Soop's kichen for friendly folk and pampered pets

ann I'm so sorry to hear of the sudden events of your week. That time you spent with Peter and his wife before he went to hospital would have been very important to both of them. When you first see her, words may not be necessary - shared hugs and tears often express emotions best. for you both.

Good morning
Reading all your posts, happy, sad, troubled I do so want to be able to say something helpful or constructive, or indeed anything. But I don't know why I can't so please may I just sit quietly in the corner and keep warm?
Nothing catastrophic going on here apart from DH being violently sick at the table last night, poor man, but I am just weary.

Thanks for that sign of hope greyduster, I woke early this morning and I'll admit to feeling quite upset as I reflected on this troubled lass and the fun I could have with her in days gone by. She's always been a bit of a challenge but she's our first grandchild and even at her worst I always felt she had a special place in my heart. My son worked away a lot when she was little so she and her mum spent many weekends with us in those early years. I'd always thought that bond would stand us in good stead for the years to come and even with us living further apart these days that did seem to be the case until quite recently. But this a whole different level of challenge and it's not just us, she seems to push everyone away I guess I just need to hang in there and tell myself "this too shall pass"
I might just need to check out the I pad deals at JL, I've been toying with replacing my ancient kindle for a while now.....and I feel in need of a wee treat!

I always wait until 6pm N&G but sometimes in times of stress the clocks are fast

Just send for your GS greyduster problem solved.
I am a real technophobe but was able to do the basics, however I did need my GD to do the fine tuning.
I would like a new one myself but keep looking at the cost!!
I hope to speak to my friend today, she had her immediate family there all day yesterday, I am not looking forward to it but it will be easier after the first time I hope.
No practical help will be needed, her family are all super efficient especially her D who will definitely be in charge but sometimes emotional support comes better from someone roughly your own age with similar life experiences.

Good Morning all !

The sun is shining on us here in deepest darkest Essex ! Long may it last!!

Your tractor story did make me smile Grey. We have a similar story about a much desired pair of wellies that he wouldn't put on his feet but carried everywhere with him including bed at night .

OUCH soop , I know that's getting better but it looks super itchy!!! You would get a large Disney plaster in our house for that one !! I did laugh at your comment about Coopers birthday. Balloons are his favourite thing but you're right he was spoiled as always . But I think if you cant spoil them at 3 when can you? We were the best Nana and Grampy EVER too because we bought him his desired super hero costume which he was worn every day since Wednesday!

Take heart Granniequeenie they do turn into nice people once they get past that 14-16 stage ...have another gin

VERY envious of your new iPad grey I love a good gadget. When we were in Florida the year before last we headed off to the apple store where Grampy indulged himself in the purchase of a new iPad. He foolishly said to me 'do you need one?' . Now, I didn't so much need one as want one - so stupid question really!!!

They really are simple to start up and if you use iTunes for your music and your pictures are in the cloud, everything should pop right up on your new iPad. Good luck from a slightly green Nana

Today we have Jackson after school but Grampy and I are both a bit snuffly so no swimming. I was seduced by a bargain box of Lego so that will be how we fritter away the afternoon !! with Jackson of course !!

Hope you're doing ok ann , sending you a large , its 5 o clock somewhere !!

Happy Day everyonex

Good morning kitcheners. Soop as soon as I can look at photos of your leg injury without my insides tightening up I will declare it as getting better - at the moment I can't, so I can only agree with everyone else. Please look after yourself.
gq when my daughter was 14 she was exactly the same as your GD sounds! We used to keep our distance and poke her with a stick!! A couple of years down the line and a different girl. Hang in there!
Ann I add my good wishes to kitty's and hope you are feeling a little more balanced this morning ?.
We went into John Lewis yesterday for coffee and cake and came out with a new iPad! I know this one is creaking at the seams (I think it has been over gransnetted!!), but I didn't think a new one was on the cards just yet. I have to ponder and pore and agonise over every prospective new purchase for weeks before I'll put my hand in my pocket; DH is ”this looks like a good deal - let's buy one!" Bish bash bosh! I have refused to let him take it out of the box yet in case he changes his mind. He hasn't. But of course, he's not the one who will have to set the thing up, I am, and I don't want to take it out of the box because I don't know what I am doing, exactly! I spoke to SiL who gave me some rather perfunctory instructions and said "have a go - you can't break it"! Hmmph! So here I am, cast adrift! Wish me luck!

Ann, I hope you have recovered a little this morning. You must have been very shaken yesterday.

That leg looks awful soop. Take care.

I hope you can sort out a good solution for the holiday call.

I decided to have fish and chips tonight and the shop was heaving when I arrived around 6.30pm. I ordered my usual haddock, had to wait but that is no problem because I know that it is cooked to order rather than being kept warm. The chips were also recently cooked so my supper was really good- thanks bags.

Tomorrow the builders are meant to be returning- I have a feeling that a lurgy has hit them. Time will tell.

Luckily no trip to the polling station in London today- is it 5 weeks until the election?

I'm so sorry annsixty condolences all round.
I'd get that leg looked at soop
Well I've voted, collected youngest grandchild, fed, watered, read too and now safely tucked up in bed. She can be a pickle and try and sneak downstairs looking all dow eyed hoping for a reprieve.
Goodnight all.

I popped in the other day and it was all about fish and chips in the kitchen. I meant to post then, but got distracted, that Harry Ramsdens in Guiseley is no more, still a fish and chip place it changed to the Wetherby Whaler a few years back - I've no idea why it's nowhere near Wetherby! It's not far from me but I haven't been tempted, my loyalties lie elsewhere!
As always kitchen news moves very fast so I'm way behind. My goodness soop that leg still looks so tender, do take care not to bump it. You have a wedding to attend!
Ann you've had a hard time and on top of everything else now a sadness about your neighbour, I'm sure the family will have appreciated your support. Being involved at such close quarters near the end of a life takes it's toll, you're a good neighbour indeed.
Sounds like your move is going ahead at a pace n&g, how exciting for you I hope your daughter is seeing it all more positively as time goes on.
callgirl I do hope you can have that holiday after all, sounds like it would be a lovely treat.
We've arrived to stay with our son and family for the weekend, as always it will good to see them all...well it will be if our 14 year old aka the nightmare teenager ever actually appears to say hello! Fortunately her younger sister is still at a sociable age! I'm so glad I don't have to parent teenagers these days, it's an absolute mine field! My lovely daughter in law tells me she has stocked up on tonic and some very nice gin to go with it for me coming, she clearly knows I'll need all the help I can get to bite my tongue around THAT GIRL! Note to self remember not have too much of it or it could all go horribly wrong
Enough of this rambling wishing you all a pleasant evening!

soop sorry but the correct spelling is braw! I agree with Galen and Alexa, you should visit your GP.

Will MacS be having another Black Sheep Sundae?

That's my lot for today, folks. The sun is shining (yet again) and the garden is looking brau. I think that's the correct Scottish spelling.

Take care. I shall return after care home visit (and a coffee and cake) in the Royal. Shall think of you, callg.

Galen You can see from the first photo taken on the day I fell (25th March) that there has been a good result.

Okay, Galen and Alexa...I shall do as you suggest.

soop that looks like granuloma tissue. Seeing the GP again might be a good idea. ( it's a sort of over enthusiastic healing tissue) not very clear from the photo but Alexa and I think it should be checked out

Ann, what sad news for you. Your neighbour must be heartbroken and I hope she has family around her, as well as a good friend like you. Take care of yourself.

Soop, I don`t know about "doing well", that leg still looks blooming sore to me! Glad to see that Rory isn`t being allowed to starve himself!
I walked over the bridge to visit my friend`s husband this morning, and have a rare cup of tea made for me. I told him about the holiday, and said that it was a pity he didn`t still have his old motor bike, I could have perched on the back and we could have gone to Cornwall. He said the state of that bike we`d have been lucky to make it in under 2 weeks!

ann it is often a shock when someone we know dies but it is not surprising it is affecting you so much as you were with him and his wife just before he went to hospital. Such a shame for the family but it was obviously a really bad stroke. So sorry

I am so sorry to see your friend didn't make it "ann"

Oh, ann, no need for even a tiny twinge of guilt. I am so sorry for the loss of Peter, good friends mean a lot to us but it doesn't mean we can always stay and listen as they want us to. You were there when he needed you.

soop, looking at a doing well leg I'm really pleased it is. Would hate to think your leg was any worse. Take care, please.

Had to leave the car for a repair to a deep scratch today. The bus route that used to pass the garage has no funding now so a 20 minute walk to the nearest alternative took us around parts of our town we didn't know existed. An excellent excuse for a wander then and a lunch out before doing it in reverse. It was fun in a odd sort of way

I'm disappointed in you n&g, would so have loved to hear the outcome. . Pleased the birthday boy had the best birthday ever, next year even better?

I'm off to rest my aching legs. I think if I owned one of those step counter thingys I would be very pleased indeed .

Bella I'm a good girl. The nurse says so. It's heaps better than it was.

ann I apologise for wittering on about stuff and not realising that Peter had died. I go back to the point where I said farewell (yesterday eve)...in future, I shall go backwards (in time). This is coming out all wrong. I'm sure that you understand what it is I'm trying to say.

Thank you all I feel quite embarrassed as it is family going through the grieving. I felt it so much as I spent the last 20/30 minutes with him before he left his home never to come back.
He was a very generous man with both his money and his time and a member of lots of organisations , many of them charitable. On Saturday afternoon been I went across to take a birthday card for his young GGD and his wife was out. He was a man who loved to talk and kept me for ages telling me about a property auction he had been to the day before and I was longing to "wind him up", I feel slightly guilty now.

....in the sense of doing what you've been advised to do, or not to do !!