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

kidcat

Scrabbles - well done. Our council will only allow ten months payments - but when they made an error and under charged us they suddenly decided to add two extra payments on, which means we wont have any break in payments!!

shegar

mardatha wrote: »

Shegar you can freeze milk too.

Yes that is my plan of action when I get it in the morning, thanks sweetie.:D

shegar

Florenceem wrote: »

My Labrador !!!!! was slightly incontinent - has a liquid called Propalin twice a day - works for her. She is only seven but spayed - apparently causes it.

Just seen the !!!!! only stated that she was a female dog!

Yea rosie is on incurin tabs.......

smileyt_2

Rosanna79 wrote: »

I really have a problem with people who can't seem to make the connection between getting to bed in decent time and getting up for the day!! It's true that adolescents need more sleep than the rest of us but at 63 years old I really feel OH should get himself organised!!!

I was the 'human alarm clock' during our work lives . He is trying but hearing other's struggles with it really struck a chord... Sorry for the rant!!

I sympathise too. Having had 3 young people living with me, they have all stayed up til the wee small hours faffing on the computer and then stayed in bed most of the day. The current one is unemployed and although he is a good lad and is trying to find work, his habit of staying in bed until at least lunchtime most days drives me crackers! Having had to get up for work/dogs/chickens for the last couple of decades and never being able to have a lie-in because it would be cruel to make the dogs go 11 or 12 hours overnight, I find it very irritating to live with people who don't appreciate daylight. And like you Roseanna79 I can't stand having artificial lights on during the day.

Whose daughter on here came out with the classic quote, "It's because you were born with a vagina"? Perhaps that part of the female anatomy also doubles as an internal alarm clock :rotfl:.

ETA: sorry to hear about your wee doggie, Shegar. If you have a system that works at least that's half the battle. And your wee bunny, Eliza.

Bruno can't have anything else to eat tonight because of his op tomorrow. I am a bag of nerves and he will be wondering why he isn't getting a bedtime biscuit.

Mrs_Chip

Smiley, hope it all goes well tomorrow, I know there's no point telling you not to worry.

OH drives me to distraction sometimes, and I just want to push him out of bed! I have to creep about so that I don't wake him up, and if I want to do something that needs both of us I have to wait for him to get up, faddle about in the bathroom (takes twice as long as me:mad:), have breakfast, then a coffee - and then he might be ready to go! Some days I don't mind, BD days I don't want to go anywhere, but when I am feeing good I dont want to be hanging about. I guess that is being unreasonable, but honestly he has never, in 26 years, got up before me willingly!

Having said all that, I would not be without him, and he makes a damn fine cup of tea!:rotfl:

Pitlanepiglet

Oh dear, I think I'm the exception to the rule. OH is the one who's up at the crack of dawn (6am!) each day and I'm the one who waits till the last moment and does everything at warped speed before leaving for work! We're lucky that we're fairly well on the same time clock though so by 9.30pm we're both starting to nod - 10pm is a late night in our house!

shegar

Rosanna79 wrote: »

Just lost a post before I could preview it -What a nuisance!
Winchelsea
Sorry for your loss. Hope you find the strength for the days ahead
Hugs((())) to all who need them right now.

Had a rest day yesterday from my eternal walking and stayed in all day!- took the time to prepare a braising steak casserole for my ove=n on slow cook- 10 oz steak and a load of veg including chickpeas made a large and tasty casserole - enough for tonight as well

I use our local weekly market when I can and their £5 trays of meat at the butchers are very good value.

We went into town today to sort out OH's ISA and also as he rarely goes out these days) had lunch at his favourite place whic was tasty and reasoanbly priced.

In spite of his op last June which gave him back his mobility he HATES walking and is totally tracked into his old banger ( my old Micra) ... I HAVE to walk to help with weight control and bone density. One doesn't lose 4 stones & keep it off by using the car all the time. He can't get his head around my insisting on walking back from town after we.ve driven in. So I tend to tip up just before dark having walked 3-5- 4 miles. I'm whacked but at least I've done my exercise...!

Have to turn in a short story for tomorrow afternoon's creative writing group. It's amazing how the rest of a story comes as I walk and record onto voice reord app on the mobile. Certainly made today's walk a creative as well as a healthy session!

I feel for those having to deal with male members of the family who won't get up in the morning. OH has this problem all his life but especially since he stopped work. It didn't bother me when I was working 10 hour days and out for 12- 13 hours day.

In retirement it's a diffferent story . I use the mornings for my walking group or whatever activities I've set up for myself - absolutely determined to have a regular, busy and interesting life in retirement. I find the male obsession with sitting in front of a computer screen until sometimes 3:30 AM absolute madness. Most of the time I do my own thing but at weekends or days off from my walking group/ craft classes etc there's little else more annoying than someone who wants to stay in bed until the afternoon!! We can rarely get a day out - it's more like an afternoon...

It's not as though OH is doing anything in the IT line that he couldn't do in the day. He also gets an eye condition which inevitably flares up with lack of sleep/ late nights. If I've gone out on what my late brother would call a ' bright shining morning' and returned feeling invigorated to all the blinds drawn and a darkened room I feel like screaming. He needs the dark when his eyes are bad and I literally cannot stand it for more than a few minutes without becoming really depressed.

On those occasions I simply get my gear on and go straight out for another walk to lift my spirits... or to a friend's house ...

Years ago I worked as a health visitor in a clinic which had its windows put out every night for a week and eventually we were forced to work with boarded up windows and artificial fluoerescent light. It made me feel so ill I literally had to take my paperwork to another clinic and work there until the situation was sorted.

I really have a problem with people who can't seem to make the connection between getting to bed in decent time and getting up for the day!! It's true that adolescents need more sleep than the rest of us but at 63 years old I really feel OH should get himself organised!!!

I was the 'human alarm clock' during our work lives . He is trying but hearing other's struggles with it really struck a chord... Sorry for the rant!!

You sound so much like me about the curtains being drawn during the day or the blinds........Ive never drawn my curtains closed, I have got vertical blinds up and I will shut them of a night but before I go to bed I always open them, I just cant be and feel shut in, also I couldnt have anyone laying about during the daytime, I remember when we were young and at home mother would say"if your tired go to bed a proper time of a night."we were not allowed to sprawl over the sofa either, it was for sitting on not laying on,We never went to the breakfast table in the mornings if we hadnt been in the bathroom for a wash first, yes thoses were the days when you would use your manners all the time, no way could we get away with anything, the parents were excellent parents but we knew where the line was, so they instilled into me and my sisters so we carry it on..........
And we never got taken out to Mcdonalds or any other take away for that matter, never knew what eating out was, how times change..................Hope youve all had a good day....

Florenceem

shegar wrote: »

You sound so much like me about the curtains being drawn during the day or the blinds........Ive never drawn my curtains closed, I have got vertical blinds up and I will shut them of a night but before I go to bed I always open them, I just cant be and feel shut in, also I couldnt have anyone laying about during the daytime, I remember when we were young and at home mother would say"if your tired go to bed a proper time of a night."we were not allowed to sprawl over the sofa either, it was for sitting on not laying on,We never went to the breakfast table in the mornings if we hadnt been in the bathroom for a wash first, yes thoses were the days when you would use your manners all the time, no way could we get away with anything, the parents were excellent parents but we knew where the line was, so they instilled into me and my sisters so we carry it on..........
And we never got taken out to Mcdonalds or any other take away for that matter, never knew what eating out was, how times change..................Hope youve all had a good day....

I never went out for meals when growing up - only Wimpey around then and coffee bars/ice cream parlours.

mardatha

PLP, I'm with you LOL ! I hate loathe and detest mornings!! Inventions of satan. My OH is up at the back of 6 banging & crashing around in the kitchen and that's when I turn over and get the best sleep of the whole night. I worked nights all my life because I hate mornings so much

Rosanna79

I must add though to my previous rant that OH is the love of my life and I wouldn't be without him.

It would just be great if we could spend more DAY time together.

If I try to sleep late I just end up like Martin Luther was described by my History lecturer at Uni ' cantankerous and constipated'!!

And it's the sure fire way to end up with migraine and a 'head like a shed' for the nexr 24 hours!!

Godd job we're not all the same and compromise can help find a middle path....