Hello all friends. A big hug for every one of you and the inevitable cup of tea and a coffee for the rest of you. I cant give you biscuits to dunk, from this lappy as the pictures are on the main computer.

I am still feeling well. Its good to have rid of the blaming heartburn that was making me so ill. WHO would believe you could feel so ill because of such a small thing like stomach acid? Its the retching and straining of the muscles that does it, I`m sure of it. The throat burns, the head throbs and the stomach really hurts. I wouldnt have so many problems if it hadnt been for the stroke and haemorhage I had last year. When retching, the blood pressure goes sky high...and that brings in the migraine style headache.

Add it altogether and you get nasty unwellness in general. You cant eat, you cant drink even water or the stomach rebels and my general practitioner isnt a lot of help...he gives you gaviscon to help the acid not to form. But when throwing up all the time, it doesnt do what its supposed to do and you cant take any more than the recommended dose in case some of it has gotten into the system.

SHUT UP GILL xx your pals dont want to know everything nasty. They want to hear of the nicer things in your world... but this week has been very quiet for me.

I went to the hospital for screening today. If I was to say pink ribbons, the ladies would know what I went for, mostly the British ladies. I havent any idea if the pink ribbons stand for the same thing in the USA. Perhaps its a worldwide thing, I dont really know. Anyway, I wont get any xray results for six weeks but I cant see anything to worry about....there doesnt seem to be lumps where lumps ought not to be.Like most women, I am in the habit of checking round for myself, as advised by world health authorities the world over.

Michelle has news to tell. She may not be able to put it on her blog until she returns home from her roaming across the UK, she has gone visiting. I will leave her news for her to relate when she gets home.

I am now going to bed for a good read and an early night and its ten past ten now and I am tired out. I havent been able to sleep very well over the past few days,waking up for the bathroom every half an hour or so. Once you wake up like that, its so difficult to get back off to sleep again when your belly is going on the roundabouts at the fairground.

Speaking of fairgrounds... well, no one was but I am now...our Hull fair comes to our city early next month for a week. I dont yet know if its the third to the eleventh or the tenth to the eighteenth. I havent seen any advertisements in the local paper yet.I love going to the fairground on Walton street, Hull. I rarely go on the rides but I LOVE the smells and the sounds of the fair. And not forgetting the candyfloss and the toffee apples and brandy snap either.

Talking of candy floss...dont tell anyone but when Paul and I were young kids, we tried to make candy floss in my mum`s spin dryer. We took the sugar and the flavoured colouring used in cakes... and shoved it in her dryer. believe me , it doesnt work... nor did we sit down for our tea that night either. My mum cancelled our pocket money for the month, and we had to clean her dryer out properly...and I do mean scrub the thing. The sugar had gotten somewhat wet from the dryer and as it spun, it had congealed and it was virtually impossible to clean out.

Ooh, the secrets do come out with the blogs, dont they ? I think you have now got a lot on us both... penguin school and skipping out of it at the lunchtime ,swinging on ropes forty foot from the ground all afternoon..riding bikes through the park paddling pool, and all sorts of naughty mischief. Going skinny dipping in the river, (aged 16 yrs )putting toffee in the keyhole at the school so the caretaker ( janitor in the states ) had to scrape it all out before he could unlock the school for the day. The stories go on and on but some of them only come to mind when I start to remember them all. I was going to write remenisce but arent sure how to spell it. Its still wrong isnt it.

What sort of mischief did you guys and gals get up to when you were kids....dont try to tell us you were perfect kids becauseI dont think you will be believed by the rest of us. LOL.

I thought I said I was going to my bed ? its now half past ten and I havent even started on feeding my furballs yet.That will be another quarter of an hour... then make a cuppa and take it to the bedroom with me to drink upstairs.I will have to see to the furballs while the kettle is boiling as it will save me about five minutes.... sooooooo Goodnight and sleep tight. Loving hugs to every one of you. Gill xxx

Good afternoon to all.

Luckily for me, I am feeling somewhat better this afternoon. Not quite well enough to get day clothing on but at least well enough to use the lappy. I remained in my pjs, then if I had to go back to bed, I would be able to.

I have still been worried about Sharon. I have had a look around in the ( vain ) hope that someone would have heard from her. I now fear she is a little bit lost to us all. Hopefully not permanently.There has been so much happening with the weather over in America and I worry so much. Ike, fires and other tornados. I have friends on f/b who actually live in Texas and she had reported that Ike devastated her home area. She told me yesterday that her home was safe, her family was safe and Ike had now passed over and moved on.

I think my mumsie is getting through the worst of the shock of losing dad last year. She is choosing to come to my house on a Friday instead of a Thursday. I dont know if it will last long but for now she is coming here one day later each week.When she told me it would be a Friday, she said " for now " so things may change if she cant cope with the extra day at her bungalow. I am so glad she is managing the situation and I have been there for her through the lonely, unhappy 20 months and 4 days, 15 hours and 30 minutes. Yes, I know right down to the minutes.

its been hard for all of us.

I am now going to have a look at others profiles to see what has been happening in your own world. I`m happy to be back again. I may not post every day but I shall be online a bit more regularly now, to see what people are up to. This f/b takes a lot of my time up, there are games on there that I am totally addicted to.

love to all, big hugs, Gill xxx

Hi to everyone in my list. I have had a weird day, darent go out to choir this evening, it would disturb everyone when I had to fly out of the room to the loos.

So what has everyone been up to ? I have been on my f/b games most of the day.My telephone was misbehaving itself when I tried to phone my brother to let him know I wasnt going tonight...he is the one who takes me by car to pick up mumsie and then drives us both to choir. He comes back for us at nine p.m to bring us both home. The number rang once and then the crackles started..and I couldnt complete the call. In the end, I walked round to his house and tell him I wasnt going to the choir practice this evening, its only two minutes away from me.

If you imagine the letter H. My house is on the bottom right hand stroke of the H and Paul lives on the top left hand side, thats how near he lives to me.

I dont know whats happening to the weather...its turned cold but it has been dry at least, for a change. I know one thing...I am glad to have a few dry days, its been raining hard for the last twenty days but at least we havent had the stuff some parts of America has had recently. So many people made homeless by Ike and its so nasty for people over there. My heart goes out to you guys who live across the pond.

I am daring to have a few cereals right now. Everything I ate today made me physyically unwell but I have to eat something..cereals are the lightest thing I can think of to put inside of me. I dont know if the America frinds will know what I mean if I say I am having Nestle`s golden nuggets. They are like a popped corn but very light, so hopefully they will stay where I have put them...inside of my belly. If they do stay put, it will be the first thing that has done so all day.

My mum is fine and my gerbils are doing well too.

Paul is ok. I actually found out something about him on Sunday morning...he can crochet. paul is actually teaching a 12 year old boy how to chrochet and had said he was in need of some wool for it. I had some in the bedroom drawer and went up and got him half a dozen balls of different colours out of my stash of oddments. He has started the boy with a blanket of stripes.... I hope he has remembered how to teach the kid about cornering. For the benefit of any men who may read this..cornering is done by doing several stitches in four corners, all using the stitch they have just done on the row below. it makes it " turn " in an L shape. Every time they get to this corner, you do several stitches and it squares the blanket up as it should be done.

In fact, I have a blanket round my legs tonight, one that I made a few years ago.I was freezing until I got it out of the airing cupboard half an hour ago.It very much seems our British early winter is on its way. The nights are drawing in so quickly now, it is almost black night outside by seven p.m and we need some lights on very early.It doesnt feel as though we have had any proper summer this year, at all.Our temperatures have only reached a few days of 68 f, the rest have been very wet with heat of about 65 f but thats all. Now, we are lucky if it reaches 60 f and the wind has been making it feel even colder.

But at least we havent had to put up with the kind of weather America has had with Ike.

Anyway, my second Coronation street programme is coming on telly. I usually tape it but tonight I can watch it as it is broadcast and then I think I shall go to bed. Yes, I know its early...only nine p.m when the programme goes off but I had a nasty night last night, waking every hour or so with this horrible stomach of mine. Take good care of yourselves.

Love to all, big hugs to everybody. Gill xx

Hello to all friends.

To start with, let me apologise for not being on here for a long while. I had some trouble with main computer, and for some reason I was having trouble finding the right site on the lappy.

I have also been poorly, with several hospital visits ( appointments not emergencies ) and I have been away with my mum as well.

Ive now got myself all sorted out and online properly with the lappy so hopefully it will not be so long before I write another blog.I now have the page favourited so should find it really easily on my lappy. My search engine brought up every site but the one I actually wanted to find...now its done and I am in again..lol

also, I have a confession to make to everyone. I am now using f/b and am often found on there. Am I forgiven peeps...please.

Choir has now started again for the new season.I have eight tanks of gerbils to clean out every week too and it takes me many hours.I only get three days a week on the internet because the rest of the time mumsie is here..if I use it while she is here, it means I have my back to her all the time..and she doesnt get ANY conversation out of me. This isnt very fair as she mainly comes here for company from the Thursday to Sunday. On a night time, if she decides to go to bed early ( usually does that ) then I get to spend time online.

F/B is so very addictive, even more than yahoo is. One of the sections I use is taking me five hours to get through...every single day...I lose out on points if I dont, and then I dont get to take care of my babies...in one or two of the games I play.In a way, its almost as if those babies are live and not just a cyber game.

I have apologised for not being here so I wont go and say it again. I am now going to take a look at friends blogs and catch myself up a bit , with all your lives, trials and tribulations.

see you soon. Gill xx