'supporting each other through really tough times'

maryb

Hi all, I'm a bit behind today so whizzing through to catch up so this might seem a bit random as I think the thread has moved on. But I must share this COS IT WORKS!!!!

I swell up in tennis ball sized lumps when I am bitten by itchy bitey stingy things. But there is a homeopathic remedy called Ledum which stops it itching. I don't know if it is just the placebo effect, all I know is it makes an enormous difference. I didn't notice the bites healing any quicker and they still oozed for a couple of days but I could live with that. Just tiny little pills that you dissolve on your tongue.

I always tended to be sceptical about homeopathy but this works and so does Arnica. Arnica in a cream makes a noticeable difference. I remember a friend putting some on a bruise and missing a bit. Next day, you could see a bruise where she hadn't put cream on and it had a straight edge - the bit where she had rubbed cream in hadn't gone technicolour. Bit like when you put suncream on and then put your suncreamy hand on your thigh and get a lovely hand shaped mark - yes, I have done that!

Nargleblast

Fuddle - honey starts to solidify in cold temperatures, and gently heating it will liquefy it again, as others have said.

CRANKY40

Evening all. I have made the decision today to get Faulty Towers (our house) valued next week and probably I will put it on the market too. There are two rooms left to be done (out of a lot) but my heart isn't in it and also it's too big to look after the upkeep all on my own.

At 3 1/2 years into being widowed, I feel it's finally time to let go and downsize. As I said to my small son it would be nice to have bedrooms next to each other instead of on different floors.

Keep your fingers crossed for me that we find someone to buy it so that the boy and I can move on and find somewhere I am capable of looking after.

Take care all of you

GreyQueen

Pooky wrote: »

Finished my table today....pics in the usual place. What do you think.....new lease of life to a tired table.

:T That's a very nice makeover. I do like those barley-twist tables. They're attractive and inexpensive for what they are.

Well, this aft didn't work out according to plan. I'd emailed my Computer Wizard first thing about the funny noise the pooter was making and it could easily take a fair while for him to get back to me (he works abroad as well as in the UK) but he called just before I was heading out and was able to pop over in a few mins.

My CPU fan is starting to fail and that never has a happy ending so he's gonna bung me a new one in Monday after work. £8 for the part and a drink for his time. Top bloke. We discussed the fate for this elderly desktop as it's using XP and that's not being supported past the end of this year. With a secondhand Thoroughbred chip off Fleabay and shedloads more RAM, she can be pimped enough to be upgraded to Windows 7, but only just.

No rush to decide it's fate but I will prolly look at getting another one this time last year and see if the Wiz wants to cannibalise this one for spares. Seems only fair, the amount of work he's done for me over a decade for pennies.

I like the Wiz a lot but he's so much clever than I am that my brain hurts after talking to him..............:rotfl:I'm exhausted.

Oh, and he reckons that Windows 8 is a bit of buggy carp at the moment, so give that a bodyswerve. Mind you, the Wiz prefers Linux for his own pooters. I now know that Linux has a "kernel" which is a little bit more than I knew when I fell outta bed this morning.

Urghh, gonna have a little pootle on line then mebbe read a book. Shan't be late to bed tonight, fer sure.

kidcat

Cranky - I hope all goes well, I would imagine your running costs would also decrease by a lot freeing up more cash too

VJsmum

Pooky - lovely table, you are so clever.
GQ - were you speaking English? :rotfl:
Cranky - a major decision and a literal and metaphorical "moving on"

The teenagers have gone <<phew>>, thank goodness I am prepared as I was able to give them a good lunch out of stores and whoopsies, basics pasta with YS tomato sauce (reduced to 19p, couldn't resist and as has been demonstrated, blimmin handy to have in the freezer), and BOGOF cheese. Four of them fed for under a quid in total - can't be bad. I made flapjacks but they have to be eaten with a spoon :rotfl::o

I am looking around my lounge now, where they were camped out, and can see a double quilt, a caravan mattress, an empty pringles tube, numerous cups and plates, DVDs separated from their cases, "SIngstar" microphones (playstation game), and - most worrying of all - DD's bra:eek: I would be more worried, but the only boy who was here is quite clearly gay!

Lecture written for Monday AM as well as a "S0d it, that'll do" one for Monday PM, so I am sat here wondering what to do with my evening as there is burger all on the telly and I can't be ars|$ed to do the ironing. I have knitting to finish, but I am in the "pick up and knit 165 stitches around the edge" bit, which is always a faff.

ho hum,

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Good luck CRANKY, find you and the house elf a lovely cosy little home that won't take so much looking after, and nest!!!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

sevenup01

Good luck with the house search cranky.
My local charity shops are terrible pricewise. As someone else said they charge more than new prices even for primarl or supermarket stuff.
I have set the new bunk beds up so son and little brother happy. I have also started decorating for eldest daughter so she is happy.
I could quiet happily crawl into bed though!

Vjsmum i love knitting but having to pick up and knit is horrible. I do find it easier with a circular needle though with a large number of stitches. I also use my earrings as stitch markers every fifty stitches which makes keeping track of how many i have a lot easier.

GreyQueen

VJsMum, it went like this:

GQ ushers the Wiz into her parlour, gets the kettle on, catches up on his news.

We move on to the pooter and I say that it's making a funny noise when it starts up, I think it's the fan.

Wiz; Which fan?

GQ; (blank look) You mean there's more than one?!

Aparently so. This is the little 6 cm square fan which is attached to the heat sink (not to be confused with the kitchen sink lol) which cools the Central Processing Unit which cools the motherboard, and which if doesn't work causes your chips to fry.

Prolly in sunflower oil.

Honestly, life was more straightforward when I believed there were harnessed hamsters running on wheels inside there. I now know what a capacitor on it's way out looks like (the Wiz is presuming I will recognise a capacitor although he did point them out once before on a previous visit).

Your capacitors should have flat tops, darlings. If they have tops going domed, you are in an unhappy place. If they are domed and oozing a bit of brown stuff where the marks on the top make a cross, it's about to be bang-bang time (and stop sniggering in the back, you grubby-minded crew).

My motherboard is apparently in lovely nick. And it's Correct Form to turn off the PC should you smell burning or see yer actual smoke coming out the back. Going into a flat spin at that point is purely optional.:rotfl:

meanmarie

Evening all,

Thought that it was about 6pm until I looked at clock....losing it I think.

DD2 and girls gone back to London on 4.30 flight, they should be home by now but haven't heard yet.

Fine snow here all afternoon, has stopped but is now freezing...planning on going swimming in morning, may not happen if roads are icy. Need to get into routine with swimming as back is now acting up which is making my life a bit uncomfortable, maybe I should have stayed on anti-inflamatories, hate having medication so will see how things go.

Using oil very sparingly as need to get to this time next year with one more fill.

Cranky...good decision, smaller has to be better for both of you...good luck with sale.

Hester....hopefully the little one will be treated quickly and successfully.

Take care all, stay safe and warm.

Marie