General Chat

It's a damp day today for Canadian Thanksgiving, but we have had several lovely Fall days ......... sunny, temps around 15-17C during the day and down to 7 or 8 overnight. The trees are colouring quite lovely which is not too usual here.

I'm sorry that I don't always post ............. it is usually the evening when I open GR, and I am so tired that all I can do is read what is posted and keep up with what is happening. Anything I wrote wouldn't make any sense because I am so tired by then. Not too sure why I am still so tired, although there is still lots going on, especially trying to sell the house.

Look after yourselves

Take care

After a chilly start, we have lovely warm sunshine and blue sky here today.
Beautiful glowing autumn colours.
Sorry, Florence!

A former neighbour who moved to the south of England several years ago is in the area on holiday this week, and wishes she'd never left, especially seeing today's lovely weather.

On Saturday evening my daughter and I were at a National Mod concert in Oban.
My grand-daughter was playing the fiddle in the school's traditional music group.
Not that we could see much of her - from where we were sitting, she was mostly obscured by someone's music stand!

The concert was a good mix of items, instrumental and vocal, some from school pupils but mostly from adults, several of whom were well-known in the Gaelic and traditional music world.

Being in town in the evening, I treated myself to fish and chips - delicious!

Afternoon all
Not a nice day here today as was raining and now thick fog has descended! The wind is quite strong too and of course its brrrr

So my heating is going on soon for a few hours.

My nurse is coming to see me later on and check my fluid in my bad leg and measure to see if the stocking has made a difference. personally i think it has but we shall see later when I het the figures.

Hope everyone else looking in today is well and ok

Florence in the hebrides

Heloooo all
Sorry i have been away for a "sleepover" with a pal I haven't seen in ages. Her hubby was away on bus for the weekend so she invited me over.

We had a great time with a take away and just chilling & chatting. Was just fab to get out and away from house for a bit. :-D :-D
Today I have been wrapping some xmas presents but oh my what a palaver!!

I had bought some gifts awhile ago and blow me if i could find them. I spent so long looking for them, it just wasted an hour grrrr Eventually i emptied the wardrobe floor out and there hidden at the back was a bag and in there were the missing gifts, Yay thank goodness for that.

Linda, bless Esme, she obviously loves it so much at that theme park. She is very lucky to have you able to take her.

Glad the jags didnt give you to much bother afterwards. Im not having any more at all after the 3 one I had, I was so ill and couldnt face going through that again.

I made a lovely chicken stir fry for tea with noodles and it was delicious have to say. No recipe, just threw loads of stuff together...best way!

Florence in the hebrides

I hope that everyone is ok as no one is posting.
I had a nice day with Esme at the theme park, she wants to go every Sunday :-(

Every one has gone AWOL :-)
I haven’t been up to much, yesterday I cleaned the leather sofas and gave them a feed. I do it every three months and it really does make a difference to them.
It was fine this morning, so I did a bit if gardening. It is now raining hard, so I have washed the kitchen, bathroom and en-suite floors and cleaned all of the wooden floors downstairs and hoovered all of the carpets. That is more than enough for one day I think.
The weather is supposed to be better tomorrow, no rain, just cold. I am going to take Esme to Lightwater Valley, to give her mum a chance to take Eve shopping. She needs to buy a nice dress for an event next week. If Esme goes, poor Eve ends up with nothing and Esme comes back with bags of stuff.

I hope that you don’t have any ill effects from your jabs Sylvia. Neither of us were ill after our injections, OH is often ill after the flu one. We both just had a sore arm on the flu side.

We're having some nice weather here, temperatures around 14-16C during the day, sunny with cloudy periods or cloudy with sunny periods! It is a bit nippy when out of the sun, and we have had some rain, but could do with much more!

I had my Covid and Flu shots today ............. a nurse came to the Residence, set up shop in one of the Activity Rooms, and then we had to go there when the time came. Covid in the left arm, flu in the right!! OH will presumably be getting his shots later, as they wait a little while longer in the unit he's in.

We're having a Provincial Election here, voting date is the 19th October, but a mobile voting unit is coming tomorrow so we can all cast early votes. Of course we haven't any "bumpf" here, so I had to go online this afternoon to discover who the candidates are in our election area. Not much information on them, so we'll just have to take a guess as to which party we might want to vote for!

I'll give OH the list this evening, then I'll go down when it's time tomorrow, and bring him up to the Voting Place, so he can cast his vote ............... he is capable of doing that!

Take care everyone.

OH doesn’t notice dust, so we decided to do admin instead
One of our annual savings accounts was maturing and reverting to low interest, so we opened a new one and did a trial movement of some of the money.That went easily, so we will move the rest if the money later
Then the car insurance is due for renewal, so we went on a comparison site and ended up opening a new policy which was with the AA. It saved about £45 , not as much as we usually save, but better than nothing. The trouble started when we tried to log into the AA on line to view the documents. We have a Nationwide bank account and that gives us breakdown cover which happens to be with the AA., so when we tried to log in with either of our email addresses, it only showed the breakdown cover. So we ended up ringing them :-( They insisted that we had to have another email address to create a new AA account in order to see the documents. How stupid is that :-|. In the end I used an old Hotmail address which I never use, it worked and we could get in. I felt like cancelling the new policy and starting again.

Always ArgyllGran, always lol

If all else fails, you can always dust/polish/iron, Florence!

Afternoon all
Well its about 45 mph here so gale force and heavy showers but think the wind will drop by Saturday, hopefully.

I got 3 parcels today with things i had ordered fo xmas & the general household as well. Lol it was like xmas in my kitchen with the table full of goodies etc :-D :-D

Easy bit done, next the wrapping and then the worse bit the boxing up and parcelling

When sending things in a box, i used to wrap it in thick brown paper but now, i use a thick black bin bag.. Its lighter and far easier to wrap the box in and its waterproof unlike brown paper.

Im sure you can find something for hubby to do Linda? Dusting, polishing, ironing?Amazing how women just find something to do and men always seem to ask the women, what can i do?

I expect he's happiest when he is outside doing practical things like the fence he's building as most men probably are.

Well better make a sandwich of something for lunch and then try & be productive this afternoon in some way!

Florence in the hebrides

I hope everyone is fine today. I had to go to a routine dental hygienists appointment this morning. It was damp here , but not raining. I have a half hour drive up the motorway and the rain was absolutely torrential. It was really scary driving through it. I was glad to get there. It was just ordinary rain on the way back which was bad enough.
I am glad to be home and will be staying put for the rest of the day.

OH has started building a fence down one side of the back garden where the hedge was. It was a solid block of ivy and once we pulled the ivy out there were very few trees left. He has got three of the four metal posts in with the wooden cross beams between them. He was keen to get the last post in today, then he could put the boards on, but rain has stopped play, so he is wandering about inside looking for things to do.

Afternoon everyone looking in.
Well the weather is going downhill fast as its now blowing a gale and raining hard. It was calm when i got up but suddenly the wind is roaring outside. thank goodness i dont have to go out in it!

Been trying to finish off my xmas presents and I found a brilliant book for my dad but from my daughter to him. Its a book all about locomotives in the south east with lots of pictures which i know he will enjoy looking at. He's at an age(86) where he has most things but during the coming winter, I know he wont be out much so having some interesting books to look at will pass the time for him.

I also found an organiser box for cards with dividers. Daughter has mentioned this awhile ago that she needs a box to keep cards in different sections like birthday, blank etc and this one is just what she needs so another ticked off.

Considering i started quite early, which I'm glad I did, i still haven't quite got there!

The next job will be sorting into families and then the grand wrapping session which we usually do on a Sunday with lots of nibbles & juice plus music, then it doesnt seem so much as a chore.

Hope everyone else looking in today is well and has better weather than we do!

Florence in the hebrides

I had a look to see when the 2 dose jabs started - it was September 2023 and apparently it is replacing the single dose jab for everyone. They may use what they have left first I suppose.

I’ve heard of this but didn’t pay any attention as I had mine a few years ago. Does seem stupid not to point out when the two dose is being used.

Are they all the two dose version now?
Added: just checked the NHS website which says if you have severely affected immune system you get the x2 version otherwise it is the other one which is once.
But probably down to what is in the fridge :-S

I've never heard of a two-part shingles jab, either.
I had one jab several years ago, and there's never been any mention of needing another.

I just looked at the shingles jab as I was told I only needed one dose. There are two different vaccines, one needing one dose, the other needs two doses.

The one dose jab cannot be given to people who have a severely weakened iimmune system.

Every day's a school day!

I didn’t know that the Shingles jab had two parts, we have both only had one.
Both our arms are sore, but the flu jab one is much worse for both of us. The flu jab was in my left arm and that is the side I normally sleep on, so that wasn’t helpful.
Apart from the sore arms, we feel OK.

If you can get some salad leaves growing, you should be able to to keep them going all winter in the poly tunnel Florence. It is probably too cold for them to germinate outside now, if you had somewhere inside to get them going, you might be able to plant them out in the tunnel

Polytunnel sounds great Florence you will be all sorted for spring sowing . Do you have space near by for a good compost heap to keep up a supply of compost that you will need for top ups.

We went for our flu jabs yesterday. 1 gp and 1 nurse doing them I went in first and nurse said can I do your shingles jab today. I've had it I said . No you had part one and should have had part 2. Would have been helpful if I was told that a the time of the first jab. Anyway I had it and now have 2 sore arms and didn't sleep well at all. OH was told to have his flu jab and then see the nurse for his diabetic check (no prior notice) waited to be called and then was told he wasn't on the list for the check. Think they were trying to do to many things in 1 morning. Just got to book our covid jabs now at the pharmacy.

Take care all.