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Hi Mo, so tell us what colour curtains you got then :-D

Oh dear poor Lily she does need help doesn't she before she really harms herself or somebody else. Bless her I hope she gets help soon.

I wonder where Jean is. Maybe her laptop is playing up. Hope she is ok.

Bless you Elizabeth, our best wishes to you and your family, for 2016 and beyond.

Hi there Sallie, I hope your hospital appointment went well love,it's my new year wish for you darling.
I bet Alun was like a cat with two tails, getting that wonderful birthday present. It will keep him happy for hours now.
I have to admit it's rather strange, our Jean not answering a p.m, I just hope and pray that they are both alright.
In a way it's a blessing that they are in their apartment now, as any flooding would be handled by the landlords, especially as they are retirement flats.
I hope D has not suffered with the flooding, as I know that Jean and J, would be there in a flash to help out.

The latest on our Lilly....she woke very early just before christmas, and crept downstairs without waking anyone up.
She went into the kitchen, climbing over two stair gates to get there, found a knife, and proceeded to attack the plaster on the walls in the living room.
There is an enormous amount that she had chipped off, before she woke her parents with the noise.
They took her to see the doctor, and explained the situation, stating that she is a danger to herself and the rest of the family, and needs assessing as soon as possible.
It was bad enough when she dangled herself and the cat out of the bedroom window, but this is the straw that broke the camels back.
Now they have to wait once again for the appointment. Considering these episodes have been happening since she was about two years old, enough is enough.

We have been shopping for new curtains for my bedroom today. I had no idea of what type or colour I wanted, and despite the fact that we went to several shops, I ended up in the one I went into first, much to Roly's disgust after traipsing all over the place. LOL but you have to be sure they are what you want before you buy them don't you.

Well my lovelies, I shall say cheerio for now. Love Mo xxx

Hi Elizabeth,

Thank you so much for your new year wishes for us all, and for your wises for good health and peace.

Hope that you and your family also have a happy, healthy and peaceful new year too.

Love, Sallie. xxx <3 <3 <3

Dear All

Hello

May you all have a peaceful and contented new year.

May you know improved health and have many happy moments to treasure.


Take gentle care of yourselves and your families
Lots of love
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

Hi Mo,

I have not long arrived back from my usual weekly appointment at the hospital, and thought that I'd pop on to see how you all are.

Alun received his birthday present off Jennie, Michael, Richard and Christie today, they bought him an engine for his model railway layout. It is the engine he has wanted for a while, but he thought that it was too much money to spend on it, so they decided to buy it for him as it was a special birthday. He was absolutely thrilled with it as you can imagine. He is like a little boy with a new toy! lolol!!!

I hope everything is okay with Jean, and that they haven't had any trouble with flooding. I have sent her a pm, but haven't heard anything from her.


Also hope that all our other friends and their families are okay.

Speak to you all again soon.


Love, Sallie. xxx <3 <3 <3

Hello my lovelies, just popping in to see how you are, but everyone must still be getting over the festive season, so I will come back later...byeeee

Oh Sallie, how good to hear from you my love.
Please congratulate Alun on his 70th birthday from us. Oooh a Thomas birthday cake, yummy, I do hope he has saved us some, please send it down the cyber hatch, I will eat it with my cuppa, once my dinner has gone down a bit.
How did your christmas and new year go ? Did you have a full house like we do every year, great to have them all, but even greater when the time reaches about ten p.m, when we can sit down and relax a bit.

Ann, my lappy is twelve years old, yes I know an old gal now, but I know what and where everything is.
I tried using Roly's, it's a brand new sparkly up to date thing, and I just could not get used to it, talk about confusing. It's familiarity breeds content at the end of the day LOL
I do hope you don't get flooded out Ann, it's such a worry isn't it. My heart goes out to those who have suffered.
We are very lucky at the moment, even though it's been raining hard here all day, we are far enough away from any rivers for it to be a worry for us.
We used to have a tumble dryer, that we kept in our brick built shed, but it lost all it's inner lining from age, and we never replaced it, mind you I now wish we had replaced it. Our house looks like a chinese laundry at times, with two clothes horses full to the top, and all the radiators covered in damp washing. No wonder our windows are running with water at times.

I do hope our Jean is o.k, I notice she is on the missing list, and hope she has got a sick note to cover her abscence LOL Luf ya Jean. <3 <3 <3

Well I will say cheerio for now girls, take care, hugs Mo xxx

Hi girls,

Hope that you and your families are all okay and that none of you have had any problems with flooding.Just wish we would all have a bit more of seasonal weather instead of all the rain we are having.

Wishing you all a Very Happy and Healthy New Year, although I am a bit late sending
them to you.


We have had a lovely day today, it is Alun's 70th birthday , so my cousin came over from North Wales and treated us to a meal out, as she didn't know what to buy him, It was a lovely meal and she even bought him a birthday cake. As you all know he is a model railway enthusiast, so she bought him a Thomas the Tank Engine cake,
so he has had a great day.

Will speak to you all again soon,

Take care everyone.


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

Well, pleased that you have managed to sort something out Mo, is it a very old laptop? It doesn't seem right that it has been such a problem if it is relatively new. Anyway I hope it keeps going now. We stayed in New Year as well, yes TV was awful. We had a meal then at midnight we joined our neighbours outside with our fizz and watched a superb firework display almost overhead, it was from the golf club up the road we think, must have cost a fortune.

We are fed up with the abysmal weather, It was worse when we were at Lynda's in the L District, although luckily she was not affected by flooding. But it has still been pretty bad here and Gloucester is on flood alert still.

We have just given in and ordered a tumble drier. We are going to have to put it in the conservatory which means a chair has to go to make space, but with the bad weather we have got fed up with struggling to dry washing.

Hello ladies,
Well it's little old me. I meant to come back before now, but what with one thing or another,time passes so quickly.
I will try to explain re my laptop. After changing the mother board, the hard drive, poor lickle lappy was returned to P.C world.
Three times we picked it up, and was unable to get into it. Eventually, the technician, after much yelling and shouting from us, discovered that by changing to Google Chrome, he was able to connect.
At the moment, I am awaiting a new battery, after two were returned to the supplier.
The new battery has had to be ordered straight from Toshiba, and wont arrive till about the fifth of February.
Oh girls what a nightmare this has been. I was able to use my tablet, to look into Face Book, but found it very hard to use, and couldn't access any of the usual games that I like to play. At least I was able to keep up to date with my family.

I hope you all had an enjoyable New Year. We stayed in for a change, but the television programmes were abysmal. The only good thing was the fireworks display at midnight, now that was brilliant.

I hope you are all keeping well. I do hope to hear from you soon.
Sending my very best wishes to Jean, Sallie, Ann, Marie, Sylvia and Huia, plus any of our friends I have forgotten to mention.
Take care, hugs Mo xxx

Some Christmas photos on the photo blog, including a couple of Lucas daughter's cat who was AWOL but who was found after 5/6 weeks.

Hello my lovelies, just to let you know that I am back online again. I will explain it all later.
I was using my daughters tablet on F.B, but could not get any further than that, not even to play games, but hey ho, here I am, back to annoy you.
I will speak to you very very soon, love and hugs dear friends, Mo xxx

Hi everyone


we are back from our Christmas trip to the Island.


I hope you all had a great Christmas, in your different ways.

We did, although it was different from what we had originally planned, but still very enjoyable.

The weather on Christmas Day was glorious .............. sun and blue skies, but it was chilly. It rained on the other days ............ and there was even snow on the morning we left.

Our friend was in good form, and the Palliative Care Centre was terrific with her. We went in twice a day for about an hour each time. We had a lot of fun with her :-)

In fact, she may be released to a full care home for a few days/weeks as she is now in better shape after feeding, re-hydration and pain control sorted out, and they need the bed for patients in worse shape.

The bad report we had just before Christmas was due to someone forcing their way into her room, against the No Visitors rule, who had not seen her for several months ............... so naturally they were shocked!


Another friend joined us for the Christmas Buffet at the hotel, as well as having dinner with us on the 23rd. We had a great time with him ..........


so all worked out well. :-D

Mo was on facebook so I think she is ok

Same to you Ann, have a great time....

Merry Christmas to all our friends on here , home and away,

Mo hope all is well with you and your family. missing you :-( :-( :-(

Love Jean xxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

In case I don't get on here again. I hope you all have a lovely Christmas with lots of presents and good food and good health. <3 <3 <3

Hello Girls.

Hope you will all have a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Love and best wishes to you all.

Love, Sallie. xxx <3 <3 <3 <3

A Happy Christmas to you all, girls.

I havent sent any cards this year as I have been concentrating on other things. Yesterday at work one customer got me feeling very stressed, I think I put the details on the Aussie thread.

Sally, are you still at the same address in Ilkeston? A couple of months ago I bought a small calendar to send you, if I can now find it.

Ann, happy to hear that you are sure that Lucas is back at home. Bless him, he must feel so contented to be back in his warm home and enjoying cuddles from both you and Lyn.

We went down to Wales on Saturday to visit our family and to take their Christmas presents from us. The weather was dreadful, nothing but heavy rain and high winds. Still we enjoyed our day, it was lovely to se all the family.

Alun has had his appointment through to see the cardiac surgeon, so that he will explain what needs to be done and explain the procedure. It is on the 19th of January at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester at 9.00 am. although we are hoping he will be able to have the operation done at Nottingham City Hospital.


I have also got an initial appointment to see the Psychologist on the 7th of January, so things are starting to move for both of us now, thank goodness, I shall be glad when it;s all over and done with, especially Alun's surgery.

Hope you are all okay, especially Mo, as we haven;t heard from her for a good while.

Will chat to you again soon.


Take care.


Love, Sallie. xxx <3 <3 <3

Ooh, we have a rather thin but very affectionate black cat here. Just picked him up from the estate up the back. We are pretty sure it is Lucas, he is very at home and Luna seems not bothered by him as she would be if he was a strange cat. He is very hungry, and minus his collar. Daughter will take him for a check up at the vet after Christmas. Six weeks ago he went off, strange because we were here when he went and seems quite happy to be cuddled by me as well as Lyn.