Preparedness for when

thriftwizard

Going offline for a few days, to do the Festival. 5 days of very-basic living coming up - there's no room for creature comforts with all my stock on board too! But at least the house looks a bit less cluttered now.

D&DD

Morning all been stupid busy as the garden has kaboomed this year! just wanted to pass this on
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152307840235787&set=a.133613810786.107560.7519460786&type=1&theater and yes I am applying lolol XX

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

GQ (crossly, probably brandishing a broom) Get off my bliddy doorstep, stop whingeing, think for yourself and don't be such a wet hen!

Interspersed with the villagers responses, quoting the phrases.
"She says, thing for yourself."
"Stop whingeing"
"Be a wet hen"

Righty, going to get brekky and ease into the holiday and then back to the allotment. Still limping from the golf-ball go-around, 2 treatments down and 12 left. Damn well better work!

After 2 weeks, you'll be so relieved to stop that it will feel far better than it did, and when it doesn't you'll remember the [STRIKE]punishment[/STRIKE]treatment and convince yourself its not that bad - medicine based on Headology, nearly as effective as placebos.

Frugalsod

Well I have the download plans for the canoe and so I am looking them over to see how to construct the canoe. It takes up a lot of space to construct. I think I will spend some time looking them over to see what tools I need and materials to get before I start building. Though I will look at the costs to see how much I will save over buying one. That always helps motivation.

nuatha

Frugalsod wrote: »

Well I have the download plans for the canoe and so I am looking them over to see how to construct the canoe. It takes up a lot of space to construct. I think I will spend some time looking them over to see what tools I need and materials to get before I start building. Though I will look at the costs to see how much I will save over buying one. That always helps motivation.

They also take up a huge amount of storage space and transportation can be a pain. May I suggest looking at foldaway systems like the Delphin, which could be transported in three 4.5Kg bags. you may wish to incorporate inflatable buoyancy chambers as well.
HTH

GreyQueen

The really nice part is the ice pack. GP said frozen peas, but I haven't any of those so am using frozen broad beans instead. And have sourced a golf-ball from Mum. Why Mum had a golf-ball to lend to me, I don't know. Nobody in the family plays and we don't have a dog to fetch one from the park. The only pets are the cats and they tend to fetch home things with feathers.

I quipped to the GP that they wouldn't be having me in the infantry any time soon. There's always a plus side, if you but look for it. But seriously, I do need to get this niggling foot problem resolved as I like walking and it's preptastic to be able to hike your way out of a situation.

If anyone knows a masochist searching for a new thrill, tell them standing with all your weight on a golf ball under your heel qualifies as excruciatingly painful without scarring. Sadly, I'm not wired to get my jollies like that and just end up muttering oaths and grimacing until my 10 minutes is up. GP did tell me that it would be very painful, which was nice of him, as the medical profession usually trades heavily in euphemisms like 'discomfort'.

It isn't uncomfortable, it's!?%*&$! agonising.:rotfl:

ivyleaf

Ouch GQ, I do hope the golf ball treatment helps I suspect nuatha may be right though...

ivyleaf

But in this case I hope he's not!

nuatha

ivyleaf wrote: »

But in this case I hope he's not!

So do I.

As to why GQ's Mum would have the necessary golf ball, its called foresightedness (aka prepping) - though I've also heard it referred to as hoarding in some less friendly circles. (says he who definitely doesn't have a golf ball, there are several table tennis balls around, they were supposedly cat toys - the noise a table tennis ball makes being chased in a bath at three am is unbelievable and three cats chasing them up and down stairs at similar times brings complaints from the cemetery. (Though I regularly dispose of these things, they seem to breed).

RAS

GQ

If the golf ball is too much try a tennis ball. I have several (appropriated from the park and washed).

Two tied in an old sock with a knot between, placed so one is either side of the sacrum is great for back ache.

One can be manouvred under various overly tense mucles and used to apply "deep massage" without any other input. Particularly good when your gluts are tight but also for knotty shoulders.