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well done Jean, good to see you sparkling again. Glad youa re feeling better. Now don't go overdoing it with the memory album. take it easy. Thanks for my birthday wishes. We are going up to Webbs near droitwich tomorrow where there is a Hobbycraft shop and T has given me £20 to spend on craft stuff. (Last weekend was really my present) so I am looking forward to that.

and when Jean's bathroom is finished our bedroom could do with freshening up if you are in the mood MO.

Oh my lord Ann, I AM ON STRIKE. I have thrown the paintbrushes away so
no can do sorry. LOL

Just a quick Hi from me. My attention was bought back to this thread by Ann in Glos (on a different thread). I am pretty sure that I used to write on the original Introduction thread, quite a while ago.

I used to use the board name Theresa tread anywhere. I am 61, retired early due to ill health, but would have retired by now anyway!

Have worked with children with special needs, also in a Bank as a Cashier ("How would you like your cash?" is forever imprinted on my brain) and a varity of office jobs, mainly working with figures as I can't spell.

Have lived in the West Midlands in England since 1961 when my Dad came out of the army.

All for now,
Tess

Hi everyone

and especially "newbie" (to the thread) Tess! I think our paths have crossed elsewhere Tess.


very busy yesterday ......... OH drove downtown to pick up 2 Swiss friends at 10 am from the hotel where they were staying. Brought them back to the house and chatted ............ until it was time for him to drive out to the airport to pick up daughter and MJ at ca 11:30 am on their return from "oop north".

Back to our house. More chat. Lunch ..... very simple, plates of cold meat, cheese, salad fixings, 2 kinds of bread, and make your own sandwiches.

Then we took our Swiss friends out for the afternoon, leaving J at home with MJ to sort herself out. We drove to an old fishing village about 30 minutes away.

It was originally populated mainly by Japanese Canadians, and there were about 4 or 5 canneries there (mainly canning salmon). Now, the fishing fleet, all but one of the canneries have been demolished and replaced with blocks of apartments and town houses ........... and the one remaining is a National Historic Site where you can see how it used to operate.

BUT there is a fantastic board walk around the harbour, lots of good places to eat (mainly seafood!!!), and a number of the fishing boats sell fresh fish caught that morning. OH bought a fresh 3lb sockeye salmon (the red fleshed type), we'll have it tomorrow night.

Then back home, bbq pork steaks etc, and finally take the visitors home at about 9pm!


I did too much walking, so am a bit sore today ............... but have to be good to go out for dinner tonight.

It's our 43rd anniversary


Opening of the Grouse season as OH likes to put it!



Take care everyone


sylvia
xxxx

Lol Mo, OK I'll let you off.

Hi Tess, good to see you on here.

Sylvia, what a busy day you had. Sounded enjoyable though, lots of socialising with friends and good food and fresh fish to bring home.

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Hi Tess welcome to our merry crowd of nutters.
You have to be careful where our Ann is concerned,she's such a dizzy lizzie at times, and can trip herself up on a matchstick. LOL
As you may have read, we are a varied crowd, but all very friendly.
Our cyber friends come from many different countries, OZ, NZ,Canada and many parts of this country.
I live here in Kent,and have done so since my dad retired from the Army.But I am an Essex girl born and bred.
I am 63, and have been married to my OH for 46 years.
Please drop in and meet the others any time you feel like a chat.
Love and best wishes Mo xxx
Edit.
Oooops sorry nearly missed you Sylvia.
All that food is making me feel hungry. I lurve Salmon, can you send us some down the cyber hatch please.
Enjoy your anniversary and congratulations to you both.
Love Mo xxx

Sylvia a very belated Happy Anniversary, hope you enjoyed every minute of it.

Hello to Tess , nice to meet you I need to tell you there are a few on here who are quite mad the ringleader is someone in Kent, so steer clear of her...I am pleased to say I am not one of them ....lol...its lovely to have you with us. do you have any hobbies? Mo loves decorating rooms so if you need a paint job she is your girl, Sallie, Ann and myself are hooked on crafts,we have lovely friends who live overseas, Sylvia, Marie and Huia, Debbie who is on holiday , will be telling us all about what the family got up to....they are quite active....
my daughter works with special needs young people, in Huddersfield, I am 75
live in lancs married for 54 years one daughter one grandson... As you can gather I am the quiet one of the folk on here, but lovely with it, do keep chatting to us we need all the friends we can get....lol....

love Jean x

Hi everyone,

Sylvia, just want to wish you and OH a belated Happy 43rd Wedding Anniversary. I hope that both of you had a lovely day.

Jean, it's lovely to see you back on the thread, and to know that you are feeling better.

Welcome to this thread Tess, it's nice to hear from you.

We have Alun's niece and her two little girls staying with us until tomorrow morning, so haven't had a chance to get on here.

It's very late, so I'll speak to you all tomorrow. Sallie.xxx


Love and best wishes.

Ooooooh lookie lookie, theres our Jean poking her head round the door.
Coooee my lovely, good to see you.
Whats this you are saying about moi then, me mad never. Or perhaps I am now, since we have been friends.LOL
Just think, this all started when your original thread got whooshed, and I started searching the boards for you. I put the plea out trying to find you, and then what happens, I get addicted to your wit. Luvs ya loads you know that dontcha.
It's alright girls, Jean and I always tease each other.

Ahhh Sallie, I did wonder what had happened to you. You were very quiet at your end.
Now I understand why, we could not hear you because of the little ones.
Hope to hear from you later on today, to catch up on all the gossip.

It's very quiet here as well today. I have done the big shopping, just a few odds and ends to get tommorrow.
The bedding has been on and off the line so many times today, in and out of the showers of rain.
We have not got anything exciting planned for the weekend. We were going to go down to the Eastbourne Airshow, this weekend, but the weather forecast is not very good, and it's a long way to go, just to sit around in the rain.

I hope Ann is enjoying her birthday. And if they have shared a bottle of wine, I hope she watches where she is going, and does not have anymore mishaps.
I bet she has bought a load more crafting bits.

I hope we get another visit from Tess, it was nice to hear from her.

Well my lovelies, I will close now, and hope to hear from you all soon.
Love and best wishes to you all. Mo xxx

Hello my friends.
Mo, Jean and Sallie, thank you so much for the lovely cards. I have so many cards I have run out of places to put them. Well where I can see them. When I get cards I do like to be able to see them all from where I sit. It goves me a lovely warm 'friendly' feeling.

We have had a good day. I spent my birthday money in Hobbycraft, then we went for lunch at a Harvester which was very pleasant. I had a glass of wine but T had coke as we had to drive home down the M5.

this evening we will have a bottle of Cava, some pate and some brie for a snack.

thank you again for all the birthday wishes. I will put a separate thread up in a minute to respond to my birthday thread.

I'm back again ... you asked abou hobbies well....
Besides geneology I like reading (so am one of the GReaders). I love going to the Thertre, but haven't been for quite a while .... Has anyone been to see The Railway Children at The Waterloo Theatre? It looks really good but is a tad expensive.
I also like athletics, have managed to see National and International Athletics, both outdoor and indoor in Birmingham a few times .. earlier this year I went to International Gymnastics at the NIA.
In my youth I used to go to football and saw my team (West Bromwich Albion) play at Wembley a few times.
Have also done yoga and should really make more of an effort to find another yoga group.

I like to think that I have the soul of an artist, but know that I haven't the talent.

I'm off for a lie down now, still a little shakey.

Hi Girls,

Well our visitors left about eleven this morning, we really enjoyed having them, as we don't see them often. The girls are really lovely, polite and well mannered, with no sulking if there was something they wanted, but not allowed to have. They had brought their colouring pencils and some paper with them, so that they could do some drawing, which they both love doing. I got out some of my crafting stash, their eyes lit up when they seen what was in some of the boxes, needless to say, the two of them ended up going home with quite a few things. Alun also gave them a lot of paper and card that he had from work. So you can imagine how pleased they both were with that.

Sylvia, I hope you and OH had a lovely anniversary yesterday, and that you all enjoyed your special meal at the restaurant, last night.
Oh, I love fresh salmon, and I’m sure that the one your OH bought straight from the fishing boat would have been wonderful. It must be lovely for you to be able to go and buy the salmon that fresh.
Sending lots of hugs and kisses to MJ!! xxxxxx

Mo, the colours in your spare bedroom sound nice. Mind you, blue is one of the colours that I really like and tend to go for, along with certain shades of green and pink.
I had my last session with the Counsellor yesterday morning. Apparently she has put on my notes, that if I have any problems between the next three to six months, I have to be referred back to her, and no one else. As she pointed out, I have a few issues that I still have to work through, so could find that I might go back a bit. We’ll have to wait and see.

Jean, it’s great to see you back on here, we’ve really missed you. It’s also good to know that you are feeling so much better. You have plenty to keep you occupied by the look of it. I’ve sold two of the cards that I had made for the church, so I’ll have to do another two to replace them. I still don’t know how many to make for them, so far I’ve made a selection of birthday, thank you, new baby and new home cards. My sister-in-law asked me if I could also make some Christmas cards, with the fair being at the end of September. Another problem I have is what to put them in, so that they can be displayed so that people can see them, without having to fight their way through a couple of boxes.
I hope that J and D are both okay. Is D getting on alright on the medication she was put on last?
I also hope that your neighbour and her friends are behaving themselves and not making the noise they were.

Marie, hope all is okay with you and your family. We haven’t heard from you for a little while, so hope that you’re well.

Huia, hope all is well with you. Have you been to see Phil over the last couple of days? If you have, I hope you found him more responsive while you were there this time,
Alun’s niece was telling us how much more difficult things are becoming with her dad. Her mum, Alun’s sister, is finding that he seems to getting more difficult as each day goes by. He also seems to be getting a bit aggressive if he can’t get them to understand what he wants. It’s awful to see a man that was always so gentle, kind and thoughtful, like he is now. But of course we all know that it isn’t the real Alan, that’s being like he is now. It’s the horrible illness that he has, that’s making this way. I just feel so very sad for him, but it’s terrible for Lynda, to see him as he is. Their children are very good, but they can only do so much, especially the ones that live away from them. Although they all know what he’s like, it’s only their daughter Sue (the one who’s been staying with us) that sees what he’s like a lot of the time, along with her mum.

Ann, hope you’ve had a really lovely birthday, and that you had a lovely meal out. Did you get some more stash out of your birthday money.
Knowing how difficult it is to resist buying all the lovely craft things, now maybe that was a silly question for me to ask you. lolol!!

Tess, hope we see you back on here again soon. I think both Mo and Jean have given you a pretty good idea of the mad bunch we are on here. lolol!!!
We all may be a little bit mad, but we’re also a caring bunch too, we are always here for each other, ready to listen and help if we can.

Well I hope that Debbie and her family are enjoying their holiday, and that the weather is good for them.

Dutch, hope that you and Jan are enjoying his holiday from work. Have you had any news of his aunties over the last few days?

I sent Liz a pm, because I was concerned that we hadn’t seen her on here for a while. She’s not too good at the moment, so she asked if I would let you all know.
She’ll be back with us as soon as she feels able to. All the best Liz, and hope that it won’t be too long before you are better.

Love and best wishes. Sallie. xxx

It's nice to hear you have had a lovely birthday Ann, you deserve it.
If I get quite a few birthday cards, I usually put a bit of blue tack on the backs of them, and put them on the living room door. That way I can get the beauty out of all of them.
Now you take it easy on that bottle of Cava tonight. I dont want to log on tommorrow, and see you have had another mishap. LOL

Hi Tess. I have not been to the theater for a couple of years now. The last show we went to see, was "Wicked" up near Victoria station. Prior to that it's been donkeys years, I believe it was the show " Buddy "we saw then.
I am not a very sport orientated person, but I do enjoy dancing, especially line dancing. And I do love to follow my grandchildrens love of their sports.
One grandaughter is into her athletics big time. Two grandsons are footie fanatics. One used to play for the Gills junior league, but got fed up of being dropped, so left them to join another club.
One of my grandaughters, competes in ballroom dancing. And she often goes to the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool, for competitions. Her favourite dances are Latin.
I do enjoy my darts though. And during our darts season, I beg for support from all our friends on here. I need it believe me.
I think my best talent is yapping. Now Now Jean, no comments from you PLEASEEEE.

Hello Sallie.
It's good to hear that the counsellor has left the option for you to go back open. It's nice to know that you have still got her backing should you need it.
How nice that the children enjoyed themselves. But ahhh it looks like you will have to go back to the craft shop, to replenish your stock. Now I bet Alun will be dissappointed about that. Tut Tut thats a shame aint it. lol
Well he gets his enjoyment from his model railway, he definately wouldn't begrudge you your enjoyment with your crafting, that much I do know.
Poor Liz has been having a rough time of it from Im Indoors. She has been telling us about it over on the friendlies thread. I wont say any more other than, Liz don't forget we are here, should you need to scream and shout.

Right girls, I am away for now. Speak to you all tommorrow.
Take good care of yourselves. Night Night god bless. Love Mo xxx

Sallie I bought a card display off e-bay you build it up when it arrives it can hold 15 /20 cards in steps. I think it was about £11.00 with postage I then decorated
it with peel offs depicting what was on the cards , sentiments etc;and I also had a see through box for large ones to stand in....For christmas cards, I would have a look in a pound shop to se if there are any card holder sometimes a christmas shop opens and there are things in there that maybe could be adapted fo display....I have managed to get on with the album so hope to do christmas cards afterwards....D is doing very well, thank you, she is loving her new post same place but a more responsable one.....she is a workaholic,, but not in the house.....lol....sending hugs to Liz, I will get in touch too...

bye for now, love Jean xx

Just thought that I should make it clear that I am hopless at sports myself.
Had a "bad chest" as a child and couldn't run more than a few paces without having to stop to cough.
Tried doing the long jump... but couldn't jump as far as the sand.
One day a friend and I had a use of a couple of tennis raquets and a tennis ball however we gave up after about 15minutes as I couldn't hit the ball with the raquet, not even to serve.
Anything to do with running, jumping or hand eye coordination is just a no-no.
I can swim, (after a fashion) and managed to get my free pass when at Senior School. Now that I am a pensioner I can swim for free, so should try to start again.

My illness isn't anything really terrible, it is just low energy, with an occassional very very low energy, and general weakness.
When my energy is very low everything slows or grinds to a halt (including my digestive system) This includes both physical and mental abilities. So though processes and planning ability etc are yuk.

Anyway slowly getting over my latest bout of very very low energy, hope to soon to back to my normal SLOW.

Just seen your post Tess, so thought I'd say hello to you. I'm afraid that I'm another one that wasn't very good at sport, and hated sport lessons at school. Like you, I suffered from a bad chest as a child, I had Asthma up until I was seven, and although I grew out of it, I still suffered from a tight chest if I ran. All my life if I suffer from a bad cold, it affects my chest.

I know I should be ashamed to say that I can't even swim. I didn't like putting my face in water, and I still don't like it.

Although, I love scrapbooking and card making, I'm not that good at it--I only started making cards at the beginning of this year, and have been become, like many others, addicted to it.
Love, Sallie. xx

Tess, when I was at school in Malaya, oooh many years ago,we had to play hockey. Now we were supposed to hit the ball, but guess who got hit more than the ball, yep moi. I always seemed to be in the way, whenever someone was trying to hit the ball, and I got hit by the stick instead. Now Ann had bruises,from her fall, but I had bruises from the ball.lol
Anyway love, slow but sure is the best way to recover from your troubles, and we are here should you ever feel down. There is always someone to cheer you up.

I wonder if Ann is up and about yet, after her bottle of Cava last night.

Sallie what a shame you weren't looking for a stand for your cards, when Woolies closed down, they probably would have given you one, just to get rid of it.
Is there any cards shops in your area closing down, if so perhaps you could get one from them.

Hi Jean, have you got anything good planned for the weekend.
How are J and D. It's good to hear that D is getting on so well with her new post. She certainly deserved the promotion, after all the hard work she did.
Have you still got the noisy neighbour next door. Or has she calmed down a bit now. I do hope she has, as she was a nightmare wasn't she.
Her little on must be at the stage where she needs her sleep.

Sallie, I have a fear of water on my face as well, I never did like washing it, You can smell me coming from a mile away.

Mo, I too went to school in Malaya!
To Army Schools on Dads first tour of duty (we were there for the Coronation).
Later to a Convent School in the south of the country, where we went to school with local girls.

Didn't get back till 2003 but managed to find a Convent School friend in K.L

Yes Mo up and about, had to do a grocery shop this morning and then some washing. No effects from the cava you will be pleased to hear. Wish I could say the same about the bruises. It is a week now they seem to be taking for ever to heal. Side and foot are still quite painful. The joys of getting older and less flexible.

Hi Girls,
I’m just having a quick look in, before we go out again. We got the twenty past eight bus to Derby this morning so that we could get what we wanted while it was quiet there. Alun wanted to go to Maplins to get some kind of electrical things for one of his train layouts. So while he went there, I went to have a look in Katz, craft stall on the market. I thought I'd just pick up a couple of sheets of card and paper but I still managed to spend £17. The trouble is, I'm going there again next Wednesday, to another parchment class--- I'll just have to stop my eyes from wandering, Kate has so much lovely craft stuff there, that it's really difficult to resist. lolol!!

Mo, I've seen some card display stands on one of the craft sites, but I can't remember which one----just typical of me. Alun tells me that I should save it in my favourites, but I keep forgetting to do that.

Jean, I’m so pleased that you are feeling better and that you’ve been able to get back into scrapbooking. I’m really pleased that D has settled into her new job. She’s achieved so much, that she really deserved to have the job.
Well, I’ve just got to go and get one or two things in Mo------s, so I’ll look in later.
Love, Sallie.xxx