General Chat

we have driven down from the Lake district today, down the M6/M5 and all but the first 40 miles or so it rained non stop, traffic was horrendous (although going North was worse, two very long traffic jams.) and spray off the road was nasty. Took us about half an hour longer than normal.

Yesterday was a lovely day, we walked around Tarn Howes and visited wray castle. Lovely to see daughter and grandson and wife, miss them again now.

Mo, at least it sounds as though Roly is managing to get some sleep with the morphine based medication he had off the doctor. I hope that he will soon feel well enough, so that he won't need to take them anymore.



Ann. glad to hear that you and T are home safely. I hate travelling on the motorway when it is pouring down with rain, and the spray makes it even worse.

Nice to know that you had a lovely week with your daughter, grandson and his wife. But as you say, you miss them for a short while when you leave.
Richard and Christie were here last weekend , it was lovely to have them here, but I missed them for a couple days after they went home.


Sylvia, how are things with you? Hope you are enjoying your ' me ' time and that you are alright.


Jean, hope you all had a lovely time with C yesterday. Did C manage to eat all your grapes? lolol!!

I have been making some cards today, been trying to make some cards that are a bit different from what I usually make. I am a bit fed up of making similar kinds of cards.


It was Liz Purples birthday yesterday, and it would also have been Joyce's 75th birthday too.


I hope that both Huia and Marie are okay. It is a good while since we heard from Marie. Anyway, hope that they and their families are all alright.


Take care everyone.


Love, Sallie. xxx <3

Hi folks, it has been an awful wet day , and still rains ....

Mo hope Roly can now rest better , what about you? you need to grab a nap when you can... love and hugs for you both <3 <3 <3

Sallie C came yesterday , he is one canny boy, lights up the room, and now he is in big boys undies, so off he toddled with daddy and came back with his underpants on his head then decided he would put both legs in on side , but he was fooling about until S said put them on properly which he did with no trouble then proceeded to eat my grapes.... when it was time for home he pretended to fall asleep on the floor , so S went to go and said are you staying with gramps, C answered yes bye bye. daddy....
but we had a lovely time. and lot of squeezes and kissses......

I have some new pics which I will send soon Sallie, some a bit different than usual.

Love to Sylvia, Huia, Marie and all our friends take care ...

Love Jean xx. <3 <3 <3

Where is everyone, :-S :-S its been a bit hit and miss weather wise here , but now its lovely sunshine.. :-D :-D :-D trouble is we had to wait in for my pills to come., its been a bad week as far as the doctors is. pills ordered Monday, D ordered hers last thursday, she finally got them yesterday, I rang up about mine , only to be told there wasnt any perscripion for them, since our two usual doctors have gone its been mayhem, I have just recieved mine now... but we didnt know when they would be delivered, so had to stay in, no big problem cricket is on , and I have been card making, I had only six cards left, lots of chrismas ones, but general ones are now with my friend who goes to meetings for dementia. her oh has it... so I managed to get a load of new cards made , I will take some pics tomorrow... Sallie and Ann..
Oh is happy and so am I.... :-D :-D :-D

Mo I hope Roly is doing well and not in much pain, getting better every day...
also Enid too...

love to all our friends wherever they are ;-) ;-) ;-)

love Jean xx <3 <3

Hi Jean,. I'm here and I haven't gone to the seaside. Shaun on the Wales thread sometimes asks if there hasn't been anyone on there for a few days. As I told him, I haven't been to the seaside for a long while, the nearest seaside town to us is about a hundred miles away.

Hope that you have all managed to sort your prescriptions out now. Surely the surgery would have them all on their computer records.


Not been a very good week, Michael came home from work on Tuesday morning and told us that both him and the mate he works with, had had the sack, apparently there is no work for them. Michael was telling us on Monday that both him and his mate were the only two Brits left working for the Company, everyone else are all European workers. that will work for less money than the minimum wage. We know for a fact that there is no shortage of work in the Company and that it is doing well, they are just too greedy.


Hello Mo, Ann and Sylvia, hope that you are all okay.


Speak to you all soon.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Yes i finally got them Sallie,our two english doctors have gone one to Australia, and one retired,we now have two new doctors, not english,we normally have our tablets perscriptions electonicly (sp) sent to our chemist that is next door to the surgery, but it seems there was a backlog from last week.... the lady at the chemist said its been a nightmare, it certainly would not have happened when our usual docs were there ,

what a shock for Micheal getting sacked, why cant things just carry on as before...
the old saying is very true.. if its not broken dont try to fix it....I hope he manages to get another job soon....


I wonder how our Mo and Roly are getting on...I hope things are easier for him and less pain too....

I bought two small dies by Wild Rose Dies...a lovely spray of flowers I cut over twenty, all different colours, and a corner die with two tiny flower dies, they cut beautifully on the Sapphire mini machine.....I have also taken pics of quite a few cards , so when D puts them on for me I will send them to you and Ann, also I send them to JO off the birthday girls site.....

D has just made our tea, chicken in a sauce with pasta and garlic bread... smells heavenly...so chat later take care..... Love Jean xx

Hello all.

I have just put four lots of photos on the blog. Our garden, Highnam court garden Gloucester, Lake District and our canal cream tea cruise.

Not been on here for a couple of days, hope you are all ok and that Roly is getting better Mo.

Glad you finally got your pills Jean.

Is the company that Michael worked for very big Sallie? Surely they can't sack people and take on Eastern European in their place. There are regulations about these things. Were they made redundant? If so they should get redundancy. I hope that somebody can sort them out as they should be entitled to some money. Have they worked there very long?

Hi everyone

I hope that Roly is improving xxx


The weather is hot here ........... it might cool down by the middle of the week, and we might get a slight shower or two after that.

Nothing exciting has happened ........ although I did book our trip for early October while OH was away last week.

we're going to take the train across to Montreal ................. not too much of a surprise!!

We have never seen the Prairies at harvest time, and thought this was the year to do that. I've booked the Vancouver -> Toronto and return part, so that is all set. I'll look at the hotels this week, and keep an eye on possible deals for the trains to and from Montreal.

We are going to stop in Winnipeg for 2 days on the return leg as there is a new museum there, the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, that we want to visit. We've watched it being built for the last 8 or 9 years, it opened last year and this seemed a good time to stop off. OH also has a close friend from their school days who lives in Winnipeg, so we will also visit with him.

Hi, one and all, I had a pm from Mo, Roly is still strugling with pain, he goes to the physio and Mo said he is in agony afterwards, She has been on face book telling her family how he is , Thinks they have forgotten how to use a telephone :-| :-| :-|
It must be hard for her trying to look after Roly and seeing him in such pain....

Sylvia, the journey sounds fantastic, you are good at arranging it all...I look forward to hear all about it when the time comes...

Ann I will have a look at the pics after tea, I will have some more card pics soon...

Sallie , hope all is well with you and yours..

lots of love to all of you not forgetting Huia and Marie.. Jean xx <3 <3

Hi all I have put a thread up re Jean, poor girl has had a tumble. Buck up Jean, hurry up and get well soon, we miss you on here <3 <3 <3 <3

Hi all I have put a thread up re Jean, poor girl has had a tumble. Buck up Jean, hurry up and get well soon, we miss you on here <3 <3 <3 <3

Ann, thanks for letting us know about Jean. I hope and pray that she will feel a lot better soon and that it won't be too long before she is home again and back posting on here.

Jean, sending you lots of love and (((( hugs )))) and lots of get well wishes.

Sallie, xxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Ann

thank you for letting us know

Jean .............. get well soon xxxx

Oh my goodness Jean, I can't leave you for five minutes before you take a tumble.
Get well soon my lovely friend, and hurry back to us we miss you very much.

Well girls, I am sorry not to have been around for a while, but things are now going in the right direction, thank the lord.
This Florence Nightingale act I have been doing, was wearing me out, cor lummy, talk about chief cook and bottle washer, had nothing on me.
But thankfully, Roly is feeling a lot better now, still in pain, but cutting down on his Morphine gradually.
After a chat with our doctor, Roly has stopped his physio, and is just doing the excercises at home.
The doctor is not at all pleased with the treatment he was thrown into so soon after his operation. In her opinion, making him go on the bike one week after his operation, was far to soon, and put his recovery back by at least three days following each physio appointment.
Ah well,he is on the mend at long last.

Jean will be so proud of me, we had our darts presentation last night, and our team received two trophy's each, for coming runners up in the league, and in the threes league.. More dust harbourers LOL

I do hope you are all well. Take care my dear friends, hugs to you all, Mo xxx

Well done with the darts Mo, enjoy looking at, if not dusting, your trophies. I am pleased that Roly is on the mend. He will probably feel better in himself once off the morphine.

Hurry up and get back here our Jean, we miss you. Hope J and D are coping without you ok. :-) <3

Thank you Ann. Roly asked if he could drive us up to town today, and he was perfectly o.k, the only trouble was, that this afternoon he was in a bit of pain.
Having an automatic does help, but it was his right knee that was operated on, and this is obviously the foot he had to use to drive. Oh well, that is another step in the right direction girls.

I send my love and hugs to our dear friend Jean, hoping she is coping with the broken ribs.....oooh so uncomfortable for her, bless her little cotton socks.

My goodness, how has your weather been girls, it's been so warm here in Kent, but I must not complain.

Take care one and all, hugs Mo xxx

goodness five days since anyone posted.

first of all, thank you Mo and Sallie for your cards. I read in the paper that people have stopped sending cards. well I had 29 altogether. 14 from friends and relations and 15 from GR friends and birthday group ladies. So I am keeping the post office going!

The forecast of heavy rain and thunder storms changed slightly to lighter rain here but so far, it is 4.30 and we have not had any rain at all so we wonder if we needed to change our plans at all.

I am having a lovely day.We went to Hobbycraft at Cheltenham and bought quite a few bits I didn't know I needed with OH's birthday money, also went to homesense there and Sainsbury's for coffee. Then we drove back and went to Table Table (stupid name for a restaurant, part of the brewers fayre chain) and had a very nice lunch, I had prawn cocktail, scampi and OH had Calamari and fish and chips and we shared a cherry and apple crumble. We also drank two glasses of wine and brought the rest home.

I had money and voucher (M&S) for my birthday so we will go to town at the weekend and spend that :-D :-D

Not heard any more about jean so I hope she is getting on ok. Hurry back Jean, we miss you <3 <3 <3 <3

Happy Birthday Ann, glad to know that you are having a lovely day. Pleased to know that you received my card. Enjoy the rest of your day. <3 <3



Jean, hope you are improving each day and will soon be home. Thinking about you and sending you lots of love and ((((hugs)))) <3 <3 <3


Mo. hope that Roly is a lot better and also hope that you are okay. <3 <3


Love, Sallie. xxx <3

Hello Sallie and Ann.
It's lovely to hear that you had a good birthday Ann, and enjoyed your birthday meal.
Have M+S got any sales on at the moment Ann ? I need to start getting some winter clothes in soon, it doesn't seem possible that we are in our summer, and heres me talking of buying winter clothes LOL

Sallie, Roly is still suffering pain at night, despite the new tablet the doctor gave him.
I think his discomfort is coming from driving, but he says no it's not, so who am I to argue.

I do hope we hear how our Jean is soon, it is a worry isn't it, and we miss her so much.

We had terrific storms yesterday, we had to go to the hearing clinic for Roly's check up, and by the time we had parked the car, and walked into the hospital, we were like a couple of drowned rats, and it was still like it when we came out.
The thunder and lightening was awful, it rained so hard that our guttering, and both out neighbours, couldn't hold the water, and it was like Niagara falls outside.
Thank goodness the rain was lighter today, as we had to go for Roly's eye examination, and we didn't want to get soaked again.
Thank goodness we don't have any appointments tomorrow. But I have my eye test on Monday, so fingers crossed the rain has passed us by then.

Sending my best wishes to Sylvia, Marie and Huia,hoping they are all well.

Have a nice weekend girls, hugs Mo xxx

Hi Mo, and everyone

we were back in the hot weather for 3 or 4 days, but today is MUCH cooler, and I'm waiting for the rain to start!

It was our anniversary on Wednesday, and OH had reserved for dinner at our favourite restaurant ............. but then I got a return of the nausea that I had last month after the antibiotic, so we had to cancel :-(

We'll re-book in a few days ............. I have to take OH out for his birthday next Tuesday.

I'm feeling much better, thank goodness! I hate that constant nausea feeling :-(

The hot weather didn't help either.


I actually wish we could have a really good downpour ......... we really need several days of it.

But OH says he heard that we will have this hot dry weather through September, and probably a very dry winter as well. It's that darned El Nino!