🦞🦂 Lobstars 🌟 still shining bright 🦞🦂

18th birthday not 28th! I just noticed my typo!
18th is like the 21st used to be yet they aren't grown up.

I want to give him something which will last.

Gramaretto You will know his interests so any sort of voucher will be welcomes and these dayss it's not just books but restaurants, concerts, cinema, food, trips and much more.

He'll get both surpise and pleaseure from it. win-win

Good news Notspaghetti
Grammaretto any more news on the house front?
Love to all. Sorry hands hurt tonight.

Isn't that wonderful NotSpag. You must all be very proud of her.

I've been on a long for me coastal walk today. I'm truly knackered!

I've also been wondering what to give my DGS for his 28th birthday which is approaching very soon. Anything I suggest he seems to already have. His dad suggests I ask him. No surprises then.

...admittedly with some sort of walker/support!

Mother-in-law alert
... she walked 20 metres today!
😃

Sorry about the herbs Kaimoana i too would send you some if they were available I. The uk. I don’t suppose Amaz*^ has them?
Left hand improving but both ache a lot when texting so sorry I can’t write more, am reading and sending love and hugs.xx

They still seem scarily professional tho', Grammaretto!
Well done!

'Gutted', as they say, about the herb excursion, Kaimoana. There must be a solution somewhere ...
Pleased that your M.O.T. means you are being looked after, at least.

The headress sounds intriguing, NN. Do you 'do' the veil thing as well? Just curious😊
I'm sure the whole day will be wonderful. My mum reckoned that brides always 'shined' (gawd, is that 'shone'?) on their wedding day and you, fellow 🦞, will be no exception.

Tho' we still need the photographic evidence of same, please😉.

Thank you to everyone for your birthday good wishes.

On closer examination of a photo, not much lycra sorry Doodle

I'm loving your song choices.... Walking up the aisle to 'I would walk 500 miles ' ...sprang to mind but then again maybe not.

I've actually emailed Claudia Winkleman to see if I could get a copy of Diana ( from The Piano) playing her composition 'Dreams'. Its such a beautiful piece and sums up our story... Neither of us thought we'd find love and soul mates but we did...
Right enough soppy stuff.
Kaimoana is this herb available in the UK? or only NZ. If it's available in the UK can I source it and send it out to you?

Ixion...Happy Birthday.... It's the done thing now apparently to knock 20 years off your real age...ie 60 is the new 40..I do have to keep reminding myself that I am not 30 anymore..or 40 or 50 or 60 but my head says I'm 17 so I'll stick with that for now

Grammaretto.... Did the men really wear lycra? ..How brave...if I'm really truthful I find men in lycra quite disconcerting....and the same can be said for males over the age of 6 wearing Speedos!!!!.

When I was in Turkey once we visited one of those places where you smother yourself in foul smelling mud in the hope that having gone into the pool looking like that woman from the Bond films who had knives in her shoes you'd come out looking like Claudia Schiffer.....

Once smothered you have to stand in the sun too allow said mud to dry....It took a long while to get over the sight of a very large German man coming and standing bedside me who it turned out was wearing Speedos but due to his size to all intents and purposes it looked like he was completely naked. I was quite traumatised and worse still it took days to get rid of all the mud, it was stuck in crevices I didn't know I had

I'm on a mission today to try and find some sort of hairstyle that my hairdresser can do for me on Saturday..a sort of tiara type hairband thing was delivered yesterday...I can't tell you what I looked like when I tried it on...the princess out of Shrek sprang to mind. Hey Ho does anyone know how quickly Botox takes to work?

Oh no Kaimoana what a bummer!
So hard for you when you have to rely on others having always been independent.
Maybe you should buy the online version to get started and then pray 🙏 that by the time you run out, Karen or someone is able to take you hunting.

I am loving the wedding playlist. What does the Bride- to- be think of it so far?
I was sent a photo of an Irish wedding. I hope it's OK to post it here. Note the Town Crier.

Oh Kaimoana!
🙁🙁🙁
X

No herbs and no Karen who was off work yet again.

CherryCezzy

You kept that quiet ixion.
🥳 Happy Birthday for yesterday 🎉.
I hope you had a wonderful day x

Yes indeed Ixion
I hope this is a happy and healthy year for you!
Xx

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

You kept that quiet ixion.
🥳 Happy Birthday for yesterday 🎉.
I hope you had a wonderful day x

Happy Birthday ixion

Songs for NN wedding.
As people wait for bride to arrive: 'Can't help falling in love' (Elvis not organ) and 'Unforgettable' and At last'.

As bride arrives (organ) You are my Sunshine (congregation to joyfully join in)
At the wait for signing register: Pachelbel's Canon in D then Perfect.

And if you want a truly traditional, triumphal exit: Wedding March by Mendelssohn.
Please can I come if I promise not to wear my lobster costume ?

Hospital tomorrow for more intensive cardio tests - then dentist on Friday. What a week

After the ride, we 6 arrived at the 19th hole of a golf course for our lunch.
There were showers so I partook and
changed into a dress. I joined the others -all men- and immediately said I didn't recognise them with their cycling clothes off, which was absolutely true.

I managed the ride without falling off so it was a success.

Happy birthday ixion 🎂 I hope you has a brilliant day

Ixion did we miss your birthday. So sorry. Many happy returns. 21 again! Hope you had a lovely day
Grammaretto. Sorry I can’t stop giggling at the though if you out in snazzy Lycra on your bike. 😊😊
Love to all xx

Herbs, Kaimoana?
Here's hoping!

Just a quickie from me as I remain discombobulated after yesterday's birthday 🎁 🎈 🎂s - takes longer for the new elderly to recover these days.

Here's hoping Doodle is coping, that Grammaretto got through her bike ride and hearty congratulations to famille NS for two remarkable feats of human endurance, the swim and the brilliant walking!

Songs for NN's nuptials?
I think she is an anthem kind of girl, so I will proffer
*Things can only get better/D:ream
*I'm gonna be (500 miles) /The Proclaimers

To be played near the end when all the wheels are nicely oiled (if you get my drift).💒

Oh yes.
Do hope you got your herbs, Kaimoana

It's pouring with rain here Grammaretto... - I hope it's dry where you are for your first new hip cycling trip.

Doodle please take care.
😬😬😬😬😬

Wow! Your MiL and you NotSpag

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I'm going on an hour's cycle ride today. The first since well before the new hip. I had a very short practice yesterday to see if I was safe enough. I think I am as long as I don't have to contend with traffic, pedestrians, other cyclists or potholes -- oh and wind and rain. 😂

My Helper squeezed my bike into the back of the car for me.

We went to the art school graduate show yesterday where one of my Helpers was exhibiting. She and her boyfriend showed us around and it was lovely meeting all the happy students on the brink of the rest of their lives.

My eldest DGS will be 18 in a few weeks. He'll be leaving school and making decisions about his future.

I hope Doodle you aren't in too much pain.
In future you and Cherry will have to share a padded cell or perhaps a hot tub 😉 so you are unable to damage yourselves.

Well I'm off to climb into my lycra
🚲 🚴‍♂️ 🚲 🚴‍♀️

How was the herb hunt Kaimoana?

Very briefly 😃 - my mother-in-law has walked 10 metres with a walking aid today! 🎉
Keeping 🤞she can do it tomorrow as well!

On the back of this relief I went swimming and did 50 lengths of a smallish pool (and told off some England U21s who were going to get straight in the pool after the sauna without showering) 😱

That's a good one Doodle 😂🤣

Maybe in the circumstances how about Hound dog, Elvis?

Much love from me xx