General Chat

Thank you Elzabeth, I hope you and your family have a joyous peaceful Easter time.

Thank you Sallie, we received your lovely card yesterday. I am not at all sure what is becoming of the postal services these days. And it's scandalous that they have increased their prices, but reduced their services to one delivery a day, and thats if we are lucky enough to get it even then.
Have you noticed how much junk mail the postmen are now putting through our letter boxes ?
Even though we may not get any mail, we still get the junk even though we have a notice on our door, stating that we do not want junk mail, or menu's, the postman is brazen enough to ignore it.

Well everyone, a happy Easter, don't eat to many chocolate eggs...think of the calories lol
Love and hugs, Mo xxx

Hi Girls.


Just to wish you all and your families a happy and peaceful Easter.

Ann, thank you so much for your Easter card....received it on Thursday.


Elizabeth, thank you for your Easters wishes to us, hope that you and your family
also have a happy and peaceful Easter.



Mo, Jean and Ann hope you got my Easter card alright, as members of my family still haven't received theirs. All the cards were posted together, 1st class on Tuesday morning......got a feeling that they are still sitting in the main post office in town.
Some of the ladies that work there are not very good, if they have to check if the envelope needs a large or regular stamp, they then put them behind the counter and to be honest I think they forget to put them in the mail bags behind the counter.

My sister in law got hers two weeks after we posted her birthday cards.


I hope that you are all okay.


Take care everyone.


Love and best wishes. Sallie. xxx

Hi Girls,

Just to wish you all and your families a happy and peaceful Easter.

Mo, Jean and Ann hope you got my Easter card alright, as members of my family still haven't received theirs. All the cards were posted together, 1st class on Tuesday morning......got a feeling that they are still sitting in the main post office in town.

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are doing okay.


To wish you ALL a peaceful and contented Easter and renewed hope for spring time.


Peace be with you, in your homes and with your families always.

Whatever you are doing over the weekend, travel safely.


Take very gentle care
With many good wishes
Love from Elizabeth,
xx

LOL Huia, the hood problem seems happen to us all. Mine drives me mad, especially when I am trying to cross a road, and the darned thing has worked it's way over my eyes, I look like I would expect Eskimo Nell to look, and I am terrified of getting run over.
Bless you my love, you work like a Trojan, keeping your property maintained, but as you would no doubt tell us, there is no one else to do it for you is there.
Just don't over do things, and stay as dry and safe as you can.

Hi Sylvia, sorry to hear you are still having problems with your knee and leg, I just hope that it will be better for when you go to Montreal in June.
Oh how I envy you the train journey....here I am turning green with envy, and thats not a pretty sight at the best of times.
Your poor daughter has such a hard journey to take, with her OH. His problems are not going to help the situation, and it will be almost impossible for him to change his habits of a lifetime.
For her and your grandsons benefit, I do hope things work out, and going to the counsellor, proves that she at least is trying, bless her.
I have learn't the hard way, to keep my mouth shut where family problems rear there ugly heads, and that is exactly what I am doing at the moment, but it is very very hard not to speak my mind.
My eldest daughter is still not talking to me, after our falling out, at our sons wedding, so now it's keep me trap shut, unless I am asked to intervene. LOL

Oh my goodness, I have been a busy bee today. All the windows have been cleaned inside and out, the nets all washed and put back uo.
Beds all changed, washed and ironed, and put away. Tomorrow even though it's good friday, the bedrooms will be hoovered and dusted whew I am exhasuted even thinking about it, let alone what I have managed to do today. LOL

Just in case I don't manage to get back tomorrow, have a wonderful Good Friday.
Take care everyone, Mo xxx

Hi Mo, and everyone


Mo ........ sorry to hear you have family problems. They're the pits ........... you so want to help, yet you know you should keep quiet!!!



We're all well-ish here ...................... my knee and leg are still causing problems, but are getting better. I've even had a couple of days almost pain-free :-)

Daughter and her husband are sill working with the counsellor trying to save their marriage. We just have to hope it all works out .................. both are going to have to make changes, and I'm not sure that one of them will be able to


I've just finished booking our trip to Montreal in June ................. we're going to a meeting there ............. so I've booked the train trips to go and to come back :-)



Hope that the cyclone has not been too bad for you, Huia. I have the same problem with hoods ..................... fine hair and a smallish head means that I usually end up with the hood covering my face down to my nose :-)




take care everyone




s
xxx

We have the tail end of cyclone Ita here. It is blowing hard and the rain is almost horizontal. I have just been down the drive to clear heaps of leaves out of the ditch at the side, and to clear dirt and stones out of a small ditch that crosses the drive at the top to divert the run-off into the ditch at the side. Last time it rained the water ran down the drive as that small ditch was so clogged. Now I am sitting here with damp hair and neck, even though the rain had eased briefly and I was wearing full wet weather gear. The hood of the parka never stays on my head. I will have to find a hat pin to hold it in place, but then I have very fine hair and I doubt if a hat pin would work. If I pull the cords on the hood and tie them under my chin I cant see as the hood then comes down over my eyes!

Oooh look at our saucy Jean, she misses me.....I am sooo pleased to report, that I am back to plague the life out of you my love.
It does sound like you have got the Herpes Virus Jean, ( cold sores ), and as Ann has suggested, Zovirax is very good at clearing them up, or even the chemist own brands are just as good.

I have been a naughty girl today...I dragged poor Roly to Dunhelm Mills, to purchase, as Roly thought, some new sheets. LOL I came away with two new sets of bedding for each of our beds. Well poor chap he nearly had forty fits when he saw how much they came to, but bless him, he coughed up the money.
Cor I could have had a field day, with all the different sets of bedding, and I did give him a choice of what he wanted for his bed, and he chose a dark blue set, and a grey/black set, whereas mine were much lighter, white with lovely designs on them.
And to think we are actually going away for a week next month as well, but we deserve the break away, as we have not had a holiday for a couple of years now.

Well my little loves, I will say goodnight, god bless one and all. Mo xxx

Glad you recieved it o.k. I have something simular, and have put some on, the soremess went almost at once, so will see how I get on, but thanks for the tip...
did I thank you for your card... I dont know where I am at the moment, so cant remember who I sent cards to, hope Sallie and Mo gets theirs...think I should lay down in a darkened room...


Love Jean xx <3 :-S

Jean thank you for your Easter card.

If they are cold sores (Herpes) Zovirax is what T uses he has always suffered from them. Stress or being under the weather or when he plays golf at a new course (different grasses in summer is what causes his.

Yes, Jean, the organiser of our group usually sends us a page of photos that his wife has taken. I might send him some of the ones I took indoors, casual snaps of small groups.

Morning all, glad to see you are back on here Mo, I had packed my bag and was just going to book my ticket to come to see what was up with you ;-) ;-) ;-) you are like toothache miss you when you are gone :-D :-D your outfit sounds lovely , and hope you get some pics to send to me.... sorry about family upsets I pray it will be soon all sorted....
now back to ME ;-) ;-) ;-) I have had a small itchy spot on my lip for a couple of days now i have three big ones sore too, think it may be cold sores, no idea why or how it has happened,ooh just found a tiny on on the side of my nose, getting worried now :-0 :
I will call into the chemist and see what I can get to shift them... wonder what is next.

Huia what a shame you didnt get your photo, maybe someone will let you have a copy ........

Sylvia, I hope you are both o.k. and your leg and knee are improving too and look forward to hear about your next trip out , have you anything planned ?

Marie, glad to see you are getting settled in your new home, I must read back afew pages I do forget what is going on in your life, so will have read and add again....
old age is the pits.

.Sallie and Ann glad you liked the cards, I cant close the lid on my huge card box now so must offload some soon. or stop making them !!!

time for another coffee , so will chat later.... take care ....
love Jean xx

Pleased to see you on here Mo, I was getting worried about you. Sorry that you have a few family problems though, hope all will be resolved soon.

Glad that you have your outfit for your daughter's wedding, it sounds nice, hope you can get a bag soon and then you will be sorted.

Hope that your IBS will start to settle down soon.

Take care.


Love and best wishes.



Sallie.xxx

Good to see you on here Mo and know that you are okish. Hope the IBS clears up soon. Sorry to hear that you have family problems, hope they can be solved. Pleased though that you have your wedding outfit. :-) <3

Hello one and all,
I am so sorry to have been absent for a while, but, family and friends problems, made things go from my mind.
I decided to check my E.Mails and found a message from our Ann, so hence the pain in the backside is back with avengence.

All these upsets have started my IBS of again, oh my goodness, life can be so cruel at times, especially when you need to be on top form.

I have not had time to catch up on everyones news, so I will have a read back when I get a chance.

My daughter has taken me to bingo twice this past week, to take my mind of things, but luck was not on our side, but we had a very enjoyable evening, just mum and daughter.

I have managed to get a lovely outft for my daughters wedding. It's different shades of pink, and the bolero jacket is a champagne colour.
Luckily, i was able to get a pair of shoes from BHS, to match the jacket, now all I need is a small handbag.
There is no way I am going to wear a hat or even a fascinator. With my hair as short as it is, a fascinator doesn't stay in place, and hats look really stupid on me.
I can't afford to look any the more stupid than I already do.

I do hope you are all enjoying the glorious weather, in whatever part of the country you live.
Yesterday, we had Lilly and I had to cover her in sun screen, as our back garden was like a sun trap....lovely for us, but not for a little red haired child.

Well I must go now peeps, take care of yourselves one and all. Love and hugs, Mo xxx

Thanks Ann, I was going to do the same after we had had our dinner.....thinking that she might have posted on here by then.

She last posted on here 5th April, so it is ten days as I thought.

Just hope that everything is alright there.

Love, Sallie.xxx

I have PMd her Sallie.

Last time Mo posted on the Friendly thread was 26 March. :-(

Hello girls,

I'm wondering where Mo is and that everything is alright with her, Roly and the family, It's been about 9-10 days since she last posted, so I'm a bit worried and concerned that things might not be right for her.

Mo, come out, come out wherever you are!!! Hope you are all okay.


Speak to you all later.



Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello girls,

I wonder where Mo is, it's been a week since she was last on here. I hope that everything is alright with her and the family.


Jean, sorry that you and J had that horrible tummy bug while you were away. I hope that you are both getting over it now...trouble is, it is very weakening and takes a while to get over it.


Sounds as though you had a good spending spree while you were away. Jean.

Have you tried any of your new dies yet? Which dies did you buy?
It's a shame that there isn't a craft shop near you, like the one in Llandudno.

How is D's leg now? I hope that it is getting better, and she is able to walk a lot easier now.




Ann, I've been looking at the photos of your garden, it's beautiful....it also looks as though it is a big garden too Oh, it's lovely!.No wonder you and T enjoy sitting out in it.



Huia, sounds as though you had a good time at the class reunion, shame about not having any photos after asking the lady to take some for you. You must have been disappointed when you couldn't find them on your camera.

Pleased to know that the concert went well and that you enjoyed it.

Hope you had a good day at the hospice shop and that you had plenty of customers.



Sylvia, hope that things are alright with you and your family. I hope that things are getting better between your daughter and son in law.




I have been busy over the last few days, making and finishing off my Easter cards.

So I only have to write them now and get the posted. I don't make very many though, just nine in all.

Alun, was at a Model Railway Show yesterday, their club had a layout there, so there had to be five of them there to run it.
He had a look around the show and was tempted to buy another engine, but decided against it in the end.

Now he's talking about buying a greenhouse, we had one for years and then got rid of it......now he is thinking he would like another one.




Well I must go to bed now, so will speak to you all tomorrow.

Love and best wishes to you all.



Sallie.xxx