General Chat

Hi All

Mo, many years ago when the children were young we went to Butlins at Clacton and thought clacton was a dump even then. Sorry you had a disappointing break though but pleased you had a good meal out.

Jean, obviously the 'box pixie' has made off with your box. I assume you have checked with D that it is now left at the house? Hope you manage the hair appointment ok.

Sylvia I hope all the new man's promises come to fruition.

Sallie, hope you are feeling better. <3

Managed to get my hair done, and booked a perm for next time, after a bad night I kept waking up thinking about the missing box only to find out he-who- shall- be -nameless told me he had unpacked it and put the contents in a wardrobe drawer until we managed to unwrap them all :-| :-| :-| which I did when he went shopping, just have to decide what is going were so I can craft .. :-D :-D :-D
Tea is ready sheperds pie and sprouts for me J is having carrots with his, folllowed by rice pudding +cheese and biscuits.great chef .....

back later love Jeanxx <3

Oh my goodness Jean, he who must be obeyed, needs his botty smacked. Fancy not telling you he had unpacked it himself, I can see that I shall have to come up and have words with him.
I bet you feel a lot better having had your hair done love, and next time you get your perm done, you will charge us double to talk to you lol.
Lucky girl having J preparing your meals, is he available to hire, if so can I book him for sunday weeks sunday dinner please.

Sylvia, thank goodness the country will be in safe hands for the time being. It's like here, our polititions make big promises, and never seem to be able to carry them out.
Clacton sounds lovely from years back, but believe me, it's not a patch on how it used to be.
When I was a child, my aunt used to take me there, and also Walton on Naze for holidays, and my childhood memories are good ones, but then I am looking through a childs eyes from years ago.

Ann, we didn't see a Butlins at Clacton, we were on a Park caravan site, if we had had a choice we would have opted for Butlins or even Pontins, knowing what we know now, never ever again will we go down that route.
How's T's golf going, is he still playing now that the weather has changed so much.

Sending our Sallie my love and hugs, we are thinking of you darling. <3 <3 <3

Have a lovely weekend girls, hugs to all, Mo xxx

Hello to all my lovely friends and thank you for all your caring thoughts and concern for me over the last four weeks.

I am still waiting for a psychologist's appointment to come through, it seems to be taking forever..... it won't be too many weeks before I will have to see the psychiatrist again.
Although I am not feeling much better at all, but with the new antidepressants I am now managing to get five hours undisturbed sleep each night,so I am not so tired as I was

I have been able to make a few cards, but am very slow making them, as I can only concentrate .for a small space of time.



Mo, wishing you a belated happy birthday for yesterday. Glad to know that you enjoyed your meal out last night to celebrate. Sorry that your holiday was disappointing and had to go home earlier than you expected to.



Jean, did you manage to get your hair done today? Hope you did, as it helps to make you feel better when your hair looks and feels tidier.

Hope that you will manage to find the missing box with all the 'bits and bobs' in.

Just seen that you have solved the mystery of the missing box. lol!!




Ann, hope that both you and T had a lovely holiday in Lanzarote. Sorry to hear about the problems with your flight home though.





Sylvia, sounds as though you and OH had a wonderful holiday, I feel quite envious, both Alun and I would love to have a holiday like that.
It's good to hear that you will have a new government in November, and hope that he will keep to his election promises.




Hello and welcome to bakerGill, hope we will see you on here again soon. It's always nice to have new members join our thread,



Huia and Marie hope that you and your families are all okay.



Well ladies,I have taken about three hours to type this out, I hope that once I start to get to feel better, I hope that my concentration will improve once again.



Take care everyone.


Love and best wishes Sallie. xxx

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Oh what a lovely surprise to hear from our dear friend Sallie.
Sallie, miracles don't happen over night darlin girl, slowly slowly you will begin to face the black dog in the eyes, and shoo it away for good.
You know we are here for you my love, and back you 100%, if you want a chat you can message any one of us to scream and shout as much as you want, and we will understand.

Thank you all for my lovely cards, you clever clever girls, and yes I know I always say that, but you are.

Oh what a miserable day it's been so far, it's raining at the moment, thank goodness we managed to get the shopping in before it chucked it down.

I shall say cheerio for now girls, take care, hugs Mo xxx

Not only raining her Mo it is very cold as well. We just popped out to the small Tesco round the corner for a few bits and have been indoors the rest of the day. A bit chaotic though as we had a small leak under the sink and just couldn't find out where it was coming from, T pulled the washing machine out (so that is a lot cleaner behind it now) and we ran it on a short wash. It wasn't that, then I just managed to spot a tiny drip from a join in a piper, so hopefully that is fixed now. All the cleaning stuff had to be pulled ou though so that is waiting to be put back when we are sure it is fixed. Hence no cards have so far been made today.

Sallie, it is so lovely to see you on here chatting as normal, we do miss your lively posts when you are not on here. I am sure the more you do the sooner your concentration will return, especially if you don't worry about it. <3 <3

Jean I bet it felt great to have your hair done again and you will look forward to the perm. Naughty man Jeff, didn't you ask him about the box yesterday? Sounds like he had a senior moment and forgot he'd done it! You can sleep tonight now.

Mo, glad you liked the cards and had a good birthday. I suspect that Butlins Clacton has shut. No loss really. I think the Minehead one is still open though. :-)

Morning all so pleased to see Sallie is on here , well done petal, each day you are winning the battle and will improve more and more each day.

I stilll havent sorted the craft stuff, but will have another go later today. I want to have a little walk in the park, its two mins from our place, we can see all the trees from our window, the leaves are slowly dropping and we can see more of the park area, the library is very close so I hope to go there even though I have my Kindle I do like a book to read J has already been .I had a bad night and woke at 2,and never got back to sleep, so finally got up around 4ish, I will probably go back to bed after the carer has been, we go to the new doctors on Wensday, so I will have a word about it all...

hoping everyone else is fine and dandy, take care you lovely folk.

Love Jean xxx <3 <3 <3

Ann, we went to Butlins at Minehead years ago, and got flooded out. This was before they did the refurbishment down there.
Roly complained, along with a lot of other families, who were also flooded, and we got our money back.
It was horrendous, not only was water flooding in under the doors, it was backing up in the toilet and bath and sink, causing a danger to health, and good grief the stink was awful.
We vowed never to go there again.The way things are going, there are not a lot of caravean sites left for us to visit. LOL
Isn't it a nightmare when discovering a leak, and then having to find where it's originating from. I hope you've managed to sort it now.

Ah Jean, if I had known you was awake at that early hour, I could have rung you, and we could have had a chat.
Guess who forgot to turn the clocks back last night...yep we did.
When I woke up this morning, I wasn't sure if Roly had done them after I had gone to bed last night.
So I turned my phone on, and sure enough he hadn't.
I had txt the family to remind them about the change, and even reminded Roly, but no, he had changed the one in his bedroom, but not the downstairs ones. Silly billy, I should have stayed up and watched him as I usually do, but I was tired and needed my bed.

I have started a rotten cold today, and am feeling yuk, but hey ho thats life.

Take care all. Sending special <3 <3 <3 to our Sallie.

Hi everyone

We are having quite lovely weather, sunny and around 10/11C. Most days, I can go out in the afternoon without a jacket on ..... well, I do only walk form the car to the coffee shop :-)

The only snag is that we have had very much less rain in both September and October than the normal average ............. so we could be in dire straits once again.


Sallie ............. lovely to see you back posting, take it easy. xxxxx


Jean ...... I'm glad to hear that you are hoping to get out for a walk. It sounds as if your new place is very well situated for access to things such as the library and the park.



Mo .............. Minehead was another place where I worked in a hotel during the summer vac :-)

I was supposed to go to a hotel in Blue Anchor Bay, which is quite near (I found that job in an ad the The Lady magazine :-D ), but a week before I left home I got a letter asking me to go to "my friend" in Minehead "who is desperate for summer help".

It was another experience of a lifetime!!!

I had several university friends who worked at various Butlins in the summers .......... a couple of them ended up with permanently damaged wrists from having to carry full trays in the dining room.

We went to Butlins Minehead two or three times in the 60s/70s and had a good time, no problems at all Mo, sounds like you were unlucky.

Sylvia nice to have warm weather but sounds like you need some of our rain.

Ann ...............


we do need the rain!!

It did rain heavily soon after midnight last night, but it didn't last long!

Its a beautiful sunny day the leaves are turning and slowly dropping off revealing more of the park, tennis courts etc;we are going to have a walk in the park....lol...

I actually made 5 cards yesterday, J was watching sport so I brought some stuff into the lounge and cobbled the cards together... now I must get the room ready to use, it was a bit hit and miss on a small table but yet another step in the right direction, :-D :-D
cant believe how peaceful it is here after the noisy dusty main road,we are toying with the idea to have some lunch in the cafe downstairs, the prices look good, it seems you can have meals delivered to your home too...5* luxury......

managed to sleep all night until 7.30 I think it was the little tot that helped so might try it again tonight....lol....

off to get a bite to eat bye for now

Love Jean xxx

Sylvia we have just seen about that whale watch boat accident. How tragic.

Ann


it is indeed tragic. I hear the 5 known dead are all British nationals.

It is however one of the few whale watching accidents that has occurred over the years, thank heavens!

Difficult to see what caused it, the boat seemed to flip upwards, normally they would roll over. Yes British nationals the oldest 76 and the youngest 18 I believe.

Two of the dead are British nationals but live in Canada

we'll have to wait for the Transportation Agency inquiry to report ............ they usually give an unofficial verbal report on what they think caused an accident, if it is at all possible to do that, before the written report which can take months.

Rest in peace, those who lost their lives in the terrible whale boat accident.

Good evening girls, sorry to be late tonight,I don't know where the day has gone, it has flown by.
I am sat here with a face mask on >>>>>>>>I have got a streaming cold, and don't want to pass it round.

Well done on the card making Jean. You certainly are living in the lap of luxury, 5* treatment and food on your doorstep, cor love a duck.

Sorry girls I shall have to go to bed now, feel so shattered. Love and hugs Mo xxx

Mo sorry to hear you are under the weather, hope the cold soon clears up, what have you been up to getting so tired I hope its not the painting season maladay that is the problem :-( :-( :-( when I first read your descripion of wearing a face mask, I thought you had a hot date and was perking the wrinkles up ;-) ;-) ;-)

Sylvia what a tragic accident to happen with the boat seems odd how it sank though,
but terrible for those on board and now the loss to all the families. my sympathy goes out to them all......

Hope our lovely Sallie is coping o.k. my love and prayers to her and the family...
do miss her input on here and her lovely cards..... come on soon Sallie <3 <3 <3 <3

hope Marie, Huia and all our absent friends are ok.

J and I are off to our new doctors, we were with our old docs for over 50 years so its all changed now we are not in their catchment area now, we have to be assessed to see if we are acceptable to be on their list.......I will be ok, not sure about J though ......lol.....
better get some brekkie before the usual visit from my carer, lovely lot they are....

love Jean xx

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Hello girls, just a quick look in, things are still not good, but at least I now have a CPN calling several days through the week to keep an eye on me. I am starting relaxation and anxiety management on Tuesday ten until three, for the next eight weeks, so hopefully I will start to feel benefit of them. I have an appointment with the psychiatrist again ,on the 16 th of November but not sure when I will start to see the psychologist though.


Jean, you sound as though both you and J are happy and comfortable in your new home.
Hope that you enjoyed your meal at the cafe downstairs, and that you managed to register with your new doctors.



Mo, hope that you are feeling a lot better by now and are managing okay. Also hope that roly is alright and that he hasn't caught the cold virus too. Hope all thefamily are all okay.


Ann, so glad that you have managed to solve where the was coming from and that it is all sorted now.

I am seriously thinking about giving up card making as at the moment my concentration is so bad, I don't think I can make them any more, trouble is, it is what to do with all the card making stuff I have.



Sylvia, such a tragic accident to have happened with the whale boat off Vancouver Island. Do they know what caused it to happen yet?

Hope that both you and OH are going along okay.


Huia, Marie and bakerGill hope that you and your families are all okay.


Alun is still waiting to hear from the hospital about what they are going to do about him having his heart operation. It is six weeks since he had that last test where the camera gave the doctors a good view of all parts of his heart. He went to our doctors to find out if the doctor had heard anything from them, but they haven't either. .

Well girls, must go now, thank you all for your kind thoughts and best wishes to me.


Hope I will be able to drop in again very soon.


Love to you all. Sallie. xxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Hello my lovelies,just to let you know that I am still in the land of the living.
I have had one course of anti-biotics, but just can't shift this blessed thing, so back I shall go to the doctor on Friday.
Luckily our doctor has a free appointment at 4.20, we shall just about make it there, as we have a funeral to attend at 3.00.
We lost a lovely friend, our Barbie who unfortunately had to go into a home, when she developed bad dementia.
She was 87, but it was pneumonia that took her in the end. Rest in peace Barbie.

Good to hear from you our Sallie,thank you for letting us know how things are going.

Take care everyone, love and hugs Mo xxx