General Chat

Morning Stephen
Thanks for the breakfast and also Shelly for leaving the kitchen ready for those needing an early cuppa.
Well hubby has just left to take the car to see if he can get the heater fan fixed. Anyone got a few spare quid in their account 'cos it ain't gonna be cheap....................... never is !!!!
Won't be doing much today. But it is fog free frost free if damp here right now.
Little here soon. So will be making more Christmas crafts. Watch out for the pva glue !!!

Have a good day everyone

Hope Jean and Rita are OK

Don't have too much sun Marilyn it dries ones skin, think prune versus plum.

Linda :o) XxX

Morning all.

What a morning. I did not feel like saying Good Morning. because weather wise it does not look at all good. ?
Doom and Gloom Lol.
I feel so sorry for those poeple who live in Cornwall. I have an old friend who lives in Turo but no one other than Florrie now they have all passed on.
It is the time now for all these problems of flooding. we get snowed in and rained in and then it is too hot so they ban water hoses . we are never one or the other.I do hope they dont suffer too badly.
I have my eye test today so I hope I managed to dodge the rain.
Foot progress it is not as bad as it was so maybe it is improving slowly . I do hope so.

time for a cup of tea now. see you all later.

Rita
x

Hi all.

Just got home (day out with friends), it's bitter cold out there, but at least it's not raining.

Hope the eye test was OK Rita, and pleased to see your foot is less painful today.

Maddie, we'll have to put you in detention for not practicing your drawings.

Did the heater fan cost you much Linda?

How come it's mild in Scotland today when it's freezing here? Mind you, my idea of freezing is probably the same as Stephen's idea of mild.

Shelly did you have to go to work today? You were up a bit late for a work day.

Pleased to see you won at the darts this week, Mo, couldn't have been any worse than last week though... :o)

Where's Marilyn and Jean today? Our part-timers haven't been on either, are you all out shopping?

I am back from Specsavers. what a time I had.. I got there early due to the bus being early. I had to wait for the optician as he was late arriving I had an eye check-up he said do you no you have catracts starting ? I told him yes I was told that 4 years go.. why did I leave it this long to go back ? I explained I had tried to wear them in case it was my fault.but I had waited till I saw my consultant at the eye hospital.. and he had said they were the wrong perscription. and to bring them back.so here I am.. with my old ones and the new ones. he measured with the new and old on the computer. then he said I can see what has happened . a slight alteration is needed nothng to worry about.. he took them to the office outside and spoke to the women there. I had to sign a form. I asked could I change the frames. yes that was fine we need £186. I asked what for. ? because I needed the new glasses. I should have taken them back before the six months.
I refused to pay. I said they were responsible it was their error not mine. she went and had a word with the optician .he said you should have been back before the six months I pointed out the six months would have been in December it was now November .or it was when I came out of my house to come here,. I said I expexcted to pay for new frames. as I had asked for them but not the lenses. in the end they charged me £85. I was hopping mad when I came away. no wonder they make so much money.
I should get them in two weeks time.

Rita

☀ ☀ ☀ ☀ ☀ ☀ ☀ just thought I'd send loads of sun to you all !!

Looks like you'll need an ark soon as in Devon its flooded.

I'm off out for food stocks.

Hope you are all keeping well back there.

2nd Son wants us to go on holiday to the Canary's in in spring......we are thinking about it!!...3 little darlings in tow..hmm make's you think doesn't it ..LOL

Back later...

Jean ...hope your well. xx

Hello everyone, hope you are all ok, and not feeling the cold too much.
only one more day then a two day rest.
Rita, hope you find your new glasses are ok. I have to go in a couple of weeks for my eye test. hope your foot is much less painful now.
Can anyone help me? I have deleted one of my contacts, will this automatically delete me from their contacts? I know this may sound a daft question but am not very good with computers.
Take care and stay safe.
Jean xx

Jean thank you for your kind remarks I hope your be able to have a rest soon with your treatment.
The contacts list I am not sure what you mean ?is it in the contacts list on the computer where you send mail ? or is it the contact on your list of GR ? I have done that before now by accident but I have looked at my messages and found that person on there.
I think Pauline will most likely know..
have a good night. I am going to look at WDUTYA which is on preview chanel 12.at 8 clock not sure who it is but I enjoy watching them when they are repeated.last night it was Boris Johnson before that Patsy Kensit.

Love Rita
thank you for putting my D IL birthday up Jean she will be working all day tomorrow she is a nurse in the intensive care unit.

Rita

why is it when I come on here everyone else clears off. ?
I wonder what you are all doing ? having a party somewhere and not invited me. .

It is not good you heading for Marilyn. she will be out when you arrive
well I suppose I might as well make my self some Horlicks read and then go to bed.

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Two Horlicks and I tea and I hot chocloate
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Cake to go with it.

Nite

Rita

Oooh Rita it looks like I have missed you.
Have you been practising doing your drawings, you are certainly getting better at it than me.
I watched the show about Jerry Springer,tracing his fore fathers at 8.00p.m
He was so shocked to find out the truth about his grandmother,dying in the gas chamber, even though he suspected it. And his other grandmother dying in the poor hospital in the ghetto.
It was very interesting to watch. I didn't know that the Germans used the gas vans before they built the gas chambers. How naive can one be.

Mo I was just going to close down for the night. I had peeped at one of the trying to find boards.
I also watched that with Jerry Springer I had seen it last time it was on and cried all through it. I did the same this time. that is the sadest I have ever seen on WDYTYA The poor man cried his self so many times what a terrible shock it must have been for him and to walk where his family walked before they died.


Rita

I know Rita, I was really choked for him as well. Did you know about the gas vans before they showed the programme, I certainly didn't.

No Mo I had no idea. until I saw the first one of his. what a shock those poor people.

Rita

To-day when I went to get my eyes done I tried to buy two" Birthday diarys"
I wanted two for friends who have been good to me when I have been ill and in doors they always ask if I need shopping.

I tried four book shops incluing Smiths. and not one of them stocked them, they all had the plain diarys but not these.Last year I saw them in a lot of shops I brought one for myself. but they seem to have gone off selling these.

Rita

What barbarians they were, those poor people had no idea did they.
I am fed up of the t.v tonight, bloomin football again.
I have spent most of the day writing christmas cards out. Cor I have got writers cramp,and I am not even finished yet. I think I will have to do the rest over a few days. But I have done the ones that have got to go to NZ and OZ. Do you know what date they have got to be sent of by, by any chance.

Evening All. Doing me George Dixon again.

Hope everyone is well.

I had seen the Jerry Springer WDYTYA before. He was born in Finchley, just up the road to me. I had heard of the gas vans. Apparently the outside was painted to look like people sitting on a coach. As the van trundled the roads, at a distance it just looked like people going on a coach-trip. I am not sure if they used cyanide gas or carbon monoxide. As the vans were emptied, the people inside were in a pyramid, climbing over each other to get to the top to escape the gas. I remember having a book entitled Auchwitz. It chronicled the concentration camps. Some of the stories were unbelieveable. Tattooed persons being skinned to make lampshades. Gold teeth being pulled, and the gold melted down. Hair being cut off the women, and used to stuff cushions. etc.

Mans inhumanity to man. Not the best subject to go to sleep on, sorry.

Marilyn, loved the ring. White gold and diamonds. My fave.lol

Sleep well everyone. Kevin screaming at the tv, cos of the football.

Happy days.

Night night
x

No Mo I dont have any dates for overseas christmas cards I have some to go to Italy/ Canada /NZ/ Oz and America as well as to Oman and Afganistan so when I take my parcels over tomorrow to the post office I will ask then if they have the sheets with the dates on. and let you know

Rita

Thanks for that Rita, much appreciated. I dread going into our post office, it's so tiny,and is always cram packed. So the only time I use it, is to send my cards away.

Thanks for the explanation Maddie. Me think I will have nightmares now.lol
Have you been busy today,meeting and greeting royalty.

Night Mo see you tomorrow

Rita

I will say night night now Rita, god bless speak to you tommorrow night.