General Chat

Sorry to hear that your messages have not come up on the board Sylvia, no idea what is happening. At least your last message appeared.
Weather here at the moment is lovely, what a change, little wind and no rain!!!!

Hope everyone is keeping well.

Joxx

Cannot understand why my last two memos have not been printed. The last one was only yesterday - 30 April.
Keep this short as I will be wasting my time if it is not printed.
Sylvia

Well after one lovely very warm sunny day, today was back to normal, rain and a very chilly wind. We have frosts forecast for the end of the week so I would imagine the cold is here to stay for a few more days now.
Still have not made any cards, will have to get stuck in this weekend as I have 3 anniversary, 3 birthday cards, new baby and some thank you cards to make so think I will be busy.
Hope that it is nothing serious with Johans hand and that you do not have to wait too long for the results. Have not thought about Christmas cards yet, although I received a bought one last year that I loved so might try to recreate!!
Have a good week
Love Joxxx

How quiet is is on the board. Perhaps everybody is making their Xmas cards so that they will be ready on time!
Well at last the weather here has turned warmer. We do, however, still have a biting cold wind.
Johan has a swollen hand and has had this for a couple of weeks now. Today he went to the doctor and she sent him to the hospital for an x-ray to be made. He is now waiting for the result of the x-ray.
Never a dull moment here!
On the 31st we have the crowning of our new king - now prince Willem-Alexander and princess Maxima will be queen.
Enjoy the sun, Sylvia xxx

Afternoon ladies, hope you are all well and enjoying the better weather. It has been very mixed here today with sun, rain, hail and of course very strong winds. Still lovely to have some sun makes everything so much better. Thank you for my lovely birthday cards they were all so different and special. I will send out an email will just wait for Heathers list and will send both out together.
Have a lovely weekend
Joxx

I am supposed to be knitting as well but not getting on that well, by the time I should be knitting (i.e. when watching TV in the evenings) I am too tired to concentrate. I have made 4 cards this afternoon for the charity thought so that is something.
the sun is shining here at the moment although it has been a mainly gloomy day today.

Ann that is fantastic to raise so much money for charity. I tend to make a pack as a raffle prize, but selling individual would raise more money.

Weather here for the first time is reasonable. There is little wind and the sun is even trying to shine and it is not too cold for a for a change. Lets hope this is the start of spring, the birds certainly think so.

Sylvia good to hear that your face is slowly returning to normal lets hope when the teeth are put in things improve for you.

I am knitting at the moment rather than making cards. Local church is doing the Big Knit for Age UK so I am helping by knitting the tops for bottles don't take long to do but are quite boring so am doing at the same time as the clothes for my granddaughters dolls. Think she has a wardrobe full by now!!

Have a good day

Love Joxx

Hi Sylvia, hope you get your new teeth soon. But glad the swelling and bruising is going.

It is very cold here too. And no sun at all here today either, so much for spring.

I have been making some cards for charity today, they sell them at a local residential home, they have made £50 in under 2 months so I am pleased with that. :-)

Hi all,
Well, my face is almost back to normal - apart from the fact that I have not had the teeth put in yet. I really did have a black and bkue face and swollen. Everybody asking if I had had a fall and whether somebody - Johan? - had punched me up. I have to go back again tomorrow so don't know what he will say.
It's still bitterly cold here, but dry, so that is good.
My eldest daughter is going to England on Thursday so have made a list of things she can bring me back. It used to be the other way round at one time.
I was surprised on Saturday when I switched the computer on and Google appeared on the screen with a page of cup cakes and in the middle "Happy Birthday Linda". It was my granddaughter's 30th birthday and she didn't even know it was on there. I think Facebook put it on.
Now have a nice evening, Sylvia xxx

Happy birthday Babs (Maisie) hope you are having a lovely day.

hope your birthday was a good one too Jill.

Ooh Sylvia, that does sound painful and nasty. I hope that, in the end, all the pain will have been worth it. Was all that pain expensive too? Hope it all heals soon for you.

Today it has been sunny and, where sheltered quite warm. But there is a bitterly cold wind, I walked to the shops and my face was frozen, I was so pleased to get back into the warm again. Then I stood out in the garden on the patio with no coat on potting on some small plants which I then put in the conservatory, and I was quite warm. I also got a line of washing dried in a couple of hours.

Sorry its late, but I hope you had a lovely birthday Jill!!

Weather here very cold today but lovely and sunny so makes a lovely change.

Silvia, sorry to hear that the dentist has made such a mess of your mouth I really hope you are now feeling a little less sore and the painkillers are working well. Hopefully when it is fully healed you will be so much better.

Take care everyone
Joxx

well we had snow again today but really only sleat, but the weather forecast is no better for the following week.
Last Wednesday the doctor started to do the implant magnets in my mouth for my new dentures. I thought he was never going to stop drilling. I have had a lot of stitches in my gums too and have difficulty in opening my mouth and eating. My face is all black and blue. I went shopping today and everybody kept asking me whether I had had a fall.
I have had a lot of pain and taken a lot of paracetamol with codeine tablets.
Have a nice Easter everybody.
Sylvia xxx

It is bitterly cold here Sylvia and we have lots and lots of snow again. Should have gone to the hairdressers this morning but could not get my car off the drive and the roads were even worse. The came along this afternoon with a snow plough so that the buses could get through, but it has snowed ever since and it is now 3" deep again on the road. so no going out. They are forecasting a frost when it stops snowing so that should make it very interesting!

Sylvia, belated Happy Birthday to Johan, hope he had a lovely day. Good that you only had to stay in for one night especially as you were in with a man, but great that they found nothing wrong.
Take care and keep warm
Love Joxx

Hallo all,
Yes, it's lil ól me again. I only had to spend one night in hospital thank goodness. I had to share my room with a man and that for me is offputting to say the least.
Anyway they couldn't find anything wrong with my intestines. I had to drink 6 litres of that horrible stuff to clear your bowels for an investigation. I thought when I had drunk one litre I was finished but no I had another 5 litres to drink.
Johan had his birthday yesterday and I had it all wrong again. He was 88 and not 87. What a stupid old fool I am.
I just couldn't think what to buy him. Books, books, books/. Yes, but he bringslots of books home from the library every week and at 88 has read most of the ones he wants to read. I had this wonderful idea of buying secondhand books on the internet. We have Marktplaats, which I believe is something like Ebay. I managed to find 5 books so asked the dealer for a good price and he took 1 Euro off each book. I couldn't resist an English book called DEAD CAT. This gives 100 uses for a dead cat. Very funny.
Today a sister and brother in law of Johan's came so I had to be busy cooking. I prefer to have everybody on one day but that is not always possible.
I have now lost 30 kilos in weight and all my trousers just fall off me, so must buy some new ones. I was going to the dressmaker to have the others altered but my daughter said it is not worth it.
It is bitterly cold here at the moment. Last year we had the hottest day of the year and this year we have the coldest I think.
Now have a nice eveing.
Sylvia xxx

Hallo all,
Yes, it's lil ól me again. I only had to spend one night in hospital thank goodness. I had to share my room with a man and that for me is offputting to say the least.
Anyway they couldn't find anything wrong with my intestines. I had to drink 6 litres of that horrible stuff to clear your bowels for an investigation. I thought when I had drunk one litre I was finished but no I had another 5 litres to drink.
Johan had his birthday yesterday and I had it all wrong again. He was 88 and not 87. What a stupid old fool I am.
I just couldn't think what to buy him. Books, books, books/. Yes, but he bringslots of books home from the library every week and at 88 has read most of the ones he wants to read. I had this wonderful idea of buying secondhand books on the internet. We have Marktplaats, which I believe is something like Ebay. I managed to find 5 books so asked the dealer for a good price and he took 1 Euro off each book. I couldn't resist an English book called DEAD CAT. This gives 100 uses for a dead cat. Very funny.
Today a sister and brother in law of Johan's came so I had to be busy cooking. I prefer to have everybody on one day but that is not always possible.
I have now lost 30 kilos in weight and all my trousers just fall off me, so must buy some new ones. I was going to the dressmaker to have the others altered but my daughter said it is not worth it.
It is bitterly cold here at the moment. Last year we had the hottest day of the year and this year we have the coldest I think.
Now have a nice eveing.
Sylvia xxx

I agree with Ann, positive thinking will get you both to your 60th Wedding anniversary, 3 yrs will fly by ;-) ;-) Cannot believe that Johan will be 90 as well in 3 yrs!!
Sylvia hope the tests all go well for you and you do not have to stay in hospital too long. Will be thinking of you.

Jean hope it all turns out well for you as well at the Oral clinic

I am afraid I have not been card making but have been spending my spare time knitting dolls clothes for one of the granddaughters she has so many dolls that all need clothes she tells me. Looking on ebay for some more different patterns.

Have a lovely weekend all of you
Joxx

Sylvia and Jean, Jeff and Johan, positive thinking please, of course you will make it to 60 years. :-) :-)

Sylvia, sorry you have to go for more tests, I hope the solution to the problem is an easy one, as you say, good job you are ahead with your cards. I am having a day off card making today and am on the second scrap book page of grandson's wedding last year.

Congratulations Sylvia, J and I have just celebrated our 57th anniversary and said the same words as you ,hope we make it three more years.....

sorry to hear that you have to go into hospital, hope it all gets sorted with the minimum of fuss and you get back home quickly, I have just been notified I have to go to see someone at the Oral Surgery dept this month , my dentist saw a white patch on my gum, so we shall have to see what happens... luckily I had all my B/G cards done and now am in the middle of doing some Easter cards, take care, I will remember you and your OH in my prayers.

Love Jean xx <3

Hallo girls,
Well I had to go to hospital again today as I had lost some blood where I shouldn't have lost it. The district nurse saw it and set the ball rolling. I am to go into hospital again next Monday for an examination. I may have to stay in for a few days or more, depending on what they find. Anyway I have made plenty of cards now so should be able to keep going ith sending birthday cards.
What cold weather we are having. The poor birds thought it was Spring when we had those few warm days and the Dpting bulbs are all showing through. Maybe it will be nice for Easter. Next Sunday Johan and I will be 57 years married. Oh where have the years gone to?
Johan is begnning to feel his age now. I hope he can keep going for another 3 years then we can have a party - 90 years birthday and 60 years marriage. We would then get the mayoress for coffee.
Hope you are all fit and well.
Love Sylvia xxx

Hello Sylvia and Jo (and anyone else who pops in here.) We are just back from a week in South Devon. Had a lovely apartment overlooking the River Dart to Dartmouth and the R Naval college, a beautiful view. We had a good week but it was bitterly cold. We managed to get out and about but didn't stay out of the car long unless we were in the shops.
I took my card making stuff with me but didn't seem to get time to make any. I did make a back to a baby's sweater so got something done other than reading and watching TV.
It was lovely here yesterday but today it is really cold again and very dull and grey. I do hope that we are going to see spring soon. All the spring flowers are out in the garden which is a start.
Sorry to hear about the chook Jo, sad for whoever's it was to come home to, bet you felt guilty too.
Anyway hope all are well and not too cold. :-) :-)