General Chat

~~~~~~~~~ to Mo, Rita, Shelly, Marilyn, Liz, Linda, Yvonne, Stephen, Jean, Lady, Sue.

Hi everybody, forgot to say I've got son and hubby on holiday this week and next. We were out all day yesterday and we've been out today. I'm shattered, my feet are killing me and I'm sick of eating chips already. My son always wants chips when he's out - so we all have them. I always get him ice-cream as well but I end up eating most of it myself.

Jean, I'm so sorry to hear your bad news, you must feel shattered. I hope and pray that the treatment will knock the cancer on the head again. You know we're all here to support you if you need us. Rita and Marilyn have first hand experience of that horrible illness and the rest of us have second hand experience. Most of us have family who've suffered with it.

Liz, I think the jacket wins hands down, it finishes the outfit off.

I'm going to make myself a coffee with cream now - anybody want one?

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I've picked the lock on Stephen's cupboard, so we've got biscuits and buns as well.

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Pauline I am pleased you are getting about with the family CHIPS what are they LOl I always have chips when I go on holiday my sister asks me what do you want when we are out I say Fish and Chips. it is not somthing I buy often my friend goes once a month to the chippy and get cod and chips for us. because we are over 6o we get the chips free but pay for the cod and it is a lovely big piece of cod nice and crispy which I like.
Pauline I would like a coffee with cream please.

Liz you look so much better wth the jacket and that dress it really does you justist

I fell asleep this afternoon when my son phoned I told him I had been into Town and come back with a headache. I had my dinner shepperds pie and runner beans and washed up made a cup of tea sat down to watch television and fell asleep I slept for two hours I could not beleive it when I looked at the clock. I did not know what day of the week it was or whether I had eaten or not.?

Mo I have to go to the hospital at 10.20 but leave here at 9.20 as I have to drink a pint of anniseed before the scan then have an idione injection which lights up my inside. so I am there about hour and half having the treatment.
Then the next day I have to have my Warfarin Blood test done and two blood test for my Polymalgia Rheumatica. which will check my Prednison Steriods to see if they can cut them down a little more.
Then I have to wait two weeks and phone the Royal Surrey Hospital for an appointment to get the results of the scan.

so it is all go for the next four weeks.

Rita

Good evening everyone
We are a growing band aren't we.

I have a new appointment for the dermatologist Yippee. But it's soon like this Friday. So off to Windsor for 1:30 after hubby has had his eyetest.

Today turned out better than expected. My friend came for tea and a chat, so the afternoon flew.

Might get some research done this evening.

Hope you are all Ok. Thinking of you Jean, hope you don't mind but I have added you to the Thoughts thread.

Linda :o) XxX

Hi All,

Trying to pack......but its not happening ..LOL
in other words cant be bothered ...

I'll do it tomorrow, I have just had a lovely Chicken Curry cooked by ME !
I feel stuffed but I couldn't leave a grain of rice .. LOL.

So I'm going to have to run up and down the village, I'm feeling gutted that I ate too much .
My neighbour has lost her Parrot ,it flew away yesterday and we were all in the woods looking for it, they apparently opened the window without realizing the parrot was happily out of his cage & sat in the in the living room .

I don't think there is much hope now .....good bye Parrot !!

Off now ....back later ...

Going to look for Jeans thread...

Just pmd you Jean.

Rita, you sound as tho you will meet yourself coming back with all you have to fit in, couldn't cope with drinking aniseed, I hate it!
Good luck with all the tests.


Marilyn will be safe in Norwich as the wedding is 40 miles away and we will be away from Friday to Sunday and then busy the rest of the weekend, so plenty of time to catch up later on if you can get away Marilyn.

Thanks for all the comments folks, I am trying to cover all eventualities re the weather, the dress is a bit too revealing if it's hot and I need to remove the jacket, hence me looking for an alternative cover up for my arms etc. Might look a bit better if the spray tan I am having tomorrow works ok and I can have another next week before we go or can boost it with some of that tanning moisturiser stuff, have plenty of that but hadn't dared use it before cos of streaks showing up on my milk bottle legs.

I think I will get a piece of material and make the scarf into a stole as that will just go round my shoulders, upper arms then and not detract from the dress.

More later perhaps, lots to do this evening, altering the straps on the dress a bit so it's not so low at the side and to cover up the sides of my bra.

take care all

love
Lizxxx

LIZZZZZZZZZZZ........Be careful with that spray tan !!!!!!!!!!!
...Lethal stuff .. or get him in indoors to treat you to have it done professionally in a salon .

You really have to exfoliate your skin first or you WILL have streaks !!

My God Liz we cant have you all streaky for that lovely wedding that you are so looking forward too can we !! LOL

No panic, it is being done professionally - going tomorrow at 5 pm and have exfoliated all week lol I just think that putting the tanning moisturiser over a tan will look less obvious and might keep it ok enough to last without having to take the time to go and get another done, tomorrow is the practice run for me on how well it looks - or not!

I only need worry about my arms, shoulders and legs really, the middle body doesn't matter, am not showing that off to anyone lol

Altho lol not wishing anything up but remembering Huia's post, should I have an accident what would the docs think of a brown and white stripey person, brown legs, white middle and brown top half lol


There are a couple of people I wish I could exfoliate too lol

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hold it right there liz i have not seen out fit yet
iv just got in

now guss were iv been since about 7pm

well ill tell you iv been up the hospital with 13yr old he came in limping
and as he is prone to brackening bones i had to get him seen to
but lucky he has only brused his foot

had to make him have a barth and his dinner first lol

Stephen thank you for the tea this moring

now off to have a look at liz wedding out fit

ok liz my verdick on wedding out fit

and yes i also say keep the jacket and dump the shawl
outfit looks nice and hope you are going to were a hat as i think a hat will set it off and you look lovely

pauline have a nice 2 weeks and hope the weather stays nice for all your family day trips.

i carnt remember all the other post that i read now lol

Thanks Shelly, hope your lad will be ok and the bruises go soon, I was lucky we lived 5 mins hobble from a and e when my son was younger, he ended up there several times to be checked over, twice had an arm in plaster, different one second time, both skateboard injuries with suspected fracture of scaphoid.

Glad you like the outfit, not wearing a hat as don't have one the right colour and not wanting to spend any more on something I probably won't wear again, I already have two wedding hats, a pink and a blue/grey but no one is wearing hats anyway so don't want to be odd one out. By the time of the wedding I will have coloured my hair so it will look better.

Just hope I don't get too hot in the jacket, the dress is a bit strappy without anything to cover my flabby upper arms etc.

off now, night Shelly,
take care all

Lizxx

Morning all~~~~~~~~
Hope you all had a restful night.
Thank you for all your kind thoughts and pm's. will answer today when I get back home.

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\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ tea, coffee and toast, help yourselves.
Whatever you are doing today, enjoy it, hope the weather stays fine for you.
As it is still dark here cant tell if it is dry or not, think the forecast is some showers and sunny periods.
Am off to have a shower now and wash my hair.
Take care and be safe.
Jean xx

Whats this? Has Jean been doing a nightshift?

Anyway, into the Coffee and Toast.
......an hour later....I have drunk all the coffee and eaten all the toast. If your not fast your last!

Found the key to the biscuit cupboard....yippeee!

Went for a biscuit only to find that the lock had been picked and the biscuit tin was empty. Wonder who has been in?

Will probably get held up in the Glen today with the School bus. If I'm ahead of it I always get a wave from the children waiting at the end of their drive ways. Not so many familys live in the Glens now. A lot of the steadings are Holiday homes.

Gosh! I'm full after all that Coffee and Toast....What a greedy lump!!!!!!

Have a good day ya all.

Stephen

Morning Jean, Stephen and all other later comers
Looks OK here this morning. Might get some washing done if I get the chance.
I love the sound of where you live Stephen, but as I said I have bad memories of the weather. It is a real shame that so many homes are now only used for holidays and therefore prices have been pushed so high. The only consolation is that even when there is little local work the houses are being kept in good order and at least used.
I live on the edge of a large village, probably a town really, we have a few shops enough to get basics and near to several big towns. The estate I live on is quite small on the edge of a lake and woods. Nice walks locally. We only have a small garden but get by and it doesn't take too long to tidy up.

Oh well have a good day everyone.
Little here today and tomorrow

Linda :o) XxX

Morning All

It is a lovely day here sun is shinning and I feel happy I always do when I wake to the sun shinning through my window.
Stephen I think Shelly went to your cupboard she was edged on by that Marilyn they wanted to see if you had any chocolate biscuits, tought on them.
Myself I like plane ones or Scot Shortbreads or jammie rings.

I have been reading Liz thread on the weather allowance it a muses me how people think it is part of their pension when it was infact given to help elderly people with their cold weather payments during the bad wnters .so those who move abroad think they should get it as well. it makes no sense to me. why they think that.? they say they paid in to it. when infact it was started as a social arrangment. still I am not getting into that.

Hope your feeling Ok today Jean have a shower and a strong cup of tea.

I am going to have my second cup now I am very thristy this morning.

Rita

Morning All,

Rita the only thing about the fuel allowance, is I wish it was means tested, but they say it would cost too much that way.
The reason why I say that is my dad & his wife does not need it as they don't have their heating on much only in one room that they sit in, and then they are scrooge in putting it on in any of the bedrooms !!
They would rather suffer than put heat on, so I say this .....they spend their fuel allowance it on holidays !!
Its makes my blood boil money wasted and abused, Yes give it to the real needy folk and there are plenty of them .
They have 6 pensions between them coming in to their house .
Dont start me offfffffffffffff..........toooooo early ...LOL

Now Good Morning to you All,.....

Hi to Jean,Stephen, Linda & Rita.

Going to do some ironing after me bath.....lovely !!

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are all okay.

The sun is shining here and it is so beautiful to see another day again.

For a time, I will be off and on the boards, but I send my love and caring thoughts to all.

Take very gentle care all
Very best wishes
xx

Morning Elizabeth Have a good rest before you come back on the boardS.
Marilyn yes I know what you are saying is true many people with money get the same winter allowance as everyone else when they reach a certain age. I wonder whether they are taxed on it ? as they have so much money surely they must have to pay a tax on it. ? I dont know whether it is tax free or not. I would like to know.

I have just finished washing my winter dressing gown I have a towelling one quiet heavy so dont use it during the summer but do during the winter so I give it a go in the machine ready for the cold weather. Lol

That letter to the Passport office made me laugh so much I thought it was a real laughter maker.

It has started to over cast here I had hoped I would get out without having to go in the rain as I need milk and bread.

see you later.

Rita

Hi Rita,

No ....deffinateley not taxable..... FUEL MONEY .

Yes I laughed at the Passport thread ....so funny and so true !!

Now I have done most of my ironing ,but another load on the line to do.,so having a tea break.

Where's Mo ?

I know Pauline & Shelly got holidays.

Hi to Elizabeth ......and Yvonne wherever she is ...

Good high noon to all

did i sound posh lol

son is ok his been out most of the day so foot carnt be that bad now can it

got to drop all the kids of to the cinama later

Hi Shelly .....

Have you gone again ??????

Where's our Mo ?????????? haven't seen her for yonks !!