The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

ivyleaf

mar Does the RV watch the channel called Movies4Men? i ask because when I visit my bedbound elderly neighbour he is usually watching a cowboy film on that channel. Not all their films are Westerns, but a lot seem to be.

monna OH loves Talking Pics too. I like a lot of what they put on, but I find some of the films' soundtracks (not the music but the actors' voices) too piercing to listen to. The ones I have problems with tend to be the 30s and 40s American ones.

VJsmum glad you're having such a nice break xx

Hester I hope you have a more peaceful couple of days now! Poor little Ella, I'm glad she has a new loving home now.

mardatha

Yes ivy he watches that. I don't mind cowboys but I hate John Wayne.
Hester I don't watch tv but I watch youtube while I knit. Currently working my way through Basil Rathbone Holmes episodes, I like him.

nursemaggie

Yes I watch a lot of you tube. Not British TV but documentaries from other English speaking countries lots of science stuff, educational material, podcasts, not much in the usual popular stuff in short videos but I do watch the odd cat video. I am sure God made cats to make humans laugh.

silvasava

Don't know if you've a dvd drive-in your laptop Hester but how about DVD's from the charity shops? Lots of choice for pennies.

Hard_Up_Hester

That's a good idea Silva, thank you.

ginnyknit

I'm another Father Brown and Vera fan. I love the fact that I have stood exactly where Vera stands next to the Tyne silly I know.:o

Well after a terrible few days with Hubbys temper I am now wife of the year - bloody depression changes drive me mad - I loaded his new cricket scoring programme and something went wrong so following the instructions I deleted it. Of course it deleted last years one along with all his scores from his blind cricket matches and a couple of others he occasionally does. :eek: I sat and twiddled a bit till I found all the scores archived on the site and reloaded the new programme perfectly....phew.....he was lucky I didn't just throw the lappy at his head :mad: Anyway he is now calmer apart from trapping his fingers in the car door.

I must be doing ok as he topped up my vouchers so I could buy a stand mixer as my hands cant cope anymore. I pick it up tomorrow and have supplies all ready for a big bake up.

Hard_Up_Hester

Ginny, my husband took me to Oxford because I'm a Morse fan and also sorted out a route so we could drive round Midsommer Murders area.

FairyPrincessk

monnagran wrote: »

FairyP, you are dangerous to know. I have long held the dream of conducting my whole life from my bed.
I believe that Winston Churchill almost perfected the art. What's good enough for Winnie...............

Commiserations on the lurgy. Stay in bed and keep warm.

Moi? I'd never dream of being a bad influence (I just get on with it!). I've always fancied carrying on a French Salon from bed...like the ones from the 18th century where moneyed ladies invited clever and entertaining people to gather round and tell stories etc. A bit like Winnie, but I fancy the costumes to be more glamorous. Never mind about the reality of having lots of people who didn't bathe regularly in a confined space, I'm not one to trouble about reality.

Fuddle I think I have what you have. I've also heard both accounts of the green gunge and actually know the history of it--I had a fab science teacher in school who taught us interesting stuff that is now pretty useful. I'm not sure how much was on the curriculum, but I still use a lot of it now. For the queasy among you, I'd skip this bit... For a long time they did think green meant bacterial, but as they learned more about how the immune system works they discovered that the color (and thickness) has more to do with the concentration of dead disease cells than if they're viral or bacterial. Your body produces these little immune cells that are like pacman and go around munching up all the disease cells, except this causes the pacman cells to die. They then get carted off (full of dead disease cells) in your excretions like bin liners full of rubbish. The more of them there are, the thicker and darker it will be. Like I said, this is only a school girl account.

Ginny lovely to see you! Glad you managed to get back in the good wife books.

I got up in the night, made a hot water bottle and had a cup of herbal tea rather than tossing and turning. It worked as I did drift off again once I went back to bed, but I also observed some of Maggie the Cat's nocturnal activities. She kept investigating something between the wall and the furniture. I wasn't brave enough to see what it was (and didn't have my glasses anyway), but she was so funny running from one end to the other, her fur disheveled. She isn't interested this morning, either she caught it or it was imaginary (she makes up prey for herself sometimes).

Well, I have a long afternoon of meetings today. There is also a train strike on, so I must get myself down to the station extra early. OH is giving me a lift home but we're going to have dinner in the city first. We can either sit in traffic for 2.5 hours leaving when my meetings finish, or we can eat and then get home at the same time having eaten and considerably less ratty. It may not be exactly all that moneysaving but it will definitely be sanity saving and we think that is worth it.

karcher

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

Ginny, my husband took me to Oxford because I'm a Morse fan and also sorted out a route so we could drive round Midsommer Murders area.

Oh how fab

Midsomer Murders and Morse are two of my favourites.

monnagran

karcher wrote: »

Oh how fab

Midsomer Murders and Morse are two of my favourites.

Me too. The best thing about getting old is that however many times
I watch those two programmes, I can never quite remember whodunnit in the end.


I have woken up this morning with a clear head. It's not that I ever consciously feel foggy minded, but I am often drowsy and as if everything is an effort that I don't want to make. Today is quite different, I feel that everything is in clearer focus. No idea why but I wish I was always like this.

Having re-read the last two paragraphs it is blindingly obvious that I must be on the slippery slope called dementia. I wonder if anyone will notice?

FairyP, you be careful today. Remember that you are still far from well and treat yourself with kindness. Make the best of any little breaks you get. And enjoy eating out.

Ginny, commiserations and congratulations on dealing with the techie stuff. You are a brave woman.

The workmen next door started up the digger at exactly 7.55 this morning. They were also packing up in the dark yesterday. I've taken a note of their telephone number should I ever need great earthworks doing.

Now I must make use of this unaccustomed spurt of energy and get going.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

I stopped understanding maths when the alphabet decided to get involved.