General Chat

Hello Girls,


Jean lovely to hear from you, lets hope the problems you had with your computer is now sorted and you won't have any more trouble with it.

Sorry to hear about the problems you've had with your PayPal account, I hope it has all been sorted out for you now.

It's awful to have something like that happen, it certainly makes you nervous and wary for a while about using buying things off the internet.



Sylvia, thanks for that, I was sure that Ann had mentioned that her and T were going to their daughter's this weekend.

I shall be glad when our new boiler is in...as you say Sylvia there is always something to be done.lol!!




Well we are off to Stoke-on-Trent tomorrow, we are meeting my cousin who lives in NE Wales so that we can exchange our Christmas presents.
Meeting at the pub we usually meet at, to have lunch, so looking forward to meeing up and having a good natter catching up on all the news.

Went to Derby this morning and when we got home I decorated our Christmas tree and finished pack all the presents, so feel pleased that those jobs are now done.


Thinking of all our friends and hope you are all OK.


Speak to you all tomorrow.



Take care everyone.



Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Well hello folks, tis I, finally all the problem has been resolved, I have just read the adds on here and firstly , many thanks to you all for your lovely cards, Mo I was very pleased to see Roly had a good result too, now you can enjoy your christmas, I have done very little as I usually get a lot of my stuff of tinternet. the sorry business we have gone through has really affected us, and makes me very wary now...
you all seem to have got things sorted christmas- wise, I was sorry to hear from Marie and her trouble I will certainly add my prayers for her and her family...Caz and I have kept in touch, so I know her news.
I havent sent cards abroad this year but hope to send some New Year ones soon.....I am just going to have some bacon butties for my lunch so I will love you and leave you . but I will be back.
love Jean xxx

ooooops


forgot to say how pleased I was that Roly's tests had come back so good <3 <3 <3 <3


That's wonderful.



Sallie ... you're quite correct, Ann did say they were going to visit their daughter this weekend.


So sorry to hear you're going to have a new boiler.

There's always something isn't there?!



The weather here is damp, but quite warm ........ certainly several degrees warmer than it was earlier in the week!


I think it is certainly going to be a green Christmas for us!



sylvia
xx

Hello Girls,

Mo, so pleased to hear the good news about Roly. Thank goodness that everything is alright. At least now both you and Roly can enjoy your Christmas without that worry hanging over you.


Did you have a darts match last night? If you did, hope your team won.

If I can remember rightly, I'm pretty certain Ann and T have gone to their daughter's for the weekend. Hope the weather won't be too bad for them.




Caz lovely to hear from you.....I'm sure it won't take Phil long to pick up what you need for Christmas. I just hope that you will feel a bit
better and will enjoy your day.

You would have thought that the drivers would have used their common sense according to the conditions and as you said gone round the other way.lol!!




Huia, hope all is well with you. Are you still as busy as you have been lately.




Sylvia, it's really cold here, there is something in the air not sure if it's rain or it's trying to snow.

Hope the weather isn't too bad with you.




Well, we have had our central heating boiler repaired once again, but it is only temorary. We not only have to have a new boiler, but have to have some new piping from the gas mains to the boiler itself. Apparently the person that put this boiler in for us used the wrong size piping, so we now have to have the right size put in. So it looks as though it is going to cost us an arm and a leg.
But we have to have get it sorted as this is the third time we have had to have the boiler repaired.



Well girls I'll say goodnight and will speak to you all tomorrow.


Take care everyone and stay warm.



Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Caz


sorry to hear you've been having a bad time


Hope you feel better soon, and the black dog runs away :-)



s
xx

and Pohutukawa makes a fabulous, stunning display when there are masses of the trees all in flower at the same time!


I was down in NZ in December 1992-January 1993 ................... "visiting" OH and daughter who were down there from October 1992 to June 1993.


We had a lovely time :-)


damp, rainy and drizzley here ...... but warm!



sylvia
xxx

Mo, the bottlebrush is Callistemon and the Pohutukawa is Metrosideros, although both are members of the Myrtle family. Pohutukawa grows into a large tree, the bottle brush is not quite so big.

Caz, the flower head is probably about 2 inches across, at a guess. It actually consists of several flowers. It grows along the beaches and flowers at this time of year, very colourful. The rata is another member of the Metrosideros genus.

Huia.

Mo it was me who stabbed myself with my fork, it's still sore.
Jean is having her computer overhauled so she won't be on yet.

Caz

Ooops I nearly missed you Caz.
I am sorry to hear you have had the black dog hanging over you love.

Oooh give your OH a slap on the legs from me, for poking you with his fork, thats nasty. lol ;-)

(((((((((((((((HUGS FOR YOU CAZ))))))))))))))).

Hello ladies,
Well everything went well today at the hospital.
They said that Roly's postrate is slightly enlarged, but not enough for them to worry about.
Nothing else was discovered. and the surgeon thinks that the blood in the urine, was caused by the anti-biotics he was prescribed for the kidney stones.
There are no stones anywhere in his body, so they think he passed them through his body himself.
Whew thats all such a relief to me I can tell you. I can now relax and enjoy christmas, thank the lord.
Thank you all for your support, at a time when I needed it.

Huia thank you so much for the christmas card, it arrived this morning.
Your Avatar picture, is the same as the card isn't it. And that is what we call a bottle brush plant. Do you remember my telling you about the one I bought a couple of years, and my dread of it dying in our winter weather.
Well it's still going strong, even though I cut it back quite severly earlier in the year. What a coincidence is that, you call it your christmas trees in NZ.,and we call it a bottle brush plant.

Well done Sallie and Sylvia, on completing your christmas present buying, and wrapping.
It's such a great feeling when it's all done isn't it.

Sallie, what a time for the boiler to pack up.We need our central heating at this time of year, dont we.
Did you all get the snow today. We did, but thank goodness it didn't lay. But it is soooo cold outside at the moment.

I wonder where Ann has got to. Cooeee Ann, I hope you are o.k, and T as well.

I have been thinking about Jean, Marie, Joyce, Caz,Betty, Liz and wondering how they are coping at the moment. It seems ages since we heard from so many of our friends, love and hugs to them all.

Take care my friends, and stay nice and warm. Love Mo xxx

Hi girls, sorry not to have been on for a while but been on a bit of a downer, not a bit looking forward to christmas, in fact I haven't got anything yet. There are only the two of us so it shouldn't take OH long to do the shopping. It is freezing here and been snowing, we watched all the fun and games of the cars trying to get up our street yesterday, when they find they can't, why don't they go round the other way.
Mo I hope Roly went on alright today and things are ok with him.
Oooh I was having my tea and OH wouldn't stop talking, he knows I don't like talking while eating so I told him to shut up then went and stabbed my lip with my fork, it is really sore now.

Huia that flower is lovely, how big is it and is it a proper christmas tree?

Caz

Sylvia, good luck for when you see your family doctor on the 21st.
Glad that all went well with the physio, it's good that you are able to have more appointments as she says that the massage helps the tendons and muscles in that area.

Mo, hope all will go well for Roly this afternoon. Will be thinking about
you both. Sending lots of hugs and


positive thoughts to Roly.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3


Speak to you all soon.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Hi all
xxx


sorry, I see that I didn't tell you the result of the visit to the physio ...............

I am going back to see her in about a month, to see how things are going, plus she thinks that her doing some massage on the muscles and tendons in the area help.

The appointment is for Jan 17.


We have now got all the cards off, except for the ones to our niece and her family in Whitehorse ........... I have 2 cheques to write for the little boys.


Then OH has to pack the presents to go to NS ..... I wrapped them Thursday morning. We think we will use a courier company ..... they're usually cheaper than Canada Post :-)



We leave next Thursday for our trip to the Island. We'll be away from the 22-27th.


I have an appointment with the family doctor on the 21st ............. go over the specialists' reports with him, get a new prescription, and hopefully get my flu shot ......... I couldn't have it when we were all supposed to get them back in October/November.



Good luck for Roly for later today <3 <3 <3 <3




Take care everyone



sylvia
xxx

All my best wishes to Roly for today.

Huia.

Mo, Joyce has asked me to pass on her best wishes to Roly for tomorrow, she hopes that all will go well for him.


Today I've been out shopping with my friend, so I have now got all the presents for everyone.YIPPEEE!


Since yesterday morning we have been without central heating....we have someone coming to look at the boiler tomorrow afternoon, so we are hoping that he can at least do a temporary repair. The trouble is, we have already had it repaired twice, and were warned the last time that they might not be able to repair it again, so it might mean that we will have to have a new boiler. It's just as well I have bought all the food for Christmas or we might have been on dried bread and water..... mind I don't think that things are that bad yet.lolol!!




Sylvia, when do you and OH go away ? Sorry, I'm not sure whether you've told us when you are going.



Well ladies I have a couple of presents to wrap up for Alun while he's at the club so I'd better get them done.



GOOD LUCK to Roly for tomorrow. Will be thinking about him and hope that it will all be sorted for him soon.

Sending lots of positive thoughts and hugs. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

We are certainly not having dry weather in parts of NZ at present. On TV they showed a kitchen in the Nelson area with silt almost up to the top of the stove, after all the flooding. That would be heartbreaking. We had some rain today but nowhere near enough to cause that sort of thing.

Huia.

Hi all
xxx


Best wishes to Roly for Friday! <3 <3 <3

We're having very dry weather here ................ much below normal rain. This could be bad for the reservoirs if it keeps up!


One of our local public gardens has an excellent display of lights Festival of Lights, they call it) in December, and they have different choirs singing every night.

Thursday night, it will be OH's church choir that will be there. I'm hoping to be be fit enough to go, as my back and hips have been playing up a little. It is quite a magical evening.




sylvia
xxx

Mo,

Yes we also have the local Round Table come round the streets every year with their sleigh. Like your children, our's were the same and knew that it wouldn't be long before Santa came.

Oh Christmas is a wonderful time for children. This morning even though it was 'Santa' on the bus waving to them and then getting off to give them some sweets, you could see the wonderment on their faces.



I wonder if Caz is feeling better. I haven't heard from her for a few days, so hope she's OK. I think I'll send her a PM tomorrow to find out she's getting on.




We still haven't heard anything from Marie either. It seems a long while since we last heard from her.




Joyce has been without the internet for nearly a week as her and Jan ( well mostly Jan ) have been moving the computer from downstairs to upstairs so that they will have more room for their Christmas Day visitors.
I think that she should be back on by now though. Hope she is OK.




Has anyone heard from Jean? It's a long while since we heard from her. Hope her and the family are all alright.




Well, I girls I'm going to have a cuppa now. Surprise! Surprise! lolol!!
So will speak to you all tomorrow.




Take care everyone and stay safe and warm.



Loe and best wishes. Sallie.xxx




Sending lots of positive thoughts and hugs to Roly for Friday.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Ann, when I joined this team about four years ago, they were all enthusiastic players, but now they have become very lethargic, and prefer to sit and chat, instead of concentrating on the game. Initially they were not going to play this year, but changed their minds at the beggining of the season, but now I wish they hadn't bothered.
I am sorry, I don't mean to sound like I am moaning all the time, but why say you are going to play, and then lose interest. I shall never understand it.

Thank you all for the good wishes for Roly, he really appreciates it.

Sallie, your talking of the Santa on the bus today, reminded me that our local Round Table group, every year go round the streets on their sleigh, collecting money for the charity they have chosen that year.
The children love it, and our local papers advertise the fact that they are due to come round the streets, and youngsters stay up to watch them and hear the music that they play.
My children used to love it, when they were young. To them it was a sure sign that father christmas would soon be here.

Mo, my best wishes to Roly for Friday. I will be thinking of him on Fri night but not at the time he will be there as I will be fast asleep I hope. Hope all goes well for him.

Huia.