General Chat

Hi~~

Thanks for all your good wishes.
Hubby is on leave all this week but we haven't decided what to do yet today :)

I'm eagerly awaiting the postman, hope he brings my Cloagau ring today☺
I'm like a child waiting for Santa for arrive.lol

Speak soon:)

Sandie.x

Hello, everyone and all:-))

Happy birthday Sandie, I hope you are having a great day xx

Well, everything here is a little hectic again, that's the reason Ive not been around - I just wish life would settle for us soon!!

Linda, I went to visit my dad's resting place last week - I haven't been for a while, so had a lot of catching up to do, and poured my heart out to him. Even though its been over 20 odd years since he went, I still feel the same as if it were yesterday:-((

We enjoyed a couple of sunny spring days over the weekend, so I managed to get out in the garden to plant some of my succulents. Some of the bulbs are starting to flower, I'm hoping in about 2 or 3 weeks time we'll have even more. I have also begun to replace some of the trees we lost here last summer. I am replacing them with natives, which should do well, providing the rain keeps up!!

I hope everyone is well, stay beautiful!!!

Carole xxx

I'm glad I looked in before I retire to my bed. Nice to see you posting - Carole and Patricia - haven't 'seen' you for a while.
Patricia - my sleep patterns are similar to yours. I normally go to bed between 9:30 and 10:30 but then I read and depending the interest in the book, sometimes don't switch off the light until midnight - then I'm awake again any time between 3 and 5am, so I make a cup of coffee and go back to bed and do more reading. Then, I wonder why I sit down to watch a bit of television after lunch - and drop off to sleep for an hour or so.
Right now, I'm still taking tablets for my shingles and they have changed my sleeping habits so that I can't read much before the page seems to swin around, and I sleep for anything from 10 to 14 hours! However, three more days and the tabs will be gone and I might be back to normal. If so, that should work in nicely once the Brits go back an hour and we go forward an hour - giving us a couple of extra hours to talk before they go to bed! I'm looking forward to it.

Happy Birthday to you Sandie ..... I hope your having a lovely day : ))

I didn't post last night as I was feeling a bit grumpy , I've been troubled with a nasty toothache for a few days , I'm hoping it will disappear without having to resort to the dentist as it's emanating from my impacted wisdom tooth , I've had the odd bout of it before but that times it is going on for longer : ((

Diane , nice to see you back and I hope your getting a bit of rest now that you have found a way to be a little more comfortable .

Berona ....happy " Un " birthday to you ....lol

Linda , I hope you had a lovely visit from your sister , I hope you can feel a bit brighter now you have got past the weekend .

Tec , hope that the Dutchess blood test goes ok

Sue , I hope your meeting wasn't to dull .

~~~~ to everyone else .

Hello Carole
hope thing's soon sort themselves out soon hun and we see more of you on the thread, we miss you.

Hi Pat I wondered were you had disappeared too, not like me up until the ungodly hour of 8am, I'm still hideing from Berona for staying up all night lol.

Hi Amanda hope your not grumpy anymore, when you were did you see bashful, Doc, Dopey, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy and of cause Snow White lol. Jokeing aside I hope the pain has gone now and your feeling more like yourself today.

Tec I hope the Duchesses visit to hospital went fine for blood test and that you brought her leg back yesterday so she could get there today.

Hi Linda good to see you back hun, I have sent you a pm.

Berona, thank's to my mistake you are getting an early birthday wish, that mean's when it is your birthday ( 28th October ) you will get more good wishes, that also mean's the next one will be your 40th ( life begin's at 40 ) lol.

Today here is a bit chiily but at least it is dry, I didn't get up today until 2pm after not going to bed until 8am, I think it will be an early night tonight or Berona will have my gut's for garter's.

Hope all is well with everyone.

Allan hope you are well hun and I'm sending you my best wishes.

Diane

Hi ~~

Santa /postman arrived with my beautiful Clogau Welsh Gold Tree of life ring.
What excellent service !! I ordered it on the net yesterday afternoon and it was here for my birthday this morning☺☺☺ I'm so pleased:))

Thanks for your good wishes Amanda and Carolee.
I don't think we've spoken before Carolee, but you appear to be a regular who's had a bit of a break, whereas I'm just getting to grips with things peeps do.lol.
I don't I've spoken to Pat until recently either ~~

Had a good day so far,weather's been fine and I've been out for a lovely long walk, us over 40's ( lol ) have to keep fit !
Hubby's tiled the one wall in the bathroom, it looks smashing... I love anything new:)) I don't care about the disruption...except when they move the toilet :(((

Not cooking tonight, don't know if we'll go out or have Chinese in, I love Chow mein.Mmm.

Hope the hosp apt and your city driving went OK Tec:)

Did you liven up the meeting Sue ?

Haven't seen Allan for a while, hope he's OK ( lol I typed KO but quickly amended)..don't want you KO'd Allan :)

Amanda ,hope your toothache is subsiding, not much pain worse than that, perhaps you ought to have it out, son had to have his taken out.

Hope you're feeling a bit more perky today Linda, everything can still be very raw a yr after a bereavement.

Berona, I don't envy your sleep patterns, once my head hits the pillow I'm gone!

Di, I thought I was naughty staying up til 2.30 sometimes... but 8am .wow

Hope I haven't missed anyone:))

Sandie.x

Just moving the thread back to page 1..........

I am glad that your ring arrived on time Sandie
Good evening Perse

Good Morning Linda

Just having a grr moment - I got up early made his lunch and he left it behind....

Anyway how are you feeling today? Must've been good to have your sister to spend time with you... even if you did have to get up in the middle of the night LOL.

Persey

I am fine thanks. Perse, it was nice to see my sister, although I must say, I really hate shopping with her, but don't tell her I said so.

At least you don't need to make any lunch for yourself, you can just eat the one your OH left behind

They only have a vending machine at work and he will end up eating a pie. .

Where as I have packed two tomatoes, carrot sticks, hard boiled egg and two litte sour dough rolls with smoked salmon cream cheese and cos.
He has rung and he went grr too... stupid beggar.

What's your sister's number again? LOL

Persey

He probably has a secret hankering for junk food

I went out in the bus again yesterday. A lot of the commuters where these i-pods and they all sit there with tubes hanging out of their ears.
On the way back a young Chinese student sat next to me and it was like sitting next to one of those ornamental dogs that people have in the back window of their cars.... his head was bobbing up and down to the music. He looked a right pillock.
It was not a good day to go out bus was packed on the way in - I managed to get the second to last seat at my stop. It is school hols and then when I got to town found it was a university graduation day. But why oh why do people get off the bus in front of you and then stand still (they formed a group) so you just about fall on top of them.
Unlike Sue - I only bought a spinach and feta muffin and a medium sized coffee which was huge so goodness ony knows what they served as a large one.
I did a bit of research for a couple of GR members and whilst there I checked out on the microfiche some of my own. My grandfather's brother married a second time - all I knew was her first name having met her when I was young... I found the marriage year on microfiche and from there when I got home did a search and found her birth, death and first marriage. So was quite pleased with myself. He was a lovely old guy, when he came to visit he always brought his own white napkin (along with a safety pin). I never saw him in anything other than a suit with a waistcoat (needed that for the fob pocket for his watch) which he wore summer and winter.

Persey

I hardly ever use the bus, but we have so few of them that isn't all that surprising.
I am pleased that you did well in your research, i need to go to another record office for some of mine. I must knuckle down to it again

Good evening Linda and Sandie

Good morning Perse

Sandie I glad to hear your ring arrived on time hun, enjoy wearing it.

Perse, if my partner ( if I had one ) made a packed lunch like that for me I definately would not have forgotten it Yum Yum, did you eat it hun.

Linda I hope your sister isn't on GR otherwise your in trouble lol.

Will be back soon just going to eat my tea ( jacket potatoes with bean's ham and cheese ).

Diane

I am so old that I could have a bus pass if I wanted one - and from September to March I can travel half price on local trains too.

My neighbour who is 80 goes for miles on the bus, sometimes 70 miles one way - has lunch and catches the bus back.
She spends all day on the bus and likes to talk to people apparently.

Hope everyone is well,

Tec.

Good evening Tec,
I have my bus pass, but I only use it on the park and ride after I have driven there.

don't worry Diane, my sister is not on GR,so I am safe

I am going to do that Tec - when I get my bus pass in two years time - I will be train traveling and ferry boat traveling for free as well. I shall talk to all and sundry (well I do that anyway). I spoke with a nice young middle eastern chap yesterday at the bus stop. He was looking at the timetable and I said to him - haven't you changed your clock yet - he was looking at the ones for an hour earlier. He looked at his cellphone and said oh heck.. I hope he wasn't late for an appointment. LOL.

Hello Diane - I might eat his lunch later - have not long had my crumpets (with vegemite) and coffee.

Pesey

Good Evening Linda,

The only time I use the bus is once a year when I take my car to be serviced at the dealers who is 15 miles away. I catch the bus home, then back to collect it. I could have a courtesy car but never bother.
I see things from the bus that I never see from the car.

Hello to Perse, and Diane, and everyone.

Tec.