General Chat

Hi to all my friends,

Mo, so glad that your son sorted out the problem for you. Have you hidden the tool box from Roly? I told Alun and Janet about what had happened, of course, Alun thought it was quite funny--- typical man, and he agreed with Ann's OH, that it's easily done.

Sylvia, it's good to know that baby Matthew James is alright. I bet you and OH can't wait to see him and give him a cuddle. Oh, you are lucky being a Grandma--- I hope that I'll be a Grandma one day too, I love children, we'll have to wait and see. Hugs and kisses to Matthew James.xxx

Debbie, hope the funeral goes well, it's such a traumatic time so it'll be nice when it's over. Hope the children are all okay.

Julia, any time you want to let off steam, we are always here for you and ready to listen. I hope you'll find out something when you go to see the Specialist in a couple of weeks time. It took three months to find out that Jennie had Crohn's, our GP kept fobbing her off, and the doctor and sister at Ilkeston Hospital, more or less told her that it was all in her head and that she was doing it for attention. It wasn't until Alun took her to Queen's A&E in Nottingham that we found out in a matter of hours that it was Crohn's or Colitis. The Specialist and the doctors were not happy with our GP's or Ilkeston Hosp. We are always here on this thread to listen and to help you. Do you mean near Shipley Garden Centre, where you seen the bungalow for sale?

Liz, it sounds as though you are really happy seeing this Counsellor. I hope that you'll be able to stay with this one, it's so much better seeing the same one through to the end. Glad to hear that you had the car to get there. Well done!

Thinking of Huia, Jean, Marie, Ann and Marilyn. Hope I haven't missed anyone out.

Speak to you all tomorrow.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Just a quick one as off to bed. Sylvia so pleased that Matthew is OK, hope he will soon be home.

Had a lazy day yesterday, bin men woke me so I watched tv for a bit and snacked and managed to go back to sleep till about 4pm lol

Mo, I had that happen at my house a couple of days before I was due to give birth to my son, as a single parent. Had some local lads doing some last minute decorating to the house I was modernising, so that I had a nice bedroom and bathroom and kitchen to start life as a Mum. Carpet was supposed to go down and it was delivered ready for the next day, the lads called in to check all floorboards were ok and later on I noticed water on my new worktop in the kitchen and a stream running down the side of the boiler from above! I had only just recovered from the anger in finding the carpet people, quite a posh store in the city, had been storing the wrong colour carpet for the last few weeks from when it was ordered. They had promised the new one next day and now I had a leak! Couldn't get hold of the lads so called my cousin's hubby who worked for the water company, and he came round and brought a friend who replaced the pipe where the lads had put a nail through. How glad I was that the carpet had been wrong, or it would have been put down over the leak lol All fixed up in the end and the right carpet laid the next day, and that evening I lifted the carcase of a small chest of drawers back into my posh new bedroom and half an hour later my own waters broke lol
I was so tired, not in the right mood for labour but it had to be done lol and my son arrived the following morning! Phew!

Then a few years ago I managed two student lets for a friend and she decided to have new carpet in both of them. I had to travel between the two houses letting the carpet fitters in, and she had asked an oddjob man she knew to go and rip out all the old carpet and check the floorboards. They were supposed to do half one house and then go to the other house and do half there and then go back and finish off in first house and so on, so that things could flow and they didn't end up standing around waiting to get on. All went ok with the first house, went to the second one and there was water coming through the ceiling! Nail through pipe again! All the arrangements went pearshaped but I managed to get it all sorted out and the carpets finished.
The next day I went into the first house and saw a puddle in the hall, luckily because it was tiled I had suggested leaving it uncarpeted as easier to clean and the spare carpet was handy for repairs etc. Looked up and the hall ceiling looked damp and the artexed wall in the hall, and the lounge ceiling and wall over the radiator the other side of the hall wall! I called my friend who owned the houses and she rang a plumber we used, but by the time she got round altho I had turned off the water, the ceiling was bulging and in the end we had a lot of damage to make good once the carpet was taken up again and the pipe repaired. I couldn't believe the idiot handyman had managed to do the same thing in both houses lol
Next time I have any new carpet I will make sure I double check where the pipes are before any nails are knocked through.
Oh and also at this house, o.h's father came round to help him do something and managed to put a nail through a hot water pipe lol I was so glad I wasn't at home at the time lol

Hello Ladies,

Where is everyone today? It's so quiet on here, I hope that you're all okay.

It's been a lovely day here today--lovely to know that we are heading towards summer, although it's got a bit chilly this afternoon.
This morning I went for my usual Thursday visit to the 'head lady', on the whole she is pleased with my progress, but although I've moved on in some ways, I've gone back a bit in others. I'm not going next week, we both agreed, that it would be good to have a small break and see what I'll be like the following week. At least I feel as though I am slowly getting there.


I'll speak to you all later, I must start to get the tea ready, as Alun is going an hour earlier to the Model Railway Club tonight.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello Sallie and All
I was just about to make a post on here, before I think about cooking the evening meal, also. Came to your town today Sallie to get glasses frames for us both. Not only now do I wear distance glasses, which I have done since about 15yrs of age, and reading glasses, I now have to have another pair for the computer.
Yes Sallie, the bungalow I meant was the one near Shipley Garden Centre. I think the selling agent is Parkers, but they are not in my town.
Have been having a lazy afternoon with my knitting, as it is rather on the cold side here, as you have said Sallie.
Ann, we could have paid for an operation privately a thousand times over. But, the second time it occured, which is almost two years ago,I happened to be in the doctor's surgery. In fact, he rang the hospital for a bed, and an emergency ambulance. OH said straight away that we would go private, but the doc. said it was not necessary. And, I know that the private hospital is just up the road from where I go, and the same docots practice at both hospitals.
When I was in last week, I had a couple of x-rays of the stomach and chest area done. The next day when the doctor and his 'team' came around, one of his underlings looked through my file at the x-ray results. He said it showed I had a 'kink' in my bowels. The consultant shook his head in a negative way at him for saying this. However, I can remember this being said once before when I was there.
I am now pinning my hopes on the new Consultant, a Pancreas specialist, who I see on the 23rd. I had to laugh to myself. I had an appointment with the chiropodist come through for the next day. That's fine, you might say, but I have got a flippin' corn. So more pain. I must be a glutton for it.
It is turning out nice here, and I would love an hour in the greenhouse to finish my clearing -up, but it is getting too near to meal time. Off in the morning to do my M******sons shopping, and they have given out rain,but the weekend could reach double figures. Makes one faint with anticipation on knocking off the central heating for a while.
Have a nice evening all
Will speak again soon
Julia in Derbyshire

Hi again Ladies.

Julia, glad you managed to get your glasses frames sorted out, at least that's one job out of the way. I see you've been busy knitting this afternoon. What are you making this time? My friend Janet, bought some wool off the market today, she's crocheting a blanket for one of her granddaughters, she's only seven, but asked if Mamma would make her one in pale pink, pale blue, lilac and cream, so of course Mamma is obeying her wishes. The wool that he now sells is Robin, and it's only ten pence a ball more than the other one he sold.

Mo, is everything sorted out with you after you ordeal yesterday.When are you going to decorate your living room. Janet and her OH are going to start decorating their bedroom over the weekend, they've had the emulsion and gloss paint for quite a few months, but it's been too cold to start doing it. Anyway, while we were up town this morning we went into the carpet shop, so she ordered the carpet and underlay, so they have to do the decorating now, before the carpet comes.

Ann, I read your thread on chat last night, I couldn't stop laughing. I laughed so much that it started me coughing, I even woke our budgies up and they had settled for the night. I see that you have made some more cards for charity, you are quick making them, not sure that I'll ever get to that stage. Keep forgetting to ask, if your grandson liked the album you made for him?


Jean, hope everything is okay with you, J and D. Have you finished the packing ready for Saturday? Just in case I miss you before you go away, I hope that both you and J will have a lovely holiday and that the weather will be kind good. Alun is on holiday next week so we are going down to Richard's for a day or two, as it's his 28th. birthday on Monday. Christie has booked the day off, so the four of us are going out for the day. It'll make a nice change.

Sylvia, how is baby Matthew doing? I hope all is well with both him and his mum, and mustn't forget dad, too. How is the weather there, not sure if I read something about Vancouver having snow. If you do get it, lets hope it isn't too bad and won't last too long either.

Debbie, hope it's got a bit warmer over in Jersey. I wonder if Linda enjoyed herself there. Hope you and the family are all okay.

Huia, how are things with you? I hope Phil wasn't too bad when you last visited him. Thinking about you both. Take care!

Liz, hope you are okay--and managing to get some sleep? I know myself, how difficult that is.

Marie, how is everything with you and your family? Have you been to the gym lately? Sorry, it's all questions. I don't know if I would be able to do much at the gym--if I did anything that was very low down, I'm sure I'd having a problem getting back up.

Thinking of all our absent friends.

Love and best wishes to everyone.

Sallie.xxx

Oooh don't ask about the decorating Sallie. I have no idea when we will start it. We bought the paint for the hall,stairs and landing ages ago. But they are stuck out in the shed,along with the bedside cabinets,that he bought last year some time,still waiting to be made up. lol

I hope everyone is o.k. Love to you all. Mo xxx

Mo read your mail please...

love Jean xx

Mo, sorry to hear that you have problems with your son, I hope whatever it is, will get sorted out very soon. I think our children are more of a worry as they get older, it's a different kind of worry than when they were younger. We just need nerves of steel sometimes.
I dont think that Janet is too keen on having the place in a mess while the bedroom is being done, but she's got to the stage where the bedroom badly needs doing. The walls and paintwork just need freshening up, but the carpet has been down for over twenty years so needs changing.

Hope all will turn out okay for you all. I'll be thinking about you and I'm here for you at anytime.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Sorry, that was me deleting, for some reason it posted three times.

Love, Sallie.xx

I am going to sign out now girls,as this site is taking ages,and sending things out in triple. Love Mo xxx

Hi everyone

Did a bit too much yesterday, so am having a quiet day. OH will come and pick me up to go for our afternoon coffee so that I don't have to walk or take the bus over there.

And this is after being at the GP's late yesterday afternoon to discuss the spinal x-ray and OA assessment I had a couple of weeks ago!!

The decison was that he wants to see how I go with the pain management (!!!) over the next 3 weeks, and see him again. He doesn't want me to be taking too much codeine, but then there is also the problem of taking too much acetominaphen! He did say that he will make sure that I have enough of the acetominaphne+codeine to last me while we are away with J&M, so that I don't have to find another doctor over there or suffer pain.

My bp is aso bouncing around all over the place, so he wants me to keep a closer eye on that for the 3 weeks. He does think that the pain and possibly strees by worrying about J might be the cause., and hopes that we don't have to change my medications.


It was pouring with rain and very chilly here from about 3 or 4 am ........ but we were lucky. Other parts of Vancouver, a little bit higher than us, had snow. The North Shore mountains (and that is where Cypress is) got about 33 cm of snow!!! Now the sun is trying to shine (about 1:15pm)


The Paralympics start tomorrow, and we're all hoping that they will be as successful as the Olympics.


Take care eveyrone



sylvia
xxxx

Sylvia,

Hope you and your OH enjoyed your afternoon coffee. I don't blame you for having a quiet day, you've had a worrying week with going to the doctors hoping that he would sort out your medication and then the stress of the birth of your first grandson. I hope all is going well for him now!

It would be lovely if the Paralympics turn out as successful as the Olympics, and that the athletes receive the recognition they all deserve.

Take care!

Love, Sallie.x

Julia, just make sure you don't get the appointments muddled in your mind and present the pancreas specialist with your corn and vice versa!!!

I do hope the new consultant can sort it. I would mention to him what was said about the kink, sounds strange that you have heard it twice doesn't it?

Glad you got your glasses OK.

Sylvia, hope you can keep your pain under control, it sounds as if your doctor is doing all he/she can. This winter is never ending isn't it?

sallie, yes my grandson was pleased with the album, he didn't say a lot but I could tell he was pleased as he kept looking at it. Now this year I have another one to make as his brother will be 21 in December.

Mo, sorry you are having son problems.

Sylvia I am not surprised your BP has been up and down like a yo-yo.
All this excitement off the baby and everything else,that has been happening in your life.
I cannot believe what the weather has been doing,all over the world. Hot climates getting snow,cold climates warming up.
I have not heard if they are going to televise the para-olympics,over here. But I would rather have watched them, than the normal olympics.
How is baby doing. Have they come home from hospital yet. I bet you cant wait to see him.
Well the weather is due to warm up this weekend,just in time for Jeans holiday. I do hope it stays dry for them,so that can get more enjoyment out off the break away.
Well girls I must get to my bed now,I am feeling shattered.
Night Night god bless you all. Love to everyone. Mo xxx

Hi everyone

I had a phone call earlier ...... they came home from the hospital earlier today, but have to go back to the hospital tomorrow morning to have Matthew checked again. His bilirubin levels are high, and that is what leads to jaundice.

J was offered the choice of staying in hospital until tomorrow, or going home and returning with him. She said she was now sitting comfortably on her own settee, with the two cats being somewhat curious and yet indifferent to this new object!


Mo .... we won't see him, other than in pictures until April. They live an 8 hour plane trip away from us. We're flying over there on April 8, have about 10 days with them (working not visiting!), then we are taking the train back home. It's a 6 day and 5 night train trip from Halifax to Vancouver


The Paralympics start this evening. It was announced early this morning that the tv company was bowing to public pressure .......... and those in BC would be able to see the Opening Ceremony live starting at 6 pm our time, rather than having to watch it on tape at 11 am tomorrow morning!


The Paralympics really are the poor cousin, In fact, I gather they are not part of the Olympic movement at all, although the IOC insist that they should be held in the same venues and at approximately the same time. It would be much better if they could have been held at the same time as the Olympics!




sylvia

Hello All , I have just read all about Dripping waters, thats what happens when you have a 2 storey house like most of you do in your part of the world.
We are all fine here the sun is shining but we still have the high winds I am finding it very hard to do any Gardening. The wind is quite cool we actually had a light frost in Bathurst 3 nights ago .
Brian my son -in - law has been trying to have the cement base for his very large shed poured for weeks but the rain has been too constant, yesterday they went ahead and then the Concrete truck arrived and what do you know **dadada** drum rolls the truck got Bogged at the back of my cottage right up to the back axel , oh dear, oh dear, hands were wringing and heads were shaking , ( I couldnt help a little giggle on the side) Any way they managed to get a bob cat in & they loaded the cement into the big shovel on the front of the Bobcat.
Dozens of trips up the hill later Half of the base was done then another truck arrived he backed in part way and they repeated the procedure finally at night fall the concrete had been laid, and it looks good this morning.I am very pleased for Brian now the fun of putting up the shed will begin some time soon.
Mo is your son not well? My little cleaning Job goes well .
Liz you are sounding a lot happier & Sallie you sound as if you are making progress.
Julie I am sorry to hear you have Problems with your health & also the Doctors.
Debbie I love to read your posts I am living my life again through your letters I love that you always sound happy. Sylvia Congratulations on Matthew James I am sure you and your husband will be making the Trip to Halifax more often .You do have a long Journey home how will your poor back cope with that?
Ann I will have to look in on your thread, what is it called? obviously a lot of Frivolity goes on there, he he
I still havent found the money to get my pictures done for my Sons Photo Albumn.
June I hope you and J have a lovely holiday
.Mo you and your oh had better get yourselves into gear and do that painting, both of you will feel much better when it is done
.I am still going to the Gym, tuesday exercise class, thurs water arobics,monday my cleaning job ,and on all days I am the chauffeur for Boris & Victoria to University and to their Jobs plus baby sitting and Gardening and after all that I am Pooped.
Has any one heard from Huia, I do hope all is ok with Phil.If you are looking in Huia I hope you are keeping well and Busy with your Photography.I must say By by to you all
(((((((Hugs)))))))))) to you all Marie.

Hi there everybody. I have put a lot of photos onto a DVD for the Thames-Coromandel History Soc. I took it over to Thames today as they had a Heritage day. Gave it to the Hist. Soc. When I told the Heritage Trust about it (I thought they were connected) I was asked if they could have one too so will have to put them onto another disc to post over.

Thames is a seaside town which was an old gold mining centre. It takes about 80-90 mins to drive over there, across the Hauraki Plains. It was a beautiful fine day until I was almost home. Now it is lightly raining. I bought one of their videos of the building of the Kopu bridge which is a one lane bridge with passing bays, built about 1920. The passing bays are no longer used. There are traffic lights each end so traffic one way can go, then the other way. There are often long queues at holiday time so a new bridge is being built after many many years of discussion.

Huia.

Hello Girls,

Mo, hope things are a bit better for both you and Roly today, and that whatever the problem is with your son, it will soon be sorted, too. It's been quite a nice day here today, fairly sunny, but a bit cold. It's nice to dry the washing out on the line, the clothes smell so much nicer. We went up to town this morning, then when we got back I did some baking, a cake and a pudding ready for tomorrow.

Ann, pleased that you had a good day at the show in Malvern, and managed to get what you needed. Or should I say, wanted! Ha! Ha! It's so easy, when you see all the lovely and useful things for crafting, to spend more than first intended. I think we need to sew up the holes in our pockets to stop the money getting through so easily.

Marie, it sounds as though your son-in-law had quite a job with laying the concrete base for his shed. I hope he has recovered from all that hard work, it's very back breaking. Your life is very busy, what with going to the gym, swimming baths, and driving your family all the different places. Still, it's nice to be able to help them all, I'm sure.

Huia, it looks as though you might get some more requests for the DVD's.
I bet the History Society were really thilled with it. I'm sure a lot of people, such as family historians, would love to get their hands on them. It would be great for them to see the area where their ancestors lived and came from.

Julia, how are things with you today? I hope you are alright and not having any of the usual problems. We called at two estate agents when we went up to town this morning, the only bungalows that they had on their books were the ones that we already knew about, which aren't really suitable. I don't where Parkers estate agents are, I don't think they're in Ilkeston.
We have one valuer coming on Tuesday and another one on Wednesday, as we need to find out how much the house is worth, before we start seriously looking for a bungalow.

Debbie, hope things are better for you and your family. Has the funeral taken place yet? Sorry to ask, but not sure when it was/is. Are the boys doing any of their sport over the weekend?

Liz, we haven't heard from you for a few days--I hope all is okay with you.

Syvia, have you been watching the Paralympics? Hope baby Mattew is alright and also his mum and dad.

Well, I expect Jean and J are at Llandudno by now, hope that they had a good journey and that they will have a week of good weather.

Also Marilyn and OH are having a good holiday in Oz and NZ.

I'm now going to make a nice cup of tea, I seem to be drinking more tea today than I normally do, if that's possible.

For all you Mums, I hope you all have a lovely Mothers Day


Speak to you all soon. Take care everyone!

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hi girls.
Marie, the problem with my son is that he has lost his job,yet again. So I have evrything crossed for him that he get things sorted. Kids.
I had a good chuckle at your poor son in laws problems. I know I shouldn't have laughed,but oh my lord,the visions I had conjured up,off everyone struggling to move that cement. I hope you were just looking and not over exerting yourself.
You are certainly having a hectic time at the moment.
We have got to start taking one off our grandaughters,to her work experience job on tuesday. She has got to do it for two weeks. She's not a happy bunny though,they have put her into a hairdressing salon. They cannot give her experience in the work she wants to do though,as she wants to be forensic scientist,with the police. But hairdressing and police work,are poles apart.
So good old nanny and grandad volunteered to take her,as both mum and dad will be at work themselves.
Hi Huia,good to hear from you love. You are another one who is always busy doing wonderful exciting things. Not only for yourself,but for others as well.
How is Phil going along. I often think off him and yourself. Hoping and praying hat things will work out o.k for you.
Oooh Sylvia baby is home at last. Three off my five children were all born with jaundice. And one off my daughters,had one more point to go,and they would have had to give her a blood transfusion. But little ones are stroger than we give them credit for. But it is still a worrying time for you all the same.
How did the opening off the games go. There is still nothing published to
say that they televising the games here. I am so dissapointed about that,
I would have loved to watch the athletes performing their skills.
Ann you had better get a move on with that album for your grandson. Mind you december is quite a way off. I love reading your thread with all the new people joining in. It's wonderful to get people talking together from all parts off the world. Well done to you for getting it started.
Hi Sallie my lovely. How are you all. Have you started Janets bedroom yet.
Guess what,no progress on ours. I can see me having to shame Roly into doing it,by starting it myself. Wether it pleases or offends him,it wont wait forever as far as I am concerned. To be truthful,I am rather impatient
when it comes to my own home comforts.
Now I wonder where Liz has got to. Just as long as she has not put him indoors six foot under I suppose I should not worry. Hi ya Liz if you happen to be looking in.
Debbie is probably running round a sports field somewhere. Slow down Debbie I can't keep up with you. How are the children faring. I dare say it's going to be another busy weekend for you all.
How are you feeling now Julia. I hope you are better today. Take care off yourself.
Love to all our friends. Mo xxx