General Chat

Danni my Grandaughter is in Labour now so wont be long before my 5th G.Grandchild is born they are calling him Jacob James and tomorrow her brother my G.Son is 21 yrs old ,makes change to have some good news and something to look forward to
Love Dutchxx

Blimey Dutch, I thought by what you said last night that she would have had him by now. It's a long labour for her, I have to go to dentist this morning but will keep looking for your pm.

Love Caz xx

Caz she only went into labour this morning but has been in hospital since yesterday,catch you later if i hear anymore newsxx

Hi Jean
wishing good luck and postive thoughts for you tomorrow will be thinking of you as im sure all your friends will be ,and hope everything will be ok take care my friend and we extend our chain for you as well
Love Dutchxx

Hello All ,
My first day out of bed still feeling frail,my ribs are so sore from coughing and I still have a temp.but getting better.I am off to bed soon just wanted to say hello to you all I am thrilled to hear the news about Caz also Linda and Tess . Sylvia I know how you are feeling I think I must have the same Virus.
My hot water system is to be up an heating to-morrow it will be so nice to go into my own Bathroom and have a hot shower,Yeah!

Jean dear I will pray that your tests come back clear.

I will be 72 next Wednesday, how times fly's I can still remember my 10th birthday it was so exciting to be 10 years old..I must go as I am drooping very quickly. Love to all my friends.
Marie

Maria hope you feel abit better soon chain extented to you to keep warm ,im catching up to you will be 71 in july times flys by so quick these days
Grandaughter has just had epidural so hope it wont be long now before he is born
Dutchxx

Marie and Sylvia,
I hope that you will soon be feeling better. Lots of these cold/cough viruses around in all countries at the same time which is strange given our seasons are different. Although given that there is so much international travel I suppose it is not so strange.

Dutch hope the new little one arrives soon.

Jean will be thinking of you tomorrow of course.

Oh my god girls, poor Joyce. She is so worried. Her grandaughter has given birth, and is now very unwell.
Caz has put a thread up for Joyce, where we can be updated on her grandaughters condition.
Thank you Caz.
And Joyce our prayers and thoughts go out to you, and your grandaughter
holding you both close in our hearts.

Marie and Sylvia, get rid of those nasty coughs, and get yourselves well soon. I am sending healing thoughts through to you both.

Jean, I will be thinking of you tomorrow,and that your results will be good.
Love and hugs to you both.

Linda, I hope that the fires in your area, are soon dampened down,and under control.

I must away now girls, take care, speak to you all tomorrow.
Love and best wishes Mo xxx

I put a message on here last night but it's vanished, wonder if I forgot to submit it, most likely. I haven't heard anything more from Joyce but will be speaking to her tomorrow. I feel like the baby on here, I am only 67, but in my head I am 29, my body thinks it is 101, lol.
I hope Sylvia and Marie get rid of their cold soon, it's years since I had one, I was told after I got MRSI not to go near anyone with a cold, it's worked so far.
I must get away to my bed now before I fall asleep sat here.

Love Caz xx

Hi all
xx

Keeping my fingers crossed for Joyce's granddaughter and her baby.


Marie ................ it sounds as though you do have this same cold and cough. It's the worse one I've ahd for years! I haven't had more than 2 or 3 hourse sleep, in total, since last Tuesday! Mainly because I can't lie down, and I can't sleep sitting up!

Keeping my fingers crossed for thee and me


Oh ...... I was 71 in January!


Caz ............. I did learn my lesson about how to treat myself when I had a cold back in the 1990s. Like most people, I'd go in to work even if I felt rotten. Then one of my workmates (and very close friend) came down with HIV. He was in pretty good shape, but had to take care of further infections. So, the rest of us started to stay home when we got a cold etc. Not only did that keep him safe ........... but our colds got better faster when we took more care of them!



The government?

Majority Conservative (after 2 sessions of minority kept them under control). Dreading what might happen over the next 4 years.



sylvia
xx

Hi Girls,



Caz, thank you for letting us know about Danni. Our prayers and thoughts go to her, and hope that she will soon be okay.

I hope you are feeling a bit better Caz. Did all go well at the dentist for you?


Joyce, sending you lots of hugs and positive thoughts.



Jean, good luck for tomorrow, I will be thinking about you. Sending you lots of positive thoughts.


Marie, glad to hear that you are getting better, take care and look after yourself.


Sylvia, sorry to hear that you are not feeling too good, and have had to cancel your trip to see your friends. It certainly sounds as though you and Marie have the same sort of virus. Take care.

Is the Conservative Party in Canada very much like the Conservatives we have here in the UK?


Mo, I hope all is well with you and Roly. Nice to know that your lovely Lily has settled down again after her visit to Scotland.


Tess, pleased to hear that you are feeling much better and that you have been out and about.


Ann, hope your cold is much better now. Nice to see home again, we all miss you on here when you're away.


Huia, hope you are okay and that all is well with Phil.


Thinking of Linda, Liz and Jude.


Love and best wishes to everyone. Sallie.xxx

Good morning (from me) all.

Joyce, I do hope your daughter will soon be well again.

To anybody else who is ill, or has friends/relatives who are ill, all the best for a speedy recovery.

The sun is shining through the window beside me so I am sitting here topless trying to soak some up. Not a purty sight.

A tornado hit Albany, at the top end of Auckland Harbour, yesterday afternoon. One man is dead and about 14 in hospital. Our tornados are not as big as the ones in America, thank goodness, but it is still bad enough with debris everywhere, and the Albany shopping centre closed so buildings can be examined for saftey, and repaired. A lot of roofs have lost tiles or sheets of iron.

There was also a 5.0 earthquake at Nelson yesterday, but it was very deep, so did not do any noticeable damage.

I slept in this morning as I didnt get to sleep until after 3 a.m. Had to take half a sleeping pill. I am now having my breakfast, at 10.10 a.m. Better get on with it.

Huia.

Hi Huia


I heard about the tornado on my news. It sounded pretty bad from what they said, with lots of damage.


Hope you have a good day



sylvia
xx

Good morning.
I had not realised that you got tornados in NXZ Huia, sorry to hear somebody was killed but pleased it was not worse.
Sallie, my cold only lasted seven days but it has left me with anirritating tickly cough, nothing chesty just annoying. But I feel fine and spent yesterday afternoon planting up ten hanging baskets while T planted up his tomatoes.
Jean, thinking of you today.
Mo, glad that Lily is doing well now. \Hope that your friends in hospital make a good recovery. Hospitals don't seem able or willing to think outside the box, you'd expect the bed to be available if he is fit for the by pass. Although maybe they think he needs more time. Good luck to him anyway.
Sylvia and Marie, I hope that your colds are now improving.

Caz, hope that you can get some good news from poor Joyce today.

We can't believe how much air fares have gone up. We booked our September flights to Tenerife via Madrid back in about February, £383. We then had the opportunity to extend the holiday back into August so first tried to cancel the flight - can't do that, no refunds given. So we tried to change the flight, yes you can do that for another £380. So the flights have doubled in price almost.

Hi all
xx


lovely sunny day here

OH left about an hour ago to catch the ferry to the Island ... so I have 2+ days of ME time.



Ann ............... it always costs more when you try to change booked flights, so the fares might not have gone up quite as much as it seems.


They're possibly treating your re-booked one as a one-way fare.


Take care everyone


sylvia
xxx

My goodness Ann, I am quite happy to stay in this country, if the price of air flights are going up at the rate that they are.
In effects, it doubles the price of your holiday, doesn't it.
What plants have you put in your baskets Ann? I like to put Fuschia's, Geraniums, Pansies and many other varieties. But not always in the same baskets, but I do love a basket of Fuschia,s on their own.

Oooh Sylvia, peace and quiet for a few days is luxury. As much as we may love our OH's, it's great to have ME time isn't it.
I enjoy it when I can just make myself scrambled eggs on toast, rather than having to cook a full meal. It's funny, because if I said to Roly, shall we have eggs on toast he would no doubt say o.k, but I feel I have to cook a proper meal.
Are you feeling any better today. It seems that the cough is what is knocking people out, not so much the cold/flu symptoms.

Oh good lord Huia, sitting there starkers enjoying the sun, you are brave.
But luckily for you, you don't have to many people pass your house do you.
If we see on our news, " Woman arrested for causing an accident, by exposing herself" we will know it's you. LOL
What a shock about the Tornado up in Auckland, and how sad that one man died, and others were injured.
Did they forecast it happening, or did it spring up from nowhere.

No news from our Jean yet, I hope she got on o.k at the hospital today, it's a worry not to have heard anything from her yet about it. ((((((((HUGS))))) for our Jean.

I must go and check Caz's thread, to see if there is any news on young Danni.
It's high time Joyce had some good news, rather than all the sadness she has had recently.

Bye for now my friends. Love Mo xxx

Hi everyone finally got home we have just had a bite to eat, the scan was clear praise the lord, the consultant thinks I may be suffering from
Benign Paroxysmal positional vertigo . thats a mouthful, so I have some exercises to do three times a day for six weeks,if my balance is no better after six weeks I have to see a physio for balance work out....
we had a bad time getting there the traffic was horrendous, I was in about 10/ 12 mins it was a 26 miles there and back...so thank you all very much for your love and prayers they certainly worked, we are now looking to get away for a few days....thank you once agin much love to you all Jean xxx

Mo, nobody can see in my windows from the road, it is below the house on the side where I was enjoying the sun, although up the road people could see in, but would need binoculars.

Off out today to a 'family participation meeting' at Phil's home. We are told what is planned and we can make suggestions. We also get a feed! No, that is not what I go for really. I will pop into the residents lounge to visit Phil for a while. Then I have an appointment with the hearing aid people back in Papakura. I would like to get more use out of my aids, but they are not very good. In a crowd everything is aplified, so I cant hear any better. They dont seem to work on the phone either. Being on my own now I dont bother about them at home, I just turn up the sound on the TV or radio. I hope I can get something better for phone/crowded situations. One-on-one I am usually ok without the aids, although there are some people who speak very quietly and their voices are a bit blurry.

Huia.

Oh thank the lord Jean.
Trust you to have something unpronouncable (sp) LOL
I have a vision of you walking around with a book on your head, practising your balancing.
Have a good nights sleep now, and stop worrying love.
Take care my friend. Love to you all. Mo xxx

Jean, pleased to hear your good news, it's a bit of a pain going all that way just for a 10min appointment, but at least you now have peace of mind. I hope that the exercises you have to do will work for you.


Sylvia, enjoy your couple of days of ME time, it will be nice to do just what you want, when you want. Hope you are feeling better than you've been lately.


I was hoping that we might have had some news about Danni this evening.....I hope that she's started to improve this evening.


Well, I'll speak to you all tomorrow.


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx