General Chat

Goodness Sallie, that is a lovely long post from you. Lovely to hear all your news, especially that Allun is doing well after his op, that must cheer you up a little.

Oh dear, it must be hard for you coping with Christies illness as well as your own. I am not surprised that how she has been with you has affected you but I am sorry that it has set you back. have you had problems with her before like that. I suspect that her hormones are causing the current problem due to the pregnancy, is Richard having problems with her too? I hope that she doesn't subsequently suffer with PND poor girl. I wouldn't worry about what she says about you and the baby, she won't mean it, but maybe keep anything you buy for the baby until it is born. And don't stop knittling the blanket. Richard is going to feel caught in the middle so forgive him if he seems to be siding with Christie.

I hope as the spring comes along with brighter, warmer days and lighter evenings, you will start to feel better.

Oh Sallie, I totally agree with Ann, please don't give up on your knitting for baby. Once baby is born Christie's attitude should change, becoming a mother does do things to our hormones, and after the birth, god willing her attitude will change, with her hormone levels becoming more normal.
Poor Richard is tuck in the middle, and no doubt worries about you both. Bless you sweetheart, I want to give you BIG CUDDLES.
Brilliant news about Alun's results, I bet he feels like a new man now.

Ann how the kitchen coming along now ? I bet you will be glad when it's all finished.

I know it's a regular question, but how is the weather where you all live. It's still very very cold here, my friend had to de-ice the inside of her car last night, before she could go home. I am wondering if the seals on her screen has come adrift, causing the freezing inside.
It went down to minus 4 last night, I was glad to crawl into my bed to get warm.

Bye for now girls, stay warm and safe.xxx

Hello Sallie, good to hear from you, I was ggoing to do some knitting toys mainly, but I got rid of all my knitting stuff when we moved in here so cant be bothered to buy it all again.. but as the girls said dont give up with your knitting, just hold on to it, from the time being, great news for Alun that must be a relief to you all...and I am sure you will overcome your present problems soon. keep fighting you are a winner. <3 <3

I was all ready trembling in me boots , waiting to go to the eye clinic , left eye is a bit dodgy, when I had a phone call to say the appointment was cancelled this is twice now I am supposed to go every six months now its a year :-| :-| now I have to wait for a new time......

I dont know how cold it is although everyone says its freezing, I havent been out since christmas ;-) ;-) ;-) keep warm everyone Mo get the thermals on ;-) ;-) ;

love Jean xx <3 <3

Mo we are not doing the whole kitchen, we had the sink unit changed and now new flooring and we have to have new kick boards but that is all for now.

Ann, hope all went well with the kitchen upheavel. wet and miserable here so I decided to just go through the craft drawers , I have much to much of cards stock found some really lovely ones part of the free stock I was given.I have managed to make quite a lot of card blanks , and just ordered envelopes to go with them....

I am struggling to use the new laptop, cant find anything , its very fast too runs away with me....D still needs to add stuff off the old L/P everyone tells me how easy windows ten is but I loved windows seven, and my favourites .still must keep at it....

still waiting for my new date for the eye clinic, but it was only last week so a bit too early....tonight we are dining on Lasagne donated by our darling daughter, tomorrow my chef is doing a beef casserole in the slow cooker lovely......D gave us 12 yorkshire puds, so we are having some with stewed pears and Ice cream, topped with honey mmmm.
love to you all Jean xx

Goodness nobody posted for 12 days.

Jean I bet it was quite exciting searching through all that stuff. I hope you are managing to stay warm. It is very cold here today, no snow just rain and sleet but not nice at all.

We had an exciting morning this morning! we went out and bought OH...... A vacuum cleaner! He chose a Hoover that he had researched on the net, and it was even more exciting for him when we got to the till (Sainsbury's would you believe) and it was £20 cheaper. Just an upright one, lighter than our old ones but with no bag and a long tube that he can clean the stairs with. He was so excited with it than as soon as we got indoors he did all the floors downstairs. The upstairs one will now go to the tip as it is clapped out and the downstairs one will go upstairs.

Then I went into Hobbycraft and spent the £10 voucher I had from son's lot for Christmas, total after the voucher came to £3.25 so I was very restrained. Not that they had a lot I needed, Just bought three pens, a sheet of Easter stickers, two stamps that were £1.20 each (small ones) and a reduced sheet of green and red gems (ex Christmas.)

As I said, exciting morning. Got roast pork tonight, bought the joint reduced in the week and put it in the freezer and amazingly remembered to get it out yesterday.

Hope you are keeping going with the card making Jean and that your eye appointment comes through soon.
:-) :-)

Still no eye appointment yet Ann, wonder if they forgot me,its a bit hectic at the moment here,I have sorted a lot of stuff out and I am getting in touch with a primary school just round the corner I was wondering how to get rid of the stuff I no longer need mainly card stock, lots of it ,one of my carers suggested it so I will get in touch tomorrow....still doing the cards, the dementia club had a load last week ,I decided to have look at my stamps blimey I had no idea how many I had, so today i have played a bout with them, making inserts with verses added quite satisfying too.....

we have just had some pork casserole courtsey of D,very good too. saves J cooking as I cant stand long enough , I try and help with the cutting up stuff and generley instructing from afar...pill time so I will say nite nite and love to all our feinds on here,
Love Jean xx <3 <3

Patience is certainly a virtue these days with hospitals Jean, I am waiting for an appointment to get new tubes for my hearing aids.

Your meal sounded tasty, well done D for looking after you both.

I gave quite a lot of surplus stuff to my neighbour who works in an infant school, she said theyw ere always pleased with that sort of thing and it soon gets used so I am sure they will be pleased with it.

:-D :-D I am sure we are all fiends, but I am equally sure you meant friends :-D :-D Take care and happy stamping/card making.

Some sun here today but also light cloud 9 degrees but a nip in the air. We have been to a small local garden centre for our small number of early potatoes, they specialise in literally hundreds of different varieties. We are growing Wilja and vivaldi both second earlies this year. Wilja was good last year, we only have 9 potatoes in all to grow in containers, we just like to have a couple of meals off them.

This is an interesting garden centre as it also has something called the Butterfly Garden, This is a project for people of all ages dealing with disablement of any kind. (www.thebutterflygarden.org) This has been running since 2002. Initially it was just about gardening but now has all sorts of things people can do from cookery to dance. The provision is free with people neither paying or being paid. People go there from schools and colleges, care centres, residential homes, support organisations referred by family, friends, S Services or the NHS or they just find the place. It always seems such a happy place.

that sounds like a great place to visit Ann,we have two such centres near here mainly garden stuff, but very popular also with a cafe and clothes dept selling jewelry, some carft stuff in fact it sells food stuff as well,

finally got my eye date 16th march , but I have had to cancel a dental visit today, due to vertigo I woke up with it , I hope to get to the dentist tomorrow, I woke up two days ago to find half my front tooth missing no pain but very sharp like a fang....lol... so no doubt that will cost a few pounds....

we finally sorted out the funerals and paid for them , its a relief now D wont have any hassle when its time. the bank account is looking a bit thinner...

I have talked J into buying me an early birthday present, its a new stamp tool it enables you to place your stamp exactly were you want it so no more wonky stamping I first saw one very much the same on youtube, it was called Misti only available from the states this one I am getting is in the u.k. and much cheaper should be here by friday I have some new verses so that will handy....

Hi everyone

Jean ..... glad you've finally got your eye appointment! We set up our funeral arrangements years ago, along with saying what hymns we would like IF daughter decided she wanted a funeral ............. our preference would be a Celebration of Life. The Celebration seems to be much more common over here than with you. It's usually held weeks or months after the death, and really does celebrate the life of the person.


We seem to be heading to some more cooler weather .............. in fact the "s" word was mentioned as a possibility overnight either today or tomorrow. The temperature has been up around 8 or 9 at night for several days ............. but it's really too early for that, even for us!

I went for my first physio visit yesterday since Dec 8, is before we left on our holiday. That darned cough meant I had to keep cancelling the appointments I had in January and earlier this month .......... no point in going for work on your spine if you can't lie flat on either your stomach or your back!

He was actually quite pleased with me .................. despite the fact that I had not done any of my exercises for about 3 weeks (because of not being able to lie flat), my spine had held up fairly well.

BUT I am [paying for it today ............... I'm sitting here with a heat pad against my back to ease it :-| :-( :-S


We have finally got garden centres here who are adding "boutique" sections to their areas ................... the first one did it about 2 years ago, and got laughed at!! But ........... surprise, surprise ................ things sold well.

Most of them do seem to be concentrating on local designers, and "boutique-y" style. There isn't one anywhere near us, but I do wonder about how expensive the clothes are.

Hi all

Jean, glad you have an appointment for your eyes. but sorry you had vertigo when you need to get your tooth sorted. T has the same problem at the moment, front tooth sheered off so is in the middle of having a crown fitted (nearly £600, no NHS dentists here!). He is gappy at the moment.

I hope the vertigo is better today anyway.

Ooh let me know how well the new tool works and how much it is. I have been doing a bit of stamping recently. As you know it is not my favourite medium but I have been quite enjoying it.

Sylvia, hope your back eases soon. True to the old saying no gain without pain I think!

We love wandering around garden centres here that have lots of different things to buy besides plants. I do find though that clothes in them tend to be more expensive, although usually good quality.

Really windy here today but dry and sunny, not sure if we have had full blown storm Doris or just the edge. We drove to tesco and there were twigs all over the roads but no trees down as in some places. The garden is being battered a bit though.

Ann you frightened me with the charge for a cap on Ts tooth we have just paid for two funeral plans being over 80 we had to pay up front, :-0 :-0 :-0
I had to cancel again as the vertigo is still fighting me but it wont win ;-) ;-) ;-) as the tooth isnt hurting only a bit sharp, I go next week....

The stamp[ng tool is off amazon £39 with postage. bit of a drawback it works lovely but as there is no metal you dont get any magnets to hold the card or paper down so I came up with the idea of putting two rubber bands round it and it worked fine.
I know Fiskars,do something that also helps with stamping, its on e-bay. dont know how much ...

my chef is doing sausage and mash for tea, he is worth his weight in gold :-D :-D :-D :or in my case I wonder if he will accept an IOU ;-) ;-) ;-) wind and rain have stopped
so hope it doesnt return.....

Hope our Mo is ok also Sallie it doesnt seem the same without them sending love and prayers to them <3 <3 <3

Hope the vertigo is gone by next week then Jean. And that yours is a lot cheaper.. I might look around then for something similar.

Hopefully the wind has dropped here. It was sunny right through the afternoon and so nice that it was light until 6pm.

Hope you enjoyed your meal, I did liver, bacon, mushrooms and onions in gravy with jacket potatoes. It was very tasty. :-D

Morning one and all,woke up to snow although not a lot, I made it to the dentist yesterday , he did a great job with the broken tooth, built it up and it looks great , no cap needed, hence the wallet is not as thin as we expected :-D :-D

when I came back , I was told that there was some stuff in the flat in my craft room . so when I looked there are more craft stuff and i have much more than before :-0 :-0
I am still waiting for the school to pick up the stuff I have sorted out....luckily the cards I have already done has nearly gone so more to make......

still no news from Mo and Sallie hope they are ok.

Hi Jean, Mo is ok, 'spoke' to her on facebook yesterday. She is not on here as much now as not many of us are posting regularly on the thread. Yes wonder how Sallie is, she should come on for a chat, might help to make her feel better.

Glad the tooth was fixed painlessly (for your pocket). Oh dear, where is all the craft stuff coming from? I had a load just before Christmas but a lot was not what I use so it went to the school via my neighbour.

No snow here, lovely sunny (but windy) spring morning this morning :-) :-)

are the fairies leaving excess craft stuff for you guys?? :-D :-D :-D


We're well here, but having the weirdest weather ..... may get another dump of snow over the weekend as the weather cools down once again.

I've just booked a little trip for the end of the month ........ we're going to fly to a small town in the north, meet up with some friends, then take the train (!!) to Jasper, and then back to Vancouver.

haha Sylvia, I am trying to get rid of a lot of my old stuff,but its lovely to recieve some times instead of giving, I like the sound of your trip, do let us know how you get on,

I am sorry to hear what our Mo said ,Ann,I realise we are small in number , I personally
dont have that much news these days life for us is very different now. and I think chatting about our crafting puts people off adding. but I do enjoy reading all the news here and on other threads,so until this thread goes off the radar I hope to keep adding to it .many thanks for the card Ann, I am off to have my hair done just in case we go out ;-) ;-)

take care everyone love Jean xx <3 <3

Happy anniversary Jean and Jeff, have fun. :-D

Happy Anniversary, Jean and Mr J xxxx


I hope you are having a great day.