General Chat

Lorraine, yes I live in the country. Possums and rats have been known to raid bird nests in our 'bush' and eat the eggs or young chicks. That is not good for our rare species of birds, such as the kokako which nests in our hills. This is why a programme is in place setting poison baits for rats and possums throughout the bush.

Huia.

ps, when we talk of the bush, you would call it forest.

Huia all i can say is your very brave, do you live in the country side ?, the only tree rats i see are squirrels but they are nice.

Mo yep i need 12 hours roughly to do stall for 7 hours it really takes it out of me but i enjoy it and people are enjoying my bracelets which is nice for me, and we have our regulars too, to have a chat too.
The cpap is helping too although i still wake in pain if ive slept through without pain killers i still feel less foggy and can concentrate better.

sallie hope you will feel better soon xx

Hello everyone hope your enjoying the sun, sadly i cant enjoy it the heat and sun react differently and makes me feel worse, i like bright cool days or a bit warm. xx :-D

Hello girls,
Just to let you know that I have heard from Sallie. She is o.k, but having a wee break from posting as much.
Sometimes it is hard to know what to post, when nothing much has happened during the day.
But I do like to know that everyone is going along nicely, so I come on here and pester the life out of you all. lol ;-)

Huia, if a rat wants to get in, it will wont it, no matter what you do to try and keep it out.
We still wont leave our patio doors open, unless we are sitting right by them, after our last visitation from the little blighters. ooh they make my blood run cold.

It's been a glorious day here today, I have sat in the garden under the parasol, reading my book, glorious.
Lets just hope it lasts for a few days at least.

Going to get a nice bath now, and sit and relax for the evening.
Bye everyone. Love and hugs Mo xxx

Lorraine, no point taking refuge up a tree as possums live in trees usually and rats can climb them too, as I have seen rats running along the branch of a tree that used to be outside our window. :-0

Huia.

Thank goodness things were not quite as bad as you thought Lorraine.
Cor you do go to your bed early, how do you manage to get to sleep when it's so light outside. We would be eating our dinner, as you were going to your bed. lol

Sylvia, you must enjoy your time with littlie while you can, this place, in fact the internet comes a good last where my family are concerned. So have fun love.

Jean my lickle lovely. I have not had a reply from Sallie, so now I am beggining to get really worried.
She has not said she is going away on holiday, so I can only assume that things did not go as planned with the therapist, and that the black dog has got hold of her again, bless her.
Looks like we may be great grandparents again next year as well. Just waiting for confirmation.

I have a lovely photo of baby Lilly on my F.B page, she's with the local Olympic torch bearer near her home. What a lovely memento for when she grows up.

Have a lovely weekend girls, take care one and all. Love Mo xxx

ALL ok having a humidifier added on` to mask and going to monitor next 8 weeks to have a clearer picture, so was worrying to much as i do.

as im typing dinkey my 3 yr old dog pulls my left hand away too scratch his back he loves it and as im scratching his back he sticks his tounge in and out till i stop then it all starts up again.

well im off for my beauty sleep in a minute, need about 12 hours when im on stall, so mask on and up and away

hello and good night lovelies
:-D

MO she would love too lol.

well ive had some disturbing news, i telephoned a number i have to speak to the cardio vascular nurse, i asked him weather the AHI attacks i was having was it hourley or nightly, and i was still waking holding my breath, he was rather shocked and asked if i could see him today so in a min we are of to the princess royal, it appears i may have central sleep apneo, although he cannot just diagnose over the phone, im really worried , because this may mean the difference between fostering my FD brother even though specky and FD IS Ook , they were talking about letting him come and his sister being his main carer , i hope not, but understand qwhy, he is a lad and at a very difficult age.

anyway hope your all ok xxxx
huia are you murdering today , hope your pests at least decline in numbers, im afraid id be living up a tree your very brave, i squeal at a slug. x :-0

Morning all , wet and miserable again so what new....
not much news , it seems everything is on a go slow , we need sunshine ....started doing some christmas cards , and also did some cleaning....mini spring clean J did upstairs and I did down, got a fair bit done , but we were both tired afterwards, it felt good to be able to do it , seems strange saying that, but every achievment is worthy of praise for us, after the nightmare year....still all done and dusted so onwards and upwards....
Sylvia, I laughed at the title you have given the little one , we have a littlie next door who is just liked that, love having her but glad when its hometime.....lol....
Huia, you are made of stearner stuff than me ,I would have run a mile...
Mo did you get through to Sallie, I do wonder how she is. hope all is well....
Caz pm sent , Linda, how is the knitting , I have been asked to make a shawl for the baby, but I am no good at that, dolls no problem anything bigger and with a pattern is no go , so I will buy them one....
well folks love to everyone I have missed , hope the sun comes soon....take care....
love Jean xx

hi Mo


and everyone


we have the littlie and his parents still here, so I ma not getting much time on the 'puter, or on GR


he's Mr Tornado :-D

Ann, my neighbour at the back of us, is not a gardener at all. She leaves her garden to go to rack and ruin, then once a year, she gets a man in to clear the weeds.
Well, she has a lovely shrub at the bottom of her garden, but the bind weed is choking it to death, and the the bloomin weed is starting to invade the bottom of our garden again now. It creeps under the fence, and tries wrapping itself around my honey suckle and lavender, I am forever pulling it out, and trying to get the roots out.
I pour loads of weed killer under the fence, and it does keep it under control for a while.
Once, Roly took the fence panel out, and we poured the weed killer over them, but she's a bit of a nutter, and screams and shouts at invisable people, so we are reluctant to remove the panel to often.
All our neighbours call her mad meg (no offence meant to any megs on here) and crikey she's as barmy as they come.

Sorry this started by my reading about you tidying your garden. lol
Love Mo

Don't panic Mo, I am here, not had much time to add today, first I did a wash load, dried it in the conservatory because it looked like rain. I was wrong about that but it is all dry. Then 'Sparky' came to fix the car, then we went grocery shopping, then I spent an hour in the garden after lunch, it is such a nice day we thought it was a good opportunity. T was out there longer though. We cut back loads of the jungle that had sprung up in the rain, can actually see the borders now. Sorry not 'spoken' to everyone but this is just to let you know I am around. Have been reading quickly and not posting. :-)

Oh my lord Huia, no wonder you were feeling so tired, after the exertion of killing the Possum and clearing all the blood and gore up afterwards...yuk
The pesky rats would come out in the rain,they love swimming around in water and drains. Thank goodness they got caught in the traps. Were they ones that you had baited in readiness, just in case.
When we had the very bad rain recently, the powers that be, were concerned about rats in our sewers in this country.
They showed photo's of rats swimming down streets, in the flood waters.

Lorraine, can you send your young lady to do a spring/summer clean up for me.
The windows, and nets could all do with a clean up. lol

Where has everyone got to I wonder, no..Jean,Ann,Sylvia, Sallie, Caz, Marie, Joyce,Linda,Liz,Jude they have not all gone on holiday surely.

I think I will send Sallie a p.m, as it's unusual for her to be absent this long.
Bye for now girls, Love Mo xxx

Yesterday morning when I was about to get changed to go to the midwinter dinner (lunch) I committed a murder on my back porch. I left the body there until I got home. It was one of those pesky Aussie possums which had decided to curl up on the back door mat. It wasnt an easy job to kill it, despite the fact it was not over-active. Finished with blood and brains oozing on my porch, lovely mess to clean up when I got home. I felt like Lady MacBeth, 'out damned spot' wanting to wash my hands all the time, even though I didnt get any on my hands. There were also 2 rats caught in traps. All the rain must have brought the pests in out of the wet.

The lunch was fine and I didnt over-eat. Phil still seems to be able to use his brain. He decided he wanted one of the plastic forks from the far side of the table, but he couldnt quite reach, so he got hold of the table cloth to pull it towards him.

I am tired, so think I will have a nap before my lunch.

Huia.

huia, your problems are still problems that you have to deal with, so i really hope things sort them selves out for you xxx

Ann g yes very quiet :-D but kind of nice, especially the laughter with her friend from her room

mo, she was with her mum, and they never settled anywhere long enough, ive had a right game finding her records, so when i finally told a orthodontist that i would be taken her to A and E and would speak to the local radio station, all of a sudden they can see her saturday after my charity stall, i usually go to be for a hour after that so hope i dont fall asleep at dentist lol, apart from that she is wonderfull.

she wanted to earn some money so she did me a spring clean (summer clean ) lol, she loves tidying up.As she is over 16 i didn t mind.

....and mo i hope you dont have anymore bad news and the baby and son get well soon xxx

Im at last having a good few days no pain today but feeling very tired, this could be because ive been doing more .

love to everyone xxxx :-D

Hello girls from a lovely sunny day here, it rained well spitted a little bit but nothing really got wet. I am nearly over my kidney infection, just got a couple of days of anti-biotics left now. About my leg, it has got to the point where I can't walk on it properly, and now the other one has started now, To say I am fed up is an understatement, Lucky OH is home some of the day so I can stay in bed and rest.
Brave little Lilly drinking her Barium meal, I can't bear the thought of drinking it, uugh.
Jean I still haven't got the parcel, if it hasn't come by the end of the week I will ring the post office, it''s getting silly is this, and they get away with it. Congratulations on your good news, My grandson has no plans yet but I think his wife wants one soon.

Time for painkillers so I might as well go. see you all tomorrow
Caz xx

Hello everyone, how are we all this fine day.
Oooh yuk Huia, that poor builder going up into the loft, with all the deposits that had been left there by your little visitors. Are you still getting visits from them by the way.?
How did the mid winter meal go at Phil's place. What sort of goodies did they give you?
How is Phil by the way?

Cooe Ann,~~~~~~~~~ I have been flitting about the boards today haven't I. lol
Oh my word, that Barium has started to go through Lilly like a dose of salts, bless her.

Must go and see if there is any news about Maddie on my other thread now girls.
Take care all. Love and Hugs, especially to our Jean.
Oh by the way, has anyone heard from Sallie lately.
mwah Mo xxx

Huia once in the winter we had a rainstorm and our conservatory leaked. The rain came from a different direction, it has not leaked at all during all this wet weather we have had. Hope you stay dry now.

Glad Lily got through the barium meal ok Mo, hope they can find something soon so they can help her get better.

Mo, it was a beautiful fine day yesterday. The builder came in the late afternoon and couldnt see any reason for the leak. He even went up into the ceiling, with all the cobwebs and rat poo. He hadnt brought his long ladder for getting up on top of the roof, but if I have the problem again I will phone him and he will bring it and his young ladder-holder so he can check more closely up on the roof. I suspect it was a one-off event. Just hoping the water hasnt done any internal damage.

Going to a mid-winter meal at Phil's home today, so I mustnt spend too long on here.

Huia.

Ooooh Jean congratulations, on such very good news, I am soo pleased for you all.
It does make a change for there to be some glad news amongst us all.
Take it steady on the stiff drink my lovely, we cant have you falling down drunk can we. lol Especially now that you are to become great grandparents.
Welcome to the club by the way.

Ann, never a dull moment with you and T is there. I bet you were dreading seeing a policeman on the road, but then it was a genuine reason for your not having working indicators wasn't it. But would a bobby have believed you I wonder.
Up till that point you had both had such a brilliant time, what a shame it ended as it did.

Huia, has it stopped raining yet over there. I do hope your window dries out o.k, and that the cost of repair is not to expensive.

Caz, I am sorry to hear you are still suffering badly with your leg. Has the kidney infection cleared itself properly?

Well, Lilly had her Barium meal today. They managed to get her to drink it, by putting some strawberry milk shake flavouring in it.
And guess what, yes, they couldn't find anything wrong....so back to the drawing board.
She has to see the paediatrician next week, so we will wait and see what he says.

I bet Sylvia is still enjoying having the family with them. Hard work though, having family visiting with a little one though.
I know when our family arrive with the grandchildren, we are so happy to see them, but oh so relieved when they go home, and we can get ourselves straight again. We become creatures of habit and routine dont we.

Well I must go now, take care evryone. Love Mo xxx

Jean, Granddaughter will be 10 on friday.(going on 17 :-D)

Well we've had quite an eventful day. We decided as the rain had stopped to drive up the M5 to webbs garden centre at Wychebold. Got there, had coffee and then I hit Hobbycraft and bough a load of bits and pieces. In webbs itself bought a couple of plants and a solar garden light (a ball on a pole, we already have two.) Then we walked round the wild flower gardens they have created by the river which are lovely, there were loads of poppies and cornflowers, geraniums and lots of other self seeded flowers. We also walked round the part of the garen that showcases their plants that they sell. Not looking its best at the moment because of the weather. saw a beautiful dragonfly by the river, electic blue, almost black, very pretty but too fast to photograph.

Next we drove down the road to the Harvester where we had their salad bowl starter and fish (cod) and chips which were very nice.

Now the fun starts. We got back to the car which refused to unlock on the fob. We have been having trouble for a while, so much so that T has disconnected the alarm klaxon and just left the hazard lights to flash. This time though it really scrambled its brain, we could unlock it with the key but then the hazards started flashing. Couldn't stop them. In the end drove off down the M5 with the lights coming on every five miles or so, T could switch them off on the fob. But it got a bit dodgy so we turned into frensham service station and in the end between the two of us managed to remove the fuse that activated the hazard warning lights. Unfortunately it also worked (or didn't) the indicator lights. So we drove the next bit of the motorway (about 10 miles with no indicators, not my favourite thing to do, then came off the motorway and drove home throught the back lanes. Have now called out 'Sparky' as T has done all he can to fix it.

Still we did have a nice day out even if the journey home was 'interesting'. :-D