O/S Daily Thread for Wednesday 11th May

SpekySquarehead

Thanks for the well wished both RE my gran and my job application.

Gers - St Andrews in the Square is a lovely venue inside. Also the last time I was there, there was a very nice restaurant underneath it in the basement.

Tru - My dogs do that too when it's pouring. The morning routine would normally be to let them out as soon as I'm up, but when we've bad weather they won't cross the line. Wise choice.

Dumpling - Enjoy your grandsons birthday today. I'm sure you'll be just as excited!

My quote for the day;
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings" - Henry David Thoreau

[Deleted User]

Morning, ((((((((((hugs))))))))))if you need one. Jackie, hope all went well yesterday, nmic I hope that arrangements for your relative go ok. Having been through it myself I know exactly how things go. When my son died his daughter ' knew exactly what he wanted', and ploughed ahead regardless. Even the undertakers could not reign her in, she was a total nightmare. No one else counted, and she badly upset my sons two sisters.

Yesterday's tea party went very well, cake and cream scones consumed and a lot of chat.

OH has gone for his INR, I am still n bed, he brought me breakfast before he went out.

It's still raining. The plants we got yesterday are outside the back door, the forecasters were muttering about frost tomorrow night, so everything will have to go back in the cold frame.

A chap came yesterday to fit guttering to the back of the shed,
I now have to get a water butt to take the water. The stream was starting to come through on the floor again.

Right ofsky to get up before OH returns, nothing planned for today, will take it as it comes.

carolbee

Morning all from a murky part of Kent.

Off to cinema later to see Florence Foster Jenkins and see if we can spot family member who was an extra in it.

Just been for quick visit to check on allotment, all going well there.

Off to make lasagne for dinner now, have a good day everyone

snoozer

Hi everyone,

It's not raining here yet thankfully but is quite muggy. I had to take the second car down for its MOT and service and walking back was very hot. I hope it passes but I'm not holding my breath, we've told them we don't want to spend a fortune on it. DD has it in London so we don't actually need two cars but it's very handy for her although she doesn't use it more than once or twice a week. She's flown up to Scotland for something work related.

Not a lot else going on here so I'll wish you all a good day and get on.

elaine373

Hello everyone, I hope you are all ok.
Slightly overcast but dry at the moment here. I am waiting on a delivery for a trampoline tent. My DS is dying to camp out so we will have to choose a dry night. I had a not so good nights sleep and am feeling lethargic again. I have managed to pop to the cash point. DH bought a van this week but has had to take it to the garage, who have confirmed it needs £500 repair. Not good at all. He will be seeing the person who he bought it from to discuss mis information on the sale.
I need to go to Aldi later to get a few bits. It will be a simple dinner later, not sure what to cook. I also need to strip a bed and put a wash on and that will be dried in the tumble dryer. I also need to vacuum downstairs. I will slowly make my way through the housework list.
Spekysquarehead I hope your Gran rallies around xx
Hugs to everyone that needs one. Thinking of you Jackie xxx
Have a good rest of the day everyone xx

elona

It is quite dark and damp here with several showers so glad I got laundry dried a couple of days ago.

New kitchen is ordered and could come in June :j and builders are half way through the bathroom upstairs. I am going to be lazy and make eggs and healthy chips for tonight as I had a sausage sarnie for lunch.

nmlc

Fingers crossed for meeting relatives and that they behave decently.

JackieO

I hope things went as well as they could under the circumstances.


Hester

Enjoy the writing circle and try not to shock them too much.;)

Hugs to all

System

Afternoon all,

Speky so sorry to hear about the job and to hear the news of your Gran. Hugs to you whether you need them or not.

Ive got my pc in bits... well dismantled slightly. I had a problem with the speakers and sick of waiting for the men to have a look at them for me so i thought i'd have a mess.... Only thing is my camera doesnt work now but on the positive, i have stereo now instead of mono.:rotfl:

Weather shockingly awful and tad chilly but i'd rather suffer with goosepimples rather than put the heating on.

Onwards and forwards,

have a great evening all.

snoozer

Hurrah, the car got through the MOt with fairly minimal expense. We've told DD she can us it as a part ex if she wants so it might be a good idea if she can do that in the next 6 months or so.

We had a huge rainstorm earlier but it seems to have passed off for which I'm grateful because I have over a mile to walk to the garage.

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Good afternoon chums I have got back at last. What a journey, rained going down to Poitiers we were on the 18.20 Eurotunnel on Monday night, and eventually got to Poitiers at 2.30 am on Tuesday morning We were lucky to find an F1 hotel on the outskirts which if you don't know is like a huge vending machine only with rooms and you turn up pop the card into the machine tap a button for 'english speaking' and pop in how many people and it takes your cash and gives you a number to get through the main door and a room number and you tap your number into the door pad and voila you have a family room for three for 34 Euros.Cheap as chips & spotlessly clean .We really just wanted to have a couple of hours and a quick shower and change clothes before going to the funeral.

All went off really well apart from the dreadful weather.beautiful service and my brothers son Steve was brilliant, and held my hand all the way through it. I was understandably pretty upset, but it was a pretty amazing time really

His eldest granddaughter Jasmine had done a lovely powerpoint presentation which was used during the service and in this particular place in France you are given what looks like a heart shaped piece of netting with your name on it and any other of your relations who couldn't get there has a piece as well with their names on and after the service everyone goes to the lectern and there was a bowl of rose petals there and you all go around the head of the coffin and place the piece of named netting on the coffin with your petals on top and say your goodbyes. It was very moving and as the oldest relation there I had to go first which was very hard ,but Steve said don't worry I'll be with you and he helped me no end bless him as I would have found it so hard to do it on my own.

You wait outside before the service starts at 10.00 and you neither see the hearse arrive, or have to think about the coffin going behind the curtains at the end .You just file out.It was a very beautiful and simple service and everyone said what sort of chap he was and how he had enriched their lives by knowing him.I was so touched at the amount of love that was shown about him and how everyone was so kind

The vicar read out a short piece that his granddaughter had done along with the powerpoint to explain from his birth in east London during an air raid in 1941 until he death in France, how his life had gone, and what he had done, she is a lovely lass and just waiting to start at Southampton Uni in September.He would have been so proud of how she coped for an 18 year old.

Afterwards we went back to his house which was about 45 miles further south for a small wake and the rain stopped as though turned of at a tap, and the sun shone down on us all out on the patio, it was pretty warm as well around 24c.

We left to drive back to calais around four pm as it is a pretty long haul.We were booked on the 11.40.pm tunnel crossing and got across OK but there was a problem unloading us so really didn't get off until 12.40 and with the time difference I didn't get to bed at my sis-in-laws until 1.00.pm.A thousand miles in two days is quite a journey but I wouldn't have missed it for anything.even though the weather was appaling for a lot of the way back,teemed with rain all up the motorway and the toll roads are a favourite of the huge lorries as well

There will be another service in London as his wishes were that most of his ashes be interred with our Mums' in London where she is buried.

But Steve has to get some certificates first so they can clear customs .I think Davey would be chuckling at the thought of perhaps being contraband and having to be 'imported' into the country of his birth

I am having a 'do nothing' day for the rest of the day and just putting my feet up and relaxing

nmlc ,sorry to see of your loss as well,.My niece has flown back to Cork where she lives and I told her to cuddle her children and make them as proud of her as he was .She too is a smashing lass and ,bless her, was in bits yesterday.

But life goes on and we all have good memories to laugh about when you are feeling down .

Right I am now going to make a nice pot of tea and have a bit of a rest for the rest of today.
Thanks chums for all your messages

love as always JackieO xxx

Gers

What a lovely description Jackie - and what a journey for you too. I'm so pleased for you that all went so well and that the family all turned out to support you. Well done. Now I hope you are doing some serious relaxing over the next few days to regain your strength.

My day has been so lazy really, apart from a short trip to the shops I've been pottering around. Spent a little time ordering various things from A*azon, JL and Marks and am now shopped out. Then I sat in the sun reading and then sat in the sun not reading - and now I've been scanning in letters which I sent my mum in 1980 and '81 from trips to Germany. They make really interesting reading so I've emailed them to my cousin in Berlin as he's in them, along with his parents. How times have changed!

I'm half expecting neighbours for a sundowner, I emailed them an invitation and haven't heard back so will be on standby with the gin and tonic. It would be nice if they came and OK if they didn't. Of course, they could be away from home.

The dreaded bowel screening kit has arrived, hasn't time flown since the last one two years ago. I'll brace myself to do it!

Speky - thanks for the reassurance about the concert venue, I'll be interested to see it. We're staying at the PI in George Square so that'll be novel for me after all this time retired.

The sun is still shining it's little face out although the blustery wind is still around too. Ferries are on amber alert because of the high winds.

I hope everyone has a good evening.