General Chat

Rita,

I'm glad you told us that as my Dads wife is on Warfarin and I never did get to understand all about it.

I only know that she has to go and have a blood test every week and the results tell her how much dosage of medication to take.

So thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Now who's waiting for the election results ?????

Evening Marilyn I got my results through on my last blood test and it had got a higher reading so I could not fathom why ? that was why I looked for a website to tell me. I have to go again for a blood test on 18th May.

do you know the thread boards have been slack today the Chat and the Topics nothing new like normal. I thought they are all out putting their crosses on the sheets of paper.
I have been sorting things out back stuff I have meant to do and have not done so I am catching up on the backlog.
I am so cold I have the heating on. I am really shivering with the cold.

I expect eveyone is waiting about for the results I certainly will not..
I am going to watch a DVD now then have my hot chocloate and go to bed.
hope your OK and the family. I will not log on tonight .see you tomorrow.
God bless


Rita

evening all
we have all been and done how voteing
we had dinner very late again tonite

Evening Anyone who pops in

I have been busy wth the 2 littles. Hubby had his blood test. We walked to the poling station. Hubby went to work and I have had 2 long phone calls this evening.
I heard from my cousin in Canada whohas had a huge operation for jaw cancer. He sounded really good, but is waiting for chemo and radio therapy. I am really happy for him as he seems to be making good progress.

The other was our youngest daughter(the one getting married in 4 weeks !!! ) and she was making my head spin with all the apointments that she has and things she wants me to help with.

Oh well I probably won't sleep now having fallen asleep earlier

Linda :o) XxX

Hi Shelly You popped in while I was writing !!

Hi all,
I think it's a shame o.h.'s son couldn't wait a while, the girl told me she is so busy concentrating on the wedding plans etc she can't think about the pregnancy so she won't enjoy it as much as if it had been the one thing on her mind, I feel, and with the stress of sorting out the final wedding arrangements for August and the financial pressures they are under for it all, I hope she won't make herself ill or worse. She says she is going to boot sales to get equipment and clothes but I did offer her the loan of my pine rocking crib etc if she can't get all she needs, as it's up in my loft doing nothing. By the time the wedding is over at the beg of Sept - I don't think they are going on honeymoon - she will only have Sept and Oct to get ready for the baby which seems a bit rushed. It also means they won't have the money for a holiday for a while or to get a second car which they really need and to my mind, they would have been better to wait a year first, they could have gone over to NY to visit his brother and meet the woman and her children, who he moved in with and married last June, and done a few things before stopping to have a family and having the hassle of juggling both of them working with no family nearby to help with childcare.
Well their problem, not mine - I must shut my mind to it all and just go with the flow lol
Of course I will knit some things and help if they need it, o.h. told me off when I suggested the crib cos he said his son would think I was trying to take over, o.h. has some funny ways of thinking, I was just offering help.

I went out yesterday afternoon to do some errands and coming back to the car, I made a fuss of a puppy. It jumped up at me so I moved away as I hate dogs not being trained to stay down, and the owner just yanked on it's collar and didn't command it to stay down or anything. I think he hurt it and I moved away and thought it had scratched my finger when I saw some blood, turned out it had nipped me and it's sharp little teeth had made a puncture that wouldn't stop bleeding - red stuff, no blue blood!
As I was going to my house to pick up mail, I called into my docs round the corner from home, and asked if they had a plaster so I could wash and dress the wound. One doc was then going out on calls so he went back to the room as he had asked me about my tetanus jab and I knew it wasn't up to date. He dressed the wound and gave me a jab and antibiotics as he said they automatically do that with animal bites, have to say I was relieved to have such good treatment as not being protected from tetanus and infection I had felt concerned. Blessed nuisance tho as it's the longest finger on my right hand in the top section and I want to keep it dry for a day to heal over, so can't do washing up etc Oh well K will have to do it when he gets home later today, from last night's dinner.
Oh well at least the jab is done, I kept forgetting to book an apptmt with the nurse lol

Off to watch a bit of tv and see what's happening, did get my vote in so did my bit!

Take care all, let's hope things will improve in this country once whatever government we get, sort themselves out.

love
Lizxxx

morning all

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marilyn was up very late last nite we was trying to sult this tree out so dont think she will pop in till a lot later

liz we only had 3 month to get every think in when my daughter was pregnent we all rallyed round me and her older sister and brother i must say that my lot will all stick together and help each other out
i think your old crib would be nice to get some use again

linda you would of not of had a chance with my DR its alway chocka block with people and have to what a week just to bock an apointment

now were is rita this morning she is late in

Shelly ME HERE
I had to go to the doctors this morning to take my sample bottle it made me laugh the nurse said have you a red top or a white top bottle ? I said Red why ? well the red top bottle goes straight to the hospital the white there nurse dips into. I could not help it I giggles so much I said its like going to a supermarket and chosing gold Blue or Green top milk, I have to wait now till wedensday I have to phone them to see the results of that and a blood test.

My sister sent me a photo she had taken in Isreal she lite a candle for me in the Holy Sepulche In Jeruslem built on Calvery she had written below your candle is the first on the left hand side of the picture so you are blessed.
I thought that was lovely for her to have done that.

Well election over ? I am sick to death of hearing about it today I saw Brown grovelling and wanting to lead Labour and Lib?Dem he thinks he is the right person to lead the country.why does he think he is the best person voting shows people disagree. then we get David Cameron offering to lead the country with the LIB?Dem giving them some of what they want. they say a lepoard never changes its spots but this pove that saying wrong.
anyway that my last say on the elections.
so where is everyone Shelly what have you done with them. Hi Liz your not forgotten hope you OK.

Rita

Hello Girls.
Rita I will also be pleased when we can turn the t.v on,and watch something other than the election. They took off most off the morning programmes,and replaced them with the results.
I can remember a time when the urine samples was dealt with by the practice nurse,and not sent to the hospital unless it was for a pregnancy test. Oh my how things have progressed.
Liz, trust you to get nipped by that dog,and not notice it. I forget when I had my last tetanus jab. It has got to be at least 3 years ago. How long do they actually last for.
How can tight a*** begrudge his grandchild,the use off your rocking crib.
If I was you,I would be sorely tempted to hold onto it,till your son decides
to have his own family. It can then become a family heirloom.
Let Im indoors pay out for a new one,the miserable old so and so.
Linda,your cousin in Canada sounds very brave. God bless him. I hope that all his treatment is successful,and that he continues in this positive vain.
I hope you head stops spinning soon,with all the final arrangements.
It will all come together on the day. And even if something is forgotten,it will all come out in the wash,and as long as they are wed at the end off the day,thats all that matters.
And they will laugh about it afterwards.
As they say,been there done that. And the only time you will relax,is afterwards.
Even at our wedding,the buttonholes were bought,and left in the church entrance,but never given out. We did not know till later in the evening. LOL

Hi Mo nice to know your still around the threads.
Linda I have to have a laugh now when l got married in 1951 we married on the boat race day
The car I was in arrived at the parish church three times we went around the block as the bride was late before me. My husband has walked up and down no one had told him about the delay he thought I had changed my mind.
we had photos taken the church had scaffolding up as they were doing a resterarion on the church. we had photo taken in the hall we had hired and they came out well.
we didnt have much money when we married so we kept things low key.

Two years ago I was showing my son and daughter some of my wedding photos I had not shown them before my son said didnt you complain about this photo I said dont be cheeky he said Mum this photo has superinposed what are you talking about. ?it appears they had taken the head of me in one of the good photos and the one of me cutting our wedding cake must have been bad so they had put the other head on my
shoulder I could not beleive it when he pointed it out you can see it, MY husband would have had a fit if he had noticed.all those years ago and it was only noticed two years agol.

Rita

Mo
I meant to ask you did you go back for those butonholes.left in the church.
if not I wonder what happened to them.

Rita

Rita the buttonholes,were eventually thrown away by the vicar.
By the time the reception was over,and we were driven over the border to where our flat was,it was to late to do anything about them.
And when Roly went back to camp the following week,he saw the vicar and told him to throw them.
We got married in Germany,and lived in Holland. Roly was in the R.A.F
stationed in Germany.
It was no good saying to use them for another wedding,as we had to have permission to be married on the base,and no other weddings were held after ours.
I am not being funny when I say this Rita,but did they know how to do superimposing in those days. And I am not saying you are old,it's just that photography,even when we got married was pretty basic.
Camera's these days are far more advanced,compared to my old box brownie that I had back in the 60's.

Mo I am OLD the photogrpher was a top class one and I didnt even notice it till my son pointed it out John is 49 and my daughter said I never noticed it till it was pointed out and when you look it does look odd I dont know why I didnt see it before then..the head is slighly askew from my dress neck which was lace my mother made my dress she was a dressmaker.if you look at the neck of the dress it has a little line where my head is. sorry I am killing myself of laughter I can barely type for it.
The best part is when I was 16 I sat for this photographic shop as I had long hair down to my BUTT and it was thick black and curly they asked me to sit for them I did and they put them in their windows of the shop I still have a couple of the first which were not as good as the others.but the one I sat for was away and I had one of his workers do it. The shop was called "Harry Bakers" they were in Church Road Willesden at that time
I was going to say about your buttonholes perhaps they were used in decorating the church. lol

I forgot to say they were black and white photos.

Rita

LOL Rita. Your son must have excellent eye sight,if neither you or your husband had noticed it.
It was like us,when we saw the cine film that someone had taken off our wedding.
We did not manage to view it till the late 90's,as we did not have a a screen or projector to watch it on. Oh my,did we laugh. It looked so amateurish and we looked like a couple off shop dummies on legs.
But we were grateful to the person who did it for us for free. And it gave us a good laugh, 30 years later.
Now it's been 46 years off the ball and chain. LOL

mo rita you both been bizzy chatting away tonite

i think iv got marilyn in an even bigger muddle with this tree with all the records i sent her lol

MARILYN were you been tonite

Morning All

It is a rough old day outside it looks like a grey cloud had decended over my aera.
65 years to day VE day how time had flown I cannot beleive it ?I can still recall what I was doing that day and I was dancing around the square in the westend then landed outside Buckingham palace with all the crowds singing and dancing" There be blue birds over the white clifts of dover." "Land of hope and glory mother of the free." I was out till 3 oclock that moring well walking home from the WestEnd with two english sailors and my friend. you could walk about in those days and not worry.

My son is coming this morning to put a wireless router onto my machine to increase the megs and I can get onto the interent without all the bother l get now Lol I have no idea what it is all about l only know it depends how near you are to the BT.for the megs

I said while your here I need a couple of other little jobs you can do. ..
I think he wished he had not said he would come and do one job.

Have a good day.

Love
Rita

Morning All,

Wont be on this weekend as I got lumbered with grand kids.

Mother is away Golfing weekend, and Dad has had to go away to Cornwall his job .

Yesterday the grand daughter was not well so I had to sit with her ALL day and Chat , I think she was missing her mum & dad really .
Anyway I have them until Sunday.

So will you all give me some sympathy ......Please !!!
Also trying to do these curtains that are not going anywhere for a long time .

Speak later......xxx

Morning all, I'll have to go back and read the thread because I don't know what's been happening with you all.

*Sending sympathy to Marilyn*

Never mind Marilyn, at least you won't get bored.....lol

I've got curtains to make as well but they won't get done today.

I need to clean the inside of the windows as well - that's another thing that won't get done today.

Rita, you must have seen a lot of changes in your lifetime. It would be interesting to read that book you're writing about your life. You'll have to keep putting little bits of it on here for us to read.

Sounds like you had some good times in your youth as well, so many memories. Can you put that wedding photo in an email for us to see?

I have problems my computer is playing me up.
I was saying I have no idea as to attchments I tried but my daughter siad she thinks it is to do with the line up of my photo and was going to do it for me but her husband has cancer so I have not been able to get her to sort it for me, I now have trouble with my printer/scanner it packed up so my son is going to get me a new one tomorrow and fit it for me.
the wireless router he has fitted let me get straight onto the internet without clciking on to the icon. it is so strange. I have lost two of thesewriting i have started to do. so I am sending this and will try another one later.
Rita

Hi Ladies
Sorry I haven't added for a couple of days. Have been trying to get some of the garden done, managed a few pots, troughs and baskets, Have to wait for the bluebells and bulbs to die back and the forget me nots to finish.
Finally spent my birthday money this morning, I got a really nice watch that was reduced to half price, so a bargain too.
Spent a fortune in the garden centre !! Compost this morning as I had run out and then just a few fushias.
It is now raining quite heavily so decided to come in check my e-mails and GR and go have a leisurely bath before going off to a house party tonight for the girls who went on the hen weekend !!
Hope you all have a good weekend

Linda :o) XxX