'supporting each other through really tough times'

silvasava

SoftstuffIf your hospitals are anything like ours they don't plaster toes or fingers - they just tape the injured one round the next good one for a couple or 3 weeks to keep it straight & knit back together! (and you don't get a shot of whisky!!)

Softstuff

It's evening here MrsLw.... otherwise I might have gone round to my GP to get him to tape it instead!

silvasava wrote: »

SoftstuffIf your hospitals are anything like ours they don't plaster toes or fingers - they just tape the injured one round the next good one for a couple or 3 weeks to keep it straight & knit back together! (and you don't get a shot of whisky!!)

Yup. Except here the local is a private hospital and we have $500 excess on our private insurance! I've broken toes previously (a few times in fact) and after the first hospital visit and taping I've not been back. Strikes me as a waste of both our times.

Peanut2013

Hi softstuff just spotted your in oz, which part? I love Australia. Travelled around the east coast a few years ago, amazing country!

Got a full night sleep last night as OH took the night feed (LO went 7-2 and 2-8.30!) so feeling pretty good today! Sun is also shining so going to meet a friend for lunch / a nice walk around the local park

Also picking up a baby bouncer off a friend who no longer wants it. Can't wait to see what LO thinks of it. He loves being up on his feet so hopefully this will help

LO currently having a nap so I'm enjoying putting my feet up with a drink and a biscuit. Housework should be done but.... Naaah!

Happy Friday all!

Softstuff

Peanut2013 wrote: »

Hi softstuff just spotted your in oz, which part? I love Australia. Travelled around the east coast a few years ago, amazing country!

Hehe, East coast! Sunshine coast to be exact.

Sooo.... the taping made it hurt more, so that came off and the peas went on. I feel worse though to be honest about the idea of explaining to my boss at the charity shop and to my physio that I've got yet another thing wrong.

Peanut2013

You lucky sod! I did Melbourne, Sydney then drove to Byron, then onto surfers and finally up to Brisbane

Peanut2013

Question for people, just had our water bill through for the last 6 months. It's £157 for 6 months usage. Is this good / bad? Lol

As we pay direct debit monthly I'm £72 in credit! Happy days

BitterAndTwisted

That sounds quite low to me. My water isn't metered and I pay £8 a week, so just over £200 for six months usage.

silvasava

Peanut I'm sure your LO is going to love his Baby Bouncer - they were a new 'thing' when my DS's were babies - my oldest used to twirl round and twist the rubber up until it wouldn't go anymore & then let go - so funny watching him go dizzy - he loved it (my mum was always darning one toe in the babygro's!) the other one used to 'swing' it until he could hit the wall of the hall on the other side (about 3 feet away) he did this until he finally broke one strand of the rubber! Many's the time I've unstrapped a sleeping baby & put him down for a nap - ah happy days!

savingqueen

Hello everyone,

Didn't get to sleep til early hours this morning, 5th bad night in a row and starting to worry insomnia will return. I know worrying is the worst thing but hard not to. Been having more coffee to keep going but then that doesn't help me sleep later. Had to miss my course this morning as struggling to do the basics even though DH could have wangled working at home to look after a still poorly (but getting better) DS6. Hopefully will be so tired tonight, sleep will kick in and, knowing don't have to be up at a weekday 6.30 am will help.

I'm sure the roses looked beautiful nutty. Will be thinking of you over the next few days.

softstuff - ouch your poor toe! hope the pain lessens soon, you don't realise how much you need your toes until something happens to them. take it easy and get it seen to if needs be.

We also have an ancient fence in need of replacing, fortunately its still standing as unfortunately its way down the list of our repairs jobs. You should see our shed.... its a hideous 60s semi-detached concrete monstrosity with a wobbily, shabby door and an awful wooden panel to replace a long ago glass window - very badly painted in a different colour to rest of shed, a real Mr SQ special!!! Its truly :eek::eek::eek:. problem is cost of replacing shed ain't simple as its attached by its semi-detachedness to next door's. She can't afford to replace and we can't afford two sheds when we have so many other jobs to fork out on. Then again, its a shed with sides and a roof and the cats can shelter there when they choose (have bespoke beds in there). Yesterday the wooden panel came loose and was swinging like a stable door, mananged to ram it back in but its not lined up properly.

Do you think I could make any money doing a tour of the shabbiest home in the UK? Maybe get on TV? People would go back home happy that they don't live here! :rotfl:

Remembered we have a P & Q (big diy store) credit note for a shower DH incorrectly bought ages ago. Expires soon and correct shower is a few squid less than the credit note so I have been instructed to find things to make up the balance. :j In the middle of a long wish list which runs to hundreds if not thousands and I have erm.... about £40 to play with! Decisions, decisions.

Haven't been very OS this week but also haven't spent anything at all and have been using up random foodstuffs as need to go shopping soon, hurrah for food stores! On the last pack of choccy biscuits, off for a cuppa and declutter of said biccies, someone has to do it, better be me... sigh....

a very sleepy sq

maryb

I'm metered but my consumption is dead on average for a household of our size and I pay £35 per month