General Chat

Hi all.have not been around due to coming down with a really bad cold.Been off work as well as it is a corker,seems to have settled in my head giving me earache and dizzy spells!!
Even having them turning over in bed,got up to pay a visit and have been sneezing and cougthing again so came on here before getting a hot drink to sooth my throat and trying to sleep again.
Fred don't know what is wrong with your pc ,but you alwats seem to know what to do to correct things.
Be back when I am feeling better.take care <brenda

hi brenda hope you feel better soon lots of folks over here have been down with colds etc and they seem to last for quite a while, fred you amaze me when you start talking about your computor wish I was as knowledgeble as you. we have had great weather for the last twodays in the middle 50's and to-morrow it mayhit 60, I am going down to brampton to see the group we have followed for years its ages since I have seen them due to the winter weather, will come back on saturday as I am having thw two older grandchildren over night while the youngest has a birthday party sleep over his birthday is tuesday but this worked out better plus it is his mom's birthday on saturday so it will be fun to have them overnight. I spoke to my half brother on sunday he was at home in scotland seems to be fine he is heading back to hull where he is working at the moment, I was having a wobble this evening sometimes this adoption thing as it happened so late in life bothers me so many unanswered questions but by to-morrow the wobble will be done with. hope that you all have a good week-end bye for now dorothy

Hi everyone,feeling a bit better today,still have earache and have been dizzy a few times,but the sneezing and coughing seemed be easing.
Should have been out to lunch and out again tonight but had to cancel.
Dorothy your weather sounds good and I hope the visit to your friends and the weekend with the children,both go well.
Keep having lots to drink but then need to pay a lot more visists,!!! so started using a smaller mug,to see if that helped.
Enjoy your weekends what ever you are doing.
Speak to you over the weekend.Brenda

Welcome to the weekend ,one and all,from sunny Newcastle [not],where old Fred is working from his desktop vista puter .
All up and running ,pretty quick so far ,and bug free,i isssss chuffed to bits.
Liz has her 15" lappy upstairs so that she can get on line if she is unwell ,and unable to get up,and i have my H P 17" laptop down here to cover my needs if anyone in the room is on the desktop.
Now all i need is a new wi fi printer so that the missus can operate the printer from the bedroom too..
I am going to be pretty busy out back today ,sun or no .i have tons of seedlings to prick out ,and more seeds to put in.
The missus has finished the first of Seans wedding albums and there is one more to do ,before we do our own ,but blimey ,the ink we have gone through is no ones bussiness,but i do prefer hewlet packard printers with the printer heads built into the cartridges,no clogging or wearing out,so nice sharp images every time,even if the inks are a little more expensive than epson .
Think i had better clear up my mess before the missus gets up,he he ,cardboard every where and bits of styrene foam lol,looks like a hoover job ,any offers ?
Catch you later folks Fred.

Hi all,its sunny but really windy and very chilly here today/
Felt a lot better last night and this morning so have come into work.
Its been very steady and we have got a lot done.Going to be a little naughty and have a chippy dinner!!! the one next door is smashing.Take care
See you all tomorrow.Brenda

Hi all,another sunny day here in manchester,its warmer than yesterday as well ,.Was really tired when I got home last night from work,so just chilled last night and today as they say.Been answering a few emails ,while John is watching the football on tv and david is out a the match(different teams).
The tea will be nearly done now so i had better go and check on it.Speak to you all soon.
brenda

Hi everyone,
Gayle is waiting for the fistula to be placed in her arm for dialysis to begin, she says its annoying not knowing when the hospital will call her in. The longer she waits means treatment is delayed which is not good.
The change in seasons from summer into autumn means runny noses and of course colds as one never knows what to wear. I had a jersey on last Friday, got hot and took it off only problem was that the place I went to was quite cool inside - result yep I've got a chill.
Badger I think I will quit trying to grow caulis & cabbages that little beast called the white butterfly is leaving its calling card in the form of caterpillars and of the nine plants about four look like they may survive.
Take care everyone, John

goodmorning everyone john I hope that your wife gets the call soon to start her treatment as you go into fall we hopefully go into spring we have had three days of good weather but to-day it is raining but it is welcome instead of the snow. brenda hope your chippy dinner was good.I had a fun week-end went to see the group we have followed for the last 33yrs my how time flies on friday night I must say the lead singer still sounds great he sang cara mia for me and can still hold the one note for quite a while stayed over at a friends and came back up the highway on saturday, picked up the two oldest grandchildren and they stayed over night, we had fun rented some movies and bryan did some things to my computor that cleared up some problems with it , ran spy bot on it and my does it work well this am. took them home on sunday and then collapsed for the rest of the evening not used to late nights any more, the group we like are playing again on the 22nd of may two days before my birthday so I said I would go down again to see them we first met them on the evening of my 33rd birthday what fun we have had with them over the years, well take it easy all of you and have a good week bye for now dorothy

HELLO ALL,Hope everyone is ok.Hope your wife has started the treatmant John,waiting is a problem here as well for various things.I waited six months for my op last year when I was told it would be 5 weeks!!
Glad you enjoyed the group and having the grandchildren over Dorothy.I used to like Gene Pitney singing Cara Mia,might dig out my cds one night this week and have a listen,Weather still nice and sunny here hope thats why Fred is not with us he will be digging for England!
Speak to u all soon
Take care Brenda
Dorothy

Hi everyone,and beware,he he ,that Brenda has the crystal ball out again ,or has been watching me via Google Earth.
I was out front all yesterday afternoon clearing out the top border and feeding same,weeding the two little beds in the middle of the lawn and trimming the grass round them.
I checked the palm tree as well ,and it looks fine, no signs of trouble of any sort.
I bought the two bins back in this morning after the bin men had been,and then fed the lawn seeing as it looked like rain,and then it was time to start out back.
I fed all the buckets ready for the brassica.fed the little borders ready for the leeks and onion, and then finished off putting the spring onion seed in.

Sorry for the break in transmission ,the ruddy puter started an update with no warning grrrrrr.
This morning i got the back finished as stated and then sat down on the patio with my morning coffee and two slices of toast while i summoned up reserves of energy.
Break over ,i started in the greenhouse ,transplanting Corriander,Mint.Basil,and Dianthus,before starting putting more seeds in,mostly Green and Red Peppers,Cucumber,Aster,Pyrethium Daisy,Busy lizzie,and Petunias.
Came back indoors and rigged up the Acer lappy to the workstation for the missus so that she can use the printer again until i get the xp tower back online.So, that's about it for now ,a pretty lazy week so far,catch you all later.Fred

Hiya all ,back again lol,a pretty lazy day today apart from the visit to the foot clinic at one thirty.
Up at five thirty to water the lawn to get the feeder into the soil ,then back indoors with a cuppa and puter he he,all i have left to do in the house today is a little dusting,but it looks like being a lovely day so i may take the lappy into the garden for a while and soak up some sun.
I reckon i might Go to B and Q to buy some of the bedding plants that are a real b***** to grow from seed ][shuuuush,don't tell the missus] he he.
Off to the dusting now ,but expect to be back later,.Have a good day all,Fred.

Morning all,just have a few minutes before the washer stops and i can put the washing out and go to work.On at 12.30 til 8pm tonight, not my favourite shift.,but they have to be done,due to people on lingterm sick and a few people getting transfers to othet libraries etc we are a bit short staffed, they have a lot of events coming up and therefore the shift pattern is even more crazy .I am not as bad as some but we will be doing two lates a week and possibly a Sunday every so often at the new library that opens Sundays 12-4pm.I ill just see how things go ,if it stays like this longer than they have said,then I will have to reconsider my finishing date as I don't really like doing some shifts at some libraries but do like most of them.If i reduce my hours any more I will probably end up doing 3hours a day over four or five days and mainly in the evenings,which i do not really want to do
Speak to you soon take are,Brenda
PS Fred if you are having a lazy week I don't want to know what a busy week is for you.!!LOL

goodmorning well fred and brenda both seem to be very busy one with the garden and one with books I have to say that I am having a lazy week apart from a trip up to the hospital yesterday am I had a recall to recheck the mammagram I had last week I don't like recalls I alway have myself dead and buried. But all went well afte more x-rays and a ultra sound I recieved the all clear so celebrated by buying a small mars bar and scoffed the whole thing . it is a rainy week over here though friday sat and sun are to be in the middle 20's then back down to about 11 on monday. Ian had his 10th birthday yesterday I phoned him before he left for school to wish him a happy birthday this was about 8am he thanked me and then said well I am not 10 till 9-28 am he is very precise, I joined them for dinner and he opened the family gifts he requested pizza and suschi for dinner quite mix but it was fun. I am taking him out to the red lobster next week for our special dinner to-gether he loves all kinds of fish. well I shall continue with my lazy day, brenda are you ready for dan browns new book the lost symbol due out in sept. did I mention that ordered neils new book from amazon should arrive next week bye for now dorothy

hi just a quick update on my trip to the library the lady who orders the books had just put an order in for the new book by dan brown so I put my name down for it and I am number 8 on the list but they usually order several copies, while I was there I tried to talk her into ordering martina cole's book the business came out in oct 2008 and the new one midnight fugue by reginald hill comes out in may so here is hoping that she will. it has raines all day and a bit chilly so I am going to have some ox tail cup of soup that anne sent me to try and warm up bye for now dorothy

Hi everyone, hope you are all well now and recovered from the winter ills though there are still some bugs lingering on. My g.daughter has had a bad chest infection which just will not clear, she has just been given some stronger anti-biotics so hope that will work. Not helped by her also suffering from hayfever - and we have loads of trees full of blossom around here. Have had a problem with that myself, can be such a nuisance streaming eyes and nose and my eyes get very sore. Happily my physiotherapy has worked really well and I have now recovered the flexibility in my hand, just have to continue a bit longer to build up the strength, been told using the keyboard is good excercise now.
G.daughter was stopped whilst out in Oxford Street by a talent scout for a model agency, took photo's and they liked her so sent her to have a portfolio done - must say the photo's taken after they had "made her over" looked great -but whether it leads to her getting any work remains to be seen. She has been approached before but always declined, this time she decided to go for it - not tall enough for catwalk work but we just have to wait and see whether the magazines like her look.
John I do hope your wife does not have to wait too much longer for her treatment to start, the waiting is so hard and makes it all so much more stressful.
Fred, Brenda and Dorothy, you are all keeping so busy - makes me feel tired just reading about all your activities.
Thankfully the weather is getting better now and I hope to be able to do a bit more outside in my very messy garden. Some of the shrubs suffered in the frosts and I want to get rid of some as I think they will not recover well enough to keep and they are getting a bit too big now. Wish I could still do all that I used to be able to but age is catching up with me a bit lately - and I do keep being reminded by (no doubt well-meaning) people that "at your age you should be taking it easy". Don't really want to but have to admit these old bones do ache a bit these days.
Sylvia is a bit quiet lately, hope all is well with her and Johan.
Take care
Love
Kathleen

goodmorning good to hear allyour news kathleen and you are right sylvia has gone very quiet I also hope all is well, I was up at 6 this am and it was raining but now (7-15) it is clearing and the sun is coming up supposed to be a good day we allhave to move our cars out of the parking lot to-day so they can bring in the big machines and clean it up from the winter debris of course they can't give you a precise time so I am off over to spend the day at my son's with their dog and cat , it will be quiet with the family at work or at school. it is a bit of a bother having to be out and about so early but it has to be done hope you all have a nice day bye for ow dorothy

Sorry to be so late this morning ,this is due to one veeeeery demanding missus grrrrrrr ,lol,why is it us poor males have to kow tow to them everytime he he.
Fred comes down stairs this morning ,takes a tea straight out to the front garden,and re waters the lawn to ensure the feeder has gone in,and comes throuighj to the back garden in time to put the feeder onto the back lawn.
I Come inside to make myself another cuppa,and seeing as it's now 7am,i take the boss one up too.
I hear then that rain is due and thinks ,ha,no need for the hose ,good,i can get on line for an hour before doing the housework,thus ,having a plan of action ,i wind up the hose ,drink my tea,and walk into the lounge where i find the missus,on her lappy.
Then i hear the dulcet tones[always a sign of trouble],the wife says ,can you programme the puter to the printer for me please BEFORE you do anything else,so that's me,on line a good hour late,still ,she can print her piccies lol,huh ,women.
Catch you all later,Fred.

Evening folks,well I have a lovelly L-O-N-G weekend to look forward to.We are off to Blackpool on Saturday to see Johns mam at their caravan,hope the weather stays ok.
Have a doctors appointment first thing in the morning,then do a bit of shopping and visit our friends to deliver their silver wedding presant.
Dorothy am waiting to see if any of the supermarkets get Neils new book in they can be cheaper than Amazon if you only want one book.Have at least a dozen book not read yet keep saying i will not get any more but can not resist. had a treat today at work we had a delivery of new books or rather some new and some reprints ofpopular books.I was like a kid in a toffee shop.!!!!!Managed to come home with just one,a Val Mcdermid ,not sure if it is new or not.but looks good.
Hope your Grand daughter has some luck Kathleen and I am sure she knows to watch out for these rip off merchants.
Poor Fred all work etc. LOL.I am sure you love doing "little"jobs for you MRS.
I was thinking just like Dorothy and Kathleen about Sylvia.hope all is well.
Of to watch my American CIS oaps now.See you soon,.Brenda

hi well brenda I hope that you and john have a great week-end in blackpool brings back happy memories for me, well the parking lot recieved a very good clean yesterday I did spend the morning at andrew's and then at noon went to the book store (chapters) which is near their home just to take down titles of new books so I can request them at the library promised myself I would not buy anything but ended up coming out with a new graham hurley called no lovelier death it would take ages for the buyer at the library to bring that in. and then on the reduced stall I found a quintin jardine that I had not read called the fallen gods not sure how I missed that but it was reduced from 24 dollars to five , saw that they had the new val mc dermid in but I have been trying to get that in at the library so far no such luck. to-day it is 10 degree's going up to 25 this afternoon crazy or what the whole week-end is supposed to be nice so I am going to put out the funiture on the balcony after I have washed the three big windows, also the solar lights I have to charge them up at least that is theplan hope you all have a good weekend bye for now dorothy