General Chat

Thanks for that info Ann, makes me realise how fortunate I am to have been told how to do the exersises, wouldnt you think that other sufferers would be able to get the same info, mine were printed out on paper showing the way to do them, easy for a doctor to pass on...

love Jean xx

Mo, I've been trying to get into facebook so that I can vote for Lilly, but not having any luck so far. I'll just have to keep trying.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Hi all, Jean lovely to see you on here, you don't visit us often enough. Thank you all for being happy for me, I treat my illness with contempt, and don't think about it much, I have much worse things wrong with me. Maybe by ignoring it and taking the chemo it will bu**er off in time, I am lucky in that it is only in spots in my bones the doc told me yesterday but only in my body not limbs, but theres a lot. The good news is I have been told I will die of old age, lol.
I hope everyone going to the meet on Saturday will enjoy themselves, I wish I could be there but I can't travel.
Sylvia I loved your story of MJ, they all do it different, my daughter was in the big bath at nine months when she decided to get up and walk the whole length, then just looked at me and my MIL and laughed, it was so funny.

Love Caz xx

Evening all. I can't stop I have got darts tonight. Just wanted to say hello to you all.
<3 <3 <3 to you all. Mo xxx

Hope you won Mo.

Caz, you put us all to shame with the way that you try and ignore your illness and pain. It is good that you have had some good news.

We are off to Dorset tomorrow for a week. Will probably be on here first thing but I will also have my netbook with me so will be able to pop in occasionally. :-) :-)

Hope I havent missed you Ann, just to say have a nice break and safe journey....
Did you win Mo, I could do with a cheer up, so a few bob would do nicely...hope you and Roly are well....
have a nice time at the meet Sallie,
waves to Huia, Marie Sylvia and everyone else~~~~~~~

love Jean xx

Hope I havent missed you Ann, just to say have a nice break and safe journey....
Did you win Mo, I could do with a cheer up, so a few bob would do nicely...hope you and Roly are well....
have a nice time at the meet Sallie,
waves to Huia, Marie Sylvia and everyone else~~~~~~~

love Jean xx

~~~~~~back to Jean and anybody else who is looking in. I have just finished my dinner, so will be washing the day's dishes soon. I do them only once a day when I am on my own.

Huia.

Hi girls.
Ann, I hope I haven't missed you, have a lovely holiday, speak to you during the week when you have the spare time.

Jean, the team I play for on a Thursday, play differently to how we do on a Monday night.
They play singles, pairs, and three's. I won my singles,we won our doubles my partner and I, but lost our three's. All together we won the night 7-4.
I am playing Monday night, in the fours knockouts, but please Jean, save your pennies, it's very dubious we will get very far.

Sallie, I hope you and Joyce have a lovely meet tomorrow. Let us know how it goes wont you, just have fun all of you.

~~~~~~~~~~back at Huia, who will no doubt be in bed by now.

Caz hope you are bearing up today love. Have you got the sun at your end of the country. It's a glorious day here in Kent, shoppings all done, just sitting here relaxing enjoying a nice cup of tea. I bet that will make our Sallie envious.

Linda should be back from her holiday this weekend, I hope they have had a lovely time.

Wheres Tess to I wonder, lets hope she is o.k.

Cooeee Sylvia, Marie, Liz and all our friends.

Will be back later, love Mo xxx

Oh Mo, your waves must have been why my bed was shaking at 1.15 this morning!

I am thinking of going in to Papakura this afternoon, to our genealogy rooms, to look at the electoral rolls. The online ones dont have them all.

Huia.

LOL Huia, as long as the waves didn't make you wet, "Shaken but not stirred", wasn't that James Bond, except you were stirred weren't you. Sorry if I woke you up.
Good luck at Papakura this afternoon, hope you find what you are looking for.
<3 Mo xxx

I am sure I will find the info. I am trying to find where my dad was living in his pre-marriage life. I will find his parents on the electoral rolls. I have dad's school report for 1909 so that tells me they were in Wellington then, but I would like to know how long they were there. I also have things from Richmond Rd school in Auckland, so that tells me which part of Auckland they were in in that year.

Huia.

Hi everyone, sorry for staying away, and then for just posting a few lines on my previous entries.

Marie, sorry I missed your birthday. I hope you have a very happy x x years and 10 days day. Go on, live it up. Your owls sound great, do you, like me, sometimes talk to them? (or am I the only mad one on here?)

As to having babies now and then, I was not given an enema when I had my son in a maternity home 37 years ago (can't remember if I was shaved - but don't think I was). I left hospital after five days.

My sons partner left hospital six hours after giving birth to her third child. She counted down the hours and couldn't wait to get home. She didn't make it to the hospital with her second child, he was born at home in the bath. She was checked over by the mid-wife there, no need to go to hospital after the birth.

As to places being closed when we visit them. A couple of years ago my son and I took his two younger sons to the local (small) steam railway (not the severn valley Sallie) on Good Friday.
we were all very disappointed to find that they didn't open tll; Easter Monday! Luckily I was able to take the little ones on the main-line train back into Birmingham.

Jean, good to hear that your exercises are helping to control your vertigo. I have found recently that doing Sudoku seeems to help, as scanning the lines and rows is a way of doing the eye exercises. It doesn't always prevent me from staggering about the place though, when I am outside!

More later,
Tess

Hello Girls,

Well the Sheffield meet went well, nice food, and lovely company.There should have been seven of us there, but Annina suffered a bad migraine just before she was due to set out to meet us, so couldn't make it, which was a pity!

Jude was the first to arrive at the pub, but after about a hour and a half, she had to leave as got a phone call, telling her that her friend had suffered another stroke and things are not looking good for her. Still it was nice meeting her, even though it was for a short time.



Joyce was thrilled when Liz Purple arrived, it was a lovely surprise, as Liz had told Joyce that she couldn't make the meet, with it being too far to travel. Lovely to meet Liz at last.

Also, nice to meet Sheila and her friend, both living in Yorkshire----both of them very nice ladies.


Joyce's two granddaughters and their children came along to say hello to us all and to have a meal. It's nice to be able to put a face to everyone when we hear about them or talk to them on here.



I hope all our friends on here are okay. I'll speak to you all tomorrow, going to have a cuppa now and hoping to have an early night.



Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hello girls.
Tess, my youngest son is 34, he was the only one born that I hadn't had to suffer the awful indignaties I had had,with the four previous births.
In the sixties and early seventies, all women in this area had to undergo these things.
The hospital itself was soooo ancient, they only had two loo's,and one bath for the whole of the maternity wing.
When they closed it down, they built a whole new housing estate in the grounds.
The new maternity unit is in a brand new annex, added onto the old military hospital. If you google Medway Maritime hospital, you will see how old it is.
The new part of the hospital has been added onto the back of the old one.

Sallie, I am pleased you all had a lovely time at the meet. And with Liz turning up like that, it was the icing on the cake.
I bet Joyce really enjoyed seeing you all.
What a shame that Jude had to leave under such sad circumstances. I hope her friend rallies round,and doesn't suffer to badly.

We have been to see my sons three children today.
When we arrived, they were all outside doing the garden. Guess who got roped in to help, yes me.
But it was nice having the eldest two helping, whilst baby Lilly sat and watched us. Give her three years, and I will have her helping as well, bless her.
Even though I was wearing rubber gloves most of the time, I think I must have an allergy to one of the weeds I pulled out, as my hand and wrist have got a rash on them. I have put plenty of anti-histamine cream on them and that is helping with the itching.
I am really exhausted now though, and can't wait to get into my bed.
I will say good night god bless you all.
<3 <3 <3 Mo xxx

Glad you enjoyed the meet Sallie, nice for Joyce to have a surprise with Liz making it. Sorry to hear about Jude's friend though.

Hi all
xx


what a lot of lovely news!!


I am so glad that the meet went well, though sorry to hear about Jude's friend, and that Annina couldn't make it. Migraines are miserable!


We have had 4 lovely days here ............. sunny and warm .......... but today is chilly and rainy :((

Of course, it is a holiday weekend ............ Monday is a Stat holiday. Par for the course, I suppose!



sylvia
xx

Lovely to hear about the meet, Sallie, great that Joyce and Liz Purple were able to go. It must have been good for them to get away. Great too that you were able to meet Joyce's grand-daughters and their children. Perhaps now thaey will get interested in their Family History. Especially as they see that their nan isn't the only one researching, and it does help to open up a new world.

Tess

Huia, hope that you enjoyed having your toenails cut. I had a delux pedicure plus eyebrow shaping (using tweezers) on Thursday 19th. at my local college. All for the princly sum of £7

A lovely bit of pampering. A pedicure won't deal withcors, bunions etc. but they wiil deal with dry and hard skin. You get a foot spa treatment as well as a lower leg masage. and your nails trimmed etc before polish is put on them. A lovely bit of pampering.

Sylvia, hope that you bronchitis has gone for good. It is nasty isn't it? and very tiring too. I remember a time when brandy was recommended as a treatment (or is that wishful thinking?)

Caz, have you had specialist advice for your FM?
I went to a talk last Thursday evening given by a lady from BARC - Birmingham Arthritis Research Centre. She said that there re around three hundred types of Arthritis. I am pretty sure that she mentioned FM.
They have loads of infornmation leaflets as well as someone there to talk to.
It is located in Birmingham but is THE centre for the whole country (Apparently they get a lot of people from Scotland using their service).

Let me know if you are interested in their details and I will PM them to you.
Won't be till Sunday now, as it is nearly bedtime.

Tess

Sally, I am so envious of you being able to meet up with people I 'know' through this site.

Tess, I go to have my toenails cut about once every couple of months. I go to a podiatrist, and it costs me $60 which would be roughly 30 English pounds, maybe less. I am not sure what the exchange rate is at present. He cuts the nails really short (shorter than I ever did) and trims off some of the hard skin under my feet, and applies some sort of oil or cream. I gave up cutting my own as I have trouble bending to do them (fat tummy!) and my scissors werent sharp enough for the tough nails.

I should be doing the washing today. I slept in until after 10, as I had trouble getting to sleep last night and finally took half a sleeping tab just after 2 a.m. Better go and do the washing now, and have lunch later.

Huia.