The Best View Comes After the Hardest Climb.

Willowtree222

badmemory said:

Honeysucklelou2 said:

You know, I know and most people who work in education know that Covid is circulating in schools. It is amazing that you have evaded it up til now.

This!   Blame those in charge (gov) who absolutely refused to make it difficult for the super spreading kids to spread it.  Who thought it totally acceptable for 10% of those kids to get long covid.  Doesn't make it difficult to see how they thought it perfectly acceptable for all teachers, vulnerable or with vulnerable families, to get it.  Put the blame in the right place, you personally could not have avoided it!

There is nothing new in this.   Starting over 60 years ago my father used to spend every half term & early end of term recovering from all the things he caught during term time & used to work through.  Starting over 40 years ago my sister used to do the same.  They were lucky they never had to deal with covid & it was just luck.

This is so true. I spend every half term ill! 

Buffythedebtslayer

My internet isn't working properly so I don't know if I am typing this for nothing. 

Yep. we all get sick in the holidays, you push and push and push. And then you collapse. 

In other news Mum seems mostly ok, I mean she is generally feeling rough but is watching a documentary and fascinated by Turkey. 

I am hoping I made chicken casserole. Mum isn't happy but oh well. It will cover us for dinner tomorrow and means I can just sit for a bit. I might boil some sprouts - can you cope with the excitement?? 

I will use your other suggestions, I need to make more use of the slow cooker. Cook and go! 
I met my friend for coffee, her school is vile. Makes mine look like a holiday camp. 
Also in the mostly dark and cold I put up a hutch and the smallest bun is now OUTSIDE. I am so relieved. I hope she figures out it is two storeys and that finds the hot things I will put in there. I am a bit worried about her but she has been in an unheated room and I think has her winter coat. 

Phase one is complete and now I am free (er) to move on to the next bit. 

In other news one of my darling guinea pigs has an eye problem. Vets tomorrow night. I am worried it is serious. XXX

Sun_Addict

Oh Buffy you must spend so much at the vets 😩 Fingers crossed nothing serious with the piggy. 

RosaBernicia

Just fyi in case useful Buffy - I'm trying out meal planning software called Plan To Eat, the YNAB community like it.  The idea is once you've got recipes for what you eat in there (and you can clip them from recipe sites with one click) you can then pull them onto a menu planner for the week and it generates an automatic shopping list. If you think it might help, there's an option - I'll be reporting back! 

RosaBernicia

Glad your mum is doing ok and bun is outside.  Hope all goes well with piggy. 

Buffythedebtslayer

Have been out twice to the buns (my actual rabbits were clearly like what are you doing here???) Smallest bun has worked out there are two parts to the hutch and has found the snuggly bed situation, I have supplied her with more food and her blanket (downstairs) and her hot thing upstairs,  snugglesafe for those who don't know, they go in the microwave and stay warm for HOURS, brilliant for small furries and slightly larger furries. 

I am very happy she is ok out there. I will take her another hot thing out for the morning and again when home etc. I dropped my torch so need a new one but apart from that it all went really well. 

Am shattered but that is ok. 

XXX

Buffythedebtslayer

RosaBernicia said:

Just fyi in case useful Buffy - I'm trying out meal planning software called Plan To Eat, the YNAB community like it.  The idea is once you've got recipes for what you eat in there (and you can clip them from recipe sites with one click) you can then pull them onto a menu planner for the week and it generates an automatic shopping list. If you think it might help, there's an option - I'll be reporting back! 

Interesting.............................I will look forward to it. 

warby68

I'm sorry you're still having such a rough time of it all despite your Big Tidy yielding some good progress.

Hopefully mum will get off lighter than you - no two people seem to have the same experience. Its such a strange thing. Husband and I had it over a year ago. No idea where from, we'd been nowhere. He was floored, took 6 weeks to recover, I had a hoarse voice for one day and that was it.

Try not to play the blame game - you had no choice, you have to work and you have to care.

Buffythedebtslayer

Work was ok, mum survived. The really big problem is her turning on the cooker. As in she cannot. She didn't like my chicken casserole/stew thing. Am totally fed up with cooking for her when she just never likes ANY THING I make. She only likes the ready meals cooked in the oven (not the microwave) She ate the stew through gritted teeth and won't tell me what she fancies. 

She won't eat pasta with tomato based sauce( I used to do a pasta bake that it turns out she didn't like!! !!!!!!), she only likes fish and chips, roast dinner and beans on toast(but it has to be the right bread obviously) . She doesn't eat pizza. She will have a mild curry not a fan of noodles. I just .........after having two weeks off of thinking up dinners for her (she picked her own ready meals and then didn't eat them) and realising that basically I eat brown meat and potatoes because that is what she likes and when I was left to my own devices I picked my favourites (pasta, chicken, veg meals) 

She is a lot weaker than normal and coughing tho insisting she feels normal. She "always feels this bad" I am this close to getting a tiny violin out frankly. I know that is mean but l literally don't know anyone who makes her life this difficult. 

Buffythedebtslayer

In other news I went to the vets, piggie has an ulcer in her eye  

It cost 66 pounds. 

I can pay it with my emergency fund. Poor girl.