General Chat

Bonjour à tous, :-)

Daughter leaves France on Wednesday so back to English then. Boy is my French rusty.

18 C when I got up again, crept up to 23C so had breakfast outside, just finished when the cool breeze started. It's 25 C now but it is now very windy so feels a lot cooler. Hear you're expecting high temperatures at the weekend. Is it you lot who've pinched our weather. :-(

Sorry you lost your father in 1976 Jem. My father died April 1981, 5 weeks before his 65th birthday. Miss him so much, would love to tell him our son looks just like him and both mine have skills from him, son with cooking and daughter engineering - they are a chef and civil engineer. Both have his love of music. My 2 were 7 and 3 when he died. Feel they missed out on a very special man who left me with wonderful memories. That's what's important, the sadness of the day is fleeting because of the happy memories. :-)

OH's back is a little better, he's not saying anything but I can tell by how he's walking and sitting down. He knows there's no sympathy from me for being so stupid. Who drops from a wall when you can walk around in about a minute especially when you have a back problem? :-S

E - mails all sorted, heaven knows what happened but that was the only thing affected by the problem with the mouse. OH took mouse to pieces and found a section was broken so would never work again. It's now gone.

It'll be a difficult day for Dizzi's family today. My MIL death was a sudden after a stay in hospital so a PM was done to make sure there was no fault attributed to the hospital's care and treatment. MIL's death was nothing to do with what she was in hospital for so it did put our minds to rest, just a coincidence.

Been watching a good programme on Elizabeth 1 and the Amada. It's fronted by Dan Snow. Anita Dobson is playing Elizabeth. The computer graphics to show the ships are great. Love programmes that make history live, it makes history more accessible.

Am going to watch the test match later, looks like a New Zealand win or a draw, but then that's what I thought last time and we won. Cricket can change so quickly. Oh well off to do the ironing.

Have a good day all. :-) <3

Hello to all

I agree Jem that there is no time scale for grieving, but as the years go by, the happier memories come to mind a little bit more readily.

Pat, I have just seem the new posting on Dizzi's thread and have replied..... thankyou.
I hope that you will have a better day today.

Hoping everyone is enjoying the little bit of sunshine we have here this morning. I see the long range weather forecast is for this month to be in the 30's........ phewww!!

Good Morning Everyone :-) :-) <3

It's dark, and damp and quite chilly here in South West Wales today!

Pat,
I'm sorry you've had a morning of problems!
I'm thinking of you on what would have been your father's 99th Birthday <3 <3 <3

It would have been my father's 93rd Birthday last week. He was killed in 1976. It doesn't matter how many years go by, you still remember the dates and feel a little sad :-( <3

Wishing you all a good day
Love Jem<3

Bonjour à tous, :-)

Had a disastrous morning - mouse to laptop wouldn't work. OH took a look, it's off to the bin it's U/S (unserviceable) so he found another. Waited for it to sort it self out and found that wasn't too good so that's off to the big mouse hole in the sky. The next 1 is okay so that's been downloaded and I'm back on-line :-D.

The trouble was when I went to check my e-mails - I had an empty account. OH couldn't get in with the password then he was sent to a page about security and he also had to add a security number as well as a correct password. That did it we were into my account and all was there, then it started to download everything I'd received and sent over the 3 years I've had this account. :-( Boy it took a long time, now I've got to ditch all the new e-mails as they're duplicates. There was 1 new one so dealt with that and all others are going to be deleted. Keep me quite for a while ;-)

Today would have been my father's 99th birthday. Happy Birthday dad, miss you.

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He's the baby on grandma's lap in the photo. :-)

Only 18 C when I got up this morning, dull and overcast at the moment, crept up to 22 C but cool breeze again.

Have you seen the update to Dizzi's death notice at the top of the page?

Hope you all have a good day :-) <3

oui merci, j'ai eu une très bonne journée Kandj. :-) <3

Hi back to you Carol.

Sue, no jail birds as yet in my family tree but there is still plenty of time yet I suppose.

Pat, J'espere que tu passes une bonne journee...... hope this is right??
It is 50+ years since I learned French and I have forgotten most of it now.

Hope Solrosen is still enjoying her holiday

Continuing to remember lovely DIZZI xxx

He everyone..
Thought should add that I am doing my family tree again..

I got so interested yesterday cos I found that a Grand Uncle had spent 8 weeks in HMP Wakefield for assault on another man..

Bet his mother didn't know and he told her that he was working away,, :-D :-D :-D :-D

Cor what you find when you dog really deep..

Miss Dizzi's capital letter on here.

Miss you so much Dizzi <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Just a quick Hi from me.



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Morning all :-)

19 C - where's the summer. No wind but rained twice so far this morning, lots of thunder during the night but little rain here.

Next door's cat, Mozart, came in to complain this morning. He's lost his winter coat so think he's moaning about the temperature. OH was still in bed so he went upstairs and had another moan up there. He's a very vocal cat. :-)

Week tomorrow our next visitors arrive, they are in Cyprus until September. Not here all the time. Not sure how long we'll have them. They are spending a month at a friend's place looking after her 2 dogs and a cat whilst she goes to UK. The rest is in the lap of the gods. :-S It's basically 2 other lots of people asking them to house/dog/cat sit and they got their flights to cover dates given. 1 lot the female is now very ill and the others keep changing their dates, the latest was way past our friends leaving the island as they have a holiday booked in America late September. The second couple are great dithers and usually end up being rescued from the situations they get into. Their hols in UK have changed from their first idea of the last week in August for 3 weeks then 2 weeks only in September to 4 weeks from mid September now. They once booked flights for Christmas week to just into the New Year and realised in mid December they hadn't sorted out the dog. We refused as not only does he mark curtains and furniture when he stays with you but he's very spoiled and as my OH found out tries to bite you if you make him do something he doesn't want to. :-( They found other friends to take him but they only looked after him twice before they also refused to have him, that's why they ask our friends to house/dog sit.

Fortunately our friends are great fun so if they end up here it won't be a tragedy. :-D

Daughter had to interview a couple who want work over winter time in UK as they have a chalet/hotel in the Pyrenees, just the French side, where they spend late spring and summer. They are civil engineers like our daughter. Don't know how that went but she was taken with the idea of going to that part of France. She flew out yesterday and e-mailed how lovely it was last night.

50 yrs after my last French lesson

Avoir une bonne journée tout :-) <3

Morning everyone. :-)

22 C but that cool strong wind still blowing :-(.

Kandj OH was well behaved this week. He normally veers off all over the place but he was being careful with his back - more about that later - he walked around with me and I placed most of the things in the trolley. There was only 1 place where we separated. Some evenings we have different meals, I have to eat a low carb diet and cook food for both of us and add potatoes, rice pasta etc for him. There are times however when he likes to have pizza and I can't eat them so we always keep some pizzas in the freezer. He just went to the freezers and found 3 pizzas he liked.

OH's back - to say he's his own worst enemy is an understatement. A couple of days ago I'm at the sink washing up and our next door neighbour appeared at the window. Her white cat was missing and he loves to hide under our plumbago when he escapes. She asked to go on the garden. He's deaf and lives indoors but is a bit of a Houdini. OH went out to join her, to help. I'd finished the washing up and walked towards the sitting room as OH came in from the front patio. He told me he'd been out on the back field where the cat had been found and retrieved. Then I got the full story about how he got there. Minna (neighbour) spotted the cat on the field sunning himself in the evening sun from our garden. She then walked around the 2 houses to get to the cat. My OH however decided he could get there much quicker. The height of our back wall off the back patio is about 2 ft but the drop the other side is about 6 ft . Over he went and lowered himself down then dropped the last bit which was quite someway as it's a thick wall and he had his arms across the width to stabilise himself. I don't think he needs any sympathy because he jarred himself yet again. He's not too bad today but I've told him not to complain as it's his own fault and I've said he's to put his brain in gear before he moves in the future. :-S

What can you do with him ? :-(.

May go out this evening, I'll wait and see how he is.

Have a good day. <3

Dizzi <3 <3 <3

Morning All,


Well the forecast is for rain,wind and sometimes hail..

Yeah I can't believe that there is a possibility of hail..

Pretty bright now with a bit of sunshine.

Got some painting to do in the hallway but don't feel like doing it..

Hope you all have a good day whatever you are doing...


Miss you Dizzi.. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 :-( :-( :-( :-(

Hello Everyone

Changeable weather around for us all methinks. Forecast to continue too.

Solrosen, I hope that you are enjoying your holiday and finding plenty to do.

Pat, did you manage to keep your OH under check at the supermarket. Hope his back pain continues to improve daily.

Sue, I'm a bit like you and keep expecting Dizzi to write her usual daily blog. RIP xx

Carol, you are going to be kept busy making your goods to sell in August. Your stall is sure to sell-out quickly as home-made items are very popular.

Enjoy your evening all.

Hi to Everyone

Thought I would take advantage of a good connection - while I have it :-)

Tuesday turned out to be a rather sunny day but, gracious! yesterday was so rainy and windy!! Today... well, back to Tuesdays weather!! Can't really understand it but we are on the west coast and it seems to be a bit changeable all over at the moment.

We are enjoying ourselves Pat ! :-)

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Afternoon Roll Callers.

I hope you are all well and enjoying the bit of sunshine we have.

Put washing on the line this morning and guess what it started to shower..

Thankfully the rain shower blew away.

Miss you Dizzi.. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Morning all :-)

Fed up, outside and car look like they have measles. We had 3 sprinkles of rain and we were out shopping when the first happened so car got caught. It's a very dusty place because of the heat and no rain usually during summer, everywhere gets covered. You tend not to notice so much as everything is covered by the thin film. Do not move anything and it stays hidden ;-), when you move something you see the clean patch and are then aware how much dust there is :-(. Well the rain showers were so quick they just made spots in the dust on everything. OH says he's taking the car to the car wash it's such a mess. Can't do anything about outside as the wind is gusting again and it's 24 C. :-(

You have done well Carol and you'll be busy until Christmas by the look of it. It'll keep you out of trouble. :-D

Hope Solrosen is enjoying herself in UK.

All have a good day <3

Another bright sunny day down here in Sussex, my craft day so will be off soon.

Have made 150 meters of bunting just another 50 to make for wedding in July.

We are going to have a stall at a local Fair at the beginning of August, so need to get sewing.

Have to make more owl doorstops, Dizzi fell for these & had my last 2. <3

We are getting a stock of peg bags, bag bags, tote bags & aprons.

I have completed 8 large toy Heffalumps, need medium & small + same of teddy bears.

My S in Law & I both made cot/pram covers/ snugglies for new babies in our family, now seen we have more requests for them. It is difficult as the materials are not cheap & we were hoping that we could make a few to up out takings at the Fair.

Morning all Roll Callers.

Hope you all have a good day.

kandj,,Whereabouts in Yorkshire are you..I live near Wetherby...

Still can't get my head round the awful news...

R.I.P. Dizzi...

Good morning all. :-D

I have decided that someone's got our weather and left us with theirs. Whoever it is please return it.

22 C overcast and a blustery, cold wind this morning. We should be registering top 20s C now and night time at about 22 C not daytime temperature. It'll soon be June and the weather is still unsettled, getting very fed up with it. Threats of storms on Thursday - whoever's got our weather, own up and hand it back NOW. :-(

Shopping today, OH coming, hope I can rein him in after my shopping cost so little compared to our shopping (OH's ideas of what we(he) need) ;-)

OH's back much better but still not right. He's gently getting back to normal.

All have a good day and keep a lookout for my weather. <3

Hello everyone

A lovely day here in Yorkshire today. Warm and sunny and no cold wind (keep it where you are Pat please).

I agree the photo's of lovely Dizzi were a nice thought from her family and its good to see how happy Dizzi looks on them all. Such a very kind thought by Stu and Dizzi's family to share the photographs with us all. (thank you). I am still getting my head around the sad news. I keep expecting to see the BIG CAPITAL LETTERS from her.

Morning all.

Lovely morning as I got up, temperature at 22 C. Decided to eat breakfast outside and spent a few minutes cleaning the table as it was covered in dust as usual. Prepared my muesli and took it outside and someone had left the gate open again and let the wind in. I sat down in the sun and suddenly a cold gust of wind hit me. I had all of 2 spoonfuls of muesli and that was my outside breakfast. Returned indoors to finish it. We now have a very strong cold wind and even though it's registering 24 C out there the wind chill factor is bringing it a lot lower than that. The patio door was open as I walked inside with my breakfast and 2 of our prints were blown off the wall, they weren't damaged but had to shut the windows up again. There are lots of very small oranges on the floor as the gusts tear into the orange tree. Just picked up 3 lemons off the floor but they are full size so we can use them. Really fed up with this wind it's coming from the wrong direction again - what's wrong with the weather at the moment???????????? :-(

Lovely link to some photos of Dizzi, thank you Patrick and Stu for sharing them with us. <3

Have a good day all <3