General Chat

Haha Sallie I couldnt walk this morning,so stiff, managed to go down to have my hair done, pity it wont be like it in the morning ;-) ;-) I was talking to the lady on reception,
she told me she had sold some more cards, so it was a good job i had taken some down when I went to the hairdresser , we got two card racks so there is a lot of spaces
to fill....I was asked to do some more bags, but I think they are better at christmus.

we had chilli con carne for tea J made double the quantity so it made another meal again in a box in the freezer , we didnt know what it was until it defrosted wouldnt it be a laugh if it had been sponge pudding and custard ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
it tasted better second time around.... cheesecake to follow, he does look after me very well...good job I dont have big portions now, my waistline would grow and grow :-D :-D :-D

I think I will have an early night, so seee you all later love Jean xx

Jean,it sounds as though your cards are selling like ' hot cakes', it looks as though you
are going to be busy for a while, making more.

When I make cottage pie, I always make extra so that I can put enough for another two meals in the freezer.

Christie, started her maternity leave today, a week earlier than planned, she is getting very tired, so her boss told her that she could finish today. So she will have more time to rest before the baby is born.
So it means that Richard will have to go to work a lot earlier each day again, although he doesn't start until 8-30 a.m, if he doesn't get into the car park by 7-30 a.m. he can't get a parking place in the car park. British Gas have tried to buy some land at the side of the car park, but Oxford Council won't sell it to them.


Ann, and Sylvia, hope that you are both okay.


Take care.

Love, Sallie. xxx

Jean, you have a good chef there but have you thought of sticky labels to label leftovers in the freezer? Might save you having apple crumble and veg for your meal in the future!

Always nice to get your hair done. I find the next morning mine is standing up on end, I am such a resltess sleeper.

Goodness your cards do sell well don't they? I bet theya re under priced. Still nice that there are cards people can afI think some of those in the shops are very expensive.

Sallie, tell Christie to make the most of her maternity leave, once the baby comes she won't have time to do things.

We are just back from Tesco, not too bad, busy but not frantic and we stopped for eggs on toast first! Didn't have breakfast before we left home.

I have had a letter from the surgery with the result of the biopsy on my arm, surprisingly (to me and the Dr) it was a basal cell carcinoma but nothing further to worry about although he will see me in a month for a check up. He really didn't think it was BCC. So different from the impersonal way of having them done at the hospital these days. (My original lovely hospital doctor retired and left me with a specialist nurse who, although friends and pleasant has no empathy.) I am hoping any future ones will be done by him as well.

Tony is pressure washing the patio now. I have unpacked the shopping, put bedding in to wash and emptied two days worth from the dish washer. I should fling a duster around but not sure I will. The sun is shining so maybe it will be a potter in the garden.

I used to put labels on the boxes but when they defrosted all the writing had gone :-S :-

I think you need to use special pens, talking of penns most of my markers have dried up so I have treated myself to some new ones different make than the usual ones and I love them, a lot cheaper too ;-) ;-) ;-)

we are plagued with youngsters on scooters using the car park as a playground, police came and sent them off now they are back which is a problem especially when the abulances are here , they have no fear of anyone in authority, but the smaller kids have decided to have a go now , we can see them swing the scooters round and narrowly miss any parked cars, It does cause some of the infirm residents a problem, but how can you get them to stop the park is very near to us, but for some strange reason they prefer our car park :-| :-| :-|

beautful day so far we can see the may blossom trees also cherry blossom ones too, they are huge all round the bandstand area......nice views...

still not many flowers in the residents garden which we overlook, such a pity all thats needed is some plants and shrubs that come up every year, my cammelia is thriving at our old house so are the weeds J said D cant do weeding so dad will hve to try

time for a cuppa see you all later love Jean xx....

I just use ordinary biro and that seems fine Jean

Annoying about the boys on scooters I exoect the surface is smoother for them to do tricks on. We have a skate board/scooter park in the village so they tend to go there.

I can't be,ieve I have just suggested Tony watch the rugby as the rest of TV this evening is rubbish :-D

I use a permanent black marker, on masking tape that I stick on the top of the container before I put it into the freezer.

Make sure it is a permanent marker, not a washable one!

It's raining again here ............ we had a lovely warm sunny day yesterday, now it's gone again :-(

Jean ............. those kids are a nuisance, and a danger to themselves and the residents!

We have had a lovely bright and sunny day here today, so managed to get the washing dried, just need to iron it now.....not my favourite job at all, but it has to get done,lol!!!


Jean, the children on scooters are a nuisance, we even have children as young as three and four on them. One day, one of the older boys decided that it would be a good idea to ride his scooter across our next door neighbours front wall.
Hope that both you and J are okay.

Ann and Sylvia, hope that everything is alright with you, too.


Love, Sallie. xxx <3

Yesterday was glorious, we did some gardening, T power washed the front and side paths and tidied up where he had done the back patio etc. I turned out a kitchen cupboard and filled two boxes with stuff for the charity shop. I found a tea set that was my Mum's, very small cups, very delicate, we have never used it and anyway have another tea set of our own in the sideboard. But only my Mum could have 6 plates and 6 saucers intact plus 3 cups. She always broke the cups. Goodness knows if the charity shop will be able to sell them, oh there is a sugar basin as well.

I assume you have seen the saga of our car on a separate thread. I suppose that will be the next thing we buy. :-|

Ann, if you have any vintage tea rooms around your area, they might take them off you, only a couple of people I know told me, that the people that have them use bone china tea sets, just like the ones we have. Apparently, they use all different ones....we have a few sets that belonged to my mother, my nan, Alun's mother,and a couple of aunties, so I am thinking about going to a couple of them around this area and ask if they would like to have them.

Sounds as though you have both had a busy day.....just going to read about your car.

It is very quiet here at the moment so not much news.

Jean and Sylvia hope that you are both okay.

Love, Sallie.xxx

That is an idea Sallie but I can't think of any tea rooms. Thanks anyway.

Ann, if you put 'vintage tea rooms' into Google it will show the ones that are near you, if there are any.

Sallie.xx

Hi everyone

it started off showery this morning, butt he sun came out by lunchtime, and it has been a lovely afternoon. All the cherry trees are in full flower, or just coming inot full flower. They are gorgeous at this time of year .....

........ we actually have more flowering Japanese Cherries as street trees all over the city than in Washington, DC .. but they make much more of a publicity show of them :-D


My mother didn't have a china tea set, but she collected individual cups and their matching saucers ....... she'd go to the local market and buy 1 or 2 at a time. Then she would have tea in one of the sets on a Tuesday after she had finished washing and ironing. She must have had around a dozen of them by the time she died in 1961

I left them all back in England when I left in 1967 ... something I've occasionally regretted. But then I discovered that my youngest niece had taken most of them when my brother was clearing the house after Dad died. She was really intrigued when I said how Mum would choose one of them for her afternoon tea, because she did exactly the same thing!

This niece was under 2 when Mum died so had never seen the ritual!

I have had a look Sallie and there are three in Cheltenham but they are quite big concerns. There are several more in the county but not very near. anyway the charity shop have them now, maybe they will find a home for them.

Sylvia I bet those trees look wonderful, the trouble with blossom trees is that when the blossom drops it makes a mess, we have one in a neighbours at the end of our garden and I dread when the blossom drops as it comes down all over my hosta bed. :-(

Ann ...............

we call it pink snow :-D

Ann, glad that the charity shop took them off you,I'm sure they will find a good home for them.
It's a shame that the younger members of our families don't want any of the things that we have....it looks like the younger generation are not as sentimental as we are.


Sylvia, while we were out in the car yesterday it started to rain and what I thought was snow, was pink blossom off the cherry trees.


Jean, hope that both you and J are alright. I expect you are busy making cards.....it is nice to have something to do, otherwise the days seem so long.


Well Richard and Christie had their two days in Eastbourne, although they both said that they were not too keen on it.....but enjoyed the break before the baby arrives.
Just a week before the baby is due, I am hoping it will arrive early.


I am ready for a cuppa now, so will pop on here again tomorrow.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello dear friends,sorry to say I have the sciatica nerve causing me some pain, also I have come to the time when I have to realise I am not going to get better, but will hopefully carry on a while. funny I am more at ease with it all now I accept it... strange to say that in a sad way I am much more able to come to terms with what is happening to me, hope all this isnt too morbid, but I was kidding myself it would get better. so onwards and .......who knows.......

the card making is a lifeline too,I find now I can do all sorts of designs, and am enjoying doing them,.couldnt make it to have my hair done to day so hope I am able to go next week....sadly my little die cutting machine isnt doing to well, just found out Range does a slighly bigger version and it may be my birthday present.. ;-) ;-) ;-)

I am just going to enjoy a ice cream cone with nuts :-D :-D :-D

Sallie I am going to send you a message soon...

love to you all Jean xxx <3 <3 <3

Sorry Jean, sciatica is very depressing to have, I have it mildly in one leg but it comes and goes. We met with a friend and her sister for lunch on Tuesday. Our friend was 80 last September, she takes medication for thyroid problems and also I think it is called polymyalgia. She has just reuturned from visiting her son and family for three months in Australia. She made me chuckle when she said she has promised them to go again in two years. The etrrnal optimist she was widowed when she was 60 and has not wasted a moment of her life since even though devastated by her husband's death when he was 58. She travels down to Chepstow by coach now, from Essex she drove until a year ago. She comes to see her younger sister who is crippled by arthritis and has more medical problems than I can think of bless her. So I kept quiet about my leg.

I am sure you have many years of card making in front of you it is probably the weather getting you down. Can you still get out in the car for a drive? <3

Jean, I have received your message and sent you a reply....no problem at all, glad to help.
Sorry to hear that your sciatica is playing up again, hope that you will get relief from the pain soon. I think that whatever problem we have it sometimes takes a long time to accept it. I know that from the problems I have, I haven't really accepted the last one I was diagnosed with, so hopefully I will be able to soon.

We are still waiting for our first grandchild to arrive, only one week before it is due. I am getting very anxious about it,and will be glad when the baby is here....but of course the extreme anxiety I am feeling is because of the illnesses I suffer with.

I haven't been out since Tuesday morning as I am not in a 'good place' at the moment. Although I am determined to post on this thread and Shaun's thread most days, even if I haven't got much news. I noticed there are couple of old members that are going to try and post as much as they can again.


Ann, and Sylvia, hope that you are both alright.


Love, Sallie.xxx <3 :-)

I was there Sallie, just before you. :-D

Managed to get some washing done and dried today, so pleased about that. Trying to keep up to date with it so that we are organised, so that when we get a phone call from Richard telling us that the baby is on the way, everything will be ready so that we can go down straight away. Both him and Christie want Alun and I and also Christie's mum to go down as they would like us to be at the hospital when the baby is born.
We are hoping that we can get there before the baby is born, problem is, we have to find the hospital which is in Surrey, as the hospital where Christie was booked into, have had a major refurbishment done there, but it isn't quite finished, so have go to go to the nearest hospital that's in the same trust. Just hope that we don't lose the way there lolol!!

This morning we went to Chillwell Retail (near Nottingham) with Jennie and Michael as Jennie wanted to look for some new tops. We were there quite a while, by the time we had a look around and then went into the M&S cafe for a snack....the time flew by. Anyway, Jennie managed to get two nice tops for herself and I ended up buying three tops for myself. Hadn't intended to buy anything but you know how it is when see things that you like.


Jean, hope that your sciatica is not too bad today and that you are able to sit and make some cards.


Ann hope that you are alright. Just missed your post on Shaun's thread last night.
I got a phone call soon after I started posting on there so it was a while before I sent the message.


Sylvia, hope that all is well with you and OH.



Hope you all have a nice weekend.


Love, Sallie. xxx <3 <3 :-) :-)