Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

taxi73

You could do with a visit to your GP..the coughing can be asthma..i've been today with what I thought was a virus and my sore foot but that's another matter...they put me on a machine and I've been given new inhalers

EssexHebridean

Also KC, bear in mind that while you've only just noticed the damp, it could wel have been quietly making its presence felt for some time - I know damp affects me badly - I'm mildly asthmatic. Damp can have got quite bad before you actually get to the point of noticing that walls etc are wet. Have you tried breathing in the steam from a bowl of boiling water? Make a tent over your head with a nice thick bath towl and inhale over it for a few minutes at a time - give your face a thorough cleanse, tone & moisturise afterwards and you get double the value!

Oh - and with the skip driver, might be best to avoid any mention of him physically pushing the thing - chances are they aren't allowed to do that sort of manual handling anymore! Words of praise for him managing to get the lorry into a really tricky space though would go down well!

Karmacat

Hmmm... those are some ideas, thanks guys.... I think the corner I found it in might have been getting damp for a while.... and that its only been this autumn - so it might have something to do with it. OTOH, I don't spend much time in that part of the house - its only about ten hours a week, I live at the front of the house where there's no damp whatsoever.

In all honesty, I think the real issue is that this is the worst year I've ever had - sitting with my brother in law while he passed, coping with supporting my sister through the immediate and ongoing nightmare of her early widowhood, getting swine flu on the first holiday after that, my financial situation deteriorating....... its been the worst year of my adult life, and when my stress gets to a certain level, it bubbles over onto the physical. That said, I have to address both the physical symptoms and the way I live my life - I've tried to keep on going and stay with cutting down outgoings to the minimum, and maybe I've cut my minimum too far. I suspect I have - so its back to more varied food and less of a focus on debt cutting. This sounds like a cheap shot, but its not - I don't want to work myself into an early grave.

Okay, normal service resumed: The Wall is down - and a normal size skip is completely full! It only took them 5 hours, it was amazing. I was in an out all the time, completely exhausted, went to bed after they'd gone.

EH - thanks for the tip on the skip driver - noted!

My next task is to find as much actual cash as I can, to pay the guys........ off now for a very quick mooch around the diaries......

taxi73

Soundslike you are impressed with the guys..so all well there.
I agree with your train of thought re food as you have to eat good stuff ...you have had a terrible year...hadn't realised until you wrote it all down..lets hope next year improves.

Karmacat

Yep, I'm afraid its been a bad time - the last few years haven't been great, what with my dad's deterioration and then dying, and then all of this this year....

The guys worked *really* hard - its astonishing how much work two fit blokes can get through - they're both really overweight, in different ways, but that certainly didn't stop them! The guy in charge has made a *lot* of effort on my behalf, cutting things down, so finding ways to pay him the way he wants is only fair.

taxi73

I agree...it's hard finding money sometimes for the necessary jobs.So do you still owe him then?..that's very good of them if you do..most want paying on the day here.

Karmacat

Yep, but the job isn't done yet - most of the wall has been knocked down, but its not fully knocked down, and the actual new wall isn't yet built, so no,no money paid over. But he didn't mention about cash until today, so I hadn't arranged anything. I could've paid him a cheque if he'd wanted, honest!

taxi73

OH ...silly me..didn't realise he was building the wall as well.....in that case you don't pay until finished or only for what they have done.

Karmacat

No probs! I'm signing off now, to go rest again - hope you have a good evening Taxi, and its so nice to "talk* to someone real time on here! Thank you! xxx

shaun40400

real time whats that then