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Hi All,

I know I haven't been around much, and haven't posted for ages...but other things got in the way!

Alex finally asked me to marry him, and said the sooner the better!

We originally decided on 6th January, and booked a cruise to start on the 7th. Not as extravagent as it sounds, we got a deal and were owed some days holiday from last year which we had to take, and needed a holiday at the end of a busy season. We had always fancied a cruise somewhere and the opportunity arose. We really enjoyed it.

We only wanted a small affair, no fuss, but then discovered some couldn't make it on the 6th January.....so changed the wedding day to 20th January, as we had already paid for the holiday. Hence we had our "honeymoon" before the wedding! But after living together for over 10 years, I guess it didn't really matter??!!

Here's a few pics of the big day.

Love to all
Kath
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Hmmm...hi all, I've thought about posting this, and not posting this...obviously I have.

Just had a phone call from one of my sisters. (I have four sisters, I'm the eldest. The eldest 3 smoke, the other 2 don't.) My next sister down in age from me, took ill on the bus home from work today. Her work colleagues called an ambulance and seems she had a heart attack, or two. They rushed her to Leeds General Infirmary and had to shock her a few times. They obviously did an angiogram as she now has a stent due to one artery being nearly totally blocked. She's apparently OK now, although I've not spoken to her.

She's 57 and a smoker for as long as I've been, but not as many per day - about 20. I had sent her all the gumph about e-cigs and spoken to her on the phone about how I was getting on with it. She had delayed buying one until I could show her in September, when I will be going back to my home county of Yorkshire, as her eldest daughter is getting married then.

She's apparently told the youngest daughter that she is never going to smoke again. But just in case she feels different when she's recovered, I'll obviously still do the demonstration.

Some of you already know that I had a heart attack back in 2002, and been ok since. I did not need a stent. But like my sister, I said I wouldn't smoke again and did indeed not have one for a week while in hospital, but did as soon as I got out!

I didn't know whether to tell you all. But just because we are like a little "family" on here, and lots of us have had health problems of one sort or another, I thought you'd like to know.

The middle sister came to stay a few weeks ago, and on my advice she had bought a Riva (before the TECC sale) but wasn't getting on with it and having trouble knowing how to faff with her own juice etc. When she came to stay, I gave her my Tornado ready filled cartridges and she liked those so much more. She's not as willing to experiment and faff around as I am. I suspect the juice she had ordered was too strong as she didn't smoke as strong a cig or as many as me. I wonder if the other sisters heart attack will give her more incentive to try with the e-cig more?

I'll keep you all posted on the outcomes of them both.

Kath

Chrissie,

I was just going to say exactly the same....it's always baffled me why anyone would A) want that many, B) Spend that much.

Surely part of the aim of e-cigs is to SAVE money? And when you all smoked analogues, did you swap and change your brand that much?

I can see both sides though - I suppose you would change brand if some were cheaper?

I suppose it's like the fruit flavours, I've never wanted to try them, I LIKE the taste of tobacco juice, makes me feel that I'm smoking the real thing. Whereas if you have fruit (or other flavours) it convinces you more that you have really given up?

Kath

Thanks for all your good wishes!

But Jaki, that is not my desk - it's Alex's and a pity you can't see the right hand side of it behind my chair on the right. It's a mess! Full of screws, washers, man bits etc. Mine is the desk on the right, will take more pics later, but it IS very tidy. Alex has an iMac, I have a PC.

Ordering Inidian take away for tonight, but goodness knows where we will eat it! No tables in sight! Dish out in the kitchen, move our keyboards and eat on our desks, I guess.

And I most definitely have to find the TV, for Corrie tonight, just hoping the cables are long enough to reach into the office/dining room somewhere as the lounge is out of bounds and has de-humidifiers running.

It's our day off tomorrow (work six days a week in peak season) so will be going out while they get on with it. I don't think it will take that long, they are hard working lads and we have used them before for other building work on the park.

Life is fun!

Kath

We live "above the shop" as it were. A few weeks ago, we found water running down the walls and from the ceiling. Previous builders (years ago, before we were here) had made a shoddy job and left a gap in the lead flashing....new builders are making good. This is what the flat looks like now. I have lounge furniture in the office/dining room. I have cushions, DVD's, book cases etc., in the spare room, and the cats are in hiding.

I'm chain vaping!

(Sorry about the large pics, but you need to see the full effect!)

Kath
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Have a super time! Love to all.
Kath
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