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Hugs WCS, sorry you are also feeling low because of potential problems, just remember we're always here even if all you do is say it to us and not to folks in RL. We've all been through the mill a bit at some point in our lives and do understand just how unsettling these things can be. Hope so very much that none of the potential to go wrong happens and that you are soon feeling more level and positive. Thinking of you pet, Cheers Lyn xxx.

westcoastscot

Thanks Mrs L, I think i'm sulking by and large :rotfl: It's been one thing after the other most of my adult life really, and before that to be honest, and i've been an eternal optimist but i'm finding it difficult at the minute to keep a sense of proportion. I'm just wondering how much harder life can get - i'm sure i'll bounce back soon though, I always do!!!!!
Never thought i'd still have to be hacking at it in my 50's though!!!! Thank heavens we don't know what's in front of us eh???

shegar

mardatha wrote: »

Spring has sprung here and my snowdrops have poked their wee noses above ground. Am going out to play in the garden later, hopefully it will shake off my dark mood. I've got 3 (grownup) children and each one of them has come to us recently with huge problems, and although I know the Universe works in strange ways and all things are meant, I feel very down. Outside under a blue sky with birds cheeping surely that will lift

Good on you girl, thats where I head off to very often when I have things on my mind, you just cant beat a bit of fresh air and like you say its to beautiful to hear bird song.......

I think most of us have some sort of family problems going on, and you will always be a mother, and try and deal with everything thats thrown at us, we somehow seem to get through........:)

At 7 this morning the sun started to come up, although we did have a real white frost , but within half hour the fog come down:mad: and made it feel it very chilly outside,and as remained that way all day, so I gave up outside and come in and done some jobs, lit the fire about hour ago to help cheer the place up..............Well we are only Feb, still time for really cold weather snow etc for month or as yet...........................
I had some blood tests done last week , one thing I do have is low Vit D, so the hospital sent my tabs to me, as apparently they cant come from my GP
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And 4 weeks time I have to go to the hospital to see a dr to do with sleep apnoa, so here we go again another illness/ or whatever is called to add to my growing list..........
Got chicken pie and chips for tea tonight and im looking forward to it....Sheila

Rainy-Days

It seems like agro is only just around the corner for everybody these days!! Yesterday I read in the newspapers online about the situation this country is facing with regard to the flood of Romanian and Bulgarian's who will qualify to come here in January 2014. There are estimates that about 4 million could be making their way to the UK once this happens!!

I seriously have grave worries for this country - I really do. It seems no one has the balls to stand up and be counted any more for fear of someone pointing the finger at them and being branded a racist. It is not racist to make these comments, it is part of this country's stablility and the once stable and tollerant British public are being put upon once again. The influx seem to think that they will have access to the NHS, dentists, GP's, all the benefits, child support, housing and goodness knows what else!! Where are 4 million people going to live in this tiny island of ours? I utterly dispair I really do!! Germany have major problems already and this is only a foretatste to come.

Last week I went to my GP. I had noticed that I had started to get varicose veins on my right leg. My late mum had them and she had hers removed! I asked my GP for a referral and he said sorry no the NHS no longer will undertake this procedure as it classed as cosmetic now. If you want it you will have to go private. So I said how much is that going to cost then? He told me about £2,000.00!! I couldn't believe it. The last 28 years I have spent working and paying into the NHS and the only one time I need to have treatment and I have to pay for it myself. I am so flippng mad I cannot tell you.

fuddle

I'm worried about coping with older children's problems. At the moment my children's problems are my problems. I fix, I control. Those are hard enough to muddle on with, add grown up children with my grandchildren. Oh crikey.

Shepherds pie and yorkshires and broccoli for tea. Monnagran what could I do with belly pork?

Lyn do you know how you say everything is falling into place? Well I won't over to my new friends house on Friday night (the one who I am givin her daughter a lift to school as car is broke) and over a bottle of ros! we spoke about our pasts. She is also a bankrupted person. To be able to talk about that side of my life with someone who knows what it feels like is unbelievable. We're meeting at the park tomorrow. Fink I found myself a friend

Where I used to live have had letters home from all the schools warning parents of attempted child abductions. I'm upset and angry, if not pleased (selfishly) to be away from there. Still, can happen anywhere and sharpened my antenna.

Old ll has put the house back on the rental market. He's charging £100 per month extra. I just hope he's fixed that penetrating damp. If not, I wish for him to rent out his house to the strongest family possible who will take no nonsense.

Have a lovely evening all

Popperwell

The sun has been out all day here and the temp indoors increased by another couple of degrees on yesterdays and yet it feels colder so the CH may be used this evening or the electric blanket;)

Totally different to the last 24 hours...

westcoastscot

sounds like we're all facing challenges at the minute - I always used to say "so long as I have my health i'll be fine" - and I always was! I'm still coming to terms with long-term illness which is proving more aggressive than first thought (or hoped), although two of my children have life-long illness so i'm no stranger to it, and it is having a huge impact on my resilience.

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Hey FUDDLE - told you so!!!!!!!! That is incredible, and such good news it is so liberating to share with someone who actually knows how the same experience feels, I am so pleased you have found a friend who can empathise through experience, bloomin brilliant girlie, bloomin brilliant!!! I wouldn't worry too much about grown up kiddlers and things that might happen, with you as a mum setting them such a strong example they'll be able feisty little blighters and more than up to the challenges life throws at them, they'll be fine!!!

WCS you're doing all you can, no one, not even you can expect you to do more than that, you're still working away and battling life as it comes that is something to be so proud of. You're looking after the family too, striving to do the best for them and doing a grand job of it, I say hats off to the likes of you, strong characters who refuse to be ground down by it all, it's allowed to have the odd down day after all, despite appearances to the contrary you are only human and a very good one too!!! You'll do pet, oh yes, you'll do!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

westcoastscot

Mrs L thankyou - you made me smile for the first time in a few days I'm back at work tomorrow and that always reminds me that my blessings are many, compared to a lot of people these days.

GreyQueen

Prudence wrote: »

Er...sorry to butt in on Spring, but have just found a pm from Nursie. She has heard the rumours GQ, that you've endeavoured to put a stop to her plans and is so seriously...er..miffed.. that she says she is coming anyway.

I think she is travelling via Bali, and would you believe, coming in the guise of a nurse because that is the quickest way of getting into Australia!

What should I do? The thought of her getting involved with Bloco do Norte's samba drumming is troubling enough, but as they sometimes perform in the park near the surf lifesaving club, with hot blood pulsing through her veins is it likely she will turn her attentions onto the surf lifesavers?

Can someone volunteer to come as a chaperone? I have a spare bed.

:eek: OMG, Prudence, she's got away?! I'm calling Interpol immediately, they've got to stop this before it gets any further, there's no telling what she might do to the lifesavers, she's a woman of tempestous passions, it just doesn't bear thinking about. *shudders*

I'd travel immediately to rescue you but I start to fry in temps above 30 (redhead) so couldn't possibly endure Western Australia at the moment. Plus me and ants don't get along too well indoors....and you have a dangerous chicken, I believe?

I went to Mr T just before closing time and came away with 16 wholemeal bread rolls for 40p. Yippee, that's some for the freezer and this week's pack-ups for work sorted.

Gotta go and incinerate a FB pie. Heard no mention of horsiness in FB pies, thank goodness. It's nice to know that in this world there are some things you can still count on. And stackable tinned pies are my siege food of choice.

Have a good evening, (or a good morning, if you're Prudence and Softstuff). Laters, GQ xx