Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

craigywv wrote: »

great news gq im sure your delighted xxx

Thank you, my lovely, my family are very pleased, but also nervous. Nan will be a lot different to how she was pre-stroke, in terms of physical abilities and carers and zimmer frames will be involved, but we shall just have to do our best.

Nan doesn't do whingeing, she's a quiet and contained but loving woman, but it will be so good for her to be back at home with her own possessions around her and to be able to have peace and quiet in her own bedroom. She struggles to sleep on the ward plus the nearest patient is a nasty piece who has caused a lot of upset. I hope that lady wasn't like that pre-stroke or her family are to be pitied, but we'll be glad never to see her again.

Very pleased as part of what I did last Sunday was to thoroughly dust and vac thru Nan's bungalow, and we've all been working on the garden. Nan is very keen to partake of her broad beans, bless her.

craigywv

great shes getting home. my dads a stroke victim this 8 years now wheel chair bound and NOTHING stops him hes more active than me. it takes a while to adjust then its the norm. was it yourself that said you had a glut of blackcurrants this year I am at present making my 2 nd batch of Ribena its going through the jelly bag as I type. this batch is getting frozen for later in the year maybe Christmas day as I love it in fizzy lemonade.still got masses left for jam. happy days all round xxx

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

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Breaking news, Nan's coming out of hospital tomorrow and back home. 5 weeks to the day since her stroke. We're thrilled.

Excellent news.

thriftwizard

Pleased for your Nan & all your family, GQ. Sounds like she will soon be full of beans, in more ways than one...

And I'm full of currants, and berries and cherries! Yum.

Interesting link, jk0. Powerful article, certainly strikes a chord with me.

daz378

Great news GQ .... my dad had a bad turn last week..... was heat related carrying too much shopping at 81.... was a better the next day.... it was great to see how the family mobilised to help him though

sorryImoved

Scary news from a big news station here.
Meat, poultry and fish have increased an average of eight percent over last year. Fish prices are up 4.2 percent since last spring while ground beef is up 11 percent and pork is up 9.4 percent. Eggs costs were up 25 percent in early 2014.
The rise in cost is due in large part to a drought in California, a swine virus and weak cattle numbers. The drought has wiped out 10-20 percent of the vegetable crop.

Frugalsod

thriftwizard wrote: »

Pleased for your Nan & all your family, GQ. Sounds like she will soon be full of beans, in more ways than one...

Do not feed her too many baked beans as you will have to create an exclusion zone around her for a few hours.

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GQ wonderful news, hope Gran can adjust to her new circumstances and live as full and happy a life as she did pre stroke, Lyn xxx.

thriftwizard

sorryImoved wrote: »

Scary news from a big news station here.
Meat, poultry and fish have increased an average of eight percent over last year. Fish prices are up 4.2 percent since last spring while ground beef is up 11 percent and pork is up 9.4 percent. Eggs costs were up 25 percent in early 2014.
The rise in cost is due in large part to a drought in California, a swine virus and weak cattle numbers. The drought has wiped out 10-20 percent of the vegetable crop.

Very interesting "big picture" stuff, thank you, sorryImoved. Clearly the Ministry of Newspeak haven't got to that station yet; I've been totally bemused by our news coverage insisting that the cost of living is always getting cheaper - except for everything I (and everyone else I know) actually need to buy! Some items of which have virtually doubled in price in a matter of weeks...

I've been thinking hard about DS2's impending move back home. It says something that a young couple who both have decent, if not well-paid, jobs, work hard & don't spend a lot in entertainment, simply can't afford to live independently. They want to save up so that they aren't always having to move every 6 months, and don't have to live with restrictions like not changing the (horrible) curtains. Yet all they can afford around here is the very bottom end; £800+ a month will get you a tiny flat with no security of tenure, no parking, no garden, no proper bathroom, and full council tax & bills to pay on top of that. It's just do-able but with no leeway at all for saving or one of you being unable to work for a while, and TDiL's spine is kept in place by internal scaffolding. Her spirit is indomitable, but her flesh is a bit more vulnerable.

We can't all be captains of industry & earn a fortune. DS2 shot himself in the foot somewhat by dropping out of school mid-6th form, wanting to join the Marines. Sadly he has a slightly dicky knee which let him down at the last hurdle (better then than in the middle of a battle) so he has 12 good GCSEs but no A levels. He doesn't want to clobber himself with £27K+ debt to get a degree to earn maybe a little more than he's getting now - his elder brother has a 2:1 and earns no more than he does, working in a shop whilst pursuing his "real" career in the evenings & at night, with student debt always hanging over his head - but where is the way forward, for their generation? Property has become so unaffordable for them, even renting is almost out of the question.

Can't help thinking that this is a massive problem that isn't really being addressed, we're all so keen to see a "recovery" driven by rising property prices...

GreyQueen

Very well said, thriftwizard.

It's hard enough to make your way in middle-age, but you hopefully have racked up a variety of saleable skills and contacts which may make you more attractive to an employer than a youngster who hasn't had the chance to prove themselves yet. Until you hit the wall of being considered 'too old', of course.

I have a sense of disconnection from reality when I read/ listen to the MSM and when I interact with this thing called real life. Orwell would be spinning in his grave - he saw it all coming, didn't he?

I encounter plenty of twenty or even forty-somethings who are only surviving because of subsidy from their parents or even grandparents. My auntie and uncle loaned their son and dil the deposit to get a home several years ago. They couldn't afford to buy anything in Big Market Town, where they both work for 20+ years, not could they afford to rent. So they bought in Little Market Town, about 30 mins' drive away. Their workdays don't segue (he's on shifts) so they run two little cars because there's no viable public transport.

Trouble is, Big Market Town is such a thriving place (you'd recognise its name if I'd post it) that it's a very popular place to live, and its pull distorts the values of homes for two dozen miles in either direction. It also has a lot of retail, factories and warehousing which only pay minimum wage or not much above.

I guess the ideal employee is one who could be sent to stand in a cupboard when not needed, like a robot, not a pesky organic creature with needs, wants, family etc etc.:mad: