The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

nursemaggie

Yes do Hester we're desperate for a good downpour to put out our firers on the moors. I don't mind if we get a good 48 hours of it.

Softstuff

It again seems unusual to me looking at the moor fires there, given that it's usually us over here battling bush fires. It seems that the UK, with the heat and fires is becoming more like Aus.

Fuddle, whatever you do, don't try kombucha! It's hugely popular here right now, I don't know how popular it is in the UK yet. It's a fermented drink, full of good gut bacteria.... but it has some parpy side effects, especially if you're prone to that I hope your courgette has many friends waiting to be harvest, we still haven't gotten over the 1 courgette harvest of a couple of years back, the most cosseted courgette in history.

Mardatha, I suppose the more appropriate name of that clinic would be "Bone and things attaching to bone trauma clinic". I've entirely missed somewhere along the line how you did it.... were you giving the RV a spanking a la Hester? were you threshing down a field of kale in anger? were you tackling a child for their jelly babies?

wondercollie

MAR: hope the shoulder heals and you get good pain relief. I had a "frozen shoulder" for a year and yes, I have a minor rotator tear.

It was horrible, couldn't raise my arm to shoulder height.

Physio helped, but sleeping was a nightmare.

monnagran

Sorry to be AWOL for a bit. What with the heat, the excitement and not sleeping I was beyond exhaustion yesterday after Lunch Club. But I nobly sat down and wrote a long post which is now floating around the heavens somewhere. So I gave up and went to bed.

Thank you all for sharing in my excitement. Apparently my buyer has two people after her house but my EA has told her that my house will stay on the market until legal negotiations have started, so she has promised to get things going ASAP.

Lyn, I hope that your problems are sorted soon. These tick box forms are a nightmare.

I have only skimmed through the thread and my mind has closed down. I do remember that mar is going to the bone clinic and that softstuff is right on the nail as to the possible actions that could have caused a torn rotator cuff.
Oh, and that fuds is in Scotland and not daring to wave her St George Flag while watching the football.

I may be back later, I have to walk up to the main village this morning to have my hair cut. It is a bit cooler atm, I hope it stays that way.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Just when the caterpillar thought that her life was over, she began to fly.

ivyleaf

Mr ivyleaf rolled off the edge of the bed again yesterday morning. This time he bumped the other side of his face (no bruise, thankfully) and has a matching carpet burn on the other knee. At least he's symmetrical.....I pointed out that while he's not using his duvet he's placed it rolled-up down the middle of the bed, which of course means he's lying in a narrower-than-usual space (as well as it getting in my way and making me even hotter). So he has taken it off the bed altogether for now, and I'm hoping he'll stay put on top of the mattress as he starts to wake up.
Otherwise he'll have to have a guard rail, which I hate the idea of, as our frail 91-year-old neighbour has one of those. He (OH, not neighbour!) has actually suggested getting one, as it would obviously be much cheaper than buying a new mattress with a firm edge (we currently have a "Premier Inn" mattress.) but he's only 65, though is sometimes a restless sleeper who turns over as he's "surfacing" to try to get more comfortable

fuddle I have so much sympathy for you, having been awake most of the night very uncomfortable with similar problems to you. I've taken 2 peppermint oil capsules this morning; I don't like to take them at night as they give me heartburn if i'm lying down. My abdomen looks huge atm it must be to do with last night's meal, which was cheese-and-bacon crispbakes, broccoli and carrots. I suspect the cheese and the broccoli.

Softstuff thank you for the warning about kombucha, as it's something I might well have tried. I'm sure I've come across it here. The side effects you mention mean it's best avoided by anyone with a digestive system like mine

It's cloudy this morning for a change! According to the weather forecast I use, it was meant to have rained a little bit during the night, but I don't think it did. Not sure what we're doing today; I must do some of my laundry though, as I seem to be running out of tops and bras.

beedeedee

mardatha wrote: »

Will be fine Ivy xx just had never heard of a bone trauma clinic before and wondered what it was

I don't know about Bone Trauma....but I once worked next to a "Bone Bank"! I never knew there were such things.....??

ivyleaf

I've never heard of a Bone Bank either! Googling shows me they are used to store tissue for bone grafts.Thanks for your post beedeedee

mrsmac10

ivyleaf wrote: »

I've never heard of a Bone Bank either! Googling shows me they are used to store tissue for bone grafts.Thanks for your post beedeedee

I have some bones from the bone bank in my replacement hip :eek:

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IVYLEAF when your OH isn't using his quilt fold it in halves lengthwise and put it on the floor next to his side of the bed and it will cushion his fall if he should roll out of bed in the night and hopefully enough to prevent carpet burns and bruising?


Our local M&S branch was closed at the end of April and they are in difficulties financially and I can tell them why people are leaving in droves.....I went into an M&S today to look for some parmesan cheese for supper and almost passed out at the price £6 for a normal sized wedge that I can buy in Aldi for £2.59 and in my local Co-Op in the village for £3.19 which is what I have just done. It's all Parmigiano Regiano and it only goes on top of pasta etc. but £6 for the product I can get (just as good quality too) for less than half that is just plain stupid. I mean, why would you?

ivyleaf

Thank you Lyn, I have suggested putting his duvet beside the bed but I don't think he will - he's too likely to get his numb foot tangled up in it, i think