General Chat

jean christmas lunch sounded lovely.

The bathroom is finished. Alan came this morning and finished off a few bits, and cleared the builders yard from the front of the house. It came in under the estimate so I was well pleased, all settled up. so start saving for the next project now.

Photos on the blog. Awkward to take because it is very dull and dark here today and didn't want to use flash because of the reflections off the tiles.

Sallie, thank you for your lovely card, i really like that one, very Christmassy.

I have spent the time since Alan left (11.15) putting all the bits back in the bathroom. T is at golf otherwise I'd be able to do a bit more as he has a windowsill to paint, a small cupboard to put up, toilet roll holder and mirror etc etc to put up. I was not best pleased that he went to golf but he'd put his name down weeks ago thinking Alan would have finished before today.

Ann the bathroom looks lovely, easy to keep clean and sparkling,are the tiles white?I like the shape of the bath, we have a wet room in quite a big bathroom,I have help to shower as I am very nervous of falling, but the ladies are very good even though they sometimes get wet...lol...we are hoping to have new furniture after christmas, there are quite a few things we still need kitchen stuff mainly...it was all done in a rush, so lots of stuff came with us we wouldnt have brought normally..... still nice to have a spend :-D :-D :-D

I want to take some pics of the cards I have made for you to see, when I get D put them on, so fingers x she will come soon....

love Jean xxx <3

Hi everyone


one lovely sunny day after several wet grey ones.

However, rain down here means lots of snow up on the local mountains. I think they might have a bumper season over Christmas and New Year


Ann ......... glad your renos are almost finished. Is T good at getting the little jobs done??

I hate to admit it, but I still one windowsill that OH has not finished after our reno back in 1977 :-0

It needs a little bit adding underneath it ............. which he doesn't seem to see as "urgent" ............ or necessary?



Word today is that our friend had a bad day yesterday. We're beginning to wonder if she is going to fade even faster than we thought

Yes Sylvia he isn't too bad at getting things finished, gets ratty when things don't go right though.

Jean yes the tiles are white with a sort of grey smear across them, very faint. The bath is a shower bath.

Realised it wasn't under the estimate it was about £300 over because of extras like the grout he got for the tiles for us. Still good though because he did lots of little extra jobs. Like supplying and fitting new skirting boards.

it's those little extras that add the pennies!!!

True Sylvia but he could have charged more if he'd taken everything into account, bearing in mind he was here for 12 and a half days.

it sounds as if you have a good guy there :-D

Thank you Jean for the lovely flowers that you have sent me on behalf of all my friends on here........it was very thoughtful of you.

Also thank you all for your lovely Christmas cards. and for your replies to Jennie's message.

According to the Psychiatrist and my CPN I have made a small step forward, but still have a very long way to go.I am very lucky to have such lovely caring people there to help me and also made some very nice friends at the hospital where I go for anxiety management, all suffering with mental health problems too.We all watch out for each other.


Hope that you and all your families are all okay.


Hope to be able to to chat to you all again before Christmas.

Love, Sallie. xxx

Hello Sallie good to hear from you, glad you got the flowers o.k. we never stop thinking of you , you sound more hopeful and any step you take is good, thank you for your card also, it is lovely...I made quite a few and tried to take pics of them but couldnt manage it shaking too much, but I will try again later... upset me though, J has a really bad cold and cough I hope its not catching :-| :-| :-|

but it seems there are quite a few folk that has bad colds, funny weather isnt helping either, its very mild today and drizzling rain... who knowswhat tomorrow will bring....

I am just about to go and have a nap , so see you later, take care ....

love and prayers Jean xxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Ooh, we have a rather thin but very affectionate black cat here. Just picked him up from the estate up the back. We are pretty sure it is Lucas, he is very at home and Luna seems not bothered by him as she would be if he was a strange cat. He is very hungry, and minus his collar. Daughter will take him for a check up at the vet after Christmas. Six weeks ago he went off, strange because we were here when he went and seems quite happy to be cuddled by me as well as Lyn.

Ann, happy to hear that you are sure that Lucas is back at home. Bless him, he must feel so contented to be back in his warm home and enjoying cuddles from both you and Lyn.

We went down to Wales on Saturday to visit our family and to take their Christmas presents from us. The weather was dreadful, nothing but heavy rain and high winds. Still we enjoyed our day, it was lovely to se all the family.

Alun has had his appointment through to see the cardiac surgeon, so that he will explain what needs to be done and explain the procedure. It is on the 19th of January at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester at 9.00 am. although we are hoping he will be able to have the operation done at Nottingham City Hospital.


I have also got an initial appointment to see the Psychologist on the 7th of January, so things are starting to move for both of us now, thank goodness, I shall be glad when it;s all over and done with, especially Alun's surgery.

Hope you are all okay, especially Mo, as we haven;t heard from her for a good while.

Will chat to you again soon.


Take care.


Love, Sallie. xxx <3 <3 <3

A Happy Christmas to you all, girls.

I havent sent any cards this year as I have been concentrating on other things. Yesterday at work one customer got me feeling very stressed, I think I put the details on the Aussie thread.

Sally, are you still at the same address in Ilkeston? A couple of months ago I bought a small calendar to send you, if I can now find it.

Hello Girls.

Hope you will all have a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Love and best wishes to you all.

Love, Sallie. xxx <3 <3 <3 <3

In case I don't get on here again. I hope you all have a lovely Christmas with lots of presents and good food and good health. <3 <3 <3

Same to you Ann, have a great time....

Merry Christmas to all our friends on here , home and away,

Mo hope all is well with you and your family. missing you :-( :-( :-(

Love Jean xxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Mo was on facebook so I think she is ok

Hi everyone


we are back from our Christmas trip to the Island.


I hope you all had a great Christmas, in your different ways.

We did, although it was different from what we had originally planned, but still very enjoyable.

The weather on Christmas Day was glorious .............. sun and blue skies, but it was chilly. It rained on the other days ............ and there was even snow on the morning we left.

Our friend was in good form, and the Palliative Care Centre was terrific with her. We went in twice a day for about an hour each time. We had a lot of fun with her :-)

In fact, she may be released to a full care home for a few days/weeks as she is now in better shape after feeding, re-hydration and pain control sorted out, and they need the bed for patients in worse shape.

The bad report we had just before Christmas was due to someone forcing their way into her room, against the No Visitors rule, who had not seen her for several months ............... so naturally they were shocked!


Another friend joined us for the Christmas Buffet at the hotel, as well as having dinner with us on the 23rd. We had a great time with him ..........


so all worked out well. :-D

Hello my lovelies, just to let you know that I am back online again. I will explain it all later.
I was using my daughters tablet on F.B, but could not get any further than that, not even to play games, but hey ho, here I am, back to annoy you.
I will speak to you very very soon, love and hugs dear friends, Mo xxx

Some Christmas photos on the photo blog, including a couple of Lucas daughter's cat who was AWOL but who was found after 5/6 weeks.