General Chat

Just peeping in from Tenerife.
Mo so pleased the result of your scan was nothing worse than IBS. A relief for you.

Sylvia my condolences on the death of your friend but really I think a relief for him and for his wife.

Sallie hope your doctors visit went ok. Glad you enjoyed your visit to Wales.

Mo , so pleased the outcome of the tests are not too bad, neither J a myself have ben well poor J had an a lergic reactionto some antibiotics and was feeling quite off colour, followed by a heavy cold and cough, mine was just the usual verigo, but didnt last long, then I had a virus on the laptop so had to do a full scan which took ages , or so D tells me... still losing weight small amounts ,
Ann, hope you are getting refreshed with sunshine and also a few glasses of something ..... hope it continues for you both..



Sallie my mother was born in North Wales near Newtown, but as you know
Llandudno is our favourite place.... hope all was well with your visit to the doctors.
just waiting to see what my results will be when i get there....

love to everyone else Jean xx

Oooh look girls, we have got a peeping Ann, not Tom. Hope you are both enjoying yourselves Ann. Just to let you know, our weather is glorious lol hope yours is as nice. We are due a heat wave tomorrow, so I must remember my factor 50.

Jean honey, sorry to hear that you have both been under the weather. That blessed vertigo just doesn't go completely does it, it comes back and smacks on the back of your head before you realise it.
Don't lose to much weight, or we wont recognise you, and we love you the way you were.

Time for tea now, it's nearly six p.m and I am hungry.
Bye my lovelies, speak to you later. Love Mo xxx

Hi Mo, been a lovely day here today about 26 on the patio this afternoon. We walked down into town and were very energetic walking back up the 200 steps. Had to have quite a few rests on the way though.

Jean, sorry to hear that you and J have not been well, hope you are both better now.

Re the heat wave Mo, you know you always have one when we are away. :-D

Hi girls,

Jean lovely to see you on here, I was getting worried about you as we haven't heard from you for a good many days. Glad to know that both you and J are feeling a bit better.

I know you told me that your mother was from N Wales but didn't know that she was from Newtown. Do you know if Newtown was in Montgomeryshire? One of my grt grt grandmotheras was born in that county, but I am having a job finding anything about her....it's more difficult with her name being Margaret Williams.lol!!





Ann, hope that you and T are enjoying your holiday and that you are having some hot and sunny weather.

Doctor has referred me to see someone, as he's not entirely happy about the medication that I am on. So will just have to wiat and see now.




Mo, while we were visiting my cousin, we managed to find a row of cottages near Mold, in Flintshire where one of my grt grandfather's was born......only problem was I couldn't remember which number he lived in. Although it looks a lovely place and area now, I'm not sure it would have been like that in my grt grandfathers day as there was a coal mine near there.

It's a shame that Roly isn't interested enough to take you to see your grandparents grave in Essex. Like Roly, my brother is not at all interested in genealogy, although he does like to hear about some of the things that I have found out.


My paternal grandparents lived in Stoke on Trent for a number of years, where three of their children were born and one died there age three months. Some of the houses in the street they lived in are still standing, but the house they lived in was demolished a good few years ago. There is a road now where the houses used to be.




Well I am going to have a cuppa now, so will speak to you all tomorrow.



Take care everyone.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Just a quick hello to you all.
I hope everyones o.k.
We decided today, to take a trip down to the coast, as the sun was shining and it was a glorious day.
After parking the car, in a car park that at the time was reasonably empty, we walked right along the sea front, watching some stupid idiots, speeding across the water on their jet ski's. How there wasn't an accident I don't really know. The lifeguards went along the water front warning people not to go to far out in the sea.
Suddenly, the sun went behind a cloud, and didn't bother to re-appear. Deciding we had had enough, we got into the car to come home.
Good grief, the traffic still going down to the coast was horrendous, and we were so grateful we were heading in the opposite direction, coming home.
And believe it or not, the sun has not come out again, since we left the coast.
Whats the saying " The sun shines on the righteous" we were happy to get home and have a nice cuppa tes. I did think of our Sallie when I took my first sip, knowing that had she been with me, Sallie, would definately have joined me. lol ;-)
We are both little tea pots on the quiet.
Time to start some dinner now, so bye for now gilrs. Love to all Mo xxx

Good evening to anybody still around.

Yesterday was very wet in the morning, but it cleared up in the afternoon when I was working in the shop. I was very glad about that, as I went to the camera club in the evening. It was bad enough having to keep dipping my headlights for cars coming the other way, but at least there was no rain with it. I got 3 Highly Commendeds for my 4 entries, so quite pleased.

I didnt get to sleep until after 3 a.m. so I dont know how long I can stay awake this morning. I was determined not to take any sleeping pill. At least I am not planning on going anywhere today.

Ooooh, that posted instantly! I usually start counting the seconds when I hit Submit and when I get up to 10 or 12 I hit the refresh button. This time I didnt even get past 2 secs.

Well done on the commendations Huia. Mind you, I am not really surprised,as you are so good at it.
I hope you managed to stay awake at the hospice shop, and not fall asleep over the counter.
I don't like it when we are travelling when it's raining, and at night it's even worse. The oncoming headlights blind me no end, so it's just as well I don't drive at night really.
I thought we were due to have another...heatwave today...something or someone went wrong, here in the south east it was wet and cold this morning, but it brightened up this afternoon.
Heres hoping eberyone is well. Take care girls, love Mo xxx

Hello my friends,
I have had a p.m from Jean, and the reason we have not heard from her, is that J is poorly at the moment.
Get well soon J, and Jean, keep up the cups of tea and biscuits for him, they are a good medicine dontcha know....well thats what me mum used to say, when she wanted a cuppa, and for me to make it.

I hope everyone is o.k, as it's quiet again on here, and I miss ya's all.
Love and hugs especially for J and Jean. Mo xxx

I have put my 4 photos on my FB page, Mo, so you can judge them for yourself. I have to email them to the club newsletter editor. She prints some of the photos in the newsletter. I tried to send them last night, but hotmail has changed and it was taking a month of Sundays to upload the 3rd photo, so I cancelled that one and sent the other 2. I now have to see if I can send the remaining ones. Why do websites keep changing things for the worse? :-|

Hello ladies,
So sorry for not posting before, but I have spent the last three days at the hospital with Roly.
He had a brain bleed on Thursday, and his blood pressure was sky high, at 222/90,
the hospital has been trying to bring it down gradually day by day.
Luckily today it was at a more comfortable level, and he was more talkative, instead of being uncommunicative and talking gobbledy gook.
Today he had a small blip, when his diabetes level dropped to 3, something it has never done before, but after a glucose drink it went up to the correct level.
On Monday we hope to be able to discuss with the doctor the reason for this and the bleed to have happened.
He had scans on his brain, kidneys, bladder and chest, but we have not as of yet heard the results of them.
Well my lovely friends, I must go to bed now as I am completely shattered.
I hope you are all keeping well, and that Ann will send us a little sunshine again this week, rather than the hailstorms we have suffered here in Kent today.
Good night god bless you all. Love Mo xxx

Oh Mo, so sorry to hear about Roly our prayers go out for you both, I am sure the treatment will be a great help. but lovey, you try and rest when you can, he is in the right place so you need to be careful that your mind doesnt play games I know mine did when Jeff was so ill, try and hand it over to the Lord his shoulders are broad and can give you strength to endure. you know we are here for you both and will keep you close in our hearts and prayers, much love to you both.....love Jean and Jeff xx

Me again, just hoping that Roly and our Mo are managing to have some better news,
its such a worry when we are all witing to hear, but quite understandable that Mo will have enough to contend with, so just keep praying and sending positive thoughts to both of you.....

Sallie , hope all is well with you too, Ann, you no doubt will be enjoing your hols, and I know the internet is slow where you are , but how you are missed on here.... :-D

J is getting a little better too although it has been hard for him , still onwards and upwards.... we just need some prolonged warm weather....sunshine is such a good medicine.... take care everyone ,

Love to one and all Jean xx <3

Hello everyone it it I Marie , it has taken at least 15 mins to get into this Page. I have been going through the pages 10 at a time just scanning then another 10 or 20 and so on .
When I log in to the posts and click on it will not go straight to Page 399 so I have to climb the ladder to get to you all.
We are having our first rain in weeks I do hope it rains all night as our tanks need to be filled .
I do hope Roly 's health has improved Mo would be so worried I have been saying some prayers for him, Thinking of you Mo :-( <3
Jean I hope you are coping with the vertigo and that J is feeling much better
Hello Huia, you sound very busy as usual we are having some rain ,our night's are getting Quite cold we have had a few frosts not heavy enough to kill the tomato plants
Hello to Sallie and to Ann from Glos.
Love and Hugs to you all
<3 <3 Marie

Hi, Marie, lovely to hear from you, strange how things happen , I was in my craft room yesterday and I have some photos of our friends off here stuck on a carousel that i keep all my pens in and the pic of you fell off as I picked it up I thought about you and wondered how you were getting on, and here you are :-D :-D :-D
our weather is so mixed here warm for a couple of days , then cold and wet, hope we get some sunshine soon..... hope all is well with you and your family....

love and hugs, Jean xxx <3 <3 <3

Mo, I haven't been on GR for a few days so Have only just seen your news about Roly.I hope the results of the scans will all be alright with nothing too much to worry about. Please pass on our get well wishes to Roly, we will be thinking about both him and you. Take care of yourself Mo.



Jean, nice to see you on here, glad to know that things are not too bad for you and J at the moment. Hope all goes well with your hospital visit, with nothing to worry about.



Ann, nice to ' hear ' from you and hope that you and T are having a lovely holiday in Tenerife.



Huia, well done on your three highly commended out of the four. No wonder that you are very pleased, I know I would be if it was me.



Marie, lovely to see you post, hope you and the family are all keeping well.


Must go now, so might speak to you later on.



Love, Sallie.xxx

Hello girls, just a quick update on Roly. The hospital are saying that he had a stroke, but good news, we caught it in time.
He came home this afternoon, and went up to bed at 9.20 p.m, as he is so tired, with getting no sleep in hospital.
The results of his scan came through, and his kidneys and bladder are fine, but he has slightly enlarged heart.
I had a word with the registrar today, and he tells me that Roly is lucky to have the shunt fitted from his last bleed, as it will help should he get fluid on the brain as he did last time, the shunt should get rid of it.
The meds he is on now, should keep his B.P down, and helps his heart, but we have to see our own doctor re his diabetes. His level dropped again at dinner time, down to 3.7, and it should be 4 up to 10 at the highest.
I came to the conclusion that the wards give the patients breakfast, at 7 a.m with a cup of tea, and they get nothing till 12.30 lunch time, not even a mid morning tea or coffee, so it was no wonder his glucose level dropped so drastically.
Thank you all for your kind wishes, and I send you all my love.
Love and hugs Mo xxx

Mo, sorry to hear that Roly has been in hospital suffering from a stroke.... I'm glad that they caught it in time so that it wasn't a lot worse. Let's hope that the medication he is on now will keep his BP down and will also help his heart.

Will Roly have to go to your doctor's to sort out his diabetes or will he make a home visit?

Please give him our get well wishes....we are thinking about you both.


Take care of yourself.


Love, Sallie.xxx

Mo, hope that Roly is feeling a bit better today and that the medication he is on is really starting to work now.

How are you? I hope that you are not too bad and are coping okay with the worry and stress.


I must get ready to go shopping now, so might ' speak ' to you later today.


Love to all our friends on here.


Take care. Sallie.xxx