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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Pre-op. assessment due today has been cancelled, this is starting to get very stressful.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sorry to hear that @punkdoc ... fingers crossed for better news before too long. 

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





  • Red mapleRed maple Posts: 1,138
    Beautiful stained glass on your door @Pat E.
    Sorry you’ve had your pre-op assessment cancelled @puncdoc. It’s all so frustrating, we are definitely in dire straits. I hope you won’t have to wait too long before you do have it, but no wonder you’re getting stressed.
    Very grey here, but not as bad storm wise as they suggested - yet, anyway.
    Having a lazy day indoors now, just pottering about. The shopping is done and put away.

  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    That’s awful, @punkdoc. Nothing like on / off and uncertainty to have the stress levels see sawing all over the place. Not good. Hope it gets settled soon. 

  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    Hi all

    have a hug from me if you want it @Pat E. 

    @Ergates well done for finding excellent glasses at such a low price. We are going to Maastricht (Specsavers) to find cheaper progressive specs for OH. It's about half price, you wouldn't believe what he paid here last time. We go Flickbus for 50 euros return for both, so well worth it (and I get to do some shopping). Stitches will come off today (fingers crossed) appointment at 6.15. Maybe I will be able to go to aquagym tomorrow morning, I do need to loosen my joints but I will ask the doctor. I am supposed to have my flu jab tomorrow but I am going to postpone it.







    Luxembourg
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    edited October 2023
    That’s where I got my specs, (. Although not in Maastricht !) When OH wore varifocals, they used to cost a bomb, but at least he wasn’t tempted by £200 frames, too ghastly when they get sat on! Since he had his cataracts removed, and replaced with carefully balanced lenses, he only needs glasses for reading, it’s saved a fortune.
    Good to get your stitches out, and hopefully reassurance that all is healing well. Good luck.
  • Evening all,

    Sorry to hear your bad news @punkdoc. 🙄 Loved the stained glass. 

    Interesting reading regards glasses , I've really noticed how much my eyesight is deteriorating lately, especially my right eye. I tried to put make-up on whilst on holiday and really couldn't see without my glasses, all just a blur. Always been bad, but never this bad. And driving at night is really a challenge for me. Have found opticians here very expensive, perhaps I'll have to have a flit to the UK to get some. 😅

    Having problems with workmen here, been waiting for weeks for an electrician to finish something he started, a plumber to sort out central heating and a DIY man to add a couple of kitchen cupboards. I was very easy going at first, said it wasn't urgent, whenever they get chance, no pressure... But now I'm getting fed up with waiting and it is starting to get chilly in the mornings and evenings and the central heating would take the edge off it. Annoying when I tried to be flexible with their other commitments, but now I feel like I'm being messed about and not taken seriously. I'm pretty certain if I was a man I wouldn't be overlooked so easily. 🙄

    Been baking all day, helps with my stress levels, made a Halloween cake for when I'm away (frozen it) and funnily enough a memory from FB came up and it's virtually the same cake, 3 years ago, I don't even remember making it, I just pulled the design out of my head today. 



    Just another 2 or 3 to do before I go on hols, did manage to get some very seasonal purple icing whilst in the UK, looking forward to using that. 😅
    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • P..S. thanks for the information on cruises @Ergates. 
    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    Lovely cake! And I bet it tastes great too. I have been there with workmen etc @D0rdogne_Damsel , never ever! be accommmodating because they will always take advantage. It's upsetting when people take advantage of your good nature.  But hey! it's holiday time soon. Where are you going?

    Luxembourg
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2023
    Good morning all 😊 ☕ 
    14C wet and blustery here in Norfolk 
 hope everyone’s had a restful night 
 I slept like a log. 😊 
    The bathroom is looking fresher but Jack could only do one coat yesterday 
 the air was so full of moisture that even with the heating and fan on it just wouldn’t dry. He’s coming back on Monday afternoon to finish off. Until then we’ll just have strip-washes to avoid steaming up the walls. 

    We had a tree surgeon visit to price up repollarding the ash tree 
 £650 
 that’s a lot but it  could’ve been worse, that’s what we paid another firm back in 2020.  This chap said that from the look of it he’d have said there was five years’ growth on it 
 it’s certainly gone bonkers this year. 
    It definitely doesn’t look to have any Dieback. 
    Interestingly he said that they’ve felled more apparently  ‘diseased’ large eucalyptus this year than ever before 
 think he said getting on for 70 in this smallish area of Norfolk. He said that talk among tree surgeons is that there may be a disease affecting them 
 I said that on the forum we’d had several reports of poorly eucalyptus but the general opinion was that it could be a result of the extended drought last year 
 he thought that was a possibility. 

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





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