General Chat

Huia

That would be fun.

I do hope that you can arrange to meet up.



sylvia
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When New Zealand finally goes to the digital TV next year, I think, I wont bother to get a new TV. I dont watch much anyway, so I will just watch old video recordings I have made or bought in the past, if they are still any good, otherwise I will have more time to play on here or go walking.

Huia.

Hello girls.
Good news, Marie has sent me a p.m. She is fine,and has been very busy doing her garden.
She was quite concerned,as she had not seen or heard from her sister, but then saw her on the ABC news, sat next to the Prime Minister in a location in Rockhampton.So she was at least safe.
Her brother has fortunately not been flooded, but many homes have been.
Wahoo what a relief. Many thanks Marie for letting us know.

Huia, it would be wonderful if you could meet up with your relation, when she comes over to NZ.

Sylvia, thanks for the info on the distances from the T.V screens.
It's surprising how close some people are to their sets.
I think we are far enough away, thank the lord. It's the volume that gets me. Roly will not go and get his hearing tested, and has the sound up so high, so I am glad that I am far enough away from the set for it not to bother me to much. But lor when I have to walk past the set, it blasts the eardrums out.

Ann, it's surprising sometimes, just how the days fly by, and yet another day will drag.
When you have loads to do, there are not enough hours in a day.

We have a beautiful sunny, but chilly day here. It's so nice to see a little bit of sunshine.

Love to all Mo xxx

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A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR HUIA, HAVE A LOVELY DAY.
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I have written this up early for us U.K residents,as by the time Huia arrives back on here, it will be her birthday, because of the time difference.

Enjoy your birthday Huia. Love Mo xxx

Mo, thank goodness you've heard from Marie and that she is alright. It's also nice to know that both her sister, brother aand their families are safe.

Sylvia, thank you for the information on the distance we need to sit from or TV.....I knew it should be a certain distance away, but didn't know exactly how far away.

I can imagine how you felt when you were watching Calendar Girls on J and M's 60" TV, it's a wonder you didn't feel sick moving your head from left to right a lot of the time.lolol!!



Huia, lets hope that you and your sister can come to some kind of agreement so that you can both meet up with your relation while she's in NZ.

Like NZ, our part of the East Midlads doen't go digital until early next year, although I think there maybe a few towns around us that already have, but I know we have to wait. I also think that we will be one of the last ares to go digital in the UK.



Ann, I know what you mean when you said that you had been busy all day ... but with what?

I must go now, so I'll speak to you all later on.


Love to everyone. Sallie.xxx

Went into town this morning with yet more books for the charity shops. Still more to take in, we had 3 boxes full in the loft from when we used to do boot sales so thought we ought to get rid of them. Will take more on Wednesday. very cold wind here today so everyone looked pinched in town. Iw as pleased as our M&S had a good sale on and I got a pair of trousers and a tope for £8 the two.


Huia. Have a wonderful birthday, spoil yourself.

Lucky you Ann, I hope our M&S have a sale like that. Has it only just started do you know.?
When you donate your books to the charity shop, do you gift aid them.
I do at my local SENSE shop, and they write to me twice a year to let me know how much profit they have made on my donations.
It gives me a lovely warm feeling when I get that letter.
It's such a shame that the charities don't get the whole monies given to them, but by gift aiding things they get a bigger chunk of it.

Sallie I can't tell you how relieved I was, to hear from Marie.
It's the same with all our cyber friends on here, if we don't hear from someone for a while, as has been said before, we do tend to worry.
With Jean,Caz and Joyce,we know that they all suffer with different ailments, and that they will pop in when they can.
Oooh ((((((((((HUGS FOR THEM ALL)))))))))))))

If you don't hear from me again tonight, you will know the reason why Sallie, it's darts tonight. It's team that I really like, they are such a friendly
bunch.
I will let you know how we get on tomorrow.
Bye for now. Love to all. Mo xxx

Good luck tonight Mo.

I gift aid one of them, the others haven't asked when I take in books, and it is usually one of the volunteers who takes them so not sure if they'd know about it. Never had a letter from the one I gift aid with though.

Good luck for tonight, Mo. I hope your team will win.

Ann, sounds like you had a bargain in M&S today, I'll have to see what they have at their Derby store.


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Huia, Wishing you a Very Happy Birthday.

Hope you'll have a lovely day. I'll be thinking about you.

Also sending Happy Birthday Wishes to your son.

Love and Best Wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hello girls I'm back, did you miss me, lol. I had a bit of a stumble when knocking on the door woke me up, I fell into my folded up wheelchair in the passage and it wasn't very nice. I hurt my other hip so it was difficult to sit down for a while. I've been reading the past messages but forgotten what I've read there was so many. I'm so pleased Marie is alright, after reading you were all worried about her. I was interested in the TV and how far to sit away from it, we have just got a 32" as we have a small room and I was worried I sit too close, as it happens I'm ok, thanks Sylvia.
Sally I still haven't got round to doing any cards because of my stumble, I was only comfortable lying flat so I laid on the bed reading or laid nearly flat in my recliner, lovely.
I hope you win your darts match tonight Mo but whether or not you will enjoy it by the sound of it.

Love Caz xx

Hi there Caz.
For goodness sake honey, will you take care of yourself.
Of course we missed you,and your happy smiley face. I think we will have to send you the foam rubber padding we threatened to send to Ann, when she had her falls.
You just have to wrap your whole body in it, and if you fall, you bounce back up again, see, no problems.
Now you take it easy, and if someone knocks on the door, ignore it, they can come back when your hubby is home.
Yes I shall enjoy myself tonight,(fingers crossed) great company,and a good laugh, wether we win or lose it doesn't bother me with this team.
Speak to you tomorrow. Love Mo xxx

Hi everyone

It is interesting to see those distances from tvs, isn't it. Glad I could help you.

Lovely to hear that Marie is OK, just busy.

Caz ... so sorry to hear that you hurt your other hip, but pleased to ehar you are feeling better



It is cold here this morning ....... it's below 0C outside

AND

the heating in the main part of the hosue seems to be on a go slow.

It's blown air from a gas furnace. OH turned the thermostat up to about 20C at about 7:30am this morning, and now it is 11 am but the room temperature is only just over 16C

It should be registering about 21 or 22C


The room where I have the computer is on a separate system ...... it has its own electric baseboard heater, plus I have a little box electric heater that blows out warm air. So I am nice and cozy in here.


OH said he'll have a look at the furnace and vents when he gets home mid-afternoon ... although I hope it will have wamred up by then!


Warm sweaters to the rescue!!!!



sylvia

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUIA
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I hope you have a lovely day


sylvia
xxx

Good luck Mo!

Caz, pleased that you are feeling better, and of course we missed you, but we understand there are times you can't post. It's lovely to have you back!
As Mo suggested.I think that we'll have to send you that foam so that if you fall, at least you'll bounce back and won't hurt yourself.


Sylvia, we are having problems with our heating too.....the upstairs is lovely and warm as the radiators get nice and hot, but only some of them get hot downstairs, so it isn't always warm enough, so have to use an electric heater so that it's warm enough. We are going to have get someone to have a look at it, and hope that it won't cost us an arm and a leg.


Love and best wishes to you all. Sallie.xxx

Thank you everybody for your birthday wishes. I really dont feel any older than I did yesterday.

Huia.

I have just measured our TV screen. It is about 20" diagonally. I sit 10 or 12 ft away from it. I used to be able to read the labels that appeared on the screen, but not now. Maybe I need new glasses.

Like Roly, I used to have the sound turned well up, to Phil's annoyance. He has supersensitive hearing, rather like Superman. When I got hearing aids I didnt need it turned up so loudly. Now that I am on my own I dont bother with the hearing aids as the batteries kept dying, but turn the sound up a lot. There are advantages to being a virtual widow.

Huia.

Have lovely Birthday Huia, sent you e-mail

love Jean xxx

Whoops meant to say hi to everyone,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ xxxxx Jean xxxx