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The wee one is going on a school trip next week Monday - Friday, and although I am slightly apprehensive about this trip as he will be rock climbing, and doing a lot of water sports etc, it gives me great joy to see his excitement building up as Monday is getting closer to his adventure fun filled week. He is looking forward to Monday whereas I am looking forward to Friday when he is back home safe and sound.

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Son is home https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2014/05/9.gif https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2014/05/9.gif https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2014/05/9.gif

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That's brilliant Angua, you must be so relieved sending your son a :hugs: and wishing him a speedy recovery.

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Good news Angua. Always nice when we have our chicks at home with us. :)

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Good news :tu:

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That's wonderful news.:tu:

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Happy because I am going on holiday to Prague soon.

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We have put an offer in for a house, keep fingers crossed it is accepted. :) I anticipate yet another sleepless night.

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Good luck :)

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Sending positive vibes your way Tinky. :)

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Good luck Tinky.

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The wee one arrived safe and sound at his destination for his adventure week with the school. Hope he enjoys it missing him already :( the house is so so quiet without him shouting MUM can you bring me up a drink or just shouting MUM ... He will love it and hopefully will realise just how much me and his Dad do for him not that I'm complaining wish I could hear MUM or DAD getting shouted now ;) His big brother is in his room playing his PS4 so don't think he is missing him at all :LOL:

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Fingers crossed for you Tinky :)

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Good luck ;)

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That's great :)

It's a fantastic place, you'll love it

Good luck Tinky :)

We're off to Kentucky for the weekend

http://www.beaumontinn.com/index.html

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Upgraded my contract tonight. Ill be getting the S5 SIM free, so I've gone onto a sim only deal. Unlimited mins and texts with 4GB of data on a 4G plan for £23.00 a month :)

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Nice :)

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Thanks, I heard it was beautiful

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Sounds pretty cool :) :tu:

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That's really good to hear heero fingers crossed it comes good. :)

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Sounds interesting heero. I hope it comes off and that you will be able to treat yourselves to lots of new toys. :D

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It's hospital day tomorrow :) - I may even get to see my feet again. That'd be nice.

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Good luck tomorrow dilli.

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Enjoy Kentucky

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Best wishes Dill

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Good Luck for tomorrow dilli. :)

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Good luck

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It is, enjoy

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Bitter bitte

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My happy thought..

At work, my job seems to be increasingly revolving around Macs, OSX and iOS support. As a result of this, I've been given permission to book myself on a course so I can become an Apple Certified Technical Coordinator . A course that will cost the Uni £2,300. Just need the company to return my calls now.

Also, another happy thought.

The other day, I lost a very nice set of Sennheiser earphones. Searched the house high and low, and didn't find them. Last night, I went online and ordered replacements, then moved my quilt and they fell out. Cancelled my order, which will save another few quid.

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Well I didn't escape the dreaded cast - but I thought I'd try something new :)

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Well at least your cast looks very colourful dilli.:)

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Take it you did not get to see your feet again dilli :( but love the cast sock ;)

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It's not a sock - that's the cast ;)

I saw my feet for a couple of minutes which was nice :)

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It does look like material though doesn't it? - it starts off like that then goes hard when it's dunked in water before it's applied.

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having gone through all the colours and had over 90 casts now I thought i'd try something new :)

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A very nice colourful cast it is dilli :)

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Sorry to hear you had to have your tootsies covered up again but (silver cloud mode engaged) if you can just find someone producing a stage version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I am sure you could get employment as the Head Umpalumpa. Could be fun. :D

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I am more than happy to say that although our offer for the new property was not accepted we have come to an agreement, we are over the moon. :hyper::hyper::hyper::cleader::cleader::hyper::cle ader::cleader::cleader:

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Excellent :)

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I could play a candy cane - I'm that good an actor I tell you :)

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Congratulations Tinky.:tu:

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So pleased for you Tinky, wish I could move but let's just say that's a story for another day ;)

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Thank you for your kind wishes Dilli, Den and Weenie, this may be our last move ever, because as you may know we are no spring chickens. It is a new build, so no worries about the roof, wiring, boiler etc etc etc and we can get rid of the car because we are in the center of town, also no garden to speak of, so no grass cutting, what's more to want? :)

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Congratulations Tinky that sounds idyllic. :)

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Airplane landing strip? ;)

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Hope you're happy there :)

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Wishing you many happy years in you new home ... :) it sounds all you could wish for extremely happy for you Tinky.

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Excellent news ;)

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Good luck and all the best in your new home Tinky, sounds great. :)

And Dilli, 90 casts!! Oh my God.

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When I was born I had what looked like a bruise on the back of my head, about the size of a 20p piece. As I got older and my hair darkened and it became hidden from view. My parents told me it was a birthmark and after a few years it was covered by a patch of white pigment-less hair. The rest of my hair went very dark and in school my nickname was Painter as the white bit looked like a blob of paint and I hated it.

When I hit 20 and started to go bald the only good thing about it was I hoped the bald spot would eventually spread cause the white bit to fall out. This happened obviously but I didn't realise the birthmark was still there, hidden all these years. It was really noticeable as it was the size of a small lemon but it didn't bother me too much as it was a case of 'out of sight out of mind'.

Fast forward about 10 years and after shaving my head with electric clippers I started wet-shaving it to get it completely bald but I was worried about cutting in to the birthmark. I went to see my GP who told me it wasn't a birthmark but a large mole. I panicked as up until then I used sunbeds a lot and my doctor advised me to never do so again and I complied. As for cutting in to it he just advised me to be careful and go around it if I could and I managed it fine up until about a year ago when I sliced in to it really badly. I went back to my GP and he scheduled me in to have the whole thing removed.

Phase one was in September, because it was so large they couldn't do it in a single sitting to they cut out about 40% and left it to heal.

Today I went back for the 2nd phase and they got rid of just about all of it and because of how large the remains were the stitches are a bit firm and now the right side of my head is so tight I feel like Tom Jones after his 9th facelift. Still, happy it's all been taken care of and once the stitches come out I can get on with wet-shaving my head properly with no worries about cutting in to it :)

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I missed a text this morning to say my new PC has been dispatched. So could be here tomorrow or next Tuesday morning.

Downside is I didn't expect it till the end of next week so now got to move a lot of stuff from this comp to the external drive.

Can't wait though. :)

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Know exactly how you feel!

:tu:

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We're looking forward to a very rare kid free weekend - our eldest is staying at his nan's and our youngest is in respite for a couple of nights. As much as well love them both it's great to have a couple of free evenings. :)

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Every little helps dear chap.:)

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My son comes home today from his Primary 7 school trip, the house has been so quiet the last 5 day's without him, cannot wait till 2.30 today ... :) missed him so much.

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I do like today's set of happy thoughts. So :tu: to you all.

My 'happy' today is getting free tickets to the Ideal Homes Exhibition in June. First time it has been held at the newish Events Centre near to where we live so am looking forward to see what it will be like.

Now if only I could get free tickets to the new Sea Life centre that would really make my day. Seeing my Grandson's face when he is surrounded by fish swimming all around him is something I am looking forward to. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2014/05/8.gif

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The wee one is HOME :cleader: he really enjoyed his adventure week. Glad all my chicks are home and under one roof. :)

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Cool :)

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Got taken out for lunch..This retirement lark could be a good thing..:)

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I started talking to an old friend who I used to go to school with :)

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Well that's good - it can be nice to keep in touch.

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That's nice, it's lovely to catch up with old friends :)

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Yep, although she couldn't remember me at first, but she's slowing getting there :)

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Hope your friendship does not get broken again enjoy all the catching up ... ;)

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. Oh it wasn't really broken, basically it's because I left the school we were at to transfer to mainstream education. (I went to a special needs school at first) :)

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Bank problems sorted, well for now anyway :erm:

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Excellent :)

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I managed to get to my 'blind' group for the first time in months today - Nice :)

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That's great dilli.

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Happy to hear you got there and had a nice time. :tu:

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Osem Jnr has been selected to sit on the policy making panel of the national charity he supports. :)

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That's wonderful news.:tu:

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That is pretty cool :) :tu:

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Excellent news dilli :)

You must be so happy and proud of Osem Jnr, well done Osem Jnr :)

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An update on a previous moan re Prince tickets.

I received an email from Eventim informing me that some more Prince tickets were available - they were the higher priced tickets in the front section, but since I would have had to pay more for basic tickets from Seatwave and other sites like that, I have bought two.

Yay!!!

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That's excellent news Hugh as it must have been quite a letdown last time when you tried to get some Prince tickets.

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Thanks guys, yes we're really happy for him and it's all great stuff for the CV when the times comes. :)

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Pat on the back once again Osem, you must be a very proud Dad.:)

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Fantastic, really chuffed for you Hugh :) excellent news ...

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@ Osem.

Great to hear how Osem no 1 son is doing. Yet another virtual pat on the back for him from me. You have 2 great sons Osem and are rightly proud of them. :)

@ Hugh.

I bet you have a great time Hugh, I would love to be there myself, if only I didn't get claustrophobic in crowds. < Jo sighs wistfully> :)

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Enjoy :)

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Good work

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The birds in full voice today, woke up to the beautiful sound of them all chirping away, what a lovely way to be woken up. :)

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I woke up grey skys and the sound of rain. Normally a depressing sound but as we planted a shed load of plants over the last couple of days the rain is truly welcome to-day. :)

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I'm loving my Samsung Galaxy S5, I'm still playing with it :)

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You will have to put some photos on here jo when your garden is in full bloom.

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On impulse we decided to book a four day stay in Brixham Monday to Thursday next week for us, so we can try and chill out prior to (hopefully) moving house. :)

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Brixham is a beautiful place Tinky and our family have fond memories of going there before.

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I bet he missed you too
;)

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Enjoy ;)

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Enjoy ...

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Thank you Den, Nashville & Weenie, been there before it certainly is a lovely place very near Paignton and Torquay which we love. We will stop off at Totnes on the way up and have a bite to eat, hope the weather is kind. :)

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Enjoy your break tinkster :)

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Thank you Daddykins :hugs:

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We had relations that used to stay in Ottery St Mary and we loved going there and spent some days. In Exmouth Dawlish and Sidmouth and all these places were beautiful

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Kind of a happy thought for someone else.

I have a couple of tickets going spare, each admitting two people, to the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair. The fair runs from 6th to 15th June (one of the tickets is also for the Preview Day on 5th June) so if you are into Art & Antiques I can highly recommend this prestigious fair if only to have your mind boggled by some of the price tags. :D

If anyone fancies visiting Olympia please send me a PM.

You can see the blurb at http://www.olympia-art-antiques.com/homepage

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That is so kind and lovely of you joglynne I'm sure someone will take the offer up soon. :)

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Got Natalie a new dress and an iPad case from the CathKidson factory shop in St Neots - She's well happy :)

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It's always nice to get presents but like you dilli I like giving just as much and to see the delight on the face of the person in receipt. Glad Natalie is well chuffed :)

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One must keep the OH happy dilli.:)

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Sunny day's, washing out on line hopefully it won't rain.

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They are predicting a nice sunny and warm week from Wednesday Weenie.

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I fancy a day out tomorrow - I know...... I think I'll go to Cambridge :)

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:Sun: :hyper: :)

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Have a lovely day :)

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They even made me a cuppa when I got there last time :)

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Just found out that my spine is fused in 3 places (lower, mid at top) and I have Spondylitis arthritis (Probably due to Crohn's). :cleader:

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Addenbrookes l gather dilli.:)

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l am sorry to hear about new condition peanut and my thoughts are with you as you seem to be so unlucky with your health.:hugs:

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My second home :)