General Chat

Nice to hear from you Huia, you sound better today. I hope Phil is well, and that you don't get to upset when you leave the hospital. At least you have things to do after you visit him, so that will be good for you, rather than going straight home.
My daughter rang me earlier to tell me that her and her hubby were on the way to the hospital, as her father-in-law has had a heart attack. I hope he's going to be alright, he's a very nice person, the same age as me.
All these things are sent to try us, I suppose.

Anyway, hope you enjoy your choir practice, Huia. Take care!

Love, Sallie.xx

Cheeky Cheeky Huia.
Mind It took along time for the bath to drain away,it was all that sludge left
at the bottom of the bath that did it.
I hope you find Phil in a coherent mood Huia,and able to chat to you for a while.
Take care. Love Mo xxx

I hope Kent has survived the tsunami caused by MO!
Much better if you gently lower yourself in, MO, then the waves are not so vicious.

It is a nice fine day here at present, even if it is darned cold. I would sooner have it cold than hot though. I will finally visit Phil again today. It really does depress me seeing him cooped up. I just wish I could bring him home but no way will I do that. It would be even more depressing to be constantly short of sleep and being on the alert watching him 24/7.

I will also be shopping and then going to choir practice.

must go and make my shopping list before I forget things.

Huia.

Hi girls,this is just a Quickie,as I am just about to jump in the bath.
My darts season starts tonight,so I will be leaving by 8.30,and have got to
get myself clean before I go.
I hope you are all well.
Jean,have you decided what you are going to do about the suitcase yet.
It's a long way to drive to collect it isn't it.
Love to you all. Mo xxx

Too late now, but I am sure that they could have brought a case against the vendors solicitor in the small claims court for not seeing that the contract was fulfilled. So annoying when these people get away with things like that.

Ann, they went to their solicitor, she told them that she was in touch with the vendors solicitor, but she didn't have an address for them in the US, so there wasn't anything she could do. Although they had the address for
her Dad, I don't think their solicitor actually was able to get in touch with them. This all went on for six months, so in the end Michael decided to repair the roof himself.
Obviously, the vendors knew they were on to a good thing, by not giving an address in the US, according to their solicitors they couldn't give an address because they were staying in a hotel until they found a place to rent.
Glad to see you are making progress with your cards. Keep up the
good work!

Love, Sallie.x

Sallie, I would have thought your daughter would have had a case against their estate agent and maybe even the vendors solicitor both of whom must have known about that clause and who should have ensured it was abided with.

Getting on quite well with Christmas cards, making roughly 5 a day, doesn't sound a lot but I usually only get the afternoons to do it and I don't want to rush them. I find it quite relaxing to do.

Ann x

Hello Girls,

How are you all, today? Hope all is well with everyone.

Jean, I'm pleased that the caretaker has found your case. I should think that it would be cheaper for him to send it by parcel post or whatever, than it would cost in petrol to go and get it. Hope you are managing to get all the laundrey done--that's the only downside of holiday's, but never mind, as long as the holiday was good.

Marie, nice to hear from you. I had a bit of trouble a few days ago with messages I was in the middle of writing, just disappearing. I don't know if it was GR or my laptop. It must be nice having your grandchildren for company, for a couple of weeks.

Huia, did your sister and brother-in-law arrive safely? Hope he was able to give you some advice on the guttering--the sooner the problem is sorted the better, it's one less for you to worry about. Just wondering if your are feeling well enough to go to choir, it will do you good to go.

Mo, how are you and Roly today? I hope you are both alright.
I have been ironing today, and also some scrapping, so things are looking up. Don't know how long it will last though!

Ann, hope all is well with you and hubby today. How are you doing with your Christmas? As you have probably read, I have done a bit of scrapping, but it is going very slowly at the moment, just can't seem to get my head round it at times.But I am giving it a good go!

Grace, how are things with you? I hope that things are being sorted out for you. My daughter and s-i-l had a few problems when they moved into their house, the main problem was that the roof of the garage had a hole in it.
It was put in the contract, that the owners would have it repaired, but of course, they didn't-- they moved to the USA to live for a year, so the only address anyone had for them in this country was her Dad's, he was in his
seventies, and he felt awful that they had not kept to their promise to repair what they said they would. Michael, my s-i-l had to do it himself.
I don't know how these people are allowed to get away with it.

Thinking of Debbie, Sue, Liz and Marilyn.

Speak to you all soon.

Best wishes to you all,

Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello Everyone, I have just read all the Posts, you are all so busy and you all sound well.This post will be short as I am having trouble with this site when I get to the end of the block that we type on it keeps jumping and I often lose the lot ( very annoying)JEAN what a do about your Bag ,so pleased you got it back I left a back pack in a HOTEL in Swden and the BUS had to turn round and go back to pick it up.
THEY were not amused___.I must close as my Grand son needs the computer to do some Study. ANN in glos,MO, HUIA ,Sallie, Deborah & SUE if you are around Stay well all of you also Jean LOVE To you ALL .
(HUGSSSSSSSSS)
MARIE from OZ. COOEEEE

Good thinking Huia. He may know of a solution.

Girls, I have NO intention of climbing the ladder when I am here on my own. It is in an awkward situation where one leg of the ladder would have to have a block under it to make it level (we have done it with Phil in the past), so it definitely needs somebody to hold the ladder steady to make sure it doesnt slip off the block.

I wont be visiting Phil today as my sister and her husband wanted to come out to visit me. I might pick my b-i-l's brains about the concrete leaking. He was an engineer so perhaps he will have some ideas on what I should do/who I should get in to fix it, although his brain isnt as good as it used to be due to brain damage from crashing his hang glider years ago, but it is mostly the short term memory part that was damaged. I cant get him to climb the ladder as he is just a shorty and wouldnt be able to reach the gutter anyway! My son is a better bet for that.

Huia.

Mo when I said it was 150 miles away I forgot about the return journey....lol....300 miles in all......I will have to go and have a lie down.....

Thank goodness for that Jean.
You have to weigh up how much it will cost in petrol,against the cost of postage,or courier service.
Love Mo xxx

Just heard the caretaker has got the case, so thats a relief, they are going to find out how much it will cost to send it by parcel post, or D will go and collect it.... so far so good.... thanks for your concern....


love Jean x

Surely Jean,if the caretaker has to check the property after it has been vacated,he will see it,and realise that it has been left in error.
Just as long as he does not think it's a bomb,and call in the army and blow it up.
Sorry my love,I am joking off course.
My prayers will go out to you,for it's safe recovery.
Lots of love to you and J. Mo xxx

Hello, everyone, I am trying to get in touch with the caretaker, again, we now know were the case is it was behind the front door when we took the other stuff to the car as it isnt a large case we just didnt see it I just presumed J had put it in, so we are going to try again tomorrow, and also get in touch with company we hired the cottage from... D is not in work next week and she said she would go for it , but I dont know as yet who will have it... so watch this space, I am just as stressed as I was before we went.and I forgot to turn the oven up to cook the pork, so we will be eating about something o,clock....
what a wallie I am.... but nice with it .... now I need you all to get your praying heads on and ask for some guideance......love you .....

by for now....love Jean xx

Hi again,

Huia, you are up early. If I can't sleep, I find it's usually best to try and occupy my mind, otherwise it runs riot, and I end up getting in a bit of a tizz.
For goodness sake don't you go climbing ladders, get someone in to sort out the problem for you. If it's raining too heavily it might be better to visit Phil another day, you don't want to get wet through, as you still have a cough from the last cold and flu you had. If the weather is too bad you are better off staying at home, keeping warm and dry.

Mo, Alun doesn't like shopping at all either. He will come with me, but I think he's relieved that I don't want to spend too long anywhere at the moment. Of course, he has all the time in the world for model shops.
I mostly go shopping with my friend Janet or with Jennie. Like Alun, Michael and Janet's hubby Brian, hate shopping.

Got to try and do some scrapping now.

Love, Sallie.xx

I don't believe it,I go and make a cup of tea,and when my back is turned,you have all been on,and I missed you.
What are you doing awake at this time of day Huia,get yourself back to bed.
And when you do get up,DON'T you dare try climbing that ladder. Wait till your son comes over again,and get him to have a look at that guttering for you.
It sounds like you have had very heavy rain over there.
Theres no point going to see Phil if it's raining hard,you will get soaked to the skin before you even get there. And sitting round in wet clothing,will only make your cough worse.
You are so lucky Sallie,to have a husband who does not mind hanging around whilst you browse the shops. Roly would be tearing his hair out,
he hates shopping for anything. And the only time he is amenable to doing it,is when he wants something for himself.
Huia,how much longer till Liz gets back from her hols.
Love Mo xxx

Mo, I have had the family over for dinner. Haven't been out today, I think I've done well over the last couple of days, so quite pleased with myself.
Thank you for that offer Mo, you never know when something will be needed. The trouble is, like most ladies that like crafting I spend ages in a craft shop. Alun doesn't mind too much when we go to Hobbycraft,
because he goes upstairs to look at the modelling stuff for his model railway.

Well I am going to make cup of tea, and then I am going to try and do some scrap pages. I hope that I can concentrate on it.

Speak soon.

Love, Sallie.xx

Good evening all, even if it is only 5.12am here. I have been awake for over an hour so decided a bit of a play might have me ready to go back to sleep. The trouble is that when I wake I start thinking about things. I have had water leaking into the basement. I think it is a blocked gutter which has been overflowing in the heavy rain. Now I have to find somebody to climb the ladder to clear it while I hold the ladder, or alternatively hold the ladder while I climb it! Then I will have to dig up the garden below it and see if I can find any holes in the concrete that are letting the water through. I have a horrible feeling the wall is becoming too porous and having water seeping through is probably making it worse. It never rains but it pours - in more ways than one.

Not sure if I will visit Phil today, it depends on how tired I am and whether it is raining.

Huia.