General Chat

Yes, have been watching (or trying towatch) Midsomer Murders. Son came home early, so a bit difficult trying to watch the end.
Have also been trying to jot a few notes down for my (overdue) book report, nausea seems to take over as soon as I put pen to paper (Sorry Ann, I will ger round to it, promise).


One of my local charity books sells three paperbacks for £1 so I tend to get a lot of books from there (when I am fit enough to get to the shop).

I hope that your snow clears soon, Sylvia.
It was interesting to read that some people you meet on the train were members of GR I hope that you encouraged them to join the Community Boards on GR.

Hope that you are all well, or at least feeling a little better,

Tess

No hurry Tess, when you can mange is fine.

Will be back later, off to have coffee with friends.

Just quick hello just had abit of bad news my old school friend of 56yrs text me her brother has died in his sleep but was prone to heart attacks,and als Jans niece ILonka has had quite afew falls and the leg she had the op on has started to bleed and they have take xrays to see if she has broken anything in the leg ,not sure if its the one she had the op on or the other one will let you all no when we hear,and got phone call yesterday morning 6.30 of Jans mum shes not well thought this year was going to be abit better,lets hope things change
Wishing you all well and stay safe
Love Dutchx

Joyce, I am so sorry to hear your sad news. But such a peaceful way for him to go, but so sad for the family to find him gone.
Poor llonka does not seem to be having much luck bless her. God willing she wont have broken a bone.
It must be so hard to adjust to not having her leg there. Two people I know have had part amputations on their legs,and still get pains from the parts of the leg that are gone.
I hope you are a bit better today love.

Tess, don't you just hate it, when a programme you are watching is interupted.(sp)
My daughter decided to ring me while "Midsomer "was on last night, I had to try to make the conversation as short as possible, without being rude to her.
I want to watch the new three parter that is coming on tonight, "Kidnap and Ransom"at 9.00 p.m, Trevor Eve is starring in it,and it looks quite interesting.

Ann, I have never heard of the charity shops you mentioned Clic and CRUK.
Are they just a locally based charity,or nation wide. Forgive my ignorance.

Love to all. Mo xxx

Clic is lieukaemia in children and Cruk is Cancer Research UK. The latter we have raised mother for on Genes in the past. Clic is not a local charity I'm sure. It was I believe started by Sit Malcolm Sergeant.

Thanks for the explanation Ann. We as a family used to raise funds for leukaemia research locally. When our children were younger they went up to Geat Ormand street hospital, to visit a lot of children under going chemo.
Many many times,a fun day was arranged and it would chuck it down with rain, but the whole family would go,and we had some wonderful times with families whose children were suffering.
Such a good cause, but there are no charity shop here for them, and that is a pity.
We do support the Deaf Blind charity, the Cerebal Palsy charity and also the Air Ambulance.

Today I went by bus to Auckland to meet a 3rd cousin from Australia, and her OH. One of my 2nd cousins also met us there. We had a very nice lunch in a cafe on the waterfront and talked lots of family history. The bus journey there was very long, and I had a bit of a walk to their hotel and a blister on my big toe started to play up again. When I got home I found that the plaster I had put on it to protect it had got one end wrinkled into a lump just where the blister was, so no wonder it was sore. The bus journey back to Papakura was extremely hot and tiring. If I dont sleep tonight I will want to know the reason why.

Huia.

Good morning all
A very damp grey day here this morning. OH has however toddled off to golf. This afternoon I have to remember to collect prescriptions, go to the optician for an eye check and we also have an appointment to update our wills, last done about 25 years ago. Other than that the morning is free. I am trying to sort my FH paperwork, managed to condense three medium 2 ring binders into one larger one so far. Only another 8 medium ring binders to sort. It is all the bits of paper that I kept 'in case' that were taking up space. That and copies of IGI marriages, births etc which I have now put onto a spread sheet. I do need to make space in this room of mine somehow. And it has become more urgent with the need soon to clear the room to lay a new carpet. This one having been worn out by my wheely desk chair rolling around on it. It was a cheap carpet, we need to get a hard wearing cord one in here now.

Hope you had a good sleep Huia. I am sure that it was lovely for you a;ll to meet up though, even if you did have a blister as a reward.

Mo, we have loads of charity shops to choose between here.but I don't think there is a local one. The charity for which I am a trustee used to have a shop but it was out of town. We had to close it because it was losing money.

Hello all, just a very short post.,
Dear dutch sorry to hear Ilona has hurt her leg I hope she will be ok.
I am very tired I do think my body is getting old, it took me some time to get to sleep last night, so I must get to bed soon.

I planted some more carrotts to-day my pumpkins are doing well and I blanched some beans and put them in the freezer for winter.
Our woes continue with the dreadful flooding.
The water is still receding very slowly in Rockhampton, Brisbane waters have dropped considerably,unfortunately they are still finding bodies in the debrie out near Toowoomba, so sad.

Goodnight to you all Love Marie

Sorry to be so late tonight girls.
We have spent most of the evening helping our grandaughter to move.
Just a little left to move tomorrow now, thank goodness.

Huia, how nice for you to have the meet up with your Ozzie rellies. A long journey, but oh so worth the trouble no doubt.

It sounds like you have had such a busy day today. Did you manage to sort everything out.

Marie, it's so good to hear from you love.
You can't be getting old, or you would fall asleep at the drop of a hat. I hope you had a better nights sleep last night.
I can't imagine how it will effect the poor rescue services, who find the bodies of those lost in the floods.
I hope and pray that the rain stays away,and allows people to get back to some form of normality.
Take care Marie,stay safe.

Night Night god bless you all. Love Mo xxx

Hello all ,
A very short post as I am still very tired we had rain last night and one of my BottleBrushes outside my back door split with the weight of the rain, so later in the afternoon I cut it down ,to-morrow I will start the job of trying to get it out. I wont replace it , I will use the spot for more veggies.

I hope you are all well, Love to you all
Marie

Oh what a shame about the Bottle Brush Plant Marie. Mine seems to still be thriving, despite all the snow we had.
That rain must have been very heavy, to have split it like that.
You are being so good, planting all your veggies like you have.
It's a good job you got your beans in before you had the deluge.

We are both exhausted now, we have finished moving our grandaughter.
It's up to her to unpack it all now.

Guess who's going out tonight, yes me. We have been invited to a friends 50th birthday celebrations.
Oh to be 50 again. They are having a disco, just shows I am getting old I don't know if I will be dancing though, or even staying to the end.
I much prefer live music, rather than disco's.
See I am an old fashioned girl at heart,and would rather be waltzing round the floor.
I will let you know how it goes tomorrow.

It has been blowing a gale here again today, but at least it has been dry, and thats a bonus.

Well girls, I hope you are all o.k, I must go and get my bath soon, as we are being picked up at 7.45.
Bye for now, Love Mo xxx

that is a shame about your bottle brush Marie. But vegetable will probably be more use if not so pretty.

Mo, I hope you enjoyed your evening out. Bet you threw inhibitions to the winds and were soon dancing the night away. Trouble with discos is that theya re sooo loud, it is impossible to have a reasonable conversation.

Hello girls.
Good news for a change,thank the lord. My new baby grandaughter Lily,
was born at 2.45 this afternoon. She weighs in at 7lb 6 oz, mum and baby are both well.
One very proud father, my son, was keeping me updated all the way through. Anyone would think that this was his first child. lol

Ann, I don't know about the disco being loud last night, we could hardly hear it at all from where we were sitting. In fact you could only just about hear it on the dance floor.
We were not late in coming home,we got home here by 11.00p.m.
I don't know about throwing my inhibitions to the wind Ann, most people were sat all night, and just a few mad so and so's got up to dance.
I thought at one point that they had put glue onto the seats,and that was why no one got up.lol

Well girls, that my bit of good news, so I will mow love you and leave you.
Love to all. Mo xxx

Congratulations Mo on the arrival of your grandaughter, a good weight, welcome little Lily.

Mo and Roly, congratulations on the birth of your new granddaughter Lily.
Good to know that mum and baby are both well.

I hope that you're all okay. Caz and Joyce I hope that both of you are in less pain.

I won't be on here until Wednesday, Alun is on holiday for three days so we are going down to Richard's for a couple of days. Speak to you all on Wednesday.

Take care everyone.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Have a lovely break Sallie, 'see' you when you get back.

Mo

Congratulations on the new baby .... and to the parents of course, who did all the work!


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Have a lovely break, Sallie. Hope the weather is good for you

Hi all

well, we had an interesting evening yesterday!

all set for a peaceful time on the computer, and OH on his computer downstairs, when the power suddenly went out at about 7:45 pm and we were in almost pitch blackness ........... which meant the street lights had also gone out.

Found the torch (I have one in almost every room), then found the candles, and lit a few, while OH phoned the electricity hot line

hmmmmmmmmm

"we know there is an outage in your area. Power should be resumed by 11 pm Monday January 17"

hmmmmmmmmmm

OH went for a walk to see how many people were affected ......... a rectangular block of something like 50 houses.

I lit more candles

found my book headlight (great for travelling!), and we settled down to reading by candlelight

also made some plans for how to get hot water for tea ........ camp stove or visiting the local Starbucks

power came back on about 8:50 pm


.............. and we then had to spend nearly an hour setting all the clocks, microwaves, answer machines, tv, etc etc etc



at least the computer didn't need re-setting!



Take care everyone




sylvia
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