General Chat

Morning everyone
Well our new baby grandson was born last night at 11:30pm weighing 7lb 9oz. He is named Joshua George. Our son sounded elated when he called, but I think this morning reality will hit and I'm guessing they will both be exhausted as it was a very long labour.

Sorry I haven't added very often but we have been all over the place helping with our first grandson and now the second grandson is here too.
My cousin is coming from Canada for 4 weeks in a weeks time, so more busyness eh!!

I will try to add sometimes

Thinking of all my friends often and hope Caz is Ok

Linda xxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Linda this is lovely news, so do give our congrats to the parents and also to you too, I have to wait until Feb to welcome my ggreatgrandson into our family . very exciting, hope I am still around to hold him.....lol....

love Jean xx

Congratulations to all of you Linda and welcome baby Joshua :-D :-D <3

Congratulations to you both Linda, and new mummy and daddy. That makes two
grandsons now doesn't it, Sebastion and Joshua.
Never mind next time it could be two grandaughters lol.

Jean what date in February is your great,grandchild due. Our new baby is due on the 13th February, thats if grandaughter goes that far, she is very big already.
Ooh hang on, did you say Great Great Grandson. We should know what sex our new baby is on the 8th of October, I cant wait.

I do hope that Ann is enjoying the same weather as us at the moment, it's glorious, so much so that I think I shall take myself out into the garden for a while.
See you all later, Love Mo xxx

Still dry here but cloudy and not warm. Never mind we still went out but came back early to pack as we are going out to the golf club with our hosts to a pie and adrnk night. Not really in the mood as I slept very badly last night, still as it is our last night will have to force myself. :-D

Hi Mo
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and everyone
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Mo ........ I hope things are getting a little better for you xxxx



we're still having the lovely sunny weather ......... although the temperatures are getting a little high for me during the day. It was around 25C yesterday.

The nights are nice and cool, good for sleeping.

......... and OH has left the basement to sleep upstairs once again


We went to a little "do" last night ................. a company we do business with holds an annual wine and goodies evening every year. They rent a place, take it over for the evening, and arrange for their guests to get free tours. Before now, the event has been held in the Museum of Anthropology at the university, in a fish (mainly salmon) cannery that is now a National Historic Site, etc etc


Last night was at the city's Art Gallery. The big touring exhibit at the moment is Matisse ........ and you could take a guided tour. We didn't do that ...... I was a little too painful, and OH wouldn't do it without me. I found a chair (not easy!!), and we imbibed and ate, and talked to people.


OH spotted one of the people there, I think a "newbie" to the events .................. such a surprise.

Not only had we known his father quite well, but S had written the very first computer programme for the Botanical Garden to help us keep track of all the plants. He was a 2nd year university student in computing sciences when he did that ....... back in 1970/71

We chatted for quite a long time, as you may imagine.

I was a little surprised that the Art Gallery did not have its Gift Shop open .............. most of the places do open their shops, and I'm sure make more than a small amount of money on the evening!! There are usually 300 or 400 people attending ......... at a guess.


Take care everyone




sylvia
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Sure is lovely, we had a beautiful morning the other day, all the cobwebs were silvered with dew, funny how all those little spiders affected the landscape!
Treasures of The New Forest is still alive and thriving
Regards to all, especially my cheeky, lovely mates from those mad old' days/nights! <3

Somebody was asking about you last week Matchless, can't remember who though. Glad you are well. :-)

Welcome to our little mad house Matchless, such a friendly bunch of people on here. Please come back and chat with us sometimes.
The only Forest I remember, is Sherwood Forest of many moons ago, when we had Maid Marion, Robin Hood, and many crazy characters waaayyy back then, but great fun was had by all.

Ann, I hope you got a better nights sleep last night at the Golf Club, and that T didn't decide to go for a moonlight game.
I also hope the wedding goes well tomorrow.

Sylvia my little love, I thought you had vanished into thin air.
I bet you are having good nights sleep now that your O.H has gone back upstairs....
no snoring to have to listen to lol Mind you, we do miss the noises they make dont we, and wouldn't be without them.
I thought you said it was a little do, blimey mate, it sounds like it was a big thing, with there being 300 to 400 people there.
What a shame you didn't feel like seeing the Matisse collection, that would have been great to see.
How is your little man doing now? When are you up for your next visit to see him?

Well our Jean is off on her hols tomorrow, lets hope they have a great time, and that Jean doesn't buy the craft shop up, or poor J will have to tie her to the roof rack on the trip back home, as the car will be full to brimming with all her bits and pieces.

We are having Lilly tomorrow morning. She is normally such a delight to have, lets hope tomorrow is the same as normal. At least we have only got her till one p.m, then we can come home and collapse in the chairs and recover. ;-)

Well my friends, I will say cheerio for now, love to all, Mo

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Thoughts and prayers for Caz xxx
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Mo there wont be alot of room in the car with all my bits and pieces thats before I buy anything ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) hope Lily is a good girl for you, our littlie came in from next door and she chanfed into a right little devil, she is normally very good and lots of fun , but it seems she has had a cob on all week, think she has seen somebody at the child minders throwing stuff and thought she would try it out here, but we put all her toys away and sent her home, never heard screaming in temper before , then as she got to the door she turned round and blew us a kiss and smiled , the minx..... we love her.....
I shall think of you all and hope Anns wedding goes well in lovely sunshine...
Mo keep them in order, dont want to come back to see the thread gone :-| :-|
not heard from Caz but I know she is haveing trouble with her puter, still sending much love to her <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 xxxxxx so gang see you in 8 days behave ... :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
love Jean xxx

I went into the old shop yesterday afternoon. We started dismantling some of our display cabinets. The shop was half empty and we didnt have many customers. I was going to get a photo of the boss locking the door for the last time but missed it but I got her to pose as if she was locking it. Unfortunately it was against the brightness outside but I have managed to lighten it a bit. Last night I put all of my shop photos onto a DVD for her. We are having a party at her place this afternoon. I tried to make an angel food cake a couple of days ago to take, but although I left it in the oven for 1hr 20mins as against the recipe time of 50-60 mins. When I turned it upside down on a plate and left it for a while as per the recipe, when I then tried to remove the tin I found a horrid mushy dough on the plate and in the tin, so I grabbed some paper cup cake things and spooned the dough into them and cooked them for another hour. They were cooked by then, but I am having difficulty removing the paper from them, so they wont be going to the party. I bought a pizza to cook and take instead. :-0 I should have bought one from the Hell Pizza shop!

Good evening girls,
I wonder where you all are today, if you have any sense you will be tucked up indoors away from this downpour that has lasted all day.
I was very lucky this morning. I decided it was time to start to put the garden to bed for the winter. And I had just finished pruning my big bush fuscia, when it started to drizzle.
I quickly managed to put it in the recycling bin, before the heavens opened.
At least that can now go out for collection on Tuesday, otherwise it would have been far to wet for me to get out and prune tomorrow.

I wonder in Ann and T have travelled home following their grandsons wedding. I hope it wasn't pouring down for their journey.

Huia,I was tickled pink by your description of how your Angel Food cake turned out, and what you did to try and salvage it lol
How did the Pizza go down that you cheated and bought ;-) I would have been tempted to buy one the same as you, I have to admit.
It's been years since I have done any real home baking. My favourite cake to make was my Christmas cake, the recipe came from a little book that my mum bought years ago. She also gave me an old Bero cook book, thats now held together by selotape, after being used so many times by myself when my children were young. Aaah those were the days, when it was far cheaper creating recipes, for our large family, than buying ready made meals.
Now I enjoy going to M+S and treating ourselves to some of their wonderful meals,mmmm very tasty.

I will say cheerio from a wet and miserable evening in Kent, and hopefully I will speak to you tomorrow, as my darts season starts tomorrow night.
Take care everyone, love and hugs, Mo xxx

Does anyone know if our Sallie renewed her membership on here, I do hope so.

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I over ate at the party. There were so many lovely things there, from about 20 ladies, a plate each. I did take my 'failure'. When I had cooked the pizza I put the cup cakes in the oven for a short time and was able to peel off the paper cups, but they were very sticky to pick up. One woman tried one and didnt like it as she said it was not sweet enough and didnt have enough flavour. I brought them home. I liked the taste, and they were nice and chewy, even though they should have been a light cake. If I try the recipe again I will do half quantity in a smaller tin and cook it longer. But I probably wont try it again, I dont do much baking these days. At least most of the pizza was eaten, but I wont take anything hot another time as it needed re-heating when I got there. I will just take some grapes, they go nicely after eating sweet cakes or savouries.

I go in to our old shop today to help pack the remainder of the stuff for moving. I sang them a song at the party:

"'There was a Hospice shop in Papakura town
Alas, that shop has now closed down, now closed down
And we are going to Takanini
As tears flow down our cheeks so free. (Yes, I know the grammar is wrong)

Goodbye old shop we are leaving
But we soon will cease our grieving
For we're going to make the new shop better in the by-and-by.
Adieu to you old shop adieu adieu adieu
We can no longer stay in you, stay in you
We will work so hard to make the new shop zing
And be so happy we will sing."

No prizes for guessing the tune. I did have trouble trying to think of words for the last lines.

Ooops sorry Huia, I thought you were buying a ready cooked Pizza from the shop.
How rude of people to say the cake was not sweet enough, and lacked flavour
.How could someone say that, I would have kept my mouth shut and not said anything, for fear of upsetting the person who had made them, but then some people are so insensitive to other peoples feelings arn't they.
I bet your song bought a tear to one or two peoples eyes.
Night Night god bless love. xxx

Yes Mo, it was wet and very mucky for the whole journey home. But yesterday was glorious for the wedding, clear bright blue skies and sunshine all day. It all went off very well, the ceremony was lovely, the bride and groom looked happy all the time and the reception and evening do were very well run. We were all tired by the time we left at 9.30pm but some of the youngsters including the bride and groom were there until gone 12 midnight. The bride and groom called round to see us this morning which was nice as we had a houseful there including our son and Granddaughter, two Grandsons and daughter and husband, one grandson's girl friend and son in law's sister. The bride and groom left and we were nine for lunch. Chaotic but great.

One thing we didn't need when we got home was to be told by our neighbour that the lock has jammed on our inner conservatory door. Luckily the outer door is still locked but it looks like we need to get a new lock. So a job for T tomorrow. As if there wasn't enough to do. :-(

Good grief Ann, your lunch with the family sounded rather hectic, but I bet you enjoyed every minute of it didn't you.
It's good to hear that the wedding went well though. After our affair it's a blessing to have a nice ending to a wedding.
Did T manage to sort out the Conservatory door lock out?

A friend of ours is waiting to hear when her new front door will be ready for fitting, as the old door is warped at the bottom, and does not close properly.
All I hope is that she has not had the rain pouring in her front door, with all this deluge we have had over the past two days.

Must go now girls, darts tonight, so wish me luck. Bye for now, love to all. Mo xxx

No Mo, the lock is still not fixed, hevcan't do it. We were expecting the man who fitted our front door to come round this evening but he didn't come. Hope he comes tomorrow now. The house is secure though as it is an inner door.

Ann, my friend is one crazy woman. Instead of getting three quotes for her front door, she went with the first man who came to the door.
Her husband works abroad, and she has to arrange for all repairs to be done to the house.
The cost of the door is over £1,300, and she didn't realise she had signed up to a contract for a hire purchase agreement, over a three years period, that will cost her £2,600 odd.
When Roly told her to ring up about it, she was told that she only had a one week cancellation period, but on going through the paperwork, it was in fact two weeks, but, she had left it to late, and that if she cancelled, she would lose her £800 deposit. So now she is hoping to be able to make an early repayment on completion.
What she wanted to do, was pay the deposit, and then the rest of the money on completion, but she is so dappy, she signed whatever was put in front of her.
She has now been told she will have to wait another 5-8 weeks before the door is made. And in the meantime put up with water coming under her front door. Oooh she is a silly billy, I dont know what I am going to do with her.

We are going for a meal tonight, with our son and daughter in law, goody, no cooking tonight for me.
Take care everyone, love Mo xxx

Hello girls, as you can all see I am still here.....I decided to stay and am hoping that I will soon feel like posting more often again.





Mo, hope things are better between you and you and your daughter. I hope you won at darts last night.

Hope you enjoy your meal tonight with your son and daughter-in-law. Oh, it's great not to have to cook the evening meal sometimes.






Ann, glad to know that the your grandson's wedding went well and that you all enjoyed yourselves.

Hope you and T enjoyed your week in Dorset, too.





I hope Jean and J are enjoying their holiday in Llandudno. Just hope they didn't get all the rain that we had here yesterday.




Linda, congratulations on the birth of your new grandson. You are going to be a busy lady knitting for them all.





Huia, have you moved into the new shop yet? Is the new shop a lot bigger than the old one.

Hope things aren't too bad with Phil.




Sylvia, glad to know that things seem to be going along ok for you and OH at the moment.



Well, I'll speak to you all again soon.




Take care everyone.



Love, Sallie.xxx

Oooh Sallie my love, it's great to know you have stayed with us. Don't worry if you dont post every day, if I get really concerned about you, I will send you an E.Mail or p.m you on here. Dont forget, if you ever want to chat, I am here for you sweetheart.

Nothing has changed between my daughter and myself I'm afraid to say. It is her birthday next week, so I shall get her a nice card and some flowers, and see what happens after that.
Hey guess what Sallie, we won last night...now we know that aint gonna last dont we. Every season we start off well, but then comes the time for the return matches, and we go to pieces lol

Guess what Sallie, yes it's time for my afternoon cuppa and a biscuit to keep me going till my meal tonight.
Take care, love and hugs Mo xxx