General Chat

Hi Sylvia,june,Jude,and everyone else,really great to see you Elizabeth,just leave amessage when ever you can we don't stand on ceremony on here. In case I don't get on here tomorrow or Christmas Day thank you all so much for your contributions to the thread and helping to make it such a good (and peacefull)one. Hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas. lots of love,Brenda ps Don't forget ,Take Care,!!!

Me again. I had a job to find this thread as so many other threads were in front of it. Well finally the air bed has been pumped up. I think the other air bed had a leak in it. So probably not the pump at all! I went upstairs to see another neighbour this afternoon as she has pneumonia. She was going away tomorrow but has had to cancel her trip. She was walking round the flat in bare feet. She always does this she says, but I said not everybody has pneumonia. Anyway I asked if I could do anything to help, but her husband had done all the shopping and her husband can cook, so they'll be ok. I did my last shopping today, only needed milk and cream and a few fresh herbs, but it was nice to get out. There was a very strong wind blowing, but at least it was dry. Linda came today and vacuumed the flat and did the toilet and bathroom. She sent me an e-mail Xmas card, using my computer! I made some cheese and tomato bread and a 9-cereal brown loaf. If I get time tomorrow I'll make some more mince pies, but otherwise we'll make do with those I've already frozen in. My ex son in law and his new wife came this evening and brought me a lovely tub of narcis bulbs. Johan had a bottle of whisky. Don't know whether I'll have time to write tomorrow, maybe, otherwise have a good Xmas. Sylvia xxx

Hi everyone, Its a nasty wet and windy day here, I'm just having my coffee, entering the Birthday messages and wondering which job should be done first, you know the boring ones, like hoovering, dusting etc. must have everywhere nice and clean for Christmas. I'll leave you while I go and have some toast and I will pop back later. Merry Christmas everyone (I love saying that) Love June xx

l'm back:o)) Hello Elisabeth, really good to see you - hope the polka dots wash out ok!!! l have been thinking of you as many have on here, we've all been asking after you - take care and we look forward to your chat next year:o)))) Bill - wow,that must have taken ages.Merry Christmas to you too:o)) Di - nice to see you, do have a lovely christmas and take it easy.Its nice meeting up with daughters is'nt it:o)) June - Oh Madoc will be fine, l have bought 2 treats today, chewy fings and will try and find another fluffy fingy tomorrow. My sister says l spoil him - Nooooooooooooo - who me??? Nearly forgot - welcome back,bet that was hard watching all the messages and not being able to respond!!??Good old She for helping with the Birthdays thread:o) Christine - sounds (he he) like you are all going to have fun:o)) Veronica - hello and wellcome to the mad house, although its looks like you have the right sense of humour :o) Ok thats it, will try and get back on here, mind you l said that the other, l will go l promise. A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL:o)) Jude sarf wales xx

Its Mwah again - ello everyone:o))) its getting exciting now!!l've been naughty and bought more pressies for the kids - (you have to remember the kids are 27yrs and 29yrs). In Monmouth there is a shop called "Salt & Pepper" which sells kitchen fingy's, really tasty things in there, next door is their's also,they sell Jelly teddies and dolls,gorgeous christmas decs, hand bags,glass ware, posh silk scarves etc etc and all quite pricie - they have one offs, you don't see them in other shops, at least l don't, well they had these lovely pencil cases and l bought three, just lickle tree pressies, novelty fingies!!!hubby will not be amused when he finds out,which will be christmas day when everyone opens them!!!! lol My daughter moved into her new flat today, she and her partner are so excited. We will see them both on Fri - yippeeee:o)) Sylvia - what a pair we are, you with your pumps and me with me chicken. l should have waited till the next day and gone to the butchers,never mind - l won't be buying chickens from them until they change their suppliers. l see on another thread that you have been at you bottle of sherry again!!! lol l'm off now for a while cause its the final of "celebrity come dancing" l'm hoping Bruce has forgotten and got lost in the canteen!!!! Be back later:o)0 Jude sarf wales

Hi Everyone,just another quickie while my son is out for the evening(its his turn tonight).Glad everyone is in good spirits,ready for Christmas, See you all tomorrow.love Brenda ps take care.

Hi everyone I'm back, feeling very embarrassed, just because I wanted hearts around my name. You wouldn't think that such a little thing could create so much havoc. Merry Christmas everyone! Chris, sounds like you are going to have plenty of fun there, its also raining here too. Veronica, you must come and visit os again, there is usually something going on all the time here. Kathleen, I'm so happy to hear that Susan is doing well. You take care too, no more of this rushing to Tesco at midnight!! Sylvia, you are well organised as usual. just sip that sherry slowly,lol Di, Glad you had a good day out with your daughter, its nice to see you again. Brenda, Sorry the photos didn't get through, my email box isn't full, although I have tidied it a little, I can only think that the same thing that was affecting my updating messages has affected it. Please try again. Bill I wish I had your patience to draw like that, I hope you have a lovely Christmas. Jude, sorry to hear you had a nasty chicken, the mind boggles at what we have passed on to us. I hope Madoc is looking forward to Christmas too I have to rush now, hope I haven't missed anyone, see you tomorrow Love June xx

Hi everyone, We've still got rain here. Hoping it is sort itself out and the sun will be shining for Xmas Day. My son wants to give the girls their present today - a playstation singstar party game with 2 microphones and loads of songs - bit like kareoke (don't know how to spell it). He's going away for 3 months on Boxing Day so wants to enjoy the fun of seeing them use it now - so it looks like a full day of singing here today. Merry Xmas, Christine

Poor Jude, you are not very lucky with chickens are you? We are not lucky with foot pumps, or electric pumps for that matter. My husband has spent most of the day trying to pump up an air bed for our son when he comes Xmas Eve. He took the electric pump back to the camping shop today. This is the second pump we've wasted our money on! He will try again tomorrow. Kathleen, glad to hear your daughter is doing ok. I loved the Xmas message from Bill in Oz. I wonder how long it took him to type it! Today I changed the beds and washed and ironed duvet covers etc. I cannot believe it, but I ironed another 4 of my husband's shirts! Only two of my blouses. I did one or two small jobs, but for the rest took it easy. Tomorrow I'll do my last shopping, not very much just some milk and cream and parsley and sellery. The rest I have already done. I was feeling a little sad today and did what I seldom do, had a little cry. I think I'm beginning to realise that I'll not have all the family here on Xmas Day, and then felt sorry for my husband trying to pump up the air bed. Didn't let him see that I was a bit weepy though!. See you tomorrow. Love, Sylvia xxx

Just popping in briefly to say hello to everyone. Took Susan to the hospital at midday to get the first dressing removed. Everything is healing nicely just a little blistering because of the sticky stuff holding the dressing. Back on 31st to get the final dressing removed and to get the test results. Fingers crossed she will not need more surgery and that the cancer hasn't spread any further. Did a bit of shopping for her, she has to be careful in crowds because of getting knocked. I did a bit last night, found I had run out of tea at midnight so scraped the frost off the car and tootled off to Tesco. My car doesn't like frost - it screams (think it's the gas pedal), very embarrassing!! No more time now, in case I don't get back until after Christmas Very Happy Christmas to you all, thank you so much for your support and will catch up in the New Year. On the other hand I might be able to sneak on here at some point when nobody is looking!! By the way Brenda, my family never use just one towel when three will do - I spend so much time washing towels. Love to you all God bless Kathleen

Just aquickie as I am replying to a load of emails recieved tonight. Bill many thanks for your lovelly greeting. Ann,thanks for the message about the mailbox.I spoke with someone else earlier,who said the same thing as she has had problems sending to June as well. Sylvia,hope you sort out your phantom shirt user,someone in this house seems to need three bath towels per bath/shower. I seem to be washing all my towels every day. Jude bet your sister was delighted with the news from the states ,what a nice surprise. To evryone else,thinking about you all and hoping to see your very welcome messages soon,Take care Brenda

Ohhh Sylvia can't leave you all on your own:o)) l have been looking in, made a few replies to other threads then dash downstairs again before hubby realises l've even moved!!!! lol Ann - thank you for the email. Hope your evening is a good one. My sister and her hubby were here on Saturday for a chrissie meal and just before they arrived a relative from New York rang,(l knew she was going to-l kept it as surprise for my sister) one of the Meninsky's - her mother is a Meninsky by birth not marriage and a cousin is a Pace!!! l have just emailed Lynda Pace incase we are related!!! l think l have mentioned that l email relatives in NY, l've been in contact with this one for about a yr now, the other one has'nt got my new email addy!! he had so much info l could'nt keep up with him, but will contact him again in New Yr! The other thing that happened before my sister arrived was the bloomin chicken was OFF, this is the 3rd time this year. l had made up my mind not to buy any from this store again,but had no choice the other day. l checked it everyday(bought it Thursday,sell by date 22/12/04), fine, then at 4pm l took it out of the fridge and low and behold - phewwwww - as you can imagine l was not too happy so rang the store and asked them to bring another one out to me, well blimey l was about to put it in the oven!!!! Anyway the manager arrived with 2 rolled chicken breasts, as that was all they had, when cooked they were both smaller than the chicken and twice as expensive - very nice though. She next time l'm in the store to ask for her and she will give me a bouquet of flowers! Well hope everyone is well,its really chilly here especially in this storeroom - corrrr blimey!!! l have left the iron so ought to do something with it. Kathleen l do hope your daughter is ok - take care. Hope everyone else is ok : Gaynor,Fred,Ann,Anne, Sylvia,Di,June,Brenda,George,Christine.Mary,Lou,Elisabeth, Crista and anyone else l may have forgotten:o) Nite nite Jude sarf wales

Hi all, As previously said I went out with Johan this morning to get our air bed pumped up, but the air at the pump was frozen. Just our luck. We decided to go into the Camping Shop to find a better pump. We bought a pump before but it is useless. Anyway we now have an electric pump, which works, albeit slow. Did some shopping. Came home, lovely warm house. Made some more bread and hung up some more washing - another 4 shirts of Johans. I think another man is putting shirts in my washbasket! My genealogy magazine arrived today, so am just dying to read it. When I've finished here I'll go and read it. No messages from Fred or Di, June, Jude. What have we done to you all - HELP, come back. Love, Sylvia xxx

hi All Just read through the messages, on Gaynor's update for June she says she can read the messages so hurry back soon June. if you had a message about June's mailbox Brenda it could be that there are too many messages saved on there June which require deleting. Went shopping in town yesterday morning, it was a bit manic because of course the children are not at school, so didn't stay in there too long, didn't have much to get thank goodnes as the queues in the shops were horrendous. crowded on the bus too. today we walked round for the papers then took ourselves to the golf club for lunch. We normally eat in the evenings but have our neihbours coming in tonight for a drink and chat at 6.30 so decided we would be better off eating lunch time. We both had omelettes and chips and really enjoyed them, mine was cheese and tomato and Tony's was ham and onion. We have recieved most of the expected cards now, about 70 so the lounge is looking very festive. I had an e mail from our DiL this morning, apparently 8 year old Grandson is 'hyper' and OTT with everything and has been threatened that father christmas wont come if he doesn't calm down and 2 year old grandaughter loves the tree. And they are looking forward to seeing us on Thursday. daughter e mailed me to say she had to take her 17 year old cat Timmy to the vet on what turned out to be a one way trip this morning, he has been going down hill and didn't look at all well over the weekend when we saw him. Apparently he had complete kidney failure. i was pleased I had seen him and given him a cuddle at the weekend. Tomorrow i shall be packing and getting everything together for the trip to M keynes so not sure if I will get on here, although i might have time to read if not post. As the children don't like loud noises I haven't bought crackers but have made a snowman to put on the table, he contains a small present for everyone. I have actually been working on my genealogy, I have got around to typing up my Grandfather's history, i like to put it all into a narrative, besides giving a good picture of the person it also highlights anything I may have missed as I have to read all documents and censuses etc thoroughly to weed out information. anyway, in case i don't get on here tomorrow I hope that you all have a wonderful Christmas. I haven't mentioned everyone personally but Kathleen, you and your daughter are still in my thoughts as is Fred, don't overdo things will you fred, let the others help you. Take care everyone Love Ann Glos

Goodmorning All,what an awfull experience for our June,hope she will be bak soon,GR permitting, June if you can read this ,give yourself a hug from me.I tried to send the photos to you yester day but they would not accept ,said something about your mailbox? Kathleen hope susan continues to improve Chris,you poor thing that must have been a nightmare for you, I am working a late today but have loads to do before I go out,as I am delivering some presents afterwards. There was snow here yesterday but it has not stuck in the city. Take care ,Brenda

I'll try again. I typed a long piece and my computer turned itself off. Oh, when will my new one come? Another day nearer to Xmas. Today I cleaned my oven, ready to make it dirty again at Xmas. I also iced and decorated my Xmas cake, tidied and dusted the sitting room. Cannot do much there with the Xmas tree and decorations etc. Good excuse! I also did two washing machines of washing - or at least the machine did. My neighbour/friend came down and we had tea and a natter. I thought I was going out on my own tomorrow but Johan wants me to go with him to the garage to help him pump up one of our air beds. The pumps we have at home are not good enough. He says he needs my help holding something. So I said I'd combine this with popping in to a supermarket and getting some extra potatoes in. Poor June, what an experience you've had with that poor wee dog. Anyway, glad you picked him/her up and not left him like others had. Kathleen, so glad Susan is doing well. How nice she lives close by. Where's Fred, Brenda, Jude, Di, all snowed under with Xmas shopping. I heard our weather forecast tonight, and they think we may have snow on Xmas Day - whooppeee. So long as I don't have to go out in it. Well will close now, love, Sylvia xxx

Hi everyone, Hi Gaynor, I know exactly how June feels. We had a very old cat. My son now 24 got her when he was 5. One day earlier this year I was backing out of my garage and ran her over. You can imagine how upset I was. Here was Tiger who had lived to a grand old age and I had run her over. I didn't know what to do I was so upset and noone else was home. I put her in the car and went to a couple of different vets and they were both closed. I rang my daughter who was at football - I was crying my eyes out. She asked me if I wanted her to come home. I said yes so she came home with the grandkids and we said our last goodbyes and buried her in the garden. Kathleen, Sounds like your daughter is coping very well with lots of love and support from you. Merry Xmas to everyone. Christine

Gaynor - thank you for your message. Please give my love and hugs to your mum and Nick, so sorry to hear about this,they must feel awful,but as l said on the other thread it was'nt their fault and they did all they could for him. Kathleen - thank you for the update on Susan, what a lovely mum you are. Our thoughts are with you all:o)) Love jude sarf wales xx

I just wanted to put a thread on the board because I know that many of you are friends of my Mum, June Nr Preston. On Friday 17th December after picking my son, Nick up from work, they experienced a terrible shock, whilst in heavy tea-time traffic, a car pulled out in front of them and as it sped away, they realised that a little dog was lying in front of them on the road in the midst of all the traffic obviously terribly injured. Mum and Nick, my son, both jumped out of the car, stopped the traffic and Nick very slowly and carefully moved the little dog onto a travelling rug which Mum had in the car and they carried it to the vets about a hundred yards down the road. The vet took the dog in immediately but unfortunately there was nothing they could do and the poor little soul died in my son's arms. Both Mum and Nick were devastated, they did not know who the little dog belonged to but it deeply affected them and they have both been very upset over the weekend. The vet informed the owners and my son has since been to see the little dog, "Bud"s, owners to assure them that they did everything they could. They were pleased to see Nick as they hadn't known how little Bud had died. There is more unpleasantness which surrounds these events for the people concerned but I don't wish to disclose this online but Mum's friend's will know what has gone on. Mum has been unable to use the boards for a few days due to computer problems which she has emailed Genes and hopefully she will be back with us all soon. I have also posted this message on the main board, but I just wanted to let you know that Mum hasn't disappeared but has been having a few technical and personal problems lately. Gaynor :-) x

Hi Girls and boys,just a quick message as I have been trying to send some phptos by email and it has taken such a long time for me to do it . Just a few more presents to wrap and thats them done,working tomorrow and off Wednesday and Thursday ,will have to do shopping Wednesday as I am taking my dad to the hospital for some tests on Thursday and we don't know how long he will be. I am working all day christmas eve,and apparently it is not busy at all ,I should not get bored surrrounded by all thoses books!! See you tomorrow .Take care ,Brenda