Grey and dull here today. Hoping it stays dry enough for me to have another go at the laurel hedge today, leave it looking tidy for the winter. How are you today, Punkdoc? Well on the mend, I hope? What a lovely view, Pat E! Very pleased your thyroid problems have been identified and are getting treated. Don’t know much about overactive thyroids. I was diagnosed with an underactive one well over a year ago, picked up by chance when I was having a blood screening. I almost laughed when the doctor told me, as I hadn’t realised I’d been having symptoms. Only now that my levels are within the normal range have I noticed that I can keep going all day if I want to, don’t actually need that afternoon nap, and my fingernails have stopped flaking. Seems like we adapt to quite a few conditions without noticing the reduction in quality of life, including mild to moderate depression, that only become obvious in retrospect when we’ve been treated or got better on our own. Worrying thought.
Grey and wet here. been feeling a bit sorry for myself this weekend, tooth ache gets you down. Hopefully it is starting to improve. We have decided to go away for Christmas, so have booked the same hotel in the Lakes that we went to 2 years ago, where we had a lovely time. it is also our turn to visit MIL in December, so looking to book somewhere for a few days on Deeside.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
It's a lovely sunny day in Dordogne. Washing is almost ready to put on the line. I will do some gardening this afternoon. Shouldn't have lit the stove this morning, nearly 23° in the kitchen and sunlight is streaming though the windows. I'll let it go out.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, hope everyone is doing as well as can be expected based on individual circumstances and is being, or will be, offered some respite from the deluge of rain. My basement 'leak' is back ( i say 'leak' as it isn't a leak so much as the drains outside not being able to cope, so if that overflows and effectively gets "breached" once in very heavy rain - we have had 3 days of that in the last week- it then takes weeks to flow down slowly and dry out. It happened last year when various parts of London were flooded in July. I'm hoping a swifter drying out (took 3 months last time) as we haven't had quite the same intensity (albeit similar volumes). Fingers crossed, but fortunately it is not a space we use very much so impact is mainly just extra vigilance and making sure we dry as best we can any visible water at least daily.
@punkdoc - hopefully the toothache improves soon. You are obviously a medic, so I hesitate to say this for fear of stating the obvious, but even a dull ache can have a meaningful impact on the quality of sleep, which then has a knock-on effect on mood. With a bad toothache I would imagine that impact is heightened.
Envious of the sun in Dordogne and elsewhere! Have a good day / week all.
On a train to Paris for a couple of days, catering exhibition that ties in nicely with my Rag n Bone Man concert. 😁
Thanks for all the comments/thoughts about the new restaurant venture, but don't worry, I won't be buying such a large building with all the hassle of tenants and maintenance. I may well yet rent it, but I really don't like the idea of renting. I'm looking for other options, something small and intimate is what I'm looking for, and of course with an outdoor dining space.
All keeping me nicely occupied anyway.
Ok, signal up and down so have a good day all.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Beautiful picture @Pat E … the light on the white tree bark is special. It’d make a fabulous jigsaw.
And there's the artist's eye right there! I was looking beyond at the beautiful view, and at Pixel.
I'm sure you will have a lovely time in Paris. I wonder what the French will make of Rag N' Bone man?
I've got a drinks n' nibbles thing at 6pm tonight with our In Bloom group. It will be nice to have a get together but I can never understand these nibbles things at this time. I never want to spoil my appetite for the evening meal that I'll eat when I get home but, because it's 6pm - I'm hungry! I'm just taking a bottle of prosecco (and a mug with a tea bag in it for me!).
Good afternoon all, wer and dreary here too. We went into town , OH is still chauffeuring me around. I got my haircut, picked up a couple of things in the cheap and cheerful shop then met up in SM. Home and late lunch later just realised I was supposed to go to boots to pick up prescription. I agree about continuing pain, it can be very distracting, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
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How are you today, Punkdoc? Well on the mend, I hope?
What a lovely view, Pat E! Very pleased your thyroid problems have been identified and are getting treated.
Don’t know much about overactive thyroids. I was diagnosed with an underactive one well over a year ago, picked up by chance when I was having a blood screening.
I almost laughed when the doctor told me, as I hadn’t realised I’d been having symptoms. Only now that my levels are within the normal range have I noticed that I can keep going all day if I want to, don’t actually need that afternoon nap, and my fingernails have stopped flaking.
Seems like we adapt to quite a few conditions without noticing the reduction in quality of life, including mild to moderate depression, that only become obvious in retrospect when we’ve been treated or got better on our own. Worrying thought.
Grey and wet here.
been feeling a bit sorry for myself this weekend, tooth ache gets you down. Hopefully it is starting to improve.
We have decided to go away for Christmas, so have booked the same hotel in the Lakes that we went to 2 years ago, where we had a lovely time.
it is also our turn to visit MIL in December, so looking to book somewhere for a few days on Deeside.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
It's a lovely sunny day in Dordogne. Washing is almost ready to put on the line. I will do some gardening this afternoon. Shouldn't have lit the stove this morning, nearly 23° in the kitchen and sunlight is streaming though the windows. I'll let it go out.
@punkdoc - hopefully the toothache improves soon. You are obviously a medic, so I hesitate to say this for fear of stating the obvious, but even a dull ache can have a meaningful impact on the quality of sleep, which then has a knock-on effect on mood. With a bad toothache I would imagine that impact is heightened.
Envious of the sun in Dordogne and elsewhere! Have a good day / week all.
On a train to Paris for a couple of days, catering exhibition that ties in nicely with my Rag n Bone Man concert. 😁
Thanks for all the comments/thoughts about the new restaurant venture, but don't worry, I won't be buying such a large building with all the hassle of tenants and maintenance. I may well yet rent it, but I really don't like the idea of renting. I'm looking for other options, something small and intimate is what I'm looking for, and of course with an outdoor dining space.
All keeping me nicely occupied anyway.
Ok, signal up and down so have a good day all.
I'm sure you will have a lovely time in Paris. I wonder what the French will make of Rag N' Bone man?
I've got a drinks n' nibbles thing at 6pm tonight with our In Bloom group. It will be nice to have a get together but I can never understand these nibbles things at this time. I never want to spoil my appetite for the evening meal that I'll eat when I get home but, because it's 6pm - I'm hungry! I'm just taking a bottle of prosecco (and a mug with a tea bag in it for me!).
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.