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Dutch that is so lovely, and also so true.

We are all here for each other,
Through our troubles and our woes,
If we can make each other smile,
If only for a little while,
Then each and everyone of us,
Will be blessed with happiness.

God bless you one and all. Love Mo xxx

Well here is Mo a budding poet,
her prose is good
or so she thinks.
but realy Mo,
it makes us wince !!!

Dont give up the day Job...lo....
love me xxx

Ooooh Jean that did urt. You naughty girl,I am deeply wounded now. LOL
Thick skinned thats me,to go with my thick head.

My son had to go to hospital this morning, to have a nevus removed from his hairline. He has inner and external stitches. He must take after me ( poor boy ), as when I was born,I had a female nevus growing over my left eye. He has now got to wait for the biopsy to come back. But he has to have his stitches out on the 3rd of July.
Typical male, he txt me to say,he could not feel his eyebrow. What did he expect,he had it done under a local anaesthetic (sp) I said to him it is the same affect as having dental work done,and it will be like it,till the local wears off.

I am having another lazy day today. I got all the clothes washed,dried and ironed yesterday. So today is a me day.
Well I will close for now. Love to you all. Mo xxx

That's right Mum, you give him plenty of sympathy Lol!!!! You sounded just like I would be.

Oh Ann he can be such a baby, but he is 33 for goodness sake. I am sure he would have me wipe his backside for him if I would do it. But I am not that brave, it was bad enough when he was a baby, but not now yuk.
If he gets a headache, he phones me to tell me about it. LOL

Hi Ladies,

Now then Mo, you would worry yourself sick if your son wasn't in touch and I am sure it is just his way of keeping you "in the loop" as they say. I often tell my parents things that I am sure they don't really want to hear or aren't interested in, but it paints a picture for them of what I am doing at the time.

Liz, how are you today? You certainly sounded a lot more cheery and I am pleased that you aren't letting things get to you too much in so far as you have to rise above things. I have a friend with OCD and she does the most perculiar things sometimes, but she is wonderful and can laugh at herself, which I think always helps. It is a very difficult situation to understand as an outsider though. Good luck to you, and as many have said on here, there is always someone around who you can write to on the boards.

Been on my walk thismorning. Not so strenuous today as we had one man back in our group who broke a bone in his hip at Easter and was just testing out the walking today for the first time. He managed to get round with us but we did a flat walk around the lanes and it was slightly slower than usual. He won't be here the next 2 weeks as we are dong cliff paths, then it is a break for the summer and we start back again in Sept. We always go for lunch after the last session, so am looking forward to that.

Competition night at the Athletics Club tonight so I am on Checking In duty, making sure everyone has properly entered the events and got their correct race numbers. It is only the 1500m races tonight then all other events will be held Sunday when the competition is on from 9.30-4.00. That will be a long tiring day, but I enjoy helping out. I feel as though I am giving something back to the club.

Best be off now, have a nice day and I'll be back in touch soon.

Take care.

Debbie xx

I tired myself out yeaterday, going downtown for a couple of hours BUT I did NOT fall again!


I wa actually so tired that I didn't post on my threads on GR.



It's Canada's 143rd birthday today, and thus a National Holiday, Canada Day


Queen Elizabeth and Philip are in Ottawa, attending the National Party to help us celebrate.

I think they are having better weather there than we are here!! I've got the heating turned on in this room again!! It was raining at 6 am, but is just grey and cloudy at the moment


They arrived in Canada on Monday. So far she has attended an International Fleet Review in Halifax (Canada's navy is 100 years old this year so all manner of foreign navies are visiting to help celebrate that), planted 2 trees (one in Halifax and 1 in Ottawa), and unveiled a statue in Ottawa of the late great Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.

Then it will be on to Winnipeg, Waterloo Ontario and finally Toronto.


There is no way that woman is 84!!! Or that he is 89.




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I will agree Sylvia, that her Maj is looking good for her age. But him, well I have not got a lot of time for him.
Both he and Charlie boy wear all those medals on their chests,and neither of them have earn't them.
I hope you have a lovely day today. Have you got anything special planned.
If you are going out, watch what you are doing,and take care,you don't want
any more accidents.

Debbie, believe me,if my son did not contact me,I would be straight on the blower,asking him if he was unwell.
He was txting me last night,about baby names. They are trying to choose one for their baby,but the poor wee might is not due till January.
They want to name the baby after me if it's a girl,but I always hated it when I had to say my middle name, Pheobe,and thats a the name they chose.
I know I was named after my grandmother,but I went through hell at school
when we had to say our full names. And I know that the old names are making a comeback,but I don't want the child to be teased when it starts school, as I was.

Well my friends,I am going to say night night . God bless you all. Love Mo xxx

Just a quick visit, all been quiet at home here, we should find out if the son in NY has accepted that people here can't afford to pay for the wife to visit as well as him, and give them spending money so hope he will be ok with that, and her too, and he can come over to be best man for his bro and see the family and then sod off again lol The trouble that boy has caused for months because of this situation, but he always caused trouble when he was here too, getting into debt with a previous girlfriend's family and owing them money still, arguing with his mother and his dad and falling out with them til he wanted money and would come creeping to them all smarmy, boy is he a scrounger of the highest degree. Even the son here says it and his wife to be says she bets he will come and charm money off folk so he can go out with any friends he still has here and play the big I am!

Dutch, thanks for the lovely poems you write, they are so much from the heart.

Debbie, thanks, yes ocd is a funny old illness, so misunderstood and still a certain stigma to explaining a mental health issue. Glad your friend can laugh at herself, and she is lucky she has friends around her. I too feel very lucky, I have had so many messages of support ( thanks all) and it's good to know I can come on here and let things out, better than trying to hold it all in.

Sylvia, you be careful and don't go tumbling again.

I think the Queen looks and acts younger than her age, but her mother was a great example and let's face it, they don't have the trials and tribulations many of us, no wonder she is ageing so well.

Better get off the computer, I can hear noises upstairs that suggest he is getting up for work. The heat in the factory is getting to him and then he is cycling home afterwards so is pretty tired out, I suppose at some point we will have to sort out time off work for him and arrange a holiday, but will probably leave it till next month and arrange to go away in September, not abroad as he hasn't renewed his passport and said he's not keen on travelling far, but I so wanted to go away when the days were long instead of the same old time when the nights pull in so soon.

Take care all and thanks again for support

love
Lizxxxx

p.s. Mo, Phoebe is a name that's been used a lot recently, my son had a girl in his class whose little sis was named that and I have heard of others using that name too, don't think it would cause teasing these days. There seem to be a lot of Isabelle/Isabel?Isobels around lately too, two in my family alone.
Those are the names that cause teasing i.e. Is a bell necessary on a bike etc

I'm fed up!!!!! I've just swerved to aviod a large lorry coming towards me on the road and I hit a wall and smashed my passenger side wing mirror. Such a stupid thing for me to do and as it is all electric, I can see it is going to cost a pretty penny to have it fixed. Oh well, nobody got hurt, that's always a good thing.

Mo, I really like the name Phoebe. According to my book of names, it says the following:-

"Latinized form of the name of a Greek deity, Phoibe (from Phoibos, meaning bright), partially identified with Artemis, goddess of the moon and of hunting, sister of the sun god Apollo was also known as Phoibos (Latin Phoebus)"

So, there you have it. I often feel for those poor children whose parents have given them names which are very difficult to pronounce or that are so "odd" they can never be remembered properly. At the Athletics Club there is a girl called Shivannah, which is quite a nice name but nobody can remember it when they see her.

I have a friend whose name is Ebby-Lee, and her 3 children are Sebastian Zachariah, Charles Montague & Elodie Grace. How's that for a family of unusual names?

I actually hate my middle name of Ruth, and when I was born in the early 60's a very old Aunt told my mum "Deborah, what sort of a name is that? I shall call her Ruth". Unfortunately the elderly aunt didn't live too many years longer so I never had to take her up on her choice of my name, but I think I was always Ruth in her eyes.

So, I hope you are all fit and well and looking after yourselves. I'll be back on here after the weekend - have a good one.

Debbie xx

Hi All,

Oh Debbie, sorry to hear about your accident, as you say it's the cost of getting it repaired. As long as you weren't heart, that's the important thing. Did the lorry driver stop to see if you were alright? I hope he did!
When I was younger ( many moons ago ) I had two friends, both named Ruth. I quite like the name, they were both really nice people, so I think I always associate the name with them. Hope you have a lovely weekend with your family.

Liz, glad to know that things are quieter at home for you at the moment----I hope for your sake they will stay that way. I don't know how OH's son in NY, has the nerve and the cheek to expect his family to pay for both him and his wife to come over for the wedding. He must think that you're all made of money. It would be nice if we all had a money tree and could just pick it off as we needed it. I wish! Have you got your wedding outfit all sorted out now?

Mo, I like the the name Phoebe. All the older kind of names are coming back. Jennie's friend, Laura has called her seven week old little girl, Gracie Ruby. Chloe wanted to call her new sister Ruby, so Laura compromised and put it as her second name, she didn't want Chloe to feel left out, which I thought was nice. When do you and Roly go away for your weekend break? The break will do you both the world of good.

Sylvia, I hope your leg is feeling a lot better now. Also hope that you are having better weather there.
I too, find it amazing the the Queen and the Duke can get about and do so much at their age. I like the Queen but not keen on the Duke, he always seems to open his mouth about something, when he shouldn't. I think sometimes Charles is going the same way as his father. Perish the thought! lol.

Huia, I hope you are okay, as we haven't heard from you for quite a few days.

Jean, are your change of tablets working any better. I hope they are, and that you'll be back with us all soon. Take care!

Joyce, that is a lovely poem, very true and from the heart. We are all here for one another and it's nice to know that.

Ann, we don't see you very much now. Hope both you and T are alright.

Marie, hope you and your family are all okay, and that the weather is a bit warmer than it's been.


It's time for our dinner now, so I'll speak to you all soon.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

~~~~~to Sallie and everybody. I am still around and look in at the threads, but just havent felt like adding. Not much happening here anyway.

I have decided (well I already knew it) that I need more exercise so yesterday I got on my exercycle which I bought early this year but had barely used. I felt more alert afterwards so intend to have a short spin on it several times a day. I have also decided to go to an antiques fair today. Better finish my breakfast now.

Huia.

Hi Deborah, hope you are just angry and not too shaken up, that sort of thing can be scary.

On New Year's Eve we went to the city and o.h. got a strop on over something I said in the wrong tone of voice, and made me drive back home despite me saying I didn't feel up to driving, I was tired and had had the fall and bang on the head before Christmas and knew I wasn't 100% well. Because of the chronic fatigue I don't usually drive if I don't feel competent. It was snowing, little pulic transport, and I knew if I didn't drive we would end up stuck in the city for ages getting colder and colder so eventually I started driving. On the way idiot face started arguing again and distracted me and with the snow coming down fast and a bus stopping ahead of me from the opposite direction, I thought to let me through past parked cars, I carried on only to hear and feel a big clunk and knew I had caught one of the parked cars. O.h. started screaming at me that I always drive too close to parked cars (I don't normally) but wouldn't let me go back to see what damage I had done to the other car, I could see our mirror hanging off, just the same as yours. The next day he managed to tape it up and later he went to a reclamation yard and found the right parts inside another mirror, wrong colour casing tho. He was able to swop it all round so we now have our old casing with the new wiring etc in and the mirror is where it should be, I am not sure it works so well for adjusting, I daren't mess with it so leave it to him but at least it's back on and only cost £15 for the secondhand part.
Maybe yours can be fixed the same way Debbie. I still feel bad about the car I hit as I must have clonked their mirror off too or given it a real bang anyway. I was in bits when I got in as he yelled all the way back here and it ruined New Year's Eve, not that it's ever much cop with him falling asleep in the chair and me sitting there on my own as always, boring old f**t he is!

Well o.h. tried calling the son this afternoon but got the wife, as hers is the only phone they have so it's hit or miss whether son is within distance of the phone. Apparently he was out doing a small casual job and they are going to stay with her family for the weekend, I think they do it a lot so the grandparents see the girls, 6 and 8 ish, and so they get fed perhaps! She said things were very stressful but o.h. didn't take the opportunity to ask her what she thought about coming over here. He is going to try and get hold of his son on Saturday. Later he went online and found an email from the son sent earlier on Friday reiterating fares he had found for both of them to visit, it was sent to o.h., his ex (who is home from holiday by now I think) and the son who is getting married. So what part of 'We can't afford for you both to come' doesn't the scrounger understand?
I bet his mother will start creating when she finds it's been suggested only the son comes over, I would love to know what the NYwife thinks. As far as I can see, it's the NYson who has dominated everything and this is supposed to be his brother's and brother's future wife's time, not the scounger's. As always he has ended up the centre of attention! Spoiled brat! When I commented on the fact NY son isn't getting it, I got told to keep out of it all so I will, but doesn't stop me talking to son getting wed when o.h. isn't around.
What a stupid lot they are!

Huia, good luck on the bike, it's a great idea to use it, gets your circulation going and tones you up a bit eh? O.h. got an exercise bike from his dad for his birthday one time, only cause his dad didn't want it any more lol but it ended up being draped with washing to dry off in the spare room and now I have all my things shoved in there so it can't be accessed even for laundry!

Sallie, I am going to take the outfit back to Bon Marche for a refund and keep the Bhs dress I think, will have a quick look round other shops in case I see something I like better but think it will be ok, o.h. paid for it so need to get some shoes and a bag and a shrug or little bolero/cardi to cover the shoulders etc.

Will try and get a pic and send some of you so you can tell me what you think. I realised I liked the pattern of the material of the other outfit better than the actual design of the outfit and the dress I can wear again whereas the outfit from BM isn't really me so probably wouldn't get worn again. Altho almost twice as expensive, the dress will be more useful to me.

Better catch up with some more emails etc, so behind so apologies if I haven't replied to some of you yet

love
Lizxx

Hi Mo and everyone


The sun is finally shining, but it is still cooler than normal. Maybe we'll get some heat next week!!

Not much excitement going on here

Debbie ......... that was a near miss for you!


Liz ........ keep your head down!!!



sylvia
xxxx

Hope you get some warmth soon Sylvia, meanwhile I will keep the tin helmet handy lol

take care
Lizxx

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I am sure I don't really deserve any sympathy. After all, it can be fixed on the car and the garage have ordered me the spare bits - Liz, I like the scrapyard idea but not sure how to do that and my friendly garage up the road are always so very helpful. Total parts & labour £35.00 so not too bad.

No, the lorry didn't stop but they probably didn't realise what had happened. I just scraped the hedge, and the mirror would usually just bend in on itself, but there was a branch sticking out which if I tried a million times again I wouldn't strike it. One of those things.

Liz, you have always favoured the BHS dress, so it must be "The One" for you to wear. I do hope all the arrangements finally fall into place - what a family!!!

All well here on this gloriousy sunny morning. Peter has taken Luke & Matthew and a friend of Matthews out on the boat all day. They left home at 5am. Daniel slept at a friends house and has just got home and I have been updating athletics records whilst Sophie has been lounging around the place.

We have a big Athletics competition all day tomorrow and I am checking all the athletes in, like In did on Thursday night. It is something I know how to do and I am reasonably well organised with a system which seems to work.

So, I'm off now for the rest of the weekend.

Have a good one.

Debbie xx

Right I will try again,this is the second time of typing,I just hope I dont lose it again.
Sorry I was not around yesterday, but I went to bingo with my daughter and grandaughter. This is the grandaughter who's18th birthday we celebrated not long ago.
She really enjoys going. But it was so funny, she had never been on the one armed bandits before. And she had a win,when she asked us very excitedly how much she had won,we had to laugh,because she put £1.00
in the machine,and had won 20p. LOL
Needless to say,we never won,but we had a nice girls night out.

Thank the lord you were not hurt Debbie. But as Roly keeps telling me,every time I reverse into the small brickwall next to our drive,it's only a piece off metal,and can be repaired,just as long as the person doing the driving is not hurt.

Sallie we go away next weekend. But don't worry, the hotel has got internet connection,so I wont get withdrawal symptoms.

Did you manage to get your money refunded Liz from BM.
It sounds to me,like the son in NY turns a deaf ear to what is being said, very much like Mr Cheerful.
I tend to do that a lot here as well,when im indoors starts.

Huia did you buy anything at the antiques market.
How is Phil doing. I hope the family are well. Has your son been up to visit you lately.
You take it easy on that excercise bike,you dont want to end up saddle sore.

Sylvia, would you like me to parcel up a bit off this heat for you. God it's just been so hot and sweaty.
Trying to sleep of a nightime is a nightmare,it's just unbearably hot and humid.

((((((((((Hugs for JEAN,MARIE, ANN)))))))))
Bye for now girls, take care. Love to all Mo xxx

I didnt buy anything at the antique fair. There was nothing that I fancied. Not that I went with the idea of buying, unless by some miracle there was one of my granddads paintings, but most unlikely. I went mainly to get out of the house and among people. I did bump into a woman I knew many years ago so we had a little chat. I had to park some distance from the venue but it was a nice sunny day and the walk was good for me. I really must keep up with the exercise, it does make a difference.

Peter came up last weekend and he took me out to lunch on the Saturday and then we visited Phil. When he left on the Sunday afternoon he managed to leave his chillybin in the kitchen. I told him he is as bad as me and Phil. I visited Phil again last Wednesday. He seems to be a bit more alert these days, not so sleepy. I will be visiting him again today.

Huia.

Huia, antique fairs are an interesting place to while away a few hours even if you don't buy aren't they. It fascinates me to see what other people buy.

Debbie, I expect your knock was a shock even if you were not hurt. Your roads are very narrow aren't they? One reason we don't hire a car when we are there. Glad you were OK anyway.

Mo I suppose 20p is better than nothing Lol!!

Sallie, I have been reading but not posting, sorry, yes we are fine thanks, been shopping in Cheltenham today, it was quite pleasant, sunny and not too hot but nice and warm if that makes sense. Crowded though, the world and his wife seemed to be out. Had lunch in Wetherspoons, I had ceasar salad,
Sylvia, before long you will be complaining that it is too hot I'm sure.