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Lady ROctober 6, 2024 at 1:00 PM
ReplyDeleteSCD I am in awe of Diane’s teaching skills regarding Chris and all credit to him for really wanting to seriously compete while also having fun. I agree Tasha is very good when I read she had been on Love Island I thought oh gawd a frightful bimbo then but no for once just a naturally beautiful, talented and pleasant young lady. I absolutely loved The Dr’s Indian dance such wonderful hand movements and she has such a slender and pliable body. There were others too but that’s it for now. Home tonight? I’m thinking Toyah or Paul Murton?
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MiriamOctober 6, 2024 at 3:30 PM
AP Have a great time with your family in France and thank goodness your "hiccup" at the start was so easily sorted.
I did similar, leaving my house-keys in a taxi on going to + from the hospital for an appointment. I had no idea which one, but rang taxi firm. The driver of the one I went to the hospital in was in the office, checked his taxi + found them and as he was finishing his shift, he brought them to me. He was paid for his kindness.
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MiriamOctober 6, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Strictly was great last night and the hair + make-up team certainly did a great job.
This is a very close group of dancers, which bodes well for the rest of the series.
I agree with others that some are peaking early, whereas others are just improving and embracing the experience .
To add - I think Nick has to withdraw so to protect his injuries and further problems.
Totally random photo as I did a glitter ball for strictly last year. I haven’t heard of most of the contestants but I did go & see Chris McCausland in Chichester earlier this year, a very entertaining evening
ReplyDeleteThe little white owl is rather nice. I thought white owls were only resident in countries in the far north.
DeleteIt's great to see you posting again Lanjan and catch up with your news. Here's hoping you'll be able to continue.
ReplyDeleteLanjan can’t get on again today.
ReplyDeleteThere is a post from LanJan at the end of the previous thread if anyone cares to read it.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that she is still struggling with posting according to PtbYs post this morning.
Hopefully KP can move Lanjan’s post over to here as I have just answered it on the old blog🤭
ReplyDeleteLanjanOctober 6, 2024 at 9:28 PM
ReplyDeleteEureka!
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KPnutsOctober 6, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Hello LanJan,
New thread started, random photo of stuffed polar bears
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LanjanOctober 6, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Just checking again.
I came back to try again and it said I would have to sign in .
When I tried it kept going back to the top of the page.
I gave up then.
Then I decided to come back and it said I could comment .
I don't know if I will be able to get on tomorrow but in case I don't best wishes to you all and especially to those who have been ill and to Lady R who is always so thoughtful to others when she is obviously going through a difficult time of her own .
It is past my bedtime but Percy has jumped off my knee so I thought I would just add a few more words.
Still summer down here so not in winter woollies yet .
Had some welcome rain so garden looks better now than it did earlier in the summer.
I decided to have 6months of summer-mid April to mid October so am still in summer clothes.
My friend in Ramsbottom says she has hardly been out of winter clothes.
On the advice and more or less insistence of my sons I now have a cleaner ,-only once a fortnight - a "gardener " - whenever I need him and a window cleaner-once a month.
I gave up driving ,sold my car and now mainly use an Uber if I need to go somewhere.
It may seem extravagant but It is cheaper than keeping a car .
PtbY has been down here earlier this summer.and it was great to see her.She and her husband meet up with my younger son when he goes to North Yorkshire to do his stint as a signalman and last year my elder son and his wife who were over from Canada met them them too -and Cowgirl - when they came over from Canada .
I have therefore a lot to thank this blog for .
Thank you in particular for assisting me in trying to get me back onto the blog .Mrs P and P tbY
Lanjan - you’re not alone in giving up driving. My 97 year old father-in-law finally sold his 20 year old car a few months ago. He hadn’t driven it for a few years apart from to and from the garage and to his his barber.
DeleteIt seems odd driving up to his house and not seeing the car on his drive but the family are so pleased he reached the decision himself. We had been gently trying to persuade him that the time had come to stop driving.
Also you’re not alone struggling to get on this blog. I have to use this old iPad as my newer one doesn’t let me sign in to “Blogger” to comment. I’ve tried lots of times to follow the instructions but nothing seems to work.
In response to Esscee I will attempt to write again on this thread my instructions that I sent to LanJan on how I get back onto the blog on the many occasions when I get locked out.
DeleteHaving just watched the final episode of Ludwig I really must get myself a meal, so will try to do this later tonight or tomorrow morning.
Lady ROctober 7, 2024 at 12:56 PM
ReplyDeleteYay Lanjan 👏🏻⭐️👏🏻 thank you for your kind wishes to us both, as many others here (yourself included) have had - and do have to do we battle on. Glad to hear you now have put the necessary help that you need into place it will ensure you can keep your energy level up for the nice things in life that you enjoy. Yes this blog has given much to us all over the years - comfort, advice, encouragement and some good laughs too.
Long may it continue and thank goodness for KP 🥇
I had an interestig NHS experience today. My GP was treating me for sinusitis which wasn't getting better. In the end I made a private appointment with an ENT specialist only to discover that there is nothing wrong with my sinuses. He suggested seeing a nuerologist for the pain. I saw my GP who made an NHS referral. I went on my NHS account to make the appointment and was surprised that a lot of appointments seemed to be available from next week. I proceeded to make one which gave me a date and time, saying it was a face to face one. Then it said, in capital letters, 'DO NOT ATTEND THIS APPOINTMENT'. I then discovered that I had only made an appointment for my referral to be triaged, after which they would let me know what further action was to be taken! Why would an appointment be needed to read a letter?
ReplyDeleteBecause this is how the NHS operates now CC ! ?
DeleteUnbelievable isn’t it !
I haven’t had a face to face appointment with a GP for years. I’ve had phone consultations or I’ve seen a practice nurse or a paramedic in the surgery.
DeleteGetting a blood test is a complicated system of contacting GP, picking up a blood form, ringing the regional health authority for an appointment, then attending a blood clinic with the correct forms!
Where are you Esscee ?
DeleteAre you in the UK, are you using the NHS ?
Or are you explaining what happens elsewhere ?
MrsP, I’m in the UK and I use the NHS. I live in a smallish town in NW England. I am generally in good health. I think I’m somewhere between where Miriam and Cheshire Cheese live, reading between the lines of their posts.
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DeleteThanks for your reply ESSCEE.
DeleteSome time in the last few weeks Mistral asked if any one else was watching Ludwig.
ReplyDeleteI wasn’t watching it but had heard it being discussed probably on Front Row and mildly intrigued I decided three weeks in to have a look.
Since Saturday I’ve watched all six episodes and rather enjoyed it.
I’ve also most enjoyed watching Anna Maxwell Martin playing a very different role to much of what I’ve remembered of her work over the decades.
I’m posting the following in hopes that others who find it difficult to get back on the blog may be helped by my method.
ReplyDeleteFirst I google - Archers fan blog - which brings up, amongst other sites - archersfanblogspot - click on that
This usually brings up a thread from the past when GG was moderating, showing a picture of Grey Gables with a couple of golfers on the left of the picture walking towards the building.
Scroll through this thread until you come to a post from KPNuts
This may take sometime.
Be patient.
You may have to go to a follow on thread of a different date to find a post from her.
When you find a post from KPNuts click on her profile
On the result you will find - archers blog mk2
Click on that, and hopefully you will find yourself on the current blog.
I hope this might help some.
But I must also emphasise that this is my method on an IPad.
I cannot say if it would work on other devices
MrsP
Ah I remember this method now but have not had to use it in a long while, however it may be needed in the future so I have taken a screenshot into my photo album. Many thanks Mrs P 👏🏻
DeleteMrsP - I have tried your method but unfortunately I’m still getting the same message, which is “Unable to sign in, check your browser configurations “ on Google.
DeleteI must have clicked (or not clicked) on something in the configurations when we transferred to this blog. My newer, more-to-up-date iPad obviously doesn’t recognise my Blogger sign-in.
I may try deleting and re-installing Blogger on my newer iPad.
Hello everyone. I’m not sure this is going to work but fingers crossed 🤞
DeleteNice to hear from you Soz, hopefully you will be able to continue posting 🤞
ReplyDeleteWe did some pond maintenance yesterday, it was teeming with dragonfly larvae. That probably explains why we have far fewer frogs and newts than we used to, they are getting gobbled up as soon as they hatch!
ReplyDeleteOooh I do envy you your pond CC.
DeleteI put up a post earlier this year on my local SM asking for tadpoles.
I was severely told that I should not ask and that if I had water in my garden
water wildlife would arrive.
I have about six containers of water in my garden.
Nothing has come to take up residence so far in over two years !
We have had 3 old butlers sinks in the garden and started them off with tadpoles the children brought home from a stream many years ago., plus the pond weed they were used to. I'd like to increase the toad population as i have only seen one here, and they keep the slugs down, but think a bigger water container would be needed first. The Wheal Martyn clay works museum have a lot from eggs laid in their old settling tanks filled with water. Go at the right time of year and there are little toadlings crawling around everywhere. I am very tempted! They have lovely eyes.
DeleteHello Soz lovely to hear from you, and it's sad you haven't been able to get through before. I had trouble to begin with and then when we did manage to my son put the blog on my tablet desktop, and clicking on that always seems to let me in.
ReplyDeleteHello Soz……
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, I’ve often thought of you and wondered what happened.
So pleased you have been able at least to read the blog and fully understand your frustration at not being able to post.
Hope it lasts.
Thinking about others who may not be able to post.
ReplyDeleteI am not technically minded at all and struggle to understand why or why not I’m able to navigate the complexities of IT.
I never sign in.
Almost daily I get messages on my screen telling me that this or that APP will not be installed until I sign in again. I do not want Apps. I don’t understand them and do not know how to use them if I have them. I consider them a nuisance, although I’m sure others will tell me how fantastic they are. I don’t have a smart phone either so I am aware that I’m shut out of family ‘ what’s Ap ‘ circle too.
Somehow or other I recently lost masses of ‘stuff ‘ on my IPad and feeling lost, I went to my local internet shop for help.
He was brilliant and helped me by sorting it all out. AND refused any payment into the bargain. I’ve been before when something similar happened.
I’m writing this as a suggestion to others who may like me struggle to understand why it’s so difficult to access or post on here, to seek help from your local ‘techey’ facility. They might just have the magic touch.
Soz so lovely to have you back with us. Can totally understand your frustration at not being able to comment so hopefully you will be able to make up for it from now on 👏🏻 🤗
ReplyDeleteI think I need to go on a course on using the internet. The reason why I was locked out of using this blog was confusion over passwords and email addresses on google. Last time I was on this blog was through Chrome ( I think) but that no longer seemed to work. Yesterday I combined emails, chose a different password and hey presto! But I don’t understand how or why things work.
ReplyDeleteIn the garden I’m trying to keep things flowering . My dahlias and asters still bring some colour to the borders though the first frosts cannot be far away. I’m beginning to succumb to growing plants that like my soil rather than experimenting with plants that obviously don’t. How has your Mediterranean garden survived a not very Mediterranean type summer Sarnia? Janice I understand your frustration at having to let the garden go for a bit while you recuperate - I was out of action last year - it’s been good to get hands back in the soil again. My undergardener’s joints are feeling their age as well so standards have had to slip a bit.
I only grow plants that are happy in my garden no matter how much I might like others Soz. I have lavenders and hellebores in flower at the moment which one wouldn't expect. I guess we'll get more of that sort of thing with climate change.
DeleteWe visited Biddulph Grange Garden on Monday, the dahlias in the Dahlia Walk were still going strong.
Nice to see some old names cropping up on the blog again.
ReplyDeleteHave just watched the news. I don’t think we should moan at our weather when you see what’s going to hit Florida. Terrifying.
I’m loving these dark nights. Fire on, lamps on, cup of coffee and some good telly. Bliss.
Just finished traitors NZ and about to start series 4 of Slow Horses on Apple TV. Can’t wait for jilly coopers rivals series on Disney next week. Pleased we got Disney free for a year through changing a bank account.
Ptby I’m with you regarding the cosy nights. Envy you your 🔥 though and the many more of you who have them…
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ReplyDeleteFinally got to comment on my newer iPad after lots of experimenting!
DeleteWell done Esscee.
DeleteLovely to see Soz and Esscee here again and Patricia C on the other blog.
ReplyDeleteGreat to be down here with the family again but am very restricted in what I can do, so spend most of the day reading, surfing the net and cuddling one or other of the three gorgeous moggies that live here. Youngest grandson Elliot is not well and off school at the moment so I spend a lot of time with him. Going for lunch at the village restaurant today, which has a huge open fire rotisserie in the chimney where they cook wonderful steaks, and other things, in front of you. It will be a real treat. 😋
Sounds like a lovely day, Archerphile. Take it easy and enjoy your family (including the moggies).
DeleteSounds a lovely day ahead Archerphile, full of good food a fire and moggies to give you comfort aahhhh bliss.
DeleteTry not to worry about what you are restricted from doing ARCHERPHILE and instead focus on the huge effort you and Mr A made to get there and enjoy the warmth of the companionship of your extended family for the time that you are there.
DeleteWise words Mrs P, and I’m trying to do just that. For some reason, the extreme quiet here (no heavy passing traffic, overflying light aircraft, Tv, radio) has given Mr A and I the chance to talk our health and futures through more thoroughly than at home and come to some decisions. At home there is always some job needs doing or programme on tv to watch so nothing ever gets properly talked through. This has been a very quiet but profitable time for us.
DeleteWell what a bonus AP 👏🏻 however as in TA you have left us with some cliffhanger!!!
DeleteI'm pleased that you and Mr A have been able to have those conversations. Hopefully your plans will come to fruition in the not too distant future.
DeleteArcherphile, that is a real bonus. I hope you continue to relax and enjoy your holiday.
DeleteI was going to join in, but will leave things for another time.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy TA tonight and 🥰 + 🤗🤗 to all.
I’ve decided that I shall not go to choir tonight after all.
ReplyDeleteI would be able to listen to TA before 9pm on sounds, but I cannot forego my 7.03 listen live !
Lanjan 🎂 ❤️
ReplyDeleteI've potted up some of the winter bedding that I ordered. They were replacements for my bidens but they are still producing their sunshine yellow flowers prolifically on my patio
ReplyDeletePressed publish by accident! I didn't have the heart to dig up the bidens while they are still doing so well.
DeleteI thought Lanjan's was the 23rd around the same time as a couple of my relatives, although the cake might be to celebrate her getting through to the blog again, and on the 12th I think I would be right in saying Happy Birthday to you Lady R.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Janice for my birthday wishes for tomorrow. (You are correct regarding LJ birthday I should have added a candle to my post as it refers to Mr LJ who had his birthday on the 11th so a fellow Libra)
DeleteMany happy returns for tomorrow Lady R.
DeleteYet again, I missed the Aurealis Borealis. I was out but didn't see it!
ReplyDeleteI went out again at about 1.30am but nothing. All I saw was ice on the car! It was freezing literally.
Now for a spectacle to be seen which sunglasses are needed for..
Putting the veg. away into the 'fridge after shopping, I realised it needed a sort out. What a job that turned out to be, as everything was removed, all shelves etc cleaned and put back, minus a lot of debatable things that were lurking in it.
Sunglasses are needed for my own spectacular sight, as it so sparkly clean!
We've been having a sort out today as well Miriam. My 8m by 2m herbaceous border was getting out of hand so we bit the bullet this morning and dug up all the plants, split them, got rid of ones which weren't working and replanted the rest. It looks very bare now but, hopefully, will fill out once it starts growing in spring. I've now got quite a few spare plants and bulbs to offer to friends and family.
DeleteI'm now sitting on the sofa with a heat pad on my back, I think I'm going to be pretty stiff in the morning.
My garden needs just the same but it is even now, so squelchy. I have just got in touch with the person who does my hedges and cutting back, to come and mow the lawns, which are now constantly wet and long! My mower (and me) will not cope doing it!
DeleteHe will use his big petrol mower + Strummer, will take an hour or two, and IF the same will charge about £20-25.
DeleteThis is money well spent to my mind. 🫰
No need of such services Miriam but bet same here in Hampshire would cost around £20-£25 an hour if lucky….
DeleteYes normally similar here in north Cornwall, £20 an hour. But I once asked someone who was doing the garden of a second home (let out for most of the year as a holiday house) how much he charged, and he laughed and said I wouldn't want him. He explained to me he charged holiday home owners highly inflated prices and had such a lucrative business that he had no need of working for local people at local prices. My daughter has said she feels embarrassed if she ever has to tell people how much the holiday park charges during the summer for what are basically just chalets. Last summer she went for a week to Lanzarote, and stayed in a hotel with all (wonderful) food provided and including flight it still worked out cheaper than staying in one of their chalets. Plus which although we have nice scenery, beaches and legends ( that Germans come in droves bcause of, and Rosamunde Pilcher) we don't have wonderful weather, an active volcano to look at and camels to be ridden.
DeleteHappy birthday Lady R. Hope you have a lovely relaxing day. 💐🎂🍾😊
ReplyDeleteWishing you a very happy birthday Lady R and I hope Lord R is fit enough to enjoy it with you. 🎂🎉🍸🍁🌷
DeleteMany happy returns of the day Lady R. 🍰🍰🍾🌻🌷🍀🎈🎈
ReplyDeleteThank you both so much 🤗 It will be an easy at home day but I am happy with that. Phone calls, WhatsApp’s, texts, e.mails already arriving. Flowers and other lovely goodies. Our neighbour will pop in after lunch too. Have to work around all Mr R topical skin treatments which have dropped by 1.
ReplyDeleteSteroid morning and pre bedtime each of those to be followed within an hour by a rub down with Cetraben oil and another oil only late afternoon I think that makes 5 altogether all of them are all body. At least they have done the trick now to keep under control. The steroid will have to be tapered off. His cough/and my throat are easing so 🤞🏼 …….
and thanks to you also Janice 😄
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Lady R. I'm pleased to hear that Mr R is improving.
DeleteHappy Birthday Lady R - it’s good to hear that the skin routine is bringing results.
ReplyDeleteHave a super birthday dear Lady R from both me and Mr A. You will be busy with all those applications for Mr R, but hopefully have time enjoy yourself and eat cake too. Will be thinking of you today. 🙋♀️ 🎂 🌺🌸🌼🌷
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your Birthday Lady R.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday from me also.
🤗🍰🍫🍹🌻
Blessings for a peaceful day, Lady R.
ReplyDeleteGot to have a moan. That Katya Jones with Wayne Evan’s on strictly….i can’t stand her. Always screaming at the end. Jumping off the table at the end. God she loves herself, and what a gob full of teeth. She always has to be the centre of attention!!!!🤮 just like that ex-husband of hers Neil, the ginger one. Both of em have to be stood in the camera shot. Sooo annoying.
ReplyDeletePtby - agree about Katya’s screaming, in fact I mentioned it on the night. Also agree about her ex-husband Neil. I’ve noticed over the last few series that he’s being pushed forward more - someone obviously wants him to have a higher profile in the show.
DeleteWynne Evan’s. !
ReplyDeleteOnly one comment on Strictly from me this evening. Fewer props and more dancing please.
ReplyDeleteHear hear. Totally agree.
DeleteCould somebody please tell me who was voted off last week, being away I couldn’t see the programme, nor will I see this weekends. And is Chris McCausland still in it? I do hope so.
ReplyDeleteAP Toyah Wilcox was voted off last weekend, and yes Chris is still very much there - another great dance tonight what a team. Diane is the pro for him that’s for sure!
DeleteEveryone thank you again for your kind birthday wishes, a very pleasant day indeed.
still
I noticed the first frost of the season on our conservatory roof this morning. It does make some pretty patterns. One of today's jobs will be to bring my pelargonium cuttings in from the greenhouse.
ReplyDeleteMy pelagoniums are still flowering. I was wondering if I could just cover them with fleece over winter, there is literally nowhere to put them if I dig them up.
ReplyDeleteAnother topic, I seem to be turning into a serial T.V. watcher....I have just watched both series of 'Showtrial' on BBC1, and really enjoyed them, also I thought 'Sherwood' was gripping, I like David Morrisey.
It's unlikely that pelargoniums would survive outdoors over winter, thay need to be kept above about 6 degrees C. That's why I take cuttings, especially as my red ones came from a dear family friend who died years ago.
DeleteMistral ?
DeleteIf you had a shelf put in high up in your porch you could put your pelargoniums up there for the winter.
I don’t grow them but my mum always did so I have a lot of second hand experience.
Thank you CC and Mrs. P. I've never had them before, so pretty. I think I will pot them up and put them in the porch with fleece as well, combining all expertise, and then keep my fingers crossed.
DeleteThe huge chimneys on this house need venting, as do I, the amount it's costing on top of the service charge, scaffolding outside my bedroom windows. The roofer has been delayed with the endless rain, but might start tomorrow, so it will be early mornings for me this week, then I'm getting the wooden blinds fitted on Weds, so need to clear some space!! Retirement eh?
So you went for the wooden blinds then Mistral !
DeleteHope you like them once installed.
The pelargoniums will need to be up high and fleece too is a good idea.
High because down low the frost might still get to them.
But you have got someone to do a shelf I think ?
Oh Mrs. P. , I wish I had a joiner (in the family)... still waiting for the flipping inside shelves to be put up!
DeletePeople forget don't they, but today I got an estimate from a recommended handyman to decorate AND do shelves, and I am ready to pay whatever it costs.
I'm very pleased to be getting these blinds, but admit I did not check with the planning dept. I am replacing ugly old fly-stained fabric roller blinds with beautiful natural wood, so I hope there will be no complaints.
What a proud Grand Aunty I am.
ReplyDeleteThe youngest at 4.5yrs took part in their village 1km fun run this morning. Mum had to go as well, and despite walking part of it and 2nd to last, still was about 9 mins.
What had amused us all, is that as she is so petite, her number almost swamped her.
What is so good is that this is the one born as the Pandemic started, with what was once known as a "club foot". One of her feet is a size larger than the other and she has a bone protuberance on the larger one. Her M+D have been brilliant to try to keep her feet active, such as swimming and baby ballet, as soon as they could as to covid restrictions..
Buying shoes/trainers is a big problem with odd sized feet as you can imagine.
She started school in September, but nothing is phasing her and the school who do not know about her feet, have not seen anything untowards. Littl'un's Mum wants things normal which they are, and will only tell the school if absolutely necessary.
Well done little one 👏
DeleteWhat an achievement Miriam, she must be proud of herself.
ReplyDeleteAnd well done those parents keeping things as low key and normal as possible.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbour in Stroud was born with one arm finishing at the elbow with three digits.
Her mother was determined that she would live as normal a life as possible and encouraged her, sometimes against family opposition, to do everything for herself.
Her G mother disapproved but her G father not only encouraged her but taught her to do all the male manual stuff as well.
She did woodwork, metal work, and decorated. Drove a car without adaptations and was a good cook. And she created a lovely garden out of a rough patch of ground.
I hope your little relative grows up continuing in the way she has started Miriam.
She still has to wear surgical boots with a bar (about a foot) between them, when in bed. This is to keep her ankles + feet apart and in the right position. She has worn these since she was 6 weeks old, when her plaster cast was removed.
DeleteShe knows nothing different and importantly she also knows why.
When she reaches 5yrs next year and after yet another full hospital assesment, these can hopefully will at last, be discarded.
All of which Miriam will help to strengthen her character. And she is clearly coping with it all very well.
DeleteWhat a trooper she is Miriam, bless her - her parent's and wider family including yourself of course for being such a support.
DeleteI don’t know if this will be if interest to anyone, perhaps those that enjoy Wordle.
ReplyDeleteI have found a new word game that I am enjoying.
It’s called Word Salad, (available in the App Store or wherever you get your apps/games from)
It consists of a grid of 16 letters and a clue above.
You move from letter to letter contiguously, up, down, left, right, diagonally to make words suggested by the clue. They indicate how many words are available and the length of each word.
Yesterday the clue was ‘all at sea’ and the words I found were, seashell, sea lion, sea salt
Another one was ‘types of house’ and I found coffee, boat, power, tree etc.
There is a new puzzle every day, plus dozens of others on topics such a geography, wildlife, etc.
It makes a change from other word quizzes and stretches the old brain a bit.
You can play free (though there would be a charge if you wanted to compete with other players internationally)
Thank you ARCHERPHILE for the recommendation.
DeleteI’ve signed up and did a few of the tests.
Wasn’t fantastic but good enough to continue.
Thanks again, will add it to my daily neural workout.
Glad you had a go Mrs P. Some days are easier than others, I find.
DeleteYes, got stuck today, couldn’t find more than two words for things with straps.
DeleteAre you still living the life of Riley in France ?
Thanks for the recommendation AP. I have to be careful to limit myself to just one game as it is quite addictive, quite difficult too. I still haven’t got all the ‘paper’ ones.
DeleteI hope the lull in posts is due to people being busy with interests and activities in the world outside rather than through illness. When I could only read the blog I loved it to be busy - now I can post I’ve forgotten all those urgent comments I wanted to add!!
ReplyDeleteI used to love Autumn never giving a thought to the winter ahead: now I am so aware of how much harder outside jobs become when the weather is bad. Farmers don’t retire they do what they have always done but at a slower pace with added moans and grumbles. Has that been your experience Janice? They might agree to have a new hip but then haul themselves back into the tractor before it has time to heal then grumble that modern medicine is useless!!!
My husband does not like the new All Creatures Great and Small - he thinks it far too sanitised compared to the earlier one. I enjoy it but agree that it is sentimental at times and doesn’t feel real.
Busy here Soz, not ill thankfully. We've been taking advantage of some nice days to get out for some walks and doing a few jobs in the garden.
ReplyDeleteI made my Christmas cake this morning which is now in the oven producing a lovely smell.
We've been watching All Creatures Great and Small, Mr CC is of the same opinion as your husband. I'm struggling to find decent dramas on the terrestrial channels, they all seem to on the streaming services who have more money these days.
I usually enjoy Autumn but this year there haven't been as many glorious sunny days. I have been so fed up with these gloomy and miserable, rainy days. There have been some exceptions I agree, but only an odd day here + there
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, whilst out on my travels this morning, it was warm, sunny and the colour of the trees was spectacular. Sadly it's now raining again.
My knitting is not going at all well due to my helper 🐈⬛. She thinks this is just her play-time, what with a ball of yarn that moves and moving, clicking needles!
I've now had both my seasonal jabs and for the 1st time ever, I didn't get a reaction to either, apart from the normal sore arm.
My aim tomorrow is finally to get some more bulbs planted..🫰
My OZ niece is doing her 50k walk for charity tomorrow, which is an annual event. It is now Spring and as she is in Queensland, I hope it's not too hot for them. It is all very well organised with lots of water/food/loo and first aid stations..
Take Care All.
To add - the charity her team are raising money for, is a local adolescent mental health charity.
DeleteSoz, re your question about farming. My brother when he retired about 3 years ago rented most of his land out to a neighbouring bigger farmer, fortunately as it turned out, because since then he has had 2 knee replacements and has had to cope with radiotherapy for prostate Cancer. He was badly let down by our surgery doctor who kept telling him from 2018 onwards there was nothing wrong, and that without having proper tests done. And farmers don't like to make a fuss, and tend to trust doctors. It was only when he went to see the knee specialist in preparation for having his first knee op that the knee specialist picked up there was something really wrong, and started things happening. The hospital said he had grounds to sue the surgery but he didn't because he thought it would be the NHS that would suffer rather than the actual doctor. The knee specialist sent a blistering letter to the surgery though and the doc in question has avoided my brother ever since.
ReplyDeleteSo my brother hasn't been able to continue being involved as much as he would have liked. However, and this is the bit that will resonate with you Soz as I think you are a farming family, he didn't completely rent out all his fields but kept the ones nearest the farmhouse plus, to his wife's despair, he kept his favourite sheep. Told her he was keeping about 20 but in reality about 50 or so, with some spread out in my few fields as well.. She may have come from the city but she can still count! And yes there is always that tendency to cast your eyes over animals even when not your own to check they are okay, and if there is a sheep on its back you get it up again. My dad could still do a sprint after cattle at 75 faster than a lit of 30 year olds. Very tired son just arrived with toddler grandson for me to play/ keep an eye on while ge has a skeep!
Well Soz you have certainly woken us all up!
ReplyDeleteEven we managed a small trip out to Frensham Garden Centre yesterday afternoon. It was a glorious day and being in a countryside setting it was really pleasant sitting outside in the garden with a hot drink. Mr R then managed a whizz around the plants in his F1 chair with me plodding on behind 😂 We bought some Cox’s apples and a few other bits in their farm shop and then drove up the road around Frensham big pond where the water was glinting nicely in the sun and a fair amount of sailing boats were out with assorted coloured sails. We felt we had been on a little holiday 🤭 after recent times.
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DeleteRight, are you all ready for a laugh?
ReplyDeleteLet me tell you about yesterday.
Got home from lovely stay with family in France. They only have showers in their house, no actual bathtub, so I looked forward to a nice long soak yesterday morning.
Lovely……..until I tried to get out and couldn’t! My usual method didn’t work, I couldn’t turn round in the bath and my arms are not strong enough to lift myself up.
Call Mr A. So embarrassed that he had to help me, all naked and slippery. He tried and tried, pushing, pulling, lifting, but her was getting exhausted & was due to go to hospital for long awaited appt for cancerous lump to be removed from his neck.
Only solution, call Ambulance. They took all details, dozens of questions about my health, etc and said they would send someone but that as I obviously wasn’t an emergency I could be waiting up to five and a half hours.
Next door neighbour came in to sit with me while her husband took Mr A to hospital for the op and bring him home. I was so grateful to them. Will look after their cats anytime now!
Ambulance turned up about 2 hours later, 2 lovely men, they assessed the situation and decided they couldn’t get me out of bath without more men and equipment, so…..
The Fire and Rescue brigade turned up in a big fire engine and a team of 4 rescuers came up to the bathroom. There I was, lying in the empty bath with only a towel over me and 6 uniformed men and 1 lady rescue leader in our small bathroom!
They were all so caring and considerate and professional, lovely people. The problem was that our bath is quite deep and rather narrow and has no handles to pull yourself up on. The rescue crew managed to get a sheet with handles under me and one of them climbed up onto the edges of the bath to pull me up enough for them to get an inflatable device under me. I was frightened he would slip as the edges are very narrow. But it worked because when they inflated the device, it lifted me up far enough so I could get out.
They kept taking my blood pressure which, not surprisingly, was dangerously high. (218/90).
So high that they insisted on phoning my doctor and he insisted on me being taken straight to A&E to be checked out.
So off I go in the Ambulance, Mr A had to stay at home as he couldn’t drive due to the op he’d had.
Didn’t have to wait too long in A&E, and by the time I was seen, my BP had come down to my normal reading and I could go home, by taxi.
So a traumatic and very embarrassing day and I shall never get in that bath again. Until either we move, or have a disabled person bath fitted.
And more than anything I hated taking the Ambulance crew away from helping really ill people, and the rescue team from helping people involved in car crashes. But the did tell me they often have to get people out of baths, which is why they carry that equipment.
Oh AP what an experience!! Not many people can say they’ve consorted with the Fire Brigade whilst in a bath. Were they in uniform?
ReplyDeleteI do sympathise. My granddaughter persuaded me to have a bath in their supersized free standing roll top with very slippery sides. It took me an awful long time to manoeuvre myself out of it - I had no grip as the skin on my hands was like glass. It convinced me to stick to a shower and not to lock the bathroom door - just in case.
AP What a return home.
ReplyDeleteAt least your post was written in a fun and humerous way, but I am sure at the time it wasn't anything like that.
Firemen in uniform would also have sent my BP well up.
I remember the fence + garden fire which happened to me, quite a few years ago now.
The firemen were brilliant and so caring but men in uniform - 🥰💕💖
My bath has "handles" and I use them!
DeleteOh Archerfile, what an experience! It must have been awful for you (although the way you told it did bring a smile to my face). I can't remember when I last had a bath, I don't think I'll be giving it a go any time soon after reading that.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to hear that you had a lovely stay in France. 🙂
Lady R, I'm glad that you and Lord R had a day out, I remember that you like going to garden centres, (so do I), so that must have felt like a lovely break for you both.
ReplyDeleteArcherphile, I can't imagine, you must have freezing and really uncomfortable on top of everything else. I am so glad that you found the emergency workers so kind and helpful. I am surprised that the call handler didn't think it was an emergency though, if you had been there for five hours, it could have easily got much worse.
ReplyDeleteI was going to suggest one of those bath riser seats that you can operate with a handset, they work well but are painfully slow, but actually, your intention to steer clear altogether makes much more sense. Poor Mr. A. as well, you are both in the wars.
I hope you settle in back at home quickly, and can relax and enjoy the memory of your trip to France.
Goodness me ARCHERPHILE, your humour in the telling of the tale trumps the tale itself.
ReplyDeleteI remember your concerns about getting out of the bath some years ago now, and my detailed instructions as to how I did so. So I’m pleased to hear that you managed somehow to overcome those difficulties as I’ve often wondered about it.
I too have the same problem now.
My method of getting out simply wasn’t possible with the bath I’ve inherited in my flat as it is much wider and very much deeper. I’ve had to find a new way of both getting in and getting out again. I did have discussions with daughters and several plumbers, but the figment of the bathroom to change to a smaller bath would have been massively disruptive and very expensive. I decommissioned the shower/ wet room here and have turned it into a utility / cat feeding station.
So I have to continue with the bath for as long as I can.
I am so sorry for you that you needed to resort to so much help, but a dose of drama might just have lifted your spirits after leaving France which I’m sure left you feeling a little sad.
Have no idea where ‘ figment’ came from, or indeed what I was trying to say
DeleteConfiguration maybe?
DeleteOh my goodness Mrs A, what an ordeal! and made worse by having to find help to get Mr A for his hospital procedure. No wonder your blood pressure was up.
ReplyDeleteWhen our bath here needed changing I had it replaced by one with hand grips plus an upright rail on the wall, and there is also a shower above the bath. This is nice because if the bath plug is put in then feet and lower legs get a nice soak even if just showering.
Thank you all for your sympathies. I tried to write in an amusing way because some of the day was ridiculous, but very long, cold and excruciatingly embarrassing,
ReplyDeleteMrs P. I remembered your detailed description of how to get out of a bath, and I did try it yesterday. Hanging one leg over the bath edge, and pulling up, but the bath was just too deep & I didn’t have the strength.
Today I have been very stiff with painful arms & legs and a bad back ache but I’m sure I will be fine in a few days time.
‼️😱 dear Archerphile I could hardly believe what I was reading when I came across your return from France post…what an absolute nightmare if the scenario had been written into a sitcom no doubt we would have thought it ott.. we were appalled at your situation but as others have said you wrote of the experience determined to make us smile for which we admire you.
DeleteHowever you mentioned a small bathroom are you kidding up to 7 people in it, when Mr R collapsed in ours last November and was on the floor (also naked obviously I then covered him as he had to wait for the ambulance fortunately only an hour but he was really poorly and 91) it was job for one paramedic to get in with him admittedly both were of big build shall I say also the toilet has a frame and he had had his sloping stool there too before he passed out and fell off it. So no real lady with a mansion 🤣🙃😂
What a day for it to happen with Mr AP having to get to the hospital for his long awaited and very necessary op, and then for you to have to go there as well I was stunned.
Please now both be very very careful. What did the family make of your joint news?
Both paramedics of big build.
DeleteOh my goodness Archerphile. What a predicament! How mortifying.
ReplyDeleteGlad you eventually got sorted. Maybe start some arm strengthening exercises then you maybe you’ll get back to being able to have a bath.
I treated myself to a winter project 2000 piece jigsaw from a charity shop earlier this week. Lovely picture of hot air balloons over a lake with their reflections in it. Have managed to do the outside edges but, oh boy, it’s hard. I can see me still doing it next winter!
Managed to get the grass cut on Thursday and have had a tip run.
I’ve stopped having a list of jobs that need doing everyday because it was just depressing when I didn’t complete it. So now I’m just getting up and “pottering” about and seem to be getting more done.
You’ve taken the pressure off yourself ptby so now you are achieving instead of failing in your own eyes 🤔
DeleteMy eldest sister is a jigsaw fanatic and has been all her life. Does them every evening without fail but I don’t think she has ever done a 2000 piece one but I will tell her of your marathon great scot the mind boggles.
When the discussion is about All Creatures Great and Small is it the new series that you discuss, or the original ?
ReplyDeleteI’ve just discovered the original 70s series on BBC 4 ……. Brings back memories !
Mrs P like you we very much enjoyed the original All Creatures and when it was to be remade thought oh no… However we gave it a go and really enjoy it. Some poetic licence one being Mrs Hall who as I recall (?) was a grey haired lady with a bun this one younger but not at all flighty also unlike the original series the actors do not physically put arms into animals bottoms etc but cleverly filmed for all that. It is mostly cosy I suppose but with the outside world being what it is nice to have some escapism for an hour. It also has humour 🤗 of course the scenery in all weathers is just stunning we swear we can smell the wonderful fresh air!.
DeleteI’ve watched the new ACGaS from time to time and always enjoy it. I think it’s livelier in some ways than the original, but having found the old series now I shall indulge myself by re watching.
DeleteWe are doing likewise (from tonight) and I agree with your comment on the current series.
DeleteI am a jigsaw addict, but not sure I would contemplate doing a 2000 piece one.
ReplyDeleteThe best I saw was a 9000 piece one of the New York skyline. Thid was definitely not for me as it would take up most of my lounge/diner floor!
I watch ACGaS on a Sunday. To me this is where it should be broadcast - a lovely Sunday Night programme.
ReplyDeletePS. I believe the lady with the goats, is the actress who played Ev, Harry Chilcotts mother in TA.
This came from another TA site..
What did everyone think of strictly last night? At last some appropriate music for that lads passo. I do enjoy watching Paul Merson, this years comedy value person.
ReplyDeleteHope everyone survives today’s storm.
I agree about appropriate music, it makes such a difference. I don't particularly like Paul Merson but appreciate him taking the dancing seriously and making an effort. The standard seems to be very high ths year.
DeleteWe watched, having missed 3 shows whilst away and apart from Toya Wilcox, I can’t work out who has been voted out so far.
DeleteI thought Chris McCausland was amazing, especially dancing across the floor on his own.
Also really enjoyed the Eastenders lad and his Passa Doblé, it looked very professional.
But generally finding whole show much too noisy, esp. all that business up on the interview platform, the cheering etc. Have to keep turning sound down. 🫨
About large jigsaws - we used to visit a pub down on the south coast where they invited customer to place pieces of a jigsaw. It was laid out on a redundant snooker table and was a 10,000 piece picture of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. I managed to place 1 piece!
ReplyDeleteApparently the world’s largest puzzle is 54,000 piece. Should think you’d need a spare tennis court to do that one. It costs around £450.
OZ niece did her 50k walk in 14hours 13mins. She had trained hard but as she admitted her longest walk was 35km. Although she was part of a group of 5 who had trained together, they went at their own pace. She met + then walked with a lovely lady who was 74yrs! They went over the finishing together hand-in-hand, but she does have some blisters..ouch.
ReplyDeleteTo add they were carrying rucksacks which had water, snacks, lip balm, factor 50 sunscreen, battery operated fans, spare socks, wet-wipes etc. as the highest temp. on this walk was 35C.
DeleteAmazing Miriam, did she get a lot in sponsorship?
DeleteWell done and congratulations to your Oz Niece Miriam.
DeleteApologies .
DeleteI haven't been able to get onto the blog recently again and decided to leave things until after my cataract op.
PtbY has kept me up to date
Archerphile get yourself a Shower.
Get rid of your bath
Well I had the op yesterday ,returned home in time to watch Liverpool beat Chelsea and today I decided to do what Mrs P advised to get me back onto the blog but surprise ,surprise I found that I had already signed in!
Having a day of leisure today -maybe tomorrow too .
Why not the whole week?
Could get used to a life of leisure .
Wonderful to see you back and posting LJ, hope you can continue.
DeleteAnd very much hope your vision is improved after you cataract operation.
I look forward to seeing your posts regularly again.
Here's hoping that you are able to continue posting Lanjan 🤞
DeleteNice to see back LJ and even though just a cataract op, do take it easy for at least a week.
DeleteAs others have said, I hope you find a difference in your vision.
We've been really enjoying the lovely autumn colours on our walks recently. The downside is the amount of sycamore seeds this year. Our garden is carpeted in them which will result in a glut of seedlings to weed out next year. We haven't completely got rid of last years' yet!
ReplyDeleteWe have the same thing. There are a row of sycamores on the hedge of the track and the keys float straight into our garden, and even seed themselves in flowerpots amongst the flowers. It seems such a shame pulling them up when we are supposed to be planting more trees but sycamores grow like weeds here. I try to salvage any of the elm seedlings to plant elsewhere as they are not so common nowadays.
DeleteI find it incredible now strong the life force is. I suppose that is why the earth has survived and flourished ( so far. Hope we humans don't mess it up). I put bushy prunings about 3 foot high into one of the raised borders to act as support for peas early in the year, and they must have rooted because they are now flowering. Most were from cutting back fuchsia bushes but one bit was from an old laburnum blown down in a storm and it has flowers on it now in October, totally the wrong time of year. I must find a sheltered place to plant it .
DeleteOur garden is an arboretum for oak and ash, and damsons which seem to run in all directions. The farm was named Oak for a reason. We do replant many of the seedlings but the ash does get out of hand some years. With ash dieback prevalent, it seems a shame to waste any of the apparently healthy young specimens.
DeletePleased to hear you have some elm seedlings Janice. We planted a disease resistant elm about 18 years ago and it is growing strongly🤞. My husband tells me the landscape has changed since he was a boy with the death of so many elms. Many seedlings that have regrown live for 10/15 years before they succumb.
I like Judy Dench’s idea of planting a tree in memory of friends who have died. I wonder what she will choose for Maggie Smith.
Oh I do envy you your Damsons SOZ, wish I could find some here in Minehead, so far no luck.
DeleteI have lots of silver birch seedlings that come up between the paving stones on my patio area, but don’t have anywhere to replant them.
I’ll do you a swap Mrs P, you can have some of our damsons for a few of your silver birches! I don’t know what the soil is like in Minehead but damsons do seem to thrive on our clay.
DeleteIt’s a deal Soz - I’ll pack ‘em up and send them over.
DeleteHow not now! My brain doesn't get into gear until 10 am after a cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteWe've just seen a sparrowhawk on our bird table, thankfully there were no sparrows around!
ReplyDeleteI am concerned about the increase in birds of prey. I am sure some do attack the smaller birds. When I first came to live on the farm, dawn chorus was a really noisy affair. Today it seems much quieter, though that could be due to my gradual loss of hearing !
DeleteArcherphile how are you and Mr AP after recent events and any decision on an adapted bathroom or a move yet 🤔
ReplyDeleteLanjan 🤗🎂🍸💐🎂 enjoy!
ReplyDeleteYou’ll never guess…….she can’t get on again! Her son couldn’t sort it out for her yesterday either.
DeleteShe has some friends calling on her today and hoping the husband might know what to do.
Lanjan’s eye is improving after her op and she’s made the most of the last couple of days relaxing whilst her son was with her.
Thank you ptby good to know you can keep in touch with LJ for us. The cataract op is a marvel and will bring her joy! So hope her visitors husband can solve her blog problem it is so frustrating all round.
DeleteHappy birthday Lanjan. Hope you have a lovely relaxing day. 🎉🍫🍰💐
ReplyDeleteHi Lanjan, hope you have a lovely relaxing day.
ReplyDeleteLady R - no decisions yet. Mr A went for his second cataract operation today and came home with a completely bloodshot eye and blood trickling down his cheek. Frankly, it looked horrendous and surprising because I never had any obvious bleeding with either of my cataract ops.
ReplyDeleteRe possible move - waiting until he has had his heart catheterisation at Southampton and got a prognosis so we know what we shall have to cope with. So no decision until that is discovered.
Thank you AP for your reply under all your current circumstances. Mr AP has certainly been unlucky with his cataract reaction to his op we have both had both eyes done and did not have this problem which sounds most uncomfortable. We wish him improvement very soon 🙏🏼 Wise decision to wait for Southampton outcome before discussing further any moving decisions. You really are having some trying times of late and the last couple of years or so too. Let’s hope that the only way is up from now on, we have everything crossed for you both. 🙆♀️
DeleteLanJan, sorry I forgot your birthday, been rather a lot going on here. But I hope you had a lovely day and could do whatever you wanted to celebrate your special day. 🎂. 🎁 🥰
ReplyDeleteI subscribe to Manchester University alumni emails. In the latest one they published a letter saying 'Hello my name is Joe, one day I would like to go to Manchester University. My daddy studied there. Please can you keep a place for me. Love Joe age 6'.
ReplyDeleteThere were no contact details so they were asking if anyone knew who he was. I thought it was so sweet.
Joe certainly showing initiative to get onto Manchester University’s alumni site. I hope his dad discovers the email.
DeleteI have a full on head cold and have done nothing all day . Watching day time TV, it’s interesting seeing how they choose adverts for the target audience. I now feel fully prepared to plan my funeral, buy suitable recliner chairs and rescue numerous animals.
ReplyDeleteSarnia we haven’t heard from you for a few weeks. Are you busy traffic controlling those skies above Southampton? Miss your humour. Hope Lan Jan enjoyed her birthday and can get back on the blog.
🤧 sympathies Soz and hope your full on cold won’t be with you for too long! Totally agree with daytime ads they are absolutely infuriating 😡
DeleteSoz. You've forgotten the wonderful re-charging cleaning gizmo's which:- hoover up spills, clean showers + "fawcets", sweep around the room and up the stairs which are ALL so easy!! 🤣
DeleteAs if any of us would be so conned.
What a fun day! Had Covid and Flu jabs this morning
ReplyDeleteAs usual, have painful swollen left arm from Covid and painful right arm from flu.
But very embarrassing because the nurse noticed all the bruises on the tops of my arms and asked how I’d got them. Think she suspected Mr A, also there for jabs, was beating me up.
Couldn’t explain the bruises were from the the straps of the hoist used by the rescue team to get me out of the bath! 😂
Dear me Archerphile, I would have told her, I suppose it's good that she was observant, not so good if she embarrassed you though.
ReplyDeleteI have just been advised that it would be good to take statins due to high chloresterol, so went for another blood test. The nurse told me I only live once, i should go home and have a cream cake!!! I wondered if I had upset her in any way.....
I had a very similar comment from my GP some years ago. He discovered my high blood pressure & had prescribed tablets that had a lot of unpleasant side effects.
DeleteHe said, ‘you can either live a short life, but a happy one; or you can put up with the side effects and live longer. It’s up to you!’
I'll swap nurses 😄 mine told me to do things like eating low fat cheese, tastes like plastic! I was chuckling when I read the news yesterday about 22 tons of artisan cheddar having been stolen. Somebody somewhere is going to be enjoying a lot of cheese.
DeleteJanice, the pharmacist who wanted more blood and is prescribing the drugs told me all that. I won't be drinking benecol or eating low-fat 'cheese' either, I would rather do without. I told him I eat very healthily but after I put the phone down, I did a quick note of my recent meals. I was not thrilled to realise I have different cheeses most days, pastry, cream, milky coffee etc. I also have tons of fruit and veg though.
DeleteI have decided to cut down on the dairy and go for nice walks in the Devon lanes. I feel there is a compromise between the short/happy and the long/dreary. I want reasonable/tasty.
Soz has reminded us that Sarnia has not posted for a while.
ReplyDeleteThank you Soz.
I have Sarnia’s personal email and her telephone number. Perhaps others have the same, I don’t know, but I have emailed and left a message on her answer phone.
I do wonder if she is in hospital, but as I think she has a laptop and not an IPad, if she is in hospital she will not be able to be in contact.
If I hear anything from Sarnia I will post.
Mrs. P. thank you.
ReplyDeleteSarnia, hope you are well and busy with your air traffic control duties :)
I’ve been put back on statins from the cardiac team.
ReplyDeleteI was on them for a year, didn’t have any side effects but objected all the same and took myself off after a year.
I had been advised that I needed them ten years before and had refused then.
Now I feel I must comply.
But I also had a good conversation with my GP yesterday about life being extended beyond its natural span and she assured me that I would not have died had I not had the pacemaker but that I would have collapsed fairly often and would have had a very miserable existence.
So I haven't dodged the grim reaper……. Yet !
But I remain mindful of my mortality.
It feels ever-present to me at the moment, partly because of the assisted dying debate, (I tend to agree, but see some dilemmas which would need a lot of considered debate/legislation), partly because of the never-ending death in the two major war zones, Channel crossings, stabbings etc, there seems to be no respite. I can barely tolerate listening to news headlines now, and have given up reading them recently. I have decided that I must just concentrate on the things that can improve conditions for me and mine, support the issues that I believe in, and try to do no harm to anyone. I am surprised to find myself on life-long drugs, (already take meds for Reynauds Phenomenon), and feel that I need to make the most of my time now. So fewer Devon cream teas from now on.
ReplyDeleteI am doing the overnight intermittent fasting thing to try to lower cholesterol naturally. Basically you don't eat anything 3 hours before bed time. This includes cups of tea because of the milk in it. I tend to follow the 10 hour eating, 14 hour not eating pattern. Some do 8/16 others the easier 12/12. It is supposed to cut down on total cholesterol, especially the LDL "bad" cholesterol.
ReplyDeleteHi Janice, thanks for that, I didn't know about it. I fit naturally into the 12/12 pattern, but I think I just need to be more aware of what I buy and cook. and definately need more exercise, especially now that I'm not in the garden much. After Christmas I am getting a dog, a walk is wasted otherwise, for me.
DeleteI am wondering about Sarnia too. Hope she is okay.
ReplyDeleteFor the first time in many a long year I forgot the time change last night.
ReplyDeleteAs I have an exercise class this morning I set my telephone alarm for what I thought was around eight only to come into the kitchen to find the clock said 9.20. It took another hour for the confusion to clear.
I have now adjusted the time on my only clock, my IPad has adjusted itself, but not my very basic mobile.
I think I might be losing it !
DeleteI thought last night that it was Sunday !
Although walking Lady on the beach earlier in the evening I was aware that lots of the new influx of Butlins people were enjoying the lovely evening knowing it was Saturday. ( new intake is Monday and Friday ).
So when I went to bed I was prepared for a Monday morning.
And don’t the clocks usually change overnight on a Sunday ?
I’m really confused ……… please somebody reassure me, this is the first time this has ever happened to me.
I suppose it might be something to do with not having a radio to speak of !
Although my beloved son in law is a nightmare with his ADHD, he is very very good at certain things.
DeleteSo I rang him for reassurance and a good humoured laugh.
It worked !
They have the French cohort visiting for a short holiday and two toddlers are up early with Grandma Veronique giving them breakfast. With one of them running around with bread in its hand, Purdy, my daughters dog keeps pinching the bread from the child’s hand, so SIL has already taken the dog to the beach.
Mrs. P, at least you won't be late for your exercise class!!!
DeleteMy son once went to school an hour early, didn't know why it was so quiet, he was really fed-up with himself :)
No ! My exercise class - strength and balance - is Monday, which I now understand is TOMORROW.
DeleteBut Lady and has had another beach walk and we had a full English breakfast at the Beach Cafe.
Now for some more gardening. Cleared the grass area of leaves yesterday with the leaf hoover. Planting of pink and purple tulips in the front terrace this afternoon.
Quick reply to Soz, Mrs P, Mistral and Janice:
ReplyDeleteNothing exciting going on here, folks, just a series of chest infections probably left untreated too long because of difficulty with accessing treatment.
At the risk of sounding vulgar, I had become a walking mucus machine, so have just finished a second course of stronger antibiotics and steroids to try and dry me out.
I'm afraid the aeroplanes have had to manage on their own, but they seem to be coping.
Mrs P and Mistral, thank you so much for getting in touch. May I reply personally at a later date? I've just used up today's focus allocation and on the phone I keep running out of voice.
Recvd and will comply Sarnia.
DeleteAlso relieved that you are still at home despite clearly feeling bloody awful.
And thank you for letting us know.
Also….. hope the stronger medication helps and works.
DeleteHello Sarnia, glad you are o.k. but it sounds uncomfortable, hope the tablets work quickly. Are you having to sleep upright?
Delete🤞🏼you will be entertaining us here on the blog for many a year yet Mrs P 😃
ReplyDeleteOut of curiosity I have just accessed the old blogs regarding the first meet up of some bloggers at Waterloo - December 2018 no less 😱 I believe that was followed by another one at the Barbican 🤔
Yes Lady R, six years ago, and that was after the BBC kicked us out ( or closed our loud voices down ! ) so this, our independent blog has been going for well over six years.
DeleteVery good to hear from you Sarnia. Thank you for making the effort when you’re feeling so bad. I do hope the medicine does its job and you regain some energy as soon as possible. While you’re confined to rest, indulge in some online shopping from all those plant catalogues you have!!
ReplyDeleteMrs P you are definitely not ‘losing it’. It is so easy to lose track of which day of the week it is, particularly at the weekend. Before I get out of bed in the morning, I decide which day it is often having to use info from previous day’s events. As for changing the clocks, we don’t. We stay on summertime, subtracting an hour mentally when using our clocks. It infuriates my children but the only problem occurs when my ultra efficient daughter or youngest grandchild, have changed a timepiece without telling anyone ! !
ReplyDeleteDon’t worry MrsP. Every morning when I wake up I try to work out which day it is.
ReplyDeleteThe only way for me to do that is to try and remember what we had for dinner the night before!
If it was curry, I know this must be Tuesday for example.
Then I wait for confirmation when Today on Radio 4 comes on. But often forget again during the day 🙁
Thanks to Soz and Lady R for reassurance.
ReplyDeleteI have to do what Soz does with the clock in my car as I’ve never worked out how to change or adjust the time. But since I choose to keep it twenty minutes fast, it takes some computing for half the year.
Sarnia - many condolences on the streaming nose. I know just how you feel, as one of the side effects of one of my drugs also causes a constantly running nose and difficulty breathing at night from nasal congestion. Mr A says it makes me snore!
ReplyDeleteNot streaming nose, AP, foghorn of a cough, constantly congested sinuses, chest and lungs all draining into stomach. Takes all day to clear it enough to be ready to do anything, by which time it's bed time again. It feels like a massive allergic reaction, but to WHAT????
ReplyDeleteSounds awful. You really do need some medical advice/treatment, if only you could find a way to access it.
DeleteOur 70 year old neighbour started having similar symptoms a year or two ago. The GP eventually referred him to an allergy clinic where they discovered he had suddenly developed an allergy to potatoes and tomatoes - or any plants of the solanacea group which includes deadly nightshade! He no longer dares to come into contact with those plants, let alone eat them. How strange to develop an allergy so late in life.
Oh, AP, I've got enough of them already, I really don't want any more!
DeleteI must admit that back in March/April when it first started I suspected the Chinese Virginia creeper when it first came into leaf. I couldn't bear that as it's so beautiful and makes such a stunning contribution to the terrace.
This hour change is affecting me.
ReplyDeleteI was awake at 6.30am new time and bright-eyed. I made a cuppa, went back to bed where I listened to TA omnibus followed by the wonderful + brilliant new podcast.
It seems a long day, as I keep thinking it's evening meal + TA listening time but it's still far too early.
At least it is still warm so CH not yet needed.
Take Care All. 💓
💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 such a shame Amy suffered a collapse after her dance Saturday night which of course impacted on the Results Show recorded on the same evening. She looked so full of energy and joy too. It has been such a tough time for her completing her chemo (successfully for breast cancer)
ReplyDeletecontracting sepsis and of course Crohn’s disease which is always with her, a real trooper and we wish her well 🙏🏼 The couple to leave was as I expected - no spoiler 🤭
I'm just catching up with the blog after getting back from a visit to youngest daughter in Edinburgh.
ReplyDeleteI was sad to hear about Amy as well, I believe that Lauren is going to stand in for her in this week's rehearsals.
Our 4yr old granddaughter was returning from a party with her dad when they saw an elderly couple with young children. She said to her dad " my grandma and granddad aren't old". That cheered us up no end when he told us!
👏🏻🤗👏🏻🤗 how lovely for you both CC
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