I shouldn't have moaned about being fed up tomatoes! They are now over-run with immature, alien shield bugs Really windy out there and I should go shopping but no way am I going into Windsor until next week - I guess it will be spaghetti and pasta sauce tonight
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
There was a thread, many moons ago, about what to do with GU pots. I'm too lazy to find it, but I remember a good one that involved Pringle lids, which apparently fit nicely over the top - but, unfortunately, I don't eat Pringles. Anywayyyy, I've found another use. You know when you have a glass of water by the bed and you want a drink in the middle of the night and you wonder if a spider has drowned in the glass? I have the solution. A guide pot fits perfectly into the top of an ikea glass. Recycling,no more plastic bottles , no more drowned spiders and no more sucking the water through your teeth just in case
I was at La Roche-sur-Yon today for a machine patchwork class. Come 4pm it went very dark, much thunder and by 5pm it was a serious downpour. Goodie, thought I.
Driving home half an hour later not a drop on the main road south and clear blue skies all the way out to sea. Bone dry at home and clear, starry skies now.
Going to have to google rain dances again.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I am way behind this thread again but noted no-one commented on this from @Picidae "Does anyone know about vaccinations against shingles? I have just experienced (actually make that present tense, not past) the little blighter and it’s a condition I don’t want again, and certainly not where this incidence flared up! Jabs are available on the NHS only when you’re 70 or 78 but going privately, from what I could see, costs around £250 for the old treatment and closer to £500 for the much more efficacious newer vaccine. Are these prices correct?"
You really need @punkdoc on this one but as a past Med Lab Scientist I know that shingles is another manifestation of Varicella Zoster (Chicken Pox). Unfortunately the virus hides in the immune system if it is not cleared completely from the primary infection. When the body is under stress, or the immune system is run down for any reason the infection re-emerges as shingles. (The virologists call this recrudescence). The vaccine must be targeted to enable the body to finally clear the virus but given the nature of it, (the virus) this is not that straight forward, I guess the true cost of the vaccine is a lot higher. It depends on how much you suffer from this as to whether you think it is worth it or not. The only other thing you can do is try to say as healthy as you can, & look to ways of keeping your immune system as tip top as possible through diet exercise & healthy living.
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Anywayyyy, I've found another use.
You know when you have a glass of water by the bed and you want a drink in the middle of the night and you wonder if a spider has drowned in the glass?
I have the solution. A guide pot fits perfectly into the top of an ikea glass. Recycling,no more plastic bottles , no more drowned spiders and no more sucking the water through your teeth just in case
Driving home half an hour later not a drop on the main road south and clear blue skies all the way out to sea. Bone dry at home and clear, starry skies now.
Going to have to google rain dances again.
What will you sacrifice to appease them?
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
Maybe you would need to invite them in for Christmas dinner at least!
Actually I don't cook either.
And they have 3 children called Yelper, Screamer and Squealer.
Nah.
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
"Does anyone know about vaccinations against shingles? I have just experienced (actually make that present tense, not past) the little blighter and it’s a condition I don’t want again, and certainly not where this incidence flared up! Jabs are available on the NHS only when you’re 70 or 78 but going privately, from what I could see, costs around £250 for the old treatment and closer to £500 for the much more efficacious newer vaccine. Are these prices correct?"
You really need @punkdoc on this one but as a past Med Lab Scientist I know that shingles is another manifestation of Varicella Zoster (Chicken Pox). Unfortunately the virus hides in the immune system if it is not cleared completely from the primary infection. When the body is under stress, or the immune system is run down for any reason the infection re-emerges as shingles. (The virologists call this recrudescence). The vaccine must be targeted to enable the body to finally clear the virus but given the nature of it, (the virus) this is not that straight forward, I guess the true cost of the vaccine is a lot higher. It depends on how much you suffer from this as to whether you think it is worth it or not. The only other thing you can do is try to say as healthy as you can, & look to ways of keeping your immune system as tip top as possible through diet exercise & healthy living.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border