September Catch up Thread !

Had a nice walk by the sea today .

seaspirit44 had to pop it on this thread as the other thread is not accepting photos ! Hope you had a nice day .

Court 

Just read through all these posts as I don't get on here as much as I used to. Haven't bought a new ipad yet either! NZ is still under L2 where I live and L2.5 in Auckland. There are not many daily new cases but sadly 2 deaths from the current outbreak. They say it might be a warning to those who ignore the rules. On a lighter note, Spring is officially here and a lot of the South was covered in snow. Of course. But it helped contain a large fire.

I am ok health wise. I always remember my friends who helped my through my bowel cancer. For those interested, I had emergency surgery to remove a large part of my bowel, (extended right hemicolectomy,) but got through it and the 5 years until the all clear. Now I'm dealing with prostate cancer and the anxiety of blood tests, next one in about 10 days.

Best wishes to everyone. Keep posting, this is a great forum!

Wombles.

All the best with your blood test wombles . Hopefully all good news for you . I know hate them so hope it’s all over soon .

Our numbers are heading fast in the wrong direction . My own neighbourhood is back in restrictions. No one allowed in our houses . I was initially quite sad about that until I realised I had been keing everyone in the garden still . But it’s starting to get colder!!! So my plan B is my husband has given my garage a good clean . Looking great ! Going to take my garden furniture into there and acientist  recommended seeing people in the garage with the door open . I will work on the decor!.

To be honest it’s very frustrating!

Courg 

Yes, good luck Wombles, it's always worrying waiting for results.

That sounds a good plan Court! It is getting colder and we got rained off yesterday afternoon sitting in the garden with my sisters having tea and cake! She has a car port so we have been using that but it was freezing!

I am starting to get a bit worried about Christmas! Won't be much fun if no one can visit or families can't get together.  We did think jokingly about Christmas dinner under the carport wrapped in blankets!

The cold is setting in here, yes. Summer came and went and I didn't get to enjoy it. This saddens me, as my usual practice is to sit in the park and read while having my lunch. I am sure not doing this has detrimentally impacted my mental state.

And once again, the numbers of the ill are rising. Send the schools back! Make be go back to work! What's the worst that could happen?

We're going to find out...

I despair for our nation. They say people get the leaders they deserve. We must have done something truly terrible to deserve this bunch of selfish incompetents...

Robin.

Hi Court

The first post from this thread (eight days ago) popped into my mailbox at 13:23 today.  I am finding this very frustrating as many posts are days old by the time I see them - so I'm losing track of what is going of for many on this forum, particularly new members.

So Hello to anyone I've missed.

VickiLynne

I do not like this update at all .. I have just clicked on to something on the side of the screen that sounded interesting and informative and the post was  over 11 years old!

Really? Things have moved on so much in 11 years, why do they think we need to see that and not current posts.

Maybe it will improve in time but at the moment I am not feeling it!

Well, here endeth the first day at school with the kids back, and I'm very tired, but I got through it. I'm actually quite pleased with myself! A few glitches that will work through, high stress initially but I did it.

::hangs bunting::

Well done, Gemmary! I really hope you can get through day two, and three... and onwards!

Well done Gemmary from me too,  My daughter starts her new post as a lecturer in animal sciences at the agricultural college, and my youngest granddaughter, after being home tutored for four years has decided to go back to school for the first year of her GCSE's.  Both starting tomorrow, I'll see them on Wednesday to catch up with their thoughts on this new way of schooling.

My cousin's granddaughter (aged 8) went back last week and was so pleased and spent ages explaining to grandma and granddad about all they had to do to keep safe.  The one thing that pleased her most  was that they were all still allowed to go to the loo.