General Chat

Thanks for trying to contact Rita Stephen. Not much hope of finding out unfortunately. I know her daughter lives in Hayes But no idea where or her name either.

Been to see my brother this afternoon. He is in good spirits but has been told likely to be a week more before his op. He is only no 5 !!!
His bed is costing £10.00 a day, as he can't be moved due to norovirus in the next ward. If he had the money he could go private costing £25000. His bed will be at least £19000, by the time it is done, madness.

Have a nice evening all

Linda xxx <3 <3 <3

RITA....update.

I managed to contact her Sheltered Housing Manager again today. She assured me she had passed my contact details on to the family.
Nothing else can be done in terms of getting information from the Manager.

It would be handy if someone lived in Woking or near it , to drop in and ask a neighbour about Rita.

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Morning everyone
Very wet but mild here this morning
My brother is still in hospital waiting for surgery !!! They have so many needing this right now, but they can't let him go home.
So a long wait for him and all the family.

Hope everyone else is well.
Just back from the gym. Losy a further pound and half this week. So very slow But I am getting there.

Busy weekend have some furniture being delivered so need to sort lots out, somewhere for my reference books at last.

Have a good day everyone

Linda xxx <3 <3 <3

Good Morning to all the people on the Friendly thread,

Have a lovely day whatever you are doing.

Foggy

Hello, Stephen. I have been looking in each day, but my diary has been pretty full, so I havent added as I cant hang around to see who else drops in. In fact, I will be going to bed soon.

Tomorrow night I am going to a concert at the Hospice, Tina Cross and Rikkie Morris will be in it, if you have heard of them.

I am currently driving a loan car as my ute 'lost' its clutch on Wednesday. It had a piggy back to the garage near where I work in the hospice shop. They hope to fix it on Monday. It will cost quite a bit to repair :-( but we have had it since 1994 and havent had too many major problems with it :-) At least it 'gave up the ghost' in a suitable place, and time, not when I was coming home at 9pm the previous night. I would have had to leave it parked on the side of the road and walked uphill home. Where it happened was only 6 km from the garage, and the AA sent a truck to pick it up at no cost to me :-D

Bed is calling.

A Wee Chuckle for the day


The United States is the only country where a housewife hires a woman to do her cleaning ...........................

So she can do volunteer work at the Day Care........

Where the cleaning woman leaves her child so she can go out to work

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Morning Folks !

Jean......did you actually go to bed ? :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S

No frost this morning but the wind has got up so it feels very cold :-P :-P :-P :-P

A great night out at the Pantomime and a grand tea at the Hotel. We all laughed, shouted the usual, and generally joined in all the fun. MAGIC :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Looks like this Thread is being given a body swerve by folks. :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

Have a good day ya all !

Keep well , keep safe , keep smiling :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Hello everyone, hope you have had a restful and warm night.

Stephen I hope your Grandchildren enjoyed the pantomime and tea out.
(and you and Mrs. Stephen of course)

Very cold here, very thick frost again, it didn't clear at all yesterday, but no snow as yet.

Tea or coffee anyone, (_)? (_)? (_)? (_)? help yourselves.

If you are going out today take care and stay safe.
Jean xx

A Wee Chuckle for the day

A woman’s work that is never done....

is the stuff she asks her husband to do.

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Morning Folks !

Later on this morning. I've been on Snow clearing duty :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

Not the trenches I had to dig two years ago but still a nuisance. :-| :-| :-| :-| :-|

Jean, Hope today is better for you. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I'm going to phone Ritas Sheltered Housing Manager today to see if she actually passed on the message to the family.

Tonight lady Stephen and I are taking our Grandchildren to a Pantomime.
Oh ! No your not...... Oh! Yes we are :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Should be fun.

We are having Tea at a Swanky Hotel first. My wee lassies deserve the best. ;-) ;-)

Have a good day ya all !

Keep well , keep safe , keep smiling :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Apologies if I posted this before. The old brain has more holes in it than a wicker basket. Here goes!

Hospital Visitors.
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One of the corporal works of mercy, the Church teaches, is to visit the sick. But I have my doubts. After a short visit to our local hospital some years ago, I'm more convinced than ever that there should be a protocol to observe when visiting someone on their sick bed.

So I'm in hospital because of an illness. While there, I really don't want to hear of others who are also sick & I certainly never need to know of anyone who has just died especially if they were suffering from something even distantly related to my incapacity. I have an illness all of my own to worry about.

Talk to me about things that might actually take my mind off my incapacity for a few minutes – sport, music, fuel shortages, gossip or whatever - but not the X-Factor please or anything related to George Galloway's Bradford election success nor anything mildly surrounding Pippa Middleton's supposedly superior posterior - as if nobody else has one! I sit on mine much of the time these days.

Bear in mind that there is no consolation for me in the realisation that things could be worse and that down the corridor there are others who are worse off than I am. Deploying that sort of logic is like encouraging a young child to eat broccoli because there are starving children in Africa.

And on the subject of food – unless I'm in a very private and posh hospital which is highly unlikely – there is every chance that the food I'm given is of the boarding school variety; so a big Cornish Pasty (hot or cold) or snack box would be as welcome to me as stolen cheese & wine to a celebrity chef.

Speaking of drink, unless specifically requested, do not bring me Lucozade. A glucose drink is usually very refreshing when its newly opened and ice cold, but it tends to lose its lustre when it becomes tepid in the warm hospital ward and flat a Shrove Tuesday pancake.

Skip on grapes and fruit – it shows a shocking lack of imagination when you could be bringing me a Kindle or a quality newspaper. I would even settle for a get-well card if you want to go down that route.

Most of all, do not outstay your welcome; thirty minutes are more than adequate. And if others come in while you’re there, then withdraw gracefully to allow them to chat a while. It's just not possible for everyone to sit on the side of my hospital bed especially while I'm still in it. The saline drip cannot be unplugged to make more room.

I know I’m extremely fortunate that the few times I’ve ever spent a night in hospital in my life, as far as I know, have been for my own birth and one other minor ailment not worth going on about here.

But I do know that if I was in hospital again, nothing would make me more ill than having to divulge the personal details of what caused me to be there in the first place. Yep - I know you'd like to know the full gory story, but not from me! Worst of all is when visitors come out in empathy, simulating chest pains or the Ebola virus as though this gives them a greater understanding of my condition. I don’t need to know about their aches and pains any more than I want them to know about mine.

After all, one presumes that the purpose of the visit is to cheer me up – not make me long for a spell in solitary confinement or isolation just so I can have a little of peace and quiet away from the likes of you lot.

Away with ye now!

Dermot (aka Victor Meldrew's understudy.)

Good Evening to all the Friendlies,

Very chilly today and quite a hard frost for practically all day.

Foggy

Oh Stevey .....You are awful.....But I like you .. ;-)


You been bird watching again? you know you could get a nasty cold up that tree!!


I have just had a lovely Mince Pie with luscious dollop of Devon cream .....so yummy :-D

So now I'm going to wrap a few Christmas pressies , :-D

Afternoon Folks,

I'm freezing ! Been up a tree all morning with my binoculars waiting on a gorgeous lady having her bath.

She didn't appear,,,,,,,probably slept in ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Afternoon .... :-D

Oh dear I got up late this morning ....11-15am. :-S

I must have been tired .....problem is its puts you out for the rest of the day !

I'm eating a slice of toast for my lunch.

Off out to get bits & bobs....

No word yet from Rita ...Via my message note . :-(

Morning all
Hope everyone is able to keep warm and it's not too foggy where you are.

We had fog last night but it's clear this morning just a heavy frost. Heathrow only 25 miles away has many cancelled flights though.

Off to babysit Sebastian this moning, his Mum has an appointment so called to see if we could help. So no gym as too early to do both.

Hopefully carry on to see Joshua after, as we haven't seen them for a week now.

Finished a couple more small blankets for the special care last night so hopefully take them and some tiny hats soon.

Have a good day everyone.

Linda xxx <3 <3 <3

"He moved with the dexterity of a Taxidermist trying to stuff a live crocodile".

A comment I heard on the radio recently during a discussion about dancing on TV.

A Wee Chuckle for the day

''What did your mother do yesterday morning. Vicky?” asked the Teacher

“She done her shopping,Miss.”

“Done her shopping, Vicky?''

'' Where’s your grammar?”

“She done her shopping as well,Miss.”

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Morning Folks,

Not a lot to say this morning :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Not like me eh !

Have a good day ya all !

Keep well ,keep safe , keep smiling :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Hello my lovelies .... :-D



I have been a busy bee today........done al-sorts of jobs !! :-D

Now I'm trying to start to pack again !! LOL

Now going to watch the telly with my Baileys. ;-)