It's STILL tough and not getting better - so how are we coping?

taplady

Hippeechiq - what a lovely suprise:T how nice of your friend x

Hippeechiq

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Hippeechiq those are fabulous, make sure you can see them or smell them wherever you are in the house, to keep that good feeling in place. You must be a good friend to get that, in return from your friend. X

I try to be jackie Thank you

taplady wrote: »

Hippeechiq - what a lovely suprise:T how nice of your friend x

Wasn't it?

I've been very lucky in life with the friends I have made - it's just a shame they're all so far away.

It's not easy to make friends in a new area, when your children are late teens/early 20's. And when due to private landlords, you've had to move 4 times in 10 years (although settled now, in council house....I hope)

The job I lost back in January that I'd been in for three years was for a cancer charity and although the volunteer ladies I worked with were lovely, most of them were 20 years (or more) older than me and a thousand times wealthier. Their idea of having to watch what they spent was only having funds for just the one cruise this year, although things were never so tight that they weren't able to holiday abroad twice in the same year too.

They were horrified to learn I hadn't had a holiday of any description for 10 years, and, really, didn't know how I coped. I used to say to them - if you haven't got the money, you can't go on holiday, but they really seemed to struggle with the whole concept of being that hard up......a bit like Mr Cameron!!

Still, I'm not grumbling.....I had a long weekend away 2 years ago :rotfl:

JOANNESAPHINE

Hippeechiq those flowers are gorgeous they must have meant a lot to you.
Charlies Aunt saw Look North and the part you mentioned you must be so proud.
Crickett glad your Dad is picking up. Try not to let other things get to you.

Highlight of my day was picking up a few shopping bargains in town how sad am I.

Hippeechiq

They did thanks hun

And you're not sad at all......nothing for lifting the spirits like a bargain, even more so when things are tight

EstherH

crickett1234 wrote: »

Woo hoo! Today is beginning to look up! Not only has the annoying git got the afternoon off, but just heard from Mum that Dad is making steady improvements each day. He is still having problems with numbers though, and that is annoying him. But he has wolfed his lunch down today, and asked for his tea to be brought into him as well (he needs to have Mum cook it all from scratch because he is allergic to most of the universe!), so that's good, but the hopsital is being annoying about when Dad can take his pills. Through years and years of trial and error, we know that he needs to take some pills before he eats, and some directly after he eats. Well, the battle axe of a nurse on his ward, won't let him take his pills when we know they will work best for him because it doesn't chime with their medicine regime. I think part of it is that Dad can't tell them clearly which ones he needs when, but he told Mum that he could remember the drawer they were in at home and he is going to try and remember which ones he takes out and when and write it down. He is going to use it as an exercise for his memory. I wish I could give him a hug from 200 miles away.

Glad things are looking up. The tablet thing seems to be common with hospital nurses. There just doesn't seem to be any common sense and they don't like their routine messed up. Hope your mum can sort it out.

Gigervamp

Beautiful flowers Hippeechiq. What a lovely friend you have.

Our butchers is closing down today. Personal reasons, but hubby thinks it might be due to health from what he overheard the butcher saying. So, we've stocked up on some stuff to put in the freezer. Big chunk out of my grocery budget, but needs must.

I've got mum coming to visit today for the week. She lives in London so we don't see each other very often. I was hoping to take her to a car boot near us as she hasn't been to one for years and she loves a good browse, but the weather looks like it's going to be wet for the next few days. Bloomin' typical! :mad:

I've had to change our usual meal plans as mum doesn't eat curries and the like, or cheese and she always has meat. We often have curry, chilli or bolognese made with quorn, macaroni cheese, quiche with lovely cheeses in it, lol, so all that's out! Still, I'll be making sure that she has some good homecooked food. She used to cook when I was growing up, but now she lives on pre-packaged frozen stuff.
Got to do some baking this morning. Hobnobs and cake.
She's been buying a lemon drizzle cake from Asda, so she asked me if I could make one. Might also see if the in-laws have some spare courgettes so I can make chocolate courgette cake which is yummy!

Miche*

tana ramsey's lemon drizzle cake on bbcgoodfood is lovely and so easy to make

notjustlaura

Your flowers are lovely, Hippeechiq. Thank you for sharing them with us

D&DD

:DThose are lovely Hippee what a great friend

Belated congrats to all those with excellent exam results!

Our carer is back from his hols this morning :j first chance to clean the house since I got home with DS2 and its rotten!
Upstairs where he is, is spotless its just down here that needs a good scrub DS3 won't have the hoover on and it badly needs doing,so I can do this while he takes him out.
Between him not going to sleep until 3 am most nights and DS2 needing medicine in between I'm knackered!

Need to get some jamming/dehydrating done but need to gather up the strength first my bones are just too tired :rotfl:

Hope everyone has a great day

jediteacher

Hello to everyone,

Just got back from our fantastic hols (paid for by in-laws) and we had such a brilliant time. Wish I could go back. We were in a fantastic cottage with no neighbours for at least a mile. There was a working vegetable garden there and we made friends with the gardener. He's given us four bags of vegetables to take home with us all home grown. :A

I'm very proud of myself as I only spent £20 the whole week as were self-catering and brought our own food that we already had in our house.