And now we go again...

teapot2

The only time I've had black eyes (yes both) was years ago after a similar sounding fall where I face planted and my glasses with metal frames did the damage.  Hope you heal quickly, its a big shock to the body.

greenbee

I was about to suggest arnica tablets. And medicinal chocolate  

12kWh of electricity used here - 5.7 of them charging the battery. I had the WM, DW, and four electric towel rails on, as well as sticking the TD on with the washing in when I got up. 

Tonight I plan on having the SC ready to go, the electric airer, the oil-filled radiator (must put it together), and the immersion in the HW tank too as that should cut the oil usage slightly. 

Although... free electricity 7-9am tomorrow is going to mean some complicated working out to get the best result!

Blackcats

Sounds like that was a very heavy fall.  Hope that you are taking it easy and that the pain is manageable.
I expect your chums will be taken aback at your black eye and bruising let alone when you show up to work on Monday.
give yourself permission to rest and relax to let the healing process do it's work.

foxgloves

What a nasty fall, EH. Yes, I bet it was ice. As I kept telling myself last week, it's not going to be the 7cm of snow that's a problem, but the usual thing of the top melting before re-freezing into slippery ice. Even Mr F remarked on how treacherous it was walking from the car to his work & he went in wearing hiking boots so chunky they are like sporting a tank on each foot!
Take care of yourself. Very glad to hear you haven't broken anything except your glasses.
F x

Sun_Addict

Another diary I follow on here has broken her wrist after a slip on the ice. She said the hospital was really busy with broken bones due to falls. 

I’m still a bit bruised after my fall on dry ground just over a week ago so very thankful I didn’t fall on the ice. 

EssexHebridean

Yes - it was metal framed glasses which did the damage on the bridge of my nose, I went down with sufficient force that the frames were completely bent out of shape too! I think I may go back to B00ts opticians for my replacements - I got on well when I went there before and I confess I had completely forgotten that we still had one in the town, so I think I will see if I can get an appointment for Friday.

Still a bit sore although my knee feels far better today thankfully. Worse thing at the moment is my top lip which has had the bruising properly come out on it, and is feeling more tender than it has since immediately afterwards as a result. I've been managing to get moisturiser on my face too which has helped a lot. And also still feeling immensely grateful that it wasn't worse! 

The visit from pals yesterday was absolutely lovely - they got to us about 1pm, and we spent the day setting the world to rights, sharing the gossip and eating and drinking which was pretty much perfect. Also sorted out an issue I had around a planned trip next year to somewhere rather fascinating - the room we had nominally been assumed to be allocated turned out not to have any windows, and I can't sleep in a room with no windows! (the claustrophobia of being in complete darkness is huge!) It sounds like there are other options anyway, and we will work it out, which is fab, as I had begun to think I would have to pull out of the trip! Lovely to have people to stay, and to have a spare room which works for that as well - it was nice to see it with the beds made up and L says that the fold out bed she slept on was very comfy too, which was reassuring! 

Other than that yesterday was mostly about super-cheap Agile prices of course! As usual when there is a suitable level of pricing overnight we turned on the underfloor heating in kitchen and bathroom, ran the oil-filled rad in the hallway, and turned the CH off as there is no point in paying for gas to heat the place when we can use electricity and be paid to do so. By the time the prices increased past the super-cheap level we were at -34p cost, with a toasty warm house (and office as MrEH put the underfloor heating out there on too), and in spite of using the over and airfryer during the day, we still only ended up at 36p of cost for the day which was astonishing. Not quite as outstanding overnight last night but still pretty decent - again, underfloor heating was used (although not the office this time) in place of the CH, the DW went through again too - and we woke this morning to a small negative cost plus again, a nice warm house and no gas used for heating! 

I basically did a beige-buffet for food yesterday ("English tapas" as another pal calls a picky tea!) - there was an additional grocery spend, and an additional BEER spend too, which I need to balance the books for, but that's fine, and it was well worth it. I cooked a couple of Al's pizzas-  the posh range ones - one veggie, one meat. Boiled some home grown potatoes which were then drizzled in oil and thrown in the airfryer as a cross between roasties and chips, and added some falafels and some Y/S'd mini onion bhajis that we spotted in Mozzas on Saturday. Those plus crisps, cheese, cherry tomatoes (as a nod to our 5-a-day - unsurprisingly they didn't get touched! ) Oh and I did the trial run for the christmas sausage rolls as well - not only were they good, mostly-veggie pal L snaffled one and pronounced it delicious!  Sufficient leftovers there that we will just eat those tonight which means a meal from the plan can be shuffled to another day. Pudding was just a bowl of assorted biscuits - mostly nice old-school ones like party rings and jammie dodgers!  Pals brought beers too, and we drank some of theirs and some of ours, and they have insisted in leaving the balance of theirs with us which is much appreciated! 

I do need to go through the CC and get it balanced off again - we realised that although we could cobble together sufficient respectable bedding for the two spare beds, we were short of pillows so an additional pair of relatively cheap ones were bought on saturday afternoon - the household account will take the strain there.

beanielou

Glad you enjoyed a good time with your friends. 

Makingabobor2

Sounds like a good weekend

Blackcats

That sounds like a lovely day.  Party rings for pud sounds idyllic.  

EssexHebridean

Just decided to call Prolific quits for the month so have cashed out - that's £40.10 to y tech replacement pot which is an excellent result, and there is £14.15 pending to start me off for December as well as long as that all pays out. 

In other MSE style news I have agreed with Madam Boss that it would very much do her a favour if I cleared some old timber that's kicking around in our storeroom. It's been here as long as the firm has I think, she has no need of it and has been holding off getting rid because it will cost her money. Meanwhile, we can certainly find a use for it even if just burning it! I will take the first bits back with me tonight, I think.