General Chat

Hi Norma - who would have thought of the sulphur ruining the cutlery!

We also stayed in Tauranga, which Is where we would like to live when our luck changes and we move to New Zealand!!

Hi Huia,

Just jealous of your fabulous holiday .....I am so glad that you enjoyed it.

I loved reading your itinerary,they bring back such happy memories.

Glad to see happy again after all you have been through.

Marilyn x.... Huia....I wear a hearing aid as well ...LOL

Hi Huia

We are heading off to Hamilton today to have lunch with one of my friends from High School.
We would like to move to around Tauranga - somewhere like Welcome Bay.

It's not just the smell of sulphur Helen - it also ruins good cutlery - I like Rotorua but am not sure I would want to live there. Never know when a hole might pop up in your backyard. Used to love watching the mud pools bubbling when I was a child - found them fascinating.

Cheers have a good day all
And you behave Liz - keep your friend in check.

Norma

Hi there, Helen. I am glad you liked it. If I ever sell our house up here I might go to live in or near Rotorua as my son lives just out of town. I havent decided yet though. Still got lots of 'junk' to sort through and hopefully get rid of, if I ever find the time to do it. I have been out every day since I got home, although it was for only an hour yesterday. Today I am going visiting so another day my junk is safe.

Huia.

Hi Huia, we were in Rotorua at Easter as part of our New Zealand holiday. Beautiful country!

We liked Rotorua very much and went to see the lakes and hot springs but the smell of sulphur took a bit of getting used to!

Sorry, missed you Huia, you all seem to have had a good laugh while I was sleeping. The joys of growing old eh??? Good job we can laugh

Off to bed now, I am feeling rather tired. Goodnight Pers.
Good morning Liz .

Huia.

That wasn't Liz that did it Huia it was her friend.

Jude Dobson just came on the TV Huia - with her health diary and I wasn't paying any attention - next thing OH said talk to her and was pointing at me. The advertisment was " do you suffer with bloating etc"
Charming!!!

Norma

Liz, I might have to report you, you are lowering the tone of my thread!

Huia.

Thank you, another giggle to send me to bed lol I am the same as you, my head acts like it's 20 but the body screams Nooooooo! Never could do yoga, I went to classes once with my sister in law and a friend and we couldn't do anything for laughing, especially when my friend passed wind lol

Night all

Lizxxx

I did not get back on threads last night our time as himself was in Trade Me - foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Oh Ann- I did get the giggles with you putting on first the hearings aids and then your glasses and mind the bumps.

A chap I worked with had hearing, seeing and eating problems and so his wife made him a carpenters apron and there was one pocket for the hearing aid, one pocket for the glasses and one for the false teeth.

You gotta laugh Liz eh!!! This is the thing about growing old - and they talk about growing old gracefully. I think I am 18 but my body keeps telling me otherwise - though I can still do that yoga sitting position - it's the untangling after that's the problem.

My husband's a worry as well - he has had this foot operation and the walking stick goes with him - he gets out of car takes walking stick into cafe - comes back out to car (I am the designated driver) gets in and leaves stick in shop. We had to travel - several miles last night to go back and get it as he did not realise until we got home as that was our last port of call before heading home.

Keep on laughing -

Perse....

Oh my goodness, you do make me laugh Ann, sweet nothings lol, he will have to write you notes and hold up lol
Huia and Norma too, can imagine you two when you get together lol

Lizxxxx

I too have tinnitis and also for the past 10 years wear aids. I did only wear one for many years but the past 6 months I have started to wear two all the time, mine are behind the ear and digital. Yes, they do dislodge with the glasses sometimes but i find if I put the aids in first and then put the glasses on, tucking the arms firmly behind the aid arm they are OK. I do have a small cyst on top of my left ear which makes it a bit awkward but at least i can hear with them in which I couldn't before. The only problem I have is when I take them out at night I find it even more difficult to hear and have to keep reminding OH that I am not wearing them. (no whispering sweet nothings in this house!!!!)

Huia you were going to send me the link to your photos but then youw ere not well, and you never did send it.

Ann
Glos

My commiserations, Norma. I have had tinnitus virtually all my life, I thought everybody had it. Like you, I used to have to ask what was said on TV, or else I had it too loud for Phil. But then he has supersensitive hearing. I now have hearing aids but dont wear them too often. I was given a choice of in the ear or behind the ear. I was assured they would go behind the ear even with my glasses so I chose them as the others are more susceptible to moisture as I understood it. Unfortunately my ears are not 'red sails in the sunset'. Somebody commented that I had very 'neat' ears. They are close to the head, so the glasses sometimes dislodge the hearing aid. At home I dont even bother to tuck the aid behind the ear. Mine are no good in a crowded situation either as they amplify everything. If you dont have hearing aids you must be non committal if you are not sure what people are saying. I know I have had a few peculiar looks from other people so I have obviously given the wrong answer. And it could be highly dangerous!

Huia.

Like you Huia I thought the genes wall paper was like a lot of Maori heads. Maybe we should recommend this to the Harawiras and they can repaper their marae.

I am getting my hearing checked tomorrow - I have had tinnitus for yonks but now it is decidedly worse and don't have teletext and OH has to repeat things for me and it does get me into trouble at times.

I was having a coffee at Mac Cafe which I get as a 'to go' and I can never understand when two of them are muttering away at me - so I nod sweetly and then one says just the one, I thought well there's just me so yes thanks. It wasn't just the one coffee it was just the one sugar and I do not take sugar in my coffee it took a few minutes for me to work it out thought something was wrong with my taste buds.

See I told you Liz, I am a worry.

Keep on smiling everyone, and keep on reading Ann.
Thanks Gwyn for your help as well.

Cheers

Norma

Hi Huia,
I am very late going to bed but just want to say how pleased I am that Phil is looking and seeming better than he has been of late, in a way it must make you feel better to see him sort of enjoying his life a bit instead of being so different to the man you know and love. Let's hope he can do a bit more walking and his ankles stop swelling as his body adjusts to the walking again rather than shuffling about bless him.

Yes please send me the address again, will save me hunting through emails for it.

take care my friend, of course you must continue to live your life to the full - it's only what Phil would want if he could tell you and it's what you and everyone deserves.

p.s. there are always paper plates lol

love
Lizxxx

Liz, I think I did send you an invitation to join that site but I can send it again.

I often leave the dishes 2 or 3 days, because I forget or cant be bothered for such a small amount and as you say I have lots of crocks and cutlery but I am the biggest old crock of the lot.

I visited Phil this morning. He looked much better than he did a couple of weeks before he was transferred. He is now walking again, albeit a bit gingerly, and he is feeding himself. I thought he seemed happier and I am told he is not belligerent as he had been in hospital. His feet and ankles seemed very swollen and I was told that was because he was walking all the time. He has, with my permission, a low bed, not sure how low. Probably the others are a bit high to make nursing easier, but with the low one I presume his feet touch the floor easily. They put him in it as he was getting up in the night and I gather that when his feet touch the floor (or probably a mat) an alarm goes off so somebody goes to make sure he doesnt fall. I had been hoping he would die soon but I now dont mind if he lives a long time, apart from the cost! and the fact that it will mean a lot of visiting for me, but I will be going only once a week probably. I have my own life to live.

Huia.

I think you sent it to me already Huia, but I didn't get round to looking at it. or is it on the calendar?

I thought a WOF sounded like an MOT - I could do with one too lol

I would think if that spot isn't a bother, then leave it for now. I have lots of skin tags appearing that are a nuisance and one caught on my shirt collar yesterday but with some savlon on it, it has now healed and disappeared if that makes sense. I wish they could just be snipped off but they have to lasered I think or tied with cotton till they fall off. I also have some things that look like moles but doctor has inspected them and says they are just blemishes that come with age - thanks Doc -and nothing to worry about, a couple on my back and one on my shoulder, that one does itch a bit but she assures me it's not a problem. It pays to get these things checked out tho.

Keep enjoying yourself as much as possible Huia, and don't worry about the washing up, you can do it every couple of days, it will save water lol
I am sure you have enough crocks and such to last a week or more if necessary lol


love
Lizxxx

Liz, a WOF is a warrant of fitness (I certainly wouldnt pass one at present) which I presume is the same as your MOT. A thorough health check on the vehicle.

I have to keep an eye on the spot on my face. The doc did ask if I wanted it cut out then immediately asked if I had surgical insurance. No to the second, yes to the first if it is dangerous. It is just at the top of the eyebrow so not easily noticed so as far as looks go, if it is not dangerous it doesnt bother me except that I sometimes want to scratch it. Maybe I will ask the doc what it would cost to get it removed.

Ann in glos, the wooden face would be a tiki. Actually, the wallpaper on this site looks to me as if it is covered in carved heads with tongues poking out and a funny pointy top knot on their heads.

If anybody wants to visit the site on which I am going to put some of my photos, you will need to pm me your email addy so I can send an invitation to join the site. It is free. But then, if I charge you all a large sum I might be able to afford a trip to England to visit you all! On the other hand you would all say no thanks, cant afford the fee. Oh well.

Better go and wash the dishes, they havent been done for 2 days. I am a slob, arent I. See why you need to ring first, Norma?

Huia.

An interesting and full weekend Huia, so pleased that you enjoyed it and I hope your eyes will be better soon.
Liz, thank you for that link, that was interesting. I would be interested to know if eventually the artist is given recognition, how strange that it has not so far happened.

When I was a young teenager (about 13-15 I had a maori penfriend, she came from Rotorua, how sad that we lost touch. I still have a key ring she sent me with a wooden Maori 'face' (don't know what it is called - to ward of evil spirits I think))