SEPTEMBER

[Joy]

wow August done and dusted already .

I have had a great week my daughters party , my G/Niece wedding , family and friend's here for daughters birthday. two days out with my family the rest of the time I have spent in bed . The house looks like the council dump covered in dust do I care NO . I hurt all over my knees and legs I am sure are someone elses but how lucky am I great friends and family . The wedding was fun the two brides took their vows in Orset Hall ( 1700 ) the colour sceme was white and mauve, the bridesmaids 6 & 4 looked real cute ( my GG/nieces ) oh well back to real life this week Dentist & Ostopath  lol

What's everyone else been up too , I hope everyone has had a good bank holiday weekend .
Our schools go back next Monday so last week of looking after G/kids.

hugs and healing to allout there that need some

Take care of you

[Joo]

Hi folks and a big welcome to September! I quite like this month actually, it's a bit like April in so much as it offers a feeling of new beginnings somehow. I know that crafters worldwide who celebrate christmas are already hot on whats in and whats on for making this year!! I'm hoping to get a couple of fibromites together to make a few things, either for ourselves or for the group to sell, so hope to arrange that soon. Spent most of yesterday with Wendy down at Weston at the Lions Day promoting awareness and selling a few things for FMAUK funds - think we did fairly okay moneywise but had good success passing on details to lots of people about fibromyalgia and the associations work and helpline. Hope they get on okay wih their own paths in fibro-life. So today is being spent in Knackerdom and I'm sure you all know which motorway thats on !!!!!

Sounds like a lovely family time Joy, and not surprised you're in Knackerdom too! What programmes are you watching today then?!!!

Sun is out in Bristol today, not sure for how long but I'm making sure I get my vitamin D whilst I can!!

Take care all and excuse my absence recently, have just changed to a laptop and had to remember all my passwords!!

Have a good one folks, Joo x

[elaine ann]

hi joo
you are doing great work for the fibro charity.i cant believe its september alreadt not neen anywhere this year at all.weather not good,too tired seeing to mum,by the time i have doe that there are things i need to do at home.
joy i love a wedding my kids think i am nuts and neither of them are married.i just love walking by our local church and seeing the weddings there the dresses the flowers etc.i would have loved to have has a lovely dress at my wedding to john i wore a dress of my sisters at my first wedding and a maternity dress at my second as we had no money
 now theres a thread in its self what we wore at our wedding
have a good day all
elaine ann

[Wendy]

I'm absobluminly in knackerdome I stood in a field all day Monday, but as Joo said we had a brilliant day, my stall did £113.40 I am so pleased, my jewellery is getting better, then yesterday I went to weight watchers and lost (look on WW thread) then today I was at the Weston Support group and did a jewellery demo and they all made memory wire bracelets and sold another £30.00 worth all goo, but I am sooooo tired I could sleep on a washing line zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Rita56]

Hi Everyone, Hope everyone is as well as can be expected.I am hoping to start making my Christmas cards soon as soon as I have the energy. am stocking up on Christmas stash.
Haven't been doing much,still getting back my strength but recovering well.
I go for a meeting at dermatology next week so all these specialists can examine my skin(they all want a look as they say it's so rare)had rheumy appointment last friday,everything ok.
Am a bit fed up of hospitals,had enough for this year I think.
Rita xxxx

[Fibroman]

Rita56 wrote:

I am hoping to start making my Christmas cards soon as soon as I have the energy. am stocking up on Christmas stash.

Ahhhhh!!!! Rita you mentioned the C-word!!!  Stop it, I don't want to hear that word until at lease the middle of November.

[Joy]

Oh with you Graham C---------   rude word in our family until after my D/I/L birthday 3rd week November
 May as well say at this point I am not a c------ person   ( dropping my head in shame ) psss I am happy to be secret man though unless someone else wants the job .  

Dreadfu weather here we have no phone lines blown away in the night I guees.

Hurt more than usual today see my Osteopath yesterday at least I know will feel better later. He has eased the pain in my hip



Hi Joo hope you enjoyed the sunshine it rained all day here

Wendy well done lady , when I am rich I will employ you to make my jewerly.

Elaine  ann  I will start post on what I wore at my wedding good idea


Have a good day all

 mine has not started too good , my D/I/L  Mum had a fall in the night and has layed on the bathroom floor since 6 my hubbie round there now with her waiting for an ambulance.

[Wendy]

Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the c.......... word, like you Joy Steve's birthday is the 1st December so we try to wait until then (suits me fine)
I am still sooooo tired, Monday did the fate, Tues went to Weight watchers, Wednesday did the Weston support group, had a lovely afternoon we all made a bit of jewellery, we also made C........... crackers, then today I did my first stint at the hospital, I'm a volunteer feeder (making sure people are eating their meals)I had a lovely day, but I haven't stopped since the weekend and sometimes i forget I have Fibro and should slow down a bit, I will have a lie in tomorrow.

[Joo]

Hi all,

Had an odd kinda day today, couldn't settle to anything kinda day - do you guys get them?  Our Jen had a visit in work from her landlord today as there was a massive water leak from her flat causing the ceiling to collapse in the shower downstairs!!! Our Dan went round to help her sort it out thankfully and guess which DIY genius was to blame? One husband called Simon who didn't plumb in a washing machine properly - tut tut tut....... go and stand in the corner boy!!!!

I'm booked into a six week dressmaking course starting next week, meeting the teacher in the morning. Now I'm wondering what I want to make, trousers, top, not sure really. Also starting a hydrotherapy group with some other folk from our fibro group, we have to pay but it's the only way to get any swimming exercise for me as my GP hasn't been able to get me anywhere. It's quite expensive but I really need to do something!

Can't remember what I was going to write to you other guys now... doh!  and this new laptop is bugging me............

Joo x

[Olive]

Wel not been up to much, this cold is getting me down. The girls went back to school yesterday they had a few tears, but was all smiles when they got home (they are still with use think it will be xmas before the house is ready, but we love having them) Olive

[Joo]

Hope you feel better soon Olive, fibro hugs on their way,

Joo x

[elaine ann]

hi joo
i love making my own clothes not that i do a lot these days not much room to do anything in thses bungalows.but i started to get a bit fashion concious this summer after watching gok wan.so i wanted a pencil skirt and they were £20.00 i thought no thats a bit steep so got the material and it cost me £10 enough to do two linned skirts just got to wait for the weight loss now so i can make them
elaine ann

[Joo]

Hi everyone, I've been busy so not been on much but I guess it's that time of year - September seems to encourage me to start something new! I started my dressmaking course last friday and will be making trousers (thought I'd make something with lots of difficult bits so I could REALLY learn lots of new things!) and it was a lovely class, only four students so lots of one to one time with the tutor. I start art classes with a friend on wednesday morning and will be going to life drawing classes with Simon on thursday evenings. I am also going to hydrotherapy on monday mornings!! From now on it's all about the 'me' time - well thats until something crops up as something always does!!

Did anyone watch 60 Minute Makeover today? The woman they did it for has fibromyalgia.

And is anyone watching Ty's Great British Adventure about Portishead swimming pool? That's on all this week at 10pm on Sky and Virgin 265. Its local to me and a favourite spot and also where we did the Raft Race back in July. It was a very wet week when they did it tho

Rightyho, must away to my pit, take care all, sleep well,

Joo x

[Joy]

HI all

You put me to shame with all your new ventures .I made all my childrens clothes, wedding & bridesmaids dresses , wedding outfits, I once made, with a friend,  2 thousand costumes for a danceschool.the one thing I don't make is my own clothes how strange is that .I hope you enjoy making things as much as i do.

 

We spent the weekend with friends at Bath doing the tourist bit. What a lovely City and surrounding countryside,we had a really nice time. As you know I am an essex girl. well on Friday I said to myG/son we ganna ( going to ) Bath with Carol & Paul for the weekend. He went home and ask his Mum why Nanny & Grandad was spending the weekend in the bath with Carol& Paul

 

ok household chores calling

Take care everyone  big hugs

[Joy]

Forgot yes I see the programme Joo why oh why didn;t we think of that

[Olive]

Hi all. Went to out 3 grandchildren's christening last Sunday, they looked so sweet baby Anna had a lovely white dress on with a head band to match, Ellie (she is 5) had a brown dress with white spots on, she looked soo grown up and Joshua (7) had a black pants on with a white shirt and a Dicky bow, he looked all grown up.Tried to take some photos but josh and Ellie kept pulling funny faces, so only go a few good ones, but we had a lovely time. Olive

[Joy]

Hi All

Just back from a week away in the Country had a very relaxing time . The weekend before we stayed in Bath for the weekend with friends. What a lovely place Felt like we had gone back in time.

Today ------ as always tired tired tired , make you laugh most nights away I was in bed by 9 lol not sure if it is old age or Fibro.

Its really sunny here today  a lovely day to walk along the beach, shame I live a long way from one



Joo we keep looking at them vans think we are getting close to buying one .

Hugs to all

Hope everyone is doing ok

[Joo]

Hi all, very remiss of me to be away so much from the site as I'm supposed to be running it with Buffy! However, I know you lot can be trusted so I don't worry, someone would ring if there was a prob for dure! Now Buffster.....I haven't heard from her for ages although I haven't rung her in a while either (I'm rubbish at calling people back!) so I think we need to do a 'Buffy where art thou?' between us to let her know we're still here and missing her. In fact theres a few peeps not been on for a while so does anyone want to help me out with a bit of admin catch up please? If anyone wants to, just email or ring (if you have their number of course) any of the 'missin' Fibro Fighters (including any of you who don't know who Buffy or the others are - as I know they'd love to know theres a lot more of us about these days!) Just go to the members section to get the email addy's.

Thanks guys  

We just got our latest Sun holiday thru for mid October and we're off down to Rock near (and opposite) Padstow. It'll be our third time at this site and it's very nice.

Another bit of news is that we're seriously thinking about moving to North Somerset - watch this space!

Am also taking two art classes a week at present, it's a lot of effort sometimes but once there, I love it! Simon comes to the Life Drawing classes so he carries my stuff which is great  and those classes are massive - about 100 peeps there at a time! Luckily theres about six models each week so we can choose how long a pose we want to study. The other class is a big group too but more about general stuff but I'm trying to concentrate on drawing skills - you never know, I might just get to college next year, I'm certainly going to look at the options for an old fibromite!!

Oh yes, I nearly forgot my weekly dressmaking classes too.......am making 'difficult' trousers!!! Doing okay tho'  The classes finish in a couple of weeks but I'm booking up for January as I'm really enjoying it.

Sorry to have missed you on your visit to Bath Joy, dafty moo forgetting to ring me!! Anyone else ever in the west country, let me know and we could meet for a coffee maybe? Gordano services on the M5 is a good spot but anywhere near Bristol is a possibility if you'd like to? Both me and Wendy are about and I have several fibro friends who'd be happy to meet anyone else for a chinwag.

I mean.........you know how shy I am !!

Take care all, hope you're enjoying this lovely Indian Summer?

Joo x

[Joy]

Blimay Joo that was like reading a book

Enjoyable too


You busy lady you .

I too wondered where everyone was.  HEY FOLKS coooe   came and join us Pleeeeeese even if you are none to good pop in for a winge does you good to get it of your chest.

I often feel very isolated like nobody cares how ill I feel sometimes then I get a E-mail from a friend from here saying I am missed, that lifts me up, to think yes somebody does care and bonus they really know how I feel.

Dreading the winter coming more aches and pains and whats all this christmas stuff on telly about ???????  

Enjoy your holiday Joo.

I am now going to finish my Fibro Group newsletter Grrrrrrrr  

Take care all

[Olive]

Hi all, sorry i have not been on for while,just been feeling like doing anything, but i am on the up. It's my Birthday on Saturday 61 help were as the last year gone
Steve as got me a new pair of shoes and is giving me some money, and we are going out for a meal.
We still have our eldest daughter and the twins with use,but they hope to move into there house in 3 weeks,it is looking really nice, they have got the bedrooms all done, and the bathroom is nearly there, the kitchen is being fitted this week,and they will do the other rooms when they get in,we will really miss them when they go
Joo, sound like you are really enjoying your courses, Hope you have a lovely holiday.
Joy,I feel the same Joy,and i also am dreading the winter. Olive