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Shropshirelass

Prepareathome, our posts crossed! Thank you, good advice there!

pollyanna_26

Shropshirelass said:

A Remembrance Sunday service is held every year at the Merchant Navy Memorial on Tower Hill London. (DS belongs to RNR HMS President, who attend. He prefers it to the big show at the Cenataph) 

Our Bonnie, the Scottie/Westie cross who has bossed our household for 8 years (emphasis on the word cross), appears to be suffering from SAD. SInce October she sleeps 23 hours a day, growls at anyone who disturbs her, and insists on only following her own path when out for a walk. Walks are much reduced as she refuses to go out in the wind, rain or mud. Anyone who disturbs her sleep is threatened by alarming growls. Exposure to daylight lamp has not helped. I have a feeling she will only improve after Hogmanay. Is she just showing her innate common sense?

It seems to me Bonnie has a great deal of commonsense.If she;s been exposed to tv or radio news there wont be much there to motivate her to enjoy her usual way of life.

If humans could hibernate I'd be first in the queue.

Big ginger mog has taken to  being dds Dr as she's ill and pretty sleepless at the moment. His sister is supposed to do the night shift but is slacking now finding herself a suitable hiding place at bedtime.

Your Bonnie is marching to a different drum. Much longer and pets will take over . Hopefully a much less scary version of Animal Farm.

They just need to master online ordering first.

Take care.

pollyx

MingVase

I think maybe I meant Dorset not Devon.. is Dorset full of cosy wee villages and high hedges?

LameWolf

@Shropshirelass I hope Bonnie feels more like herself soon. I agree, a visit to the vet would be a good idea.

monnagran

I'm with Bonnie.  Hibernation is the way to go.  Mind you, I'd be happy to hibernate all through the summer as well.  Perhaps I'd better go to the vet.

Who was it mentioned bombs and mines?  We are still discovering them on the IOW.  Only a week or two ago the bomb disposal chaps had to deal with an unexploded bomb discovered offshore.

It wasn't only the serving men who had narrow escapes.  My dear old David was at home during the Southampton Blitz and just getting ready to go to the shelter when a bomb dropped on his house.  His mother was on the other side and rescued fairly quickly, although she never walked again.  David was pinned under a rafter and couldn't move even an inch because there were several tons of masonry resting on the beam.  He was there for some time and eventually heard the rescuers preparing to pack up and go home as they had decided that no one could still be alive in there.  He was saved by his dog, Slipper, who somehow managed to wriggle through gaps and lick his ear.  The dog managed to get the men to understand where David was, and he was saved, though the nightmares remained.

Polly have you read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society?  I think they have made a film of it, though having read the book I didn't want my mental images to be spoiled, so I've never watched the film.

We had a lovely service at the village war memorial this morning.  At 11am exactly a lone Spitfire flew overhead.  They do it every year and it is very poignant.

P.S.  you should know better than to set me off on my war stories.

pollyanna_26

I did read the Guernsey Literary and potato Peel Pie Society monna. I'm like you and have images in my head of characters in books. Being confined to base a lot I buillt up a large collection of dvds, all the Dickens. Cranford and follow up. Larkriseb to Candleford, Wuthering Heights, North and South. South Riding in fact all the books I'd always loved.

The only time a character didn't look right was John Hannah in his short stint as John Rebus. Too tidy and well turned out. Ken Stott was Rebus. Drank too much  smoked too much and resembled an unmade bed when it came to clothes. I still wish he and Ian Rankin would forget their fall out and do those last books on film. There is supposed to be one last follow up to A Song For The Dark Times and it would be good to see those last two books on screen.

So sad about David and his mum but what a brave little dog. We must never forget those times although I was born later.

I have a very soft spot for the little Spitfires. My dad and the rest of the convoys owed their lives to them.

I love it when they're at the air show as part of the WW2 flypast.

We were lucky to see one flying here as part of the NHS tribute , dipping its wings over our hospital to acknowledge those on the front line in the pandemic. It was painted with Thank You NHS and brought tears to our eyes. Bravery of the past saluting modern day heroes battling the unknown.

I like your stories whether wartime or after. It's social history and important lest we forget all the different times that formed the fabric of society through the generations good and bad. I'm afriaid my childrens eyes used to glaze over at times as I explained their roots from the Irish Famine to the present day.

That may explain why none of them went into teaching. I would have loved a little school like yours. You are the only person I've ever heard of setting up such a school. I had a bit of a time with local education when I decided to home school youngest but knew the law, had the experience and a back up from the head of home ed whose husband just happened to be a distance learning tutor funded by the EU. He actually came here to help dd with IT but admitted she was way ahead of him, so tapped in to her interest in the planets and stars, photography, reading etc. All the thngs that had brought the wrong diagnosis of Aspergers from the psych at camhs. Normal interests in our world but not according to the man who'd discovered Tony Attwood and thereafter diagnosed every youngster with Aspergers until he was sruck off the medical register for life but sadly not soon enough for all those he damaged.

I hope you're still getting some you time with a chance to rest.

pollyx

pollyanna_26

Where have you all gone? I did wonderi why Mar was asking if there were high hedges in Dorset, some devious plot  perhaps to establish her own commune in my absence by wafting you all elsewhere.

Too late to warn it wont be anything like the Jam Butty Mines in Knotty Ash more 24hour Jelly Baby production overseen by Ming the Hun and no singing jolly but irritating songs,

My mum loved Ken Dodd, I didn't but it did come as a surprise to learn of his interest in reading and the amount of time he spent in the Liverpool branch of the bookstores in Scotland and the North region dd1 ran for some time,

He left a lot to charity but I think I was the wrong generation to find him funny. just into very different music and humour.

I hope everyone is ok and not affected by the sudden slug mode many seem to have been hit with.

. I'm beginning to feel better now but it's nearly 3 weeks since I've left the house. Youngest has been very ill but all our covid tests have come back negative. She's been told to act as though she;s positive due to her symptoms but has now tested still clear.

It's her normal Autumn to Spring it's just a pity the symptoms are similar to Covid, the same thing happened last year but can't just assume it's "normal".

pollyx

Hard_Up_Hester

I hope youngest feels better soon.

I get a cough every winter, not serious, just irritating. I've had it for the last 40 years. Now, because of covid people glare at me when I clear my throat.

MrsCD

I had my covid booster yesterday and felt quite rough last night, but not so bad today. Arm is still very tender and I feel a bit spaced out but a couple of days of brufen should sort the aches and pains out. Prof Tim from the Zoe covid study is saying we should stop thinking of it as a booster, and more like the full dose. Supposedly when we need our 4th, 5th..... it will still be the full dose!?

pollyanna_26

Hard_Up_Hester said:

I hope youngest feels better soon.

I get a cough every winter, not serious, just irritating. I've had it for the last 40 years. Now, because of covid people glare at me when I clear my throat.

Thanks Hester she's slightly better but blinding migraines are slow to leave. Tested clear again for covid so it's a bigger hit of her usual autumn, winter , spring mode. She's had so many face to face appts in a short time after none since March last year I think it's just knocked her for six. Her booster jab is now 1st Dec hopefully after that too had to be moved further ahead. It's hard to keep up with all the moving of goalposts but the diary is helping track. It is a mess though with things crossed out.

I get bronchitis every winter ,  have done since childhood and I had the glares last year. Hayfever season I'm sneezing and coughing . Last spring although masked people were mostly sverving away from me which to be honest suited me fine when many weren't social distancing in lockdowns. I did say sorry hayfever in shops wearing my masks and did hands, face . space each time I was out. I still do .

Hope all is well with you and the family. How are things back at the Marina? I remember a while back you had problems with reading your books or other online forms of entertainment.

There has been hardly anything I would watch on TV don't watch soaps, celebs etc. I did make an exception and watch our Weatherman Owain live doing his 24 hr drumathon but wont be following the programme tonight. He;s someone who brings the sun just as Diane did and always makes me laugh.

One of the few things I've followed is Our Yorkshire Farm.I love the relationships between both parents and offsprings from the oldest to the youngest. No prima donnas there just real life they're getting on with. Real social and living skills.

It's very quiet on OS. I hope people are just resting, preparing for winter or perhaps recovering from their jabs whether flu or covid booster.

A number of people I know had a reaction like yours MrsCD. Haven't had my booster yet. First 2 jabs were the Oxford for youngest and myself she reacted badly but I sailed through both although I'm not someone who normally has regular jabs. Hope you feel fine soon.

pollyx