Cheery's country living adventure

Cheery_Daff

Loh, we can be tip buddies RT 😂 I'm already trying to talk myself out of going 🙄 but the stuff is already in the car, and it's only going to get smelliest, and the tip opened 10 minutes ago and won't be busy if I go now...

Just pegged the washing out in my dressing gown and rigger boots,  and a bunch of walkers went past 😂😂😂

Cheery_Daff

What a blinking palaver this morning has been!! 

I was going to go to the tip, but by the time I was dressed Mr Cheery was up and wanted to do chicken medicine. Fine, but it took half an hour. Then he said not to go to the tip, as we'd go straight out for breakfast in 10 mins.

Two hours later we are finally ready 🙄 Nearly. I won't bored you with the details, but so far we have neither been to the tip nor been out for breakfast, and the chicken has only had half her medicine 🙄

Baileys_Babe

Days like that are so frustrating, I hope you get your breakfast/brunch soon and the days continues more smoothly.

rtandon27

Oh goodness Cheery - what a morning that turned out to be for you! - I'd be a right gump if my plans had been overthrown!

Our tip is still by appointment only so we turned up at our allotted mid-day slot, only to find that only one of us is allowed to get out of the car to unload! - SIGH - this meant that OH had to do it all on his own, so he will be having a pretty decent nap this afternoon to recover.  

hb2

Cheery, I think you are allowed to be a bit vexed about your friends messing you around - I would have been utterly peed off!  I'm glad that you had a good time with your new neighbours the other evening.

OH and I had lunch on the Quay yesterday, hiding in a patch of shade and moving around with the sun. I'm glad that we kept away from the beaches as they were packed (and the road into Sandbanks was, apparently, closed by the Police as the carparks were all full by 9am!). I've never been a sun worshiper so remain 'pale and interesting' while OH has had several minor skin cancers removed so is much more careful than he used to be.

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all. hb, sounds very sensible to stay out of the heat! And RT - how annoying about the tip! Ours had the one person rule for a while, but it was never enforced - when there was a giant queue we figured it was best to just get out of the way quickly! 

Anyway, yesterday did get going eventually - we went to town, had tea but no food at a cafe (which was a bit of a shambles), did some charity shops, bought a load of useful things, came home and swapped cars, then I went to the tip, and then to a 'stretch' class at the gym. Ended up having quite a late night and sleeping badly with the heat - ended up on the sofa at 4.30. 

Got up early as I've had an exciting day today - my trip to York with a friend to take part in some research! About 2.5 hours driving each way (all me), and then 45 mins in an MRI scanner An interesting experience, but not one I'd volunteer for again It was quite an exercise in giving yourself a good talking to - 'yes, Cheery, you can press the button to get out if you want. Just stay for another few minutes. Don't think about not being able to move, look at the pictures on the screen. No, there are no aliens. They'll come and get you if there's a fire. No, you are not in space, or underwater. Just keep breathing, everything is ok'



(that was me talking to myself, by the way the researchers were lovely and very reassuring and I'm glad I made it to the end, but as I say, not again unless it's needed for medical purposes!)

Long day, and it's still boiling. Put some tupperwares full of ice in with the chickens in a bid to cool them down a bit

Karmacat

Oof, that sounds quite an ordeal, actually.  I'm glad it was a volunteer thing not a necessary thing, in that case!   I've just had a google of online images - some of them are really wild. But chickens, even overheated chickens that need ice cubes, are more fun  

ElmoR

Goodness me, the things we do for research! Very good of you to volunteer to go in the claustrophobic clunking tube.

They sent me in there twice when I injured my back. The process would be better if you didn't have to wear a gown that doesn't tie up easily and other members of the public (both sexes) milling around waiting too. I used the same strategy as you, talking myself through. Similar conversation too, apart from the aliens part. I was more worried about one of the giant magnets flying off but rationalised that it would arc away from me if it did?! I was also worried I would cook on my skin because someone folks had said on the tinternet that tattoos (and their ink) heat up under your skin. In fact, that didn't seem to happen but it did start to get hot in there - cue thoughts of laying on a beach in sunshine and reassuring myself that I wasn't going to explode at any second!

The CT scanner was a smaller ring than the MRI, I squeezed my eyes firmly shut for that one. The morphine probably helped keep me chilled out to be fair You are only in there for a shorter time than an MRI scanner though. Or maybe the drugs skewed my perception?

It's amazing what they can do really.

Baileys_Babe

I had an MRI scan about 5 years ago due to my back being even more troublesome than usual and having a severe impact on my mobility. I had to press the stop button and be removed, the radiologist was superb calming me down reassuring me. I decided to try again and got through it. Some of it was singing along to the music, other times it was working out in detail how I would escape the machine in various scenarios given my very limited mobility but the majority of the time I spent telling myself to wait just a little longer as I didn't want to need to come back and have to repeat the time I had already served in MRI prison if this scan wasn't successful. Somehow I made it to the end, not an experience i ever wish to repeat.

Cheery_Daff

We got to wear our own clothes, thank goodness, although had to remove all metal (including bras). Had a brief moment of being worried about my IUD 😮 but bizarrely when it was put in 4 years agoI got them to write down which one I had so they were able to tell me it was on the MRI safe list 😮😂 Didn't stop me fretting about it flying out through my stomach though, and at one point I knew I'd lost the plot when I felt a twinge under my armpit and though "I wonder if that's the IUD working its way out?!" 🙄😂😂

The main part was a functional test, so we had to watch pictures on a screen and press buttons when we saw various things - that helped with the distraction at least. The second part I just had to lie there, so the put a youtube video of scenery on - it would have been helpful if it hadn't had bits where people were walking along narrow paths or sitting on top of cliffs dangling their legs off, or jumping off waterfalls 😮 didn't help my anxiety levels! 🙈

I did spend a lot of time counting 😂 they told me how long each bit was going to last - 9 mins, 4 mins etc - and so I counted beeps (or pictures if we were in that bit). 9 mins was about 400 beeps, so then I knew next time I only had to get that far before we were onto the next bit.

Anyway, time is passing more pleasantly today - I've been swimming for the first time in years and we're off to a cafe 😃