General Chat

Hi all
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I love that photo of the Chatham Island forget-me-not. It looks a gorgeous plant


There are so many wonderful flowers in both NZ and OZ!



Sorry I haven't been on here for a couple of days .... just been having a bit of a quiet time. Everything's fine though, and I'm slowly getting more mobility in my arm as I "climb the wall" :-) In other words, walk my fingers up the wall as high as I can go!




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Hi Sylvia, pleased to hear that you are OK, I was getting a bit concerned.
Good to hear that you are slowly getting more mobility in your arm.
Enjoy the peace and quiet, and take it easy. Speak to you soon.


Love, Sallie.xxx

OK Sallie, I'll put them on as soon as I can.

glad you are OK Sylvia, I expect you need to rest up a bit at the moment.

Your latest cards are on the blog Sallie.

Hello girls, how are we all today.
Whew, I am cream crackered. We have been to see baby Lilly and her mummy today.
My son spent yesterday digging one half of the garden, ready for new grass turfs to be laid on thursday.
S and myself, spent most of today digging and leveling the other half.
When my son was clearing his half yesterday, he pulled a large tuft of grass up, only to find a lawn grub suck to his hand, the darn thing gave him a bit of a sting apparantly.
So as our son is at work today, we went to our local garden centre to get some pellets to kill them off before the new lawn goes down. I had never heard off the grubs before, but it does explain why the old lawn was not very healthy.
Roly was on baby sitting duties, for little Lilly, but he was in his glory. And S and I had a lovely time outside in the garden.

Sallie, we lost the team game 4-2 last night, but won the pairs 2-1, not a brilliant outcome but hey, it's only a game.
But I could hear someone shouting my name out loud, so I assume it was you Sallie. Thanks for the support love.

Sylvia, slow but sure is the only way to go. A little every day is good going.
Are there any other general excercises that you have to do, that are not to strenuous. Please take it easy honey.

Hi ya Ann, how are you and T.

Coooeeee Jean,(((((((((((((((HUGS for you and Jeff))))))))))))))))))

Toodle pip everyone, love Mo xxx

Hi Girls,

Mo sorry you lost the team game last night but as you say you won the pairs, so that's something to cheer you all. So pleased you heard me shouting for you and your team.lol!!

You and S have certainly been busy today , well done to you both. I'm sure that the garden will look great when it's done.

I had never heard of the lawn grub either, hope your son's had is okay now.




I've been fairly busy today, done a few odd jobs that needed doing, made a couple of cards and also started making a desk calendar for my brother
as part of his Christmas pressie. Just hope it turns out OK.



Hope all our friends on here are OK.


Speak to you all tomorrow.



Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Sorry you lost the team game Mo but well done winning the pairs.

T and I are fine. We were going to see the autumn colours at Westonbirt Arboretum tomorrow but the forecast isn't goo. Isn't it annoying when you make plans and get beaten by the weather?

There are a few cards on the photo blog from Jean's daughter's American trip.

I made four cards today, not many but housework got in the way!

Caz, good to see you, sorry you have been poorly, those antidepressants are taking a long time to kick in. Is that usual? Hope they work soon, or that you find some that do.

What is a goo forecast like, Ann?

Huia.

Huia, a goo forecast here, means it's ice weather lol. ;-)

Ann, I love going to Bedgebury Pineatum at this time of year, the different colours of the leaves on the trees is fantastic.
Mind you it can be very chilly walking round it, and it spreads for miles so by the end we are feeling worn out, and chilled to the marrow and in need of a hot drink.

Sallie, I was completely exhausted last night after all that gardening, but Roly was worse than me, Lilly had him completely pooped out. I dread to think how worn out he would be if he had to look after her for a whole day.
Thats the only problem with ageing, what we could do ten years ago, we now find we cant.

I have to go for now girls, as my daughter has just turned up.
Love to all. Mo xxx

LOl Huia.

We ignored the forecast and went to Westonbirt anyway. We drove via Painswick, Stroud and Tetbury and the sun shone all the way with dark clouds in the distance. We had coffee when we got there then walked round. The colours are a little disappointing so far this year. They are usually better after the first frosts but the wind has brought a lot of the leaves down. still it was a good walk in the freash air, we then drove back across the Cotswolds, stopping at Uley to take photos out over the Severn Valley (It was windy but still hadn't rained.) We stopped for lunch at an old mill, where we had not eaten before and it was very good. We then drove home. We left at 0915 and got home at 14.40 so a good long day out. And still it hasn't rained. We could do with it now to wash the car off, our neighbours have had block paving laid across the front of their house and the dust from the cutting of bricks has settled on our car.

More photos on the photo blog.

Already seen them Ann, lovely, I love places like that always feels peaceful, pity about the winds spoilng some of it for you but worth a run out ....

Huia, just had a look at your lot too, I am glad your camera started working again, is it the new one you got? the pics are very good and your commentry is interesting too.

Mo why dont you take pics when you are out and about it would be nice to see some of the places you get to...although I am not too sure about that on reflection , I have heard what you get up to, and I think it would be a bit risky to put it on here....lol....hows the handsome Roly doing? give him a hug from me, he deserves one with what he has to put up with.............


Sallie how is your Jennie, hope she is coping alright, Debra went to several places in the U.S. she toured and finished up doing 1000,600 miles....good job she loves driving .... she had her scooter with her so it was no problem for her. getting out and about...we dont think we will get anywhere this year, Jeff still gets tired, but we add a few more miles on every trip out, its a massive improvement considering how he was the begining of June...the consultant says it could be anything from 6 to 12 months before he gets back to normal .....

Sylvia, Joyce Caz, Liz and not forgetting Marie and Huia,and anyone else who just happens to look in....love and hugs all round....
love Jean xx

The story about my camera getting wet: On the walk there were a lot of peat-boggy patches. One of them looked reasonably dry and I stepped onto it and immediately started to sink in. As my other foot was already raised I put it down a bit further forwards and it sank in too! I was standing there trying to get my feet out without losing my boots and overbalanced and fell, finishing up on my back on a slight slope (head downhill). Most of the group were a long way ahead as I had stopped to take some photos, just my sister a little way ahead of me. She heard the splash as I landed (liquefaction). As she didnt want to get stuck too she wasnt going to come to my aid.

I was struggling hard to sit up, very exhausting. I should have practised my sit-ups before I left home! At one stage I told her to go on and I would wait until the group came back after their walk. She was waving to the group to try to attract their attention. The leader thought we were turning back, but somebody had binoculars and saw me down on the ground so the leader came hurrying back, by which time I had sat up, swung my camera back and forth until sis caught it, rolled onto my knees and crawled to terra firma just in time for the leader to help me to my feet. My trousers were soaked right through but I was laughing my head off.

We carried on with the walk, sis with my camera round her neck. There was a stream or pool to cross with a very shaky boardwalk in the first half then up onto an overturned drum and down onto a firmer bit of boardwalk. I was helped to cross it, but my sister must have been behind me and she fell into the water, although I didnt know until she caught up again. I didnt put all this on the blogspot as she might have been embarrassed. A fine pair of disasters we were.

I spent much of yesterday adding photos to my blogspot. Today I am going to see about getting the camera cleaned out, and going to visit Phil and to attend a meeting. I will add more photos when I get home, I hope.

Huia.

Ooooh Huia, you have had me in stitches reading about your antics with your sister, you are a pair arn't you. lol
Just be thankful that I wasn't with you, as I would not have been able to help you for laughing my head off.
Yes I know, I have got a wicked sense of humour, and laugh if I see anyone trip up even though I feel for them, I just can't help myself.
I do hope you got the camera sorted out though love, it's an expensive piece of equipment to get messed up.
How was Phil when you visited him? I hope you found him well, and talkative.

Jean, I couldn't possibly post any photo's on here, I would get chucked off the site for indecency. The nudist beach at Brighton, is a sight for sore eyes, lol, but not for publicising on here.
And photo's of me playing darts are not very exciting, especially when I am pulling funny faces when I don't get what I am aiming for.
But if truth be told, I wouldn't even know how to download photo's on this laptop, me being a real thicko.
Roly send you a big ((((((((((HUGS and x)))))))))))) Saucy devil that he is, you get more than I have in a long time. ( oh poor me ). ;-)
My word I can't believe Debra travelled so many miles, and theres me complaining that I have got to sit in the car to travel up to Blackpool, and thats only about 300 miles from here.
I shall be away as from the 24th through till the 28th, so just think of me wont you, and hope for dry weather for us.
Our grandaughter is house sitting for us, and thank goodness she is a tidy girl, so we wont be coming home to complete chaos.

It sounds like you had a beautiful day out Ann.
I know what you mean about the dust from the block paving. It was bad enough when we had our drive done a couple of years back. The dust managed to lay all through the house despite the doors and windows being closed.
I was forever dusting the first day, but gave it up as a bad job till it was all completed.

Well my friends, I must go now, I am feeling shattered again, so I think I shall be going to bed soon.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hi all
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saw my GP yesterday, and they managed to read the pathology report ........... it seems as though everything is now clear ...... nothing in the lymph nodes, etc


But I did get a shock on Tuesday when I got a call from the Cancer Agency to say they had made an appointment for me to meet with a radiation specialist on Nov 7


I won't know exactly what is going on or why until I see the surgeon on Oct 31 ...... but the GPs' best guess (2 of them closely examined the pathology report) was that I might be getting a prophylactic radiation treatment ...... ie, to make sure that everything is sorted out.

They were not pleased to find out that I hadn't yet seen the surgeon .......... veyr diplomatic about it, but it came through loud and clear!



we're having some nice sunny weather here ....... although it is definitely fall!




sylvia
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possibly radiotherapy treatment just to make sure Sylvia. Glad it is all clear anyway, and that is a long time for you to wait to see the surgeon. Well, long time, I am sure it would be longer here but yours usually seems to be better than that.

Oh good grief Sylvia, I bet you paniced when you got the call from the Cancer agency. thank goodness you have got a good G.P, to explain things to you.
I hope you are feeling o.k now though love.

No news tonight girls, ooh apart from the fact we lost drastically last night.
I just hope you are all well, and I will hopefully will speak to you tomorrow night.
Love to all, Mo xxx

Hi Ladies,
couldn't sleep last night, which meant that I got round to reading the last several pages on here.
Got to this page, around 7.25 when I started to feel sleepy. So put kettle on for hot water bottle, prior to going back to bed. Made some toast too, which had just popped up when the phone rang! Must be either a wrong number or a long distance call, I thought, as no-one would phone at 7.30 in the morning. How wrong I was, it was my plasterer, I'd phoned his mobile on Saturday mid-day to say I WOULD like hime to do the job, but left a message with his wife as he was driving.
She said that he would phone back in ten minutes .. and this was the return call!
Don't think that I was very coherent when I spoke to him. Have now had a few hours shut eye so feeling more up to the mark.
Have now phoned hom up, he will be starting the job on Monday.
I am having both reception rooms totally replastered, so quite a big messy job. Will take me all week to get the rooms ready.

While reading the postings, I have tried to take in all your news.
Sylvia, good that your op is done and dusted. Even better that the staples and drain have been removed, but best of all the news that everything is now clear.

You must have really enjoyed your shower and having your hair done, both would have helped to give you a boost,

Huia, just as well that there wasn't a hidden camara around when you had your fall. Tremondous though that you were not hurt and could see the funny side, even while it was happening. Laughter is good for you (and us) so thank you for sharing.

Mo, sorry that you lost your darts match, but you were more fortunate in other matches. It must do you good to get out and about enjoying friendship and competition. Keep it up.

Ann, your day out sounds wonderful. Talking about autumn colours.... I had a short holiday in North Devon starting the 4th of September. We stayed near Bideford, many of commented that the colours of autumn were already creeping in, the leaves were of many colours, quite beautiful.


I hope you realise ladies, that after reading this thread, I have to go on Google to check out places and things you have mentioned.
I am off to search for Chathan Island, Westonbirt and Uley.


But before I go ... whilke in Bideford I saw a bust commerating a local man, who had the (I think ) rather unusall surname of "Pine-Coffin" I kid you not. Geoffrey Pine-Coffin ... Google if you don't believe me.

Sounds like a big job Tess, can't say I envy you but it will be good when it is finished I'm sure. What a time of day to phone you though, some of these people have not idea about the hours that we older people keep.