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Hi there girls.

I dont particularly want to join anything, I just want a bit of company occasionally. I am not sleeping as well as I would like. I might fall asleep for an hour or so then wake up and cant get back to sleep so get up and do some puzzles or read for an hour before going back to bed to (hopefully) sleep again. It leaves me rather tired next day which leaves me a bit depressed. But I will survive when this residual itching stops. Maybe then I will sleep better. Or I will go back to the doc.

Must visit Phil again today. I hope the weather isnt too foul. There is misty rain here at present.

Huia.

Hi Mo,

Sorry you and Roly's teams lost last night. When you're up against the trophy hunters, as you say you don't stand much of a chance, as they take it seriously and are only in it to win. It's nice to play just for enjoyment and a bit of fun, but I'm sure they don't see it like that.

Richard still hasn't found a job, at the moment I think he's feeling a bit demoralised. Seeing that he's applied for well over four hundred jobs, and out of those only a handful of places have bothered to reply back to him, telling him that 'he's been unsuccessful this time', it make me wonder how they can say that, when he hasn't even had an interview.
Some of the people in these places don't even think about the cost of putting extra petrol in the car to get there,either.

Mo, I really hope that both your son and Richard will find a job before too long. It would be nice if they could get a proper interview, instead of getting them to go there for whatever reason.

Well Alun has just made us a cup of tea, so I'd better go and have it.

Speak to you tomorrow.

Love, Sallie. xxx

Hi Mo, yes got home this afternoon. We had a lovely break and the weather, while not fantastic, was not bad either. We came home via the Clarks Village (an outlet centre) at Street so had a good spend in M&S and also in the Paper Mill as I needed some A5 card.

Everything is unpacked and put away, we seem to bring more food home than we took away as we did a shop while there and then didn't use it all, still it is not perishable. Just got the inevitable washing to do tomorrow.

Sorry you didn't win at darts Mo, still at least you can enjoy playing if you are not 'trophy hunters'. Those who are so concerned with winning who lose must have a miserable evening.

I am sick of the football already!!!!!

Good morning to you all when you wake up (and afternoon to Sylvia). I visited Phil this morning but he didnt want to wake up, he apparently had 2 bowls of porridge for breakfast. I stayed only 30 mins, then went to a nearby city centre to see if anybody had any scanners that would scan negs. I had no intention of buying one at this stage, but the 2nd shop I went in had a sale on and they had an Epson V500 reduced from $699 to $522. It was the last one in stock, so I decided to buy it. I havent taken it out of its box yet. I have to clear a space on the dining table beside the computer, before I can set it up. Just as well I dont have any family at home. If anybody comes here for dinner they will have to balance it on their knees, but then it is mostly my son that visits.

I might light the fire before I start setting things up, the weather is freezing.

Huia.

Hello Everyone,

Huia, sorry that Phil was asleep when you went to see him, hopefully he'll be awake when you go next time. Did you manage to get your scanner going? I hope you got the fire lit before you started, because if you're like me when I start making cards I forget about everything else. Enjoy using it!

Ann, lovely to see you home, we miss seeing you on this thread. You're not the only one that's fed up of the football already, everyone is going mad about it. Alun caught the bus up to town earlier this morning, and some man at the bus stop asked him if he had his England flag up ---Alun told him being a Welshman, no he hasn't, but he'll still be supporting the England team tonight, and would like to see them winning.
The man then told Alun, that he won't be watching at all because he doesn't like football at all, not even when England is playing, it must be bliss for his wife. Never mind, I've got some cards to make while it's on.

I've got some washing on the line, so I'd better go and see if it's dry.
Speak to you all later on today.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Huia, are you stuck in that scanner love. I bet you have got that fire going, and you are nice and snuggly warm. Whats the betting,if you do get it going,you will be very late to bed tonight,thats if you get there at all. LOL

Well todays the day for Liz's dreaded BBQ. I do hope that they make her welcome,and that she enjoys herself. If they don't, then I cannot see Liz wanting to attend the wedding. Bless her,they are all proper nasty.

Sallie,I could not believe how many people had flags flying this morning,when I was on my way to town.
It makes me smile,they cannot be bothered to fly them when it's St Georges Day,how unpatriotic is that.
You watch,as soon as England lose,those flags will come down quicker than they went up. LOL

Ann, I love going to M+S, I buy all my underwear from there. The sizing is good for me. When I went to BHS for measuring,they made two sizes bigger than I am. It looked like I had two socks filled with sand,stuck in my bra. You could not see my poor little boo*ies for material. LOL
Are you still doing your card making. Well you must be if you needed to get the A5 card,stupid me not checking before I ask a question.

Hi Marie,Debbie and our Jean.
Bye for now girls. Love Mo xxx

Hi Girls,

I hope you're all enjoying the football!! lol. Alun is watching it, so I've popped on here to see if there is anyone about. I've got all the washing done and dried, so that's a good job out of the way. This afternoon I've been making some cards, so I'm quite pleased with myself today.

Mo, we nipped down to Tescos earler on, I think most of the staff there have gone mad, some of them are wearing red and white wigs, and others have their faces painted, all this just for football. As you say they don't do anything to celebrate St. Georges Day. I agree that if England loses, all the flags will be down, post haste.
Michael, doesn't like watching football unless England is playing. So he and Tim next door to them have put up Tim's trailer tent in J and M's front garden, because their garden is bigger and set up the TV, chairs and bought cans of beer, and I think half the men living nearby are watching the match there.

Well Mo, I need a cuppa, so I think I'll go and put the kettle on.

Love and best wishes. Sallie. xxx

Hi all

If anyone wants a laugh, google "vancouver demolition"


...... crew demolishing a building right in the heart of downtown Vancouver On Thursday, about 6 pm, at the tail end of rush hour. First one wall falls into one street, then the other remaining wall falls down into the cross street.

The demoliton company says

"we didn't do anyhting wrong"

"the media is making us look bad"

"at the end it is a good news story ............. no-one was injured"!!!!!!!



Meanwhile ........ I'm studiously ignoring any kind of sport!!!



I did try to get on fmp about 30 minutes ago ................ free while England is playing


I think they seriously miscalculated how many people would prefer to do genealogy instead of watch soccer!

Everyone's complaining that they either can't get on or it so sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooow



take care




sylvia
xxxx

I forgot to tell you Sallie. I saw a man today, who had had his hair shaved
into a george cross,and had also had the remainder of his hair dyed red. We said if england lost,at least he could shave it off,BUT, if the dye had stained his scalp under the hair,he would need to use a brillo pad to scrub
his scalp clean LOL How painful.

Oh my god Sylvia,how dangerous was that.
I have spent the evening on here,cant be doing with all this football.
Hows baby MJ doing. You will be seeing him soon wont you.
He will soon be teething, oooohh lovely. Teeth are a pain coming,and going arn't they.

I decided not to instal the scanner yesterday. It was mid afternoon when I posted and I was a bit tired. I did remove my original printer which I dont use these days and put the other scanner/printer in its place so the new scanner can be where that had been. I am going to tackle the installation this morning after I have had a play on here. I slept until 8 am and it is now 8.30, but I have the whole day ahead of me. My sleep pattern is not good. I went to bed at 9.30pm, woke at 10.30 and couldnt get back to sleep so got up and did some puzzles for an hour, went back to bed, still couldnt sleep, got up again. I finally got back to sleep about 1.30 or 2.00. I hope my sleep pattern will get back to normal soon. But at least I dont let it worry me as I can sleep during the day if I want, unless I have an appointment anywhere. I am trying to get more exercise, not too likely when I get this new scanner up and running! The sun is shining so I should go for a walk now but I hope it will be fine later.

Off to look at some other threads.

Huia.

Hi again,

At the moment I'm trying to finish off a card, and looking in here too.

Sylvia, it's a good idea to try and ignore any sport. Does your OH like to watch the football. Alun has just come into the room and told me that England and the USA drew 1-1. He was hoping that England would win, but he said that a few of the US players play in the English League. Me being me, I thought England would have walked over the US team, but there again I don't know a thing about football. lol's. Let's hope they do better in the next match.

I'll have a look at that site when I've finished on here, thanks Sylvia, it's nice to look at something that gives us a laugh. Hugs and kisses to MJ! xx

Mo, I think the majority of women hate football, but put up with it for the sake of their OH. That man was a bit of an idiot wasn't he, shaving his hair in the shape of the St. George Cross, and then colouring his scalp and what was left of his hair. Oh well, I suppose it takes all sorts to make a world!

Right, I'm now going to finish the card off, if I carry on at this rate I'll never get any cards done! lol's

Speak to you all tomorrow.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Hi all, off to bed in a mo but thought I would add this - thanks for thinking about me!

Update on Saturday..... (visit to meet the parents before wedding)

Well I went to bed on Friday night/Sat morning around 2am instead of my usual 5am but barely slept with having to be next to him so early in the night, he was fidgeting and f***ing and snoring, but I struggled up after a few hours dozing, and got ready and we made the train on time, 1pm. His son picked us up from the station at 20 to 2 (only a 30 min train ride) and we went back to the house, it's a nice house and they had the bbq going. His Mum and her partner were there and ok, and her Dad and stepmum and her Mum were there all around my age, one in sheltered accommodation, and we got on fine. The girl is lovely, and starting to show the pregnancy, they have decided to find out what sex the baby is at the next scan in two weeks, his mother wants it to be a girl, I hope it will be a boy as I think the son will relate better to a little boy he can play footie with etc Good afternoon except K was his usual stupid self, kept shouting instead of talking and his son had to keep shushing him because the neighbours were out in their gardens too, and of course he drank more than he needed to and acted as silly as always when in social situations. They put on some nice food and plenty to drink, wine, tea coffee etc and o.h.'s cider! They really made an effort and the son seems to be happy with his fiancee, hope they work out ok, she seems to be changing him a bit altho he had gone out on the Friday night with his mates for a drink and was late back, while she was home cleaning. He had thought they could do the cleaning, shopping and preparation all before 1pm on Sat. but she knew otherwise hence doing some Friday. O.h. said she has to sort son out to help her more so she doesn't get too tired. Fair enough! He did do most of the bbq and serving up and clearing plates etc so she got to sit down sometimes too.

The son wanted to watch the football so I suggested we leave before it started and said we could walk to the station, a mere 15 mins, so the son drew a map. O.h. seemed ok about it, her dad and stepmum had already left, just her mum who lives locally and his mum and her toyboy to drive back here later I suppose, typical that they hadn't suggested giving us a lift really when they knew we were going by train, they only live a few streets away!
Anyway starting ambling towards the station and o.h. was grimacing, said his dodgy knee which he smashed up in a drunken fall when younger, was playing up and he was weaving about as if drunk, and stopping and starting. I began to get a bit worried, didn't want to miss the train as another hour to the next one and didn't want to ring the son as he would be watching the match...... p.h. managed to stagger to the station and sat down saying he felt odd, I realised he hadn't eaten the right things and the booze had messed up his blood sugar levels. I seriously wondered whether to call an ambulance but found a couple of Werther's sweets in my bag, and gave him those and he recovered enough to stagger over the bridge to the other platform, and felt a bit better. He really looked drunk and people were staring so I explained he was diabetic and had got a bit out of sorts, and we got on the train ok, he fell asleep most of the journey and I got a taxi outside the station, paid with his money lol and got him home. He slept most of the evening and had some food when I gave it to him and finally stirred enough to go upstairs and get to bed.
I am really p**d off with having to look after him because he can't be sensible - didn't plan to become his carer, I have enough of my own problems so more incentive to get away now before things get worse.
Oh well, at least the visit is over, the girl showed us the baby things she has already collected and her wedding shoes and stuff too so that was nice, and I got on fine with the mums so will know them at the wedding in august. I will make sure he takes me somewhere nice on holiday afterwards lol I will have earned it! His ex and her partner are off to Corfu next week, lucky beggars. I wanted to go back at this time of year so we got nicer weather and longer days but once he knew about the wedding and this get together, obviously arranged to suit his ex for her hols, he shut down on the mention of hols and didn't bother to renew his passport!

I dozed off on the sofa a little while ago so ok now to catch up on here, as I couldn't do much on Friday evening but won't be too late as I am really tired.

Catch you all tonight,
counselling tomorrow so can let it all out lol

Love to all,

Lizxxx

Mail sent Liz, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to everyone~~~~~~~~~~~~

Love Jean xx

I am glad it wasnt as bad as feared, Liz, apart from the journey home.

Huia.

Well i'll be damned Liz,he showed his true colours then. But I am pleased that you were made welcome,and not left out in the cold.
Just the wedding to face now then love. Is the other son going to make the wedding after all. The one in America I mean.
Good luck for tommorrow. Get it all off your chest at the therapy session.

I am fed up off painting now. I have done ALL the painting so far. It's all this preparation that takes the time. So tommorrow,I am going out for the day,on my own. I dread to think what mess I will come back to though.
Roly is supposed to be starting painting the ceilings and walls. The same as he was supposed to be doing all the woodwork,that I ended up doing.
It's a good job I love him,or I would have committed murder by now.
I will make sure I cover the carpet and stairs,because he would forget to do it. And I would end up with a muti coloured carpet. LOL

Right girls, I have got to go and start dinner now. No rest for the wicked.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hi All,

Liz, I'm so glad that all went well for you yesterday, and that you were made to feel welcome. It was nice that you got on well with her mum and his step-mum. The girl sounds a nice person, so lets hope that she'll change him for the best. It was nice that she showed all the mums the things she has ready for the wedding and also the things for the baby. I hope they'll make a good life for themselves and the baby.

Sylvia, I had a look at the Vancouver demolition site you told us about.
I can't beieve that these people thought that it wasn't their fault, after watching how it happened, they were very lucky that no one was injured or even killed.

Huia, have you set up your new scanner yet? If you have, I hope it's all working as it should and that you are enoying using it. Also hope the weather is not as cold as it's been.

Mo, I don't blame you for being fed up of painting, I would be exactly the same if I were in your position. It started raining here late this afternoon, and I'm sure it doesn't know when to stop.
Alun took me to Hobbycraft and Range after we had our lunch, as usual I spent more than I intended to. Still, I have a lot of cards to make for the church that my brother is the vicar of, my sister-in-law asked me if I could make some so they can sell them in the church fair.

I phoned my cousin this evening, her daughter went out to a night club in Chester last night, and some stupid, thick person spiked her drink --although I can think of a much better name for him or her, but I'd better not put it on here. She really has been poorly, she's been having awful stomach pains and being sick, a doctor has seen her and given her something to take. I just hope that she'll be okay, love her.

Mo, have you heard anymore about how your granddaughter and nephew are getting on? I hope that things are going alright for the both of them.

Jean, how are things with you and your family today? Hope all is well with you all.

Ann, Marie and Debbie hope all is okay with you and yours.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hi Sallie, yes we are fine, been busy doing the garden, bought some new plants today to fill in the gaps but haven't planted them all as we got rained off.
Mo, I should just think you were fed up with painting, boring old job isn't it?

Sally, I got the scanner going. At first I thought it was no good at all as it didnt recognise the fact that I had put some negs on the glass but then I realised they had to be in the strip down the middle. I didnt want to use the special holders they had for negs as some of the old ones are odd sizes. I am going to have to use some black card and cut holes in, the size of the negs, to encourage the scanner to recognise that there is something there. It is not as good as I would have liked, and I cant find a way (yet!) to crop the negs in the preview. I might just have to print off any photos that I like that need cropping and then scan the photos on my other scanner. Or get my son to do them on his scanner.

Off to town soon as our vehicle is due for servicing.

Huia.

Huia, glad to hear that you got the scanner going, it's good that you know what to do, as I wouldn't have a clue where to start. Do you stop in town while your car is being serviced? If you do, I'm sure that you can easily find something to do while you're waiting.

Ann, as I've said it was nice here up until about four, but then the rain started, so that stops any outside jobs. Let's hope it'll be dry tomorrow.
After months and months of trying to make up my mind on whether to get Cuttlebug or not, I've finally decided to get one. I suppose I haven't been in the right frame of mind to do much crafting, but now I'm finding it a lot easier to concentrate, I think it will be a big help. Just hope it isn't too difficult to use. I notice that they are still a lot cheaper in Superstore, so will send there for it. Do you still use your Cuttlebug quite a bit?

Love, Sallie. xxx