News
November - Lizzie & AJ March in Remembrance Parade with Army Cadet Regiment.
October - Lizzie comes off crutches after 6 weeks!
August - Chester Choir trip returns triumphant but tired......
August - Lizzie gets new date for ankle surgey at Stanmore
July - Mathew & Holly Leave the Reddings School. They will be joining Chaulden Junior & Infant schools respectively, in Spetember.
June - AJ wins Bronze in District Athletics at Shotput after coming 1st in his school sports day event at the same discipline.
May - Plans in place for choir to travel to Chester Cathedral (St Marys Church Choir to travel to & Sing @ Chester Cathedral weekend 8/9th August.......First time singing at a Cathedral service for Lizzie & Mathew! More information will follow soon)
23rd May - Last Night @ the Opera - A rousing sucess! Not a dry eye in the Nave (apparently.....)
16th May - Rehearsals for Alban Opera in home straight.........Performances begin Wednesday 20th May
17th April - BREAKING NEWS.......Little Hay Golf Club Club house burns down leaving Andy & Clare without a venue for their reception after the renewal of vows ceremony in september. Further information will follow when it can.
16th April - Lizzie has hospital consultants appointment which results in referal to Stanmore for possible transplantation of tissue in her ankle & months in plaster & crutches.
7th March 2009 - Lizzie goes Scrappie! i.e. she goes to a scrapbooking workshop at Berkhamstead art centre!
29th January 2009 - Nana Nichola arrives from the USA.
6th January 2009 - Term begins for Mathew and Holly at The Reddings (Lizzie & AJ started back yesterday). Peace returns to the Turton household once again (Between 9 and 3 anyway).
14th December 2008 - Angela Turton, mum to Andy, Nanny to Lizzie, AJ, Mathew & Holly (as well as Ryan, Oliver & Kassey, their cousins), has passed away in Hemel Hospital today. This is completely un-expected, and a huge shock to everyone. Despite having been in hospital, unwell, for over a week, no-one expected this, and it will take a very long time to come to terms with.
Please pray for Sandy (Angela's twin sister) Geoff (Angela's brother) and Roger, her husband as well as Mark, Phillip & Geoff, Andy's brothers at this very difficult time.
Rest in peace, free from pain, Angela. Love Clare, Andy, Lizzie, AJ, Mathew & Holly.
2nd November - Very sad news of the death of Granny Diana Hurman, peacefully, on Sunday evening. She will be sadly missed by all here! Please pray for Aunty Maggie, Uncle David, Aunty Kate, Uncle Nick & Dad (Ian) and all the Hurman family at this difficult time.
24th October - Finally........we have a date for Lizzie's foot surgery! She will be going in to Watford Hospital on the 20th November. Having been told by her consultant that this could be the first of two operations she would need, we are now slightly unsure as in order to get this date she has been placed on the list of another consultant, and we are not now sure whether this doctor will just get on with the full procedure or complete the possible two step process. We can do nothing but wait and see.
29th September - Family decision made to put Holly back in state education too!!! BUT.........and I know you will laugh at this, they are all now at different schools!!!
Holly has now started in the Reception class at The Reddings, which is just around the corner from our home and so far, has settled in beautifully. Thank you God.
However, this does leave us with a rather significant feeling of failure which is going to be really difficult to work through.
18th September - Decision made to send Mathew back to state education!
After another seriously difficult few days and a whole lot of soul searching, Andy and I have made (with Mathew) the decision to send him back to "state" school. As of Monday (22nd) he will be enrolled at GADE VALLEY JMI, which for those who know, was mine and Michaels old junior school! What a weird thing eh?
Anyway, the decision was based on a number of factors, bust most importantly, was that with only this year and next before he moves to senior school, it was really essential that Mathew was not affected negatively from working at home, and was already beginning to struggle to work effectively and with focus, and we did not want this to leave him seriously behind his peers.
Please keep him in your thoughts over the next few days as he starts this new chapter.
14th September - Mathew attends his first "Preparation for Communion" class at St Pauls Church Highfield. These classes are designed to introduce the children to the basic concepts behind what the sacrament of holy communion means, and to help them understand their own feelings about their faith.
The children will be presented to the church congregations on the 2nd November, and will take communion for the first time then. The idea behind this scheme is to help the children understand what taking the blood & wine means and why they would want to be confirmed at some later stage.
Please keep them in your prayers.
21st August 2008 - Holly gets the pox!!!!!!
No seriously, its only Chicken Pox, but considering her sister and brothers got it over 9 years ago, we are really fortunate to have had a source of infection (in the shape of Holly's cousins, Oliver and Emily) in order for her to get it nice and young!!!! (Better now than when she's an adult!)
It actually started yesterday with her being really miserable, sleeping on and off all day and then still getting a full-night's sleep last night, and having a raging temperature (kept strictly controlled by the paracetamol suspension she lived on all day). Then when she woke this morning the spots had started to appear but she was actually a lot happier in herself.
I'm sure she will handle it OK, and will soon be the full energetic eating machine, we all know and love........
18th August 2008 - Clare has more knee surgery!
Those of your who know, will remember that I (clare) had knee surgery back in January of this year to try and resolve some of the pain and loss of movement in her left knee from Osteoarthritis. Well, the time came yesterday (18th August) to have the other knee done also!
Having been admitted to the Surgical admissions ward at Watford General (Yes, I know - you don't need to say anything!), I was prep'd for the surgery and taken down to theatre at about 10am.
I had chosen to be operated under a
SPINAL BLOCK, so as to be awake for the procedure. I decided that this had been a very wise choice as I was able to watch the progress of the
Arthroscopy on a large screen television beside my trolley. It was really interesting and absolutely bloodless!!!!! I shall ask my consultant if I may have copies of the pictures taken from both my procedures when I see him next and put them up here for anyone who might possibly be interested!!!(Not many, I wager)
The only problem was, that although I was awake during the entire procedure, It took hours for the Spinal block to wear off, leaving me without any control of my body below the waistline, with all the potential effects this had (use your imagination).
I have now come home but, in the usual manner, have a huge bandage covering my right knee and look very odd when walking (at least I can now walk though!)
Hopefully the stitches will come out in about a week (although the hospital discharged me without any arrangements for this or an out-patients review with the consultant - surprise, I shall have to chase the ward up about this tomorrow!) and I should be able just to keep the wounds (three small holes) dry and clean without any covering on, after about 10 days or so depending on how well they heal when the stitches are removed.
I still have to discuss the sucess (or rather lack of) of the operation in January, on my right knee, but as the left knee was not as bad as the other, hopefully I shall have a better outcome after yesterdays procedure.
Thank you to all those who rang Andy to check on my progress and health yesterday, It was much appreciated.
24th July 2008 - Friends of St May's Church Annual BBQ and Quiz night
As many of you will know, we as a family are very involved in our local church, and as part of (just a small part of) Andy's offering to our community, is his involvment with the Friends of St Marys Church, a charity group set up several decades ago to raise funds specifically to assist with the upkeep of the fabric of the church building.
This lastest event, held in Peter and Liz Cotton's (our Rector and his wife's) garden turned out to be another rousing sucess.
Organised by Lyn and Roger Sygrave with assistance from others (including Andy and Lizzie T!), and blessed with fabulous weather, we all enjoyed great food and company in the shade of our lovely church.
Raffle tickets were sold and drawn at the end of the evening with prizes going to several lucky winners, rangeing from a bottle of Champagne to a Ceramic Herb Garden arrangement.
A photo quiz was employed to keep us busy before feeding and after, and the answers and winners also announced at the end of the evening. Congratulations to Simon & Emmaline Lambert!!!!!!
(There was a few very sneeky little questions there Lyn!! - well done)
This event is the most recent in a series of these BBQ's and is Definitely NOT going to be the last if Yesterday was anything to go by.
With thanks to Lyn & Roger Sygrave, Stuart Harrison, Brian Doran,
Norman Spink, Simon Lambert, Andy & Lizzie T, any others who I may have left out, but especially Liz and Peter Cotton, for the use of the Rectory garden.
Announcements
Andy and Clare, with their children Lizzie, AJ, Mathew & Holly, would like to give early notice of the date of their Thanksgiving for Marriage service at St. Mary's Church, Hemel Hempstead on 26th September 2009!
University of Hertfordshire Choral Group
Please email me through the link on this site or on c.d.turton@herts.ac.uk for further information, with details of your voice part and musical preferences!
Take a look at the attached poster (click on link below - in MS Publisher & pdf).
Thanks,
Clare