General Chat

Hello girls,
I do hope your back is feelimg a little better this evening Jean. Heres hoping that you do manage to find a new mattress for your bed sweetheart.
At one time, many years ago, we put a new mattress on top of an older one, thinking the matress would come in handy when we had visitors, the only problem was, my feet would not touch the floor when I hung them over the edge of the bed.
In fact, I really needed a parachute to end up on two feet every morning.
Needless to say, it didn't last long before it ended up at the dump.

By reading everyones posts, it appears that we all suffer with bad backs in one way or another.
I can remember a time when I had to crawl over to the wardrobe, and pull myself up by the door handles, and this went on for weeks. So I can appreciate how you all feel.

It would appear that this rain is covering most of the U.K. We had to pick Lilly up from nursery today, and to get there, we went down the country lanes. Good grief, the great big puddles at the sides of the roads were horrendous, and the worrying thing was, that drivers were not slowing down, just aqua-plaining through the puddles.

It must be driver ignorance day as well, judging by the amount of people who didn't thank us for allowing them through gaps, when it was our right of way. Just a thumbs up, would have been appreciated, but no. Roly was furious with them, thank goodness they couldn't hear what he was calling them under his breath.

I hope your mothers day card turns up tomorrow Ann. You just cant rely on our postal services anymore can you.

I hope that everyone has an enjoyable mothers day, just in case I don't manage to get on here tomorrow.

Take care everyone,( especially our Jean HUGS for you Jean)
Love Mo xxx

Mo, do you find that what we learnt as the law of right of way, I.e. cars parked on our side of road not our right of way, is ignored these days. Has the Highway Code changed? I don't think so.

Yes Ann, I agree with you. At one point today, there were cars parked on both sides of the road, and Roly got into a gap and allowed other vehicles to come through, but the responce was a big fat zero.
I don't believe the highway code has changed, just the people using it.

I think there was a thread on here a while ago about road manners and even some on here said they didn't thank other drivers for giving was. We both always do so do our children and Grandchildren. It is like any other walk of life, it takes no effort to be polite. But, as you say Mo is a reflection on how things are today. Twice this morning somebody held the door of a shop open for us. both times they were older people but I was still suprised. Years ago that would not have surprised me at all. :-)

You know what they say Ann, "Manners maketh man", and cost us nothing.
We always say good morning and smile at most people we meet, and in general we are treated likewise.
Having been bought up in a family, who respected each other, I like to do the same to others even now.
How sad that your daughters card didn't turn up today. I guess we all are suspicious when something like this happens, and wonder if the postal services are being entirely honest,especially at times like mothers day, birthdays and christmas, as sometimes people tend to enclose money or a cheque/postal order.
Do you remember my telling you about the night I went to darts, and we found a lot of post just dumped in an alley way. One of our team reported it to the post office, but we never heard what happened about it.

It appears that my family decided that today would be my mothers day. Two of my daughters arrived with our grandaughters, bringing flowers, plants and smellies.
Our eldest daughter put a card through the door whilst we were out, so I suppose thats an advancement.
My youngest son is at work tomorrow, and no doubt my eldest boy will arrive when they have been out for lunch.
But I do understand about the girls coming a day early, after all, they are mums themselves, and get treated by their own children.
It's going to be manic in one of my daughters houses, as her three daughters are going to cook her dinner, thats after they take her breakfast in bed of course. lol
Daughters a wee bit worried about having a burnt roast dinner, but hey, what does a little bit of cinders matter, they are meant to be good for you. ;-) ;-) ;-) (Well thats what I told the children when they were young, and I burnt the toast)

Have a wonderful day tomorrow everyone.
Love and hugs Mo xxx

Hi Mo


and everyone
xxx



we have sun again today :-D

It was cold overnight though, as there was no cloud cover!



the tiddly pie was 3 years old today .............. where have the years gone?????

Mo lovely to have the girls and granddaughter visit all together, understandable too a day early because theya re Mums too. Good too that your eldest daughter at least put a card through the door, maybe she is 'thawing' a bit then.

Having moaned about the post office and Mothers day in general yesterday, I have to add that today I received from our son a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a Mothers day card so feel better now.

Although still cross with the post office.

Sylvia, that is the question I asked last week when number 3 grandson reached 21. :-D

Hello girls,
Sylvia, we have had snow on and off all day, but thankfully it's not laid. The weather forecaster said it may gone down to minus 5 tonight, brrrr thank goodness I will be tucked up in my bed by that time.

I know how time flies with our little ones, our youngest grandaughter is now two, going on twenty two. The eldest one is now twenty six, now that does make me feel old.

Ann, how lovely that you received the bouquet, and card from your son. It makes us feel so wanted doesn't it.
I have been spoilt by all the gifts I received, the house looks like a florists, and the garden is going to be grand when I get round to putting the plants from my sons in.

A friend of mine got a lovely bouquet from her son, bought via M**npig, and when she opened the card, it was addressed to a lady in Wales. The flowers had her name and address, but there is probably some poor woman in Wales with the correct flowers, sent from a chap who she doesn't know, the same as M did.
M is hoping that her son will complain to the company, and get recompense from them, and that also the other family do the same.

Bye for now my friends, enjoy the rest of mothers day.
Love to all, Mo xxx

Sallie where are you, ? does anyone know if she is away or just carding like mad, I get withdrawl symptoms when folk go missing.... :-( :-( :-(

Mo how are you coping with the snow , we havent had much and went overnight, but its bitterly cold.... hope everyone else is o.k.

love to all Jean xx <3

Hello Jean, No news at all from Sallie, I am wondering if she is snowed in ;-) ;-) ;-)
Cor blimey, Roly and myself looked like Nanook of the North last night.
When we left the house to go to darts, it was snowing lightly, but half way to the venue, it turned into a blizzard.
The pub is out in the sticks, in very open country side, and the snow was being blown over from the fields.
We parked the car, and walked into the venue, and by the time we got in the door we looked like snowmen coming in from the storm. We did look funny I can tell you.
Today, the sun is shining, but the wind is bitter, and what snow is left, will no doubt freeze tonight.
I am doing us a nice casseroled beef for dinner tonight, that should keep us warm shouldn't it.
Time for a nice cuppa now, so cheerio for now girls.
Stay safe, and warm everyone. And for our down under friends, keep out of the sun and use plenty of sun block.
If it's wet or snowy in your part of the world, stay dry gilrs.
Love to all, Mo xxx

I might be wrong but at the back of my mind I vaguely remember (I think) that Sallie was going to visit her relatives in Wales. It is only a vague memory though so i hope her absence doesn't mean she is ill.

It is sooo cold her today, a really bitter wind, one or two snow showers but otherwise dry. We did manage to get out for coffee today with our friend, having a chuckle because she is going to ladies day at Cheltenham tomorrow with friends, my last words to her were 'hold on to your hat'. I hope it won't be too cold for them, this group of ladies have never been before so are dressing up and going for the experience.

I have at last had my hair done and got rid of the grey, I let all the colour grow out so I could decide if I was going to go grey gracefully but no I am not, I felt really old with it all grey and couldn't get used to that old lady looking at me from the mirror :-D

Anyway, back to my scrap booking.

Copied from my other thread.

Today I received my Mother's day card from daughter including a M&S gift card.

I really have to exonerate the post office, I can't believe that my well educated, highly paid, intelligent daughter in her 50s sent that envelope. Not only did it not have a post code, the word Glos was almost undecipherable and the whole address would have been written better by my 10 year old granddaughter.

So I have to say, 'well done the post office for getting it here at all'.

It's great to hear that your card turned up Ann.
I have to admit, I have sometimes sent letters and cards minus their post codes.
For the life of me, I know my brothers address, and the beginning of his post code, but not all of it. Every time I phone him, I forget to ask him what it is, and I know I really should make the effort to find it out.

Mo, dont you have an address book in which you can write it down so that you can look it up if you need to? I have a phone/address book and have to refer to it sometimes.

I am off to town again today for my Wed afternoon turn in the shop. I will be taking in our old fishing net (never caught anything with it, apart from seaweed). The manager has assured me it will sell. I am gradually getting rid of things.

On Monday in the shop a new divider unit was brought in and I commented to my co-helper that it looked nice. She went to inspect it and decided to buy it. I dont think she had thought of how she would get it home as she gets a bus to come to the shop and I drive her most of the way home, so I asked if she wanted me to take it to her place. The bits unscrewed, so it fitted in the back of my ute very nicely. I did hold out my hand for a $35 delivery fee (what the shop charges for delivery) but I was just joking. :-)

Hi girls, just a quicky, to let you know that I'm okay. As Ann said, Alun and I have been down to Wales, we went to the funeral of an old family friend. G was two years older than me she was lovely, always very kind and thoughtful and I'm sure she will be missed a great deal by many people.

I'll speak to you all tomorrow, I mean later today, as it's very late now and I'm ready for my bed.

Love, Sallie.xxx

Yes Huia,I do have an address book that I write all the postal details in, but, my brother moved house years ago, he told me the address,but the post codes started after he moved, and I just forgot completely to ask for it.
We used to just put the town and county down,and we still managed to get our post delivered, probably sooner than we do now.
If anything really nice comes into the hospice shop in the future Huia, don't say anything to your co-worker, just get in there quick and snap it up for yourself.
What a shame you missed the good bargain though.

Sallie, I completely forgot you were going to Wales. I know you did mention it, now that I think back.
I hope you got a good sleep after your very early morning on here. ;-) ;-) ;-) and that you are now feeling rested.
Speak to you later on hopefully.

Mmmmm I am cooking a lovely lamb roast for dinner, and it smells delicious in here, I can't wait for my dinner tonight.

Bye for now gilrs, Love to all, Mo xxx

Huia I hope your co worker bought you a box of chocs for ferrying the furniture home for her.

Sallie, I thought that is what I remembered although, sorry, I didn't remember it was for a funeral. Hope you managed to get some sleep, you were up late.

Mo, I didnt want that piece of furniture, nowhere to put it. Besides, I am trying to clear stuff out of my house! I did take in a fishing net. All we ever caught in it was seaweed. Today I am taking in some bits of jewellery that I dont wear. I will have to see what else I can take in. Not that I am working today, but I will be going to visit Phil.

Goodness me girls, it's the weekend again. How time flies by, without us realising it.
Is anyone doing anything special this weekend? We hope to go and see little Lilly, and her big brother and sister tomorrow.
Now that the snow has gone, I feel safer at making the journey, not that it's that far really.

Nothing exciting has been happening here, just the usual mundane things, like cleaning and shopping.
Another large raise in the price of food again this week. It really does annoy me, especially when we buy more or less the same things every week, and yet when we get to the check out, the cost has gone up yet again.

I hope everyone is well, and hope to hear from you all soon, to catch up on your news.
Love to all, Mo xxx

Did you get to see Lily and the other two littlies yesterday as planned?

We went to Cheltenham and had a look round the shops, then had lunch in Wetherspoons, the morning was nice but it rained in the afternoon.
Today we have been to a garden centre and bought some little plants for our baskets and pots, then when we got home we potted them on. They are all snug now in the heaters, some in the conservatory and some in the greenhouse.
I also did a load of washing and wrote a note to send to Jean (Monmouth) in hospital with a card.

This is a very sluggish thread lately. I am sure everyone is ok but just busy.

Just put the dinner in the oven, roast chicken, roast potatoes, carrots and parsnips plus cauli and broccoli. Should be ready about 7pm. :-) :-)