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Hello Ladys,just pop on to say im feeling much better feet have gone down still painful to walk but i,ll get there,Jean hope all went well did email you i have my vertigo back but have had it for over 10yrs just seems it comes back more often than before,thank you for all your thoughts and special to my pal Caz im going to put up on general for Sheffield meet as by then my G,Grandson will be born so thought might have meet while im over sending best wishes to ,jean,Caz,Sallie Mo Maria,Sylvia,Huia LizP and anyone else i may have forgot may not be round on the 27 april as there is inquest on my daughters death and im not looking forward to hearing what they have found ,so take care all have nice weekend ,im bann for the time being of my scooter as jan said i have to learn to drive it probley,sorry Bridget nearly forgot you have nice weekend Love Dutchxx

Good afternoon girls.
I have had heard from our Jean.
She has problems trying to post on this site, and has asked me to let you all know that the scan went well. It took about 15 minuted for the scan, and they got home pretty quickly.
Jean has now got to wait 10-14 days for her results.
But most of all, Jean would like to thank you all for your good wishes for today.

It's good to hear from you Joyce. I am so pleased that your feet have started to go down, making it more comfortable for you to stand.
I wish someone would have a meet in Lancashire, at around the 22nd of October, as thats when we intend to travel up to Blackpool. And I want to meet our Jean, and lots of our friends on this thread.
Joyce is there an empty car park near you, that you could practise riding your scooter.

I will be back later girls, just wanted to pass jeans message onto you all.
Love Mo xxx

I tried to put a message on this thread this morning but it wasn't having any, said I can't use slants or curly brackets, weird. Lovely to see you on here Joyce, you will have to come on more often now your feet are a bit better, look forward to talking to you tomorrow.
Thank you all for your concern for me with the chemo and fibro myalgia, I've never been like this with all the other lots of chemo I had, and they are the same tablets as always. Yes Mo as you say the fibro myalgia is very painful, they gave me morphine for it but it doesn't seem to be working quite as well just now. My hands are like yours with arthritis, very hard to use them when it's cold, the knees are the same.
Hello to everyone else on here.

Love Caz xx

Hello all, pleased to hear that the scan went OK Jean. Caz, I wonder if it a build up of chemo causing the problem, maybe some gets left in your system, strange though isn't it? Joyce I am pleased to hear that your feet are better. Where can you practice with your scooter?

A cold is just what you want when on holiday isn't it? No, it isn't and I have a lovely one a reall heavy sneezy running nose one. Must be a foreign bug as there are hardly any people here from UK and the Spanish men in particular or maybe \tererifian men, are noy as hygenic as we are taught to be with sneezing, either sneezing/wiping nose with hand or sneezing straight out into the air, no hankies in sight. I had one sneeze straight at me a few days back so that is no doubt where this one came from. Still, hopefully it will soon go and fingers crossed it doesn't develop into a cough. I have not had a head cold for over a year.

Hi Ann I had thought that myself, that it is a build up of chemo in my system. My chiropodist says she can see the effects of it in my toes for months after, they are starting to look a purplish colour and they have always taken me off the tablets when it has happened before. I will wait with baited breath for the next blood test.
I hope your cold doesn't last long, it's just not what you want on holiday, the first time my children had a cold they were told to use their hankerchief to catch coughs and sneezes. Seemingly other countries don't.
Enjoy the rest of your holiday.

Love Caz xx

Hi all. I hope you are all ok, especially Caz with her chemo and Ann with her cold, but not forgetting everybody else with their problems.

Nobody posted on here yesterday so I hope when you all get out of bed in however many hours you will be back on here. I have spent about an hour cleaning leaves and dirt out of the ditch that runs down beside our drive, plus some small channels that run diagonally across the drive to catch and divert any water that is running down the drive itself. I hope all that sweating helps me lose the weight I put on from eating crumpets with butter on. Why do I get tempted by these things in the supermarket? 500 grams I put on. That is a whole 'metric pound' of butter. Actually a bit over the old pound.

When I visited Phil on Friday he sneezed about 3 times, then the woman next to him (a cute little chinese woman) sneezed a couple of times. Last night I sneezed about 20 times. I hope I havent caught something from them. I can do without such things.

Huia.

Morning all
Nice today in West Berkshire, west of London. Sun is shining and it's still dry.

Busy times at present, birthday yesterday so out for a meal with my family in the evening.

Friends have just arrived in London from Australia, just waiting til they settle til they sort out when they would like to come. They usually spend some time with us. Have been writing to each other for nearly 50 years, so know each other well.

Hope you keep clear of any bugs Huia. Maybe somebody sent some pollen your way and it's hayfever. !! Hope Phil keeps well through your winter months too.

Well off to try and get some painting done, just incase our friends decide to come sooner rather than later

Linda :o) XxX

PS Have a good day everyone

Hi to you all, just popped in to read the posts, cant stay long.
Joyce it is good to hear your feet are much better.
Jean I hope your results are good.
Mo the party went very well I am told , they all look very tired, I slept or tried to sleep at Barbaras but Emily had the croup and woke many times. I slept in Emilys Bed and she slept in with her mother.
Abigail was in the same room with me and she talks in her sleep and she was full on last night at one stage laughing out loud, so you can guess I am rather tired.
Well I didn't win lotto as I didn't get into town to get a ticket.

It is so frustrating when people sneeze and dont put their hand over their mouths, perhaps that is why so many Japanese where masks.
The girles Emily & Abigail are off to Brisbane to-morrow to visit their father for a week..
Hi Sallie, Huia, and Caz, sorry if i have missed anyone .
Love and hugs
Marie

Good morning one and all.
And a beautiful one it is at that. The sun is shining, the skies are blue, with not a cloud in sight.

Hello there Linda.
It's good to hear from you love.
I am so pleased you had a good birthday, and had a nice meal with the family. Was your OH well enough to attend, as I know he was not to good earlier in the day.
What on earth are you painting now.
I'll tell you what girls, Linda made me feel so guilty with all the painting she had done in her garden, that I felt compelled to start ours.
Don't laugh Linda, but I am still waiting for Roly to buy the two new fence panels we need. I suppose one day a miracle will happen, and they will turn up when I least expect them to. Knowing my luck it will be the onset of winter by then.

Huia, I hope you didn't do your back in doing all that clearing of the ditches.
Oooh crumpets lovely, don't worry about the calories, you enjoyed them and thats all that matters. You probably burnt the calories off afterwards anyway. But a whole pound of butter is a bit extreme love, next time scrape it on thinner, even though they wont taste as good. LOL
I hope you was wearing your mask when you were typing out your message, I have just had to wipe my keyboard down, yuk, I don't know what it was, but it was pretty sn...... looking.
The problem with people living in such a close environment, as Phil is doing, they all seem to catch the same germs. It's unavoidable, especially if they don't cover there mouth's when they sneeze.
Oooh I meant to ask you, any more signs of the dreaded beasties.
Take care my love.

Marie, I bet there were a few sore heads after the party. But I am pleased it went well.
Poor little Emily, croup is so debilatating for young children. It reminds me so much of Whooping cough, when you think the child is never going to get their breath back.
My sons both suffered with it, when they were very young. We had to have wet washing hanging around, to put moisture into the air, to help their breathing, during the coughing bouts.
You weren't the only one not to have won the lotto, we didn't either. If we choose low numbers, all the high ones come out, if we choose high numbers the low ones appear. Can't seem to hit it right at any time.
I hope you get a good nights sleep tonight, well you will no doubt be asleep right now as it's 10.30 a.m at the moment.

Ann, I hope your cold doesn't develope into anything nasty, you don't need that whilst you are on holiday.
Just make sure you leave the germs behind when you eventually do come home love.

I am hoping to see baby Lilly today, as she and her mummy and daddy have just returned from their holiday in Scotland. Oooh I have missed her.

I will say cheerio for now girls, take care.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hi all
xx


Well, WE did win on the lottery on Friday!



$16 ....... or about £6 or so !!!



We had a lovely meal out on Friday ... we went to our favourite, but expensive, restaurant.. Partly to celebrate finishing the kitchen (although the painting is still not completely finished), and partly to celebrate that lottery win we had several weeks ago.

The restaurant was quite empty ................... they had had a lot o cancellations of previously made reservations. Our national game is Ice Hockey. The season finished last Sunday, and we are now into the post-season championship games ........ 5 rounds each of 7 games, best of 7 wins.

Vancouver's team came top of the whole lot over the season (first time ever), so they are being highly touted to win the Cup at the end of it all .......... also would be first time ever. Friday night was the second game of the first round

So obviously a lot of people could not miss either going to the game or watching it on TV. Vancouver fans are fanatical about the Canucks!


We switched on the TV when we got home!


Vancouver won that game, and the first one ...... so they are 2-0 .... against a team that has been their bete-noire for the last 2 or 3 years!



lovely sunny weather today





sylvia
xx

Mo, I hope you dont think I am such a hog as to put a pound of butter on the crumpets. I meant that I had put on 500 grams in weight when I weighed myself. I did spread the butter thinly on the crumpets, so that wasnt why I put on so much weight. I have now lost 400 gm weight, so almost back to where I was, pre-crumpets.

Re the beasties, I put one of the traps into the back of the broom cupboard, where there are stairs going up to the attic. Late one afternoon I heard a noise. It took me a while to think of looking in there, and I saw the trap had been moved (but tied by string to a heavy thing). There was a long tail poking out of the trap. When I tried to pick up the trap by the string it jiggled, so the rat was obviously still alive. I am not sure why it hadnt been killed. I decided to leave it until after dinner in the hopes it would have died by then. When I eventually looked in again, the trap was on its side and there was no sign of the tail. When I gingerly picked up the trap I found it was empty. I am blowed if I know how the rat could have escaped. I will have to set more traps upstairs, or perhaps some of the 'safe' poison.

It looks as if it is going to be another wet day here. I will be going in to the op shop this afternoon. I now have a partner behind the counter with me, so it is much better.

Best wishes to all our ailing friends.

Huia.

Just pop on for short message had to get up with the bad cramps in my feet,and only 4 days to go before my G.Grandson is due to be born and now my Grandson has told me im going to be G.Grandmother again the end of the year ,taking it up to 6 G,Grandchildren and 28 G.Children cost forture in birthdays but mainly for the little ones ,hope your all well and have better days ahead
Love Dutchxx

Huia, I did wonder about the amount of butter I thought you had used, I really should have known better.
You have done really well with your weight loss haven't you. Do you feel better for it in yourself. You should feel proud of yourself love.
I had a good chuckle about the beastie, and had a wonderful vision of you finding the rat caught by the tail. What a shame it got away though. The beasties over there, must be very clever getting free from a trap like that.

Sylvia, have you ever played hockey yourself. Oooh lord, I have bad nightmares about the game. If anyone was going to hit by the hockey stick, it was always me. I always ended up covered in bruises, by the evening. But Hockey was compulsary at the boarding school I attended, no matter how many different excuses I came up with, the teacher was much smarter than I, and I never got away with it. I think I was the only girl in school, who had permanant period pains.
I hope you enjoyed your meal out, was it just the two of you who went.?

Hi there Joyce, it's so good to hear from you again.
I bet you can't wait for the new baby to arrive. What sexes are your great grandchildren. I know you said this one will be a boy.
We have got three weeks till our great grandaughter is due. But if she is anything like her mum was, she will take her time to come into this big wide world

Our youngest grandaughter who is now nearly three months old, came to see us yesterday.
My lord, she has been so spoilt during her ten days in Scotland. She now wants to be nursed all the time, and screams if she is put down.
I don't think that S's family realise that the have made a rod for her back, by doing this. It will take a lot to get her out of the habit.
Still I can love her, cuddle her and give her back, it's then down to her parents to sort her out.
When I think that before she went away, we could lay her on her play mat, and talk to her, and she would chat back perfectly content, but not now.

Well girls,I must away. Take care all. Love and best wishes Mo xxx

Hi Ladies,
Caz, I hope that you soon feel better from the side effects of the chemo and the fibro myalgia s-ds off!

Joyce, good to hear that you are a little better and getting a bit mobile again. I hope that there is nothing really shocking in your daughters inquest on the 27th. It must be a worrying time for you .

Huia, I hope that the beasties are frightened off by the traps and poison.
Here in the West Midlands i UK we can get free help from the council if we have rats. However, if we have mice, we have to deal with them ourselves (they will give advice thouh).
I once had a mouse caught by the tail in a trap, a very kind friend "dealt " with it for me. It was kind of him, but I think that he was quite upset afterwards, although he didn't say so.

Sylvia, well done on your (MASSIVE) win! Good luck too to Vancouver in thier future games.
I saw some Ice Hockey while on holiday with my niece in New York a few years ago. (She is a big ice hockey fan). It was quite an education.

Jean, not so long to go now before you get your results. I will be sending you good vibes for a good result.

Sallie, I know what it is like to have "the black dog" being a fellow sufferer. I keep meaning to say that some of my rellies moved to Staveley, Derbys. in the 1800's. Later they became involved in the railway. I would love to find out more about them. Perhaps they worked on some of the streaches of line that your OH is interested in.

Ann, hope that your cold soon gets better. Can you remember the slogan "coughs and sneezes spread diseases" ?

Thinking also of Liz,Mo, Marie, Linda and anyone else I have missed.

Tess

Hello All
anyone up for meet in sheffield on the 21st may have put it up on general,and its realy nice place were we are going to meet so if anyone wants to come your welcome
Love Dutchxx

HI Everyone,


Caz, if you are looking in, I hope that you are starting to feel a bit better from the chemo.


Tess, Alun has heard of Barrow Hill, but never been there....I don't know if this is the area where your ancestors lived and worked.
We've just googled Barow Hill, so it looks as though Alun will be taking a trip up there in the not to distant future.lol!!


Mo, did you have a darts match last night? I know it's coming to the end of the season soon.....I hope your team won.


Jean, hope you are feeling better and that your scan results will be good.


Linda, nice to hear from you again. Have you met up with your Australian friends yet?


Sylvia, glad you enjoyed your meal at your favourite restaurant. Although I'm sure that your lottery winnings didn't cover the bill, wih the resaurant being expensive.
We also had a win on the lottery last week....£5.lol!!


Huia, how are things with you? I hope you've managed to get rid of your ' unwelcome visitors ' now.
Hope that Phil was OK when you last visited him.


Marie, hope your granddaughter is better now. My niece had croup quite badly, when she was about three .....it's a nasty thing to have.


Ann, I hope you are slowly getting over your cold and that it isn't spoiling your holiday.


Joyce, I'm meeting Jude for a coffee on Friday. She's up in Derbyshire for a couple days, visiting her friends....so we are going to a garden centre for
for coffee abd a natter. I'm really looking forward to meeting her.
I'll speak to you soon.


Well ladies, I'm going to make a cuppa now, so speak to you all soo.


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hi all
xxx


lovely and sunny here :)))


Mo .............. I did indeed play field hockey when I was at school, and have the dents and bumps in my shins still ......... more than 50 years later! It, netball and tennis were the compulsory sports at my school .... the local Grammar School! Boys played soccer and cricket.

I even played a game or two when I was teaching ...... there were Staff vs Pupils games in field hockey, netball and tennis


Mind you, these professional Ice Hockey players have got so much padding that they look twice their size! AND they make a mint of money.


The meal was lovely, and it was just the two of us.

We both opted for venison, which I love ....... the chef didn't have to change anything about the meat and its sauce, but she did different veggies for me.

They gave me some special rye bread that didn't have dairy in it ...... it was really nice, and I said that a couple of times, to the waiter and to the maitre d' when he came over for a chat. Next news ............... maitre d' comes to the table carrying a brown paper carrier bag ............... in it, one new uncut loaf of that rye bread!

Ate some of it the next day, the rest is in the freezer.


Sallie .......... we were celebrating the lottery win of a few weeks ago, when we won the equivalent of about £450 ..... so there was soem left :)))


OH is on his way home and time to go for afternoon coffee.


Take care everyone



s
xx

Hello All,you keep my little G.Grandaughter Olivia Mai in your thoughts please she is only 18mths old,and is waiting for CT scan to see if the cyst on her kidney is cancerous i pray to god its not docter thought she already had had the scan until Rachel told him no ,so they may speed it up now ,and my foot is starting again Jan said it looks like gout back but even if it is im still going the meet
take care all Love Dutchxx

Best wishes, Dutch, to you and your gt granddaughter.

Huia.

Thinking of Olivia Mai, and you too Dutch

Lovely day here again in Berkshire, managed to put teak oil on the garden table and garden bench yesterday. It's a job that always seems to get missed so I am happy it is good enough weather to do it early this spring.
Had a lovely Thai meal last night to celebrate my birthday with friends.

Sallie my friends from Australia popped in on Monday and spent the day with us. They are hoping to get to Scotland then Manchester and finally Devon as well as spending some time with us. They have 4 weeks to do all they want. But are seasoned travellers and have been to England and Europe many times over the years. I'll let you know if they get back.

Have a good day everyone

Linda :o) XxX