Endurance Lends Itself To Enjoyment

emerald21

Good Morning everyone.

Thank you for your messages regarding my Aunty. Funnily enough I went to my sisters yesterday and as I was driving away I stopped the car and said to her when you go and see Aunty Pauline let me know as I'd like to come too.

David yes it is the best way to go. She never wanted to go into a home and managed most things herself in her own home. I always remember one Cristmas present I had off her when I was a child . It was a selection of home knitted dolls clothes. It's funny what sticks in your mind. As children we always looked forward to visiting her and our couins.

Another sad note was that her only daughter ( she had three sons as well) Lavinia (Vinny) committed suicide about 6 years ago when her husband died. Guess she felt she couldn t go on. Leaving two daughters in their late teens

Anyway congrats to Ruth my mums namesake lol

HILLBERN

emerald21 wrote: »

Good Morning everyone.

Thank you for your messages regarding my Aunty. Funnily enough I went to my sisters yesterday and as I was driving away I stopped the car and said to her when you go and see Aunty Pauline let me know as I'd like to come too.

David yes it is the best way to go. She never wanted to go into a home and managed most things herself in her own home. I always remember one Cristmas present I had off her when I was a child . It was a selection of home knitted dolls clothes. It's funny what sticks in your mind. As children we always looked forward to visiting her and our couins.

Another sad note was that her only daughter ( she had three sons as well) Lavinia (Vinny) committed suicide about 6 years ago when her husband died. Guess she felt she couldn t go on. Leaving two daughters in their late teens

Anyway congrats to Ruth my mums namesake lol

Very sad for Auntie Pauline and the rest of the family- may she now be at peace xx

mrsmac10

Good morning all

Well done to Ruth If the voting was dodgy I am sure it will be looked at as lots of the entrants will complain

Today is the first day of my new life, ie without a proper job The very nice GP gave me a fit note for two weeks and work has phoned all concerned asking what they can do resolve the matter!!!!

I am or will be fine and going to look for a wee part time job and i will chase the good gliches and add to my small stash :T:j:T

hornetgirl

Morning all and well done Ruth

cjj_2

Sorry to hear about your Auntie Pauline em. Sending hugs to you all.

Rose sorry this is a sad day for you.

Snap, hope Mrs fourp continues to show improvement.

xx

Tw1nb0ys

tweets wrote: »

Good Morning

Well done Ruth :T:T:T

Weather report ... Woke up and its been snowing and stuck :eek: while I been catching up on here it keeps snowing


Bit shopping news for those who want it I am going to Iceland before work for a few SW meals the beef in gravy is gorgeous and I am hoping they have the bags of sausages and the ratballs lol meatballs don't think I would like ratballs :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hoping to lose this week I am not far of my goal weight but it feels good being normal weight cant believe I was obese last July :eek::eek:

I would just buy one lots of the sausages, we gave had very mixed results in group.
We got given several 2 for £5 Iceland SW vouchers. Did you? If not ask at group as think they expire on 17th March. So might be happy to give you extra! HTH
Well done on the weight loss :T

Tw1nb0ys

Evangeline1971 wrote: »

Good morning

Does anyone know how long this has been going on?

AvM
1 x ASDA British Semi Skimmed Milk 4 Pints (2.27L) £0.89 £1.00

Hope it's an ongoing comparison :T

At least 2 weeks

Tw1nb0ys

And now I've caught up.

Good morning everyone. Hope we are all not too tired from last night excitement.

springdreams

Good morning.

Back to the coal face for me.

So sad to see Ruth didn't manage to stay in the top 5 - however I think she did very well to be in the top 10 :T

Have a lovely day all.

mhoc

Morning all – I thought it was sunshining and snowing this morning but it was frost floating around in the wind! And then we had a full scale snow shower going sideways for about 5 mins

Another week and another birthday problem – this time its daughters BF and the present is going to be a real challenge.

BF has quite sophisticated tastes, has no idea what cheap and cheerful means, everything is high quality and high cost, he even has a £150 shirt :eek: – his father joints owns a big national company so think six figure salary income, completely different world to the rest of us, no budgeting, no discount coupons or offers etc.

For Christmas I gave him a gift bag with some good quality travel cosmetics (I won these  ) a thick brick of chocolate with almonds in – he has a very sweet tooth (I got this when we were away in Spain ) and a tiny build your own sportscar kit – so it ticked various boxes – thoughtful, practical, quality, luxurious, indulgent, fun, quirky and untraceable (no clues as to where everything had come from) - this is the level I want to aim at.

His likes – running, football - no idea what team and Fifa – nothing I know anything about.

They live outside London and commute in. Recently they have started exploring London properly, not as a tourist which was what they were doing but really getting to know the place. Eldest child is a Time Out fan and has been able to get cheap theatre tickets and eating out deals. I did wonder if I could expand on this theme.

I did think originally of getting Hi-Life membership or a Taste card but as they only socialise at weekends most of the offers don’t apply on Fridays and Saturdays. I even thought of getting a National Art Pass but this is now £90 for an annual double – not even sure if they would get full use of it. I don’t really know what his taste is in theatre so getting them tickets for a production is not an option.

I had a look at deal zippy for London but there are 29 pages to trawl through and I don’t know where to start.
I saw a KG deal – 3 course meal and film for 2 at place on/near London Bridge but it has to be used within 3 months and the films are only shown late on Sunday evenings so that was a non starter.

Amazon local has a Jamie Oliver meal offer – 3 courses –you can use it any day of the week and there is one in their home city, another in Union Street London and one in York so even with their schedule they could be able to use it before the expiry date. It’s not a very original idea though but it might be Ok for the goody bag option if I could think of other things to go with it.

Any suggestions pretty please – desperate as always!