Thanks for your comments, Allotment Boy. I’ve been prescribed amitriptyline for the post hermetic neuralgia and have decided to wait a while before deciding about a vaccination. I am hoping, no doubt in vain, that when Shingrix becomes more widely available the price might drop.
I thought I answered that one. Maybe it failed. It is given free to 70+ but, having seen a friend suffer with it in her 30s I decided to have it done as soon as it became available here but we had to pay for it cos we're not quite old enough.
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)."
no-one feeling curmudgeonly for a few days then!!! Think I can make up for it. Folks you will doubtless recall me complaining about weeds from neighbours garden, rotten fence which is their responsibility, I think this actually probably takes the proverbial biscuit! We have replaced several panels over the past couple of years, it always falls OUR way when it finaly breaks, doesnt it! Having summerhouse next month to replace shed, which unfortunately laid only on he bare earth had rotten, was leaning far more than the famous tower! Hubby says to will be difficult for neighbours to reach "their" fence, from their side so lets puts up new fence before summerhouse arrives. (He actually said FAR more than this, but its not printable on here!) They would have no qualms on Mumsnet, I will pinch one of their expressions, CF, (have to confess I didnt actually realise what it meant, I do know) this is the ultimate CF ness. Went out, bough said new fence panels, which with clips,posts, (they were rotten at ground level, each had to be drilled out) gravels boards, you are talking quite a few hundred quid. Thats not the issue, struggle at 5 feet tall and not too shy of 70, to help hubby get them off car roof, into garden, him doing above, plus removing old panels, covered in aforesaid weeds, (thick ivy,brambles, so big they have smashed fence) lifting heavy bags of postcrete. Hubby went and told them what we were doing, out of politeness, as it is their fence after all, did we get: Thanks for doing our fence, 2: thanks for doing our fence, can we pay something/all towards it. 3: thanks for doing our fence, can we help. Dont be silly, we got what are you putting new shed up for (NO mention of fence at all!) er, because the old one was rotten. What did they do while we spend 4 hours on this (not finnished, hubby ached all over, had enough) they SAT in the garden eating their lunch and laughing!!! Hubby said perhaps they were embarrassed well were doing all the work, I said if you were embarrassed you would either stay indoors or go out. No, hank you, it looks nice, NOTHING
They probably think you're mad and a bit soft in the head for spending all that time and money on fencing and a shed.
My grump is about the hand sewing mafia. Patchwork group 30th anniversary lunch and day long meeting. All very nice but they also gave us a project - grandma's fan and Dresden plate - but herr gruppenfuhrer insisted it all be done by hand. I've pinned and tacked and brought it home to do on the machine. I love patch but it's a productive skill for me - or will be when I have more exerience - not just a way to pass the time. Other than that, lovely ladies and nice project.
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)."
Hubby says they probably think we are mugs. Well, shed and fence were completely rotten, otherwise we wouldnt be forking out the money, not just for fun. Trouble is, the fence crashes in on our shrubs plants which we have spent a lot of time and money on.They dont have any clue how much fence costs, they were aparently given a quote years ago, and even then we knew that was impossible, (oh, they couldnt afford it, not with the holidays abroad etc)
I would be tempted to do something creatively illegal with the wire. I was a bit concerned that no one was ranting. Better out than in. I'm off to have snigger at the Turner exhibition. Will keep a rheumy eye out for curmudgeonly fodder
Obelixx, no, the posts are rotted at ground level, so it wouldnt be possible to attach wires to them. nothing is salvagable, there are big holes in the bits of fence that are still there.Earlier in the year 3 came down together. Hubby has done his best to mend them, over the years.When we moved here,, there was a post attached to one panel, on our side to hold it up, plus another post attached to the first post, the 2 of them are slap bang in the middle of a border, at 45% ,I planted up this year.which was infuriating.
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My grump is about the hand sewing mafia. Patchwork group 30th anniversary lunch and day long meeting. All very nice but they also gave us a project - grandma's fan and Dresden plate - but herr gruppenfuhrer insisted it all be done by hand. I've pinned and tacked and brought it home to do on the machine. I love patch but it's a productive skill for me - or will be when I have more exerience - not just a way to pass the time. Other than that, lovely ladies and nice project.
I was a bit concerned that no one was ranting.
Better out than in.
I'm off to have snigger at the Turner exhibition. Will keep a rheumy eye out for curmudgeonly fodder