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

Rosetta92

Byatt Glad you're sitting down now. Feeling like a wee cry is just the shock - ok to get it out of your system.
If you can put some ibuprofen gel on your knee - it will help the pain almost immediately. Lots of the supermarkets have own brand versions, and there's a few different kinds in the pharmacies. I use it when my joints get bad with arthritis. Don't think I'm allowed to post the name of the brand I use, but they're all good.

As for reasons for falling - I find its sometimes because my vision has changed - worth checking with your optician. And I've also had my ankle sometimes just collapse (painlessly) for no reason. I think you should have a wee chat with your doctor too - just to be sure.

Sending (((hugs)))

R

Dee2012

Byatt I hope your okay, please take it easy and rest.

Byatt

Thanks Rosetta, I might have some Ibuprofen, I'll pop and have a look. I see the Dr this week about something else, so now will add this to my long list of ailments! I don't bounce as well as I used to! I need an eye test too, so will try and be organised and get it done. xxx

Thanks Dee, I'm feeling better now, just glad it's not worse.

Penny-Pincher!!

Just had leftovers from last night for lunch. Chicken, roasted veg in a pitta with some chilli olives...delish!

meme30

Goodness me Byatt I bet that hurt! :shocked: Yes, to frozon peas and a hot bath later. You are going to be as stiff and sore as bu88ery tomorrow! Medicinal alcohol and chocolate needed I think.

katieowl_2

Shergar so sorry to hear about your disasterous holiday! I do hope you manage to get it all sorted out OK. and quickly.

Byatt - get an ice pack on your knees...ASAP. Makes all the difference.

I'm sitting here waiting for DD to call me, she's at work, and I need to go in when it quietens down to make cake for work. All sorts of things have been afoot this week, and as of this Tuesday DD and I are having our own cake stall in the market :j They'd had a couple of traders drop out, and although my cake was going on the cheese stall they run anyway, a survey revealed that people wanted MORE CAKE!!! (Very sensible, as we all know more cake is the answer to almonst anything...) Also has hopefully secured plenty of work for DD when she finishes uni at the beginning of June. She's here for the 'launch' this week, and then I will man the stall til she returns, and if I need another assistant I have a couple of people I can call on. We are hoping to do a bit more of the niche stuff....vegan cupcakes, and Gluten Free stuff, as well as ordinary things.

Kate

parsonswife8

Alright, I'm giving out big hugs now so stand in line......Shegar, Ginnyknit, Byatt and anyone else who needs one, fall in and come here. ((((((((((HUG))))))))))
There, that's better ladies.:):):)

bogwobbit

Hi. Can I join the tougher thread. I've been lurking for ages and have now gathered up the courage to pop my head above the parapet and say hello.
I live in sunny (at the moment ) Scotland and am a mum of 4 (two living away from home at uni) and am a civil servant (so public enemy number something according to the government and the Daily Mail). Always interested in saving money and trying to live as frugally as poss (although sadly I do have many lapses) so this site suits me to a tee.

GreyQueen

:hello: Hello Bogwobbit, welcome in. New girl makes the tea on her first day. Don't worry about being a civil servant, I work in a local authority call centre and they still let me post.........:rotfl:

Byatt, your poorly knees..............ouch and ((big symapathetic hugs)). Remember your ICE; Ice, Compression and Elevation.

Sounds to me like your eye prescription might be at fault or perhaps you need a prescription if you haven't one already. Be good to get that sorted. My eyes are corrected to 20/20 but I still sometimes have days when I walk into doorways and trip over my own feet. Phase of the moon or summat.

I have been to the lottie this morning and have managed to get a puncture on the way up; didn't realise until I went to pedal off. Flat as the proverbial pancake. Have left the blasted thing in the lottie shed and will go up tomorrow with the pump and hope to pump and dash and get 'er home. Do any of you have personal experience of those solid tyres? I'm sorely tempted. My route to the lottie is thru a park, in part, and there are a lot of scrubby trees along the cycle way and I think I'm picking up thorns. If they aren't too rough a ride, I'd be tempted by a solid tyre.

Stiltwalker and Ginnyknit ohh life's tough sometimes, isn't it? At least a diagnosis is better than a mystery for your DD. Hope your OH has had an OK day today, Ginny.

I found two very large selfsown parsnips on my allotment whilst clearing couch grass this morning. Bet I couldn't do that well if I'd planted them properly. Particularly excited as am doing the Fiscal Fast and today is the last day of fresh veg and I was then moving onto frozen stuff but now.....ta dah! I have parsnips!

Nothing of great excitement happening in my life and that suits me just fine. I shall catch up with SuperGran tomorrow and find out all the lastest goss from her church. Some bu88er has stolen the church's wrought-iron gates. Last year it was the lead. I'm not a religious person but I still somehow feeling stealing from a church is extra-wrong.............

OK, gonna have a cuppa now that Bogwobbit's brewed up. Any chance of some of your cake, Katieowl, getting a bit peckish over here............oh, thanking you muchly, that's lush........;)

VJsmum

Hello Bogwobbit - mines a rooibos, no sugar.

Am supposed to be marking :o it's soooo boring tho. Am on aversion therapy. Trouble is, it still has to be done. And goodness knows what rubbish this is on my Itunes (just checked - it is Radiohead, loaned by my sister. I'm not getting on with it)

Nothing to report - no boiler, no hot water, no heating. I am thinking about getting the engineer and installer together tomorrow, thanks Rosetta. Have upset MIL. She offered me the family christening robes as worn by my OH, his dad and his aunt. I said I didn't want them (they aren't really anything to do with me after all) but if OH wanted them, that was up to him. I see it as just more carp in this fishtank of carp.

Said goodbye to my cleaner yesterday. She actually left a few weeks ago but came yesterday to drop back keys and get her pressie. We have decided not to get a new one, OH's job is a bit dodgy at the mo and I can't be doing with the hassle of getting another and "teaching" them our ways. We are putting money saved towards a winter holiday for now. Trouble is - I now have to do the cleaning. Have spent the last couple of weeks sorting everything and getting it to a level I can keep on top of. Kids are going nuts as every time they put something down, I scream "put it away" :mad: Wish me luck. My friend gives me 2 months - I think she's being optimistic :rotfl:

Ah well, more marking.