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Have a great Birthday Sallie I dont think you you look a day over 18....lol...

Mo and Roly enjoy your weekend , dont do anything I wouldnt do, now there you are bags of scope....lol....enjoy...

love Jean xx

Mo and Liz,
Just seen your messages, thank you both for the birthday wishes, my friends.

Mo, it would be lovely if I was 21 again, and know what I know now, it's a shame we don't have that option, lol!

Liz, now surely Dutch isn't that bad, is she? Nina and I will have to sit each side of her, and give her a nudge each, when we want to speak, lol!!

At least it's better than having to sit with someone, and having to try to make conversation. I'm looking forward to meeting both Dutch and Nina, so I'll let you all know how it went tomorrow evening.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Thank you for the birthday wishes, Jean. Also for the compliment----I wish! lol!!

Love, Sallie.xxx

Sallie, will leave it till you come back after the meet, I told you so might be appropriate lol

Seriously, enjoy your time with both 'girls', what a way to celebrate a birthday lolol

Lizxx

Sallie there is a birthday thread up for you as well love.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALLIE
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Have a great time.

I had no internet connection earlier, so I went to another room, turned on the fan in there and read for a couple of hours!


Liz ........................ the barstewards!

Maybe either your oh or his son should have booked the ticket in the UK ..... they might well have been able to get a cheaper fare



When we used to travel with a very young J, seats were half-price over the age of 2 and child got a seat, or 10% of the adult price if under 2, no seat ...... but many of the planes had sky cots that would hold upto a 12 month old. If you reserved earlier enough, you could get the bulkhead seat, and thus a sky cot .............. or put the baby on the floor

We travelled from here to Australia via the UK (see below) when J was a toddler. We were away for over a year, but because J was only 15 months old when we began the trip ..... her ticket only cost 10%, mind you, we didn't officially get a seat for her!


J slept on the floor under our legs all the way from Calgary to Manchester on our first trip back to the UK when she was 15 months old. In a sky cot from London to Johannesburg 6 weeks after that. Then a sky cot from Capetown to Perth Australia, 3 weeks later. Almost one year later, she slept on the floor at the bulkhead from Fiji to Hawaii and Hawaii to Vancouver ...... the cabin crew moved away the man who had reserved the aisle seat. Told him he really didn't want to travel in the same row as a 2½ year old!!



The usual thing that happens when you are travelling with a small child under 2 years old is that it does not get a seat (unless you pay the extra), but the cabin crew will attempt after take-off to find a seat where at least one parent and the child can sit together ................... this becomes a problem if the plane is full.

So far as I am aware, a child over 2 has to have a paid seat.


On their flight to here, J&M have reserved a window and an aisle seat. That leaves the middle seat vacant. Apparently a block is put on the row (Infant travelling!) and the seat is not given away until there are no other seats available.

If it is taken, then either M or J will change seats with the passenger ............ probably giving him the window seat so they have a bit more freedom to get up and walk around with MJ


All children under a certain age have to be strapped in with the mother for take off and landing .............. there is an extra belt that attaches to the mother's seat belt and then goes round the infant. That applies even if the child has its own seat



Did you know that you are not supposed to move from your reserved seat to another seat elsewhere in the plane until after take off? At least that is the rule .......... cabin crew will often move people before take-off if they can, but they have to make note of it. Or they say they will do it later.


The reason is, in case there is an accident.




sylvia (slowly melting)
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Hi all,


permission to scream?!

The scrounger son just rang from NY - why can't these boys work out the week their dad is on late shift, it doesn't take much if they take a note of one week they know of and work alternate weeks from that! He was waffling on about sending his dad a text, and I keep telling both of them their dad doesn't use his mobile like normal people do, he just gets it from it's case if he needs to use it to call them from work and 9 times out of ten the battery needs charging, not sure why but always has. I only got him the phone so he could call his son cheaply in usa when he went the first time, beginning to wish I hadn't bothered.
Anyway I said to the sc. son, it's good that your flight has been booked now and guess what he said, Yes but now I have to find a way to get my wife over too, as I want everyone to meet her! All about him, he wants to take the stage at his brother's wedding and get the family meeting the wife he married a year ago so he could stay on in America!
He has always been the most selfish person I know. I said to him, How? everyone here has paid out all they can, and he said he was going to have to try somehow as it would be nice for everyone to meet her.

When will this stupidity stop, he wants to steal his brother's thunder, that's what it is, he is always this way.

Wonder what mood o.h. will be in when he gets home - will depend on whether he was happy with son's ideas or has had enough of him as well, but usually he is the blue eyed boy......


Grrrrrrr
Lizxx


btw the son here in UK booked the flight, so not sure whether o.h. is muddled and thought the bill was dollars so said yes to a third share but didn't realise it was pounds, he was converting dollars to sterling and thinking it would be a third of around £600

Wow, for those of you who said everyone was very quiet on here I have taken ages catching up on the news.

Firstly, a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Sallie for tomorrow., I hope you have a lovely day and enjoy meeting up with Cyber Friends.

I remember the regular "Rat Reports" from Mo last year, they are amusing to think back on, so I hope, Huia that yours isn't a rat, but mice, which are easier to get rid of. We have mice here sometimes, and I seem to be quite successful in catching them. I'm afraid I kill mine, but a friend catches hers in a "Humane Trap" and then lets them go a long way from her house. I really couldn't be that bothered about a mouse. Sorry for all you sensitive folk out there.

Jean, ,lovely to have seen you pop in for a quick message. I do hope you are feeling a bit better.

Sallie, I am glad Jennies treatment is going so well. It must be a worry off all your minds. I assume that Vitamin D is readily available in tablet form from Health Shops, but would an Ultra Violet lght do the same job? We used to have a small portable light thing when I lived at home, because my brother suffered so terribly with bad skin, and this light used to be propped up on the table and he would shine it onto his face. I suppose it would have been the equivalent of a facial Sunbed, and probably not allowed these days for Health reasons, as Sunbeds as so bad for the skin aren't they?

Another glorious day here today. I went for my usual Thusday walk with my group, which was lovely. Half cliff path and half easier footpaths. We managed a take away coffee stop as we took longer than planned looking at Gravestones in one of the cemeteries that we passed through. It is supposed to be a History Walk but has been renamed "Jersey Jaunts" as we are all the same group and there are only so many times we can be told the same thing. The walks vary each week but we are limited to routes. It is nice to do the same route but in different seasons.

Sylvia, I am so glad that summer has arrived for you. A distant cousin of mine has travelled to Vancouver for a stay with friends over there. She has just finished working 3½ years in Malawi, back to the UK for a month, Canada for 3 weeks, New Zealand for 3 weeks, then off to Australia to look for work and accommodation. She is a bit of a Nomad and travels the world regularly. She is 50 and very single, and that has been her life style for at least the last 30 years. Sometimes I think it must be lovely but other times, I think she must at some point wanted to have settled down. She has never married. Her 3 sisters have all married and had families. She comes from Evesham near to Worcester, so a lovely part of the country.

Syliva, have you ever heard of Colebrook United Church in Surrey BC? I have been looking through some very old papers and found that a relation of my fathers was a prominant member of the congregation and started the Sunday School there. Apparently there is a stained glass window in the re-built church dedicated to her. I'm not after info, just wondered if it was in your neck of the woods, out of pure nosiness. LOL

Anyway, had better be off, bed is calling. Loads planned for the next few days, so had better get some sleep to be able to face the challenges of live in my family!!!.

Hope you are all well. Keep smiling.

Debbie xx

Imagining Joyce meeting up with Sallie and Nina, hope Sallie has a lovely time for her birthday get together.


Next stage of the saga - o.h. came home having phoned sc. son in NY and apparently his wife of a year is having problems accepting him coming alone, as she feels shut out as if the family don't want her here! For heaven's sake, she is nearly 30 and has two kids, is she so childish that she can't see everyone has done all they can to sort this out and cannot afford another £620+, plus the fact and cost of picking him up from Heathrow, and taking him back there, that's two round trips of nearly 300 miles and spending money for him as he won't have any spare to bring with him and none in the bank. Apparently they are in dire straits over bills yet she wants to come here and spend money they don't have, how can she expect the family to cough up that much as well as all the costs to do with the wedding already. None of the family are that well off that they can spend money like that. Seems it is adding to the arguments over bills and his lack of work. I give up! He has found some work, shelf filling at a store, which is not what he thought he would be doing, he is an electrician by trade but can't get a job in that line and hasn't done anything like it since 2007.
O.h. is now moaning about his d.i.l. to be here, saying if she hadn't taken the bull by the horns on Monday and got this sorted and booked, there wouldn't be this hassle, I can't see what difference it made, but o.h. was talking to the son in NY about everything and could maybe have had a chat with his d.i.l. there and stopped this feeling she has.

I did say on Monday to the future d.i.l., has anyone spoken to d.i.l. in NY about and heard her views, maybe if they had chatted with her first they could have made her see the position.

I have had enough, if by some means the son gets his wife a flight and she turns up they will have to put up with the way the house looks, I am not breaking my back sorting everything out because of them after all this messing about!
O.h. is also annoyed because his ex was the one who made a fuss about the son coming over and came to o.h.for the money, as she always does. When the son came back from the states the first time and wouldn't just take any job to tide him over so he could pay board etc, she came to o.h. for £150 towards his food and keep, which he paid, and then the son told people and put on facebook that he hadn't felt welcomed properly so the girl in NY sent him the fare to visit her for a couple of weeks to cheer him up, he hasn't been back since!
I can just see this escalating into major arguments with his ex and him, and even the son and future d.i.l. The son is calling round later today to pick up a cheque for the money as he paid on his credit card for the flight.
Oh life is such fun! Not!

Catch you all later, take care,
must get to bed in a mo, as I have yet another busy day myself.

28 years ago, I was finishing off some work being done on my house so that I had a nice bathroom, bedroom and kitchen ready for the new arrival, due on 9th July. I was exhausted having coped with builders, who put a nail through a pipe and almost flooded my new kitchen from upstairs, the carpet was delivered and the store had been holding the wrong coloured one for months, the new carpet had arrived just in time to be laid in the relevant rooms and my waters broke as I lifted the carcass of a chest of drawers into place. I went into hospital later that evening and son arrived 4.30am Saturday 10th July, 1982.

In many ways I wish I could turn the clock back to the days after my son's birth and do it all again, he was such a lovely baby except he never slept much and I was all alone and exhausted, but there are somethings I would 'do different' as the Norfolk saying goes, with the benefit of hindsight.

Que sara,

Lizxx

Good morning everyone,

Just want to say thank you all, for your happy birthday wishes and for the cards that I received. It's nice to know that I have so many friends.
I'll speak when I get home from the mini meet.
Take care! Love, Sallie.xxx

While I think of it, if it isnt too late, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALLIE.

I have caught 8 mice in the 3 days since I started setting the traps. I wouldnt be surprised if there arent more in the traps now. I will have a look before I go to bed.

My TV was playing up tonight. The picture is all squiggly and multiple (if you know what I mean) and when I tried to watch the news there was also a bad buzzing so I turned it off. The buzzing had stopped when I turned it on later for Coro St, but I couldnt see who was who so had to tell by the voices. I am hoping it is just the aerial. I will have a good look at it tomorrow. Not that I watch a lot, but it is a bit frustrating.

I had trouble getting to sleep last night. I can be yawning my head off but as soon as it touches the pillow I am thinking of all sorts. Last night I was thinking of the book I am planning to publish about my granddads paintings, planning what the cover would look like etc. I had to get up at 1 a.m. to take half a sleeping pill (I hadnt taken one before bed as I am almost out and hoped to be able to do without). The pill worked but I was late waking and had to take the rubbish bag down to the collection site before breakfast. It was a nice fine day so after breakfast I hung out the few clothes I washed yesterday when it was too wet to hang them out. Then I decided to wash a lot more. When I finished I decided to sit reading for a few minutes. The sun coming through the window was very hot and I decided I really should be out there in the fresh air, walking, so I drove over the hill and walked up and across the dam. I nice 1 hour walk. Should have done me good although the sun wasnt as hot because of the breeze, but I wasnt too cold.

Better go and check the traps downstairs now, then off to bed.

Huia.

It is now 24 hours since I last posted. Where is everybody?

No more meeces caught today so with a bit of luck I have caught them all, but I will leave the traps set in case another family decides to move in.

Huia.

Hello my lovelies,from a beautiful Dymchurch.
The hotel is lovely, people are great.I can't stop as we are on our way out.
Speak to you all soon. Love Mo xxx

Oh, this is a lonely thread! I know what you mean Huia, I think they've all gone and left us. Apart from Mo, and she's out and about in Dymchurch, enjoying herself---with no time to talk to us, lol!

Mo, you and Roly have a great weekend, you both deserve it, and the break will do you both good!
Just take care! Don't do anything I wouldn't do!lol!!

Huia, thank you for your birthday wishes, they are appreciated. I had a lovely day, it was lovely to meet Joyce (Dutch) and Nina. They're both lovely ladies and very down to earth.
The only problem was, that we couldn't find the pub where I was meeting them, but eventually got there an hour and a half late. We stopped at Sheffield Railway Station, so Jennie and Michael went in to ask directions, we should have done that to start with, it just took us ten minutes from there. Sheffield is very poorly signposted, I lost count of how many different ways we tried to get to the pub.
Never mind, I got there eventually, and enjoyed myself, and we all had a good laugh together.

Let's hope that you've got rid of the mice and that you won't get anymore trouble with them.

It's good to hear that Phil has been responding to you on your recent visits to him. I really hope that he'll continue like that for a good while, as I'm sure it makes you feel a lot better when you see him like that.
I'll look in again later today.
Take care! Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hello, Huia , Sallie and everyone, glad you have seemingly caught all the pesky critters, hope they dont return, Huia...
sounds like you had enjoyable day out Sallie, did you get a word in edgeways, with our Joyce...lol...
Mo glad you and Roly are enjoying you breakaway. we are off next Sat for a week. cant wait now...
thanks Debbie and all for your good wishes, glad to say feeling a lot better ,
have a good weekend ...

love Jean xx

Jean, I'm glad to hear that you're feeling a lot better. I'm sure that you'll have a lovely week away, and that you will and J will feel far more relaxed, after your break.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hello all,sorry it has been so long since I popped in but life has been hard these last few weeks ,I am rather down if it
wasn't for my exercise classes I know I would feel very bad.

Before I forget (((HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALLIE))))) LOVE & HUGS. It is my Son, Ryans Birthday to-day the 11th Aug .
So Pleased to hear that De is doing well.

LIZ what a SAGA I cant wait to see the next episode.
Jean my dear pleased that you are slightly better how goes the Vertigo and how is your daughter and J?


I have a new Grandaughter (((((NIA Morgan O"DONNELL, )))))born 8-30 pm last night, Nancy had a bad time and had to go to Surgery after the birth, bad very bad ,they should have sent her for a C section.I wont visit to-day i will give her a chance to rest & recover.
I must close love & hugs Marie

Marie, my congratulations, and best wishes to all.

I visited Phil again this morning. He is actually talking to me these days, rather than just answering me. Not that I know what he is saying as it is quiet and a bit slurred, but it is nice to see the improvement. Afterwards I bought a pie for my lunch then came home via Cosseys Dam (one of the ones that supplies water to Auckland) and had a walk across it, then down to the Hunua Falls for another short walk. Just arrived home 20 mins ago.

Huia.

Hi all


Congratulatons Marie on the new grand daughter. I hope all will go well from now one
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Mo ... enjoy your holiday



It's hot and sunny here ..................... temperatures over 30C in the sahde in the back garden, and we won't mention what it gets to inside the house, even with the fans blowing!


We now have an umbrella on the sun deck ......... first time since we bought this house in 1972 that we've actually had a shade umbrella! The sun deck faces south, and is completely exposed, so we just haven't used it much except in the early morning and late evening!



off to mooch around the boards while most people are asleep!




sylvia
xxx

Hi all,

phew, it's been so hot here in Norwich this week and yesterday was awful, trying to do so much in such hot weather. More on the way I think.

Huia, glad you are getting rid of the mice, do you think they are starting to come in for warmth or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
So pleased you are getting some kind of response from Phil and nice that you can get some walks in too only be careful and do tell people where you are going if you strike out to somewhere a bit quiet, or leave a note in your car when going off walking alone.

Marie, Congratulations on the new little member of the family - I hope she will have wonderful life. How awful that Nancy had such a bad time, I hope she recovers well very soon. I did smile to myself, you must be at sixes and sevens, this is only 11th July, now did you give your son an early card lol or are you just a bit tired and confused lol? I know time flies but it was only 10th July yesterday !!!!!

Glad the hotel is nice Mo, Dymchurch is somewhere I looked at when I was trying to book our hols, then we went to Corfu. O.h. said last evening we will have to go away in Sept again, but he isn't keen on renewing his passport so won't be Corfu again! He has been so wrapped up in this blasted wedding etc he took no notice when I mentioned holidays, I so wanted to go away when the days were long, but no, back to September hols yet again so the light evenings are short.

Sylvia, I think we need a sunshade - maybe o.h. will get one for the garden.
Stay comfy and cool if you can.

Sallie, glad you found Dutch and Nina in the end even tho you saw a lot of Sheffield first.

I will add more about the wedding saga tomorrow as I am really tired now

Will good night or good morning to any early birds.
take care and try not to get too hot and bothered those of you with high temps. Ridiculous that in Norfolk it was 31 degrees yesterday and in Aberdeen it was 13 degrees, my friend Kathy rang on Friday evening and said it was so cold she had her heating on yet again, she has had to use it several times this summer, poor love.

bye for now
love
Lizxxx