General Chat

I am proper poorly I am,I have a throat infection which is affecting my ear, so now its a dose of antibiotics, so cards , flowers( no chocs though) will be gratefully recieved.
rest and quiet is required as well ....lol.... no chance.... :-( :-( :-(

from my sick bed love to all. especially Sylvia and OH. conrgatulations and very happy birthday to your OH also safe journey and lots of enjoyment <3 <3 <3

Jean xx

Hello me lovelies,
Sylvia, what a lovely reason to have a break away, your Anniversary and OH's birthday. I am sure you will have a wonderful time, celebrating with your SIL. And what good news that your SIL is returning back to work,after her chemo treatment, such a strong lady, and good on her.

Oh Jean, what bad luck with the sideboard. I bet J and D were pulling their hair out trying to sort it out, and beginning to doubt their own sanity.
I do hope you have better luck finding a ready made one my love.
Sorry to hear that you have got an ear -ache, and hope that it's not an infection.

Ann, have you had any recent cuddles with baby Luke? I bet you notice a big change in him, they seem to go from being so dependant one minute, to independant children over night.
It doesn't seem possible that our youngest great grandaughter is now six months old, and is as crafty as a little monkey.
She only has to smile at her Nanny (our daughter )and it melts her heart, and she gives in to whatever Zoey wants. Mind you, we were the same when our grandchildren were small, they could do no wrong in our eyes.

I am not looking forwards to tomorrow. It's the day I am due to have the surgery on my gum. They are going to cut the gum, remove the nerve and do root treatment to a tooth I had capped years ago. Why they never did it in the first place, I shall never know, but wish me luck girls. I am going to ask how they are intending to do it, and if it sounds like it's something really major, I shant bother having it done as it's not bothering me at the moment. (Cowdy custard thats me, and I have never ever been afraid of the dentists before in my life, I suppose it's a fear of the unknown)
I hope you are all well. Love and hugs Mo xxx

Have you tried putting a little bit of oil (I use olive oil) in your ear.

Hi,Ann, I cant wear my right hearing aid so wonder if the wax has built up, it doesnt seem that long ago when I had my ears syringed.... , although my voice is very hoarse so a trip to the docs I think ,I am due to go on wed for blood pressure test, I will ask then,
we will have a look round again for another sideboard, pity it was just ideal too,
but we will try and get something ready built.....

Jean sorry to hear that you have earache, hope you can get rid of it soon with painkillers. Have you been in a draft?

Will you now go looking for another sideboard then? I am sure that you should be able to find one fairly quickly.

I DONT BELIVE IT !!!! new chairs and footstools all sorted, over the weekend J and D built the sideboard , or tried to :-| :-| we finally got in touch with the shop, two men came and they couldnt get it right either so now they have taken it back and we shall get a refund so now I have nowhere to store my leftover craft stuff, and I have earache to :-| :-| and am so fed up :-( :-( :-( :-(

Sylvia, have a nice trip and take care, <3

luv me x

Hi Mo, and everyone


We had rain most of today

Everything seems so fresh, and the cooler temperature was also very welcome.

We did break two records for July ................ the most sunshine, and 0 mm rain fell in the month, so it was the driest month ever


OH is slightly different to your guys ................... he will get things to usable stage, put them in place. Then they never get completely finished ........ whether that is painting, staining, trim added or whatever.

I now just shrug my shoulders, and ignore it!



I'm just making arrangements for us to go up to OH's sister in a couple of weeks time ................. it's our anniversary on the 12th, and then OH will turn 75 a week later.

I've found it difficult to decide what to do for his birthday, but then had the bright idea 2 days ago that he might enjoy going up to see his sis, and the niece and her husband who live in the same town (the niece who had her appendix out a few weeks ago). He jumped at the idea. Sis-i-l is going to check out a place for us to go for dinner

I have to book things this weekend ................ we'll fly up there, stay a week, then take the train home.

The train is a bit "round the hills" .................. it's a 2 day trip from sis' town to Jasper, staying overnight in a hotel. We then have to stay overnight in Jasper, before getting on to The Canadian for the overnight trip to Vancouver


Sis-i-l told me tonight that she starts back to work on Sunday, half time at first. It's a month since she had the last chemo treatment.



take care everyone



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No, Mo, I am not still singing in the choir. I don't have the time! And the songs in the concert are being sung in their original language - German, Italian, French, Russian. I am looking forward to seeing how they cope with all that. Some years back most members hated singing in anything except English.

I paid only $20 at the garage. He put some spacer blocks in a couple of places under the tray, where they had come out. I made the blocks for him. I did try to talk him up to $40 as I am sure the time he spent was worth more than $20, but he wouldn't take more. :-| :-)

I haven't put any photos on FB lately, I will wait to see how they go on Monday night.

I am going to the Fam. Hist. Fair tomorrow (Sunday) if I don't sleep in too late after my late night tonight. Busy, busy, busy.

Huia.

Huia, it appears that Phil does have some memories of you my love, and I am sure he doesn't close his eyes just at the sight of you. They maybe have upped his mediaction, and that is whats making him so drowsy, and it must be pretty boring for the residents of the home most of the time.
Are you still singing with the choir Huia, or are you just going along for the enjoyment of hearing them.
I must check out your FB, to see what photo's you are going to enter again love. What a shame that the originals were spoilt when you took the backing off.
I hope you are not having to have to big and costly a job on your vehicle.

Well girls, another weekend is upon us, we have not got anything exciting planned, apart from going to see the grandchildren.
Has anyone got something exciting happening in their life this weekend?
Bye for now one and all. Love Mo xxx

Hi Mo. Phil is much the same as usual, keeping his eyes shut most of the time when I visit, but the other day when he opened them he was looking directly at me, and he looked surprised as if he might have recognised me. He didn't keep them open for long though (horrible sight?).

I have been busy getting photos ready for camera club on Monday. I also have to take along 6 of my favourites from the past year that have been awarded Honours or Highly Commended. Unfortunately a couple were damaged slightly when I took them off the backing board to reuse the board in later months, so I have had to get those 2 re-printed, as I liked them better than some of the others.

I am off out this morning, and in the afternoon I will be getting a small amount of work done on my vehicle, in the local garage. Tomorrow night I am going to the choir concert. There is a Family History Fair on this weekend in Manukau, and I am trying to decide whether to go tomorrow morning or leave it until Sunday. I want to see if Ancestry have a stall (I think they do) so that I can ask how to get my sister and parents etc removed from all the idiot trees on Ancestry with her m to John Downing b 1723.

Better get a move on.

LOL Huia, I have tried that, and I can't repeat what I was called. Impatient, what who me, no surely not was my response.
I know you would be able to do them Huia, you turn your hand to so many things. And I have no doubt that after much sweating and swearing, I would be able to make the cabinets up.....BUT....it's the principal of it now. If he can't be bothered, then neither can I. After all, they are for his bedroom, and not mine, and mine is already made up, and looking great.
And as for mucking his tools up, well, I now know where they all are, whereas, before he cleared the shed out, it would have been like looking for a needle in a haystack. lol :-D :-D :-D
Hope you are going along o.k Huia. Hows Phil nowadays?
Take care my love, Mo xxx

Maybe I should come over there Mo, to put the cabinets together for you! I have helped build 2 houses and have put together a bookcase more recently. Why don't you try to do it? At least Roly might get interested and want to take over to make sure it is done correctly and his tools aren't ruined. :-)

Oh my word, it's sooo hot. I thought I would go and sit in the garden a few minutes ago, on opening the patio doors, I hit the stifling heat, and walked back in the house again.
O.k I know, I shouldn't be moaning, but tomorrow it's going to start to cool down a bit, and then the rain will start. We brits are never satisfied are we. :-D :-D :-D

Jean, at least J has started the flat packs, more than I can say for Roly. The bedside cabinets we bought, whilst I was still at work, back in 2007/2008, are still in the packaging in the shed. lol :-( :-( :-(
But I mustn't complain, he built me some new step up into our shed last week. Where are they now, yep, in the shed, waiting for him to stain them. He doesn't want them to get wet, before he gets round to doing them lol. So I now need a parachute to get down the step from the shed into the garden.
Still it will all look lovely when J and D finish the furniture, at least you will know what they look like, I have forgotten what the bedside cabinets look like as it's been so long since we bought them. I have the patience of a saint..(not really ).

Ann, how is baby Luke settling now. Better I hope, for mummy and daddies sake, theres nothing worse than not getting a whole nights sleep.

I hope everyone is well. I send you all my very very best wishes. Love Mo xxx

Welll done our Mo, glad I kept the betting account open ;-) ;-)
hope Roly is o.k.

At last we have the furniture delivered, trouble is it is all flat packed , J has built one of the chairs , but the test match is due to start so it may take a bit longer to do the next chair , then the sideboard needs doing , but no doubt D will take over, so very soon at last I will be able to sort out the last of my craft stuff, and manage to do a few cards :-D :-D :-D

hope all our good friends are well and especially those lovely friends from over seas, always good to hear from you ...hot weather forecast again. here, so pleny of suncream or like me dont go out ;-) ;-) take care ...

love Jean xxx <3 <3 <3

Because they were students I think there is an appeal system. He has cleaned the house and is now waiting to hear from her. I think she is taking advantage.

Well done on the trophy Mo.

Yes, could have gone on cuddling him but apparently he played up last night so rather them than me really!!! :-D

It certainly sounds like your grandsons land lady is taking the mick out of him Ann.
Do you think it's because she hasn't kept the deposit money to pay back to them.
It's not a very nice attitude to take is it. I do hope they dont have to end up taking her to court to get it back. Maybe the threat to do so, will make her rethink her strategy.
Aaah bless, I bet you didn't want to give the baby Luke back. But how nice a feeling it is, knowing that we can have loads of hugs, and then give them back and get a full nights sleep ourselves.

We had a lovely storm last night, leaving us with a cooler day today. Thank goodness the humidity has gone, even if it only for today.
I received a lovely trophy on Thursday night. Our team came runners up in the summer league. In August four of us will get another trophy, for winning the fours against all the other teams in our local district league.

Sorry not to have been in to speak to you since last thursday, I just don't know where the time goes.
Take care everyone. Love and hugs Mo xxx

Just had a look and left a comment they are lovely photos,
hope things get sorted for your grand son,

love Jean xx

e are back from Hampshire, had a nice weekend with daughters youngest and his girlfriend, although I did all the cooking.

We went to see baby Luke on Saturday and he is gorgeous (yes I know I would say that wouldn't I. But he really is). Had a long cuddle and then OH wanted a cuddle so had to reliquish him. Photos on my blog.

Only had a quick shower on Saturday evening, left there at 0905 this morning and got home at 10.30, a good quick run home. Not sure if they have had rain here over the weekend or not. Did manage a trip to M&S and to a big garden centre and also hobbycraft so did quite well in the time we were there.

Grandson who has moved into his parents' house has spent most of the weekend in dispute with the landlady of the house he and 3 others have been in for a year. She is being really difficult and over the top it seems. One of the others isn't bothered about getting his deposit/bond back but grandson says he has cleaned the place three times now and she is still being unreasonable. Without seeing it for myself it is difficult to judge but he is not a layabout and does clean up after himself. I wonder if she is taking advantage, just a pity his parents are not there any more. He has done the garden twice.

Just a quickie, between my sandwich making, for the darts presentation. Why do I always volunteer, and regret it afterwards.
The house stinks of egg and onions, it's horrible.
Just take care girls, will be back tomorrow, love to you all, Mo xxx

Mo, hope Lilly's cough will soon go, bless her. It's awful when hear them coughing like that and can't really do anything about it.

You were definitely brave pushing her pushchair up to town in the hot weather we are all having.lol!!! I don't think I could have done it. Having said that I walked up to town and back late on Monday morning and I was shattered when I got home and I didn't even have a pushchair to push.lol!!


I'm off to bed now, so will speak to you tomorrow.


Love, Sallie.xxx