General Chat

Rach (hug) x How I wish I knew the easy answer to help you. I guess knowing everyone ( it must seem) else is planning Christmas with their kids is difficult for you. It's going to make you wound up, so all at work are in the firing line! Warn them!
Then when you blow hopefully they will know not to cary on any argument you may start. In the mean time try some relaxation
time in a quiet place on your own xxx

Liz we have tried to get all sorts done for the Aunt who we think may have fallen. She just says she is alright, and stops you doing anything. We all worry about her but she is her own worst enemy. So the answer is no, no alarm! Will be seeing her today.
(She is 87 my sister said last night)

Rach, have pm'd you, love.

Carole, hope your aunt will be ok, did she not have an alarm that she wears round her neck to alert someone that she needed help?
Hope your other aunt's op will go well and that you have better news of both of them later on.

Lizx

You know I can't even rant I am having a real tough time at work at the minute I am really tired and I can usually get to grips with it but I am so struggling but thank you for the hugs
Rachxxxx

I know and wish I could do something to change that. But we are here for you so rant all you like. ((((((hugs))))))

Having trouble to find anything to make me smile at the minute :¬(

Hi Rach, no need to be down on your own join us in this thread.

Sorry you feel so sad at Christmas but I hope that somewhere you may find something, however small, to smile at

Hi everyone I really am feeling very down don't know why but I am so tearful at the moment maybe because xmas is such a sad time for us but hey ho I hope you all are well
Rachx

Sorry to hear about your Aunt Carole, I hope she will be OK and that the hospital can find out what was wrong.

Thank you Hazel. My aunt was talking on the phone Tuesday night to her brother she said she had to go sit down she didn't feel too good. So they got off the phone. Yesterday morning her brother phoned her three times and got no answer. So he called a brother who lives nearer. The brother said he would go see her. He found her on the floor, and thinks she was on her way to bed. She was unable to recall anything that had happened or get her standing. So an ambulance was called and they took her to A&E. Last night she was kept in an assesment ward and is now on a ward. We think she had hypothermia from being cold all night ( she is about 85). My uncle who phoned her was taking his wife into hospital today for a hip op so would have been to see his sister today. The other uncle is going tonight. So I'll be going tomorrow.

Sorry to hear your auntie is in hospital.

Thinking of her and all the family.

{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}to you Carole

Hazelx

Mary you have the sweetest voice and it was great to talk with you last night. Good luck for the week end xx

My Auntie ( I have told you about her before) is in hospital. Please think of her. I have to go to work now or I'll be late so will tell you more later.

xx

Hi everyone

{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}to you all

Been down alot last few weeks. Now with the sad news of my sister in laws mum very ill and may not make it to christmas. I have started to think of my mum passing away last year.

What with my son as well being so down, he isnt too bad at the moment.

Hazelx

Hello dear friends, just had a lovely chat with Carole, I apologise for seeming to be absent so much recently. Our major fundraiser is this weekend and we've just had a huge spanner thrown in the works, as, at the last minute, we have been refused a 'special event permit' or liquor licence. We are absolutely swamped with prep for this event, have had an amazing response to our request to the community for prize items to be raffled off. So things are good - to a point!!

Dear Colin - it is disappointing to see you go. I did not see the posting in which you said you were leaving, I did not see any other post which upset you, but please know we are very much in your corner. You have been a vital member of this 'group', have given intelligent, empathetic responses, personally I can say you have been very understanding of the chaos which is my life, and and will be missed. Please reconsider or return after a break.

Claire, I hope you'll be able to get some much-needed rest and P doesn't exhaust you too much, please give hime a hug for me. And you can have one too!! i am told you are one lovely lady.

Blessings to your and your partner.
Love and hugs all round,
mary

Hi Claire, hope you can get some sleep in the day time, I am not having much luck lately. Today is bin day so will get disturbed. Yesterday was in a nice sleep and heard all this commotion outside, it was a truck pulling a generator and digger contraption, started digging up the road about 10 metres away from bedroom window, on and off all morning. O.h.'s double glazing is shot so even closing the window tight didn't stop the racket and then an even larger lorry came and parked under the window and the drivers started nattering between themselves. it's very obvious that curtains are closed, I could be a nurse on night duty and trying to sleep for all they knew, stupid lot. It's the second time this part of the close has been dug up, it happened a couple of weeks ago to sort out a water leak which then sort of progressed along the road further up so that's been closed off a few times while they repair leaks there, seems it's forced a leak back along this way again.
I somehow managed to sleep through the doorbell tho as when o.h. got home at 2.30pm there was a parcel from Just Jean for me, and he had managed to get in the bolted on the inside back gate and leave the parcel by the bin!

Colin, hope all the comments will convince you to stick around, we will miss you if you don't come and sort us out!

O.h. is in rubbish mood again, so usual problems - why can't he control his temper? Oh for something disgusting to put in his dinner which I was cooking at the time, something that would have had delayed action for when he gets to work this morning and could have been hidden in his portion only or maybe his sandwiches which he made earlier !!! Always gets nasty around this time of year, causing so much stress - it's not my fault his son's aren't with him at Christmas and one in particular has chosen to be abroad several times instead of spending time with his family.

Lizx

Just a quick hello
Colin I can on echo what everyone else has said and it would be a real shame to let the actions of one person ruin the enjoyment you get from GR, you have always given useful, practical advice and I hope that you have recieved that back from others on here. Whatever you decide to do I wish you the very best of luck and happiness.
Hi to everyone else, very tired here at the moment little man is going through a bad time at the moment and is awake most nights from around 2am so I am trying to catch up with sleep in the daytime.
Hoping that you are all well, hugs to all especially YCaz xxx

Hi Colin I don't know why your post would have been deleted there was nothing in it to cause any problem. It's really strange.
Are you really going? xx

Hello all, I am not up to writing much for the time being but I had to come on for Colin. I was shocked when I read you were leaving Colin, and a bit upset as to why. We need you on this thread and truth be told you need us, please rethink your decision.
If you are intent on going I wish you and your girlfriend all the best for the future, love and hugs to you both.

Caz xx

Ben, I find it amazing how precious some people can be.
A distant cousin of mine and his wife have a prominent memorial in the Windsor (NSW, Australia) Catholic cemetery which I have visited several times. It is about 1 hour from my home. However there are possible entries in New Zealand indexes (this was before they became available on line). I also had newspaper evidence that he died in New Zealand in early 1906. Their deaths are not in NSW records, and the original cemetery burial registers for the period have gone missing.
It has always been my belief that the headstones are merely memorials, and that he died in New Zealand.
A contact challenged this. Said she believed gravestones, and I was wrong. Through another contact I got a copy of their New Zealand death certificates. Both he and his wife died and were buried in New Zealand, as I thought. The interesting part is that he didn't drown, as the newspaper reported. He died in the Porirua (Wellington) asylum for the insane.

Thank you to Carole tink and Ann in Glos for your kind words.
I only popped in here to check up on Dutch, and had a quick l;ook here as well.
I have a question. Why has my post of early yesterday morning UK time been deleted? I did not delete it. It would appear that it was reported to GR as offensive by someone.
Of course, this part of GR is a machine and posts reported as offensive are deleted by a computer unread by human eyes.

It contained nothing offensive. I simply said goodbye to my friends on this thread and gave a brief explanation as to why I was leaving. I wonder whether a certain person is going about deliberately reporting all my posts. I will see how long this one lasts.

xx Colin (in Oz)

In the spirit of the Christmas season my new name xx