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Good evening Susan with numbers

Allan

Tec, we had a phrase book and would constantly call out phrases to each other - of course with no idea of pronunciation. It was a heck of a long drive but we met our friend/rellie in the evening and we stayed in Reading. It is a long drive but we're used to it in Aus.

Susanwithnumbers - have you been on the other threads? One not very nice one at the moment.

Must go all - I have a delivery to make.

Sue xx

Allan,
I too had a look at some other threads - goodness me!
Think I'll stay here on the Funny Farm, at least I know I'm safe, well relatively.

Wonder where Berona goes when she disappears?
I think she goes to feed the chickens

Tec

Good Evening Susan with numbers,
We just can't help being nice lol,
I can't decide if you're an Aussie, or a Pom,
are you here or there?

Tec.

Tec, what a fowl thing to insinuate!

Bye Sue, have a great day.

I must also go soon..at least next week when I am in Dardanup the main Office is only minutes away from where I live

Allan

Well it's that time again, I have to go to bed, no doubt Berona will tell us tomorrow -

So enjoy the day Aussies,sleep tite Poms,

Goodnight
Tec.

I'm back. I was only over on another thread, reading about cyber love triangles. Quite fascinating. I'd like the 'man' in question to contact ME! Wouldn't I have some fun???

Not to be outdone - I, too have been to Conwy Castle.- and I have three souvenir coffee mugs to prove it! In 1989, after leaving SIL's home in Winsford, we drove across to the west coast of Wales and down the coast. I mean I drove. My OH didn't like driving and I did, so I did most of it. Loved the country. Fascinated with the castle.

p.s. Still haven't allowed any coffee to be put in the mugs!

Hi Tecwyn

I am neither here nor there and just making observations without insinuations :-)))

I lost me objectivity for a mo...must regain it :-)))

Now where were you all before I interupted? :-)

Hello Folks,

Linda - It's a very stressful time for you and I know what Berona is saying, I know when my mother died and my mother-in-law died, it was almost a relief, they were finally released from it all. Hope you're bearing up ok.

Berona, sounds like you need to put your computer in, or do a defrag or whatever it is one must do.

Tec, I shall be the guide who will probably get everyone lost all of the time. Might need a personal sat/nav.

Hello to everyone else.
Stay beautiful!

Hello Alison, What a lovely wish - that we 'stay beautiful'!. My problem is that I have to get beautiful first, before I can stay beautiful - and how do I do that at my age?

My computer is a good one, but it is now more than eight years old. It has had so many things upgraded in it, and out of it, that only the main processing unit is left to be replaced. Over the years, it has suffered from two viruses, which I have been able eradicate, but I believe that whilst they were there, they caused changes to some of the settings. I have been through and checked these but have never found a way of 'fixing' it. I do believe that it is time to put it out to pasture and I can afford a new one, but I keep getting cranky at it because I can't fix it. I used to work in a computer department and was taught a lot by experts, but as with anything else - it would be better if I knew nothing - I would call in a technician and pay him a fee to fix it - but because I know "some", I hate to let it get the better of me!

My problem at the moment, is that I start up in the morning to talk to all the people on this thread, and that's when I have my problems. By the time it starts running properly - most of them have gone to bed! Once it's up and running - it's fine! Maybe I shouldn't turn it off at night, but I'm afraid of electrical storms. I should give in and admit that I don't know as much as I would like to know!

Berona,

I have identified your IT problem. Even though computers employ artificial intelligence, when the chips are down even they don't wish to be associated with this thread!

Now, go fix!

Regards

Allan

Hello, everyone:-)

I've been in 7th heaven today. I've been on Ancestry after being alerted by Lynda that new London records are available. I've found so much info. about OH's paternal side of the family. I've found out maiden names and children I knew nothing about plus I've been able to discount children I thought belonged. I know when they were baptised, married and buried and where they lived at the time. Wow!!

I love your "stay beautiful" too, Alison. Berona I can't believe you're not beautiful - you sound beautiful:-)) I'm wondering if I come to visit whether I'll be treated to a Conwy coffee cup.

Sue xx

Hello, Allan. You posted while I was typing:-))

Sue xx

Good afternoon, Sue,

I'm really pleased for you that you have been able to gather so much information.

I never thought that my family would be such a problem..why oh why couldn't our ancestors have made it easier for us?

I'm still determined to get to the bottom of all the mysteries!

I exist, therefore my ancestors existed; this has now become a challenge

I hope that your day went well

Regards

Allan

Hello all!!

Allison... What a lovely thing to say "Stay beautiful" I like that !
I love this thread, it has happiness,sadness, madness, seriousness and best of all its full of the beautiful people, pure joy!!!

Linda... Thinking of you today, my heart goes out to you...stay strong xx

Sue.. I'm so happy for you that you have had some great finds with your London ancestry, I read that today on the tips board (I think). isn't it so nice when things just fall into place like that, makes it all worth while.

Don't give up Allan, you will find your ancestors, they are getting you back for your bad jokes and playing peekaboo. LOL

Have a great evening Aussies/have a great day pommies :-))

Carole xx

Well, there you go, Sue. I have kept those mugs all this time and never used them. I must have known that I was saving them for something!

I haven't used them because I didn't want to break them and it's a long way back to Wales to get new ones....Of course, I didn't know that we would all be going to live in Tec's palatial residence, did I? Yes, most definitely, you and I can christen the mugs. Looking forward to it!

Allan, I am so pleased with the beanie. I've done the orange, green and purple stripes with a thin black stripe between them and I have now started on the bright yellow stripe. It's so bright, it seems to glow and will make you look like you are wearing a halo! Won't that be lovely? It will make you look so angelic!! I'm thrilled with it!

Well, come on! Where is everybody? Just the morning that I have no problem with my computer - there's no-one around!!!

Good Morning Berona,
I'm here, lurking,
Was doing some research, and suddenly up you popped.
How are you today, well I hope.

Tec

Good evening everyone. I have decided to come home tonight, I have been using mums house as a base as it is close to the hospital, but am shattered,so thought I might get more rest here.

Berona, I am sorry to stir up memories of you losing your husband and for Alison as well. I went through all of that when dad died from cancer, but this is different with mum because she is fully conscious.

Thinking of the morphine patches brought back some funny memories of dad, although that may seem to be a strange thing to say.
We used to manage his morphine patches,we had different strengths, so could use a couple together depending on what he needed, he also had some liquid stuff we could give him for a quick top up if he needed it.
He used them for a long time because of his back pain. Sometimes we didn't quite get the dose correct and that led to some very odd conversations. I remember once when I was driving him to one of his appointments, he asked me when I had learnt to speak Japanese. Of course I couldn't, but he was adamant that I was speaking to him in Japanese. Eventually he gave up on that and then we must have had a good ten minute conversation about what golf handicap I was currently playing off and all about my favourite local golf course. All perfectly rational if it were not for the fact that I have never played golf in my life, he was the one that played. It makes me smile to recall it.

When I said that mum is not in pain, that is because she doesn't have any thing to cause her pain. Once the gall stones were removed last week, her pain disappeared. Her problems are caused by the pneumonia and the infection in her bloodstream, not to mention her failing kidneys. Oh and I forgot her irregular heart beat and her racing pulse, which they are having trouble keeping down, it seems to be about 120 all the time. Why I don't know because they were giving her medication which had it in check, but they took her off that and put her on a beta blocker which obviuosly isn't working, so they have upped the dose.

She is just very tired and dozes most of the time, when she is awake, she is perfectly rational. she seems to have stabilised for the time being. Monday and Tuesday were bad days, on Tuesday they said that they didn't think she would last they day out, but she is a tough old thing an proved them wrong.

I spoke to the consultant this morning, who said that it is just a matter of taking it day by day and seeing what happens. My OH always said that she would outlive us all, maybe he was right lol.

Anyway as Tec said, you can't sit in the chair for ever,so I have come home to sleep tonight and they have promised to call me if they need to.

Oh by the way, I have been to Conwy Castle as well

I'm very well, thanks Tec. Hope you and Mrs.Tec are too.

Looks like another warm day coming up here - summer temps instead of spring!