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Hi all
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Well, WE did win on the lottery on Friday!



$16 ....... or about £6 or so !!!



We had a lovely meal out on Friday ... we went to our favourite, but expensive, restaurant.. Partly to celebrate finishing the kitchen (although the painting is still not completely finished), and partly to celebrate that lottery win we had several weeks ago.

The restaurant was quite empty ................... they had had a lot o cancellations of previously made reservations. Our national game is Ice Hockey. The season finished last Sunday, and we are now into the post-season championship games ........ 5 rounds each of 7 games, best of 7 wins.

Vancouver's team came top of the whole lot over the season (first time ever), so they are being highly touted to win the Cup at the end of it all .......... also would be first time ever. Friday night was the second game of the first round

So obviously a lot of people could not miss either going to the game or watching it on TV. Vancouver fans are fanatical about the Canucks!


We switched on the TV when we got home!


Vancouver won that game, and the first one ...... so they are 2-0 .... against a team that has been their bete-noire for the last 2 or 3 years!



lovely sunny weather today





sylvia
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Good morning one and all.
And a beautiful one it is at that. The sun is shining, the skies are blue, with not a cloud in sight.

Hello there Linda.
It's good to hear from you love.
I am so pleased you had a good birthday, and had a nice meal with the family. Was your OH well enough to attend, as I know he was not to good earlier in the day.
What on earth are you painting now.
I'll tell you what girls, Linda made me feel so guilty with all the painting she had done in her garden, that I felt compelled to start ours.
Don't laugh Linda, but I am still waiting for Roly to buy the two new fence panels we need. I suppose one day a miracle will happen, and they will turn up when I least expect them to. Knowing my luck it will be the onset of winter by then.

Huia, I hope you didn't do your back in doing all that clearing of the ditches.
Oooh crumpets lovely, don't worry about the calories, you enjoyed them and thats all that matters. You probably burnt the calories off afterwards anyway. But a whole pound of butter is a bit extreme love, next time scrape it on thinner, even though they wont taste as good. LOL
I hope you was wearing your mask when you were typing out your message, I have just had to wipe my keyboard down, yuk, I don't know what it was, but it was pretty sn...... looking.
The problem with people living in such a close environment, as Phil is doing, they all seem to catch the same germs. It's unavoidable, especially if they don't cover there mouth's when they sneeze.
Oooh I meant to ask you, any more signs of the dreaded beasties.
Take care my love.

Marie, I bet there were a few sore heads after the party. But I am pleased it went well.
Poor little Emily, croup is so debilatating for young children. It reminds me so much of Whooping cough, when you think the child is never going to get their breath back.
My sons both suffered with it, when they were very young. We had to have wet washing hanging around, to put moisture into the air, to help their breathing, during the coughing bouts.
You weren't the only one not to have won the lotto, we didn't either. If we choose low numbers, all the high ones come out, if we choose high numbers the low ones appear. Can't seem to hit it right at any time.
I hope you get a good nights sleep tonight, well you will no doubt be asleep right now as it's 10.30 a.m at the moment.

Ann, I hope your cold doesn't develope into anything nasty, you don't need that whilst you are on holiday.
Just make sure you leave the germs behind when you eventually do come home love.

I am hoping to see baby Lilly today, as she and her mummy and daddy have just returned from their holiday in Scotland. Oooh I have missed her.

I will say cheerio for now girls, take care.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Hi to you all, just popped in to read the posts, cant stay long.
Joyce it is good to hear your feet are much better.
Jean I hope your results are good.
Mo the party went very well I am told , they all look very tired, I slept or tried to sleep at Barbaras but Emily had the croup and woke many times. I slept in Emilys Bed and she slept in with her mother.
Abigail was in the same room with me and she talks in her sleep and she was full on last night at one stage laughing out loud, so you can guess I am rather tired.
Well I didn't win lotto as I didn't get into town to get a ticket.

It is so frustrating when people sneeze and dont put their hand over their mouths, perhaps that is why so many Japanese where masks.
The girles Emily & Abigail are off to Brisbane to-morrow to visit their father for a week..
Hi Sallie, Huia, and Caz, sorry if i have missed anyone .
Love and hugs
Marie

Morning all
Nice today in West Berkshire, west of London. Sun is shining and it's still dry.

Busy times at present, birthday yesterday so out for a meal with my family in the evening.

Friends have just arrived in London from Australia, just waiting til they settle til they sort out when they would like to come. They usually spend some time with us. Have been writing to each other for nearly 50 years, so know each other well.

Hope you keep clear of any bugs Huia. Maybe somebody sent some pollen your way and it's hayfever. !! Hope Phil keeps well through your winter months too.

Well off to try and get some painting done, just incase our friends decide to come sooner rather than later

Linda :o) XxX

PS Have a good day everyone

Hi all. I hope you are all ok, especially Caz with her chemo and Ann with her cold, but not forgetting everybody else with their problems.

Nobody posted on here yesterday so I hope when you all get out of bed in however many hours you will be back on here. I have spent about an hour cleaning leaves and dirt out of the ditch that runs down beside our drive, plus some small channels that run diagonally across the drive to catch and divert any water that is running down the drive itself. I hope all that sweating helps me lose the weight I put on from eating crumpets with butter on. Why do I get tempted by these things in the supermarket? 500 grams I put on. That is a whole 'metric pound' of butter. Actually a bit over the old pound.

When I visited Phil on Friday he sneezed about 3 times, then the woman next to him (a cute little chinese woman) sneezed a couple of times. Last night I sneezed about 20 times. I hope I havent caught something from them. I can do without such things.

Huia.

Hi Ann I had thought that myself, that it is a build up of chemo in my system. My chiropodist says she can see the effects of it in my toes for months after, they are starting to look a purplish colour and they have always taken me off the tablets when it has happened before. I will wait with baited breath for the next blood test.
I hope your cold doesn't last long, it's just not what you want on holiday, the first time my children had a cold they were told to use their hankerchief to catch coughs and sneezes. Seemingly other countries don't.
Enjoy the rest of your holiday.

Love Caz xx

Hello all, pleased to hear that the scan went OK Jean. Caz, I wonder if it a build up of chemo causing the problem, maybe some gets left in your system, strange though isn't it? Joyce I am pleased to hear that your feet are better. Where can you practice with your scooter?

A cold is just what you want when on holiday isn't it? No, it isn't and I have a lovely one a reall heavy sneezy running nose one. Must be a foreign bug as there are hardly any people here from UK and the Spanish men in particular or maybe \tererifian men, are noy as hygenic as we are taught to be with sneezing, either sneezing/wiping nose with hand or sneezing straight out into the air, no hankies in sight. I had one sneeze straight at me a few days back so that is no doubt where this one came from. Still, hopefully it will soon go and fingers crossed it doesn't develop into a cough. I have not had a head cold for over a year.

I tried to put a message on this thread this morning but it wasn't having any, said I can't use slants or curly brackets, weird. Lovely to see you on here Joyce, you will have to come on more often now your feet are a bit better, look forward to talking to you tomorrow.
Thank you all for your concern for me with the chemo and fibro myalgia, I've never been like this with all the other lots of chemo I had, and they are the same tablets as always. Yes Mo as you say the fibro myalgia is very painful, they gave me morphine for it but it doesn't seem to be working quite as well just now. My hands are like yours with arthritis, very hard to use them when it's cold, the knees are the same.
Hello to everyone else on here.

Love Caz xx

Good afternoon girls.
I have had heard from our Jean.
She has problems trying to post on this site, and has asked me to let you all know that the scan went well. It took about 15 minuted for the scan, and they got home pretty quickly.
Jean has now got to wait 10-14 days for her results.
But most of all, Jean would like to thank you all for your good wishes for today.

It's good to hear from you Joyce. I am so pleased that your feet have started to go down, making it more comfortable for you to stand.
I wish someone would have a meet in Lancashire, at around the 22nd of October, as thats when we intend to travel up to Blackpool. And I want to meet our Jean, and lots of our friends on this thread.
Joyce is there an empty car park near you, that you could practise riding your scooter.

I will be back later girls, just wanted to pass jeans message onto you all.
Love Mo xxx

Hello Ladys,just pop on to say im feeling much better feet have gone down still painful to walk but i,ll get there,Jean hope all went well did email you i have my vertigo back but have had it for over 10yrs just seems it comes back more often than before,thank you for all your thoughts and special to my pal Caz im going to put up on general for Sheffield meet as by then my G,Grandson will be born so thought might have meet while im over sending best wishes to ,jean,Caz,Sallie Mo Maria,Sylvia,Huia LizP and anyone else i may have forgot may not be round on the 27 april as there is inquest on my daughters death and im not looking forward to hearing what they have found ,so take care all have nice weekend ,im bann for the time being of my scooter as jan said i have to learn to drive it probley,sorry Bridget nearly forgot you have nice weekend Love Dutchxx

Thinking of Jean for later today
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sylvia

Hi all, just want to send a message to our Jean that all goes ok for today.

I am still feeling at odds with everything so not on the computer much, but think of you all with great fondness very often.

Huia, I did get £84 on the lottery on the Saturday before Mother's Day, on my late Mum's numbers so maybe things will work their way up to a bigger win. If so I will just take off, and won't pack much as I can buy and discard things if I am filthy rich lol

love to all

Lizxx

Hi it was another lovely sunny day here today and we walked a fair way out by a beach the other side of Puerto. This evening we walked down to the local restaurants for a meal then to a bar for a drink afterwards. sadly when we got home we heard that our good friend who has been ill for a while has passed away while we have been out here. We shall be away for his funeral.

Marie T stands for Tony.

sallie hope Jennie's infection clears up soon.

Jean will be thinking of you tomorrow.

Hi Girls,


It's been one of those weeks here, with a few things happening My friend's. brother died in the early hours of Monday morning, so have spent some time with her over the last couple of days.

Yesterday Jennie had to go into hospital with what we all thought was another flare up, but it turns out that she's got a water infection so is on antibiotics.....the thing is, she didn't have any of the usual symptoms, she was just in awful pain. She's home now, thank goodness, still in some pain but not as bad as it was yesterday.

There's been a couple of other small probs, but they are also sorted out now.
I seem to have spent so much time on the phone this week, I haven't had much time to make cards or come on here.lol!


Jean, good luck for tomorrow, hope it will all be sorted out for you soon.
I will be thinking about you.


Marie, yes ' the Black Dog is on my shoulder ' is what Winstone Churchill used to say when he was depressed. Although I feel so much better now, I still get the odd day when I feel down, but even that is nothing like it was.


Ann, pleased to hear that you are having some good weather now.
Hope T enjoyed the football last night. Alun was hoping to watch it, but we were at the hospital with Jennie, so he missed it.



Mo, well done to your granddaughter on passing her driving test first time. The cost of car insurance is terrible, especially when they first start driving.

Richard pays his car insurance by direct debit each month, but they had taken it out today, a day early, so he wasn't happy about that.....it's Christie's birthday today and as it was his day off he was going to take her out somewhere to celebrate, but it will have to wait until he gets paid tomorrow. It's nice to have the convenience of a car, but as we all know it's the cost of having it, that isn't so good.lolol!!


Huia, I hope you have finally got rid of the rats. Let's hope that the cat will keep them away.


Caz, if you are looking in , I hope you are feeling a little bit better. When do you go for you next hospital appointment?


I heard from Joyce this evening, she sounded a bit brighter than she's been for a while. As Caz has said, Joyce's feet have gone down quite a bit, so let's hope that she won't get anymore problems with gout.



Sylvia and Tess hope you are both OK.


Well, I'll speak to you all soon.



Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Good evening ladies.

Marie, Ooooooh I do hope you win that lotto, it would be great to meet you.
Do lots and lots of tickets, with all different numbers, damn the expense girl.
If I thought it would help, I would offer to go out singing on the street corners, to raise the money for your lotto funds, but the only money that would bring in, is if they paid me to get rid of me.
Couldn't you just see me,stood there with a hat at my feet, singing at the top of my voice, frightening all the local cats away, and the police there moving me on. I don't think that will happen somehow do you.
I hope your grandsons party goes of well, and that no trouble arises from it,thats the last thing they need.

Sallie, it's good to hear from you love.
I hope whatever problems you have faced, are soon dealt with, coz we miss you honey.

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SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR OUR JEAN. I HOPE ALL GOES WELL FOR YOU
TOMORROW, YOU WILL BE IN MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
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Bye for now girls, love Mo xxx

Hi Girls,


Sorry I haven't had time to speak to you all over the last week, so just a quick message to let you know that I'm feeling better, thank you. We've had a few problems to sort out over the last few days....we are getting there slowly.

I haven't read any of your posts, but will when I get time. I'll try and speak to you all later today.


Take care everyone.


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx

Hi All,
I have read this page of posts, so now we will see what I can remember.

Hi Sallie I hope you are not feeling poorly, is it the Black Dog which is a saying we have over here.I hope that you can give him the flick. Bu----r off tell him.
Caz , have they given you a stronger dose this time I do hope it does the Job other wise you should go back and as for a refund ,My Love, seriously I hope you are much improved when I look in next time.

Hi Sylvia, did you use your winnings to help pay your hubbies Dental bill.
I would have passed out if they presented me with a bill of that size.

Huia you and your old Croc's My knee is much better so I am feeling happier, still not allowed to Garden or go to the Gym,but hopefully it will happen some time.
Hi Ann , what does T stand? I have given up trying to get into your blog.
You will have to send me some photo's of your work.

I was very happy to hear Joyce and her feet are getting better *#*#*#*cheers #*#*#* for Joyce.
Kind thought's for Tess.

Mo,I havent posted the Invitations yet, hopefully this coming week.

My Grandson is having his 20th Birthday this weekend his parents told him he could have a party in the big Shed but the limit was to be 30 people, well it has grown to 100!!! so now Brian and one of his friends are going to mann the Gate and no one gets in unless they have the required band on their arm. I suggested he let the police know in case it gets out of hand & he needs help.The neighbours have all been told about the Party luckely they are not very close.

I am going to go over to my other daughter Barbara for the night.

Hi Jean, good luck for to-morrow hope you get a good result for the vertigo.

We have a big Lotto being drawn this weekend, I will have to get a ticket to-morrow . I have been trying to win a car for years but no luck took another ticket to-day with the R.S.P.C.A Animal welfare for OZ,cross your finger's I win it folks,but as my mum used to say Pigs might fly. lol
well folks I Hope I didn't miss anyone.
Love and Hugs to you all Marie.
PS You know if i ever win the Lotto you will all get a visit from me, he he LOL

Thanks Jean, I have got the message now, over and out.

Hi Sylvia. I am so relieved we don't need to do tax returns. Well on what little pensions we get, there is no need thank goodness.
I can't even gift aid my charity donations any more, as we don't pay tax, and that has really cheesed me off, as I feel the charities should get the whole of the monies, and not a part of it.

Thank goodness the rats have not appeared recently Huia. Maybe the cat is doing her duty now,and protecting you from them.
It's very hard to get an older cat to adapt to a litter tray, when they have got used to going outside for their toilets. We had that problem with our Misty.

Hi there Ann. It's pleasing to hear that you are now getting decent weather.
More than I can say for here today, it's been really cold.
I bet it was nice to have a home made meal for a change, I love to eat out, but love to have a proper roast dinner at home.

Night Night all. Love Mo xxx

Caz, I do feel for you with all your problems, not that I can really know what it is like for you. It makes my small problems seem silly.

Mo, the rats havent been in for a few nights now. I dont know if it is the fact that the cat has now been coming inside at night, or the fact that I had a go at blocking off what I am sure is their means of access. The only trouble is that with the cat in I now have to leave the door to the basement partly open so she can go out if she wants to in the night. I did buy a litter tray and filled it with litter but she thought it was just a bed and tried lying in it.

My best wishes to all the other old crocs and not-so-old crocs and others who are not having the troubles that the crocs are having.

Huia.

Hi all, writing this while T watches football, cooked in tonight for a change. Lovely sunny day today and hot as well so we lazes around here after a short walk down for coffee and a read of the D Mail (provided free in the local restaurant).

Caz, so sorry you are feeling rough from the chemo, I hope the effects ease soon as it is obviously dragging you down.

Pleased to hear that the pain is easing in Joyce's feet. Trouble is, if she doesn't get any practice on her scooter she wont acquire road sense.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mo, Jean, Huia, Marie, Joyce, Tess, Sylvia etc etc.