General Chat

Oh it will be good for you to get rid of the wire pins David, you will feel so much freer and more comfortable. Fingers crossed the surgeon will be happy with your knee. Fancy you getting your old bed back!! lol. I wonder what the odds are for that. They take a lot of care now to stop MRSA spreading. I suppose they can take more precautions to stop it spreading if they know someone has the bugs. Do you know how long you will be in for this time?

Thank you Ann,The surgeon is takin of the wire pins ot and testing the flexion of the knee.

Would you believe I'm back in bed 9,the same one as before.
Doesn't feel any moe comfortable than the last time.


Got swabbed in nose and throat and down below,apparntly they test for MRSA

<3 <3 Very Best Wishes for tomorrow David <3 <3. We'll all be thinking of you. :-) Not something to look forward to, but it is a step forward in putting you back together, so that is good.

Oh Lesley I bet you were sorry to have your holiday cut short! :-S I always wanted to go to Butlins as a child, but apart from one week 's holiday at Burton Bradstock, we only had a few daytrips. Luckily, once I was a teenager my friend's mum used to take me to their chalets at Bacton and Hemsby some weekends. They owned them and us girls would help clean them ready for the season and then could do what we liked. It was lovely and wild in those days with great walks along the beaches and clifftops.

Jane, that was a narrow escape from the flying divan! I wonder if they stopped to re load it. I must admit I don't like haggling with double glazing people. All that doing you a favour with the discount, can only give you this offer if you sign today and I'll have to ring my boss to see if I can give you more is wearing after a while. I just want to know the bottom line and not take hours of faffing to get there!

I forgot to ask, is it the Benjamin Britten festival Chris is going to?

Im back in the RVI another operaton on my knee tomorrow

Thanks for the welcome guys!!! Fiona, I live in Scotland now, East Lothian, moved up from Liverpool 6 years ago, I thought England and Wales had great countryside and good beaches, but up here is brilliant, except the weather!!!!!!!!!!!

We tried Butlins one year and Mum hated it...........too regimental she said and she didn't like the fact we had to sit for our meals with people we didn't know!!!!! so we had to leave before the week finished :-(

OH Poo! just lost a post :-S..I thought it was here ,but it disappeared into space :-S
Now I can't remember what I said :-S :-S :-S

Glad you managed to get your appointment in the end Ann, isn't it awful that the only way to get things done is to complain .....loudly ....... I hate complaining I get all embarrassed and go red.

We used to have caravan holidays every year when I was a child, always to the same caravan site in Eype in Dorset. Looking back it can't have been much of a holiday for my mum, we couldn't afford to eat out so she would still have to cook and wash up, but it always seemed to be warm and sunny or perhaps that's just my happy memory of it.

The Vietnamese menu was very varied Mel, lots of meat dishes as well as fish, son-i-l had goat meat in some sauce, he asked if I wanted to try it my initial reaction was NO but I did try it and it was really nice.

I'm going to open up this greenhouse to check all the bits are there but it's a bit late to be putting it together, maybe tomorrow if I finish ironing early enough.

OMG I'm exhausted .Window man just gone.
I hate all the haggling money side of things.I'm all of a dooda now :-|.Chris has gone for a little drive on his own lol
Yes Mandy we were so lucky not to have hit that bed ..or if it hit our windscreen...We might not be here if it had.Gives me shivers down my spine :-S We were that close.!!
I could have slept on the darned thing.

I need to just quickly iron a couple of shirts for Chris as he is off to Suffolk tomorrow for a night .

Afternoon Everyone,

Another nice sunny day but when the sun goes behind the cloud it goes really cold out there .

Ann glad you got in to see the doctor today and that it nothing serious ,you'll just have to be careful and take things easy for a while ,the least little twist or bend can set it off again that's the trouble , and just when you want to get on in the garden too.

Jane , how lucky were you avoiding the old divan!! thank goodness nothing was in the other lane beside you so you could swing out ,how quickly these things can happen.

Had to do the end of the month accounts for hubby today , oh how i love that job but they are all done and paid now for another month ,May tomorrow where is the year going , just remembered first of May is petticoat day !!
i wonder if they still make petticoats , i've seen the little waist slips in the shops although i think most skirts and dresses now have linings in them .

Hubby's working late tonight so it will be an easy tea tonight some thing with new potatoes and salad .

Tracey, welcome and thanks for bringing up caravans in Cornwall. My late brother Fred bought a caravan at Harlyn Bay (near Padstow) donkeys years ago and we would all end up holidaying there. One year there was a terrific storm and although we weren't there, Fred's caravan broke loose and was smashed to being unusable.Luckily he had friends who lived not too far and they were able to get there quickly and salvage the contents. He got a new van with the insurance, and replaced the smaller one with a larger one as the his family grew. I went down with him and we cut up the old chassis up to make shafts to drive into the soft ground and securely lashed the new one down. A few years later, another storm - and the adjoining caravan broke loose and smashed into Fred's van. He gave up then and if they wanted to holiday there he hired his friends van. I have lovely memories of trips down there, fishing off Boat Bay beach and cooking the catch for supper.

I've changed my image for one of my sketches of Boat Bay, Harlyn just for old times sake. Ahhhhh.

And Mel, thank you for bringing up St Osyths. Mum, Fred and I were briefly evacuated there early in the war because our upstairs flat in Stratford, East London was uninhabitable due to war damage. I don't recall much about it as Dad was able to get us a place in Chadwell Heath soon afterwards and we moved there. But I can't help think of St Osyths any time I think of Clacton or that part of the Essex coast.

Jane, you were so lucky not hitting that divan, someone's prayers were with you. I wonder if some unlucky soul after you managed to dodge it? The only time that ever happened to me (in someone else's car) was when a tailboard sheared off the truck in front and in a shower of sparks shot across the carriageway in front of us.
I'm always very careful to keep a good distance away from those huge gravel trucks. It's very likely a stone will break lose from the tyre treads and fly up and do heaven knows what damage.

Just lost a long post Blood# Machine. Will try again later. Can't get back on very easily .

I totally agree with that Hapione :-D :-D Happy and sad memories When ever I hear Mungo Jerry ...In the Summer Time it reminds me of Bigbury (in Devon ) where I worked during the summer of I think it was 1971.Happy Memories :-D

Mel I have got a pic of the car but will do it later.I just need to get some mugs out for coffee/Tea as this chap should be here any moment....Must run

I'm sure emotions and memories are most attached to music.

Frank when I went to Butlins in the 70's everything was still like you mentioned..I had a young baby so had to rinse the nappies out and put a ticket on them and they would wash them and I would collect them the next day..I had to leave Clare in the nursery while we went to the big hall with my eldest child to eat at the long tables..When something was dropped we all rored sp..

Dermot you do have serious discussions lol.

Fiona..I wish your daughter well with her job interview..

Must go for now..I did start this before 12 but have had to answer the phone twice..Why does my brother aways talk to me when he needs Alan to sort his Pc out.He doesn't finish work until 4..but then we have only just sorted it out over the weekend for him already lol

Morning all and evening Kim (just )

Hello to all the new people on here...

I have decided against taking the jab for my bones and am just going to concentrate on the calcium and vit d tablets...Managed to get an appointment with the doctor last night and talked it though with him..Had him look at my knee whilst I was there apart from my knee being painful and starting to give way on the odd occasion (where I nearly fell down the stairs ) I have a a painful left leg at the top feels like something has over stretched..He said it could be my knee doing that...Will wait and see.

Jane I hope you enjoy your ride in the new car..
Mel up to afew years ago with had a caravan in Norfolk and used to do the 2 hour journey every frid afternoon back after tea on Sunday/

Im off to north creake in about 10 days for a long weekend..\we are taking Mocha and... are staying in a rented cottage.. Used this cottage last year so we know where all the pubs are lol..
Ann I hope your back feels better soon..Max used to sit on the windowsill sun bathing Mocha just finds any sunny spot..

So chris has arrived home. I hope we are going to see a pic of this new car Jane please?

Ann at least you know now that is is mucular pain and not anything more sinister. Take it easy for a bit and rest it, just gentle exercise and you should be back to normal soon.

I have my other glasses on today as I said I had left the others to have the new fraes on. These are the ones with the verifocal lenses and the Robin won't come and feed in front of me unless I take them off. They are also making my nose sore on the bridge on my left side so I may be going back to my old ones if this carries on. I use the old ones when gardening anyway so I don't scratch the new ones.

Well I am all feed and watered. After my shower I thought, what do I fancy.

We had some Jersey Royals over from dinner last night. So I did two rashers, two eggs and a pile of sliced Jersey's 2 slices of B & B and more tea. Full to busting now. so won't want anything till tonight.

Glad you got on alright at the Docs this morning Ann.

I looked in at the greenhouse this morning, all my runner beans are now sprouting, and my potato's are almost ready to plant. I will have to just push the spade into the earth and drop one in each hole.
. Ros has bought half dozen cabbage plants and half dozen Cauliflower plants, so will have to get those in some how.!! The lettuce plants cad go on the patio in a large plant pot a (very large one I might add)

I see the lawn needs a cut also. Thank goodness my mower isn't heavy, and I can support myself on it. I just push it up and down the lawn very slowly.

Thinking of it, won't get it done, so I will put my old clobber on, and try to make a start.

See you later.

Morning All and Evening Kim,

Wall to wall sunshine here this morning with some light fluffy white clouds but nothing threatening.

Took ages to read your posts.

Welcome Lesley and thanks for the memories.

So nice to have Ruby post again do keep going both of you please.

We had a caravan when I was young at St Osyths on the Essex coast. We went down every Friday night and stayed till Sunday evening when we took the 2 hour drive home. Spent many a happy time there having bonfires on the beach with driftwood collected during the days and kept for such a purpose. Putting potatoes in the fire and toasting mash mallows on sticks and sitting around and generally have a good chin wag.

Sometimes in the school holidays dad would leave mum and I down there for the week with aunty Iris and her daughter Jane. I member once they had a bloke keeping an eye on them so they hung all dads clothes on the line to make out we still had a man around. Days were spent playing on the beach and swiming in the sea and seemed to last forever not like now when the weeks and months seem to pass so quickly.

Well I hav'nt eaten yet so think I shall have a bowl of soemthing so I can take my pills.

Happy memories.................. :-D

Well I'm home,but where is Chris !!.I just dropped him off so I still haven't seen this car :-S.I then went to do a bit of shopping and am now having a coffee.I bet he has taken it for a run.
Ann I won't be able to go out in it this afternoon as we have the Window Man coming.
At least you know your pain is muscular and nothing more serious.I know these things do take a long time to heal.But you don't need to worry now which in itself may help a bit .

We had such a shock on the way to Northampton earlier.We were on the Dual Carriage way and all of a sudden the Base of a Divan flipped off the back of a truck right over the wire cage and landed on the verge .It then summersaulted back onto the carriageway right in front of us :-0 :-0 :-0.Luckily and were able to swing out around it.It frightened the life out of me I can tell you :-S :-S

He's home.I just heard tooting lol,so I had better go and admire :-D

Morning All, :-D

Success this morning! The doctor I saw was a nice smiley young lady doctor........some doctors years ago hardly ever smiled did they. She checked down my spine and got me doing different movements to see just where it hurt and the verdict was muscular and to keep taking the I*uprofen, but to come back if I need something stronger. I need to stretch and move as much as I'm able as it improves but to be careful doing things I know will cause pain.She said the weakness that's there now may take months to get better!! She has arranged for physio (a month's wait for that) in case things get worse again and I can cancel it if everything is hunky dory. That's the way to do it as Mr Punch said. I feel happier now and will be super careful how I do things. It has improved today and I managed to sleep well last night so that's good. As we drove home I saw a lovely little spaniel through someone's window. It was lying across the top of a settee looking outside. OH said, aren't you going to knock at the door and ask..........how much is that doggie in the window? The match he went to watch at Melton the other night and came home because no-one was playing on the pitch when he got there............well, it turned out he had gone to the wrong place and it was on, but just further up the road!! He couldn't believe it, says he's turning into me!! What does he mean!!

Ruby, migraines are awful, especially when you get them as badly as your grandaughter. It isn't as if you feel great as soon as they go, they leave you feeling so tired and drained. I do hope the treatment helps her.

I've just been checking my seeds I planted and lots of them are poking through now. :-) I'm not opening the greenhouse door yet though, it's freezing when the sun goes in. I bet Mandy will feel it with her shorn locks. :-0

I wonder if Jane and Chris will be off for a spin somewhere in the new car this afternoon?? :-D I remember going to Twycross zoo with OH after I bought one car.