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I hear ya Steve...it has been very boring with no where to go with the shut down. What do you like to do when you are home?

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Just wanted to say hi. Always happy to chat.

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Hi Charles I'm 56 and from the north east I am new to silver surfers and I'm just here to make friends as I'm currently suffering from empty nest syndrome I like to read books go out to the country side and enjoy our beautiful countryside and i wouldnt love anything more than been able to enjoy that with friends from the website as currently it is just me and my 18 year old son who I love dearly but would like to meet some friends x

Hi Suzy and what a beautiful name and I will be proud to have a name like that. It is my first time in a site like this and actually I registered in Silversufers perhaps I am bored. At the moment I am not in U.K.. I am in Panama, was traveling in Central America for the last 2 years. Before the coranavirus started I was planing to return to U.K. but it did not happen. Then everything came to a standstill. Panama acted very fast when the coranavirus hit USA. Panama imposed whole day curfew since end of February we under curfew. They shut the Airport and no comercial flight in and out of Panama. They take it serious and protect us with curfew and only controlled and restricted time out to do grocery shopping. By acting fast Panama minimize the damage from coranavirus. Panama Government hopes to open the Airport by end of this month. They want to start with comercial flights very slowly. I hope by July or August to be back in U.K. I am enjoying here, I am in a remote area and I do not notice that the world is suffering from a pandemic until I watch the news. I have hot sunny weather I lay in my hammock the whole day dreaming. When I leave I will miss the sun, the food, fruit, the country, the Panamanians,and naturally my hammock. I love to travel and love to see other cultures. Before coming here I was in a Greek Island called Evia for about an year. So that is enough about me. boring I would say.
How about you, do you travel.? I can understand empty nest syndrome it would drive me mad.. wow beautiful country side I am a keen photographer, do you take pictures. ? Do you have only your Son? I have 2 grown up children they live in Germany, you maybe asking why in Germany because I lived in Germany 30 years. I have a granddaughter too 3 years old. I am divorced long time ago but I have a very good contact to my children we visit very often. Is your son studying?Mothers always love their sons don’t I know that I love kids .you are right, you have to find a little bit of time for your friends.
I hope I am not boring you with a long message.
Hoping to hear from you again.
Please take care and be safe.
Charles

Hi Suzy

I hope I did not scare you with my long reply. It was not my intention.
Hope you are doing fine?
Take care and be safe.

Hi Charles, what a good year to be born....same as me , I'm new to this so I'm just " dipping my toe" just to see how easy things are on here,
Wish me luck!!!
Jenny

Hi Jenny
Thank you and yes it is a lovely year to be born. I joined about 4 months ago I am new too. I am sure you will be alright here and find friends to chat about anything.
I wish you all the luck to settle here and enjoy your time..
We have to start new things sometimes and if we don’t try it we will never know.
Take care and be safe
Regards
Charles

Hi Charlesb, Thankyou, you are right. we all have to start new things, be a little brave, its nice to chat and read what other people are up to, although my things are quite boring!,
kind regards
Jenny

Hi Jenny

One thing you should not do it Is to underestimate yourself. How do you know if I find you boring.? Have faith in you girl and I say you are not boring I am not telling you to write you whole life story here.. I like to know about you in your own time please. I find you interesting and come on prove me wrong

Take care and be safe

Kind regards
Charles

Hi, I think you forget how to communicate spending so much time alone, don't get me wrong I quite like my life, my daughters on holiday so I drove to hers and put the bins in,( last year someone tried to break in), she lives about 6miles from me, one neighbour then no one for about 1\2 mile, it was lovely 3 deers jumped out a little way in front of me as I got there, we go for some lovely walks, but that's not really socialising
Regards Jenny

Hi Jenny is this message for me? Because I did not speak about socializing, I am a bit puzzled with your answer? Anyway interesting to know what you have written, it seems a lovely place where your daughter lives to see deers jumping in front of you. It is certainly better than city lives. Unfortunately thieves are every where I think even if you go the moon you will find thieves. It is not only virus you have to think about humans too because they are capable of behaving like a virus.

Be safe and take care

Regards
Charles

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Just an observation I have noticed that when the lovely editor says welcome to a new message, the reply box to that original person disappears.

This could stop direct replies getting to that person. If they are just typed in the forum they may not receive an alert email.

Perhaps it is glitch in the system that could be improved. It might be that now I have done this message replying back to the editor the box will reappear to the original persons. I will press the send button now and see.

That would mean that the original person has to reply to Sally for the reply box to them to reappear. I will see what happens now.

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Hi Kate,
I am new here too. I am looking to make new friends..
I live in NC... Where do you live? I am divorced. I do not have any children , but I enjoy working with children everyday in my job.
I would enjoy chatting with you ..

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Hello there ,

We are very similar in our situations ,except I have one son and two long distance grand children.
Life does get rather lonely , am so looking forward to the end of July . Am well kitted out for a visit into town . One or two places I need to pop into.
If you are free please drop me a line ......

Best wishes

Jo.

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Hi Nartane,
Nice to meet you. It’s raining here in New York, but that should resolve itself in a couple hours. I get a chance to walk a lot and cycle as my friend pushes me to stay in shape. Some days there is not enough Tylenol in the medicine cabinet! I read many books and stay active with grandchildren and my wife who is a little younger than I and still works full-time. Feel free to write back.

Hi ... This has stopped us all in our tracks sadly, hopefully it won't be too long before we get back to normal, whatever normal is
I'm getting through books like there's no tomorrow, but I love reading, so that's OK... I've just had to order a load more...
I'm very limited in what I can do... I don't live in Cyprus so I'm guessing you have replied to the wrong person... Its easy done and I'm still trying to find my way around here

Take care

Hi Kate,
I’m Bruce from Upstate New York. Happily married also with grandchildren keeping us hopping. Newly retired. Wife, younger, still working. Both of us in the Healthcare field. Reading a lot. Mostly Nordic thrillers. Also UK and surrounding countries detective stories. Also cycling and trying to stay healthy with this ‘stay at home protocol. Had snow last weekend. 70 degrees today. Love to hear from others outside of USA. So much to see and learn.

Hello Bruce, always happy to hear from someone from across the pond. Well your 70 degrees has landed over here and being a person that loves gardening I am praying for rain.(Hopefully coming on Friday). I have been to the States a number of times, my brother lives in Lubbock,Texas, Been to Las Vegas 3 times and each time it was different. We did travel around the New England states in the year of the Atlanta Olympics. What an area to be in in the Fall.
We are now into our 8th week of lock down, but things are easing, I am going to play golf Thursday, Yippee. My wife and I have been walking twice a week and working on our allotment, (vegetable garden) It gets us outside. I managed to finish reading Bleak House by Charles Dickens and now reading a Jeffery Archer thriller. I can recommend his books to you.
I have to call on Amazon for more books, I like to read historical mystery books, learned about the Great London Fire and Plague of the 1660s, it was worse than Covid19, (Caught it on Sunday-Dead on Monday). I'll leave you with that thought. Nice to hear from you.

Hi Larger,
Things are lifting over here in upstate New York. Getting out and about a nice change. Have not read Jeffrey archer books yet, as I have been reading Icelandic mysteries as of late. I have also enjoyed Peter May and his black house trilogy based in Scotland. We have never been to Europe and hope to do so in the near future. From reading so many books from Norway, Iceland, Scotland and other interesting areas, it is hard to pin down exactly where to go first New England is where we spend a lot of our time, especially the Maine coast and up into nova Scotia. Stay well and enjoy books