General Chat

Hiya Mo, its lovely and sunny here but..... a very cold wind.....had me hair done, and booked a perm next time I go...tooth is still bothering me but maybe when the dentist puts another coating on it it will be o.k.the bill wont be though :-0 :-0...
did some cards and had a nap now I have started tea, jackets , breaded chicken. and peas. lovely fudge Ice cream to follow..... next weeks weather is supposed to be warmer and sunnier...maybe we can do a picnic , we used to do them a lot,even in winter, one or two nice spots round here so fingers crossedx
Hope everyone is doing o.k. better check the meal......see you later.

love Jean xxx. <3

Hi there Jean,
A picnic sounds lovely, can I come along with you. lol
We are starting to panic here, Roly has just gone for his fitting of his penguin suit.
Trust our daughter wanting to go the whole hog, for her wedding.
They had top hats and tails for her first wedding as well. Poor Roly, being so short, he doesn't suit them, as the tails come to far down his body at the back.
I have yet to find something to wear, and we only have till June to get organised, oh boy great fun, but we will get there eventually I suppose.
We have a lovely day again today, and I have spent a couple of hours outside in the fresh air.... wonderful.
Well girls, I hope you are all well, and hope to hear from you soon. Take care, Mo xxx

Morning all, hope you have enjoyed the sunshine and its set to last a couple of week according to the forecast, hope it continues right through to the whole of summer :-D :
We have just booked to have a break at our favourite place in April, D will most likely take her hols later in the year....usually America, much too far for us....

Were is our Sallie I sent a pm sometime ago and its still not been opened I do hope all is well with her and the family....

Ann , it will be nice for you to come home to endless sunshine ;-) ;-) ;-)
btw the butterfly on the card is really a silver one the black does look good though.
funny how silver and gold doesnt film very well,
I have put the cards away for a little while, we want to enjoy the nice weather, so hope to go out more, although over the weekend we have been grid locked for two days with road works J was ready to go to church and couldnt get out all the roads around us were jammed up, all the work was a small roundabout further down the road :-0 :-0 :-0 cant see what was wrong with it before !!! it seems ok now....

Elizabeth its lovely that you keep popping on..
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love and big waves~~~~~~~~~~ to all the other ladies who chat with us all. nice to read all the news, up a bit early today had a queer night last night, kept waking up and thought it was morning only to find it was 12.30 then 2. 15 and that went on all night so 5.25 I had had enough and came down and had a cuppa ;-) ;-) ;-)
may go back for a nap later on. I will have another cuppa, and some toast , then decide what to do .... so have a good day and take care ,

Love Jean xxx <3

Hello Everyone.

Lovely bright sunshine again, hope the sun is shinning for you.

Sallie~~a very big thank you for sending a parcel full of card making material, very kind of you <3

Take care everyone.

Shaun

Oh that was kind of Sallie, you can have fun now Shaun. :-)

Hi everyone,


Sorry I haven't been on here for a while. Since last Wednesday I haven't been feeling too good as I suffered with bad headaches from Wednesday until yesterday. Not sure if I was going in for a bad cold or was it just stress that caused it.

I have been upset this last week, as one of my older cousin's has had to go into a nursing home, as she suffers with Alzheimer's and she was no longer safe to be left on her own. Her daughter took her there last Thursday and she was dreading taking her in and leaving her there. We have always been close as a family, so it's been horrible, I've tried to be there to chat to A on the phone each day, so as you can imagine it's been a case of lots of tears from both of us.

My cousin isn't too bad, we all hope and pray that she will settle down there alright.


Then, my brother rand and told me that another of our cousin's had been taken to hospital, and she has to have major heart surgery very soon. Because there is a long waiting list for the surgery in Cardiff hospital, she will have to go to Birmingham to have it.





Jean, I really love the pics of the cards you sent me. You have some lovely ideas. Thanks for sending them.

It will be worth having a trip out to the craft shop, I'm sure you will find something a bit different there, than you can get in the Range. If you go in fairly often, they get to know you and what kind of stuff you like.
As soon as I go through the door at the ones I use in Derby, they show me what new things they have in.



Shaun, you are welcome to the card making stuff, hope that you can get Mrs Shaun interested in making cards very soon.

Hope that you are both feeling better over the last few days and that it won't be long before the doctors will sort out your problem for you.



Ann, hope you and T are enjoying your holiday. Take care both.



Huia, hope things are all alright with you. Have you been busy in the shop over the last few days?

I went to Derby to have my hair done on Saturday morning and Lisa that always does my hair for me has just come back from a holiday in your country and Oz.

She had a wonderful holiday and especially loved NZ, she said the scenery was beautiful and that the people were friendly and warm hearted. She would love to go again sometime.





Mo, how are things with you and Roly. Hope that you are both alright.

Have you managed to tidy up all the garden yet?




Sylvia, hope that both you and OH are alright. Are you having good weather over there as we are here?






Well must go now to have a cuppa and then it will be time for bed.




Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello everyone,
Sallie, it's such a shame when Alzheimers takes a hold, and the person we know is no longer there.
Your cousin is in the safest, and best place for her. There will be days when she appears to be her normal self, but other days in a world of her own.
Huia, has been living with this dreadful thing, for a few years now, and it has robbed her of her beloved husband Phil.
Your family would not have had a days rest, without worrying about her.
Knowing how my mum was, was such a worry to us. Many times she nearly set the housing complex on fire, when she thought she had turned the hob off, and placed a tea towel on top of the heated ring, setting it on fire. And not eating thinking she already had, and so many other things.
It's so hard to accept isn't it.
The garden is an ongoing project, that seems never to end. The weeds grow so quickly.
Our dreaded neighbour at the back of us, is still not tending her garden. I have been out with the weed killer, spraying the bind weed and stinging nettles, in hopes that they die off.
Even with my gardening gloves on, I managed to sting my hand...ouch it didn't half hurt. I am becoming a woos in my old age.
I hope your tension headache eases soon my love, if not, get yourself to the doctor, and get yourself checked over.

I hope our Ann, is still ejoying her holiday. I think she has pinched our sun, as it's not been seen or heard of since Sunday, and it's turned cold here again. So come on Ann,so send it back PLEASE.

Sending my best wishes to you all, take care of yourselves, Mo xxx

Hi ladies and now our first man :-D :-D the sky has been cloudless all day so we decided to have a stroll we went to the canal and set off, it was a bitter cold wind needlesss to say we didnt go far , back home quickly hot drink and toast. I cant stand the cold it hurts my chest and I was chilled all day....still am, must have the thinnest blood ever :-| :-|

sadly we dont get sun on the back until the clocks change so the conservatry wasnt over warm, my friend gets sun in hers all day and can use it all year , we are toying with the idea of having the roof made solid so it would become an extention , but all in the air at the moment himself is thinking of getting a new car??? wonder who will win ;-) ;-) ;-)

hope all our friends over the waters are o.k. does any one know if Marie has sent her new address and is her e-mail still the same....

hope you are all doing well, off to watch Emmmerdale,

Love Jean xxx

Hello ladies and Shaun.

I have made an appointment with the doc for this morning as it is 4 weeks since I had my 'event' and I have a few questions, and comments to make. I also hope the flu vaccine is in, as, working in the shop I am more likely to pick up flu. My appointment was originally for 11.15 but I have changed it to 10.15 as I was invited to a meeting at Mangatangi by their historic society. They have been given permission to use one of dad's photos. The meeting is at 1.30 and I imagine it will take a little over an hour to get there. I don't want to rush or be late.

Must go and get ready soon.

Good afternoon ladies, just looking in to say a quick ' hello ' from a lovely sunny day, but a bit cold from here in S E Derbyshire. I hope that you are all alright.


We are off to do the weekly shop in about ten minutes, so will look in again later on this evening.


Take care everyone.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello all, hope the doctor can answer your questions Huia.

It has not been so warm here in Spain today, in fact it is the first day since we got here 8 days ago that there have been quite a few clouds around and it has been very windy. We still managed an hour sitting in the sun on the patio but that is all. Not that we can complain as the weather has been very good nearly all the time.

Hello all,
Sorry to hear that the sun has been hiding from you Ann. But just being able to sit outside is good isn't it.
At least the only way to get your feet wet, is if you go for a paddle or bathe, not like the horrid rain we had not so long ago, where we had no choice but to get wet. lol Enjoy yourselves my love, the sun is bound to appear soon.

Ann, I am afraid I don't know Maries address, but will send you her E.Mail addy, when I have looked it up. I do know that it has changed though.
Cor you and J were brave going out for a walk today, it's been very chilly here for the last two days.
Hhhmm I do wonder who will win the bet over the car or roof. Either way, it will benefit both of you in the end. lol

Huia, I hope you got the answers you wanted from your doctor. Our Flu jabs are done around September/October/November time, depending on availability.
Since I had my last one done, I seem to catch every cough and cold thats a going.
It's never done this in the past, so I don't know why it affected me like this, this time.

Sallie, are you still doing your weekly shop....the queue must be sooo long, as you left just after four p.m, and you are not back yet. ;-) ;-) ;-) My shopping day, is normally Friday, and it gets so busy, I think the rest of Gillingham decides to go on the same day as me.
I have tried getting bits and bobs on a daily basis, but I still end up having to get loads on Friday.

Right, I must go and find Marie's addy before I forget.
Bye for now folks. Mo

Mo I am JEAN not Ann, , you dizzy woman read what you wrote :-D :-D :-D :-D
I have answered your mail, so all is well... it was a lot warmer than our walk yesterday , I did very well with my wheelie thing and it will be great for L*******0 nice and flat there , tomorrow I go back to the dentist and have a final coat put round the tender tooth, but..... I just happenened to suck a toffee and a big filling came out of another tooth :-0 so
up goes the bill....hope it gets warmer for you too but change is as good as a rest so they say.....hope T is feeling better and the cough has gone...
off to have strawberries and ice cream yummy...
take care , love Jean xx

Mo, we are back from shopping, everything put away, had our dinner and also called in Jennie's. So we are now having a bit of a rest, Alun is watching TV and I am reading back on some of the threads.


Tomorrow we are going to Meadow Hall in Sheffield, haven't been there since before Christmas, so thought it would make a change. Alun wants a new pair of trousers, couldn't get the size he needed in Derby, so thought we would try Sheffield.
It's an excuse to go and have a look around the shops and have lunch out.lol!!




Ann, hope that the sun will appear again for the rest of your holiday. As Mo said it's nice to have it dry and to be able sit to outside.
It's nice to sit and relax and know that you haven't got things that have to be done.



Jean, pleased that you managed well with your wheelie thing, I'm sure it will be much easier for you when you are on holidays. Is it the kind that has a seat as well?



Huia, hope that the doctor has been able to answer all your questions, and was able to put your mind at rest from any worries you might have had.

Also hope that you arrived on time for the meeting at Mangatangi and that ut went well.




As you said Jean,it's a while since we last heard from Marie, I hope that she and her family are all okay.



It's also been a good few days since I have seen Sylvia on any of the threads. Also hope that everything is alright with her and her family.

Although now I think about it, maybe her and her OH have gone to their friends funeral on the island.



Well girls will speak to you again tomorrow.




Take care everyone.



Love, Sallie.xxx

Sallie, the doc was running late, so I didn't spend too long on questions. It was just curiosity on my part. I wasn't worried about anything. I also told her that the constant headaches which I had had for 2 months or so had disappeared by the time I was released from hospital. I had my flu jab before I saw her, since she was running late, so that helped my timetable. In fact I had plenty of time. I was able to get my prescription from the chemist and go into the tearooms for a cup of hot chocolate, before going home for a quick lunch (I had taken it with me, expecting to eat as I drove, missing out the home bit) and I arrived at the meeting hall with plenty of time to spare. These country meetings always finish with a cuppa and food. It was a lovely spread (home made). I ate too much of course.

Today I went to the shop at lunch time, had my lunch there, did a little bit of tidying, then went to visit Phil. The carer was about to change the dressing on his foot so I watched, and helped a bit. She had given him some morphine beforehand to dull the pain, but his hands went down when she unwrapped the old dressing and started to remove the scab. I was able to hold his hands out of the way, and when she was putting the new dressings on I held his foot up. It still looks a bit yukky, but then he is not going to be putting on socks and shoes or boots and going for a long hike.

When I got back to Papakura I went to the medlab for a blood test that the doc wanted me to have. The hospital did one but didn't say anything about the results in their letter to the doc. So here I am, 2 vials of blood lighter. But I am fine.

Huia.

Ooops silly me Jean, I was trying to read and answer the thread at the same time. lol
Did you get my E.Mail with Marie's addy...oh good grief, I hope I sent that to you, and not to Marie or Ann, I am losing it big time by looks of things.

Just a quickie tonight my friends, got darts, so I will say bye for now, love Mo xxx

Jean~~ Big thank you >>>>>>>>>>>>>back up the mountain until I know it's safe to come back :-)

shaun

Hello everyone.



Shaun, lovely to see you post on here again, you know you are welcome to pop in anytime to see us.
Hope all goes well with your tests tomorrow, I will be thinking about you. Also thinking of Mrs Shaun.




Huia, glad that you managed to get sorted out at the doctors with your flu jab and could at least ask a couple of questions. It's good to know that you don't suffer anymore from the headaches you suffered with for a couple of months.
Also pleased to hear that you were in plenty of time for your meeting and that it went well. Sounds as though you enjoyed the homemade food afterwards too... apart from maybe eating a bit too much. lolol!!

It was good that you were there when the carer changed the dressing on Phil's, apart from being able to help her, you could see for yourself how Phil's foot is healing.



Mo, have you got a darts match tonight? If so hope you and your team will win.

We have been to Sheffield today and I didn't buy anything......couldn't find anything I wanted. That must be a record.lol!!
Although Alun bought two pairs of trousers for himself and a model railway magazine.....so he did well. It's usually the other way round.




Jean, how are things with you today? Hope you are all okay there.

Have you and J done anymore walking since the other day? If it has been another lovely day there, as it has been here, I thought you might have been tempted to go out for a short walk.

We are thinking about going to Derby tomorrow morning. Need to get a couple of bits and I want to go to Mary's craft shop. Only Alun is at a model railway show in Nottingham, Saturday and Sunday, the club has one of their layouts there, so won't be able to go then.
Since hurting me leg, I'm not confident enough to go on my own on the bus yet, as my knee still tends to give a bit now and again.




Ann, Alun has taken photos of the two cards I made for Richard's birthday on Saturday, if the pics turn out ok, I thought you might like them for your blog.

Hope the weather is nice and sunny for you there, so that you can sit out and relax.



Sylvia and Marie, where are you both? Hope that you are both alright.





Well, I'll speak to you all tomorrow.




Take care everyone.




Love, Sallie.xxx

Morning everyone, quite a dull start to the day, but no doubt it will brighten up later,
Sallie the weather turned quite cold so no walking for me, made cards instead ;-) ;-)
I will take pics and sendthem to you... thought I would try something a bit different, see what you think...

we had our littlie C visit us yesterday , he is a live wire and all over the place now he is walking , he was at the clinic for his first assesment and it seems he should be 15/ 18 months old :-D :-D so looks like we may have a genius in the family ;-) it will be a first for us :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D but he was so at home with us and we had lots of fun and laughter....

I am just watching a programme, Monty Don beautiful gardens, this one is in Italy a lovely place we have visited a few times he is doing various lakes and we have been to some of them, so I have taped it , so J can see it when he gets up...
cant believe we have walked in those beautiful places, how blessed are we :-) :-)
such wonderful memories....

time for a bite to eat and another cuppa so have a good day and take care...

love Jean xx <3

Just read on friendlies thread about Marylin, She often came on here at the start of the thread , my love and prayers go to her and her family , praying peace andfreedom from pain , bless you lovely lady..

love Jean xx <3