General Chat

Hello Everyone,

Mo, thanks for letting us know about Marie, glad to hear that she is alright, I hope that all goes well for her on 3rd. March. I had almost finished writng one post to you all and it just disappeared, it's a pain when it does that. I've done a few jobs today that needed doing, so I'm happy about that. Jennie and Michael came for Sunday lunch as usual, so Michael helped Alun move a small cupboard that needed moving, so that was a good help. He's a good lad, always willing to help if we ask him.

Jean, thank's for the photos, I've sent you a PM. Forgot to ask what eyelash wool is--or is that what the wool is called?

Ann, I posted on you Scrapbooking and craft thread last night.

Marilyn, hope you are feeling less tired today, as we get older having little ones around can be hard work, no matter how much we love them.

Huia, thanks for your PM. Fingers crossed that you will now be able to install AVG9 without any trouble. At least you know what to do--I wouldn't have a clue where to start. Hope Phil was well when you visited him today.

Liz, I haven't seen you on the boards much over the weekend. Hope you are alright.


Speak to you all soon. Take care everyone!

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Mo, just what I thought about the scarves. I seen one made up on our Thursday market, but it didn't look as nice as the ones that Jean has made--they look a lot thicker than the one that Janet and I saw on last Thursday's market. Maybe the wool wasn't as good, as the one that Jean used.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Sallie,I also have never heard off eyelash wool. Unless it is a brand name
The ones on the market stalls,look like if you pull one thread,the whole thing would fall apart. Jeans are so much better than them,and much thicker looking as you said.
We are lucky like you,we have two son in laws who would do anything for us. And they are such good partners for our daughters,and good fathers to boot as well.
We have got two birthdays this week,one grandaughter will be six,and another will be fifteen. Why couldn't my family work things out better, two days between them.
Love Mo xxx

Just remembered,good luck for tommorrows assessment Sylvia.
I will be thinking off you love. Mo xxx

I had an answer to you Mo, then woosh gone, we are a small family I am sure J and S wont wear them D never wears scarfs, in fact she rareley wears a coat, my other relatives are not in touch much, so the only family I have is my adopted ones on here...you never know....lol....

Sallie I got the wool off the internet," Modern Knitting", it was £2,50 a ball but if you do it the coventional way , you would two or three balls, I only got one ball of the colours, so made my own pattern up and managed to get three scarves out of it .... eye lash wool is spikey you see a lot of them on the markets now, I made mine years ago, but the best part is they only take two balls or maybe three, and you can match any colour you want,
off to watch Larkrise

Hope you understand me... love Jean xx.

Jean, I can't get over that Hobbycraft were asking £8.99 a ball for the wool.
I thought at the time that it was expensive, but now you've told me how much you paid, I know that it IS expensive. So if I decide to make a scarve. I won't be buying the wool from Hobbycraft. Thanks for letting us know what eyelash wool looks like--I know the wool you mean.

Mo, I think it might have been a long time since we both did any knitting so we are out of touch on what all the different wools are called. But thanks to Jean we now know what eyelash wool looks like. Our families worse month for birthdays is March and we've also got a few friends in March too.
We have eleven altogether, but most of those are only cards, thank goodness.

Off to do some of the scrap page I'm doing, just have to stick things down.

Love to you both, Sallie.xx

Sallie they sell the wool on our market at £8.50 a ball but one ball does the whole scarf, so maybe Hobbycrafts wool will be the same...


Jean xx

Thanks for that, Jean. I think I might ask how much it is on the market next Thursday, when I go up again. I don't think I'll be knitting a scarf in the near future, but I would be interested to know.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Hi all

Thanks Mo .... just had to spend about an hour filling out a 7 page Assessment (they call it an Assessment Tool!), plus a list of all prescription and non-prescription medicines I take.

If you have time, take a look at this site www.ziptrek.com/vancouver-canada


The company installed a Zip Line above a square in the heart of downtown. It's 550' long, about 6 stories above ground, and it's free ..... it can take 6 hours in the line-up to get on it!!

It's not for me ......... but people are enjoying it!

If you click on Livestream then you can see what is going on at ground level as well. As you may be able to see if you look in our daytime ....... it's lovely sunny weather here!


Thousands of people are congregating in downtown, especially in the evneings ...... it's apparently like one giant street party, with all kind sof entertainment and free things to do. They estimate up to 120,000 were there on Friday and Saturday, and so far there has been little trouble ........... although the police did close down liqour stores on Saturday evening at 7 pm to stop off-sales, and curb public drinking and drunkenness.



sylvia

Hi all,

just catching up with everyone's news and hope this coming week will be a good one for you all.
I am still so tired all the time, the vit d jab I had certainly hasn't done anything to help on that score but it does seem to have nudged a few little tufty hairs to grow on my head so hopefully more will appear. I had a recut after I was not happy with the haircut I had before o.h.'s birthday, and the Artistic Director of the salon did it free, he was a bit scissor happy so it's very short, a bob, but it will soon grow and at least it is the same length each side and very well cut. He was a nice chap to chat too altho only in his erly 40s so I may well go back to him, altho he will be £15 and the walk in price is only £10. He advised me to give the top of my head a scalp massage, he has taught the shampoo girls to give head massages which I thoroughly enjoyed and said as I sit watching tv, to do a fingertip massage on the top of my head as it causes the blood to circulate and then hair grows more.

I knitted lots of those scarves a few years ago, 2006 I think it was, and I got the eyelash yarn and the other sort from the Poundshop and another cheapy shop called QD where they had kits of pattern, needles and yarn for £2.50 or £3 I gave away several scarves as pressies and took some to Malta when I went with my son, as presents for friends and rellies as it can get chilly in winter time there. They were very pleased with them.
Btw, I always hand wash mine and press them in a towel to get excess moisture out and as they dry you have to pull them to shape. They are lovely and light and soft tho and I now have many in various colours.

Sallie, I start my counselling next Monday 1st, o.h. is going to have to cycle or bus into work so that I can have the car as the place I have to go is hard to reach by bus. I am hoping I get a good rapport with my new counsellor so that I too can dig some real old stuff out and get it sorted.... I was at that stage with the previous counsellor and would be at home or walking about to the shop or something, and a point would come to mind about something in my past and I would have to write it down to talk about the following week. It was so annoying when the apptmts stopped suddenly as I really felt I was getting to the nitty gritty and would be able to change the way I live my life, i.e. cope with the hoarding etc

Must get some emails cleared or others won't get through


take care all, sorry I am not about much but a lot going on with me now

love and hugs to everyone
Lizxxx

Hello Hello,whats been going on here then. We have been whooshed on lots off our responces.
Can anyone remember what we were discussing.
Surely it's not because we named the type off wool that Jean was using,
because Liz mentioned it after we did.
I will check my E.Mails in a minute,to see if there is anything fron GR about what has gone on.
Be back soon Girls.

Mo, I think it is not that our responses are being deleted, have a look at Daffs thoughts on it , it seems the right answer... the deletions are on every thread...I am sure the G.R. peeps will sort it ....fret not my little pumpkin...

Big Hello, to Liz and all our friends, bet you look a right bobby dazzler Liz, with the new hair cut.....we will be thinking about you next mon.. x
....take care everyone...

love Jeanxx

Hello my big Sis.
I have sent a complaint to GR,but dont expect to get an answer that quickly.
For one awful minute,when I logged on,I thought I had lost you all again.
It's so stupid,some off our conversations from last night are still there,and we were able to post them o.k then.
I cannot for the life off me,understand why it started to happen.
If you notice we get a deleted thread then a thread invalid straight afterwards. Still I will shut up about it now.
There you go Jean,you have just seen another miracle.
A nice scalp massage,is lovely Liz. It's a good job that they sorted out your bad hair cut. After all,we pay these people to make us feel better when we leave their salons,not to come away feeling worse than when we went in.

Ooooh look we are back to normal girls.

Hi all.

Good luck Liz with your new job....I'll be thinking about you.

Hi Jean ,

I'm about to tidy up my paper work ...gosh its all over the place I'm not a tidy office worker, but I'll get there ! who said family tree's take up ones life ?

I might even do some gardening later ,got some seeds and although I should start from sowing in boxes first ....got no patience so they are all going into the garden ,and I'm going to hope for the best ..LOL

Speak later & hope you are all well.
Marilyn xx

Marilyn Liz isnt having a new job, if you have a peep at her addition to the thread it will all come clear, sorry if my wording got it mixed up...
now petal what I want to know is when are you off on your cruise, and is tt from the u.k. or do you fly and join somewere else, not that I am nosey of course, just interested....

~~~~ To Mo who cant stop worrying~~~~

love Jean xx

Hi Jean,

I was about to sow some seeds ....but its raining !

So back on lappy for the time being.
Oh I misunderstood about Liz I know she mentioned to me about a counseling job so thought it was new .. oh well good luck to whatever Liz does as she is such a lovely person I'm sure she is a great help to whom she ever meets in her counseling job.

Jean I'm flying Hong Kong for one night then to Perth OZ, next week on Thursday staying with my niece for a week then joining the ship there in Fremantle. for 3 weeks around OZ & NZ .

I've done a few cruises ,but this one is special because I cant wait to see my niece , that emigrated 9 yrs ago we were very close.

So I'm out looking for new clothes this week, I NEED THEM ..LOL any excuse to hubby he'll believe me..

So I will get some snaps done and let you share my holls.

Going back out into the garden it has stopped raining..

Marilyn xx

Tidied my previous up a bit may make sense now sorry....


Jean xx

Hi Ladies, I am back after a week of entertaining the children over half term. We were very lucky with the weather so managed to get out and about every day. As the older 2 are slightly more independant these days, they can disappear for hours with their friends, which leaves me with some quialty time with the younger 2.

I never was keen on the children having mobile phones from an early age, but we gave Daniel & Matthew one when they each reached their 12 Birthdays and they are now so handy. I don't have to worry about what they are up to and we are always only a phone call away if they need something. I also make sure that I have a number of their friends' numbers as well, just in case a battery goes flat or someone runs out of credit.

It is pouring with rain here today, so no gardening for me or hanging washing out to blow. But at least we don't have the floods they experienced in Madeira at the weekend. We have a huge Portuguese community over here and the majority of them originate from Madeira, so there is a very emotional feeling here about the floods. The Catholic Church and a Disaster Charity have already made arrangements to help families here in case of problems there, and the Parish in which I live, is twinned with Funchal so it is our "Sister Town", and our top people here are going to visit Madeira as soon as they can.

I am glad that you are all keeping as well as you can be. I am interested in reading all about the different crafts that you do. I cannot knit to save my life, although I have been known to do embroidery and tapestry, though that was in the days when I had spare evening time and life before children. I am afraid I don't have a flair for anything arty so I really admire those of you who manage to do the scrap books. The completed ones are so lovely to look at. I keep scrap books for the children, but don't embelish pages at all.

I regularly receive a catalogue from Readicut, and they cover so many different aspects of craft work. A relation of ours does Iris Folding, which I had never heard of before, but they now have all the necessary papers in the Readicut book.

Good luck to those of you about to visit Doctors, or Specialists. These can be worrying times, but my thoughts are with you all. And to you Huia, as you continue with the situation with Phil. It can be a very lonely time, as we are experiencing at the moment, but time will sort things out.

Must think about going to school. Luke & Sophie do a Gym/Keep Fit class till 4pm on a Monday so that gives me an extra hour at home, but it still doesn't seem long enough!!.

Bye for now.

DEBBIE

Hello girls. Just to let you know,I had a reply from GR,with an apology for what had happened,but no reason for the glitch on the threads. I did not expect to get such a quick responce.
Hi Debbie. I bet it has been very quiet in your house today,with all the children back at school,bless them. We do miss them when they are not around don't we.
When mine were young,the summer holiday period, went so quickly. I didn't like it when they went back,I missed them so much.
Will you be taking them back to France again this year. It was France wasn't it.?
You say you are not arty, but I bet you do things with the children,ie,painting
and things like that. As a mum,we all have done things like that. So you see,you are arty wether you think you are or not. lol
I think 12,is a decent age for the children to have mobiles. As long as they are sensible children,and not liable to abuse them.
They really only need a basic one,for emergencies.
My grandchildren do not agree with me though,they want the latest models
and are forever changing their numbers, I cant keep up with them.
I tried to say to my family,that by giving them the latest models,they are encouraging jealousy from other children,who in turn could steal them from them. But I am nagging if I say to much,and they cant see that I worry
in case they get caught up in a fight over the phone.
Oh no,I can just imagine Jean saying,there she goes again worrying.
So I had better be quiet.
Anyway I must go,I have got to get ready for darts.
Love to you all. Mo xxx