Diary week ending 17th September

[Caw1]

Congratulations from me to Candleflame… how lovely to have a little bundle to cuddle.. I miss that and now not likely to have any more… enjoy it all while you can.

Glad to hear the wedding went off well to Pinetree… and I do love the comment! The weather always makes such a difference to these occasions too..

Rhubarb hope you enjoy your upcoming hols and some nice warm sunshine!

Viktoria as always you give us many smiles and chuckles reading your posts… they’re like a breath of fresh air and mean as much today as they did in those dark days of covid… so thankyou for keeping us all smiling!

LM - what would we do without you starting up the new weeks as they are flying by another year wizzing along…
it did seem odd to see the date this week as it’s my birthday on Sunday… daughter & OH have been having clandestine conversations for some months now that I don’t need to know about!
All I know is we’re going to London, I had to book the train tickets! Be there by 10.30 am… wear something smart, some walking involved, inside and out… we will be eating…. That’s it I know no more! It’s not even a special birthday! I’ve been racking my brains to think of what it could be but so far come up with a big fat O…

Enjoy the rest of the week, hope it warms up a bit… chilly this evening had to put trousers on as been in shorts for sometime now!

Take care

Caroline

[Pinetree]

Congratulations CF on the new arrival and glad to hear all are well.

Caroline, I hope you enjoy your birthday treat on Sunday.

All the best everyone

Pinetree

[louisa maud]

Caroline, hope your birthday goes well, don't forget the comfy shoes.

I like London but my husband doesn't, I would keenly get on a train and go to  London for the day,  my friend and I, she has just returned from Minorca have said, we will  do a London trip before it gets to dark or to cold.

I usually think " oh, Monday again, better  check the diary" that is why I am an early bird on the diary.

Yes, Viktoria certainly keeps us going with her humour and  interests, she packs so much in a day,

Quite chilly today, not complaining!!

LM

[Roobarb]

Thanks for good wishes ladies, yes I'm definitely looking forward to the Turkish sunshine Caroline, forecast is about 32 degrees, phew! Hope you have a lovely birthday, I'm intrigued as to what it could be in store for you!

[louisa maud]

Our daughter returns tomorrow, my grandaughter in particular is really tanned but they have had some rain and storms  but they have been out and about, a case of lots of sun protection I think
Enjoy Roobarb

LM

[Viktoria]

An email from “age UK, “ asking for support in making The Government aware there are still many people not able to cope with or at least not comfortable with modern technology .
They - we- are getting left behind ,for many and various reasons .
No High  Street banks, not  confident about PIN numbers and shopping
online etc .Few P.Os, and utilities want to end paper statements.
It is frightening especially for those  alone and with no children who can cope and help.
 

Now today we are being blamed for” clogging up” the N,H,S. !!!

I was very angry and sad, after hearing that in the lunchtime news.
So many benefits these days , and by comparison hardly any in my young days, and almost none existent pre war,that generation are the very old now.
Almost 100 years old .
We 80 +  and 90+ people lived without The NHS for the first ten to twenty years  of our lives , not all our life with that great benefit .
We lived through the  war,rationing ,great poverty and deprivation ,but came through .
I really resent hearing that we are now seen as a great financial nuisance .
Let whoever came to  that opinion  try living on wartime rations ,with  no  health  service,  the lack of benefits taken for granted nowadays.
They hopefully would change their opinions.
I really am angry ,and sad too.

Viktoria.

P.S.Corrected myself ,did not mean depredation —- ,deprivation ,so have changed to what I intended to use. V.

[candleflame]

Thanks all. Roobarb apparently the in thing is in every text one uses a blue heart if it’s a boy, so I’ve seen a lot of blue hearts. I hadn’t realised that was a thing but I’m older so what do I know lol.
It would be nice if they lived a bit nearer ( 6 hours drive away), but I’m lucky they are in this country and not abroad as many have to work with. Mobile phones and FaceTime are wonderful inventions!
!

[Viktoria]

A grey wet gloomy morning, dustbin day.
My bin was being decanted in to another ———?
Of course it spilled all over the place ,I was just getting the milk in ,the collector said he’d pick it all up,tins bottles and plastic today, he did so I thanked him.
Son off to get some stuff he has stored at his sister’s.
It has been there since last July and I feel it might not be in good state ,a container used for shipping motor cycles.
Taking down a tiny pair of clogs for Kyra ,you would be had up for cruelty if you put them on such tiny soft little feet.
I ought to have photographed them .
A book about common insects etc for F.H. who has an “ Explorer’s Outfit” with nets and pooters and magnifying glasses etc.
He loves to go into the fields with my daughter , and a swipe net and pooter
to see what is in it.
He has settled well in to the Juniors.
Kyra misses him though and is very demanding at the moment but I think there are some groups like “Tumble Tots”, where she will meet others of her age.
Then of course she has the office to run at my daughter’s motor cycle franchise ,she and the dog are really in charge .
A very determined little girl like her auntie ,Daddy’s younger sister.
She has almost finished her he Chartered Accountancy course,whilst working and getting day release. .It has taken a good while but no debt etc.
My grand daughter that us—- not Kyra!

Hope all are well, lovely to read of family gatherings, weddings etc and visits ,holidays. Thanks for such happy news.
We need it don’t we ,the news from Libya is tragic, so many people lost .

Well, what to do today? The choice us endless.
Son’s bedroom first ,as he is trying to be back tomorrow.

Hope everyone is O.K ,a few we have not heard from for a while.

Cheerio .
Look after yourselves.
Viktoria.

[louisa maud]

Good morning  folks

Hope everyone is feeling  chipper  this morning, sun out but chilly, my friend in Hayle says they have had torrential rain overnight, we have hardly seen any proper rain for weeks.

Our bin men decant one into another but in most cases are quite tidy, they have changed our 3 bin collections to every other week, seems to work OK, think they are talking  about having a food bin, I hope not , with foxes around who knows what will  happen..

Viktoria,  hope your  son's day  went well and he gets safely home,  youngsters are back to Uni this week so there could be a lot of movement on the roads, my grandson  goes back today for freshers week, no doubt a complete  waste of a week drinking and laying about, or have I got it wrong?

My grandaughter back from holiday Thurday evening  had a job interview in London  yesterday and got the job at the interview,  I knew she wouldn't waste her time once she was fully back from all of her holidays, hope she has hot rid of the travel bug and will stay put for awhile.

Candleflame, I am not into emoji or whatever they are called,  I have to ask my daughter, LOL  as an instance means so may things and can be misconstrued  so I don’t use it.

Roobarb, enjoy Turkey, my family,  just returned enjoyed it.

Take care everyone, enjoy your weekend

LM
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