General Chat

Hi Ann,I had begun to think I had killed this thread myself.
Whats your weather like at the moment. It's as black as any thing here at the moment,and bitterly cold. So much so,that I went out and bought myself a hat today,and I hate wearing them. But I am fed up off feeling like my ears are going to drop off.
They say we are due for more snow tonight or tommorrow, yuk.

Hi, Ann, and Mo, we went and bought new flooring for the kitchen today, so glad to see the back of the original one, we went to a large A**as in another town too, nice run ou,t and fantastic store easy to get round and lots of bargains, got loads of meat, pork, ham, chops all sorts,picked up a icecream scoop, the one that has a handle on the side to eject the ice cream, but really bought it for mash potato and very handy to put cake mix in the bun cases !!! J, got a nice v,neck sweater for six pounds, nothing for poor me though,,, sniffs.....

Marie if you are looking in allour love to you, also Huia and Sylvia, (getting all geared up for the winter olympics)....

Sallie forgot to take the parcel out with me....doh..... so will send asp.

Booked to have a week away in March, guess were to..... ready for a change of scenery.... we would like to go to Lake Garda again, so relaxing and usually warm, we will have to sort ins out always loaded for J...


we havent had much snow this time,but very cold, the hat sounds a good idea, Mo, I have a couple but hate wearing hats, I just dont suit them, my friend can wear any type and look good, but not me....so take extra care peeps wrap up warm,

love Jean xx

Hello all.

My son and his wife arrived a couple of days ago in their campervan. Yesterday I had to go to my eye specialist in Auckland for a field visual test. I appear to have a small blind spot where a haemorrhage (sp?) had previously been detected, but the pressure from the glaucoma is down to 12, so that is good. Son and wife went for a drive, not sure where, but they visited Phil just after lunch. Son says it is the best they have seen him. They walked him around the enclosed garden. I have just had my breakfast and now am waiting for them to wake up.

Huia.

Thats good news,about Phil ,Huia. It must be nice for you to have your son visiting you.
My OH,had haemmorages (sp) behind the eye as well Huia. But the hospital said he was not to worry about it,and to just keep an eye on it.
Oh no, there was no pun intended then.
Good news about the glaucoma as well.
Jean I look a stupid nitwit in my hat,but I don't care,I am not going to suffer an earache,just to be fashionable.
Huh,who am I kidding,....me,.....fashionable......those were the days,many moons ago.
When I go out,I have more wrapping round me,than a turkey at christmas.
I have my winter thermal vest,then a jumper and a cardigan on.
Ooooh how sexy is that.
It's a good job I had my kids when I was younger,as I would be to worn out
by the time I had removed all my clothing now,and the moment would have passed. lol
I wonder what has happened to Sallie,Sylvia and Marie. I have spoken to Liz on another thread,so I know she is still around.
Bye for now. Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hi Girls.

I was beginning to think that you had all hibernated, with it being so quiet on here.

Mo, did you go to play darts last night? If you did, I hope your team won.
Hope you and Roly are both okay, and not feeling too cold. They have given out more snow for us too, although it looks as though we are on the edge of it, so hopefully we won't get too much. Hope all is going along okay for your granddaughter and nephew.

Jean, I hope all is well with you, J and D. Don't worry about the mags, there's no rush for them. Pleased to hear that you have got some new flooring for your kitchen. Have you got someone to fit it for you? We need some new flooring in our bathroom, but not too sure what I want in there, so I'll have to have a good think about it. Looks as though you've had a bit of a spending spree today, Jean, I bet you enjoyed it, even though you didn't buy anything for yourself.

Sylvia, how are things with you and your hubby? Alun and I were watching a report on News 24 last night, about how a lot of people in Vancouver are not happy about having the Winter Olympics held there. It was very interesting. Have you had any snow over the last few days?

Ann, how are you getting on with your scrap pages? I'm very slow at the moment, I don't think that I'm fully in the mood for it. Read your Scrapbooking thread, Daff seems to have had a good spending spree buying lots of craft stuff.

Hope all is well with Marie, Huia, Marilyn and all our absent friends.

Speak to you all soon.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

I'm here!

enjoying the sunshine, and watching the snowdrops, crocuses etc!

Fortunately, the temperature is dropping on Cypress Mountain, so that means they can probably start making snow ready for the start of the Games. I think the first games event is on Saturday, the Openng Ceremony is Friday. There's loads and laods of snow for the events being held in Whistler, that's the traditional events. Cypress has the "newer" events of snowboard and aerial ski

I have to venture out to the university tomorrow for a doctor's appointment (bp check-up) ..... that could be something of an adventure. One major road has been completely closed 'cos it runs past one of the venues where women's hockey will take place. That means all the buses that run along that route have had to be diverted. Guess which buses (choice of 3) I take? Yep! All 3 of them are affected. It will mean a longer walk for me.

Main problem is actually going to be ................. can OH find out how to get to the parkade he usually uses when he meets me at the doc's, and then can we get off campus!

When you think that we have been working at, walking around and driving around that campus since 1968 .................... and we're not sure how to get to and from, how on earth are strangers going to manage? The doc's office is right in the centre of campus as well!


Send out a search party if you haven't heard from me by Saturday!!!



sylvia
xxxx

Oh my lord,are you two psychic,Sylvia and Sallie. I was wondering what had happened to you both. All we need now is for Marie to log in,and that would be soooo spooky.
I did have darts last night Sallie,and guess what we won again. We are in the middle off the league table,for the team games,but we were second in the pairs,so we are hoping with our win last night,to have gone top.
I know it's only a piece off plastic,as a trophy,but it would be nice to be winning something again.
They have said that we,in Kent will get a good downpour off snow tonight Sallie.
Sylvia,by the time you get to have your BP done,it will probably be sky high,
from trying to find your way there.
How can they be so inconsiderate to residents.
Will they re-route the buses,to arrive at the normal destinations. Oh stupid me,I have just read the thread again,and you have explained about the buses.
I dare say the people living near the venues here,will have the same problems as you,in 2012. I am just grateful to live a long way away from it all.

Hi again, Huia just seen your post, so pleased that your son and daughter -in-law found that Phil was the best that they had seen him for a long time. Hope you enjoy the next couple of days with your son and daughter-in-law. Take care!

Mo, glad that Liz is alright, I haven't seen her on the message boards for a few days. I don't wear a hat myself, but Alun bought himself one before Christmas, he feels the cold more now that he's going thin on top. I've got use to seeing him in it now, but he did look funny to start with. As long as he's warm, that's the main thing.

Love, Sallie.xx

Mo,well done on your team winning last night Keep it going!

Love, Sallie.xx

Mo


The buses have been re-routed on the campus ..................... they will be going all the way around the OUTSIDE of the campus, with NO stops allowed for passengers to get on and off. They will end up at the normal terminus, so it's really like doing 3 sides of a square rather than just one side.

It's about an extra 5 km ...... so why no stops????


Elsewhere ...... there are NO-GO red zones around every one of the venues, pedestrians only allowed, and in many areas, only with tickets to an event at that venue.

No-one is allowed to drive on those streets except for vehicles for the IOC members and some major sponsors. Buses re-routed if necessary, no taxis allowed, no private cars driving up to the door to drop off a handicapped person. Not quite sure what they are doing about that ........... the Games are supposed to be fully accessible, but all they have suggested so far is contact the HandiDart service, they will be allowed to drive up to the door.


Just heard this morning there are over 13,000 police and armed forces personnel, plus private security firms, around Vancouver and Whistler. Some people have complained it is like being in an armed camp.

The venues are surrounded by 2 or 3 rows of wire fences, camouflaged by blue banners with Olympic Games 2010 emblazoned on them. Everyone then has to go through a security gate, just like going through security at the airport. Restrictions on what you can take in ....... no food or drink at Vancouver indoor venues for example.



it's all really quite horrifying .................... but everyone is scared of terrorist activity.




sylvia

Hello all , its Marie, sorry I have been missing but it has been so busy this last 2 weeks and next week is no better I have 3 appointments, Plus my excercise classes, and I am trying to finish a Photo Albumn & I have another to start for my son Sean., so you will have to forgive me as I probably wont get to post for awhile.

I do feel for the people in Vancouver it is always difficult for the locals when such big sporting competitions are on, but as a spectator I love the Olympics and watch as much as I can.
We made no effort to get to the Olympics as we knew we wouldn't be able to get into the Swimming or any of the popular sports so we decided to watch on Television & it was great and it didn't cost us a cent.
Our weather is a little cooler as we have had some good rain,however we now have a lot of weeds,and I am too busy to get rid of them.
Hi Huia I was so pleased to read that Phil was looking better and that you are having a visit from your Son & Daughter in-law
I hope all goes well.
To LIZ,SALLIE,JUNE, MO,SYLVIA,and any one else looking In LOVE & HUGS ***** Marie.******

Hi all,

sorry I have been adding posts on different threads, was on the Friendly thread the other day and not sure where else I posted lol
Seeing the new coordinator of counselling at our local MIND this afternoon, o.h. is going to take me and then we will do some more errands so I hope she will find me a good counsellor who will stay a while and not leave suddenly with me halfway through the sessions. I have a lot to get off my chest and hope it helps so I can get sorted out.

take care all,
am very tired, and sleeping lots without feeling refreshed which is part of fibromyalgia, so apologies for not mentioning everyone

I will just say hi especially to Huia, so glad Phil seemed better when your family visited him and hope he continues to be comfortable. Presumably his pelvis has healed ok now if he can walk well.

My late Dad went to the optician, the one I always use too but is retiring shortly. Optician said to Dad, how long haven't you been able to see out of this eye, and Dad said he hadn't realised he couldn't! Seems he had had a haemorrhage at the back of the eye and not noticed so it was too late to do anything and he had lost the sight permanently.
Makes me wary and I am always winking with alternate eyes so as to check I can see out of both eyes lol
I try not to do it when I am out tho lol
LIzx

Hi all.

I sometimes do that winking Liz, but like you try not to do it in public.

This morning after P & L left I spent 2 or more hours deleting a lot of old emails from my computer. I was doing more this afternoon when the phone line 'went down' and as I am on dial up I was left feeling very frustrated. After 90 mins I drove down the road and asked a neighbour if his phone was out. He had to go inside to check and found it was out, so it must have been our whole road. As there had been lots of vehicles going up the road (no exit) I decided to go over to the valley to see what they were all up to. Nosey parker, thats me. I found they were doing an ad for TV. I didnt stop to watch. When I got back the phone was working again so I have deleted more emails. I had started with 74 pages of them and (at a guess) over 3000 and am now down to 53 pages and 1832 emails. I still have 31 pages to go through. Most of the ones deleted are jokes that people have sent me, but there are also the messages GR sends to tell me that my hotmatches have arrived, or somebody has sent me a PM. I feel quite pleased with todays work, something I have meant to do for ages. I hope it frees up a lot of room on my hard drive. When my d.i.l. checked it was getting rather full. I do have an external hard drive which holds a lot, so hopefully I wont lose anything.

Huia.

Hello everyone, very cold here and we are going out for lunch, so need to wrap up well...

Huia, I am amazed at the back up of your mail, I always delete mine as soon as I read them, or file the ones I need to keep, but I cerainly dont get as many as you, shows what a very popular lady you are...Phil seems to have settled down nicely,it is a comfort for you knowing he is well looked after..

Marie how are you doing , so pleased to hear from you, are you still waiting for test results?
we are due to have the Olympics soon and we, as a country will be more in debt than ever... the commonwealth games came to Manchester, (J and grandson went ), it was a huge success, very well organized and didnt do m uch damage to the economy so we are led to believe, but the London one is already over the budget....still we live in hope that it will be a boost for everyone we certainly need one!!!

Liz, I have sent you a p.m.



~~~~~~~~~ to all you lovely folk ~~~~~~

Sallie J has posted the mags today,enjoy....

love Jean xx

Evening girls,how is everyone today.
Sylvia, Everyone is more security contious these days. But we have to be,dont we.
The no food or drink ban at the Vancouver venue, does seem a bit extreme
and willl cost the spectators a fortune,to buy on site. But it is one way to
recover some off the costs off holding the games there.
Hello Marie,thank you for the p.m. I do hope your throat clears up soon.
That is one off the problems,after having any proceedure done. Keep sucking the lozengers. When I have a bad throat I usually use Merocaine
throat tablets,as they deaden the throat.
How did you get on with the counsellor Liz.? It would be great if they let you talk all your worries over with them.
Huia,we forget you are so far away from your neighbours. If we get a power cut,we only need to look out off our windows to see if our neighbours lights are out,and then we know for certain if it is our circuit that has tripped out,or if it's a general thing.
I cant believe you have got so many e.mails to delete. Like Jean I delete
mine after reading them,unless I need to keep them off course.
Hello Jean,Ann,Sallie and all our friends on here.
Love to all. Mo xxx

Hi there girls.

I have taken to deleting jokes soon after reading but in earlier days I didnt. I also had a lot of notices of meetings, and such like, and notices from GR that my hotmatches were here or somebody had contacted me. I now usually delete those unopened when they come in as I can see on the site that there are messages.

MO, I can (at least at night) look out the window to see if a power cut is just here or if it is the whole district, but with the phone that is not possible and I cant phone the neighbours to ask if their phone is working! There is no cell phone coverage here either, otherwise I could use one of my 3. I wish somebody would put a cell tower on the ridge opposite us, there is a repeater station there, but perhaps a cell tower would interfere with the workings of the repeater station. It would certainly be a good idea to have one up the top of the road to cover the valley on the other side, as there are no houses over there now but there are a lot of walking tracks and some mountain bike and horse riding tracks, so if somebody has an accident it is not easy to get help if they are on their own.

Huia.

Huia you are so islated there arn't you love. In power cuts,we have one phone we can use,as it's not connected to the mains supply. But the other two go down with the power.
Roly's cousin has just moved to a house out in the country,and their mobiles dont work out there,as there is no signal ,and no masts either. They have had to go over to a land line,which they dont like,as they like to pay as they go.
And in an emergency,the services would never get to them,as the lanes are so narrow. I just pray to god they don't ever need an ambulance,or a fire engine.
They, really enjoy being out in the sticks. They love to garden,and sit outside in the summer. But each to their own,I like people around me,
whereas they like solitude.

Hi all, just a quick message to say that I have an appointment to start with a new counsellor on March 1st if I can have the car to get there, told o.h. he must start cycling again for his health which he knows, he has not biked since before Christmas but is getting a bit too used to driving again now. I know he can't bike when it's snowy and icy so altho we have snow and slippery roads again and it didn't seem as tho gritters had been out, I hope it will not hang about too much and will be clear by the end of the month. I am fed up not feeling well enough to drive and then if I do, not having the car here.

Take care everyone, I must remember to watch the opening of the games, saw it advertised last evening on tv.

Love to all,
Lizxxx

Mo, our landline (which is the one that was not working) is not connected to the power, so I think somebody must have been doing some work in the local exchange.

We are not exactly isolated. We have neighbours within view, about 700 metres down the road. An easy walking distance going down but not so easy coming back up hill, particularly in the summer. And there is no footpath and the road is not sealed.

I received my first ever Valentine card today! I think some of the residents in the private hospital probably make them and the staff write in them and post them. It says 'to dear Huia, lots of love from Philip'. He wouldnt have called me Huia, more likely Tub, not that he would ever have sent such a card :((( and he would have signed himself Phil. But I was in tears when I opened it up. I weep rather easily these days. Just little things that set me off.

Huia.

Hi all


well, so much for taking a long time to get out to the university to the doc's office ..... I left home at 12:45, allowing 2 hours. Walked down to the main road, got the express bus at 1:00pm, and arrived at the bus terminus on campus at 1:15pm

15 minutes! That's almost twice as fast as it takes normally!

I had to find something to do for 90 minutes ............... and it started raining! So, I went to sit in the Student Union and read my book, then I sauntered over to a coffee shop, had a latte and read my book. Finally went to the building next door and checked in at the doc's ........................ 15 minutes early, and she put me straight into the examination room!


Anyway, I am still breathing, he's quite happy with my bp overall, and I persuaded him to give me another prescription for my "ultra" pain killers which I do only need to take occasionally. He wants me to go to have an xray of my lower spine ........... which is OK as I haven't had one there for 10 or so years, so it will be interesting to see how much change there is. I have the form, just have to find the time.

Then they will send me to a group called OASIS which assesses and recommends treatment for arthritis sufferers


Oh yes ............. one yippeee!

He asked when had I last had various tests, including the smear .............. Nov 2008, so he said that I would need it this coming November. Until I said I was already 70 ........... and he agreed that I've had my last one! I've been having them ever since I was 29, and only been called back once in all those years.


sylvia