General Chat

Homing instinct and probably love of Tec as well,

We have Arnold the cat who visits all the neighbours near his house. There is another one Biscuit who wonders around but has not come in, apparently the people that lived here fed him.

The woman behind us gave us a little pot of blackberry jelly a couple of days ago. It is very nice. I don't make jam, dad always made jams and chutneys etc. I don't buy jam either unless I have to provide it in or on a bring a plate item. Himself buys diabetic jams and marmalade which I don't touch. I do like marmalade but will make a pig of myself having toast with it on every morning, easier not to buy it.

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clever Milo!

He told me about Milo's adventures. His owner has gone away for a few days and as Tec can no longer look after him, he has gone to stay at another house in the village.

This morning the neighbour on the other side of Milo's house rang Tec to ask who was supposed to be looking after him because Milo was walking up the road outside the house. Tec shouted him in for a biscuit while he rang the people. They had no idea he had got out of their garden. Luckily, he had found his way home and the other neighbour had spotted him.

thank you for the news about Tec.

I hope the headache soon goes.

I don't indeed Sylvia, he has asked to go to one slightly further away as it is the major trauma centre for the area

I spoke to Tec today, he didn't sound as well as normal. He was struggling a bit with his speech and said th at he had a headache this morning. Of course w hen his GP rang, he didn't tell her.. Typical man, hopefully he will feel better tomorrow. Apart from that all was well

oh dear ............ that doesn't sound as though you have a very high opinion of that hospital :-(

His wife taking care of him- well that would bet a first :-(

At least, Inwill be able to go and see him, he will probably end up in the same hospital my parents were in, if nothing else, that is a really good reason for staying in Norway

From what I read, I think he would be better off in Norway as well.

And now we are off for our walk.. >>

... or with his wife taking care of him? :-D

She is young enough to cope with it Persie

The insurance company has now decided that they will pay for an air ambulance and bring my brother home on Wednesday.

I am not sure if letting the NH S loose on him is a good idea, he was probably safer having the operation in Norway

We have all systems go re food, clothes, towels, bedding etc.

I am just thinking about having sardines on toast and getting some meat out of the freezer for dinner tonight.

I met my new doctor the other week and she is similar to my one in Auckland. They both are always running late and are popular with the patients. She said to me that she already can see that we will get along fine.

I have just been looking at Maia's itinerary, it only gives travel information not where they are performing. Looks like everything over there has been arranged by Dulwich College.
They are at Beijing and then tomorrow they fly to Pu Dong, Shanghai and go to accommodation there and on Sunday they go by bus to Suzhou. Return to Shanghai 30 March and leave Shanghai on Thurs to fly home getting here at 6.50am. I see there are quite a few early starts too.

Our airport here is always busy in the early hours of the morning.

then they'll have clean clothes, even if they can't eat :-)

At least you can get all of the washing done

No we have two keys for the back door but we can also bolt it top and bottom - they are French doors. At least the keys work both inside and out. We lived for years and years and some more in Sandringham where we just dead bolted the door. The key only worked from the outside..

Anyway nice charming man arrived this morning and took all the plastic away and said that the results had not come back from the lab till this morning.

Normality of some sort resumes
:-) :-) ;-)

I didn't realise you only had one key, or do you not want to go in until they declare it is safe?

It sounds like you need to get your OH to build an aviary in the garden for all your owls :-D

Just thought I would tell you himself has written to the director of the company - he appears to be the director of all the asbestos removal companies.

Will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow and whether they come. Hope the milk and my berry fruit juice are okay with their use by dates. I did plan on eating the rest of my sardines for breakfast on Saturday.. and you should see the pile of washing the basket in the bathroom and a cardboard box are full. Usually I do a wash Fri and Sun then another one about Tues I do at least three a week.

I have been unwrapping one of my boxes that is practically full of owls and I am not sure where to put them all have not got enough places. They will be getting in a right flurry if I only put some out and not others.. then there is where to store them. Geez I will be glad when all sorted. :-S

The emergency phones are about a mile apart Sylvia. There are lots of small posts between the phones which show a phone symbol on the front and an arrow which points you to the nearest phone, so you know which direction to walk in. The phones connect you directly to the police. You are not supposed to sit in your car in case something hits you, you need to climb behind the safety barrier

She is about the same age as I am Persie and they are always zooming up and down the motorways, she is always the passenger, so how she hasn't seen the bright orange phones, I don't know

even I, a non-driver, know that there are phone boxes at regular intervals n the motorways in the UK .............. although I couldn't now tell you how far apart they are, so I wouldn't know whether I could actually walk that distance.

We don't have such phones over here ........... in the old days you sat and waited for someone to stop, as someone usually did. Now, everyone depends on cell phones, despite the fact that long stretches of the country (and I DO mean LONG) do not have cell reception.

We had a mishap in NZ back in 1976, when smoke started seeping into the car. OH hitched a lift into the town while I waited in the car with our 2 year old. I think at least 3 people stopped to see what was the matter.

Golly gosh, my grandchildren have always had good observancy skills. Is she not aware of her surroundings? :-S

I remember well my son-in-law telling me where to pick up Maia from a friend's house. He knew the street not the number and did a drawing of a hedge with a house behind it and the whole thing was not that descriptive. I got in the car and Anya who was four at the time came with me. Next thing as I am driving up our street, Nana she is in the orange house with the blue roof and they have a black letter box (I can't remember the colours but you get my drift)... and I thought now why couldn't he have told me that. I do know they did have rather strange colours and a black letter box.

From an early age they could all tell you how to get from their place to Nana's house which is a fair distance apart. :-)

China sounds exciting. My OH has been several times on business trips, but not to any tourist destinations

The saga continues. My sister in law arrived back from the cruise yesterday morning and had to drive from Southampton the whole length of the country to get home. She is a real technophobe, doesn't have a mobile and can't use the sat nav. She has only driven this car once, so it was always going to be problematic.

Any way, she had only done about nine miles on the M3 when the car broke down with either a clutch or gear box problem, odd as it is less than a year old. She pulled over onto the hard shoulder. Having no phone she should have got out and used the little posts to walk to the nearest emergency phone. Only she didn't know there were posts and emergency phones :-S

So she sat in the car and it was two hours before a police car eventually spotted her and stopped. They called for a breakdown truck, which took her all the way home. I think she was rather fed up by the time she arrived

I don't understand how she could possibly not know about the phones as my brother drives on motorways a lot.