Lizzie, yes I believe they are devastated. Ā But, sadly I didnāt know about it before I posted the new jumper for their dog. Ā Thatās the third coat Iāve knitted for her over the years. It makes me feel a bit sick. Ā If only Iād known, Iād have held off with sending the new coat. š¤š¢
Welcome back @chicky!Ā Sounds like your batteries have been truly recharged.
My OH played rugby for his school and we used to live in Twickenham.Ā That is my sole contribution to the rugby conversation.
Impressed with your spuds @Pat E but shocked to hear about your friends' dog. That's awful. I hope they called the police.
Glad you arrived safely @Busy-Lizzie - and I'm sure your OH was just as happy to see you as you him.
Kept awake by this godawful wind last night. I hate the wind at the best of times but it has loosened the wooden fence between us and the neighbour and I don't know what to do to fix it.Ā It blows back and forth - against a car he has parked on his side and my tree so not only intermittent thwacks being heard but worry about damage being caused to either the car or tree.Ā No visible signs of damage this morning and neighbour hasn't moved the car so he is obviously not worried about it.
OH still in bed.Ā He is suffering from a painful back at the moment and can barely stand up straight.Ā I do worry - quite often these painful backs presage a 'down' phase. This never gets serious these days as his meds. control the ups and downs of his BP but it does mean that any suggestions that we might go somewhere or do something result in a pained expression on his face so I either have to go on my own or not at all.
The wind is very blustery isn't it @didyw ... my OH was kept awake by tarpaulins flapping in the garden to one side of us and windchimes in the garden to the other side ....... whoever had the bright idea that tinny metallic windchimes were a great idea?Ā Apparently they remind next door of the sounds of the wind in the masts and rigging at a marina ... if we'd wanted to live in a marina we'd have moved to one grrr ... but they're very good neighbours otherwise so ...Ā Ā Sorry your OH has 'a back' .... I come from a family 'with backs' .... I started to have 'a back' years ago but was referred to a wonderful and reknowned manipulative physiotherapist who had a clinic first in Halesworth in the 70s and later in yourĀ town ... he sorted me out, gave me exercises to do (which I do at the first sign of trouble) and so far I'm the only one in the family without 'a back'.Ā Ā https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/In-Memory-of-Gregory-P.-Grieve-Medeiros/edd2b855a59e246c361a71ee6c02c1f280b372e6Ā Ā I wonder whether he trained anyone in your area?Ā Ā My GP had heard that he'd semi-retired and moved to Halesworth and sent so many patients to him with really good results.Ā Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
weather is dire here, pond has now flooded the lower garden. Backs, total nightmare, we have still not really evolved past walking on all 4's, which is what are backs are designed to cope with. In another 10,000 years things will be better.
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@Pat E Ā That is just so awful and frightening. Ā That poor dog and the poor owners!Ā @Busy-Lizzie Ā Never mind the weather, never mind the rain, now that you're together - whoops you go again!!Ā Ā
The energy crisis in UK sounds rather frightening - I suppose we are next in line over here. Ā Prices are high and have recently gone up. Ā I am on domestic oil for heating and filled up in October I think it was - at 89c/euro per litre. Ā 87c/euro if I had 500litres+ but as I had heard it was going up, I topped up. Ā I have solar panels and sell to EDF - they were installed in 2011 and am still paying off the loan.
But it's a blue sky here and warm sunshine - 13.6Ā°C; Ā again we have a stiff breeze.
As it is Sunday every day when you are retired, I intend to do the same things as I did yesterday!! Ā Read, relax, walk the dog - have a cup of tea!! Ā Maybe open the tunnel and water the radishes. Ā Peas still not up yet.
Thanks @Dovefromabove.Ā Yes, OH has often visited the chiropractor in town.Ā At one stage he was going every month.Ā But he is not good at doing the exercises.Ā When I suggest it I get that pained look. For me, my back starts to ache when I have to stand at a certain angle - like the angle you have to stand at to do the ironing.Ā Funnily enough that doesn't bother my OH so he actually does more ironing than I do! Just checked the bird feeder and noticed the 'early' snowdrops are out and the 'late' snowdrops have made an appearance. The primrose is also blooming. But I noticed that the pond really needs a bit of a clear out before frogspawn appears.Ā Must schedule that in!
You should encourage him as much as you can @didyw OH has a 'back'. He had surgery 20 or so years ago, which resolved an acute crisis. Since then he has taken a lot of trouble to do exercises and - touch wood - has had few problems. It does help, no question, even if it can't solve an underlying fundamental issue of proportion and construction.
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āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ
weather is dire here, pond has now flooded the lower garden. Backs, total nightmare, we have still not really evolved past walking on all 4's, which is what are backs are designed to cope with. In another 10,000 years things will be better.
@punkdoc if it had been left to me and my knees we'd still be on all fours ...Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Quiet weekend here (apart from the blustery weather last night).Ā
Done a few jobs that Iāve meaning to do for ages like tidy my office/craft/junk room. I now have 3 bags of old magazines to recycle, a bag of old DVDs for the charity shop and a feeling that if we ever move house we will need a massive skip and a big bonfire. One day we can throw away all our nursing/medical journals, study papers and most of the reference books. I have a lovely box of very old nursing and Red Cross books but we donāt know where they are from. MIL found them in her study/junk room so we think one of nurses or doctors from the practice she worked in must have gifted them. I am trying to think how best to celebrate them - I might frame a couple maybe as they are quite small.Ā
What do you all do with old gardening mags, apart from just put in the recycling? I usually keep for a couple of years as still valid for reference and sometimes take to the waiting rooms in work.Ā
I hope you are all having a pleasant weekend, even if the weather isnāt.Ā
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My OH played rugby for his school and we used to live in Twickenham.Ā That is my sole contribution to the rugby conversation.
Impressed with your spuds @Pat E but shocked to hear about your friends' dog. That's awful. I hope they called the police.
Glad you arrived safely @Busy-Lizzie - and I'm sure your OH was just as happy to see you as you him.
Kept awake by this godawful wind last night. I hate the wind at the best of times but it has loosened the wooden fence between us and the neighbour and I don't know what to do to fix it.Ā It blows back and forth - against a car he has parked on his side and my tree so not only intermittent thwacks being heard but worry about damage being caused to either the car or tree.Ā No visible signs of damage this morning and neighbour hasn't moved the car so he is obviously not worried about it.
OH still in bed.Ā He is suffering from a painful back at the moment and can barely stand up straight.Ā I do worry - quite often these painful backs presage a 'down' phase. This never gets serious these days as his meds. control the ups and downs of his BP but it does mean that any suggestions that we might go somewhere or do something result in a pained expression on his face so I either have to go on my own or not at all.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
weather is dire here, pond has now flooded the lower garden.
Backs, total nightmare, we have still not really evolved past walking on all 4's, which is what are backs are designed to cope with. In another 10,000 years things will be better.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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@Pat E Ā That is just so awful and frightening. Ā That poor dog and the poor owners!Ā
@Busy-Lizzie Ā Never mind the weather, never mind the rain, now that you're together - whoops you go again!!Ā
The energy crisis in UK sounds rather frightening - I suppose we are next in line over here. Ā Prices are high and have recently gone up. Ā I am on domestic oil for heating and filled up in October I think it was - at 89c/euro per litre. Ā 87c/euro if I had 500litres+ but as I had heard it was going up, I topped up. Ā I have solar panels and sell to EDF - they were installed in 2011 and am still paying off the loan.
But it's a blue sky here and warm sunshine - 13.6Ā°C; Ā again we have a stiff breeze.
As it is Sunday every day when you are retired, I intend to do the same things as I did yesterday!! Ā Read, relax, walk the dog - have a cup of tea!! Ā Maybe open the tunnel and water the radishes. Ā Peas still not up yet.
Enjoy the moment!
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For me, my back starts to ache when I have to stand at a certain angle - like the angle you have to stand at to do the ironing.Ā Funnily enough that doesn't bother my OH so he actually does more ironing than I do!
Just checked the bird feeder and noticed the 'early' snowdrops are out and the 'late' snowdrops have made an appearance. The primrose is also blooming. But I noticed that the pond really needs a bit of a clear out before frogspawn appears.Ā Must schedule that in!
āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Quiet weekend here (apart from the blustery weather last night).Ā