General Chat

Do you know why I call us Easter Eggs? 9 months before January is April and Easter is usually in April, so.........

Huia, the slightly cracked Easter Egg.

I did understand!

Dad once told me that I was an "accident', due to being on holiday in Scarborough (Yorkshire) ............ but they went on holidays in June



doesn't add up does it?



another cracked Easter Egg!

Well, Sylvia, you could have been a couple of months prem, or they might have taken an early holiday that year. Did he say?

Huia.

well I certainly wasn't prem!


who knows?!

Sorry I missed it yesteday Sylvia. Hope you had a lovely birthday. back later.

Good afternoon ladies.
I hope you enjoyed the rest of your birthday yesterday Sylvia.
It sounds like our two Easter eggs,at the other side of the world, are both suffering from extreme weather differences.
Sylvia freezing, and Huia sweating buckets.

I have still not had any replies from Marie, and I have sent e.mails and a p.m on here, but nothing in response.The p.m has not been opened.
I am wondering if all the rain has wiped out the internet signals. I know I probably sound daft, but I am clutching at straws here, hoping and praying that she is o.k.

I have to go for now, but I will be back later. Love Mo xxx

Hi Girls,

Quite a nice day here, colder but the sun is shining, so that's a bonus.

Slipped out to get a few bits and bobs this morning, and then called back to Jennie's and had a cuppa and a nice chat with them.

I've got a nice stew on cooking ready for our dinner later on, thought it would be lovely and warming.


Mo, Marie usually answers quite quickly when you send her an e mai or a pm, so it's really worrying that you haven't heard from her. I was thinking the same as you and hoping that all the rain they've had, has done something to the internet so that thay can't get any signals. Let's all hope that that's the reason why she hasn't been in touch.


Sylvia, hope you enjoyed your birthday meal out. Keep warm and take care.


Huia, did you manage to go and see Phil? I hope he was okay and that he was awake while you were there.


Ann, I hope all is okay with both you and T today.


Tess, nice to hear from you, and that you are feeling better than you've been lately.

As you say, as much as we love our children and like and enjoy their visits, it's also nice to have our own space.


I'll probably be back later.

Love Sallie.xxx

Mmmmm Chinese for dinner tonight.
Kung Po Chicken, Spare Ribs, Sweet and Sour Chicken and Rice of course.

Enjoy your Stew Sallie. I have not made a stew in ages, but I suppose thats because Roly is not keen on it, and I'm darned if I am going to make two different meals. Lazy ol me. lol

I will pop back after dinner. Love Mo xxx

Sallie, Phil was not very responsive when I visited. He was just finishing his lunch and then his eyes kept closing. I stayed for almost an hour then I came home as it was so hot.

Have you girls considered that Marie might be helping her son to clean up his house? A lot of them have mud through them. Phil and I once went to Paeroa to help after a flood which broke the sewer line. We were putting discarded furniture and other stuff on our small truck and Phil would take it to the rubbish dump. Even stoves and fridges had to be discarded as the sewage would have contaminated the insulation. What really go to me though was the books of photos, and childrens soft toys.

We were also asked to take a lot of rubbish bags full of dirty clothes to a house outside the town for the woman to wash. There is just so much involved in a clean-up.

I am sure Marie will be ok.

Huia.

Huia, sorry that Phil wasn't very responsive when you visited him. Hope you are coping with the heat alright. Although I don't like the very cold weather, I don't like it too hot either.....I'm very hard to please, at times.lol!


I hope you are right about Marie, and that she and her family are all ok.

Mo, I enjoyed the stew, just what I needed to warm me up. I hope you enjoyed your Chinese meal, too.


Caz and Joyce, if you're looking in, I hope that you are both feeling a bit better today. I'm thinking about you both, take care.


Jean, how are you today? I hope the vertigo isn't as bad as it's been. Take care.

Thinking about you all. Speak to you all soon.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Another quick visit - I see that quite a few of you (including Jean) have vertigo.

I had severe vertigo a few years ago. A physio friend of mine gave me some info about Cawthorne-Cooksey Exercises

I found this really helpful especiall the IN Bed movements.

None of the professionals I saw about the vertigo mentioned this (or any other) set of exercises.

have any of you heard of them?

PM me if you want details.

Tess

Hello everyone.
Just popped in to say hello, and to see if there was any news from Marie.

I hope you are all well.

I am cheesed off, I wanted to watch the Dancing on Ice, but im indoors is watching the Darts final, and if I go upstairs to watch it, it's cold up there, so I will have to suffer in silence.
Every time Roly drops of to sleep, I think to myself I will turn it over, and he flaming well wakes up just as I am about to do it. LOL

I hope you have all had an enjoyable day, and that you are all feeling better today.

Bye for now gilrs. Love Mo xxx

Hi Everyone,

Mo, you made me laugh telling us about trying to turn the TV channel over.

It reminded me of how my mum used to try and turn the channel over when my dad had dozed off, but like Roly, he always woke up as she was doing it. lolol!!

I was hoping that we might have heard something from Marie by now.


We've had a quiet day here, with Jennie and Michael coming for Sunday lunch as usual. After they went home Alun and I went to look at televisions, as I don't think ours is going to last much longer. Seen a couple that we liked, so now we have to decide on which one to buy.

I'll speak to you all soon. Take care everyone.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Hi all

It is lovely and sunny here ........ but it was down to 0C overnight, so pretty chilly!


The high temperature on Tuesday might be around -2C ........ not bad compared with some parts of Canada, but chilly for here!

Had a phone chat with J about 30 minutes ago....... it's snowing hard in Halifax


Sallie ... we bought a new TV aout a year ago. We're very happy with it. It's a Panasonic 30" flat screen .................. it takes up a lot less space than the old one used to do.


We had salmon steaks for dinner last night ....... from that salmon we bough back in September from the First Nations catch when we were on our way home from the cabin. We cut off several steaks and froze them. Boy, it was good!!

Tonight, it is roast lamb.


sylvia
xxx

Sylvia, it's been a nice bright day here today too and not so cold as it's been. It certainly made us feel better.

Richard, has a 37" flat screen TV, but he now wishes that he had bought a bigger one. So Alun and I have offered to buy a bigger one and we'll swap it for his. Both of us really like Richard's TV, and we can buy a 42" for less than a 37", it seems silly to pay out for another smaller TV when we can have his and he'll get a brand new 42" in place of it. He's still trying to make up his mind.lol!

We had pork and sage and onion stuffing for our Sunday lunch today.

Sylvia, I'm sure that the salmon steaks you had last were good, oh I love fresh salmon. Trouble is, Alun doesn't like it, so I don't have it very often as it means cooking two different things.....although there are times when I do, otherwise I would never have fresh salmon, except when we go out for a meal.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello girls.
Our flat screen t.v is 30''digital as well Sylvia. Theres no point in our having a larger one, as our living room is not exactly huge,and a bigger one would have made us feel like we were in a cinema. lol
Even the two portables in the bedrooms are flat screens as well.
The good thing about the new t.v's these days is you get Free View with them as well. So we get about 44 channels plus the childrens programmes,and all the news channels. We had Sky t.v before, but cancelled it as we no longer needed it.
Oh my word, little MJ will be experiencing his first sight of snow bless him.

Sallie is your area now digital as well. We had a digital aerial put on our roof, as our reception was so bad before that, hence the reason for getting a digital HD T.V
Marie has still not opened her e.mail or p.m.

It's Huia's birthday on the 11th, so please don't let me forget Sallie. You know what I am like, a proper scatter brain thats me.

No news from Ann, I hope that they are both o.k.

Hi Tess.
Yes a few of us on here do suffer fron the dreaded Vertigo. Fortunately for me, I don't get it that often, but our Jean suffers terribly with it.

I hope that Caz and Joyce are getting on the road to recovery.

Well I will say good night god bless you all.
Love and best wishes Mo xxx

Hi I am here, just been a bit busy today. although if youa sked me I couldn't tell you what with. Spent a while looking for one of Huia's ancestors with no luck, he is very elusive isn't he Huia. then I had the greaders books to organise, then I have been downstairs all evening watching TV, dancing on ice and Countryfile.

Mo, I noticed that Liz had put a thread up saying it was Huia's birthday. Don't worry we'll remember it. It's also her son's birthday that day too.

Even though we have a good size living room, if we had a bigger TV than Richard's, it would be overpowering. So, we'll wait and see what he decides to do. These young people think differently to us, personally, I think the 37" is big enough in Richard's living room, but of course it's better to say nothing.lol!!


Tess, I don't get Vertigo, thank goodness, and hope I never will. I knew a few people in the past that did, so know that it's a nasty thing to suffer from.


Jean, Ann, Caz, Joyce, Huia,and Linda, thinking about you all.

Marie, hoping that you and your family are all okay and safe.

I'll say goodnight to you all now. Speak tomorrow.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

I went walking, for over an hour, so I expect the scales to give me a lower figure tomorrow. Unless I pig out this afternoon and evening! But tomorrow is the day for doing that.

I received a letter from an Australian relative. She is arriving in NZ on the 12th for a few weeks and wondering if we can meet up somewhere. My sister would also like to meet her and suggested her place as she doesnt like coming out here with our winding roads, but then I dont like going to her place as the parking there is atrocious. I will have to wait and see if the relative will have a hire car, and what her plans are for their few weeks.

Huia.

Hi

sorry, our screen is officially 32" ...... just checked the Manual!


M bought a 60" flat screen tv about 5 years ago ......... it's bloomin' HUGE!

They only use it to watch movies on dvd, don't have it hooked up to any tv at all.

In fact, neither of the houses that they've had, have had rooms big enough for that size of tv


There is a formula to follow for the distance that the viewer must be from the screen ................................. and M&J end up sitting about half the distance away that they should.


I've only watched a movie on there once ................ J put on Calendar Girls for me. I felt as if I was watching a tennis match at Wimbledon

...... head to the right, to the left, right, left, middle, left!


PLUS, it left me with a migraine!


M suffers quite badly from migraines ............... but the tv doesn't seem to bother him!


I googled "distance from tv screen", and got the following:-

The general rule for high definition viewing is that you should not sit closer than 1.5 times the diagonal measurement of the screen. The maximum distance for best viewing quality is about 3 times the diagonal measurement. Once you get beyond the maximum limit, the visual benefits of high definition start to drop off. This means that if your HDTV has a 60 inch screen, your best viewing distance should be in the range of 7.5 feet (90 inches) to 15 feet (180 inches).

Screen Diagonal Minimum Distance Maximum Distance
30" 3' 9" 7' 6"
42" 5' 3" 10' 6"
47" 5' 10" 11' 9"
50" 6' 3" 12' 6"
55" 6' 9" 13' 8"
60" 7' 6" 15' 0"
65" 8' 2" 16'3"



The room we have our tv in could actually take a larger size, but we don't watch that much, usually just the news and some sport, so we got only the 32".

I do still notice the distortion of flat screen, even after a year ....... all the announcers have very broad shoulders!!!




sylvia
xxx