General Chat

Morning Anng ,morning all,

It seemed so much lighter this morning when we woke about seven and now we have lovely sunshine .

Anng have a lovely lunch today with your friends

Just got a load of washing in and then have another load to do ,I need to get some mince cooked ready to make a meat pattie which will do us for today

Ann hope your foot feels a little easier today .

Better have my cup of tea now before it gets cold .

Good morning all. 6 degrees hoping it will at least be dry when I go out to catch the bus sometime around 10.30. Haven't checked the app yet to see how they are running. Cheltenham for lunch today. A large party for lunch but only 3 of us joining it at 12 as the rest will have been on the behind the theatre trip that we did 2 years ago. I think about 15 of us all together.

I'd be interested to see that Mandy.

Evening all,

Well it's been a dark dreary old day ,I think its rained most of the day ,the hairdresser came today so we're both feeling chilly round the neck now ,not that our hair covered our neck but it still makes you feel that way .

Ann would a bit of strapping support help your foot and he'll, sounds as if it needs a bit of rest ,you can still paint with a poorly foot :-D

If we have to have all these different boxes and bags for recycling we'd be OK finding somewhere to store them but it must be very hard for these houses that have no front garden and just have the door on the street ,where I wonder do they have the bins ,surly they don't have to wheel the bins through the house .

Anng I think our nurse practitioner does more than the doctors now ,when ever people ask to see a doctor it's always the nurse practitioner they have the appointment with .
There's always a few people waiting to see the nurses but not many waiting for the doctor ,as I said before they have taken half the chairs away .

We ordered another load of wood for Saturday week as son and dil are busy this weekend ,son has started to build one of these media walls in their lounge ,it will have one of those fires with flames at the bottom where you have the flames but no heat and you can change the colour of the flames and the television fits in above , son is good with his hands he loves anything like that he sent a photo of all the frame work he'd done so I think he's hoping to finish it this weekend .

The bins not bad even if it has a bag of papers on top. If its too heavy I take the bin to the car and then the bag of papers.

I just found this on youtube and it made me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hg97RRCUxkM

Afternoon All,

No early start or going out for me as I could barely hobble round the bed to the ensuite toilet again this morning. It's eased a bit now and I looked up and did the foot stretches I did before when my other foot was similar years ago. I did sleep better and the pain is all in the foot, mostly the heel now. I looked at what I was wearing when I think I did it and they were slip ons but with a raised narrow rim around the heel and I think they must have moved a bit as I got off the cross trainer and my heel landed on the sharp rim with all my weight. Not suitable for pedalling at all. Yes we are a lame and wounded bunch between us aren't we we!

We are the same as you AnnG about these historical dramas having ethnic people playing the parts of white people. It isn't representative of the times they are set in and not authentic and can confuse me who the characters are. I wonder if your other leg has been compensating a bit for the other sore one and that's why it is starting to hurt. That was interesting to know the detail about the ANPs and what they actually can do.

That's good everything is up and running now Vera. Openreach are here again today and OH noticed, rather alarmingly, when he went for a walk that they had dug a trench from the road to a bungalow, ripping up their fairly new, block paved frontage! I'm glad we still haven't redone the front garden now! It's perhaps as well we were waiting till the bathroom was done because of another skip being parked there.

You have a lot of boxes, sacks as well as a bin for your recycling Mel. It can't be easy for some old folk to carry them all out for collection.

interesting fact if you don't know as I didn't. so I googled

The young lady who checked my wound on tuesday was a Nurse practitioner

Advanced Nurse Practitioner means a nurse with Level 7 MSc qualifications in clinical assessment. This includes:

history taking
physical examination and
independent prescribing,

so they can safely work in a first contact role to manage patients who present with a range of symptoms not previously assessed by another appropriate Health Care Professional. Nurses working at an advanced level can be employed in roles such as the ANP. They must show capability against the Core Capabilities Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice (Nurses) Working in General Practice / Primary Care in England.


another expnation said they are almost equivalent to a doctor but there things they are not qualified to do.

Now its cloudy and raining.

Morning all,

just lost a post so I hope everyones aches and pains are a bit better today to bright usnshine this morning and its 6 degrees and pc says mostly sunny.s I need him to look at the pc for me it keeps sedning me strange messages.

Twice I have lost it so I give up now.

I often get aggravated by what seems to be strange casting in drama productions on TV. I found myself agreeing with the report in this link.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15511267/BBC-casting-ethnic-minority-actors-period-dramas.html

Good morning all, 6 degrees here sort of bright but showery. Not going anywhere today, bedding in the wash. Just pleased that awful day is behind me. good to re-live a lot of good 60 year's worth o memories, but back to living in the here and now. Slept well anyway.

:-D Thanks Vera good to know we don't suffer alone. I like to think that we do all keep our sense of humour though.

Things did get a bit better in that our landline seems to be working again now. The problem was that we thought they were only bringing full fibre to the house to speed up the internet a bit and it was only a casual sentence at the end of an email that made us think that we were being switched to the digital voice system at the same time. Then, as he left, the engineer said that everything is up and running now and didn't mention anything about a delay to the phone. Anyway, OH is saved the frustration of trying to get through to BT in the morning. I've dug out a small powerbank that we have had for a few years and will get it charged up tomorrow. We've never needed to use it but I'll have to remember to keep it charged from now on.

Thinking of AnnG with her painful leg, Annx with her sore foot, Mandy with a swimmy head and now a scalded thumb, Mel with coughs and aches and I think I read somewhere that Gwyn has a cold on top of the problems she has had this year. Oh, and I have sore eyes, can't see properly and am exhausted from lack of sleep. What a sorry lot we are. I hope you all feel better in the morning. I am now going to read the local paper and then try for an early night.

Openreach have covered the channel they cut across the road with sheets of metal so we can drive in and out. They are obviously coming back in the morning so if I want to go out I'd better be up early. It is supposed to rain a lot here tomorrow as well.

Vera, I'm hoping our landline will work after the changeover, I know we use broadband Fibre, so fingers crossed it will. It's going to mean keeping mobiles charged in case of power cuts in future though. as the internet won't work with things like Messenger on FB. I.m glad Mandy told me about power banks now and that I got one although the car would charge a mobile if needs be.

Yes a third trip to the pharmacy tomorrow Mandy. OH has managed to be booked up with things, so I will go again. They are rationing the aspirin now because of the shortages. I might go to TOFFS if the foot isn't too bad, but rain is forecast again.

I think when Mel said the paper sack we all thought it was made of paper but it's polythene and she calls it the paper sack :-)

Ann your heel sounds painful , so you thought you'd do a good deed getting OH's meds for him and you've still got to go back again .

Vera when we changed to BT for our Internet, tele and phones ,our phone didn't work we had wait a couple of days for them to be connected .

I have a sore thumb today ,yesterday I lifted the lid on the slow cooker and I always use a piece of foil on the top under the lid for a good seal , stupidly I lifted the lid then got hold of the foil and the steam shot out on my thumb , I thought I might have a bluster but I've been lucky .

Just heard a funny thing on our local news , the city council in Norwich have been trying to reduce the pigeons round the market in Norwich and had brought in a hawk to scare them away which hasn't worked and they payed a few thousand to do that ,now people could get fined for feeding them but the latest today is they are now going to try giving them the pill for birth control :-D

Just a quick post to say we are back online. I have read your posts. It’s always interesting to hear what you all have to say. I’m feeling a bit uptight at the moment as I’m not sleeping much so I am feeling very tired and since last March when we had to call a plumber in it’s been one thing after another. Today the engineer has been and spent a couple of hours bringing this full fibre broadband to the house and, as part of that, our landline phone has been changed to this new digital system. Well, the internet seems to be working fine on both computers and my iPad but the phone is not. We have just discovered that we can’t make or receive calls. Great! So tomorrow morning OH will have to try to get hold of BT before we go to the surgery for his blood tests and for me to talk to a pharmacist about my meds.

Hey ho, things can only get better.

Its the sack I put the papers in and it has papers printed on the front of a green polythene sack.

No problem Ann, but you know how it is with FB you can never find the threads that interested you once they are swallowed up. I just like to look back at things sometimes but it really doesn't matter.

I can't work out why my 'other' leg has started to be painful like it was two years ago (that lasted a year then).

It was really odd when I got in to see the nurse for the blood test (earlier than my appointment time), She looked at the screen and said to me 'Do you know why you are here for a blood test?' apparently it didn't give a reason. I just said 'well I can have an educated guess but no idea why it is 3 months after the ast one. I suggested it could be blood sugar and she said, ah the other one is kidneys but no reason given. So I said it was probably because of my meds. so she agreed with that and decded to do two tests one for sugar and one for kidneys. I wished I had kept quiet as sugar won't be good given that christmas is right in the 3 month period.

Afternoon All,

Cold with some drizzle here so not pleasant and a pneumatic drill is going and barriers are across our bit at the bottom of the close. It is Openreach and no-one has told us they were blocking off our bit at the end of the close or starting work here today. OH is out so won't be impressed if he can't drive down to park the car when he comes back, so hopefully the road will be open again by then.

Sorry AnnG, I thought as you and Mandy had already seen the card you wouldn't want me to email it as well. I'll forward it on to you. I can well imagine you having those weird feelings and as you say where have all those years gone. It's seven years since my sister suddenly passed away and at times I still think I will ask her something, then remember. I think it will be uplifting at the garden centre now the spring flowers are blooming and the nice scent is in the air.

Mel you have me confused now as in your post on the 26th you said the paper sack for recycling had blown away. Now you say you have found your paper sack for the recycling, but say it is a polythene sack not paper? Do your papers go in a different sack that's polythene then and the other recycling in the paper sack? At present, all our recycling including papers goes in a tall wheelie bin.We just have wheelie bins and no sacks and the foxes would rip sacks open if we had them. I know the city has sacks and you see them ripped open and mess everywhere sometimes.

Mandy I was going to go to TOFFs this morning but didn't risk the journey there as my heel is still very painful. I seem to remember jolting it a bit when I got off the cross trainer a few days ago and it seems more like a similar thing a few years ago when I did the same with the other foot getting down off a step stool! I didn't want to get stuck anywhere. OH would have come with me and driven his car only he had an online thing to join. I decided to pop to the next village instead to see if the pharmacy had his aspirin that are owed to him as he had tried to ring them a few times and no-one was answering. I had to wait ages shifting from one foot to the other, but they gave me half and said there should be the rest tomorrow. I then went to the farm shop and got a shock at the price of the barnesly lamb chops we like, Two chops cost £16, over double what they used to be. An older lady standing next to me with her partner was looking wistfully at the meat selection and looked at me saying it looked nice, I said the prices didn't though did they and made her chuckle. I got a few more bits like Coxs apples and marvelled at the size of the goose eggs, but my foot was saying 'no more' so decided to go. Maybe TOFFS tomorrow. It would be good if the employees keep their jobs and a shame to lose the stores which I like.

Thank you for all your thoughtsIt was a good trip to one of the larger garden centres, one that has Pavers shoes and E Wool. so I bought a pair of sketcher trainers and a waistcoat from EW. the Sketchers are the new step in ones that are really easy to get on without bending down.
blood test now done so that is out of the way.