General Chat

Yep, I get up at 5am every day as well but now I'm waking up at 4am instead, I'm not getting up though...........just lying there waiting for the alarm to tell me when it's 5am.

Thanks for the breakfast Stephen I had the cereal and juice, after my boy's gone out I'll have some scrambled egg and toast...........'cause I'm greedy.

Sorry I grassed on you Maddie, they made me tell them about the face-lifts. Shelly twisted my arm up my back while Rita shone a torch in my eyes (she got that from her war days), Mo tickled me and Linda stamped on my poorly toe. Jean felt sorry for me and ran to get Stephen to help but he was busy in the garden........feeding his haggis.

It's raining again!!

Thats right Pauline blame me, just because I am the eldest everyone pick on poor ME ?

Shelly I had the problem once wore some new glasses and went to get off the bus and everything was swimming and I could not find the step to get off the bus till I removed my glasses. I dont know what people must have thought seeing me like that.

I do read a lot some books have very small print other larger so that often puts me off a book when the print is so small.

I find the change of clocks upsets my times as well. you get use to getting up at one time for months then you have to alter your body system by the time you get use to that. the clocks alter again and your back to square one.


I am going to have another cup of tea. and get ready for the Doctors.

Rita

who in there right mind want to get up at 5am you must all be barmy
nope im not even thinking of geting out my bed untill it 7am at lest

now staying up till 5am that is a diffrent mater
and not even the baby will get up at that time his a lazzy little sod just like his nanna he dont even think of getting up untill at lest 9am

Linda.....

Second Childhood !

I've still to finish my first one.

Here in Tir-nan-Og we never grow old.

Now I wonder would you say I had. had a good morning or a BAD ?

I went and got my blood test done at the doctors. I had the nurse from the hospital this time not the surgery nurse.
"Hello Rita nice to see you again. what happened about your blood "tests. ? I explained" I had been seeing the surgery nurse" sparks flew". they dont get on." I stayed quiet
she checked my yellow letter as things have to be ticked off. things like change of medication etc. and bruising they are quiet up on that. I had forgotten to mention a large bruise on my right arm about 5 inches by 3. she wrote it down on my form bruises to the arms. I had one on the other arm as well. no idea how I got them.?

I had taken my old glasses and my new ones with to Specsve.
(I had phoned them last week and they said no need to make an appointment bring them back next time you come to town ," miss the bus so waited for the next it was full but for two empty seats. we were nearly there when a elderly bus inspector got on a women..( I cannot remember the last time I was on a bus and had to show my tickets.) she went up and down the bus and came to me I showed her my tickets. she said "I want to see your bus pass." so I showed it too her she studied it and gave it back. no one else had to show theirs. and they were nearly all pensioners. on the bus. The man at the side of me laughed. as i said "well either I look as though I am travelling without paying or I dont look my age." I could hear people behind me laughing. I am not kdding I must look at least 65 even though I am well over that age..
I said to the man as I got off she has more wrinkes on her face than I have all over my body.(. wrong thing to have said.) he said I would'nt know about that but the bits I can see look alright.
I think the ticket inspector must have been in er late 77's

Rita

This is what happened at Specsave.

I explained I had phoned them last week and told I didnt need an appointment just come with the glasses and the receipt next time I was in Town.
I handed them over. she called to one of the assistants to check my records. I told her they go back to 2007. it took her about ten minutes. then the manageress said" you must have changed you eye drops "no they are the same as I have had for years and the pressure is the same I was told last week at the eye clinc.. she said didnt you notice there was something wrong when you tried them on ? I said yes I told the women who was seeing to me.
She said we will make an appointment for you to see the optician but our computers are all down now so we will have to phone you
.
I asked didnt you have a back up system then ? NO. we will phone this afternoon .I said so your computers will be working by then, ?

I then asked why when I phoned last week and told you. you did not make an appointment for me then.? I have come all this way for nothing.as I am told now I will have to have an appointment..
I was so angry what a waste of time.

Rita
was it a good day or bad?

evening all

rita i think a bad day for you but nether mind its a nother day tomorrow and lets hope its a better one

now were is every one today think you all got lost on the way to the thread

Everyone has gone I think they are all visitng Stephen his weather is not as good up there as it is down here.

He will do all the cooking so your be OK. for food. dont hang about too long as you night have to get a sledge to get home again.

I will try and pop in later.

Rita

Maddie I dont drink only a glass of wine when there is a party or I go out to dinner and that is not often.

Shelly I hope it is a better day I have to make a couple of appintments in the morning .

Rita

Hi All
Well update on my father: He has renal failure, but now on medication, plus all his other meds are being given to him properly, we think he forgets to take them sometimes.............. though he said he started at the wrong end of the packet Oh yes !!!
He is getting better a should be allowed home in the next 3 days, hopefully before Saturday anyway.
Mum is better in herself, my sister is testing her sugar levels properly and giving the correct insulin, probably her other tablets too.
My sister in law said she is much brighter and more lucid too, she took her out this afternoon. She is sleeping better at night and not being disturbed as Dad sleeps poorly at the best of times.

So keeping fingers crossed

Linda :o) XxX

Rita,

You got it right !

Cook......yep thats me.....a real mean guy with a can opener............Beans on Toast

Handy with a phone......Home delivered Pizza.....

or Fish and Chips from the bag, flavoured with Salt, Sauce and Vinegar.

And my speciality.......Haggis, Neeps and Tatties.
with a real Home Made Soup.

Wash it all down with a grand Malt.

Come and join me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good evening all.
Wow I am really cream crackered. I have been up to Bromley by train today, and started my christmas shopping.
We walked and walked, up and down the shops ,and came home absolutely laden.
I have wrapped half of the things,and will go into Chatham on thursday to finish of buying the rest that I need.
Buying for the eleven granchildren, is a nightmare. Knowing what to buy for children aged between 7 and 23 is a real problem.
It's o.k for the two youngest, we gave them the Arg*s catalogue, and asked them to pick out some items that they wanted.

As it was such a hectic day, Roly took me out for a meal this evening, to save me having to cook.

Oh and by the way, we won at darts last night, yippeeee.

Morning all.......well those that rise in the morning !!!!!!!

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Tea or Coffee

Toast, Marmalade, Scrambled Eggs, Cereal, Porridge,
Fresh Grapefruit.

This Bodyclock is more regular than any alarm !!!!

4.00am on the dot.

Did you all go to bed early last night ? 8.44pm last posting.

Chastity Belts.....any spare ones? I need a new belt to hold up my trousers. Would one of them do ?

Ready for another day at the office.....things are getting manic on the run up to the Year end.....I can cope......pass me another few Valium LOL.
My staff sometimes ask why I don't get stressed when the pressure is on. I just reply...
'no ones shooting at me, so I'm not likely to be killed, am I'
They look with blank expressions. Accept my reasoning and get on with the job in hand. They are a good bunch.

Have a good day ya all !!!!!!!

Morning all
Thanks for the tea Stephen
Made contact with a distant relative last night on Ancestry. We have the same Great Great Grandparents and their son was my Great Grandfather his sister was her Gret Granmother. I guess she is a cousin? Well she lives in Devon !!! If only I had found her just a couple of weeks ago.

Well little is early again this morning so I have to get my craft head on.

Catch up later

Linda :o) XxX

I stayed up watching how the Victorian shop keepers worked (on Channel 4.) I can remember in my early years the shops weighing up sugar. bean. flour things like that and cutting the butter and pating it on both sizes with a pattern now I do feel old.
they still did that when I got married in 1951. Lol

Linda what lovely news about you dad. have you tried getting him to put his tablets in the little boxes marked with the day f the week. some have one day at a time others have Morning.Afternoon.Evening and Night that way you cannot get mixed up if your not sure if you took one at the right time. I have a pink one for my tablets and a blue one for my warfarin otherwise I might get muddled.

Glad to hear you had a win on Darts Mo.

Maddie get out of that bed and stop looking at what is going on around your house.
I hope your not one of the people who are having to go to work on the tube today.? you notice it is the working class people that are getting hit. not the Government or train bosses.

Rita

8.19 this morning I left a message on here, and no one had added anything all day.

Are all you having trouble with your computers?

I know nearly all of you work. but I cannot recall no one adding on this

thread all day Lol


Rita

Hi everyone, hope you are all ok.
I tried for nearly an hour to get on here this afternoon,
computer was running like a snail, so I gave up,
just tried again and got on immediately.
For the past 2 days if I tried to get into GR
I have had to sign in with email address and password,
not sure what is going on. Anyone else have the same problem?

Take care.
Jean xx

Hello Rita,

I'm back again.

Normally I'm home from work around 2pm,
but this week and next I'm doing a bit extra to ensure a number of things slot into place over the next few weeks.

It will make life easier for the 'shut down' period at Christmas and New Year.

Catch up later....going to feed my face !

Hello Jean...nice to see your about.

Hi all.
This is the first chance I have had to get on here all day. I didn't have any problems Jean. But a few times lately, I have not been able to access this site. At others I have written quite long posts, only to lose them,when I have gone to send them.

It's lovely to find family you have no idea are still alive Linda. When I was contacted by my grandmothers, brothers, grandaughter, I was thrilled. We send each other p.m's and at christmas we send cards. I was surprised to find that her mother is still alive as well.
I can never work it out. Is her mother a great aunt of mine,and the daughter is she a second cousin twice removed.
I know I sound thick, but I have been trying to work this out for the last two years, and I just can't put two and two together,and come up with a correct answer. Can anyone explain it to me please.

evening all
i see pauline has not pop in yet and marilyn still has not conneted to the internet from the USA ether that or she is to bizzy enjoying her self with out us

not long now for bomfire nite carnt what as we have a family get together and it will be one of them odd acashion were i get all my kids in one room all together and the grandkids

I am having trouble tonight ith the GR site. I keep getting a page up which does not make sense to me.

Maddie I collect those recept cards from Waitrose. I tried that meat ball one and loved it. Monday I got two more . Delia's The Best ever Apple pie.
and Delias Stickey giner bread puddings.

I have around 40 of these card.

Hello Jean I did keep getting that happen to me it is a time waster when that happens.
I hope you feeling well.?

Stephen I hate to think of Christmas it is so near yet so far a way. people are telling me they have their Christmas present I have nothing yet.

Hi Shelly no we have no Pauline no Yvvone or Sue we are a bit thin on the top here at the moment.. I expect Marilyn is busy running around the shops buying everything up.

I have been phoning around this morning. I had to book a car to take me to the Cancer hospital on 16th that is now arranged.
Then I had to phone the foot clinc to check foot appointment. that is 7th December. The optitian phoned and I hav to go for another eye test next tuesday,
I have been tracing my Scottish family the McCallums.I am back to 1600 but I am looking for the ones born in 1840
so I have plenty to do.

Rita