The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

carlymummy

Morning all,
Very grey, windy and a bit nippy here today. Got to take the boys to the dentist this morning just check ups and to see the hygienist, then home in time for a visit from some elderly relatives. Just a quick cheese bacon pasta bake for tea tonight, might try and get out to do a bit of weeding if my aching joints allow. Hope everyone is well and coping x

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Morning Toughies, got my lovely girlie back last night, she had a great few days away in Berlin with a friend and her children and took them to see some of the best places off the tourist track as well as some of the big sightseeing attractions too. They are all worn out, need a holiday to recover from the holiday!!! I am off home to my boys today which I am looking forward to very much.

SQ I hope you are feeling more level and content this morning and that today will bring you many small pleasures and happiness.

MOLLY I hope you had a decent night last night and a better day as a result, hope Molly dog is still there with you pouring out that doggie love that keeps you warm and contented, have a good one pet.

FUDDLE sorry you didn't get the headboard, when DD1 first moved into the boarding house at the school in her last job there was no headboard in the bedroom so she found a nice offcut of material and cut a piece the right size which she backed with part of an old duvet and then some old sheeting and sewed ribbons on to the top edge, We put up a curtain rail behind the bedhead and hung the padded material from it at the right height, voila, one headboard, much more comfortable to lean against to read in bed and it looked terrific as well, easy and cheap!

JEM wow, persiids with the kids and hot chocolate, doesn't get any better than that does it?

STILTWALKER Hi Helen, hope your trip to the physio brings you some relief for your back, not nice hurting all the time, rest it when you can pet, look after you.

Have a good one everyone, I'll pop on this evening when I've recovered the house at home, He Who Knows is not very good at housework so I'll be a busy bee for a couple of days, Cheers Lyn xxx.

FUDDLE sorry pet, it is too late for the fruit to ripen properly outside, I would leave them on the plants though to see how far they develop and if we do get a warm spell you might get lucky and get them to the point where you can finish ripening them in the sun on a windowsill, worth a try?

Popperwell

charlies-aunt wrote: »

Another sufferer of Plantar Fascitis (sp) here - I find that the injections, pills and heel supports don't seem to touch it. Cushioned footwear was the best option for me too!

Morning All,

Amazing how many conditions/ailments there are that you never have heard of before and then you find others are sharing them. Its still not good today but its different...rest may be why...taking weight off and finding another way to lay in bed. Use of more pain killers? Not sure.

An uneven way of walking/standing must play its part for me rather than weight. I will see how this week goes. Often its the niggly aches and pains that though they seem minor they really mess up daily life and can really hurt. And if mentioned to some I can understand why they are seen as nothing.

A sunny day greets me but I hear that wet weather is coming again as the weekend approaches.

Too early to say what the day holds. How much I will do...I can avoid food shopping/spending money and use more of the bargains I purchased on Sunday and/or perhaps continue to use a variety of fresh fruit and veg...luckily I do not tire of the same items and can think of more "Comfort" food when the weather turns and the nights are colder. It will be here all too quickly.

Anyone been following the TV series Food Unwrapped on C4? Its scary what some everyday food goes through and still is seen as safe. Decaf coffee as an example.

The chemical used to remove caffiene. The best answer if that is a problem, make it weaker/drink less. The chemical is a known carcenagenic(sp?)

A similar one is used so that tinned grapefuit segments lose their fibre membranes. And you forget when they suggest adding the zest of perhaps a lemon to a recipe it could be that they have been waxed so you need to find lemons that are unwaxed.

All these extra things to consider...

meanmarie

Pops...I always wash fruit before use, give an extra scrub to lemons as not always sure if they have been waxed or not.

Up early today as DD2 and granddaughters off before 8 for trip back to London....8 yearold was in tears as always, she will be fine once she gets home to see Daddy.

Have a good day all.

Marie

GreyQueen

Pops, a couple of years back, out of the blue, I started to get a bone-deep ache in the centre front of my shin. First one, then the both.

The ache intensified until it was identical to pain you'd expect from a sharp kick or blow to the shin and would be accompanied in that case by a huge black bruise. Tender to the touch but not a mark on me. It got to the point where I could barely walk and was hobbling.

GP sent me for X-rays. Nothing amiss. Referred to physio and got lots of exercises to do which took up a huge chunk of each day. No relief. Eventually got referred to an orthotics clinic.

The specialist watched me walk up and down his consulting room barefoot and with my trousers rolled up. He then got me to sit down with legs extended and moved my feel this way and that.

One manonever was so excruciating that I stifled a scream.

Apparently, I have a couple of very common mechanical probs with my feet which effect how I walk, and my high-arched feet flatten almost completely when I stand. I also toe-in slightly when I walk. The constant strain of this problem eventually, in my forties, caused the tendon which wraps around the outside of the ankle coming up from the foot and attaching at the front of the shin to become so outraged by the abuse that I has acute shin pain.

The answer was rigid plastic orthotics which I wear in my shoes. Problem lessened immediately and vanished in weeks. No recurrance.

Feet are enormously complicated structures and the problem may not even be originating where you are feeling the symptoms. If you don't get a result from your GP, please do ask to be referred to an orthotics clinic.

fuddle

I thought so Lyn. I remember seeing the 'pick your own' strawberry out very early in the season. Big old pot so can't go on windowsill (not patio threshold indoors as the dogalishious is a problem) so will give up on them this year. It's 9-11 degrees on waking here at the moment so doubt they'll ripen. Never mind.

I didn't know about the food unwrapped serious pops. I'm interested on those kind of program's so will hunt it out later. Thanks for drawing my attention to decaf coffee. MIL convinced me over the weekend to use that to avoid headaches due to my new regime of a couple of cups a day. Ill avoid it now though. Thanks.

Sausages in onion gravy tonight with tin of peas and Yorkshire puds. Only using Aldi pack of 6 sausages. Not too great for a family of 4 and a dad who has been to work all day so going to cut them up to make it seem like more. Think a side of boiled pots is needed too.

Can I share from the roof tops that eldest DD has put on 1lb in weight! I'm so relieved!

DH told me last night that I should stop inviting my family in as he notices it takes me day to get over 'the experience' but I'm not sure I can do that. The guilt is too much. I'd rather endure them for a couple of hours, then the misery and anger fr a few days after, then let guilt eat me up (guilt as I know mam sits in her horrid house drinking because she's bored and lonely and guilt for sister because if she's not with me he'll be with sister more)

The move would be the answer to everything because I think it would remove any guilt. I hope.

Girls are sat watching morning TV with the fleecey blankets. Autumn is creeping up alright. I'm relaxed in pretty much everything we had as winter preps last year will do us this year. My efforts will be towards the food preps and candles/matches and car boxes.

Looking forward to pay day on Thurs so I can get some wool from the range for my granny blanket. Lovely visualising the girls wrapped up in my blankey in the back of my car coming home from school, sat with hot choc and water bottles with blankets watching films. Cannot wait for the cosines of the autumn.

savingqueen

Good morning everyone,

Slept for hours last night, not long up and still feeling sleepy and with backache (my back doesn't like me getting too much sleep!). Still feeling wobbly tbh but better so that's a start. On the big plus side the sun is shining and my boys seem to sense I need a bit of tlc as they gave me big hugs this morning rather than the half hearted morning grunts I sometimes get (and not even teenagers yet!)

I am going to sort out the kitchen which is chaos in crockery and have a bath and then will take the boys out to the park or somewhere. They are itching to see their school friends and I have promised we will invite some over but not today, not up to a big clear up and socialising today. I have issues with our house being a bit shabby/worn and cluttered so at the least it has to be clean and tidyish for guests.

Pops - I am sitting here with a decaf coffee and worrying. Years ago bc (before children), I had a caffeine habit, so bad I would get headaches and shaky without it. I cut right back and switched to lots of decaf drinks though still drink some ordinary caffeinated tea and coffee. I will have to look into the issue now, thanks for sharing.

ok off to read a few more posts, finish my coffee (eeeek) and get me/the kitchen ship shape. Must get home in good time to bake some bread, we have run out and make that cheese and bacon tart.

have a good day all, hugs all round
sq:)

meanmarie

Fuddle...try to get out of feeling guilty at your mother and sister's actions, the only person you can change is you, so guilt in baseless....think that you have enough to deal with in your life without taking on guilt for others....

I no longer use decaff, low fat or margarine, prefer the taste of full fat....apart from baking, 500 g of butter does us for over a month, so not exactly heavy consumers, neither of us drink milk and only OH uses it in tea/coffee.

Marie

Popperwell

Thank you very much for that post GQ makes a lot of sense...Fuddle I don't scare much with food but just use a lot of common sense but that series is an eye opener and are available on line for possibly a a year(I missed series 2/3)and have them in a playlist to watch. Or for the next few weeks at least.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/food-unwrapped/4od

This next is the one with the decaf coffee the solvent used is Dichlorhomethane and the coffee beans are soaked in it for something like 48 hours.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/food-unwrapped/4od#3559414

Even with the ads at the start each programme is only around 24 mins.

SQ The same programme shows how we react depriving ourselves of caffiene(sp?)and how much we would have to drink to seriously harm ourselves but yes if addicted headaches etc...are a side effect. Same programme shows how the headaches disappear when coffee is drunk again. Also how one of them gets the shakes after drinking too much...

FairyPrincessk

Morning everyone!

Hugs to SQ. I hope that the world feels a bit brighter today. Sometimes we all need a little bit of spoiling.

Fuddle, great news about DD! I'm sorry to hear the strawberries are coming along a bit late. I think most of my plants are a bit late, but at least I'll better know what to do next year.

Lyn, you must be pleased to be home. I know you enjoyed your time away, but there really is nothing like coming back to your own routines is there?

Pops, if your discomfort continues, please get some professional advice about your feet. Like GQ says, the pain doesn't always originate from the place you feel it. Many problems like this will have an easy solution if addressed quickly. I've suffered from bursitis (not in my feet) in the past and it really does help if you start treatment right away--it took my treatment and rest two weeks, but if I'd left it the doctor said it could have taken me months to heal. Treatment was really very simple as well!

I had a nice catch up with my friend and colleague last night. She is always wonderfully supportive of everyone's work, and now that she is nearing the end, with all of the worries that entails, I hope she found me equally supportive.

OH had made the soup when I got in, and we had some of the blueberry muffin (made in a loaf tin, so I guess its blueberry loaf?) for pudding. I'm not sure what we're having tonight. I might give the slow cooker curried aubergines another try. They were nice and easy last time, but I think they need more/different seasoning so I'll have to experiment. I think I'll also do it with rice so it is more like a "real" curry. Thought I should clarify--we do have a meal plan, but in summer the days aren't fixed, just 7 meals to choose from for the week.

Her Ladyship the visiting cat is still struggling with litter box location, but she has not returned her dinner in over 24 hours:T. She goes home tomorrow for a few days and then comes back for a few days after that. Must admit, I'll be relieved when our duties are finished. I don't think she likes our house and routine much, the poor thing must be a bit confused.