Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Sounds horrible Bluey

They don't seem to like anything that they can't put on a list to pass to someone else. I don't blame them, all look exhausted.

I'm persuing any professional I can but I'm reverting to my youth and using herbs and spice, food in other words. Worked then, worked for centuaries. So pinapple, lavender and cinnamon for anti inflamtories. Early days, we'll see. I know pinapple works but I ate it every day for months and I cringe now even though I like it

The lifeboat thing, well they were 2hrs ahead and towing a tiny dinghy, thick mist, dim and cold so all the plans were for nought and it was bitter so we went to the highest coastal tea rooms in England for a log burner, coffee and cheese scones.

Bitingly cold, dropped to 1c tonight and falling.

As for gardening, we looked at buds on my lilac tree and moving primrose plantlings that had popped up randomly before heading indoors.

YoungBlueEyes

I know what you meant pp, the clinic doc was fresh out of school, I bet he has trouble getting served in bars. Too young for 'life experience' and I don't fit the typical gout sufferers tickbox. Like Farway was saying - gout is usually lay off the rouge vino collapso fatty territory! Re painkillers - Ibuprofen is what's helping the most Dusty, you're right. The stronger stuff the Oracle gave me is OTC Boots paracetamol+codeine but they aren't much of a help tbh. Jeez I can't imagine gouty knees, that must have been horrendous Always someone worse off eh. 2p do I remember something about turmeric being an anti-inflammatory..?

That's a beggar about your lifeboat. Mind log burner, coffee and cheese scones sounds just the thing in that weather  

Cold out there this morning, 2' my phone says. The wind's picked up so it really does feel chilly. It's a gusterly westerly though so the properly cold proper wind is yet to come... Bright enough though. This is the weather I used to get wrapped up and get the dogs out in. Too cold for the fair-weather brigade, the wind and sun have dried the mud up so the fields aren't bogs, and once you get moving it ain't so cold. Lovely  

twopenny

Well the mild, bright , dry day I was looking forward to turns out to be cloudy, cold at 2c and wet   
Better than yesterday. At least I can see across the room.

It was to be a gardening day at last. I'm disappointed. 

We seem to have become a crook lot who are a burden on the health service - if we could find a medic.
I've got some nasty dentistry tomorrow so that's out. Physio the next early so that will mean I'm not walking right. 

I've decided to give myself 2 weeks holiday. Can't go anywhere but no appointments etc.
Crazy but they're getting me nowhere but agrivated.
More lavender needed to chill me out I think 
Yes turmeric is. Cure all these days. A while ago they were saying it was the devils backside and caused all manner of diseases. No wonder we're all confused.
You can buy the pineapple active ingredient in pill form. Bromaline or some such. Costs a fortune. My first doctor agreed with it.

I did find a pot at the back of the garden with bulbs coming up. Don't remember it at all but a nice little surprise. I'll hoik that out and put it somewhere visible. Mini daffs I think.

twopenny

Oh and thanks for the tip about cut daffs being in the shops.
They seem to be hidden among the junk other stuff and took some searching but because I knew they'd be around I found them.
Lovely little bunch of British daffs making me feel like spring will eventually be coming   

Farway

twopenny said:

Well the mild, bright , dry day I was looking forward to turns out to be cloudy, cold at 2c and wet   

I think I have your sunny share here YBE, blue sky etc, but cold

Dustyevsky said:

As for the gout, first treatment is usually an anti-inflammatory, like ibuprofen, and then ramped-up to  a stronger NSAID if necessary. So, you could use ibuprofen straight away if you are typically OK taking it.

It might have been gout I had in my late 40s, but it was knees, not toes. Went from normal to “Blimmin heck, I can't walk!” in a matter of hours. Doctor didn't commit, but prescribed diclofenac, a not-very-good-for-you NSAID. I was 'normal' again within 48 hours and gout, or whatever it was, never returned.

My experience was similar, years back, finished up with diclofenac, then when gout sporadically returned weaned onto full strength Allopurinol. Hopefully yours will not return Dusty, mine went away for about twenty years, and I was off the pills, then came back end of 2022. But fortunately I was able to more or less go right back on full strength Allopurinol, after blood tests & taster sessions of Colchicine. I'm still on daily allopurinol.

I ventured into the garden yesterday afternoon, it was blooming freezing, only went to empty the tea-leaf slops & general mooch around, although dressed for the weather my hands & conk were frozen after a few minutes of mooching

No sign yet of any rhubarb, dead, dormant or in between. Looks like lots of fruit buds on the apple trees, which is a very long way from tucking into apple crumbles in ten months time.

One casualty of the recent storms, a Merton Thornless blackberry shoot I had pegged down to root had been ripped from its moorings and required reseating, I've put a heavy pot on top now to stop a repeat

YoungBlueEyes

I don’t know if you’re a Lidl shopper 2p but their daff bunches are just inside the door with the other flowers  

I only quickly popped on to share this - 

So say the sobers. Seems the Devonians aren’t the only ones partial to a libation ha haa! 

Sunny but cold here. I think it’s 2p’s share of the sun that we’ve got Farway . Good luck with your dentist and physio 2p  

twopenny

La,la,la,la I've got my fingers in my ears. I'm not listening. Got my fingers in my ears (eyes?)
No it's going to be warm and sunny for the foreseeable.
I can't have any more crisies .

Well it did pep up here with some sun and I went out to get some winter photos.
Ended up with amazing sunset - to follow when I've cranked up the laptop.

I got stared out by some sheep but then collected their wool from the brambles to put round my seedlings when they happen. Reminds me I must take it out of my coat pocket 

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Dustyevsky said:

As for the gout, first treatment is usually an anti-inflammatory, like ibuprofen, and then ramped-up to  a stronger NSAID if necessary. So, you could use ibuprofen straight away if you are typically OK taking it.

It might have been gout I had in my late 40s, but it was knees, not toes. Went from normal to “Blimmin heck, I can't walk!” in a matter of hours. Doctor didn't commit, but prescribed diclofenac, a not-very-good-for-you NSAID. I was 'normal' again within 48 hours and gout, or whatever it was, never returned.

My experience was similar, years back, finished up with diclofenac, then when gout sporadically returned weaned onto full strength Allopurinol. Hopefully yours will not return Dusty, mine went away for about twenty years, and I was off the pills, then came back end of 2022. But fortunately I was able to more or less go right back on full strength Allopurinol, after blood tests & taster sessions of Colchicine. I'm still on daily allopurinol.

I'm just not sure what it was; it came out of nowhere, but I recall the weather was snowy, and I couldn't park very near the surgery. Being in the Georgian part of the city, there were lots of iron railings to hang onto, which was a plus. I felt very odd and worried, suddenly reduced to clinging onto railings!

Then, at the supermarket, I had to park on 'disabled' which still wasn't very close. Someone with a blue badge unloading their shopping noticed the absence of one on my car and asked why I was parked there. I explained, but they still didn't think I should be there. When I refused to move, they told some other people, and the whole group rushed back into the supermarket to report me! By the time I got there, they had one of the grey suits cornered at the entrance. 

I heard one say, “Well, what are you going to do about it?”

The manager guy took one look at my white face and replied, “I'm going to get this man a chair!” 

In one kind gesture, that guy restored my faith in the human race. I couldn't shop, but someone got me a carton  of milk, and I'd got my Diclofenac.

Mrs Dusty wasn't well either at that time, but she had something worse that still affects her. I was right as rain a few days later.

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Well it did pep up here with some sun and I went out to get some winter photos.

I knew it would be tolerable. We briefly saw the sun here too.  Looks like a similar day tomorrow, but Monday night through to Tuesday morning looks chillier. I'll put the fleece on the tender stuff then. Still no doors on the eastern end of polytunnel!  That's because I'm prioritising the elm hedge, which had the severe haircut. It's going back to basics, and I'm adding hornbeam in the gaps. It's at least a month's work, but it could stretch to the end of February if the weather turns really nasty. Basically, the faster I can chop the stems back to the new framework, the quicker the tree can tell itself to make more buds on chopped-back bits = denser.
I have slightly bad, but not very surprising news; Ratty has a mate.   Mrs Dusty's trail camera took 166 photos last night, which are currently clogging up my hard drive. Here's just one:

Ignore the big, lumpy thing by the nearest rat, which is a mangel-wurzel, a  swede-like root veg used to feed sheep and other stock in winter.

The bait box goes out tomorrow!

ArbitraryRandom

Dustyevsky said:

Someone with a blue badge unloading their shopping noticed the absence of one on my car and asked why I was parked there. 

One of those 'if I was in charge' things, but I've sometimes thought a Dr/hospital should be able to issue a temporary BB or bus pass (with a expiry date like a sick note). For people with things like broken legs and other temp issues that limit mobility. But I'm assuming Drs would be very much against the extra work and it'd be open to abuse...