Afternoon all :-x Had a quite New Years didnt even drink couldnt be bothered I reckon its just another day. Miss cant talk about it hear to many button pushers around!! Hi Darki, I posted a few times on yr thread on CW I lost my dear Mum to breast cancer she was 40 and I was 5.  She had 1 breast off than found a lump in the other one and didnt tell anyone as she didnt want to have male doctors probing at her she was a very modest my mum was...

Hello kezza, this must be another ID, is it?  I am rather confused about IDs at present, but so glad you did join us there.

Golly I don't blame your mum, it is a harrowing business indeed.

Grief can be such a lonely thing can't it.  Nothing cures it except maybe time bluntens it a bit.

The loss of a mother before her time and one's children must be the very very hardest of all losses I can think of.

Of course there are others, but I think these deaths hang on forever.

It's warm down here too, but thankfully we rarely get the heat you get up there.  No humidity either.

I think I have known maybe four days in 16 years that went to 35˚.  Not like in Sydney where the heat would soar to 40˚ and stay there, dropping at night to 26˚

Oh never again 😞

Yes Darki you got that right re grief..........time does blunt it a little......but one can still have horrendous days

Luky you with all that marvellous cooler weather.....is a bit warm up here this arvo:(

Evening all!

Hi JVH thanks for the tip will pick some watermelon up tomorrow. Makes sense! OH loves fruit too so will welcome it.
Sadly you are right too with the fires and how they start. It is unfathomable!

Darki you are very wise and sensitive. So right too with your words on grief. Admire you greatly for your help in the cancer thread!

Kezza you are a real battler! JVH made a good point regards not all nannies being good ones. Some mothers too so at least C is lucky to have you!! You are a great and loving mum which is the best gift!
No I don't have a second dog the little white one is my mums. She had been abused as a pup and wouldnt come near us for the longest time. She is much better now and so loving but extremely timid still. We have come a long way with her but a long way to go!

Another hot one tomorrow but I love the heat! Going to the shops to buy a b/day present for the OH (he's hard to buy for!)

Morning morning all and heading out to get stuck into the work before it gets too hot..........hope everyone has a pleasant day.

Catch up with all you good people later on for a natter.........Miss hope the OH has a wonderful birthday and do hope the watermelon does help somewhat

Lovely to hear the little pup you got for Mumma is coming along:)

Good morning 🙂

Yes horrendous days do happen.  Some years ago I lost a very dear close friend.  We had raised our children together and worked our butts off until they all finally grew up and left home.

Then she became ill and for ten years we were back and forth to hospitals and doing our best to keep ahead of the dreadful Golden Staph infection she had.

In the end it won and she died.  It was 34 years of work and worry and even now after 9 years I find I miss her good sense and conversation.  Her humour and intense interest in everything that crossed her path.

You never get over losing someone you really value they leave a gap that's for sure.

Oh JV we are so lucky with the cool weather, although yesterday did go to 28˚ and stayed there.  Usually we get a cool change about 3pm but not yesterday.  Still I have known hotter weather, so I don't make too much noise about it :^O

Missnogal, what a dreadful thing it is when a little dog is brutalised.  It gives me nightmares sometimes when I hear of such things.  Lucky pup it has fallen into a loving and patient family.

Happy gardening JV and don't go getting boiled 🙂

Might get out there today too unless it rains, which it looks like it might do.

Afternoon all :-x Had a quite New Years didnt even drink couldnt be bothered I reckon its just another day. Miss cant talk about it hear to many button pushers around!! Hi Darki, I posted a few times on yr thread on CW I lost my dear Mum to breast cancer she was 40 and I was 5.  She had 1 breast off than found a lump in the other one and didnt tell anyone as she didnt want to have male doctors probing at her she was a very modest my mum was...

Button pushers... tell me about it 😉

Back in folks and going to have to have a rest very humid and hot....catch up with all you good people later on:)

Hello everyone!

Hi JVH got the watermelon for OH but no b/day present (not for want of trying my feet are killing me lol). He is feeling better tho still not right. Tomorrow is his actual b/day and I did manage to buy a card.

Hi darki so sorry you lost a dear friend too! I find really true friends are few and far between and makes losing them like losing a family member when you are so close to them. Hope you managed a good rest today!

Hi kezza hope you are coping with the heat your way and enjoying the holidays with C home!

Dame thinking of you!

Hot again today. Driving home today was held up due to an accident and learned later it had been a fatality. Makes me so sad a family will be so distraught this evening. Awful! Makes one think of the important things in life.

Hi Miss and glad to hear the OH is feeling a bit better...........i go incognito when shopping loose clothes and a pair of crocs......look a sight but can walk for hours in them......and the old ones get relegated to the yard.......marvellous for gardening in.....unfeminine as anything but dont get sore feet

Men are very hard to buy for.......what about a lovely bottle of top shelf scotch some 15 18 and 21 year stuff about.

What about a red balloon gift voucher one can get balloon flights trips to live shows etc.

Long since gave up buying for my son easier to put money in their account and then they can get what they want.....still indulge the angel with jewellery 🙂 and she loves all the goodies of course lol very girlie:)

Dame would love to hear how you are:)

Waves to Kezza and everyone else that drops in:)