General Chat

Afternoon all from a snow free but cold ,wet and miserable Manchester.
Like you said Dorothy it was great to catch up with Kathleen and John,sorry I have not been on before now ,we got a lap top for christmas and I know Fred will say we should not have any problems setting it up but we have and when we plug the wireless router in we can not use the normal pc Any suggestions Fred??
I am getting my nephew to come over at weekend and advise us,which I wanted to do in the first place ,but John said we could do it ourselves.
In work till 8pm and its miserable here everyone complaining about the weather and the cost of things.
Will be going for my meal break soon,
Hope to get back on at home to wish you all HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Brenda

Happy New Year everyone,hope it brings each of you all you wish for.
I really thought I had managed to send a few lines yesterday afternoon in work when it went very slow and quiete.But once again the gremlins seem to have struck!!
I woke up at 2.30am and could not get back to sleep ,so after an hour I got up to come on here,have replied to some emails and sent some new ones.and them came to see you all,but I am feeling the cold now so will go back to bed,if Ican not sleep I might have a read
.Looking forward to another long weekend , I will have one long weekend soon.I have about 12/13 weeks left to work but I have some holidays to have ,I would like to have them at the end and finish on my birthday ,but there are a few things coming up where I might need to use them so I will have to see.
Back to bed now I think its gone really cold now,
Hope to speak to you later today
take care
,Brenda

Happy New Year to you all Where ever you are
With all your freezing temperatures and snow
We have had a scorcher today 34.8 C But weather here is still changeable early hours of morning yesterday our temp dropped to 2 deg and it was a case of needing to get another blanket Tonight house will need to cool down before we can think of sleep Gale force winds are sweeping up country
Regards Margaret

happy new year from a snowy barrie it is snowing the light fluffy stuff and at the moment it looks very pretty it started last evening as I don't need to go out to-day I shall just admire it from the windows, anne phoned me this am at about 8am my time my first phone call of the new year I did not stay up till midnight I watched a film pelham 123 it was quite good. I wish all of you a very happy 2010 , the country at the moment is mourning the loss of 4 of our soldiers and a journalist the war is not very popular . bye for now dorothy

Hi all.nice to hear from Maragret ,hope you managed to get some sleep.
Dorothywe also have the white stuff again ,not as heavy as last week ,but it will cause chaos somewhere I expect.
It did start to rain after the snow ,which turned it to slush on the roads,was going to Bury to see what was left in the sales ,but changed my mind,it will be two weeks before I am off on a Saturday again to go.Unless I go on the tram one Friday.
Need to be quick with this as my sister is due shortly.
Will be back tomorrow ,Brenda

Hi everyone,well the snow and ice are still with us and I am being a bit of a wimp and not going out,hope its gone a bit by tomorrow have an appointment at the doctors and work at 5pm-8pm.!!
Could do with looking for an old fashioned home accounts book,used to have one a while back and found it really usuefull.Don't like doing them on a spread sheet ,perhaps because we use them at work?
Came on here to check for an email from an old friend who is now on the internet and she sent me her address ,I have sent her an email but not had a reply yet. But had two from some other old friends so have been replying to them and looking at bookstores/stationers for thos book.!! must go back down stairs now and get the washing and ironing sorted.,it looks like a laundry in the dining room.
Hope you are all well and your weather is being kind to you .
Take care ,Brenda

Good morningDorothy ,Brenda and the rest of the stalwarts,on a freezing cold ,white morning that is threatening to get even colder and whiter,lol
Marta is now home safe and sound in Poland ,waiting for the next semester at uni to start,the poor lass hates the cold ,and lo and behold ,it started snowing again there an hour before she got home.
I will be going out later this morning to clean the car down yet again ,and get some grit put down on the drive before going to the metro centre and the sales .
Christmas was a lot better for us this season because we were spoilt rotten ,no cooking to do as regards main meals because we were out most of the time,our children spoiling us rotten he he.
I have the new printer to swet up sometime this week ,a wireless hewlett packard,thay will let me print from upstairs in the bedroom if i wish.
Other than that ,i havn't much on at the minute as there isn't anything i can do in the garden at all,i can't even get the new feeding station put out for the birds,the boxes i need to move being frozen in he he.
catch you later all,Fred.

Hello everyone, we had a nice covering of ice over everything today, it has not completely disappeared in fact it is now turning all white again. Some of the cars opposite my house have not lost their icy coats all day but at least it is dry and no more snow.

Fred, my nephew and his family went to his in-laws in Poland for Christmas. He was looking forward to having a lovely white Christmas - but was disappointed as it was +7 there. He will be gutted to know that the snow came after he left. My g.son went back to Newcastle on Sunday, he loves it there and has spent all his time at home telling everyone who will listen just how great a place Newcastle is. He is at Northumbria Uni, doing really well and thoroughly enjoying it all.

Brenda, those household accounts books are very difficult to find but well worth hunting for as they are, indeed, very useful and much better than using a spreadsheet. I'm looking for one as well but with no luck so far.
Don't blame you not wanting to venture out in the snow and ice, it is a nightmare trying to walk around, not knowing quite where to put your feet.
Locally I try to walk on the grassy verges (where there are any) as it isn't quite so bad but of course in town that isn't possible.
Interesting that the Met Office forecast this would be a very mild winter (like they forecast a "barbecue summer" last year).
Don't know if you have seen but in my paper recently I read that pensioners should keep their heating on and we will get paid an extra £25 (won't go far with current fuel prices) no need to claim as it will be paid automatically - didn't say when though.
Will be taking my tree down tomorrow, I don't put it up until Christmas Eve and 12 days is long enough for me. Only do the 12 days of Christmas.
Dorothy, hope you don't get too much of that white fluffy stuff - I remember how it was for you last year. You seemed to get so much of it and it went on for so long.

Hope you all keep well.
Take care
Love
Kathleen

Hi all,just aquick hello as i am on work,had to come in early as one of the other ladies had a berevement,!!!
Weather still cold and looks like rain or sleet so hope it doesn't freeze!!! ,good job i am not working tomorrow,it will be bad going home tonight..
Better go and sort some shelving out.see you all tomorrow,
take care
Brenda

Kathleen,

I just spotted your comment about the £25 heating allowance during the cold weather. My Mum-in-law did get a letter today, saying she will be getting the extra while the average temperature is below freezing.

Elisabeth
xx

hi everyone from a very cold and I mean cold barrie -25 with the wind chill I went out to-day to the library but was glad to get home my family came for dinner yesterday evening and we had a good time the food turned out well and the chocolate truffle christmas log was a big hit I confess fred I bought I did not make it. yes brenda anne told me she has another 3inches of snow you are having it quite bad. I was interested in the heating allowance we do not get it over here we should it would be a big help. yesterday the service for the 5 killed in the war was shown a s the bodies arrived home it was very sad but done with such dignity, then they headed down the highway that is called the highway of heros into toronto. the bridges and over passess are alway lined with people to pay their respects even in the freezing cold the governor general always attends we don't hid our dead as the americans do but this war does not seem to be doing much good. well that is it from me take care bye dorothy

Hi All,just a few line from a very white manchester ,we must have had another 4 inches at least last night.John went out in the garden to put a fat ball feeder up for the birds and it came over the tops of his boots.!!!
Work phoned me earlier to tell me to go to my nearest library tomorrow,with the weather being bad.
I can walk there ,so it should not be that bad!!
Have text a few friends to see how they got on ,but they haven't got back yet,home they where ok.
David walks to work but it must have been awful when he wnet out at 5.30am.
Going for a nice bowl of hot soup,tinned I am sorry to say as I don't have mch fresh stuff in till I go shopping on Friday or should I say If,!!!
Take care
brenda

goodmorning I have just been reading about all the school closing due to the snow and anne has just phoned me from bury brenda to say she has 10 inches of snow in her gardens, but as she put it it is very pretty she does not remember ever having seen so much snow in my old home town, her daughter is working from home in whitefield and her other daughter who teaches in ramsbottom was sent home, so I hope that you don;t have to go to work to-morrow brenda even if the library is within walking distance you don't want to slip on the ice and snow and hurt your knee more, another cold morning here and a little snow but not too much. anne mentioned that the red dahlia is now a tv series but we have not got it over here as yet. my friend who has the artificial left venticle machine in his chest has had two call for another heart but both times it didnot work out the first heart had a lung attached so it went to another person with good results and the other one while it was a match they felt that it was not going to be much help as one of the valves was a bit wonky but he is in good spirts and still hopeful, he is at hoem with this implant and has to stay within 4hrs of the hospital at all times well time to get this day moving bye for now dorothy

goodmorning I have just been reading about all the school closing due to the snow and anne has just phoned me from bury brenda to say she has 10 inches of snow in her gardens, but as she put it it is very pretty she does not remember ever having seen so much snow in my old home town, her daughter is working from home in whitefield and her other daughter who teaches in ramsbottom was sent home, so I hope that you don;t have to go to work to-morrow brenda even if the library is within walking distance you don't want to slip on the ice and snow and hurt your knee more, another cold morning here and a little snow but not too much. anne mentioned that the red dahlia is now a tv series but we have not got it over here as yet. my friend who has the artificial left venticle machine in his chest has had two call for another heart but both times it didnot work out the first heart had a lung attached so it went to another person with good results and the other one while it was a match they felt that it was not going to be much help as one of the valves was a bit wonky but he is in good spirts and still hopeful, he is at hoem with this implant and has to stay within 4hrs of the hospital at all times well time to get this day moving bye for now dorothy

goodmorning no one is around I guess the weather is to blame I see it was -15 in manchester yesterday just like our cold weather I hope you all are well and safe take care dorothy

Goodmorning I do hope you are all managing to keep warm in your freezing weather ! I dont think I should ever complain about our weather again Its a nice time of the year and I am able to spend a lot of time out in garden
Margaret

hello everyone,had to get up an hour ago with stomach pains,should not have had a mince pie ,with a cup of tea at 9pm!! Have taken some Gaviscon and its working now,been checking on my hot matches ,which I am not up to date with ,but am off back to bed now.Its really cols and I am wrapped up like the mitchellin tyre man in two dressing gowns and a blanket..Its supposed to be -14 tonight all i know is ...its cold.No snow up to now ,but its been forecast.
There are not many roads which have been gritted and its a disgrace,John to me work today as he had to go to our doctors for his prescripton ,and thats near where I was working ,they wanted us opened til 8pm,but my team leader let some of us go at 7,as we only had a handfull of people in!!on the pc.s no one had any books etc.
Off back to bed.noe my tummy has stopped growling !!
Fred hope you are ok,and not frozen out.
Brenda

Hi There Brenda,he he ,frozen out ,lol,more like frozen in,as i came down to Wiltshire two days ago to help Sean move into his new house.
The whole trip was a nightmare ,no washer working ,the bottle having froze before we even left Newcastle,but luckily i remembered the last bad winters in the 80's and had a gallon bottle of water in the boot ,so ,it was stop at each service station ,throw water over the screen to clear the grease off ,and off down the road again.
The few drivers we passed had some sense anyway ,most being careful with the steering and brakes,so we only saw one accident where someone had left the road on a bend,but only the car was damaged anyway.
By the time we got to the oxfordshire border it was dark with the temperatures dropping fast 10 below,and the battery on the car stating to freeze,so ,i borrowed a few clothes and stuck them around the battery casing which,after a five minute wait with the engine running to warm the engine compartment up seemed to work okay..
By the time we got the cars unloaded and had a drink we were so tired that it was off to bed.
Be back later with an update ,but i am now away to get some porridge for brekkie ,lol.Fred.

Hallo all,
I wonder if you remember me? Yes, it's Sylvia showing her face again.
We are also having lots of snow. It's not the snow I dislike but the ice. i daren't go out on my scoot mobile, so haven't been outside the door since before Xmas. Well, apart from a visit to the doctor, neighbour took me in her car. I ordered a lot of shopping on the internet and have decided to do this, say every month. It is rather expensive, but if I only do this once a month want kill the budget.
I don't suppose I'll have many visitors on my birthday, although my eldest daughter tells me she is coming. She will bring any last minute shopping for me as well.
I am afraid my health is still not good and have to see another specialist now - the gynaecologist. Cannot see why as I had cancer of the womb many years ago and they took it away. sylvia xxx

Afternoon all,nice to see you again Sylvia,glad you and Johann are ok.
Frdd you do get in some sticky spots lad!!but glad it worked out ok .
Hope Dorothy has not been frozen out or in whereever she is!
It is still freezing here,no more snow ,well none thats sticking.
John has that chest and throat infection he had before christmas and a cold so he is in a bad way.I have had a headache all afternoon and my eyes are shiny and aching so looks like I have something as awell.
Mind you not had much sleep the last few nights as the colder air at nights causes John to cough an awful loy for half the night,he is wondering if he has started with asthma.!! He has kept me awake for the past two nights with the coughing, so I could just be tired.
Better go and get a drink and see about some ironing if my legs will keep me up!!
Take care
Brenda