The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

MingVase

Gorgeous bright sunny day up here today, was 4c but climbing slowly to the dizzy heights of 8c 

prepareathome

Gorgeous sunny day here - so different from yesterday when it was torrential rain - road outside became a river (usually happens about twice a year when rains like that) we had to have our path re-laid as it used to dip towards house and water was threatening to come over doorstep, mainly caused because so many people have paved over their front gardens so water only has road to run down and road is on a slope bottom of which is just a few houses down from us so pools at lowest point then spreads out.   Nearby yesterday, rain was so heavy in short space of time people were flooded and a small town 10 mins away had a tornado.  Today been walking around secure field with dogs in short sleeves and sunglasses, as that sun is just perfect - not the heavy hotness of summer, just fresh and hot enough.  

monnagran

Beautiful day here as well.  I celebrated by having my booster jab.  I felt nothing of the first two, I could have dreamt the whole episodes, but although I felt nothing of the jab itself today I have since felt very tired and achey.  There again, that could be old age making its presence felt.

I've picked up my knitting again.  The dreaded Christmas stockings have been requested by the mini-market for their Christmas bonanza.  That and the jars of mincemeat and Clementine and Cointreau marmalade are all I'm doing this year.  I will make a lot and it will also do for sundry presents.

burtha, it is lovely to hear of your DD doing so well.   It has been a rocky ride for you both, but you all seem to have won through.  You, yourself, sound like a completely different person these days.  Well done you!

 

monnagran

I seem to have killed off this thread, so will try to resurrect it.

I notice that the lovely Pollyanna seems to have missing for a while.
Polly, it you are just having a rest from our meanderings then that's OK.  If however, you are not doing so well, please look after yourself.  We can't lose you.

Well, it had to happen.  After swanning through the first two Cobid jabs, it got me with the third.  No aching arm and no headache, and the shivering was unpleasant but short lived, but the general weak, wobbly, wiped-out state seems to have settled in for the duration.  Unaccustomed as I am to suffering, I am milking this for all its worth. There is a definite Monna shaped dent in the sofa and the duvet is bewildered at finding itself off the bed and on the sofa and back on the bed again, rinse and repeat.

And that is enough exertion for today.

nursemaggie

Monna those of us who suffer this sort of thing frequently, welcome you but hope it will be over quickly. Maybe you should tell others what it is like to be spoon less.

Got on the wrong bus coming home. I'm sure the driver knew I was on the wrong bus. As soon as I realised I pressed the bell but he just sailed past 3 more bus stops. It took me an hour to get back to the next bus on my route.

I have decided it is not a good idea for two bus companies to have Navy blue buses and similar logos. The bus must have completely changed it's route because I could have stayed on the old one and got home eventually just from the opposite direction. I would still have got home earlier. They appear to have rearranged the bus routes, timetables and bus companies since Covid.   

MrsCD

Nursemaggie, I noticed that the big bus company up here seems to change their timetables every other month. I'm grateful that I don't need to use them, but it must be frustrating for those who do.

Shropshirelass

I'm hoping everyone is OK in the heavy rain we have had. No-one been washed off the fence? Or marooned in their house with only jelly babies for nutrition and Christmas supplies of Bailey's for hydration? I'm sure I can hear the click of knitting needles and the hysterical looping of crochet hook and yarn echoing round the country (it's very quiet round here at the best of times).//

MingVase

Well it's been close but we're ok and I have Smarties!

pollyanna_26

monnagran said:

I seem to have killed off this thread, so will try to resurrect it.

I notice that the lovely Pollyanna seems to have missing for a while.
Polly, it you are just having a rest from our meanderings then that's OK.  If however, you are not doing so well, please look after yourself.  We can't lose you.

Well, it had to happen.  After swanning through the first two Cobid jabs, it got me with the third.  No aching arm and no headache, and the shivering was unpleasant but short lived, but the general weak, wobbly, wiped-out state seems to have settled in for the duration.  Unaccustomed as I am to suffering, I am milking this for all its worth. There is a definite Monna shaped dent in the sofa and the duvet is bewildered at finding itself off the bed and on the sofa and back on the bed again, rinse and repeat.

And that is enough exertion for today.

Dearest monna I'm so sorry to have caused you to worry about me. I actually managed to drop a six month old laptop while carrying it downstairs early last week. Rather stupidly I'd not long got in after shopping and visiting youngest who is in the middle of lots of long delayed NHS appt catch ups.

I still had my ankle boots on which have heels. I normally take them off when get home but forgot to. I'd been emailing dd and a friend  while getting ready that morning and left the laptop up there.   I did glance at its case but racing against the clock I didn't put it away which may have saved it later. I have no idea why I thought it a sensible to carry it minus it's protective case across my arms downstairs. I'd normally have been carrying it by the handle.

I was also balancing a cup with some water in. I don't do well with sore paws and glasses nowadays too many breakages.  My beloved next slide please Chris Whitty mug sits on the desk next to the landline as I don't trust myself not to drop it. So that is a pen holder now.

As youngest said when I owned up it was a perfect storm waiting to happen. No idea whatever posessed me  to carry a laptop and water downstiars. I walked past the bathroom but didn't think to empty the cup or leave it until later. So I tripped part way down lost my grip on the laptop and it turned upside down and started heading downstairs as I tried to grab it. It ended up in the hall.

All the downstairs floors including the hall are hard floors only the stairs . landing and bedrooms are carpeted . It stopped the constant cleaning of juice stains when all the horde were living here and other spills. Easier to use my EMop than drag out the carpet shampooer.

The case was undamaged but the bottom was wet which didn't bode well. I left it overnight on a stack of thick microfibre cloths which seemed to have absorbed most of the water . I took it to dd and her Techie BF last week and it was deemed extinct.

Luckily I've been concentrating on needs not wants since the start of the pandemic and being very frugal so had a savings pot building up. So with the prospect of me losing my mind without the internet , youngest coping fine with email but struggling on the phone and having to cope with my moans it was time to order a new one

We ordered it last Friday and it arrived at here Tuesday, Her boyfriend kindly went with her to the dentist and other appts while I wallowed in a black hole. yesterday she was at our surgery for more tests. She is becoming more independant and doing some appts alone she trusts our GP and the staff so travelled on her own yesterday and picked me up on her way to the surgery had her test then came in the little coop with me.

We were picking up her meds when we got to town. She was going to wait outside but decided to look at the make up while I was at the Pharmacy so that was a giant step for her going in Boots. She then came into Marks with me and did some shopping. First time in big shops since Feb last year and a giant step for her as staff in the shops welcomed her back.

She was bothered the row of chairs in Marks were missing. The ones they named after here a couple of years ago after she collapsed at the checkout and they had to run to customer services for a chair.

That chair remained near the checkout and was added to until there was a row of Ks chairs. They're bringing them back now after speaking to her although I suspect we will see hands face space back.

Sorry for such a long post but I know you'll be pleased that after a lot of fear due to the virus she's beginning to make her way forward more independantly. She speaks of you and your storming the gates of heaven and the Kidney Stone often. You were there when she needed someone and we'll never forget all the times your support made a difference.,

Hopefully you're now feeling a bit better after your 3rd jab. I'm due mine shortly and like you sailed through the first two so no idea how the third will go. I had a call from the practice manager a few days ago about both the Shingles and Pneumonia jabs. I've never had either before but did have a very bd case of Chickenpox as a child and was told later that pretty well meant I'd never get it again or later Shingles.  i did remark the other day I'd end up like a sieve at this rate but she just laughted and said talk to Superdoc and see what he says.

I don't know if you're still helping and supporting David but please do look after yourself and rest , read , knit or just be in the moment rather than rushing around. You are very precious to so many of us toughies and we worry about you as you do about  fencers and others in your life too.

I've probably sent you to sleep with such a long post so thank you for thinking of me. I need to catch up but one way or another we'll keep this old fence going. Mar should behave now she has Smarties to deal with the sweetie cravings.

Take care and much love from polly and K xx

monnagran

Dear Polly, thank you so much for the explanation.  I am so glad that it was your laptop that was suffering and not you..

I am thrilled that your DD is being so outgoing.  Fancy having a M&S chair named after you!  Fame indeed.  I do dimly remember storming heaven's gate on her behalf, isn't it amazing how the tiniest thing that you say or do has such an effect on someone else.

Yes, I'm still looking after David.  The only family he has left is a 98 year old sister who lives on the mainland, so without his friends he would be entirely alone.  He is very frail himself, but his spirit is as strong as ever.
I do sometimes think that I'm living two people's lives, but all you can do is keep putting one foot in front of the other.

I'm still living in a muddle.  Every so often I clear one area, then I move on to another area and in clearing that the first area reverts to its original chaos. 
Ah well, it keeps me out of mischief.