Pat, I'm glad they Haven flagged up any major faults with you at least you don't have this infectious knee thing going round huh Hosta, very trendy I hear! best wishes to all the cool kids with bad knees!
Liri, I'm with Yvie, as long as the staff are caring and kind and the food is homemade, stuff forms and reports, believe what you see I say its your mum and your not going to let her be looked after by anyone your not happy with, have confidence in the conclusions you make
Glad cookers all fitted Panda I have two....not that they work!
Dove you really are wonderful! I like it now you have retired! glad you don't have to be up at stupid o clock though!
Hope everyone has a good night.....free wheeling to the weekend now! X
Hi Wonky, nice to hear from you - just think, in a couple of weeks you'll be sitting in your immaculate, beautiful house, and all this muddle will be a fading memory
Yes, thank you Wonky and Yvie, I'm sure you're right about priorities when looking for a good place for Mum. My concerns about the home I visited,according to the CQC report, are that residents are got up and dressed very early in the morning, for the convenience of staff, and that they are a bit haphazard with administration of medicines. Those aren't things I'd be able to see, going round the home. I'm still waiting for brochures from a couple of places and then I'll have a tour around the possibilities - and take my sister to see them too.
New cooker, Panda - lovely. Hope it cooks good cake...
Pat - great news about the test results!
Hosta and OH - best wishes for the knees!
Simmits, liberty bodices, Vick, kaolin poultices, tripe... only the strong survive...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Well Ive eventually read through the last 24 hours of chat. What a marathon - good though. I can't believe that so many of you have bad knees. Are you all devout church goers or do you spend all your time planting bulbs and weeding. Must be the latter, I think, since we are all into gardening. Best wishes to all who need X-rays and other things for knee.
was thinking about the hanging pot for SGLily and had the bright idea of suggesting lobelias since it would look nice with pansies and would drape over the edge, then realised the season would be haywire. Sorry about that.
glad for Wonky and Panda with fittings. Chicky driving trials. Liri's Mum and photos of Autumn. My fav season. Lilyp Moscow trip sounds exciting. DD visit from previous owner Could be lovely. Topbird with bad night Hosta very clever with phone - I wouldn't be able to do it. Well done.
Gertie, who was the Wild Woman of Borneo?
re food and old treatments - my 1st MIL from Jutland (Bestemor) introduced me to stuffed Ox hearts. They were stuffed with prunes (deseeded of course) and it was a very popular dish with my family for years. Wonderful cold sandwich meat the next day. I only stopped making it when health regulations meant that the butcher had to cut the hearts open to check for any bad things. That meant it was difficult to seal the prunes in. As for tripe - erk!
When my daughter wa about to start hew secondary education, she was going to a very small private school, which still had a couple of the old nuns teaching there, she was reading the never ending list of uniform and said...mummy, I have to have navy French Knickers, that's a bit raunchy for a Catholic school, .....
Reading about horific foods and remedies, did anyone else have a dose of Syrup of Figs, on a Friday night, just in case ? I hated it along with the cod liver oil and malt.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
You see, even if I don't have to get up early, I do Had to struggle to stay awake for Bake-Off and had to have coffee to manage to stay awake for the last of Dr Foster - anyone else watched that?
I love tripe and stuffed heart - still make it now sometimes just for me - OH not keen. I'm not keen on Syrup of Figs though, but we were dosed with it regularly.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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No spoilers please have taped it and will watch later.
Remember having vick rubbed on my chest and some other stuff in a bowl that I had to inhale with a towel over my head
We had navy knickers in the junior school and bottle green knickers in the seniors.
Hi there everyone
Pat, I'm glad they Haven flagged up any major faults with you
at least you don't have this infectious knee thing going round huh Hosta, very trendy I hear! 
best wishes to all the cool kids with bad knees! 
Liri, I'm with Yvie, as long as the staff are caring and kind and the food is homemade, stuff forms and reports, believe what you see I say
its your mum and your not going to let her be looked after by anyone your not happy with, have confidence in the conclusions you make 
Glad cookers all fitted Panda
I have two....not that they work! 
Dove you really are wonderful! I like it now you have retired!
glad you don't have to be up at stupid o clock though!
Hope everyone has a good night.....free wheeling to the weekend now! X
Hi Wonky, nice to hear from you - just think, in a couple of weeks you'll be sitting in your immaculate, beautiful house, and all this muddle will be a fading memory
Yes, thank you Wonky and Yvie, I'm sure you're right about priorities when looking for a good place for Mum. My concerns about the home I visited,according to the CQC report, are that residents are got up and dressed very early in the morning, for the convenience of staff, and that they are a bit haphazard with administration of medicines.
Those aren't things I'd be able to see, going round the home. I'm still waiting for brochures from a couple of places and then I'll have a tour around the possibilities - and take my sister to see them too. 
New cooker, Panda - lovely. Hope it cooks good cake...
Pat - great news about the test results!
Hosta and OH - best wishes for the knees!
Simmits, liberty bodices, Vick, kaolin poultices, tripe... only the strong survive...
Ahhh, just watched GBBO, I cried too Chicky.
Well Ive eventually read through the last 24 hours of chat. What a marathon - good though. I can't believe that so many of you have bad knees. Are you all devout church goers or do you spend all your time planting bulbs and weeding. Must be the latter, I think, since we are all into gardening. Best wishes to all who need X-rays and other things for knee.
was thinking about the hanging pot for SGLily and had the bright idea of suggesting lobelias since it would look nice with pansies and would drape over the edge, then realised the season would be haywire. Sorry about that.
glad for Wonky and Panda with fittings. Chicky driving trials. Liri's Mum and photos of Autumn. My fav season. Lilyp Moscow trip sounds exciting. DD visit from previous owner Could be lovely. Topbird with bad night
Hosta very clever with phone - I wouldn't be able to do it. Well done.
Gertie, who was the Wild Woman of Borneo?
re food and old treatments - my 1st MIL from Jutland (Bestemor) introduced me to stuffed Ox hearts. They were stuffed with prunes (deseeded of course) and it was a very popular dish with my family for years. Wonderful cold sandwich meat the next day. I only stopped making it when health regulations meant that the butcher had to cut the hearts open to check for any bad things. That meant it was difficult to seal the prunes in. As for tripe - erk!
That's all folks!
When my daughter wa about to start hew secondary education, she was going to a very small private school, which still had a couple of the old nuns teaching there, she was reading the never ending list of uniform and said...mummy, I have to have navy French Knickers, that's a bit raunchy for a Catholic school, .....
Reading about horific foods and remedies, did anyone else have a dose of Syrup of Figs, on a Friday night, just in case ? I hated it along with the cod liver oil and malt.
Morning all. I've beaten Dove to the first post.
Good morning all
You see, even if I don't have to get up early, I do
Had to struggle to stay awake for Bake-Off 
and had to have coffee to manage to stay awake for the last of Dr Foster - anyone else watched that?
I love tripe and stuffed heart - still make it now sometimes just for me - OH not keen. I'm not keen on Syrup of Figs though, but we were dosed with it regularly.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.