General Chat

Jean, I am not supposed to know of our trip to Blackpool, but we are going up on Monday the 24th,and back on the Friday the same week.
So it looks like our paths will cross once again. It's not even as though I can change the dates,as the children are paying for it for my 65th birthday
surprise. Surprise...... Roly let the cat out of the bag.
I love to go up there when the lights are on, I suppose it's because I am a child at heart, and get quite excited at the prospect of either walking through them, or getting on an open top tram to enjoy them.
Love Mo xxx

Mo it will be another week before i hear the results, I am sure its all clear though and believe it is something to do with my ears, btw did I read you are coming to Blackpool in Oct we are away on the 19th for a week so wont be able to meet up unless you come a week earlier or a week later...lol...we are looking to go in a week or so somewhere dont know were,

Sallie thank you for the lovely easter cardit came this morning, hope you got mine the post is rubbish I waited 21 days for a parcel that should have been with me in 4 ays.... so who knows....but is lovely...

hope everyone is doing o.k. tea si ready so will love you and leave you for the time being.. take care out there,

love Jean xxx

Hello girls.

Jean, have you had your results of your scan yet love. I hope you and J have had a lovely weekend, with lots of chocolate eggs. I never even got one, boo hoo.

I have been a busy bee, and have now got all my bedding plants put in.
They look lovely, all I am hoping now is that we don't get really cold weather to kill them off.

Whilst I was doing the planting, I noticed a little red beetle, on a plant in one of my pots.
Now I had no idea what was in the pot, as I thought that the snow had killed off whatever had been in it.
On looking at the beetle, I suddenly realised what was growing therein.
It was a pot of Oriental Lilies, that I really thought I had thrown away last year.
I am now watching the plant, with beady eyes, as this beetle is not going to eat my Lilies again this year.

My thoughts and prayers for Caz and Joyce for tomorrow xxx
May the lord be with you both, and give you the strength that you need to get through the day.

Take care my friends. Love Mo xxx

Good evening girls.
This is just a quickie to let you know that I am thinking of you all.

Caz and Joyce, you will both be in my thoughts and prayers on Wednesday.
Caz for a good result, at the hospital, and that the bu**er has left you, fit and well after what have undergone recently. And that they can sort out your anti-depressant for one that suits you better.
And Joyce, that you may ease your mind, about your daughter. You know she would not want you to keep fretting love. But at least if you know the cause, you will be able to let her rest in peace honey.

Night Night all. Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hi Sallie
yes all the family were there they have all gone now over to Jans aunties everyone cooks different meals and takes them there ,but we dont go as Jans dos,nt care for the family
And thank you ladys but there will be nobody round me on weds as they nearly all work ,but nobody came to see me when my daughter died shes my family not theres i think thats the way they look at it mybe wrong only my Gdaughters and my son were on the phone to me ,and they will ring me on weds with what the out come was,its realy ashame her daughter my G,daughter is over due for her baby and he will never no his G,mother but both my G.Daughters are going the inquest if Danni has,nt had her baby by then Rachel dos,nt want her to go but she wants answers to her questions over her mothers death,deep down i think we all no how but not why
Dutchx

Caz, I suppose chemo is the first thing we all think is causing the side effects......but as you've said, other medications can also cause some nasty side effects too. I hope the doctor will take you off them and that you will feel a lot better very soon.

The anti depressants I'm on can cause quite a few effects......weight gain or loss is just two of them...of course I suffer from the weight gain, whereas my cousin lost a lot of weight while he was on them. But they can cause a lot more unpleasant side effects than that. Still I'm slowly coming off them, so hope that I can manage without them and won't have to go back on them again.


Joyce, don't worry about the Easter card. I thought that it was strange that it hadn't arrived after you told me that you had sent me one, last week.

I hope you and Jan enjoyed your Easter Breakfast at his mum's. Were all the family there too?


Jennie and Michael came as usual for their Sunday dinner, we had a fresh big chicken today, which was very nice. Both Jennie and I love a roast dinner, it's our favourite meal. Alun and Michael are not bothered what they have as long as they have food.lol!!



I'll speak to you all later.


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

In a way that is a relief Caz isn't it because maybe you can go without the anti ds but not the chemo. Hope when you stop taking them you soon feel better.

Dutch what are you like, poor Sallie missing out on your card. I will be thinking of you on Wednesday, but don't worry about it, Huia is right and you can't alter anything by worrying.
I have been blaming the chemo for feeling so ill these last few weeks, I decided to look at the information leaflet from some anti depressants I got about a month ago. Blow me but the way I feel is all side effects from the anti depressants, even the hair loss, I'm going to have to ring my doctor and tell her I don't want them any more. I thought it was strange because I have never had any side effects from any of the chemo I have had in the past.

Love Caz xx

Hello Dutch ,
I am sorry that you have to face this ordeal of the inquest.
I pray that it will help you to understand why she died and that you can put that worry behind you .
I do hope you will have family around you to help on Wednesday
Love & Hugs
Marie

Please Joyce, dont worry so much, it cant be doing you any good. I know it is easy to say, but try to relax. I realised years ago that it wasnt going to do anybody any good if I worried about things, and it certainly wouldnt do my own health any good. I wish I could come over there to try to calm you down.

Huia.

Sallie have to say sorry if you dont get your easter card its because i have sent it to different address,dont even know whos addresss it is ,have it under your name but the first line isnt right only notice it when i seen your address on the envolpe,well were off in short while for easter breakfast with the family but ive had another bad night not sleeping with the cramps and pains in my legs ,realy fed up with it but nothing can be done so have to live with it
Iwish you all happy easter take care everyone and better days for all,still no baby ,and weds is my daughters inquest not looking forward to hearing what there going to say ,already getting stress out about it
Love Dutchxx

Sylvia, I have a large handbag with a long handle so I can sling it diagonally across my shoulder. I also bought a small one, but my wallet wont fit into it. Plus I have one made of some sort of fabric, it was free when I bought some expensive sandals a couple of years ago. Very handy. They all leave my hands free for other things.

Huia.

Hi all
xxx


It was a lovely lovely day today ................ warm, cloudless blue skies, and sunny ......... and I went shopping downtown!


Didn't buy anything much .............. did find one of those cross-body bags that wasn't too large, but yet had room in it (if you know what I mean!!). It was made of some sort of material (nylony), so wasn't very expensive.

I really like shoulder bags, but have problems with having to use the cane. I have always carried everyhting on my left shoulder ...... and I have the cane in my left hand, so bags slip off my shoulder within seconds! I've tried a backpack

I've been pushing wallets in my pockets etc etc.






Happy Easter everyone




sylvia
xxxx

Caz, sorry that you are still suffering the affects of the chemo. Have you asked why it is different this rime. I hope it will stop affecting you soon.

Yes thanks Mo my cold has gone now. Our weather is stillpatchy, lovely this afternoon, really hot then this evening while we were still in the bar down the road and about reafdy to walk home it chucked it down. Luckily it is still quite warm so getting wet is not so bad. Trouble is, as soon as it rains the TV goes off.

Now why does everybody tell me to take it easy? I do that all the time! I need to go for a long walk today as I cooked a packet of butter chicken for my dinner last night and this morning I find I have put on another 600gms. The meal was mainly rice, about 5 times the amount I would normally use for a meal, plus the bits of chicken in a sauce. There didnt seem to be any veges in it. I wont buy one of those again, although it tasted ok. I dont think I will be getting a long walk as rain is forecast. Probably will just walk a few times round the outside of the house.

Huia.

Hi Mo,

Pleased that you received my Easter card. I was bit behind finishing them all, because of the probs we had last week. Hope the others I sent have arrived safely too.


We are only having Jennie and Michael coming for Sunday dinner tomorrow. It would have been nice if Richard and Christie could come too, but Richard only has tomorrow off, and they can't really afford the cost of the petrolto come up here.. Never mind, as long as they are both okay that's the main thing.
Alun and I will probably go down to see them before too long.

We are hoping to go down when Richard will get some time off, to help them decorate a couple of rooms. They could really do with a biggger place to live, but I know it's out of the question at the moment. Funds don't allow!!



Maybe your son will bring Lily and his other two children over to see you tomorrow......he's probably hoping to surprise you and Roly.

Hope Roly finished painting the fence and that it didn;t come to rain. I know there are some thunder storms forecast.

Well Mo, you and Roly have a lovely Easter Day tomorrow, and enjoy yourselves at the club with your friends.


Take care.


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hi girls, Huia I hope your headache doesn't last much longer, you will have to take it easy for a while as Sallie suggests.
Sallie what a shame the two houses are not close as it would have been perfect for you, thank you for your beautiful card that arrived this morning. I've been too ill to bother sending any, let alone making any.
I've not been on here for a while as the chemo is making me ill, sickness as well as my hair falling out, I hate it, it's not coming out in clumps but one by one but I can see my scalp through it. Non of the other chemos I've had in the past have affected me like this.
Sorry for being a miserable old crank but I am so depressed at the moment with it all, going for a cuppa now.

Love Caz xx

Cooee Sallie.
Thank you for the lovely Easter Card. You Jean and Joyce, are very clever.
I don't believe anyone would be able to purchase such great cards from a shop. And they mean far more to the person who receives them, as so much time and effort has gone into them.
What a shame that the people who came to view your house, are out of your prefered area, as an exchange would have saved time and money no doubt.
Are any of the family coming to you for Sunday dinner tomorrow.
We will be on our own, but will go up to the club for a few games of darts, and to see our friends.

Oh Huia, you poor thing. Fancy banging your noggin like that. I hope that the headaches ease off soon.
Did they say how Phil is coping at the meeting, and if he is progressing, or regressing quicker than they thought he would.
I thought they would have put him in a lower bed sooner than this, as he had a couple of falls from his bed some time ago didn't he.
Did you manage to get your walk over in The Valley again.

Sylvia, a fund raising plant auction, sounds like fun. I wish we had something like that over here.
I had never heard of the plant you won, but then I am not a brilliant gardener, and normally just buy the same plants that I buy every year. Apart from the perrenials, I have already got planted outside, I am not very
experimental with new varieties.

Marie, please keep your little field mice over there. Both Huia and I have had enough of our own vermin to cope with.
Saucy little blighters having a feast on your veggie patch, you need that for yourself for the winter months.
LOL Roly is out in the garden, painting the fence panels as I post on here.
But suddenly it has become very overcast, I just hope and pray that it doesn't rain before they are dry. I don't want to stop him now that he has started, it takes me long enough to get him motivated at the best of times.
I thought our son would bring Lilly and his other two children over to see us today, but no. Still never mind, they have got their own lives to lead.

I wonder if Ann and T are still having a good time. And also if Ann's cold has dried up yet.

Sending big (((((((((((HUGS FOR JEAN, CAZ AND JOYCE.)))))))))))))))

Not forgetting our friends Tess and Liz, and anyone I may have forgotten to mention.

Bye for now my friends. Love to all Mo xxx

Hi Everyone,

Yippee! I finished the last of the Easter cards last night, so maybe I will be able to spend a bit of time on here now.lolol!!

I'd just like to wish all my English friends on here a Happy Saint George's
Day.

Would also like to wish everyone a Very Happy Easter.


A couple came to view our house at lunch time, they liked it and are interested in buying it, if and when they can sell their bungalow.
It's a shame that their bungalow isn't around this area, as we could do a swap.


Caz, hope the horrible effects of the chemo is starting to wear off for you now. I hope your results are all alright on Wednesday. Sending you lots of positive thoughts and hugs.


Huia, take things easy and rest as much as you can until your headache has gone.


We went over to Jennie's this afternoon to take her and Michael an Easter Egg each, and a bunch of flowers for Jennie. She loves to have fresh flowers in the house when she can, so I thought that it would be nice to take her some for Easter.


Mo, have you finished your Easter Egg run now? I find that the older ones like to have an Easter Egg too, so buy them for those as well as the younger ones. Although I haven't got any grandchildren, but buy them for friends children and grandchildren.

Great to hear that your team won last Monday night.



Jean, I hope you are feeling better and are able to make cards now.
Also hope all is well with J and D.




~~~~~~to Sylvia, Marie, Ann, Tess, Joyce and Linda.



Love and best wishes. Sallie

Hi Huia , yes you are right, our common Daphne is also D. odora and I think it is the nicest one of the lot I have not heard of D.tangutica but will look it up also.
I hope you have gotten rid of the headache, and it is good that the rats have left your house .
We are having a plague of mice ( the field mice) they are looking for a warm place for winter, their was one in my veggie garden probably nibling at my beans..
Hi Sylvia, we are having a beautiful day to-day, I and some friends went to the Farmers markets this morning and it was packed the veggies were lovely and the variety was amazing. I bought a few plants & some chutney .

We had some lunch while there, the coffee was excellent and it is Australiant Grown, also had an egg & bacon roll , the roll was great home made also.

LindainBerkshire hello to you,I hope you are well.
Mo things are sure moving along for you.
You should paint the panels before they go up. Have you had your visit from Lilly or is it this weekend.

Dear Jean how is the vertigo when do you get your results?

I wonder when Dutch gets the results on her Grandaughter Olivia Mai?

Hi Dutch I hope you and Jan are well.

Caz the same with you I hope the side effect's of the Chimo are easing.

Love and Hugs to you all
Marie.