Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Morning!

Well, some washing is out on the line already - and I really doubt it will get any drier out there. The sky is blue and beautiful, but its *so* cold! Might do a little bit out there, just to get some of the grass out of the border, but it'll need to be fast :eek:

One thing this weather does confirm - I did not have, nor have I ever had, post-shingles pain. I had a really low level infection in a tooth for years, which masqueraded as post-shingles. After that extraction earlier this year, the shingles thingy has never recurred :j:j:j

Right. Something fun. Now, please





ETA - oh, thinking of slightly less-fun things, yesterday I dared to look at the gloryhole next to the back door _pale_ and found two things that should never have been there for these 5 years a load of shells that my sister gave me to use as landscaping plus some arty resin blocks ditto for the landscaping, and a supermarket bag practically full of broken eggshells to use on top of garden mulch . Bigger shells and all the resin blocks now distributed into a panel of the landscaping, and eggshells scattered hither and yon, whether to discourage slugs and snails or generally improve the mineral content of the soil, I don't care :rotfl::rotfl: Am very pleased to have done it, and it took me all of five minutes :cool:

Cheery_Daff

I can tell you one of my jokes out of my advent calendar if you like?

(oops, did I just admit I have a November advent calendar?! :rotfl: It's only because my friend came back from maternity leave at work at the start of November, and we've only got a few weeks together before I leave, so we're counting them down like a couple of children with chocolate :rotfl: )

Anyway - the jokes are all dreadful

For example (I'll colour the answers white, so you'll have to highlight to see them)

What hides in the bakery at Christmas?

A mince spy

:rotfl:

And (I'm not sure this one even counts as a joke)

What happens if you drop a snowball in a glass of water?

It gets wet

(nope, still not funny!) :rotfl:



Love how your garden is coming together with regular small bits of work :j I might even get back out in mine one day! :j It's SO COLD though, you're right :eek:

Goodness, glad your infection has been sorted out. That's quite a frightening thought as I'm currently struggling with an infected tooth (or rather hole-where-tooth-was) myself :eek: Horrifying to think it could go on even longer! Glad you're feeling better now though

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

One thing this weather does confirm - I did not have, nor have I ever had, post-shingles pain. I had a really low level infection in a tooth for years, which masqueraded as post-shingles. After that extraction earlier this year, the shingles thingy has never recurred :j:j:j

Great news KC :T but chuffing annoying it took so long to identify .

Karmacat

Those are the breaks, I suppose, Gally - at least I don't look like a terrorist any more, covering my face with a scarf outside of high summer, I always felt a little bit stupid

Loving the jokes Cheery

It's still nippy here! So nippy I've brought the laptop down to the kitchen :eek: so I'm listening to the d/w, and in a moment I'll be listening to the w/m.

I actually found *more* stones I'd picked up from somewhere for landscaping they were in a screw top opaque plastic thing, and they've been there so long I took it out onto the patio to unscrew in case something terrible jumped out at me :rotfl: I was very happy to see what was inside

Okay, to do list:
- phone call (done, actually)
- phone session just re-instated, for this afternoon
- cat blog
- oh, another phone call
- email
- use lunchtime to do a serious facial cleanse! Thats a bit unusual for a weekday, but needs must.
- mmm, something else.

I know - a potter around the boards

greent

Hi KC - just caught up on the past 10(?) days - one of the best things about my occasional AWOLs is reading a batch of posts in one go, where you can really feel the mood of the thread (not always obvious when reading a couple of posts at a time) - the positivity (is that a word?!) emanating from here is immense! - love it!


Am also impressed by what you're achieving in the garden - I could do with spending some time in mine but it's so cooooold out there! (yep, I am a wuss! )


xx

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Sounds like a nice day in the warm, KC:coffee:. I had to go out first thing this morning and there had been a very hard frost. Took ages to scrape the car windscreens:(. Being MSE (and ecologically aware;)) we don't use chemical de-icer spray but I wish I'd had some this morning for convenience and speed.


I used to collect 'interesting' stones and small pieces of rock wherever I went on my travels when younger. Maybe I was weird but they always fascinated me. I just brought the odd few small ones from each trip (pre baggage-search days so didn't get any funny reaction at check-in). Found some lovely ones in the Alps, Pyrenees and Scandinavia. Never did anything with them, they've just languished for decades unseen and unloved:(. There's a sack of them in the shed which I nearly broke my toe on when I accidentally kicked it last year:eek:. My biggest regret was not marking them/putting some sort of sticker on them at the time to remind me of which wonderful trip I found them on.

Might follow your example and put them on the garden somewhere:j

Karmacat

greent wrote: »

Hi KC - just caught up on the past 10(?) days - one of the best things about my occasional AWOLs is reading a batch of posts in one go, where you can really feel the mood of the thread (not always obvious when reading a couple of posts at a time) - the positivity (is that a word?!) emanating from here is immense! - love it!

Thank you :j that's really nice! Thing is, I know I'm not permanently lurgified by CFS, I'll regain my health completely once I retire, my retirement is in spitting distance, it won't be smooth sailing but I have *tons* of options, most of which are extremely attractive to me and even now, I'm much healthier than I was earlier this year :j:j:j

Am also impressed by what you're achieving in the garden - I could do with spending some time in mine but it's so cooooold out there! (yep, I am a wuss! )


xx

I do a max of 45 minutes at a time out there, its taking ages - I'm a wuss right alongside you :rotfl: plus I have to take frequent breaks so that worms and woodlice can ooze off out of reach of my trowel, I hate accidentally harming them, so I make double sure I safeguard any that I see

Though I have to tell you that nearly all the fencing down each side of the garden is completely out of reach to me, because of overgrown hedging plants or rooted brambles :eek::eek::eek: my garden isn't exactly in tip top condition

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Sounds like a nice day in the warm, KC:coffee:. I had to go out first thing this morning and there had been a very hard frost. Took ages to scrape the car windscreens:(. Being MSE (and ecologically aware;)) we don't use chemical de-icer spray but I wish I'd had some this morning for convenience and speed.

I can well understand that, CBC - I'd hate to have to go out so early in such cold weather. Since I never planned my current career and just sort of fell into it, I consider myself very lucky in my travel situation.

I used to collect 'interesting' stones and small pieces of rock wherever I went on my travels when younger. Maybe I was weird but they always fascinated me. I just brought the odd few small ones from each trip (pre baggage-search days so didn't get any funny reaction at check-in). Found some lovely ones in the Alps, Pyrenees and Scandinavia. Never did anything with them, they've just languished for decades unseen and unloved:(. There's a sack of them in the shed which I nearly broke my toe on when I accidentally kicked it last year:eek:. My biggest regret was not marking them/putting some sort of sticker on them at the time to remind me of which wonderful trip I found them on.

Might follow your example and put them on the garden somewhere:j

I wish I knew where mine came from too! There are some red skimmers that I've picked up from Norfolk in the past few years, but thats all I can remember If I'd thought to write in indelible ink, or even paint, I'd have marked mine too I strongly advise you to get yours out onto the garden - at least you'd see them! And its a bit less in storage - that glory hole by the back door looks a lot better already :j

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I can well understand that, CBC - I'd hate to have to go out so early in such cold weather. Since I never planned my current career and just sort of fell into it, I consider myself very lucky in my travel situation.

As the cold weather starts, I'm appreciating retirement even more. I'm not a morning person and it used to be hell dragging myself out of the house on cold dark mornings.

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Goldiegirl wrote: »

As the cold weather starts, I'm appreciating retirement even more. I'm not a morning person and it used to be hell dragging myself out of the house on cold dark mornings.

Me too, Goldiegirl:j.

It's not so much not being a morning person as I'm always up and raring to go (well as raring as I'm ever likely to get anyway:rotfl:) by 6 in the morning. It's the travelling in the dark, much of it on unlit country roads (and before anyone makes a joke, I did have my headlights on:p) both there and home again in the evening that used to get me. The beam of our outside security light doesn't reach to where I park my car and I used to hate all the windscreen scraping in pitch darkness at 7 every morning. Tried a torch but found I needed both hands free to do the windscreen clearing when it was as hard as concrete. Happy days (not);)

Karmacat

Oh dear, I don't think I'd like that either! That potter-family fiance of mine used to travel a lot of country roads for his job, and he used to love to drive with his headlights off at night :eek: he said it was because everyone else had their lights on, so he could see them coming no problem. I see the logic, but he never did it when I was in the car

Anyway, today I have:
- put d/w on
- put w/m on (hardly got dry outside, now on the radiators, grrr).
- two phone calls
- a phone session
- slow cooker on
- emails
- deep, deep cleanse at lunchtime, can't believe I managed to do that!
- cat blog! I like this one, I focussed on the Belgian cats thing, and the Belgian police have just tweeted a pic of some cat food to thank all the cats that assisted them yesterday :j:j:j