The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Excellent news silvasava. It's settling to know what you need to fight your stubborn nasties I think. Ivyleaf how is your tum? Softstuff amazing progress and I'm trying very hard to follow in your 'self help and change' footsteps. It's heartening to know that with tweaks and persevering better health can be achieved.

Speaking of which that's why I'm up and at 'em at this hour. Although my pain has completely gone (even that 2 year old niggle when I yawn!) I'm windy and releasing smells like my insides have died. I have been eating strictly low fodmap for the past few days so as not to comsume gas producing foods. The only exception has been milk and yoghurt so I'm going to give up dairy for a while to see what happens. I won't be having anymore buscopan but will continue with peppermint tea and have peppermint oil once they arrive.

If there's been an underlying issue for a few years that has been pressing on my organs a bit (yawning pain might be diaphragm maybe and certainly spleen lately) then maybe that been putting a bit of pressure on my heart too.

kittie it comes across as you're excited and relishing planning your new batten-down-the-hatches abode.

Ivyleaf Mr Ivyleaf is a worry as awful as they are to a person's self esteem I am cheering for the side rail. It need not ever be an issue again with one of those. I get why there will be a bit of falter but at the end of the day, who cares. I'd have one the minute I needed one... on the understanding that I can Yarn Bomb it in crochet that is! I wonder if your tummy troubles are down to worrying about Mr Ivyleaf maybe? 0

Allotment Tales: first blackcurrants picked and compote made in the slow cooker. Word is Mr Pea Seedling is giving up a couple of plots, keeping only one by his cronies. I'm not by his cronies. I live in hope.

Well I'm off to go investigate high fibre low fodmap foods because if I have to give up beans and pulses I'm concerned for my diverticular issue and then off to look at sock wool online. Sleep won't be happening now.:doh:

MMF would a word in the ear of their gp suggesting some OT advice re mobility aids work? DHs brother had to do that for their parents as they would not take on board any advice from their sons.

Nursemaggie--we had one of the refurbished Aldi's before we moved and they did have more stock which was nice!

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Fuddle, keep going love, you'll get there in the end. Fingers crossed Mr P.S. goes to an allotment far, far away.

Kittie. Fort Knox will be head-hunting you shortly. You are so well organised.

MMF do what Floss suggests. Write to the in-law's GP emphasising that they must never find out about it. I did it for my parents when I realised that Mum was not herself. She was diagnosed with vascular Dementia after various people visited them on all, sorts of subterfuges and, to the end of his life, Dad never discovered what I had done.

FairyP, I wish I could glow with perspiration, I hardly sweat at all. The heat just builds up inside me and makes me feel quite ill. I am downing pints of water but still no glowing!

mar, I think if you were a dog the RV might have taken you for a last visit to the vet. I can't think of anything helpful to say. We are always here for a moan and a giggle. It's not fair that you should have all the ills that life can throw at you and someone like me gets away scot-free.
I have my fingers crossed behind my back as I type that. With difficulty.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.

yes silver-oldie so many people are lonely and I include younger people. We don`t have any more popping in for a cuppa, like in the old days, however I am not up for that because I am always busy. My loneliest time was as a stay at home new mum, new house that we could not afford, it was awful. Hobbies are a short cut to acquaintances, rather than friends and when the day is over it is back to square one. These threads are absolute life savers for letting stuff out, rather than talking to the walls. My best friends are my 3 sisters but 2 are in australia. My neighbours etc are always there but I still keep stuff back, so that makes them more like good aquaintances. My children are my children and I hardly ever tell them things that might worry them, I am this solid wall that never crumbles