General Chat

It is awful Diane - so frustrating...........
I sit ringing the bell............nobody comes...........
It's the little things that annoy me most - like having to put the toothpaste on the toothbrush myself - the indignity of it all.

Trouble is, the staff expect to be paid, as well as fed.

Tec.

Yep I'm from Islington, North London Diane:))

Night all x x x

Tec - you pay your staff!! Isn't a bed and one meal a day enough? Tut tut - you need lessons on how to treat your staff. You've made it too easy.

Sue xx

I know I'm late - but I'm not being a lazy bones!!! I have been up for ages, but my computer got its knickers in a knot - normally does take up to twenty minutes to boot up - but to-day it went berzerk. Had to close it down and start all over again. This is when I usually say I'm going out to get a new processor - but then it comes good like it is now - and I say "not to-day" and I put up with it.

I have read all the posts to date and wanted to tell Lynda that she is welcome to cycle up from your place, Sue, in the couple of hours she will have free, and she can come and see me. I won't make her work and I will give her a cuppa before she leaves to cycle back to your place. She might need more than a couple of hours - but the roads are good all the way! I suppose she has retired by now and won't see this. Hope she looks in tomorrow.

Belated greetings everyone.

In defence of Redfern. It has had a bad press.
1. It's a soon to be an up and coming area, hopefully not too gentrified. People will soon realise its convenience.
2. I use Redfern railway station most days. There is a sign, "Welcome to Redfern". At another station, the sign says, "Welcome to Wynyard- Smoking is prohibited". I don't smoke, but I do find that particularly unfriendly.

Like many Sydney suburbs, it was named for someone. In this case, Dr William Redfern, colonial surgeon.

SueMaid , It is usually disturbed sleep that kick's it off and lifting a lot dosn't help, so the time in the I.O.M. probably started it as I had a few night's were I didn't get much sleep and I was lifting the wheelchair and helping my employer in and out of car's all the time I was there.
The condition I have can be kicked off for many reason's for different sufferers, and it is hard to break the lack of sleep cycle because the pain keep's wakeing you up.
As for your question doe's the weather affect the pain it can make it worse if the weather is damp. I don't know if you know anything about the condition but the pain is pain in the muscles

Diane x .

Good morning Colin and Berona

I went to an antique fair in Islington a couple of years ago. I like London,When I lived in Essex and we had visitors from Wales, as we frequently did, I was the official guide, so had to do "the tour"
Buckingham Palace, Westminster - Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, Tower of London, the Royal Parks etc etc etc.

Tec.

Hello Berona, when my computer does its thing I usually threaten it by suggesting that it should be programmed with a very large axe. Surprisingly, it often works.
Slightly more seriously, my boss at work reckons slow computers are often caused by multiple virus protection programs (Microsoft and something else both active) or spyware detection programs. Spybot's Tea-timer is one of his bugbears. It sits in the background but chews up an enormous amount of the processor memory. Colin

Good morning Allan, good evening Tec and any others in the north. Allan, you came in while I was typing. I'm a very slow typer.
Colin

Good morning, Berona. Just teasing:-))

Colin - it does get bad press as does most inner city areas. I have to say that we were in the area many years ago and our car overheated. We pulled into a back street to allow the car to cool off. It was a very hot summer day and I was pregnant at the time so I wasn't feeling too good. The street was quite run-down and occupied by Aboriginies who helped my husband and made me sit down in the shade while a lady made me some tea. They were wonderful and I've never forgotten that time. That was before a lot of the troubles started and we had no worries about the area at that time. Hopefully it will regain it's good reputation.

Diane, I know nothing about the condition you have. It must make it difficult to work at times. I take it that it goes into remission and then something triggers an attack. Hope you don't mind me asking.

Sue xx

Good Morning Berona, and Colin,
Hope you are both well today,

Berona...........I thought it was rather unkind of Madame SueMaid to say you were a lazy bones - I should take her to task for that..........

Tec.

Colin, you and I both.

By the time I have responded to a post, another six have popped on the thread. I always seem to be responding to something no longer valid!

Allan

You're all moving to fast for me:)) Tec may I ask if you were born in Wales? You've mentioned your childhood in England so I'm curious.

Colin, the TeaTimer is always trying to access my computer. I'll remember what your boss says about it. I do run SpyBot once a week. Computers can be very frustrating - but we wouldn't have met each other without one.

Sue xx

By the way - in a morning/evening we've gone through 3 pages.

Hi all,

I run adaware. I usually run it at the end of each session on the internet. My main antivirus program is Vet

Are you still with us Tec? Oh dear, and just a day when I was up bright and early too - but couldn't make contact. I don't mind what Sue said, I know what she means. I think she and Allan are a bit mean offering Lynda a job as their maid, though.

I'm not mean like those English-born Aussies. (Oops, just remembered my OH was one of those). I would welcome Lynda without making her work. I just hope that Sue will be kind enough to lend her a bike.

Sue...........
I was born in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. My mothers family were mostly farmers, but some were coal miners. My mother left the Valley with me when I was a baby, to live in Essex near to my fathers family.
However, as most of her family lived in the Vale of Glamorgan I spent much time there as I got older.
Have lived in North Wales since 1975.

Tec.

Good morning Berona and Colin
hope today find's you both well

Yes Sue it can be a problem with work sometime's as I feel really tired at the time's it flare's up, it doe's go into remission and not bother me for month's at a time, I haven't had a bad flare up for month's the last one was about March so I'v been lucky, I take anti-inflamitry's when it flare's up as well as pain killer's. There was a thread on here called Fibro-mialger peeps, I'm not sure if it's still on here I will check tomorrow, there is a lot of web site's about it if you wanted to read up on it. I do know that it can disable some sufferers to the point that they end up in a wheel chair. No of cause I don't mind you asking about it hun.

Well folk's it's time I was off to bed up for work at 5-40am, catch you all again soon
goodnight /and good day all

Diane x

That's right, Berona, make us feel like second class citizens: just because we want to have a large staff doesn't mean that we have forgotten our origins!

I was even prepared to let Lynda rent part of our garage too!

Regards

Allan

Good night Diane, sleep well

I must also depart the thread as I am still doing two days work at Harvey

Have a good morning all ( I can say that now!)

Regards

Allan