General Chat

Hi Linda,

Glad to know that all is going well with the new mum and baby. Sounds as though you all had a good time yesterday celebrating your son's birthday......lovely to have your new grandson there with you altogether.





Jean, you are doing really well with your cards, there's no stopping you.lol!!
I'm trying to make the birthday and anniversary cards that I need over the next couple of months......so many special birthdays in our family this year.
Before it started to snow on Sunday we went to the craft centre at the garden centre a few miles away, and I bought myself an embossing board to make cards, but I can't work out how to use, I've tried a few times but without much success...... the instructions with it are not very clear at all.


Caz, good luck for tomorrow, hope the results are good, I will be thinking about you. Hope your ankle is feeling a bit better and more comfortable.




Hope everyone else is alright and keeping warm.



Love, Sallie.xxx

Sallie ask about it on the craft thread, maybe somebody will see it on there.

I have been popping in and out but don't seem to have had a lot of time for chatting, made quite a few cards to take me through the next couple of months and now staring to scrapbook again.

Linda, I am pleased that all is going well with Mum and babe, lovely to see them when they are so little.

No snow here and last night not even a frost thank goodness. Quite cold out though when we went to do our weekly shop.

Mo hope your darts was cancelled and you didn't have to venture out in the cold and hope you don't get any more snow. :-D

Just made some chicken and veg soup with the carcase of the chicken so that is tomorrows lunch. T is decorating the cloakroom.

PM sent Sallie love Jean xx

hi all


rain rain rain today (Feb 8)



........... and today was the day OH had a colonoscopy at the local hospital ............. no driving afterwards, and had to be accompanied home by a responsible person ........................



me :-D


I don't drive, never have driven


so we had to go down on the bus (about a 20 minute ride), and then got a taxi home.


Anyway, the news is good .......... this was the 6 year exam after he had a colon resection. One small polyp removed, go back to see the doc in 1 year, and have a colonoscopy in 2 years.

The polyp will be examined of course to make sure it isn't cancerous. But it doesn't seem that the doc was too concerned.


More rain tomorrow ........ so we are in a warm wet period






OH saw the first snowdrop in flower in our garden this morning





take care everyone



sylvia
xx

Hi Sylvia, good news about OH and fingers crossed that the polyp isn't cancerous.

Here in Derbyshire we had about 4 inches of snow on Saturday and still have a good bit hanging about on the pavements and side streets.
Just hope it isn't hanging about for more, as some people say here in the UK. Just wish we had some of the rain that you have over there so it would wash all the lingering snow away.lol!!



Caz, hope you have had good results from the hospital today. Thinking about you!




Jean, thanks for your pm, will reply as soon as I've finished on here.



Hope everyone is OK and take care.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Sylvia, glad the hospital visit worked out ok and hopefully the polyp won't be cancerous.

I have put some more of Jean's cards on the blog.

I have a mammogram tomorrow so fingers crossed a) that it doesn't snow, b) that it isn't icy and c) that the mammogram is clear.

Hi all


Good luck tomorrow, Ann xxx

thanks Sylvia

Good luck for tomorrow, Ann. Hope it's all clear.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Hope that everyone who is due tests gets good results, Ann, Caz and Sylvia's husband.

Not sure I will be going far tomorrow, winter wonder land here tonight.Oh my goodness it has been snowing for over an hour now, it actually looks like frozen rain ontop of the snow from earlier. The bird feeders have an inch on the top of them.

It is freezing cold too, even in the house

Linda xxx <3 <3 <3

Hope all goes well Ann...and anyone else who has to have check ups.
Mo have you heard anything yet? still praying for you....
the snow seems to have bypassed us at the moment. lets hope it stays that way....lol....still quite cold and icy but I stay put unless I am forced to go out,...... usually screaming and fighting.....what a whimp....
hope our friends over the waters are doing o.k. much love to them all...
so better go and do some h......... k not that I do much these days. if I can help it....so lovely peeps take care out there and behave ....
love Jean xxx

Hello Jean,
Yes I have got my appointment through for the 3rd of March. So much for it being an urgent appointment. But I am still here,and smiling and sending you my love.
Like everyone else, I am staying put in the house in the warm. The snow in the garden,and on the drive,has still not gone away,and it's blessed cold out there.
I hope all our friends who are waiting for results of one kind or another, are staying strong.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hi girls hope you all are ok in this freezing weather, I can only go by what people tell me and see on the news how cold it is, lovely and warm in the flat. It's been snowing today and has covered and I think we may have some more yet.
Thanks for all your thoughts, my ankle still hurts, actually more than it did but I am spending a lot of time with it up in bed as I was told but I hate it. I sit at night with it up in recliner with a pillow under it. I feel like a lady of leisure now, oh is running round like a scalded cat lol.
I hope your mammogram goes ok Ann and Sylvias oh's will be ok.
I haven't read the threads so don't know what is happening so can't comment.

Tea is out so better go.

Love Caz xx

Good to see you on here caz, sorry you are still in pain and hope that it soon feels better. Brownie points for P for waiting on you hand and foot. :-) :-)

Hello Ladys
spoke to Philip on phone today and Caz had bad night did,nt get much sleep for the pain so she was in bed bless her,went to the docters myself and he has cut my morphine down from 50 to 25 as i was forgetting things,also getting new wheel chair which is realy better than the one i have ,its got more things on it you can lay back on it little bit it has head rest .and its also better for my legs to had to phone the nurse tonight as she had put the banages on my legs to tight and it was giving me alot of pain,so they are coming out tomorrow to do my left leg for me
Mo good luck for the 3rd march and hope all goes well for you
Syliva hoe your OH will be ok fingers crossed for him and Mo
Ann hope your ok and your daughter is alright too
Sallie not alot to say to you as i have just got off phone talking to you LOL
Jean hope you and Jeff are both well
Maria how are you doing and how is Phil your hubby
well must go now nearly time for bed as did,nt sleep to well last night was talking to our Sallie till 2.30 our time
To anyone i may have forgot take care and stay saft
Love Dutchxx

Hello girls,

Hope you are all alright, as it's so quiet on here. I've been busy making birthday and anniversry cards, so I can now start to make the birthday cards for the eight birthdays I have in March......so I need to pull my finger out.lol!!



Dutch, nice to see you on here, you don't come on here very much now.



Linda, how are things with your daughter and grandson? Hope things are going along alright with them both.
Have you been doing anymore knitting lately?


Mo, how are things with you, hope you are OK as you seem to be very quiet lately. Are you still in the darts team.



Ann, how are things with your daughter? Has she started her treatment yet? If she has, I hope that she is coping okay with it.

I haven't been on your craft thread for a while so will have to have a look at it. The last time I looked at it, there was some lovely things on there.




Caz, lovely to see you posting, sorry to hear from Joyce that you are still suffering quite a bit of pain. I hope that things will now start to improve so that at least you don't have to stay on bed rest for most of the day. I will be thinking about you.



Huia and Marie, it's a long time since we seen you both on here. Hope all is well with you and yours. Take care both of you.




Jean, I still haven't tried that embossing board, I keep putting it off thinking that it's going to be messy using the lubricant that I bought and that it's going to be difficult to do. I'm always nervous about trying something new.lol!!
Hope you, Jeff and Debra are okay and that Debra hasn't had too much trouble getting to work.




Sylvia, hope all is well with you and OH and that the weather has improved there. Although it's still quite cold here it isn't freezing so most of the snow has now gone, thank goodness.



Well girls, I have to go up to town now so will speak to you soon.


Take care everyone.



Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello, friends, hope you are all coping the best you can. we are doing o.k. now the dreaded snow has gone.Just been and spent too much at the craft shop...lol... Sallie I watched a video on you tube, showing how to do the embossing boards it seems you can use a candle to lubricate the cardon the back , and use the spray n slide on the back of the card, I know I have a can somewhere but still cant find it , so will have a go with a candle and see if that works....I need to do a special Golden wedding card soon so may make a booktrix one....
Joyce I hear you are into cuttlebugging also, again you can see lots of Ideas on you tube I have just bought some X cut dies so now I will have a go...but I hope we will get to see your cards too...
Marie hope you are well, also Huia and Phil. Sylvia too.
Mo keep your pecker up , we are all rooting for you, stay positive my friend...
Ann when do you go away ? how long this time?
well folks must go and do some crafting ,
love and hugs to everyone Jean xx

Hello all. thanks for news of Caz Joyce. Sorry she'd had a bad night though. Hope the reduced morphine works and that you get on ok with the new wheel chair.

Sallie, L has started her treatment, finishes about 22 Feb. She is coping ok although it makes her very tired and sore.

I am also sore from using the Aldara cream on the rodent ulcers, not sure if it is doing any good either.

Made several cards for the charity shop and now have about 14/15 to take in for them. forgot to photograph them and theya re now all in plastic envelopes so can't do it now.

Jean we go to the Lake District on 10 March and Tenerife on 25 April.

Mo shall be thinking of you on 3 March. :-)

Ann, glad to hear that your daughter is coping ok with her treatment, but sorry that she is very sore and tired from it.
Hope that the Aldara ceam is working and that it will get rid of the rodent ulcers for you. Let's hope that you will get some good weather when you go to the Lake District in March.....at least if it's dry you can det out and about a bit easier.


Jean, hope you can get the candle wax to work for you on the embossing boards.

I've just made three special Ruby Wedding cards for my brother and sister-in-law, they celebrate it on Sunday. I made one to send from Alun and myself, then Jennie and then Richard asked if I could make one each for them to send too. I must say, they turned out quite well, better than I expected as I hadn't made any cards since before Christmas.


Been over to Jennie's this evening, she's been suffering with her Crohn's for almost a week but didn't say anything not to worry her dad and me. She tells us that it is slowly getting better, so we'll have to wait and see.


Well I'll say goodnight now, a bit late tonight I'm afraid.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Good morning everyone
Sorry not to have added for a while but been spending a lot of time with my daughter helping her to gain confidence in her new role. She is doing well, considering we never thought she would have her own child. Feeding really going well Baby back to his birth weight then gained 3 oz over 4 days. He has been handed to Health Visitor care now as his jaundice is almost gone. She took me out to meet her NCT parenting class ladies yesterday and drove there herself(as I don't drive). So that was a big step.

We have our son's dog over the next weekend as he has to go to Harrogate on business. So a different kind of caring, much more energetic !!!

Sallie I have been knitting...... finished a tiny 3 ply cardigan I started ages ago, just needed sewing up and buttons. Then I started a 2nd size cardigan in random blue wool.

I must finish a cross stitch I started of Peter Rabbit, it needs backing only.

Oh well have caught up with the washing just need to do the ironing and maybe go for a walk later on as the weather has greatly improved ........ no snow and much warmer.

Linda xxx <3 <3 <3