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We are all well here in Norfolk, but very wet !! Had enough now, it looked like November outside this morning...so you can tell your friends they are in the best place at yours !!!

Jan

Good afternoon to you all . Sorry I have not been on here each day but I am sure that you will understand that my friends who are visiting have had my full attention.
We had our lunch out today at the English bar and it was excellent.
Have to go know as we are out for a walk and when back we shall be getting everything packed etc so that visitors can be ready early in the morning.

Will be back sometime tomorrow, hope that you are all well

Bridget

Hi everyone, had a busy week, apart from dodging the rain !! Garden now well soggy !! Planted the last of our potatoes, the bags you can buy are excellent. Also hardened off tomato plants, so they can go out soon.

Had our W.I. birthday party Thursday, my contribution was a yummy, scrummy choc cheesecake.....only needed a small piece tho. Must hink of waistline !!

Garden now getting back to normal following the tree being cut down,
Hope your visitors Bridget enjoy the rest of their stay.

Have a lovely weekend everyone


Jan

Good morning to you all, dear Cyber Friends.

This morning it is very misty so hope that lifts quite quickly. I can hear the fishing boats going out to see and the birds twittering and apart from those there is complete quietness. As I have said many times before this is a very precious time of day. I can write on here, just sit and contemplate, read without interruption etc , in tranquility.

Our Wednesday ten pin bowling was great fun and our visitors really showed us how proficient they are! I came last....but no real surprise to anyone.
We had some very good tapas in the afternoon with excellent service but half wat through the meal the wind became rather cold and not one of us had brought a coat or jacket......we did not have to walk to the car.....we almost flew there!!

My OH and the chap who is visiting us are off to play golf today, we are not players but O H can be a Caddie......and no doubt he will enjoy the day. He does not have to drive as another friend has left his car in our garage and he will end his early morning walk today at our house, have some breakfast with us and the be the driver.......friends can be so kind.

Not sure what I and my friend will do maybe a walk around the town or if it is not warm, do some reading, chatting etc.

Tess, I hope that you and your brother enjoy your meal out,.
Gerard, thank you for being our very good and concientious member of our thread,
Gerard, my friend was in the army by the time he was 16, I think it was "suggested to him, if you know what I mean, so stayed as a resident in the UK..for many years he did not see his family but as he got older this situation changed and he visits SA every the year.
He has asked me to build his family tree but Scottish FamilynHistory is proving very difficult.......so many people with the same surname. Any suggestions that may help me would be welcome...

Well people are stirring so time to get breakfast ready

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful day

Bridget :-)

Sorry have been rather distracted recently.
Am out to celebrate my baby brother's birthday tomorrow evening (he will be 55). Going to a Malaysian Rest. in town. Have had a lot of rain over the last few days, so hoping that I don't get wet.

Off to bed in a few minutes. Will be back for a proper chat in a few days.


Tess

Well London is looking great his morning the sun is shining and there is a blue sky - I don't know how long for.

I have been busy working still - I know it is only two hours a day (2 1/2 the last two weeks), but with taking OH to work at 4.30 each morning too it takes it out of you when you are older!! The big 65 is next month!!

It was a wonderful Easter at church, went to all the main services and last Sunday the church was very well occupied for 'Low Sunday' which is extremely unusual! Let's hope the trend continues!

Bridget - I wondered if you friend's OH - the one that cooks - did he have sisters when he was growing up. Because I had no sisters my mum was always showing me how to cook, sew, knit and all those 'feminine' pastimes.

Tess - Sorry I have too many ornaments already - and cuddly toys!! We still have plenty of excuses for not tidying and not going into the garden too!!!

Hazel - how are those twins? A friend of OH's at church has just had twins (two girls) and they have had all sorts of problems, but are getting over them.

Berona - Global warming is certainly more obvious in Australia than any where else - your weather has become too unpredictable! I suspect that California's weather is changing too - cos a I have a niece living there and she says it is raining a lot more often than it used to!!

Big match for the Arsenal today - especially after the shock defeat last Monday - hopefully the Chelsea team will be too tired after their exertions against Tottenham and Barcelona.

Looking forward to the rest of the weekend to recover!
Hope everyone is well - if not - get well soon!!
Prayers will be said and candles will be lit!!!

Gerard <3 :-) <3 :-) <3

Our friends arrived safely and we are really enjoying ourselves. It is quite a while since we were with them do lots of chatting going on Nd not just with the ladies!
Yesterday we were out for lunch at the super Chinese restaurant which I have written about previously. We had a good walk along the beach whilst the sun was still shining and then shopped for fruit and veg before coming home and sitting in the garden for a few hours. It is good to have warm weather again!
The husband Whois visiting is an excellent cook andiscooking a steak and kidney pie today which I know from previous times will be excellent,
We are taking each day asit comes,no real planning.

There are so many birds twittering.i can hardly recognise any of them,I am sure that they compete with each other...

Have a good day everyone and I will be back tommorow

Bridget
:-) :-) :-)

Our friends arrived safely and we are really enjoying ourselves. It is quite a while since we were with them do lots of chatting going on Nd not just with the ladies!
Yesterday we were out for lunch at the super Chinese restaurant which I have written about previously. We had a good walk along the beach whilst the sun was still shining and then shopped for fruit and veg before coming home and sitting in the garden for a few hours. It is good to have warm weather again!
The husband Whois visiting is an excellent cook andiscooking a steak and kidney pie today which I know from previous times will be excellent,
We are taking each day asit comes,no real planning.

There are so many birds twittering.i can hardly recognise any of them,I am sure that they compete with each other...

Have a good day everyone and I will be back tommorow

Bridget
:-) :-) :-)

Spring and Autumn are the nicest part of the year for us here. Summer can get too hot and winter used to be very cold, but recent winters have been quite mild - and last summer didn't seem to happen! It's all weird - must be the hole in the ozone layer - or global warming - whatever they call it.

Low temperatures that is positively a heat wave to us here Berona in the 11/12 degrees we are getting. I am sure that the rain will be good for your farmers and gardeners but hope you don't get too much flooding. Always the way after a dry perios the rain bounces off and causes flooding. We are in a drought situation believe it or not in Gloucestershire, although do not yet have water restrictions.

Our beautiful Autumn weather came to a halt a few days ago and the rain descended upon us with a vengeance. Mild flooding in the rivers with the flood gates overflowing for the second time in two months - before that - fourteen years ago! At least, we no longer have water restrictions!

Where I am - on the western side of Sydney, we haven't had as much rain as they have had nearer the coast, so we don't know what flooding is, and only had a couple of days of heavy showers - more forecast, but not heavy, so I can't complain. The temperatures are still in the low twenties - so that's really nice - and we don't need to water our gardens.

OH did a bit in the garden but it was hit and miss with the showers. They have been coming down fairly regularly and very hard. Still he got some things done in the greenhouse he wanted to do. We have to risk our plants going out this weekend as we go away for 4 weeks , our neighbours look after the house and garden but don't like to leave too much in the greenhouse for them. Fingers crossed we don't get any hard frosts.

Weather typical April now sunshine and showers. Finally fence has been repaired, and we have filled hole where stump was , so it all looks OK Now.

Been busy in the garden, tidying up and planting veg, as well as trying to get rid of that darned ground elder.

Hope your friends arrived OK Bridget, and that they have a good time with you.

Regards Jan

No computers for several days...how we miss it. We have a new ADSL and it is causing havoc, OH has just managed to get my IPad working and is now connecting the computer in the study but cannot get the comp in the living room to work....

Friends from Norich in UK arriving on Thursday and I am so looking forward to seeing them again.

OH calling so must go

Bridget :-)

Morning all

Well going to meet my friend Nat for a coffee this morning, We meet every 4 wks if we can. And chat for few hours.

Then off over to Teris later to stay the night there, as she is hoping to do boot sale tomorrow at Taplow looks like weather going to be ok today so field wont be soaked, and said going to be ok for Sunday. Lets hope so as she has loads to sell. I will be looking after Caitlin for the day,then be back home Sunday night.

Hands are not too bad, but have to use a pencil to tap keys as that is painfull.

Mary glad you had nice easter.

Jan also glad you had good one. Yes it was very cold and wet at Teris as was over there for it.

Bridget well done to your grandson, Caitlin can talk abit of French, but they dont learn it in year 1 only in pre school. Dont know if they do in next class,

Hi Susanwithnumbers, that thread is good idea.

~~~~~~~~~~~to everyone have a good weekend.

Hazelx

Yes, we had a good Easter as well. But had to do the egg hunt indoors, too cold to be outside, weather has been mixed all week,do not know whether to take a layer off or not !

Glad everyone is OK, lets hope the warmer weather gets here soon Jan

Good morning all
Hope you all had a good Easter. The weather was good here - makes a change Easter over the last few years has been cold and wet. We had a BBQ on Easter Sunday and on the Monday we went a walk by the sea in Denia and then sat outside a bar people watching. A pasttime I find enjoyable.

Last week we went to Aldi were there was a special offer on drawer units. We ended up buying 2 to house all my craftie stuff - I had a real good clear out but still managed to fill up all the drawers. Hubby is pleased as he can now see the desk - I am a very messy card maker !! I also put my summer clothes in the wardrobes and put all the winter clothes away - another good job done. I even moved the bbed, chester of drawers etc. and had a good clean up in our bedroom. I wont tell you how much dust I gathered !!

Hope you are feeling better now Bridget - glad you enjoyed your family visiting over Easter. We had a call last night from some friends who are coming over 10th May for a long weekend - just before we are off to UK to visit my mom - so I will have a busy time - but it will be good to see our friends and they are not hard work.

Well hope you all have a good day

Take care
Love Mary xx

Hi all

Just popping in cant type to much as my hands are bad still. Had problem since i was 7yrs old so just getting worse as i get older.

I have to see someone today as been told i have to go back to work. So i am appealing as no way i could work.

Had very busy 10 days over seing grand kids. Love them to bits but need my own space and some peace.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~to everyone

Hazelx

Good morning to all my cyber friends, I remain amazed at how we keep this thred going, I never dreamt that we would get this far.

We had a super Easter, with my son his family. Having a child around is always so pleasing. Leo is only 7 but is already able to converse fluently in Spanis, English and German, now he is trying French because a new boy at his school is French and he likes him!!
Leo is still very much a child and hunted for his Easter Egg and other small Easter gifts, it was hearing warming to see his excitement.
They went home on the Sunday afternoon and were going to look at some more houses and areas to move to...somewhere on the edge of Barcelona....

Our pool is beginning to look good again. But still no water....... All areas have been looked at, cleaned or items replaced where necessary. IWe are now waiting for it all to dry thoroughly and then a final clean, before we start to fill it with water which will take some time...so pleased that it will be ready for my friends from Attleborough in Norfolk arrive in two weeks time.

We bought some plants for our garden yesterday so will be busy cleaning the pots etc this morning, and I also bought a new cover for our bed settee down stairs. It was bought the first year we lived here and has done very well but the covers are part of the settee so cannot be removed..I doo wash and dry them fairly frequently but feel it is time for a new look!

Went ten pin bowling yesterday and got my highest scores so far and came second in our team of 4.....I was really chuffed, I used a slightly heavier ball and that made a big difference.......

The fishing boats have now gone so far away that I cannot hear them, this is an event that I have enjoyed her since day one and sometimes one boat will be rather late back and there is always I moment of relief when this happens.

We are still eating sensibly and surprised that we are still loosing weight, not a lot but every bit helps.....

I wish you all a happy day and look forward to your replies.

Susan, welcome to our thred and I look forward to your entries.......we have great fun, good discussions etc and new ideas are always welcome.

Bridget in sunny Spain
:-D

Hello everyone.

I hope you don't mind me adding to your thread. It is amazing how many different members there are and all hidden inside the threads. Do come and join us by saying hello to those you have never spoken to before. I am sure you will be welcome. :-)