No T Words mentioned at all - a fresh start

charlies-aunt

Happy Easter everyone - fingers crossed for some good weather so we can all get our gardening done and our spring cleaning started.


I have been reading posts to keep in touch with you all and its lovely to hear all your news


So glad to have this long weekend as an opportunity to relax and unwind.


Trying to put together a plan to make some positive changes to my work/home life balance as work seems to have been dominating now for far too long and have really started to impact negatively on my home life and health. Got to learn to start saying 'No' and meaning it!!


Have a fantastic Easter all - the sky is blue and we're alive!

ArthriticOldThing

Good morning all. Lovely weather here at the moment. Bright sunshine making the river glitter.:) Don't know about the temperature though as not yet been across doors.


Hello FTM. I'm ok thanks. Have posted on another thread about being diagnosed with B12 Deficiency and the struggle am having with surgery to get the prescribed injections any time soon. The practice manager seems to believe that patients just interrupt the smooth running of the office and should be made to fit in with her schedules.:mad:


I hope everyone enjoys their day. I'll be at church for the afternoon and a lot of standing up is involved so expect not to be able to move later. Swings and roundabouts.:D

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DD1 has just sent us through some video footage she took of Ezra when she visited yesterday, oh so cute, he's beginning to reach out for things and he's laying on the mat of his baby gym and wriggling about, kicking his little feet and giggling because he's being tickled. He is smiling properly now and just adores his Mummy. One of them is so lovely , if you hold him upright with his little feet on the ground and sing he jiggles his head and jumps up and down and throws his little arms round just as if he's dancing, so sweet, Besotted Moi??? ABSOLUTELY!!!

candlelight_2013

Happy Easter everyone.

The weather is lovely here, a bit chilly but the sun is shining and I am about to go out into the garden again.

Went to Mr. T to do a shop, went for a coffee at M&S and then up to DD1, who is so much better. Yesterday we took her into town to have her hair cut and her eyebrows threaded, and she now feels human again she says. She managed really well although suffering a little this morning and we are so proud of her.

I had 2 £5 off a £40 shop till spits in my purse but they would run out on Sunday, so at the checkout there were 2 young men obviously planning a BBQ this weekend so I asked them if they would like one, and I would use the other. When they came to pay the assistant asked if they had a loyalty card and they didn't and offered their points to me, wasn't that nice? I wished them a happy weekend:)

FTM the allotment sounds as though it is coming along nicely, hope you and the girlies have a lovely weekend.

Lyn, Besotted, surely not:) before you know where you are it will be Ezra's first birthday, cherish every moment.

AOT, be firm with them, you are entitled to your treatment now it has been diagnosed, after Easter make a nuisance of yourself:)

Charlies-Aunt sounds as though change is afoot. I had a very stressful job before I retired and I know how it takes over your life even to not being able to switch off at bedtime. As it happened my Mum was taken very ill and I decided if she came out of hospital I would look after her. I gave in my letter of resignation and I felt so relieved once I had made that decision, obviously discussing it with Himself first. Unfortunately Mum died in hospital and my boss asked me to retract my resignation, but I said no I had made a decision and I was happy with that. Also we had a lot of work to do getting Mum's home ready for sale, and sorting everything out. That was 9 years ago and I don't regret one minute of it.

Scottish-Minnie Hello, good to hear from you.

Kate hello hope everything is OK

Hoglet hope the weather there is still a little warm for you.

Hope I haven't missed anyone, but if I have HAPPY EASTER to you.

Much love and hugs if you want one

Candlelightx

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My goodness me, today is a really big red letter day for me. I have known so little about my family tree from either of my parents and had no contact with their siblings since early teenage and my amazing DD1 has just managed to trace the swedish side of my dads family and actually find where my grandma Ida Charlotta Olsson came from, the actual village. She has filled in the blank spaces and I know my forebears names, who they were, what they did for a living and amazingly my great grandma Anna-Lena Andersdottir didn't die until 1955 the year my baby brother was born. My last surviving swedish aunt, the youngest of the family Esther-Linaea died in 1985 and there were 8 others whose names I've heard for the first time today. My great grandfather Bernhard Olsson was a fisherman and they lived on a little island just off the west coast of Sweden, I've actually got a family, there must be descendents alive today, this is the most magical feeling, not being alone any more, having OUR people somewhere out there, wow it's fantastic. DD1 is such a clever woman, she's tracking down surviving relations if she can and came across an Olsson from america doing the exact same search as she was and I know some of Grandmas siblings emigrated in the 20s/30s. WOW, just had to share, Lyn xxx.

candlelight_2013

Lyn, well done to your DD it couldn't have been easy tracing relatives in another country. What wonderful names they have as well.

Himself spends a great deal of time tracing his ancestors and wonders why I am not tracing mine. My maiden surname is a very common name and I think I would be on a hiding to nothing trying to trace anyone. It would be so easy to trace the wrong family.

Now with yours you have wonderful names, but I wonder would any of those names be quite common in Sweden. However, how nice for you to know you have relatives after all this time.

Good luck to DD with her further research.

Much love
Candlelightx

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for Olsson read Smith!!!

candlelight_2013

Oh, I see, well DD did really well then, mine wasn't Smith but just as common. That is a horrible word isn't it but I can't think of another really.

Candlelightx

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Prolific? abundant? much nicer than common I do agree, xxx.

candlelight_2013

Prolific I like Lyn, prolific shall be the new "common"

Candlelightx