Diary summary week ending 19th March

[louisa maud]

Good morning folks
Was a bright morning with strong sun but it has clouded over, very breezy, a good washing day

Haven't got much to say this morning,  after 2 negative tests I assume I haven't got covid although I have the same symptoms,  must be a bad cold or a mini flu.

Liked the little cook, hope the results were edible  but I know in the past we have to eat what the children have cooked,  smile and say how nice it is, mind you have my eyes on what is happening

Hope everyone is feeling chipper today

LM

[louisa maud]

Where is everyone today?
LM

[mare]

Late one again for me LM, do hope those symptoms abate soon if you're feeling poorly with it. Not long since you had the covid virus if I recall just after your birthday so perhaps some immunity, we've sort of become suspect of symptoms and if the tests will let us know.

Dentist this morning to have crown fitted as per appointment, offered me a cancellation last week as it was ready but clashed with 2nd of 2 funerals. If I had taken that offer I would have had to go in today anyway as broke the temporary crown on tooth below it over the weekend ... I'm falling to bits!


Have a good day, lights out for me 

[River Tyne Lass]

Hi LM & Mare,
I'm here .. just doing some quick look ups for someone on here but will post properly soon.
LM I do hope you feel better soon.  Maybe you might be having physical effects arising from current stress.
Goodnight Mare, sleep well.😴
Very breezy day here, so I'm hoping my washing on line will be dry when I get back.

[brigidmac]

Hello all I'm in the middle of solving a mystery that has stumped various people with an Agnes Mary Price at top of their tree
The solution has appeared in a non DNA match

Her " grandchildren " do not DNA match her full sisters grandchildren but match her step daughters descendants

Only logical explanation despite birth certificate is that the child registered as hers
Was actually her 15 year old step daughters

I'm waiting with baited breath for the non DNA match to respond

It's so satisfying when a hunch turns out to be right .

Rainy weather so staying in .

[louisa maud]

Hello again all
Quite a nice day  , sunny but blowy, good for the washing

I had 2 negatives , so I can only assume I have had a bad cold or a mini flu type, I am not going to test again but I do feel so much  better today, thank you  .

Mare, you are right,  I had the proper covid last November after my birthday, what I have had over the last few days was very similar, so onwards and upwards as they say.

Rather boring but our council have changed the refuse collections, better idea I think for,  hopefully,  the coming summer, we are allowed to put food in our brown compost bins along with garden waste, my food was always wrapped in paper, no dirty bins for me, now we are told to put food wastage and peelings in the green everyday bin, the brown bin was always the last to be collected, sometimes not for a few weeks,  people worried about flies and maggots when we used the brown bin  during  last year's heat, much more sensible in my opinion, I have a very mini sort of compost thing going on but not a place for a proper composter., well done  my council

Mare, dentist, well I am a very nervous patient,   years ago I had fillings and had a sedative injection, then my female dentist  moved on but I found her, she  helped me to overcome my fear for something like 30 plus years, she has stupidly retired so the group that has taken over is not as good, I am an NHS  patient and one dentist tried to talk  me into having a covering  on a tooth,  £700 , it won't last he said,  how daft is that, wouldn't mind paying if it were to last,  so I might have to find a new one.

Bridigmac, that sounds interesting

Take care

LM

[River Tyne Lass]

Just catching up re the weekend.
I went to the ‘Celebration of Life’ of our recently passed Elder (CP) on Saturday.  I didn’t know what to expect but it was very positive and uplifting and I thought this was much better than the conventional funerals I am more familiar with. 
The Church was packed.  There was no coffin.  Apparently, the cremation had taken place early that morning with just his close family present.  The songs we sang were very joyful and various people got up on stage to give tributes.  There were funny stories (and much laughter), and moving words.  When his daughter spoke, she laughed as she related her happy memories but at times she got choked up with emotion and I felt my eyes brimming too.  I thought it was a marvellous send off.  So many having turned up to pay their last respects and so much honour and respect accorded to him in the tributes.  It was lovely and totally unrushed.  Well, it was no more than he deserved as he had served us all unstintingly over the years and was always so kind to all.
Afterwards we all went into the Church hall where  huge banquet and refreshments were laid on.   There was lots of socialising and chatter.   

Later on I had to dash off as I was visiting son and family.  My 5 year old Grandson was dressed up as a little policeman when I got there and he had a little note book.  He wanted me to pretend I was a robber and he chased me round before taking me to ‘jail’ and then he wanted me to escape and he gave chase again and I was rearrested.  He had wanted to draw a moustache and beard on my face and I let him but I said remind me to wash this off as I don’t want people laughing at me on the bus going home later.   He did remind me before I left.  After a few ‘arrests’  he said he would let me out of jail if I said I was sorry and would never do it again.  So I said “I’m very sorry, I promise never to rob any more houses ever again”.  And then he turned an imaginary lock and I was able to join Son and DiL for a cup of coffee.
Mind when I got on the bus, there was a man seated whose face was painted like a skeleton!  I kid you not.  So perhaps I would not have stood out all that much after all if I had forgotton to clean the moustache and beard off.
SiL has been making me feel very jealous as she has been sending photos of her holiday in NZ and in every one she is wearing a T-shirt!  I bet she will wish she was still over there when she gets back!

[louisa maud]

RTL
What an Imagination your grandson has, keystone cops  come to mind, you would have been good company had you not washed the evidence  away, you made me laugh.

You're elders service sounds very nice and what he deserved, I quite like the idea of a cremation  before the service , his family  must have felt so proud that so many turned up to support them.

I have been speaking today to a friend who was telling me one of our parishioners  has booked a  " pure creamation" I did know this and  had kept it to myself  but we are  all amazed, before anyone comes on to challenge me I will add,  it is entirely a  person's choice as is anyone else's but a regular churchgoers it seems strange, it might be her daughter who lives abroad  who will come over later to a memorial service, to me the committal  is very important, but each of us is different.

Yes,  NZ  is really an interesting  place, my granddaughter is in Thailand and is complaining it is freezing  cold, 24 degrees, we don't  often get 24 degrees here, do we?, well, her parents will have to meet her with a big coat and a blanket in the back  of their car

Take care

LM

[candleflame]

Morning all
I lost track of the fact that it was a new week and therefore a new thread. It's sunny here this morning but still chilly. Mini daffodils are finally through, but the big ones are still in bud form.