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Oh! for goodness sake Jean, what am I to do with you girl. That must have been some dream you were having, to make you fall out of bed.
I do hope you get over the fear of falling my love, I know it can scare the life out of you when it does happen.
Have you fallen else where, other than out of bed?
PLEASE take care,and next time you get tired, take Jeff to bed with you,( but no monkey business)
Back ache can be as bad as tooth ache can't it. I nice hot water bottle might help to ease it for you.
It's going to be very hard for you, not being able to do your card making, but you must rest your back, and now your aches from the fall. MWAH xxxxx (((((((big hugs for you))))))

Jeni, you are right, the days seem to fly by. When I was at work, I seemed to be able to do twice as much as I do now, that I am retired. When I think I used to be able to hold the job down, and cope with all the house work, plus having the grandchildren popping in, but now, if it aint dirty, it gets left. lol

Well what a change in the weather girls, it's been raining all day, but it's that fine stuff, not great big down pours, and it's really miserable.

Love and best wishes to you all my friends. Mo xxx

Thanks Jean, does it never end , I have just recieved a letter fro the hospital to attend the Oral Surgery dept, I had no idea why so finally found out my dentist has reffered me as he noticed a small white patch in at my last visit, so I go on the 28th at 7.10 wonder if they get overtime rates ....lol....

Jean x

Morning ladies, Jean I am so sorry about your fall and the back pain, hope you managed some rest last night. I think back pain is one of the worst things to have, no matter how you sit or lie it doesn't ease does it?
I did laugh at your description of how you managed to get up, but I know it wasn't really funny for you. Hope you find it a little easier to move around today.
I am just enjoying a cuppa then it will be off to do the horses before I start on the housework, almost weekend again, how quickly the weeks are passing, I never seem to get as much done as I want to, think I will have another go at crochet later, am determined to get the hang of it.
Take care Jean, and take it easy today.
Have a good day everyone, Jean xx :-) :-) :-) <3

Morning peeps, I am in the wars again , I have a very bad back ache, well its just at on side low down , we took M to the outlet and I couldnt walk so spent most of the time sat on a chair , M and J had alook round M managed to buy a few things as she does...lol... we had some lunch and came home I went to bed with the electric blanket on thinking the warmth might ease my pain, just before i could feel my self falling asleep I reached down to switch it off and fell off the bed which is quite high with a deep mattress. D and J ran upstairs , luckily I wasnt hurt , but couldnt get up and they couldnt lift me, we tried all manner of things, with poor Jeff gatting more and more upset because he couldnt help me , I couldnt get on my kness as they are crumbling, so what did I finally do , now I dont mind if you find this funny , I did , :-D :-D :-D, I was flat on my back wriggling along the floor until I reached the stairs we had extra rails put on the stairs both sides when jeff was ill ,I managed to grab one, then the other side, edged to the stair edge and pull my self up. so got downstairs , btw our stairs are quite narrow and steep , so it was a bit hairy....then burst into tears :-( :-( :-( but we are scared now if I fall again somewhere else , how do I get up???? I am trying to shed some weight but its not going to happen overnight, so you can guess I am a bit down hearted .....and scared.... cant get to do my cards cause of my back , its a bummer( excuse the pun) :-D :-D :-D... well pity party over.... so how is everone else doing and all the new littlies our Charlie is comong on in leaps and bounds,
off to have brew no biccies :-( :-(

take care love and ouches Jean xxx <3

Hi Ann, I know, it's very quiet on here, it's the same on a few other threads too. We must all be lost for something to talk about! Although I am busy making cards for March birthdays at the moment.

Hope you and T are both okay.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Wakey wakey nobody has visited this thread today so I thought I'd give it a nudge.

Well Charlie is also a female name when a derivative of Charlotte so that is fine. Kermit would not be good no, I can see that :-D "Hop over here Kermit".

Hello Ann, hope you get on better with the crochet than I am.

I tried making cards once, but they ended up more like comic strips than cards, you must be very artistic, how I envy you.

When I first let the horses out this morning they ran around like mad things for about 5 minutes then calmed down and walked round sniffing at everything, Charlie, my grandaughters pony went looking for a mud patch to roll in, her favourite passtime. lol. although it is a filly my grandaughter insists she is caled Charlie, it was going to be Kermit, but I talked her out of that, didn't fancy standing shouting come here Kermit.

Hope you enjoy the rest of the day.

:-D :-D

Hello Jean (JW).

I have not tried the crochet again for a week as we were away and I was knitting for the expected Gt grandchild in June.

Von has sent me a DVD to watch though so I will have another go when I get in the mood. Difficult when there is so much to do. Also been making some cards for charity.

I bet the horses kicked up their heels to be out in the sun. :-D

Hello ladies, hope you are all ok.

We have lovely sunshine here today, same as yesterday, think I will spend some time in the garden, get it tidy ready for the spring.

Still not getting anywhere with the crochet, think maybe I'm too old to learn a new hobby, will just carry on with my knitting, going to start a cable cardigan for my grandaughter.

There was a light frost this morning when I went to do the horses, but it had cleared by the time I had mucked out and fed them, so I turned them out, rugged up of course, will go at lunchtime and take their rugs off.

Jean, I am so glad you and Jeff enjoyed your special day.

Going to have a coffee now then go start to do some work.
Take care and stay safe everyone.
Jean xx

:-) :-) :-)

I didn't notice that Sylvia, do you think that is lucky? Maybe I'll win something on the lottery this week then. :-D


Yes we've had a couple of sunny days too for a change but there was a frost last night so no need to get excited yet. Goodness is your little one nearly 3? Time does fly! :-)

sorry I missed it ....................


HAPPY ANNIVERSARY JEAN AND JEFF xxxxxx




Congratulations Huia. Those are good results xxxxx




We've had lovely SUN and blue skies for the alst 2 days.

Daytime temps upto around 11 or 12C, but down to about 1C overnight.



OH cut a couple of small twigs off one of the Forsyhtia bushes on Saturday, and then brought them in to see if the buds would open


They're all opening now.


I love bringing in Forsythia to open inside :-D


Not much other news ..........


........ little one will be 3 on Saturday. Where does the time go?????



take care everyone




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Ann


you got all the 7s with that last post :-D :-D


it was number 7,777


:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Well done Huia. Jean so pleased you had lots of cards. Hope you all enjoyed the meal. :-D

I got 2 Honours and one Highly commended with my photos last night. I am quite pleased with that. I will email them to you Jean.

Lovely sunny day and forecast same for most of the week :-D Jeff and I want to say thank you for the lovely cards we have recieved from you all , had to look for somewhere to put them, D was 50 on the 1st and she is not one for a fuss so we didnt expect many cards for her, how wrong we were she was shocked to say the least.we always have trouble with her birthdays, "what can we get you D "always the same answer , " there is nothing I need" so we did a card and put an I.O.U. saying we would pay for her next visit to America, so that went down very well.... ;-) ;-) we are going out to lunch tomorrow, and we are taking our friend M who has just lost her oh. so it will be a nice change for all of us...and we may do some shopping.... ;-) ;-) I have been making more room in my craft place, now I can get a small craft table in so I can have my cutting machines on and that way can use them whenever I need to.....

sounds like my washer has finished next load to go in.... so see you later......

love and hugs Jean xx

All dried indoors Mo, not very nice here today, still it is dried now and half of it is ironed.

Sallie, we wouldn't be without our dishwasher, if this one broke down, and if it was beyond repair, we would buy another one. Neither of us like to do the washing up, and it would probably pile up on the draing board, till we had no crockery left, and then we would toss a coin to see who did it. lol

Huia, you are such a busy bee, but you are doing things that you really enjoy.
What a shame the frames were the wrong size. Which photo's did you decide to enter in the end. I bet you have put it on FB and I have missed it, will go and take a look in a minute.

Well I hope Jean and Jeff have enjoyed their day, and not got themselves all tired out, so that they can't manage to enjoy their meals out during the week.
(((((((((((((HUGS FOR THEM BOTH)))))))))))))

Wheres Jeni Wren got to I wonder. I hope that young Scarlett is feeling better now Jeni.

A big hello to Sylvia and Marie, at the other end of the world.

Ann, have you finished that washing yet? I hope it was nice enough to get it out on the line and dried.

Bye for now girls. Love to all, Mo xxx

Hello girls, sorry I missed saying Happy Anniversary to Mo and Roly. Happy Anniversary to Jean and Jeff.

I have been very busy this week, working in the shop Monday and Wednesday, going to Hamilton on Tuesday, visiting Phil, and getting photos printed on Thurs. for our club meeting next Mon. The last couple of days I have been busy cutting some new backboards for some of the photos as I have bought different size frames - square and panorama size. Then of course I had to mount the photos, but only after I had decided which ones to use in which frames. Unfortunately some of the ones I had printed were not really the right size for any of the frames, but at least it helped me decide which photos to use. I will have to get some more frames made a slightly different size to fit more photos, or have the photos printed a different size! Anyway I will let you all know on Tuesday whether any got Honours or Highly Commended.

No sunshine here at the moment, just a light misty rain. We need heavier rain for the gardens and farms and to settle the dust on our road, and fill water tanks (mine is fine) and to prevent scrub fires. But at least it is cooler now.

Hi girls,

Ann, good to hear that you both arrived home safe and sound and that you both had a lovely week apart from the very cold weather and the car parking charges.
Cribbs Causeway sounds a great place, just the kind of place that I would love to go.


Mo, glad that you enjoyed yor meal once they had sorted out the problem for you. With it being so cold in the restaurant you couldn't really sit and and enjoy a nice leisurely meal which both of you had been so looking forward to.....it must have been a case of ' hurry up and eat the meal so that we can go home to get warm'. I think they should should have given you and the other diners a discount off your bills for having to sit and eat with it being so cold there.

Mo and Ann thank you both for your thoughts. It is a shame that they didn't have any children as they would have been a help and comfort to her hubby now. At least he has a sister who lives a coulpe of streets away and she has always been there for both J & G.


We went out after lunch to buy a new dishwasher, went to a few places and finally got the one we wanted in C-----'s, they are delivering it tomorrow. I shall be happy to get back to having a dishwasher again.....we were not going to bother to get another one, seeing that we are only two most of the time now, but washing dishes is the job I hate the most we decided we would get one. So now I am one happy little 'old girl'.lol!!


Mo, I didn't realise that it was Jean and Jeff's wedding anniversary tomorrow, pleased that you told us.

Happy Anniversary tomorrow Jean and Jeff, hope you both have a lovely day.


Well I must go and make a couple of cards now, so will speak to you later.


Love, Sallie.xxx