General Chat

Sylvia, it's certainly very cold in Vancouver, take care and keep warm.
Hope your OH has a safe and good journey home.


Well done Ann, you really are getting yourself organised.


Mo, I thought you might still have a few aches, hope they will soon be gone.


Take care all.

Goodnight, Sallie.xxx

Goodmorning Ladys
well what along day yesterday was up from 6 oclock in the morning was falling asleep thru the day ,now its getting ready for the surprise wedding anniversary party which will be fron 4,30 to what ever time it finishs but Jan and i both don,t drink because of all the medication we are on,im now doing marchs cards have done janu and febu must be getting good ,but Jan build me table and put hanging lights on over the table so i could see what i was doing the only problem i have as i said to Sally and Caz i can,t get happy birthday peel offs or thinking of you they dont do them in english,well got to go nurse will be here in min and im now back to the pain but its in my other leg and back in the bottom of my spine were i sit,but had lady yeserday and she is getting me wheelchair for inside with padded seating and padded arm rests but you cant use it outside,so keeping my outdoor wheel chair and there putting stair lift in for me after they have spoke with my docter its to see if its safe for me to have one on account of all the medication im on ,well i wish you all anice day and for those with cold weather try to stay indoors take care all,and thank you for all your birthday wishes for my hubby Jan you would laugh most of his birthday cards came from GR Ladys
Love Dutchxx

Hello Girls,

Brother rang me this afternoon to let me know that an old school friend of his has died suddenly from a brain tumour at the age of 63.

It's upset me a bit as he lived two doors away from us while we were growing up, we, with other children in the street all played together and his dad who was a teacher taught us in class 4 of the Junior school.
N--l who was a teacher and later a headteacher always lived in the same town that we were brought up in, with his wife and children, so of course my brother kept in touch with him.
He and his wife had been out walking with some members of the walking club they belonged to, he started with a headache which got worse even after taking painkillers.....wife called Dr and by the time the ambuance arrived N--l had become unconcious, he died two days later in hospital.
Sorry to go on everyone, I just feel so upset about it....it was so unexpected.



Joyce, glad that Jan enjoyed his birthday....he did well with cards from the GR ladies......you'll have to keep an eye on him and us, you know.lolol!!!

Hope they can sort out a chair lift for you Joyce. It will make life a bit easier for you.

I am thinking that I might pop to Derby tomorrow so I will have a look in the Craft Shops to see what peel offs they have there that might be OK for you.



Ann you and T have a safe journey to daughter's and enjoy the weekend with her and her family.
Still thinking about her and sending her lots of positive thoughts.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3



Mo, not sure if you have a darts match tonight or not....if you have hope you and team will win.



Sylvia, OH must be on his way accross ' The Pond ' by now. Hope he has a safe journey.



Jean, hope you, Jeff and Debra are all alright today. Hope it isn't too cold for you today.....it's gone cold again here today.
I went up to town this morning to get a few bits and bobs, I was glad to get home as it was colder than I expected it to be.


Caz, how are you? I hope that you are coping a bit more than you've been able to for a long while. Thinking about you.



Huia, hope you are alright. Are you stiil working in the Charity Shop?



Hope Linda and OH are having a good holiday. Not sure when they are due home.



Marie I hope that things are getting better and easier for you. Take care.



I must go now, I have to give my cousin a ring before it gets too late.




I'll speak to all tomorrow.


Take care everyone.


Love and best wishes.Sallie.xxx

Just quick hello to say thank you to Mo for my anniversary card even though we are celebrating it here will keep the card for 26 july then its 13 yrs ,just had another nurse out as my left leg is swelling and has got to thick for the other nurse to put the stocking on,so now i will have one nurse in the morning and one in the afternoon she will come monday weds fri .but other one she will still come every day just when i thought everything was going fine cant sit because of the pain in my spine and still suffering from dizzy spells its the vertigo only on my left side the nurse said she thinks im so funny well dont no about that LOL i wish everyone nice weekend and will let you know how it went on sunday ,they did it on the 22 instead of the 26 cos everyone is at work
Love Dutchxx

Sylvia hope your OH got home OK.

Joyce pleased to hear that Jan had a good party. It will be good for you to have the wheelchair for indoors. Now, no antics if they fit the stair lift. No offering rides for 50p a time Lol!!!! Hope the half anniversary party goes well.

Mo, hope the aches soon go.
Sallie I am sorry to hear about the death of your friend. Do you mean he didn't know he had a brain tumour until he got the headache? Goodness thatw as so quick, his poor family, what a shock.

Shan't take my netbook with me this weekend so I will 'speak' to you all Monday.

Oooh my goodness, this thread is looking like a ghost town.
Where has everyone got to. I know that Ann is away for the weekend, but is everyone hybernating.

Joyce, I thought it was your wedding anniversary today. I made Roly run up to the post office quickly and get your card away, in case I missed it. Now I feel a right flippin narrna.lol
Just be sure to put your card out on the real anniversary day ;-)
Sorry to hear you are still suffering with the pains.

Sylvia, I trust your OH got home safetly, and didn't get stuck in the snow on the way home.
I hope the temperature has risen a little for you.
We still have the very chilly winds here in Kent. If it doesn't brighten up during the day tomorrow, I can see me having another day stuck inside the house.

I hope Marie and Huia are o.k in OZ and NZ. I am wondering what their weather is like now.
I believe OZ should now be starting it's summer months.

Sallie what have you been up to this weekend, you have been very quiet, and I miss your chats to us.

I hope all our friends are well.

Special ((((((((((((((HUGS FOR JEAN)))))))))))))))
Speak to you soon. Love Mo xxx

Not been on for a few days, the news about N--l upset me more than I thought it had. Anyway feel a bit better now, it was just the shock of it all.


Ann, thanks for your kind thoughts....no I'm afraid he didn't know that he had a brain tumour, apparently he hadn't had any symptoms at all until the day that he started with the headache. A better way for him not to know, but such a shock for his family and friends.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend with your daughter and her family and that the weather isn't too bad there. Still windy here today but at least it's dry, which is a lot better than yesterday.





Mo, I haven't been on the threads for a few days until today. Wished Jean in Monmouth a Happy Birthday earlier on today and now on here. I must go on the other threads and I also have a few pm's to answer.

How are things with you and your family? I hope all is well with everyone.




Sylvia, hope your OH is home safe and sound and that he had a good journey.

Have you had anymore snow there? Over the weekend it's been very windy, wet and cold here in Derbyshire. I shalll be glad to see the Spring arrive....the longer days.





Caz, hope that things are a bit easier for you.....hope you are able to make a couple of cards. It will help to keep your mind off things. Thinking about.




Huia, where are you? It seems a while since we heard from you.
Hope things are not too bad with Phil....hope he has responded more to you on your last few visits.

Also hope that all is going well with your new greatgranddaughter and
her parents.




Linda, I see that you are home again. hope you and OH had a good holiday. Nice to see you name posting again.




Jean, hope you, Jeff and Debra are all OK. I expect you are busy card making.





Joyce, hope you and Jan enjoyed your Anniversary celebrations with the family today.




Marie and Betty, if you are looking in, I hope that you are both OK.




Well I must go and add to a couple more threads, so will speak to you all soon.



Take care everyone.



Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hi everyone


OH got home safely on Thursday .......... but he brought a present home with him


a bad cold


I'm hoping that I will not catch it!



We had a couple of centimetres of Sunday on Friday morning ........ nowhere near what we had been told to expect.


Then it started to warm up, and it was pouring rain by mid-afternoon!


It's raining today!




Sallie ........ so sorry to hear about your friend.

These brain tumours can develop to quite a large size before causing any problems, depending on where exactly they are.

Remember that contact of mine last summer ........... arrived at the conference on Sunday looking fine. Next day was very tired. Next day, doing silly things, and not always making sense when she spoke. Got more and more disoriented as the week progressed ........ and was diagnosed with a huge tumour on the following Sunday

............... less than a week from symptoms beginning to show to diagnosis.

I haven't been keeping up with her husband's blog (it got too depressing, to be honest) ..... but the last I heard, it looked as though the tumour was growing back.




Take care everyone



sylvia
xxx

Sylvia, thank you for your kind thoughts. I can't get over how N--l didn't have any symptoms until he started with the headache and then for it to happen so quickly.

Glad that OH is home safe but sorry that he has got a bad cold. I hope he won't be too generous with it......you can do without that kind of present.lol!!


Take care and keep warm.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Hi everybody.

I hope if I get anything terminal I have plenty of warning so I can finally get rid of a lot of my junk. My son and daughter wont thank me if I leave heaps of paper for them to sort through.

Sally, it is a BOY, or it was, last I knew. A great grandSON. Marcus. I havent seen them for a couple of weeks. I will probably wait until next month when he is a little bit older. (Well, he isnt likely to be younger is he?)

The weather here today has been beautifully sunny. I was working in the shop again this afternoon, but then I am not one for sunbathing.

Huia.

Just popping in to say hello to you all.
All is well here in Kent, I hope you are all o.k as well.
I must try and get on here earlier tomorrow, but it's just been one them days today, and the time has flown by.
Take care everyone. Love to all. Mo xxx

Hello Girls,

Gosh where have you all gone.....it's so quiet on here lately. I've had a few ' off ' days this last week, so sorry I haven't been on here
.

Sylvia, hope that your friend won't suffer for to long now. I remember you telling us about what had happened to her at the conference last year. It doesn't seem like a twelve month.....time goes by so quickly.



Huia, sorry abot that I knew that it was a boy but for some reason wrote down grt,granddaughter. I think it must be due to the funny week I've been having.lol!!




Mo, I see that you have been busy playing word games on FB with a couple of other GR members.lol!!! Do you still play darts on a Monday and Thursday.....or is it the end of the season,it thats what it's called? Anyway good luck if you still play and with the word games too.




Well I must get ready to go and do the shopping now so will speak to you all soon.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Hi Sallie,
Yes , I have been busy playing words with friends on Face Book, it's a game that is the same as Scrabble, great fun if you enjoy word games.
Mind boggling at times, especially when the time is getting on, and the brain has decided it wants to go to sleep. lol
I am still playing darts twice a week at the moment, but our Monday night team, is folding at the end of this season. Three people are dropping out, and besides that, the team had become rather boring and no fun anymore.
The Thursday team is great fun, well it is at the moment anyway, so I will wait and see.
I dont really want to give up the game completely, as then I wouldn't be seeing the friends I have made over the years.
Oh Oh, Roly has just asked me what time the kettle is going on this afternoon, so I had better go.
Love to all. Mo xxx

Hello girls, sorry I haven't been on for a while but have not been very well last few days. My leg has started swelling so much that I can't walk with it, can't walk at best of times, lol. Then I have this sickness for last three days and my back is hurting so I may call the doctor in tomorrow, Oh what a pleasant life it is.
Our housing warden is leaving tomorrow so I am just waiting for her to come up for a last visit, someone else will take over but Carol lives here with us, well she did, the new one will just call in about three times a week but check on the intercom every day.
Sallie I haven't made any cards for ages but keep looking at my stash so I will get some made soon.
She has just rung to say she will be 20 mins so time for a cuppa first.
See you all later, sorry its so short.

Love Caz xx

Just back from shopping. All go here today. Opticians this morning and new specs ordered and T**** this afternoon, the looking at carpets for OH's 'office'. He wants a fairly small bit but so far not found anything.

Made 10 cards in the past two days so had a rest today. Intended writing some overdue letters but that got knocked on the ehad. We were intending to shop tomorrow but I had a phone call offering me an appointment with the dermatolagist for tomorrow afternoon. as they usually forget to send for me until a month later than they should I decided tot ake it. Check up on the rodent ulcer and suspected one. Not my favourite appointment as I never know when he is going to be wealding the scalpel.

Caz Sorry you have been unwell, hope you can get a bit of relief from the back pain and something for the swollen leg. Is the new warden nice? Why is Carol leaving? You will miss her being on the premises.

Mo, you will miss going out Mondays won't you. When Roly asked when the kettle was going on you should have said 'when you do it' :-D

Ann they moved to Pontifract a month ago to follow her husbands job and she finds it a long way to come. We will all miss her as she is lovely and will do anything for us as long as it's not leaving the building, shop etc. Saying that she once picked my prescription up for me from the chemist,(carrierbag full) but it took her so long she darent do it again, bless her.
I haven't met the new warden yet, they were supposed to call in at about 4-30 but not arrived up to now, Carole said that last night it was 7 o-clock before they finished meeting the residents, she finishes at five normally.

Oh is home now so see you later.

Love Carole

Hi all
xx


have caught OH's cold :-( :-(


wasn't it kind of him to bring me a "present" from England :-) :-)



s
xx

Sylvia, sorry to hear that you have caught OH's cold....still you can't complain that he didn't bring you anything back.lol!!! Anyway, I hope that it will clear without causing any problems for you. Take care and keep warm.



Caz, I'm so sorry to hear about your leg being swollen amongst your other problems. Hope you will be able to see the doctor tomorrow and he/she will be able to give you something to take the swelling down so that it will be easier for you to walk. Will be thinking about you.

I'm also sorry to hear that Carol is leaving, you shall certainly miss her, as all the other residents will.



Ann. hope your appointment goes well with the Dermatolagist tomorrow.
You are doing well with your card making. You put me to shame.lol!!


Take care everyone.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello everyone I have just put a thread up for Y/Caz. she has had another fall and broke her ankle so she wont be on here for some time
I am so sorry for her she isnt well at the best of times now this wont help her at all.... I know you will keep her in your thoughts and prayers...

I havent been on for a while, very busy trying to build my stock of cards up, hope you are all well got to go and make tea. bye for now.
love Jean xx