An in-between phase

PennysIntoPounds

Thanks @WinterWarrior and @foxgloves. Feeling quite grumpy as well as knackered from pain. Went for a 30 minute walk though not at my usual pace. Posted some items as part of a survey and was told on logging it that it wouldn't count as it wasn't my postcode, despite it being my nearest postbox. Like a mature and reasonable person I sent them a tetchy email pointing out that I don't live in a postbox. 

EssexHebridean

That actually does sound like a reasonable response PiP - how are you meant to know that the postbox as near to your property as possible doesn't share your postcode - and indeed, allowing for how small postcode areas are in London, why even would it?! (Unless you did indeed live in a postbox!)

PennysIntoPounds

Thanks @EssexHebridean, I knew I was a mature and reasonable person who does not live in a postbox! 😂

PennysIntoPounds

Have done a few more bits;

Weekly coop receipt survey

Helped mum fill in application for European health card

Resisted going to the pub several times

Grumpy comping

Small bit of work

Small sort-out with mum- a tea strainer and some windchimes have been donated to the car boot sale pile as we both find the sound of windchimes the opposite of relaxing!

beanielou

Poor you.  I have no idea what causes your shoulder pain.  I have injections to help mine.

KajiKita

Is your shoulder related to hyper flexibility? If that is the case a session with a sports physio to tape you up with physio tape might help stabilise the joint? 

If I’m talking though my elbow, I just send you a very gentle, comforting hug x

KK

Sun_Addict

Sorry to hear you’re in pain today, I hope it eases soon. What a farce with the postcode, how ridiculous! 

The woman across the road from us used to have some wind chimes, bearing in mind we live at the top of a very steep hill with no wind break in a windy area. Clang, clang, clang all night 😬 Thankfully she no longer has them. 

Blackcats

Would you need planning permission if you decided to live in a postbox in order to be in the right postcode area?  We have some fabulous crochet post box toppers around here and I'm just thinking that they probably haven't got planning consent or a planting scheme consent.   

There's also a giant cockerel statue on a roundabout near here and the renegade WI knitters often make garments for him and sneak them on him in the dead of night.  It's so edgy round here isn't it?  (I know that mentioning the giant cockerel is probably asking for trouble but I bet you are impressed!)

Hope that your shoulder feels better tomorrow  

PennysIntoPounds

Thanks all x

@beanielou, I don't think anyone has any idea what causes EDS pain other than it bloody hurts when your connective tissue doesn't work even more than usual!
Combination of hormonal cycle changes, unknowingly straining the joint, and it just being one of those things is my best guess.

Hypermobility is a core part of it @KajiKita but as it's more an internal issue getting taped up wouldn't have that big an effect, and as well as being out of my budget I'd end up permanently looking like an Egyptian mummy 😂 I mostly complain about my shoulder but all the other parts of the body join in too!

Does she no longer have them because you cut through them with scissors in the middle of the night @Sun_Addict, leaving their scattered string and pipe remnants strewn about as a warning to any other windchimers. No need to confirm or deny 😁

I think I'd quite like to live in a postbox @Blackcats, as long as we don't factor in the need to stretch. Nice exterior, cosy interior, your job would be sorting letters, and you could amuse yourself by setting up a spycam in a crocheted topper and occasionally saying 'thank you' and seeing how people react. The more I think about it the more this seems like an ideal life (leaving aside the need to stretch)

KajiKita

One of the first things I did here, once we were finally moved in, was  to take down the wind chimes on the side of the house facing the neighbours! Such antisocial things! 

KK