What's good in your world....?

thanks Soop ex DH used to call me treasure ...because people asked where he dug me up from .

nellie...you're a treasure

My very good friend of 30+ years is coming for the weekend,woohoo,and GD is doing the Race for Life in aid of 3 members of our family...housework done,just going to get coffee machine going...wine chilling in fridge...goodies to eat cinema,retail therapy..will spend hers...spent mine...chatting bout everything and anything..memories and laughter...happy Nellie

Home alone after OH early departure to Munich for football. Wrote a list at 6:00 with first cup of tea but forgot to put GN on it so I am already and hour behind.... must get up soon

Yes Saturday morning, weekend off work, no deadlines, budgie getting better (don't even ask!) cat purring next to me, life is good. I really don't ask for much!

Saturday mornings are good. Several hours of peace while the rest of the household slumbers on....

Contented sigh

grannya I've always wanted to do that! How wonderful.

butternut no chance of that, too busy but DiL's mum is taking me to a market today and I think we have a day off tomorrow for my birthday!

Ariadne wonderful news.

butternut great news... EIPs do work well.. so pleased for you and your grandson. Well done him!

Just had an email from my son updating my Grandson's progress with his Early Intervention Programme......

.... had W's progress report at school yesterday, LOTS of great progress in speech, motor skills and social skills.......

Ariadne great news for your family.

Ariadne how wonderful! I admire anyone who can stick with such a long, drawn out and invasive procedure, but hopefully it will all be worth it and a new little life will be entering their (and your) lives

And me

Ariadne Another and - so pleased for you all.

Oh, if you have read my post on an earlier thread, you'll know how happy my family and I are! After nearly three tortuous years my Ds and DDiL were unanimously approved by the adoption panel. I do not know HOW they have got through it all, but my heart is full. I know there is more work to do but...

Well done that woman! She must be feeling very proud of herself now.

GA the mind boggles! But well done, the proud dad! Nothing like being in on the act. A real joint effort.

grannya how lovely, but what a surprise for them both thats two new babies I have heard of today, a cousin has just had a little boy.. not named yet but 6lb

My dear friend delivered a beautiful baby girl on her kitchen floor at 1:20am this morning. She was ably assisted by her somewhat shocked husband.

That sounds good, Alison. Hope you've enjoyed some days in Amsterdam in between the house sorting.

Being near Amsterdam with son and wife and helping them get their new house in order.

I can truthfully say...just about everything.

Good morning Joan (well it is here) Thanks for that, the print shop at the Museum inherited a very old Wharfedale printing machine some ten years ago (another story) and my husband was looking it over, when a visitor became interested. He was visiting his daughter in Amberley and came from Australia where he had, I think a personal small museum with a Wharfedale, and so offered his services with checking the machine. The next day was the last of his holiday but he came in again and sorted one or two problems out for us. Two years later, he was back again, and eager to see what had progressed. Not a lot as it happened, the machine was of the most temperamental kind, however it was good to see him and rather a lot of chat went on. He said then that he would not be returning to England, so we have not seen him since,but the machine is now up and running very noisily and still has a mind of it's own. A little bit of useless chat there for you! I do not print myself, only got involved because my husband loves the industry, and I must admit it is very interesting at times.

I just read your post, Printmiss, and thought "I didn't know there was a museum at Amberley" then I realised you were in England of course: Amberley is our local airbase here in Ipswich, Queensland Australia.

I read your profile - printing rings a few bells with me. I used to be the MOC or union delegate of our local print union branch, ie NATSOPA. MOC means 'Mother of the Chapel' as the printers' union dates back to the first printing press with moveable type, or so I was told. This was in a crypt, hence the bloke who looked after the printers' interests was Father of the Chapel. I liked being in an organisation centuries old.

Of course, I wasn't a printer, I was a newspaper accounts and ages clerk, but all non-journalism jobs came under the printers' union.

Spent yesterday afternoon at Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, we have been volunteers there since 1994, but because of health problems not as active as we used to be. We volunteer in the print shop my husband has been in print since 1944, so all the old machines at the Museum are just his cup of tea. We met up with the some of the other volunteers there, all lovely people and caught up on the latest news. We (personally) are lucky enough to own some Victorian wooden engravings, some of which were used to Illustrate 'The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook'. Don't think much of the poems! We also have some bird blocks, again some of these were used to illustrate 'British Birds in their Haunts' by Rev. C.A.Johns. It is lovely to have these, so that we can demonstrate the printing of them, and tell their history. As you can probably guess by all this, I quite enjoy talking to visitors, but like to think I am a good listener, because we can learn so much that way.

Chatting to my daughter on the phone again , and beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel with all the housey jobs that have been left undone for several months!
Still got wardrobes to sift through, but hey ho, it will get done sooner or later!