We were woken by a banging on the front door. One of the neighbours up the side has a big fluffy white persian "house cat". It doesn't want to be a house cat. it wants to be a tiger in the jungle that is my garden. So I escorted him around the garden in my dressing gown while he looked for the cat.
We have loads of raspberries at the moment. Four ice cream tubs full in the freezer for the winter. We had the first lot of broad beans with fish tonight then lemon tart and raspberries for pud.
The only thing I see wrong with these uni exchange schemes is the cost. My friend has a son just finished uni, and twin girls, one doing dentistry at Newcastle, one doing maths at Leeds. The maths one has had a year in Oz, diving, exploring and doing some maths. The dentist one is planning on an elective in Nepal. My friend is still working full time to pay for it all. Only another couple of years to go. Then I guess they will move back in with Mum and Dad.
We have Barry Gibb at Glastonbury on. I feel the best way to watch. Free and you can turn the volume down.
Thank you all for your sympathy. Felt a bit low so we went to wander round Sarlat this afternoon. Being Sunday and not yet tourist season it was pretty quiet and most of the shops were shut. It's heaving in July and August. But there was a shop selling pretty silver earrings and OH bought me a pair.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hugs and hand holding for everyone who misses someone I know I do xxx
Dove I broke both my feet when I collapsed in the bus lane some years ago. I was told at the hospital that I had a strain. They gave me crutches and I was feeling quite faint with the pain and had been walking round for a week before I passed out at home. I remember that all my hair and my back were soaked with perspiration. I had to lean on the wall and grip with my cheeks and crutches to hold myself up to go to the loo. Returned to the hospital and they rechecked the X rays and was informed that I had broken my navicular and had three displaced fractures in my right foot which looked black because of internal bleeding and broken fragments in the left foot. They decided not to operate because of risk of a clot and I was in plaster for four months and then booted on my right foot. Unfortunately, quite a bad break as cannot where my heels anymore. I hope you recover soon X
Evening all. It's been a busy weekend including OH choosing his new car (30th birthday treat) ...
... we'll be lving off tap water and baked beans for a long time but he's genuinely excited by the one he's chosen.
I'm looking to find a second job to boost my savings (after all it would be nice to get married eventually; my engagement ring has actually worn out!!) Something that won't place too much of a demand on my brain as my new shiny job is certainly getting it's money worth from my brain cells.
Part time pillow tester would be nice.
For those of you who struggle to sleep; due to the chronic pain that made every movement an intense struggle / brain injury related depression / and tendency to have insomnia BEFORE the other factors were thrown at me I started to listen to the same programme on the radio (recorded to ensure it was always to hand and is usually The News Quiz from Radio 4) or talking book (Simon Sharmas history of Britain was a hit for years).
IF I didn't fall asleep I had company (even aced a few pub quizzes with my knowledge of the dissolution of the monestries)
IF I did fall asleep because it was talking the gentle rhyme didn't seem to wake me
IF I did wake up (which always happens due to the nature of rolling over in bed + pain) it would still be playing and there for me to concentrate on
I have a speaker under my pillow so it doesn't disturb my partner and it has helped me immensely.
Of course it won't help everyone. But it's worth a shot.
Pain is another thing which can never be understood until it is experienced.
Last year's "knee" was pretty bad, but nothing to the pain I was in before my hip re-sculpting in 2005.
I used to say when it was good , it was like my femur/ pelvis being crushed in a vice. When it was bad it was like someone driving a 4" nail into me. there were nights when I crawled on my hands and knees upstairs to bed and cried myself to sleep after taking my nightly Morphine.
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We were woken by a banging on the front door. One of the neighbours up the side has a big fluffy white persian "house cat". It doesn't want to be a house cat. it wants to be a tiger in the jungle that is my garden. So I escorted him around the garden in my dressing gown while he looked for the cat.
We have loads of raspberries at the moment. Four ice cream tubs full in the freezer for the winter. We had the first lot of broad beans with fish tonight then lemon tart and raspberries for pud.
The only thing I see wrong with these uni exchange schemes is the cost. My friend has a son just finished uni, and twin girls, one doing dentistry at Newcastle, one doing maths at Leeds. The maths one has had a year in Oz, diving, exploring and doing some maths. The dentist one is planning on an elective in Nepal. My friend is still working full time to pay for it all.
Only another couple of years to go.
Then I guess they will move back in with Mum and Dad.
We have Barry Gibb at Glastonbury on. I feel the best way to watch. Free and you can turn the volume down.
Have a good evening folks.
Thank you all for your sympathy. Felt a bit low so we went to wander round Sarlat this afternoon. Being Sunday and not yet tourist season it was pretty quiet and most of the shops were shut. It's heaving in July and August. But there was a shop selling pretty silver earrings and OH bought me a pair.
Hugs and hand holding for everyone who misses someone I know I do xxx
Dove I broke both my feet when I collapsed in the bus lane some years ago. I was told at the hospital that I had a strain. They gave me crutches and I was feeling quite faint with the pain and had been walking round for a week before I passed out at home. I remember that all my hair and my back were soaked with perspiration. I had to lean on the wall and grip with my cheeks and crutches to hold myself up to go to the loo. Returned to the hospital and they rechecked the X rays and was informed that I had broken my navicular and had three displaced fractures in my right foot which looked black because of internal bleeding and broken fragments in the left foot. They decided not to operate because of risk of a clot and I was in plaster for four months and then booted on my right foot. Unfortunately, quite a bad break as cannot where my heels anymore. I hope you recover soon X
Evening all. It's been a busy weekend including OH choosing his new car (30th birthday treat) ...
... we'll be lving off tap water and baked beans for a long time but he's genuinely excited by the one he's chosen.
I'm looking to find a second job to boost my savings (after all it would be nice to get married eventually; my engagement ring has actually worn out!!) Something that won't place too much of a demand on my brain as my new shiny job is certainly getting it's money worth from my brain cells.
Part time pillow tester would be nice.
For those of you who struggle to sleep; due to the chronic pain that made every movement an intense struggle / brain injury related depression / and tendency to have insomnia BEFORE the other factors were thrown at me I started to listen to the same programme on the radio (recorded to ensure it was always to hand and is usually The News Quiz from Radio 4) or talking book (Simon Sharmas history of Britain was a hit for years).
IF I didn't fall asleep I had company (even aced a few pub quizzes with my knowledge of the dissolution of the monestries)
IF I did fall asleep because it was talking the gentle rhyme didn't seem to wake me
IF I did wake up (which always happens due to the nature of rolling over in bed + pain) it would still be playing and there for me to concentrate on
I have a speaker under my pillow so it doesn't disturb my partner and it has helped me immensely.
Of course it won't help everyone. But it's worth a shot.
Watching Ed .... Got Goosebumps
Ouch Rebecca ........ that sounds absolutely awful .... it must've been so painful .... I hope you're well recovered.
Apparently the break in my foot was very clear on the x-ray ... I was treated quickly and very well. I'm sure I'll be much more mobile very soon. I
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Holy pants Rebecca just saw your story; that sounds hideous!!
Pain is another thing which can never be understood until it is experienced.
Last year's "knee" was pretty bad, but nothing to the pain I was in before my hip re-sculpting in 2005.
I used to say when it was good , it was like my femur/ pelvis being crushed in a vice. When it was bad it was like someone driving a 4" nail into me. there were nights when I crawled on my hands and knees upstairs to bed and cried myself to sleep after taking my nightly Morphine.
I'm very lucky
Night night... Sleep tight everyone
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
night night Dove. xx