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:-D :-D :-D Dizzi ! ... Mum comes next month - hoping the weather improves :-)

Good luck with the spring cleaning Pat ;-)

MORNING ALL,HAVE TO LOOK AT THE DATE ON PC TO SEE
WHETHER I'M AFTER OR BEFORE ME DAFT AINT'I,
HAVE YOUR FIRST WAVE OF VISITOR'S FINISHED YET AND IS YOUR REST TIME XXX <3 <3 <3

Good morning all :-)

Beautiful day, am washing today and I think it's going to dry quite quickly as it's already 24 C, looks like a high twenties day today.

I take size 3 Solrosen and find M & S a great help. They have stacks of 3s and in wide fits as well. Take a look at their site. If I want shoes I look at M & S find a pair or 2 required for that year order them and send them to the next person coming out here. Have done this several times in the 10 years I've been here. I did buy from there prior to coming out here so I knew they were a good fit. When I went to Wolverhampton last year went to their large M & S and they had a huge range of shoes. Your mum might have a problem though as they start from 3. Smaller sizes in the children's dept don't have VAT on them. My dad was size 6 and he used to get his shoes from the children's dept. :-D

Enjoyed the meeting last night. Had a talk from the man who runs the local auction house.

Doing some spring cleaning in our bedroom/en suite today :-(. Washing walls and woodwork down. Will also be sorting out drawers as we are preparing to put our winter clothes away soon. :-D

Hope you're sleeping better Dizzi.

Have a good day all. :-) <3

Good Morning All :-D :-D

Well.... am I fed up of this changing weather?? :-0 It doesn't seem to know what to do from one day to the next. We've got intermittent pouring rain at the moment and it's also a bit windy.

I still can't recall everything that was lost in the post that went Whoooshhh - I know that on Friday 1st May I was playing guest presenter on the Smilers thread... Mersey and Fly encouraged me to partake :-D :-D .... I had forgotten that it was a holiday day here so I had to make sure I didn't get up late. We did manage to get out for lunch and then take a walk in the nature (meaning the trees and lakes etc.,)
So all in all Friday turned out rather nicely.

Saturday and Sunday were spent visiting people that we can't always get to see - not living local to us.

Monday and we were back to normal again and Tuesday and Wednesday seem to have disappeared.

So here we are.... Thursday :-0 ... How did that happen ??

Actually.... I've been quite busy... tinkering here and there. I like to move things about occasionally, and more so when we are expecting visitors. My Mum is coming next month so getting ready for her visit.

Pat... Thanks for the shoe allowance :-D I don't know why I still love shoes... but I think me and my Mum used to have such a hard time getting our size (at one time) that anything we see that doesn't look like a childrens style gets a good look at!!
I stopped growing at a size 2 and Mum is still that size. I, on the other hand and for some unexplained reason, have grown a size within about the last 10 years. I must admit though, that there is now a much better variety available to us, but it's hard to break the habit :-D

Dizzi... I remember Mods n Rockers too :-D :-D :-D

Have a nice day everyone :-D <3

Another cold, wet and windy day again today. I keep chasing things around the garden that have been blown over. It's more like Winter, whatever happen to Spring sunshine?

Morning all :-)

Lovely morning, breakfast in the sun 24 C at the moment.

Now out Thursday as well so that's every night until Saturday.

Friday night is a fund raiser for Nepal. A singing group and a musician are giving their time free and we are having a Nepalese buffet. There is a minimum charge to pay of 15 euro, we have been told food will be 10 euro per person so at least 5 euro per person will go towards the fund, you can give more if we want to. No doubt other things will go on.

We are always being given spirits that we don't drink. Some in fancy boxes so we're going to raffle these off. :-D

Hope you all have a lovely day. :-)

HI SOLROSEN ,PAT ,KANDJ AND ANYONE ELSE WHO POPS IN,
SOLROSEN I LIKE MOTOR BIKES BUT CANT DRIVE ONE BUT WHEN I WAS ABOUT 2 TO 3 MY GRANDAD HAD A BEAUTY CANT REMEMBER WHAT IT IS WAS BUT HE TOOKK ME FOR RIDES ON THAT,TILL HE WAS MADE TO GET A SIDECAR,MY OH HAD A SCOOTER ;WELL WE MET IN 1964 ,,MODS AND ROCKERS ERA,,HE HAD A MOTOR BIKE FOR A FEW YEARS BUT THAT WAS TO GO TO WORK AND BACK.
YESTERDAY WAS VERY WINDY ALL THE STUFF CRASHING ROUND THE GARDEN

Good afternoon Dizzi. Hope that you are not out and about. Don't want you to get blown away with this windy weather. xx

Afternoon all :-)

Lovely morning been sat outside 23 C and sunny. Clouding over now though.

Oh Solrosen! I'm waiting with bated breath for your tome. I didn't do much over weekend but I am going out with friends tonight, it's RAFA tomorrow and out Friday.

I wanted a bike to go to school on but never got 1. My parents were both cyclists. Dad used to cycle to work up to me going to junior school. Mum who was in the ATS in Nottingham in the war used to cycle home if she got away for a few days and the weather was ok. She came from Walsall so that's a fair way.

I eventually got a bike when I was 34 and spent the next 6 years racing around taking the children everywhere they wanted to go. Son went to cubs then scouts, finally ATC, children's club at a local church, local youth club and a cricket project all come to mind. Daughter, brownies, ATC, children's club, piano lessons, violin lesson, choir and schools orchestra on Saturday morning. We all had bikes but I did twice their distance as I dropped them off then went home then back to collect them. The music lessons and orchestra I stayed there. When I finally got a car and learnt to drive I was 40 and son was old enough to do all the trips on his own by then anyway. He had a car and was driving a year after me so he took his sister to ATC.

I must have done a few miles around Newark in those years. :-S Kept me fit and out of trouble. OH at this time was away from home Monday - Friday and then it became home every other weekend. He had the car and anyway it was far too big for me to drive - I could see out the windscreen OR use the brake/clutch/accelerator pedals. Had to wait until we could afford a car for me. :-(

Haven't been on a bike for sometime now, it's too hilly here so don't think I'll get a new one. :-D

Enjoy your day :-)

Dizzi, I remembered one thing.... I was asking you whether you were really interested in motor bikes?
I'm not... but that's because I can't even ride a bicycle properly... I've got
one but I wobble about too much :-D :-D :-D .... pity really because there
are lots of cycle paths here.

'Morning to you too xxx

I went and hung up my washing to try to get some impetus ;-)

It hasn't worked yet :-S

I'll be back when my words start to flow again :-D :-D :-D

Have a lovely day... speak to you later :-D :-D :-D

THATS HAPPENED TO ME SO MANY TIMES,
SPEND AGES TYPING IT ALL OUT AND IT
GOES ,,WHOOSHHHHHHHHHHHH
I SAY A FEW WORDS AN START AGAIN


MORNING ANYWAY XXX

I was telling you what I have been doing over the weekend.... asking you all what you've been doing etc., etc., :-S :-S

I think I'll have to have a rest before I try again.... it was a l-o-n-g post :-( :-( :-D :-D :-D

Morning Dizzi....
I've just been typing a long post on here ...... and lost it !! I pressed a key more than two times and whooosh! gone !! :-(

MORNING ALL,
TODAY IS TUESDAY MUST REMEMBER,TUESDAY,TUESDAY ,TUESDAY, BY THE TIME I REMEMBER IT WILL BE TOMORROW
AND THAT WILL BE WEDNESDAY NOOOOOO I'LL KEEP THINKING ITS WEDNESDAY AND IT'S NOT
TO DAY IS TUESDAY TUESDAY,............
THINK I WILL GO BACK TO BED XXXX

ERRRRR
FINK I'LL GO BACK ,,,LOL

Hope you can relax and chill-out now that you are safely back home again Dizzi. xx

MORNING PAT SOLROSEN EMMA AND ANY ONE NOT
MENTIONED AS LIKE A FISH I HAVE A MEMORY SPAN OF
15 SECONDS,WELL CAME HOME YESTERDAY DIDNT
REALLY WANT TO BUT HAD TO BE PRACTICAL AND ANYONE WHO KNOWS,,PRACTICAL AND ME DON'T MIX,WE WERE IN A CARAVAN AND OTHER AFTERNOON AND EVENING IT POURED DOWN NOW I WAS I MY WHEELCHAIR MUD AND WHEELS ,,NOOOOOOOO
AND TODAY IN HASTINGS IS THE BIKE RALLY 20.000 PLUS MOTOR BIKES HEAD FOR HASTINGS SEAFRONT IT IS MARVOLOIUS ,ME DROOLING ALL THOSE BIKES JUST SITTING ALONG THE ROAD WATCHING IS GREAT,BUT THERE COMETH THE PROBLEM HOMEWARD JOURNEY ON THE M25 AND TRAFFIC SO DECIDED TO COME HOME YESTERDAY SO'S HERE I AM :-(,,HOME AGAIN :-(,
XXXXXX

Morning to you all :-)

Hope you had a good weekend away Dizzi, although listening to the cricket results last night there has been quite a bit of rain. Well it is a Bank Holiday so it was bound to rain.

Coolish wind again but it's not so strong and it's a bit warmer.

Wonder if the new princess will be named today? When I saw George I was struck how like the queen he was so I Googled her as a child and took a look at her father as a boy. Revised my thoughts, he is quite like the queen but he really is like the queen's father as a boy.

All have a good day :-)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~have a great weekend to all
on this thread :-D