhere. He wasn't due back till Friday. Not at all like him. I think I'll check in before 8 in case I have to do the phone call to the Drs malarkey.

Beautiful agapanthus I love them. I lost all of mine last year if you remember and as yet haven't had the heart to start any more off though i am tempted now seeing yours. Let's hope for a 2nd flush shall we? Of everything😊

Car meet went very well

There is Penelope looking good. We made £50 for the village 'friends of' so that's a positive too. Take care and maybe it will dry up later? ((())) xxx

Morning Skinny K hoping you are still just having fun with Sucré and not actually feeling poorly sending ((())) xxx

Hi frogmorton I'm sorry about your husband I really hope he's feeling much better soon and I hope you are well and I hope you have a great day.

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) good luck with your appointment do you drink plenty of water so it’s easer to get blood. My appointment this afternoon I go to see the Dr about my tablets being changed and the one in August I see the nurse for a. blood test and be weighed and measured. Brenda is coming to see me this afternoon I have some muffins and malteasers for her because I missed her birthday. it. Was the day she went on holiday.have a good day

Toni (()) your Figaro looks good all the best to Paul. (()) he must have been feeling bad to come home early. We have rain every time I have grated cheese peppers there waiting for some he has a sprinkle.

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

Stuart (()) do you do the puzzles on the computer I do. Love to your mum (()) that’s good her tablets are right now.

Jojo (()) that’s good you are enjoying your holiday is your little boy feeling better.

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