General Chat

Morning/Evening All
Not need for apology David.Not a lot offends us bunch :-D Farting does tend to cause amusement ,and you certainly need that when you are stuck in a hospital bed.
How long are you in for?

It is another morning of wall to wall sun :-D.I din't wake until 8.Slept all night.I think Chris should go away more often.He send me a message saying he slept like a log too and he was off to have his full English.He will have smashing weather too today.I want him to bring me back some lovely sea air :-D

Mandy my 'odd ' friend is as Ann described a bit eccentric.She is my age .The only reason I know her is when I was at primary school she came to stay with us when her Mum was dying .I think she was with us for about a month.She was strange even then.She was shunted off to a boarding school for troubled children where she became a victim of Sexual Assault for quite some time by the Head.She told me this a couple of years ago and had never told a soul :-( She lives with her OH who is a few years younger but he is fairly disabled after a huge stroke some years ago.They live in a tiny bungalow with their 5 cats and some chickens.One chicken lives in the house !!.She has also taken her Mums cat ,but it has gone missing and has been gone for nearly 2 weeks now :-S.I think I would want to escape from the chaos too lol
She is a hoarder and I can't even begin to describe what the place is like.
I leave that to your imaginations!!

Now I need to get my skates on as my Niece's OH will be here about 10 to look at this wiring job.He is driving up from Tewkesbury as I type.
BBL

If my last posting offended any one I apologise

Mel,after a long time in a hospital bed you HAVE to be happy.
Weeks ago I was embarassed what with the nakedness and toileting and bed baths.
There's a stange earthy humour gets you through it.
Farting becomes fun,in harmony it becomes a laugh.

Pleasant dreams xx

David you sound quite happy tonight. Another step towards your recovery. Slowly but surely thats the way to take it.

Hope they let you out soon for while and soon get rid of that frame, vroom vroom.

Frank I nearly had a fit when you said about how much fat sticks and mealworms you had bought. Oh said you must have a lot of money to buy that lot. We had 2 kilo of mealworms in the winter but found that the kilo did well and we had'nt enough pots to put the 2 kilo in. I don't buy the dried ones as they don't seem to be anything but the skin shed by the worms. Something they would have thrown away in the past.

Welcome to Dave as I missed your post when I was on earlier. I have pm'd you and do pop in again with more memories or just for a chat with the rest of us.

Off for my shower now and then a nice glass of wine and bed so see you all in the morning.

Yes,it's a step in the right direction,but a slow one.
The contraption is still there,minus two wires.

I'd love to on cruches rather than a waking frame rev rev vroom vroom

LOL XX

Just popped in before going to bed. You have been busy again chatting, nice to see new "friends" joining us.

I made a mistake this morning, I have ordered 2 kilos of fat sticks and 3 x 400 g of meal worms. I buy the dried ones that the birds seem to like. If it had been 10 kilos and 2 kilos I would be bankrupt. !!!

Been in the garden all day, got my "PATCH" all raked and planted, radish, spring onion and beetroot. The canes and net are in place, and the trough dug for my peas. The peas are in soak overnight, I will try to put those in tomorrow.

After coming in from the garden and getting showered again, my back was aching like mad. Ros looked at it and said "No wonder you have sun burn" I had been out there all day in a pair of shorts.

Good news from you David, keep going mate. You will get there !!!

Jane, I am sure you will handle the WINDOW MAN. push, push ,push . They have plenty of profit to play with. Trust Chris to be away, when you want him :-D :-D

Well goodnight god bless all, see you in the morning.

I think Jane said she was a bit eccentric Mandy.....chickens in the kitchen, something like that. The trip to Plymouth for a look around would be worth it I would think.

I'm back at the docs tomorrow for a blood test to check my thyroid on this higher dose.......as if I haven't been there enough this week!! :-( Then there are the local voting polls.......however did we find time to work? :-S

Nighty night zzzzz.

I'am always leaving labels on , i went out once with a label hanging out the back of my trousers :-S :-D
So not only could everyone see what size i was but the price i had paid for them
too !! :-D
It was only when a friend said what ever have you got hanging out the back of your trousers that i realised some thing was there :-D then i didn't have any thing to cut it off with !! so i just tucked it in !!

Jane glad you got sorted with the windows .
So it will be a trip to Plymouth for you then , what do you mean odd? is she just scatty ?

Ann, those Abbey grounds do look massive ,it's funny how you have all these things on your door step and have never visited them ,we're just the same here ,there's lots of places here we've never been to .

Sounds as if it's been a long day for you David , if you have only had two wires taken out and the others adjusted does that mean you still have the contraption on your leg ?

Glad to hear you are ok David and that you have had a drink and a meal. Things must be healing if they were able to remove 2 wires so you have moved another step forward in your recovery which also means one step less to go. One step at a time and you will get there. Hopefully, the time will pass quite quickly.........we are all rooting for you !! :-) :-)

David it sounds like you are gradually getting there.Maybe a long way to go ,but as long as it is going the right way that's just what you need to hear :- Onwards and Upwards :-D :-D.How long will you need to be in hospital?

I think I am going to switch off now for tonight. and go and take over the bed :-D
Night Night xx

Went from ward to surgery at 12.15
Nil by mouth all morning.Anesthetic followed a huge pain killer in back of left hand.
Awoke in recovery at 2.15
Taken back to ward at 3.20
From waking in recovery to returning to ward wa given several shots of morphine through the back of my L hand where origional big pain killer went in.
Eventualy got a glass of water and later a meal about 4.00

Two internal wires have been removed and the tension adjusted onn the remaining wires and bolts and the dressing around each changed.
Seems this healing has a long way to go yet.

Thank you all for your concern XX

Evening All,

What a lovely sunny day today and everywhere is bursting into life!

Hi Dave, yes my gran wouldn't have the electric put in, didn't trust it, so she had gas lights, but only downstairs and we took candles to light us to bed. I was scared of those 'popping' gas mantles when they were lit and they always seemed to get holes in them and need changing. She had a gas cooker too but never used it and cooked on the big black leaded range and the ovens in the side of it.

Tanners and thrupenny bits, a bob, a florin and half crowns.....lovely names weren't they.......now we just have 5p, 10p, 50p etc, so boring in comparison. The brown 10 bob note, all the notes were bigger than now too. Just think, to fill your car tank up now at say £70 worth of fuel you would need 140 ten bob notes, yet you could fill up on 5 ten bob notes when I started driving.

I can remember being so chuffed when I reached half a crown a week pocket money.....it seemed so much!! I didn't really have any sweets, except Milk Tray choccies at Xmas and gran's humbugs (wasn't keen on them!) until we moved to Leicester where a sweetie shop was nearby. Then we'd spend on penny toffee chews in different flavours and sherbert and liquorice root.

Ruby I must have a look at where you live.........it sounds exciting the different places you lived before too. I love the bearded iris too, but have just one now a dark purple dwarf one. As Jane says, it is a pity the flowers are over so quickly, but I like the foliage as a contrast to other things as well.

Mandy, how strange there are problems with just your hubby's mail? :-S It must be quite worrying, wondering where the things have gone. I used to use a jug filter years ago, but can't remember how long it took to filter..... but maybe they are quicker now anyway. You made me laugh about your label. :-D It's a good job it wasn't a price label ......my OH would have had a field day!! lol

Oh, so Hogwart is wearing a 'bindi' now Mel!! At least you will be able to recognise him/her now.

Mandy I often have found the odd label stuck to certain parts of my body :-S.The trouble is there re so many sticky labels on clothes these days they are quite easily missed.
Not quite the price I was asking for Mandy but I think it was good enough...Trust Chris to B****** off lol.He is swanning it up in a lovely hotel tonight.........I have the whole bed to myself :-D :-D :-D
Just had a phone call(again) from my' odd' friend in Plymouth .She has basically asked me if I could go down to help her sort her Mothers things as it looks very likely that her Mum will be moving from rehab to a home !!.......I will need to get my head around this lol as we are talking not your norm personality....I might have to call on my Sister to come too lol :-S

Shirl it's good news that there were no blood clots but not so good that you now have to put up with the pain again.
Are you all sorted out now with the decorating ?

Meant to tell you this morning about waking in the night and there was some thing stuck on my leg ,i was half asleep but i remember pulling it off and putting it on the bedside cabinet ,when i looked this morning it was a label from a new pair of pants i'd worn during the day !! i must have had it on my leg all day :-D

Jane , did you try for what you said with the windows ?

Afternoon & evening all Hi Ruby---I'm in Canada

MADE A QUICK TRIP TO HOSPITAL YESTERDAY HAD ULTRASOUND DONE ON LEGS --BEEN SWELLING UP Dr THOUGHT COULD BE BLOOD CLOT BUT NO CLOTS----HE HAS TAKEN ME OFF BACK & HIP PAIN PILLS --DOING DAMAGE TO MY KIDNEYS---SO BACK TO THE PAIN :-D

YOU ALL SEEM TO BE VERY BUSY--I KNEW WHAT A CHOPPER WAS MANDY
HAVE ONLY SKIPPED OVER POSTS--MUST TRY TO AND CHATCH UP

HAVE I MISSED ANY PIC ??--NICE JOKES FRANK <3

Hello Dave.
It was sweets only on a Saturday for me.I was given 3d.Either 3 pennies or the thrupenny .Then when I was a little older 6d,then a shilling,2 shillings and finally half a crown.I could buy my on records then :-D It never lasted long however much I had lol.Television watching was limited but sometimes on a Saturday night I was allowed to stay up a bit longer to watch maybe the Royal Variety,Black and White Minstrels etc.
I think the most complicated thing to work was a calculator and that was almost when I had finished school.....I still have trouble with one :-S

It is an interesting place you live Ruby.


After the American Revolution David Garrison Sr. settled in the SC Indian Territory about 1786 at a place known to the Indians as "Big Shoals of the Saluda". The name of this location was changed to "Garrison Shoals" by David Sr. where he, along with son David Jr. owned a grist mill, tavern and 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) of land. It would later become known as Piedmont, Greenville County, South Carolina when the name was changed once again by the owner of the first successful cotton mill of the area who had purchased the original mill's property from David Sr. David Sr's property was located between Piedmont and Pelzer on Golden Grove Creek of the Saluda River where he appears on the 1790 Census and he is known as the founder of Piedmont

Piedmont Manufacturing Company, which was organized in 1873 and began operation in 1876. This textile mill was one of the first large-scale cotton manufacturers in upstate South Carolina and had considerable influence on the development of other mills in the area.

Piedmont was the setting for the vast majority of the film The Birth of a Nation. The film depicts the ravages of the US Civil War on the population and the subsequent devastation and humiliation endured by the inhabitants during the Reconstruction.

Siberian iris are the bearded iris Jane. I have a couple of them.

Ruby Wiltshire is a beautiful county. Were you born there?
Sounds like you like gardening Ruby. Have you any pets?

Have changed the bed today and all the bedding is blowing away on the line in the chilly breeze so it should smell nice when I bring it in. I love it when it's like that. Had a bad fight with the duvet cover and gave up. Oh shall have to help with it later on. :-| :-| :-|

May go up the tunnel now and sow some seeds.

I've jus t come in too Mandy for some Iced water .I was weeding but have had enough now.

Hi Ruby
Our Liz is in Wiltshire.It is a lovely county.It sounds like you are a plant lover,like many of us.We are all just planting our veg .I can't wait for my favourite Runner Beans.Could eat them every day :-D I must look up where exactly you are in S Carolina.My Daughter some years ago went to Charlotte in N.Carolina with the school choir.
I will have a look and see what a Siberian Iris is to.I love Iris ,but wish they would flower for longer.

The window man is coming back about 6pm for a deposit and signature on paper work :-D.

Chris should just about be at his destination in Suffolk.He is actually staying in Orford.(I thought it was Aldeburgh).

I hope Davids unpinning has gone to plan today and that his flexion in the knee isn't too bad.I bet it will all be very sore and stiff after being kept in one postition for so long.