The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

nursemaggie

Hi mcculloch29 nice to see you again.I have to admit I assumed the voucher would be in the reflective red top tomorrow.

I guess I had better check the website.

Popperwell

The doorbell my friend gave me is great and was fitted in seconds. No excuse to say I don't know there is someone calling(especially if prearranged as in when a repair person calls)though I may occasionally sneak a look first to see who is calling in case I still want to avoid who it is I can hear it anywhere in the home. I have put the receiver on the landing so it can be heard everywhere in the home. I may put a small note on the door though telling whoever calls to allow me time to get to the door, they sometimes disappear very quickly.


Remember the person I mentioned who was taken into hospital then told the op may be cancelled because some tablets should've been stopped three days before he was admitted but no one had told him.


The op was cancelled and he was sent home the next day. He's been waiting for the op for 18mths!!! The Consultant said it was unfortunate and couldn't understand how he'd been waiting that long.


Don't know what will happen next...one story is that they may take him back in in a couple of weeks...another suggests it will be longer than that(if he decides to go in again and not take his chances)its a big op and quite difficult.

So my day of sitting in with my friend was a waste of time whilst they took his Dad to hospital. I say a waste but I didn't mind, it filled some time in and stopped me thinking too deeply and too be honest I found myself watching some Westerns on TV and time passed by quite pleasantly.

I went to see a Dr yesterday over my sleep issues...he says I'm doing well and thinks though I don't realise it I am still affected somewhat by the passing of Mum and also worries about sorting out her modest estate, changes in benefit issues caused by the gov and he says even he and his colleagues were surprised at the result in May.


He says my health issues and age are against me and not to "worry" as I head towards retirement age and to enjoy my birthday this weekend and be thankful that we are all living longer these days.


He also says that I have the support of him, my usual Dr and the surgery if things get difficult and they'll do all they can to help me. They know that I am genuine.


Funnily enough, I am coming around I think to being more positive and have slept more peaceful and calmly the past few nights and been able to go back to sleep so perhaps I am turning the corner again.:)


Regarding my cough/cold/chill he checked my blood pressure which was fine. My chest was clear but hearing of the little wheeze in my throat(whilst the prescriptions are still free)I'll paying for a short time in the future whilst money is sorted(and I'm too young for free prescriptions technically)when circumstances change briefly. He had a cough bottle made up for me and that is clearing the last remaining symptoms of my recent illness.


So I suppose I'm doing OK. I decided to stay out yesterday after going to the Dr's and went for a bus ride. Then visited a kind of shopping centre I've never been too but heard of for over three years. I spent money I shouldn't have(and I planned not to when I arrived)but I got some nice food which will last me at least a month and in reality only comes in at around £1.50 per day.


So I can avoid food shopping for sometime...unless you include fresh fruit/veg. I managed to make a day of it and from the Dr's visit(9.20am)until coming home at 6pm I had a long day.


Today its a sunny day but I'll probably stay home and go out around teatime and head towards the evening of bingo with the friends that starts around 7pm(a bus stops not too far from the venue)the prizes are small but it fills a few hours.


I may get some new marker pens, I'm getting a little low on pens. I broke my tea tray the other day so I need a new one of those too. I may have a look in the charity clothes shop when passing by.


I have some washing up to catch up on and put the crockery away so that will fill some time. Seems pointless going out just for the sake of it today...perhaps I'll wait until the weekend now. Lots of maybe's in my post today


Have a good one...

ivyleaf

Your GP surgery sounds very good Popperwell I hope the cough medicine does the trick for you. How lovely of McCulloch to give you the doorbell.

My elderly neighbour had an operation cancelled 3 times, once because his notes had been mislaid en route from another hospital and twice because they had no beds! The fourth time they had to do the op because it had been cancelled three times.

shanks77

[QUOTE=Popperwell


Today its a sunny day but I'll probably stay home and go out around teatime and head towards the evening of bingo with the friends that starts around 7pm(a bus stops not too far from the venue)the prizes are small but it fills a few hours.


I may get some new marker pens, I'm getting a little low on pens. I broke my tea tray the other day so I need a new one of those too. I may have a look in the charity clothes shop when passing by.


Have a good one...[/QUOTE

POPS I have spare bingo pens if you want. I got them from Approved Foods ages ago when I was playing bingo with a friend but that has tailed off. They are all the same colour (red) but am happy to pop a couple in an envelope if u want. Send me a pm with your address if you want them xx

FairyPrincessk

Morning all,

Nursemaggie--I can certainly see there are many things about the sixties I wouldn't want to put up with. Even in the seventies my mum got a job as a teacher, saved up a down payment and still had to have her step father co-sign with her for a car. Nevermind that he had a drink and serious money management issues, he had that all important y chromosome necessary to make paperwork legitimate.

Bit miffed about the Ald! vouchers. I read on one of the other boards that they have discontinued them. Oh well. We're still going to shop there as it has the best prices and selection for us locally.

Pops I hope you enjoyed the Bingo.

I worked extra hard yesterday to get a bit ahead on work stuff, so I'm taking off today to spend a bit of time with OH before half term is over. I'll head to the gym this morning and then I think we're going into town. He needs a hair cut and I need a few crafty bits and bobs. I'd like to sew myself a pair of trousers, but I've currently got two projects in the pipeline, several things that need to be altered and June is going to be a busy month so not much sewing will get done. I'm contemplating buying a pair, but would really rather not. I've kept an eye out in the CS, but no such luck yet. I'll try the one near the train station in town as I got very lucky in there last time.

Tomorrow night we're meeting friends for a combination FPK passed/Mr. FPK's birthday and Mr. FPK's promotion celebration. We usually have a party in early January, but we skipped it this year as I was too overwhelmed, so we missed seeing many of our friends. I'm sure some won't be able to make it, but many who work down south come back over the weekend, so fingers crossed. One friend doesn't usually come back to Manchester at weekends and is travelling in so will stay overnight with us so I'll have to make up the futon and instruct Maggie the Cat that she is not to do anything like sleep on his nice jumper or attack his feet when he walks past. I'm sure she'll behave.:p

The weather looks absolutely miserable today, I hope it is a bit nicer for some of the rest of you.

ivyleaf

FPK - Sleep on his jumper? Attack his feet? As if she'd do such things :A

We're going away tomorrow, so today will involve taking the cat to the cattery (if we can find him They always know if you're planning anything like taking them to the vet or the cattery!), and packing, preceded by the dreaded "i-word" (ironing ) but it will all be worth it.

Popperwell

Morning All, I will catch up...soon. I looked out the landing window in the night to see that it was raining. Its always mixed feelings about rain isn't it, its needed and yet even the weather forecasters will talk of it negatively. Now at 8am(yes I slept until then:))it seems to have passed by and the sky seems quite cloudless even if not sunny and blue.


I felt that I "had" to get up and have managed to take my meds and have a coffee. That's the trick for now, in time I may lose that compulsion and enjoy being lazy:por perhaps it really is true...the older we get we need less sleep and if we go to bed early we have to get up earlier. Or vice versa. Or perhaps we are more likely to have that 40winks in the middle of the day.


I don't see it as much these days but I can remember walking to school/work and "Older" people would be outside the supermarket waiting for it to open and be home within an hour and remain there for the rest of the day.


I'm terrible wanting something for nothing:oI broke a plastic tea tray(is that what they are called?)you know the kind, where you put tea/coffee or cakes etc...on when you transfer items from one room to another.


I looked for one briefly on Wednesday and either shops were out of them, I didn't like the design or I thought that they were too expensive. Now in hindsight the best of the bunch I did not buy and to get it again means travelling specially 18miles for a tray. The only good thing is I'm not adding the cost of the bus ride. Just time.


Debating if I should have a ride to the Metro Centre near Newcastle(just for the ride)I haven't been there for decades. But I really must not spend anything(unless I find a tray:rotfl:)and the same is true about popping into a caf!(I'll have something when I come home)I can always take a sandwich/crisps and a small drink with me to keep me going.


I don't gamble that often and TBH the chances of winning is small but occasionally(and it is rare)I buy a lottery ticket but in my current run it won't surprise anyone that the best I have done is get two numbers but one day who knows? Then perhaps I'll just enjoy spending and not always have the mind set of being frugal/thrifty. Or do we ever lose that once we have it?


Even my local charity shop is letting me down at present. Ahh yes...bingo. Its the fun of taking part and the social side. I won £7 and where I could've travelled there and back for free, so in pocket by £2.40:rotfl:but I shared a taxi to help someone else out(I think if she'd been on her own she might've stayed in and not turned up)the two she usually shares a taxi with did not come last night)so in the end I was out of pocket by £2. Really its just a way of filling in an evening and having company for a couple of hours. As FairyPrincessk said sometime ago...its a bit of fun.


Nothing planned for my birthday but my friend has invited me around for a Birthday tea.

silvasava

Pops - once you larn to be thrifty and frugal I don't think you ever lose the 'knack'. I'd carry on looking in the CS for a tray - sometimes L*dl have them during the summer and lots of the supermarkets have them with their BBQ and picnic stuff & they're not expensive - hope you manage to find one you like soon

PS: FPK - in the 60's you couldn't own property under 21! Caused me no end of problems when I divorced as I hadn't realised the implications

Popperwell

Thanks...I know there's not much there but I'm going to Richmond instead of The Metro Centre...its not such a long journey and it will still fill the afternoon...

FairyPrincessk

Ivyleaf...no, of course no....t... I think that sweet furry exterior is purpose built to conceal what is a very mischievous brain.

Silvasava, it seems ridiculous that such things still existed that recently.