Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 29 May 2016

Evening all:  Was going to sign on much earlier but laptop and printer got into a fight and I had to sort it out!  They're now speaking to each other again, thank  heaven.

Yas: We have a you-pick blueberry place up the road that I've been to - I haven't actually picked them but opted to get some ready picked.  I love raspberries and have never tried them with sherry, which sounds wonderful and is now on my list. Do you use dry or sweet sherry?  Nice little Hobbit House but I know you really live at Downton Abbey.

Brenda:  Great that you had such a lovely time with the family. Any plans to go and visit them in Singapore?  No bike excursions yet.

Lindybird: Welcome home after what sounds like a lovely few days away.

Rosy: Good to see you. I'm envious of your trip to the flower show (crowds aside) especially as they apparently got the emphasis right this year. I just Googled images of the Beauty of Mathematics garden - it looks really graceful and serene (obviously no visitors when that was taken!).  Have fun with the family.

Heather:  Let us know how your daughter is; good that they've kept her in overnight.  I haven't made a trifle for years and years. I should really organize one next time I have to take something to a potluck. Thing is, we used to make it with Bird's Custard, which I'll have to track down at one of our markets. Flying pigs are an endangered species methinks.

OG: I'm with you on the housework - wish it would go away permanently. Congrats on getting rid of the ironing pile.

Lynette: Hurray for getting back into the gym routine and that your OH is doing better.

LizLFW/bjane:  Nice to see you guys!

AQ: Good that at least a part of you is feeling better. :-)

Clare: Limpy does take great pix; great he's being recognized. How's the job going? Do you work at home?

Off to friend's house for coffee and chat in the morning. She's another Brit and has just come back from a month on your side of the Pond.

Have a good Thursday everyone.

aquilareen said:

most painkillers disagree with

  Hi AQ  glad the gout is more under control, l know what you mean about painkillers disagree, l'm on paracetamol/codeine the low dose of codeine, which really doesn't touch the pain but helps a tiny bit so better than nothing, tried a child size of morthine onice, really helped the pain, but made me sick has a dog and couldn't keep my eyes open, pitty really helped. His boots your dog?  just to say when l get sudden muscle pains the thing that stops it straight away is putting capsicum lotion on l send for from usa l water it down a bit has a bit strong for me comes in a lotion and in a roll on bottle from suplementspot called No Pain capsaicin lotion.  Take care from yas

Yas: Sorry you're stiff this morning! Here's to a daytime nap  Meanwhile, I'm off to bed. Night-night. :-)  Re pain: Do they offer medical marijuana there? It's supposed to help but isn't really mainstream..

Unknown said:

 Nice little Hobbit House but I know you really live at Downton Abbey.

   Hi AQ l just said when l read your reply to me " l love it"  you've guessed it, yes l'm at Downton Abbey have been trying to keep it a secert for fear you may think me too grand, but now it's out, have a real job with the servants, just can't get the staff these days you know!!! Looking for a job?

Back to the real world, l use sweet sherry, but still put on top a small amount of sugar to your own taste has rasberries can be a bit sharp and let it soak a while a hour or more, glad you may give it a try. ls it sunny there with you?  We have rain back at the moment but gardens need it. thanks for making me laugh AQ   take care from Yas

Well Annette when you wake up, l sleep in my chair every night for part of the night, because the pains wake me up and l need to get up and move to help it, so have to put a neck surport on when in the chair to help not get such a stiff neck, but sometimes sleep over takes me and l'm gone off before l know it, if l sleep for a hour and go back to bed not so bad when l wake, but sometimes it's 3 hours in the chair and then l'm really in pain, and go back to bed with more painkillers to sleep the only time l'm without pain of some sort.

has for marijuana his that the same has the other one l can't spell manwana had ago, but that's not good for the brain, would be nervous to try that, or even know how to get hold of it.

take care from Yas

Ho OG  Glad you were ok with my little joke. l love the picture said to my husband you could put that on a greetings card so nice.

l see you have finding a working vein hard like me, l try to aviold

blood teats when can, but the only way they can get blood out of me without wanting to cut my hand off, ls if l go to the hospital over 20 miles away, to there blood taking unit, a doctor gave me that ldeal, and they do it without problems not like my local surgery who try and try then the vein closes up. take care from yas

Thanks Lynette for your welcome, hope to get to know you all, l live in the gloucestershire area down south west in the cotswolds which l'm very lucky to have the lovely countryside to look at. take care from yas

Good Morning, All.  Got up early(ish) to fill the w.machine once again:  we brought a lot of laundry home.  There is an ancient laundry there with a really wonky old machine, but I never use it.  They are going to demolish the building its in, this summer and have promised to build a new laundry and a shower block for the touring caravans which use the site next to us. (anyway, unlike others there, I have no intention of ever doing the ironing whilst on a break from the housework!!)

Many thanks to Liz - I will probably not be able to wait until Autumn to see the Scotland film as it sounds so great, so I will have a look on Ama**n for it!

Sorry to hear that you are having so much pain, Yas.  (Is that short for Yasmin?? - pretty name!)  I meant to reply to your question about doing posts on here but I've been too busy - I wonder if you are getting the previous thread mixed up. We change the thread for Chat in the early hours of every Sunday morning, otherwise it just gets too long.  Look at the date on it, for guidance :-)  Laughed at your joke! - I half believed you, though I thought it looked a little damp!! I love Tolkein, too, and have been enjoying the Hobbit series of films recently.

OG:  You do keep going, but I worry about your health.  Do take care. I was thrilled to see my lovely poppies, which were just coming out when we left: my mother loved them and they have become my favourite flower, although there are others on the list!!

Heather:  Hope that your daughter has had a good night and they have now decided what ails, and can do something about it.

Lynette:  Glad you're both back into routine now that your OH is recovering.  My OH has a slightly bent ear since he had a small lump taken off it last year, but I said to him "Who's going to look at it?"

Lindybird said:

Is that short for Yasmin?? - pretty name!)  I

        Yes Lindy it is short for Yasmin mum named me after Rita Heyworths daughter the old movie actress you might remember if your my age about l'm henz beans varities 57 yrs.  Thanks for expaining about the thread really good ldeal. Your kind words about my pains.  Have been looking at last nights footage of fox got some good ones, but trying to get camera and food in right place, kept chopping off his head when she bends to eat.  bye  now from yas