A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

katieowl_2

I've felt carp all day too, have a thumping headache now, and just took two aspirin, a rare thing for me. Definitely a bug of some sort going around, and I'm struggling with black dog too...so I'm wondering if the bug is triggering a depression response in people? The weather IS grim though. I simply do NOT know HOW I got out of bed today - at 6.30 to get DS up...and then headed off for work. I was covering for someone so leaving them in the lurch wasn't an option, but boy it was difficult! Maybe it's the solar flares? Apparently we are getting a near miss by an asteroid round about now too (literally like 4pm!)

Kate

VJsmum

katieowl wrote: »

Apparently we are getting a near miss by an asteroid round about now too (literally like 4pm!)

Kate

:eek:

DUCK!!

Byatt

Hester, I remember having 10 bob (50p) to cover everything too. I started work on 1st January 1970, no holiday then. :rotfl:I think I got around £20 per month. My mother took £15 and I was left with £5 pm to cover travel, buy lunches, buy clothes etc. She gave me 10 bob a week and then an extra £3 at the end of the month. I blew the £3 on my first coat. I walked everywhere to save money too. It all seems a lifetime away now. Well, what am I saying, it is a lifetime! :eek:

Pic, sorry for your experience today. :AI think we expect people who work for these charities to be warm, huggy kind of people but when we find out they are often like people in the workplace it is a shock. I keep being told I should volunteer but having worked in an office most of my life I don't "do" people anymore. Can't handle office politics. Much prefer animals.

Scrabbles, try not to worry. That won't help you get better.

Kate, I'm just going to crawl back to my bed. The near miss must have missed. :eek: Hope you feel better soon; it's so hard when you have to keep going for the children. And work of course. I remember those days too.

BitterAndTwisted

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

I earned the princely sum of £3. I had to pay for my own uniform & had 10s (50p) stopped out of my wages for that, my train fare from Colliers Wood to Knightbridge was £1 a week, I had to give my Mum £1 a week for my keep. This left me 10s (50p) to buy lunches, clothes, shoes etc.
Hester

This is all sounding rather familiar. My first wage-packet was also £3 a week, paid in cash in a nice brown envelope every Friday afternoon. My mother very kindly let me have my first wage to myself and thereafter I paid her £1 a week for my keep. My fares were by bus, 10 pence each way, so that was also £1 a week. There was a works canteen where a proper cooked lunch could be had for 10 pence. Luckily I didn't have a uniform to pay for but I suppose an equivalent amount may have been spent of shoes and clothes for work. I got what seemed at the time as a HUGE pay-rise when I turned 18 three months later. Honestly, I've never had as much money to myself as I did then. If only I'd appreciated it at the time........

D&DD

Running in to add a quick


for PIC well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will be back in a mo kids home,chaos reigns lol

GFN123

rosieben wrote: »

click the coloured balloons and when you're ready to reply hit 'Quote' on one of the posts you want to quote iyswim

it only lets me do three at a time

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

GFN - I just tried to multiple quote about ten posts as an experiment and it did just 4, but it did work. No other suggestions, sorry.

You are clicking Post Reply and not Quick Reply?

ETA aah I see Rosieben has sorted it - click Quote on the last pick, not the balloons. Thanks Rosieben

Aha! It works! Thank you both! :T

Well I'm back as OH now has to stay late at work, so no food shop for us tonight. To be fair we have enough in, but is it sad I was quite looking forward to going?

Thanks all for the suggestions re supplements and vitamins (not aimed solely at me I know). TBH I am utterly useless at remembering to take anything, no matter how good it is for me. I suffered very badly for years, but I think this is just a simple blip brought about with the season and general low level anxiety. I'm sure others may relate when I say the only thing that gets me is I worry that any 'down' feelings are a sign of worse to come, which sort of adds to the cycle, but I simply keep saying it's a mere little phase to keep things in abeyance.

Pondering what to cook with my chicken thighs now. Fancy something extra tasty as my salmon 'experiment' yesterday wasn't as tasty as I hoped. Darn it, if we'd gone food shopping I could have had a pudding! Don't have anything in to make one with, never mind!

Really must motivate myself to finish glossing now. Nearly there...!

Rosanna79

It's ages since I was able to post. How things have moved on - hardly recognise posters '

We have a galley kitchen in the 1930s semi we moved to in my home town from the rather compact 1910 mid terrace we had in East London which did, at least boast a decent sized kitchen - diner.
OH HATES the galley kitchen but the adjoining dining room is big enough to hold a circular table & 4 chairs as well as a 3 seater sofa and armchair. Like many houses of this period the kitchen was simply an extension of the corridor. By putting a sliding door across it's become possible to have a cosy, easy to heat living area as well as preventing nosy moggies getting into other areas of the house when we don't want them to. OH has built more cupboards, hanging space and even used an understairs void to create further storage. His replica 1930s cupboard doors are amazing.

The largest understairs cupboard was converted to a cloakroom and been the best thing we've had done.

Having cooked in the tiniest of spaces since student days I've always found it possible to poroduce a meal cooked from scratch wherever we've lived. A large kitchen would be lovely but we have so much more space in other ways like an extra reception room and a much larger though still suburban garden.. This last year we grew over 406 lbs weight in fruit and veg and have had to invest in another, bigger freezer which can go in the garage to cope with the gluts of produce we experience. There're always the bargains at Farm Foods to accommodate if nothing else !

I really feel for those having the goalposts moved re their pension age- I'm one of that lucky generation who've been able to retire. I wanted to work until at least 65 but my health packed up forcing me to retire. Adjusting to the change was quite difficult at first but now life is so busy I wouldn't have the time! Ironically now I'm 4 stones lighter and much more active with vastly improved health I'd probably would be able to work! I feel it's most unfair for younger people forcing older ones to work until they drop. It seems like a kind of state euthanasia by the back door as many will end up never seeing retirement. It's like we're going back to Victorian times almost, with the great difference between rich & poor.

Fuel bill for this quarter is 2/3 of last years and am grateful we've not had that awful snow- the prospect of 'heat or eat' really scares me and to hear of English people having to use food banks to feed their families is appalling.

Ever since we lost our Jennicat last September a very large boy cat has decided to adopt us. He spent all Christmas on our sofa and really doesn't want to go out to his heated kennel at night. Took him to the vets today to be scanned for a chip- hasn't got one but has been neutered.

He's absolutely massive weighing in at 5.29 KG!!- normal range 3.5- 4.0 kg and is rather cheaper to feed for a week than a fortnight! We are now trying to find out if he belongs to someone but if not will let him adopt us. Can't imagine why anyone would want to lose such a magnificent animal. He's very clean, loves to play and got OH to buy him some toys!! Apart from putting his name in the lost book at the vets , putting a collar on him with our contact details an contacting the RSPCA we don't know what else to do... We're getting attached to him of course. He moved in the day after our little cat died almost as if he lnew there was a vacancy!

Hope those who are avoiding the black dog manage to do so. Keeping busy is important as is daily exercise. I find walking either in a group or on my own a real help... Research backs up the role of ecxercise in controlling depression.

Hope those who can will find that a help.
Hugs to those who need them
Rosanna

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I would second the idea of getting a woodburner if you can manage it to anyone thinking of doing so. We installed a Clearview Inset Stove 3 years ago, that means it fits into the fireplace recess instead of sitting forward of it on the hearth. It is without doubt the best thing we have ever done to improve the house. We haven't run the central heating since we had it put in and only use the boiler to heat the water twice daily. The house is toasty warm and I even have a wide shelf at the top of the fire that I use to cook on, can make soda bread, heat water for drinks, mull our homemade cider etc. A warning though, you'll get obsessed with the wood supply, we now have most of the old decking from our local pub and anyone who lops a tree locally always asks if we have room to take it. It is such FUN!

VJsmum

Rosanna79 wrote: »

Hope those who are avoiding the black dog manage to do so. Keeping busy is important as is daily exercise. I find walking either in a group or on my own a real help... Research backs up the role of ecxercise in controlling depression.

Hope those who can will find that a help.
Hugs to those who need them
Rosanna

Sigh... I'd better go to Zumba then. To be honest I might as well as I'm drifting about trying not to worry about things. Dad seems to have taken a bit of a turn for the worse as he is quite confused. Keeps thinking he is at home and told my auntie he'd won a million on the horses. I hope he gets well enough to tease about this one day!! Apparently it is quite common for older people to be confused when they go into hospital. Anyway, I am off to see what's what for myself tomorrow. Have to admit to being a little scared at what I might find. Cowardly I know. Although I've just spoken to him on the phone and he was a bit slurred but otherwise alright, he knew he has been confused!

Teetotal January may end tonight :beer:

paidinchickens

Rosanna79 wrote: »

Ever since we lost our Jennicat last September a very large boy cat has decided to adopt us. He spent all Christmas on our sofa and really doesn't want to go out to his heated kennel at night. Took him to the vets today to be scanned for a chip- hasn't got one but has been neutered.

He's absolutely massive weighing in at 5.29 KG!!- normal range 3.5- 4.0 kg and is rather cheaper to feed for a week than a fortnight! We are now trying to find out if he belongs to someone but if not will let him adopt us. Can't imagine why anyone would want to lose such a magnificent animal. He's very clean, loves to play and got OH to buy him some toys!! Apart from putting his name in the lost book at the vets , putting a collar on him with our contact details an contacting the RSPCA we don't know what else to do... We're getting attached to him of course. He moved in the day after our little cat died almost as if he lnew there was a vacancy!

Hope those who are avoiding the black dog manage to do so. Keeping busy is important as is daily exercise. I find walking either in a group or on my own a real help... Research backs up the role of ecxercise in controlling depression.

Hope those who can will find that a help.
Hugs to those who need them
Rosanna

What a lovely story, nearly sobbing again

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I would second the idea of getting a woodburner if you can manage it to anyone thinking of doing so. We installed a Clearview Inset Stove 3 years ago, that means it fits into the fireplace recess instead of sitting forward of it on the hearth. It is without doubt the best thing we have ever done to improve the house. We haven't run the central heating since we had it put in and only use the boiler to heat the water twice daily. The house is toasty warm and I even have a wide shelf at the top of the fire that I use to cook on, can make soda bread, heat water for drinks, mull our homemade cider etc. A warning though, you'll get obsessed with the wood supply, we now have most of the old decking from our local pub and anyone who lops a tree locally always asks if we have room to take it. It is such FUN!

DH and I have said we will pay CC off as soon as poss and then save for a woodburner. Problem is we have no chimney so need someone to come and look if it is possible to install. The only outside wall to the front room has a window and the other has the under stairs cupboard so the flue would have to somehow go through that.

I see loads of wood everyday but bet if we get a wood burner there will be none to see :rotfl:

PIC x