General Chat

Good evening one all.

I hope we are all plodding along as well as we can.
Each morning when I wake up, I think of you all, and wonder what sort of day you all will have.

Saturday we baby sat for little Lilly, she is such a pleasure to behold, full of smiles and chuckles.
It's hard to believe she is now four months old, it only seems like yesterday that she was born.

Wish me luck girls, as I have got darts tonight. It's the first game of our knockouts. I will let you know how we get on tomorrow.
Jean, dont spend to much on your bet tonight, just in case we lose. LOL

Take care my cyber friends. Love and best wishes to you all. Mo xxx

It looks as if it is going to be a good day for going through my 'junk' and getting rid of as much as possible. When I got up a couple of hours ago it was a sunny day, clear sky, and I had intended to do the washing, but now it is raining so the washing can wait another day. Or even more. It had occurred to me that I probably have only about 20 more years to live and I could be too frail in the last 10 years, and as I dont want to leave too much stuff for the family to sort out and really do need to get on with it NOW.

Huia.

Hi all
xxx


it's cloudy and showery here, and the temperature is also still quite a way below "normal"



Huia ........ OH is doing well at clearing out "stuff", from our storage areas in the basement.



Hope darts went well Mo



sylvia
xxx
But I don't do so well!

Hello to you all,Just popped in to say hello, Like Huia it is freezing here another big frost plus Fog it is sunny now but still very cold
I am a lot better but still have scabes on my lips from the cold sore's and it doesn't look nice as someone commented.

Hi Sally I hope you are keeping the black dog down where he belong's.

Hi tess I see you are researchiong in Somerset and also Cork.I have been very successful in finding my Haywards in West Coker Somerset.
We are having a reunion in Mackay on the 1st.and 2nd.of October this year.
Cork is a black hole or a brick wall as we usually say, my O'Brien's gave their birthplace as Shepperton Castlehaven, Cork. Very little records have been digitised for this area., it is such a shame as by the time they do the recording for this area I probably will be 6 foot under :S

Mo I hope you went well in the dart's and Jean I hope you won your bet ;-) ;-)

Dear Caz, we need a miracle for your back I know it wont get better but I do hope the morphine dulls the pain for you.
Dear Joyce:-) thank you for your beautiful Card .I am going to see if I can scan it and have it on my profile on Gene's Reunited <3 I
Sylvia we are into our winter you should be having lovely weather by now, I do hope it get's better for you as I am sure you must have aches and pain's from the cold..
I installed a a camera phone on my computer to-day for Skyp I have had it since before Xmas but wasn't game to install it, but my brother told me to bite the bullet and put it on as he went out yesterday and bought one and now wishes to speak to me via Skyp my relatives in New Zealand also have skyp and have been waiting for me to have it installed .
I just hope that the Skyp doesn't ring too much as I dont want to be on the phone at all hour's.
I am not even sure if I have enough Gigabites to support the system.

Hi Huia ,did you get to the concert? as you probably read I am tutoring a small group of ladies , most of them have loss of hearing including me but they are keen and attentive and have done very little singing , but I am pleased with them and I am sure they will improve.
It is good for me as I have missed the singing.

Has anyone heard from Marilyn, ? Debbie must have let her membership lapse, I miss her lovely post's about her children and their sport. I hope they are well.
Did anyone ever get in touch with Julie,? not being able to post every day means I do miss out on quite a lot of new's.

Hi Ann I hope all is well with you also, I am so busy with the organisation of the Hayward Reunion that I dont have the time to chat ,and the viral infection but me way back.

I must away as I have washing to hang and later to-day I am going to have my FLU injection LOL ;-) ;-)

Love & Hugs Marie :-( :-)

Hi Marie

just a quick post ..... yes, Julie is back.

She had been in hospital for a spell, had lost connection, and I think also needed to re-join GR


but she was back on the boards.



sylvia
xx

Marie, Marilyn has been posting on the Friendly thread.

I went to the concert, it was all Mozart. It is good being in the audience as I can hear the full effect of the choir rather than hearing my group dominating over the others. It was nice to see some of my old choir friends at the afternoon tea afterwards, but it was very crowded so I didnt get to speak to many of them. Possibly a lot of them were out the back anyway, handing in their music and folders or dismantling the staging, so I didnt stay very long, though long enough to eat more than I should have!

Huia.

Hi everyone.
Well good news, we won at darts last night, but only just. In the semi-finals we are up against the strongest team in our league.
They have actually won the seasons games, and the pairs, so as you can see, we are going to need all the prayers and luck we can muster.

Sylvia,what a lovely picture of your mum. She was so well dressed for that period of time.
And isn't it funny how most photo's of that era, were taken in front of articles of furniture of some kind or another. Or of an old aspadistra (sp)

Marie. I think we have all got Irish connections, that are hard to trace. At one time Fanny By Gaslight was trying to trace my Irish ancestors, but had to give up, as they proved elusive. I believe she even had our Sylvia trying to find them.
I am pleased you are feeling a little better now. Don't worry to much about the cold sores, we luv you anyway with or without them.
I am sure you will enjoy being on Skype, it will make your family seem much closer to you, being able to see them when you are talking to them.
My neighbour has installed it, and she talks to an old neighbour of ours, out in Spain on it.
We don't have it, and even if we did, I think I would be even more confused than I am now. You are very brave installing it all by yourself, I wouldn't know where to start.

Huia, it sounds like you had a brilliant time at the Opera. Mozart is a bit to heavy for me I'm afraid.
What a shame you weren't able to have a good old chin wag with your old choir friends.

I wonder where Jean, Sallie, Ann, Caz, Joyce, Tess, Liz and all our other cyber friends have got to lately. It's been quite quiet on here of late.

I know that Marilyn is still around, as she has been on the Friendly Thread.
Her poor husband has got to have his gall stones removed by major surgery tomorrow. They took him in today for keyhole surgery, but it seems that the stones are to big for removal by that proccedure, so he has to go back tomorrow for their removal.
Poor Marilyn is going to be run of her feet, looking after him following his operation.
Prayers and thoughts for Marilyn((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))

By for now girls. Love to all. Mo xxx

I am here, read yesterday but forgot to post. Well done with the darts Mo. Busy week for us in the garden as we are off again on Friday to Dorset. :-) :-) :-)

Oooh Ann you are a couple of gadabouts. Are you sure you haven't got ants in yer pants. LOL
Are you going for the whole week Ann.
I hope you have got a sprinkler system for your garden, otherwise the poor plants are going to get thirtsy.
I believe the forecast is for warmer weather next week, so hopefully you will strike it lucky.

Hi all
xxx


a lovely day today .... warm and sunny

The forecast is for 3 or 4 more days like this ............... next Monday is a "Bank" holiday, so hope it will last until then


Daughter told me on Sunday that MJ decided last week that it was time to crawl AND to "cruise" ........ described as walking using something such as the coffee table as support!

Having decided, he seems to be getting ahead by leaps and bounds!


He's also still very vocal, but not actual words. The baby sitter THINKS she heard him say "cookie" last week ............. that's the North American word for biscuit.

No-one else has heard him say that


What a word to be his frst word!!



sylvia
xxx

Sylvia, is she sure he didnt say nookie, or rookie or bookie or hooky or lookie (look at me)?

Mo, the Mozart concert wasnt all opera. There were some pieces from a couple of his operas, nice light pieces. There were also some of his religious pieces, plus his Grand Mass (I think that is what it was called).

Huia.

Huia



he does like his food!




sylvia
xx

Hello Girls,

I came on here yesterday, almost finished writing a long message to everyone, and then lost it all. I didn't have time to write it all again as we went to do our shopping instead of doing it today, as Alun is going to the club tonight as well as tomorrow night.
The layout they are building at the moment is of a local area when steam trains ran, so with it being a very big layout there is a lot of electrical work still to be done.



Marie, pleased to hear that you are feeliing a lot better now, I hope that the scabs left from your cold sores will soon clear, as you say, they don't look very nice.

Thank you for asking,"the old black dog" is keeping away at the moment, thank goodness.....and hope he never returns, too.
I find that making cards is a big help, at keeping it away, the majority of the time.
Hope your granddaugther is better, and that the results of her kidney scan
will be good.




Sylvia, it certainly sounds as though MJ is coming on in leaps and bounds. He'll be walking to you for a big hug and kiss the next time you'll see him. Bless him!



Caz, hope you are feeling a bit better and more comfortable than you've been lately. Joyce rang me earlier on, telling me that she had arrived in Liverpool. By the sound of it, she is finding it colder over here than in Holland. I just hope that the weather will improve by the weekend, so that it will be nice for the Sheffield meet.



Mo, well done to you and your team for winning on Monday night. Are you also playing a match with another team tomorrow night? Hope both you and Roly are alright.

I've been trying to find your granddaughter Lilly on the the baby competition site......but there are quite a few Lilly's so I don't know which one she is. I want to vote for her, but don't want to vote for the wrong one.

I haven't had much time lately.....been very busy making cards, I have three more to do today....it's Jennie and Michael's 5th Wedding Anniversary on Friday......I don't know where that five years have gone to.




Ann, hope you and T have a lovely holiday in Dorset and that the weather will be good for you.
I have some more cards that can go on your blog, just as soon as Alun takes the photos of them. I'll have to get Jude's e-mail addy if she won't mind putting them on there. I'll be seeing her on Saturday at the Sheffield meet.....really looking forward to meeting her.



Huia, so pleased that you enjoyed the concert. It's always nice to meet up with friends and aquaintances that we haven't seen for a long time.

So glad that your son found that dead rat, I wouldn't like to think of how bad the smell would have been for you if he hadn't found it.




Tess, good to hear that you are feeling a lot better, and are getting out and about.
As you say, we have a lot to be thankful for compared to a lot of people.

Just noticed that your research covers, Herefordshire,and Monmouthshire. Alun's paternal ancestors come from Herefordshire, we have managed to get back as far as the late 1400's with some of them, but are stuck in the early 1800's on the Vaughan side. So many Richard and William Vaughan's, we don't know which ones belong to us.lol!!



Jean, hope your tablets have now kicked in and that your vertigo is now a lot better.
I like the last three cards you put on Ann's blog.

For some reason I seem to have trouble making Anniversary cards, I'm never happy with them when they are finished. Ideas for them don't come very easily.



Joyce, if you are looking in, have a safe journey to Sheffield tomorrow and take care.
Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday.


Well ladies I had better get on with the rest of the cards. Speak to you all soon.



Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hello girls, I just had to share my good news, I went to see cancer doc this morning and he is pleased with me and said the cancer has levelled off, I am not having any more chemo for three weeks, yipee. He stopped it because it has made my toes very sore to walk on so I hope they clear up in three weeks.
I didn't come on Mo because I couldn't sit down properly but had to come on to share my good news, Im thrilled.
Sylvia it seems that boys are always thinking about their tummy's, my youngest sons first word was "dinner". Sallie I bet you are looking forward to Saturday, it will be lovely to meet up with people you have only written to. Joyce phoned me a bit earlier and said it is very cold here like you mentioned,she has been to the grave she wanted to see and her son put a windchime on a grave, not sure whos, and they found out today someone had taken it and put it on theirs, how baad is that.
Oh my tea is out so better go.
Hello to everyone else I haven't mentioned.

Love Caz xx

Just to say I hope you have a good week Ann and the weather stays good for you.

Hi Caz,

Wonderful news! Let's hope that the cancer will stay that way for a long, long time. I'm so very pleased for you.

I can't get over someone stealing the wind chime off one off one of Joyce's family grave. It's amazing what some people will stoop so low to these days.....it seems that respect has gone "out of the window" with some these days.


Thanks for sharing your good news with us. Speak to you soon.


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Ooooh Caz thats brilliant news, I am sooo pleased for you love. Thank you for telling us, news such as this is great to hear.
Lets hope and pray even harder that you don't need to go back on the chemo in three weeks time. Now that would be absolutely the cherry on the top of the cake for you.
I can't believe how spiteful people can be, to spoil a loved ones grave, by stealing things from it.
I hope who ever it was gets their comeuppance, when they get to meet their maker. Nasty individuals.

Sallie, Lilly's photo in the competition keeps moving up the page, so I never know where she is going to end up next.
I will go onto the site in a minute,and send you an e.card of her.

I will be back soon, going to send Sallie baby Lilly's photo.
Love Mo xxx <3 <3 <3

Hi all
xxx



Caz ............. what great news! I am so happy for you ....... and hope that you can continue to not need more chemo


It is another lovely day here, and this is supposed to last through until at least Monday

it seems spring has sprung!

The farmers will be cheering ..... it has been too cold and wet for them to plant seeds, so lots of things (veggies and fruit, as well as farm crops) will be several weeks late.



Monday is a Stat holiday, our version of your Bank holiday

It is Victoria Day, and is held on the Monday closest to May 24th


May 24th was Queen Victoria's birthday, and we still celebrate it!!


In many parts of the country (ie, the colder areas like the Prairies), Victoria Day is the traditional day to start planting or sowing seed, in gardens and on farms. They reckon that the chance of overnight frosts is almost negligible after that date.


Not in BC of course ............. people like OH often plant soem things as early as early April, if not late March. Still a bit risky, but often works out OK.



Take care everyone



sylvia
xxx

Hello everyone, Caz brilliant news, you are one brave lady and lovely with it....lol...
Sallie I have been told not to take any more of the vertigo tabs , it seems the exersises I have to do should hopefully keep the dizziness in check it feels wonderful not being so dizzy all the time... hope you enjoy your meet....
its nice to see all your news and what you are up to, I am grateful for all your thoughts that have been a big help over the last few weeks, I am so pleased that this thread has become special to a lot of folk and always available to anyone who needs a hug and support, this is not only the regulars but anyone who would like to add their thoughts and needs there is always someone who will listen....
so love to you all

love Jean xxx

Hi Jean, so pleased to hear that your vertigo is so much better. As you say, I'm sure it's wonderful not feeling dizzy so much of the time. It's amazing what the exercises have done to help you.

Hope J and D are both alright, too.


Mo. thank you for the e-card of Lilly, she is beautiful and looks so contented and happy. I hope she'll win the baby competition.
Do you know when they will announce the winners?



Well, I'll speak to you all tomorrow.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Caz, that is great news, I am so pleased for you and hope you can stay off the chemo. Also hope your toes heal quickly. Thanks for the good wishes re our holiday, we will be away for a week but I will have my laptop and hope to have access.

Jean, there was a two page spread in Saga magazine this month about vertigo and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) in particular. It mentions the exercises and the success theya re having with patients doing them. It seems that there are so few of the special clinics to treat it that patients are waitin up to 44 months to attend one.