Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

Pyxis

Oh dear, what a long day yesterday! Left the hotel at 6.00 am Uk time,for a2 hour drive to the airport, and we were really early for our flight, which was due to leave at 11.50 am UK time.
Then, our plane got delayed, and in the end it was four hours late, so we finally took off at 4pm UK time. Got to Gatwick to find a massive queue at Passport Control. Then another two hour drive, and finally got home at 9.30 pm, dead on my feet!

It wouldn't matter, except I have a quick turnaround today as I'm off again tomorrow for five days, Oxford this time, but have to wash clothes and repack etc.

Anyway, the holiday I've just had was really good! Will deffo be doing more of the same!
I actually got into the pool for the first time in......can't actually remember when I was last in a pool! Playing ball games! I was useless because every time the ball came towards me, I'd duck! I'm not a good swimmer, and am not really a water person! Still, had a go though!


Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:T:D What's Escapette's costume of?
Hahaha! What cartoons was LittleSod watching? Deputy Dawg? Huckleberry Hound? Scooby Doo?. :rotfl:


Hellos to Bluebell and Domravioli,

jobbingmusician

Awwwwwww - escapee is gorgeous!

Carveries are great calley. Just queue up and tell them what you'd like for meat or veggie main, helping yourself to any Diy sides. Then go back if you want more! Yum!

calleyw

Just to say if you can stay up tonight there is suppose to be a super moon and it can be seen in this country.

The moon will appear massive and blood red.

I will try and stay awake for it but its at 2am!!!!

Right off to get dressed and ready.

Yours

Calley

Pyxis

Elsien, does the second dog in this clip remind you of anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzIPdaTw3Kc

Georgiegirl256

I love a carvery! Hope you enjoy it Calley, they're straightforward enough to use. I'd love to see that moon, but don't think I'll be staying up until 2am!

How cute Welly, little sod helping out with the child care! "Look mummy I've put the cartoons on!"

Sounds like you had a brilliant time Pyxis! Hope you enjoy Oxford!

geminilady

Calley Thanks for the heads up about the moon will probably be up as I am a night owl,only thing is I have to puppy sit tomorrow and have to be up early.Oh well can catch up later.If you like meat you will love the carvery they usually do three kinds and lots of veggies and roasties

Flybaby

I am looking forward to the super blood moon tonight - it will start around 1.10am and be best around 3.10am for any other of you night owls. Another busy weekend my end and I can officially say I have "ladder legs" - loads of hours up a ladder painting facias and cleaning gutters and installing the gutter hedgehogs - my thighs are complaining!! If the good weather continues into the week as planned I shall be back on painting fence panels - only 14 sides left to do. 21 fence panels around the garden equals 42 sides............did not think about that when we bought the house now did we!!!!!!! Also have another 8 panels to do if I feel like being nice and doing the "general" fence panels around the garages - none of the neighbours ever do any work to maintain the garage forecourt and I must admit that after repairing the "commonly owned fence" and weeding the entire thing, always being the one to weep up all the leaves and the only ones to salt it in the winter, I am thinking it is time the neighbours helped out. but I know it's not going to happen so I might as well get on with it. I would leave the area but actually we are in a lovely quiet area and the garage forecourt could potentially attract unwanted visitors in cars late at night if it looked unkempt, so we try and keep it looking tidy, maintained and cared for so it is less appealing to anyone up to no good.

Waves_and_Smiles

How sweet of Little Sod, Welly! I hope you are managing to get some sleep and Escapette is sleeping through at least some of the night. Escapette has the same name as my SIL, I have always loved that name.

Hope the carvery went well, Calley! I love those!

Poor Pyxis! I hope you get some sleep tonight before your next trip!

I shall attempt to stay up for the Super Moon but I have my hospital check up tomorrow to make sure my stomach is healing. I get to drink another jug of vaguely strawberry flavoured sludge so that they can watch it flow through my body. It isn't until 10am though so I can probably manage to stay up!

I feel better than I did yesterday. I am still worrying about the three things that could come together into the perfect storm of utter disaster but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it in advance. To put it simply they are now swapping people over to PIP in my area, my ESA review is due in December and I may have to move in the next few months for the landlord to upgrade the properties. If all of these things happen at the same time and I have to appeal PIP and ESA I would have no money and nowhere to live all at once.

I simply cannot go onto unemployment benefit, I wouldn't even make it through the first interview or even into the waiting room and I honestly believe that it would probably put me in hospital. The last time I was assessed for ESA it resulted in a hospital stay because I simply couldn't cope with it. I am going to try very hard not to get myself in so much of a mess this time but if all three things happen at once I know I will fall to pieces and hospital is almost certain.

On the bright side, despite my panic I was placed into the Support Group without a face to face assessment because my consultant pointed out that on the strength of the form alone I became totally psychotic and a threat to myself and that he wasn't prepared to release me from hospital until I was guaranteed benefit. They couldn't argue really. It was absolutely awful though, I was slipping into catatonia and other nightmare worlds multiple times a day and somehow convinced myself aided by the voices that water was a poison so refused fluids other than pure fruit juice and was terrified of washing. I would cry my eyes out if they so much as bought water into my room and we won't even get into trying to use the bathroom, a nurse had to stay with me. A horrible, horrible time.

There is absolutely nothing I can do though, I cannot control the timing of benefit reviews and on asking my letting agent if I would be asked to leave the flat he said we hope not. So he isn't sure. The last time I had to move I became very unwell and skipped sectioning by the skin of my teeth and doctors began to talk about supported housing, so now Sods Law has decided to throw everything together at the same time. I am trying very hard not to dwell on all of this with varying success but it is already making me unwell unfortunately and it's frustrating and scaring WaSp because he can see me getting worse and he can't fix it for me.

Pyxis

MummyPanda and Pandakin having a lunchtime nap!





(Courtesy of Torbrex on the "It's a Panda Thread"!)

elsien

Pyxis;69231979]Elsien, does the second dog in this clip remind you of anyone?

Think that + exuberant greetings to the judges + legging it with one of the cones.
Gitdog has just wandered past looking the picture of innocence and wafting a strong aroma of extra strong mint. Now wondering whether he's demolished the polos or the toothpaste.

WaS, no-one is going to expect you to go onto unemployment benefit, they're really not. I've recently met a number of people who've put in ESA claims and been awarded them who are no-where near as ill as you. And you can get CAB to help fill in the forms - they know the descriptors and what's relevant, and all the processes. And don't you carry on getting DLA until the PIP assessment is complete?
BTW the lettings agent saying "we hope not" to me means that they're aware of your situation and will do everything they can to avoid it.
Try not to worry - I know that's probably a ridiculous thing to say, but face it if and when it happens, not before.

I'd like to stay up to see the moon but I'm hopeful of snoring my head off by that time of morning.
Did you make it to your carvery, Calley?