General Chat

I will keep my fingers crossed for you Ann
and i hope you have a safe journey and a lovely time .
for the first time in years all of my family will be together on New Years eve
this year i am so looking forward to it . i have 2 sons and 1 daughter and 9 grand children and 1 great grand child on the way .

Hopefully it will be gone by Christmas. I am still keeping my fingers crossed that we don't get any snow and that we can get to M Keynes OK on Thursday.

Julie Ann , know what you mean
i used to read the threads and cry with laughter sometimes
yes it would be nice to have it back or even something near to it lol
Hazelx

Julia,
sorry that your not feeling well and your OH as well
i wish you both better very soon ....Chicken broth on Christmas day
oh nooooo .
tuck up in bed Julia and keep warm
Merry Christmas to you both
Hazelx

it would be nice

i noticed for some time now its quiet on here
i dont come on here much,
but it would be nice like the old days when we used to have laugh on here
it moved so fast,
and it was full of laughter

we all need a giggle

Hi Jean ,
yes the snow is bad in some places isnt it ..
i had my son and grandson up over the weekend
from surrey they have loads of snow down there
and they were surprised that we had so little of it here .
I dont like snow anyway so im happy lol
but your right every where is chock a block OH had a job parking
this morning . we went out about 11am and got home about 1 o/c
Hazelx

I'm glad to see this thread is still going strong. But, please forgive, I cannot contribute properly, as I am so colded up, and have been in bed all day. OH, now says he has got the symptoms. Chicken broth for Christmas Day. I hope not.
Will keep looking in, so please keep contibuting. Hopefully I will be back in full harness in a day or two
To everyone, have a lovely Christmas.
Julia in Derbyshire

You are so fortunate with little or no snow, here in gt manchester, it is severe J and D went shopping for me this morning, they went around 10, and came back finally at 2.15. only went to stores which normally takes 20 mins there and back, the trouble was the volume of traffic every road into the town was grid locked and also drivers who cause mayhem shooting through lights that are red, we have had a lot of snow, its years since it was so bad, they had trouble getting onto our car parking area when they came back, had to dig quite a lot of snow just to get onto the plot, but we have enough food now so no need to go out,not that I intended to...lol....hope it is better were you all live...

Jean x

Ann yes he is , he looks after me quite well .
Well i did tell him he wouldn't get another one like me lolol
and he said thank goodness for that ,...mmmmm not
sure what he means by that lol.

Busy busy then Hazel, sounds like you are well stocked up. T**** was busy yesterday but to give them their due every till (and it is a large store so a lot of tills) was 'manned' (can I say that or is it non pc?) and we were almost straight through. What a lovely OH you have to let you sit in the car while he battled the hoards.
We have visitors this evening so I wont be on here much until maybe a lot later.

Hi everyone , i have been busy cooking today
mince pies, cakes , and a steak pie for dinner to morrow
This morning i went to Iceland i just wanted a few things
oh boy ,,, you couldnt move in there so OH told me to go
and sit in the car and he would battle his way round, so i did ...
He came back and said it was murder in there lol.
So now shopping done , baking finished, time to relax ..lolol
Hope everyone has had a nice day, no snow here at all now
we did have just a bit over the weekend but it soon went
but then im on the coast line, but the wind is very cold .
wishing everyone a Happy Christmas.
Hazelx

Lunch sounds good Mummo, I am on my way although it may take a few hours, can you keep it warm please? best wishes to Eddie, I hope he is comfortable today. When he starts flirting with the young nurses you will know he is feeling better!

Hi Ann,
HI all,
Another lovely thread from you Ann, as you know l do not have a lot of time for posting at the moment but do like to catch up with some threads at night and am finding this one very enjoyable.
Just cooking lunch (lamb chops, baby new potatoes with a side salad) before l go up the hospital.
Hope everyone continues to add to this thread, thankyou, xx

You are right Brenda, a lot of people went over to chat but mainly because the gen board got swamped with A-Zs. I do hope you get your car back, is it diesel? maybe the diesel froze or something, hope it is not expensive anyway as I know you need the car.

Hi Daff, not found out how I get rid of the virus from my Facebook page, it is no problem when I receive the e mails from others on FB as I just delete them, I know people wouldn't really be inviting me to look at videos on youtube. So if anyone among my friends get them I hope they too will delete, it is quite well known now, I got them from a couple of my contacts.

Good morning SylviaG, yes the snow can look beautiful as long as you don't have to go out, so far we have not got any and I am hoping it stays that way. Have you had a new fall there overnight? Are the roads clear?

Your puppy sounds beautiful Aaah!

Oh,what fun!!
going out early to go shopping before the shops get too busy,and guess what...the car wouldn't start!!All I need.
Thought it was the battery,but had the local garage up and they have taken it away!Don't know what's wrong.hope to get it back today or else we will run out of essentials.
I am a 74 year old still active(have to be with a sick husband).Live in North Wales near the coast,but quite high up a hill with lovely views and can see all the windmills out at sea, which are looking beautiful with the sunlight on them. not had much snow here,but I guess about half a mile inland it will have been quite thick.
It is nice that the gen board is getting back to normal.It was probably busier before they had chat in the format it is in now,as a lot of the folk who posted on gen went over to chat.
Will look in later.
Brenda x

Good morning, what a lovely picture postcard scene we have here today. All the fields are covered in snow, as is the rest of the area. Lovely to look at but dreading going out in it later.
I have a Wee-Jon puppy, she is a cross between a westie and a bijon freise. Pure white with beautiful dark brown eyes. She loves the snow and I have great trouble making her come indoors. Half the time all I can see are her eyes. Her name is Candy, as she was like a bundle of candy floss when we puchased her. I think the grandaughter half expected me to dye her pink. She is 7 months old now and my constant shadow. She is into everything and has already opened 2 christmas presents that I now have to rewrap before my daughter visits this morning.
She has got me through a severe bout of depression, although if you were a fly on my wall you might just send for the men in white coats. We have these wonderful one sided conversations, where she sits and looks at me as if to say, " what are you going on about lady?"
Have a lot to do today including a visit to the panto.
Hope you all enjoy your day, stay safe and keep warm.
Sylvia X

Not me, Ann.... just got in from GP...... did you get your virus zapped???

Right..... I am Daff, married for 37 years, 2 sons, 2 beautiful granddaughters, and I live in Newport, Gwent, although I was born in Cardiff.

I get very excited over birthdays and Christmas, lol.

I love it on GR, and have made many friends, in real life, too.... I know just how generous the folk are on here... and how supportive, as I have been the recipient myself.

I get very tired at times, so often just pop in and straight out again!!

Lovely thread, Ann.... it really is good to see so many names and 'faces'

Love

Daff xxxx

Why would somebody post and delete? Please tell me if it was you.

Thank you to all those who have posted since I went to bed, good to see some returning names here, you are sooo welcome and thank you Sylvia Canada for that lovely long intro. Will be back later, I have a busy day today but I will look in. Also have to check my facebook page as I have been told I have a video virus and I don't know what to do about it.

Ann xx

Just popped in to say "goodmorning everyone"......on this nice friendly thread. I'm glad to see it's still going despite the fact that we all must be very busy this week. The story about the mince pie baking was so good I felt I could almost smell them!! I'm ashamed to admit I haven't made my own for quite a few years, I should do it because nothing beats the smell of baking.

The good news - for me - is that my hubby has got Christmas day off this year (usually unheard of) and so, as it's just the 2 of us, we've booked to go out for our lunch. I'm looking forward to us spending the day together.



Oh, and I keep meaning to ask Julia - what part of Derbyshire are you in???

K