@sam bevington - sounds like you are going to do the right thing and see a doctor. But you did remind me of Bob Mortimer who always seems to be falling over in Gone Fishing. @BenCotto - things always seem worse than they actually are in the middle of the night (darkest before the dawn etc) but it sounds as if you are processing some very uncomfortable thoughts, especially if your wife has also suffered recently. How is she doing? You mention beating the bounds. I remember doing this as a teenager in Datchet, near Windsor, an annual tradition there. A group of us went and somehow I got the banner which I had up in my bedroom for ages. (Typical teenage bedroom full of all sorts of eclectic things). Boring stuff to do this morning but hoping to get the veg patch cleared and manured this afternoon.
@BenCotto Your comment made me recheck my message!! I thought the spell check may have omitted an "n"... phew!! 16 is good. My Big Joe was 14 and had kidney problems. He'd had a great life. Was "The President" of the neighbourhood. Go Joe!!
Sorry to hear about your cat Ben, losing a pet is awful. My daughter lost one to throat cancer 2 years ago her little one was devastated, she got another one but it wasn’t the same. He would write letters to the cattery when they went on holiday ’if Tilly dies while we’re away, please tell her I love her’
Every time we say ‘no more’ then another comes along wanting you to love it, you don’t think at the time you could love another, but you probably will.🙂
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Lovely (unexpected) day here. I have been baking, Devil's Food cake all gone, we're on Apple and Cinnamon Traybake now with caramel frosting. Even if I do say so myself, it is delicious, light, fluffy, apple - y and cinnamon-y. Very comforting.
Cupcakes to ice now, have a good day all.
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Morning all, sorry, afternoon! oops, where did the morning go? It was brilliantly sunny and quite warm during our usual walk, so much so I had to take my jacket off. Picked up the first conkers of the season, what is it about these small, shiny brown nuts that sparks such joy? Mind you these days, they never seem as big as I remember them.
I'm very glad you've managed to get a GP appointment @SamBevington, funny symptoms like that need checking out asap. Better put your phone in your pocket if you're gardening today. It's no fun falling onto hard surfaces - been there, done that. I'm very puzzled though why you should feel frightened to go to the doctors?
Your pet is part of the family @Ben Cotto and it's only natural to feel grief at the thought of their passing. We also had our beloved rescue cat for a long time and it's hard to deal with. Funnily enough we met a small black and white cat in the lane this morning who let us stroke him/her for a short while - quite made our day.
... Better put your phone in your pocket if you're gardening today. It's no fun falling onto hard surfaces - been there, done that....
Same here ... I've smashed my face on a pot, broken a wrist and broken bones in my foot when my knee gives way. Crawling into the house on hands and knees to phone OH at work isn't much fun ... keep your phone with you.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No gardening for me today - w word getting in the way. White coat syndrome - having lost my husband after a terrible 3 year battle with cancer, then my dear Mum dying suddenly in front of me in A & E, having the dreaded DNR notice waved in my face ...I'll be brave on Friday!
Very glad you have got a doctors appointment, Sam, we’d all be worrying about you otherwise. Don’t forget what a lot of stress you’ve been under this last couple of weeks. That can sometimes manifest in unexpected ways. Definitely do take your phone with you at all times. I’m not allowed out in the garden without one half of our walkie talkie set. I don’t fall over all that often, but invariably I’m out of sight of the house, and OH has got fed up wondering where am I, and finding me crawling up a slope with a fat ankle.
Ben, so sorry for you, been there done that. I do still feel bad that I left it a little longer than I should have to say goodbye, as ours had a few weeks of few symptoms, eating and playing. If I was going through that again, I would pay for a home visit rather than taking her to the surgery. Don’t know if they are offering that service now with Covid. Our local vets seem to be conducting some of their examinations outside on the pavement.
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@BenCotto - things always seem worse than they actually are in the middle of the night (darkest before the dawn etc) but it sounds as if you are processing some very uncomfortable thoughts, especially if your wife has also suffered recently. How is she doing? You mention beating the bounds. I remember doing this as a teenager in Datchet, near Windsor, an annual tradition there. A group of us went and somehow I got the banner which I had up in my bedroom for ages. (Typical teenage bedroom full of all sorts of eclectic things).
Boring stuff to do this morning but hoping to get the veg patch cleared and manured this afternoon.
’if Tilly dies while we’re away, please tell her I love her’
Every time we say ‘no more’ then another comes along wanting you to love it, you don’t think at the time you could love another, but you probably will.🙂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning/afternoon all.
Sensible move @SamBevington
Hugs @BenCotto, trying time for you.
Lovely (unexpected) day here. I have been baking, Devil's Food cake all gone, we're on Apple and Cinnamon Traybake now with caramel frosting. Even if I do say so myself, it is delicious, light, fluffy, apple - y and cinnamon-y. Very comforting.
Cupcakes to ice now, have a good day all.
I'm very glad you've managed to get a GP appointment @SamBevington, funny symptoms like that need checking out asap. Better put your phone in your pocket if you're gardening today. It's no fun falling onto hard surfaces - been there, done that.
I'm very puzzled though why you should feel frightened to go to the doctors?
Your pet is part of the family @Ben Cotto and it's only natural to feel grief at the thought of their passing. We also had our beloved rescue cat for a long time and it's hard to deal with. Funnily enough we met a small black and white cat in the lane this morning who let us stroke him/her for a short while - quite made our day.
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@Lyn, I don't know if they still have the festival, not my scene really and we don't get our local paper any more.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Definitely do take your phone with you at all times. I’m not allowed out in the garden without one half of our walkie talkie set. I don’t fall over all that often, but invariably I’m out of sight of the house, and OH has got fed up wondering where am I, and finding me crawling up a slope with a fat ankle.
Ben, so sorry for you, been there done that. I do still feel bad that I left it a little longer than I should have to say goodbye, as ours had a few weeks of few symptoms, eating and playing. If I was going through that again, I would pay for a home visit rather than taking her to the surgery. Don’t know if they are offering that service now with Covid. Our local vets seem to be conducting some of their examinations outside on the pavement.