You're right to have cancelled @Fairygirl. A friend invited me to the cinema to see the new Pinocchio film. I declined and glad I did after my visit to a couple of shops in town on Wed. Folks coughing and hacking everywhere so imagine being in a crowded cinema bet it would have been heaving with bacteria.
@Uff -I just don't understand why folk [who are normally sensible] can't go a few days without eating and drinking too much, and socialising. I'll never understand it, but maybe that's just because I'm the way I am. My sister is the total opposite of me, and I'm weary of pretending I like it all too. N. Year's resolution perhaps... I need to be healthy enough to ferry older daughter to work over the next few days too. They're both working right through- no New Year's Day off for them. Hope you're ok too @Allotment Boy. It's lousy. I had a lurgy a while ago with younger daughter, which was very Covid like. Still don't know if it really was, but we were ok after a week or two.
I'm wondering if a lot of it is to do with everyone foregoing the masks etc. There's no other way I could have caught my cold. I don't mix anywhere, and I'm only at the shops [for food] briefly, and when it's quieter.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I hate new year parties. You can't even just show your face and slope off early. You have to stay until after midnight no matter how awful it is. If you go to the pub, you either have to stand up all night or sit down looking at revellers' backsides and not in an agastopic way
I remember a particularly dire NYE one year ... then the landlady gave me a double port & brandy ... and another ... then I stood on a table and sang 'I'm just a girl who can't say no' ... I seem to remember the evening picked up after that ...
It was quite a long time ago ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That cold bug seems to have made it to Kent. Went down with it yesterday, which probably means I caught it off one of my generous relatives in Sussex on Christmas Day. I'd rather they hadn't shared it!! STAY AWAY!!
Following my 'annual health review', a very loose term as I have only been invited for 3 since I turned 60 and I'm now 71!, they decided my blood pressure was too high. That is despite the readings only being higher by one or two points than they have been for many years. The clinical pharmacist decided to add a different pill to the one I already take and asked me to take blood pressure reading after I'd been taking the new pill for 3 weeks. End result is absolutely no difference to blood pressure but I have developed a dry cough. I checked the list of side effects and top of the list is a dry cough which isn't eased by the use of cough remedies! Pharmacist isn't available until Tuesday but I'm stopping taking the new pills now. They clearly aren't having any positive effect and I don't want to risk a cough when I'm shortly to have a hip replacement. Last thing I need is the hospital to say they can't operate until the cough clears up.
On a positive note, I did actually manage to get through to the surgery and the lady I spoke to there was very pleasant. To be fair to the staff they always are.
Someone I used to know developed a really irritating dry cough on certain BP meds. The GP changed the prescription to a similar but different type and the cough disappeared from whence it came. Let's hope they can do that for you.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fairy, am with you. I can't understand what is meant to be so important about new years eve. Folk best be even more sensible this year, because of the lack of medical help. My last flaming neighbours (professional people in their 50s) used to have all night parties. I volunteered to work, double pay,and got me away from the racket. Spent a few in the ED,full of drunks and spoilt brats.
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I need to be healthy enough to ferry older daughter to work over the next few days too. They're both working right through- no New Year's Day off for them.
Hope you're ok too @Allotment Boy. It's lousy. I had a lurgy a while ago with younger daughter, which was very Covid like. Still don't know if it really was, but we were ok after a week or two.
I'm wondering if a lot of it is to do with everyone foregoing the masks etc. There's no other way I could have caught my cold. I don't mix anywhere, and I'm only at the shops [for food] briefly, and when it's quieter.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If you go to the pub, you either have to stand up all night or sit down looking at revellers' backsides and not in an agastopic way
Just another day, as Paul McCartney once sang....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It was quite a long time ago ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
STAY AWAY!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border