The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

We're near Newcastle at The Caravan Clinic. The new brakes are touching one of the wheels making the metal hot. We don't subscribe to the ignorance is bliss mentality. We ease our anxieties by being proactive and vigilant... which adds to the anxieties! Just get us there!

Fingers crossed for your journey Fuddle.

Sadly, Monna, I know that the scales and the body fat percentage were very accurate! I can't say I have a big build, my wrists are so slight I can wear childrens bracelets, and though I am tall, I am not supposed to be wide. Up until about 18 months ago, I was quite merrily a size 10 around the waist (and could still have lost a few KGs without even beginning to look skinny), and I weighed what I'm aiming to get back to. I just like to eat more than is advisable (and more junk) and that coupled with the lack of sleep (increased cortisol causes weight gain), mean I'm presently bigger than I should be (which is a vicious circle, making the sleep apnea worse). I need to just suck it up and get on with it. But I was being a precious flower for a bit instead

I just closed my page accidentally and almost lost this, think I'd best head to bed. Love to all xx

fuddle Now you are asking e to go back. Don't think I have worked with asthma patients since 1967. there is no reason why you should not have had a cold this week. It just could be that. You would not notice a mild cold with everything else.

For all the tests you have had you could still have had a virus that did not show up. Stop worrying about it you see the specialist on Monday.
You are going to be seen by lots of Drs again because they are sill not sure what it is.

Of course you could have both. Probably something congenital with your heart, was your mother drinking when you were born? The other thing is if it is a strong allergy it will effect your sinuses as well. You will only be coughing up rubbish from your sinuses in that case. It is only coming from your throat not your lungs.

When you get home damp dust everything and vacuum all curtains the sofa etc. keep doing it every day and that may help. I know if I did that in my flat it would help a lot because both of us are allergic to dust. You could try only using home made cleaning materials.

Soft stuff, I think the vicious circle is why we have had this government directive to put all newly diagnosed sleep apnea patients on a weight reducing diet.

I have the opposite problem of your SiL ivyleaf. Nurses weigh me and see 8 st 10 and don't see me as over weight. It is the top end for my height. DS eats a lot anyway but then when I was his age I ate a lot too and was only 6st 6lbs. He is not supposed to eat while working. When he is working his hands are full most of the time anyway. That's the nature of the job. I was buying him some big squares of flapjack with chocolate on top. The were only 39p from Pou n dstrecher. There have not been any for the last couple of months. They are very nice but they have 460 calories.

DS has been promised the job for life. I don't think he will manage it until retirement it's too heavy. Most of them are under 40 in his department. Though there are much lighter departments in ambient like paper products.

I have to tell you what he said last night. Every time I spoke to him he barely said a word back. He said I can't English I've been stuck in Japanese all day. He did finish one book, start another, play a computer game in Japanese and watch some Japanese TV, as well as do his daily practice.

fuds you don't do things by halves do you ? I hope the journey is now continuing towards your destination and things go smoothly from now on , NM has given you some pointers to manage the breathing issues . My two younger daughters both have asthma diagnoses but only one gets the sticky gunge thing .
Wise to wait until Tuesdays appointment with the consultant . No doubt you'll be armed with a list of questions on the day . Whatever is going on will be sorted hopefully soon .
Had I known you were heading over the border today I'd have stowed away ! Could do with some peace and nature right now .

NM Some time last year I did a post or two about how DS coped food wise with his long journeys and shifts on the railway . His shifts were on ever changing rotas and longer than he can safely work nowadays as a senior driver .
This time of year if we were asleep when he got home I would leave plated meals ready in the fridge , if his breakfast time was odd hours he would make proper porridge with jumbo oats in roughly 4 mins in the microwave , you can prepare that in advance and leave in the fridge but we didn't know that back then .
Lunches depending on the season would be either homemade stew , chunky soups or similar in a food flask as mentioned above , with a well filled sandwich or roll that would keep him going . Sometimes he'd do scrambled eggs and tomatoes in the microwave for breakfast . Lots of different things are quick and easy to prepare .
I know you are limited both space time and energy wise when cooking from scratch so having some decent quality good size microwavable meals in is useful . I'm not a frequent microwave user but my son grew up with them and it kept him fed when he wasn't home when we ate .
polly x

Ahhh, fuddle, my heart sank into my fluffy slippers when I heard of your exploits today. I have never towed a caravan, well not intentionally, but I am well used to that heart stopping feeling when your mode of transport gives a sadistic snigger and grinds to a halt.
In the early sixties I used to drive 12 miles up the A3 every day to work. There were numerous garages on that stretch and at every garage I received an enthusiastic wave as I passed. I could imagine them all heaving a sigh of relief,, saying, " Relax chaps, she's not our problem today."
I had limped into all of them belching forth smoke, and on one famous occasion flames, frequently. You haven't done that have you?
I bet you don't have the accelerator on a piece of string with the other end tied round your wrist so that you can yank it up when it gets stuck down either. Or have to lift your feet when you go over a puddle. Or have no heater except the hot water bottle on your lap. Oh, happy motoring days before the advent of MOTs.

Softstuff and nm, have you heard the theory that people think 'middle aged' is someone 10 years older than they are? Not me obviously. Anyone 10 years older than me has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin.
Well, I have a theory that everyone thinks that 'fat' describes anyone at least a stone heavier than them. Mind you, some of us would be hard pressed to find one of these rare beings.

It's getting near Millie's dinner time. She has climbed off my bed where she has been all day so far and is now lying near the door where, if I so much as twitch,
she is poised to beat me down stairs.