General Chat

Hi everyone


Sallie ..... so sorry ot hear of Alun's stroke, but glad that it was minor. Hope he recovers quick'lyl.

Also hope the baby arrives soon!


Ann ........... so sad to lose a cat that way.


Jean ......... you really are keeping busy making those cards!!


Liz ........ nice to see you on here. Hope the physio exercises help K and you ......... I have a whole set that I am supposed to do every day ....... for knees, back, hips, foot. You name, I probably have at some point been given an exercise for it :-D


we're having weird weather here .......... warm and sunny one day, then chilly and wet next day

Hi all.

Sallie, I am so sorry to hear of Alun's stroke and hope everything will be under control soon with no further problems found. He will have to rest and let his speech and swallow recover. I expect he will be put on blood thinners to lessen the chance of further clots.

It's another worry for you. I hope baby arrives soon, and life gets less stressful for you all.

K. had a physio appointment today because of his knees, it's osteoarthritis exacerbated by the fact he lost a kneecap in a drunken fall 40 years ago. He struggles to walk at times and stumbles about like an old man, as if he is drunk. It's embarrassing to be out with him, he won't use a stick so people stare and think the worst. I struggle to help him along because of my own osteoarthritis and fibromyagia. I hope these leg strengthening exercises will help him. I plan to do them to to help my knees.

He is due to have the other cataract removed on May 24th and a few days later has to have an m.r.i. scan on his brain due to his memory problems, then he has to go to a memory clinic for more investigations. His anxiety problems are still evident and his sons don't make contact, so I am on my own with the responsibility.

He says he is grateful for my support so bought me a car at the beginning of May. It means I don't have to send him off on the bus to work if I need to get out.

He has booked a couple of weeks off in mid June so I am hoping I can find us a cottage to rent in the Peak District, so we can catch up with friends. I want to leave it as late as possible to book, to make sure his eye is ok and his Dad doesn't have any setbacks in the care home.

If we get away, maybe we can meet you again Sallie and anyone else around at the time, including Jacqui's meet in Sheffield

Ann, sorry about Lucas, losing a pet is always painful. I hope he died quickly with as little pain as possible.

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Have a good weekend everyone
Love
Lizxx

Jean busy busy with your cards, good that they sell so well though.

Sallie so sorry to hear about Alun's stroke, hope he quickly gets better and they can prevent another one. Not helping your problems is it, not that he could help it.

Yes it was sad about Lucas, he was a feisty cat and was probably chasing an arch enemy at the time as the other cat was found waiting by his body. That is the trouble with male cats, they fight and wander. He is missed though.

Jean, so glad your to hear that your cards are selling well......it is good that you have lots to keep your mind active, very therapeutic.
Hope the rain keeps away until after you have had your hair done.

Ann, so sorry to hear about your daughter's cat, it is lovely to have a pet but then when something happens to them it is so sad and upsets all the family. I would like to have a dog, but Alun won't have one, because we were both so upset after losing our golden labrador six weeks before Jennie was born, he won't have another dog.


I haven't been on GR for several days as we had a bit of a shock on Tuesday, Alun suffered a stroke, so we took him to hospital as there was a four hour wait for an ambulance. Luckily he has only suffered a minor one, it has affected his speech and swallow on the left side of his throat, things have started to slowly to improve, thank goodness.
It seems that the stroke was caused by a small blood clot on on his brain.
They were having a problem getting his blood pressure down it remained at 187 over 106, but the Consultant told us yesterday that he has now been put on a better blood pressure medication, and by last night it has started to come down and when Jennie got in touch with the hospital this morning she was told that is lower again.

He still has to have an MRI scan today, just to make sure that there is nothing else that didn't show up on the CT scan......also he has to have an echocardiogram. At least the doctors are making sure that there is nothing else that could have caused it.

Of course we are still waiting for our grandchild to put in an appearance, I think it is too comfortable where it is.lolol!! If it isn't born by Tuesday, they are going to induce Christie. I shall be really glad when the baby is here now. Trouble is, all this is not helping with the problems I already have.

Well will chat again soon, and hopefully with some happy news.

Take care.


Love, Sallie.xx <3 :-)

Morning all. looks like the sun is having a rest today very overcast and rain is on the way, much needed, I am off to the docs later today just to have the medicnes look at, you can guess when the rain will come 5.00 today time of my appoinent....

You are right Sallie, I have been hard at it card wise,we have so many folk who come into the new cafe from outside and the cards fly out... so much for slowing down :-| :-|
still it keeps my mind ticking over, I am glad I managed to do some die cutting, but can see I need to do some more. ;-) ;-)

sorry Ann to hear about the poor cat, but I hope you break was good , nice to meet up with families...

on pins Sallie waiting for the baby news hope all goes well for everyone.

love jean xxx

Sad here tonight. Lucas, daughters cat that went missing last year has just been run over and killed. One of the penalties of living near a road with cats, he was jet black and apparently was chasing another black cat. The motorist who killed him didn't stop somebody else found him.

Just nudging the thread up. Jean I expect that you are busy with your card making, it's good that you have something to do.

Hope that your sciatica is now much better and that it will stay that way for a very long time.


Ann, hope that you and T will have a nice holiday in the Lake District with some members of your family and that the weather will be kind to you.


Well our grandchild is now three days over due, it will be lovely when it has arrived.

Christie was awake most of last night with ear ache, so they went to the Walk in Centre at eight o clock this morning, the doctor told her that she has an ear infection so she was given Penicillin, so hopefully she will start to feel a bit better tomorrow.

All these things are sent to try us, I suppose.lol!! It could be a lot worse.

It has been a lovely bright and sunny day here today, different from yesterday when it was grey, cloudy and cold.

Well will look in again soon.

Take care.


Love, Sallie.xxx <3

Jean, glad to hear that the pain has gone with the help of voltarol gel and that you are feeling a lot better so that you can do some die cutting.
I have started to die cut the shoes, so will try and post them to you tomorrow.


Ann, today I have put a few things together into a case, apart from the last minute things, so that we can just pick up the case and go.
I am a bit on edge with trying to keep up to date with things like phone calls and also cards and letters that need to be posted. If they were living nearer to us it would make things a bit easier, but that doesn't matter as long as everything will be alright.


Ann, yes I can't wait until the baby is here, there are a few things that I want to make and seen some lovely wool, but have to wait until the baby arrives before I can buy the wool and make a start......trouble is, I'm itching to start knitting them, but will have to be patient.

I'm ready for a cup of tea now, so will speak again tomorrow.


Take care.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Jean good to see you back to your cheery self. I am sure it is good to be out of pain. Don't overdo the die cutting though you don't want to damage the nerve again. Great too that you can dispense with carers at weekends, nice to have your home to yourselves. And so what if a bit is left unwashed, it won't harm you. We. in this house, have never had daily showers. We don't smell (and neither of us uses much deodorant either), and we are not dirty. Remember the once a week baths when we were young, it didn't harm us did it?

Sally pleased to see you getting on with all your jobs. Hope that baby makes an appearance soon we are all waiting now :-D Hope all goes well. :-) :-) :-)

Hi everyone, Finally got rid of the trapped nerve ,I used 12 hour V*****L magic....

I spent a lovely day crafting actually die cutting, using lots of dies that I havent used for quite a while. I really enjoyed doing them...Another lot of craft stuff has found its way here, :-D :-D :-D mainly stamps and card stock.J watched the various sporting events so I escaped to my room.... ;-) ;-) ;-) sheer joy : <3 <3

Because I manage to wash most of myself now, I have no carers coming in Sat and Sundays, we are able to have a lie in and it felt great, back to normal routine now monday to friday looking out of the window most of the blossom has fallen , but soon as the trees fill out again we wont see much of the park until autumn.
so far to day the sun is shining although I can see clouds forming, more rain which we need its been a very dry time of late....

we are having braised steak and all the trfmmings today thanks to the slow cooker,
and my chef :-D :-D :-D :-D

well done Sallie you have worked hard <3 <3

hope you are all ok. bye for now love Jean xxx

Managed to get some washing done and dried today, so pleased about that. Trying to keep up to date with it so that we are organised, so that when we get a phone call from Richard telling us that the baby is on the way, everything will be ready so that we can go down straight away. Both him and Christie want Alun and I and also Christie's mum to go down as they would like us to be at the hospital when the baby is born.
We are hoping that we can get there before the baby is born, problem is, we have to find the hospital which is in Surrey, as the hospital where Christie was booked into, have had a major refurbishment done there, but it isn't quite finished, so have go to go to the nearest hospital that's in the same trust. Just hope that we don't lose the way there lolol!!

This morning we went to Chillwell Retail (near Nottingham) with Jennie and Michael as Jennie wanted to look for some new tops. We were there quite a while, by the time we had a look around and then went into the M&S cafe for a snack....the time flew by. Anyway, Jennie managed to get two nice tops for herself and I ended up buying three tops for myself. Hadn't intended to buy anything but you know how it is when see things that you like.


Jean, hope that your sciatica is not too bad today and that you are able to sit and make some cards.


Ann hope that you are alright. Just missed your post on Shaun's thread last night.
I got a phone call soon after I started posting on there so it was a while before I sent the message.


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



Hope you all have a nice weekend.


Love, Sallie. xxx <3 <3 :-) :-)

I was there Sallie, just before you. :-D

Jean, I have received your message and sent you a reply....no problem at all, glad to help.
Sorry to hear that your sciatica is playing up again, hope that you will get relief from the pain soon. I think that whatever problem we have it sometimes takes a long time to accept it. I know that from the problems I have, I haven't really accepted the last one I was diagnosed with, so hopefully I will be able to soon.

We are still waiting for our first grandchild to arrive, only one week before it is due. I am getting very anxious about it,and will be glad when the baby is here....but of course the extreme anxiety I am feeling is because of the illnesses I suffer with.

I haven't been out since Tuesday morning as I am not in a 'good place' at the moment. Although I am determined to post on this thread and Shaun's thread most days, even if I haven't got much news. I noticed there are couple of old members that are going to try and post as much as they can again.


Ann, and Sylvia, hope that you are both alright.


Love, Sallie.xxx <3 :-)

Sorry Jean, sciatica is very depressing to have, I have it mildly in one leg but it comes and goes. We met with a friend and her sister for lunch on Tuesday. Our friend was 80 last September, she takes medication for thyroid problems and also I think it is called polymyalgia. She has just reuturned from visiting her son and family for three months in Australia. She made me chuckle when she said she has promised them to go again in two years. The etrrnal optimist she was widowed when she was 60 and has not wasted a moment of her life since even though devastated by her husband's death when he was 58. She travels down to Chepstow by coach now, from Essex she drove until a year ago. She comes to see her younger sister who is crippled by arthritis and has more medical problems than I can think of bless her. So I kept quiet about my leg.

I am sure you have many years of card making in front of you it is probably the weather getting you down. Can you still get out in the car for a drive? <3

Hello dear friends,sorry to say I have the sciatica nerve causing me some pain, also I have come to the time when I have to realise I am not going to get better, but will hopefully carry on a while. funny I am more at ease with it all now I accept it... strange to say that in a sad way I am much more able to come to terms with what is happening to me, hope all this isnt too morbid, but I was kidding myself it would get better. so onwards and .......who knows.......

the card making is a lifeline too,I find now I can do all sorts of designs, and am enjoying doing them,.couldnt make it to have my hair done to day so hope I am able to go next week....sadly my little die cutting machine isnt doing to well, just found out Range does a slighly bigger version and it may be my birthday present.. ;-) ;-) ;-)

I am just going to enjoy a ice cream cone with nuts :-D :-D :-D

Sallie I am going to send you a message soon...

love to you all Jean xxx <3 <3 <3

Ann, glad that the charity shop took them off you,I'm sure they will find a good home for them.
It's a shame that the younger members of our families don't want any of the things that we have....it looks like the younger generation are not as sentimental as we are.


Sylvia, while we were out in the car yesterday it started to rain and what I thought was snow, was pink blossom off the cherry trees.


Jean, hope that both you and J are alright. I expect you are busy making cards.....it is nice to have something to do, otherwise the days seem so long.


Well Richard and Christie had their two days in Eastbourne, although they both said that they were not too keen on it.....but enjoyed the break before the baby arrives.
Just a week before the baby is due, I am hoping it will arrive early.


I am ready for a cuppa now, so will pop on here again tomorrow.

Love, Sallie.xxx

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

we call it pink snow :-D

I have had a look Sallie and there are three in Cheltenham but they are quite big concerns. There are several more in the county but not very near. anyway the charity shop have them now, maybe they will find a home for them.

Sylvia I bet those trees look wonderful, the trouble with blossom trees is that when the blossom drops it makes a mess, we have one in a neighbours at the end of our garden and I dread when the blossom drops as it comes down all over my hosta bed. :-(

Hi everyone

it started off showery this morning, butt he sun came out by lunchtime, and it has been a lovely afternoon. All the cherry trees are in full flower, or just coming inot full flower. They are gorgeous at this time of year .....

........ we actually have more flowering Japanese Cherries as street trees all over the city than in Washington, DC .. but they make much more of a publicity show of them :-D


My mother didn't have a china tea set, but she collected individual cups and their matching saucers ....... she'd go to the local market and buy 1 or 2 at a time. Then she would have tea in one of the sets on a Tuesday after she had finished washing and ironing. She must have had around a dozen of them by the time she died in 1961

I left them all back in England when I left in 1967 ... something I've occasionally regretted. But then I discovered that my youngest niece had taken most of them when my brother was clearing the house after Dad died. She was really intrigued when I said how Mum would choose one of them for her afternoon tea, because she did exactly the same thing!

This niece was under 2 when Mum died so had never seen the ritual!

Ann, if you put 'vintage tea rooms' into Google it will show the ones that are near you, if there are any.

Sallie.xx