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

VJsmum

paidinchickens wrote: »

On the other hand I am 40 at the end of the year, most of my friends turn 40 through the year and we are all falling to bits in one way or another. Is it all down hill from here???

Unfortunately I think it's the luck of the draw - I ran a half marathon last year, at 47. At the same stage in her life, my mother could barely walk as she was crippled with arthritis. A friends dad walked up a mountain at 80 but another friend in her early 30's could barely drag herself out of bed each day! I did notice my dicky knee is getting a bit worse though when I was at the dreaded zumba yesterday.

SHopping and tidying is the order of the day here - we have friends coming for lunch tomorrow. DD was out at her first proper teenage party until midnight, with the gofer here having to ferry her home - the midnight thing tickles me, it's just like Cinderella. :rotfl: The princess of course is still abed whilst the servant (moi) has been up for over 2 hours. Ah, such is life.

The week of football is taking its toll on DS who has done 5 hours a day for 5 days this week and extra training on Thursday - and today has to play a match. He is [STRIKE]knack[/STRIKE] er shattered. Still OH has survived the 8 pints he drank yesterday :eek: and has taken him - so at least i get off that. I think we are treating ourselves to a family meal out tonight as we have barely all been in the same place at the same time this week.

I'd better shake a leg or i'll be sat in my jim jams when they come back from football - s'laters, folks. Hmm, except that having to sit up so late has meant that I've nearly finished the jacket i am Knitting - so I might just take a peep at Kemps. i may be some time :rotfl:

grandma247

PIC big hugs for you and I hope the pain is not too bad now. Hopefully the back clinic will be able to make life bearable for you.

SDG31000

Good Morning everyone

PIC Huge, but gentle hugs. I really hope the back clinic can help. I had a dodgy back for a few years after having DS1, but nothing like as bad as you. I used to bend over and be unable to straighten up. DH used to come home from work and find me lying flat on the floor with DS1 and DS2 climbing all over me.
westcoastscot I'm sorry to hear that you are suffering from back problems as well. I hope your good days vastly outnumber the bad ones .
gailey I hope your daughter's party goes well.

All is calm in the SDG household at the moment. DH is taking DS1 to Games Workshop and DS2 is in his room with Skyrim and the ps3, as after a week of it been on the main tv for up to 10 hours a day, I had had enough. I'm trying to gear myself up to exercise in some form. It being so cold last week and this week being half term has thrown me out of my routine.
I gave into temptation yesterday and brought some expensive fish, but in my defence it is the best traditionally smoked haddock I've ever had. So dinner for the masses tonight is going to be fish pie.

I had a letter yesterday to let me know that our tax credits are stopping in April as DH earns too much. He might on paper but that £9.97 a week makes a big difference to me. I hate asking DH for money and now a 1/4 of my income is going. I did look into doing some selling at a Country Market, but the closest one is still too far for me to get to on foot or on public transport with a ton of cakes. Oh well, it just means that my saving for Christmas is going to be severely curtailed and my charity shop buying might have to stop. I do know that we are lucky compared to lots to people on here and I do appreciate what we have, apart from the credit card debits

Right, time to shock the neighbours and to do some Zumba on the wii.

Take care everyone xxx

westcoastscot

SDG31000 thanks for your good wishes, sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. The hardest thing for me is coming to terms with it - prior to this I was an extremely active crofting home-schooling Mum with huge plans for the future. Life has been challenging to say the least, but i'd always battled through muttering my mantra - "so long as I have my health I can deal with anything".

I'm struggling to find a new mantra to see me through the tough times!!!:), and am now facing a totally different future in lots of ways that i'm finding very challenging to plan for. I'm working at the minute on regaining my peace of mind and hopefully a little financial security. I've had my head in the sand for too long now regarding my health.

On a more optimistic note (see why I don't post most days??? :rotfl:) it's starting to snow here but the sun is out - really pretty - and I'm sitting knitting and watching the sea as the showers come up the loch

WCS

WCS

mardatha

Think a lot of people will be affected by the tax credit changes eh? I know nothing about them but the money seems to make up a good percentage of people's income.
Sorry for peeps in pain and feeling under the weather, I am waiting for a scan for gallstones and feeling quite miserable, cant eat anything at all without minor eruptions going on in my innards
- but the weightloss is good!
Am having fun plotting food budget savings on wartime cookery blogs - although tbh thats often as close as I get to menu planning and cooking..
Loved this article yesterday and not before time somebody spoke up -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2102484/This-wartime-Nazi-Germany-Camerons-attacks-vulnerable-needy-stopped.html

SDG31000

westcoatscot try this one........Live your life, so that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan says "Oh cr*p, she's awake" "

EstherH

MARDATHA: I feel sick just reading that.

PAIDINCHICKENS: Glad you're a little more mobile. Don't over do it.

Esther x

GreyQueen

Morning all, I am on tenterhooks waiting for postie at about midday to see if he'll be bringing my router. It would be most excellent if it comes today as I'm in and I bet it won't fit in the mailbox and will otherwise be carted away to the sorting office, from whence I shall have to fetch it. This involves a long haul up some hills on the pushbike. Provincial City isn't especially hilly but there always seems to be one between me and wherever I need to go. Not that I'm complaining too much as I can always freewheel back down again faster than I went.....

Nothing exciting is happening at the moment, but I have just washed the kitchen floor (polishes halo) and shoved Henri d'Vac around the acres of tile and rug which make up my abode. Those spindly pod spiders are quivering in the corners, let me tell you, and there is no dust under the bed where the tinned tomatoes and the Fray Bentos pies repose in wheeled splendour.

:jGonna have broadband, gonna be soooooooonnnnn!:j Gonna be cheaper that what I have now and gonna have the landline in the deal and save save save!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:j

Yesterday was very pleasing. I finished a work-week beset with IT problems and escaped to browse the charity shops and came away with a pestle-and-mortar and a book on foraging for £2.29 in total. How OS-themed was that? Very chuffed. Am getting envious at the thought of jumble-sales as haven't been to a good'un for a couple of years. Could have gone to one a few weeks ago in Nan's village but it clashed with the Posh Do here in the city and with a reliance on public transport I couldn't do both. It did make me chuckle at the juxtaposition of my leisure options; a cocktail party vs a jumbly.

Mum went and said it was totally-mobbed out and she couldn't get anywhere near the clothes.........signs of the times, signs of the times.

In my large office I've definately noticed that more and more people are packing-up food and fewer buying in sarnies or other pre-prepared stuff. It must be impacting on the profitability of nearby stores. Still, we haven't had a pay increase at all for 2 years and it looks like this coming financial year will be likewise, and for the two before that it was only 0.5% which on our unspectacular LA salaries meant about an extra fiver a month on our net pay.

Still, glad to have a job, if a bit worried about how much my rent will go up in April. I think a lot of people are reining in their spending, fearful of job losses or reductions in hours and loss of tax credits. I've been talking to more landlords who have served/ are about to serve notice on single childless tenants under 35 because the housing benefit changes mean that they're suddenly getting a lot less money. Makes my blood boil.

The car park here at the Towers is noticably emptier than it was last year. As it's reserved (and policed by the council) for residents-only, that can only mean that some of my neighbours who formerly could afford a car have had to give it up. I gave mine up in 1997 due to being skint and I admit (shamefully, as I adhere to green-ish standards otherwise) that there are times when I sorely-miss having one.:o

On the plus side, my health problems, albeit serious, aren't painful, and I consider myself blessed in that respect. ((Hugs)) to those will chronic pain problems. And I have an allotment and will be toddling up there in a while to try and fit in a little gardening past the showers. It's mild and showery here at the moment, sort of a changeable day.

Spring is on it's way, they have the seed potatoes in the shops already.....vroom vroom, here it comes, get ready to garden.

Love and peas GQ x

westcoastscot

Loved this article yesterday and not before time somebody spoke up -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2102484/This-wartime-Nazi-Germany-Camerons-attacks-vulnerable-needy-stopped.html[/QUOTE]

makes you feel sick to read it doesn't it? I work with people who this is directly affecting - lots are fearful for their lives, it's just heart-breaking and so scary that we may all end up in that position as we age.

Mar care to share your blogs about rationing?? I love reading about the home front; have a book from the library just now called The House - Homelife in Wartime Britain 1939 - 45. It's very interesting - nothing knew that I haven't read before but lots of pics I haven't seen . Interesting reading about the building of "suburbia". It's not often I find a book relating to this that I haven't read!

SDG loving the sound of that!!

WCS

anguk

mardatha wrote: »

Loved this article yesterday and not before time somebody spoke up -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2102484/This-wartime-Nazi-Germany-Camerons-attacks-vulnerable-needy-stopped.html

How can it be right or moral that a company as big as Tesco with it's huge profits gets workers for free under this "Workfare" scheme? If they need workers they should be employing them and giving them a decent wage, the state should not be paying Tesco's wages! :mad: