The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

CRANKY40

VJsmum could you be sensitive to sulphites? They're a preservative in bacon and dried fruit. They're used in wine and cider too....I had the same rash as you under my eye a while back but the amount of anti-histamine that I'm taking for hayfever just now (and given that I'm not drinking either wine or cider because I'm trying to lose weight) means that I'm ok with most other things. There is a type of bacon sold in Strangeburys and the posh supermarket beginning with W that is called "naked bacon" and it's preservative free.

Ivy I have everything crossed that your medication works. My sister suffers from vertigo and it's horrible.

Fuds I'm with LW. That poor puppy. I'm wondering if it might not find it's way to you at some point anyway. It's seeming like you have made some decent acquaintances in your new home. The allotment people probably know what Mr Know-it-all is like already. Karma will come for him at some point.

I'm half a leftie. Naturally left handed I was taught to write with my right hand (goodness knows why - my dad is left handed - you'd have thought they'd notice) and until I was 9 I was continually told off for my bad hand writing. That was when it dawned on me that other people could see what they were writing....I was holding my pen the left handed way but in my right hand and couldn't see what I had written until I moved my hand away. I use a mixture of both hands now, with neither being particularly dominant but I still write with my right hand.

VJsmum

Softstuff wrote: »

VJsmum, good to have pinpointed the rash cause.... but to be without bacon :eek:

LameWolf wrote: »

My thought was "oh no, not life without strawberries, surely...." :rotfl:

CRANKY40 wrote: »

VJsmum could you be sensitive to sulphites? They're a preservative in bacon and dried fruit. They're used in wine and cider too....I had the same rash as you under my eye a while back but the amount of anti-histamine that I'm taking for hayfever just now (and given that I'm not drinking either wine or cider because I'm trying to lose weight) means that I'm ok with most other things. There is a type of bacon sold in Strangeburys and the posh supermarket beginning with W that is called "naked bacon" and it's preservative free.

And there was me thinking about life without red wine.... :rotfl:

The good news is that i don't have to be without any of it - apparently we have a 'bucket' of histamine that we can process (which is a different size for everyone, I think mine is quite small), it is once the bucket is full then everything gets wet... So I can have these things - just not all on the same day. i think the time of year comes into it - I had also been in the garden and the garden centre for most of the day. I can also take antihistamines, but would rather seek natural solutions. Cranky, yes I have often thought of sulphites, but i think the strawberries are what tipped me over.... I will continue to experiment ..

Jazee

I'm a lefty too.

ivyleaf

Oh, good luck VJsmum

fuddle that's such a shame, but I feel so sorry for the pup as well, it must wonder what's going on! I too hope it's gone to a loving home. "Your" dog will come along soon, I'm sure x

VJsmum

Oh and I am a righty who eats like a lefty....

Emptynester

Hope the poorlies, sad and worried have had as good a day as possible. Fuddle, shame about the dog for both you and it. From reading your posts I am sure you would have cared for it properly. Let's hope it has gone to a good home and the right dog for you comes along before too long.
I have had a better day. I have done physio exercises and walked but also reminded myself to take appropriate rests. Surprise surprise it helps. My natural way is to storm ahead and try to do 3 days worth in one. Well I've only been like this for 57 years so I will just have to change.
I'm going to do a bit more sewing this evening. I need to do things in short bursts but since my new machine arrived I have altered 2 pairs of trousers and am now altering a skirt.

I hope this fence isn't too high. Do we need ladders or can we draw up garden chairs?

Nargleblast

The Garden Fence is an enchanted one, it expands or contracts according to how many people are leaning against it at the time.

Knit_Witch

Nargleblast wrote: »

The Garden Fence is an enchanted one, it expands or contracts according to how many people are leaning against it at the time.

Of course there are also the handy dandy shelves for resting your drink of choice on at the right height as well :rotfl:

Nargleblast

My OH has found that Oramorph (morphine in syrup form) every 4-5 hours really settles the pain. We have gone past the paracetamol/ibuprofen stage. I asked his Macmillan nurse today to see about getting him on slow release morphine tablets, I am sure she will sort it for us. She was encouraging about the CT scan result, showing it was only in his bones, nowhere else, and could be managed. Our daughter in law, a doctor, warned me that the prognosis for someone with bone secondaries is at best two years. We shall just have to see what the oncologist says and take things one day at a time. Just waiting for the appointment to come in the post.

Nargleblast

Knitwitch I would thank you for the reminder about the Fence shelves, but some booger has nicked my Thanks button. Honestly, this place...if you don't tie things down....