General Chat

Good upside down Saturday morning Ladies,

It does seem such an age since I was last here... Good news, my OH has fully recovered and is back to work. He does look a little on the thin side, actually, a lot on the thin side but I shall put that too rights... ;-).

My Papa has had a bit of a rough time of it, ended up in horsepiddle with pneumonia , was let out six days later only to end up in the same bed again a few hours later.. He is still there but getting a little stronger. Pain mananagemet is the biggest hurdle presently. More problems but I shall not bore you with those. We will go over later today and stay the night with Mama.. Oh dear, there are a few hurdles to face yet I fear.. :-(.

My emotions are all of a muddle but we shall "keep calm and carry on" :-)

Lucky you having some pleasant weather. We have had rain rain and more rain.. We have finally let the fire go out, will use a heater if needs must. Spring is sprung, the grass is ris...... The weeds are flourishing :-P, another job to add to the list..

Today is the dreaded housework day... My kitchen still smells of paint - a week later, uggghhh. Eau de oil :-D, stinks in fact.

Have a lovely weekend, see you next week :-)

#lifts head from a bowl of steaming Friars Balsalm and hot water#

Hello deab labies, I have a stinker of a colb. So please excuse the stuffed dose. I am proper poorly. I had by flu jab on Webnesday and now hab got a told! Sniffs.

I am very pleased that your gentle walker is better dear Susan, he is a very nice man and I would hate to see him unwell. I am very pleased he is on the mend.

We are going into Autumn here, and the leaves are falling from the trees. We are also have the roads resurfaced and repainted. Oh my dears, the noise! They start at 8.00am and continue until 6pm. They have a huge contraption that removed the tarmac, and spews it onto the back of a truck. The noise it makes! Poor Trickey Woo is hiding under her blankets for most of the day.

One thing that did make me smile...................there have been notices on the lampposts for 3 weeks now, indicating that all parking would be suspended for 3 days while the work was done. However, some people still did not move their cars and got very irate when they were hoisted onto the back of a trailer. The cars I mean, not the people!

So, nothing much to report except to say that days are getting colder, and the nights are getting darker.........................ugh!

Have a peaceful weekend ladies
AP

Good Evening.

Speaking through the keyhole while trying not to breath ....................... I am sorry to hear you are under the weather Auntie Petunia..................intake of breath................I will send you some homemade broth ...........breath........... with plenty of garlic in .... ...............breath ............... a jar of Vic and a packet of parma violet sweets to refresh your ...................breath.

Susan I wish my kitchen smelt of fresh paint :-D It's so good to hear your OH is much better, keep feeding him well :-) if I could I would send you some sunshine to brighten your day<3

~~~~~~~~~~~To Teresa x

Get well soon Petunia<3

Lesley x

**** sneaks in to say hi, off to my beddy byes, back in the morn ****

Hallo Ladies :-D

I'm glad your OH is on the mend Susan, I have a spare stone hanging about my person. I shall send it down the cyber hatch along with some apple crumble I made today. That should do the trick :-D

Hugs to your Pa and the Family x

Auntie I am sending an industrial size pot of Vic down the cyber hatch which should help with the cold :-D :-D :-D I will send some chicken curry later as well which I am making for tea. Its been a hive of industry here today Gals. ;-)

Lesley if you pop the plumbs by the wayside I'm sure people would take them for a small fee or free :-D Its lovely and warm here, more so in the afternoons than the mornings.

We were nice and warm yesterday watching the Fruit play the devils football. They won 5-2 which was a very nice change. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

FTE communicated a little earlier. The Fruit has been to America and Canada and is now orf to the Med. It will be nice and warm there I think. The Fruit is well and still clocking up the sea miles :-)

I'm tootling orf now. I have an appointment later with the "gasps"........... dental hygienist. All that scraping and chipping. Tutty tut tut. I have a sooper doper electric toothbrush but still I have to go and be whooshed with the gadgets there. :-(

Yours tutting and moaning

Teresa

Thank you for your good wishes dears, I am slowly on the mend.

I KNOW 'they' say the flu jab does not cause a cold, but it is the teeniest bit suspicious that I never had a cold before. Got vaccinated with a gramophone needle, and voila, I have the sniffles!

I am pleased your OH is getting better by the day dear Susan. Take good care of him, he is good un from what I saw on your London visit dear.

Teresa dear, I am sure you are sylph-like, and do not have a spare inch of skin. If only I could lose a stone [or two] I would be as happy as Larry.

Lesley - get out of bed dear, and come and talk to us!

Have a good evening dears.

AP

Good upside down evening,

Teresa, for a minute there I was envisaging 'gemstones'.... I thought you were going to send something of great value :-D. I do love apple crumble :-)..

Petunia, I am of the same mind as you. I have never had a flue jab but know of people who get sick once they have been 'jabbed' :-0.. I hope you are a box of fluffy ducks asap. I have a tickly throat presently. I cannot afford to get ill or I shall not be able to visit my Papa.

I spoke to himself a little earlier, he sounded a lot brighter and had the best nights sleep in a hundred years :-S, and I thought he was only 79... He did take a little fall today trying to get about unaided.. Oh dear. By all accounts he got a telling off.

My OH has just arrived home, we have to make a quick trip out so I shall return another time.

~~~~~ to all

4th of October already, my goodness, where does the time go?.

You must all be very busy with your good works, keep up the good work.

Toodle pip

Ladies,

I have been a little tardy of late, but I am still one degree under! This cold is a beggar! My ears are failing me, my nose constantly running, and I ACHE!

If I had not had the jab, I would swear it is a touch of flu! Surely not! I have not ventured out of the house for 3 days, and I am feeling a little cabin crazy.

However, my good works are carrying on without me at the helm. Why, the amount of phone calls I have had from my various committees, telling me not to hurry back!
So kind!

Sniffing loudly.
AP

Gooood evening Ladies,

So quiet over the weekend, you must have been tip-toeing about so's not to disturb me.

I am now back on my feet, although a little shaky, and I shall be returning to my good works tomorrow.

Yesterday, I spoke to dear Cherry, she has had her operation, and is being waited on by her gentleman walker. It will be slow progress, but she says she is fine.

Over and out dears. I hope your weekend went well.

Pip Pip
Auntie Petunia

Have you been eating onions Petunia?...

I am glad dear Cherry is doing well. If you should speak to her again, please pass on my best wishes to her for a speedy recovery. I hope she enjoys being waited on by her first husband. :-)..

What a wonderful spell of weather we had over the weekend. Such a joy. I spent time over at my Mama's. We visited Papa, oh what an improvement in him. He is to come home tomorrow afternoon :-). He is in much better spirits and virtually pain free. Hurrah !!.

The rain has arrived this evening...

I am a little excited ladies, I belong to another site (starts with a G). I have had contact from Canada from a lady who has connections to my Papa's maternal line :-). This line descends from Ireland and we know next to nothing of them. I have very high hopes indeed..... A very welcome bolt from the blue.

I trust you are all keeping well?. Petunia, at your age you must take extra care of yourself. ;-).. I wonder if it is true that onions keep the bugs away??.

Ladies, a tip for you. My Papa had a dreadful time with a sore mouth, ulcers and the like. A lady doctor told us to bring him some pineapple juice. It has healing qualities... My Papa swears it was helpful. I take a small glass each morning now - til the novelty wears off or I forget to buy more. One nurse did mention that pure pineapple juice can strip your fingerprints :-S, gawd knows what it does to your insides :-D

It is now 8.07 pm, time to get the dinner on . OH is due home at 8.30..

Toodle pip

Hallo Ladies,

What wonderful news Susan that your Pa is more comfortable now and will be able to return home. I bet you are all looking forward to it very much :)

I have been a very poor correspondent of late. I have been enjoying the nice weather and reeling from the shock of FTYs footy team. They won again on Sunday 4-1!!!!!! It was lovely and warm watching the game in a location just out of our nearest town with a bit of a harbour :-D The other team were a little put out and were just a little bit vocal :-| Tutty tut tut.

Well Autumn is here although you would hardly know it with the beautiful weather we are having. :-D I saw in a well known supermarket that mince pies were on sale. A little early I think don't you Ladies?

Auntie I do hope you are now on your feet. its been very quite of late at the Towers. Is there anything we should know? :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Tootling orf for now and waving to Lesley~~~~~~~. Did you here about all that traffic chaos yesterday morning Lesley. I alighted the A12 and the opposite side was a gridlock at 6.15am. Today it took an hour to get in due to the train signal failure! Tomorrow I am off and staying put. I will he mail Cherry

Teresa :-D

Good evening dear Ladies,

I am so pleased your Papa is more comfortable dear Susan. And how lovely that he is coming home. I think you recover sooner at home. It has been very pleasant here of late. Lots of late autumn sunshine.

Teresa dear, please don't worry about ignoring us. We will just talk about you behind you back!

I don't know why I repeated myself, must be the gremlins in the works.

I am nearly back to full strength dears. I think I did have a touch of flu. I was bedbound. Now all I have is annoying cough!

Hello All.

I have caught the stinking cold that seems to be doing the rounds ................ so I will not linger.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ my clean laced edged handkerchief to everyone.


Lesley x

Feeling sorry for myself :-(

How slow we have become Ladies, I think we have all succumbed to this dreadful bug that is going around.

I am still hacking with a cough. I have a sore tummy with the constant strain. Ah well, lets hope that when we are over our colds that will be IT for the Winter.

Thank you for your electronic mail dear Teresa, but unfortunately I could not open the attachment. Maybe you could send it another way?

The rain is raining, the cold is blasting through the sash windows, and I am really fed up with it already! Can anyone lend me their Summer Residence so that I may go somewhere warmer?

Cherry dear, sends her regards to us all. I shall try and visit her when she is properly on the mend.

I hope everyone is well and warm.

Pip Pip
Auntie Petunia

Oh Ladies,

I am sorry to learn you are all full of the sniffles :-0.. I do hope you are on the mend. Have you had your snouts under a cloth over a bowl of water and vicks??. I believe it is most helpful. :-D. By snout, I mean your delicate little noses ;-).

Petunia, please pass on my best wishes to Cherry. I trust things are going well with her recovery. She will be our own 'bionic' woman. :-D

Our weather is so jolly awful at the moment, I am not impressed... Our poor spring blossoms are challenged to hang onto their perches...

I am away to visit Papa tomorrow. We had a setback of the most serious kind last Thursday :-S. Drugs have saved the day for the moment. Oh dear, now I am concerned about my Mama's health.. I need to coerce her into visiting her GP... She is a very stubborn woman when she chooses to be. Please send me some cyber powers to help me in my mission :-).

My dear fruit cooked a wonderful meal last night. It was most appreciated. She seems to have a wonderfully natural ability to produce delicious meals. I am blessed ;-).

Have a lovely day, keep warm and get well soon. <3

Toodle,

Good evening dear Susan.

My thoughts and good wishes are with you and your parents dear.

I wish them well. Take good care of them both.

AP
<3 <3 <3

Thank you AP. <3.

Coooooo-eeeeeee gels!

Come out, come out wherever you are! Are you hiding from Auntie Petunia?

I hope you are well dears, you probably have many things to do with your broods on the lead-up to Christmas. There..................I said the dreaded C word!

I am here when you all return home dears!

Pip Pip
Auntie P.

Boo.................did I make you jump Auntie Petunia.


Two weeks later and I still have a stinking cold................this lady is not amused:-(

Yesterday after the rain had stopped I went across the fields to collect conkers to place around the house (I'm prepared to try anything to ward of the false black widow spider) I think that was a bad move............today I feel like a limp dishcloth ...again :-|

Can you believe my sister suggested I go barefoot grounding/earthing to restore my inner energy:-S I think that's more likely to give me pneumonia than cure my cold:-0

Sending lots of <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 to you all and your families

Lesley x