General Chat

Sallie, that is part of my angel outfit. I now have bigger wings, and I have a halo to wear. The shave has been put off until Friday as the events manager couldnt find a hairdresser to do it, but one of the ladies who works in our shop says she used to be a hairdresser, so she will do it on Friday at midday (11pm Thursday I think, in England). I am getting close to my target of fund-raising.

Hi Mo
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and everyone
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Mo ----- hope you are all right xxx


I had physio today (Tuesday) ................ and always manage to be out almost the whole day!!

It was grey, dreary and drizzly all day, but a bit warmer than it was last week



I had literally just walked in the door late this afternoon when the phone rang .................. sis-i-l


She got home late on Monday afternoon, after a snowy drive from the hospital town to her home town. She said her daughter drove very well .................... but it was very slushy, so a little hairy driving.

She sees her GP's locum tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, just to meet her . Her GP has actually left town for a 2 month holiday in another country.

She has not yet got the results ................. it often takes 10-14 days. But she is feeling well, and eating well although in small amounts.





take care everyone



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I remember when her husband died .................... there were continual knocks on the front door ............... another casserole or chops or something that "just needs re-heating"

Hello Girls, hope you are all OK, as it's very quiet and lonely on here.



Mo, I hope that everything is alright with you, and that you and your partner won at darts last night.




Sylvia, I hope that all is going well for your sister-in-law and that the lab results are good for her.




Marie, glad to know that everything is alright for you and your family.




Jean, glad to know that you are feeling better and are able to get some birthday cards made.




Huia, is your avatar the photo of you in your angel outfit?



Both Sheila and I went to Caz's funeral yesterday and were made to feel very welcome by both Philip, Caz's sister and a couple of other people, although I don't know who they were as they didn't introduce themselves to us, although they seemed to know who Sheila and I were.


I am so glad that both of us were able to attend and I know that Philip and members of the family were pleased that Sheila and I had travelled a good distance to be there to represent all of Caz's friends on GR.


As Sheila as said on the other thread, the flowers that Joyce sent on our behalf were lovely, carnations and some roses in shades of pink and white.


We all walked in to John Denver's Annie's Song....one of my favourite songs and a Lionel Richie song was also played but I'm sorry I can't think of the title.


Sheila and I said our final goodbye to Caz, from all her friends on here.



Well girls I'm ready for bed now, so will speak to you all again soon.


Take care.


Love, Sallie.xx

What a sleepy old thread this is. Hope you are all ok.

Sylvia I hope the lab results are good for your SiL.
The past couple of days here have been lovely, sunny and not too cold. Oh has got a lot of tidying done in the garden.

Hi Mo


and everyone


well, OH is now in China, teaching some workshops.

The weather has turned cold here ........ lovely and sunny, but cold ........ so I have been wrapping up when I've gone out. I have to ride the buses, and you all know what it is like waiting for them!

sis-i-l has been released from hospital, but has to stay in that town until Monday as they are waiting for the pathology reports to come back. Her daughter drove over from their home town on Wednesday, and will take sis-i-l home. They are staying in a hotel. The doc is very pleased with the progress she has made.


We're all still keeping our fingers crossed of course.

Hello Marie. I was photographed today in my white angel outfit, including a halo, with a well known NZ singer. The photo will probably appear in our local paper some time soon. :-) I even got her autograph. :-D

Hi Friends,
I hope you are feeling a little happier after our sad news about Caz .It is comforting to know her suffering is over.
It is a nice day here to-day ,I went to my grandaughters school yesterday they had Grandparents Day
EMILY DID A PAINTING OF ME LAST WEEK FOR THE ART SHOW AT SCHOOL.
It was a good likeness it was framed and cost me $20 to buy,they were having a fund raiser so that they can build a new Sandpit for the younger children.

It was a great morning the children performed with a speaking poem then a drumming group which was very good ,then the school Choir sang I enjoyed it they were very nice.
I had my little Choir to-day they are improving they are starting to get their music brain working, we are now doing part singing.

I am always very tired after they have finished but always very satisfied with their work.
A little reminder
.Sunday 11th Rememberence Day
RIP
Love to you all <3 Marie

Hello girls,
Oooh I have been sooo lazy today.
I didn't wake up till 9 a.m, and fell asleep in my armchair at 12.30. for an hour.
Had to have my pneumonia injection yesterday, and boy is my arm sore today.
There was Roly and my friends telling me that they didn't suffer after they had theres done, but the nurse did say my arm would be sore.
When I had my flu jab, I did suffer a few symptoms, but not a sore arm like this, it feels very much like I have been punched in it.

That new shop sounds interesting Ann, as you say, if you go once every so often,the novelty wont wear off to quickly, plus the cost of it wont break the purse strings.

Jean, Roly's blue badge is up for renewal next year. Fortunately it's not far to go for the assessment.
But if they dont renew it, he will be in a right pickle as he cant walk very far. He is arthritus in his knees and back is getting really bad. Poor little sausage, he creeks and squeeks when he walks ,and when he tries to get up from the chair it's a real effort.

Love to you all, Mo xxx

Jean :-D :-D :-D

Well girls, we went to a new store (opened yesterday) this morning. It was crowded and we couldn't get in the car park but luckily the car park is a sort of extension to sainsburys car park so we parked there. We did go in to Sainsburys for coffee and to buy papers and magazines so felt we had paid for their car park.

I expect you have seen my thread about the store but it is called Wholefood Market and had the most beautifully fresh fruit and veg, lovely meat, fish and shell fish, bread, cold meats, cheeses, jams,delecatessen and health foods etc. Many of the items are sourced locally or have not come from too far away. And they pack it for you in brown paper carrier bags.

It is not cheap by any means but you get what you pay for. We went go there every week but maybe once a month when we want to treat ourselves. People were spending loads of money so they should do well. It is in Cheltenham which is a little more affluent on the whole than Gloucester.

my OH has been a busy bee this afternoon, washed off my car, well he made it dirty!, cut the lawn... for the last time this year I hope. Had a go at cleaning the top of the conservatory which has moss stuck to it dropped by birds. He got some of it off but it wasn't very successful really. In the summer we can't see it as the blinds are drawn across underneath but we draw them back in the winter to let in the light. It still looks a bit mucky.

And since we got back from the Wholefoods store I have made a birthday card and messed about on here reading threads while trying to organise the greaders threads and books to read this time. Still waiting on that before we can vote so will probably now go and make another birthday card.

Mo I never get nuts under my peggies, they are in the glass :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
I am a" sucker" for choc and nuts :-D

hope everyone is having a reasonable day in spite of it all.......

I had my assesment for renewal of blue badge yesterday, I had to go to another town, what it must cost to do all this, still if it means catching out the abusers of the scheme I dont mind, the lady says I should have no trouble renewing, maybe crawling on the floor helped ;-) ;-) ;-) :-D :-D :-D :-D

Just making a birthday card for our littlie next door, she is two on friday and a star, she loves coming to see us, she was a great help when Jeff was recovering from his op last year it was uncanny how she seemed to know he wasnt well, wouldnt have anything to do with D and myself , she would come in and go straight to him and love him, now she hardly bothers....

well better go and finish it off, stopped for bacon butties made by my hero. so see you all later....
love Jean xx <3 <3

Ann the only cards I've made over the last couple of months are Christmas cards, I can't seem to get my head around making any others. I have quite a few birthday cards to make for the end of this month and for the first two weeks in December, so I will have to sort myself out.lol!!



Jean, glad to hear that D is doing ok and that J is fine apart from a cold. Alun has also had a nasty cold over the last week or two, but it is slowly going.
Jennie is also fine at the moment, thank you. We took her to see her Consultant last week as the last sample test showed that her Crohn's was still active as there was some inflamation, although Jennie hasn't had any symptoms for a couple of months. Anyway the Consultant decided that as she didn't have any symptoms that it would be best to leave the treatment for now, but if things change she has to ring the hospital straight away and she will have to start the treatment. So we hope that won't be for a long time.

I'll have to look on Ann's scrap thread, it's ages since I looked at it, I'm afraid.......the youtube craft sites sound really good.

Not too long now before the birth of your grtgrandson, I'm sure you are all looking forward to his arrival.




Mo, sorry to hear that you lost at darts last night, hope you'll have better luck next week.

It's nice to know that others also suffer from freezing feet, even with the heating on and the house being lovely and warm, my feet are usually freezing. Alun can't understand why they are so cold with the heating on biggest part of the time.

We haven't see the moles, but Jennie and Michael sat in the dining room window which looks out onto the patio and watched the sand being pushed up to the surface. It leaves us all wondering how he got under there, as the patio is a lot higher than the garden as is the neighbours patios either side of us.
I thought at first that maybe it was a fox but everyone said that it was most likely to be a mole.




Huia, like Jean I also hope that your bucket will be overflowing with money for the Hospice. Good luck anyway.

Well ladies I'll say goodnight to you all, speak to you soon.



Love, Sallie.xxx

Aaw sorry Jean, would a cuppa suffice in place of your beer money (_)? one cuppa for our Jean. :-D :-D :-D
Your mate Roly has got broad shoulders, but how he puts up with me I shall never know.
Now you just mind the nuts on that choc ice dont get stuck under yer teef.Luf ya MWAH.

Huia, I hope you fill your bucket to overflowing. Most people are very generous, so smile nicely at them.....(and get em to dig deeply into their pockets.)

Night Girls. Mo xxx

I heard that Mo, :-P :-P :-P and what are you doing losing at darts :-| :-| :-|
thats me beer money gawn... tsk....how is my mate Roly what a saint he is putting up with you.....I feel cold in a heatwave, :-D, bedsocks , thermals, electric blanket,cap, shawl, you name I have it....

Huia hope your bucket overflows, hope its warmer than here.....

I am off to have a choc ice covered in nuts yummy........ bye for now....

love Jean xx <3

Hello everyone. I am going to be in the foyer of one of the supermarkets today, 'shaking the bucket' to hopefully raise lots of money for the hospice. I intend to wear a white top, maybe white trousers (otherwise black) and my white wings. Better dash and get ready to go.

Shhhh girls, our Jean will hear us if we even whisper now, so dont talk about her when she is around, we dont want her to know our secrets. Especially the secret santa present she's going to get from "Shush you know who, the man in a red coat, and white beard".
Hi Jean,fancy using a cotton bud on your ears. Mind you, Roly is just as bad, he looks like he is digging for gold when he cleans his ears out. But I am always afraid the bud will come off the stick, and get stuck in his ear.
I dont really fancy taking him to the hospital, to get it removed.

Ann,I am glad I am not the only one with freezing feet. Even with nice fur lined slippers on, the cold seems to be penetrating through them.
I am sitting with my feet up on a pouffe at the moment, to try and keep them out of the draft from the air vent in the living room.

Sallie, things are fine here love. Unfortunately, we lost at darts last night.
Have you seen the moles that are doing the damage to your patio? Our son had holes dug up in his garden, and they thought it was moles, but it ended up being foxes.
The darned animal had jumped over the back garden fence, fortunately they didn't have any rubbish bags outside, but for some reason it was digging up areas of the lawn., leaving hilly mounds everywhere.
Since they have had the dog, the foxes have not been back.

Sylvia, how lucky your SIL was to be seen so quickly, god willing they have caught it soon enough for her to have a complete recovery. 400 km is a long way to have to travel for treatment though. Will she have to go home by train following her treatment. Bless her, thats a heck of a journey after going through what she will have done.

Hi there Huia and Liz, I haven't forgotten you both.

See you all later, love and hugs. Mo xxx

Just to let you ladys no Our Caz is getting cremate on monday if you look on GR i have put everything up on there
Love Dutchxx

It was impacted because I thought using a cotton bud might loosen it but it didnt just pushed it farther down, so hands smacked ,wont do that again,
I had the oil in about a week so the nurse put lots of warm water in for quite a while until it softened , at one time i went completley deaf, but now You dont have to shout at me Ann, I can hear you loud and clear ;-) ;-)

Jean did you not have to put oil in your ear for 2 weeks before having them syringed? Our surgery won't do it until you have done that. It softens the wax and stops it being impacted. Still not very pleasant to have done though. last time I got a shower as well as the water went everywhere but in the 'cup'.

Hello Sallie, I havent been on much, losing Caz has knocked me for six....
so pleased you and Shiela are going to her funeral , I wanted to go but still difficult for Jeff to drive so far, also I struggle standing any lentgh of time, but shall be there in spirit , I have just had to go and have my ears syringed, painful as it was impacted wax, still sorted now,
We saw a scan in 3d of our little boy he was smiling and looks just like his daddy, amazing what can be done nowadays...he should be with us around end of Jan early Feb.......all seems to be going well......
how is your Jennie these days? D is doing o.k. and hinself has a very bad cold it doesnt seem to be shifting , but the moaning makes him feel better....lol....
on my third lot of christmas cards, getting fed up doing them now...I was just telling Ann, I go on youtube Craft sites, such great ideas, have a look on the scrap thread I have put my findings on there... interesting....
just going to have breaded chicken with crispy scallops for tea, lovely...
Mo hope you win , my moneys always on you :-D :-D :-D

so love to everyone back later, Jean xx