Is there no plastic recycling in your area, Obelixx? Our council finally introduced it here, last year. Until then we saved up our bottles and yoghurt pots and put them in one or other child's recycling bin (their councils were a bit more enlightened). I believe it was strictly illegal, but sometimes bending the law is a good idea, in my opinion... In Finland, you can collect a small deposit on your empty plastic bottles when you return them to a machine in the supermarket.
Raspberries are ripening early this year.
I'm not into Formula One, but even I watched today's race from Azerbaijan. Very exciting!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Obs, re sleeping, or lack of it. I've just to accept that some nights I'll sleep, but most nights I won't. No point working myself up about it. I've tried everything and nothing seems to make it better or worse.
Liri - all packaging - plastic, polystyrene, metals, tetra pak etc - except paper and cardboard and glass bottles goes in the recycling bin here and we can take stuff to the recycling centre too but I'm not sure what actually happens afterwards.
No more rain this pm but OH is hanging out a whites wash so we'll see.
Working on Sunday here too Hosta but unpaid except for the rewards of teh results. Been re-erecting an old oak wardrobe we brought with us so I can free up some hanging space for Possum and occasional guests. Just giving it a good but smelly clean with wire wool and wax polish remover and then it'll need a good airing and drying before I decide about lime wax, wood wash or white paint.
Have you thought of taking up embroidery or jigsaws to while away the sleepless hours?
3 days before the BIL and SILs arrive and junior SIL hasn't even looked on a map to see where she's going or find out what there might be to see or do or even check the weather for maybe needing a raincoat! Unless it's football, she is the most uninformed, incurious, passive person I know and then wonders why sh*t happens. Asked her what she'd like to see when they joined us in the Charente a couple of years ago - a French football club and pitch! Honestly.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hostafan!, the trouble is when you dont sleep for some time, you feel dreadful and cant stay awake in the day. I did this therapy thing in the DM a couple of months back, including keeping sleep diary, it did help so I bought his book, did the check list, it said i dont have insomnia, its because i worked nights for so many years, have several books which say, if you arent asleep in 20 minutes get up, but if it gets to 2am, I go into night shift mode, so the "go back to sleep when you feel tired" wont work, every now and then I will get 4 nights in a row, where i will sleep one hour, after the 4th night I want to cry. Hubby doesnt believe me when I say I havent slept, he says I have and dont know it, I do because of the nights,I know patients would say they hadnt slept, you can tell if someone is asleep by the tone of their breathing, and slack muscles. If it is more than 12d outside, its too hot inside for me, gentlemen look away now, when we moved here the (lovelly) lady GP wouldnt let me carry on with the HRT, no-one tells you when you stop taking it, the hot flushes night sweats come back with a vengence! I had various blood tests to make sure it wa nothing else, I have tried various herbal remedies, the only thing left is venaflaxin a heavy duty anti-depressant, which I dont fancy, (has its own side effects) and as I dont know anyone who has gone that route, do the hot flushes start again, after the course. I ave never slept 8 hours, that would be weird to me, (think I must be a distant relative of magie Tatcher!) When I was nursing, of course patients died, sometimes it was ver upsetting, sometimes, a happy release, but always seems not right when a friend dies, our lovelly young consultant died last year, and May this year a colleauge from work who was younger than me, I was stunned, she had only been diagnosed with breast cancer 9 months previously.
I have to say , I've never really slept well, not for over 40 years.
When OH and I got together 22 years ago, almost every day we'd have the following conversation:
Him " what's wrong? "
me "I'm tired"
You're always tired!"
" I know"
pretty much every day for about 10 years before he got the message.
It's become much , much worse since I gave up alcohol almost 17 months ago. I too, don't want to go down the medication road, but I really do fear that some day I'll, literally , "fall asleep at the wheel"
If you've never had this level of sleep disruption ( clearly YOU have ) you just can not explain to people what it's like. "TATT" " Tired All The Time"
I know some folk are happy with 4, or 6 or 8 hours every night. I wake up in the morning feeling at least as bad as when I went to bed. Maybe one morning a month I feel "good" when I wake . Every morning is on a scale of " fairly rubbish to wrecked"
Hey ho, In the great scheme of things there are millions a lot worse off than I.
Winge over, roll on Antiques Roadshow and Poldark.
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Afternoon all.
Is there no plastic recycling in your area, Obelixx? Our council finally introduced it here, last year. Until then we saved up our bottles and yoghurt pots and put them in one or other child's recycling bin (their councils were a bit more enlightened). I believe it was strictly illegal, but sometimes bending the law is a good idea, in my opinion... In Finland, you can collect a small deposit on your empty plastic bottles when you return them to a machine in the supermarket.
Raspberries are ripening early this year.
I'm not into Formula One, but even I watched today's race from Azerbaijan. Very exciting!
I always wait till the leaves drop, the plant has rested and then just as you see some life in the spring
take a little and see how the plant responds. If all is well next year you can take a bit more. I adore mine
I seem to have raspberry transplant disease ☹️
BL I am so sorry. It's tough. Hugs
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A A Milne
Home from the coal face.
Nobody told me I'd be driving today, hey ho, so I had to come home for a high viz coat.
I have no problem working on a Sunday. If they want to pay me " time and a half" it'd be churlish of me to refuse.
Rain on and off all day.
Having my first cuppa now since 7.30am.
Obs, re sleeping, or lack of it. I've just to accept that some nights I'll sleep, but most nights I won't. No point working myself up about it. I've tried everything and nothing seems to make it better or worse.
Have you tried "white noise", Hosta? I was amazed how deeply I slept next to a waterfall last week.
So sorry BL - upsetting news for you. Hugs from me too.
Liri - all packaging - plastic, polystyrene, metals, tetra pak etc - except paper and cardboard and glass bottles goes in the recycling bin here and we can take stuff to the recycling centre too but I'm not sure what actually happens afterwards.
No more rain this pm but OH is hanging out a whites wash so we'll see.
Working on Sunday here too Hosta but unpaid except for the rewards of teh results. Been re-erecting an old oak wardrobe we brought with us so I can free up some hanging space for Possum and occasional guests. Just giving it a good but smelly clean with wire wool and wax polish remover and then it'll need a good airing and drying before I decide about lime wax, wood wash or white paint.
Have you thought of taking up embroidery or jigsaws to while away the sleepless hours?
3 days before the BIL and SILs arrive and junior SIL hasn't even looked on a map to see where she's going or find out what there might be to see or do or even check the weather for maybe needing a raincoat! Unless it's football, she is the most uninformed, incurious, passive person I know and then wonders why sh*t happens. Asked her what she'd like to see when they joined us in the Charente a couple of years ago - a French football club and pitch! Honestly.
Obelixx - can you leave junior SIL in charge of watering pots while others explore?
Liri - sleeping next to a waterfall......I'd have been running to the loo all night
I have slept for over an hour on the sofa and missed a good bit of the tennis
However the strong wind has died down. Had to soak the patio pots again today as wind was drying them out so quickly.
BL - it's very sad when contemporaries pass away. ((hugs)) I have lost a few over the years.
I KNOW it's against all the rules, but I couldn't stop myself.
I went to bed at 4.42 and didn't wake until 6.22.
I think I might be watching Ed until he's finished tonight, unlike the Foo Fighters .
Hostafan!, the trouble is when you dont sleep for some time, you feel dreadful and cant stay awake in the day. I did this therapy thing in the DM a couple of months back, including keeping sleep diary, it did help so I bought his book, did the check list, it said i dont have insomnia, its because i worked nights for so many years, have several books which say, if you arent asleep in 20 minutes get up, but if it gets to 2am, I go into night shift mode, so the "go back to sleep when you feel tired" wont work, every now and then I will get 4 nights in a row, where i will sleep one hour, after the 4th night I want to cry. Hubby doesnt believe me when I say I havent slept, he says I have and dont know it, I do because of the nights,I know patients would say they hadnt slept, you can tell if someone is asleep by the tone of their breathing, and slack muscles. If it is more than 12d outside, its too hot inside for me, gentlemen look away now, when we moved here the (lovelly) lady GP wouldnt let me carry on with the HRT, no-one tells you when you stop taking it, the hot flushes night sweats come back with a vengence! I had various blood tests to make sure it wa nothing else, I have tried various herbal remedies, the only thing left is venaflaxin a heavy duty anti-depressant, which I dont fancy, (has its own side effects) and as I dont know anyone who has gone that route, do the hot flushes start again, after the course. I ave never slept 8 hours, that would be weird to me, (think I must be a distant relative of magie Tatcher!) When I was nursing, of course patients died, sometimes it was ver upsetting, sometimes, a happy release, but always seems not right when a friend dies, our lovelly young consultant died last year, and May this year a colleauge from work who was younger than me, I was stunned, she had only been diagnosed with breast cancer 9 months previously.
Thanks for that Nanny Beach.
I have to say , I've never really slept well, not for over 40 years.
When OH and I got together 22 years ago, almost every day we'd have the following conversation:
Him " what's wrong? "
me "I'm tired"
You're always tired!"
" I know"
pretty much every day for about 10 years before he got the message.
It's become much , much worse since I gave up alcohol almost 17 months ago. I too, don't want to go down the medication road, but I really do fear that some day I'll, literally , "fall asleep at the wheel"
If you've never had this level of sleep disruption ( clearly YOU have ) you just can not explain to people what it's like. "TATT" " Tired All The Time"
I know some folk are happy with 4, or 6 or 8 hours every night. I wake up in the morning feeling at least as bad as when I went to bed. Maybe one morning a month I feel "good" when I wake . Every morning is on a scale of " fairly rubbish to wrecked"
Hey ho, In the great scheme of things there are millions a lot worse off than I.
Winge over, roll on Antiques Roadshow and Poldark.