The (not so old) Crocks Cafe

Trialia

SingleSue wrote: »

Absolute spitting image of my elder cat...so close in likeness it is spooky!

Although my cat has one blue eye and one normal coloured cat eye.

Nice! He's a pretty little soul. Despite what that pic would tell you, both his eyes are blue, it's just a weird angle.

LameWolf

Awwwww, he's really sweet. Love the name. Do he and Gemma get on alright?

Trialia

LameWolf wrote: »

Awwwww, he's really sweet. Love the name. Do he and Gemma get on alright?

Not very well, yet. She's calming down about him, but she doesn't like to be played with.

Unfortunately, the cute little soul is overwhelming me a bit. I have had to double up on antihistamines as I keep waking up sneezing and wheezing, Gem's hiding from him and hisses every time he tries to play with her, and I don't think I have the energy to cope with his energy level. He's a precious, but if it's this bad in good weather, it worries me as to how it'll be in bad.

On the up side, my friend Kat has offered to adopt him if I find I really can't cope with a kitten as well as Gemma - the adoption was so random, I didn't really have time to plan for him or anything - so at least there is that. I hope I won't have to give him up, but she has two young cats who aren't much older and she lives fairly close, so at least I'd still see him.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Trust me - NEVER agree to look at anything with 4 legs that is apparently a baby, ill or about to be put down because nobody loves it.

Otherwise you end up the Mad Cat Lady who spends half the National Debt of Guatemala on pet food.

Careful_with_that_Axe

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Trust me - NEVER agree to look at anything with 4 legs that is apparently a baby, ill or about to be put down because nobody loves it.

Otherwise you end up the Mad Cat Lady who spends half the National Debt of Guatemala on pet food.

And the problem with that is .........?

jennihen

Haha - I got suckered into taking on itteh-bitteh-kiteh but don't regret it fr a minute. She's so pretty and friendly I worry that someone could just pick her up and take her. She and my 3 year old get on so well now - apart from when he's had enough and just pins her down!! I'm hoping they love the new house and gorgeous garden . . . I turned down an affordable 4 bedroom just because it wasn't safe for them . . .

SingleSue

Just back from physio where I got very much told off!

Apparently, I have to accept my body has limitations and to stop trying to push it beyond its limits, something which I have always done, be it from working long hours on little sleep or keeping going when the pain is starting to hit (I'm a stubborn begger)

She has advised no more all day gigs and if I insist on going, try only for half the day and take my own chair with me...on no circumstances am I to sit on the ground with no support for my spine. To pace myself and not try to do everything as if things are normal, to adapt to how my body is now and not how it used to be.

She also said my getting the walking stick was a good idea (I bought one last week after the debacle of getting home after the all day gig and its after effects) but rather than use it when the pain becomes unbearable (my plan), to use it before it gets to that stage and hopefully avert it becoming unbearable to the stage my legs don't work.

Hmm, not sure I like this.....I'm not at acceptance stage yet, I want to still run around, jump about, be out all day, dance all night...I'm a carer and I want a future once that role has diminshed, my body can't fail me now!

ash4becks

SingleSue wrote: »

Just back from physio where I got very much told off!

Apparently, I have to accept my body has limitations and to stop trying to push it beyond its limits, something which I have always done, be it from working long hours on little sleep or keeping going when the pain is starting to hit (I'm a stubborn begger)

She has advised no more all day gigs and if I insist on going, try only for half the day and take my own chair with me...on no circumstances am I to sit on the ground with no support for my spine. To pace myself and not try to do everything as if things are normal, to adapt to how my body is now and not how it used to be.

She also said my getting the walking stick was a good idea (I bought one last week after the debacle of getting home after the all day gig and its after effects) but rather than use it when the pain becomes unbearable (my plan), to use it before it gets to that stage and hopefully avert it becoming unbearable to the stage my legs don't work.

Hmm, not sure I like this.....I'm not at acceptance stage yet, I want to still run around, jump about, be out all day, dance all night...I'm a carer and I want a future once that role has diminshed, my body can't fail me now!

i no how you feel belive me iam fedup today bigtime, body decided it wants to give up on me atm so tierd its silly back pain driving me crazy and all i want to is sort flat out and get things sorted, have asda to do, docs i need painkillers badly stronger than i have, and this weekend is the highlight of the summer for me dog charity has its massive event to fundrasise and i feel like hell and no amount of rest is working but i really want to go because its the place i love the most , i havent execpted the HMS yet docs still think more to it but you just want to live life and i no taking it a little slow not great but needs must, and if your going to a all day gig ask if you can be at the front or somewhere you can easyly sit down because of your disabilty chin up hunny x

SingleSue

I don't actually think of myself as having a disability...just a bit of a worn out body.

The all day gig didn't actually have arranged seats, it was sitting on the ground or on picnic benches, as soon as a picnic bench became free, we moved onto one of those but it meant there was still a couple of hours on the ground first.

I don't think I have the word slow in my vocabulary!

rolopolo_2

Ah so this is Crocks Cafe as recommended by Trialia. It looks nice, comfy, roomy and friendly. I think I'll have a bit of a look around if that's OK.

I am registered partially sighted and have retinitis pigmentosa which sounds impressive but isn't.

Room for one more?