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🏖HELLO FORKERS 🍦 AUG ‘22 🏖

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  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Afternoon.

    Lovely here, albeit a tad breezy. Tackled some ivy which was taking hold of a Cherry Plum. Very thick in places and welded onto trunk. I know ivy is good for wildlife but it was taking over. 

    Having a cuppa and crumpets now. 

    Sounds like a migraine @didyw but if you have a known eye concern then have that checked tomorrow, or contact an  ‘out of hours’ service if any vision issues today. 

    Enjoy the BH all. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    @didyw, if it were me, I would be straight to the optician, or, my nearest eye A@E.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Thanks all.  The aura disappeared quite quickly, to be replaced by headache, but I will make an appointment to be seen by the optician asap.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    We all get migraines differently but mine start with the flashing lights. In my case a circle of what I can only describe as being like those 70s (that's how old I am) flashing  disco light ropes. At the same time I get tunnel vision - the light circle grows and grows until it seems to go beyond view - then the nausea and headache start. Luckily neither of those are too bad at all - I feel generally naff for a day or so after though.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I'm at the naff stage @steveTu!  It was awful trying to read text when I had the zigzags - as if they were cutting through the fabric of my vision with bright lights behind.  I used to get migraines all the time when going through the menopause (that's how old I am) but they stopped quite a few years ago and I never got auras with them - just pain that went nuclear!  Not as bad as that this time. 
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    I went to my ophthalmologist on Friday and he said I have the beginnings of this age related macular degeneration.  If I get black spots in my vision to contact him immediately and get in there!!  I wouldn't hesitate @didyw    "Get thee to a doctor!!"

    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I'm glad you are going to make an appointment @didyw, right thing to do.

    I have a cough and a runny nose, back and knee ache, gone right off gardening.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Here you are @Busy-Lizzie
    🛋 ☕️ 🍪 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Thanks @Dovefromabove, coffee gratefully accepted, not hungry though.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Oh dear Lizzie,  shall I post a covid kit for you 😉
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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