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that would be telling!



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Hi Anne,

No they've done York so this time it's The Scottish Railway Preservation Society rail tour to Keighly and Skipton on a diesel powered train pulling the old style 1960s carriages ................... those were the days.

"Get off the train at Keighley from where you may choose to take a trip by steam train on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, with stops at Oakworth, the station featured in the film The Railway Children, Haworth for the Brontë Parsonage, and Oxenhope with its railway museum and restaurant"

Hope the weather is fair as we went to the Lake District , September 2001 and it poured down. Rainy days in steam trains just are not any fun while the only saving grace was the Linthwaite House Hotel at Windermere.
It was lovely.

I'm not going have to have a peaceful weekend after all as I have to put in a new shower ........... Dooohh :-( :-S :-D

Cynthia, is that picture a good likeness then ?? :-D

Arrghh. Curtains don't look as good as I hoped. They are going back. You get a refund if you haven't 'gathered' them etc. Got OH to stand on a small stepladder and hold them up. Much much too pale against a white wall. (curtains, not OH ;-) ). I need to deepen the tone a bit.


We have been promised a lot of rain but not much so far......?


Grandchildren are back at school after half term......so.....~~~~~love to all.

Reece lovely to have you back - you do things in style don't you - nice to know you are on the mend.

Elaine - love to know which bit of the thread you found yourself in to start with - you do realise you have to be a bit batty to be on this thread
Welcome - stay and join in the madness - we all have a bit of fun in between the serious side of life.

Josie - hope all is going well

Nice to see you joining us again Frank - which train journey - the York one?

Susan & Cynthia how do the curtains look? What did you buy in the end.

Well only a passing thought as busy busy again

Take care all ;-)

Hi all
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Welcome Elaine!


Reece ......... glad to hear you had a lovely time away, but it must have been a bit worrying when you fainted.



Take care all



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Hello Reece, I just spotted your name as I was closing down.

Lovely to hear from you but so sorry to hear that you havent been very well. How traumatic to faint in a restaurant - it's good to know that you have made a good recovery.

The rain is definitely much neede in some parts of the country and I think we are in for some tomorrow.


Hello Elaine....please don't worry about your posting. Welcome. Syrup of figs.....yuk.



Frank.....should you be looking in.....my avatar is of me dressed as The Battery Hen from a Pam Ayres poem! That is my silly side showing :-D

Hello friends,

Welcome Elaine - I do remember syrup of figs on Friday evenings and playing jacks for hours but not the rest as I lived in "the bush"! Are we about the same age?

Gosh, Josie that was quick - packing up and ready to go - but good luck for the job - it sounds good. I might go to live in Dorset next year so will have to think about moving after fifty years here, forty in this house and ten just five minutes away. Yes, I love keeping all sorts of things but have an amazing stack of programmes, music, opera, ballet, theatre and saying nothing about bird magazines, wild flower magazines and photos, books .... I had better stop! What to do with them? Who will want them?

I've had two lovely trips recently to be with the family after a dramatic faint in the local Italian restaurant! Luckily we had both finished our meal and were talking about foxes, of all topics! Anyway, so many kind people looked after me, and called an ambulance, whose crew insisted I go to A & E where after much care we (my son and I)came home at 2.00am! Then later that afternoon my son took me to his home in Dorset for a week. I'm quite recovered (I think) thanks to their kindness and the company of our lovely little grand daughters, who have just acquired two guinea pigs and with two chickens and a cat are beginning to build up quite a collection of pets.

Thank goodness it has rained at last - now I can have a rest from watering the garden plants and pots for a few days.

Love to all
Reecexx





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I'm sorry but this is an Ovaltine free zone. :-P Don't want the old dears falling asleep do we ? ;-)

Horlicks and hot chocolate are fine just as long as they are low fat........ ooops, too late girls ?? :-S

My mother-in-law is a hoarder with everything boxed in the attic and she told us all in quite a matter of fact way that we can sort it all out when she "leaves us"............... :-S

She's off to Leeds next weekend with my OH on one of these old train journeys so they are quite excited.......... I am having a relaxing weekend ;-)

oops.....just realized i WAY behind thread>>>>added to first page i think!! must be old age!! lol

i'd like ovaltine please! anyone remember the ovaltinie song? i was an ovaltinie...it was on the wireless(showing mi age now!) every week. think it was sunday night after we'd had our weekly bath ready for school Monday...we must av bin filthy>>>used to be sitting on floor all the time,playing jacks and dobbers and popping tar bubbles in the road! mi mum rubbed stork marg, on to remove tar,before bath. then it syrup of figs and bed!! Happy(?) days? lol

Well well there is life on the thread

Josie wonderful news - hope the interview goes well - Sounds a really fun job - gosh 18 years in one place on a rental - there again my cousin has lived in the same house for over 60 years now and they rent.

Its me thats the horder in my family ;-) like my father in law - it was murder when they had to downsize - he didn't want to let anything go. I am ok with some things and do tend to be very ruthless - but other things - well i am an old softy. My OH is very good he does keep pushing me to get rid of things.

We had a load of rain yesterday - torrential on the motorway.

Have fun with the curtain buying girls - I hate shopping - I only go because I have to - when something is too old or too small - OH hates shopping as well.

Hope Robert is enjoying his Highland cave - Reece are you back at home again? bit concerned about Evelyn - no update on her thread and nothing here either.

Oh well - off to mooch around the boards and have a look at a few of the game threads.

Take care all <3

Hi Everyone

I am so glad I am not the only one who has a problem with there OH being a hoarder...mine is terrible he will not throw anything away in case one day he will need it, we have all heard that one .

Really some of the things he keeps are just mind blowing,the garage is full of junk and we have only been in this house for 7 years,the next one we build will be much smaller so he will have to have a clean out.

Josie very good news about the sales job ,I love weddings so I would imagine it will be a very rewarding job to do.

It is cold here at the moment no rain today and won't be any for about a week they are telling us.

Cynthia I am off to buy some curtains myself this week for one of the spare rooms ....don't like the curtains that are in there at the moment ,going to put them in my computer room instead.

We hope to put this house on the market in two years so have to get it ready for sale...that takes a while.
Might use the idea of a garage sale to get rid of all that useless junk OH has accumulated .

Check in later
Suex <3

Hey Josie, sounds like a great job....hope it all goes okay - keep us posted.


You really mean your OH is a hoarder don't you ;-)

We had to downsize when we retired 7 years ago and, although painful at the time, it was really worthwhile. I did a couple of car boot sales, gave stuff to charity shops, some furniture went to daughter etc.etc. It's a bit like a load off your back when it's gone. Have decided to live the simple life now and it's so much easier.


Thanks for all the kind thoughts about my friend. It's hard to take in that she has recovered so much. I think there are odd glitches of memory lapses but she is back to phoning me every day and seems to have taken her husband's death in her stride. She is looking forward to being able to return home with some sort of care package. Time will tell.


Am now just deciding if it is going to stay dry enough to put washing out......decisions..decisions..


I made an executive decision to go and look for some new curtains today. I would really love a new carpet but that is out of the question at the moment so new curtains it will have to be. I hope my OH's arm doesn't hurt too much........from being twisted up his back ;-)


Evelyn? Reece? Love to all. Cx

Hi all
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Josie ..................... that's sounds a happy kind of job! Good luck at the interview



we're having some lovely weather ............ sunny and warm



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Buried in boxes, am taking a quick break from the packing,

Today is a public holiday [Queen's Birthday] It's a grey winter's day but still very warm 16'cel.

Have got some friends with a truck coming today to move OH's massive collection of plastic and die cast scale model cars and our 500 jigsaws puzzles! Would have loved to have put these on EBAY .... :-D
The reality is that OH is a Pack Rat and is unwilling to part with anything hence the reason we have to move his stuff today so I can have room to continue packing for our major move on Saturday.

It has been 18 years since we last moved and in this time we seem to have doubled our belongings.
Unlike OH I have had great pleasure in throwing out a lot of junk, however there seems to be so much still to pack. oh well!

Tomorrow I finnaly have a job interview. If I land this Sales Job I will be working full time selling Wedding Dresses and hiring out formal wear.

Break over time to get back to the Grindstone, catch you all later Josie :-)

Well back home now - where is everyone - i was going to read the updates and there arn't any

This is not good :-( :-0

Sue your very welcome - glad it worked - enjoy your dinner party.

Lovely & sunny here in the South - off to the outlaws tomorrow - only for the weekend - not enough time to try out the Internet on the Fon.

So will be off line till Monday probably - look forward to seeing all the news when i get back.

Very pleased your friend is better Cynthia

Wonder what has happened to Evelyn

Well off to have a mooch around the boards

Take care all <3

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Hi everyone

Anne thank you I have tried it now,hope it works when I Submit the message..they are so jolly looking .

Cynthia
I was so glad to hear of your friend 's recovery,was she the person who's husband recently died,good friends are so hard to fine these days and it sounds like you are a good friend to her.

I commented on a thread of Janet's yesterday ,wished I had not done so .
She did not say anything to me and my comment did not upset ....such a shame that everyone can't be nice to one another.

OOPs!! there I go again.

Nice and sunny today looking forward to the weekend ,friends over for dinner tonight.
Check in later.

Suex <3

Edite
I did it !! Thankyou Anne

Hi all
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it wqas pouring with rain today ....... butwe are promised that it will be sunny and 20-25C on Saturday!

I had to go out in the rain ......... time to have my annual squish. It was supposed to be done last Thirsday, but a staff member was sick so they had to change appointments.


Hopefully, all will be well, and I can relax until it's time to go for the next one in 12 months time!



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Oh poor Josie, how very unsettling for you. I hate moving too Sue, such an emotional as well as exhausting thing to do.


Anne, cars just get more and more expensive don't they? Don't know what I would do without ours though. I love driving but rarely go on long journeys these days.


I've had emoticons since they introduced them and they've stayed with me too!


I love them but prefer them on chatty threads rather than research threads.

I wish they had one with rolling eyes! I could make such good use of that! :-D


Have been to see my friend who was so poorly at the beginning of the year. She has come on in leaps and bounds...incredibly so. I am wondering if was some sort of breakdown to be honest.


It's been beautiful here this afternoon and tomorrow is promised to be glorious......I can see a lot of washing will have to be done. Mmmm curtains perhaps?


Love to all. Cx.