April Chitter Chatter - Part 2

[inu-kijo 0]

awww poor duck. : /

[Frannie 0]

a truck has tipped over on one of our main roads... tens of thousands of pounds of gravel spilled everywhere!

And i need to go warn Robin as she has to go that route for he practical test today on ACLS.... if you're ten seconds late you can't test! eeek

[DawnyDawn 0]

Helllooooooooo!

Does a twirl with my new figure feeling great and very proud of myself.

How's it all going, gonna take a peak at your duckies Kijo

[Frannie 0]

I wish my R key worked without having to jump on it. makes my typing look like I have a speech impediment

[DawnyDawn 0]

Is the prince doll you're looking for in the #GMB Frannie? I didn't get one either, is it not there anymore?

[inu-kijo 0]

CONGRATS @ DAWN!!!!!!!


I am very close to being at my first big target... i might make another one afterwards. but little steps at a time.

[DawnyDawn 0]

Thank you Kijo and congrats to you too hun...it's best to take small steps, I lost 23 pounds altogether, since September last year. I felt so overweight but now I'm back to myself and determined not to do that to myself again.

The ducks are so cute x

[Zoonie 0]

Hi Dawn and congrats.

Frannie, get that warning out!

Can I ask your opinion on this ladies



- if I enter it for the Room of the Week comp (which has to use some of this week's items) The theme is Midnight Garden Party.


Frannie, still very slow for air travel here because of the incredible backlog.

[Zoonie 0]

Airlines and passengers face a slow return to normality as flights resume after a six-day shutdown because of volcanic ash.

Tens of thousands of Britons are still stranded abroad and it could take weeks to get back to business as usual.

Further delays and cancellations are occurring because of the backlog and planes not being in the right place.

Aviation officials lifted the airspace ban on Tuesday night, saying it was now safe for planes to fly.


WEDNESDAY'S FLIGHTS
BA: All long haul flights from Heathrow and Gatwick; Short haul cancellations until noon
Virgin Atlantic: Normal schedule
Thomson: Outbound flights cancelled
Easyjet: Intends to operate 90% of flights
Ryanair: No Northern European flights until 1300 BST on Thursday; No UK-Ireland flights until 1300 BST on Friday
Flybe: Flights from 1300 BST but cancellations expected; 18 morning flights re-scheduled to leave 1300 BST
*Passengers are advised to contact their airline before travelling to an airport for a flight

Heathrow would normally handle about 1,250 flights on an average Wednesday but the departures and arrivals boards at the west London airport were full of cancellations.

There were no departures until 0806BST when an Alitalia flight left for Rome. The first two BA flights have left Heathrow for Tel Aviv and New York.

UK air traffic control body Nats said it had handled 130 flights over England and Wales, and 35 in Scottish airspace, between 0100 BST and 0700 BST on Wednesday.

About 75% of European flights are due to operate on Wednesday, according to the air traffic agency Eurocontrol.

Frances Tuke, spokeswoman for travel body Abta, said the return to normality would be slow and there was also a risk the ash cloud could return.

"The thing to remember is that aircraft and crew are going to be in the wrong place," she said.

^ above from the bbc news site.

[DawnyDawn 0]

Frannie wrote:

a truck has tipped over on one of our main roads... tens of thousands of pounds of gravel spilled everywhere!

And i need to go warn Robin as she has to go that route for he practical test today on ACLS.... if you're ten seconds late you can't test! eeek

Eeek! I hope you got to her in time Frannie.

I was in a hurry last night to get home and came across an accident and long tail back,....Grrrrr it's such a waste of time and it makes one so angry, feelings you just can do without tbh!

[inu-kijo 0]

Well I am off, see you later guys!!!!

[DawnyDawn 0]

Zoonie wrote:

Hi Dawn and congrats.

Frannie, get that warning out!

Can I ask your opinion on this ladies



- if I enter it for the Room of the Week comp (which has to use some of this week's items) The theme is Midnight Garden Party.

Thank you Gill Muah x

It's lovely, as always, your rooms always look so....how can I say....*put together* yes you should use it x

[DawnyDawn 0]

inu-kijo wrote:

Well I am off, see you later guys!!!!

See you Kijo, get lots of rest sweetie x

[DawnyDawn 0]

Sorry I'm out, Boss x

[Frannie 0]

darn I missed them both!

Nice room Gill. I like the way the stars hang from the tree.. looks like they are in the sky

Robin was just waking up, but now she has to get ready earlier than expected

[Zoonie 0]

DawnyDawn wrote:

It's lovely, as always, your rooms always look so....how can I say....*put together* yes you should use it x

aaw thanks - I was trying to do something a bit different from what's expected.

See you Dawn, Cheerio Kijo.


Thanks Frannie, yes, Robin will have to rush around a bit now.

[Frannie 0]

oh well.. at least we saw it on the news... This ACLS stuff is so involved for these nurses, but OH SOOO necessay. They have to put in a lot of extra hours to pass and test. But at least it counts toward the CEU's

[Zoonie 0]

Sorry Frannie, the initials are riddles to me

On the bright side, you using that pic for your avatar makes me LOL every time I see it

[Frannie 0]

I love that avvie pic...

ACLS = Advanced Cardiac Life Support (used to be CPR)

and CEU = Continuing Education Credits... something they musth ave a certain amount of to keep their license

[Zoonie 0]

Aah ok, I'm not sure how it works in the UK, not heard of CEU before, but that makes perfect sense.

Sorry Frannie I need to go, must press on with the chores mountain!
See you later alligator

[Frannie 0]

adios mi amiga.. I have laundry still to do...

[ToniM 0]

Hello everyone. I have missed you. I have had a rough three months and not around too much. I was just missing my friends.

[Zoonie 0]

Aaaw Toni, sorry I wasn't around, and sorry to hear that you've been having such a bad time of it lately


Am here for a sit down and a cuppa!

[Frannie 0]

did someone say cuppa?????

[Frannie 0]

you know.. we old decrepit ladies need our coffee just to get our hearts kick started

[Zoonie 0]

Psst, I was distracted by OH

[Zoonie 0]

OH was late home, the train had to go on a detour (luckily on our line, there is a section that can detour) - turns out it was because of a suicide at one of the stations.

He's home safely now though.
And then a friend just rang to say her sister in law is on Ideal World, the shopping channel, demonstrating her jewellery, which is a new business for her.

[Frannie 0]

suicides happen a lot more often on train lines than one would think. My younger brother woks for a transit system and they get calls all the time

[Zoonie 0]

I agree (sorry, morbid topic) but usually here, the running updates say something like 'disruption'

Have you heard how Robin's got on?

[Frannie 0]

would you believe I am STILL doing laundry? that's what I get for skipping a week

[Frannie 0]

she is still in the test, I think, though I did see a FB update from her.. something about, "oh the joys". It's a very intense class and requires one to 'fake' all the adrenalin one would have in the situation.

[Frannie 0]

and if they take the applicants alphabetically, she has a long time to wait LOL

[Frannie 0]

the good news on that is she'll get to see everyone's mistakes

[Zoonie 0]

LOL...both our girls are CC (for their intials) - better now they're not in the same household (for the post I mean, or should I say Mail?)

[Frannie 0]

oo that had to be confusing... when the mail arrived. I was a B until marriage, it's very hard to wait for the S's to be called.

This class requires knowledge of things that a nurrse normally would not be doing duing a code (heart stoppage). I suppose that's the difficult part, learning the doctor's role in things

[Frannie 0]

i am getting oh so tied of doing visits. And tirred of all the stuff flying around the rooms. I'm kind of happy that my perlings never came back.

How's Socks getting on, Have you heard? and is Dennis showing signs of being happier?

[Zoonie 0]

No one found your petlings?

I don't do anywhere near so many visits - it's just too much of a chore these days.

Socks is fine thanks. I spoke to Cathy yesterday, I was worried that Kate said there were a couple of settling in problems - but Cathy said the problems had only been on the first night when he was with Frank, at the holding pen - he took to his new people straight away and all seems fine. They've yet to let him outdoors though.

[Frannie 0]

Diva (Dot) found my petlings but they never got returned to me. I don't miss them though

[Frannie 0]

and the same thing happened to Mark's petling. I kind of liked his

[armellproctor 0]

good morning everyone how are you all today xoxo

[Zoonie 0]

They should be there in the chest somewhere. But they are tricky to locate.

brb ED on the phone.

[Frannie 0]

I just popped ten gold boxes and not even one 999 !!!!

[armellproctor 0]

Frannie wrote:

I just popped ten gold boxes and not even one 999 !!!!

[armellproctor 0]

try it again, Hello Frannie how are you doing ??

[Frannie 0]

hey there Armell! How are you today?

[armellproctor 0]

Frannie wrote:

hey there Armell! How are you today?

feeling pretty good, i just finished my antibiotics but i am still coughing ,

[armellproctor 0]

cough cough , going out for cough smoke cough cough lol

[Frannie 0]

lol makes perfect sense to me...

[armellproctor 0]

Frannie wrote:

lol makes perfect sense to me...

hey you know us smokers, no rain or hail or cough can stop us from going out side to have that smoke lol

[Zoonie 0]

OK back now - Hi Army, thanks for your comment on my photo, it's my improvement on the competition entry for Room of the Week


ED is ridiculously excited as tomorrow she's meeting her favourite fashion designer!