General Chat

We will be thinking of you all Ann and T and hope you have a safe journey....

We are still struggling with coughs and colds now D has it too. C was due to come today but it wouldnt be fair if he caught it , so we are praying our plans to see them over christmas will still be able to happen....

wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and a Healthy New Year...

love to everyone Jean xxx <3 <3 <3 <3

Thank you Mo, for us it is all about making memories for our daughter and grandsons. Son in law will be his usual stoical self, although I know he is getting frustrated at having to rely on people more as he loses the power in his legs. He is 62 and daughter is 53, they have had 26/7 years together but it is nowhere near long enough, they are so well matched and so happy together. It is heartbreaking for us all. But we will not let that spoil Christmas, it will be a good one to be all together. <3

Oh Ann, how sad for you all, but extra hard for your daughter knowing that this will probably be their last Christmas together as a couple.
I hope you have a truly memorable time, as you say, with plenty of laughter and joy, creating good memories for you to look back on.

Sallie, both you and Alun are going to be busy bees this week. I hope you get a few days in which to recover before the big day.
You will have a wonderful reunion with your brother on his return, and no doubt you will be in his thoughts and prayers.

Hugs to you all, Mo

Yesterday was a beautiful day here, blue skies and sunshine all day although a chilly wind. today is grey, looks like rain later and a very cold wind. Yesterday we went to the docks to the Christmas market which was very good. I have put photos on facebook and will put them on the blog in a minute.
today we have just popped out to the local garden centre.

Mo what a shame the meal was not good. I hope somebody has written to the manager and said that it is unlikely that you will be returning next year. These dos are important to people and restaurants should not think they can get away with poor customer service. As for the dispute over your pudding, I hope they apologised for the mistake which was embarrassing for you and was their fault.

Sallie, enjoy seeing all your family this week and I hope you enjoy your meal next weekend. We have a week of appointments, OH has 2 dental appointments, we both have hair appointments and I have hearing clinic, hopefully to get my new aids.

Christmas is fast approaching and next Sunday we go up to our daughter's. There will be 7 of us Christmas day, her youngest joins us on Christmas Eve, and Christmas day the married couple join us for the day. It is going to be bitter sweet as, sadly, our son in law has had lung cancer since last October when he was given one to two years to live. His health has deteriorated rapidly this past month so we know this will be his last Christmas. However we are intent on it being a good Christmas, as daughter says a few tears and some laughs. It is all very difficult for us as parents though but we shall get through it together. Especially hard as he was always the cook in the family and produced lovely christmas meals and now is not able to do the cooking at all.

Mo, sorry that that you didn't enjoy your meal last night, such a shame as you had all been looking forward to it for a while. Well thank goodness you eventually had your Christmas pudding after having to prove that you HAD ordered it.

We go for our annual Christmas meal next Saturday night, hope it will be alright, There are fourteen of us going, it's our usual ' ladies night out ', so looking forward to it.


We have a busy week coming up, we are going up to Alun's sister's on Monday and then down to my brother'son Friday to see my sister-in-law and two of my cousins. I shall miss seeing my brother this time as he is still in St, Helena until the beginning of February. So far we only have Tuesday where we haven't got to go anywhere,so hope to put our tree up then.


It's been very cold and very frosty here today, the frost hasn't lifted all day. After going out this morning it was nice to get home and stay in, in the warm.



I hope everyone else is okay and keeping warm.


Speak to you all soon.



Love, Sallie .xxx <3

Oh I do hope Sylvia has an enjoyable time with the family, I missed saying cheerio to her last night.

Sallie, good to hear from you my love.
Well our meal was a disappointment, my Duck was tough and I couldn't eat it. Mine was not the only one, and when we complained, we were told that the chef had got staff to check the duck, and they said it was fine, so we were offered any other meat we wanted, but we had decided we wanted duck, and nothing else was suitable for us. So a few of us opted for just having the vegetables instead.
We were told it would be deducted from our meals, but the meals were per-paid, so we never got a refund.
Then to top it all, I had ordered christmas pudding, and everyone received their desserts, and mine didn't arrive.
The waitress said that the pudding had not been ordered, but we had the proof in the paperwork we had submitted, so eventually I did get it, but for goodness sake, we have never had this many problems when we had been before, so why this year, unless they had a new chef that could be the only explanation.
Not sure if we will be going there again after that fiasco.
The group was very good, and the dancing following the meal, but I was so disappointed with my meal.

Today, we went to one of our daughters, for Roly to change her light fitting in her lounge.
Oh what problems he had with it, thats the problems with older terraced houses.
Before we left, I put tomorrows meat in the oven, and forgot the darned joint was cooking........six hours later, we arrived home to a dried up joint, oh well, back to the start again tomorrow, and hopefully I wont forget it again, I suppose we were lucky it didn't catch fire LOL

Brr it's so cold here again, can't wait till the summer comes back..LOL
Bye for now girls, take care.

my computer threw a fit yesteday and had to go to computer hospital, so I am a day late in posting this!


we leave tomorrow (Friday)



Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all
xxx





We will have the laptop with us, so I will try to get my turn on it while we are away .................... otherwise, I'll "see" you all in January :-)

Hello everyone, hope that you are all okay and keeping warm in this cold and windy weather that we are all having here. Although some parts of the country are having it a lot worse than us here in S E Derbyshire, so I suppose I shouldn't moan about it.


Mo, Ann and Jean thank you for your Christmas cards. We have received quite a lot of cards already....it seems to me that everyone is sending their cards. earlier this year.

Mo, hope you and your friends from the darts team enjoy your Christmas meal tomorrow night, Let's hope that it won't be as cold and windy for you.....wrap up warm to travel there,



Sylvia, hope that you and OH have safe and good journey to your daughter's and that you will all have a Happy and Peaceful Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
Take care of yourselves.



Jean, I hope that the doctor has given J something for his chest and that he is starting to feel a bit better.



Ann. hope that you and T are both okay. Are you staying at home for Christmas this year or going to your daughter's? You have probably told us already,but I have missed it , with not having been on here as much as I would like to be



Huia,hope that the problems with your server is now sorted and that you won't get any more trouble with it.



Marie, hope that you and your family are all okay. I expect that you are all looking forward to Christmas, especially the children.



Jeniwren, if you are looking in, hope that all is okay with you and your family.



Well, I am going to have a cuppa now, hope to chat to you all soon.




Love and best wishes. Sallie. xxx <3

Oh no, our little thread is dropping down the boards, so >>>>>>>>>up we go.
Sylvia, have a safe journey, just in case we miss each other before you depart. Enjoy yourselves with little man, who by now is not so little. Have fun on the train, and hopefully you will make some new acquaintances on the journey.

Tomorrow night, I am off for my annual christmas meal with my dart team. I do hope the wind drops by then, coz it's a flippin cold one, and my dress has not got any sleeves, so our will come my fake fur jacket...got to keep warm dontcha know.

Take care all. Mo

Hi Mo, and everyone


not long now before we go away :-)



Our furnace acted up on the first cold day we had .......... that was Sunday last week.

It had been acting up for some weeks, but that day it just refused to come on ............... until 10 pm in the evening. Then we were scared to turn it down.

The repairman came the next morning, only a couple of hours after OH had phoned him. The house was lovely and warm 'cos the furnace was still working

s**d's law, eh???


Man said it might be difficult ...... but it turned out that we had a fairly new furnace, and 2 LED lights told him something was wrong. He found it, fixed it, and was out of the house in less than 15 minutes!

Well just to be contrary the heating decided to switch itself back on this evening so we are all warm at the moment :-)

Brrrr it's so cold again girls, I do hope that you are all keeping warm, one way or another.
Would you like me to send my hot water bottle up to you Ann. It's just typical that when extra warmth is needed, something goes wrong with the system.

Thank you all, for the lovely Christmas cards. The poor postmen must be suffering from bad backs at this time of year, with the extra weight of cards awating delivery.
We have received lots already, I shall start putting them up on the living room door soon, as we are getting short on space now.

Good grief, I couldn't believe how frosty it was last night. The cars windscreen looked like a winter wonderland this morning. Thank the lord for heated windscreens that don't take long to clear.
I tried scraping it off first, but it just wouldn't move, so on went the heating, and yippee away it went.

Our Lilly is getting so excited now, about Santa coming, but she just wont leave the tree decorations alone. She thinks the baubles are for kicking around like a football, but bless her, she does put them back when she is told to do so, hmmm kids will be kids wont they.
When I said today about Santa coming, she told me she had been naughty, so it looks like she is not expecting any presents, LOL

Bye for now girls, take care, Mo

Wish it was warm and cosy here but today our boiler chose to give up. Have to wait until Monday before our plumber can come, then he is certain it will be a new boiler, he has been looking after it for quite a while now, it has been 'jittery' this year playing up sometimes. Trouble is this is the old style boiler, we really didn't want a condenser one but no choice now.

So, we have electric fire and fan heaters and extra clothes plus immersion heater. Watch the electric bill shoot up!!!

Hate it , cold frosty weather....ugh. just hope the snow doesnt arrive....


Sallie thank you for your card lovely design to copy when we get back to crafting .
I made C card yesterday well its like a little book really all the winnie the pooh characters, he loves them , his bedroom is that theme. so cant wait to see his face...
lovely and cosy in the conservatory, I did use the small oil filled radiator for a few mins
but the radiator was on, so didnt need it for long.... best thing we have done...

take extra care folks , and wrap up warm..... or do what I do stay in :-D :-D :-D :-D

Love Jean xxx <3 <3

Cold but bright here today. Hard frost last night.

Jean thank you for your lovely card.

Sallie thank you also for your card.

According to the paper Mo we could be having snow on Monday eight inches in some areas :-( :-(

Coooeee Marie, good to hear from you love.
Did you manage to get the lawns cut ? And on the subject of the heat overthere, can you send a little our way.
It has been so miserable here in the U.K, the lights have to be lit by about 4.00 p.m.
And talk about bedlam getting the food shopping in, I am sure people think we are going to be snowed in for the duration of the Christmas period.
The supermarket was heaving today, and people were spending a fortune with overladen trolleys.
Perhaps they know something we dont know. lol

Well girls, I hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend. Take care of yourselves, Mo xxx

Hello to all my friends,
I have just finished trawling through the last 2 pages.much talk about presents
I have only just written my first Xmas card and as for presents only 2 and that is for Emily and Abigail not a thing for all the rest, I think they will get a card and I will put some money.in the card.
Yes Ladies we are having a rather hot summer very nice inside with the Air Con on
.We have had 2 storms since arriving home.It has been too hot to do the gardening that I would like to do, my lawns all need Mowing, I am hoping to get the Mower out late this afternoon.
Bugs Bugs Bugs seems they are everywhere many here have had very bad cough's for quite some time and most of the children colds as well.
I am very lucky I seem to manage to miss the bugs thank goodness. :-)

May God Bless you and restore you all to good health in time for a Wonderful Christmas with many Blessings to you all <3 <3 <3 <3

Marie

Hi there everyone.
Jean, the blessed cold has been with Roly and myslef since the beginning of October. It goes away for a few days, and then hits you from behind, as if to say, "Hah fooled ya, I am still hanging around"
The cough is a real nuisance, and seems to rack the whole body when it starts.
Get well soon both of you.

I am pleased that the cards have arrived, I was a bit worried in case they went astray, and that my dear friends didn't get them till after christmas.

Well, it's another dull miserable day here. We haven't ventured out of the house at all today, and have got the central heating blazing away, keeping us nice and snuggly buggly.

Bye for now gilrs, stay safe and warm, love Mo x

Add my thanks too for cards off Mo and Ann, I have just wrote and stamped mine ready for posting only I cant find my address book any where so its hit and miss this year, hope everyone gets them o.k. I do notice my writing is getting worse so if yours is like a spider has crawled over the card that will be me ;-) ;-) ;-) still have the darned cold, J is coughing all the time too.....dull and grey here no frost though hope it stays that way...

D asked me what I want for my 80th birthday next year, cant think of anything except a family meal out, but knowing her it has to be something expensive .goodness knows what plans she will have if we make it to our 60th anniversery in two years time :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

its all to much for me so shall have nap...bye for now....

Love Jean xxx <3