Preparedness for when

maryb

I'm completely lost and feeling a bit battered tbh

Night all

Nargleblast

Group hug, anyone? Or whatever the Internet version is?

moneyistooshorttomention

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

I'm confused, you thanked my last post does that mean you think I'm a troll:(
I usually thank posts once I've read them so I know where I am on a thread but I've not thanked many on here as I've not been keeping up properly with what going on and it feels like some ae criticising other posters so I've not thanks as many as usual as I don't want to look like I'm agreeing with any criticism --I'm even more confused now:(

Have I upset anyone?

No.

Not from where I'm standing. I dont think you've upset anyone. You've certainly not upset me:) and I'm sure you've not upset jko either. He only does genuine thanking - ie when he agrees with what someone has said iyswim. So, if he's thanked you = its a genuine thanks because he agreed with you.

milasavesmoney

:T Ever the wise discerning one, Bob. You nailed it once again!

jk0

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

I'm confused, you thanked my last post does that mean you think I'm a troll:(
I usually thank posts once I've read them so I know where I am on a thread but I've not thanked many on here as I've not been keeping up properly with what going on and it feels like some ae criticising other posters so I've not thanks as many as usual as I don't want to look like I'm agreeing with any criticism --I'm even more confused now:(

Have I upset anyone?

No, not you Mrs MP. I was talking about this post:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=70952348&postcount=41266

CBrown thanked me, and removed the thanks after I revealed that I thought it sarcastic.

ivyleaf

News (good news, to my mind) being sneaked out under cover of Chilcot - the Telegraph carries a piece about the NHS care.data scheme which is quietly being scrapped.

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I owe GQ a big apology, I flew at her in a pm and I'm way out of order for doing so. It's been an emotional few days and I'm really sorry GQ.

This has nothing to do with prepping either but it needs saying

:iloveyou: Nothing to forgive, hun, nothing to forgive. I've PM'd you in the last few minutes, bless your heart.

This week my family have run into a logistical difficulty regarding drivers, cars, lenghty drives to take Nan for radiotherapy every day.

The family car is a manual. If I'm visiting, there were always three insured drivers; Dad, Mum and me. Then Mum developed Parkinson's and isn't well enough to drive, so then there were two drivers. Except I live an hour away, have a job, and all the driving falls on my Dad, because I can't get the time off work. Which is 130 miles round trip each day, no small thing when you're in your mid-seventies.

Brother can drive but has some disabilites which meant he couldn't learn to drive a manual, so is only qualified on an automatic. He has a small, nearly 20-year old automatic car. It's far too poorly to handle this kind of mileage, so the bigger, much newer manual car is chewing up the highways across three counties.

I had suggested years ago that Mum and Dad consider changing the family car to an auto to improve exactly this kind of resilience, but Dad didn't want to do it then. I wonder if he'll revist this decision now?

I'm not fussed as regularly drive both manual and auto cars. I nearly stole a auto once. OK, it was a brand-new automatic transit van, hire vehicle, less than 100 miles on the clock. Very very covetable.

Do you know they easily do a ton? (translation for mila - this is old-fashioned slang for doing 100 mph in a country where the national speed limit is 70 mph on the motorways and dual carriageways, 60 mph elsewhere unless otherwise specified).

Vroom, vroom!

ivyleaf

Oh dear GQ, and your poor DNan Were they able to save her leg? (I quite understand if you don't feel comfortable posting about that, but I was just thinking I'm probably not the only one who's been wondering how she is.)

nuatha

pollyanna_26 wrote: »

Hoping Nuatha and family are ok

Thank you for the good wishes.
Having been told my thoughts and opinions are not welcome on the thread, I've been re-considering how I spend my time.
Frankly the fallout from the referendum has caused me substantial financial issues in that businesses are panicking and cancelling planned investments and developments.
Therefore I've decided to put my time and energy to better use, at least for the time being.

Maryb my apologies, I thought there was general agreement about moving to a new thread, there had been prior discussions about such as well as that particular discussion and several people had commented favourably about the title. I believe I'm the one who reminded you about both the idea and the title you'd proposed - and I did so, at least in part, hoping it might help resolve some of the acrimony that was evident both in the run up to the referendum and following the result.
It seems that was another forlorn hope, since it seems to be the cause of more acrimony.

I don't know when or if I will wander this way again, all I know is it no longer feels like home. There's people here that I'll miss and will always wish well.

GreyQueen

ivyleaf wrote: »

Oh dear GQ, and your poor DNan Were they able to save her leg? (I quite understand if you don't feel comfortable posting about that, but I was just thinking I'm probably not the only one who's been wondering how she is.)

She's been seen by the biggest of the big cheeses in oncology (he has a Chair at a famous university, apparently) and is a lovely bloke.

There's no more talk of amputation, I think they realise that she's so frail the surgery would probably kill her, the family think the same. There is this course of radiotherapy, and the option of another course, to try to slow the cancer down. They're playing for time. She's in her nineties and it may slow it down enough for her to live with a tolerable quality of life for however long she has left. Beggar's invasive and won't lie quietly without intervention, dammit.:mad:

Sometimes, in this life, there aren't any good choices left, only bad and worse. It is how it is, she's facing it all with her usual stoical calm and comforted by her faith. Never one word of self-pity or compaint (all marbles very much intact, too, so it's not like she doesn't know the odds).

I will take her calmness as an example in my old age, I think. Wasn't it Doris Day who said that old age is no place for sissies?