General Chat

afternoon all,feeling like a little lost soul today ,billie nomates .so to speak.
Hope you are all well and happy.See you tomorrow.Brenda

Hi from a wishy washy Manchester weather can't seem to make its mindup,mind you it is still on the early side.Today is my day of but was woken at 7.15 by my ex husband phoning to let my son know that his gran is in hospital with a broken hip.!!she is 84 and not in the best of health anyway,she is going to have an operation of some sort later today.,
Need to get a drink if tea now,have been in a bit of a reflective mood since he called,think some of you will understand,brenda

Hi everyone,its a lovelly day here today,even got some towels washed and on the line before I left for work.
Its been fairly busy up to now,and will be even busier in ten minutes when the school is out.
Margaret please ask if you need any help in your searching and we will always try and help.
Hope Dorothy,Sylvia and Fred and Bill are ok.
Hope John renews and stays .
Well need to finish my tea break ready for the little darlings!!
Brenda

Goodmorning From a wet and cold Ashburton morning snow forecast on hills supposed to clear later so no gadening today Might tidy up all my genealogy files ! other Rellies are getting interested and I better be able to show them just what I have found . Ive come to a dead end at moment I wondered where Bill had gone to Hope he pops in sometime again
Cheers Margaret

Hi Fred,and your telling me to take it easy!!!!LOL
Lovelly day here now after a miserable start.You will enjoy Oz when you get there I did.I am hoping to go again year after next when I am 60,was going to meet Bill but he moved to NZ.Notheard from him recently but have sent him a message.
where abouts are you going to.don't know about your spelling etc mine isn't good at the best of times.
See you all later maybe.or tomorrow.Brenda

Morning everybody,back again to a stuffed house,the kids off to school [thank goodness hee hee],Stephen off to work,and Ann out shopping after dropping the two youngest at school.
having Sean as well means that we are stowed out,but we are managing ,and next week we will escape to the van for the last week before it comes home at the end of the season.
I have finished the painting round the new combi,and will shortly go out back and cut the lawn for the last time this year,just in case the specialist at the hospital today orders me to rest it.
Martin got home okay,but is a bit down,he didn't want to come home.
Anyway ,there is a change of plan,Rachael is coming over here to live,for at least three yearsd to see if she likes it,if she does ,they will sell martins house and move upto scotland where they can get a decent bit of land ,plus a house ,but if she want's to go back to oz ,they will all go over together.
In the meantime ,they will be getting married in Oz ,next April,so Fred,and Liz get to go over for a month ,with a view o going to said wedding ,and having a darned good holiday in a country i have always wanted to visit.
I may also get to visit some people [rellies] over there as well hopefully,and a few friends off genes.
I am off out back now ,to mow the lawn for the last time this year,and i finished off the painting last night depite dropping the brush twice [grrrrrr].
This is just in case the hospital this afternoon order me to rst this hand lol,so .just in case i do ,please be prepared for a few more spelling mistakes than usual ,and shorter missives because i am typing one handed.
See you later,take care ,and take it easy [directed to all who are under the weather] Fred.

Hi all.The show we saw last night was a musical comedy .called Hot Flushes ,ladies no prizes for guessing what it was about!!!.............It was really funny and everyone could relate to it at some point.
If you google Palace Thearter Manchester you should see all about it.
Dorothy I can send you some ironing but i am not sure what i can do for you ???
Hope your sons move goes well Fred ,has your house got elastic wall,s.!!
Enjoy your garden Margaret
Speak to you all tomorrow.brenda

hi one and all brenda hope that your tooth gets fixed soon, what did you see at the theatre, fred your sons do keep you busy don't they but it is great to be needed is it not. Last night I took the three children to bryans sports programme I have forgotten what it is called , as lindy had a ball hockey game she is the goalie, to-night the three have different activities so she is running from one to the other to take and bring them home and I am at the house to get them all to bed, plus doing some ironing for her I do enjoy ironing and she does not so she bakes for me and i iron for her it works out well, the weather has gone strange again it is quite warm to-day about 64 and the sun is shining it may be 80 0n friday and then plummits down again so I shall enjoy the sun while it lasts, nothing esle new at the moment take care bye dorothy

Hello all,had a great night at the show ,it was really funny,didn't have muchtrouble with the tooth really so had a good time.
Busy moving things round here in work as we are running out of shelves etc.
glad you had a good visit margaret,
take care
Brenda

Morning All ! Things might back to normal today Farewelled our daughter off to western Australia again yest :( But what a nice week we had Must get back into gardening again everything needs attention !
Cheers Margaret

Morning all.not much to say ,weatherwise it is mild and damp.
Been and had my tooth out eventually ,now just feeling normal.
At the theartre tonight so I had better buck up/
Speak to you all soon.Brenda

Hiya Sylvia,dorothy,Brenda ,edith,and all the rest ,jut a few lines to bring this thread back up to the top.
I will be back this afternoon once i have bought back a load of stuff from the sons,and organised their rturn to my house tomorrowe,then done some shopping.
Tomorrow the family come back here and i go to pick Martin up at the airport wednesday morning ,[he won't be a happy chappie lol],buit ,thats life every good thing has to come to an end].See you this afternoon peeps ,take care.Fred.

hi brenda and one and all glad you had a nice time at blackpool it sounded great, for all of you who enjoy mystery books while I was home I bought a pocket book called fallen idols written by a neil white it was a wonderful read, this chap comes from wakefiled in west yorkshire, now lives in preston where he is now the senior crown prosecutor with the crown prosecution service, it is his first book and a great read he had a web site listed at the back of the book so I e-mailed him to congratulate him etc, and to my amazement he replied he knows bury well and lived in ramsbottom from 1996-2000 he was a solicitor there, he will have new book out spring of 08 i believe anyway I can really recomend this first one maybe you have it in your library brenda if not it is worth getting. to-day it is rainy and cold so I have not been out had a great dinner and a movie with the kids last evening bryan should be home from manouvers this pm, also I learned he has a chance to go on a student exchange to france next summer and a french student will come to his house it is for the month of july, they accept a certain number plus it is quite expensive about 2500 dollars, it would help him with the french language and be quite an experience so we shall see what happens, both andrew and lindy speak french it is the official 2nd language over here, laura is doing quite well with it Ian can say hello goodbye and would you like to dance those three phrases being the only one i know being married to a french man does not mean you learn the language. well time to think about making some tea(supper) not even sure what I want bye for now dorothy

Hi all,
Just to let you know I'm not letting you down but not much time now.
See you soon.
Sylvia xxx

Hi one and all.
Fred is p****d off with trying to sort out vista and it's none support of many of my pieces of hardware ,that i have bunged the puter into the loft until such time as vista is sorted out.
Until then ,i have put the trusty xp puter back on line again,so ,we are back to normal.
Sean is here on leave for 3 weeks ,the son is back from oz on Tuesday ,and so i will have them all here together [help]
Martin loves oz so much he is def' going out there to live,so old Fred and Liz are having to start saving for airfare ,for the wedding.
It won't be so bad though ,because we will have a good holiday over there at the same time..
Glad to hear that you ar cutting down on the workload Brenda,you need to rest for this op,which will put you right i'm sure.
What a lovely day it is ,rain forcast but it is fine warm and so sunny i have had to close the curtain to see the screen on the putre.
Sorry this is so short ,but i have a load of catching up to do,and other threads to show my face on ,see ya latr peeps.Fred.

had a good visit with Johns mother and stepdad the new caravan is great ,they would live in it all year if they could find a good residential site,.If they sell their bungalow they would ideally like to buy a small place aboard in the sun for winter time and live in the caravan in the summer over here.
Went to a shopping centre with his mother she got a lovelly new coat and I got some pillows for me and John and a duvet cover for Davids bed.
I also got a cardigan for work and John got some shirts for the holiday .all in the sales so we didn't spend that much.
Hope you enjoy your books Dorothy
Have to start getting lunch ready.See you tomorrow I hope after my visit to the dentist.
Brenda

goodmorning from a cold and wet barrie canada it is amazing last week it was in the high 80's and to-day the high is expected to be about 35 time to get out the winter clothes, congratulations margaret on 50 yrs quite the acheivement. brenda glad to hear that your scan went well hope you get an op date soon, and that you have a good week-end at blackpool that brings back many memories, I am going to look after the thwo younger ones this afternoon and evening as andrew and lindy want to go out for dinner, he is going up to thunder bay for a couple of days at the ebginning of the week I guess they want some adult time. the oldest boy is at the army camp near us camp bordon on week-end manouvers. and sleeping out in artic tents I am sure he will love it I can't think of anything that I would like less but that is me not him, and I am sure that any of the army gents on the thread will think I am mad but tenting was never my thing, I am sure I will hear all about it on monday, it just seems strange to hear a 12yr old is on manouvers!!!!! so I am popping off to the library they have 5 books in for me sylvia take care of yourself and best wishes to all bye dorothy

Hi Evetone,early start today as we are going over to ohns mothers ,we will be staying at the caravn they have in Marton Mere Blackpool not at their bungalow in cleveleys.So hope its a nice dry weekend.
Had my scan yesterday it went well and I should hear something within a couple of weeks about what they will do and when.
Hope you do stay John its great to hear all your news.
See youall tomorrow have a good weekend.brenda

Hi everyone
Believe it or not it is actually our spring, the offical skiing season is over. The weather over the last few days has been fine although heavy showers had been forecast they didn't eventuate. Gayle and I went with seven others to a concert by an Australian choir in Palmerston North on Friday evening and returned to New Plymouth before Saturday midday. The trip down was fine but the trip back was mixture of rain and sunshine.
If you see me chatting here in coming weeks you know I renewed by GR sub, bye for now.

John in NZ

Hi all,
Feeling good today. It is amazing how I can feel so poorly one day and so bright the next, but that is just how I am.
Congratulations on your 50th wedding anniversary. Quite an achievement 50 years. Johan and I had our Golden wedding anniversary last year 17.03.1956. and even had some flowers from the mayor of the town here.
Beautiful weather here still. It can stay like this until Xmas and then get better.
Sylvia xxx