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Have a good weekend Heero, Hope your mother is keeping ok,

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Thanks Den. I've looked on the rail planner and there's no disruption reported for my trip. Once I'm on the Riviera Express at Reading there's no more connections until Penzance. High pressure seems to be moving in for Sunday so hopefully nice weather.

Cheers Nash. Mum's somewhat confused these days and not too mobile but she knows I'm coming down to see her and is looking forward to it. She likes my cooking as she doesn't do much herself these days.

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To see her happy, makes you happy,

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Wishing you a safe journey heero.

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Cheers weenie.

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Personally I would rather endure the 9 hours drive than getting a train.

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If driving were an option (it's only 5 1/2 hours;)) I'd take it but at the moment I have a block of rust in my garage pretending to be a car. :(

Anyhow out just before 7 this morning to walk to the station with a rucksack and (heavy) tote bag. Train is at 7:36.

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Doom Beta available to all this weekend

http://bethsoft.com/en-gb/news/play-...ta-april-15-17

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Is that the 'In' brigade's new Brexit analysis? :D

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My sister got a job today! Working at Morrisons on the checkouts. Working 10-7 Saturdays. She worked out that she'll be taking home just short of £250 a month, so not a bad start for a 17 year old. She's thrilled about it, as we all are for her. She's been doing odd bits of work since she was 16, so she's not your stereotypical teen who wants to be lazy.

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Sitting having a good night watching some country music video's Excellent, This makes me happy,

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That excellent Mark.:tu:

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I have good news for a change - just had a scan I don't have gall stones just a bit of grit - yay :)

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That's excellent news dilli as l have quite a lot of gallstones before l had a open cholecystectomy to take it out about 5 years as l would be in a fair bit of pain before that when the gallstones were present so l am glad its good news for you.:tu:

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Excellent Marc I bet your sister will earn more during the summer months as well in the Christmas period, as I assume Morrisons will be similar to Sainsburys. At Sainsburys there is always overtime during these periods sometimes I could more than double my hours.

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Pleased you are posting some good news, take care dilli :hugs:

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I have some good news of my own well actually some fantastic news. It is very much looking like hubby will be getting what he requested and redeployed very soon, we are just waiting for the paper work to confirm what was said. Thank goodness he is no longer on the Tupe transfer list. Hubby had a meeting with his manager and HR on Friday and they confirmed that he will be getting redeployed with the same pay and hours etc all I can say is phew that was a hard few months of not knowing and I'm for one glad it is over for us but can't help but feel sorry for his work mates as most have not been as fortunate as us.

I owe a big thank you to our eldest son for his knowledge in employment law and letter writing skills.

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I washed my vertical blinds last week and I was not happy with the result, so I took them down again today and run them under the shower and lay them on a big towel to take the water of them and put them back up on the window, Thank the Lord they are back to normal

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Congrats weenie, bet that's a massive relief.

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Yes it is Mark and thank you :)

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Excellent News Weenie. Glad to hear it.

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Oh nash it was a real worry for us as hubby ain't as young as he used to be and he did not fancy that Tupe transfer at all, he would rather have went out the door with his redundancy. Just so glad that it's all worked out for us I'm counting my blessing even as I type :) Happy Happy household and I'm very blessed that things have went in our favour.

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Worry over for you . Great News ;)

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Episode VII arrived today, but watch THFC play instead.

But will watch tomorrow.

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Does that mean you'll have to stop eating grit now :(

Glad it's good news matey

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Great news, pleased for you and yours

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Thank TD :)

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Good news indeed. Celebrations are in order.

:tu:

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Waiting for the Chinese to open, our treat tonight King prawns in batter, sweet and sour sauce, kitchen special with noodles, prawn crackers... mmmm yummy! :)

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Just been invited to friends house in Peebles tomorrow for lunch, our friend is such a good baker their is always some mouth watering delight at the end of our meal so it goes without say that we have gladly accepted this offer. It will also be good for the wee one to get away and I do hope she has made her Rum Baba's as they are lovely but then again so is her fat free Victoria sponge.

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Making us all jealous Weenie,

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All this food is making me hungry but alas toast will have to do for now.:)

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Overjoyed. Years ago when I was very irresponsible with money, I let a debt build up. Today, the last repayment on the debt was made. Took me 3 years but I have cleared the debt. So pleased.

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I love being debt free, the closest I come is my credit card, but I pay that off monthly.

I have set a figure in my account say £3,000 and below that I'm in the red.

Its a great buffer which goes up as funds go up.

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That's excellent news Mark.:tu:

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Excellent, always nice to be debt free and to keep it that way, if you have a dodgy credit rating(you can check) you should look into improving it.

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We were out earlier seeing the Royal Scot steam train 46100 and what a wonderful sight she is.:)

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Osem Jnr. has just won a high achievement scholarship which ought to ease his financial pain a little. :)

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My understanding is you need some debit to get a good rating.

i.e have a credit card and I pay it off everytime.

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Mine also, it is a good idea to have a credit card and pay it off every month to build a good or clear a bad credit rating.

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A credit card is only a good idea if the user consistently pays it off each month as in the wrong hands it can have pretty bad consequences in my opinion.

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Absolutely, there are alot of irresponsible people about when it comes to money.

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Excellent news Osem, give him our congratulations. Well Done young man. :tu:

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l can only echo those same thoughts.

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Well Done Osem

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Cheers guys, it's actually worth quite a bit more than I thought - over £2k so it's going to be very helpful indeed. :)

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Indications are that I get to go home today - yay :)

Then back to my normal dialysis routine tomorrow.

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Excellent :)

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Brilliant dilli, there really is no place like home take care :)

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Good news Dill, Take Card

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l phoned Virgin Media retentions department this morning and had a good reasoned discussion with someone there and after a bit of bartering we have re-contracted for a further 12 months saving £31 per month on our current contract with them.:)

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The kids and wife got guest tickets for Shawn Mendes at the Hammersmith Apollo and then went backstage to meet him last night :)

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Saving £31 pm???!!!

Fancy breaking that down for us? I've just realised it's over a year since I got shot of our old Samsung STB for a SH so I should be able to negoatiate a new better deal.

Second thoughts, maybe it'd be best to post your answer in the relevant thread rather than here. Cheers. :tu:

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Routine!!!

I like my routine so I'm happily sitting here on the dialysis machine at Hinchingbrooke getting back into my routine the nice warm welcome I got was good too

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Our monthly bill was just rising and rising Osem so we phoned retentions and said we are thinking of cancelling our services and he asked why so l explained to him why we were considering this and upon that he asked if we had received offers from elsewhere which we have then he said he was going to offer to reduce our Big Kahuna Sports Bundle which was nearing £130 a month to £99 a month for 12 months as they don't want to lose loyal long term customers to which l replied can l have this in writing and thus a new 12 month contract starts in June and once that ends he said to phone them up again.

Until l see the bill later in June l don't exactly know the breakdown of things but once l do l will post it but my advice is if one is unhappy and their contract is coming to a end then phone up retentions and tell them you are thinking of leaving and l am pretty sure they will offer customers a much better deal rather then lose custom to rivals.

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Cheers Den glad you got a result. Our package is not as extensive as yours and only costs around £75pm but a reduction of almost 25% is good going.
:tu:

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Well as we don't drink , smoke or do a lot of other things our entertainment is generally at home most of the time unless our family come down here or we go up to their place so yes although it seems quite a bit when it is split into 3 then its not too bad forking out that per month and even better when one gets a price reduction on their contract.

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And again, be polite. Don't call and demand money off, I always say when I call for a relative is that they need to be careful with expenditure, they always look at the best deal for her, in fact they seem happy to offer her a good deal because apart from once she has never missed a payment to Virgin.

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That was great news Den. What a great saving, ;) Nash

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Just back from Whitby Social Club, Elsemere Port, Fantastic country concert , The whole show was brilliant, Marty Haggard the son of Merle is an outstanding singer, he is actually called after Marty Robbins, as his father was a great Marty Robins fan, Just a wee bit of knowledge for you

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Well the wife and #1 son very much enjoyed their all singing, all dancing, 3D, 4k, super duper sound etc. etc. performance of Captain America. Apparently it was awesome so it was money well spent.

Meanwhile, I treated #2 son to his favourite fish and chips in the pub. It was really nice to share what for most people would be a regular occurrence with a grown up child. I hadn't told him about it so when we walked into the pub it was lovely seeing him all excited about his treat and then tucking into his food - apart from the garden peas that is. He will eat them when pushed but isn't all that keen so when I prompted him to try them he took a mouthful and washed them straight down with a mouthful of apple juice. No chewing, they didn't even touch the sides! :) It was like watching him swallowing his various daily tablets but on a much larger scale and to be fair, he finished the lot without any further prompting.

It was so nice doing something a bit more grown up with him - the sort of thing dads ought to do with their adult children but the sort of thing which is difficult because of his difficulties. Luckily the pub was quiet, we got a nice booth at the back and he was on his best behaviour - I even managed to have a sort of 'conversation' with him about the food etc. I was only later that I started thinking about how much I've missed out on as he's grown up but I've decided I'm going to make more effort to take him out and share some boys time as best as we can. He'll be going away to college in a few months and although I'm pretty sure he'll enjoy it, I will worry about him and miss him hugely.

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Nice family story Osem

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Yes Osem they grow up fast and I'm pleased you had such a good day with #2 son you both seem to have really enjoyed some father & son time. I'm also pleased that Mrs O and #1 son enjoyed their day also, both your boy's are very lucky indeed to have such wonderful and caring parents.

My happy thoughts today are: The wee one is getting really excited about his China trip with the school when he woke up this morning he came running down the stairs and said "Mum that's two nights in a row I have had a dream about China" bless him.

Hubby started his new job title and place of work today through redeployment. I know it will be different for him as he is used to working alone and now he is in a squad although his main duties will still be driving just a JCB along with other vehicles ie Hiab etc. I'm just so pleased that he got what he wanted and away from vital services as the CEO at his place of work seems set on outsourcing vital services and it's the men who will suffer IMO at least now he is no longer linked to this service. I do feel so sorry for the men who is still under threat of Tupe as it's not nice especially the not knowing but that is the trouble the men seem to be kept in the dark. I'm just thankful that we a no longer living under that dark cloud of the unknown in regards to hubbys work.

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l can only echo the same thoughts as nash and weenie on Osem and his family.

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Just got my AA Gold membership in and it has went up in price quite a bit from £18.76 a month to £30.34. Membership includes Roadside £8.68, Relay £8.36 & Family cover £13.21 amount to be collected on 30/06/2016 is £30.34 then ongoing amount to be collected monthly thereafter £30.23 your renewal includes an increase in the rate of insurance premium tax from 6% to 9.5% which came into effect on 1st November 2015 :shocked: so I phoned them and told them to cancel this cover after a few minutes of talking to Anne she said would you stay with us if I lowered the payments to £20.00 a month with the same cover as you have now and I said yes. Job well done as every penny counts hubby will be pleased :)

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After passing Mod2 in March I'd been a very nervous biker.

This weekend, the helmsley TT and then onto Whitby everything just clicked, overtaking, leaning properly on corners, bit of filtering.

Got off the bike grinning from ear to ear

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Well done. :tu:

I'd had only 2-3 claims in over 20 years of AA membership membership and as they did with you, they tried it on with a massive price hike 3-4 years ago. Suffice it to say that the whole thing was handled very badly and in the end I cancelled my membership. I subsequently negotiated virtually equivalent cover with my car insurance at no extra cost on my premiums. My insurers were evidently more keen to keep my business than the AA were so offered the cover for nothing.

PS I can see why weenie Jnr. is excited. :)

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I think I may have been lucky Osem or maybe they have learned a lesson with losing good customers.

Sun out, washing out, house work done except for the wee one's room and that will take 5 minutes at the most so a good start to the day. Think I'm going to just chill out today with my book in the garden.

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Well we are getting ready for the weekend as l have two of my brothers coming down from up the line so we are just making sure everything is sorted out before they arrive.:)

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Hope you all enjoy your weekend Den, also just you chill out Weenie, I love nice sunny days when the sun shines in and the housework and windows are all done

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After several gloomy wet days the sun is finally out. :Sun:

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Yes heero it is sunny here also and has been for the last few days thank goodness.

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Not here it ain't as its been a very gloomy morning down here.

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We have had lovely weather almost all week, But I believe this is going to change .

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Its going to turn colder from tomorrow sadly nash.

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Have to keep a woolly handy Den , Nash

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Yes most certainly nash as my family seem to buy me several woolly hats a year so l certainly have got plenty to wear.

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The dialysis centre just told me I have a very positive outlook on life which makes me feel fluffy.

Not %100 sure how right they are though ;)

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Being positive does help though dilli when one is in a constant battle with their own ongoing health problems l find.

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May I 2nd their views dilli as I think the positive outlook along with strength and courage you show is truly amazing. Take care :)

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I Agree with Weenie, You are a fantastic person for what you go through

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Indeed dilli sets a very fine example to a good many of us.

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Looks like another good session with 'Natalie' coming up:)

As for me being strong I can tell you I have my days off :(, but in the end you do just need to go plodding on ;)

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I think you fully deserve your relatively few moments of anger, frustration or negativity. ;)

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:eeek: I was under the impression that this is a family forum!!! :confused:

:naughty:

;)

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Not sure if this is the correct thread, but 2 job offers do I go back in to the bakery business side or go and sit on a forklift?

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It has to be whatever you are happy with the most Devil but good luck whatever way you decide.

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That happened to me once devilin and I sat down with a pro and cons list on both job offers i.e pay, holidays, job security etc in the end I chose the one with better pay and less hours because at the time that suited my needs with a young family.

Good luck with the decision you have to make and well done on the job offers.

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Now you know you really just want one of these:

Aliens Life Size Facehugger Foam Prop Replica Yours for $64.99

Just drop it on your sleeping MIL for instant effect. :D

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One of y friends has one of these and he threw it at me before I knew he had it one day - all I can say is I guess it had the desired effect as I screamed like a little girl ;) - nearly had an accident too :disturbd::shocking:

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As if to prove it never seems to end I'm afraid I'm back in hospital with chest pains... So far they are thinking angina but are worried that /may/ lead to another heart attack. Oh and I've got to have another angiogram but looking on the bright side at least it can't kill my kidneys this time round so all is good :)

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Oh no dilli. Hope nothing too serious, how you can stay cheerful is beyond me.

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Ditto to what Mark has said. Hugs and best wishes to you dilli :ghugs:

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l hope things improve for you soon dilli as you have certainly been to hell and back lately and my thoughts and wishes are with you old bean.

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Decided to go with the bakery job, back to mixing again. So all is well and something I am well qualified in as well.

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Good luck devil.

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Yep start back tomorrow night for the first of 3 12 hour shifts, dreading it as I always wake early normally. Have not done nights for over 10 years.

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Yes l remember doing nights before my illnesses took over and it took a little while to get used to night shifts.

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Good Luck in your new job devilin.

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excellent :)

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It's oddly relaxing to be in the same ward as the last three times I've been hospital.

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I got "recognised" and chatted up in the supermarket today by "family". Very good for the ego though I'd better not let the OH know. ;)

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Yes they might throw their dummy out of the pram old bean.;)

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There's laws about cradle snatching. :LOL:

No, my generation.

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Thinking of you Dill, Sorry for the delay as I had to get a new pass word. As I am on W10. Hello Everyone back again,

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Just took a few steps - first time in a long time now THAT is something to make me happy. Only managed it with my walking sticks and Natalie'shelp but I feel like I've accomplished something today :)

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Well Done Dill So pleased for you,