General Chat

I may have been tall and statuesque when I was younger, a lot younger,maybe 12 years old. But not now,I have shrunk with age,and the grey keeps getting the better of me. What was once a figure I was happy with,is now hanging down to me knees. The rheumatism makes me stoop,so nooooo you guessed wrong. But I love you for the beautiful discription,and ohhhhh how I wish. LOL. Luvs ya. Mo xxx

Just a quickie girls.
I sent a p.m to Marilyn. She is fine,and will talk to us soon.
Bye for now. Mo xxx

Jean, dont put the original photos into your scrap books. Make copies so that you can keep the originals safe in their albums. And of course you then have the scan on your computer - put it on a CD as well - so that if your album gets destroyed you can retrieve your photos from the CD which you will have put in a safe place (says she who hasnt done it yet).

Yes, if you send me your email addy I can send a photo or two for you to laugh over. Re Mo not looking like you had imagined, I had thought Liz the purple one was short, slim and dark haired. I have now seen her photo and she is not short and while not fat she is 'better built' (majestic?) than I thought and a blonde. But she is still the lovely person she always was even if she doesnt fit the picture I had in my mind.

I am getting to know quite a few people on here now. I would like to invite anybody who is a nice person to send me their email addy so I can invite them to join another (free) site on which we can actually add photos to threads like this. It makes it so much more colourful and interesting and you dont have to email the photo to a dozen or more people. I am not suggesting you drop your membership of GR. It has its uses too but the other site is great with the ability to put good photos on, not like the photos page on GR. I dont think the world and his dog can look at the site unless they are members. It is not like facebook.

Huia.

P.M.sent Huia...... thank you....

Jean x

Hi Everyone.......I'm here ...LOL

Lovely Mo sent me PM yesterday just to check I'm alright.

Well I had three lovely weeks with my grandchildren and loved every minute.
But it was HOT !!! too HOT .....

Good job we had the swimming pool to cool off and the air con in the villa,you could not have survived otherwise !
Then when I got to Bristol airport ,on went a jumper & cardigan we were freezing.
But now I have got used to our British climate AGAIN LOL

Its quite nice today and I have done a lot of washing mostly towels as its windy, but warm.

I have just been out in the garden as everything has overgrown,and have just cut back my Rosemary bush what a shame all that Rosemary thrown away.....do you think Sainsburys would have been interested !!

Now whats all this about Photo's ?
Can someone send me some piccy's and I'll send you one of me ,just let me know and I'll send my e mail addy.
But I want you all to guess what I look like first ??? LOL

Hope you are all well and that you are also looking forward to any holidays.
Glad you & HO sound better Jean.

Speak later.
Marilyn x

Hi everyone, how are we all today? Certainly everybody sounds very chirpy. This will probably be my last update until after our hols. We get back late at night on Sun 16th, so don't go panicking about me. I'm just off the radar for a while again.

I can't use my digital camera very well, and as for transferring things to the computer - well, what do you think I have a 13 year old for? Actually he and friends have gone pier jumping on the high tide today, so I hope he is ok. Difficult sometimes to "let go" and not be too over protective.

Mo, what a sad world we live in with you not feeling safe at night. The bay where I took the children on Friday was full of fishing people of all ages, from about 6 years upwards. And there were loads of pier jumping teens as well. It was like a huge muti age party there and a lovely atmosphere. That's not to say we don't have troublesome Hot Spots around, of course we do, but we are reasonably safe and sound over here. We know how lucky we are.

We have glorious sunshine today, but rain forecast for tomorrow, so I am busy washing towels & sheets to get them dry in the air. They always smell so much better than drying inside. I don't have a tumble drier, so in winter, I wash all the big things, then the local launderette dries them for me. Much cheaper (I think) than having them do it all for me.

That's about it for a while now. I wish you all a lovely couple of weeks. Please keep your fingers crossed for us for nice weather. Camping is great but not in 2 weeks of sogginess. I'll let you know where we ended up once I find out myself!!!!

Best wishes to you all.
DEBBIE

Hello Debbie and Marilyn, lovely to here from you both. have great holiday Debbie, hope the sun shines...
Marilyn, I am doing a G.R. scrapbook so have a lot of photos of the various folk who come on here, so I love recieving photos all kinds, I have sent you my e-mail addy, so you can return the favour....lol...
I can understand how you would feel the cooler weather here, hardly summer sunshine, maybe we will get an indian summer Sep or Oct , I love
those months.... Huia sent me a photo of herself. I have loads off Dutch too..
Take care , love Jeanx

Hello All,

Marilyn, it's nice to see you home again. So pleased you had a great holiday with your family!

Debbie, hope you and the family will have a good holiday. I really hope that you will have good weather-- especially dry weather!

Jean, pleased to hear the good news about J. I'm sure that both of you are very relieved. Have you decided where you would like to go on holiday, yet?
At the moment I am having a bit of a problem with some of the pages of the Family History scrapbook I am making. Not sure whether to put more than one photo on some of the pages, as I need to put a good bit of journalling on the pages as well. I just wish I could make up my mind.

Mo, hope both you and Roly are alright. I'm sure you mentioned that Roly had an appointment to see a Consultant sometime at the beginning of August. Maybe I've got it wrong!

Grace, not sure if we have met before.
Welcome back!

Huia, I wish I was as good as you are, taking photos. I'm afraid , that both Alun and I are hopless at taking them.

All the best to Sue and Marie.

Got a few jobs to do before Richard and Christie arrive tomorrow, so I had better get on.
Alun and I are really looking forward to seeing them.

Best wishes to you all.

Love, Sallie.xx

Right guessing time, Marilyn, petite blonde , great figure , bags of energy,....
Sallie tall and willowy, short cropped auburn hair , very tanned.....
Debbie,medium height, brown hair tied in a pony tale,always in jeans...
Grace, another elegant lady white hair cut like Judy Dench, quite tall.
Am I right? whoops nearly forget our Marie, I think she is fairly tall, grey hair, very fit,lovely grandma......your turns now...lol....you better get me right or else....


love Jean x

Hi Jean,

Dont think you got me quite right !! LOL


The figure was a figure many moons ago ........, but the hair yes I'll give you that...
Energy well could be better....but I am what I am ..LUMPY & DUMPY ...!!


Marilyn x

Oh no you are Not , Marilyn ......

Hi there everyone.
Marilyn,I bet your body went into shock when you got off that plane. You had got used to lovely warm weather,and it had turned like winter here.
What a shame about your rosemary plant. I love the smell of it. The one that I had,I cut back but,I killed it instead. I am a brute where plants are,I
should have taken more care.
Debbie,you are so lucky to have a 13 year old at home,who is knowledgable about downloading things. I have to wait for one of my gang to come round,and then ask them if I have any problems.
My lord,pier jumping. Doesn't it worry you,it would me I am afraid. But then I am an old fusspot,and see problems where probably there are none.
I don't blame you going to the laundrette. I used to do that,when my five were young. It was the only way to get so much washing dry.
Have a lovely holiday,see you when you get back.
Sallie,Roly's hospital appointment is at the end of August. He is still waiting for the results on the exray he had done on his spine. But that's our N.H.S for you.
Not long now till your son is with you. I hope you and Alun are well.
Well our Jean. This guessing about each others appearance. I should imagine that most of us,have got blonde to greying hair,apart from Debbie and Sue.
I am grey/blonde,about five foot two,size sixteen,but happy with myself the way I am. I don't really care to be honest,what others say about me. I used to always be on this diet or that diet,but not any more,people have to take me as they find me. Wether I am done up to the nines,or as usual
stuck in a pair of jeans for comfort.
I used to be a trim size 10-12,not anymore though. lol The menopause
has a lot to answer for.
Guess what this stupid fool did today. Huia had sent me her e.mail addy
and I did not recognise the name,sooooo I deleted it. It was only as it disappeared from my screen did I think to myself,oh lord that was probably Huia.
Huia,I hope you managed to get a little sleep,after your O.H waking you up at 12.30.
I am going now girls. Love to you all. Mo xxx

Mo, I re-sent (hyphen very necessary there) my ordinary email addy plus another invitation from that other website.

If anybody else wants to look at a website where you can add photos to the thread, I will need your email addy. The site is not as well set out as our previous one, but as my dad used to say, cheggars cant be boosers. You just have to learn (as I did) how to navigate around it and add photos.

Huia.

Huia,

I'll send you my Addy, I would like to look at photos of anything !!

Not sure what to do though,but I'll give it a try.

Hello all ,
As usual I have been flat out. I managed to stay home to-day, but fitted in a driving lesson for my grandson and then dropped him off at work, he is a check out lad at Woolworths.
So Jean you are into the guessing game I wouldnt dare do that I'm sure I would get it all wrong, I am 5ft4ins blue eyes was a blond after 6 children I am now mousy and have grey hairs near my ears I ocassionly get a few streaks put in it and I have always worn it short .I will send you a photo later when my grandaughter gets home I always need help with that kind of thing.

Marilyn its good to have you back

Emily and Abbigail are back at daycare, thank goodness I do hope they stay well.

Huai hope every thing is fine with you would you send me the web site please.

I must leave you all ,((((((Hugs to you all ))))))))))) Marie from OZ

Hi, Marie, I have sent you my addy,


Jean x

Hi All, just back from a lovely time out with a girlfriend, a tasty pub lunch then a nice walk. I had the 3 youngest children with me. They don't mind coming if there is food involved.

Mo, I used to worry loads about the children and still do, but there is a very fine line between giving them space and being too over protective. Yes, I worry the whole time they are out of my sight, and most of the time I can see them, as well. But I have learnt that if I keep worries and concerns to myself, the the children are far more likely to tell me things and be honest and responsible, than if I question or worry all the time. Reverse Psychology, works all the time.

Just started raining here now, so made the most of the good weather.

Jean, how good do you think you are at guessing?? Well, I'm 5ft 4, blonde with more grey streaks than I would like. My Mum calls it "Salt & Pepper". I am a size 16, hankering after being a 12 again, but that will never be. I don't actually diet, and am happy with the way I am, though a lot of the excess is on my backside. You see, the thing is, that I don't actually catch sight of it very often, not like a stomach or other bits, so I forget it is there, until I try on something new and then I have a reality check. My hair is longer than it should be and I will get it cut after the holidays. I haven't worn it up for ages, and an old Aunt always wondered why people wore their hair long if they never did anything with it. I used to think she was mad, but am now tending to agree. I am 48 (just), so was an Older Mum when I started having children, though my 4 keep me feeling either a lot younger or totally knackered :-)))

Anyway, this will never get the dinner cooked.

Speak to you all soon. Definately the last posting until after my hols.

DEBBIE

Hello everyone,I hope you have all had a good day.
What has happened to our summer?
I do hope the weather brightens up for you Debbie. You will enjoy yourselves anyway. Enjoy yourselves,love to you all. You will have to tell us how it all went when you get back.
Thanks Huia for the e.mail addy. I am still having problems understanding how to get into it though. Especially the photography sight.
I bet Sallie is in her element now girls,as she has her son home. Love to you Sallie.
Hi to Marilyn,Sue,Grace.
Marie,so you still have Woolworths over there. They closed them all down over here. And we all miss having them local to us,they had been trading for so many years. How long has your grandson worked for them?
Pleased to hear that the grandchildren are better.
How's our little flower Jean today then.
Have you booked that holiday yet.
See you all soon. Love Mo xxx

Hi Everyone,


Well it pored & pored all day .....but ....the SUN is out now !!!

Have not done anything exciting today ,just cooked a dinner and did some research.

I have a reunion tomorrow with girls that I worked with 40yrs ago so I guess we will have a lorra lorra Laugh's at trying to guess who we all are as we were all lovely and slim and so young....cant wait !! there are about 35 of us ....

Probably get throw out of the restaurant for being too noisy , so I will let you all know how we get on .

Hope you all are in good spirits even though this weather is enough to give you depression !!

Marilyn x

Hello Ladies,

Just having a quick look in to see if everyone is okay.

On my own at the moment, the young people are having a night out together -- and Alun has gone to his model railway club, so got a bit of time to myself.

Jean, you are right about the auburn hair ( going grey now ) and fairly short. I am 5ft. tall, use to be size 10 to 12, but the tablets that I am on have made me put on weight, so am now size 16. Not happy about that,
with being so short it make me look dumpy.
I haven't got a photo taken on my own, only with other people. Not sure if that will be any good. It's because I hate having my photo taken.

Mo, as you said I've been in my element having Richard and Christie here.
They came a day earlier, just rang and asked if they could come a day early, we were only too pleased to see them. So it's been great having them all here. Richard decided to treat Jennie and Michael to a night out, as they can't afford to go out very much.

My friend goes to see the consultant tomorrow--they'll tell her then, if she'll need any treatment. They did say that it looked alright, but of course they have to make sure. We are all hoping and praying that she won't need to have any treatment.

Jennie has had to have another blood test today, the hospital will let her know the result on Monday-- she goes to the clinic on Wednesday, anyway. At least we know that they are keeping a close eye on her.

I certainly hope that Debbie doesn't have weather like we have had today. At times we have had heavy rain with thunder and lightening, so keeping my fingers crossed for Debbie and her family.

Hope everyone else is alright.

Speak to you all soon.

Best wishes to you all.

Love, Sallie.xx