General Chat

Linda, sorry, I have checked back but can't find out what happened with your daughter. All I knew was that she had a tummy bug. Anyway, whatever it was I am please she is better and that you will hopefully be able to get to Italy.

Mo, I hope that the blood thinning medication will sort out the blood clot for J.....hope and pray that it all be sorted for him before too long.
Thinking about you all and sending you lots of (((((((hugs))))))) and positive thoughts.

Enjoy your meal out tonight with all your family, it's so nice to have a family gathering.



Linda, sorry but like Ann I missed what was wrong with your daughter, but happy to hear that she is out of hospital and feeling better.
Hope you all have a lovely holiday together and that you will enjoy some good weather.



Sending lots of <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 to Caz, and hope you are starting to feel a bit better. Thinking of you.



I must go now,we are going over to Jennie's to keep her company for a while, while Michael's at work.


Speak to you all soon.


Take care.



Love, Sallie.xxx

Hi girls, blimey I have felt a bit rough the last few days, not nice are kidney infections but starting to feel better now. Hope everyones keeping ok and well themselves.
Mo I hope J goes on ok and they can disperse the blood clot, there's always something going on isn't there.

Love Caz xx

Morning everyone
Hope you are much better Caz.
Hope Jason is OK too Mo
Jean I have fiished one blanket and stated a second one last night. No more for a week as I am off for a break with my family.

Be back soon my friends

Take care while I am away

Linda xxx <3 <3 <3 <3

Have a lovely holiday Linda. We will be waiting to hear of your adventures, and want full updates on all those lovely Italian men, especially the BTM pinchers. lol
I hope your daughters recovery continues well, and that she can enjoy herself.

Caz, I hope you are feeling a little better today my love.... <3 take good care of yourself, and get as much rest as is possible.

It's lovely day here today in Kent, even if a little breezy, at least it's a dry day for a change.
Chineses for dinner tonight, yummy, anybody want some, if so I will dispatch it down the cyber hatch for you.

Take care everyone, love and hugs to all.
But special ((((((((((BIG HUGS)))))))))) for our Jean.xxx

Have great holiday Linda we love Italy especially Lake Garda, we went to Umbria a few years ago very hilly, much prefer Garda....still the weather should be nice for you.... lucky thing.....lol....
Hiya Mo glad to hear about a solution for your son, keep the praying going girls, it works....cold wet and windy here its poured down all day . and from all accounts it will continue.....so we are glad we didnt get away, better off at home .... dont think we will go abroad again, but never say never .... hope you are all doing as well as you can...chinese sounds good Mo what sort ? I will be there around 7. is that o.k. tell my pal Roly to have the kettle on....~~~~~~~ to Ann, Sallie,and our friends who are far away...Caz I have sent a pm....love Jean xxx

O.K Jean, the kettles on, the chinese is starting to get cold now, so hurry up dear girl.
Special fried rice, sweet and sour spare ribs,sweet and sour chicken, and for starters it's pancake rolls, and sesame toast, so hurry up my lovely as I am starving
Did you see the flooding in Wales that was on the news tonight. I thought of you and J, when they showed it, and thought to myself, thank goodness you were not there at the moment.
I am not sure what part of Wales it was though, as Roly decided to talk to me as it was on. Huh! it's always the same, I can't get a word out of him at any other time, and he had to chip in at that moment. lol
What a boring night of T.V tonight, unless you are a football fanatic. It seems there is a football match on either BBC or ITV every night of the week.
I don't mind if it's England playing, but am totally disinterested in other countries games.
I think I will my head into a book this evening.
Bye bye for now girls. Love Mo xxx

Hello girls. I spent most of yesterday on my computer, putting photos onto Facebook. Jean, you really must get a FB page. I cant put them all on my blog at present, far too much to do. I will try sometime though, as it is a good way to ensure photos do not get lost if the computer gives up the ghost.

Well hooray at long last I have been able to get on here.
Whats all this that they are doing maintenance work on this site......RUBBISH. Why did they not warn us beforehand that they were going to do it, then most of us wouldn't have thought it was our computers that were going wrong.
Moan over girls. mwah.

How are we all today? I had to make an appointment for an emergency eye test today.
I have had an awful headache since my accupuncture on the first of this month.
Admittedly I do have to have new readers and distance glasses, but apart from that everything is fine with my eyes.
The optician says I will have to see my doctor about it.
I phoned the physio department,and spoke to the therapist who did my accupuncture, this morning. I have to go and get checked over by her at 8.00a.m in the morning, but she doesn't think it's anything to do with the proceedure I had done.
So to be on the safe side, I will see her, and then phone my G.P.
Oh boy, why does life keep throwing bad things at us like this I wonder.

It's been a thoroughly horrid day today, rain and wind all day. Some areas of Kent are under threat of flooding, but luckily for us, we are up higher and shouldn't be affected. (fingers crossed)

Take care everyone. Love Mo xxx

Mo if you check on the announcements board you can see that the maintenance was not planned it was something outside of their control. Luckily I spotted it on facebook.

What a horrible day today, it has rained every minute of the day here today. T had a golf match and they still played (& he lost) although I think once the result was inevitable they walked in and didn't play the last few holes. Then he walked in the house right in the middle of coronation street which, as you know, was the only programme to watch this evening if you don't watch football (like me). :-) :-)

Hi Mo


and everyone





We got back quite late on Sunday evening


not a very good weekend ...............................


pouring rain on Thursday ..... hate driving the freeway when it's doing that!

showers and COLD on Friday and Saturday

Then ............. lovely and sunny on Sunday driving home ............ so had to dig to the bottom of one of the bags to find the sun lotion!


The cabin had been broken into again, as it was this time last year ................. and, like last year, it was probably in the last couple of weeks. Once again doors were left wide open, but there was no sign of water damage OR of animal visits (ie, no droppings, or such things).

They took a variety of things, ranging from the old but great gas-powered lawn mower to 2 pairs of Wellington boots to long-handled garden spade and 2 rakes, but the piece de resistance was the one very old work shirt that was paint splattered and needing a wash (or disposal).

They missed the under-the-bed storage drawer that had OH's tools such as the Maul, Machete, 2 axes, (all good quality), the radio and the coffee thermos.

We've now changed our plans of "selling some time", to "get rid as soon as possible".

We spent Saturday packing the car with as much stuff as we could.


This morning (ie, Monday), OH had to phone the RCMP station in the town near the cabin to report the theft


We stopped by the station on Friday to report it ................. to find a notice on the door ................


It closes at 4 pm on Friday, and is closed on Saturday and Sunday.


There was a phone number to use if you NEEDED to speak to a constable .................................


.............. we decided that we did not NEED to speak to a policeman to report a burglary when we could only say "between August last year and June this year" (even though our suspicions are sometime in the last 2 weeks).

so he had got to phone and report it!


This evening, he went out, and I got to talk to a very nice sounding Mountie
:-D :-D


We have to fax a list of what went missing, it will be circulated to members of the detachment in case they come across stolen property ............ none of it was very expensive. No-one leaves "good" things in cabins ............... but OH does like good tools, so they are probably the most valuable.


It will go into the annual report, and allows them to keep tabs on activity in "cabin country".


I think it was probably "kids" in their late teens/early 20s.



On Saturday, we drove back from the cabin into the nearest small town about 45 minutes too late to see a small Cessna plane take off from the airport, try to go under the overhead wires at the edge of the main road, but hit the telephone wires then a huge restaurant sign on the other side of the road, turn upside down, and slide across the parking lot until it hit a building.


All 3 people walked away with very minor injuries .............


......................... but it was the talk of the town!!!


Google "100 Mile House plane crash" if you want to see more





what a weekend!!!





sylvia
xx

Good afternoon girls,

My word Sylvia, that cabin is becoming the bane of your lives isn't it love.
Perhaps you should have written both your names on the welly boots, or put the words left and right on them, so that if anyone is seen wearing them, the mounties would know they belonged to you. lol
How pathetic and desperate must someone need to be, to steal the boots and an old paint spotted shirt.
They may have got money for the other objects, but the shirt and boots would only be handy for someone who is without their own clothing.
As you said, " Get rid as soon as possible" to save the heartbreak every time you go up there love.
My lord, how lucky were the people that got out of that plane alive. How the devil did the pilot misjudge the overhead wires like that.

Ann, I also couldn't get on to this site yesterday, and it was only by seeing your message that I realised why.
I have read what GR said on FB, about the difficulties that arose.
Poor T, fancy playing golf in all that rain....but then thats men for you, we woman would have thought to ourselves, no way am I going out on that fairway in the rain, and stayed in the clubhouse having a nice warm cuppa, or a drinkie poo. lol

We got soaked going to see the physio therapist this morning, but it was worth it.
She did all the checks on me, and I am fine. So if the headaches come back with avengance, I will see my doctor.
It's been wonderful today, not waking up with a headache that lasts all day.

It's still chucking it down with rain at the moment, and poor Roly had had to take our car down for it's MOT, fingers crossed it passes.
Will pop back later to see if anyone has been on to see us.
Bye for now, love to you all. Mo xxx

Snap!!! My car went for its MOT this morning and it passed thank goodness.

Pleased that you woke up without a headache today Mo, wonder if it was a tension headache. Sometimes if you take too many pain killers they themselves cause headaches too. Anyway let's hope they stay away now.

Hooray Ann, our car passed as well. Thank goodness for that, it's such a relief isn't it.

I am absolutely worn out tonight. We had baby Lilly for the day, and even though she was very good, she projectile vomitted all her lunch up, yet again, and then did the same with her dinner this evening.
At the moment my son and his OH are at the hospital with her. They have been rushed through to the paediatrics ward, and are waiting for a scan.
When they went to A+E they insisted on seeing the hospital administrator, as they are fed up of being fobbed off every time they take baby to the hospital.
They triage nurse looked at Lilly's blood results, and sent them straight up to the ward.
Hopefully now it may get sorted out at long last.
Liz, if you are looking in, I told them of your suggestion of what may be wrong, and they are going to ask questions about it, and chase it up just in case.
I will let you know how they get on tomorrow, when hopefully we may have a result.

Night Night god bless, love to you all. Mo xxx

Good morning from me. Well, at least the sun is shining again today. I am on a No Solid food, no milk products day today, with laxatives to take this afternoon, and the electrolyte. Tomorrow morning I have to be in hospital at 7.30 a.m. for a gastroscopy and colonoscopy. My neighbour is going to drive me in, leaving at 6.00 in case we get stuck in the morning rush hour, so I will have to be up at 5.30 or earlier, but I dont know if I will get much sleep in the night anyway, after the laxatives!

I am not allowed to drive for 24 hours afterwards because of the sedatives, but I am planning to get train back to Papakura and taxi the rest of the way, or taxi all the way, unless my neighbour insists on coming to pick me up, but she is such a busy lady helping other people.

I will probably be playing on here or FB all day, although I have to drink a glass of fluid every hour and when I start on the laxatives, I expect I will be dashing down the passage frequently. Pity I dont have a laptop, I could spen the whole day in the small room. :-|

Huia.

Huia good luck with the laxatives etc and also with the hospital visit.

Mo, I hope they can find out what Lilly's problem is, it must be very worrying for you all.

Glad your car passed as well.

Hi all
xx


Mo ...... do hope they manage to work out what is wrong with Lilly. It must be so worrying for you all. xxx


Huia ........... OH has had to have that test done several times. But over here, he is not allowed to leave the hospital afterwards unless he is with a "responsible" adult ........ ie, me :-S

A taxi driver doesn't count ;-)



so you may want to check whether your neighbour can pick you up



that is, of course, if you see this before you leave home!



Good luck <3 <3




s
xx

Hi, Sylvia. If they wont let me home without a responsible adult they will have to keep me in overnight, but I dont know if they have enough beds! My sister had said a week ago that her OH could always drive me if need be, so if my neighbour cant do it I will try to get him, but it will mean coming all the way from North Shore to drive me home to the south of Middlemore. Anyway, I will see what happens tomorrow. In the meantime I am trying to get through 1 litre of electrolyte. It is supposed to take about 1 hour to drink it, but I have added a bit of fruit juice to improve the taste (slightly) and have been working on drinking it for the last 2 hours and am only about half way through it. I do have frequent breaks to dash down the passage!

Huia.

Huia, thinking of you, it must be quite unpleasant.

In between working through my pre=holiday to do list and packing I am on here briefly. I was just thinking that I have not seen Jean lately. I did have an e mail from her a few days ago when she had been unwell so hope she is not missing because she is ill. <3 <3 Jean.

We go to the Lkes tomorrow morning, will have my laptop but probably only on line while at daughters apartment which has internet access, otherwise I have to trek down to the centre of the timeshare estate to use the Wifi there the rest of the week so may not be on line then.

Ann, hope you have a good holiday in the Lakes, let's hope that you get some dry weather.


Mo, just wondering if J has heard anything about his results and also if there is any news about baby Lilly. I hope that things will be sorted out for the both of them very soon.


Caz, hope you are feeling a bit better. Thinking of you.


Sylvia, sorry to hear that you have had another break in at the cabin.
I expect you are looking forward to having your family stay and spending some time with them all, especially MJ.



Huia, hope all goes well with the colonoscopy and gastroscopy. Will be thinking about you.



Jennie seen the Consultant yesterday, she has to have a MRI scan to find out if the the small ulcer she has st the very top of her leg is deffinitely an ulcer or a fistula, it depends on how far back it goes and if it goes into the bowel. She also has to have another colonoscopy, she hasn't had one for three years so the Consultant wants to check to see how things are. She may have to go back on the treatment that she had in the past, the one where she has to inject herself in the top of her leg.....she's not too keen on that.


Jean I hope that you are not poorly and that the family are all alright.



Will speak to you all again soon.


Take care.


Love, Sallie.xxx