The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's the trouble with light mornings. You get up, make a coffee, walk round the garden, come back inside, sit down, look at the clock ..... blimey, if I'd known it was only 4.30 I'd have not done all that!

Don't worry, it's only a few months before it's not light till getting on for eight :rotfl:

michaels

Jazee wrote: »

I've been gardening Ivyleaf. 5 hours and I'm now trying to tell myself that my back doesn't hurt. I've repotted tomatoes and dug a new flower bed which is now looking really pretty with plants from the greenhouse.

I did a minor bit of gardening 3 weeks ago. since then my lower back has gor worse everyday and it is now a week since I was last able to walk properly even with painkillers. Not good. I saw a physio on Thursday but it has been even worse since so I suspect I need a scan and then who knows what. I am vaguely comfortable sitting down but only really ok lying. Standing, walking (bent forward) and especially fetting from sitting to standing are pretty tough. Supermarket today to get food for 3 German students is going to be a challenge although at least in the store tou get a trolley to lean on.

chris_m

chris_m wrote: »

I was - picking loads of strawberries and raspberries

Looks like my soft fruit approved of the work I did last Autumn tidying up the strawberry patch and fitting weed barrier membrane, and tidying the raspberry thicket into a structured patch with support wires.
So far I've picked nearly 1.5Kg of strawberries and nearly 3Kg of raspberries, and there's probably as much again to come :T

Although, looking at it, the raspberry patch is still a bit crowded in places. When I take out this year's fruiting canes I think I also need to take out some of the new canes which will fruit next year. At least I've managed to get most of them trained into the support wires already.

Oh, and my fruit cage is obviously proving welcome - the local sparrowhawk spent a good quarter of an hour sat on top of it, plucking whatever it was it had caught. Not sure what the unfortunate bird was because the plucking had progressed too far before I saw it to be able to tell and it was so windy that the feathers blew away down the road. I suspect it was a collared dove, it looked too big for a sparrow and the wrong colour for a starling.

Pyxis

I was at AmDram rehearsals/performance most of yesterday and evening, in our town theatre. Went quite well!

Cakeguts wrote: »

I am doing an experiment on whether playing a musical instrument relieves nerve pain. How I got the nerve pain is another story. (No is it nothing to do with teeth) I know about depression and playing music but don't know anything about whether it works with nerve pain. As luck (?) would have it I have now got pain so bad that it woke me up this morning when the pain killers wore off. I am not taking pain killers at the moment because that would defeat the experiment. I will let you know how I get on.

Ooh! Cakeguts! That sounds soooo interesting! Do keep us informed as to how you get on!
I do know that when I'm doing something musical, I don't notice my poorly leg's pain nearly so much! Plus I can go to a an AmDram rehearsal not feeling too well, and if music/singing is involved, I can come away at the end feeling a lot better, whereas if there isn't any involved, I'll still be feeling rough.
It must be the endorphins, I suppose.

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's the trouble with light mornings. You get up, make a coffee, walk round the garden, come back inside, sit down, look at the clock ..... blimey, if I'd known it was only 4.30 I'd have not done all that!

That's a lovely time of the morning! Who cares what the clock says! Enjoy it!
Before clocks, people used to get up with the sun anyway, and if it's a hot day, it makes sense to do stuff very early before it gets too hot, and then flop at midday!

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

I suggest you tell her what your perception of her current service is; and what you want in the future.

Unless she gets feedback that informs her what needs to improve, she will think she is doing Ok, but will quickly lose customers get a poor reputation and her fledgling business will fail.

If she does not meet your expectations thereafter you have been fair and given her a chance. I would then let her go.

What Spirit says. The absolute best thing that can happen to her is for somebody to explain to her, gently and without blaming, and in a way that is "for" her rather than "against" her, that for her business to succeed she needs to get a reputation for working hard for the duration of the time for which she charges. The sooner this happens, the easier it will be for her to correct the problem.

Cakeguts

Right well it can be difficult to sleep with shingles because of the pain. So at around 4.30am I was having a lovely stroll round the block. Very nice time of day. Pleasant temperature and quiet. Saw the fox in the garden when I got back. Very positive experience came out of an extremely negative one. Did get about 3 1/2 hours sleep after that so still tired but more positive about getting through this. Only about another 3 to 4 weeks to go..... Off to play some more music now. Been doing it on an off since about 11 am.

vivatifosi

Hi Cakeguts, I'll be interested to hear how you get on with that. My mum has post-herpetic neuralgia since getting shingles a few years back.

ivyleaf

Jazee wrote: »

I've been gardening Ivyleaf. 5 hours and I'm now trying to tell myself that my back doesn't hurt. I've repotted tomatoes and dug a new flower bed which is now looking really pretty with plants from the greenhouse.

There is a song written for the WW2 "Dig for Victory" campaign which includes the words "When your back hurts, laugh with glee and keep on digging!" so you're obviously on the right lines

ETA Though I don't think michaels would agree! :eek:

Well done on the fruit Chris :T

Cakeguts So sorry to hear you have the dreaded shingles! I hope the music helps.

Maggie ((HUGS)) Perhaps the dates the DWP think are correct will turn out to be in your favour, it does happen. Sorry you're having to wait even longer though

Tahlullah

16 degrees tops here.

chris_m

Nice and sunny up here, with a pleasant breeze.

This sun ought to bring on the fruit that I rejected this morning as being nearly but not quite ready