O/S Daily Wednesday 28 May 2014

newthrift

Afternoon :hello:
Weather is grey and windy again here too, I really hope it starts picking up like they say come the weekend and that two weeks of sun isn't our only bit of summer!
Hester - sending good vibes for MIL
Hillstep - best wishes for tomorrow, I hope your cough and cold go away soon. I don't think it is morbid, it's practical and actually very thoughtful! Here is hoping you get to hand them to them yourself though!
Judi - Hope the little baby settles back in to his routine soon! And you most certainly do not look that way!!
BB - Sorry to hear you are still struggling, I hope they find some way to help.

Work is a little busier today thankfully, although it is mainly customers ringing up/emailing wanting everything now and not understanding why they can't :eek: thank goodness after 5pm today I won't be at this job until Monday :dance:
I have plenty to do at home as I need to get the washing and ironing done + pack for two days in Harrogate (we are leaving Saturday morning). I have 2 more ebay parcels to ship tomorrow, 1 more I am waiting payment on, 7 I shipped yesterday and then I posted 2 more things on yesterday too if it isn't used it's all off on ebay now, and I must admitt I am quite enjoying it.
I need to do my meal plan and get my food shopping list ready for tomorrow morning, might do a big stock up if I need to as the Aldi deal will be in the paper (although it has now been increased to £45.00 spend to get the £5.00 off which I find quite hard so will have a think)!

Hugs & Happy thoughts to anyone else who wants:)

System

A bit of news to share with you all. I heard from my eldest son an hour or so ago. Apparently he found his neighbour dead in his flat last Wednesday. He had been looking, doing bits of his shopping after him whilst he had been convalescing after he'd had a fall which had left him housebound. Well my son hadn't heard from him for 3 days which was unusual so my son went down to his flat to see how he was and found him dead in his chair.

Its gave his girlfriend the shock of her life and my son is trying to hold himself and his girlfriend together.

I asked my son what he'd died of but as he is not immediate family no one thought to let him know but my son said he was drinking a litre of whiskey a day plus he was a chain smoker. It was bound to happen at some point.

Its upset me, I always thought I ought to have been the one to guide my kids through their first death. I was terrified when I first experienced a dead body and no one was there to hold my hand. I was expected to be the strong one and I was. I didn't want that for my children. My eldest daughter experienced her first dead body with me at her side, I'm mortified I wasn't able to support my son.

I am hoping this will give my son the kick he needs to kick the booze. How awful of me for even thinking that.

candlelight_2013

Oh Judi that is awful, what a dreadful shock for your Son and his GF.

DD1 is a nurse (now 45) but when she was a student nurse she lived at home, and she came home one night and broke her heart. She had walked into a side room to see her patient and discovered she had died. This was her first time as well.

I know as Mums we think we should always be there, but sometimes we just cannot. It might help him if he can talk to you about it, but if he can't best to leave it.

Sending hugs

Candlelightx

meanmarie

Afternoon all,

Hugs to all in need or want of one....my head isscrambled latelyso any comments will be haphazard.

LW, Ted is lovely.

Judi....sorry to hear of your son's trauma, it must be very difficult to see your first death as an adult....

Hester...you really are such a lovely grandmother....

Knitting this morning and coffee afterwards with some of the other ladies...using a stick is helping mobility, hopefully the xray next week will help find a diagnosis. Seeing a urologist tomorrowto attempt to sort out my incontinence problem.....private hospital appointment so need to visit the bank before I go!

Steak, salad and potatoes for dinner, soon as Im hungry.

Washed 2 loads before I went out thismorning....OH put them on line and has just taken them in dry.....20chere today.

Have a good afternoon and evening everybody

Marie

Butterfly_Brain

Judi it is a hard life lesson, sadly we can't always be with our children when things like this happen .
I remember my first encounter with a dead person, it was a neighbour who I found dead on her drive, so I can relate to how your son is feeling
Ijust kept telling myself she had gone to a better place and had left her shell behind.

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Afternoon everyone, it's been a chilly and damp old day down here in Hampshire it feels more like autumn than the end of May, what a difference to last week. He Who Knows is making papier mache logs to help light up the woodstove next winter and I'm thinking about lighting it NOW!!!

LAMEWOLF love the Ted picture, we've always had Border Terriers before getting a lurcher this time round. We had the last old fella for 16 years, they get into your heart don't they? Such little characters and so wilfull too but so much fun as a breed. I think if we ever do get another dog it will be a Border, I really miss having a little monkey face around the place.

HILSTEP wishing you well for your Chemo tomorrow, hope they can go ahead with it despite your rotten old cold, will be thinking of you all day, Lyn xxx.

newthrift

Judi how awful for your son & his GF. Something I myself have never experienced but I hope he will be OK!

corrieflash

Lamewolf and Mrs Lurcherwalker, I have a Border called Millie, she is two and half and full of beans, always wanting other dogs she meets to chase and run with her. My DS21 has a new girlfriend and she has a 7 month old son, who is a darling, when he is here Millie seems to be making a chittering sound at him. She is good with him just this noise and I wondered if either of you could explain this to me.
Thanks Kat

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Hi CORRIE our old lad Badger used to make a funny little almost snuffling sound when he was happy, it was a sort of greeting when he met his particular human friends a sort of 'fnuff' noise, repeated several times and made with his nose, not his voice (does that make sense?) he did it all his life and it always made me smile!

corrieflash

Yes Mrs Lurcherwalker that makes total sense, she also had her head stuck right in the washing machine making the noise when I put the travel cot bedding into wash, it was so funny and did make me smile. She only does it with him lol