General Chat

Hi all.

I thought I was supposed to see the ophthalmologist at our Super Clinic at 1.40pm today, but yesterday at about 2.30 I got a phone call to say I had missed my appointment. When I checked the letter I received a few weeks ago I found they were rights. OOOOOPS. I now have another appointment for Mon. 19th at 12.30pm. I hope I dont get that one wrong.

Huia.

Hello everyone.
Just a quickie to let you know that I am still alive and kicking.
I will be happy when these tablets start to work. The phlegm has affected my hearing,and my eardrums feel like they are full to bursting.
Roly has the turned the t.v up to almost full volume,and I can just about hear it. It sounds like it is coming through a tin can.
I hope you are all well. Take care my friends. Love to you all. Mo xxx

Ah Ann, the deadline is of my own making, if I dont set one I will never get them done and as I already promised to do some I cant let them down can I?
we also have a lot of baptisms, it has been a tradition when folk go through the water, (submerged )we give them cards as memento of the commitment they have made.....I have managed to do 30 cards so far, so not many more. I also want to do some cards with bookmarks in them....

Mo, I am sorry to hear your problem , but at least it is being treated so you will soon be on the mend.....keep warm and drink plenty ..whiskey is good if you are unwell...dont worry if you keep falling down we will tell folk you are not really drunk, well not all the time........seriously sweetie, we are praying for a quick recovery and send you love and ((((((((( x))))))))))


Sallie, keep crafting....lol.... I just happened to call in Range, for a few bits, but as usual went over the top....

hope everyone else is doing o.k. ......

love Jean xx

Hi All, at least you know now what the problem is Mo, hope the horse pills solve it for you. Yes we have been to Tenerife quite a few times before and have stayed in the apartment three times before, it belongs to somebody from genes, Tenerife Sun and her OH. We love it there.
Sallie, I know the feeling of going into hobbycraft for a couple of items and needing a truck to get them home. good though isn't it?

Jean you are keeping busy with cards, but why such a short 'window' to do them in? Why have you got a deadline? I am a Baptist (albeit not attending church these days) and I don't remember having Baptismal cards. Our Baptism used to be very low key. Although I did have a gift from my sponsors, both gave me pocket testaments.

Marilyn, glad you enjoyed your holiday, I had not realised that Australia was so expensive. We were surprised that Spain was not as expensive as Tenerife.

Good afternoon all.
After feeling awful all over the weekend,I phoned the doctors at 8.20,she asked if I could be there for 8.40,well that was a no no,as I had just got up.
So I went at 9.50 instead. And guess what,I have got Bronchitus. No wonder I have felt like poo all the time. I have got horse sized tablets to take three times a day.
I spent about an hour in the garden clearing a few off the weeds away.
So I now feel cream crackered,and I am going to have forty winks.
Speak to you all later. Love Mo xxx

EUREKA !! Sallie it is lovely thank you, worth waiting for.....I once made a banner to hang in church and the text was the one you have sent from numbers......

love Jean xx

Mo, at last you've got it. Glad that you liked it. A couple of others had a problem getting theirs, so it might be our internet. Wouldn't surprise me at all. Jean hope you'll get yours soon.

Love Sallie xxx

Sallie,sorry no mail, I will send you some pics to see if they get through. I dont think any of them are religous, although I have been asked to do some adult baptism cards as they are hard to get hold of..We go to a Baptist church, so adult baptism is the norm,so I try to do any sort of cards, just starting fathers day ones....I will send the pics now.....


love Jean xx

Aaaaahhh thank you Sallie,received and it's really lovely.

Mo and Jean, please could you both check your e-mails.

Hi All,

Mo and Jean, I can't understand why you haven't had your e-mails. Alun is going to have a look at them when I've finished here.

Mo, we only went to Hobbycraft, to pick up a few bits and pieces that I need- the trouble is I just can't go and pick up what I need, the things that I needed would have only cost a few pound at the most, but I ended up spending £26. We've been busy today, started to sort some things out in the house---the stuff we've hoarded over the years, is unbelievable. Also got some washing done and dried, including the bedding, so that's a good job done.

Jean, I would love to have some more pics please, the more ideas I get , the better. I'm still waiting for Alun to send mine to you, but I think Christmas will be here before that happens. Are the cards you're making for the church, all religious, or all kinds? I'm now going to start making Christie's 21st Birthday cards, so if I'm not on for a day or two, you'll all know where I am.

Julia, hope all goes well for you tomorrow! Will you know the results tomorrow or will you have to wait? When Jennie has a Colonoscopy, she watches it on the screen, and the Consultant discusses it with her while she's doing it. She's a brilliant Consultant, a very friendly and homely person--she was telling Jennie that she hasn't got a daughter, but has got six sons. We are now looking for other bungalows, as it seems we didn't offer enough for the one near Jennie. Good luck for tomorrow, I'll be thinking about you!

Thinking of Marie, Ann, Sylvia, Debbie, Huia and Marilyn.

Love and best wishes to you all. Sallie xxx

Hi Sallie, just a quicky. I have been busy catching up in the house and garden since coming out of hospital last Sunday, and have made very few posts, anywhere. Thanks for reading my post on Eldricks thread. I was so frustrated when I came back from there, and yes, you have the correct store. Any Friday morning can be a nightmare in there, but Good friday, had to take the biscuit. I swear it was not like that at Christmas.
How is your bungalow hunting going. I am sorry, I have lost track.
I am at the Royal tomorrow for a barium x-ray, and tonight, no tea for me. I am now about to take a glass full of Picolax, a strong laxative.
I hope everyone has had a nice Easter, and will get back as soon as possible.
Julia in Derbyshire

Hi everyone , I have been, busy,busy busy....lol......card making, need to get 50 or so done to take into church next week, of course I didnt have all I needed, so have to go out tomorrow and see if manage to get it all....well thats my excuse anyway........
Marilyn, glad you like d the e-card, nice to see you back, I am sure as the days go on and you sort your photos out lots of good memories will come back to you....

Ann, are you going to the same place as before? wish I could persuade J to go for longer hols. two weeks is his limit,but thats better than none at all....lol....

Sallie I havent recieved your mail either, but you get mine so cant think what the problem is, I have some more pics of the cards if you want to see them...

Huia, Marie and Sylvia, hope you had a good rest over the Easter break thats if you get a Easter break....lousy weather in my neck of the wood, rain and a lot colder, the forecast is for warmer and nicer weather next week, so fingers X...

Mo, are you feeling any better now, what you need is sunshine, buck you up no end....J and I make a picnic and head of somewhere, we have some lovely places to go and sit, quite close to home so not a long trek....
we even picnic in the winter, as long as its fine, nice and warm in the car.
I do soup and sarnies coffee and cake ....unless we go to a place near a river lovely spot and there is a little cafe we get a tray with bacon and sausage butties plus mugs of coffee and cakes to die for....all brought to the car...love it....

Hope Debbie is liking her Holiday at Whitby,the weather forecast for that area is going to get better , we have friends who are at Scarborough, and they always have good weather ,I am sure they will have a great time whatever the weather.....

well cant stay here nattering , off to do some more cards....see you all soon....

Love Jean xx

Hi all.
Sallie I did not get your e.mail,so I don't know where that disappeared to.
I do hope that the Bungalow comes up to expectations,and is within your price range. There nothing worse than falling in love with a place,and not being able to afford it. I know speaking from experience.
I hope you had a good afternoon out.
A whole month in Tenerife Ann,how lovely. You will come back nice and relaxed. Have you been there before.?
Sylvia I can understand your daughters feelings about the churches where she lives.
When we had our church blessing for our 40th anniversary,6years ago, we had a lovely lady vicar. She was down to earth,and made us both very comfortable in her presence. The whole service was wonderful,and the guests that attended,said that they would start to attend her services. But unfortunately,they moved her to another parish,at the other end off the country. This is always happening,just as we got used to a vicar,they were moved on.
Hello our little traveller,good to have you back. Sorry that the cruise was not all that you expected. But it was nice to see family all the same wasn't it. Fancy you not being into bingo,tut tut. You could have been shouting to me,two fat ladies 88,or clickety click 66,key off the door 21. Off course I never go to bingo,hmmm little fibber.
My lord Huia,I am quite exhausted reading off all the things your son got up to,at the weekend. I bet he was glad to get home for a rest. Even though it was all done off his own back.
Did you get to see Phil at the weekend at all.? Whats your weather been like lately.?
Hi Marie,Liz and I must not forget Jean(((((((hugs for you Jean)))))))))))

Hi Everyone,

Marilyn, glad to see that you and OH have arrived home safely. You sound absolutely worn out after all that travelling. Apart from the one part of the cruise where you were on the ship for three days, you had a lovely time.
Shame that both you and Huia missed each other waving.

Huia, you son certainly had a very busy weekend. I'm sure you were glad of his company. Did you both manage to visit Phil? Hope you can get your electrical problem sorted out soon.

I'm going out now, so speak to you all later on.

Love, Sallie xxx

I did try to wave to you Marilyn, but maybe I chose the wrong day.

My son paid a short visit this Easter. He has had a very busy weekend. On Friday he and his friends went tramping (aka hiking) in the Kaimai ranges. On Saturday his cousin visited him. On Sunday he went to help a friend in Hamilton. She has a rare kind of leukaemia. He was shoveling lots of pebbles around on her garden or paths or something for much of the day. He arrived here just after dinner. This morning he drove us both over to the next valley where we used to live as he wanted to clear the blackberries from around where he knows there are some old daff bulbs that he wants to get some time soon. When we got back he went a little way down the road to see if there were any grapes on a vine growing on an old house site, but there werent. Then he loaded some old sheets of corrugated iron that I had plus a pruning ladder which I wont be using onto the top of his ute and left. He was going to a forestry block which he and some mates have on the other side of the Waikato River, 'up the Klondyke'. That is the name of the road, so I can say I have been up the Klondyke. He was unloading the stuff, including lots of prunings from his Hamilton friends place at the block then loading the ute with firewood to take home to Rotorua. I just hope he wasnt too late leaving for home and didnt get mixed up in all the traffic heading home from their Easter hols.

I have just phoned my sparky. About a month ago the light over the dining table went out. I replaced the so-called eco friendly bulb with an ordinary one, but it went out after a couple of weeks so I replaced it with an ordinary one but on Friday night that one went out and as they were all different types of bulbs I figured it couldnt be the bulbs that were the problem. Sparky says it might be an extra high voltage occuring in the evening after everybody has finished cooking so he is going to talk to the power board to see if they can run tests. I cant afford to replace light bulbs every week or two! Or rather I find it a nuisance having to climb up to replace the bulbs.

I have been busy doing Phils tree on another site as I can print off a fan chart on that site. I still have some facts to find but I think I will have to give up on some as his Brown ancestors didnt register the births of their 10 (or thereabouts) children. And I have had problems deciding which death reg. are his family. I have been going cross-eyed looking at freeBMD.

Huia.

Hi..Girls.

I got back yesterday.......very jet lagged we traveled for 30hrs having left Sydney to Hong Kong 10hrs then 3hrs wait for flight to Heathrow,13hrs, then waited 3hrs for the coach to Devon that took 4hrs!!
So as you can see not quite with it ..Yet !!

I managed to do some washing yesterday as it was nice and sunny and I rushed the unpacking to get it into the machine & on line.

We did enjoy our cruise but felt a bit trapped at times, as some days we were at sea for three days.....if the weather was good it was fine ....BUT when it was not it was a case of what do we do now ?????
I'm not into Bingo or games as they reminded me of Butlins !!!
But I did read a lot....
Anyway we did see a lot of Australia as we stayed with my niece for 9days prior to the cruise ,.....but it was very expensive I was there many times over the past years ,but the prices HAD gone up almost doubled to what we pay in UK......simple things like soap & shampoo.I spoke to a local lady in a store that said she used to go out with her family regularly for meals but have now stopped it as it got expensive.

New Zealand was lovely less expensive than OZ and my favorite place was Dunedin ( quaint ). we ended up in Wellington. which I also liked but by now it was getting a bit chilly... as it was their autumn .
I did try and wave to Huia from the ship but I was a bit too far away...LOL

So now I'm back home , I have so much to do ..!!!!!! garden looks a mess but I did scatter some seeds in any part of my garden ,all seem to be coming up...... I cheated there. LOL
Its lovely to see primroses shooting up, the daffs seem to have been and gone a bit.

So now I'm staying grounded for a while, I told hubby no more holidays until after the summer.
I have not looked at any Photo's as yet but hope to get some to you soon as I have recuperated .

JEAN a big thank you for the lovely Easter card...that was brill !!!

I got to go out now and get some Easter eggs as the grand kids are coming later today......hope there are some left !!

Hi everyone

we've just had our Hot Cross Buns for lunch!! We usually have them for breakfast on Easter Sunday, but OH had a bad night, which meant I did as well. He managed to get up to go to church, but left me asleep.


Yes, Wedding and Baby Showers are usually held before the event, usually within the last month.

BUT J's in-laws spend the winter in Florida. They usually go down after Christmas and return at the end of April. But this time they went down at the end of November and came back last weekend .... all arranged according to the due date, which was March 30th. M-i-l did suggest that they could hold the Shower last November before they left. J put the kibosh on that one!

So then the suggestion was that they would hold it at the end of April when MJ would be about 1 month old (again going by the due date).

Well of course MJ couldn't wait ....................... and it is supposed to be an honour for us to be included.

They probably will not have MJ christened ......... fewer and fewer people here do it these days. J did use to attend church regularly, but 2 or 3 years ago she realised that she really was having problems with the church in NS. She'd been to about 4 different parishes in the 5 or 6 years they had been there, and couldn't find a "home" at any of them. In fact their lack of charitable feeling towards, or even acceptance of, segments of society made her lose her faith to a large extent. She fouind their attitude to homosexuals particularly disturbing.


Off to mooch around on GR for a little ....... then back to that darn knitting!!




sylvia
xxxx

Hello Girls,

Hope you've all had a good Easter Sunday. It's been very quiet here, Jennie and Michael came for their lunch as usual, and stayed for a short while afterwards. I've just felt so tired tday, had a nap this afternoon, but it didn't seem to make much difference.

Mo, I sent you an e-mail yesterday, so hope you've received it. Thank you so much for your Easter card. I don't know why, but I forgot about sending any Easter cards--just put it down to old age.

Jean, I also sent you an e-mail, so hope you also got yours.

Ann, good to see you and T home safely and that you all had a good holiday.

Sylvia, hope you and OH will have a good time at your daughter's, and hopefully you'll get some good weather. I'm sure you're looking forward to seeing MJ and perhaps taking him out in his buggy. Enjoy your train journey home and take care! W e'll be waiting to hear all about your holiday and especially MJ.

Just a bit of news about us moving. We've seen another bungalow for sale, so we are going to see if we can view it this week. I'm not putting my mind to it, just in case it goes the same way as the other bungalow did.

Huia, glad that you managed to get the lead you needed, and hope that it's all now set up.

Love and best wishes to everyone. Sallie xxx

Hi All, Like Mo Sylvia I thought showers were held before the event. Shame it is taking up your last day.
Mo, we have our next holiday booked, a month in Tenerife in May, then back here for five days and a week in Dorset.