General Chat

Hello Tec,

I think that it would be a shame if you didn't go. It is true that you may not like to see changes being made, but nothing stays the same forever and it will bring back fond memories of your friend and the times you spent there

Good morning/evening all. Sue, hope all goes well at the Vet's. 7 x 13 means she is equal to a person of 91, so things can start to go wrong and need to be checked out. Hopefully she will only need a supplement of something.

Barbra - if you watch Home and Away, you are my friend for life! I didn't watch it for years, because whenever I looked in on it, the acting was amateurish and the script was poor - but over the last couple of years, I don't like to miss an episode because the acting is better these days and the script 'moves'. By that, I mean that when an incident occurs, it happens within one or two eposides and it's finished and moved onto another interest. I'm not rapt in the sometimes bad grammar used in the script-writing, but it gets past the editors somehow.

Also, Barbra, my late OH was a Lancashire boy - so you must be nice!

Linda - good to see you finding time to do things. As Sue said, you think of the illness while it is still fresh in your mind, but eventually, it gives way to the happier memories and then to the 'funny' episodes, and you will find yourself laughing at the memories. It all takes time and the first year is the worst. Just keep busy and it will pass.

Is Allan with us? or is he still out talking to wheelie bins? These 3am walks must have some effect on him - still don't know if they are good or bad!

And where's our Tec? Hope all is well there too.

Haven't seen Diane or Persephone for a while. Please come back to us - we miss you!

Tec - you sneaked in while I was typing.

I know what you mean. It's sad to go back to places where you will imagine that you see your friend there as they used to be.

It might do you some good if you do go and look at the progress which has been made. Think of it as a preservation of something which would have only deteriorated if left untouched. Who knows? he might have been favourable impressed by the improvement.

Hi Linda,
Yes you are probably right about that, it's just that after forty years friendship you get to know a person very well indeed, and I wonder if I will see things through his eyes as it were, and just know I may see things he wouldn't have approved of, but then he did leave it for the nation, and his motive in leaving it to the NT was that it be preserved, and not turned into some gruesome holiday site, or Corporate Headquarters.
If I don't go I'm sure to regret it.
Knowing me, I may well get to the gates and drive off - Stupid man.

Tec

Well if you don't go Tec, you will never know and as you say, you may well regret it and then you will have to wait until it is open to the public and even worse, have to pay to go in!!!!

Good Morning Berona,

I shall accept the good counsel of yourself and Linda,
curiosity will probably get the better of me anyway.
Incidentally, I am not usually so indecisive.

Tec

I am glad that you are here Berona as Sue, left us in charge and I am off to bed now. Allan is playing at listing animals on his thread on general,so he should be here to torment you soon

Good evening to Linda and Tec.

Good morning Berona

Tec, regarding your friends house, if it was me I would have a look just for the memories. Of all the visitors surely you would be the most welcome.

Sue, I hope that your dog is OK

Allan

Good night everyone,

Berona is now in charge Allan,so play nicely

Incidentally Yaffle (a European green woodpecker)

Right I'm back you motley crew:-)) My little dog Molly whimpered as I walked out the door and made a dash to follow me. I came home feeling like I'd deserted a child. Well I guess they are like our children.

Tec - I fully understand your quandary but like Linda and Berona I think you'll regret it if you don't go back. Nothing can take away the memories.

I've been reading some poetry lately. I was reading a novel and a character was quoting some lovely poetry. So I googled some and found a really good site with many poems and quotes. I love Robert Frost and there are a good number of his works on the site.

Sue xx

Linda, you just reminded me of Professor Yaffle from Bagpus!

Good morning, cruel Sue!

Allan

Thank goodness you're back Sue. Linda left me in charge - and it's too soon after last time! You never know what these boys are going to get up to! I was wishing I had my new specs (two pairs ordered) so that I could use one pair for the eyes in the back of my head (something mothers acquire and never quite lose, no matter how old they get!).

Tec, I'm back to my old tricks of forgetting to log off or on, and I'm not having any problems with jumping reply boxes or losing the Submit button. That's weird! Must have been a GR glitch - but if it happens again, I'll know what to do!

Good night Linda - sleep well.

Good morning Allan,
Yes I may go for old times sake. The NT are very good at restoring ancient buildings, so I'm sure they will be doing things right, that my old friend would have approved of.

Did you get any work done in the garden?

Berona, given that you are in charge, you are being very quiet - or are you watching from the sidelines, ready to pounce?

Tec

Berona, as I recall, the last time that you were in charge Tec and myself were perfect Angels

Tec, very little done in the garden...I am the master of procrastination. I also work by the motto "Never put of till tomorrow what can be done next week"!

Sue, in all seriouness, I hope that your dog doesn't miss you too much


Allan

Did Linda leave you alone, Berona? Mmmm.....must have words with that girl. Sleep tight, Linda:-))

Tec on one of our visits to the UK we stayed in a lovely Long House in Oxfordshire. The owners were complaining that there were things they couldn't do to the house as it heritage listed. We did think that they must have known that before they bought the place. I couldn't imagine anything they would want to do to change it but it appears they wanted to modernise certain features. Why?

Sue xx

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Hello Sue,
Hope your dog is alright - mine is showing his age now, very hesitant about the staircase - takes a lot of persuasion. I made a ramp for him to get into the car more easily, and he won't have anything to do with it. I put carpet on it so that he wouldn't slip, and I even crawled up it twice on my hands and knees to show him what to do, but he doesn't want to know - looked at me as if I'm crazy...........dogs are very perceptive.

Tec

We cross-posted again Tec. No, actually I have been absent, preparing to make Osso Bucco to freeze in portions. I don't cook one meal for myself - always a few, with one for to-night and a few in the freezer.

Yesterday, I was served by a young girl at the butcher's. I asked for
"four small veal cutlets". Don't you just love it when they look straight at you like you're a nuisance, then pick the four cutlets closest to them - which turn out to be the biggest on the tray? As for the Osso Bucco, they too, are so big, they will probably each do twice! I am only allowed 200 grams of meat in my diet and they are massive - so I wonder are they Veal?

Thank you Allan and Tec. As with a lot of Maltese Terriers she has bad teeth and has lost a couple. We take her in to have them cleaned quite regularly - at some cost I might add. It's all the little "behavioural" problems that have come up over the last few weeks that concern us. The vet seems to think that she may have some pain with her teeth - perhaps an abscess - and that she follows us around in need of comfort. Like your dog, Tec - she doesn't like climbing up steps anymore and more often than not needs to be carried. Easy as she is no bigger than a cat.

Sue xx

Greetings and Salutations to All,

Now, Allan - would you be payin' for me flight over, laddie, to help dig your garden?

I'm loving it when Carole includes "beautiful" with my name - sigh - if she only knew!

SueMaid, we just had our dog's teeth scraped and cleaned. It was $244. I do hope she is okay.

My lad slept in today, so shortly we will be racing for the bus. I slept in too, had a bad night last night, so it was after midnight when I got to sleep. I expect I'll have a few restless nights from now on, 'cos Thursday is the day I get my results from the Oncologist.

Sue, I must admit that I hadn't heard of Robert Frost.

Have you read any of Gwen Harwood's poetry? GH was an Australian poet, born in Brisbane but spent most of her Adult life in Tasmania.

My son bought me a collection of her works as a Christmas present a few years ago. Marvellous stuff.

Tec are you sure you were trying to teach your old dog new tricks? THe neighbours may have thought something more uncharitable...perhaps sampling the juice of the grape a little too intensely

Allan