make do and mend for tougher times

savingqueen

Kidcat, Possession & SDG & anyone else I've forgotten - hope you all feel better soon.

Kidcat - what a day you've had!! Hope you have a calmer day tomorrow. Sorry about your cat, must be very difficult for you. Our cats are getting on a bit and so I can understand what you are saying including the responsibility bit.

Jem - hope you get an appointment soon. You really need to be a pain in the butt sometimes with medical appointments.

I was once fobbed off by an out of hours doc years ago. He misdiagnosed a DVT (in my upper arm so highly dangerous as near lots of organs) as a "bruise". Fortunately even in my very tired and unwell state I knew something was seriously wrong and pushed for an emergency appointment next day with my own GP who sent me straight up to the hospital where I stayed for 8 days. Since then I've had a couple of scares with similar but milder symptoms and I've taken myself straight off to A&E - both times there was no DVT or anything else they could find but I didn't feel I was wasting their time. I will NEVER be fobbed off again by a medic.

I'm not saying this to worry you further, probably nothing at all anyway but to point out that there are other options to get appointments. We Brits are good at queuing and waiting our turn and can sometimes be too patient and polite for our own good! Hugs to you...

Pooky - glad that all ended well for both DD and her boyfriend. Good job DD2 has a decent fella.

better get some sleep
night night everyone
sq:)

ginnyknit

monnagran, I howled with laughter at the gerbil discussion - sounds like me tbh :rotfl:

kidcat, my moggy went like that after our other cat died. He tried sleeping on a door handle - seemed shocked when it failed. Then one day I walked through the kitchen and did a double take - he was sat on a dinner plate. He gets terribly miffed at our spare cat ( a stray who wanders in and out when he feels like it) especially if he tries to sleep in a box that was clearly put in the living room for him despite it being full of cricket trophies then happily shares Oh's bed with the spare cat and OH - not much room in a single for 2 large toms and a fella Tonight strangely enough we found him licking the road when we went to take DGS for his drive up and down the motorway - the cat not OH. Most of the time he is fine, if a little clingy and otherwise is in excellent health for 16 years old.

SQ families are tough arent they, you have to do whats best for you and yours and I think its very good that you let them keep contact with your children.

kidcat

Ginny - what is the licking the road thing about? He darts out to lick the road at the moment. Earlier he sat in the dog bowl which wouldnt have been so bad except it was the water bowl and it was rather full! He didnt really seem to notice though.

Having major panic - OH cannot find box of photos in loft, beginning to wonder if it got left in move

Forgot to say earlier that Home Bargain was also selling tins of toms 4 for £1 too.

ginnyknit

I think you and I just have 'special' cats kidcat, either that or they are deficient in a vitamin found only in tarmac - its damn scary though as our road is like a race track.

As for your lost photo's you need to have a Hercule Poirot moment like we do, sit down with a cuppa and think back to the last time you had the pictures in front of you and where it was. usually works for us here, God knows we have to do it often enough what with OH's med's brain fog and my menopausal memory loss. It goes back a long time though - Oh once left our premmie son in his pram outside the papershop and walked past the front window reading the paper and I watched him and wondered how he was pushing the pram - he walked straight past the house and ran through the back entry to rescue the boy :rotfl:

fuddle

mama67 wrote: »

Fuddle I'm a dinner lady on contract so get an annual salary divided by 12 months regardless of if its school holidays or not.

I pay 5.5% of my gross into our Council pension scheme.

hth

thank you, it does help.

Thank you Lyn for renewing my knowledge of mobile phones/facebook/internet chat grooming techniques. I think it's time for a safety and what is right and wrong talk with DD. All this Jimmy Saville talk of the girls thinking he was great and showered them with gifts and attention makes my skin crawl... manipulation, that's all it is - keeping people sweet to get what you want. yak!

My landlord is coming today to check on the house. I'm nervous as DH won't be in (fishing).

So my morning will be spent making sure this place is in tip-top condition... I need a reference!

We had a treat last night. We had sirloin steak, peppercorn sauce and chips. Oh, it was lovely! Back to the veggies today. Vegie lasagne. Just 1 more week and DH is paid... normal meat buying can ensue

katieowl_2

I have brain fog much to the amusement of the family. I keep using the wrong words.

Last week I told one of the dogs to get off the table (naughty girl) because the 'gravy boat had left the station' even nonplussed myself a bit with that one, cos' I knew boats didn't leave stations - OH thought it was hilarious.

Then I told DD l liked one of the songs on X factor and that she should learn it*..."You know the 'rocky road' one" she was a bit confused then I expanded "God Bless the rocky road that lead me straight to you" Apparently it's a broken road, not a rocky one hardly surprised though as I make it at least once a week, and it's probably the sort of road I think about most

It's all terribly worrying, especially as I keep telling the kids OH is loosing the plot...maybe it's me not him?

Kate

*she plays guitar and sings

born_blonde

DD &D I think it might have been me with the pressure cooker.
Thanks for the link.
All I've cooked so far is French Onion soup, seemed to work OK though.
Time to experiment!

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Bless you SQ you don't need to appologise to us for anything. Lots of folks on here have less than perfect lives and relationships with family members, it's a place you can say what you feel and know we'll understand. I wonder if you and a couple of friends might find a 'Coffee Morning' easier to do if you co-hosted in one home. I have a friend who is the most community minded person I've ever come across and she gives Coffee Mornings and open garden events for any charity/association that asks but, she never ever does it on her own. She ropes in anyone who is willing and they all make eatables and bring them and help serving coffees and cakes, wash up and generally help out with the people who come. Said friend is in her 80s and has evolved this as a working system over the years. You wouldn't then have to be solely responsible but would have lots of back up and it's a good way to really get to know people very easily.

FUDDLE - I hope my mobile phone post didn't come over as scary, I just wanted to raise an awareness of potential problems that I certainly didn't think of when my youngest got her first mobile, I only thought of it as a safeguard if she had problems so she could tell us and we'd sort it out. I became aware that there is a downside too and it's something to consider on the against scale.

I have loaded up my new dehydrator with a big picking of cherry tomatoes this morning and I'm hoping to get them to sunblush stage and then bottle them in olive oil to keep in the fridge to use over the next few months. When they are finished I'll tackle the rest of the apples we picked and dry those too, it's humming away to itself on the kitchen surface and sounds happy! It's called Morty (it's an excalibur, so think Mort d'Arthur!!!!!) I hope GQ approves of that as a name!

Have a good one folks and enjoy the sunshine if you're lucky enough to have some, Cheers Lyn x.

2tonsils

I am having a few problems with the MSE site...I noticed yesterday that it keeps changing my subscribed to thread list, sometimes they are there and sometimes they are not. Today I noticed that some of my posts disappear after they have been on for a while on the threads. Never mind, it might be what they were trying to fix when the site was down.

Feel a lot better today and I am only on the third day of the cough virus, so clearly on the mend already. OH is still weak from it and coughing all night. I put up with it till 2 am then came downstairs to sleep as I can't hear him coughing from there.....

At 3am I heard a strange noise outside the open kitchen window...it was a tiny Scop's owl that had set up outside to hoot all night..they are only about six inches tall and gorgeous! I shone my torch on it and it just stood there blinking and staring at me lol......then it moved up to the roof where it didn't sound so loud LOL

Got lots of things done this morning, doing fifteen minutes at a time so that it doesn't take away all my energy. Have the washer going, other washing on the line, have cleaned up and aired the house and now thinking about lunch (prawn salad with strawberries to follow). Lamb chops later as I bought one pack and got one free! Lovely with some new potatoes, veggies and mint sauce.

Very hot out today again, 32 in the shade, its amazing for this time of year! Long may it last for us... unfortunately its stopping me getting a wood stockpile for the fire in the winter as no one has started cutting the olive trees yet...apparently its too hot to do it at the moment LOL

Might just make some gluten free buns and crumpets for the freezer later.

Have a great Sunday folksxxxx

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Wow 2TONSILS that's magic, they are beautiful little creatures aren't they. We had a holiday in France years ago and had a Little Owl with two half grown chicks nesting in the grounds of the farmhouse we stayed in. She was feeding them tiny green lizards and grasshoppers and was totally fearless, didn't flap a feather at us walking past, that was a lovely experience too. Hope you can shift the virus very quickly and that your OH is feeling much better soon, Cheers Lyn x.