It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

painted_lady

My MIL had flu the millenium new year too and she took about 6 weeks to get over it, she couldnt eat for weeks and even drinking was dificult as she would vomit. She was like that for 6 weeks!
Always get flu jab if your entitled to one.
As for my treats - hair is one of my expenses too, people comment on how nice it looks and it makes me feel good. Just cant do it myself.

jimjams_mommy

I loved looking at people store cupboads! my other half can't understand why I have to have a full cupboard ( I was the youngest of four brought up by just my mom in the early 80s )

I will never lose the skills my mom past on to me. I only just used pasta and pesto I brought last summer from lidi when it was cheap. My dry stock is going down as I was using it up but I will wait till the new year to see if the prices drop before I re-stock.

My fav treat is going for a walk with my little one, coming back home to hot choc and crumpets while sitting on the sofa while grinning at each other.

mardatha

Totally agree with all on the flu - I was in bed for 3 weeks and lost over a stone. Just goes to show how hard it is for me to lose weight !!!
My big treat is living deep in the country where there is lots of total silence. I need silence and space or I smother.

mags50_2

I know exactly how you feel Mardatha! After an hour shopping in town I need to get back to my total peace and quiet at home...sitting outside with a cuppa and hearing....nothing! Sheer bliss

ceridwen

..and I'll try not to feel too envious of you two with your silence.....but if you hear a ring at the doorbell get the kettle on - its that mad ceridwen:D

mags50_2

You're welcome anytime Ceridwen....the kettles always on here

Charis

bellaquidsin wrote: »

Sammykaye, so good to see you back and good to hear that you are keeping your chin up.

You're so right about 'flu kittie. You don't stand and tell someone you have the 'flu, you're flat on your back - for days. It must be the most wrongly used word in the English language and I get so irritated when people tell you they have 'flu when they have a heavy cold. A heavy cold is not much fun either but it is NOT 'flu.

Bella.

There are other things going around this winter that are neither colds nor real flu. I'm just getting over what I thought was a cold until it came back with a vengeance and gave me a raging sore throat, sinusitis, throbbing headaches and aches and pains all over. Others I know have developed a hacking cough with it. I've had it ten days, I met an elderly lady who says she has had it for three weeks and is not really over it. There is also the Norovirus which hits our local hospitals each year and visitors are banned again at the moment. It seems the more tired and run down you are, the more unlikely you will just shrug it off. All the more reason to take those bits of time for yourself Caterina has been talking about.

Westywoodpecker

You've got me thinking a bit :think: my fav treat... actually I don't know.

It's absolutely months since I've relaxed in a bath (although I do shower daily I hasten to add). I subscribe to a monthly magazine (via Tesco points obviously ) but I've four now unread in the magazine rack . I always make time to watch Corrie though, so I guess that's my ME time.

I know what you mean oystercatcher, 1, They obviously did not have flu & 2, they still shouldn't have been there with their bugs :mad: Glad you got them told.

Have a good Tuesday, Westy

sparrer

I've so many 'favourites' that I don't know which treat to list...

...it could be phoning my DM/best friend every evening..she's 87 and great fun, we laugh such a lot together

...or seeing the two 'conkers' my DGD planted in pots in the spring and looking forward to planting them in the wood next spring when they're nice and sturdy (they can't go in my garden, it's only 25 feet square )

...or perhaps settling down to watch the holiday programmes and dreaming of places I may never go but grateful that television can bring them to me instead

..but I think most of all it's picking up the post in the mornings - some say that letter-writing is dying out with the use of computers but my friends in America and China and I agreed to continue writing to each other on paper, and it's the greatest pleasure to sit with a cuppa and the envelope (which must be studied back and front before being opened with the paper knife) then unfold the letter and savour every word. Somehow an email, even if it were to be printed out and re-read, just isn't the same :undecided

sparrer

mummysaver wrote: »

Sparrer - do you keep a spare can opener, camping stove and wind up lantern there too, just for midnight snacks!
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Ha ha not quite mummysaver, but I am very aware that in one of the drawers are a stollen and a panettone. Trouble is my DS is home for 3 months and he's sleeping in my room while I have the computer room (grand name for my wee 3rd bedroom). As long as I don't tell him what's in those drawers he's sleeping on the cakes should be safe until Christmas :rotfl: