General Chat

Hello to you all ,
There you are saying how hot it is and I am sitting here with frozen feet.

It is raining here and is very cold but I don't mind the rain, better than the frosts and fog's we have been having.
My Granddaughter Sarah and I went down on the train to Sydney on Saturday and meet up with my daughter Kerry.
We stayed the night in the center of Sydney at a very nice Inn across from the Park where the War Memorial and Cenotaph were built.
It is a lovely park.,the room was very nice It cost us $200 and that included Parking so it cost's us $70 each .
We had a nice time as the weather and temperature were mild.

.I managed to buy 2 cardigans for a very reasonable price.

We came home by train from Sydney ,we left there at 5-50 pm and arrived home at 9-45 pm.
I slept very well as we did a lot of walking on the 2 days.

Hi Sallie , Happy Birthday,sorry I missed your special day.

Ann congratulations on your new grandson Luke Stephen John I do love the name .

Hi Jean it sounds like your room will be very nice when you and J finish it.Have you been doing any gardening this summer?

Hi Mo good to hear you and Roly are well, how are the darts going??

Hello Sylvia ,How are you I hope the weather is being kind to right up there in the North .
It is cold here and my right arthritic knee is letting me know it does not like the cold weather.

It is time for me to close and go and cover up some of my plants against the frost in case the rain should clear over night .
Love and Hugs to you all <3 Marie

Hi girls, been having problems again trying to get on GR....kept coming up with Error all of the time.

Ann, you did well getting that cardigan for £6, as you say you can easily mend the small hole.

I love going to the garden centre we mostly go to, like to have a good browse around the shop there, they sell clothes and lots of novelty gifts that come in handy for Christmas pressies. Of course, also love the craft centre there and we usually end up in the coffee shop for a nice pot of tea and a scone.



Mo, you have been a busy bee doing all that painting. How did you manage the heat? I tend to stay indoors with the fan going when it's hot.......hot weather doesn't suit me at all. I like nice sunny and warm weather, but not the temperatures we are having at the moment.



Sorry, hadn't finished writing my message when the blinking thing added to the thread.



Jean how are you and your family doing? Hope that you are all alright.

Have you done any cards over the last couple of days? I finished making making a birthday card this afternoon and also made a few Christmas cards......not easy to get into the mood of making Christmas cards in this heat though.lolol!!!



Well I am ready for a cuppa now, so will speak to you all tomorrow.


Take care everyone.


Love, Sallie.xxx

We have just been to a large garden centre. It was cooler doing that as there is air con in the car and the centre was cool with all the plants being watered.

We had a coffee and then the local ice cream makers were doing a taste day with their ice creams. We had a cornet each and they were lovely.

There were a lot of plants reduced and we bought a few including Gazanias which I love. I also bought a long semi pleated cardigan in very fine gauzy thread, black reduced from £27 to £6 because it has a very small hole in the shoulder which is easily mended. It will be ideal for holiday evenings.

OH bought a couple of free standing solar light balls to add to his collection. And we bought strawberries and cherries and a few other bits from the farm shop. So had a lovely morning. :-D

Goodness Mo a bit hot for outside painting. Still no problem with it drying. :-D

Oh good grief Ann, your luck is so like mine when shopping. Our local Tes*o's had a power cut yesterday morning, and could not open because obviously the tills and chiller cabinets and freezers were not working. When they did eventually open, it was like a grandprix start, with people rushing in to load their trolleys up.
We just sauntered round, with us both refusing to buy any chilled or frozen food,(just in case) and by the time we reached the check outs, they was only two cashiers for trolleys, the rest were for baskets only, and some were for goods that did not need weighing just scanning. What a nightmare, a shop that would normally take us about thirty minutes took us over an hour.
We the went over to Ice*ands, and the girls in there said that they had been rushed off their feet earlier when the power cut hit Tes*o's, and they only had two cashiers as well, as it was tea break time. We were really glad to get home, and abslutely refused to get any shopping at all today.
Instead of shopping, I must be mad, but I decided to paint the window sills, and door frame on the front of the house. Cor talk about it aint alf hot mum, I sweated buckets, but it looks great now, and I am chuffed to bits that I did it.
Jean will be pleased to hear I am back to my old self, with a paint brush in my hands lol.
Must go now girls, hope to be able to post tomorrow, but If I don't, please know that I am thinking of you all.

Hi there Sallie, I didn't want to go without a special hello to you my lovely firiend.
Cheers for now me dears. Love to all, Mo xxx

Phew!!! We were at Tescos at 0845 this morning and it was heaving. Apparently a lot of staff don't turn up on hot days or 'go sick' so there were 11 tills without cashiers and the queus were building up. Loads of children in the toddler to ten years old range all absolutely hyper, running and shouting excitedly (have I missed something? Not Christmas is it?) Anyway we joined a queue third in line behind two huge basket loads, one a man on his own. We were so lucky as both went through quite fast and the single man 40s/50s was so organised he had a huge load but was really fast packing. the cashier was so fast I had to slow her down at the end, she said it was automatic after a while. We went into the cafe and had coffee and egg on toast for breakfast and were home by 10.10. Glad that is done. %3A-D

And I have just checked the temperature. In the shade on the patio it is 30, in the sun just off the patio it is 35, I didn't check the middle of lawn where it is sheltered because I am sure it is higher there.

Mo thanks for letting us know that all is well there. I was getting worried not seeing you post.
I seem to have problems getting onto this thread and Shaun's every few days. I don't know if it's GR or my laptop is at fault.

Speak to you all tomorrow.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Sorry girls, I am having terrible trouble getting onto the thread, I am just hoping that this post will be added.
All is well here at the moment, as I hope they are at your end.
Love and hugs to you all, Mo xxx

Hi Jean, you are an early bird. My father always loved the early mornings, he reckoned that it was the best part of the day. When he was working he was up every morning at a quarter to five....on his day off he would lie in until a quarter to six.

Are you managing to resist buying the new dies you would like to have? Not easy to resist buying new dies that are out now........there are a few that I would like to get, but I have a problem on where to store them. I really need to sort out all my craft stuff instead of
keeping on making more cards. I much prefer making cards though.lolol!!!


Ann, how are you feeling today? I hope that you are feeling at least a bit better.


Mo, where are you? We haven't heard from you for quite a few days. I hope that all is well with you and your family.


Sylvia, Huia, and Marie hope things are all alright with you and your families too.



Might pop in again later on.


Take care.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Morning everyone, too hot to sleep ... managed until 4.00 then heard a bang and was wide awake sometimes the big vans deliver early to the local shops and I think that is what happened, but I do love early morning, my time to catch up on some recorded stuff or read.... Sallie we have tiles down when it was built but we will look for a square carpet I think just for the middle. cant believe how grubby all the white frame of the conservatory was, because of my craft tables and shelves we couldnt get to do it all so now we or I should say J has done two sides and will do the othe two today. must say it does look good so far.... then its some new furniture couple of chairs ect; we already have blinds up so they are fine.... I think I may have saved too much craft stuff, but the lady who took the biggest lot says she will have any more if I cant store it....I have seen some new dies on e-bay that I quite like but have resisted temptation so far ;-) ;-) ;-) cant promise it will last long though :-D :-D
Ann, hope you are feeling better now, this weather is lovely but lots of bugs thrive so plenty of liquid is a great help I find. I am still losing weight albeit slowly and have cut out coffee and tea down to two cups a day I drink water in between... feel ok, but the legs are not improving sadly.... but at least I am getting into clothes I havent wore for a long time, some still with the tags still on :-D :-D :-D

to all our friends home and abroad love and hugs, take care ,

love Jean xx

Ann, sorry that you have been feeling poorly over the last couple of days. Hope that you will start to feel a lot bbetter very soon.

Like you Ann, I have no problem with the NHS hearing aids. I paid £1500 pound for one quite a few years ago now but couldn't do anything with it at all, even though I went back to the place several times to try and get it sorted. So I just gave it up as a bad job in the end.lol!!!




Jean, I 've still got a few birthday cards to make and then I can start on th Christmas ones.

It will be nice when the room is done to how you want it, as both you and J will be able to relax then. Are you having carpet in there?


Alun's sister Lynda, called here for lunch today on her way home to Yorkshire from Bedford. It was lovely to see her. She was saying that her hubby is a lot calmer now that they have changed his medication....... he had become aggressive on the medication he was on.
Oh dear, it's awful to think of him as he is. Lynda was telling us that the home he is in isn't a very pleasant place to be, all the residents there have dementia. When we next go up there we will have to go and see her hubby, I'm not looking forward to that as it is a good while since we last seen him.


Mo, hope that everything is alright with you, Roly and family.



Well I'm going to put the kettle on now ready to make us a drink when Alun will get home. Speak to you all tomorrow.


Take care.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Glad you liked the pics Jean. Sounds like it is all systems go for the conservatory and nice to tick off jobs that need doing isn't it. You must be pleased to get the house painted. I really don't have any problem with the NHS hearing aids, I think mine are great and people are often surprised when I point out I am wearing them (and I have short hair). S Savewr's are fine, my sister has them, the in the ear ones. Downside is that you pay for maintenance and batteries.

Not been too good the last couple of days had stomach pains, today I have a touch of the dreaded lurgy so don't stray too far from the loo, must be a summer bug I think. No doubt it will go soon. :-) Anyway, having a lazy day, sent T out for ham for his meal tonight, he can have salad. For two days I have had no appetitie, now I can't eat I am hungry, contrary or what? :-D

So pleased to hear you are o.k. Sallie and had a lovely birthday, the sunshine would help too....have you started your christmas cards yet? I did a load before I closed the craft room down, now everthing has gone, except the stuff I shall keep, now we are looking at getting a narrow American style fridge/freezer , then the conservatory will be completly empty and I should be able to have room for a desk and some drawers , so hopefully it will be just the thing I will need, we have just had the front of the house painted so ticked that off my list of things to do ;-) next job is having the fence that partitions our parking plot mended someone broke it , so that needs sorting..
J and I are thinking of going to the well known eye shop to look at their hearing aids, hate the nhs ones, J wont wear his, so we are going to see what they offer us....
so its non stop doing various jobs, but I am sure it will be worth it in the end....so off I go again and do some cleaning yuk....see you all later

Lukes pics are so lovely Ann, its great being ggparents :-D :-D :-D

love Jean xx <3

Baby's photos on my photo blog. :-)

Hi Girls, thank you Mo and Jean for your lovely birthday cards and also for your birthday wishes Ann. I also got cards some lovely cards from Joyce, Liz and Sheila.

I have been out for a good bit of the day so have only just come on here. We also went for a birthday meal this evening with Jennie and Michael, very nice it was too.

Ann congratulations on the birth of your great grandson....love the names they have
chosen for him. Hope mother and son are both alright.



Will look in again later on this evening.


Take care.

Lovel, Sallie.xxx

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A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SALLIE. xxx
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Love to one and all. Mo xxx

Just a quickie to say I have sent a P.M. to Sallie, bit concerned we havent heard from her for a while.

lovely names for the littlie Ann

love Jean xx

Just found out baby's full name which is Luke Stephen John.

A great day for celebrating, Ann and T congratulations on the birth of your great grandson, lovely news....

posted twice for Sallie but I will keep it on , she is worth two best wishes ;-) ;-) ;-)
hope everything is o.k.

love as always Jean xx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Goodness up early Jean.

Sallie have a lovely day, I didn't know it was your birthday so apologise for no card.

In case people haven't seen my thread:

Great Grandchild has arrived at last

Baby Luke weighed in at 9lb 6oz at 0758 this morning by caesarean. Mum and baby both fine. Extended family relieved. She was induced and in labout all night, in that heat I bet she was glad to have the caesarian in the end.

Grandson just phoned me. I think Mum was in labour all night having been induced and baby was too big to be born naturally. %3A-D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to lovely Sallie, have an extra special day.

much love Jean and Jeff xxx <3 <3 <3