General Chat

Hello all. I am here, but feeling sleepy, didnt get enough sleep last night so I might catch up on the settee.

Huia.

Mo, glad that you had a lovely Christmas with your family. Like you and Roly we seem to have spent the last two days just dozing. Jennie and Michael came and had their Christmas dinner with us, and then went to Michael's mum and dad's, where we joined them all later on Christmas evening.


Betty, nice to hear from you, I hope that you enjoyed your Christmas too.


Linda, glad to know that you also enjoyed your Christmas Day with all your family.

Hope you enjoy your lunch tomorrow with your sister-in-law, it's really nice to have company.
Have a good journey on Thursday when you take your father-in-law home.



Ann, like you we will be on our own for New Years Eve, but it doesn't bother me as I have never been too keen on celebrating it.

How is your daughter doing? We were away for a couple of days last week, so missed any news that you posted about her. I hope she's doing alright and that any treatment that she has will be a success.



I don't know where all our other friends on here are. I hope that all is well with them.



Love and best wishes.


Sallie.xxx

We had a lovely Christmas Day with all our family. FIL is still staying and we have been for a walk today. My sister in law and her hubby are here tomorrow for lunch. We will take FIL back home on Thursday and have a New Years Eve event to attend in a local hotel on Saturday evening.
So a couple of quiet days before getting ready for some time away finally, after hubby retired in September.............. no time since.

Have a peaceful time everyone unless you are dashing off to the sales...............no not me.

Linda xxx <3 <3 <3 :-) :-) :-) :-)

Pleased you had a good Christmas Mo. Ours was quiet but very nice and we too ate far too much. Tonight we have turkey curry. Tomorrow it will be the cold beef. New years Eve we will again be on our own but we don't mind at all.

Well, well, well girls, thank goodness thats that for one more year.
Coooo I have eaten far to much, and now feel as fat as a porky pig.
We had a wonderful christmas day, surrounded by our family.
Boxing day, was spent clearing the house, and dozing in the armchairs.
Today has not been much different, we both feel so drowsy, it must be catching up with us,after all the tension worrying about if we had forgotten anything. Lets face it, there is probably more than one household in the universe, who celebrate christmas, that forgot something or another.
I am now looking forwards to New Years eve, when we go out with two of our daughters, and our youngest son.
I am just wondering what we should have for dinner tonight. Something simple, and non fattening I think.
Well my friends, I hope you have all had good times, and can't wait to hear how it all went.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hi Everyone, happy Christmas to you all. To the people who sent me the beautiful christmas cards, thank you each and every
one.
Take care, enjoy yourselves and stay warm.
Talk soon,
Betty.

I hope everyone is able to enjoy Christmas and that they will have a Very Happy New Year and that it is indeed a better one than it has been for many on here.

I have finally decorated my Christmas tree ready ror 12 to dinner tomorrow and FIL staying for up to a week.

The gammon is in the oven cooking right now. What we don't have we wi8ll have to go without !!!

Thanks for being my friends all through this last and many past years.

Linda xxxx <3 <3 <3 :-) :-) :-)

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Take care everyone.


Love Sallie.xxx

Ah, right. Hope she can get it fixed as it is a bit of a life line to us isn't it?

She can still use it but it's not right Ann

Oh Caz, as she had managed to send me cards for the blog and put something on here I thought she had had it fixed.

Marilyn, Lovely, thank you for the good wishes and I hope that your Christmas is a good one.

Merry Christmas to you all. Mo I read your bit about the disabled parking bay and if they are like me I can't walk very far so have to be dropped off at the door if no disabled spare. It annoys me when cars park there with no badge in the window and get away with it.
Ann Jeans computer is a bit poorly at moment so we keep in touch by phone.

Caz xx

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Have a great Christmas all on Jeans Thread .

Marilyn xxxx :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

I expect I will have time to get on here tomorrow but just in case I don't I wish you all a wonderful christmas and a Happy New Year. I shall try not to misbehave Jean, chance would be a fine thing, but I am puzzled as to why you won't be on until the New Year. Are you going away?

Mo I hope the toothache stays away for you.

I say Jean, how come Ann can get away with misbehaving, and the rest of us can't, that not fair.
Ann wants the chance to be unrult with us..... nah nah da nah nah, lol ;-)
It's so good to hear from you my love.
I have not been to the dentist just yet, I have been taking the anti-biotics, but have only one days tablets left, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that the pain stays away till after christmas.
We went up to town this morning, to get a couple of bits we had forgotten.
Tes*co's was absolutely heaving, so we popped into Ic*lands instead, and came home as quickly as possible.
Trying to find a parking spot was like looking for a needle in a haystack. We actually witnessed a fight break out over a disabled parking bay.
Why don't people realise they can park elsewhere in the car park, with their disabled badge. We normally do if we can't find a space.
Talk about the christmas spirit, it certainly went out the window today, when the fight broke out.
Jean, Roly is a lot better now, not in so much pain thank the lord, but thank you for asking.
Well girls, just in case I don't get the opportunity to come on here tomorrow.
HAVE A LOVELY CHRISTMAS, ONE AND ALL. AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
Love and seasons greetings to you all. Thank you for your friendship during 2011, heres to 2012, when we can chat away to our hearts content.
Mo and Roly xxx

Happy Christmas to all my lovely friends on here,I hope it will be stress free time and a very happy one, I wont be on again until the new year,

Mo guess who had to get to the dentist quick yesterday ME lost half a tooth so it finished up costing me £45 ......hope your peggie is o.k. also love to Roly and we are thinking of him that he will have a painless christmas, and that means you musnt nag him !!
Sallie hope Jennie is doing alright and that you enjoy your christmas,
next lot of cards valentine cards.....lol...it never stops...
to Marie and Huia love and hugs for you, enjoy your christmas celebrations and a blessed new year...
sorry I missed Sylvia but I am sure she will have a great time,
so to everyone else have the best time ever and behave ,I dont want to read in the paper about your unruly behaviour, not you Ann of course....lol.....
take care lots of love and hugs Jean xxxx

Ann, I have been so busy lately that I havent had time to investigate the workings of the new camera. It does have a macro setting but not sure how to operate it. The smaller camera has macro and super macro and it is just a matter of clicking on the left side of the wheel once or twice. I tried it with the new camera and it did more-or-less take a photo but not ultra clear. Perhaps when Christmas is over I can start to study the workings of the new camera.

Huia.

Huia doesn't your new camera have a macro setting? when my camera is on the macro setting I have to have the camera set to wide angle, if I don't the macro doesn't work. Glad you didn't get washed away, and glad that you got to see Phil as well.

Linda, goodness that is good value, I suppose they realise that there will be nothing less likely to sell as a Christmas cake after Christmas!!!

Mo, I missed Sylvia as well. And I am not shopping for any more food. We went to town today as I had a chiropodist appointment and the bus coming home was heaving. Luckily we were near the front of the queue so had a seat but a lot of people were standing.

I went back to Cossey Dam yesterday to photograph the NZ passion flower with my older camera. It does good close-ups. I havent yet found how to do them with the new camera. I then drove down to the Hunua falls, and had my lunch, after which I went to visit Phil.

On my way home I did some shopping in Papakura. The fine morning had turned to a wet afternoon. In fact, there was a real downpour, particularly in the eastern part of the town as they had flooding. As I started home through the Hunua Gorge I noticed lots of water running across the road where drains had blocked. The rain had stopped by the time I got to Hunua, but a little bit further on there were very black clouds to the south, over my area. I stopped and took some photos. I like taking photos of interesting weather, fog, etc. I was glad to get home though, without finding the road blocked by any slips.

Huia.

Coo thats good value Linda. The fruit alone could cost you more than that.
Like you, I have been to Tesco's today, to finish of the food shopping. If I have forgotten anything, tough, we will do without, coz I am NOT going in there again.
People were going crazy, they had trolley loads full of food, anyone would think the shop was closing for a month, not just one day for goodness sake.
I hope your hubby has enjoyed his birthday. Is this his 65th, as I know he is now retired.
I hope you found mum cheerful, and enjoying herself, bless her.

I hope I am not to late to wish.....................................................
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) A HAPPY CHRISTMAS SYLVIA. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
I missed her posting at 04.35 a.m this morning, but then I would wouldn't I, beeing as I was fast asleep.
I hope things went well at the doctors as well Sylvia.

Speak to you all tomorrow, god willing. Love to all. Mo xxx