Hi Ladies:)

Don't know whether it want to rain of not but I took my umbrella to church anyway.Had a wonderful brunch with my friends and now I relaxing as my knee started to bother me this morning. I think it has a lot to do with the dampness in the air. Well I going to Have my MRI tomorrow later afternoon and than will have a follow up at the doctor on Nov. 7th I sure he will know what to do next if something shows on the MRI.

This Wed going to play some Canasta with the group,and hopefully I will win the pot. Have to go and get my schedule for the bus and train and than find a good time to make the connecting schedule.My friends don't know the Boston area and don't know if the Bus terminal is near Amtrak. It would b e helpful to know where & what place to be.

Alice & I didn't make dinner,as she got back to late from the long retreat and didn't want to drive in the dark. We are going to make it another day when not else is scheduled.

Nothing else is new,so I'm going to rest my leg and I see you guys in the morning.

PAM-It is odd, it happens to me also the later I go to bed the better of having a good night sleep than going down earlier.

SLOAN-Hi :wave:Whenever,but don't be a stranger as I will miss you dearly.

JOJO-What a lovely tour,and I will be careful[don't know what the UK medical service are like]But I'm looking froward to our next trip,When you described it I just could close my eyes as picture it perfectly. Thanks you.


RHONDA-I with you I can't stand the commercials on TV and Radio,there more of school children than educated men, they way they scandalize each other. Whats the block walking all about?????


SANDRA-Big congrats in your NSV fitting into a new size. That is excellent way of telling if your lost weight or inches.


Have a nice relaxing Sunday

Maryann, block walking is going door to door to "get out the vote" preferably for the candidates of MY choice.

Yes, I've had enough (plus) of the negativity that accompanies much of politics.

Hey chickies, I can't believe I'm here two days in a row. I've been busy today, as usual. I have read a few posts, but I'm sure I've missed alot.

Jojo, what a lovely tour. I, too, could just picture your town! Could you tell me again exactly where you live? I would love to look at a map and try to find you!

Maryann, I think I missed most of the news about your knee. What's going on? I hope you are doing well. It sounds like you are getting around, at least.

Sandra, I did get to go on Jojo's tour with y'all. It was great, wasn't it? I loved your description of Curtis and the butterflies with the comparison to Song of the South.

Rhonda, I loved the pic of you and Todd. After all of your hard work, I hope your choice for candidate wins. Hang in there, it's almost over.

Pam, my favorite vacation spot is St. Augustine. My DH and I just love it there. I forgot where you said you stay in Florida. Are you near St. Augustine?

GTG get some laundry done. TTFN

Maryann, I wish you the best of news from you MRI.

Sloan, I'm glad you got to take the walk with us. I'm curious about where JoJo lives, too.

We had fun at rehearsal even though several were absent. I'm extremely glad I'm not the director. Been there/done that.

I’m afraid our city is far from quiet. Our esteemed council keeps building huge housing estates and granting planning permission for houses in the most ridiculous places. Several are built on sites where there was a garage originally attached to a house! Our drains are old Victorian ones in bad repair and at times of heavy rain the city looks more like Venice than an inland city. Our house is considerably over 100 years old no garage or place to build one and a basement. So far the basement hasn’t flooded, but if our council doesn’t do something, we will have the water in. Our car, like every other in the road has to be parked kerbside and only last night, one was stolen. We are lucky, we rent a garage but it is not very close to the house. We have many, many immigrants in the city and it is unusual to walk through our city centre and hear English spoken. These old Victorian houses are being turned into bed-sits. We have one next door to us which used to be full of junkies. Life was pretty grim. It was closed by Environmental Health as unfit for human habitation 5 years ago. We had to go out into our garden before our daughter could use it and pick up the discarded drug paraphernalia. The council told us, because it was on private property, it counted as household waste and we were responsible for it.
We have an enormous drug problem. Junkies from inner cities base themselves here, the money is good. We had a drug house in this road, you could see the school kids queuing up before and after school to get their drugs. We had to get really tough with the drug squad, because as long as they knew where the dealers were, they could keep tabs on them and consequently were loath to move them on.
Just lately a new independent local government political party has set itself up with an aim to getting the drug and over building problems under control. We had a by-election in our area last week (the sitting councillor had died) It was the first time the new party had stood, and it was an overwhelming landslide victory to them.
Our roads are not in good condition either. A few years ago the Queen visited and whatdoyerknow… every road she would travel on was repaired. There was quite a rumble of discontent in the town over that.
We don’t have the gangs and associated gangland killings that the big cities like London and Manchester have. Practically every week you hear about youngsters getting knifed or shot owing to fights between gangs, so we are very lucky to have escaped that.
Despite our problems here though, it is still a beautiful city on one of the most beautiful rivers in Britain. Tourists visit us right through the year and very welcome they are too.