5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoPsie is filled with choccccccccies, roses are in vases.

See your fab BoP is too ace!

Oh, and I am two down!

Frith

Quick pleasures as smaller son is obviously intending not to sleep at all this evening...


1) A lie in!


2) Posted off Ebay things I had sold.


3) Mum and dad met us at the allotment for a look round. Smaller son became obsessed with a watering can and bigger son sat slumped in the greenhouse, sulking, so they didn't stay long. :-/


4) We then had our tuna sandwiches sitting by the canal and bigger son decided (after 13 years) that he had never liked tuna...


5) Took the car for a wash and clean out (!) They said to come back in 40 mins. We returned. Come back in another 5. We did. Come back in another 20 mins - so we went off for a cup of hot chocolate. Got back and it is immaculate - not bad considering the boot had been scattered with soil and bark chippings. We reversed and you could see a car shaped silhouette where all the bits of paper and rubbish had been swept out of our car onto the concrete!


6) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


7) Tasty tea of pizza, garlic bread and purple sprouting. Rhubarb (from allotment) and tinned peach crumble for pudding.


8) Watching Shaun of the Dead now - my favourite film. Swapping to something else every time smaller son reappears!


9) 2nd geocacher has found our cache. :-)

ampersand

ok-bop. &'s asking straight out[again] - where/how is Raffles, please?
[Hoping to secure answer in moment of 2 down weakness.]

1. Case still in loft, but & alive.

2. Thought not early afternoon.

3. Didn't know what was happening, tried to keep going. Gave in when I saw self in mirror.. Rang Surgery. Have never asked 'Please may I come now. Please can somebody see what's happening to me? I'm turning red all over. Can't speak properly. Feel like paper around eyes and mouth. Think I'm very dry/hot - can't work out anything. My voice isn't mine. Ears - something weird - spinning, singing feeling, like an oncoming faint, but a thudding continuum. Heart racing and pounding.' Apologies for detail because it's important everyone tucks it away to recognise - especially the flushing and heart-racing - and knows not to delay doing something about it. For this one - straight to nearest Med. point NEVER WAIT AND SEE.

4. Wonderful receptionist - one of the young newbies, well-recruited[our reception staff are suddenly all retired or nearing this - all peerless.] took me to sit as I arrived. Called out Dr x at once, the also wonderful and peerless. I felt so bad, seeing fresh coffee steaming on his desk, guessed it was somehow his first pause of the day- true.

5. Scombroid poisoning[it transpires] - instant action+2 tabs+bedding down for 3 hrs at Surgery, with constant monitoring after further collapse episode which was bizarre, bizarre, bizarre to be in. Arrived violently red/blanched, rapidly changing, increasing and so weirdly distant yet present...know more about it now. Very fast onset, dramatic symptoms, 10-24 hrs recovery when caught in time. & was at upper end Stage 2. Phew! Have just come to, from something like sleep. Green tea waiting now. Again, no apologies for detail - you need to be aware of scombroid poison attacks - esp. if none of recognised triggers apply, as for &.
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Frith - have just seen your post. TUNA is the most common trigger.
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Back to bed I go. Our first Hymn for departed bro. was 'Morning is Broken'. I look forward to the coming one.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Currently the rules are being checked, before BoP calls for a count back. Scores are in pencil. Anyone got a rubber?


Arrrrrrrgh I am two down as well. Wobbleade!

sparrer

Hope you soon feel better ampersand, sounds horrid for you

2. Lovely day with DD and DGD2,treated myself to a new hose nozzle and I dropped and cracked one last Autumn, and a decent par of garden scissors. Much needed and with a 20 year guarantee they should last
3.Sorting out my farm shop bags when I got home I put my hand in one thinking it was dog treats only to find it was meal worms for DD's bird table :eek: Thankfully they weren't alive <shudder>
4. Got DGD2 a very glam dress a la Audrey Hepburn for DD's pub's 'Oscars' weekend, long, black and slinky for £3 in a cs. Lending her my pearl necklace and diamante bracelets, she just needs the cigarette holder now (for appearances only, she doesn't smoke thank goodness). At 17, 5'10" and slender as a reed she'll look very elegant
5. Called in to Mr M on my way out this evening, 2 fresh cream slices for 9p, a bag of Coxes for 10p and two bones for muttley for 8p.
6. Went to a fellowship meeting this evening, took mini eggs which everyone enjoyed. I've got the start of a cold so sniffled and sneezed most of the way through it so all the tasks I usually do were taken over by others. Very grateful for their kindness.
7. I don't have to set the alarm clock for morning

Sweet dreams

Frith

Blimey, Ampersand, I had never heard of that before! What did you eat that triggered it? I have had food poisoning before with very strange side effects such as visual disturbances and my face going numb etc. The very worst was when I was alone in the house at Uni and, had I been able to crawl to the phone, I would have called an ambulance. But 12 hours later, I was fine!


Are you feeling better now?

mcculloch29

Rightyo, now up to date on scomboid/stromboid poisoning.

A foodborne illness that results from eating spoiled fish, but not bacterial in origin. Cooking doesn't destroy it. Naturally occurring histidine in fish converts to histamine above 16 deg C and triggers a severe allergic-type response in the body, as described by &.

Symptoms of poisoning can show within just minutes, and up to two hours, following consumption of a spoiled dish.

Symptoms usually last for about 10 to 14 hours, and rarely exceed one to two days.

Oh my goodness. Why isn't this more widely known? It is 'rarely' fatal but... Preliminary results from an autopsy on Noelene and Yvana Bischoff, mother and daughter tourists from Australia who died suddenly in Bali in January 2014, has attributed their deaths to scombroid poisoning.

Hopefully normality will quickly resume; Ampersand, may you recover/have recovered with no ill-effects. Scary.

ampersand

Nothing ingested to spring this though, mcc, but you're spot on here:
'Oh my goodness. Why isn't this more widely known?', hence post.
And Yes, definitely scary.

I absolutely recognise your account, Frith - although this is a non-food case.

I am doubly lucky Dr x was there - it's one of his pet research fields. 'No tuna' was my first reply to his first ?, but it wasn't key, finally. It IS the most common, which is why it is first asked.

Not feeling too bad, but still not as usual; thought it was a stroke, but had no pain.

Back to bed now. 1st 2 tabs were steroids, and 1 fexofenadine[and daily for a month]
http://www.patient.co.uk/medicine/Fexofenadine.htm

Have to go back each day. Thought I was seeing postponed NZ looming.
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Just found this interesting case study[although it does involve tuna]:
http://www.ephru.nhs.uk/documents/UKPHR/MasterClass7/scombrotoxin%20outbreak%20investigation.pdf

Kittikins

Blimey & that's blooming scary, thank God you are on the mend, and thank God for the NHS! x

mhagster

ampersand make sure you take it a bit easier than usual...please!

So day number one off and it's been lovely and much needed.

Woke early and got up and phoned friend from home and had a good chat with her.

Out in the veg patch in my jammies, watering the veggies this morning at early o'clock. All autumnal and damp and blooming chilly ( to be out in jimjams!) pumpkins which were doing so well have been eaten by some unknown beastie.

Then into the kitchen and listened to some UK radio and made tiny lemonade scones, devil chocolate cupcakes topped with mini eggs and lemon cupcakes. Also made a pan of lentil soup for dinner.

Went to pharmacy, went to supermarket, went to pharmacy...happy Easters from one and all. As I said yesterday it's a BIG public holiday over here.

Washings out and dried on the line, sun not as high in the sky these days so I'm pleased that they are getting dried.

Afternoon tea Easter style. We had scones and cream with a fresh strawberry , choc cupcakes with mini eggs, lemon cupcakes decorated with an Easter 'flag' . My rtc Easter plates, cups , napkins and straws from last year all out on a very prettily set table. Tiny posy of flowers from the garden , teapot filled with tea and pretty teacups and spoons and we had a most enjoyable afternoon. DD1s lovely friend came round with a basket filled with chocolate eggs and a bunny and bunny ears on!

So a bit of running around this morning but a most lovely afternoon.

Dinner will be soup and crusty bread and followed by cake! I ate a couple of tiny scones and grapes....they are almost egg shaped! I must continue without sugar....I must!

Have a lovely day

broomstick be happy in your new home , sounds perfect for you all