General Chat

We have driven the length of the country and aren't now in an airport hotel, not looking forward to our very early start. We are supposed to have wifi in some parts of the hotel, but if you don't hear from me, you will know why

that's the best part of "me" time ............. doing and eating what I want when I want :-D

Enjoy your " me" time Sylvia. Turn the heating up, put your feet up and read. You can eat all the things you like when you like.

your new clothes sound nice, Linda :-)


I'm on "me" time ............. OH has gone to a meeting for a few days, and I decided I did not want to go.

The only problem is that the weather has changed ............. having been lovely and sunny, even a little too warm, it is now cloudy, chilly, and rain is in the forecast! I even turned on the heating first thing this morning :-(

I bought a pair of light weight linen trousers, three tops, a beach dress and a swim suit cover up.

Nothing wrong with the beach dress I have apart from the fact OH doesn't like it. Anyway I think this one will be better as it has an uneven hem so that it is longer at the back. I hate it when they are short, so when you put them over your costume to go for lunch, that they ride up, so you end up stuck to a plastic chair, or with a rattan imprint on the back of your legs.

I hope you didn't get rid of the lovely summery skirts you wear. Good that you found a nice denim skirt. What else did you buy? Throwing out all those clothes I'm amazed you have anything left.

Nice autumn day again which is good because I have washing to do. Monday is sheets and towels day.

A plant it two? More like a car full, knowing you. It sounds like you have had a lovely day.

I went shopping again today, I went yesterday as well. I finally managed to get a denim skirt, which I consider to be the basis of any wardrobe.

I have decided to have a massive clear out of clothes, including the smaller ones which I put away " just in case" They have finally got my thyroid tablets set at the correct level and I have lost a few pounds, so hopefully I can continue with that. It will take a long time to get tithe weight I was though.

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Eek, I have just sorted out a massive pile of clothes from the wardrobes and I mean massive :-D

There still seems to be plenty left, which I don't understand. Sue will vouch for the fact that I had very few clothes ;-)

Crazy that Australia is in the Eurovision Song Festival. I hope we won't be voting to join the E.U. before long...now that would be silly :-0

We had a lovely day today. We drove to an Orchid Show about 2 hours away...well worth the drive. I may have bought a plant or two. Then we had lunch in a pub in a nearby small town before driving to a botanical garden in the Blue Mountains. The weather was quite mild so we were able to enjoy a very nice walk around the gardens and admire the Autumn colours.

Phew, we don't have to redraw the map of Europe, Australia only came second

I am watching the Eurovision Song Contest and Australia are in it again :-S

What would happen if they won? Would the whole of Europe have to go down under for the show next year?

Sounds like the little one may be on the mend if he has been sent home. I hope so.

Aimee and Joel are IVF twins. No twins in the family but my grandfather was one of triplets. Eeeek :-0

I hope Tec gets the right antibiotic soon. That infection needs to be cleared up quickly before it drags him down.

Sylvia- we are having glorious sunny days with little rain. Everything is so dry and it is unseasonably warm for May although it's starting to cool down now.

The mums car appeared back on the drive tonight, so they must have let him come home.

We have no shortage of water here, the reservoirs were all full when I drove past them at the weekend

Do hope the twins improve ............. it will be better with daddy home.

There seems to be no history of twins in teh famiyl enxt door either ....... her family is still in northern China, and mother has no knowledge of any. But W also said that many cousins and other family members have moved away and there is no contact with those.

They were prepared for a 3rd child, so twins was a definite shock for them as well!


Sorry to hear that Tec still has the infection. I do hope that they can find the right antibiotic. Please give him my love when you speak to him.

It's hot here again ............ and I'm just listening to a radio programme saying we another another low snow pack this winter, and the water in the reservoirs is lower than at this time last year. :-(

I guess we'll have the highest level of water restrictions start even earlier. It also makes the forest fire situation even more worrying.

I spoke to Tec this afternoon. He said that it was very hot there, he had gone into the garden to feed his fish, but it was too hot to stay out. He still has his infection despite two lots of antibiotics. The nurse went off clutching a sample this morning, so I hope they can get the correct antibiotic this time

I am not surprised you swore Sylvia

There is no history of twins in either side of the neighbours family,so it came as a real shock when she found she was having twins.

I sat in this morning as twin two ws asleep while grandma took the three year old to collect daddy from the station. Twin one is still in hospital as he has a bacterial lung infection as well as a virus. it is odd that the other twin just has a bad cold and he hasnt got the secondary infection as well

that amde for a long day for you ................

makes my complaints about being woken at 6:30 am by the "this is Microsoft. Your Windos program hs problems" call seem trivial.

never mind ... I blasted Michael with the Indian accent, even using some swear words I didn't know I knew ;-) before putting the hand set back on the cradle!

I do hope the twins will be better soon.

Our neighbour has 2 little girls, 6 and 3 ............... yesterday she told she's expecting again .......... they decided they wanted another baby, and could afford it. Nope ............ she's got twin boys in there :-0 They're due end of September / early October.

She's already worried about the expense ......... especially as she doesn't think she can pass down the girls' baby things. She's Chinese, from the mainland, he was born in Canada of parents who immigrated from Hong Kong .......... and boy vs girl clothes and play still mean a lot to them.

He's the one whose parents bought the house next door several months after we bought ours, lived there for about 6 years or so, then built a house elsewhere in the city .......... but held on to this one as potential for one of their sons. Their renting out of it gave us some interesting neighbours over the years :-S :-D

This son wanted to come back into this neighbourhood, but the old house needed too much work, so they knocked down and built a new one, moving in about 6 years ago. The other son wanted another house the parents had bought in the eastern part of the city, and moved there.

They're good neighbours ........... I hope the house will be big enough for 4 children, so they don't move away.

I feel for your neighbour and her mother. What a great neighbour you are although I am not surprised at the help you are giving <3

Hopefully they will all be much better soon.

I don't have sawdust in my head :-P The wind whistles around because there is nothing there ;-)

It was the three year old who gave the cold to the twins.

The first twin had to go back to hospital mid morning as he was ill again, he is still there. In the meantime the second twin was ill, so his grandma took him to the doctors. I stayed with the three year old while she did that.

I have just got back from taking my old lady shopping, I will go and help out next door in a while, it is all go

Sue, don't be silly, the wind can't whistle through your head, the saw dust will stop it :-D :-D :-D

The first twin had to stay in over night, so I had to go back to the hospital this evening to take clothes Nd provisions for them, so I have done 120 miles for them today. Never mind, that is what neighbours are for. He is responding to the antibiotics so they should be home tomorrow. The father doesn't get home until tomorrow morning, so poor old grandma has the other two to look after overnight.

A long day for you them, Linda :-(

Poor little one - there is nothing worse than listening to a child trying to get their breath. Joel gets croup although he seems to have outgrown it now. It was awful listening to him. I do hope both twins are feeling much better soon and their big brother doesn't come down with their chesty colds.

It's been very windy here so I have gone to bed with a headache and sore ears. Strong winds always affect me like that. I think the wind must go in one ear, whistling around my head before leaving through the other ear ;-)

It wasnt too bad, but we have had an early start this morning. The door bell rang at 6.10am, so I had to spring into neighbourly action. One of the little twins from next door had been taken into hospital in the middle of the night with breathing difficulties. His mum was told to take him to the local hospital twelve miles away to have him checked out. As his oxygen levels were very low, they decided that he had to be admitted, but the children's unit there has been closed overnight and at weekends, so they blue lighted him to the main hospital thirty miles away.

He was fine this morning, he just has a horrible chesty cold acquired from his three year old brother. They discharged him at 6am, but his mums car was at the other hospital,so she had no way to get back. The husband is away on business for a couple of days, so her mother was staying to help. She was going to drive to get her while I sat in with the three year old and the other twin who were asleep, but the twin woke up just as she was going to leave. he sounded very ill and chesty as well, so I thought it would be better if she stayed to look after him while I did the driving.

We collected her car on the way back, so all is well, or will be once they get the second twin to the doctors. I could do with some more sleep though :-(