General Chat

Mo how is your son, ive missed chatting but so busy , im typing here and my minds else where do this gota do that , forgot what looking after teenagers is like, just been contacting orthadontists in the area, girl has had a brace that should have been moved from her teeth over a year ago, the back of it has grown into her pallet, so ive chased her records up from liverpool to near here and the time she can be seen is saturday after i finish charity stall, being busy is healthy to my illhealth lol, BUT i am gett6ing plenty of rest 6pm fri night ish till 6am i slept, then 4pm teatime last night till 10am this morning, im sure its the oxygen im getting of the cpap machine, it is helping so thats the main think oh excuse throat ive lost my voice, very frustrating, explaining things. love to everyone and hope your all ok xxxx :-D <3

caz how you feeling today xx

Quiet in your house then Puss :-D

I expect rushing around to do things for foster daughter helps to push your own problems into the background.

Oh for goodness sake Huia, it never rains but it pours down on you mate doesn't it.
I wonder how much it will cost to get the window sorted, it definately wont be as well made as the original, that Phil made. That has lasted well hasn't it.
It's a good job you saved the ice cream tubs, they came in very handy for you didn't they.

Ann, have you tried Debenhams, for your wedding outfit. We had a look in their range of special occasion wear, but they were far to dressy for me unfortunately, but the brides mother is getting her outfit there.

Lorraine,my son seems to be o.k at the moment ( fingers crossed ). It's the baby, and my eldest son I am more worried about now.
The district nurse came out to change my sons dressing today, and she phoned his doctor and demanded he come out to look at the infected wound, as she feels his infection is not clearing up properly.
She changed the wick in his naval,and said that there is still a lot of infection left in it, as it oozed puss when she took the old wick out.
Little one goes into hospital to have her Barium Meal done in the morning, perhaps then we may know what is causing this projectile vomiting.

What a flamin year this has been so far, one son has the heart attack, baby starts her vomiting, my daughter breaks her toe, and my other son has a hernia operation and gets a bad infection.
Please lord dont let anything alse go wrong.

Teenagers are very hard work arn't they. Why wasn't your young ladies brace taken off before ,was she with her mother for the past year? Just shows how much she cared doesn't it. Well done you, chasing things up for her.
It must have been hurting her having the brace grow into her pallete, bless her.

We have been into Canterbury today. It's a pity the weather wasn't kinder to us, it's been blowing a gale, and raining in the wind, but a nice day out anyway.
Well girls I will say cheerio for now, take care. Love Mo xxx

Special message for Jean.....Whats the surprise then, I am still waiting with bated breath. lol Love ya honey mwah xxx

Oh alright then I will let you know, do you remember i said some time ago that my grandson and his partner were on the IVF programme....
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeell its been successful...............
we are going to be great grand parents, we saw a picture of the baby when she had her scan. 12 weeks, next scan they will know if its a boy or girl... never thought it would happen, :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
but we are praying all will be well, E has problems health wise so its still very early days but they said i could tell you all....now I shall have stiff drink or two and see you all later if I can.....lol...
love Jean xxx

Hi girls, can't remember if I came on yesterday or not, I wrote a message but computer went funny when I tried to send it, it has been funny today as well, seems to be working ok now.I've had an awful weekend and today, my leg is getting bad again, hope it doesn't go paralised like it did when all this started. Not been able to walk on it properly and keep falling.
Jean, the parcel hasn't come yet, the post is getting worse, the parcel could have been urgent for what they know, Joyce was waiting three weeks for one of hers, hope mine doesn't take so long.
OH has just disturbed me from falling asleep over the computer so better go.

Caz xx

Jean, what lovely news, hope all goes well for them.

Thanks Ann, and thanks for adding the pics on your blog, the cards your grandaughter has made are lovely how old is she, bet the teachers were delighted with them...I have not done much for a few days struggled with a bad cough but it seems to be clearing now....
so hope all is well with you and your family...I am off to bed now so will say nite, nite, sleep well everyone...
love Jean xx

Mo and Lorainne and Jean and Caz (have I missed anybody?), my bad news is nothing compared with all the health problems you and your families have. Best wishes to all of you.

Huia

Jean, Granddaughter will be 10 on friday.(going on 17 :-D)

Well we've had quite an eventful day. We decided as the rain had stopped to drive up the M5 to webbs garden centre at Wychebold. Got there, had coffee and then I hit Hobbycraft and bough a load of bits and pieces. In webbs itself bought a couple of plants and a solar garden light (a ball on a pole, we already have two.) Then we walked round the wild flower gardens they have created by the river which are lovely, there were loads of poppies and cornflowers, geraniums and lots of other self seeded flowers. We also walked round the part of the garen that showcases their plants that they sell. Not looking its best at the moment because of the weather. saw a beautiful dragonfly by the river, electic blue, almost black, very pretty but too fast to photograph.

Next we drove down the road to the Harvester where we had their salad bowl starter and fish (cod) and chips which were very nice.

Now the fun starts. We got back to the car which refused to unlock on the fob. We have been having trouble for a while, so much so that T has disconnected the alarm klaxon and just left the hazard lights to flash. This time though it really scrambled its brain, we could unlock it with the key but then the hazards started flashing. Couldn't stop them. In the end drove off down the M5 with the lights coming on every five miles or so, T could switch them off on the fob. But it got a bit dodgy so we turned into frensham service station and in the end between the two of us managed to remove the fuse that activated the hazard warning lights. Unfortunately it also worked (or didn't) the indicator lights. So we drove the next bit of the motorway (about 10 miles with no indicators, not my favourite thing to do, then came off the motorway and drove home throught the back lanes. Have now called out 'Sparky' as T has done all he can to fix it.

Still we did have a nice day out even if the journey home was 'interesting'. :-D

Ooooh Jean congratulations, on such very good news, I am soo pleased for you all.
It does make a change for there to be some glad news amongst us all.
Take it steady on the stiff drink my lovely, we cant have you falling down drunk can we. lol Especially now that you are to become great grandparents.
Welcome to the club by the way.

Ann, never a dull moment with you and T is there. I bet you were dreading seeing a policeman on the road, but then it was a genuine reason for your not having working indicators wasn't it. But would a bobby have believed you I wonder.
Up till that point you had both had such a brilliant time, what a shame it ended as it did.

Huia, has it stopped raining yet over there. I do hope your window dries out o.k, and that the cost of repair is not to expensive.

Caz, I am sorry to hear you are still suffering badly with your leg. Has the kidney infection cleared itself properly?

Well, Lilly had her Barium meal today. They managed to get her to drink it, by putting some strawberry milk shake flavouring in it.
And guess what, yes, they couldn't find anything wrong....so back to the drawing board.
She has to see the paediatrician next week, so we will wait and see what he says.

I bet Sylvia is still enjoying having the family with them. Hard work though, having family visiting with a little one though.
I know when our family arrive with the grandchildren, we are so happy to see them, but oh so relieved when they go home, and we can get ourselves straight again. We become creatures of habit and routine dont we.

Well I must go now, take care evryone. Love Mo xxx

Mo, it was a beautiful fine day yesterday. The builder came in the late afternoon and couldnt see any reason for the leak. He even went up into the ceiling, with all the cobwebs and rat poo. He hadnt brought his long ladder for getting up on top of the roof, but if I have the problem again I will phone him and he will bring it and his young ladder-holder so he can check more closely up on the roof. I suspect it was a one-off event. Just hoping the water hasnt done any internal damage.

Going to a mid-winter meal at Phil's home today, so I mustnt spend too long on here.

Huia.

Huia once in the winter we had a rainstorm and our conservatory leaked. The rain came from a different direction, it has not leaked at all during all this wet weather we have had. Hope you stay dry now.

Glad Lily got through the barium meal ok Mo, hope they can find something soon so they can help her get better.

Hello everyone, how are we all this fine day.
Oooh yuk Huia, that poor builder going up into the loft, with all the deposits that had been left there by your little visitors. Are you still getting visits from them by the way.?
How did the mid winter meal go at Phil's place. What sort of goodies did they give you?
How is Phil by the way?

Cooe Ann,~~~~~~~~~ I have been flitting about the boards today haven't I. lol
Oh my word, that Barium has started to go through Lilly like a dose of salts, bless her.

Must go and see if there is any news about Maddie on my other thread now girls.
Take care all. Love and Hugs, especially to our Jean.
Oh by the way, has anyone heard from Sallie lately.
mwah Mo xxx

Hello girls from a lovely sunny day here, it rained well spitted a little bit but nothing really got wet. I am nearly over my kidney infection, just got a couple of days of anti-biotics left now. About my leg, it has got to the point where I can't walk on it properly, and now the other one has started now, To say I am fed up is an understatement, Lucky OH is home some of the day so I can stay in bed and rest.
Brave little Lilly drinking her Barium meal, I can't bear the thought of drinking it, uugh.
Jean I still haven't got the parcel, if it hasn't come by the end of the week I will ring the post office, it''s getting silly is this, and they get away with it. Congratulations on your good news, My grandson has no plans yet but I think his wife wants one soon.

Time for painkillers so I might as well go. see you all tomorrow
Caz xx

huia, your problems are still problems that you have to deal with, so i really hope things sort them selves out for you xxx

Ann g yes very quiet :-D but kind of nice, especially the laughter with her friend from her room

mo, she was with her mum, and they never settled anywhere long enough, ive had a right game finding her records, so when i finally told a orthodontist that i would be taken her to A and E and would speak to the local radio station, all of a sudden they can see her saturday after my charity stall, i usually go to be for a hour after that so hope i dont fall asleep at dentist lol, apart from that she is wonderfull.

she wanted to earn some money so she did me a spring clean (summer clean ) lol, she loves tidying up.As she is over 16 i didn t mind.

....and mo i hope you dont have anymore bad news and the baby and son get well soon xxx

Im at last having a good few days no pain today but feeling very tired, this could be because ive been doing more .

love to everyone xxxx :-D

Yesterday morning when I was about to get changed to go to the midwinter dinner (lunch) I committed a murder on my back porch. I left the body there until I got home. It was one of those pesky Aussie possums which had decided to curl up on the back door mat. It wasnt an easy job to kill it, despite the fact it was not over-active. Finished with blood and brains oozing on my porch, lovely mess to clean up when I got home. I felt like Lady MacBeth, 'out damned spot' wanting to wash my hands all the time, even though I didnt get any on my hands. There were also 2 rats caught in traps. All the rain must have brought the pests in out of the wet.

The lunch was fine and I didnt over-eat. Phil still seems to be able to use his brain. He decided he wanted one of the plastic forks from the far side of the table, but he couldnt quite reach, so he got hold of the table cloth to pull it towards him.

I am tired, so think I will have a nap before my lunch.

Huia.

Oh my lord Huia, no wonder you were feeling so tired, after the exertion of killing the Possum and clearing all the blood and gore up afterwards...yuk
The pesky rats would come out in the rain,they love swimming around in water and drains. Thank goodness they got caught in the traps. Were they ones that you had baited in readiness, just in case.
When we had the very bad rain recently, the powers that be, were concerned about rats in our sewers in this country.
They showed photo's of rats swimming down streets, in the flood waters.

Lorraine, can you send your young lady to do a spring/summer clean up for me.
The windows, and nets could all do with a clean up. lol

Where has everyone got to I wonder, no..Jean,Ann,Sylvia, Sallie, Caz, Marie, Joyce,Linda,Liz,Jude they have not all gone on holiday surely.

I think I will send Sallie a p.m, as it's unusual for her to be absent this long.
Bye for now girls, Love Mo xxx

Don't panic Mo, I am here, not had much time to add today, first I did a wash load, dried it in the conservatory because it looked like rain. I was wrong about that but it is all dry. Then 'Sparky' came to fix the car, then we went grocery shopping, then I spent an hour in the garden after lunch, it is such a nice day we thought it was a good opportunity. T was out there longer though. We cut back loads of the jungle that had sprung up in the rain, can actually see the borders now. Sorry not 'spoken' to everyone but this is just to let you know I am around. Have been reading quickly and not posting. :-)