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Oh jolly hockey sticks, Code old Bean! Dying for some scrumptious crumpets with oodles of butter, all washed down with lashings of ginger beer!(I just lurve spiders!)
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So, while I've 'been away' i crossed one of my lines in the sand.
Because of the great car change over ( picked up the new very old car yesterday) fir and I had a 'big talk' where he sat me down and asked me not to consider or think about or look at but just to straight on get on with an application for a blue badge, or to let him make one on my behalf. Its been a 'big line in the sand' I've not wanted to cross, and have felt a bit uncomfortable with things since the GP raised it again a couple of years ago.
Anyway, its crossed. I applied, but might well not get it. I still don't think I fulfill all the criteria. Through is I would have more freedom with one, but so would lots of people. Anyway. I feel uncomfortable about it and a bit defeated. If I don't get it I'll be both happy and somehow 'as if I've been lying' and if I do get it I'll be sad but relieved. Isn't it all so loaded?0 -
Oh sorry, late reply - 'it' was a fishing boat, made by a Sri Lankan fisherman and sold to me on the beach. I think my nephew was enchanted, as I was, at the fact it was made by a real fisherman, before he realised it was a boat.
Now, serious telling off time!to WaS and whoever sent her that plum and cinnamon chocolate! Are you two in cahoots to sell the stuff? WaS, you made it sound soooo delicious! Anyone who has just witnessed a madwoman (technical term
) rooting through the chocolate at Aldi to find the hidden bars - that was me, that was! And how WONDERFUL to find it is five tiny bars - that's its only saving grace as it means I haven't actually eaten it all in one go. Yet. :rotfl:
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lostinrates wrote: »So, while I've 'been away' i crossed one of my lines in the sand.
Because of the great car change over ( picked up the new very old car yesterday) fir and I had a 'big talk' where he sat me down and asked me not to consider or think about or look at but just to straight on get on with an application for a blue badge, or to let him make one on my behalf. Its been a 'big line in the sand' I've not wanted to cross, and have felt a bit uncomfortable with things since the GP raised it again a couple of years ago.
Anyway, its crossed. I applied, but might well not get it. I still don't think I fulfill all the criteria. Through is I would have more freedom with one, but so would lots of people. Anyway. I feel uncomfortable about it and a bit defeated. If I don't get it I'll be both happy and somehow 'as if I've been lying' and if I do get it I'll be sad but relieved. Isn't it all so loaded?
Its difficult to attach that label lir. It's crossing that line and admitting you're different and that's so hard to do. Also there's this idea that some people are worse off than you - but your health problems do cause you to have limitations and if a blue badge helps you manage those better then do it because that's what its for.Eu não sou uma tartaruga. Eu sou um codigopombo.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »So, while I've 'been away' i crossed one of my lines in the sand.
Because of the great car change over ( picked up the new very old car yesterday) fir and I had a 'big talk' where he sat me down and asked me not to consider or think about or look at but just to straight on get on with an application for a blue badge, or to let him make one on my behalf. Its been a 'big line in the sand' I've not wanted to cross, and have felt a bit uncomfortable with things since the GP raised it again a couple of years ago.
Anyway, its crossed. I applied, but might well not get it. I still don't think I fulfill all the criteria. Through is I would have more freedom with one, but so would lots of people. Anyway. I feel uncomfortable about it and a bit defeated. If I don't get it I'll be both happy and somehow 'as if I've been lying' and if I do get it I'll be sad but relieved. Isn't it all so loaded?
LIR, look at it this way......
If you'd broken your leg, what would you need in order to get about? A crutch. Without it, you wouldn't even be able to go from room to room. It's a mobility aid.
So, think of the blue badge as a crutch, that would allow you to be more mobile, and which would allow you to have more of the kind of life that everyone takes for granted.
Now, some people might have two broken legs and so would need a wheelchair. Worse off than you, yes. But that doesn't mean that you should give up your crutch just because you only have one broken leg!(I just lurve spiders!)
INFJ(Turbulent).
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LiR - having a blue badge doesn't mean you have to use it. It just gives you the option, day to day, to choose whether or not today is a day you will use it or not. Anyway, there are precious few perks to having health issues - you might as well make the most of them! A lady I take shopping sometimes (she of the pills in little jars) always jokes I only want her for her easier parking. There have certainly been times when I pass rows of empty blue badge spaces trying to find one for me when I wish she were with me! Hey, that's a thought, by using your blue badge you'd be freeing up a space for someone else.
WaS, I couldn't stop smiling as you opened your packages, I was the one who suggested including tissues as I felt you might need them - I think many of us who were virtually with you needed a tissue too. So pleased you had such fun with it all. Go team WaS!Deal with things as they are, not as they should be.0 -
jobbingmusician wrote: »Oh sorry, late reply - 'it' was a fishing boat, made by a Sri Lankan fisherman and sold to me on the beach. I think my nephew was enchanted, as I was, at the fact it was made by a real fisherman, before he realised it was a boat.
Now, serious telling off time!to WaS and whoever sent her that plum and cinnamon chocolate! Are you two in cahoots to sell the stuff? WaS, you made it sound soooo delicious! Anyone who has just witnessed a madwoman (technical term
) rooting through the chocolate at Aldi to find the hidden bars - that was me, that was! And how WONDERFUL to find it is five tiny bars - that's its only saving grace as it means I haven't actually eaten it all in one go. Yet. :rotfl:
Hahaha!:rotfl:
Since when did 5 tiny bars mean that you couldn't eat it all in one go!
Hahahaha! :rotfl:(I just lurve spiders!)
INFJ(Turbulent).
Her Greenliness Baroness Pyxis of the Alphabetty, Pinnacle of Peadom and Official Brainbox
Founder Member: 'WIMPS ANONYMOUS' and 'VICTIMS of the RANDOM HEDGEHOG'
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I agree totally with Pyxis, LIR.
I know how loaded it is, I feel like that with every DLA form I fill in, if I was to be refused then I would feel like a fraud and the fact that I was accepted made me feel totally depressed. But, if it makes life easier than grasp it, after all you are only applying to have access to do what others can.
Enjoy the chocolate, JM! You are going to love it!
My eyes were so sore this morning, Solar! Luckily my parcel contained soothing eye gel! I am still over the moon!Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened - Anatole France
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HBS, golly gosh and gumdrops! I couldn't do gymnastics even as a child! That's fantastic! What sort of thing did you have to do?
I had to do a vault and a floor routine. I did a very simple vault, but it was neat and tidy, and apparently smashed my floor routineI didn't think it was very good but it appears I was wrong
HBS x"I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."
"It's easy to know what you're against, quite another to know what you're for."
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Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »Luckily my parcel contained soothing eye gel! I am still over the moon!
Goodness, WaS! It's a bottomless pit parcel!:rotfl:
Was there a kitchen sink in there as well?
Don't forget the pics before you use everything up!:D(I just lurve spiders!)
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Founder Member: 'WIMPS ANONYMOUS' and 'VICTIMS of the RANDOM HEDGEHOG'
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