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Hi

I wear two hearing aids as you know. I also wear glasses. When I first had these glasses a year ago I found it difficult to get used to wearing the aids with them as the side arms are a bit thicker, being plastic than the ones I have had for several years, so I kept reverting to my second pair which have thin wire arms. However, I have adjusted to them now. I find it easier if I put the glasses on first and then the aids.

Sallie pm. sent xx

My lord Huia, your son was lucky not to have had a saucepan smacked around his head,frightening you like that.
I truly think I would have hit first,and asked questions afterwards. Imagine how guilty I would have felt.
You must have gone onto a really deep sleep, not to have heard the campervan tooting,or even the garage doors opening.
Has the rain stopped now.

Well, we did our children sitting last night. The girls were great, but our daughters house in on a main road, and the traffic was constant up till about 2.00a.m.
At 1.30 a.m a crowd of people walked past, talking at the top of their voices. So now I am shattered from lack of sleep.
Our house in in a little cul-de-sac, with no through traffic, so any noise is tripled to us.

I expected our son to come over today, with his fiance and grandparents, plus baby. But they had a bad night with her, up and down all night, and they overslept, and didn't wake up till 11.45. So another day without seeing little minx.
But by hook or by crook, I WILL see her tomorrow.

I hope everyone has had a good peaceful day. And that those of us who are suffering in one way or another, had a better day.

I will look in later, to see if anyone is around. Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hello all

Had quite a busy day today, decided to sort a couple of book shelves in the dining room, one has all our walking books on and we had got into the habit of collecting leaflets etc and just piling them on the top of the books. they were in a mess and I put a huge pile of leaflets that we really no longer need in the recycling. I then managed to clear a whole book shelf so took down some of my large hard backed books, mainly biographies of people like Ronnie Corbett, Terry Wogan etc and put them on the empty shelf. that left me with an empty shelf here so, by switching things around I have gained an extra shelf for my craft stuff. Still not finished reorganising but I will get there.

Hope you manage to catch up on your lost sleep tonight Mo.

Ann I bet you will soon fill that empty shelf up.lol
Is it this week they collect your recycling. They will love you,having to collect loads, but hey, it's there job to do it.
We always have at least three bags for them to take away.
We are to get new bins within a fortnight, for food scraps. At the moment we have to put any left over food, in our brown bins with the garden refuse.
I dread to think of what will happen, if we do get a hot summer, all the flies and maggots, yuk. They only collect the brown bins fortnightly, so by the time they do empty them, they begin to smell.
I am looking forward to getting into my own bed tonight Ann.

Hello Girls, it's been very quiet on here over the weekend, I hope everyone is ok.

Alun and I went up to Meadowhall, in Sheffield on Saturday, it was crowded there, although most people didn't seem to be buying much at all, I think it was a case of somewhere to go out of the house.

I bought myself a new dressing-gown and a small bag, and Alun had two new tops, I also bought a couple of Christmas pressies, while they were reduced. So that's my Christmas shopping started.lolol!!

Mo, good luck to your team for tonight, hope you win. Did you get the visitors today, that you were expecting yesterday? Hope the baby is alright.
Sending her hugs and kisses.xxxxxx

It was nice going to Richard's last week, but it was also nice to get back home to our own bed. As the saying goes, "there's no place like home", it's where we can do what we like, when we like.


Huia, you must have been sleeping very deeply when your son arrived, although at first he frightened you with his arrival, I'm sure you were pleased to see him and your daughter in law.


Ann, you were busy yesterday, at least you have a spare shelf for your craft stuff.

I badly need to re-organise my craft stuff, it's a mess at the moment, the trouble is I've bought more stash and don't know where to keep it.lol!!
Typical of me!


Jean, thanks for the pics of your craft room, it looks really lovely and very organised---I feel quite envious. Although I have a spare bedroom that I started to use as a craft room, but I didn't like being upstairs as I felt cut off from things.

Got to go now, as Jennie and Michael have just arrived , so see you later.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello Sallie and all. Hope you are all keeping well
Sallie, have you tried the craft room, at the garden centre at Little Eaton.
Having been in there today, reminded me, though I don't know if it is any good to you.
Take Care All
Julia in Derbyshire

Hello girls, Sallie used what I was going to say, but I think of us all as girls. I have had a crazy day, well it was this morning, Joyce rang then my cleaners turned up as I was talking to her, then the nurse came to do my blood test while cleaners were vacuuming the room, I am used to doing things very slowly. Sallie my craft stuff is all over the place, I also got some more stuff at the weekend and it is still in the bag, the trouble is it is so easy to just put it in the nearest drawer when it's put away. I will have to have a good sort out but I have been doing a card since I got up this afternoon, well I have the topper done anyway. Jeans craft room is lovely isn't it, I only have the bedroom and the living room, I have no room in the bedroom to do anything so use my foldup table, but I manage.
Ann I keep sorting books out and sending them to the quiet room but my shelves never look any emptier and I haven't bought any books for ages.
Hubby's home now so better go, good luck tonight Mo.
Hello to everyone else, I just can't keep names in my head.

Love Caz xx

Hello girls.
Oooh Sallie you are good, starting your Christmas shopping whilst the sales are on. Just dont foget where you put them will you.
We had to do the visiting ourselves Sallie. S.'s nan+gramps,came to our
sons house to meet us.
Baby slept all through our vist, just shows how exciting we are doesn't it.lol
But my word she has grown in the last few days, she seems to be getting longer by the minute. So all cuddles and kisses will have to wait till I see her again.

Good grief Caz, you certainly had a busy morning. But it's always the same, you will see everyone one day, and then go days without someone popping in to see you.
Well done on starting making a card today. I bet it would take me days on end to even think where to begin one.

Thank you for the good wishes for tonight. I would cross my fingers for myself, but if I did that I wouldn't be able to throw a dart.
I will let you know how I get on tomorrow.

I hope everyone is o.k, and coping with any problems they may have.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Sallie, I was more surprised than scared when I saw 'the man' in the passage.

Mo, I would have had to pass him to get at the saucepans.

Caz, I dont so much forget the names of everybody but I forget who has said what.

I do not intend to start on the card-making that so many of you are doing. I have enough 'junk' without having a lot of craft stuff as well. I have been printing off transcripts of censuses, just saving the actual image to my computer. That is quite enough 'stuff' for me to try to sort. I have also been scanning all our old b & w negs onto my computer. I think I have done most of the ones that came from my parents and grandparents. When I have finished the b & w negs I will do all of our colour ones. I think I will need a bigger external hard drive soon.

Better go, the new man who is going to mow my lawns might be trying to phone to see if I will be home today, as it is not raining now.

Love, Huia.

Hi everyone

well, we've ahd a good start to the week ..... NOT

OH went to open the back door this morning, and the snow shovel fell in!

The door opens into the carport, and next to it is a space under the study

The recycle box was also moved from its place under the study.

AND that the portable generator we store under the study had gone walkabout.


It's quite a large generator, on wheels, that we use up at the cabin but bring down here for the winter. It had been covered with cardboard, and was tucked away ................. so someone had to have come into the carport to really see it.

It cost us about $1500 (ca £700 or so) 5 years ago.


It has been reported it to the police, and we have a case number, but they can't do anymore until we have the details ........ and we can't find the manual with model number, etc.

Because we have a case number, he has been able to report it to the insurance, and we're now waiting for an adjustor to phone.


The snow shovel being leaned against the back door means that the theft happened after about 6:30pm Sunday evening, because that is when OH came home from rehearsal, and came in through that door.



sylvia
xxx

Hi again,

Sylvia, I'm so sorry to hear that your portable generator has been stolen, I wonder how someone knew it was there as it was well hidden. Goodness knows how much a new is going to cost you, with prices the way they are now.

Apart from that, I hope that everything is alright with you and OH.


Caz, good to know that you have started making card s this afternoon, I really need to get on with some myself now.

I've had to buy a new cutter/trimmer, as my old was no good, I think I made so many cards up to Christmas that the blades became blunt. We've tried getting new blades, but can't get them, so we made sure when we bought the new one that we could also buy spare blades.

Also had to buy a couple of new punches, as the Martha Stewart one I had would no longer work. I buy a lot of my craft stuff in the craft shops in Derby....Kate the owner of one of them told me that I should have taken it back to where I bought it ( Hobbycraft ) as it should not have broken because of the long guarantee they have, and I should have been given a new one.
She then went on to say that some of them she had bought were faulty, and so had customers bringing them back...apparently there was a batch of them that were faulty, so I'm wondering if maybe the one I had was one from that batch. I know that they were the same design as I had.


Huia, hope the new man got in touch with you about cutting your lawns and that he is able to do them for you.

Good luck with sorting and scanning all your B&W photos and neg. It's good that you are able to do it, I wouldn't have a clue where to start, I'm afraid that Alun has to do all that in this house.


Joyce, hope that things are a bit better with you, and that the cramp is not so bad that you can get some sleep.
Also hope that all is well with Jan and his family.


Julia, nice to hear from you. I've never been to the garden centre at Little Eaton, but it would be worth going there one day. Did you notice if they had a good choice of craft stuff there?
I read on your thread that you are starting to knit a chunky long cardigan for yourself. What colour wool did you decide on in the end? Enjoy making and wearing it. At least with your hobby, the place stays tidy, not like us card makers and scrapbookers. lolol!! Still, we all love making them.


Marie and Tess hope that all is well with you and your families.


Oh! nearly forgot, I go for my hearing test on the 9th February, at the clinic at our surgery, so that makes it easier.


Well, I'm going to have a cuppa, so I'll say bye for now.


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxxx

Mo hope the darts went well tonight. All our recycling is put into our large blue recycling wheelie bin, Our garden waste in the brown wheelie bin and the food waste into a small green caddy bin. All other waste whuich amouts to about 4 small carrier bags a fortnight goe into the large green wheelie bin. All the bins are collected fortnightly except the food caddies which are collected weekly. We have a very small caddy to keep in the kitchen and a larger one to put the food in for collection. We have had this system for a year and had no problems last summer at all.

Caz, well done on gettin a card under way, I know how much effort it takes for you.

Huia well done on all that scanning, it is time consuming isn't it?
Good job I looked at the census images as wella s the transcriptions. I was sorting one of my lines today and checked a census transcription, in the file from before I had access to Ancestry and the censuses. The youngest sister of my Grandfather was transcribed as Albe I couldn't have looked closely at that before as I immediately knew it wasn't right. When I looked at the image it is a badly written 'Alice'.

Sallie it seems that no matter how much space I have, no matter how much I reorganise my craft stuff, it is never where I want it when I want it. I suppose that comes of having the three hobbies, craft, Family history and photography, all with lots of bits and pieces connected to them.

Have you tried sharpening the blade of you trimmer by cutting foil? I haven't actually tried it but it is what the craft magazines always suggest.

Morning Sallie and all
I'd always thought you had been to Little Eaton. Ooops my mistake. You know how to get to it, don't you.
I'm afraid that, not being into the same hobby of you good ladies, I can't advise if the craft room is good or otherwise, but it always appears to be well stocked, and busy.
If you follow the aisles through the garden centre, you come to the outside area. The craft room is beyond this area, at the back, next to where they are selling the large terracotta pots. Alas they do not sell knitting wool, so nothing for me, but i do like to have a look.
But they do have nice coffee, and the dinners look as if they are to die for. Unfortunately, we go at the wrong time to have a large dinner, but it does make a nice drive out to visit.
I decided in the end to go for a very pale cafe au lait colour. Very neutral, so that I can wear other colours to it, instead of the same old thing. And, I do not know about my hobby being tidy. I have always got bags of wool everywhere.
Take Care
Julia in Derbyshire

Julia, that craft place sounds intriguing, I wish our garden centres had the same thing, none of our here do craft. The enarest to that is when we visit our daughter and H******aft is next door to one of the large garden centres there.

Sallie it does sound like a place you should visit.

Morning AnninGlos, are we ever satisfied.?? I would love to visit a H*****craft, but my nearest is the other side of Nottingham, as opposed to in the city shopping centre. H,ha,ha,, and about 15 miles or so from here.
But the garden centre where the craft room is, sells many and diverse things, so if the craft section is not as good as liked, at least there are other things to catch the eye, and the purse.
Take Care
Julia in Derbyshire

Julia, thanks for letting me know about the garden centre, it sounds just the kind of place I like to visit, especially with it having a coffee shop, too.
It's a shame they don't sell knitting wool too.
My friend and her husband sometimes go to that garden centre, although I don't think they've had a meal there, just a snack.

Did you manage to start knitting your cardigan last night? The colour wool sounds nice, it's a good idea to buy a neutral colour so that it will go with other colours.


Ann, it is good when the garden centres sell craft stuff, although unfortunately, not all of them do. It would be lovely if they did.

I know what you mean about the craft stuff never being where you want it, when you want it. Jean's craft room looks so tidy, with everything to hand....I can't imagine my craft stuff ever being like that.LOL!!

Mo, how did you get on last night? I hope your team won.

I need to go up to town, but I have to wait for a parcel to be delivered (more craft stuff) either today or tomorrow, so far it hasn't arrived, so it looks as though I'm stuck here at the moment.


Sylvia, have you heard anymore from the police about your stolen generator? It makes me so mad when these people think they have the right to go on to other peoples property and can take whatever they want, never even thinking about the fact that others have worked and saved to buy the things that they steal.


I'll "see" you all later on today. Take care everyone!

Love, Sallie.xxx

LOL.... Sallie the pics were just as the craft room was finished so it was clutter free, I hasten to add its not always like that....but have to say it is a lot easier to tidy away...I love it....

Sylvia, I was sorry to read about your burglary. someone must have had their eye on it for some time I think... hope your insurance pays up...

Marie thank you so much for the lovely e-mail I have it saved and will pass it on, it is a very good...

Mo, did you win.... I need the money, overspent as usual.well never mind how are both, ? poor Jeff has had a very bad cold and cough, cant remember last time he had such a horrible cough....

Ann, how is your back, I hope it is easier, its one of the worse things to have.
at the moment the vertigo is being good, wish I could say the same about the legs...lol...we have just booked a week in Llandudno, 19th of Feb, nice change of scenery its a bit early but its a place for all seasons, so we never worry about when we go, usually quite mild and we have places were we can sit in the car if needs be and watch the sea and read ....perfick....and it also means we can get a few more later hols too....

I hope everyone else is o,k, love to you all...

Jean xxxx

Hello my lovelies.
Before I go any further, I must tell Jean to get round to the bookies, to pick up her winnings, so that she can go out and buy more crafting bits.
We won Jean, 4-2 and 3-0, this will probably not last, but happiness reigns at the moment.
Poor Jeff, with his nasty old cough and cold. I hope you are dosing him up with cough linctus and paracetamol, to try to get rid of it. And NO snogging him while he's like it, you don't want to share it with him.

Sallie, doesn't it cheese you of ,when they say that you will have a delivery
slot between such and such a time, but to say it may be today or tomorrow,
beggars belief.
I am pleased that you have got your hearing test through so quickly. When you get your new aids, you will have to tell Alun to stop shouting, that you can hear him clearly without him having to do so. lol

Ann I hope they bring our Green Caddie bins soon. I didn't realise that they collect them every week. Lets just hope they will do the same in this area, as they do in yours.

Julia, you and Sallie are making me envious, talking about the lovely garden centers you have local to you.
The only decent one near to us, is about a thirty minute drive from us, so consequently we don't get there very often.

Oh my word Sylvia, nothing is sacred these days.
Was the generator very heavy.? They must have had transport to have carried it away with them.
Had they broken into the garage, or was it left unlocked.?
I bet your OH is kicking himself now, thinking to himself did I lock the door
or not.
I do hope the insurance company get their backsides into gear and get your claim sorted out as soon as possible.

Huia you would never have the time to do the crafting, you are such a little busy lizzie.
What happened to the other guy that used to do your grass cutting. Has he gone into retirement, or just given the jobs up.
I had to laugh at what you said ,about having to have to get past any intruder to get the saucepan to hit them over the head.
It might be an idea to keep a saucepan next to your bed, for emergencies
only I might add.

I hope Caz and Joyce,are having a pain free day for a change. Lord that is what we would like for them both. So that they can have time to do what they want, without suffering so much.

I hope our Marie, is having better times,and that the dreaded rain, has gone and given them all time to get their lives back to some sort of normality. Thinking of you and the family Marie.

I hope I haven't forgotten any of our friends. If I have please forgive me.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hello All, this has to be quick,as it is after midnight.
Yes. the rain has stopped and it is very hot . I have been doing my gardening in the early morning then I go inside and cool off ,then about 6 pm at night I am out weeding and then waterin.
I went to gym this morning we had a good work out. i am up late as I have been doing my fathers side of the familyI got a new family tree programme, it was free to download and hopefully it will hold the Zackeresen family tree.
SALLI & JEAN YOU CAN COME OVER ANYTIME AND ORGANIZE MY family papers I have a nice filing Cabinet butnot sure how to organize the papers, so it israther a mess.
I must go,

Love to you all.
Marie, from down under.