Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

Pyxis

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Well said, totally agree xx

Wow!



I was cowering behind the sofa, expecting a load of stick!

whitewing

Belated happy birthday, WaS. I did wish you happy bday in my head a few times on the day but don't find it easy to post via mobile.

I like royalty as it reminds me of my grandparents. My grandmother lived in London and adored the Queen. Various distant relatives worked for them or met them in one form or other and felt nicely special.

Littlewing and I have been making all sorts of Christmassy things. Unlike me at her age, the stuff she makes is classy and artistic so I am pleased. We made some of the National Trust's sliced orange Xmas decorations and they looked great - not as great as the picture on the website, but the people we gave them too hadn't seen that. Now we are going to do some more for other family members. We are also going to make marzipan tree decorations and melt our own chocolate tree decorations.

The lego advent calendar has been opened this morning. (This was a present to littlewing).

I got two beautiful xmas mugs for £1 each in a charity shop this morning. There is some very good quality stuff in the charity shops now.

Smear test result came back normal. This is only the second one I had in about 20 years, so definitely worth having them done, even if you have been ignoring them for years. I had convinced myself that something must be wrong through my neglect.

Brr, nippy here and I am in the balmy South of England.

onomatopoeia99

Pyxis wrote: »

I was cowering behind the sofa, expecting a load of stick!

Not from me, I was commenting about the coverage rather than the constitutional argument (which I'm happy to go into but wanted to avoid. I basically favour the status quo - Latin, not the band - though I am conflicted and I certainly would never trade places with any of them, no matter how wealthy they are. ).


edit - am home now, I left work at lunch time as I was so tired there was no point me being there

calleyw

whitewing wrote: »

Smear test result came back normal. This is only the second one I had in about 20 years, so definitely worth having them done, even if you have been ignoring them for years. I had convinced myself that something must be wrong through my neglect.

WW well done for going. I had my first one last year at 44. The nurse was amazing. I thought she was going to give me grief about it. Nope she said well done for coming. She did not rush me and said not the most dignified of things. I think we all convince oursleves of things.

If I think I am not sure on some food being iffy when I eat it, I then start to convince myself its iffy and get upset stomach and headache etc :rotfl::rotfl:

I feel a bit better today due to getting a decent nights sleep and I have company today as well.

Everyone have a good a day as possible.

yours

Calley x

elsien

I'm with you on the sleep issues at the moment, Ono. Went to the GP about something else and asked while I was there. I was told they didn't want to do sleeping pills (which I hadn't requested and wouldn't take anyway) and I was given a print out about sleep hygiene. Which on a quick glance seems like a long list of statements of the bleeding obvious, however I do know there are things I could be doing to help such as getting to bed at a vaguely sensible time, so I suppose I should give it a go.
Melly, Code, Was, Welly and all our other missing people, if you're reading this, really hope you're all doing as well as can be expected given the curveballs that life keeps throwing

Lambyr

I can now add Friday: phone line still not fixed. Called BT. Due to a "communications error" they never requested the engineer to fix my line. So now I've had to buy a data bolt on to get me through the weekend since I was down to my last 50MB.

If anyone with a good memory can do me a favour and remind me that whatever they offer next July not to renew my contract with them, that'd be appreciated. Thanks!

dandy-candy

Elsien could you share some more details about the sleep print out please?

elsien

Info about what normal sleep is and normal amounts.
Defining insomnia.
Causes of poor sleep.
Ways to improve sleep - general tips about sleep hygiene. (The one about not drinking alcohol 6 hours before bedtime ain't going to happen.)
Information about various therapies.

I think the idea is that you try the stuff you can do yourself first, then go back to the GP for further referrals if it's not happening.

It also links to this, which may have similar information.

https://sleepcouncil.org.uk

Pyxis

I must admit that I did find alcohol interferes with sleep, not just because of the effect of it on the brain, but because it always makes me need to go to the loo in the night even more often than 'normally', as the Need wakes me up.

I do sleep better when I haven't drunk alcohol after about 5or 6pm.

Another thing that helps, because I'm sure I snore, is taping my mouth shut.
Not as awful as it sounds......... use a piece of 2.5cm micropore tape vertically down across the middle of your closed lips. Only use micropore tape, not Elastoplast!
In an emergency, you can easily open your mouth, even if asleep, but otherwise, the tape keeps your mouth shut and helps to reduce snoring.



And finally, Cheshire cheese at bedtime seems to help a bit, too. Some studies were done on the effect of cheese on sleeping/nightmares etc, and it was shown not to have a bad effect on sleep, or to promote nightmares, and it even showed that some cheeses, notable Cheshire cheese, actually seems to help sleep.

I've tried it, and it does seem to help.

All these things have a quite subtle effect, but used together, could make a difference.

elsien

I did text a relative at 5pm to enquire if it was too early to open the wine, and was promptly asked if I was ok.
I guess I could stay up later to get my 6 hours in, but then I'm contravening my earlier bedtime rule. Can't win.
As a starting point though, I'm going to have a phone free evening. If anyone sees my green light on tonight, please shout at me.