The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

pollyanna_26

Finally caught up . Sending Softstuff my best wishes for a good result from the MRI and well done for being so proactive x
I hardly ever use the mobile generally someone with me with their own tablets if needed . I am well known on the thread for my struggles with anything techie even PMs - Mar will remember that one :rotfl:Monna's tablet has probably put me off them for life although it's good comedy value across the threads .
polly

mcculloch29

Thanks for the lovely comment, Pollyanna.

Quiet day today, after finding myself cooking at nearly midnight. I was reviewing a lovely cookbook I was sent to review by Am@zon and in the spirit of fairness, wanted to try out a recipe.

I chose fast flatbreads, so wasn't cooking for long, and had breakfast sorted - which was brunch by the time I got round to it. I am lucky to be offered some gorgeous things to review, and Flora Sheddon's cookbook was one of them.
Today some bags of whole coffee beans arrived to review so I had the pleasure of a super-fresh cup of coffee.

pollyanna_26

You're welcome McC . Please don't show me books I'll never be Marie Kondo but I'm trying to let things go a little before I'm one of those found under a pile of books having been reported missing .
I surprised myself how the mental picture had stayed in the much fuddled brain for so long . It quite cheered me up :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Take care
polly

ivyleaf

How nice Mcculloch - When you said Flora Sheddon I hadn't realised it was Flora from bake Off. She was a sweetie. I'm glad you're so pleased with it. Do you also sometimes got sent totally inappropriate things to try? I take it things to review are sent entirely at random?

nursemaggie Thinking of you.

mar Hope you're less knackered now!

Softstuff

Brief update, had my mri, waiting on the results tomorrow. Wasn't a thrill for mildly claustrophobic me, but at least they had a good music selection. And I didn't have to pay.

mardatha

I had always dreaded an MRI as I am really claustrophobic, but when I finally had to have a couple done I was so ill and tired that I was just grateful to lie down

Softstuff

It felt very... science-fictiony. I can't imagine how odd the modern machine would be for a 90yr old with dementia for example, it would be quite scary.

pollyanna_26

Hoping the result is good SS . Another here who can't do confined spaces . Think it goes back to being trapped for a long time in a stuck lift aged about 3 or 4 with a big store Father Christmas , I'd never seen one before and was on my way to the grotto . Screamed my head off and still hate lifts . Mum never forgave me for showing her up in a posh store and wasting money on the ticket she'd already paid for .
I watch in admiration my two younger daughters coolly take these procedures in their stride along with needles etc . A very good point about the strangeness for the elderly and confused , I'd never thought of that .
Mar did you enjoy your day out yesterday ? Make the most of it Doris is kicking off . Wet and very windy here , tomorrow and Friday seem to be the hunkering down days . Shame I'm out tomorrow .
polly

pollyanna_26

How are you Ivyleaf ? The book is lovely but I will not succumb . It is very pretty with wonderful pictures . I'm a sucker for that . I did write down McCs recipe now I'm hoping she might try testing the coconut porridge which caught my eye . It is a more than I'd pay now even from sellers and I really am trying not to buy books .
Don't ask about every Nigel Slater and Alan Bennett adorning the shelves plus too many more to mention . My eldest calls it an expensive form of wall insulation . I wish I could get on with the ebook but I don't .
polly

nursemaggie

I find my regular CT scans bad enough, it's the way they seem to be going round and round with the noise they make. Feels like it may take off.

Not found my Tesc0 card but I found an Arg0s one. They have a similar N0kia for the same price and I won't have the problem of getting to a Tesc0 to top it up. I can go fetch it this afternoon too it's not far.

I have a feeling it may be on the coffee table under a pile of boxes. I bought a bathroom cabinet and a cupboard to go under the bathroom washbasin. I think DS has a slight DIY phobia as it's all flat pack stuff which he actually enjoys doing once he gets started.

I think I will have to write him a schedule for everything because I am still waiting for curtains that fit to be put up since last March. He also has all the other fittings like toothbrush holders, towel rails etc to put up. Tempted to get him decorating first and have the bathroom wallpapered. I found some nice thick vinyl stuff especially for bathrooms in Wilk0 a couple of weeks ago. We did not get round to painting it and it really could do with replastering. I can't pay for that with vouchers.

Now we have been here for more than a year we can do all these things. The vouchers are all from doing surveys. I think I have earned over £1,000 this last year. It has taken me 12 years to get to that level.