General Chat

Oh Jane, how dreadful that your father contracted that AWFUL disease! what a very difficult time you must have gone through, being pregnant as well, you poor things. My mother died in her sleep when she was 68; in 1986, she had had high blood pressure for years and in those days was a bit on 'borrowed time'. My stepfather died of Cancer 8 months later, so that was a pretty grim year too. Bedroom half way to being finished, tomorrow should see it done, looks SO much brighter, may inspire us to do the rest of the house! perhaps that's a bit ambitious!!!

Have just had an e-mail from Laura! pictures of the children message and card for mothers day!! honestly gang, I sometimes think she's touched!!! anyway, I was pleased to hear from her!!

Hi Everyone
Had a busy day trying not to think of my mum too much.Had card from son this morning followed by telephone call and bouquet of flowers delivered so am very lucky indeed.
MIL came for lunch and she was in good form. Mader her fish pie with veg and crumble for dessert.Spent the afternoon grilling her for family memories. She began by saying that she did not have any but soon was recalling lots of early memories. It was so interesting and the time just flew by. I wish I had had the same conversation with my own parents.
My dad would now be 89 and my mam 86.In the living room
I have a photograph of them taken when they were in their late 60's and thats how I remember them.
Annx Thanks for the photographs You are so talented. Your MIL must have loved the painting.
Mel Thinking of you
Liz I hope you are feeling more cheerful now
7.47

Well ,girls and boys I am away to bed (spare bed) to watch Waking the Dead.I feel I need to lie down and relax.Chester has been shoved out early for his last wee wee lol
Ann ! that is a wonderful painting.I'm sure your M I L will love it.
Right it has started now so I'm off...........Night Night xx

night Jane
Your very brave watching a film like that at bedtime it would give me nightmares in fact I would probably not sleep lol.

I'm of to bed too, hope everyone has had a nice day,
Mel I hope you are all right.

night night
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello,
I do hope you dont mind me writing to you all. Im researching the Mankiewicz family. I know a lot about Ada and her family. It'd be interesting to talk to you all.


Best Wishes,
Kate

10.23pm

Evening all,

Haven't had time to read postings today.

We went off at 9.45am to see Lewis play football in the simi-final of a cup match. Good game but they lost 4-3 after extra time.

We then went back to Harvey's where Julia's daughter and her boyfriend were waiting for us. We had tea and cakes. Went for a drive to where Laura' is getting married in August and to her little terraced house to have a look round. We then went on to the local pub where a table was booked for 3.30pm. Had a fair lunch considering most was frozen and not that interesting. Not enough fresh veg. roast pots were Aunt Bess##'s also york puddings.

We came home with Conrad about 6.pm He then decided to sort out new computer. Got most of it done. All my photo's from the round the world trip are still on old one, so hwe's going to download them and put them on here later. He left about 9.15pm

Have sent photo of Ros's chicks/bunnies. Hope you got them.

Will read your postings in the morning, and reply then.

Goodnight God Bless

Morning All,

I do feel a bit better today. I think it was an upset tummy I had as I seemed to have wind. Took a couple of Rennies and went to bed about 12am.

Jane I saw Waking the dead last night and now shall be watching the second half either on the telly or on the replay box. I forgot last weeks second half!!

Dry here today but not very bright.

9.32

Thanks for all your wishes and hugs!

9.32

Morning Everyone
Hello Kate.It is my friend Fitz who is the person interested in the Mankiewicz family in particular George.Fitz is not a member of GR ,but he has had a lot of help from people on this thread.
I have tried messaging you but there seems to be a problem at the moment.
I am sure any information you have my friend would be over the moon with.I will get in touch with him and let him know .
I will try and contact you again when GR has fixed the messaging problem

Mel I'm glad you got sorted .Better out than in as they say lol

Frank it sounds like you had a nice day yesterday.I shall have a look and see if I have got your pics.
I need to get ready to go to the dentist now so will be back later

10.01

Morning Mel
Your very welcome a hug does you a power of good.
Glad your feeling better today, trapped wind is awful I often get a lot of indigestion and wind . so take Gavis*on and if its taking ages to shift , the doctor gave me Ome*razole capsules which are really helpful.
I haven't many left and can't find my repeat prescription form, so I have just registered with the on-line service and ordered some will collect them in a couple of days time.

Wet and windy (outside) lol , and I think we are to have it all week to , not going out, going to catch up on ironing and a bit of kitchen cleaning, OH away all this week working in England won't be back till Friday it's going to be a long week, but he'll be back in good time for his birthday which is on Saturday.
coffee time I think. enjoy your day

BBL

Just saw your post Jane , hope all goes well at the dentist.

Frank got your pic of the knitted Easter chicks, aww they are lovely, any little child would love one for Easter.

All you ladies on here are so talented,. we have ladies who are great at painting, and ladies who make lovely cards.
Mel does lovely decorations. Roz is good at knitting.
Hope I haven't forgotten anyone else's talents if I have I humbly apologise,

Hi Katherine Grace, welcome , your name is spelt the same way as my daughter no 2 name she gets called KAT
now I really must go and get my COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!

11.08am

Just lost my posting. BAH HUMBUG.

Start again

Good morning my little pets.

Hope you all all well and getting over your wind and things.I had an upset tummy last week. ended up on the IMODI##

Hope you all got your photo of the bunnies/chicks. She is adding too them daily. The coffee table is filling up with them. Box's of cream eggs everywhere.

Planed on a day in the garden, NO CHANCE. went out to the garage and it's a cold wind again, and getting cloudy. It looks like my book and yesterday's paper will be the option for today.

Ros has changed the bed and got a whites wash on, hope the weather holds out to get it dried. !!!!

Any more info on Walkton Lane JANE ???

Morning my little pets !!!,

Hope you are all feeling OK and got over the weekend. Back to the grind.

I had planed to have a day in the garden

This bugg## has just poped up

Hi All
Weather dull but dry today. Am staying indoors as still feeling unwell. Second lot of antibiotics not doing much and am sitting on a cushion as so sore ( no comments please!)
Was contacted by someone re family tree yesterday and she has been able to throw some light on my fathers family which is great news.
Frank I love the bunnies and rabbits. The house will seem so empty after the sale.
Fiona Hope all goes well at the dentist.
Mel Hope you are feeling more "yourself " today
Hubby has been out doing one of his surveys this morning so I had a lie in,
lovely!
Off to check the washing.
11.43

Why does it always rain just when all the washing is in the garden?
How long is a pregnancy supposed to last?
Questions I am pondering today.
Back to reading Good Food mag which has just arrived in post.

1.24

LADIES
SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER KINDLY FILLING IN A QUESTIONNAIRE ON LINE ON HOW YOU VIEW THE CURRENT AND POSSIBLE STANDARDS OF QUALITY IN THE FASHION RETAIL INDUSTRY FOR MY NUMBER 2 DAUGHTER AS PART OF HER UNIVERSITY COURSE.
SHE HAS NOW REACHED HER TARGET OF 100 QUESTIONNAIRES AND HAS HANDED IN HER PAPERWORK . IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT HER FINDINGS WERE, COULD YOU PLEASE E-MAIL ME AND I WILL LET YOU KNOW THE RESULTS UNFORTUNATELY I CANNOT REMEMBER EVERYONE I ASKED.

THANKS

Ouch Anne ,I know the feeling lol.You poor thing.I hope it clears up this time round.

It was me at the Dentist Anne.He says I really to have treatment on that tooth.Take the crown off and then remove the post(if possible) then ferret around and see what the root canal was filled with.Treat it ,flush it,pack it then a new crown.No guarantee bit will be successful He said the infection is not in the usual kind of place.Trust me to be awkward .I haven't made an appointment yet.I'm going to be a chicken for a bit longer.

Frank.After the controlled explosions all is quiet at that house on Warkton Lane.There are notices on the doors of the house telling people not to enter as it hasn't been de-contaminated and could be hazardous to health.

Katherine if you are looking in it seems that it is just you that am having trouble messaging.It does say an error has been reported.So it looks like I will have to be patient until the problem is fixed.Hopefully it won't be too long.

13.51

Jane I got the same thing when I tried to get in touch with Katherine so it is not just you. It may be that she dos'nt want messages sent to her.

White on the line and blowing in the wind. Sun seems to have disappeared but the wind should make the washing smell nice.

Jane sorry about the trouble with that tooth.

Liz keep on track and you will soon have the house repainted. How is Ian coming along?

14.29

2.28pm

What a horrible day it's turned out to be. Ros has got one line of washing dry, another out at the moment. She's due back from Tesc## any minute,

I am doing a nice Roast tonight, It will be far far better than the one we had yesterday. !!!Even Jane's RICE PUDDING would be better and that's saying something. !!!!.

Hope you are feeling better now Mel, nothing worse than having a bug and not knowing where it came from. Conrad is still full of cold, so hope he hasn't left any germs here.

I've put the heating on, it was that or a large jumper. I know Ros will want it warmer when she's sitting knitting this afternoon, she has started to feel the cold (IT'S HER AGE) Poor old soul !!!!