Trying to keep our spirits up ! Coping strategy ( lighthearted )

castillemon I am so sorry. I have been talking to carillion on another thread and got confused. Also, I misread you name as callistemon which sounds like carillion and just got carried away (as no doubt I should be ?) So sorry. To make up for it I will make sure you get the comfy armchair in the K & N group and will bring you a nice big slice of gaunt’s cake.

I like the sound of the pink spiky hair by the way ?

Doodle I'm Castillemon, the one with the pink spiky hair

Carillion is the nice, quiet well-behaved one, is she here?
Can she knit, if not she can do the washing up?

DD has just pushed a large bar of Cadbury’s fruit and nut through the letterbox.

Maybe I should have let her in [hmmm] ?

Nope it’s all mine....

Everyone is welcome to the knit and natter group. Crocheting is fine carillion and sussexborn you can certainly help with the wool and join in the natter.

Don’t worry jane I’ll give you a hearty slap on the back to stop you choking. ?. There is that better? Oops sorry carillion the scone seems to have shot out straight into your

That flat has a walk in closet
I could get to like it here

And a balcony (no pesky weeds)

Oops, I shoved too much in there in one go!
Didn't mean to make you choke, Jane10, sorry

Hace a

Could somebody feed me a cheese scone? Not too much butter please.

The chocolate torte is cooling and smells amazing and the banana bread is going to be ready at 11ish. I've fished out some old tea bags but the coffee's fresh.
All are welcome, but let me know what you're bringing.

MawB
ROFL?

Good morning !
Gaunt you’re a chicken ( so am I )
Well good resolutions are fading. It was the knitting wot dunnit. I got waylaid looking for patterns. Doodle. It’s your fault.
Don’t think rowyn’s talkin’ to me now. Was it ‘cos I called her posh ? I thought Bella Senora was an opera. Turns out it’s something else on You Tube. Now I’m knitting a cheeky tutu type outfit for it.
Now who was it hosts the 11am virtual coffee morning ? Cake ? I’ll make it if I get a wriggle on. ?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️

Should have RTWFT -I see Marmight got there before me (she is a much travelled lady! )

Travel ideas for the weekend?

Smile

Sussexborn I could do with a nattering wool winder
Are you any good at making a as well?

Jane10 if you can manage to hold your plastered arms in the air, Sussexborn can put the skeins of yarn on them and wind them into balls!
Pas de problème!!

I can sing and don't need propped up but I do have a bit of a problem: you know my arms are in plaster, you've seen the Angel of the North...
I take up so much room now. DH can't sit near me on the sofa (fine by me!) but I have to go through doors sideways.

Sorry but I won't be swimming at the lido today, it's too cold and windy. But I'll be at the singalong at 10. Just now practising my scales.

I’m not looking after the GCs but I expect my daughter’s house looks a bit like this!

Our schedule is being written out today. My DH is in his chair fast asleep and snoring most afternoons so he’s only experiencing this madness as a part timer.

I went essentials shopping yesterday. There were no toilet rolls left so I bought a new 5 pack of knickers instead.

DH is looking online for a large house with outbuildings, at least 20 acres of land, 2 cottages for DDs, on a hill because of potential flooding, a small area of woodland with ready dug kitchen garden, preferably walled - all within walking distance of
A vintage car auction company
A friendly pub
An Aldi or Lidl
All for very little money and I mean very, very little money.
I told him to go for it, it keeps him occupied whilst I worry about World problems, we aren’t ever moving anyway.

I might break out a Christmas pudding and a can of custard I found in the Airing cupboard ( I wondered where I had put them) sell by dates are 2016 for Pud and 2015 for custard.
I have loo rolls, we’ll be fine........

Sussexborn the days of standing with arms out with the hanks of wool whilst Mum wound it into balls, I couldn’t persuade her to use the back of a chair, oh the aching arms!
My Mum could knit for England, I spent many hours with my arms stuck out.

I am quite good at the natter part but not so good at the knitting part. However if anyone needs help winding the wool into a ball I am your wo(man). It’s been sixty years since I last wound woolly balls but I am sure it will come back to me. Like riding a bike.

Doodle may I join the knitting group please?

However, being of a rebellious nature, I am going to crochet;
so far I can only do the one stitch and go round in ever increasing squares but am happy to teach anyone else who wants to learn a soothing but mindless new hobby!!

We rewired our last house between us.

I even learnt what a mouse was (not the half dead one the cat brings in nor the thingy next to the pc).

I’m going to try out all those exercise videos GNHQ has posted for us. Today I’ve done the walk a mile one, twice (pats self on back), and twirled a few cans of beans about.

I’ve FaceTimed DD2 and DGS4, aged 2. This is new territory to us, as we normally see each other twice a week (sob!). He asked if I can come to you, Nanna, where you are in mummy’s laptop. Oh I wish!

I cleaned the bathroom and kitchen within an inch of their lives, and unleashed the new carbolic soaps. The house now has a distinct smell of Beamish.

And I drank some of the Christmas sherry, that apparently should have been used within 7 days. I seem to have got away with it. It’s getting very 1940s round here.

Tomorrow I will go for a drive to the seaside, park on a cliff , no, not to jump off it, but to get some sea breeze and take in the view.