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Deborah, I should probably know but, realising you are not in UK where are you exactly?

Ann
Glos

I forgot to say, Jean, I have sent 2 photos of me as Katisha, and before anybody says 'bless you' it is not a sneeze. She was the Mikado's daughter-in-law elect. I thought I looked quite good, in fact backstage one of our choir members looked blankly at me and when I spoke she suddenly recognised me. I do have a rather distinctive speaking voice.

Huia.

Deborah, I wish your dad the best.

My OH and I had our 50th anniversary last March. Our son came but that was all. OH didnt know what day it was anyway. I had the previous year thought of having just a few people our sisters and children and grandchildren and my flower girl (now a grandmother several times over) but it just did not seem worth it and I was too tired from constantly watching OH.

Off to bed soon, even though it is only 8.32pm.

Huia.

Morning All, where did the weekend go to?

All well here. My Dad is still in hosp, he had 3 units of blood on Sat, 1 on Sun and is due to have 1 today. They haves sent blood and bone marrow off to hosp in London to try and find out exactly what is wrong. He was being treated for anaemia, but Iron Tablets and various other potions were having no effect at all. He is very tired and gets cold easily. But that is to be expected if he hasn't got "proper" blood pumping around his body. Not sure if he will come home today or tomorrow, but he is in the best place he possibly can be, and the Docs are doing all they can to try and find a solution to the problem.

I just hope he is ok for the weekend as it is Mum & Dads Golden Wedding on Saturday. We are planning a family meal at a local Hotel on Sunday Lunchtime. No relations are travelling here from the UK, so just the 19 (!) of us who are here. We can send photos to everyone else. Unfortunately, they are all of the genaration where things start to wear out, and none of Mum or Dads Brothers & Sisters are well enough to travel at the moment.

We had a great weekend. The sun shone continuously, so the fishing trip on Saturday turned up a good catch. I'm all "fished out" now, so whatever hasn't been cooked has gone in the freezer to use as bait on a later trip. May as well recycle.

Our huge tides of the weekend proved fantastic for the Pier Jumpers in the family, and the really low tides gave us all a chance to go scavenging amongst the rocks. We found some very good fishing gear at one place, which had obviously been lost over the end of a breakwater many moons ago. The boys strip it all down, recondition it and then use it. There were a lot of people doing the same thing yesterday. All good fun, and a good excuse to get out in the sun.

Duller today, and I have to get on with the mundane things in life. The children are on holiday til 3rd Sept, then have a day off on 10th for the Internation Air Dsiplay here. Oh those Red Arrows & B52's for all you Plane Lovers out there!.

Have a good day.
DEBBIE

Huia I am sure that it would do you good to go and have a good sing with them, while singing you can forget your worries and you will probably sleep well afterwards.

Huia, dont worry about the photos, I have some from you already, they are not as important as getting your life sorted now, the choir sounds great, at least you will be able to come and go as you please, I always loved singing and was in choirs, but had to stop , always had trouble with my breathing, due to chest problems, but was very happy when I could sing.... mother was welsh and she was a lovely singer sang with the doyle carte opera company
on a couple of occasions......so must have rubbed off on me.....let us know how the singing goes.....

love Jean xx

That rotten miserable choir that I dropped out of at the end of last year is now doing a piece (about 40 mins, 7 songs in it) that I tried several times some years ago to persuade them to do. We had done a couple of the songs in it but I wanted to do the whole thing. Guess who will be dropping in on them tomorrow night if she isnt too tired? I might stay only an hour. At least I know the music so can probably just go as and when I feel like it until nearer the concert. You cant keep an old crow from singing! I wish I could put a tag on here that somebody did for me, a crow singing into a mike and she had put my name underneath. She did a few others but that is my favourite.

Huia, the old crow.

Jean, I think I sent you some photos but dont know at the moment how many or which, with all the other things that have been going on in my life. Please let me know if you want more and I will send them when I get my life sorted out a bit better.

Huia.

Sallie its a beautiful photo, you look lovely, what a lovely setting, Jennie is beautiful.....thank you very much Alun for sending it......



Love Jean xx

Yes Huia I think you are right about a wicked imp in our heads. I only wish he would go away when we need to sleep. Ha, Ha.

Jean Alun has sent the photo at long last. Hope you receive it okay.

Love, Sallie.xx

Sallie, you and I have a wicked imp in our heads and when our heads hit the pillow the imp hits that switch to turn our brains back on and put into high gear. At least I am not usually doing any worrying, just thinking about the lovely people on genes and what they have said, or a song pops into my head and I cant get it out again. Sometimes I try humming, just one note, in my head, to try to wash all else away but it doesnt always work. But at least with nobody to care for I know that I can care for me if I am too tired to do anything in the morning (unless it is the last day to pay rates and I dont want a penalty added!). I probably had only 4 hours sleep last night so might lie down again soon after breakfast, my trip to town can wait until after lunch.

~~~~~ to all my good friends on GR ~~~~~~~

Huia.

In the Kitchen Mo....we have quite steep narrow stairs so hope they will go up....was looking to get a stair lift eventually, but stairs are not good for one,
old big terrace house,
good man Alun, I will let you know when it comes, I have family in Wrexham and Oswestry , my mother was Welsh , came from Newtown...

Flippin eck its raining again, were is our sunshine??????


Love Jean xx

Hi again everyone, I can't keep away today.

Sue I'm sorry to hear about your son, bless him! It's bad enough when they have an injury when they play at home, but to be away can't be very nice at all. Where was he playing Sue? Hope it isn't too far away from you.

Jean, we are going to Ruabon which is near Wrexham. My paternal grandparents were born and brought up in that area. Although we are going to stay with family in Holywell, Flintshire. One of my ggrandfathers was born in Bala, Merionethshire and his wife my ggrandmother was born in Chester. We are hoping that we can find some information on them all.
As soon as I finish this message Jean, Alun is going to send you the photo. Put the flags out!

Mo, I didn't realise that Marilyn had gone away again. Let's hope she has good weather and that she will enjoy herself.
As you say, we haven't from Marie for a while, hope everything is okay with her. We haven't anything from Grace for a while either, I hope all is well with her too.

Speak to you all tomorrow.

Love, Sallie.xx

Sue.
I am sorry to hear your bad news,about your son. I hope he will be home soon.
As you say,you can't expect the youngest one to sit and wait in a hospital.
What a shame for it to have happened in his first match for the new team.
Keep your chin up love. And when he is fit for his next match,cover him in
foam rubber,and he will bounce back up of the ground,if he should fall down.
I always thought that rugby was the sport,that had most injuries. But having seen my grandson,who is 16,suffer the same as your son,I am not so sure any more.
Oh our Jean. It is probably the tablets that are making you feel drowsy.
When you say you are going to put the washing machine,and tumble dryer
upstairs,do you mean that they are in your kitchen now,or in a cellar.
Sorry to seem a bit dim.
Love to you and J. Mo xxx

Hello, my friends, Mo, I have been very tired the last few days dont know if its the pills or just old age.....lol..... I have been busy getting rid of all sorts of stuff, hoping to get a new kitchen in the near future, my washer and tumble dryer are downstairs, and its getting very hard lugging washing down stairs and the taking it back up.... we have a large bathroom so the plan is to move them up there, hope we can get it done it will be a huge help...legs are still painful although I can sleep better at night.
Sallie wherabouts are you going in N Wales, we go to that area often...
We are praying for Debbies dad and hope there is good news...
Huia, as Sallie said it will take a while for your body to readjust, you know we are all rooting for you and Phil. its a big change to your lives, but you are strong lady and when you are not we all can be stong for you...

big ~~~~~~~~~~~~ and hugs ~~~~~~~~~~~~ to everyone else

love Jean xxx

Sue, sorry to hear about your boy hope he isnt too handicapped

Hi All

Just catching up again on all your news
.
I was going to post tonight, but my eldest had a accident to day at his first football match in his new team.
I was a work and got a call that he has broken his wrist again. So i am home early.
As the match was away he isnt in our local hospital. I am at home with my youngest and his dad is with him.
He has had a operation and will have to stay over night as they have had to wire it.
I hate not being with him but as I dont drive I havent got much choice.
Plus it wouldnt be fair to keep youngest up the hospital all day.

I will post soon and let you know how he is.

Sue

Oh Ann sorry I forgot to mention you.
I hope Jean is o.k. But she doesn't always look in every day. Maybe they have gone out for the day.
I hope you are o.k love.

I haven't seen Jean today, have I missed her? Hope she is OK.

Hello all.
Every thing will come right in the end Huia. Just get your rest when you can.
Sallie,thank you for answering my question. We will miss you when you go. Or are you going to log on sometime whilst you are away,in an internet cafe .
No news yet from Debbie. I do hope everything is o.k with her dad.
Marilyn is of on her travels for a couple of days,I hope she is enjoying herself.
Jean,how are your painful legs now. I do hope the painkillers are working for you,and not zonking you out to much.
You cant win can you love.
A big hello to Marie in OZ. We have not heard from you in a while,I hope you are well.
Big ~~~~~~to Liz,Sue and Grace.
Take care. best wishes to you all. Mo xxx

Hi Everyone,
Liz, like you I have times when I can't get to sleep at night, although it has nothing to do with my OH. My trouble is that when I switch the light off, it's as though someone has switched my mind on on, and then I lie there thinking and worrying about everything. So I end up coming downstairs making a hot drink and look to see what's happening on the boards.
I hope your son will have a good time at the Reading Festival He is the same age as my son--who was 27 in March.

Huia, I hope you managed to get some sleep. Your sleep pattern's been disrupted for so long, that it's going to take a while to get back into it again.
I thought that Phil might have wanted to go home with you, it was good that you had your son and daughter-in-law there for support.

Mo, sorry I keep forgetting to tell you that we are going over to N. Wales the middle of September when Alun has a week off work. We hope to be able to do some research on my father's family.
I'm not sure yet, when we will be able to go down to S. Wales. Hope it won't be too long before we do.

Debbie, how is your Dad today? I hope they have some idea of what is causing the problem and can soon be sorted out. Hope you and the rest of the family are all alright. Take care!

Jean, hope you are alright today, and that your legs are less painful.

Thinking about Sue, Grace, Marie and Marilyn.

I'm off to make a cuppa now, speak to you all soon.

Best wishes to you all.

Love, Sallie.xxx