General Chat

Alun came home this afternoon, thank goodness, an needless to say that he is happy to be home. His speech has got much better, but he still mumbles a little bit.....if we can't understand some things he says, we have to tell him to slow down and repeat it.

Christie didn't have to be induced after all, as her waters broke at half past five yesterday morning and the baby was born at quarter past six yesterday evening. So Alun and I are now proud grandparents of a beautiful grandson, he weighed 8 lbs 1 oz and they have called him Jenson. We hope to go down to see him as soon as Jennie can take us....just a shame that Alun isn't able to drive for four weeks.

It has rained all day here and especially heavy at times, hope it will be drier tomorrow as I have a good bit of washing to do.


Jean like you I can't swim either, always frightened of putting my face in water. As for the car, it is with Jennie as she might as well use it..


Liz, hope that things will soon get better for both you and K. and that all will go well when he has the cataract done.


Sylvia, good to hear that things are all going along well for both you and your OH.


Ann, yes everything was okay with the MRI scan, the Echocardiogram and also the heart monitor that he had to have on him for 24 hours.

I hope that you are all going along alright since your last posts.


Take care everyone. Will chat again soon.


Love, Sallie.xxx <3 :-)

Sallie ..............


congratulations on your new grandson xxx A hefty little lad!!

and also good to hear that Alun is home and improving.

Sallie and Alun congratulations on the birth of your grandson Jenson , also that Alun is home, each day will see steps forward. lovely news for all the family. and us also :-D :-D :-D :-D

you will enjoy being grandparents, I know we were so blessed when S was born, and now greatgrandparents to C although we dont get to see him much, still always in our hearts....

My envelopes and cello bags came quickly so its all sytems go ;-) ;-) ;-)

thats if my siatica stops playing up... I hope to get to the hairdressers this morning , good job its only downstairs no need to go outside.

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I congratulated you on the Welsh thread Sallie but in case you missed it, great news, welcome baby Jenson. <3

hope everyone is doing well , the hot weather is too much for me, in fact I have had a lousy week , dont know why just very down hearted,

so not much news but thought I would budge this thread up, its some time since we came on.... thats all folks at the moment.........

Hi Jean, I think the boards always move slowly in hot weather. Sorry you are feeling down, any specific reason?

How is your card making going. I am hoping my young friend is managing to sell the cards I made for her, some of them sold before she got them at our U3A photography group meeting.

Big news here is that we bought a new barbecue for OH to play with. He cooked burghers tonight and they were lovely, not good for the weight though.

Hi everyone


The boards are certainly slow ......... I just discovered Suemaid's Australia thread pages and pages back ........... no-one had posted on it since March 31st :-(

It is like this one .......... down to only 3 or 4 posters now as people have left or died.

It's very sad

Hello everyone

Today turned out to be a nice early summer's day after a cloudy and rather chilly start!

I'm planning two trips ........ one at the end of October into November to celebrate our anniversary, and the second for Christmas with our daughter.

After much thought and debate about what we wanted to do, and deciding there was no way whatsoever that we were going to do anything that involved us being in the US or transiting through there, we settled on a train trip in Canada ............ aren't you surprised??!!!! :-D


We're going to take the train to Quebec City. I've never been there, always wanted, while OH has been there twice for short meetings. It's our usual route to Montreal, then a different train to QC. We'll have 4 full days (5 nights) in QC in a very nice old hotel in the Old City inside the city walls ............ it's the only city in North America still with its walls intact. It might be a bit chilly and we might see some snow. Then back home again. I'm going to book the train on Monday, and will do the hotels a little later.

Hello everyone,

Jean, hope that you are feeling better and have been able to make some more cards again.

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Happy Birthday for today Jean and hope that you will have a lovely day.

Our love and best wishes. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 Sallie and Alun. xxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3


Sylvia, good to see that you are busy organising you and OH's trip to celebrate your 50th Wedding Anniversary on the 12th of August.

Sounds like a great trip that you have planned , wouldn't mind doing something like that for our 50th on the 28th of August, although we haven't even thought much about our anniversary at all yet. I have a couple of things planned for my 70th birthday in July,but nothing really special, just a couple of meals arranged with family members.

I can't get over how quickly the years have gone by.


Ann, hope all is well with you, T and all your family.

Well, must go to bed now, will speak to you all again soon.

Take care all.

Love, Sallie.xxx <3 <3

Thank you Sallie and Ann for the lovely cards and kind wishes. lots of visitors, including C, and D which made my day even better. bunches of flowers and chocolate

all my fav things
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Love Jean xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Happy Birthday, Jean xxxx

It sounds as though you have had a great day xx

Jean I am so pleased to hear that you have had a lovely birthday and that it was made a lot happier with having D and C spend part of the day with you. Having our loved ones visit on a special makes a big difference to us all, especially as we get older and are not able to see them as often as we would like to.

Glad you received your card from us okay, with so much going on in our family lately, I decided to post it early as soon as I bought it.....didn't want to forget your birthday Jean.

Hope that you are feeling better than you have been lately Jean and that today has helped by knowing that you not only have your family that are there for you, but you also have me and the rest of our friends on here too.


Relax and enjoy the rest of your day Jean and take care. Hope all is well with J, D and the rest of your family.

Will chat again soon.

Love and Best Wishes. Sallie. xxx <3 <3 <3

Oh dear poor little thread way way down the board and nothing on here for a month. And I was in Spain when the last posts were added with a not brilliant WiFi so missed adding.

Glad you had a good birthday Jean and that you got our card ok. However you have not been seen since so I hope that you are ok.

I have not made a lot of cards recently as it was too hot and sticky, I did make a few more to add to the ones being sold in aid of friend's daughter's trip in 2018 with World Challenge.

Goodness Sallie, a 70th and a Golden wedding to celebrate, in 2010 I celebrated my 70th and we celebrated our 50th and let alone the 50 (now 57) years having gone fast, where on earth have those last 7 gone?

Anyway, I wanted to bring us back up to the top again. :-) :-) <3 <3 <3 <3

Edit Just put a lot of photos on the photo blog

Hi Ann, it was a nice surprise to see the thread back on top again.As I said on Shaun's thread, with one thing and another it hasn't been an easy month for us .We went to the hospital this morning for Alun's check up, everything is fine and the Consultant was very pleased with how well he has recovered.There are times when his voice isn't as strong as it should be, but it is mostly when he is tired that he seems to have the problem.

I hope that you and T enjoyed your holiday in Spain. Also hope that all is well with both you, T and all your family.


Yes Ann I remember you celebrated your 70th birthday and your 50th wedding anniversary in 2010, I can still remember the anniversary card I made for you and T.
And of course remember that both you and I were both 20 when we got married. Like you say, the time seems to have gone by so fast.

And like Alun and I, Sylvia and her OH also celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in August but on the 12th.



Jean, I hope that everything is alright with both you and J. Have you managed to make any more cards lately? I still haven't been able to make any. I am still toying with the idea of get rid of my card making stuff, but both Jennie and Paula ( my C P N ) has told me to keep them as I might want to make them again.

I am still into knitting little jackets for Jenson......he is 7 weeks old today. He is doing fine but he suffers with colic/wind quite a bit, Richard was just the same at Jenson's age until he was 12 weeks old,so we are hoping that Jenson will be the same.



Sylvia,when do you and OH go on your train trip to celebrate your anniversary?

We have a busy week this, what with appointments, visitors and a couple of meals out to celebrate my birthday. On the 15th July Alun and I are meeting meeting my brothers and sisters in law in Worcester so that we can have a meal together to celebrate my birthday, although it will be six days after my birthday.
Worcester is about half way from S Wales to where we live, so it will be nice to have a get together.


Well I will chat to you again soon, I had better make our dinner now.lol!!


Take care.



Love, Sallie. xxx <3 <3 <3

still here, although a bit too warm today, I thought you were in Spain Ann, glad you enjoyed it.....the hairdresser I use has now left and is on her way to live in Spain, we should have a new one in soon. until then I will have a go at doing my own hair , luckily I had a perm last week so its nice and tidy now.....

Sallie good news about Alun, ..I would say dont get rid of your craft stuff, just pack it away , maybe one day you will have another go.. I am making cards non stop..lol... since the new cafe opened its very popular, but I love doing the cards and also some gift boxes the last lot of free stuff there was lots of dies in fact the whole boxful was like christmas. and it seems there is some more to come yet. so I will keep busy stops me giving into dwelling on things I am no longer able to do.....

so my chef informs me we are having a korma for tea its nearly ready so I will say bye for now, take care l

Love Jean xxx

Lovely to see you posting Jean and to know that you are still kept busy making your cards. It's good that you still enjoy making them as they are going well.Like you Jean, several people have told me not to get rid of any of my craft stuff, because I might want to make them again one day.

Alun's sister Lynda, have been to visit us today, it was lovely to see her, she is such a lovely person. She came down on the train, as she is getting that she isn't too keen on driving on the M. 1. She lives in Ilkley so catches the train to Leeds and then catches the Nottingham train and can now get off at Ilkeston ......our new station opened five weeks ago. Before the Beeching cuts, there were three railway stations in Ilkeston and he closed them all.....it's lovely to have the new station.

We took her and Jennie out to lunch to a place Alun and I had never been to although Jennie and Michael had, and told us that the food was very nice, so we all enjoyed our lunch, the food was excellent. It was a bit of a birthday celebration too.

My cousin is coming on Sunday so we had already booked a table there for
3.30 p.m.so pleased that we have now.


Ann and Sylvia,hope that you are both alright.


Take care.


Love, Sallie.xxx <3 <3 <3

Just popped on to say thank you Jean and Ann for my birthday cards, they are both lovely as usual. We are going out to lunch to celebrate.....have a table booked for half past three.

Hope that you are both alright. Take care.

Love, Sallie.xx <3 <3

Happy birthday, Sallie, hope you enjoyed your lunch. Have a lovely day

Happy Birthday Sallie xxx

Hope that you have had a lovely day

Thank you Ann and Sylvia for your birthday wishes, it's nice to be thought of.

Enjoyed the last couple of days with the family and had a lovely meal out with them to celebrate. Had quite a few cards,flowers and presents so did well.

Hope that you are both alright. Take care.

Love, Sallie.xx <3 <3 :-)