Fat chance of seeing anything here with this constant greyness. It's good too hear you are OK @Ergates and that the @punkdocs are better. My doctor wasn't there 😕 but the substitute was a nice young lady. Unfortunately the arthrosis is here to stay, I knew that, just wanted to know if the pain I have now will lead to a hip replacement. Too early to say and since I still have good movements I should forget about it for the moment. Difficult when you are in chronic back pain but heyho. She has given me patches with antiinflammatory. May I ask a question to all of you who have had or going to have a hip replacement how long it was before the first days of pain and the need for a op? I am 61. Pain is lower back, groin and buttocks. I walk and swim with no problem (except pain of course) I'd better get ready now, full steam ahead towards Amsterdam, mustn't grumble as OH is carrying most of the luggage. But this business of being our kids' mules has to stop. Sorry for the rant, hope all of you have a good day today.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ 5C and overcast here, but it’s not raining 😊 Hope everyone’s had a restful night and that all aches and pains are easier today. Hope the firefighters enjoy their tea party!
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Probably a daft question @coccinella, you may have said, but have you had an Xray? If you need a hip replacement it will show on the Xray.
We had a fabulous evening last night. The mezzo-soprano had a wonderful deep rich voice. There were 4 very good soloists but she stood out. She was Ukranian, Kseniia Nikolaieva. She'll be singing at the Royal Opera House early next year.
The event is over 4 days and held in a beautiful barn near a Suffolk town. The owner uses it for weddings. We all sit at big round tables and the singers sing then we have dinner, salmon, quiches, ham, salads. Then more singing then dessert, coffee and more singing. At the end there were 2 encores and then the audience sang A Partridge in a Pear Tree.
I don't know if anyone here, apart from @Hostafan1 and me, likes opera, but this was the programme.
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That sounds like a wonderful evening, @Busy-Lizzie! I can’t say I’m an opera fan, but I know and like almost all of that selection. What a treat! Grey and dull here. I popped out last night to look at the sky, but it was completely overcast. No headache this morning, thankfully. Hope @punkdoc and Moira have been able to progress further than mince pies? A day at home, tidying up before any Christmas visitors. OH always has a selection of drills and tools lying around, ready for the next job or left over from the last one! Today’s task is to go through a pile of unhung pictures and frames, and decide which to hang up, which to reframe and which to send to the charity shop or tip, depending on the condition. Homemade burgers for lunch today. Some of @D0rdogne_Damsel’s cakes to follow would be nice!
Good morning everyone. Yesterday was daughter's 57th birthday. We both hoped for a quiet day, no such luck. A friend of hers turned up saying that as it wasn't raining he had come to help sort the water tank problem across our fields. Off they went only to return soon after as he had forgotten the necessary tool. He then stayed drinking coffee and gossiping for several hours. Parcel deliveries arrived - not all at once of course, so noisy little terrier dogs forced to keep rushing to the farm gates to repel potential borders - from her children. Phone kept ringing as family members and friends wanted to say Happy Birthday and do long gossipy catch ups. To crown it all my grandson phoned his Mum to say that his fiance had been rushed to hospital with violent stomach pains and was now in surgery for an ectopic cyst. Just as daughter was about to leave here at teatime to go over to her ex's farm to spend some after school time with youngest grandson, our next door neighbour arrived with a birthday gift (they bought the farm house and some land from us when we split the farm some 14 years ago and have become good friends). More tea/coffee and chatting followed. Eventually daughter left to drive across the mountain to see grandson and the dogs and I had a couple of hours peace and quiet. She came back around 9pm, went to put the kettle on, phone rang again, another long term friend for another gossip lasting over half an hour. 10pm and kettle back on and the phone rang again! This time it was fiance saying op over and she was ok but just couldn't miss wishing her future MIL a very happy birthday! Phone then turned off and plugged in to recharge, dogs let out for a final wee and poor daughter flopped into bed. A birthday to remember, good job she doesn't have another one til next year! A day to remember I think. Have a good day folks whatever you may be up to.
Morning everybody, grey and overcast here but hopefully getting up to 9c soon. I want to potter around outside, I still have bulbs to pot up, nerines to move into the greenhouse I think and I might start the rose pruning.
So pleased you had a fabulous evening @Busy-Lizzie. I'm not musically minded but even I might have enjoyed it!
@D0rdogne_Damsel, you might be spoiled for choice with 35 firefighters to choose from!
Glad the headache seems to have disappeared @Ergates. I'm leaving our clear up till later next week before my lot arrives for the weekend. Must check whether I've got enough bedding and towels of the right size for seven of us. We haven't had all the family together in this house for some time so I'm looking forward to it - apart from the catering!
@coccinella, Id say OH was in pain for at least a year, maybe 18 months before his hip op because it was mis-diagnosed as knee pain, that and I had a job to get him to the GP in the first place! As Busy-Lizzie says, an X-ray would show the deterioation in the bone. It may be that the medics think you are too young at 61 to have a hip op as they might only last 15 years and then you have to have another replacement which they don't like doing.
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Fat chance of seeing anything here with this constant greyness. It's good too hear you are OK @Ergates and that the @punkdocs are better.
My doctor wasn't there 😕 but the substitute was a nice young lady. Unfortunately the arthrosis is here to stay, I knew that, just wanted to know if the pain I have now will lead to a hip replacement. Too early to say and since I still have good movements I should forget about it for the moment. Difficult when you are in chronic back pain but heyho. She has given me patches with antiinflammatory.
May I ask a question to all of you who have had or going to have a hip replacement how long it was before the first days of pain and the need for a op?
I am 61. Pain is lower back, groin and buttocks. I walk and swim with no problem (except pain of course)
I'd better get ready now, full steam ahead towards Amsterdam, mustn't grumble as OH is carrying most of the luggage. But this business of being our kids' mules has to stop.
Sorry for the rant, hope all of you have a good day today.
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5C and overcast here, but it’s not raining 😊
Hope everyone’s had a restful night and that all aches and pains are easier today. Hope the firefighters enjoy their tea party!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Probably a daft question @coccinella, you may have said, but have you had an Xray? If you need a hip replacement it will show on the Xray.
We had a fabulous evening last night. The mezzo-soprano had a wonderful deep rich voice. There were 4 very good soloists but she stood out. She was Ukranian, Kseniia Nikolaieva. She'll be singing at the Royal Opera House early next year.
The event is over 4 days and held in a beautiful barn near a Suffolk town. The owner uses it for weddings. We all sit at big round tables and the singers sing then we have dinner, salmon, quiches, ham, salads. Then more singing then dessert, coffee and more singing. At the end there were 2 encores and then the audience sang A Partridge in a Pear Tree.
I don't know if anyone here, apart from @Hostafan1 and me, likes opera, but this was the programme.
Grey and dull here. I popped out last night to look at the sky, but it was completely overcast. No headache this morning, thankfully. Hope @punkdoc and Moira have been able to progress further than mince pies?
A day at home, tidying up before any Christmas visitors. OH always has a selection of drills and tools lying around, ready for the next job or left over from the last one! Today’s task is to go through a pile of unhung pictures and frames, and decide which to hang up, which to reframe and which to send to the charity shop or tip, depending on the condition. Homemade burgers for lunch today. Some of @D0rdogne_Damsel’s cakes to follow would be nice!
Have a good day folks whatever you may be up to.
So pleased you had a fabulous evening @Busy-Lizzie. I'm not musically minded but even I might have enjoyed it!
@D0rdogne_Damsel, you might be spoiled for choice with 35 firefighters to choose from!
Glad the headache seems to have disappeared @Ergates. I'm leaving our clear up till later next week before my lot arrives for the weekend. Must check whether I've got enough bedding and towels of the right size for seven of us. We haven't had all the family together in this house for some time so I'm looking forward to it - apart from the catering!
@coccinella, Id say OH was in pain for at least a year, maybe 18 months before his hip op because it was mis-diagnosed as knee pain, that and I had a job to get him to the GP in the first place! As Busy-Lizzie says, an X-ray would show the deterioation in the bone. It may be that the medics think you are too young at 61 to have a hip op as they might only last 15 years and then you have to have another replacement which they don't like doing.
Im back from the farm shop and butchers … spent more than usual
cos I succumbed to more festive treats! 🤭
I love opera @Busy-Lizzie … haven’t been for a while (life sort of got in the way) but one of the best experiences of my life was an evening spent sitting on the shingle of Aldeburgh beach watching a live performance of Peter Grimes as part of the celebrations for Britten’s centenary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/18/peter-grimes-on-the-beach-aldeburgh-festival-review Remarkable and never to be forgotten ❤️
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