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Hello to you all and a big THANKS toeveryone who helped me. I now have my OAP back after 3 months! I must say thay wedo not have UK papers where we lives owns not aware that there had been a massive breakdown with the group I a with...

Still away from home but i will be on line once a week when in town..


Looking forward to being at home again.

Best wishes to you all

Bridget in hot hot Spain


:-)

Hello all. Can't let the thread get too far away from the front page for long!
Yes, I did watch the Opening Ceremony and thought the presentation was fantastic. The choreography, lighting, etc. were a credit to those responsible for it.

I have to admit that I didn't get up early to watch it (we are 9 hours ahead of UK time where I am), but I did record it and watch it within a few hours. .. Our Australian swimmers have had a lot of bitter disappointments. They usually excel - but not to be, this time. I felt sorry for our 'best' who was pipped at the post by 1/100th of a second. That's less than a blink of the eye!

Glad to know you are having a real summer after all. Our winter is not up to it's usual standard. July-August is our coldest part of the year, yet we have had temperatures (occasionally) of 17 to 20! Of course, we do have days when it is more normal for this time of the year (12 to 16). When that happens, the fact that the day before might have been 20, makes the drop back to 'normal' feel even colder than it is.

Tess good to see you around again, I think people are not on the boards because the heat makes everyone lethargic. I am glad I am not an athlete, awful to have to compete in the ehat. I will probably watch the opening ceremony although I am not a sports fan and won't watch anything else.

Two ends of the scale then Tess, Farewell to your lovely aunt and starting life for your lovely great niece.

Gerard, glad that your OH had a good birthday.Oh to be 37 again another year and I can reverse those numbers. :-D

Jan, hope the opening of your garden went well.

Back again ... we have been hot and sunny weather in the UK for the last few days.

Perhaps one of the reasons there haven't been many posts over the last few days. Everyone is outside enjoying the sun.

Gerard, I hope that you and your wife enjoyed celebrating her birthday. What film did you go to see? Would you recommend it?

Bridget, I hope that you are now getting the rent through to your husbands account. Are you stil planning to sell up and home back to the UK

Hope that everyone else is well.


Yesterday I went to the funeral of my wonderful aunty, Kath. She died on 14th July aged 102.
Her funeral was well attended by people who loved her. She inspired love.

This really was the last og an era. She lived through two world wars. In fact three of her brothers serve in the first world war, and all survived it.
Born well before women had the vote, she fought for the rights of all.

Tomorrow I shall (if up to it) be going to a birthday party of my great-niece, she was two yesterday.

Tonight I hope to watch The Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. As long as I don't go to sleep.
Will anyone else be watching?


Tess

Well it seems ages since my last update - OH has just had her 37th Birthday and we celebrated this weekend - Cinema and a Pizza. We also served at Church - I got to carry the Cross and OH carried a candle!!

We also did the church flowers yesterday and got lots of compliments today - a most pleasing result.

Still doing my two hours cleaning work on weekday evenings - so rewarding - not necessarily financially! So I have spent several weeks feeling more useful again. The weather has improved the last few days so I might have a go at the garden again over the next couple of weeks.

I'm not really a fan of the Olympics and there will be a bit of disruption travelwise - there are a few cars and coaches parked close by and we have a practise venue just up the road too. At least the Emirates Stadium is quiet this month. I just hope East London benefits a lot after the games, although I doubt if the locals will be able to afford to use the venues!

Hope everyone is well - looking forward to new news
Gerard <3 :-)

My big news is .... It isn't raining! People in the UK will know how often and how much it has rained over the last few weeks. It seems that the rainfalll has broken all sorts of records.

So good to see some blue in the sky.

My sad news is that my lovely aunty Kath died last saturday (14th July) aged 102. A wonderful lady, She had an open mind, an open heart and opened her home to us all. She also had a great sense of fun.

Will be going to her funeral on Thursday. It will be an eand of an era.



Jan, I hope that your garden party went well and that the rain stayed away. It sounds exciting. You must have been rather busy. The Queen of the Night looks great.
The grass in my garden is really long now, and going to seed. My energy levels have been too low to mow it, and of course it has been raining such a lot, that the grass is always wet. See, I am full of excuses.
Just a thought, I wonder if it is all thses excuses that are weighing me down? I put on a stone very quickly this last few weeks.

Bridget, I hope that your pension has now come through and is up to date. Have been too low lately to check mine properly. Maybe I should get off my B---side and go and check.
I haven't got an IPad have enough trouble trying to work my computer and my new Smart TV. Just about getting the hang of recording and then watching programms.


I'm looking forward to the Olympics. Will anyone else be watching?


Hope that everyone is okay and that the reason that they haven't posted lately is that they are too busy having fun.

Have a good sommer everyone,


Tess

Bridget..hope you get things sorted out soon. I haven't been on here for a while, I have been soooooooooo busy, the weeks just blur into one. This week not much better !!. And the weather....well, its dry here in sunny Norfolk, but rain forecast ugh....already dreaming of winter, at least you know that the weather is going to be ghastly !! I have been shopping on line for winter clothes....how depressing, but necessary ! We are opening our garden for a garden party this week and it looks like it will be a wash out ...but I hope it will be at least fine/dry... Hope the rest of your weekend is good

Regards Jan

As you will see, I am on the internet again. Big smiles this end (at last)
Used my son's lap-top earlier in the week, (thatns J.) Got a Dongle on Tuesday. Tried to connect it and FAILED!!
In fact I wiped out the internet connection to the lap top too.

Was really miserable yesterday (what's new?) Today I got the courage to phone my internet provider again. Don't know why I get so het-up about it. After all I'mnot going to get the cane for being naughty, not even going to get detention, lines or a telling off.

Anyway spoke to a lovely vey patient young man today, and he has sorted it out for me.
Out tonight, but will be back on computer (a lot) over the next few says.

Bridget, I hope that your pension has come through now, it can be rather worrying can't it.

I was rather young when I lived in Penang. Went (by ship) in feb 1953 and returned around July 1955 (by plane, with two overnight stops).

During that time we lived in Penang and Tiaping. Although I do have quite a few memories of that time, I don't really know which were in Penang and which were in Tiaping. Except that is for the natural pools/swimming pools, up in the hills near Tiaping.

However now have sad memories of Penang. In feb 2003 I went back to Malaysia for a holiday with my brother. We stayed in different places, but the day we got to penang, we got an urgent message from home. Our mother was critically ill in hospital. We booked the next available flight home, but Mum died before we got to the UK.

Of course that doesn't stop malaysia being a beautiful country.
The great thing about that holiday was that I was able to contact a school friend that I had met one our second stay in the country (April 1958 Oct 1960) What a great day that was, I had lost contact around 1962-3. How lucky I was that she had an usuall surname, and her brother and sister-in-law still lived in the town where we met.

thanks Bridget we have bought them now and are pleased with them so far. When you use them in UK how do you get on line? Do you need to be somewhere that you can access wifi?

The pension date has not changed as far as I know, not heard anything. However NatWest bank had a big problem recently when nothing was being paid in because somebody doing a software update wiped all the information by mistake, if this is your bank you need to contact them and find out what has happened. I suggest you ring your pension people rather than the bank, they will then tell you if it has been sent to the bank, if it has you will have to ring the bank. Hope you can get it solved.

A quick message.
First I am pleased that most people seem to be healthy...must be summer weather.

I am having trouble with myUK pension payment. Have the dates for this each month been changed. My pension normally are in around the 4th of each month. NONE this month !!!

Any advice would be a great help.........if I try to talk to someone in the bank they are all in India!!
this is now my only income and I am very worried. I can only get on the Internet when I am out.i will stay out for a couple of hours.

We are renting our house for 2 or 3 months but the people are there but not put the charge money into my husbands account........thisis supposed to be dealt with the Agent who is a friend of us!!!

Ann I have the basic iPad but it has so many features that I cannot see anything re the newer version that most people would use.

Only a few weeks ago I discovered all sorts of extra items to down load for a few pence or free.

Bridget

Hope this

A quick message.
First I am pleased that most people seem to be healthy...must be summer weather.

I am having trouble with myUK pension payment. Have the dates for this each month been changed. My pension normally are in around the 4th of each month. NONE this month !!!

Any advice would be a great help.........if I try to talk to someone in the bank they are all in India!!
this is now my only income and I am very worried. I can only get on the Internet when I am out.i will stay out for a couple of hours.

We are renting our house for 2 or 3 months but the people are there but not put the charge money into my husbands account........thisis supposed to be dealt with the Agent who is a friend of us!!!

Ann I have the basic iPad but it has so many features that I cannot see anything re the newer version that most people would use.

Only a few weeks ago I discovered all sorts of extra items to down load for a few pence or free.

Bridget

Hope this

No problem Tess. :-)

Hi I am here again! No, the Dongle hasn't arrived yet - my son has taken pity on me and bought his lap-top round for me to use. He has had to plug my mouse into it though as I just couldn't cope otherwise.

Such a lot of catching up to do, just a quick Hi at the moment. Will be back again soon.
e seems to be jumping all over the place, so hope it makes sense.

Tess
Thank you Ann for relaying my message so quickly. My messag

I have had a letter from Tess who apologises for her absence, apparently she has had internet problems but is being sent a dongle by her internet supplier and hopes to be back with us soon


I had missed her and wondered where she was, it will be good to see her back again.

Well, I have been madly busy too, do not know where the time weeks have gone. Went to the next village last week to see the Olympic Flame go through. It was a lovely occasion and a happy atmosphere. I am so proud to be a Brit, what a lovely and momentous year this is turning out to be...one that we will not forget......apart from the rain that is.......its raining again as I write. Congrats to all who have had anniversaries and birthdays. my OH and I celebrate 20 years in September, and we are renewing our vows., as well as having friends and family for lunch. So hope by then that we are going through and Indian Summer !!

This week I am helping my sis in law to do a display for her churches flower festival. we are depicting "We plough the fields", and having a a hand push plough as part of the display. Hope for the best.

Regards everyone

Bridget I am thinking of getting an IPad. Which one do you have, I need one mainly for e mails and internet access.

Hello everyone, I am still alive and kicking when needed. We have let our house out for the first time and we are currently outside Barcelona staying in our son and his soon to be wife. You could have knocked me down with a feather when they went to start the process yesterday..I am rather excited.
The weather is good, we are sitting watching people go by and using our iPads we do not have Internet access back at son,s house.

Jet and joe are sond asleep after a two hour walk.

Gerard I hope you enjoyed your special day and happy birthday for those who have just had theirs or who will have in the next week or two.

Bye for now.

Bridget who is drinking.....WATER.

Hello all, another one who has been absent. Congratulations on your wedding anniversary gerard, sounds as if you had a lovely meal.

Mary hope that you continue to feel better, a swim in the sea sounds lovely, is the water clean? I always wonder these days. How dangerous to leave a broken bottle on the beach, could have been nasty.

Berona so far our summer is practically non existent. We have just had ten days in the Lake District which were lovely although we had four good days three extremely wet, two wet and one very damp.

Hi All
I too have been ,issing for weeks - had lots on my mind and could not get motivated. Before I forget belated congratulations Gerrard on your wedding anniversary.
As you may remember we went to UK mid May to see my mom for her 89th birthday and it also gave my sister time out. We arrived back in Spain on Wednesday 24th I think it was and by the Monday mom was in hospital - blood tests showed liver probs - so I was looking at flights again. To cut a long story short she rallied around and the prognosis was that she had kidney stones and passed them. Anyway after 3 weeks in hospital she came home a week ago and everything seems ok. We are now looking at flights in August to go back and see her. On top of all this I then came down with a cold bug - coughed and coughed - lost my voice - and felt proper poorly. I also say summer colds are worse than winter ones. Anyway, pleased to say I feel loads better now and on Sunday we actually went down on the beach and went for a swim - all very enjoyable. Hubby had a close shave though - someone had buried a broken cava bottle and he managed to cut his foot on it. Why do people do these things - there are rubbish bins on the beach - luckily it was not a bad cut but if a child had been digging in the sand I dread to think what could have happened. Anyway we picked all the glass up and deposited it in the rubbish bin.
Well the sub is shining and guess what - yes I have the ironing to do so I had better sort it out before it gets too hot.
Hope everyone is ok
Take care
Love Mary xx