General Chat

Hi everyone, I'm a bit later than usual, I took my granddaughter to work and the barriers at the level crossings got stuck. Then I took my daughter for an interview, so fingers crossed that she will be successful this time, Usually employers dont want to know disabled people, which she is since her car accident. The sun is out now, we had a dreadful downpour earlier. JA, Lovely to hear from you again. I hope you are keeping well. Sylvia v O, I must try that delegating trick. I hope you enjoy your few days away. Brenda, Yes we have sold subject to contract, so we have all our fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong. I hope your car passed its MOT ok. Sue, I wonder which one pushed something down the toilet.lolI dare bet it was a boy. I dont suppose Dannielle complained though,lol Sylvia from Perth,Oz, I'm pleased you are feeling more positive. A very good idea to see the Skin Specialist. Fingers crossed for you. Lynda, You granddaughter sounds as bright as a button. I think she has a bright future ahead of her. Hi Joy. Well I think I had better get some more packing done now, so see you tomorrow. June xx

Best wishes for Thursday, Sylvia. Joy

well,I didn't expect to be the first on heretoday,where are you all ??? Hope this rain hasn't sent you all back to bed,I would have done if I hadn't had to take my car for its service and MOT. Now going to get stuck into some ironing and watch a dvd at the same time,my sister swears its the best way to iron. Might get back later.take care,Brenda

I have been at work 12.30 til 8pm today and as usual I am really tired.I am only on here to check something for some one and then send an email,but as usual I am reading other things and sending replies.The weather has been really humid today,we are supposed to be having rain and thunder storms during the night! Will catch up with you all tomorrow,Take care ,Brenda

Dear All Hope everyone is well. I am good here and still trying to get everything done to put the house on the market, but between babysitting my 3 year old granddaugher 3 days a week, it doesnt leave me much time to finish the painting and everything else I want to do. Kelsea is a little pet and she is just so adorable you cant help but love her. She conned me good this morning. My daughter dropped her off on the way to work and said Mum she has only just got up so she needs breakfast. So I offered Kelsea Weetbix and she said she didnt like it, usually she will have cornflakes or something similar, but my pantry is bare. I didnt even have bread to give her toast. She asked for an ice cream cone, and I thought better than nothing, at least until I can get to the shops and get some food later. She ate it and then I came back indoors and there is the little monkey at the breakfast bar with the weetbix. I said do you want some? She said yes. Little Con merchant and only three. My husband laughed when he got home and he said she likes weetbix you know. No I didnt, but as I told Kelsea you only get to con grandma once, no second chance. Brenda, I am glad to hear your Dad has had some respite Hope all continues to go well for him, Sylvia in Perth - Good luck and my prayers are with you. Our climate in Aus is so harsh for our skins. Perth is a beautiful spot we lived there for 3 years when my husband was in the Navy. June - I would stick to the patio pots - and let your son in law do the garden. Great Idea! I just wish my son in laws were into gardening. My son in law got the mower out one day when they were living here and I thought great hes going to mow the backyard (almost 1 acre) Silly me how wrong was I. He simply mowed a cricket pitch for them all to play cricket. Another time, he my son and husband got out the mowers and again I got conned thinking they'll get this done in no time. WRONG!!!yet again. This time they did a mini golf course, complete with roughs and finely mowed greens. Just cant win can I. lol. Gotta love them as the saying goes. Thank goodness the horses have the other two acres!! Take care and look forward to another chat,. Lynda (Qld)

Hello Everyone and thank you all for your messages and good wishes. I am feeling a lot more positive today. I have phoned the Skin Specialist that treated me before for skin cancer spots on my face and he is going to see me on Thursday so I will see what he thinks before having the Biopsy. I am hoping he will say there is nothing to worry about and am keeping my fingers crossed. I will let you know what happens. I hope you are all well. Take care and love to you all from Sylvia XX

Hi All Sylvia in W.A. my thoughts are with you in this worrying time. Brenda yes Dannielle did enjoy her first camp, they did sleep in the tent on the second night, as it was tooo late to pitch the tent on the first night they got there. I can sympathise with you when you said about your son returning along with the dirt, as Dannielle told me that her leaders said she should get a badge for being the dirtiest scout, but she did like sleeping in the tent even if it did wake them up shaking about as they had some strong winds during the night. June yes we are a bit like UK when we are in our winter we can expect rain more often than not, but the last couple of years our winter has been quite mild with not as much rain as we used to get. Well it is only short today as Dannielle is home from school for the day. The school has problems with the toilets and only the staff toilets could be used so they asked if as many of the children that could go home for the day be picked up. Anyway hello to all that I havent mentioned and I do hope Fred gets his puta up and running soon, I miss his messages on here.

Hello everyone,I didnot realise i had not left any messages for a few days,I know I meant to and a couple of times It was so slow I intended coming back but obviously I didn't. Anyway nice to see everyone again, June,hope you get everything sorted for the house move,have you sold yours? Sylvia O ,johan sounds like a real gent,doing your chores. Lynda,glad your dad is on the mend,mine had a good review at the hospital today and does go again for 2 months which is good. Sue I remember my son camping with the cubs and the mud he brought back to wash LOL.Anyway he enjoyed it which is the main thing. Sylvia in Oz,good luck with the tests. My apologies to anyone I haven;t mentioned. Fred ,get that pc sorted, take care ,Brenda

Hi Sylvia, Hope your spots have turned out to be ok. I had the same and have had them cut away. I wasn't afraid, so hope you won't be. No pain, stitches, but otherwise ok. June, I've learned the art of delegating jobs now. Say 'you do it so much better to the man' and he'll jump to show off - really! I really am an old hand at it after almost 50 years of marriage and married to someone who had 7 sisters to look after him. I had 7 mothers in law LOL I have been to the dentist this morning and am going to have some new teeth made - not a full set, can't part with the few that I have - but a few top and a few bottom. Have to go again next week. Well I must pack our case for tomorrow as we want to make an early start. Oh up early again. Probably won't see you for a few days. Look after yourselves and don't go doing anything silly, such as falling down the stairs. Sylvia xxx

Sylvia, lots of love and prayers Take care everyone JA

Thinking of you, Sylvia. Joy

Sylvia in Perth,Oz, You are in my thoughts and prayers. Please try not to worry too much., I know that is easier said than done. Love June xx

Sylvia, I will be thinking of you on Friday. Positive thoughts and prayers. Heather

Hello again, I have just come back from the doctor's and I have to go on Friday to have a biopsy done on one of the spots to see if it is cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma. It is a pretty rare disease but can be fatal so I hope it is not. I am terrified, so please say a prayer for me. Love from Sylvia in WA XX

Hi everyone, A rather damp day today I am afraid, it started raining yesterday evening and I dont think it has stopped yet except for about 30 minutes this morning. Yesterday was lovely, sunny and hot, we went to Formby Point to see the squirrels, unfortuneately we only saw about seven, by the amount of nutshells around, there was an abundance of food. I think another time, I would go in the early morning and not during school holidays. We did enjoy ourselves, it's a very popular place. Sue, We have boxes stacked with things that we dont need at the moment, it will be better when we get an actual moving date, then we can work towards that. Dannielle sounds as though she had a good time, I think it is a good experience for them to go camping. Of course we have so much rain here thats its usually hard to go without having rain, whereas I would expect in your neck of the woods, it is unusual. Sylvia v O, The house we are moving to is less than a mile from where we are now but it is twice the size. With 3 generations living there, we need our own space. I'm laughing at you delegating jobs for Johan, thats the way to do it. Lynda, We still haven't got a moving date, I expect it to be about 3/4 weeks away. I can understand you wanting less land, it takes a lot of looking after, Where I am now, its only a small garden, I purposely bought it for that, at that time I needed to down size but the one we are moving to, is on a corner, so it has gardens at the front, side and back. My son in law is a keen gardener, so he will be looking after it, I will probably stick to the patio pots. I hope your dad is still making good progress. Sylvia in Perth,OZ, I hope your Rheumatoid Athritis is soon better, and the spots you have aren't serious. Do let us know what the doctor has to say. Dont worry about not getting on every day, we all only come on when it is convenient. Well I had better go and put the rubbish out now, I will speak again tomorrow. June xx

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all well. It is still very cold here in WA and we are still using hot water bottles! I don't lose the stoppers June, I don't take them off until I want to use them again. I just put them away with the water still in and the stoppers on.I know I am lazy but it works for me. I didn't do anything last Thursday as I wasn't feeling too good. My Rheumatoid Arthritis is bad, because of the weather I expect so I just had a lazy day. I am going to see the doctor in about an hour's time about some funny spots I have that won't go and I am worried in case they are cancerous, so keep your fingers crossed for me please. I will let you know what he says later. I must go now and I'm sorry I don't get on here very often. Love to you all from Sylvia in Perth WA XXXX

Evening all How is everyone? well I hope. June when do you move into your new house. We have still yet to put ours on the market. We want to downsize the land to about an acre (we currently have 3 and a half acres) We also want to build a 4 bedroom queenslander home (we currently have 5 bedrms. It will make life a bit easier for hubby and I. He can play more golf and I can do more Genealogy and scrapbooking. Judy I hope you are feeling better now, sorry to hear you were in hospital. June thanks for your kind words about Dad. He is greatly improved now which is a relief. All we have to do now is fatten him up. The weather here in Queensland has been lovely this weekend. Temp around 25 degrees celsius. Nights are still a little bit cool. Cant wait for summer. Tomorrow it is my daughters first wedding anniversary. I cant believe the year has gone so fast. I helped Heidi (my daughter) and her husband move house on the weekend,. Gosh it is a horrible job worse than cleaning an oven. lol. I am dreading when we sell our house,. I have so much stuff. Will try to get back to checking in nightly. Cheers to you all Lynda (Qld)

Hi all, Isn't it amazing how early you lot are on the computer - on a Sunday too. Don't you girls know that Sunday is a rest day too! I'm not dressed yet, but I have had breakfast and cleared away. Left Johan to peel the potatoes for dinner and slice up the bread I baked yesterday. I love delegating jobs for him to do. The weather looks fine, so let's hope it stays that way. I'm now off to get a shower and get dressed in case my grandson comes round to pick up his clean washing. Congratulations on finding a new house June. Whereabouts is it? Sylvia xxx

Hi All Just popped in to see what everyone is up too. June you sound like you have a busy time ahead of you, at least you are in good weather to move. Fred dear me puta problems... that can be a pain in the you know where lol, hope to see you back soon. My youngest daughter Dannielle has just go back from her first scout camp tired, dirty and looking for the shower, but she had a great time, fishing making rope bridges, cooking on a campfire and sleeping in a tent, on a wet windy night she said the tent was shaking like crazy but loved the experience. Well I will catch you all later

Hi everyone, Its a lovely sunny morning, we are going to feed the red squirrels at Formby today, so I hope to be able to take some good photos. Yesterday, My son in law cleared the loft, oh boy, there was far more than I realised up there. My grandson has left loads of stuff here, I have decided he takes after me, he is a hoarder. Judy, I'm sorry to hear you have been ill, I hope you are soon back to mormal. Sylvia, We have made up our minds which house to buy and they have accepted our offer. There are one or two things to do to the house to get it how we want it but then there always is. The main thing is that there is plenty of room for us all. One very large lounge and one smaller one, so we dont have to be under each other's feet. I am now off to have another cup of coffee and then get some washing out. I hope you all have a good day. June xx