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

kidcat

Mardy - surely there is a place to trade in RV, I am praying there is cos I want to trade mine in too.

Mrs Chip - its possible the cat has a thyroid issue, we were told when they were trying to treat our cat (who died last year) that thyroid conditions often led to a vastly changed temperament - it was a concern for us with both DS as with the ASD they would have found a character change too difficult to cope with.

Byatt - I need the name of your doctor - maybe if I send oH they will give him your cake and ice cream prescription rather than another wretched sick note.

Right am off to bed, have a horrid migraine, took painkillers earlier which made me feel weird and fuzzy but didnt kill pain, so am ready for next batch now.

grandma247

I will not be swapping hubbies with anyone. My Mum used to say" better the devil you know" and I think she might have been right.:)

Mrs_Chip

Hi Kidcat

The first thing we thought of was thyroid as George is hyperthyroid, but I can't feel an enlarged gland, I will have to re-read to see if there is another root cause other than the gland itself.

But good to know someone else thought the symptoms similar though!

ETA - Her mum thinks she is 22 btw!

VJsmum

grandma247 wrote: »

I will not be swapping hubbies with anyone. My Mum used to say" better the devil you know" and I think she might have been right.:)

When someone once said to my twice-married mother that "men are all the same" she said, "No they aren't. THey are all different - and that's the trouble" I rather think (step) dad may have been being the proverbial PITA at the time My own OH is a A(rsey) A(ries) and, oh my goodness, doesn't he half moan about the stupidest bl00dy things. Buses that say "sorry, not in service" (they aren't sorry, why do they say sorry), the big TV screen in VIctoria Square Birmingham (he has a complaint form to fill in about that), seagulls in Birmingham (shouldn't be more than 10 miles from the sea apparently) and don't even start him on music in shops and pubs (even though he plays the worst, loudest music of anyone in our house). Any day now he will say "I don't beleeeeeeaaave it" and have done. I just don't understand what he gets out of complaining about things over which he has no control and don't bl00dy matter anyway, on the whole.

In other news - I didn't like my tea I had a pack of YS smoked salmon which was cooked with onion garlic cream and white wine and then stirred through pasta. SOunded nice, looked nice - not nice HM rhubarb crumble after though - that was nice

The kitchen was cleaned tonight whilst listening to Harry Potter - I really find it a good way of getting through the housework. And there is a lot of Harry Potter so I will get an amount of housework done.

I have left my plants out tonight - fingers crossed. They are going in the ground tomorrow, surely it can't get any colder - can it?

Off on a girl's weekend to Copenhagen on Friday. Hope it is as wonderful, wonderful as they say.

Night all

ginnyknit

I have a Leo who talks through the best tracks on rock radio, can't find anything which is under his nose especially at the crucial point of a tense thriller on tv. He eats the last biscuit and leaves the packet on the worksurface and leaves empty plates in the fridge when he has filched the last sausage. But I forgive it all when he brings me a diet coke when I am fed up and puts up with all my wool everywhere :rotfl:

OOh Byatt your Gp is very special - hope the diet works :T my GP is a rather tough Indian lady who spends her hols working on the streets of India tending to the poor so in her mind a 9 year menopause and lousy arthritis is 'normal' I havent got a chance but she is very good with OH and thats what matters at the mo!

Softstuff

mardatha wrote: »

One wee lost sheepie rounded up, now who else is missing.... the Chip person - where is she?? MISSING CHIP ALERT!

I feel all soft and woolly now.

Byatt, I prefer your prescription to mine, "no choccy cake, ice cream or anything naughty", though I seem to have horsepills too. Do manufacturers not realise that people who have to swallow these things didn't train as swordswallowers previously?

Mardatha, I don't want to trade my hubby for your RV. I've just trained my to love and make tea (he's never been a hot drinks fan), so feel I couldn't do better.

GQ, I'll get back to the blog eventually, probably when I get back from England. I still have a fairly busy time before I set off because I make sure hubby has 3 weeks of meals in the freezer! I'm going to be baking my jam drops and oaty jam slice today, but that's nothing new you've seen the recipes for those. Other than that I've made a couple of olive oil cakes (to use up olive oil I had since I can't cook anything for the both of us with it), which were nice but not helpful for your butter stash. I made Martha Stewarts lime biscuits a while back (after being given a large stash of limes), but wouldn't recommend the recipe, it was too much faff for too little reward.

greenbee

VJsmum - I was in Copenhagen last Thursday. Love it. Such a nice city for walking round. The Tivoli Gardens are open now, although we didn't get a chance to look (airport, taxi, hotel...). We did manage to find time to go out to eat so had a short walk (last year we had a long walk!).

Mardy - I have my own RV, although he seems to stop being ratty when I take him north of the border and show him mountains and lochs! We were up near Glasgow for work on Monday and he managed a view of his clan homelands which really cheered him up!

One more week of work travel and then I can take stock and work out what's what. I have hardly been here so it should have been a cheap month!

fuddle

Morning

Really envious of all the Copenhagen chat. It's on the list of places I would like to visit. I shall get one day.

My two little ones are poorly today so it's a day of no walking and blitzing the house.

I have decided that (when they're at school) I will do my normal walk with the dog and also schedule in a power walk every day, whatever the weather, to get my body going even in the winter. I'm on the hunt for cheap water resistant trousers and thermals now in the hope of getting them cheaper. I'll need them for walking the kids to school too.

I find that getting wet or even damp makes me cold for the rest of the day and I want to be able to keep the heating off when they're both in school come September.

I cannot believe I'm thinking about Autumn now. It's driving me mad!

fuddle

Can anyone direct me to the frugal living challenge. I can't find it any more

Edit: I found it, it's in the diaries section.

grandma247

fuddle it is hardly surprising you are thinking of Autumn it is like Autumn out there!
It was very chilly last night and dh said there was a hard frost when he got up yesterday at 4.30am for work.