General Chat

Just to quickly answer your query Bridget re the business. I am a trustee for Gloucestershire Lifestyles. This is a charity which has a small number of paid employees, our main aim is to enable disabled people and their carers to live as normal a life as possible. There is a website but I am not sure how up to date it is, we are in the midst of re-organising our corporate image.

A few quick words before I lose the internet connection! We have intermittent internet access due to a major problem with a cable between Mumbai and Daar-es- Salaam. Apparently this will continue for 8 days so I might be missing for a while! Being technologically challenged I don't understand the finer details!!

Thanks for your message Frances,

To-day has been a really blustery and unpleasant day here, not our kind of weather at all.

Take care,


Val in SA.

Thank you everyone and it looks like the Holiday suggetion suits most people so now it is fingers to the keyboards and off we go.

I suggest that we have a cut off date and that it is Tuesday of next week,however I am open to other peoples suggestions.
Have to go now but will be back later or tomorrow

Bridget

Hi everyone,
Returned from a wonderful holiday in Portugal at the weekend, also managed a couple of nights in Ronda. Had a really great time and the boys had organised a special day for us on our anniversary....swimming with dolphins..it was magical!!!!
Have caught up with the thread and would just like to offer my condolences to Val on the death of her brother.
Bridget...it is definitely time to retire. Hope the face is better and that your OH is also recovered.
Ideal holiday sounds like a great topic.
Enjoy the remainder of the day. Wednesday will be difficult for us as our boys live in Germany and we are in Spain, but we do have Spanish flags on our car.

Bye for now, Frances.

Val, it was good to hear that the Minister was a friend of the family and knew your brother. As the others said, he would be able to give a more personal and heartfelt touch.

I will still be thinking of you in the days to come.


Mary, hope that you are pleased that Spain have got through to the Semi-Final of the World Cup. I bet everyone near you is smiling ++
By the way, what book are you reading?

Bridget, will get back to you with holiday rambles. Might even mention a few. i.e. My dream holiday (if I got rich)
My fantasy holiday (can't really happen but I would like it to). The best holiday I've had to date!

Tess

Gppd morning all

Sorry I have not responded to the discussion question but I have been thinking about it - and yes ideal holiday topic would be a good one to start with.

Bridget - hope you have got over walking into the glass door. I hope your son's wedding day dawns bright and sunny for you all and shall expect to hear all about it from you afterwards.

Val - the fact that the minister was a friend of the family and knew your brother must have made the service 'more special' for you all. You take care xx

Well like Val, back to Monday and all the mundane things like housework - and the sun is shining too - I am at the moment reading a book which is gripping . could be so tempted to say """ the housework and just sit down and continue reading it !!!

Enjoy your day all and stay safe

Love Mary xx

Goodmorning from a cloudy JBay this morning.

Thank you Mary, Theresa, Bridget and Ann for thinking about me last week, I appreciate that. The minister who conducted the service is a friend of ours and knew my brother so there was a personal touch which was really nice. Things are getting back to normal.

I hope you have recovered from your accident Bridget, you will definitely have to put some stickers on the door.

I would go with Theresa on the Ideal Holiday, or the Goal of Education.

Being Monday, there are all the usual mundane things to be done so I will be off to get started on them.

Take cae.



Val in SA.

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well Tess at the moment it looks like just you and me. I shall start writing my holiday story tomorrow, I look forward too reading yours.
bridget

Well everyone I am back from work, had my meal and still no-one but me here. I hope that you are all busy enjoying yourselves and will have another peek in a few hours.

Enjoy the day
Bridget

Please would you nominate or suggest ideas for discussion. If I have not received any new ideas then maybe we should discuss Ideal Holiday as nominated by Tess.

Different subject now. Army son will be married in just under 3 weeks and they are having their reception at Chesil House in Winchester. the menu looks fantastic and when I searched the restaurant on google iit looks quite delightful.
I am so excited. This is the second twin who when born was so tiny he had to be fed by a special pipette, and he could only have a maximum of 1 ounce of milk at a time

Have to go now as needed at work...yes I know it is Sunday but Head of Care off sick following an op and deputy worked last weekend...I will be back on here this evening
Bye for now

Bridget
PS Contemplation time will be around 11am for me so will be thinking of you all but especially those who hearts hurt or have serious worries and concerns.

Tess
Thanks for the message and the kind coments.
I will try to keep nudging this as it would be pleasing to get a few more ideas but if not maybe we should just go ahead with your choice from my list
So unless anyone has posted any more suggestions I think we should nomminate the ideal holiday for our first attempt. I guess we should have time scale but not sure what it should be,,,all suggestions welcome

Best wishes to you all

Bridget

Hope that you feel a bit better now Bridget. It seems like you are now the main entertainment for your residents as well as manager. I hope that they were suitably impressed!

Your discussion list is impressive too. I would vote for the ideal holiday one (I think) but haven't decided on what holiday I would choose yet.
The Art and Education suggestions are also interesting, but I would have to search for my serious hat!
Haven't (as yet) been able to come up with any suggestions yet. Will get back if and when I think of anything.

Hope that everyone else is ok Have been early shopping this morning with Ring and Ride. Then had a nap this afternoon, managed to miss the football, and really I wanted to watch the game.
Will be watching tonight and egging on Spain.

Tess

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Waiting for more suggestions about things to discuss???

I had an accident at work y=this afternoon so had to complete the accident report! Thwe weather was warm and sunny, some of the residents were in the garden and enjoyng themselves so I thought that I would join them. I didn't realise that the sliding doors were closed and walked staright into the window!
Result
1. A very embarrassed manager
2. Blood everywhere
3. Pain!!
4. More pain
5. Staff having to help me
6. Look as if I have been in a boxing match
7. Fell asleep as soon as I got home and have a raging headache
8.Did not break my glasses

Head ache begining to get better

Not much more too say except Health & Safety will now have o be reviewed and some pretty stickers will have to go on the doors and finally that will teach me to tell the domestic staff to clean the windows properly !!!

Bridget

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Good Morning everyone

It is a beautiful morning here and the sun iis shining and the weather forecast is good for the weekend as well.
Not much time this morning so here are a few suggestions for topics to discuss, I though that perhaps we could vote for topics and the highest score would be the winner and to start the discussion from next Monday. Any other ideas would be welcome.
My suggestions

"What is great love"?
What is Art?
What is the purpose and goal of education?
What is/would be /was your ideal holiday and why?

Will look on here when I get home this evening
Have a good day everyone
Bridget

In case anyone is wondering I do still maintain my quiet time each day. We have a beautiful garden of nearly 5 acres where I work and I take a coffee outside and sit quietly and say my prayers and try to rationalise my thought and think of all of you who are having difficultt time...hoping that time will provide the answers needed or at least help decisions to be made. Contemplation is propably the best way to descibe what I do.

It was so pleasing to see you all writing on this thread again, I am really pleased that we have managed to keep it going...well done everyone.

Val, I took time out, only about 5 minutes ,simply to walk around the garden and thought of you and your family at the funeral today. I hope that everything went as planned that you have been able to say your goodbye.

Tess, I am so pleased that I took the plunge and entered the five hundreth posting but now I believe that the board belongs to all of us who contribute to our dialogue so entry number 600 must come from anyone who posts. I wonder how long it will be before we reach that level?

Mary in spain I hope that you enjoy your trip to the UK, you will certainly be in a very pleasant area. How lovely that your mum can visit you as well.
Ann in glos You certainly sound a very busy person,. I am intrigued and rather nosey I suppose.What tyope of business do you have?. I know what you mean about H&S I have written dozens of articles, and risk assessments....

OH is feeling much better now so I hope that he continues to be well. He is so stuborn at times but if it is me or one of the children he becomes very concerns and makes sure that we the doc or a pharmacy.....
well time to say goodnight. I am going to think of a couple of subjects we could discuss and ask that you do the same or we could take turns to start a topic. Any suggestions haw we manage this will be most welcome.
Bye and goodnight

Bridget

Good afternoon all, sorry wasn't on earlier but had a 'deep cleaning' session at the dreaded dentist. Can't be pleasant being a dentist, nobody really enjoys visiting them do they ?or do they? Anyway, for a deep clean I have to have injections (about five for top and bottom on one side, had the first side done in June. Then I had two x-rays (£76). Have to go back in 3 months.

This afternoon I have to do the minutes for a meeting, that is type them up, the meeting was on Tuesday. And then I have the household accounts to sort out to see if we are still solvent.

Then I may be able to do some writing, make some cards or do a scrap book page. OH is doing the garden which is more or less up to date anyway as we have worked on it a lot lately.

Bridget, well done with the audit. I am awaiting delivery of a flash drive with the Health and Safety handbook for our company as I need to review it for addition of recent legislation as a Trustee. That is going to take a while I am sure. First have to track any new legislation since we last reviewed it as trustees, I think about 4 years ago. It should have been updated, they are pretty efficient but you never know.

Thinking of you Val and your family, a hard day for you all.

Only realised that it was July when U saw this thread had been updated.

Val will be thinking of you and your family today.

Although I live in a built up area I can hear the birds in the early morning. They (I think that it is Blackbirds), start at around 4am at this time of year. Happily announcing a new day. I like it most of the time, but a bit annoying when I haven't yet had any sleep.

Good idea to have a topic for discussion, have to warn you that I am not an ideas person, and often think a little differently to most other people who are willing to aire their views! I don't mean to be awkard, honest.

It is cooler here today, but I reckon that the pollen count is still high. At least we haven't got a hurricane here, so I shouldn't moan. (I WILL moan, but I know that I shouldn't).

Off to have a shower. Have a great July everyone.

Tess