“Feeling Lonely? Let’s Chat and Support Each Other”

Hello dear GNeters....hope you are enjoying twixmas..i am..i love eaying leftovers and being a bit under the radar with no pressure to be sociable. Its lovely that we can all suppport each other across the cyberwaves.

Truffle43

Good evening all thought I would check in and see how you have been today. Myself well it started well ate a healthy breakfast walked about 2 miles. Prepared a stew for lunch then spoilt it all by guzzling chocolates. Why oh why do I do this🤣. Tonight ate a healthy chicken salad then followed it by scoffing butterscotch ice-cream and ate too much but oh it was delicious. I don’t normally buy lots of sweet stuff as I have no control but being Xmas my husband did. Just as well I have planned my get fit campaign to start Monday. Is anyone else a sucker for sweet things or is it just me being miss piggy 🐽

No, it’s me as well🤭in fact just started a thread asking if anyone else has overdone things on the chocs front.

EilishN. I have just seen your post from Christmas Day. I can’t pass by without saying that this happened to me 28 years ago. Sounds like a long time ago but doesn’t always feel like it!
I loved my (ex) husband with all my heart and he told me just before Christmas he didn’t love me anymore and was going to leave. It felt like a bereavement- but please know that unlike bereavement you DO get over it.
I’ll be honest - it was hard and it took me a couple of years to get my act together. I had no other family apart from my young children , and having no one else in the world who loved me was very hard.
I changed my life completely by training for a new profession, and now I’ve been happily married for 18 years.
You’ll never forget, and it will leave a scar, but you WILL move forward.
Don’t let him ruin your life!
Keep putting one foot in front of the other and things will get better xx

Glad it is over really but, sad that it is. Another year of hoping it will all be lovely and I will not feel so down. But it did not happen. Why do we have to have a couple of people that have caused such devastation in our family. Things will not change as they have been determined to cause as much grief and trouble as possible. They do it all the time.

Exhausted after DS has stayed 2 nights (his partner currently working in LA). He's gorgeous and such a treat to see him, but high octane and seems to need half as much sleep as me these days.
What's more, they have become 80% vegan in the last months. Cue: me having to examine all labels on food shopping and rushing out to buy the BBC Good Food recipe book of Vegan Meals! Wondering what are the good quick and easy go-to favourite meals of any vegans reading!
@BA69 and @Doodle - I was thinking of you both so much over your first solo Christmas. How did it go? xx

Indiebee thank you for thinking of us. I actually found the run up to Christmas worse than the actual days themselves. Spending Christmas Day and Boxing Day with our sons and families was lovely. I know our sons miss their dad a lot so it was comforting being with them and thinking of happier times. Now it’s just me back home again I’m going down the slippery slope again. Need to get back into a routine though can’t spur myself on to much st the moment.
Hope you had an enjoyable Christmas .

I treat the 25th like a normal day and even the washing machine was on!

I am pleased it is all over now for another year.

Good morning all. I hope I find you all well as can be. Has anyone any plans for today? Well my excitement is a trip to have my hearing aids checked whoopee I am such a foxy lady. I am seriously thinking of having a good sort through my clothes as I’m in the mindset of getting organised ,it won’t last but while it does I will get rid of things I no longer wear. Is anyone else having an exciting day🤣

Good morning, I seem to wake feeling a bit down, so working on gratitude etc...

Doodle I am like you,, hugs
Charleygirl, I also am glad it is over, still New Years Day to get through,,my routines are disturbed, even New Years Day,, get back into the routines...

Polman When I left work in 2002, I left routines behind. Now, as is fairly evident, I do what I want when I like!

I also discovered on the 21st of December 1988 that my life would change forever, as my then-husband was in love with somebody else.

I got the last laugh because he regretted it 6 months later- he was given weekly pocket money like a child.

Oh Charleygirl that did make me laugh! It has just happened to a friend of mine 2 weeks before Christmas and she’s not in a good place right now. I’m sure she’ll get there and like you will have the last laugh.

My ex chose to announce to me on Christmas Eve, several years ago now, that he had met someone else. Why do they choose Christmas to do this, I wonder.
Anyway, I'm fine now and like living my independent life with no man to answer to.
So, looking towards 2025, I just hope I can live through another year and still maintain my independence. It will be my 88th year.
Happy New year to you all.

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone!
I need an update on Truffle’s hearing aids and her efforts to throw away seldom-worn clothes!! From February DS is coming to live with me for a couple of months before disappearing to the US for a while. Thus I have started a Clearing Out to make more space in my little house. Quite hard to release some of the splendid clothes that I had for work and no longer wear.
Went out to lunch today with 3 friends. Hot chocolate in bed for me tonight, no cavorting in Trafalgar Square and falling into fountains. 😊🔔

Just popping in to wish you all a Happy New Year.
Doubt we’ll be awake at midnight.
It’s our 53rd wedding anniversary tomorrow so saving the bubbly until then.
For those who are sad and lonely I hope next year brings you some comfort with better times ahead.x

TV is dire for me tonight. I could and should have an early night, but that will be around midnight or later.

Tomorrow the energy bills rise again. Soon I will be surfacing at 10 am and going to bed at 5pm. Seriously some people are having to do that. This is supposedly a rich country but Keir and Radchel intend to remove every penny we possess. Rant over.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope we all enjoy peace kindess, happiness and joy sometimes this year. Had a good day today. Swimming and pizza with son and granddaughter. Now sitting down with Lintdt chocs and proseco and ready to watch ' The Split'. Hope it's good.

Hello all just popping in to wish you all a safe and peaceful New Year’s Eve. It blowing a gale outside. I’m sad. I so wish DH was here to celebrate with me. Love and hugs to all on their own tonight and those not on their own but lonely. x

Indiebee My hearing aids are now fully functioning and I can hear a lot better than I could,will need to remember to put them in 😀
I have cleared out a lot of stuff and am please with what I’ve done it is ready for the charity shop as all in good condition.
I now need to look in the kitchen cabinets as we have too many things that never get used they will be going next. I am on a mission to declutter before hubby retires or I will never get rid of it. What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him 🤣 I am kind and never get rid of any of his belongings. Well I will stop rambling and wish you all a very good new year and hope we all make the effort to meet new people and try to join groups or clubs we want to try..

Now off to bed have a great year everyone xx

Happy New Year everyone. I stayed up as I always do, but I doubt if I'll bother in future. For some reason I felt my alone-ness this evening as I did the things I have always done. I went out the back door on the stroke of midnight to let the old year out, stood to listen to the boats hooting in the little port down below (but they didn't) and walked round to the front and let the new year in. All I felt was cold!! Time for bed I think.

Love walking go for a walk through woodland area and along the river generally walk around 3 miles but hoping to step it up from tomorrow morning onwards

henetha

My ex chose to announce to me on Christmas Eve, several years ago now, that he had met someone else. Why do they choose Christmas to do this, I wonder.
Anyway, I'm fine now and like living my independent life with no man to answer to.
So, looking towards 2025, I just hope I can live through another year and still maintain my independence. It will be my 88th year.
Happy New year to you all.

I have a theory that they do it at a time when you can’t really make a huge fuss over it. They’ve slipped it into conversation and the recipient has to put on an Eleanor Rigby face to protect everyone else.

Wishing a Happy New Year to everyone here, and to all the world, Peace on earth.....

A happy new year to all. I hope it is less lonely for us.

A happy and healthy new year to you all. Well some good news to add to my previous message. I am home at last!! Had to move back in on the friday before christmas as literally "No room at the inn" So lovely bathroom now, but things still to do there. Kitchen is usable and my chair and bed are bliss to use. However everywhere else is in total chaos and cant find all sorts of basic things, but it has definitely encouraged me to throw stuff out . 3 large bags for the recycling already sorted. My christmas meal was a sausage sandwich a mince pie and a cup of lovely fresh coffee!!! But so worth it that I could sit with radio 3 on and do things my way. Loved the service from Halifax, good to hear a local accent and not the endless programmes from churches in the south east. I am a singer and have been a professional and music is very important to me . So what was lovely was to also hear the "yorkshire" carol played. By that I mean While Shepherds Watched sung to the tune of Ilkley Moor baht at. Try it! It goes very well with the words, to a lively tune and you can add parts to it. We use it at all sorts of times, lovely when the silver band play on the green at Reeth, a cheering thing to sing if you have been out walking and are wilting and need the push to do that last mile, going round singing carols for charity, makes a change from other versions and local people smile and join in. So I was alone here last night, not feeling too great. I couldnt dance the waltz from the vienna musical evening as no space but enjoyed listening to the music and listening to the german and checking I hadnt forgotten it. So went at midnight to open the door to the new year. No one about, very quiet here but I raised my little glass of whisky and wished a good new year and health and happiness to all friends and family and am glad to see the back of 2024. I have got cancer again, lost 2 dear friends, and the bathroom saga are simply the worst of the year that has passed, so look forward with anticipation of a better year. My new years resolution is to keep breathing, to the annoyance of the government of any colour!!