General Chat

Yes, it is wet and horrid, especially today....my birthday, a young 65 !! had a party on Saturday which was after my OH and i renewed our vows and had new rings, we have been married for 20 years. Fortunately Saturday was warm and people were able to sit outside, otherwise there would have been 37 inside !! Thankfully, apart from our family who helped, we had friends staying over and my friend got up at 7 am with us to get everything going.....Thanks for good friends

Good afternoon to everyone from Bridget who is in wet, wet, England and it is cold!
Seen my grandchildren which was wonderful.

Have had to buy boots and a warmer jacket and some of my clothes I have not even warn as it is to cold...never mind we are enjoying our selves.

Keep well everyone

Good morning everyone and I hope that you all have a good and happy day.
We are now in England and staying with our friends.
Yesterday we went to Norwhich and treated ourselves to new spectacles .......we definetly need them. OH was informed that he has early glaucoma and will need to be she led rehularly until the eyes are ready for treatment, can drive as his eyes are not in an advanced state.
I had a very painful eye a few weeks ago which was treated in Spain. However it has occurred again and the optician was concerned that I may have a blood leak. This was a surprise to me and also remained me of my younger sister who when still in her pram had her right eye bleed profusely ...terrified my mother.the London zee Hospital saved her site but she wore glasses until she started to use disposable lens.
Going to take the letter this morning.

We are having a good time and lots of laughter :-) :-) :-)

Tess, Berona and everyone else thanks for your entries looking forward to any other messages.

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Went to my exercise class last week and enjoyed it. Son came too and joined in.
Last Wednesday evening we celebrated my brother-in-laws 66th birthday.

I had such a HUGH main course that there was't room for a started or a pudding... even bought some of the main course (chicken) home in a doggy-bag, and ate it the next day.

Have now had the cistern sorted, so it is back to its "normal" leaking (whenever anyone sits on the loo)!

Decorator is now here and about to start work. So things are looking up.

It is quite sunny today, so that helps to keep people cheerful.

Won't be going to exercise class tomorrow because of the decorator. Perhaps I will do some at hope (or perhaps not!).

Will now start sorting through my (lots of) piles of paperwork, so that I can get all the relevant details to sort out the issues with the people who did the wet-room (and other things) for me, and left the work unfinshed.

Just need to be cross enough and have loads of energy and they won't know what hit them.

Hope that everyone is okay. I am smiling today, hope that you are too.



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I'm still pottering around.
Won't know what to do with myself now that The Olympics and The Paralympics are over.
However, the football season is now well underway and my team is doing well at the moment (West Bromwich Albion).
Have now got a decorator who should be starting on Friday. I am really looking forward to get all the furniture put back into my back reception room.
Will then be able to get the front room organised so that it can be "done" too.

Should be going to my exercise class this afternoon, this will be my sixth visit. My son joined me last week ad enjoyed it, don't know (yrt) if he is coming today.

Hope to go to the National Arboretum (spl?) with two school friemds at the end of the month. Haven't been before and am looking forward to it.

The cistern in my downstairs toilet/wetroom has lost the plot. It is filling all the time and driving me crazy.
I am still having ongoing issues with the people who did the wet-room for me, (they are not answering calls) so at the moment didn't want to get a plumber in, till all the old problems (including the cistern not being fitted properly) are fixed.

I had got a massive list of things to do, have been slowly working my way down it. Once my back room is decorated, this will be Top of the List!

Gerard, thinking of you and your cat.

Bridget, so happy that you got to meet your grand daughter and the the wedding went well. It sounds lovely.

Berona, I am pleased the you are having lovely spring weather. Sad to hear about the fire being set deliberatly. Hope that this will be a one-off for the 12 year old concerned.

Hope that everyone is okay,
bye for now.

It's good to know you have got over your attack by 'hackers' and lovely to know you have met your new grandchild. I hope you continue to enjoy their stay.

We are having beautiful Spring weather at the moment. A little warmer than normal, but not much...still very cool after sunset. However, whilst it's lovely not having any rain to bother us - we do need it, otherwise we could have a very hot summer and that leads to bush fires.

We had one at the weekend and it caused our main eastern freeway to be closed and homes to be evacuated. Police soon arrested a 12 y.o. boy for deliberately starting the fire and made him apologise on TV - although his face and name were not revealed....... I hope that was a deterrent to others. Bush fires which occur naturally are bad enough, without extra fires started by 'firebugs'.

Good morning to everyone who has been on this thread. Thank you for all your messages and I am p,eased to say that we have not had any more nasty events in our computers ...

My army son, his wife and my granddaughter arrived safely last Friday. It was a very emotional time for me as you may imagine as I had not seen them since they had their dear little girl. As soo as they got out of the car my granddaughter was handed to me...........joy of joys she smiled at me and we have been having a great time.
We all went to eldest sons' wedding not far from Barcelona and had a very unusual wedding, well unusual for our family, a wedding on the Beach. They had about 50 people there and and people had travelled from UK. Ireland, Germany, France. Scotland, USA, and a couple from Japan who were on their way to America.
I diversity of people such as I am most likely never meet again altogether

Lots of children all laughing and playing together and fascinated by E who had the palest skin and lovely red hair............
My sons' father is very ill and it was a shock to me to see him looking so unwell, fortunately his partner and I get along quite well and she is obviously making sure that he well cared for.

We came back home yesterday and my family will be with us until next Tuesday so I am having a wonderful time.

Thank you all for your kind messages about the "hacking". My husband now is very aware of what to do if there is even a hint of such an appalling experience.....one cannot help feeling dreadful when so many cyber friends were being contacted.

Enjoy your day
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I think we have all been touched by hackers. I received a letter from one of my friends, saying she was sitting at Heathrow Airport and needed $5000 to pay excess baggage, before she could come home here to Australia.

One thing they didn't bargain for.........as I was reading the email, I could hear my n.d. neighbour's shower running. The sender of the letter didn't know that my friend was my neighbour!!

They were very convincing - they even wrote the letter in 'broken' English. The lady is Bulgarian and her formal English is not good. They must have read some of her documents to know how she wrote English! She told me later that they also wrote to one of her customers stating that she had forgotten to charge sales tax - although no sales tax was chargeable. She was quite upset by it, but I think we all understand - just as long as the victim can find out it's happening and put a stop to it.
Best way is to change all passwords immediately. Never use family or pet names, and include numbers amongst the letters.

To everyone who received a blank message to my I am so sorry for the inconvenience.
My co puts was hacked and nearly everyone I have in my list received the same message. We have had a professional person in to sort this out, and hopefully all should be well now.

Why oh why do people do such things.
I have deleted many people from my in box and if anyone who I would
I,e to stay in touch with I shall keep their address in a book.

Same thing happened to me Bridget....a blank message.....do hope you haven't been hacked

Jan

Were there more than mine then Bridget?

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME EMAILS AsS I M HAVING PROBLEMS Re BEING HACKED.

Thank you

Bridget

No problem Bridget

OH my Goodness

You are quite right, I have not sent you any messages recently...how strange!
Our Computer man is coming tomorrow as the comps are not working as they should, I wonder if we have been "hacked" !

Pleased that you did not open them...
Bridget :-0 :-)

Bridget I am assuming that you have not recently sent me two e mails. I had two purporting to come from you but with no subject. I deleted them both unopened. Don't worry about it but I just wanted to check that you had not actually sent me an e mail. :-)

Gerard, I am sorry to read about your precious cat. I think that Berona has given you good advice. Many years ago when my children were young we bought a beautiful dog with such good lineage we did not imagine that he would be so I'll. The children and I were devastated when the Vet said, after three or four months of trying to help " the kindest thing that you could do is to allow him to fall asleep with you both present, but you will know that he will not waken."

My daughter and I went to say good bye by taking him for a short walk around the green then back we went and stayed with him until he had stopped breathing .

It took along time to get another dog but we still believe that what we did was for the benefit of our dear dog.

I hope that you will be able to keep your cat but one just never knows what may happen.

Gerard. I know what you mean that you love your pet so much, but he can't tell you if he is in pain. A trip to the vet would put your mind at rest and if the cat is in pain, you must do what is best for him. Putting it off could only be extending his pain, and you don't want to do that, do you?

I hope he is with you for a long time yet, but I urge you to take him to the vet as soon as you can.

It's a cool September morning in London - the sky is blue without a cloud so we can expect a nice warm day.

Would you believe it the cat from across the road (a beautiful black Persian) has waltzed through our cat flap and demanded breakfast (at 4 am) - discovered that he had been locked out all night - it was nice that my four cats let him in the house at all, either that or they are all scared of him.

Talking of cats, I have a dilemma. One of our boys - Fluffy - a Maine coon/Tabby cross is blind but has been fairly normal otherwise up until recently, when he forgets where he is and what he is doing. If he were human I would say he had Alzheimers - because on some days he is quite normal. My neighbour thinks we are being cruel and the cat is suffering - but he eats well (although he is getting a bit thin) and when you give him a cuddle he purrs like a good 'un. Surely if he were in pain or suffering he would let us know - I mean you don't put a human down because he/she forgot to eat their dinner!! I just can't take him to the vet and have him put down - I love him too much for that!!

Took OH to work early as usual this morning (4.30 for 5am) in our car which when we had it serviced last (December 2011) - 'Will probably let you down in four to six weeks' - is miraculously running better than ever - who says prayers don't work!!

Bridget - good luck with the house sale - I am assuming you will be looking for somewhere in East Anglia or Essex to live so that OH won't be too far from the Boleyn Ground!! - mind you could live in East Ham and be as close to the Hammer's Stadium as we are to the Emirates!!

Must sign off now - have to meet OH and give her her Lunch!!

Gerard <3 :-)

Tess, thank you for interest and please keep the fingers crossed.

Realistically of course I expect the house will take a time to be sold but I live in hope that it is not to long .
Thankfully we are not selling the house for financial reasons but purely because I want to be nearer to our children......someone's law will most likely mean that when we do go back to UK they will start moving as well!

OH had had only one point to make....when / if we do go back he will get an annual ticket to go to the West Ham matches.....seems fare to me!!

No other news at the moment but will look in a few times today to see who else is keeping the thred going
. It is a lovely sunny morning, the church bells have just started ringing, jet and Zoe are snoozing, the birds are twittering, and the washing is already out for drying.

Bye for now :-D :-)

Wow! Bridget.

Will keep my fingers crossed for you>