Off out shopping, my favourite hobby apart from sampling gin!  A small lunch in M & S  a young lady was eyeing up my carrot cake but said she was on a diet, so coffee only, I will be on a diet soon if I don't stop going out.  Hubby took off to have some fresh air but came home early as he felt tired, he looked happy to be home and is now fed and watered.  John popped to see him but it was only me but we had a lovely chat.  His wife had gone to the Headlam Hall flower lunch yesterday, I turned it down as I didn't enjoy it last time, he said she won't be going again!  Although a beautiful day, it's now chilly so I am off to put a jumper on.  See you tomorrow. Xx

Hi girls, a beautiful sunny day and I popped back to Teesside to finish my shopping, exchanged the non fit underwear and then shopped for hubby.  I then popped and bought a perennial hanging plant that smells like lemon and put it in my new metal hanging basket, it smells gorgeous.  Thee sparrows are going mad in the bird bath. 8 at one go, I'm sure some are new ones as they are fluffy and fat!  Then I sat and had a glass of wine and watched the sun set until hubby arrived home after meeting some friends.  I forgot to ring for his kidney results so a job for Monday, he says they would have rung but I don't really trust anyone to do what they should anymore.  A big parcel has arrived, addressed to him, not mine he says, not mine either I say, he takes a peek, it's for me for Mother's day from Faye, very exciting.  As I no longer have a Mum I think I'll go to the Mothering Sunday service at Church and say a little prayer for my lovely Mum.. See you soon. Xx

Hi Ladies,

Annie, I wonder what it is with Epsom printers (that's what mine is) and I swear it hates me.. no-one else has issues with it, just me.  Neil used to do everything with it as I rarely could and certainly not without problems.  Now I leave most of it to Nick and Deana.
The show Wednesday was fabulous.  I think they may have cut down the number of performers because of the size of the stage, but it didn't matter, the dancing was beautiful, the flutist was wonderful to hear and I really liked the fellow with the Bodhrán.  One of the ladies from aqua balance was there also,, sahe came up and tapped me on the should and said I know where you didn't go tonight.
The Mary Quant exhibition should be good, she was so big in the 60's. She was in all the magazines.  I remember when I got a pair of hotpants, they weren't her of course but were almost the same as opne of her designs I'd seen in a magazine.  My father was horrified when I first wore them to a disco,  It's certainly different now.
We have just had our coldest March day in so many years, it has been bitter, wind, rain, a good day to stay indoors, which I've done.  Rugged up I am today, I put the heating on last night and the screen showed "filter", so I think the filter needs cleaning.  Another one of those jobs Neil always did.  I said to Deana I'd probably have to call Middleton's who installed it, but Nick apparently knows how to do it, so I wasn't sure I should use the heater tonight.
Of to Melbourne on Monday, a funeral to go to.  One of the guys Neil worked with passed away on Monday.  So sad, he was younger than Neil and only married his wife about a year ago, although they had been together many years.
I didn't realise your Mother's Day was different to ours.  Happy Mother's Day Carol.  Hope you get spoilt.  Enjoy your big box when you open it.  Ours is May 12th, so a while yet to go.
Had a chuckle this afternoon, Deana rang me to find out what Neil's mother wanted.  She had given Deana a ring to find out my telephone number.  Haven't heard from her yet.  I'm unsure she knows how to ring if the number isn't in her phone (mine used to be).  I'll wait for her call.  We don't get on, and I haven't heard from her since before Christmas.  This is the woman who asked me if I was leaving him, when we found out he had cancer.  She'd have been happy if I was.  Sounds harsh, but true.
I wonder how Julie and Dave are?  Been a while since we've heard anything .

Take care and love to all.  Sue xx
 

Hi Sue, it's the annoying things that someone else did regularly that tip you over the edge!  Fortunately I have managed to do as much as possible since Norman took ill but I do have a spare Norman next door!  Went and got my nails done, back to a French manicure, they don't normally do them so they took a photo of mine for their website, I now have famous nails.  A litt bit of shopping and then Lisa rang, had a good chat with Harry, a silver star, a house point, passed his tai kwondo exam and passed his ten metres swimming test, what a clever little boy I tell him, i'll send some money for being so good, I love you Grandma and sends me a hug through  the phone.  Oh by the way Lisa says a parcel is on itsway, it turns up and is from Fortnum and Mason, how posh is that? I'm pleased you enjoyed the night out Sue, I bought Mary theatre tickets for her 70th and we haven't found anything we want to see yet.  It's so sad when people die young, I've lost a few very good friends who were only in their forties, I was the same age and it makes you stop and think.   I can't  believe you still bother with someone so nasty, they are so bitter it affects everyone around them, my Stepmother is the same, bitter and unhappy and yet has no clue why, its always someone's fault.  So lots of goodies for me tomorrow, I hope it's chocolate and drink  Love Carol x

I get up early for Church, so as it starts at 9.30am it's really 8.30am in real time!  I open Fayes gift of my favourite perfume, Lovely by SJP call her and wish her a happy mother's day.  At church there were no children, very sad I think maybe because of the lost hour their Mum's were probably still in bed.  Still we get presented with a plant pot of flowers, which I balance precariously on the pew, when we leave I managed to knock someone else's over with my coat, prompting brushes and pans to be coll from the cupboard and my 84 year old friend crawling around cleaning it up, I was so embarrassed.  Back home I open my other parcel, a Mother's day hamper from Fortnum and Mason, which I have to carry outside as its stuffed full of straw to protect everything, perhaps I should write and suggest a less messy way of packing things!  Anyway, lots of goodies for me, I've even put them in my own little cupboard and banned hubby from eating them!  We take off for a ride, end up at the Beeswing pub, get our drinks and perch on the only drinking table allocated to non diners.  Any chance of lunch we ask, sorry we're full, well it was worth asking.  We must have looked so forlorn that the owner came over and said some people had left early and we could eat.  So after roast pork, stuffing, tons of roasties and vegetables plus lemon tart and two gins, we're home.  Hubby has collapsed in a heap in the conservatory and I'm writing this!!  So happy Mothering Sunday to all the women, either struggling with cancer or like me caring for someone, and especially those who've e suffered the loss of husbands and are facing their first Mothers day without loved ones.  Bless you all. Love Carol x 

The first thing I did this morning was smash my head off the shower door handle, it didn't half hurt!  Then I put the bedding in the washing machine, switched it on and went to help Sarah, pop back to hang washing out, it's bone dry, I forgot my new washer has two buttons that need pushing to start it!  I decide its going to be one of those days and sit down to watch Phil and Holly, a makeover for an overweight lady who only wears jeans, out she comes and I gasp, she looks like a drag queen, I go and tell hubby what they have done to her, its awful the poor lady is sobbing on live TV, then they let her leave and the chauffeur car crashes and goes bang!!  Holly's face was a picture  then Phil starts laughing, April Fools day,  we were both totally taken in by it.  Forgot to ring GP again, I'm not as on the ball as I was!  Hope you are all OK.  Love Carol x

Well girls, you've all disappeared on me!  It worries me when you go missing, have you got problems, are you down in the dumps, has something gone drastically wrong?!  So I've had a busy day, dancersize this morning and back home hubby has emptied the bins and made me my proper coffee, he is looking so much better so all the hard work is paying off.  I've purchased a few new clothes recently for my spring wardrobe, so I take tea and my Fort um and Mason biscuits upstairs, clear my whole wardrobe out and two hours later, it's colour Co ordinated, all on the same hangers, things I've not worn for five years in the charity bag and winter wear ready to be seal packed.  We're off to James Cook tomorrow for his leg again, if we could get it somewhere near right he would be much happier.  Teas over and a glass of wine is beckoning.  See you tomorrow. Xx

Hi ya ...

Thought I'd pop on and fill a little gap ... you sound ever busy ... l tip my hat to you ... I watched Phil and holly on April fools day ... l too was thinking " what the heck have they done to the poor woman ...  but that naughty Phil, does get holly going ... but was fun after ...

Well hope your o.k ... havnt had much time to pop on to see how your doing lately ... we've just had a funeral today ... but he was 90 odd and had a good innings as my mum used to say ... but a bit more touching as he had vasucla dementia same as my sister ... another really crule thing to get as well ... and seems so many young ones on here lately ... cancer never stops or has a brake does it ..

Well big hug lovely lady ... you take care ... Chrissie xx

Hi Carol and girls. Had to laugh over your washing machine. I’ve just got a new one too and trying to used to it. My heating started playing up too. Had plumber and had new clock timer fitted. Good thing as we have had snow and hail today. To think only a few days ago I was sitting in the garden. Weird weather. Really pleased Norman is doing well. I keep thinking I will sort my wardrobes out. Got stuff in there hardly ever worn or never. Bought in haste and then change of mind. I don’t like anything on me at the moment because of this b awful curly grey hair. It’s growing quickly though and I am having my blonde put in a couple of weeks time. Had to wait because of the chemo I had. Perhaps I will get a bit of me back then. Hope so. We are all going over to the Isle of Man for Easter for few days for my two little great grandsons double Christenings. Hope I will be ok as I’ve not been so good lately. Got a new lump appeared which is healing thank goodness but I still worry and a week ago had sudden searing pain in and behind my right knee. Saw GP and she thinks it’s a Bakers Cyst and I am to have xrays. All I need eh. All got me done a bit but my wonderful family have been there for me and we had a lovely lunch together Mother’s Day. Was spoilt with Chocs and Flowers bless them. Where would I be without them. Hope all you lovely girls are ok. Lots of hugs xxx