No T Words mentioned at all - a fresh start

candlelight_2013

We have some tomatoes appearing on our outdoor plants (we only have 3 plants) and I am so excited. I can start to feed the plants now. It doesn't take much to please me

Candlelightx

hoglet121

Morning everyone,

Great news about your tomato plants Candlelight! Hope the mammogram was OK too.

Just a quick post from me - got a weekend of working from home planned, as I've got lots of assignments on at the moment. DH has 2 rugby matches to referee and AR - one is the adult under 85 Kg final and that will be fast!

Had to de-worm the cats last night - Alfie takes tablets really well but Izzy gouged a huge chunk out of my finger - cheers Iz! Socks wasn't happy but at least din't attack me.

Lots of areas near us had flooding mid-week, but fortunately we were OK. We are below the level of the street drain so we have a pump under our drive which pums the storm water up into the drain. Fortunately we had it repaired about 18 months ago or we'd have been underwater.

Hope everyone's well,

Love Hoglet x

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Hello all, nice and sunny here today and He Who KNows and DD1 are finalising packing etc. for their holiday to Norway which starts tomorrow, much excitement needless to say. Had to make a mad dash to DD2 on Thursday afternoon, poor pet had picked up a really nasty virus (she has depressed immune system) which had knocked her for 106 not just 6! she'd been stuck in bed since Tuesday lunchtime just flat and with the most enormous headache, couldn't move her head and neck and in lots of pain. She wanted her Mum and Zebra doesn't go to nursery on Fridays so she needed cover poor lamb. She was feeling much improved by yesterday evening so He Who Knows and DD1 came to collect me and bring me back home. Have heard from DD2 this morning and she is feeling so much better, just a background headache now. I'm off again to her on Monday to Zebra sit until Thursday as his dad has to go away to a conference and DD works the three midweek days. I'll take him in to nursery each day, better to keep his routine going I think, and come home on Thursday when his dad will be around to take and collect him. They heard last night that the offer they had put in on the house they are trying to buy has been accepted, great news as it's empty and there is no chain, they have sold their flat to a cash first time buyer again with no chain so hopefully the process will be as smooth as house buying ever is and they will be in before the autumn, happy for them it will make visiting more comfy too as they will have a spare bedroom then and I won't have to wait for them to go to bed when I visit, the sofa bed being in the lounge, much better to have a separate room to go to when I get tired.

hoglet121

Hi everyone,

I was so busy yesterday I forgot to post anything!

It's so nice reading about all your warm weather - we're having one of the coldest winters on record here - that's not cold by UK standards - but it's still cold!

I had a busy weekend - meeting a colleague for lunch on Saturday and meeting some of her friends. DH had 2 rugby games and got absolutely drenched.

Sunday we had a lovely afternoon out at my cousin's to celebrate her daughter's second birthday. She's such a bright little thing, she had an absoutely wonderful time.

Other than that it's all work in one form or another at the moment!

Sorry for the quick post.

Love to you all,

Hoglet x

candlelight_2013

Good evening all,

Not a bad day today, we have had a little rain but the garden needed it anyway.

We popped into town this morning because Himself bought 2 pairs of jeans and a pair of trousers last week, without trying them on, and then found they were too big, so we did a straight exchange today.

We had a quiet Sunday, DGD was out for the day so we just chilled out, but of course that is nothing new for Flora

We are taking DGS out for a meal on Thursday. His younger sister is away on holiday, and I know he doesn't mind being on his own, but I feel he spends too much time on his laptop.

AOT how are you? I hope the joints are not so painful. I have started to take vitamin B12 tablets, just one a day because I have been feeling really tired. Having read up on it the tablets I take for the diabetes can leave you with a B12 deficiency, but when I had a blood test a couple of years ago they said it was fine If I remember rightly you were having the injections, are you feeling the benefit from them? My Nan had to have them, but you could always tell when she was coming to the end of 3 months and needed her next one.

Hoglet, we sponsor a guide dog for the blind, he is a golden retriever and is called Hudson. We sponsor him for 2 years by which time he will hopefully go to his new owner having passed with flying colours. I hope the cats are good, Flora is fine and Pilchard looks a little battle scarred again, but he is always ready for his breakfast each morning. His eye doesn't look good again, and in actual fact I think he is blind in that eye, but he soldiers on.

Lyn is away looking after the Zebra child until Thursday, so I will be missing her posts, she is such a good friend, and always knows what to say, she has a wonderful way with words.

SM Hope you are OK, I don't think the eather is being very kind up in Scotland is it.

Kate, are you OK?

Have a good week all

Much love

Candlelightx

scottishminnie

Hi, just popping in briefly. It's all gone a bit pear shaped at a this end:(

My dear friend (the garden party hostess) is in hospital and unlikely to return home. She has quite a rare cancer which has spread,and in the words of her consultant, is increasing daily. She was told two years ago that her time may be limited however I guess we have all been lulled into a false sense of security as she continued to be reasonable healthy. Her husband is mentally ok however very frail and struggling to cope in a big house (which really needs lots of repairs and updates) in a rural location so myself and another friend/neighbour are doing our best to see to him, visit her as often as possible and try to get someone at social services to help us. The latter is seeming nigh on impossible. Thankfully I had two days holiday from work yesterday and today so I have tried to do as much as possible however all the other tasks I had planned have gone out the window.

My husbands uncle is also undergoing his second round of chemotherapy as the first failed to shrink his tumour. I managed to visit him over the weekend and I know I really struggled to hide my feelings as he seems to have gone from a big strong hulk of a bloke to a little old man overnight.

I guess it's just part of life that things sail along relatively smoothly for a while and then it starts to fall apart. My mind is all over the place at the moment, I'm thinking about a party which I've committed to baking 100 cupcakes for next Friday and a weekend trip to London with my mother next month. I really just need to focus on one day at a time right now and keep the forward planning for work related stuff when I go back tomorrow.

Candlelight - you are right, the weather has been appalling. We had flooding overnight on Friday, then again on Saturday and it's now been two weeks since we had a full dry day. We had around 15 minutes of torrential rain this morning which seems to be it now but it means everything is soaking. It's also cold, most days it hasn't been above 13c - I was forced to put the central heating on for a while in Friday night as I was so cold. It's pretty soul destroying and my father is becoming more depressed as he still has around a third of the hay/silage to harvest.

The only bright spot is that I now have enough black currants to make a batch of jam in the breadmaker. It will only make two pots but at least I will feel I've done something constructive. Hoping to get some time in the greenhouse after lunch as my tomatoes need some tidying up. There are around 7 big tomatoes but they are very green so I hope they ripen soon. I hope they don't need sunlight to do so!

Hopefully I'll be back later in the week, I feel safe here and it helps to offload a bit. Back to work tomorrow and there is no danger of me being allowed to dwell on anything there - sadly some of the biggest companies in the UK still think that business is the priority and personal lives can only be managed in what little time is left over.

Hope everyone is well and if anyone happens to see the big yellow ball in the sky please kick it northwards:)

candlelight_2013

Oh SM I am so sorry, you seem to have so much to deal with just now.

There is nothing I can say to you about the poorly people that will make you feel better, but please come here and talk about it when you can. My hope for them is that they are relatively pain free, and try to spend as much time with them as possible.

Sending you a big hug (if you like hugs) and much love

Candlelightx

ArthriticOldThing

Candlelight, thanks for thinking of me. I'm still having the B12 injections, latest was last week, and yes I do feel the benefit. Usually by the time they are due I feel like I have to drag myself around.
I had some respite from the arthritis recently but hands have been bad this last couple of days. Probably because I am trying to do too much like sewing and crochet. Must learn to take it more slowly!
We've got builders in the flats at the moment. They are grinding out old cement and the noise is driving me crazy. Like a dentist drill going all day.:eek:
Scottishminnie, so sorry to hear of your sad news. Like candlelight all I can do is send you a (((hug))). You always have a friendly ear in this place.

scottishminnie

Ladies, thank you so much. I really appreciate your hugs and kind words.

hoglet121

SM - thank goodness there are people like you in this world. Hugs.