The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

S_Wales_Saver

Goodnight all. Had a very stressful day re DD2. She's the kind caring type and it doesn't pay sometimes. :sad:
I can see twin2 being exactly the same. At six she is so attuned to other people's feelings. Hoping for a better day tomorrow.

wondercollie

It's my day off! Yay.


Mr. Collie sends good vibes to his cyber paly Docky and tells him to keep on wagging that tail.


Hair cut and coloured today. The frost on the roof was becoming a bit too noticeable. lol.


Found out that my oldest son is moving out in June. Well according to his gf he is. He's two provinces away and will be home on Saturday, so it should be an interesting conversation when he gets home.


Speaking of interesting, I had a call from the unit I pick up extra shifts on. The shop steward wanted me to file a grievance on not getting the job last year as the reason I was given for not getting the job wasn't correct. As I told the steward, she was given the job and I don't want to deal with her if she lost it. The nurse that got it is not assertive but closer to aggressive in her dealing with people and dearly wants to be the head nurse. I figure she'd crash and burn and it appears that she is doing so. It's very hard for a job to terminate you but she was let go by the hospital system she worked for before. Then there are the restrictions on her practice permit. I figured it would take her more than 3.5 months to have issues but the head nurse is starting to notice things and the head nurse is a very strong woman and will deal with it.


I'd been trying to figure out how to ask the head nurse not bring on unit on days that I'd have to work with this woman but it's all out in the open. I have ten years more service with the employer than her and more relevant nursing experience to the job and she wants to manage my work when I'm there. I figured it was just her way of establishing workplace dominance. I wish she'd just pee on the desk to mark her turf.


Anyways, enough of that mess.


The snow is still melting but the back garden still has about 2.5 feet on the grass. So I bought a cucumber growing kit today and will start it on the weekend. I won't be able to put anything out till the end of May but I can dream in colour!

CRANKY40

Grumpy the house elf has his op yesterday. He wasn't very happy as he couldn't eat after 7am and they didn't take him to theatre until 3:30. He was back by 5pm and by 5:30 he'd had 2 rounds of toast and his cheese and ham sandwiches that I took from home. They sent him home at 7pm.

He was in a lot of pain last night. So bad that I called an ambulance as he got stuck on the side of the bed. I gave him a dyhydrocodeine and rang my friend who is a nurse. We managed to get him into bed even though he was screaming and he calmed down a bit. I was just about to cancel the ambulance when it turned up. They had a quick look at him, agreed that he was calmer and best left where he was for the night then left telling me to call if he got worse again.

He finally slept from 11:30pm until 6:30am this morning and he says he is sore but it's bearable. He'll be spending the day in bed and I will mostly be spending the day fetching things and passing him things :rotfl:

Tru, I can't wait to see your doggy photo.

I am 5 ft 1. Last years cropped jeans from Strangeburys were the perfect length to be worn as ordinary every day jeans for me

nursemaggie

CRANKY40 I have been wearing cropped trousers as full length for years. I mostly wear cotton ones in the summer. I hope the house elf has a better day.

Hugs Lyn I hope you have docky for a lot longer. Must be so hard when you have also had the worry of Olaf too.

Cristy hospital again today so here's hoping they have no problem getting blood today. I do not want to come home like a pin cushion again.

Stilty I hope you both get time to enjoy today.

[Deleted User]

Bless you all, yes I'm in the middle of the emotional side of having poorly pets and having to make decisions about their futures that I'd ideally not be wanting to make but that doesn't mean the rest of the world goes away does it? It's still there and there are questions to be answered and things to be said that might help and hugs to be given when they're needed and support to be given everywhere. I'd be a poor human if I let current difficulties override the needs of everyone else wouldn't I?

Treat of the day so far is He Who Knows leading me up the garden path..... to the greenhouse where we have many things sprouting and he'd just watered some broad beans in small pots in a tray on the floor when there was a stirring within (one of the pots not him!) and a large brown warty toad surfaced through the soil and flattened himself in the sun, gleamingly wet....You can't pay for moments like that can you?

Softstuff

Possession wrote: »

Another day of builders and plumbers here, with lots of quote and a huge sturdy side gate for the princely sum of £30, supplied and fitted. He made it himself and I really can't see how he can be making any money on it but I tried to give him £40 and he refused. Most odd.

Possession, could you please parcel him up and send him over to me. Even with flights, if I put him to work for a week here I'd be quids in :rotfl:

CRANKY40 wrote: »

I am 5 ft 1. Last years cropped jeans from Strangeburys were the perfect length to be worn as ordinary every day jeans for me

My friend was celebrating having found the perfect jeans in a new "petites" range in one of the shops here. It wasn't until she got home that she found out they weren't just "petite", but they were also intended to be cropped.

I am nursing half a dozen injuries from the sublime to the ridiculous today. Just having a clumsy one I think, nothing serious, but plenty of bruises and the odd plaster. Even crossing my legs I managed to tear the cuticle off my toe... There are some days I should have just stayed in bed.

silvasava

Oh MrsL - I have Toad envy - wonderful creatures. I do get frogs in the garden - they do make me jump when they pop out unanounced when I'm weeding & one wet night when we came home late there was one on my doorstep, but havn't seen a toad around for years
I'm chuckling at the ladies who can wear cropped trousers as full length - full length on me is often cropped!
Thinking of Miss Stilty today - would love to be there to cheer her on.

cat4772

Popping my head over the fence to say hi. Sorted out the water - rates on the new house are MUCH higher than the old house (in the same street, (£36 to £60)! I aprpeaciate it is a bigger house but seriously.

I'm definitely looking at having to take in a lodger to make ends meet:o

cat.x

silvasava

Cat - would it be worth you investigating having a water meter?

moneyistooshorttomention

That thought had never crossed my mind of buying cropped trousers to use as non-cropped. My leg length for trousers/jeans has already gone from "standard length" to "short length" and I was thinking "Right...that's the maximum possible adaptation I can make...so Note to Own Body = don't you dare shrink any more".

Slight problem there being = how do you buy trousers to wear as cropped trousers if you are already wearing them as "standard length" trousers?:think: