The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

ivyleaf

Well Helebore, it sounds as though you're well out of there!

nursemaggie So glad to hear you have some peace and quiet. it must feel very strange indeed!

monnagran I handwrote a letter today too! Mine was to a niece.

I had my hospital appointment this afternoon and was pleased to learn that my thyroxine level is back to normal! The doctor had no idea what might have caused it to drop in the first place.

Helebore

My friend that I said was psychic actually has spirit guides. I met her in Lidl and got chatting to her in the car park, only a few months ago now!
Again thank you to everyone, I know I am well out of that place. And am totally sure the residents are ok too.
It's so funny. I worked on my ward for over 20 years and I think I had only one or two complaints, official like, in all that time. Although various patients would complain about everything and everyone but that was the nature of the beast. I got called a beetroot headed !!!!! once, makes me laugh each time I tell people, some folk are quite shocked. I dye my hair plum, so it must have been a good hair day! Mind, staff may have complained but nothing springs to mind!
Helena

Helebore

I said b i t c h! Hahaha!

Nargleblast

Tinydancer wrote: »

Forgot to say I will be thinking of you both Nargle when DH has his radiotherapy. I really admire your spirit and the way you deal with each step is absolutely the way to be.

There is no other way as far as I see it, it is what it is. At least we have got over the initial shock, and the surgery experience, and his recent two day hospital stay, and getting him on the right pain meds. Our friend next door invited him to a pub restaurant for a meal tonight. He said to me this morning he couldn't be bothered but I made him go. He is there now, no doubt tucking into mussels in a white wine sauce (gross, but he likes that kind of thing), putting the world to rights. Experiences like that are what he needs, what we both need, so that the cancer does not take over our lives but is dealt with along the way. I know when he starts chemo next week he may have days when he cannot be bothered with anything, but we will go with the flow and adapt our routines as necessary.

Floss

Nargle I caught something on the radio today about Millenials spending their disposable income on experiences to create memories, rather than "stuff" - presumably because they may not be able to afford to house said stuff - but it is a rather good way to behave, and to spend ones dosh on good tomes with family & friends xx

nursemaggie

Ivyleaf it is strange is that why I keep hearing them> There would not have been six men there all at once and all that activity today. I think they have finished because they were gone by three.



Nice to know your thyroxine is normal. I hope you GP will keep an eye on it.

Nargleblast

The sun has now set on Solstice Eve and the coloured fairy lights (solar powered) around the patio are shining (must get some more, they are really pretty). I heard a scratching, looked down and there was a big hedgehog with his snout in the patio cat's food bowl. Patsy the patio cat was in her kennel, not the slightest bit bothered.

OH returned about three quarters of an hour ago. I said "You enjoyed your meal, didn't you?" "How do you know?" said he. "Tomato sauce spilt on your shirt."
Full of mussels marinara and some chicken and prawn dish, it didn't stop him polishing off two portions of jelly and requesting a mug of malted milk.
Yes, I think he enjoyed himself. Life is pretty ok at the moment at Chateau Nargle.

monnagran

Good for you Marble. OK, I give in. marble it is then. You have got it just about right as far as I can see. Live your life and make it as normal as possible. And it's "Goodnight" from hologram.

Nursemaggie, enjoy your first night of peace. Long may it continue.

Tinydancer, enjoy your 3 weeks of solo living. It really does have its advantages, make the most of it.

I'm signing off now before softstuff arrives. I don't wish to hear about her terrific weight loss. I know she has worked hard for it and deserves congratulations but I'm far too jealous to be nice.

Softstuff, if you're listening and think that you have lost your appetite, I think I might have it.

Night all x

Softstuff

I'm sorry about the buyer Monna. I really thought you'd got one that time. Strange how much some things put people off, and how many people think of when they're going to sell a property when they're only just buying it. Seems to me not as many people view houses as homes anymore, more as short term investments.

And I definitely have not given you my appetite, so I cannot be blamed. As for the jealousy, when people at work notice my weight loss and ask incredulously "how did you do it??". I think they're expecting a miracle answer, because when I tell them how, with both diet and exercise they visibly blanch and glaze over :rotfl:

Islandmaid, I did not pass you my weight. At least not deliberately... I was trying to paste it onto my husband but I think he shimmied during a zumba session and some got flung off

Nursemaggie, I guess it's a waiting game to see who your next neighbours will be, but hopefully they can't be as bad. I'm glad this lot and their clogs, rubbish and excessive laundry are gone. I'm won't be changing what I eat, or the ratios incidentally, just more of!

Hester, you can't just check the boxes of "speed awareness course" (what the heck is one of those, are you planning to enter F1?) and "upset neighbours" without giving us more details!

Nargle, the new shower idea sounds wonderful. Anything that makes both your lives more pleasant should be grabbed with both hands. Just like the mussels, and the chicken, and the jelly And I agree fully about supporting local business wherever possible. We don't have milkmen here (and we don't use milk), but I've started recently buying more from a local butcher where I can. The price is higher, but the product is frankly better.

Softstuff

Cranky, I envy your gym visiting and admire you for it. At present the idea of doing it is firmly at the forefront of my mind, I'm just working up to it. We go to a zumba class once a week and do it twice a week from home, and I do a 3 hour line dancing session once a week alongside much walking otherwise though.

Personal trainers rank for me the same as hairdressers... I find them terrifying and have little in common with them. :rotfl: I have health and physical issues most of them don't understand and I have to work around those with activity. I will however have to brace myself and get there, since it is the next obvious step. I'd also like to try yoga again, but after my last experience am even less inclined.... 6 months into classes, I yet again fell over during a pose and the yoga instructor just looked over at me and slowly shook her head :rotfl: