Here we are again
Happy as can be
All good friends and jolly good company.
Welcome. 
Chaos That is worrying news regarding your daughter. I hope with all my heart that the results are favourable.
I'm logging off. Tomorrow is care home visiting day. Followed by coffee and treat in the Royal and a whizz around Tesco.
The sun is shining. We've had a decent shower of rain and the grass is growing as I type. 
Take good care, one and all. 
Thank you for the crossed fingers and wishes. It is 2 years since the original problems, so we have been "watching & waiting" long enough for hope that the neurologists suspicions were wrong. Apparently, though, it is not unusual for diagnosis to take several years!
Hopefully its all going to settle again.
charleygirl ...Normans issue is that his tummy gets splashed. I am guessing that is not your gripe 
Phew I’ve made it at last! I’ve popped my head round the door of this new well almost new kitchen a couple of times but not had the chance to linger, so am way out of touch with goings on I’m afraid.
Loved the kitten photos kitty, although more of a dog person at heart I do have happy memories of the various cats we had, including the adopted stray who had her kittens in the children’s dressing up box!
Aren’t these youngsters so sophisticated nowadays greyduster We never really had the money to eat out when our tribe were all at home, I don’t think many folk did in those days. But all the grandchildren have grown up accustomed to eating out and can order confidently and politely.
I see a couple of unfamiliar names. or maybe old kitcheners reincarnated, either way, it’s good to “meet” you.
But always good to see familiar names too, especially of course dear soop who, judging by the lovely old photo clearly comes from very good stock!
It’s been a full on week here with 2 gds, 11 and 9 here for a few days. We’ve had lots of fun with them and have dispatched them home with a couple activities pending for next time, always a good note to finish on. They always want to bake but this time the request was “please can we not do biscuits or buns, can we do a big cake?” I agreed but by the time I’d blinked they been on t’interweb researching and presented me with some very ambitious ideas. Now I’m no star baker and the sight of these excited and hopeful wee faces.....well we baked, constructed and decorated and I have to say I was well pleased with the result. It took me completely out of my comfort zone but I really didn’t want them to be disappointed. We negotiated a compromise or two in their plans, and they were involved at every stage. I invited a friend of mine to come round to share in the cake cutting ceremony. All in all a very enjoyable experience, but I fear I may have set the bar a little high... how do I follow this next time? I’m afraid I’m unashamedly showing off by leaving a photo of the masterpiece!
This lovely time was slightly marred by hearing news today that a friends cancer has been found to be inoperable with an even poorer prognosis than was previously thought. A couple we’ve only got to know recently who are so similar in age and interests to ourselves, it’s a shock to realise how quickly life is going to change for them. A reminder to cherish every precious day we two have together.
Well I’d best have an early night, dd4 is coming for the weekend. I hear she is bringing laundry that needs the services, depending on the weather, of my washing line/tumble drier and also a tent that needs airing off! Next week we have dd2’s dog coming, an activity we usually enjoy as shhh don’t tell anyone she is our favourite grand dog! However she’s taken to absconding when out with the dog walker so we may be much more limited in how and where we walk her. On balance it was probably easier having said dd’s children this past week!
Another pleasant day though sunshine is in short supply, but still our holiday makers seem to be still happy bunnies!!
GQ I know what you mean coming back here after a mere few days break and its almost as if the whole world as made a visit..........just goes to show the most favoured place to be!
What a superb masterpiece concocted by very eager and helpful hands,quite a cake cutting ceremony I am sure.
Am so sorry to hear the sad news about your fairly new friends
indeed it does pull you up sharply in your tracks,knowing how much their lives are going to change........almost overnight.
A dear friend of mine thought she had emphysema and has been treated for such for at least 3/4 years,a new GP and a rushed few Hospital visits with scans and all the rest,a biopsy taken of her lung was not conclusive,so on thursday she goes to theatre with the warning,if it is Cancer she will lose her lung right there.
Not a very pleasing prospect when over 80......worse still having NOT been treated all these years does not bode well.
Sadly almost daily we hear these tales.We do need to count our daily blessings.
Seems such activities with all your many grandchildren are keeping you all well occupied............I wish you all a grand day.
Keep smiling.......... its the best tonic.
Hello the kitchen. A quieter day here today. I think yesterday’s exercise might have been beneficial. When we came home I struggled to get out of the chair and stand up all evening. (I might have been better had GS not commandeered one of my walking poles to use for everything from nettle bashing, jousting, hitting a golf ball that DH found in his pocket, and poking the aforementioned dead hare - I didn’t really want it back after that!). This morning, the hip has been mysteriously trouble free. I’m sure it won’t last but I intend to make hay while the sun shines!
Gq I am sorry to hear about your friend - I know from experience what an awful blow it is to hear there is nothing more that can be done for someone you love.
That is a truly splendid cake. Your girls did very well. There is some subterfuge going on here at the moment, as the boy has asked if he and I can make Grandad a birthday cake for next month, so there has been much hushed conversing about coming over to do it when he is at the football, and what to put on it. It will never happen, of course. He is far too busy doing other stuff and will probably only have time to squeeze in placing a candle or two, but his heart’s in the right place! I think he has been overenthused by watching Bake Off - The Professionals, which is his favourite TV programme at the moment.
Chaos I hope there is better news of your daughter. I didn’t properly read all the posts yesterday or I would have commented.
Anno I share a love of mussels with your GS - he clearly has excellent tastes! And hang the expense!
Well I am supposed to be ironing, so I had better get on with it! I will catch up later.
Bless you, one and all. I have just returned home and have now to return to the watercolour that I'm hoping will be pleasing...eventually. 
You lot haven't been sitting around twiddling your fingers...nothing new there, then. I have however seen a scrumptious looking cake. Any going spare? If not, why not? I would so enjoy a very large slice with my coffee.
I shall return. Can't say when. Hope that it will be later this afternoon.
Greyduster possibly the latter.
Oh dear, darling Lola is posing a few problems that I shall overcome. I have made a fresh sketch. A new day tomorrow. I've a feeling that the painting will be successful.
So sorry not to have more time to spend with you lot We've been trying to order "talking books" online. Any normal person would have achieved what we set out to do in a flash. It's taken us ages and ages...and the washing machine refuses to empty itself...so, all the washing is peering through the window and begging to be released.
Please forgive me for dashing off. I hope to have more time to spend with you tomorrow.
grannyqueenie I also hope that your friend's scan isn't as awful as you suspect it might be.
callgirl1 I like the music of Joan Baez. It has a haunting quality. As for instructions of any kind...I call MacSporran's name in a plaintiff voice...and he steps in to help me out.
NonnaW The open air concert would greatly appear to both of us. I really like the sound of an open-air picnic that other pals contribute to. I hope that the weather is kind to you. It's tiddling with rain in bonnie Kintyre.
Can I please hide in here again?
We got ap hone call last night from one of my brothers to say our other brother had 'run someone over' and was being taken to hospital. 
Turns out that a drunk man had appeared between two cars, hit the front wing of DB's car rolled up the bonnet, smashed the windscreen, went onto the roof and off the back. When DB got out of the car, the drunk was sitting in the middle of the road looking bewildered. He was taken to hospital for a check up and is ok but DB's bp was high so he went to hospital as well. It came down some but not enough and he has been told to go and see his GP this week.
We still have middle daughter, her husband and her 2 daughters - but they are going tomorrow. Tonight we have 2 more DGC so our children can go out for a meal together. I love that they want to do that but wish they had their own babysitters!!
We came downstairs this morning having left all five cats in the kitchen, with all means of escape closed, and came down to find all 5 of them (including 3 kittens) sitting on the patio wanting to come in. 
I think I'll go for a lie down now.
Nonna, I hope your weather is better than ours!
I echo soop's wishes for your friend, gq! It's hard isn't it.
chaos and anno, it might be some comfort to hear that one of DD2's friends was diagnosed with MS about 4 years ago and was quite unwell but has been given a new treatment (an infusion, I think) twice which has alleviated his symptoms almost completely. apart from on going tiredness (which should improvewith time. He has been told that they expect him to not need more treatment for around 10 years. Small comfort, I know, but medicine moves on so quickly nowadays.
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