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Hard_Up_Hester

Speed awareness course offered in lieu of a fine when you get caught speeding!
I thought I was in a 40 zone but it had been reduced to 30, I was doing 37.

As for the neighbours, there is a couple who live on a boat as we do, they complain about everyone and everything, we are moored near them this week, it seems I didn't treat them with the expected respect!!

Islandmaid

Well, DH had to go to work early today, but forgot to turn the alarm off :cool:

It's the start of the Isle of Wight festival today, and although I think it's fab, it does tend to gridlock the Islands roads - like many Islanders I will stay away from Newport and the roads mainly effected, and spend the next few days enjoying the music, carried on the wind, from our garden :T

I intend to catch up on some housework, strip the beds etc DS will be at the festival, so I can get into his room and give it a going over - he will be a happy bunny as his GF is back from Uni for the summer today.

One of the cats is yowling loudly, that means I have another 'present' mostly slow worms of late - alive and wriggly, good job I don't mind them :eek:

Have a great day, the suns back

mardatha

Weather forecast terrific here for a week, most days in the low 20s, unheard of! So we're going up north to my beloved Highlands and I'll sit in mountain air eating cake. Bliss. Much much needed break away from family worries and illness. Can't wait :j:j:j

monnagran

I've already had one post eaten so here goes again. This time I'm writing on 'edit.'

Feel for you about yoga softstuff. Tried it for a while ages ago but seemed to be the omly one in the class with bones, and the almost religious hush and concentration didn't marry well with my tendency to collapse in giggles.

Meeting a friend from the mainland today and only realised when watching the local news this morning that it's the start of the Festival today. As Islandmaid said, all natives go into siege mode. However my friend will just have to mingle with the thousands of refugees flooding the ferries from the mainland. She will be fine going home as she will be going against the tide.

Will come back this evening to report on the days adventures. Have a good day everyone.


THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

CRANKY40

Softstuff wrote: »

Cranky, I envy your gym visiting and admire you for it.

Don't. It was that or run through the estate where I live. It's a mixed estate of ex council and council houses and bits of it can be a bit ummm.....interesting. I have no wish to hear some of the comments that would no doubt be directed at a very short, very overweight 51 year old person trying to run. The gym was very much the lesser of all evils.

Softstuff wrote: »

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.

We must be related. I'd rather go the dentist than the hairdresser. I also have co-ordination problems. The last time I did a step class the instructor said "Just do the feet for now love and forget about the arms". The PT at the council gym is lovely though. He's young and enthusiastic and willing to show me the machines to improve one body part at a time due to my leg still being a bit dodgy. Yesterdays "machines for arms" instructions only took 10 minutes so it was worth making myself ask him. I thought the gym would be full of superfit types but it's not. There's some good runners and weightlifters but there's also a lot of ordinary people like me trying to improve their health.

Mar I've also seen the weather guess for next week and I'm looking forward to the warm bit. I hope you enjoy your jolly holidays.

ivyleaf

Have a lovely time mar

Glad Mr Nargle enjoyed his evening

Morning everyone - sorry, just saying hello for the time being as I don't feel very compos mentis this morning I need to go back to the hospital in the near future for another blood test (possible problem with a different hormone this time) but I really can't be bothered today. Tomorrow will do. After all, tomorrow is another day!

fuddle

Ivy here's to being normal again

Well done Mr Nargle. I admire those who push past it because it's so very difficult to do sometimes.

Monna dratty house. I neeeeeeeeeeed for you to be out and warmed in a smaller abode for the winter for goodness sakes.

Mar I do like your holiday destination of choice

My angel/guide speaks to me I'm sure of it. 3times I have heard 'it' s alright' in the past 20 months. Once it woke me up a week after mam died. 2nd not too long ago on the plots. I'm unsure of this one but it made me awaken pretty darn quickly. It wasn't human but a mixture of tree rustling and bird song. Weird that one. And then last week, again waking me abruptly out of my sleep. I just go with it... I believe I'm spesshel haven't told anyone though.

monnagran

Quite right fuddle. Dont tell a soul.

Well, rethink today. My friend has just phoned to say that she has done her back in and doesn't think she can make the journey. It took her nearly an hour to tell me this as we had to exchange all the news that we would have gossiped about had we met. Probably for the best, she hadn't known about the Festival either so all's well.

I am waiting for my new debit card to arrive. My present one expires at the end of next week and the new one is usually here by now. I went into the bank a couple of months ago to check that they had my change of address so I can't think what has happened. If it doesn't come in the post this morning I will have to trek to the bank and stamp my foot. Without it I'll be lost. Hate being dependent on things like cards.

Hope you get sorted out soon Ivyleaf. It must be wretched feeling as you do.

FairyPrincessk

Morning all,

I've booked myself in for a much needed two days of annual leave starting today. I have more later in the summer but thought I'd treat myself...or I'd lose it (the leave and my mind...just realized that was ambiguous)!

The brown sticky stuff continues to fly at work. I've managed to disentangle one small section of it and lo! Another section goes flying! Oh well. There is a politics to it I find disheartening and much of it truly defies logic. I do my best to shield the students and to shield myself, but I can't fix it all. On top of it I've just been told that a piece of writing I've been going round on for around two years now is still not up to scratch. I will dust myself off and get back to it, but it does leave me winded to put so much into it and hear over and over again 'not good enough.' One good thing about days off is that they remind me that while it is a job I worked long and hard for and do enjoy it is still, at the end of the day, just a job.

Helebore, you are so well out of that place. It is only a matter of time before something serious does happen and it never seems to be those with the power who get the blame.

Monna, I do so hope you get good news soon. All of your cleaning and polishing must deserve it!

Fuddle, chickens! Hooray, I'm so glad you're ready to have another go.

Ivy, I hope you feel a bit more yourself as the day progresses

Islandmaid, I used to live somewhere with an extremely famous festival in late winter. People travel from around the world to attend. All of the locals leave :rotfl: Such things can be nice, but they do cause a lot of upheaval.

Well, plans for my days off? Cleaning, laundry, ironing, gardening, cooking and maybe some foraging. Nothing glamorous but a bit of pottering and nesting is good for the soul sometimes. I think we're having Delia's lentil rissoles for tea with some sort of salad.

Softstuff

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

Speed awareness course offered in lieu of a fine when you get caught speeding!
I thought I was in a 40 zone but it had been reduced to 30, I was doing 37.

As for the neighbours, there is a couple who live on a boat as we do, they complain about everyone and everything, we are moored near them this week, it seems I didn't treat them with the expected respect!!

Hester, I find I'm disappointed with your explanation of the course. I prefer frankly to think you're in the running to replace Lewis Hamilton. As regards the neighbours, I would be so tempted to curtsey on next seeing them....

Monna, we need a new course. "Yoga for inflexible gigglers". I'd sign up toot sweet.

Cranky, I braced myself and went to 3 gyms to get membership quotes. I am now considering my options, as to whether we spend the money or attempt to do something at home... at home requiring even more willpower. And yes, you must be my long lost something, my physio used to get exasperated at me, simply because I don't seem to be able to tell where my body parts actually are at any given time :rotfl: