General Chat

Good Morning Sue,

Well I hope you don't get a repeat of yesterday's deluge - water getting into property is very alarming, and damaging.
How is your OHs eye today?

Yes Linda, I did giggle at you, but felt so sorry for your OH who I'm sure was made to suffer :-D
My evening lady did turn up. She was very nice. Told me all about her small holding, and asked me did I like kale - don't know, never tried it :-)
Then she popped a frozen dinner in the microwave. I couldn't be bothered today doing a proper dinner. I did make a chicken dinner yesterday.
Spent hours today catching up with three months paper work, bank statements, receipts etc.
Then playing with my new cordless phones

:-)

How long can you make him pay for his mistake? I can generally drag it out for a couple of days :-D

Hello Sue, he is in the kitchen washing up :-D

Apparently we had a huge thunderstorm here on Saturday and half the town lost power. It can't have been our half because the electrical devices were not flashing away when we came home

Hello everyone :-)

Sorry Linda - your story made me laugh too :-D. Is your OH still in the doghouse?

Huia - I'm sure you're not the first one to make a mistake with the computer.

We had the most dreadful day yesterday (Monday). We had torrential rains and thunderstorms with flash flooding in some areas. We had a panicked phone call from our daughter and SIL because they had water coming under the garage door. The drain in front of the door couldn't cope with the deluge. Thankfully they were able to stem the flow with OH's advice. Although it is calm now we are supposedly in for more today :-(

Hello Tec, so you are giggling at me :-|

I don't think I would like Llangollen in the summer, it would be full of tourists. I didn't see your daughter,we were having a nice lunch at the time she passed through

did your lady turn up this evening?

Oh Dear Linda,

Sorry but I must confess to a giggle at your plight with the forgotten suitcase, no doubt you will laugh about it later.

Llangollen is a nice little town, but better in the summer when it's warm and dry. Apart from the steam train attraction, when it's running, it is also nice to travel along the canal on a horse drawn barge.

Never mind Huia - life was much simpler when we used cash I think.

Amanda. What a dreadful time you had in so many ways at the time of your accident. I think when faced with adversity we somehow find the strength to come through it, and maybe are the stronger for it.
My early life was not very nice, but I think it taught me to face life's problems with a determination not to be beaten.
There is a saying that the hotter the fire, the tougher the steel, and I believe that to be true.

Oh dear Huia. It is easy to press the wrong button when you are not used to it.
When I worked as a day manager in the tourist office, I often had to sort the till out when one of the volunteers got it wrong. Sometimes it could take ages to clear it

It was much easier in the good old days when we just had a manual till, but these days all the stock has to be entered into the computer and the till has to be connected to that,so it can know what has been sold, it is a complicated nightmare somtimes

I messed up big-time in the shop yesterday afternoon. The till is now operated with a scanner and computer. I don't know what I did wrong, but I managed to freeze the computer about half an hour or so before we were due to close. A woman was waiting to pay by card. She finally left 10 mins before closing, said she would be back today. A couple of other people with only 1 item each just gave us the cash and left. Each week when I make a mistake I say I am resigning but I turn up the following week, but yesterday rather shook my confidence!

We were going to a 90th birthday party about an hour's drive from my sister's house,so we just pottered about for the morning aiming to leave just before midday. As we were only away for two nights, we only had one small suitcase between us. OH put his smart clothes on a suit hanger and I added mine as well,so they wouldn't get creased.

So late morning,I had a shower and washed my hair,so it would be smart and asked OH to get the suit hanger out of the car..... Only it wasn't in the car, he had managed to leave it at home.

All I had was the jumper I had been wearing for two days and a pair of denims, not exactly what I was intending to wear for what I knew was going to be a posh do :-(

My sister is a lot thinner than I am, so non of her clothes would fit me. Luckily she managed to find a nice skirt which she had bought in a charity shop, but turned out to be much bigger than she thought. I wore that, but had to wear my own jumper which luckily was a fairly smart one. we dressed it up with some of her beads,so it didn't look too bad. I had to borrow and old pair of her shoes as well.

OH borrowed a shirt, but my BIL is much smaller than OH,so he couldn't get any trousers, he just had to go in his jeans.

we were supposed to eat at 1.30pm and they had sent the menu for everyone to choose before hand, but when we got there, it was shambolic. The menu was the wrong one, so they had to start all over again with the ordering. There was also a party going on in the next room who were ahead of us, so they got first choice on the menu. By the time they got round to us, half the choices had gone. . It was 3pm before they started bringing any food out,so everyone was starving. They only had very young kids waiting,who were useless. I wasn't best pleased when one of them tipped a knife covered in gravy off a plate and down the front of my jumper :-|

Despite the venue, we had a nice time of course. We went back to the house for a while, but as we were due at the cinema social last night as well, we left about 7.30pm. It should have only been a couple of hours to get back home, but the motorways were dreadful,so it was 10.20pm before we got back. Just in time to drop in and help with the washing up :-(

Good morning, we are back home

It is wonderful that you are back to normal Tec, even if the Duchess can't be with you <3 <3

We had a nice visit to my sister's house. Llangollen was very nice and although busy wasn't heaving as it is in the summer. We had to dodge the showers, but managed not to get wet, so were able to have a nice walk by the river

Yesterday was another matter

Bye Sue , have a good day <3

Good night Tec , sweet dreams to you <3

I think if I make clothes for all the children they will look like the cast from " the sound of music " ...........lol

Goodnight Tec - sleep well <3

Goodnight to you too Amanda - I need to start my day <3

Well I'm off to bed now,

Enjoy your day Sue - hope OH s eye isn't too sore.

Sleep well Amanda,

Goodnight,
Tec :-)

Amanda, all the girls will be lining up for new night dresses now :-D then they'll want dresses - you have no idea what you've started :-D.

I have had leaking eyes at times when you have mentioned the Duchess - it will be difficult for you both. I understand what you mean about it being like a bereavement.

Amanda - it must have been very difficult with young children.

I hit the submit button before I intended to with my last post :-(

Hello Amanda - yes you do get a buzz when you overcome a difficulty. Just a matter of thinking it through, and at least trying.
I have never been one to give in, and don't intend to now.

Sometimes stuff happens, and we sink or swim :-)

I didn't realise that you had young children when you had your accident. That must have been so difficult.

Sue , I think you made a very good point there . The support of loved ones certainly plays an enormous part in the situation .

I've been busy this evening , having a go at dressmaking :-0 I cannot normally follow a pattern but I have more or less made a girls nightdress ( in a matter of hours ) , it looks reasonable :-)


I've been following the plight of the missing plane on the TV , my heart breaks for the familes of the missing ones . I hope they find something soon , then at least the families won't be in limbo :-(

Amanda - I have met people who are very seriously ill but somehow find the strength to come through it all. I've also met people who are not so ill but have no family support and find the fight too difficult on their own. They give up and slip away. Very sad :-(

Sue it is frightening how so much has changed in such a relatively short time.

Really things began to go wrong six months ago when we were both taken into hospital.
I had been trying to take care of the Duchess as she became more dependant on me. That was getting harder, and I was getting sicker.
I have come to terms with losing my leg - there was a time in hospital when it wasn't certain that I would make it. I did, but that was a terrible time for my daughter. So I have much to be grateful for in surviving that time.

The hardest part for me is that the Duchess is in the home. What must she be thinking in her rational periods? That I have abandoned her?
She doesn't know that I am at home yet, because as soon as she does she will want to come home too. I have been told to get myself stronger and sorted out at home before I have to cross that bridge.
When she came to see me in the local hospital she asked me several times when were we going home. That was very hard for me, and I had to fight back tears for her sake, though there have been plenty since.
There is no way I could take care of her now.
It is like a sort of bereavement, but somehow worse, if you know what I mean.

I will get over it. The