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candlelight_2013

Good afternoon everyone,

A cold and crisp day here as was yesterday, and the wind is extremely cold. Popped into town today to pick up a few bits and all the Christmas decorations are up in the city centre and shopping mall. I don't like that word "mall", but I don't know what else to call it. Anyway every where looks very festive, if not a little early.

Took DD1 out for lunch yesterday because she is really fed up about not being able to work yet. She told her surgeon she is quite willing to take a cancellation for her operation if one comes up, sometimes these happen around Christmas time, otherwise it will probably be another 3 months.

MLW are you feeling any better now? It sounds as though it was a really nasty virus and I hope Docky didn't come out in sympathy with you.

FTM how are you and the girls? Well I hope and is Simon still enjoying his new job?

Kate I have had to put the tumble dryer on a couple of times for towels and flannelette sheets. Some days have been so murky that nothing would dry outside and I do so hate having washing hanging around the house.

I think that is all my news today, hoping everyone is well and managing to go out when the weather is fine.

I love this thread because it is so friendly and because I lurked for such a long time feel I almost know you.

Love to everyone

Candlelight xx

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Hello CANDLELIGHT, I've still got the pesky thing, and am full of glue in my lungs and sinuses and coughing for england, however I am feeling much better just so tired, thank you for thinking of me. I am off to DD1 again this weekend she's still poorly with it too and is actually going to the GP tomorrow so I hope he will give her an antibiotic as It's gone on to her chest in a major way. There is another concert this weekend, Benjamin Brittens War Requiem so I'll enjoy that and hope her voice holds out long enough to finish the performance. Hope you and everyone elso is keeping wekk and happy, look after yourselves, Lyn xxx.

candlelight_2013

Oh MLW I am so sorry you still have it and also your daughter.

Look after yourselves and try to have a good weekend, great music and another get together with DD.can't be bad.

Take care

Love
Candlelight xx

charlies-aunt

Its another chilly night here in North Lincolnshire with snow forecast for next week

Don't like wishing my time away but its lovely to get to Friday night as its been one-of-those-weeks-at-work this week so its nice to be able to relax a bit tonight and look forward to some nice family time I love my job but working as a Benefits/Housing/Debt Adviser means that the workload at the moment is huge and unremitting

Although I love Christmas - I just can't get in the mood for it at the moment . . . . so near but yet so far kinda thing! . . . . .I must, must, must get my harris into gear soon or I shall be joining the band of desperate Christmas Eve shoppers scouring the gift pack shelves . . . . and the planned HM jams and other DIY presents are either half done or not started. . . . very guilt inducing - not to mention the financial implications :cool:

scottishminnie

Candlelight - your cat sounds like my parent's 2 terriers. They frequently have my parents up at ungodly hours as they want to play and are not tired. Tends to happen if the weather has been lousy and they have been cooped up inside most of the day. A few weeks back they had my mother up twice during the night and my father on three occasions. I'm utterly astounded - when I lived at home I'd have been shot for such behaviour - seems to be ok if you are small, cute and furry though:D

Charlies-aunt - I'm lurching between fits of organised Christmas stuff and total apathy. On one hand I have 9 beautiful candy sleighs made for table decorations. On the other I have no inclination to do much "serious " shopping.

I did spend last night with a G&T and the December Good Housekeeping in the hope of some gift inspiration. No joy there but I did see a recipe for Rachel Allan's raspberry cake which I made for tonight's dinner. Bit like a pineapple upside down pudding but with raspberry - I have to say it was a huge success and will be repeated at some point. Still no gift inspiration though.

I'm thinking about asking for some plastic cloches from my mother. It would give me a head start next spring. It just feels a little too practical though if you get my drift. I'm a bit of a contradiction I guess, you will find me digging in the raised beds wearing diamonds and cashmere but I like to be self sufficient and frugal where I can. Maybe I've just got it all wrong:o Maybe it explains why my nickname is "Margo" - something to do with the Good Life apparently!!!!

The weather forecast for the rest of the week is for snow:eek::eek::eek:. I do hope it is wrong. I'm not quite ready for that yet - and I have lots of leaves to lift, the garden is looking a bit messy but they were very wet today so I thought I would wait.

I'm off to empty the washing machine now and see how effective the stain remover was. I'm sure hubby thinks I'm some kind of laundry fairy - a sprinkle of fairy dust and the marks are gone - thank heavens for Vanish!!

candlelight_2013

Good afternoon all,

A lovely crisp but very cold day here, Himself had to clear the windscreen this morning of ice. Two grandchildren coming for their dinner tonight, looking forward to that.

FTM I hope you and the family are well, I am sure you are so busy teaching the girls and with Simon's new job.

MLW hope you had a good weekend and that you are feeling somewhat improved now.

SM I know what you are saying about the cat, but there is a little story attached to her. Last year she started coming round to us to be fed. She wouldn't let me go anywhere near her and I had to come indoors before she would eat. We made enquiries and found she had belonged to a family a few doors away, had apparently been abused and abandoned.

It took months before she would trust me (at this point can I say I have never been a cat person, we always had retrievers), but I couldn't bear to think of an animal in pain.

Last winter I made a bed for her in our back porch and when the weather was really bad she slept in there. In the spring it became apparent she was pregnant, and I began to worry as to how we would cope.

Anyway she disappeared for a couple of weeks at the end of April and one day Himself and I had been gardening for most of the day when she brought a kitten round to us, I was amazed. We managed to make a little den for them both and fed her. The following morning 2 more kittens were there and by lunchtime 2 more!!!!!!!!.

She had brought 5 kittens round in her mouth, hopefully because she thought we would look after them all.

Long story short, DD2(who is a cat person) found homes for all 5 kittens when they were old enough (4 girls and 1 boy) and then we had her chipped and speyed. The vet said she was a young cat and in good condition. She now lives with us and we love her to bits. Her own family did a bunk one day, never to be seen again.

I think that is all my news for now, hope everyone is well and take care.

Candlelight x

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Hello CANDLELIGHT thanks very much I had a lovely weekend away with DD1, the concert was magnificent and the virus has mainly gone but left both DD and myself with a tickly annoying cough. She actually ended up at the GPs with a chest infection and it's triggered her asthma again so she has antibiotics and an inhaler. We've just given the big old apple tree on the front lawn a serious haircut and it looks much better and is now cup shaped as it ought to be. It was seriously cold out there though so now in with a cuppa to warm up again and He Who Knows has just lit the woodburner in the lounge. Love the story of your cat, you're good folks!!!

Hope everyone else is well and just busy, looks like the weather is turning wintery for all of us over the rest of this week so stay warm and look after yourselves, Cheers Lyn xxx.

VJsmum

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

I will tell you the one film that gets me every time, The Railway Children. When Bobby goes to the station and sees her Father through the steam of the train and shouts "Daddy, my Daddy" I break my heart every time. It isn't as though I don't know it's coming,

Ooh me too - and I don't "do" crying, generally. That and "Oh Captain, my Captain" from Dead Poets Society

Hello all - been not posting very much for a while, am ridiculously busy. Still am, but having a breather!

My stupid work pattern should ease this week as one of my modules finished yesterday :T and the really nasty one finishes on Friday. (I teach in University). Got a pile of marking, but more time in which to do it.

I am trying to ignore Christmas (especially the adverts), but am making plans. I went to see my lovely sister at the weekend, who is having a hard time - she split with her husband, left her job and moved house all in a few months. Added to which her 16 year old DD (who is my FN - favourite niece (but don't tell the others! )) is going off the rails a little. Not working very hard at her A levels and partying too much. - how do I help my sister keep her on the rails when sister feels like it's all too much? anyway, I think I am going to buy my sis and her two little ones a "visit to our house" for Christmas - pay her petrol and sort out some activities I know they like. Hopefully it will give them something to look forward to in the New Year. GOt to be better than more tat, hasn't it?

I have a list of 25 presents this year - a drastic reduction from previous years when I had childminders, teachers etc to buy for. We don't do that now, I have also agreed with some people to not buy each other, and a couple of deaths mean the list has come down from over 40! :eek: Three of those 25 are birthday presents also, so the Christmas list is far lower.

I have a significant birthday (Shhhhh 50 shhhh :eek:) the week before Christmas - I was really not bothered to organise anything and didn't want any hassle, but OH has booked us into a lovely hotel in N. Wales, not too far away, so now I am really looking forward to it. if the weather suits, we might climb Snowdon - I am not sure I really want to, but the bloody mindedness of me says my ancient legs can still do it. we shall see.

I am going to have some art for my birthday - either a picture or small bronze sculpture. Nothing extortionate, but I am not a bling and handbag kind of girl so would like something special to keep. OH and I will have a day out on the actual day to go and choose it. So it looks like a plan is coming together.

katep23

Hi everyone, been mad busy with new job.

Candlelight what a lovely story about the cat. They definitely choose their homes!

charlies-aunt

Candlelight - bless you for being so kind