General Chat

Thank you Sallie and Ann for the lovely cards and kind wishes. lots of visitors, including C, and D which made my day even better. bunches of flowers and chocolate

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Hello everyone,

Jean, hope that you are feeling better and have been able to make some more cards again.

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Happy Birthday for today Jean and hope that you will have a lovely day.

Our love and best wishes. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 Sallie and Alun. xxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3


Sylvia, good to see that you are busy organising you and OH's trip to celebrate your 50th Wedding Anniversary on the 12th of August.

Sounds like a great trip that you have planned , wouldn't mind doing something like that for our 50th on the 28th of August, although we haven't even thought much about our anniversary at all yet. I have a couple of things planned for my 70th birthday in July,but nothing really special, just a couple of meals arranged with family members.

I can't get over how quickly the years have gone by.


Ann, hope all is well with you, T and all your family.

Well, must go to bed now, will speak to you all again soon.

Take care all.

Love, Sallie.xxx <3 <3

Hello everyone

Today turned out to be a nice early summer's day after a cloudy and rather chilly start!

I'm planning two trips ........ one at the end of October into November to celebrate our anniversary, and the second for Christmas with our daughter.

After much thought and debate about what we wanted to do, and deciding there was no way whatsoever that we were going to do anything that involved us being in the US or transiting through there, we settled on a train trip in Canada ............ aren't you surprised??!!!! :-D


We're going to take the train to Quebec City. I've never been there, always wanted, while OH has been there twice for short meetings. It's our usual route to Montreal, then a different train to QC. We'll have 4 full days (5 nights) in QC in a very nice old hotel in the Old City inside the city walls ............ it's the only city in North America still with its walls intact. It might be a bit chilly and we might see some snow. Then back home again. I'm going to book the train on Monday, and will do the hotels a little later.

Hi everyone


The boards are certainly slow ......... I just discovered Suemaid's Australia thread pages and pages back ........... no-one had posted on it since March 31st :-(

It is like this one .......... down to only 3 or 4 posters now as people have left or died.

It's very sad

Hi Jean, I think the boards always move slowly in hot weather. Sorry you are feeling down, any specific reason?

How is your card making going. I am hoping my young friend is managing to sell the cards I made for her, some of them sold before she got them at our U3A photography group meeting.

Big news here is that we bought a new barbecue for OH to play with. He cooked burghers tonight and they were lovely, not good for the weight though.

hope everyone is doing well , the hot weather is too much for me, in fact I have had a lousy week , dont know why just very down hearted,

so not much news but thought I would budge this thread up, its some time since we came on.... thats all folks at the moment.........

I congratulated you on the Welsh thread Sallie but in case you missed it, great news, welcome baby Jenson. <3

Sallie and Alun congratulations on the birth of your grandson Jenson , also that Alun is home, each day will see steps forward. lovely news for all the family. and us also :-D :-D :-D :-D

you will enjoy being grandparents, I know we were so blessed when S was born, and now greatgrandparents to C although we dont get to see him much, still always in our hearts....

My envelopes and cello bags came quickly so its all sytems go ;-) ;-) ;-)

thats if my siatica stops playing up... I hope to get to the hairdressers this morning , good job its only downstairs no need to go outside.

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Sallie ..............


congratulations on your new grandson xxx A hefty little lad!!

and also good to hear that Alun is home and improving.

Alun came home this afternoon, thank goodness, an needless to say that he is happy to be home. His speech has got much better, but he still mumbles a little bit.....if we can't understand some things he says, we have to tell him to slow down and repeat it.

Christie didn't have to be induced after all, as her waters broke at half past five yesterday morning and the baby was born at quarter past six yesterday evening. So Alun and I are now proud grandparents of a beautiful grandson, he weighed 8 lbs 1 oz and they have called him Jenson. We hope to go down to see him as soon as Jennie can take us....just a shame that Alun isn't able to drive for four weeks.

It has rained all day here and especially heavy at times, hope it will be drier tomorrow as I have a good bit of washing to do.


Jean like you I can't swim either, always frightened of putting my face in water. As for the car, it is with Jennie as she might as well use it..


Liz, hope that things will soon get better for both you and K. and that all will go well when he has the cataract done.


Sylvia, good to hear that things are all going along well for both you and your OH.


Ann, yes everything was okay with the MRI scan, the Echocardiogram and also the heart monitor that he had to have on him for 24 hours.

I hope that you are all going along alright since your last posts.


Take care everyone. Will chat again soon.


Love, Sallie.xxx <3 :-)

Just put Lake District photos on the photo blog if anyone is interested

Ann ................

I used the bus when I lived in Sandiway, nice and easy, it turned off to go into Northwich and stopped at the end of the street that led up to the school.

We did use the motorway when we lived in Hyde, and didn't like it. I remember one morning we got stopped by a major pile-up of about 60 cars, got to school about an hour late, and got the real b*****ks from the Head (who was a real b*) .... she obviously didn't believe any of the 3 of us (Head of PE, me, and a French exchange teacher).

The pile-up was on the news that evening because so many cars had been involved ..... and she made a comment the next morning about "so there was a big jam on the motorway"

No apology for the things she said though!

That Head used to strap the girls for misbehaving, and was actually had up in court in the early 70s when a girl's parents decided to take their daughter to the police.

There was about 30% turnover in staff the first year she was there, and then another about 40% the second year (including me!). Staff who had intended to spend their career there, were getting jobs elsewhere. I tell you, I was really glad that I had a good excuse to leave (marriage and leaving the UK)!! I still have contact with the PE teacher that I shared the flat with, and she did stay there until she retired .......... but she was always a calm person, kept her head down, and ignored all the goings on.



Sallie ........ we're doing well thank you. OH keeps himself busy going into the university for 4 or 5 hours every day! My arthritis hurts more ......... but we're all getting older aren't we?!


Jean ...... so you weren't out of envelopes at all :-D . Hope you are feeling as well as you can xxx

Lol Ann my orders for envelopes and cello bags are usually 250 a time, the glue I use is cosmic shimmer and I have the largest one.... luckily the seller sent it quickly so now I have the glue ready for when the rest of my order arrives ;-) ;-) ;-)meanwhile I have been looking for something else I knew I had and found more tall cards including envelopes and cello bags so it looks like I can still do them :-D :-D :-D

Sallie fingers crossed for the scan results for Alun then, and for the induction of baby too.

Jean, running out of envelopes and cello bags, yes I can understand that, but Lol!!! running out of glue!! Now you will just have to put an order in and have a rest while waiting.

Liz. We are pretty certain that Lucas would not have felt anything, Daughter and her partner picked him up from the man who stopped and wrapped him in a towel and put him in his car boot and phoned her (he was not the one who hit him they didn't know who that was, obviously somebody who didn't bother to stop). Couldn't blame the motorist for hitting him, it was very dark and he was jet black, either chasing or being chased by another jet black cat. (They often chased each other). Apparently the other cat was by his body when the man found him. However, that motorist obviously couldn't be bothered to stop and see if he was ok and use the phone number on his collar to phone.

Sallie I cant believe I have missed so much news on here the internet in here has been very bad and wasnt able to get on for days anyway I was sorry to hear about Alun, but reading more I see he is doing much better thank the Lord, we will keep you and him close in our prayers,

Ann I hated that motor way too also the M62 which is over the pennines its a nightmare to travel on, winter especially bad.. D usually goes that way to work in Mirfield.... glad you had a good week and not too much rain, I dont know you two are off again soon, how do you manage to keep calm I used to get on edge when we went away.I am sure you will have a lovely time missing you already <3 <3


Liz you and K are lucky to be close to some nice places to visit, my one regret was never getting to any meets, still it was always nice to get news about them ...Enjoy your car I like Sallie never did finish my driving big regret. same with swimming.

Needless to say the craft room has benifited from my absence from being on here, so much so I have run out of envelopes cello bags and glue :-0 :-0 :-0

take care everyone love Jean xx <3 <3

Ann, good to know that you and T have arrived home safely and that you had a nice week with your daughter and her family.

Sylvia, hope that all is well with both you and your OH.


Liz, lovely to see you post, it's always nice to hear from you. I hope that K will soon improve and start to feel a lot better. Also hope that his eye operation goes well on the 24th May and the results of the MRI scan will be okay. Yes Liz if we can manage to meet you and K while you are up this way in June, we will. It is a long while since we met, so it will be lovely to see you both again.
Lovely that you have a car of your own now, I only wish that I had carried on with the driving lessons, but once I was told that I was ready to apply for my driving test, I chickened out. But now I wish that I had, especially when Alun isn't able to drive for 4 weeks.

Thank you all for your concern and kind thoughts for Alun. They are still having problems trying to keep his BP stable, so hopefully the consultant will be able to tell us what they can do next. Alun had his MRI scan yesterday morning, he should have had it on Friday but unfortunately the hospital was one of the hospitals in England that suffered from the cyber attack, so he to wait until yesterday.We also hope that he will get the results of the scan tomorrow.

I also have an appointment with Joanne (Psychologist) tomorrow morning, so Jennie will pick me up as she has our car while Alun isn't able to drive.

Still waiting for the baby to arrive, but at least if it doesn't come before they are going to induce Christie on Tuesday. Hopefully things will become less stressful over the next three to four days.

Jean, I hope that all is well with you and J.


Will let you all know as soon as I have an news.


Take care everyone.


Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx <3 <3

Sylvia you would not want to be travelling in that area on the M6 these days. For some reason there are so many accidents between junction 17 (Sandbach) and J18. Hate travelling that stretch.

Ann ................

you have just brought back a pile of memories!!! :-D

I lived in digs in Sandbach for 18 months from January 1965 to June 1966 ........... the house was on what was then the main road between Northwich and Chester. One of the other teachers and I got a flat in Hyde for my final year there.

I taught at Northwich County Grammar School for Girls.

Sallie hope Alun's BP is down further now and that he is improving.
Home now. Not a bad journey except for a holdup around Sanbach (J17 M6 where a car had broken down in the long roadworks (50MPH). We decded to have two stops on the journey now, it is much more relaxing. I have unpacked and a load of washing is in. The carden seems to have survived, unlike where we were they have had rain here which helped.
We had a very good week, no rain at all except for about 5 minutes of drizzle one day which just disappeared.
Back to all the jobs waiting for us and in 3 weeks time we are off again. :-)

Liz hope that the exercises work for you OH, it must be frustrating for him not to be able to walk properly, good that he has shown he appreciates your help and support though. You have a busy medical month. Hope you manage to get your holiday ok.

Sylvia, sounds like your weather is similar to here, we never know what coat to wear when going out.

An easy day today as it is our last day. Dry but quite cold again. Tony and I drove to Lindal to Wax Lyrical, the candle factory outlet where I bought some oil for the diffusers and a vanilla candle in a jar. Stocked up as we won't be up here until October. We then drove to meet L and J and Jand Inara at Charnleys. Garden centre for lunch. Inara had chunky egg sandwiches which she really enjoyed. :-D :-D