Stockton watched the sun in the garden from my bedroom window for a couple of days and of course like today they were sunny. Watching the sun cross the sky and for the last couple of hours shining into the room must be good medicine, I was up showered changed and answering my mail by 09:00 hours. No point feeling sorry up and at em is the best motto..
G.D. we come from a different era, "no point laying about feeling sorry for yourself, there is work to do up and at em" we did not have an A&E we could go to with a broken finger nail, it was the half crown Doctor, you had to pay for his visit even though Mother was in the local surgery insurance scheme. If you were not in that then hard luck.
Weather wise in Stockton "The skies of blue have taken on a very strange hue, it's November and looks like rain" they should write a song about it.
You made me think with your illness attitude Palaisglide. My mother was all for cossetting us when we were ill, Dad would just get on and thought we were being pampered if mum was looking after us. Mum lived until 90, but Dad died at 79 and I still find it hard to accept him going so soon - c'est la vie.
Dull, with a little sunshine this afternoon, Not cold or damp so good for the pruning of a large cherry tree.
Stockton today is wet cold and dull, I have a light on but my keyboard lights up so do not need it to write. Oh well I am warm full of porridge and much better than I was so it is up up and away.
G.D. my attitude comes from a time before NHS when we got a small pox Vaccination and then it was Aunt Mabel's magic box of hedgerow cures that really worked, well none of us died. Then we would be hundreds of miles from medical help with no roads just tracks. We would have a box of medical supplies, Ampules of Morphine sticking plasters Asprins, salt tablets Quinine and a box of saline drips plus a tank driver medic who had never put an IV in and did not know the Boy Scout method of fixing a broken bone? The first man who went down with dehydration (they have to go straight on a drip) he fluttered around trying to give water by mouth, I pushed him aside fixed the IV counted the drips and then got him into the shade. Where did you learn that asked the Sergeant back at Shandur on a course, right you are the medic, "oops" it was one of many and I only had six bags so it was wash everything including the needles in alcohol, boil and filter the water and then refill the bags adding crushed salt tablets. When there is no A&E round the corner you improvise, I never lost any one so it worked.
This week my Daughter was saying the things you must have seen in your time Dad, Yup and medical advancement is the most important. I lived in an affluent Village but children still died of things nowadays one injection cures and what happens? people misuse it.
Yes, they do indeed Frank. Hence the problems with overuse of antibiotics and the like. Many of the old cures were the best, my mother gave us friars balsam for sore throats and raw eggs in milk (can't remember the name of it) if we needed a pick-me-up or looked a bit peaky.
The weather here is dull yet again, very little sun for the past few days, but still it is 15 degrees, dry and calm. The forecast is to get down to 10 degrees by Saturday - that is going to feel so cold, it's all relative.
G.D. Egg nog there was also bread in hot milk with a spoonful of sugar if you were getting over something, we called it PAP. Dads cure for everything, Hot Water Whisky and sugar, we got it for colds the animals got it and even the cat though we had to get it down off the ceiling afterwards.
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Stockton watched the sun in the garden from my bedroom window for a couple of days and of course like today they were sunny. Watching the sun cross the sky and for the last couple of hours shining into the room must be good medicine, I was up showered changed and answering my mail by 09:00 hours. No point feeling sorry up and at em is the best motto..
Frank.
Very misty in patches last night going to and from dancing in La Roche-s-Y. Sunny again today with odd bits of cloud.
Resting up for a day or two is just the ticket for recharging Palaisglide, so pleased that you were able to make an early start today.
Calm day, no sun, no wind, no rain. Been out walking.
G.D. we come from a different era, "no point laying about feeling sorry for yourself, there is work to do up and at em" we did not have an A&E we could go to with a broken finger nail, it was the half crown Doctor, you had to pay for his visit even though Mother was in the local surgery insurance scheme. If you were not in that then hard luck.
Weather wise in Stockton "The skies of blue have taken on a very strange hue, it's November and looks like rain" they should write a song about it.
Frank
You made me think with your illness attitude Palaisglide. My mother was all for cossetting us when we were ill, Dad would just get on and thought we were being pampered if mum was looking after us. Mum lived until 90, but Dad died at 79 and I still find it hard to accept him going so soon - c'est la vie.
Dull, with a little sunshine this afternoon, Not cold or damp so good for the pruning of a large cherry tree.
Stockton today is wet cold and dull, I have a light on but my keyboard lights up so do not need it to write. Oh well I am warm full of porridge and much better than I was so it is up up and away.
G.D. my attitude comes from a time before NHS when we got a small pox Vaccination and then it was Aunt Mabel's magic box of hedgerow cures that really worked, well none of us died. Then we would be hundreds of miles from medical help with no roads just tracks. We would have a box of medical supplies, Ampules of Morphine sticking plasters Asprins, salt tablets Quinine and a box of saline drips plus a tank driver medic who had never put an IV in and did not know the Boy Scout method of fixing a broken bone? The first man who went down with dehydration (they have to go straight on a drip) he fluttered around trying to give water by mouth, I pushed him aside fixed the IV counted the drips and then got him into the shade. Where did you learn that asked the Sergeant back at Shandur on a course, right you are the medic, "oops" it was one of many and I only had six bags so it was wash everything including the needles in alcohol, boil and filter the water and then refill the bags adding crushed salt tablets. When there is no A&E round the corner you improvise, I never lost any one so it worked.
This week my Daughter was saying the things you must have seen in your time Dad, Yup and medical advancement is the most important. I lived in an affluent Village but children still died of things nowadays one injection cures and what happens? people misuse it.
Frank.
Yes, they do indeed Frank. Hence the problems with overuse of antibiotics and the like. Many of the old cures were the best, my mother gave us friars balsam for sore throats and raw eggs in milk (can't remember the name of it) if we needed a pick-me-up or looked a bit peaky.
The weather here is dull yet again, very little sun for the past few days, but still it is 15 degrees, dry and calm. The forecast is to get down to 10 degrees by Saturday - that is going to feel so cold, it's all relative.
Yellow warning of wind in Kent tomorrow and Thursday...any idea if that means I need to do something in the garden?
G.D. Egg nog there was also bread in hot milk with a spoonful of sugar if you were getting over something, we called it PAP. Dads cure for everything, Hot Water Whisky and sugar, we got it for colds the animals got it and even the cat though we had to get it down off the ceiling afterwards.
Frank.
After a dull damp start it actually brightened up for about 1/2 hour around 1:30. Very mild again.