Old Style Daily Saturday 08 July 2023

Coxy11

Morning all and thanks for the thread @Gers. Glad you got home safely and fully rested x

We were at a friend's house last night for his 50th birthday celebrations. I'm off to FC shortly. Feeling a bit headache-y which given I wasn't drinking last is a bit much. It's probably the weather - DH says I'm a human barometer. We are going to BFFs tonight and staying over - soul and funk evening at her local venue which sounds good. Might combine with a trip to Co$tco tomorrow on the way home - we know how to live.

Have a great time at the van @TravellingAbuela x
Welcome back @Chrisca50 x
Enjoy the celebrations @camelot1001 and @Suffolksue x

Have a good day all
Coxy

Gers

Chrisca50 said:

My scalp psoriasis is still giving me grief.  I went onto my surgery's website and filled in a form for an e-consult.  To my amazement a doctor rang me a couple of hours later and has prescribed me some stronger scalp lotion which, hopefully, will do the trick.  Great service.  Mind you my supermarket pharmacy are very hit and miss where collecting prescriptions are concermed and the doctor told me that they might not have the medication in stock so a phone call later to see whether I can collect it some time in the near future!

First - welcome back Chrisca. Second - I too suffer from intermittent bouts of what can be dreadful outbreaks of psoriasis and have done for all my adult life.  After years of using heavy duty shampoos (think coal tar etc) I hit on what was Schwartzkopf hair tonic which came in little tubes and worked wonders. I don't think it's available now so I use the Philip Kingsley one which is also brilliant. I use it once or twice a month to keep things at bay, usually after washing my hair.  I hope that this isn't medical advice and it doesn't involve any medical products just ones bought at hairdressers or over the net. I also hope that it helps you.

My washing machine is chugging away. The thunderstorms are forecasted to skim over my wee corner of the west coast so I'm risking it. https://www.ventusky.com/ is rather good once the location is set. It's very windy outside and become rather dull so I'm semi-worried.

I've got an Amazon return to get to the RM delivery office, they print out the label there and then so it's worth doing. By the time I get back the washing should be done and I can make a decision about line or airer.

Suffolksue - just a wee hug for you.

Carolbee - it'll be a novel way to spend an afternoon, I hope that the weather behaves for you.

TA - have a great time at the caravan, we'll miss you. Mind you I am all week from Monday too so we'll be two down.

Camelot - have you found the new Range shop at the Great Western Road retail place?  

Chrisca50

@Gers thanks for the advice, I'll bear it in mind for the future. I have been using a certain ginger shampoo that seems to keep my scalp from drying up.  This is only the 3rd bout of scalp psoriasis I've ever had. The first 2 times whatever I was subscribed cleared it up.   I think this time i was prescribed something too weak and it didn't do the job.  Lets hope that this one does the job as I seem to leave a snow storm where ever I go and it's not even winter yet!

RedRuby1231

Morning all

Dry and bright here for now but rain and thunder storms due from lunchtime and then it brightens up in the afternoon, I hope so as we are planning a bbq.

I took my mum to the Dr yesterday for a blood test she got a call at 10.55 last night asking her to come into hospital this morning, it was a Dr at the hospital and he said he needs to do another urgent blood test as one of the levels was really high something to do with her thyroid which she takes a daily tablet for, my sister is taking her today so we will wait and see what they say.

I have a hair appointment this morning I am very uncomfortable at the hairdressers and really don’t enjoy it at all, but I think it’s been about 2 years since my last cut 😳 I am having a keratin blow dry which should straighten my unruly hair for about three months as well as a cut.

I got some lamb chops for the bbq tonight and I think some burgers, OH will have some new potatoes with his and I will have salad and some halloumi.

TA have a great time away xxx

Suffolk Sue hugs to you xx

Have good days all and take care xx 

Gers

Chrisca50 said:

@Gers thanks for the advice, I'll bear it in mind for the future. I have been using a certain ginger shampoo that seems to keep my scalp from drying up.  This is only the 3rd bout of scalp psoriasis I've ever had. The first 2 times whatever I was subscribed cleared it up.   I think this time i was prescribed something too weak and it didn't do the job.  Lets hope that this one does the job as I seem to leave a snow storm where ever I go and it's not even winter yet!

Ah, that's good. The BS ginger stuff didn't work for me. My hairdresser hated me using H&S shampoo so now have got L'Oreal Elvive Phytoclear shampoo but don't think it's being made or stocked anymore.  Only found some on the big river for £15.00. 😲😲

nannywindow

Morning all, I thought it was Sunday, I've been a day ahead of myself all week. Well we're back to rain and grey skies today after a lovely sunny one yesterday. I got 2 loads of washing dry yesterday then tried to mow the lawns with Dad's mower......... nothing happened when I turned it on, it was dead as a doornail ! I gave it to Mr Fix It to do what he does best and yay he fixed it (something electrical and a blown fuse) I also did the lawn edges with the new to me strimmer and boy is it heavy, made my shoulders ache. I'm wondering if I could fashion a type of shoulder strap to help take some of the weight 🤔 If not I'll take it to the tip as they have a charity type shop at the entrance, which I saw this week, perhaps someone stronger could make use of it. 
I have a sm delivery this morning so I plan on doing nothing other than sorting it and putting it away. As usual there may be a bit of freezer jugging when I try to cram everything in 😂
Iris thanks for the info. Not sure what I think about it, the last one took me ages to get used to.
Have a good day everyone whatever you are doing.
Take care all, hugs to anyone in need.
nan xx

bellabella

Morning all well its another changeable weekend we are due a thunderstorm later but who knows its showing as 30% chance so i have the WM on and if it does then on the airer it goes . We have friends coming later they were supposed to come last week but one of them caught covid but thankfully wasn't to bad
I am quite looking forward to planning a trip round the country DH has 30 months left till retirement so next year are 2 big ones Antarctica on the expedition ship and safari in SA  after that as i said before i think our days of very long haul will be done  and we will join a  cruise to take us round the other side of the world  so looks like 2025 may be a quieter year and time to explore closer to home
Gers pleased you got home safely and enjoyed your night away
Ruby I hope mum gets on with the new blood test ok and it comes back within normal range
Right better get on with a quick tidy up
Have a good day whatever you are up to x

dp1

Afternoon everyone 
Late one for me today. Firstly, someone posted a recipe for a pasta sauce - I think it was Jackie, her granddaughters recipe using sausage meat - well I made it today and it was so nice I had a second helping - so thank you. The rest will be boxed up for the freezer.
Little one had a great day at big school yesterday with, thankfully, no medical emergencies. She talked non stop on our way home in the car, telling her mummy and I all about it. She'd had pizza for her lunch with 'strange icecream with pastry wrapped round it for pudding' - I think it must have been arctic roll! They'd called in to tell great gran and great grandad all about it after dropping me off.
However, this morning I woke about 3am to several texts from DD saying they were at the RVI at Newcastle. Little one's blood sugar had gone very high and, rather than going back down quite quickly as it usually does, had stayed high for an hour. So DD rang an ambulance and back down the road they went. Of course it had gone down by the time they got there, over an hour away, but they'd seen a really nice doctor who they already knew, and he was going to tell her consultant.
They got home again and had a sleep, then I went down to play with little one for a bit, while DD got some jobs done. She still wasn't herself and was coughing a lot and complaining of a sore throat so DD is hoping they don't end up going back again tonight. She had been retching a lot last night too which would have hurt her throat - there's a tummy bug going round nursery so she could have that - but she can't actually be sick after the operation she had on her tummy.
It was lovely and sunny here this morning but has been dull and showery most of the afternoon, which was a bit annoying!
Sorry I did read, but it's disappeared from my brain, apart from TA and Sparkle going to the caravan - I hope everyone's had a good day x