General Chat

Jean,if it is still bad tommorrow,PLEASE do not go out in it. We dont want you falling over in it.
And you, you cheeky monkey,will be praying for my lappy to break down again soon,coz I am going to be plagueing the life out of you on here.LOL

Bring it on Mo,

Good afternoon everyone,and cheeky Jean.
Well we got the snow that was promised,but fortunately it is not as deep as what I was expecting.
We have not ventured out and about today,it's to flipping cold out there.
Tommorrow,we have got the central heating people coming back to us.
When they disconnected the back boiler,away from the fire,we don't know what they have done,but we are having a terrible time getting the fire to light. The ignition switch does not seem to working as well as it did before,
they may have pushed it out off line. Still we will wait and see.
I hope to hear from you all later. Bye for now. Love Mo xxx

Goodness Mo it is all problems isn't it? Just what you don't need this time of year.

The central heating is still working Ann. But I like to have the fire on as well. We have a fire with flames,and it is so relaxing to watch. I am sad arn't I,it doesn't take much to please me. LOL

Mo, I am knitting you a shawl is beige o.k? have you got slippers too.....lol....
Bless....


love( young at heart) Jeanxx

Beige is lovely Jean,it will match my slippers and grey hair.
I would like to wish our Sylvia in Canada a lovely birthday for tommorrow.

Hi everyone


I don't want ot be a pessimist ..... but one of our local tv stations is carrying a report from a UK weather forecaster that you might have this very cold weather for another 2 weeks.

I went online and looked at my hometown paper (the Oldham Chronicle) and it said that last night's low -10.2C was a record. Ouch that's getting cold!!


Mo .......... thank you very much for the birthday wishes. We're going to visit our friends on Vancouver Island for my birthday dinner etc, so I will be away from tomorrow until Saturday. It's easier for 2 of us to go there than 5 of of them to come over here! Anyway, we haven't seen any of them since before Christmas

Hi, Sylvia, Just added to your birthday thread, have a great day....


love jean xx

Have a lovely time Sylvia,and come back and tell us all about it.
Don't fret about being a pessamist about our weather,it's been on our news all day about how long it's going to last.
Mind you,I can remember the winters we used to have as a child,when we had very deep snow.
But both Roly and I were most baffled the other day,a neighbour of ours,asked us if we remembered the bad weather of 1947. Considering I was only 1yr old then and Roly was three,we definately didn't recall it. But bless him,the neighbour said"Oh Ivy and I had been married years by then"
He is nearly ninety years old,but god preserve us,I didn't think I looked that old. But then maybe I do. Oh Oh,you watch our Jean now,she will pounce on me.LOL

I can remember the snow of 1947, I was 6 and my Dad made me a sledge.

Yes Sylvia, they say it is going on for t least another 10 days. batten down the hatches!!!!

I remember that snow in 1947 ........ I was 7!

I was also told that Mum couldn't be churched for 6 weeks after I was born in 1940 because the snow was so deep and then froze that she couldn't get up the street to go to church.


Churching was still important then.


I also remember many winters in the 50s and 60s when there was deep snow.



sylvia

Mo, they work wonders with botox I believe, sent you some info.......
only hurts a little bit....so they say.....lol.....

Oh Jean you naughty girl........I don't need Botox,polly filla does just as good a job,and is cheaper. Whats this info then,is it the name off a plastic surgeon. LOL

Sylvia.. lol... how old were you in 1947? do you mean 17?not 71.....
I was 12 and we were sent home from school the snow was very deep and we made shop counters and pretend ovens, with slots in so we could put something in to cook, I also had clogs with irons on, the snow would stick to them and we were going taller and taller, they were called cloggy boggys.nearly broke our ankles....lol.....
1963 was also quite a bad winter, I spent most of it in hospital waiting for the birth of my daughter, because I had had so many miscarriages they had me in for months, and she still came a month early.....poor J had to trudge through the deep snow to visit me we didnt have a car in those days....


Jean xx

Jean Sylvia was 7 in 1947, I know because I have just realised she was born the same year as me Lol!!!!!

In 1963 January when it snowed I had My daughter aged 14 months in a pram trying to push it through the snow. I kept her in the big coach built pram as it protected more from the elements, none of this having little babies in pushchairs!

yes, I was 7 .... was a !


I was still at uni in Liverpool in 1963 ........ frozen ruts everywhere. Buses were running, which was a good job!


Our first winter here in Vancouver was 1968/69 ...... it snowed before Christmas and then again on Christmas Day. The city workers were still on holidays (!), so not much clearing had been done.

We had arranged to go to friends for Boxing Day. OH didn't want to drive, so we worked out the bus schedule (holiday timetable, of course). The trip involved two buses, and a walk up a steep hill.


We were the only guests to make it to the party!


But one of the buses went across a bridge over the entrance to the harbour ........................ and there was a fog rising up from the water. I later heard it was called ArcticFog.


The temperature that day was -18C .... the coldest I had ever been to that point, and still the record low for Vancouver.


BUT it was a dry cold, and therefore I didn't feel as cold as I had back in the UK.



We actually didn't use the car for about 3 weeks ............. one of OH's new colleagues had said one didn't need snow tyres in Vancouver, so we still had summer tyres on. When the garage opened after Christmas, OH intended to take the car and get new tyres ................ but it wouldn't start.


Turned out that water had run down the side and into the petrol tank, and then frozen.


So, we had to wait until the weather warmed up, the petrol thawed, then he could drive it the short distance to the garage!


One of the problems with the American Rambler station wagon, as we discovered!


The next winter was also a heavy snow one. Snow in late November, and again in early December .................. major roads cleared and the snow thawed quickly.

Then it really snowed hard over Christmas.

The city announced it had run out of money for snow clearing, until the new budget kicked in on Jan 1, and nothing would be done. They expected that the buses would make the main roads passable, and hard lines on residential streets.

Unfortunately, the buses were on strike


Major city paralysed!!!!



sylvia

oops sorry this was me

Are you all sitting comfortably,then I will tell you a story.
Last week,my nephew was suffering from very bad head aches. He had been to see his optician,who said that everything was fine. His headaches did not get any better,so he went to a different optician,who discovered a mass behind his eye. He was sent immediately,to Canterbury eye hospital. The specialist there also spotted the mass,and said he should have an immediate MRI scan. The scanning department
could not do it straight away,so he had to go back last Monday.
He was then told he had to go back to the eye department,but the specialist he was due to see,would not be back on duty till the Tuesday.
So back they went on the Tuesday,for him to be told that he has a tumour,that needs immediate surgery,and that he will have to go up to Kings College Hospital in London.
My niece phoned me today,to say that she had been on the phone to Kings
yesterday,and they know nothing about my nephews case.
My niece then had the problem off phoning both hospitals to try to get things sorted. Apparantly,Canterbury had not sent the MRI scans through to Kings,but by some miracle,after a lot off chasing,they have now been scanned through to Kings.
The problem is,that the neurology team only meet once a week,on a Friday
to discuss cases. And my nephews case will go before them tommorrow.
How the heck can they frighten the life out off the boy,and then forget about him. He is obviously scared stiff,and needs to know what is going to happen to him.
I am so so ANGRY.
Sorry girls,I have been ranting on here,but I dont even know if you can make sense off what I am saying.
Love to you all Mo xxx

Mo that is awful, somebody needs a good kick, poor fellow (how mold is he?) must be terrified. And how on earth did the first optician not pick it up? That is one reason for having an eye test. I hope he gets the scan done soon and a solution is found for him. Lots of positive thoughts for him.