Gem

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  1. We have just spent 10 days on Holy Island so peaceful and quiet, I can recommend a visit if you need to recharge your batteries. To all of you feeling unwell I hope your feeling better soon,  to the rest of you who are fit make sure you stay that way.

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  2. 22 hours ago, mercurydancer said:

    Staithes is a truly delightful village. Good place to spend the end of your years. 

    I like the pace of life here 'quiet meandering'  well most days, my aunt has lived here since 1948 when she married a local fisherman. It's very commercialised now more homes owned by outsiders than locals, we live on Cow Bar bank which being very steep puts a lot of people off visiting us but I shall be happy to spend my time here.

  3. Sorry CT she can't help you there, she was born in Gateshead and has lived here until recently when she moved to Staithes. Like most older people her long term memory is very good,  both her and my aunty have been a great help to me with their stories when I worked with dementia patients.

  4. Mums birthday has come round again and as usual she wanted to go to Newcastle races to watch the Northumberland Plate, for for the first time in a number of years she picked the winner ....Who dares wins. This year we stayed in the hospitality marquee as outside was just to hot even with a big hat on, so her 102 birthday has been a lovely day who knows next year we may go somewhere different.

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  5. Hello again !  I must admit I missed you all so decided to look in on you all only to find I had never actually logged off and left. Anyway I am surprised and pleased to see we are sort of back to how it used to be, mouth ulcers/odd beatles/where to go and other odd topics. Like Lizzie I am sorry some of you are under the weather take care of yourselves.

    Gem.   

    Mouth ulcers....try toothpaste.

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  6. Not my ailment .. my aunty collapsed last week and became unconscious but our wonderful ambulance service got to us quickly. As she is 96 we panicked but they got her to hospital where she stayed for 5 days, today we are in Harrogate for the flower show only difference is she is in a wheelchair and happy to be here. You don't always get a happy ending when people are old but she's a stubborn old b....r and is going nowhere.

     

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  7. 6 hours ago, katyjay said:

    Saw this same picture yesterday with a different caption. Lady on the left is saying, 'If your hand itches, you are going to get something'. The lady on the right then says 'And if your crotch itches, you got it' 

    I must have been on a more polite site.

  8. 1 hour ago, Compo said:

    Awaiting delivery of a new "Premier Inn" Hypnos mattress today. This is the fouth different delivery date they have set but not yet managed to deliver.

    Tell them to read a proper map not use satnav,  probably got lost the last three times but won't admit it.

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  9. 1 hour ago, MargieH said:

    Those gloves with plastic finger tips sound scary -  like they are something from a horror film!

    They are actually a very useful gardening tool Margie, easy when you are repotting small plants.  I won't tell mum how good they are or she will be buying any odd little gardening implement she can find. 

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