The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

silvasava

Monna, if you did the Joe Brown coat you'd never get it sewn up! Would love to know what Gangsta Granny thinks her neighbours are up to, probably something quite innocent 😁

Florenceem

Had my second jab today and then collected my new wedding ring.
Taken some paracetamol as advised by nurse at the surgery.
Feel exhausted after nearly 7000 steps - aren't you meant to do 10,000?
Yet another - 

pollyanna_26

Hope you feel better tomorrow Florence, Youngest had her second jab on Tuesday and had an even worse reaction than she did with the first. The nurse asked her how the first had gone and when she told her she said she'd probably react again due to being immune suppressed. However she's had a break from the immunosuppressent in an attempt to build her immune system.

Day 5 now and it's been neverending migraines.

It's difficult to fathom. Physically we have the same genetic health conditions yet I sailed through the first dose almost due my second so will see how that goes. I don't think anyone can predict how things go. I do hope at some point the scientists will come up with some answers. We both had the Oxford AZ yet reacted differently.

Monna I'd be sneaking a look inside the garage just to check the Ming isn't in there brewing up Sweeties from Alnwick.

It's been like the perils of Pauline here. I managed two rotatorcuff tears- third time since 2016 and broke the same toe I broke just over a year ago. Carrying a laundry basket downstairs with Fibro Fog is a bad idea fencers!

pollyx

mothernerd

pollyanna_26 said:

Hope you feel better tomorrow Florence, Youngest had her second jab on Tuesday and had an even worse reaction than she did with the first. The nurse asked her how the first had gone and when she told her she said she'd probably react again due to being immune suppressed. However she's had a break from the immunosuppressent in an attempt to build her immune system.

Day 5 now and it's been neverending migraines.

It's difficult to fathom. Physically we have the same genetic health conditions yet I sailed through the first dose almost due my second so will see how that goes. I don't think anyone can predict how things go. I do hope at some point the scientists will come up with some answers. We both had the Oxford AZ yet reacted differently.

Monna I'd be sneaking a look inside the garage just to check the Ming isn't in there brewing up Sweeties from Alnwick.

It's been like the perils of Pauline here. I managed two rotatorcuff tears- third time since 2016 and broke the same toe I broke just over a year ago. Carrying a laundry basket downstairs with Fibro Fog is a bad idea fencers!

pollyx

Either kick them downstairs as they are or put them in a bin bag (you can tie the top loosely if you want) and set it to roll down by itself. Same with rubbish and recycling (tie the rubbish more tightly depending on what sort of rubbish it is). Small wastepaper baskets are good for carrying things like pots downstairs - I found I could tuck one firmly under my arm held to my front and hold onto the rail firmly with the free hand. DS3 had the attic bedroom and I was up there for a few months (DS1 had to move back in and I thought it was easier to move my stuff up to the attic and put DS1 in the room I was using. Concentrates the mind wonderfully if you have to hobble up two flights of stairs to bring something you have forgotten. 

Sheets got too heavy to carry (to be honest when DS3 went out for the day to meet his cosplay friends I would throw/ roll all the quilts and pillows down as well). If they wouldn't have time to dry I put them outside to air, pillows all over the garden table and the tops of the bins. I've been very wary of stairs since I fell nearly the full flight when I was 8 yo. Just got my glasses and ended up tangled round the handrail - after that if I felt myself falling I would take my glasses off and throw them down (same if I was carrying scissors). Better to have to pay for new glasses than have glass embedded in my face.

Not to mention the 27 single socks (settled on buying him mostly black ones in the end) when he insisted he didn't have any (don't know why it always ended up as 27 - he had more than that in total).

monnagran

Mmmm.  I'm so glad that I've moved into a bungalow.  Having known a few elderly friends come to grief and having had to move my 90 year old father into a bungalow from the family home when he grew a bit unsteady on his pins, I decided that I  would move myself before my poor family had to do it for me.
Was It stressful?
You could say that.
I've never regretted it though.

It's a bit brisk here this morning, but still bright and sunny..  A friend and I went for a drive on Friday and the May was out in abundance.  The hedgerows were shimmering white with it.  So I suppose we could be casting clouts very soon.
The temperature is not so encouraging today though.

THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY 

I prayed for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.   (Frederick Douglass)

pollyanna_26

mothernerd I've been meaning to start posting on the Poor Health thread part two for a while but the last year has been so strange and the last twice I did post there I killed a laptop.

You've reminded me of all the tips on the first version including how posters would either throw- think that was Cranky or find other methods to deal with laundry. How to put a duvet cover on and many other tip

Perhaps it's time to start discussing how people manage everyday stuff again. The original thread is far too long to trawl through.

Meanwhile every now and then as well as reading your posts here I have a little look at The Turtles thread.

This is the pot calling the kettle black but could you set aside one day a week when you give yourself a break especially from shifting soil etc? I know you often have meals prepped in advance so maybe just feeding yourself and mum. Dealing with her more reasonable requests while ignoring the less reasonable and have a day to just "Be" once a week. resting, reading , doing some embroidering whatever brings you joy.

i do understand what it's like to be the family fixer and doer and want to see things done but I've learned the hard way that the very difficult to do Pacing makes sense. I was trying to do too many things the other day and thinking too much. I wasn't concentrating when I was carrying the laundry downstairs and look what happenend.

I need to work on the pacing lark and not be thinking of the next thing I need to do while doing something else.

I don't think you've been inside your own home since moving in to take care of your mum but unless there's been a miracle you may find yourself wading through pizza boxes etc and unblocking the sink for the umpteenth time when you finally go home.

You need to as rested as possible when that day comes and hopefully equiped with bin bags and a shouty voice.

Take care of you too.

pollyx

mothernerd

pollyanna_26 said:

mothernerd I've been meaning to start posting on the Poor Health thread part two for a while but the last year has been so strange and the last twice I did post there I killed a laptop.

You've reminded me of all the tips on the first version including how posters would either throw- think that was Cranky or find other methods to deal with laundry. How to put a duvet cover on and many other tip

Perhaps it's time to start discussing how people manage everyday stuff again. The original thread is far too long to trawl through.

Meanwhile every now and then as well as reading your posts here I have a little look at The Turtles thread.

This is the pot calling the kettle black but could you set aside one day a week when you give yourself a break especially from shifting soil etc? I know you often have meals prepped in advance so maybe just feeding yourself and mum. Dealing with her more reasonable requests while ignoring the less reasonable and have a day to just "Be" once a week. resting, reading , doing some embroidering whatever brings you joy.

i do understand what it's like to be the family fixer and doer and want to see things done but I've learned the hard way that the very difficult to do Pacing makes sense. I was trying to do too many things the other day and thinking too much. I wasn't concentrating when I was carrying the laundry downstairs and look what happenend.

I need to work on the pacing lark and not be thinking of the next thing I need to do while doing something else.

I don't think you've been inside your own home since moving in to take care of your mum but unless there's been a miracle you may find yourself wading through pizza boxes etc and unblocking the sink for the umpteenth time when you finally go home.

You need to as rested as possible when that day comes and hopefully equiped with bin bags and a shouty voice.

Take care of you too.

pollyx

I'm resting today. I have just shuffled across the bed to get to the drawers with the hayfever tablets in. I think I didn't have one to take yesterday either. I forget how it affects so much, have had a killer headache for a few days, it makes me feel miserable and so many bits hurt. I put my washing out early on and there were 7 small containers near to the raised beds so I put those in, but haven't had any urges to go out and do more (shoulders are okay as long as I don't do anything). Mum thinks the paint fumes are affecting her chest so has decided neither of us are painting today.

I made dinner (lamb already cut up in the freezer, veg taken out to start defrosting earlier, hardest part was doing the potatoes. Think I'll have a lazy day. I've done mum's postal vote papers and want to walk as far as the post box later (not sure if they collect on Bank Holidays or not). I will take the walker. I was going to try going as far as Morries but really don't want to. I was only intending buying my puzzle book and looking on the ys shelves but I'm very aware that I haven't been outside the gate since the 8th and having a target destination helps (would love to just go and sit under the road bridge on the canal bank but the steps up to the canal bank have been putting me off. I reread my current challenge yesterday and one thing missing is fun.

I think restarting the poorlies thread is a good idea. If it was a new thread perhaps we could move across edited highlights - I know I have a few bits written down - one about not feeling guilty or that buying sauce in a jar is 'cheating' if that shortcut means you can make a whole meal. Still not tried the putting the duvet on by rolling it up like a swiss roll - I have mum's double layer merino wool thing here. I don't think she could cope with it, I struggle sometimes. One night I was kicking it trying to get it off me enough so that I could go to the toilet.

I have been in my house twice (when it was allowed). Once to gather things that DS3 had not been able to find (in March 2020 I didn't think I would need thick winter jumpers and furry boots) and in October someone offered to bring some things for me in their car so I want home and packed 4 boxes, mainly tools, screws and diy stuff but odd items lying around that they wouldn't use.

I'm afraid it's worse than a blocked sink - the drains need dealing with again. I did find a contact for a local firm (often they have a local number and it's just a call centre and they send them out from wherever). I did message DS3 the details and asked if he had the money to pay but last time I was there (in the yard, they weren't awake) it hadn't been done. I know they have let the rubbish get on top of them and I did suggest various options - just putting things in bin bags and putting them out in the yard, found a couple of people who were offering £1 a bin bag special collection around C'mas and taking small amounts out in their pockets and putting them in the town centre and car park bins but I don't know if they have done any of that (bags can't go in the yard until the drains are sorted. I tried to look in the kitchen window but couldn't see except that the herbs I was growing on the windowsill are all dead. They have moved the new chinchilla cage into place and put the old one outside (in October the new one was assembled but was right in the middle of the room.

Not going to worry about it as it won't help. Think I'll read my book and do a bit more jigsaw puzzle. I have a lot of things to go to the charity shop (did try to arrange collection but they couldn't do it - lady was very apologetic).

Take care polly and all the other fencers.

Shropshirelass

I have been lurking here recently, as I find it a very cheerful place (that may raise a few smiles).  I would join a new poorlies thread, I am often using advice culled from the old ones.

Found the advice on getting washing down stairs useful, though sorry for your accident Polly. Years ago I slipped on the stairs while carrying a suitcase, landed on my bum and bumped my way down several stairs. Fractured sacrum, only diagnosed when we got home from the (very painful) holiday, though they can't actually do anything for it. Recently I've been getting PTSD type flashbacks about this,while taking various stuff up and down, for washing, chazza disposal , etc.so I'll accept them as a warning and change my ways. DH has wonky knees, back, feet etc, from arthritis so I don't want him to get involved. 

I had my 2nd vaccine jab this morning, been taking it easy since then, also because it's Sunday, and really cold in spite of the cheerful sunshine. Not worth planting anything out until it warms up. The countryside was really beautiful on our trip into the vaccine centre this morning, the trees opening their leaves slowly this year, lots of sweet lambs and cute calves in the fields.

MingVase

I'm a great fan of bungalows with no stairs.

burtha

hi everyone,
 sorry I've been missing in action . life's been a bit full on , just about holding on to my sanity still . 

still chasing stuff up with the ex and solicitors and now court again because he's breaching everything ... fun . 
thankfull he's showing his true personality and I've just had to watch on and wait .. 
but it makes me smile that he looks so silly and now it's costing him money as well as lost children / friends , silly man . .

so ,catching up with a coffee before I run and do a core challenge,  anyone want to join me in 200 sit ups 
I've done every little over the last 24 hours , chilling by the side of a reservoir with the dog and the frog  . 
watching the world go by doing my proggy mat , that will be the dogs birthday present    trying to compleat it asap . .. 

glad everyone seams to be ok , normal amount of strangeness going on x