General Chat

HI YG how are you today ?

I'm not too bad thanks LG.

Are you settling in for the footie?

Morning all coolish today. Why would you waste chocolate putting it on brussel sprouts. I don't mind brussel sprouts as a vegetable, not a dessert. Perhaps you Poms drizzle chocolate over your corned beef and boiled potatoes, instead of white sauce.

It's great when you find another source of family history. I envy you all your elderly rellies whose memory vaults can be searched for treasures. I am the elderly relly (and OH) of our lot, so we are the ones whose brains need unlocking. Unfortunately the current generation isn't terribly interested. Boy am I going to have a field day the first time one of mine comes to me and says, Mum tell me about my great grandfather. It is all recorded, digitized, researched and stored. Our work is going to take all the fun out of family history research for the next generation.

I've settled for the footie :-D :-D :-D :-D.

Will give the Ruby one a go... hmmmm lots of ruby red wine... yes could be on to something there... 38th year is coming up shortly so 40th not too far off.. our eldest will be 44.

She told everyone at school how she had been to our wedding and they thought she was making it up. Mind you I guessed she would as she had already been telling the neighbours where we had just moved to a few months after we married.

Now Puss the secret to eating chocolate bars is to chew a lot.. no gulping.. thus using up as much calories as said chocolate bar at the same time..... Or if you get varifocals like Det the chocolate bar could look smaller.

I have bifocals which are clear at the top... I was short sighted and then as I got older needed bifocals.. and then had cataracts done and can see for miles.. but because I had worn glasses since I was 12... no one including myself felt I looked okay without glasses hence the clear top bit..... but I do miss how before I could read really really small print with out my glasses... that has gone forever.

I have middle distance computer glasses as well... and like you Det, I wondered what was wrong when I got up from puter at work and went out in car wearing them and things were not quite clear... :-S

Off for a few days.. but will be back wearing my builder's apron...

I have varifocals on all the time as I am as blind as a bat without them :-D

errrrrrrrrrrrrr no no no there is a sprout loose

Hang on I'll put me specks back on and see if I can find it. I have my laser at the ready to blow it to bits

........................phew reliefe, it could do untold damage, and start a wind storm. :-0

I have varifocals too LG. But I have now changed my contacts to just distance vision because the toric lense was proving rather diffiult to get in!! They are good for driving and shopping, so I tend to just use them at weekends.,

YUk I could not do contacts, the very thought of touching anywhere my eyes gives me the heeby jeebys :-P.

Just trying to track down this killer sprout

It's not here!!

Where the heck is it then ??? :-|

I trhink it is under Aunty's deerstalker!!

But I'm off to check under the bed in case it has rolled under there!! I don't do sprouts, so it better not be!!

Happy hunting LG!! Sleep well <3

If you feel a wind blowing you'll know it's under there :-D. Nite nite YG sleep well <3

nite nite ladies and gentle cats dogs

Nite nite puss <3

Oi! Wake up Puss!!! You've stretched the page with your ssssss. !! Put a line break in a couple of times so order is restored :-D

Enjoy your trip away Persie and see you when you get back to help with the NL renos.

There are quite a few items about chocolate covered brussel sprouts on the net....see for your self - lol

Hi all
xx


was out for most of the day ........... meeting with financial advisor, then I went for some retail therapy :-D :-D



re glasses ............ like Persie, I wore glasses from the age of about 6, and they were VERY strong by the time I had to have cataract surgery in 2000

They inserted new lenses of a slightly different shape and size ............ and turned me from short sighted to long sighted in one fell swoop.

I needed computer glasses ................. but had to learn how to see properly.

Like Persie, I really miss not being able to see very tiny print, or tiny stitches in needlework or knitting, just by taking off my glasses and peering.

Reading glasses just do not do it!


I quite often find myself wandering around thinking it's very blurry out there, I must need to go to the opticians


ooops .......no .......... still wearing computer glasses :-D

Knock Knock,

Hellooooo Ladies, thought I would pop in and say a quick hello.

Now I lurve Brussel Sprouts and I adore chocolate, not sure that I could eat them together though :-D. Depend how desperate I was for a chocolate hit.......

All this talk of romance, bah humbug.... My OH and I don't do Valentines day. Many years ago now, OH presented me with a bunch of red roses in a long black box with a clear topped front. It looked like a ruddy coffin :-D..... He did arrive home last Saturday with a bunch of chrysanths and a LARGE block of choc..... Shame I had to share it with one of my fruits and her man :-(.

Hello Persie, long time no speak. :-).

Now you are all probably having a cup of tea, perhaps Aunty like me is enjoying a glass of vino? Time to away and cook our dinner. No OH home as yet and I am starving.... Nice bit of fish tonight.

Toodle pip for now,

Susan with a glass in her hand ;-)