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NO ACCIDENTS YET !!!!!!

Ros was up at 6.10am I felt get get out. I tried to turn over but to no avail. I got up and she had got my tea cup ready with teabag and sugar. Just had to boil the kettle and pour. My aspri# was all diluted in a drop of water so only had to swallow. BLESS.!!!

Finger all OK, little edge on the cut, that I caught on the armchair last night, and made it bleed. Leg very sore, will have a look at that later, and change the plaster.when I have my shower.

Pat, glad you are happier with the quote, When I was fit and able I used to do all my decorating, In fact I use to take on jobs for friends, who wern't very good at it.

Have just had a strole around the "ESTATE" picked out the side shoots of a lot of tomato plants. What a lovely smell, you get on your hands but how they stain your fingers !!!!!

Nice morning here, clear blue sky and a chill to the breeze. That will warm up later. so I will get my lounger out under the cherry tree and finish off my current book, only 20 odd pages to go. One of Jeffery Archers. I have over 50 on my Ebook. so plenty to go at.

BBL

My daughter has an Ebook too. I prefer paper ones lol,,This way I can exchange them with neighbours lol

Still waiting for my bath!!! I hate waiting for things to be delivered

The only trouble with that Pat. Is I end up with loads of books that I pass on to Charity shops The neighbours don't read PORN :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D SORRY couldn't not say it. !!!!

Here I am at last and White Rabbits, pinch and a punch for the first of the month ans all that!! :-D

Back still very sore and OH told me to take it easy yesterday. Well you know me I had to do something. Waited till 11.26 for Wendy and she did'nt turn up at all so rang on both mobile and house phone.......................no answer. Still have'nt heard anything so I shan't be having her to come and do my feet and will just carry on and do them myself, when I can reach them :-(

OH got the other side of the box hedge cut yesterday and I watered the tunnel, then he came and said he needed me to drive the big mower with the trailer on the back which had the fruit picking ladder on it for him to reach the top of the hedge. Did that and then made a cuppa and we sat by the pond and then I went and had a look in my reflecting pools and saw the baby goldfish from the eggs we had put in there. While down there a dragonfly came over the pond and started to lay eggs on the lily leaves. OH went in a got me the camera and I got some nice shots of her. Will send later. We also had four big hurrican planes fly over the garden very low. They came over 3 times before disappearing into the east down the little valley towards the big house.

A friend called in to say the father of a friend had died after a long illness which was quite sad. He was the father of the girl who taught us to ring and also taught oh to ring method. That will be a huge funeral and I know oh will go. The whole family were ringers and some of the best from the London area. He had a twin brother and a sister who died a couple of years ago and her funeral was some where special with well over 200 people there.

Also thought of a couple of things you don't see nowadays. Paper cash bags in their different colours with the big black printing on the front, and the metal caps on gin bottles that had a little metal clip you flipped up to open and down to close them. I bet not many of you remember those but know Frank will.

Pleased Fiona had friends yesterday that cheered her up.

Jane we had the Cinnabar moth in the garden too on the 2nd June when Wendy came. Also one up the bathroom window on 5 consecutive nights about the same time. I think some of them come out at night and others during the day.

Frank what are we going to do with you. You are just an accident waiting to happen. Hope Ros gets some releif today with this other injection. Please don't get into any more trouble today, just sit in your new chair and read your book :-(

Pat good luck with the new kitchen and bathroom. You won't know where you are when it is all done and dusted.

Just heard from Ros. She has had the injection, and now resting before Carolyne brings her home. Will make sure she either goes to bed or sits on the sofa with her legs up.

Jan rang this morning. Conrad was kept in last night, she stayed at the hospital till 12.30am. As the couldn't make up their ming wheather to send him home or not. He texed her this morning to say he still hasn't seen the doctor !!!! He's not happy being there. When they took his blood pressure he cried out "Take it off, It's to tight" woff. and when they took blood, Jan said he went as white as a sheet. He's never had anything like that in his life
The ward they put him in with two other old blokes. One looked like he wouldn't last the night, and the other wasn't far behind. He said. "THIS IS A GOOD START" . :-D :-D :-D. He might be big in statue but still a child at heart.

Gosh Frank what an awfull thing to happen. I do hope they find out what is wrong with Conrad soon. It is so worrying for all of you and Ros dos'nt need this just now either.

Hi Folks
Having a few problems send Sofia's holiday in Italy via e-mail some of you may have recieved them some of you may have not, I will keep trying.


Frank , sorry to read about Poor Conrad. I'ts not an easy thing being in hospital, my mum had colitis for 15 years, she hated going to see the doctor, and refused to go into hospital, she was still living in the 1950's when she spent 2 years in hospital from a fall where she damaged her back, she always said the nursing staff were like sergent? majors , unfortunatly when she was taken in to hospital just before she passed away she then realised the nursing staff were really very good and kind,
I suppose we were very lucky, I know some nursing staff are not that good especially the ones who have no patience I felt that the staff at the hospital where my dad was couldn't be bothered with the old folks and just kept giving them medication to sadate them.

Oh dear, everyone seems to be in the wars at the moment. I do hope that you ALL start to feel better soon. Jane, I can't believe that about Chris's colleague, poor woman, that must be just terrible! what on earth will she say to her son?! and I think I've got troubles! certainly nothing to compare with that! Gosh Frank, you do get into trouble accident wise. As my mother used to say "Watch what you are doing!" and, in my case,"Pick your feet up"!!! not much sympathy there in 1955!! I hope Ros's back feels better, a bad back is really hellish, and drags you down no end. weather cloudy today, but fairly warm, so, off to the garden!

Forgot to say that the hawk came into the garden yesterday while I was by the pond and attacked the woodpigeon in the beech tree at the end of the garden. It grabbed one and the other pigeon attacked the hawk and made it let go of it's mate. It flew off empty clawed thank goodness.

Hi Everyone,

Sunny here so I'm on rock duty again today. I want to see Nadal in the tennis later this afternoon though.

Frank.....STAY PUT with your ebook today........no more mishaps for Ros to come home to I hope! lol Conrad must be fed up, the company he is in won't help so hopefully he will soon be home again.

Mel, how exciting to have baby goldfish........they start off a dark colour don't they. Is the pain any better today? How is Kim today? Anne is your leg still improving?

Pat, our Liz has been with us for ages, I just think she has been a bit busy lately. I hope your bath soon arrives. I hate waiting in too especially when they don't give you a rough time they'll be there. I can never settle to do much, can't go in the garden, can't go out, can't put the hoover on in case you don't hear the doorbell! My previous house took about 3 years to renovate and we were always in a mess, but kitchens and bathrooms are the worst. I remember having the fridge in the lounge for a few weeks!! At the time the old timber garage hadn't been replaced and leaked and there were only the old roundpin power points in the hall. When they get moving with things it will get done very quickly I hope. I've always been the decorator. I have papered ceilings on my own in the past, but couldn't do that now. I got a quote for painting just the lounge ceiling about 4 years ago and it was over £200!! Needless to say I painted it myself, but it took me about a week!!

Hi have just been to the doctors due to the fact I fainted the other day. The doctor said I was fine and he had a lot of people faint that day due to it being the hottest day in Birmingham for years it nearly killed me I was roasting ,Maureen you are right I should have let someone else cook the dinner

I know I come over with a lot happening in my neck of the woods .I could do without it. .I have asked Donnie for a photo of the happy pair .They were saying we get fed up in our house with no back garden.I said well you spend most of your time in mine it did not go down too well.

My ho is not one for doing much domestic Maureen. The last time he cooked the dinner he forgot it and it was black.Had to be thrown away.I do not cook a lot mostly salad these days and cold stuff. The lamb was a present from the butcher.I have known him years. Since I stopped him leaving his bits of meats in the porch he phones me up now and says I have got some meat for the dog and last time it was the lamb for us.

Since the students have gone home there are bags of rubbish everywhere the dustman will not take it unless it is bagged properly it is annoying. Our road looks a tip.

I am looking forward to watching Murrey today in the semi final at Wimbledon.Beryl wanted to watch it with me but I passed on that she talks non stop and I miss the best bits.I get fed of her remarks Murry mints on the box he is a right sucker she says that everytime the lad appears.

Pat I hate it when you have to distrupt your house but it will be nice when it is done. I had a kitchen built on when my mum died. Mum left me some money and I wanted to use it wisely. The mess was dreadful and it did not help that we had dreadful rain that year and everything turned to mud. But choosing the units and seing it finished was fantastic.

Jane nice to read your threads. If I did not laugh at Beryl and Don I would
cry I think. Annie laughs so much she comes across a bit rude. We were in the shop and she saw them coming and came rushing in shouting Beryl and metal mickey are coming up the road. Why not put the closed sign up quick.I had to laugh.

Sorry about your sore back Mel.
Jane that poor lady some people like me get some nasty problems.
My couson who is 80 this year fell in his kitchen and was on the floor all day and over night .His home help had a day off. He was ok but his daughter wants him to go in an old peoples home and he is very upset.
None of the kids will have him poor old guy.

Kim hows the family .

What a lovely job your sons got Pat.
My son who works at the prison had pepper thrown in his eyes yesterday some prisoner pinched it off the table and he threw it in my sons eyes just because he told him he could not have visitors he was abusive to his dad last time he went to see this prisoner.

I will send the photoes when I get them.


Annx so glad you enjoyed your concert how lovely to see the man himself
he looks a very nice guy. I watched a couple of concerts on the tv.Annie
wished she had gone now she cancelled her ticket when he did not come and she went off somewhere . I am trying to stop her going on these weird dangerous adventures shes had a couple of near escapes Breaking her ankle was the last and before that she went sliding down a muddy bank in Cuba and landed on top of a chicken pen and cut her face open.
My husband said today I have caught kennel flu off the dog. I said Oh ok then I will phone the vet he disapeared quickly. men!!! sorry Frank and David. I am sure your not like my husband. Yesterday he washed his socks and put them down on the chair to answer the phone wet and then sat on them. He was moaning his bottom was wet. He is happy when he his serving in his shop and nattering. But most of the time not in the world
however he copes better with all the stress we have had over the last year or so. Before then life was very ordinary and peaceful next year must be better .
Fiona are you ok now hows little Sofia .
Hows Chester and Toby mine pair of pets have cost me a fortune this year no holiday. I think these two will be my last dogs the vets are getting so expensive. Dont blame you not having more dogs Mel.

Hello everyone,

Did start this earlier, but had to rest. Also trouble getting on here today. I didn't get up until midday, so pooped at the moment. I have just finished the washing and it's in the garage. Hopefully a better day tomorrow so I can hang it out in the sun.

How's the human shredder today? Are you being STILL and QUIET?? Hope Ros gets relief with her injection and comes home to find you in one piece!!

Mel sorry that you are in so much pain and your foot lady didn't turn up. She could have rung if there had been an emergency or some reason to cancel. That's not a good advertisement for business. Sorry to hear about your friend who died. Must be wonderful to have that talent and pass it down through the family. We would probably only have ringers at the cathedrals here. All the churches would be too modern, apart from some of the small country parishes. I did find a connection to Holy Rood, Daglingworth for one of my Curtis family. Someone kindly looked up the Gloucestershire records for me.

Pat that's so good that they came in with a better price and starting on Monday!! It is all coming to an end - let's hope you will be very happy with the finished product and they do a great job :-)

Jane that's a dreadful situation for that lady and her son, plus going through the treatment for her illness. What turns these people into such vile creatures? I can't understand it at all. They are going to need so much support to get through this - I hope they have a lot of loving people around them.

Well I need to get on the couch, so might BBL to say goodnight. Must be something on to watch. Tata for now, it is 10.06 pm EST

Sheila hope your dogs are over the kennel cough. Zoe, my old border collie (now gone) got that when we moved up here with the bank. The animal transportation was part of the deal and she arrived a week later in a terrible condition. The vet diagnosed it immediately and she recovered, but it's a nasty illness.

Good that you went to the doctor and all is well. You need to take things easy in the heat. Family is good thanks, OH going to the gym 3 times a week and feeling better for it, kids on holidays

I'm good Annx just tired. Too much activity lately. I get so bored if I can't do things and then try to do too much when I get a bit of energy. A dog chasing it's tail!!

I was going to the tv, but then saw all your posts come up.

Frank I hope Conrad feels better soon. I hate hospitals too and we have some woeful ones over here as well as the better ones.

10.39 pm EST

It has just been on our news that the planes I saw yesterday were flying from Wiltshire to Oxford.

Mel, Those planes come over here two at a time just above the roofs, They are stationed at Briars Norton, in Oxfordshire. When they come over, you can't help but stare up in the sky to see them go over. They are the Hurculease bombers. and yes I think they trandport the bodies home from the war.

Afternoon everyone.
I had real problems with the pooter this morning so just gave up trying to get on.Then at lunch time I went to give Fitz his birthday card for tomorrow.We sat in the sun and had some bread ,cheese,ham,and some salad stuff.It was really hot when the sun was out.
It is the sick bay here today.James has been ill with the D&V so has not been able to take Hannah and all her things to London.They will go tomorrow all being well.

I have a pink envelope here from Australia.Mmm I wonder who that might be from? lol Thanks Kim.I will keep it until the day.

I hope Conrad is ok Frank ,and that Ros's injection will give her huge relief from the pain.I must go and pick some Chard.I keep being told by Chris it needs picking.(I am fed up with the bl**** stuff) :-( :-(

Fiona thanks for the pics of Sofia.She looks very happy on her hols and I can't believe how she is growing up now.
Mel I haven't been able to open the Dragonfly pics :-S

Where is Mandy? Not still at the show surely!

I have the dentist on Monday 9am,to have this Jaw problem looked at.He has told me to just have soft food,and not keep opening my mouth wide to keep testing it,and to take anti inflammatory tabs.

I think I have got a bit sun burnt today when I was sitting in Fitz's garden.I didn't expect that.

Two important items in the post today for my wife.
One is an appointment with the dept of rheumatology about her legs.

The other is a summons for jury service

I'am here !! been busy doing things in the garden , hubby's having a few days off , he wanted another water butt ,so we've been and got that this morning ,thats all connected up now , the car had to go for its MOT ,and passed ok so hubby was pleased , i had only done five thousand miles in the car since the last MOT .
Went in hubby's van to get the water butt , it's like climbing mount Everest getting up into it !!! talk about pull my knees !! glad i don't have to drive that every day .

We all enjoyed our day at the show ,weather was just right for walking round ,DIL's father nearly bumped into Princess Anne !!!!! we didn't realise she was there , by the time we realised it was her all i saw was the back of her head !!!

We had a panic in the afternoon ,little Jake went missing !!
we had walked round to were the children could go on some rides and i suppose Jake thought it was free ,like when DIL takes him to the park ,they run off to the swings and have a ride and go on what ever they want .

There was a Helter Skelter and he had gone inside with a little girl ,he climb up to the top and came down with her on her mat !!
Because it was all covered we couldn't see him , talk about a scare ,we all shot off in all directions to find him.
As we went into show the Lions had a tent were the children could be tagged ,so they we all wearing tags with sons mobile number on in case they did wander off ,its so easy to lose sight of them with all the people about .

I see you've been at it again Frank!! hope your legs not to sore today , and that Ros gets some relief from the pain with her latest injection .

Lovely photo's of Sofia Fiona ,she looks happy on her holiday , hope your feeling better .