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hi glad to see sylvia back on line hope to hear more from her in the future brenda sorry to hear tht john and you are both under the weather hope you get well soon, I am not freezing at the moment it is about -13 this am so that is not so bad, I have been following the weather in your home towns I see that they say more snow is to come maybe it will miss you brenda, fred's trip sounded not that great can you not get windshield washer fluid that is for below freezing tempertures we would never manage without it. nothing much new with me at the moment the family are busy with school and ski-ing in their free time. I have had no visitores from brampton no one drives up in the coldest months I can't say that I blame them. made a nice beef stew yesterday and had mashed potatoes with and mashed yam quite good well bye for now dorothy

Good morning Dorothy,Brenda ,and anyone else who looks in today.
My fault as regards the washer bottle Dorothy i didn't put a strong enough dose of fluid in ,and then made matters worse by forgetting to put the bottle of concentrated screen wash in the boot before leaving,but ,you have to remember that we arn't used to these conditions and your additives will be much stronger than ours.You also have shops with plugs where you can connect your sump to the mains to stop the engine freezing ,we have nothing like that.
I did remember to add a good dose of extra anti freeze to the radiator before coming away though ,and have had no bother.
We got out of the estate yesterday while the going was good ,picked up a little fuel to do until we start home ,and then went into Chippenham for a look around.
I used to go there in the days of yor ,lol,when i was at the R A F boot camp at Compton Basset,and what a change ,it now has a lovely shopping centre with loads of shops ,old and new,and we spent a couple of hours there before coming back to camp.
Seems that the snow is on the way back this afternoon so i don't think we will be going anywhere today.
I will now be keeping a close eye on the weather because the first break in it and slightly higher temperatures is when we make for home.,hopefully at the end of this week.
Have to go now ,i is needing my porridge lol,Fred.

goodmoning one and all fred where are you and liz exactly I gather you are with sean and getting him settled in are you far from home, I keep watching the british news to check up on you all, sunny and cold this moring we had a sprinkling of snow yesterday really nothing to speak off. I have been doing some of the charity calls to keep myself busy january is such a dreary month. bye for now dorothy

January 12, 2010
Hi everybody.
Well much to my surprise I had a lovely birthday with visitors the whole day. My husband spoilt me with a lovely warm croissant and coffee sitting in my nightgown in our sitting room. He is becoming more attentive as the years pass by - he is now 84!
My eldest daughter bought me a lovely bunch of pink roses and a bunch of pink hyacinths as well as a bottle of liquor and soaps etc. My grandson popped in before going to this work. My daughter popped out in the late afternoon to pick up my granddaughter from work and they picked up a Chinese meal on the way home. No sooner had we had dinner and Janet gone home when my youngest daughter and her husband arrived. In between I had telephone calls and neighbours popping in. Yes, an enjoyable day. Yes, I was 78.
Tomorrow my help is coming in to help. I told her not to come on Monday, her usual day, because she wouldn't be able to do much.
I still haven't been outside the door since before Xmas, well just to the doctor for 15 minutes. I am glad I have lots of hobbies and am not bored.
I wonder how long this snow will last.
Keep healthy, Sylvia xxx

Morning everyone on a coooold and snowwwwwy morning past 10 to 8 goood morrrrrow peoples aaaaall..
Glad you had a lovely Birthday Sylvia,you deserve it ,and that smashing husband of yours ,you hang on to him lady ,ones like that are hard to find,you hang on to him like a limpet ,lol
Yes Dorothy ,me and liz are still at Lyneham air force base in Wiltshire,a few miles from the village [town really] of wotten basset ,where all the fallen service men ,and woman are repatreated to from Afganistan,a job Sean will be involved with very shortly.
We have two largish towns locally ,Chippenham ,and Swindon.both very nice ,well set ouit and full of shops.
We preferred Chippenham ,a because i viseted it often many years ago when i myself was stationed in the area,and b ,because it has a river where you can sit in summer having a rest from lugging shopping ,sit on a seat and feed the ducks and swans a great morning out.
My other haunt in those days was Calne of Bacon fame ,lolmore pubs than houses or shops where i often tried to go round them all with mates on a pub crawl .having a pint in each ,he he ,so far as memory serves ,we never made it.
We had a little more snow over night ,but so far ,nothing to worry about and we should get away home tomorrow with no trouble.
I can't believe the drivers here ,they should take a trip up to Northumberland to see some REAL snowfall,Seans fridge was two days late coming because it was too dangerous to get a lorry out to deliver it [yeah ,right ,we are talking one inch] god help this lot if they have the 6 inches we sometimes get overnight,and we STILL get to work in it.
Hope up home has cleared a bit ,we managed okay ,but it was a pain having to shovel snow off the drive to get the car up the ramp at the end onto the road,but bless Nissan ,this note is a godsend in snow ,if driven sensibly ,it shows no vices and behaves very well ,far better than the old almera which skidded if you so much as sneezed ,lol.
We will be taking Sean into Wotten Basset to Iceland this afternoon where i will kick his frozen shopping list off with a£50 pound shop for staples to tide him over until he gets paid at the end of the month.
We nagged him to get everything he needed like the power company sorted out ,the tv package ,and the t v license which left him a little short,but hopefully there will now be no nasty suprises coming through the letter box.
I reckon ,if we leave here at 9 am tomorrow ,we will despite conditions be home at about 5 pm ,.just right for tea ,after i make a fuss of the cat he he ,only a ball of fir maybe ,but i have missed her tons.
Back later on before i pack the laptop away ,Fred.

wed, evening fred glad you sorted me out as to where you and liz are and I hope that you have a safe drive home and I am sure the little cat will be thrilled to have you home, you are right some people have no idea how to drive in snow wether it is one inch or 6feet sometimes is amazaes me how people drive around my way when we are having squalls of the lake and you can hardly see in front of you and they are bombing along the 400 highway at 100km an hour really daft. nothing much new at the moment so glad sylvia had a great birthday and may you have many more sylvia I am sure you deserved all the attention you recieved goodnight from me bye dorothy

Hi everyone,sorry I have been missing but was feeling abit sorry for myslef with the earache and the head cold I had,still have a bit of a cold but not so much as the other couple of days.John and myself have been having our lemsips together like a couple of derby and joans!!!
We have had snow again today hope it doesn't freeze again tonight as it will be like an ice rink again outside.
Glad you are enjoying your visit Fred ,and good for you setting your grandson on the right paths with his housekeeping.
Dorothy ,have seen some sights with the silly driving in the bad weather,and the way some of the young ones are dreesing to go on nights out!!
Sylvia glad you enjoyed your birthday,and hope you have many more.
my day off tomorrow but have a few errands to do which did not get done last week ,but I will be back at some point tomorrow,Take care
Brenda

hi brenda sorry that you have been not too well hope you will be on the mend soon I spoke to anne yesterday and she said she had had a bit of snow we are in for freezing rain to-night I will be over at the families after school andrew is out of town and lindy has an appointment after school so I will put the supper on for the children and then 2 of them have swimming lessons they are doing the life saving leval and Ian has dodge ball I have been to watch dodge ball a couple of times but not sure how to describe it but it is very good exercise a lot of running and throwing of the ball. I guess fred and liz will be on the way home so I hope they have a safe drive bye for now dorothy

Hallo all,
What a lovely bright day it has been. A blue sky and sunshine, but the ice and snow remain.
I have new tablets now and they are helping relieve my pain. Yesterday I just sat and cried for a while as I had so much pain, but these tablets help me with this problem.
tomorrow I have to go to the surgery for another vitamin injection. I'll keep this short. but you will know I am still around. Love, Sylvia xxx

Good morning all you lost lonely and poorly peeps,here's hoping you will all be better very soon,Fred is home nursing a sore tooth ,but never mind ,a, not anything compared to what you others are suffering ,and i am at the dentistd on Tuesday ,yessssssss ,pain ,pain ,go away lol.
We decided to come up the west side of the counrty to see if it was any easier than the m 1 and A 1,nor a lot of difference in the time ,but we did see a lot more snow in the midlands[poor Brenda ,still in the doldroms ,lol,but think yourself lucky lass ,you have far higher temperatures than we have,,the house ,when we arrived home was 10 c indoors
It would seem that the outside temperatures were down in the minus 2 to 4 nearly all last week and it was snowing most of the time too.

The son bless him came and cleared the drive and ramp for me sometime yesterday ,so we were able to get the car in no bother.

Going to shut down now and reboot ,hoping the pages will stop jumping about ,it really is time genes got themselves sorterd out over this grrrrrr,Fred.

Back again ,hoping the pages will behave for a while lol.
one of the reasons we came back up the m5 m6 and A69 was to see if there were any lpg pumps for seans new car,because there was only one on the way down on the a 1, m18, and m 1 ruddy pitiful.
On the way home ,the were 5 on the M 4 M 5 ,M6 and another on the A 69,much much better, and despite bad conditions in places ,time wise it compared very well to the A 1,so,i thik this is our way up and down the road in future.
Up early this morning ,hoping to get the house warmed up properly before the missus gets up bless her ,she hates the cold and had to have two water bottles in the bed last night lol.
Lots to do today including taking the car to Leamington to get the car cleaned,just the outside today ,,too cold for the missus to stand out in the cold while the inside is cleaned.
I am now going to reinstal windows 7 because i am ruddy sick of genes inabillity to sort out this page jumping ,somehow ,running 7 stops this happening ,see ya all shortly,Fred.

Hallo all,
Isn't this snow and ice hanging on? I am longing to get out again on my scootmobile but daren't do so in case I slip.
Everything seems to be breaking down at the moment. We are not sure whether or not we need a new printer, but anyway we seem to have a cartridge problem. Johan has now fixed up our old Brother printer where we can only use sheets of chain paper. I'm not sure how you call this paper so have literally translated our word "ketting" into chain but you will all undoubtedly know what I mean. It's not so nice to write letters on. but something to fall back on.
I have a bacterial infection once again in my bladder and am on my 3rd lot of tablets. It took so long for my sample to get through the labs so the doctor started me on one tablet and then another and today she got the answer from, the lab so hopefullyhave the right tablet. I also had my vitamine injection today - just two more to go!

Keep warm, Sylvia xxx

hello everyone,well hopefully the rain will now have washed away the last of the snow,but it made a right mess today the pavements are like ice rinks near here,my street isn't to bad but when you come out and try to walk to where I work it was trecherus?
Dorothy hope you enjoyed the ball game and have not been snowed in or frozen with those low temps.I am hope fully getting up to Bury tomorrow,both John and I have a few family birthdays coming up and want cards off the market and need to get presents.I also need to look for new boots with better grip,the ones i have are a few years old now and so smooth under neath I slide on the smallest bit of ice.Mind you I have been told about two people from where my son works who have had falls and broken wrists ,and his boss frctured his collar bone! My sister slipped as she got out of her car and turned to close the door,she has bruised the bottom of her spine/coxit?and hurt her knee when she tried to get up.
Glad you seem to have the correct tablets Sylvia lets hope they do the trick.
Fred,hope you are keeping the house nice and cosy for Liz,must admit I really felt the cold the last few weeks even at home where its usually ok without the heating in the back rooms as they face south and always seem warmer.
Having trouble sleeping again these last few nights,probably due to worrying about my neice and the new baby ,but she is doing fine now,
Am going for a drink and then back to bed,have got some different types of sleeping aids from friends ranging from lavender sprays for the bedding ,candles and oil fragerance burners,so will be trying them tomorrow night.take care ,Brenda

Gooooood morning all from a coldish ,very wet ,but snow free Newcastle [yippee] ,don't know how long until the next lot arrives ,but old Fred is about to get some veggies out of the garden while he can ,lol
Everything seems to be back o normal now ,the house nice and snug,the shopping done ,and the housework backing up ,groan, oh well ,has to be done i suppose.
My new seed book came in the post yesterday ,so i have something to have a look through tonight,pity they don't have some wellies for sale though ,i could do with them about now ,he he.
We have def' decided on staying with nissan ,they have earmarked our new car for june,this year ,at last years prices ,complete with a deisel engine at no extra charge,and the seats are well up off road level ,so the old girl,only has to shuffle her bum enough to put her feet
out of the door and she is standing upright ,just what she needs to save the old knees ,lol
You sound as though you def' need new boots Brenda,you don't need a fall at your age ,bad enough when you are a teenager ,but a lot worse at our sort of age when bones take so much longer to knit back together.
Hope you get through to bury okay ,and enjoy your mooch around the shops,he he ,i do enjoy a good mooch myself,coupled with a nice cuppa in some cafe to have a rest half way through.
Glad to hear you are sticking with the tablets Sylvia ,you will get there in the end,just need to take your time now ,just like the rest of us oldies ,lol
Time to go now ,and get on with the housework,catch you later Fred.

goodmorning just been reading the last few entiries and boy oh boy do we all need spring to come, brenda if you and ohn get to bury to-day I hope you enjoy the market I shall be thinking about you and fred glad you have got the house warmed up enjoy your seed book, sylvia I hope the medication clears up the problem for you. as for me my gentleman friend drove up yesterday for lunch and a short visit it was snowing in the morning but cleared up in the afternoon it was nice to have the company for a few hours he came at 10-30 and left at 1-30 he wanted to drive back before it snowed again and got dark, the family have gone snowboarding this morning and then they are going to toronto to the royal ontario musuem to the king tut display and staying overnight in a hotel back on sunday evening so the dog has gone on vacation to the kennels that they use for him he loves it their it is funny to see him as the van gets closer he gets quit e excited,it is a big place with lots of room to run around he gets on well with the owners dogs so he gets to stay with them in the house. it is a little warmer to-day 4 degree's so I shall have a wander around the shops. tennis starts again from australia this week so I shall be having a great time watching with perhaps some naps in the day as with the time differance some of the matches are on live in the wee hours of the morning but oh it will be soo good to watch, I hope that you all keep well good luck fred with the visit to the dentist not my favourite thing to do bye dorothy

Hi all,
Wel is Spring just around the corner or not? When I woke up this morning and looked out of the window I was surprised to see that the fairies had swept all the white stuff away.
johan and I were going to Eindhoven today to our daughter's partner's birthday, but I look awful and couldn't face a room of strangers looking like I do. The tablets I am taking are causing an allergic reaction and I have swollen lips, swollen tongue and large red patches on either side of my mouth. I phoned the doctor and have another tablet now to help against the allergy. When is it going to end?
I did manage to keep myself busy here at home today. I had months of bank papers which needed filing, so this is what I did.
Last Saturday I made a huge pan of Dutch pea soup and have frozen a lot of portions in. When I am busy I forget all my aches and pains.
See you all tomorrow Sylvia xxx

Hi all,well the snow has all gone ans its safe to walk round to the shops at last.
Hope we do not see it like that again for a while,we had lots of people phoning work to renew books etc,and some had not been able to get out for three weeks,luckily they had visitors who brought them anything they needed ,but they could not take the chance of going out and having a fall etc.
Saw an advert in the local paper for a holiday to Majorca in April ,good price and nice hotel,was very tempted,but as we might have sold my dads house I want to wait and see ,as we could be booking for Australia either later this year or early next.
Hope you are ok with the new tablets Sylvia,what a shame you did not get to the birthday celebrations.
Fred you sound so cosy with your Liz in that house,and so organised!!
John has been thinking of a newer car when we down grade to one ,after I finish work ,I am a bit bothered by not having sole use of a car as I can just take of to friends and family when I like,I know I have my free bus pass ,but it is not the same.!!
Dorothy,had a good time in Bury ,but think everyone had the same idea ,with the snow gone,ended up on the top floor of the multi storey car park. Did get a few bargins as we had a lot of birthdays to buy for.Bought some pies for our lunch and some Black puddings to freeze for John.The new shopping center is coming on great ,it opens in the summer,Marks and Spencer are moving into it (wonder who will be in their old shop) and there will be a Debenhams .
Take care see you all soon,
Brenda

goodmorning from a cold but sunny barrie brenda glad you had a good trip to bury too bad about the muti parking lot anne and I have ended up on the top floor on my visits, where abouts is the new shopping centre located is it in the upgrading of the rock area. I know that sometimes it makes sense to down grade to one car but the freedom of having 2 is great also. fred and liz sound very warm and cosy fred thankyou for the e-mail glad you liked the joke. andrew and lindy are having two giant windows installed to-day to replace the ones that are there the one on the front of the house goes from floor to ceiling and the one on the 2nd floor is the same so it is good that the weather is being kind to them the front one is about 20 feet high I would guess. bryan tried out his injured knee at hockey the other day though andrew did think it was a bit soon but it did not swellup again so I supposed bryan is pleased he has really missed his hockey. I am going over there to-morrow for dinner so that will be fun. I have been watching as much tennis as I can though the time differance does play havoc with my sleep bye for now dorothy

Morning all, its grey and cold here ,but at least it is dry,for now anyway.
Dorothy the new shopping centre is across the road from the multi story car park and the old cinema next to it .don't know what was there before.But it will be big like the Arndale in Manchester. Marks are moving in there and there will be aDebenhams, and lots of other shops,plus a cinema and bowling alley!!
I am having a lot of problems getting on my pc at home.so my neices partner is coming next week to see what he can do ,he has been at uni doing IT courses .Will try getting on here when in work as waiting a half hour to get on at home is rather frustrating.
Home fred and Sylvia are ok
Brenda

Good afternoon all'just come in from Morrisons and finished our dinner [hot dogs ,onions in finger buns] nice and quick and quite tasty.
I am able to get the veggie out of the garden now ,so ,only need to pay out for onions for a few weeks,which will save loads of pennies.
Looks like microsoft have sorted out windows 7 now ,so i think i willl load it back in this afternoon and see what gives but i will be leaving the acer on vista for a while to make sure.
Don't know for sure what is wrong with your puter Brenda but it could be that you have lost some files off the programming or it could be that you have picked up a virus [both a pain to put right]and can sometimes can take a long time to get things back to normal.
This is why ,whenever i buy a new puter ,the first job once you get started is to make a backup of all the files on the hard drive and put them on disc in a safe place,just in case they are ever needed.
I hope the laddo will get it all sorted for you Brenda,if that sort of problem hits me ,i can call on the eldest son to sort it for me ,but usually i can manage myself.
With the bairn here ,we are having a party tea tonight,fresh baked rolls with three different meats to choose from including a little corned beef out of the freezer.
I will be doing some savoury stuff as well ,cheese rolls .sausage rolls ,some mini pizza and the like and little chunks of cheese with different sorts of crackers.
The missus put a large net of onions in the shopping trolley without asking me if we needed any [we didn't] so i reckon i will be making a big stock pan of onion soup tomorrow to use the half net we already had,but ,not to worry ,soup is always welcome on a cold evening,and i enjoy it ,a little Parmissan cheese sprinkled on ,and some slices of French bread.
Time to go and do a little work,catch you later Fred.