What was your most recent surprise?

Sorry to hear you are ill Granya wish you better soon

That was lovely GA.
I had a lovely surprise yesterday when a friend asked me to go on holiday to her house in Portugal in May for two weeks. It took me about a nano second to say yes. It's just what I need - something to look forward to.

GA That was a lovely, touching surprise. I hope you are on the road to recovery, you seem to be having a rough time of it.

Gally, what a nice friend, it's just what you need to perk you up

What a lovely surprise GA
Gally that sounds super you will have a great time

GA - he must love you very much! I hope you are on the road to recovery.
My recent surprise was finding out about my gd winning a car!

Gally that is a lovely surprise, are you going with your friend?
I'm in almost the opposite situation: I've accepted an invitation to join my in laws at a cottage in Cornwall for a week (this Friday), but as I'm still coughing badly during the night I'm afraid I'm going to have to cancel. It just wouldn't be fair to spoil their holiday.

DD phoning me last Monday to say she'd passed her driving test
She hadn't told me the date of the test.

Gally have a great time

I was supposed to have a new fence erected at the bottom of the garden last Friday. When eventually the workmen turned up, the fence panels were still dripping wet and I said I didn't want it installing until they were dry, as the creosote would run down onto the concrete bases and also kill off the existing plants. I sent them away with a bit of a flea in their ear and asked them to get their boss to ring me, which he failed to do. I was out for most of yesterday and was steeling myself to ring the company this morning after I had tidied the kitchen. Taking out the rubbish, I bumped into my neighbour who asked me if I was pleased with the new fence. As I looked a bit bewildered he pointed down the garden and lo and behold the new fence in situ! Obviously they had done the job yesterday and I hadn't noticed. They did a brilliant job and even resited my washing line. I went hot and cold at the thoughts of me phoning up to complain and ask when they intended to get round to my fence!

The arrival of a package from a young girl I hardly know. She wanted to thank me for the help I had been giving her by email.

I won a hundred pounds on a scratch card! I never ever buy one but I was with a friend who persuaded me!

Grannyeggs I'm chuffed for you.

The cost of posting a parcel to my friend this morning,it cost more than the contents
Get well soon GA
The cakes are on you Grannyeggs well done

soop [ flowers] I was going to pay a bill with it, but then I took DH to the pub for a meal and spent half of it there !

Grannyeggs Sensible lady!

Get well soon GA - I bet that cheered you up.

Enjoy your holiday Gally

Congrats Grannyeggs - windfalls should always be spent on treats

Our most recent surprise was at 6.00 this morning being woken by the phone! DD3 was off to hospital again and wanted us to have Bertie and Persie [#hysteriasetsin] She has developed a rash, fever, aching etc etc. She went to the GP yesterday and was told to put calamine on the rash

She's home now with antibiotics and instructions to rest but still no diagnosis apart from 'It's a virus'

I had a shower at noon and made the bed and cleared up the kitchen at 1pm. I'm really impressed with myself for coping with two of the same age plus a three year old, day in, day out when I was her age because I'm blinking jiggered now

Off to see Mum next - maybe I can stay awhile if they offer me a bed.

When DD rang at lunchtime to say she had finally heard from the Motorists Insurance Bureau that they had accepted her application for compensation for injuries sustained in a road accident that was not her fault and where the driver that caused the accident just drove on without stopping. Her right arm was badly injured and she will never recover full strength and functionality in it and she also has a huge permanent unsightly scar covering about a quarter of her lower arm.

The MIB have spent the last year arguing that the accident was her fault but today's letter finally accepts her claim and that nothing she did contributed to the accident.

We have no idea how much she will get, and it doesn't really matter. It is the acceptance that, as she has said all along, the other driver caused the accident.