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Isn't it quiet here !

Well I had a bit of a fright today.I had just turned onto the slip rd to join the dual carriage way(A14) only to find a car driving up towards me !!!!!!!!!.I think the lady (who looked in her late 66's) must have gone down and then realised it was the wrong junction and turned around :-0 :-0.All I can say is thank goodness it was me and not a ten ton truck as there would have been no way to avoid a most likely fatal crash :-S

Sometimes there is nothing you can say is there Frank in a sad situation like Ros's friend.Just a hug ,a shoulder to cry on and just to be there to listen.


Hannah will be home tonight.Chris is picking her up from Northampton station as it is so much cheaper for to go there instead of here.I wonder how she will be??

Frank no ecard arrived here.I think you always have trouble getting one to me. :-S

I managed to get a little video clip of the Swifts or Swallows that were here today.There were so many but difficult to get on film.I made a noise when they were all on the roof eating insects and they all took off.There were so many more than I snapped,but it will give you an idea.Will send it out in a bit.Sorry you can't get or send emails David.That is why I asked if you had changed address s.
I'm doing Kebabs tonight so better get the skewers out (if I can find them)

Martine is it Frank? I apologigise.

I should increase the size of the screens text or see an optician.

David, BOYCES wife was Marline, Ros's friend is MARTINE. LOL LOL

Well AT LAST.

First posting on here since 10. 30 from David.

The morning started off well enough Jane, but soon clouded over, and yes, I think we are in for rain tonight and tomorrow.

Ros, good little soul has been in the front garden for hours. She has planted two trays of pansies, and some other bits. Three people have stopped and said how nice her garden looks. So that brightened her day. !!

Her friend down the road stopped to chat this morning, in buckets of tears. Her husbands Cancer has gone to GRADE ONE. which from what she says, won't be long before he pass's away. How on earth can you console someone when they have that to live with. She said he WON'T allow the McMillian nurses or the Doctor in, to see him. He won't eat or drink, and just lays in bed. Poor woman <3 <3 <3 My heart goes out to her, having been there myself..

Our new neighbours bought a new dog when they moved in. Ros was speaking to the daughter this afternoon, who said the dog is going back to the breeder as they can't do anything with it. I know it yaps a lot. ;-) ;-) The neighbour next to them, who has three cats, came enquiring if anyone had seen her Brown cat. (the one who SHI## on my garden) She thinks someone might have kidnapped it. !!! I should be so lucky :-( :-( :-(

Hope you all received my Ecard.. I know Liz did, as she replied to me. I didn't know how else to let you know all was well this end.

David, I have thought many times of getting a difference supplier, but when I come down to it. I stick with BT. you can always get someone to help you through any problems, and at my age I don't need them !!!

I have noticed that Genes now say that we have to accept "COOKIES" on the site, and it's the terms that we have to accept. I personally don't like a load of adverts on the page. So do we have to live with it, OR WHAT ???

Jane, there will be just the two of us as usual. Harvey and family are in France, Conrad in Spain. Jan is off to Devon. and I know I won't hear from my own TWO.

We have so much Lamb in the freezer, that I got a shoulder out yesterday for tonight's dinner. In fact it's in the oven now, on a very low heat. It will fall off the bone when it's cooked at about 6.30 pm.

Hope Mel is enjoying her visitors. She's out and about more than a "COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER" .these days :-D :-D :-D Envy on my part really Mel. lol

Just hope you can get on Genes, otherwise I am talking to myself.

Will try to get back later.

Frank,was'nt there a Marlene,wife of Boycee in Only Fools and Horses?
I hope her health is improving.

Ann,I used to pay a guy to mow my lawns.He used a large petrol driven strimmer to get right up to the edges.

He used the strimmer at the rear of the bungalow where I park my car.The side of the car got spattered with stone chips and sap which dried on.We fell out over that.

I cannot use e mails. I feel annoyed.Yahoo keep saying open a new account.Then when I use it it doesn't recocnise my password and I have to contact Yahoo to confim who I am;then I've to use another password which Yahoo doesn't recognise when I go back...so I have to repeat the process which again doesn't work.

I must have lots of e-mails I cannot access and I cannot contact the senders as I cannot get into e-mail for the above reasons.

Yahoo may be free but some aspects of it are as much use as as an ash tray on a motor bike.I was going to say some thing else,but it would have been censored.

Morning/Evening All

I can't watch programmes like that Frank :-S.Too upsetting for me.I can't even watch Horse Racing in case a horse falls and has to be put down on the track.

What a smashing morning :-D.I'm going to go out now and do a bit of food shopping then get home quickly.
I hope Maureen doesn't have to much of her ironing jobs to do today so she can enjoy the hot weather.Looks like rain tomorrow :-S

What's everyone up to for the B/H weekend?..I know Mel has visitors.

Taken me ages to get on here tonight.

The moon tonight was amazing with little white clouds floating over it. I thought I would do a William. I took two photo'd and they were just a small spot in the sky, so deleted them.

It's nice that you are getting all this information before your holiday Jane, it will get excited before you go now !!! You go off a week after Ros's birthday.

We watched the Poachers in South Africa. What horrible way to live but with all that money that is offered when you haven't got any , must be a great temptation. What is happening to our world. ?? Nature looks after itself in a natural way. Why oh Why does man have to be so greedy.

Ann, Where's that Turkey Farm. It might be worth us getting a big one, as we might be going to Torquay for Christmas, there will be 9 or maybe more of us. So we could supply the Turkey.

So are we going to call you GUMMY now then, :-D :-D <3 <3 JOIN the CLAN. I still have my FIVE, even though one is starting to work loose. ;-) ;-)

Off for a read now, see you in the morning.

NIGHT NIGHT.

Oh teeth and boobs Ann :-S. What a decision as to which done first.I think I would get my teeth done first ,so no risk of infection getting a grip .
We go to Venice on the 26th Sept.We have booked with Citalia .The amount of info we have had from them to do with holidaying in Venice is brilliant .All on line.It even tells us how many days,hours,minutes and seconds it is until we fly !!!!!!!!!.I thought it was just a joke to start with but then realised it is spot on lol

Just going to watch Paul O'Grady's programme Working Britain and then off to bed.
Back tomorrow :-D

Evening Folks,

Yes, I hope all is well with Martine Frank. Poor Ros must be in a state with it happening to her friend.

Jane, I bet you feel a lot better now with your hair sorted again. My hairdresser has 4 salons and the one I go to is in a local gym. He took over the beauty salon there last year as well and offers all kinds of treatments at eye watering prices!! We get head massages with moroccan oil as part of a cut and finish, but I've never had an indian head massage. When is it you go to Italy?

The dentist did xrays of the wobbly teeth and said that even though it seems to be just one that is sensitive, it would be best for both to come out. He said it isn't anything to do with the cleaning of my teeth as that's excellent. He then showed me on the xray how little bone is supporting them now and that because bacteria can get down the sides of loose teeth, there is usually a tendency for the teeth each side to then become similarly affected if the loose ones are left. So....it's a no brainer really.......MORE EXPENSE next month or end up toothless more quickly! Then when I got home I had got a letter for my routine mammagram.......sod's law......it's for the same day!!!:-S

I got my car washed on the way back and the Polish chaps seemed to do a lot of rubbing to get something off, so I had a look at it when I got home and found it was spattered all over the front and side with spots of hard residue. It must have been when the dog lady next door went on holiday a few weeks ago. While she was away her grandson came and jetwashed the drive and didn't come and tell us so we could move my car!! We thought he was doing just the patio at the back. That's the second time now. A few years ago when her husband was alive he jetwashed their bungalow roof and covered my previous car in grit and gunge!! Luckily he had the sense to hose most of it off before it dried. I tried using some creme cleaner on a few spots on the bonnet, but made it worse as it's scuffed the shine off the paint now!!! :-S :-S :-S What is it with neighbours.

Mandy, I noticed the farm where we get our Xmas turkey was advertising them at half price the other day........I was wondering whether to get one, as they are usually delicious. I bet it is the massive ones that are left though and might not go in the oven.

Mel, it must be a hive of activity in your garden at night, all these hogs trotting about, sampling the food you put out and jostling for position. I wonder if any or many of them will hibernate in your 'Hedgehog Hotel'.

Hi Dermot.
Hopefully you will give us a lowdown on your reunion with some of your witty tales :-D.Bet you are exhausted now lol
I went to Canada a few years ago with a cousin ,we had several reunions and get togethers from Vancouver,Vancouver Island ,and across to Calgary.I had never met any of the Canadian rellies (the first who emigrated back in the 60's.)They all came with their family trees and photos and it was lovely to see so many resemblances to my Dads Scottish side.One woman reminded me so much of my Granny and another of my Aunty Elizabeth.They are all very keen on Genealogy .I must have met over a hundred people !!!!!.It was a trip I will remember for ever.

Just missed you Dermot, Glad you had a nice trip home and to see all the family.

t's my dads birthday today (127) and still I miss him.!!!

I will try again. Been trying to get on here but the B error notice seems to like me.

Martine has had some tests, and it looks better than first thought. No stent needed by the look of things. If she is sent home today Ros might pop over this evening to see her.

After all my watering yesterday, it rained in the night. This morning I opened the conservatory door as it was so warm indoors. As soon as I came in it poured with rain. It has been overcast and muggy all day.

Ros has been to the dentist this afternoon, not sure what she had done but it sounds expensive. NEW this or that. !!

John and Carolyn have invited us to Hastings in a couple of weeks, but it will clash with my knee operation. Will have to see if they can change the date.

Forgot to tell you. I was up to my old tricks on Sunday, CUT through my finger, while carving the meat. The old kitchen roll and black tape was out again. I have been changing the dressing each day, sometimes twice. The gash was quite deep
and keeps opening and bleeding. I know I'm a little bleeder, !!! that's because of the blood thinners I take everyday.

I nearly miss read your comment about the "hand massage "Jane ;-) ;-) ;-)


Did your family arrive O.K. Mel ?? I see from the forecast, that you are going to get better weather than any of us. LUCKY YOU !!

Any news on your Daughters interview Fiona, or is it a bit early yet ???

Maureen that's terrible. If he wants to smoke that stuff why doesn't he go into the bottom of the garden and smoke it ?? Dirty little BAST~~~. I hope he gets caught in possession of it by the police. But there again it will be a slap on the wrist, as usual. in these cases.. It might be a good idea to have a word with the local copper, he might then be on the lookout for him. Especially if he drives, they could do him for driving under the influence of drink or DRUGS.. That would put the fear of GOD into him. I would be the first to report anyone I knew smoking and buying that stuff.

Ros is out in the front garden, putting in more plants. she says the colour is fading in a lot of the flowers out there. I must say, after the rain the earth does look nice being freshly turned over and planted up. I see a BIG new pot has appeared on the drive. I bet that is for another PLANT to go in on the patio. :-D :-D :-D She does love her plants and flowers. The lounge has new flowers at least once a week/ NOT ONE VASE BUT THREE. :-D :-D :-D

She is doing a stir fry tonight. While out this afternoon, she called in Tesc# for O and S, and picked up 3 lovely chickens for a tenner. (I think I still have two in the freezer) but she will keep buying more, I get fed up telling her. DON'T BUY ANY MEAT TILL I TELL YOU. <3 <3

Just back from a family reunion in Ireland. (Co Mayo - one of the nicer Irish counties!).

Relations by the dozen - well, nearly 30 including two from New York.

Lots of remembrances & tales from our youth. Visits to the old homestead & districts nearby.

That's enough excitement for one week.

Back from the hairdresser.I feel a lot more comfortable now as I was beginning to feel like a sheep lol.Also while I was there I had a complimentary Hand massage.That was just lovely :-D.There is a new beauty salon upstairs and I think they are trying to drum up business.They do Indian Head massages there too :-D :-D.I find them so relaxing and haven't had one in years ,so I might just treat myself to one soon.

Maureen how horrible for you getting all the dog ends or joint butts blowing over to you. :-S.How old is the p*g ?I remember leaning out of my bedroom a few times having a crafty fag lol.I'm sure my parents weren't that green not to know what I was doing.That was in the day when you could buy single cigarettes at the post office in the village.Mr Branny would just open up a pack .Can you imagine that now.Of course they would be fined or something for selling to underage kids.

It is so muggy here now and not a sign of any sun.No rain though .I would actually quite like to go and stand in a little shower now

I have just bought the ET (local paper) and the headline is about Robbers who attacked a 64 year year old lady as she was visiting a grave at the Crem.They threatened her with a knife ,threw her to the ground and demanded her car keys.They left her and made off with her car !!!!!!.How terrible is that :-S :-S.That poor lady :-(
I know it is a huge place there and some spots will be quite isolated so that might have made it easier for the b****** to get away with the robbery.I don't suppose that
there would be any cctv there either..As we say 'What is the world coming to' :-( :-(

It is steak for us tonight ,nice Rib Eye ones :-D

I can hear Chris in the Study trying to learn a bit of Italian in readiness for our holiday.
Lord help us.He is good at many things but foreign languages is a different matter altogether :-S.

Forgot to mention Frank, cigarette smoke wafting over the fence is unpleasant but not as bad as my neighbour's son who smokes cannabis, he must lean out of his bedroom window, the smell is horrible, then he throws the ends onto their flat roof and when it's windy they blow onto my decking. I've given up complaining to them and just throw them back onto their patio now, the parents are really nice but he is an arrogant p*g. I wonder his brain isn't addled the amount he smokes.

Quite a bit of rain and very dull here now, I'm hoping it'll brighten up later for me to sit out and read my book. At least son said the roof is now all watertight, so labourers hat on tomorrow as he will be puting tiles all around the dormer, then I'm off on Saturday for a weekend with my daughter, if the weather is good enough will sit in her garden and be fed and watered.

Thanks for the information on the plant/weed have passed that on to my friend.

Lovely children William, I suppose I could have great grandchildren, granson is old enough but he is more interested in his ice hockey career to even think about girls right now.

I quite liked WDYTYA, not the best one but I thought the prison bit was really interesting especially going into the original cells.

I've got a few wobbly teeth at the back too Ann, but don't think they are quite ready for the tooth fairy. One good thing If you have to have them out at least they won't be too difficult as they are so wobbly.

Frank how is Martine now?

Morning All. Evening Kim,
Surprise Surprise :-D :-D I got on here the first time,

Slow day today, not been outside yet but Victoria & Sofia came for a quick visit just for something to eat :-) :-), wanted a biscuit for after class as Victoria forgot to pick them up on the way out, she was dashing as usual, they were off to music class this morning , just a little class in a local church hall where the children can dance and sing and if Matteo wakes up (fell asleep in the car on the way down) he can shake a rattle and bang a drum :-D

cloudy but no rain .
time for a coffee.

Oh just remembered it's the funeral of OH friend today the one who past away last weekend,, it will be mostly close friends and family attending, not many of the work people will be there, but the company want to arranged a memorial service for work people, but OH dose not know the date yet,

Poor old Frank, losing his posts!!! As long as your not losing your marbles matey LOL.

I got a shock when I got on here first time like rain off oil. Maybe they got it sorted at last.

Watched Gary Lineker on WDYTYA last night. I'm sure Ann's parents were enthralled , all those Hinckley connections and Leicester too. I see the guy who went to jail for poaching did some of it in Market Bosworth. I found it interesting - Carmel wasn't keen on it. I think she likes them with a bit more romance.

Went to Nuneaton for most of the day yesterday. Took up quite warm, had to shed my coat. Nothing special, just browsing and buying the odd thing or two. There are couple of items Carmel got in a charity shop that I'll take a photo of sometime and email out. I can't put them in my garden sadly!

C Y A L

Just lost HALF AN HOURS post again. I am getting feed up with this. BAH and HUMBUG