General Chat

Hi all
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a lovely day today .... warm and sunny

The forecast is for 3 or 4 more days like this ............... next Monday is a "Bank" holiday, so hope it will last until then


Daughter told me on Sunday that MJ decided last week that it was time to crawl AND to "cruise" ........ described as walking using something such as the coffee table as support!

Having decided, he seems to be getting ahead by leaps and bounds!


He's also still very vocal, but not actual words. The baby sitter THINKS she heard him say "cookie" last week ............. that's the North American word for biscuit.

No-one else has heard him say that


What a word to be his frst word!!



sylvia
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Oooh Ann you are a couple of gadabouts. Are you sure you haven't got ants in yer pants. LOL
Are you going for the whole week Ann.
I hope you have got a sprinkler system for your garden, otherwise the poor plants are going to get thirtsy.
I believe the forecast is for warmer weather next week, so hopefully you will strike it lucky.

I am here, read yesterday but forgot to post. Well done with the darts Mo. Busy week for us in the garden as we are off again on Friday to Dorset. :-) :-) :-)

Hi everyone.
Well good news, we won at darts last night, but only just. In the semi-finals we are up against the strongest team in our league.
They have actually won the seasons games, and the pairs, so as you can see, we are going to need all the prayers and luck we can muster.

Sylvia,what a lovely picture of your mum. She was so well dressed for that period of time.
And isn't it funny how most photo's of that era, were taken in front of articles of furniture of some kind or another. Or of an old aspadistra (sp)

Marie. I think we have all got Irish connections, that are hard to trace. At one time Fanny By Gaslight was trying to trace my Irish ancestors, but had to give up, as they proved elusive. I believe she even had our Sylvia trying to find them.
I am pleased you are feeling a little better now. Don't worry to much about the cold sores, we luv you anyway with or without them.
I am sure you will enjoy being on Skype, it will make your family seem much closer to you, being able to see them when you are talking to them.
My neighbour has installed it, and she talks to an old neighbour of ours, out in Spain on it.
We don't have it, and even if we did, I think I would be even more confused than I am now. You are very brave installing it all by yourself, I wouldn't know where to start.

Huia, it sounds like you had a brilliant time at the Opera. Mozart is a bit to heavy for me I'm afraid.
What a shame you weren't able to have a good old chin wag with your old choir friends.

I wonder where Jean, Sallie, Ann, Caz, Joyce, Tess, Liz and all our other cyber friends have got to lately. It's been quite quiet on here of late.

I know that Marilyn is still around, as she has been on the Friendly Thread.
Her poor husband has got to have his gall stones removed by major surgery tomorrow. They took him in today for keyhole surgery, but it seems that the stones are to big for removal by that proccedure, so he has to go back tomorrow for their removal.
Poor Marilyn is going to be run of her feet, looking after him following his operation.
Prayers and thoughts for Marilyn((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))

By for now girls. Love to all. Mo xxx

Marie, Marilyn has been posting on the Friendly thread.

I went to the concert, it was all Mozart. It is good being in the audience as I can hear the full effect of the choir rather than hearing my group dominating over the others. It was nice to see some of my old choir friends at the afternoon tea afterwards, but it was very crowded so I didnt get to speak to many of them. Possibly a lot of them were out the back anyway, handing in their music and folders or dismantling the staging, so I didnt stay very long, though long enough to eat more than I should have!

Huia.

Hi Marie

just a quick post ..... yes, Julie is back.

She had been in hospital for a spell, had lost connection, and I think also needed to re-join GR


but she was back on the boards.



sylvia
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Hello to you all,Just popped in to say hello, Like Huia it is freezing here another big frost plus Fog it is sunny now but still very cold
I am a lot better but still have scabes on my lips from the cold sore's and it doesn't look nice as someone commented.

Hi Sally I hope you are keeping the black dog down where he belong's.

Hi tess I see you are researchiong in Somerset and also Cork.I have been very successful in finding my Haywards in West Coker Somerset.
We are having a reunion in Mackay on the 1st.and 2nd.of October this year.
Cork is a black hole or a brick wall as we usually say, my O'Brien's gave their birthplace as Shepperton Castlehaven, Cork. Very little records have been digitised for this area., it is such a shame as by the time they do the recording for this area I probably will be 6 foot under :S

Mo I hope you went well in the dart's and Jean I hope you won your bet ;-) ;-)

Dear Caz, we need a miracle for your back I know it wont get better but I do hope the morphine dulls the pain for you.
Dear Joyce:-) thank you for your beautiful Card .I am going to see if I can scan it and have it on my profile on Gene's Reunited <3 I
Sylvia we are into our winter you should be having lovely weather by now, I do hope it get's better for you as I am sure you must have aches and pain's from the cold..
I installed a a camera phone on my computer to-day for Skyp I have had it since before Xmas but wasn't game to install it, but my brother told me to bite the bullet and put it on as he went out yesterday and bought one and now wishes to speak to me via Skyp my relatives in New Zealand also have skyp and have been waiting for me to have it installed .
I just hope that the Skyp doesn't ring too much as I dont want to be on the phone at all hour's.
I am not even sure if I have enough Gigabites to support the system.

Hi Huia ,did you get to the concert? as you probably read I am tutoring a small group of ladies , most of them have loss of hearing including me but they are keen and attentive and have done very little singing , but I am pleased with them and I am sure they will improve.
It is good for me as I have missed the singing.

Has anyone heard from Marilyn, ? Debbie must have let her membership lapse, I miss her lovely post's about her children and their sport. I hope they are well.
Did anyone ever get in touch with Julie,? not being able to post every day means I do miss out on quite a lot of new's.

Hi Ann I hope all is well with you also, I am so busy with the organisation of the Hayward Reunion that I dont have the time to chat ,and the viral infection but me way back.

I must away as I have washing to hang and later to-day I am going to have my FLU injection LOL ;-) ;-)

Love & Hugs Marie :-( :-)

Hi all
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it's cloudy and showery here, and the temperature is also still quite a way below "normal"



Huia ........ OH is doing well at clearing out "stuff", from our storage areas in the basement.



Hope darts went well Mo



sylvia
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But I don't do so well!

It looks as if it is going to be a good day for going through my 'junk' and getting rid of as much as possible. When I got up a couple of hours ago it was a sunny day, clear sky, and I had intended to do the washing, but now it is raining so the washing can wait another day. Or even more. It had occurred to me that I probably have only about 20 more years to live and I could be too frail in the last 10 years, and as I dont want to leave too much stuff for the family to sort out and really do need to get on with it NOW.

Huia.

Good evening one all.

I hope we are all plodding along as well as we can.
Each morning when I wake up, I think of you all, and wonder what sort of day you all will have.

Saturday we baby sat for little Lilly, she is such a pleasure to behold, full of smiles and chuckles.
It's hard to believe she is now four months old, it only seems like yesterday that she was born.

Wish me luck girls, as I have got darts tonight. It's the first game of our knockouts. I will let you know how we get on tomorrow.
Jean, dont spend to much on your bet tonight, just in case we lose. LOL

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

ooh Sylvia that would have been sooo annoying, I think I'd feel like Tess.

Tess, I am sure that you just give general thanks for your health and being secure and well fed in your home. Somebody/something somewhere will hear.

Hope you are pleased with the fence.

Sylvia, that phone must have driven you MAD!! I bet that you felt like taking a hammer to it. Well, that it how I would have felt.

So sorry to hear that so many of you have been feeling unwell and or undergoing treatment of some kind.

Now that I know how old some of you are, I feel like a stripling. I am only 62
So I should stopmy moaning and get on with living.


The one trouble I have in not believing in any kind of Deity is that when I wake in the morning and am well enough to get out of bed, I have no-one to give thanks to.

I feel that I have a lot to be thankful for, a lovely family, good friends, I still have all my facilities (even if some of them are a bit ropey at times0. I have a bed to sleep in, a (non-leaking) roof over my head, and plenty of food in my belly... What more could I need?

The workmen are now here, sorting out my fence and back gate. So I will soon feel a lot more secure and private.

I even won a little raffle on Thursday evening - They call it a half-and-half. Half the money raised goes to funds and the other half is the prize. So I am now ten pounds better off. Perhaps I will buy something for the garden.


On Wednesday I am going to have a facial (Massage) at the local college. Haven't had one for ages and looking forward to it. It will be done by a first year student and hopefully will help her to complete all the "required elements".

Just made the workmen another cup of tea (their second) so will soon be having one myself too. A cup of earl Grey goes down nicely.

Tess

Hi Tess


nice to see you, and know that you are feeling OK




sylvia

Hi Everyone, I am okay. Have benn reading the posts on this thread this evening. Hve also been adding info to my terr.

Should be able to come back on the computer tomorrow. So speak to you then.

Tess

How annoying that would have been, Sylvia. At least the peeping was not too loud as I am a bit hard of hearing and dont wear the hearing aids in bed (they would squeal if I did), and I had the bedroom door shut and it was the alarm at the other end of the house anyway.

Thanks for warning me not to get the wired ones, anyway. I will put the new battery in when I get home this afternoon, then I can put the ladder away.

Huia.

Hi all
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Huia, we had our house re-wired some years ago, and the electrician persuaded us to install a wired-in smoke detector, saying it was better and safer.


How I wish that we had not agreed!

Yes, it saves having to replace batteries, and getting that annoying warning beep

BUT ........ it has been wired into the same circuit that has our bedside lights and alarm clock radios.

It does not have a turn off switch on it, so if it goes off, someone has to go down to the fuse box, and remove the fuse.


Every now and again it goes off for no reason


every time we remove the fuse, and then replace it ............. we have to re-set the clock radios


We now no longer grill any food, because that always set it off!

In fact, I think the battery alarms were safer, because they will continue to work even if the electricity has been cut off for some reason.


I think the very worst though was the night the phone started ringing .............. and ringing ............. and ringing


There was no-one on the other end, we could not phone out, leaving the handset off made no difference, it still continued to ring


OH went to a neigbour's to phone the company .............. of course, no-one could come out! It was Sunday evening!

And, just our luck, the phone was in our bedroom :((

We managed to extend the cord into the hallway, away from our bedroom door, and we covered the phone with cushions, thus reducing the noise to a very low level.


It turned out that a switch in a small sub-station had got stuck in the wrong position.




sylvia
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Caz, glad you enjoyed the photos.

Why is it that smoke detectors decide to warn me in the small hours of the morning that the battery is flat? About 4.30 am one started its peeping. About once a minute it peeps. I knew what it was and tried to ignore it, but I kept hearing it. I had to drag the stepladder up the stairs this morning so I could get up to take the detector down. Unfortunately I used the last new battery a couple of days ago and got son to hang that detector back up. He is taller than me, and not so nervous about climbing up and looking up. It never used to bother me, but old age is making me shaky. I must buy some new batteries today when I go out to do my afternoon shift in the hospice shop.

Son and wife visited Phil before they came here. Son said it is the most alert he has seen him for ages. Phil was even talking, although they couldnt make out what he was saying, so it is not just my hearing problem. I will be getting new and hopefully better hearing aids on the 27th so I hope I can hear people a bit better.

Huia.

Hi Ann I hope so, she is so looking forward to it and thinks it will be the last time she will be able to make it. She puts one foot in front of the other and hopes for the best, plus she won't be walking far when over here.
There is nothing they can do for me with my back, if they operated I would end up paralysed, and bad as I am now it is better than that.
Btw I loved your latest photos on your blog.

Caz xx

Is Joyce still going to be able to make it to UK this week?
Poor Caz, I so wish there was something somebody could do for your pain.