New Years Eve

Its New Years Eve, nearly year 2009.

As we get older the years seem to past by very quickly don't they. I look back at this year 2008 and remember those loved ones and friends who have past on this year, sadly there have been quite a few, especially where my Mum lives in her retirement home.

We celebrate their lives and will not forget them.

I wish everyone a Happy New Year 2009, enjoy this evening whatever you are doing.

Monday after Christmas

I hope that you had an enjoyable and relaxing Christmas.

Today it is very cold and dull, but at least its not raining.

I popped out this morning into town, Woolworth's looked so bleak and empty, it is so sad I think we will all miss this store. I feel so sorry for all those folk that worked there, in our local store a few of the staff were there obviously clearing up the last bits.

I am wondering what to do about a X Box 360 game that I bought at Woolworths for my grand son Luke that doesn't work, although I have the receipt it was paid in cash, if I had used a Visa Card I think I would have a better chance of a refund, I am not holding out much hope on that one!

I wish you all a good evening.

Tuesday Afternoon

Only one more day to go and it will be Christmas, so I will wish everyone a very Happy and Peaceful Christmas.

Enjoy the time with your family and friends and lets not forget those that are not as fortunate as ourselves, especially those folk who have recently lost their jobs through the economic downturn that has hit us worldwide.

Lets hope that the year 2009 will bring better times for us all. God bless you all.

Monday Afternoon

I have been to Mum's this morning to do her housework for her, and have brought back her washing to do. She seemed fine and we had a little chat whilst I was dusting round the flat.

I then popped into the local Tescos it was really busy in there, I couldn't believe how much everyone was buying the trolleys were overflowing and it seemed like they were buying everything in sight !

I popped into Karen's and her little Tom was quite bright and cheerful much better now he has his medicine, bless him.

Luke seems fine now too, and it back here with me, watching the TV at the moment!

I haven't heard how Lorraine is today I am just hoping she is feeling a bit better and has made an appointment to see her doctor before the christmas break.

I am just doing Mum's washing at the moment, once it is dry I will iron it and hopefully have it ready for tomorrow morning.

My old boss Steve paid me a visit bringing me a beautiful basket of flowers they are lovely, aren't I a lucky girl!

Sunday Evening

Its Sunday evening and things are a little calmer now.

Luke is much better and has gone to see his Mum and his two baby brothers and to stay overnight.

Tom is now on three lots of medicine and both Karen and Tom had a good nights sleep, thank goodness.

Poor Lorraine looks awful with her eyes bruised and swollen and black, one eye is worse than the other, she has blurred vision in one and a headache and is very sore where she had the butterfly stitches also she thinks she might have broken her nose which is also swollen. We are all trying to persuade her to go to the doctors.

Phil has his day off tomorrow so he will be able to help her as she hasn't finished all her christmas shopping and also the food shopping.

I am now relaxing, watching a bit of TV so wish you a good evening and restful night.

Saturday Evening

Its been a bit of an awful 24 hours.

Firstly Luke was not feeling too good last night and hardly had an sleep until about 6am this morning.

Then my daughter Karen texted me to tell me that she had been up all night with her son Thomas, she thinks he has an ear infection. she phoned health call and they were extremely business and couldn't get back to her for at least an hour, they made her an appointment for Thomas to go to the local hospital at 5pm this evening. Yes he has a bad ear infection and has 3 lots of medicine to take, lets hope he has a better nights sleep.

I then had a phone call from my son Phil's partner Lorraine. She got up in the night to go to the bathroom and passed out knocking her head. She awoke feeling wet on her face and managed to crawl back to the bedroom to wake Phil up, he was shocked to see her face covered in blood. He cleaned her face up as best as possible, but she has a deep cut in the middle of her eye brows. Her Mum and Dad had to take her to the local hospital this morning, to have butterfly stitches to sew the cut together. She was told to take it easy, so I am keeping Luke here another night to help them out. Lorraine hasn't been feeling well for quite some time and her health is quite worrying. She was a bit upset as the nurses kept answering her Mum whether she was a drinker, I think they probably thought she had been drinking the night before, she hadn't had a drink and doesn't drink much at all!

I will keep you posted as how everyone is progressing.

I pray for all who are suffering and not feeling well at present, I hope they will soon feel on top of the world.

Friday Evening

I managed to get a bit of shopping this morning along with some medicine for Luke which he has been taking. He didn't seem so bad when he awoke this morning, which was good.

He doesn't seem to have lost his appetite as he ate all his dinner tonight, we had roast chicken and roast potatoes with vegetables, very nice!!

I wish you all a good evening and restful night's sleep.

Friday Morning

Good morning, it is a bright sunny day, and looks nice from inside our warm homes!

I have my grand son Luke staying with me, the children have broken up from school and looking forward to Christmas. Luke started to go down with a bad cold last night, I just hope I will be OK as I am only just feeling better from one I had for over a fortnight.

He is still in bed and I am going to leave him there and hope he might feel a bit better when he wakes up. I will go to the chemists later to see what medicine I can get to help him.

I will also pop into my Mum's and check on her. Then I have to do a bit of food shopping for the weekend.

Enjoy your Friday !

Wednesday Evening

Good evening, today has been an OK day. I have managed to get the last of the christmas presents and I have wrapped them as well !!

I went to Mum's this morning with her ironing and shopping, she was in the hairdressers having her usual shampoo and set, so whilst she was there, I made her bed, put the ironing and the shopping away for her.

I popped in to see Phil and Lorraine for a short while and then on to my friends Sally and Jean to see how they were and to have a cup of tea and a chat.

I am going to do a bit of letter writing this evening as I have received a couple of christmas cards with letters in them so I must reply to them with news of the family.

I wish you a good evening.

Good Evening

I have been busy this evening doing all Mum's ironing and my own, glad to say that I have just finished thank goodness.

I have just a few more presents to wrap up and then I can say I have finished the present buying and now can concentrate on buying the christmas food.

I hope you all have a really good night sleep and will wake up feeling refreshed in the morning, good night to all.

Tuesday Afternoon

Its been quite a cold day fortunately no rain! Its dull but not windy which is good, I hate it when its windy, everything seems to rattle and shake.

I have been to my Mum's to do her housework this morning and then went straight to Tescos to get her shopping . Whilst I was there a lady looked at me saying "its Carole isn't it!"
It was an old neighbour of mine who I hadn't seen in years, she was now wearing glasses so at first I didn't recognize her. We had quite a long chat catching up on some of our news, it was strange hearing about each others children and hearing that they are now married with children of their own, I'm afraid we were showing our ages!!! Hopefully we will now keep in touch.

Also this afternoon I had a Email from an old school friend, it was so lovely to hear from her, now we can keep in touch with each other too, we are going to try and track down two old school friends of ours ,I think we have a job on our hands as I have tried before with no luck, but it would be so good if we are successful!!!

Monday Evening

I have had quite a good afternoon, I went out for a short while and I think the fresh air has helped me to feel a lot better, I am hoping that I am on the mend, thank goodness as I have had this cold and cough for well over a week and it was beginning to get me down, but I must say that today I do feel a much better.

I am going to wrap up a few more presents and then going to relax and watch a bit of TV.

So I wish everyone a good evening.

Good Afternoon

Its Monday afternoon, and it's dry and dull outside, at least its not raining !!! I think its not quite so cold as it has been.

This morning I managed to go to Mums just to see how she was, I had to water a new plant she had for her birthday, it was in a clear covered container and was a bit of a maze to work out how to open it up to water it, but after trying a few things success was made so the plant got it much needed drink!

My lady came this morning to trim my hair so that has made me feel better, then once she had gone and I had washed and dried my hair, I made a Shepherds Pie for Karen's family.

I have to go out again this afternoon, hopefully for a short while.

Good evening to all, I have had a quiet Sunday, I haven't been out at all, I am trying desperately to get rid of this cold and cough, its beginning to get on my nerves, as I have had it over a week now, hopefully I should be feeling better soon.

I have kept in touch with family and friends by phone and texts. My poor friend Sally's phone was out of order this morning but fortunately talk talk were able to get her back on line after a few hours. Sally's Mum had a bad fall last night so she needed to know that she could use the phone in any emergency that might have arisen.

I wish Sally's Mum well and will be praying for you both.

I will say good night to all, I hope you have a restful and peaceful sleep.

Good Afternoon

This is my grand daughter Charlotte who had her 13th birthday party last night. ( her birthday is on Christmas Eve so she had her party early)

I wasn't able to go as I wasn't feeling too good and didn't want to make myself worse, but Karen has Emailed me a few photos of the evening.

The guests dressed as celebrities. They had a golden curtain to walk through and a red carpet to walk down. Flash photography, gold goodie bags and the chance to win an Oscar at the end of the night.

I will post some more photos on the opposite of this blog.

I believe they had a lovely time with a disco etc. All the girls looked lovely and so grown up, Charlotte went as Audrey Hepburn and Thomas was Bond 007 !!!

Good Afternoon

The weekend has arrived but to awful weather, its really cold and raining intermittently not very nice at all.

I haven't ventured out at all today, I have been doing my housework and also finishing off the last bits of the Christmas tree decorations etc, it is looking a lot more festive now.

My grand daughter, Charlotte is having an early birthday party tonight (her birthday is Christmas Eve she will be thirteen) at the local baptist church hall. The theme being The Oscars, they all have to dress up as famous people, there will be a red carpet etc all very exciting.

I am hoping to go but it depends on how I feel as I have been having some sleepless nights due to my bad cough, and don't want to go down with anything else. perhaps I should stay in the warm!! I will decide later.

Have a good weekend !

Friday Evening

Its the weekend , lets hope we have a nice one.

I have been having trouble this afternoon with my lap top. I have this feeling that I have a virus I couldn't get online it kept being blocked its taken me ages to get back on line. I tried to get onto my friends blog but couldn't and have only just got onto mine, so thought I had better make an entry now in case I can't get onto it again.

If I have any more trouble I will have to take it to the computer shop. I will let ou know how I get on.

I wish everyone a lovely weekend.

Friday Afternoon

Well the weekend is nearly here, much to the delight of those that have to work. My daughter Karen is always pleased when the weekend arrives.

This morning was extremely frosty and icy outside, I couldn't believe how white it was everwhere looked really lovely. Fortunately
it soon cleared and I ventured out mid morning to see what bargains I could get in Woolworths - the answer to that is Nothing. They had 10% and 20% on some items but I couldn't see anything that I wanted and it was busy in there, I can't be doing with the crowds anymore.

Over the weekend I hope to get the tree up and decorated all being well.

I have just spoken to Karen and she tells me that today she has passed part of her assessment towards her NVQ grade 4. I am so pleased for her she is working so very hard for this, I am really proud of her. Well done Karen !!!

Thursday Evening

Today I have managed to go shopping for my Mum and myself, only to Tescos which isn't far away. Actually it wasn't very busy in there, I think that perhaps folk had gone to town to see what bargains they could get in Woolworths!

I took Mums shopping and ironing to her and came straight home. I am feeling better but have a really nasty cough so wanted to get home in the warm.

My son Phil and his two children Luke and Chloe came to dinner tonight, I had cooked Gammon bacon for dinner and all plates were clear when we finished, the children were both really hungry tonight.

I still havn't put up my christmas tree so I must try and do that in the next couple of days.

I wish you a good night.

Wednesday Evening

Good evening to all, I hope you have had a good day.

Well I have felt a bit better today, I have managed to get my Mum's ironing done and also a bit of my own. The only thing is I have now got a cough, I must get some cough medicine.

I have stayed in the warm and haven't ventured outside at all . I cooked myself some dinner which I enjoyed and had a light tea.

I am going to watch TV tonight and just relax so
wish you all a good evening, and hope you have a good nights sleep.

Wenesday Morning

Good morning to all, I have a really bad cold and yesterday felt very poorly, I was so cold my hands and feet were like ice even though the heating was on, I didn't even go on line which is unusual for me!

I am going to take it easy today and just try and keep in the warm with hot cups of tea. Yesterday I just couldn't be bothered to make myself any dinner infact I lay on the settee all afternoon and evening, very lazy and not like me at all.

I wish you all a good day take care and hopefully I will be back this evening.

Sunday Evening

It has been a lovely day here on the east coast, the sun has been out, melting the ice on the roads.

It is Mum's 98th birthday today so as arranged I went to collect by daughter Karen and her children Charlotte and Tom, Mum didn't know they were coming to visit her, so it was a lovely surprise for her to see them.

When we arrived at Mum's flat, one of the residents had put a big Happy Birthday label on her front door and a note we can't wait for the year 2010 when you will be 100!!!!

Phil and Lorraine had been round to see her earlier with a beautiful pink orchid in a pot which she was delighted with.

Mum has 52 birthday cards so far amazing !!!!

My sister Kay and husband Dave telephoned Mum early this morning singing "happy birthday" down the phone which tickled her.

I am sure she has had a lovely day.

Saturday Evening

Hello to all, I have been busy this morning doing the housework and general duties roiund the house. Once they were all done I went out to Tescos for a bit of shopping.

When I returned, I had some lunch then made some cakes, butterfly cakes and peppermint chocolate squares for the family.

I have a sore throat I think I might be going down with a cold, I am sucking some blackcurrant & glycerin pastilles in the hope the sore throat will go.

I am going to take it easy tonight just watching the television etc.

Friday Evening

The weekend is arriving, this Sunday it is Mum's 98 birthday I think she is quite excited, she will spend it quietly she can't stand too much excitement.

I have been busy getting the last few presents, I think I have finished and have actually wrapped them all up! I am so pleased that job is done.

This evening I watched the last 'I'm a Celebrity - Get me out of Here' - the winner being Joe, a well deserved winner. The last three were all really good, I would think it was a close call as to who would be the winner.

I wish you all a peaceful and restful nights sleep, nite nite.

Lighting the Town Up for Christmas !

Its been a busy day, I have had Luke and Chloe here for Dinner and then we went to the town as it was the late night shopping and switching on the lights for christmas.

It was really cold and very very busy and crowded with folk , not my scene at all, but we did manage to wait till the lights went on.

I was pleased to get home and quickly made a hot cup of tea to warm myself up.

I'm now going to relax and watch a bit of television so will say nite nite for today.

Wednesday afternoon

When I got up this morning and opened the curtains, it was quite a white scene, it was very icy everywhere and the roads were dangerous. The weather forecaster on the radio was saying that all drivers should take extra care as it was so icy.

By the middle of the morning it was warmer and the ice was gradually disappearing. I managed to go to my Mum's with her shopping and ironing she was OK but feeling very cold.

I popped into town and got a couple more presents, so I am gradually getting there with the Christmas presents.

Tonight I am going with my daughter Karen and her friend Sharon to see a performance of ' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' my grand daughter Charlotte is in it . I will let you know how it goes.

Monday Evening

I have had a good evening with Sarah we have been able to catch up on our news.

My headache is a bit better and I am hoping that a good nights sleep will help.

I managed to see a bit of I'm a Celebrity - Get me out of here, I saw the eviction of Brian, there are only a few left now.

I wish you a good night and trust you will have a restful night.

Monday Afternoon

Good afternoon , I hope you are all feeling well.

I woke up this morning with a really bad headache which I still have, even though I have taken some pain killers.

I made a Shepherds Pie for Karen and her family which is for dinner tonight. Then went to see my Mum , she was OK but said she was full of aches and pains. I noticed that on her sideboard were a number of unopened birthday cards, her birthday is on Sunday and she will be 98, bless her.

I am expecting my friend Sarah tonight, all being well, we will be catching up on all our news.

I wish you a good evening.