General Chat

Hi girls,

Huia, like Mo, I didn't realise that you had had a mini stroke on Christmas Day and had spent four days in hospital, I hope that you are okay now.......just don't try and do too much at the shop, take it very slowly. I'm sure that one of your kind neighbours or friends will willingly take you to the shop and back home, when you would like to go there, so that you will have some company.

Hope that you and your son will have a lovely birthday and that you will all have a nice meal with all your family together.



Mo, I really hope that the doctor will be able to get Lilly to see someone at the hospital on Monday. It has gone on far too long for Lilly now, with one thing and another,she really needs to see a doctor at the hospital immediately on Monday.
Her mum and dad must beside themselves with worry and must feel so helpless.....and of course both you and Roly must be feeling the same way.

I am thinking about you all and hoping that whatever problem Lilly has, they will soon find what it is, and that they will able to start treating it as soon as possible.
Love to you all and especially Lilly. Bless her. Hugs to both her and Ava. xx <3 <3



Ann, I have been thinking about your daughter and family today, on the first anniversary of her husband's funeral.

I hope that you and T are both okay.



Jean, so glad to see your post and receive your pm. We have all been concerned about both you and J. Hope that all the tests you have had at the hospital, will all be
okay with nothing to worry about.

Good luck to J for his colonoscopy in the week, I'm sure everything will be fine. Will be thinking about him.



Elizabeth, it's always nice to see your posts on. I hope all is well with you and all your
family.



Thinking of both you and your OH and hope that all your family are okay.



My CPN came this afternoon, it is always nice to see her. She told me that the Psychologist I seen yesterday will be working with me on the therapy that I will need to start on. Her second baby is due in April, so not sure I will have when she is on maternity leave.

I feel a lot better with the antidepressants I am taking now, I can now cope with life a lot better. I had started to diet before going on them and lost just over two stone, but the tablets I am now on has suppressed my appetite, so I am not able to eat as much as I did, and up until now I have lost three stone thirteen pounds. I feel a lot better for losing it, but don't want to lose too much weight. Although my CPN and the nurses at the hospital are keeping a check on it.


We have a lot of hospital appointments coming up for the rest of this month and February, between Alun, Jennie and myself, with one thing and another.



I wonder how Marie and her family are. I hope that all is well with them all.



Will speak to you all again soon.



Take care everyone.



Love and hugs, Sallie. xxx <3 <3

seems we're all having health problems!

Mo ..... they think I might have an ulcer because I vomited coffee grounds before Christmas.

I'm on medication and a bland diet, but now I need to have a gastroscopy (the camera down your throat into the stomach) to see what if anything is wrong.

I've felt pretty good since it happened, although I have to be careful to chew everything really well (the old 100 chews!!), and have to be careful not to have anything spicy.


What Lilly is doing is really scary! Has she been self harming herself for long?

I do hope they manage to get her in to see the hospital doctor very quickly.


Sallie ...... it is good to know that you are feeling better.


Jean ...... you did worry us, you naughty thing :-)


Ann .......... thinking of you, your daughter and family at this time (((xxx)))


Huia ............... Happy Birthday for Monday xxx

Also Happy Birthday to your son xx

You just take care, and don't do too much xx

Hello girls, good to hear from you all.

Huia, enjoy your time at the shop love. Having company does help the time to pass I know, otherwise boredom does make us dose a lot.
You have got good neighbours helping you out whilst you are unable to drive.
I have been meaning to ask you, have you had any more problems with your old ratty visitors recently, or have they at long last got the message that they are not welcome.

Ann, at the moment there is no diagnosis for our Lilly. But it appears on the surface, that she can change from being a lovely kind natured child, into a little demon within the blink of an eye.
She feels no pain, and has many a bruise or black eye from throwing herself into a paddy.
Fortunately, there was no early morning phone call today, her mummy has taken the batteries out of the home phone.
Our number was on instant dial, that's how come she rang our house, and hank goodness not the emergency services.

Sylvia, Lilly has been doing what we thought of as strange things, since she was about two years old, and she will be five next Saturday.
I am sorry to hear that you may have an ulcer, have they given you a date for your camera jobby.
A friend of mine has had it done several times, as her throat closes, and they have to clear debris from inside her throat so that she can swallow properly. I know it's not exactly the same as yourself, but they sedate her before they do the proceedure, but don't knock her out completly. In fact she had it done just before christmas, and was quite excited because she was able to enjoy roast potato's, something that we take for granted, but she had been unable to swallow for a long long time.

Sallie, by the time your CPN nurse leaves to have her baby, she would have helped you to have confidence in her replacement. And perhaps, she will still come and visit you, with her new arrival.
It does take time for the medical proffession to get any medication sorted for us, and thank the lord they have managed to sort yours out at long last.
You have no idea, how pleasing it is to hear from you Sallie.
Now as for your weight loss, don't worry to much about it, just enjoy the food you eat, they are keeping an eye on it for you, and they don't seem to be overly worried about it.
And just think of all the lovely new clothes you can buy, now that you are a lot slimmer.....I am jealous.

I do hope Marie is well, and nowhere near some of the fires over in OZ. They have also had quite a lot of storms, I know as my cousin is quite pleased that her water butts are fuller.

Elizabeth if you should drop by, I do hope you and the family have a lovely weekend.

Time for me to go now, so I will love ya and leave ya for today. Hugs Mo xxx

Sallie/Sylvia, thank you for your thoughts. Daughter and grandson went to the burial ground (Woodland site) with a few flowers and she said it was very cold. she says it was Jon's last joke, dying at christmas so that had to go out in the cold. she is ok anyway.

Sallie, I have seen Marie on Facebook so I think all is well with her.

Sylvia, I hope they can get you sorted out if it is an ulcer, but good that you are controlling it yourself. I have to say I would miss spicy foods a lot.

We have just come home from Cheltenham, it was dry but quite cold. M&S looked as though it was holding a jumble sale, a huge area was filled with sale stuff, most of which was onvious why it had not sold before. All I bought was a bracelet to put in the 'present' drawer. We then treated ourselves to lunch at Carrluccio which was very enjoyable.It was really crowded, they are so popular, people were queuing for tables and it is a large restaurant. I enjoyed sharing a pate and toast with T and then I had lobster spaghetti followed by a shared Tiramisu.

Hello girls,


Ann, thank you for letting me know that Marie is okay, it's nice to know that she is.

Alan and I went into Derby in the week, I needed to buy some new trousers, so went into M&S, but couldn't find any. Like you said earlier, parts of the Derby store also looked as though it was having a jumble sale too.

I managed to exchange a top that my cousin bought me for Christmas, it was too big for me, so exchanged it for one of the new range tops they have, but of course had to pay double the price of the top she bought me, and that wasn't one of the cheaper ones either. Never mind, It was what I wanted, and it feels comfortable.

It's the the trousers length I am having trouble with, with me being only 5ft even the the short lengths are far too long, even in the petite sizes.



Mo, hope that your son and daughter in law had a better and much easier time with Lilly, and hope that they have managed to get the phenergan today. I really do feel for you all and hope that the hospital will soon be able to find out what the problem is.

It is the psychologist I have not my CPN who is having her second baby that will be on maternity leave. sometime in April. She already has a little boy and is having another at the end of April.


Alun's sister is coming down on Monday, it will be the first time we have seen her since her husband's (Alan) funeral. We are going out for lunch, so that we can have more time to sit and talk. She is driving down from Ilkley in Yorkshire, so hope that there will not be too much heavy rain for her journey.

We all still have to exchange our Christmas presents. As things were in November with most of our family, Christmas was the last thing on all our minds. Looking forward to seeing her on Monday.



Jean, hope you and J are both feeling a bit better. Will be thinking about J when he has his colonoscopy and wishing him good luck.


Huia, wishing you a Happy 80th Birthday for Monday and also a Happy 56th Birthday to your son. Hope you have a a lovely time.



As you said Sylvia, I think most of us have health problems. I hope that all will turn out okay for everyone. Good Luck with your Gastropscopy and that the results are good.



I need to write a few letters to some family and friends, so really must try and get them
written and posted.


Take care everyone



Speak to you soon.


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

Hello girls,


Ann, thank you for letting me know that Marie is okay, it's nice to know that she is.

Alan and I went into Derby in the week, I needed to buy some new trousers, so went into M&S, but couldn't find any. Like you said earlier, parts of the Derby store also looked as though it was having a jumble sale too.

I managed to exchange a top that my cousin bought me for Christmas, it was too big for me, so exchanged it for one of the new range tops they have, but of course had to pay double the price of the top she bought me, and that wasn't one of the cheaper ones either. Never mind, It was what I wanted, and it feels comfortable.

It's the the trousers length I am having trouble with, with me being only 5ft even the the short lengths are far too long, even in the petite sizes.



Mo, hope that your son and daughter in law had a better and much easier time with Lilly, and hope that they have managed to get the phenergan today. I really do feel for you all and hope that the hospital will soon be able to find out what the problem is.

It is the psychologist I have not my CPN who is having her second baby that will be on maternity leave. sometime in April. She already has a little boy and is having another at the end of April.


Alun's sister is coming down on Monday, it will be the first time we have seen her since her husband's (Alan) funeral. We are going out for lunch, so that we can have more time to sit and talk. She is driving down from Ilkley in Yorkshire, so hope that there will not be too much heavy rain for her journey.

We all still have to exchange our Christmas presents. As things were in November with most of our family, Christmas was the last thing on all our minds. Looking forward to seeing her on Monday.



Jean, hope you and J are both feeling a bit better. Will be thinking about J when he has his colonoscopy and wishing him good luck.


Huia, wishing you a Happy 80th Birthday for Monday and also a Happy 56th Birthday to your son. Hope you have a a lovely time.



As you said Sylvia, I think most of us have health problems. I hope that all will turn out okay for everyone. Good Luck with your Gastropscopy and that the results are good.



I need to write a few letters to some family and friends, so really must try and get them
written and posted.


Take care everyone



Speak to you soon.


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

It must look as if I dont care about anybody else as I never mention your various problems or birthdays, but because of the time difference, by the time I have read it everybody else has said what I would have said, had I been here much earlier, if you know what I mean. I do think of you all and hope you will all have a happy and healthy year ahead.

We understand Huia and it works both ways sometimes.

A VERY HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY HUIA. I hope you are both enjoying your special birthdays.

I hope I have got the time difference correct, I am always having this problem with my cousins in OZ as well.
Luckily for me, the three cousins in OZ are now on face book, so we chat via that, rather than phoning and getting it wrong.

Take care everyone, sorry it's only been a quickie, but will speak to you tomorrow. Hugs Mo xxx

Oh yes, happy 80th birthday Huis, have a lovely day.

Happy Birthday Huia, have a lovely day.

Love Jean xxx <3 <3

Happy Birthday, Huia xxx


I hope you and your son are having a lovely day, celebrating your joint birthdays xxx

I think we are nearing the end for our friend.

She is now sleeping all the time, except when the nurses are actually doing things for her.

She has also insisted that the doctors put out a No Visitors call.

We were thinking of going over there next weekend to be with her, but ...............


Our other friend emailed a short time ago saying that the Centre is excellent, and that she will not be left alone .... there will always be someone with her, nurse, doctor or volunteer

So sorry Sylvia to hear about your friend I hope they are keeping her peaceful and pain free. It is good for you to know that she is in a caring place and will not be left alone.

I hope you don't have to wait too long for your appointment.

Thank you, Ann xx

We have been friends with J since we arrived here in August 1968 .............. a long time!


I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I won't have to wait a long time!

Oh Sylvia, how sad this news is. May the good lord take her in his loving arms soon,so that she can be at rest.
Life can be very cruel at times, my thoughts are with her and yourselves, stay strong Sylvia, you know we are here for you my love.

The doctor still has not contacted our son, re Lilly's emergency appointment for assessment. But the medication is helping her to sleep, but they don't want her to become addicted to it.
It's really sod's law, they can't win, either they continue and she gets the rest she obviously needs, or they go one week at a time, and see how she goes.

Well it's time for me to become hairdresser, and cut Roly's hair, before I change into my apron and cook the dinner. Oh we woman have to wear so many hats don't we. LOL

Bye for now dear friends, take care Mo xxx

Well Mo.I would have thought that the doctor would have been in touch with your son today. After he had seen how she was on Friday when she was in his consulting room, I would have thought that that was one of the first thing he would have done today.

Although he may have been in touch with the doctor at the and referred Lilly to him today. But if he has, you would think he would have at least been in touch with them to let them know and to set their minds at rest.


Alun's sister Lynda came down today,it is the first time we have seen her since her hubby's funeral at the end of November. So we exchanged our Christmas presents today. It was lovely to see her, we went out for lunch and had a lovely day with her, I don't think we stopped talking. lol!!



Sylvia, really sorry to read about your friend, I hope that she is comfortable and that the end will be peaceful for her.


Hope that your appointment will come through very soon, and that you won't have to wait long to have the gastroscopy. Will be thinking of you.




Jean, hope that you are feeling a bit better. When did you say J is having his colonoscopy? Sending him loads of good luck.



Ann, are you still making cards? I will have to start making them again soon, especially for the March birthdays, there are twelve of them.

One of the Christmas presents Richard and Christie bought me , was a jigsaw, as I like doing them, so I started it yesterday, but once I start one I like to keep doing it until it's finished. But whether I will be able to concentrate on it as I usually do, remains to be seen.lolol!!!



Huia, hope you and your son had a lovely birthday celebration with all your family.


Must go and have a cuppa now, so will pop in tomorrow.



Take care everyone.


Love, Sallie .xxx <3 <3 <3

Mo, that is terrible that they have heard nothing about treatment for Lilly.

Sallie yes I am making cards still, not in bulk but I have made either one or two a day this last week. T gave me one of the little Saphire die cutting machines for Christmas so I have been playing with that. I found a couple of dies I already have fits it too, one is an owl and that worked really well in it.

Morning all,Sallie all went well for J and he has been sacked so thats a relief, I have made quite a few cards but havent done any pics I need to find a way to make them smaller so i can send them to you and Ann, I did some but they were so large not sure how to alter it yet I will get my personnell computer expert on it , thats if I get to see her again,she is busy going out and about since we left, ;-) ;-) ;-)

Ann I knew you would love the little machine I know I do I have lots of small dies that go through it, its a great way how to use up all the scrap bits we have left over :-D :-D

Mo its not good that the doc hasnt done anything about Lilly, but maybe he is waiting to see if she settles down with the new tablets, I pray that she is much better after sleeping better now, how did Rolys hair cut go? hairdressing is now added to your many talents along with the painting and other talents you have is there no end to this wonder woman I ask myself ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Sylvia, its so sad to have to say farewell to your lifelong friend, but the memories are endless and will be of great comfort to you I am sure. how privileged to have known and loved her for so many years <3 <3 <3

another step in the right direction for me, I managed to make some sarnies for J and myself yesterday Its quite a while since i could stand for so long, next step is make a cheese and onion pie :-D :-D :-D :-D

time I got sorted for the lovely girls to come and sort my ablutions out,

take care everyone back later Love Jean xxxx

Hmmm Jean,can you leave the onion out of my bit of pie please, cor my tummy is grumbling just reading about it, I could eat a nice piece just now.
Well done you, on being able to stand long enough to make the sandwiches, if you feel a little tottery get yourself a chair or stool and sit down to do your baking.
Roly's haircut went well, but this morning when we went shopping, it was sooo chilly he came home with an ear ache. Mind you, his hair is always kept short, so I don't know why he should have suddenly got the ear ache, apart from the wind chill factor blowing round his ears, but cor blimey it weren't arf cold out there.

Sallie, it sounds like you had a nice time when Aluns sister came up to see you both, it's good to be able to talk, and catch on gossip love, at least it is in my case.....nosey old me LOL

The doctor got through to the hospital, and if an appointment has not arrived by thursday, they have to contact him again so he can chase it up.
Lilly was woken at midnight last night, by the cat jumping up on her bed, and she wouldn't go back to sleep. So much for the knock out drops the doctor gave her, but then they didn't give her the full dose, as I have mentioned before, they don't want her to become addicted to it, so today she has gone of to school looking like a zombie.

Hugs to all, Mo xxx