My friend is ok really, just issues with her son. Why do we have children, who knows but we had a long chat and I think I managed to give her a laugh a couple of times. Nothing on the horizon today, all activities shut for half term.
@didyw You are a very busy person and all for good things, chapeau! I used to be part of a reading group, but at one point I realised that I didn't have much time anymore for stuff I would never pick myself. It might sound a bit snobbish I know and definitely isolating. Well, that's me, I would definitely feign an illness if I had to read a J Archer 😜. At the moment I am wallowing in the calm consciousness of Barbara Pym.
I too like star of Bethlehem, but I get it that it can spread a lot.
Good morning all ☕️ I’ve been awake a while but on the dot of 8am the phone rang and I’ve been on the phone ever since re the whiplash claim … I knew they were phoning this morning but 8am!😲 a delightful pass but she spoke so quickly ad had such a thick Scouse accent I had to keep asking her to repeat herself.
Anyway … I hope everyone’s had a restful night … I woke again for paracetamol but got back to sleep after an hour. Now I’d better sort myself out …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We didn't have pancakes yesterday as we had pizza and we were too full.
I went to a Gardeners Club talk in our old village last night, given by a chap who used to work in Bressingham Gardens. It was about making a huge vegetable garden at a Friary in Dorset where he and his wife stayed for 3 years. It was interesting and there were several people I know there.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Happy St. Valentine's Day folks! I hope that you are all being taken somewhere very nice by your Significant Other (or taking them somewhere very nice depending on your arrangements).
"I am a sailor, you're my First Mate,
We signed on together, we coupled our fate.
Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail,
For the heart's treasure together we set sail.
No maps to guide us we steered our own course,
Rode out the storms when the winds were gale force.
Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope,
Working together we leaned how to cope.
Life is an ocean and love is a boat,
In troubled waters it keeps us afloat.
When we started the voyage there was just me and you,
Now gathered round us we have our own crew.
Together we're in this relationship,
We built it with care to last the whole trip.
Our true destination's not marked on any chart,
We're navigating to the shores of the heart."
"If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing" Marcus Tullius Cicero (in a letter to Marcus Terentius Varro, 46 B.C.)
I cannot imagine what poor sleep must be like - I absolutely need my sleep and one disturbed night is bad enough. I take it you’ve tried all the usual ‘tricks’ and potions Punkdoc?
Having a hectic week between work and Dad having a day in hospital. Not only is it depressing to see him decline, but it was also distressing to see the other side of the health and hospital ‘experience’. I won’t dwell.
I missed pancakes yesterday so I will make some today. I don’t ‘do’ Valentine’s so being an ‘alternative’ sort of person, having pancakes today seems apt. Do the two days ever coincide?? *
Take care everyone. Feb is halfway already so Spring flowers, blossom, bird nesting, frog spawn and lighter days are all just starting!
*Edit: Shrove Tuesday and Valentines Day coincided in 1961 and next in 2040!!
It's me who doesn't like Star of Bethlehem @Busy-Lizzie. They throw up skinny green shoots that do nothing at all. There is the occasional (and I agree, pretty) flower but mostly hundreds of green stalks. I just cant get rid of them.
I loved Demon Copperhead @punkdoc. I am so in awe of Barbara Kingsolver's writing - how she managed to conjure up that whole world and landscape is amazing.
I was in town today and agreed to pick up the missing tablets from my OH's last prescription. They didn't have them because his prescription states a brand name and they couldn't switch to a generic brand. So he spoke to the surgery who said they'd issue a new prescription for the generic tablets - the nurse stressed that he shouldn't stop taking them as they work in combination with another drug he has to take. Well, they didn't have them at the chemist today - try again tomorrow. Which means there will be a gap in his taking them. This is all too common these days - and it's not just my OH. It seems few people are able to have their full prescriptions dispensed on time.
Afternoon all, it's overcast again and must have rained overnight as the paving was still wet when we woke up - very late at 9.15 am! Hastily had breakfast in bed then I dashed to my massage appointment. Absolute bliss. Something to consider @punkdoc as it's very relaxing? Sorry to hear you are still having sleep problems. Is acupuncture worth a try?
My daughter had severe insomnia a few years ago and eventually agreed to try the NHS Sleep programme whereby you are initially deprived of sleep (staying up to 2 or 3 am in the morning but getting up as normal to go to work) then gradually going to bed earlier by half an hour at a time over a period of weeks. However she didn't have good results and wouldn't recommend it. It might work well for some people but not for her.
OH made me pancakes yesterday and tossed them! Scrumptious.
Unfortunately my poorly younger brother is back in hospital again with acute urine retention (didn't tell his wife of course) and is on antibiotics. Rather worrying was the news that the Royal Stoke had declared a critical incident yesterday as they were struggling to cope with a huge surge of patients. Not what we wanted to hear.
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My friend is ok really, just issues with her son. Why do we have children, who knows but we had a long chat and I think I managed to give her a laugh a couple of times.
Nothing on the horizon today, all activities shut for half term.
@didyw You are a very busy person and all for good things, chapeau! I used to be part of a reading group, but at one point I realised that I didn't have much time anymore for stuff I would never pick myself. It might sound a bit snobbish I know and definitely isolating. Well, that's me, I would definitely feign an illness if I had to read a J Archer 😜. At the moment I am wallowing in the calm consciousness of Barbara Pym.
I too like star of Bethlehem, but I get it that it can spread a lot.
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I’ve been awake a while but on the dot of 8am the phone rang and I’ve been on the phone ever since re the whiplash claim … I knew they were phoning this morning but 8am!😲 a delightful pass but she spoke so quickly ad had such a thick Scouse accent I had to keep asking her to repeat herself.
Now I’d better sort myself out …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We didn't have pancakes yesterday as we had pizza and we were too full.
I went to a Gardeners Club talk in our old village last night, given by a chap who used to work in Bressingham Gardens. It was about making a huge vegetable garden at a Friary in Dorset where he and his wife stayed for 3 years. It was interesting and there were several people I know there.
Rehab still going ok, but being seriously compromised by continued lack of sleep, which is really starting to affect my mental health.
Read most of last night and finished Demon Copperhead, a fabulous, if somewhat depressing book.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I cannot imagine what poor sleep must be like - I absolutely need my sleep and one disturbed night is bad enough. I take it you’ve tried all
the usual ‘tricks’ and potions Punkdoc?
Having a hectic week between work and Dad having a day in hospital. Not only is it depressing to see him decline, but it was also distressing to see the other side of the health and hospital ‘experience’. I won’t dwell.
some today. I don’t ‘do’ Valentine’s so being an ‘alternative’ sort of person, having pancakes today seems apt. Do the two days ever coincide?? *
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I loved Demon Copperhead @punkdoc. I am so in awe of Barbara Kingsolver's writing - how she managed to conjure up that whole world and landscape is amazing.
I was in town today and agreed to pick up the missing tablets from my OH's last prescription. They didn't have them because his prescription states a brand name and they couldn't switch to a generic brand. So he spoke to the surgery who said they'd issue a new prescription for the generic tablets - the nurse stressed that he shouldn't stop taking them as they work in combination with another drug he has to take. Well, they didn't have them at the chemist today - try again tomorrow. Which means there will be a gap in his taking them. This is all too common these days - and it's not just my OH. It seems few people are able to have their full prescriptions dispensed on time.
My daughter had severe insomnia a few years ago and eventually agreed to try the NHS Sleep programme whereby you are initially deprived of sleep (staying up to 2 or 3 am in the morning but getting up as normal to go to work) then gradually going to bed earlier by half an hour at a time over a period of weeks. However she didn't have good results and wouldn't recommend it. It might work well for some people but not for her.
OH made me pancakes yesterday and tossed them! Scrumptious.
Unfortunately my poorly younger brother is back in hospital again with acute urine retention (didn't tell his wife of course) and is on antibiotics. Rather worrying was the news that the Royal Stoke had declared a critical incident yesterday as they were struggling to cope with a huge surge of patients. Not what we wanted to hear.
Hope everyone has a good day.