General Chat

Hi Kathy. Nearly missed you there. I have found that by talking on here, and trying to help support others it has helped me. That was not my intention, but just how it worked out. So perhaps by going back to healing others, it will in turn help heal you. xxx

Hi all, more news that knocked me for six altho I haven't been that close to my late cousin, since we grew up with him living away from Norfolk, but I have some fond memories of spending holidays with him and his family when we were kids together and he was one of my Mum's favourite nephews.

Take care all.

Lizxxx

Dear Liz, sending caring to you over this latest sadness. Hope you can manage to get some rest.
Hugs
Mary

Thanks Mary, seems to come in threes, I find.
I feel sad for Tony - he had so much to live for and has suffered so much pain since his accident altho he still tried to do lots, ski ing and sailing for the disabled, he managed both.
Hope you are ok, love

I am off to bed now. night,
Lizxxx

Morning everyone

I don't know you all in here - but i have some friends who do post so just wanted to say hello and that i do think about you all.

I always have a look in everyday to see how things are........

I'm doing okay - fingers crossed no low patches like when i had my black cloud the other month.

I see a lot of mention of St Johns Wort - but i'd like to mention (if it hasn't already been so) - a herbal supplement called....... *5-HTP*

I take a 100mg capsule a day in place of prescription ADs and it certainly seems to help. Can't remember the name of the main ingredient - but the body converts it to serotonin - the happy hormone ............... worth a mention and maybe a few months trial ????

You can buy it online quite reasonably from Healthspan - much cheaper than H&B :O))

Have a good day xxx

Good morning all,

Have to be off in another 2 hours.Horrible weather, very strong winds and rain.The only good thing about being too heavy is, you can't be blown over so easilly.
It is so nice to read all about your cooking etc. Mary, phew, it sounds exhausting, where do you find the energy? I used to love being in the kitchen years ago, when all my children were living at home.Cooking, baking and preserving...such lovely, soothing work.25 years later, don't think I would be able to do all you do.
Sharron, you are doing such a great job on your dad.Such a clever idea of yours to re-kindle his interest in the garden that way.Hope you didn't throw all the tomato ketchup away? The first large batch of nectarine jam I made weeeks ago, it 'caught' slightly,so I carefully poured it all out into pots, and left the burned bit.
Dawn, you have been given good advice here. Hope you do get help from your gp.
Ann(Glos), yes, it did help my daughter to have that short stroll and just sit on the beach.She savours every little outing, God bless her.
Thank you for your good wishes for today.
Carole,Liz,Mary,Joyce, and all those I don't mention, am hopeless with names....
Hope you all have a good day, take care.

Eileen xx

Liz sorry you have yet more bad news. It comes in threes so I hope this will be the last you have to cope with for a long time. xxx

Gill good morning. What are your plans for today?
It looks horrid outside xx

Any one seen Wendy? Christine also not been seen for a while.

Elaine roll on the weekend and your trip to the hospital will be over. I know just how you feel going out when the house seems like the safest lovely place to stay.xxx


Deanna what are your plans for today? xx

Kathy ~~~~xx

Gail I'll sort you some stuff out and send it as soon as I have time xxx


Oh there she goes off to Amsterdam, ( I tried to stop her) working again. Tells us on here she is off to help her daughter. Eileen keep your legs crossed!
Too late for pelvic floor exercises I suppose. Have a good time and don't over do it xxxx

Good morning everyone.
Carole, my plan for today is to bag all my loose change.. i save coppers and 5pence pieces.
sit with Allan and try to keep him from *doing things*. What a man. He is ill, and he just seems to think that he should be... out in the garden or just doing SOMETHING.
He has been so ill and I want him to give the antibiotics a chance to work. Perhaps he will get a good few weeks of health this time.
I filled my medicine boxes yesterday for two weeks, we both did the washing, changed the bed, and washed the bedding... had my hair cut. What a busy bee I am. ;-0)
Window cleaner has just been so we can expect rain at any minute now! that is what used to happen when I used to be able to wash the windows myself... it would rain!

Eileen, I thought we were friends! You did not tell me that you had a sideline in Amsterdam... not that I approve you understand? Or am I just jealous?
I think the extra steroid the doctor prescribed is working... no head ache for a couple of days. We will see though.

Ben you are doing very well on your tree lad. I was doing a little bit myself the other day.
BUT... this I have to tell you.
A friend e-mailed me and asked for a little help finding a relative, she has been looking without any luck... as we all do.
I switched on the site to search, and was able to e-mail her back withing a few minutes!!
Why does that never happen to me??? ;-0(

Well everyone, i think i will have to go and let Allan see that he is not a widow... he must think he is sometimes.

Lots of love to.
Kathy, Gail, Gill, Sharron , Ben, David, Eileen, Elaine, Angela... where are you Angela? Mc Anne, Liz, Maximary.... oh I deleted your recipe for the Zucchini cake Mary... PLEASE WILL YOU SEND ME IT AGAIN?I did say please. ;-0)
Carole, your poor car, and poor you without it, hope it gets well soon. ;-0)

Joyce, and Joyce P, and any others whom I have not mentioned.... chin up, we all have our good days and I will see you when you have yours.

Lots of love,
Deanna XXX

morning everyone i hope today is a good day

love and hugs
carolina xx

Hi to all.

My next door neighbour passed away this morning, aged 57. We were in the same class in school and he was one of my brothers mates, so mine as well, as was a tomboy. When my dad passed we were talking about my dad and dad's football training of their team. We had an old Austin, and do not know how, but dad would take the whole team away to play football in that car, plus me most of the time. He had very fond memories of my dad and us growing up. I am so pleased now we had that talk. We did talk across the fence frequently, but this was the first about growing up.

RIP Greg, this has hit us hard and you will be missed everyday.

Gail

Gail sorry to hear your neighbour passed away. Not very old was he. Steves mum was only 55. No age at all. How nice you had a chat with him and remembered things about your dad together. Lets hope they run a team in the sky. xx

Carolina hi. How are you and your family doing?

Hope to go out this morning, so I'll get a shower now and not list you all to say hello. But please know I am thinking of you today xxx

Oh just a hello to Gill cos I know you need all the support we can offer. You are a worth while person and a good lady xxx

i feel alittle sad today 24yrs ago my daughter gave birth to little girl after carring her for 9mts,only she was born dead she could,nt even look her baby ,when she came home the social asked her if she was burying her little girl and she said i cant afford to ,and they said we give you money so i phoned up the hospital and ask if the little one was still there they said yes,so i told them i was sending undertaker to collect her,i buried her with my mum and dad the vicar sat in the front of the car with this tiny little coffin on his lap,but it gave me peace of mind knowing she was buried with her g,grandparents,r.i.p Joyce,she was named after me
Dutchx

Just popping in to say hello, so much grief around,sending hugs.
It's getting cold here, 6 degrees above freezing this morning, trees all changing colour, they look so pretty till they hit the ground.
More baking this morning to stock the frreezer with variety for school lunches.
Managed to clear one large plastic box last evening, "important" items we moved here last November, been sitting in the dining room. The box is now empty, and 80% of the contents went out with the rubbish or recycling this morning. Now why did we move it all in the first place????? Interesting side effect was that my eldest g'daughter MiniMary, disappeared to her room for ages, and I found her clearing her bookshelves, sorting books to keep or go out. I must de-clutter more often LOL.

Have a pleasant day all,
Mary

Hello all, am going to try and get off the computer in a bit and do a bit of sorting out, phone calls, clearing clutter etc etc, but just want to wish you all strength to hang on in there !
Gail, my sympathy on the loss of Greg, a link with your childhood gone but never forgotten, particularly after the chat you had about your Dad, those words will stay with you always and warm your heart.
May he rest in peace.

Joyce, have added to your other thread. How lovely that you were in time to bury your little Joyce.
May she be resting in peace too.

Mary, well done you, and Mini Mary too, you must feel very pleased with yourselves.
Will catch up with you soon,

love and hugs to you all,
Lizxx

Hello everyone, how come my plans for my days never come to fruition?
Came on early to order a present for my son's friends little boy, but had a message from Liz.... sorry Liz.... started to answer Liz's message and I don't know what I did but it all froze on me .
I know it was me and not the Pooter... but that does not help my temper...
I had to reboot... so decided that I would do a little *H* 'thingy' first"!
Did a little bit of this and a little bit of that... all in all made a nice difference to the living room. that is as far as I got.
Then my men came home and I lost my computer. Tony pinches it every time he gets the chance! I'm not complaining, I am too thrilled to have him at all.
SO.. hang in there Liz I will be with you in a minute love. ;-0)

Joyce that is a beautiful story of your little Joyce... so sad and so strong of you having her buried with your mum and dad. May they all RIP. X

We don't seem to be meeting up on this thread these days do we?
The mail is so spread out and we miss each other.

To all you friends on here have a good day, and I will try to read all the messages some time.
I have been so good today. I should not say that too loud, but I have.

It is Allan's birthday on Sunday. We would normally take him out for a meal but not this week. He says he does not feel well enough yet.
See how he feels on Sunday...

See you all later,
lots of love to all,
Deanna XXX

evening all ive just poped on to wish you all a goodnight gona try and get some sleep tonight i doubt it though we ready for the off early in the morning to take hubby to hospital again for a cardioversion i do hope this works for him as if not it means him going back in for a pacemaker so ill catch up with you all when i get back thank you all for your kind whishes im a bit wound up over it all ,and the traveling as its not a local hospital ,but i no i can do it it hope hugs to all xx elaine xx

Hello all

Yes Deanna, we are rather like ships passing in the night aren't we. I hope Alan will feel strong enough for a little celebration for his birthday.
Hello Ann (McAnne), good to see you on here.
Gail, so sorry to see about your neighbour, you will miss him.
Joyce, thinking of you on this sad day. sent an envelope off to you today.
Liz, a sad time for you too.
Kathy i was going to say what somebody (was it Carole) said., maybe if you try and give a few relaxing massages it will relax you at the same time. When I have had a massage the masseur has often said how relaxing it was.
Gill, how are you, hope you are well.
Mary, Eileen, YCaz, Carolina, Ben and anyone I have missed, where is Betty not seen her around? Hope you are all OK.

Busy day today, took my car for a new two bits of the exhaust, then decided it was time for a change so looked round a few (3) car sales places. Settled for a 2002 VW Golf, bright red. When I sat in it it was sort of deja vu!!! (In the 90s I had a red golf GTi) One lady owner and very smart, we wanted a car for around the town and locally but that I can drive if Tony has to have a 6 week break from driving when he has his hernia op. He is waiting to see a consultant to find out when he can go in and what sort of op they will do. Apparently there is more than one way of tackling it but all will mean no lifting for about 6 weeks. This is certainly not our year! I test drove a BMW 318 a few days ago and that frightened me (and Tony when I drove it) to death, I thought it was going to take off! He was trying to point me to an automatic but I wanted a manual. In the end we both liked the golf.

then we had hair appointments and then had to come home and sort the paperwork finance etc for the car.

So that was my day.

Ann
Glos

Hi all, feeling a bit better today. I was thinking about the last talk I had with Greg, there was so much talk about growing up and so much laughter. It is a great memory to have. Strange as well, we lived next to each other for over 12 years and would talk about so many different things but that was the first time about our childhood. I feel so sad for his wife and children. It is such a shock when some your own age passes.

I moved away from the area I live now for over 20 years. When I moved back nothing had changed, most of the people I knew were still here. Even my OH. OH moved around a bit when younger even to UK for 2 years. People just seem to gravitate back here for one reason or another.

Liz I hope you have a better day today.

Thank you for the PM's it is great to know that you are never alone.

Love and hugs

Gail

I have just been watching the Pride of Britain on the computer as I missed most of it the other night when my brother called after I had mailed him with the sad news about our cousin.
There were so many brave and lovely people on the show who deserved their awards and I had a little weep a few times, did me good I think lol

Hope next week I can get myself a bit more organised, feel at sixes and sevens this week, what's new did someone say lol?
Sending love and hugs to you all, and thanks for all your support through pms and here.
Lizxxx