General Chat

We couldn't believe it was so quiet trafficwise when we went to the dentist and I found a parking space right outside. The dentist said he was happy to take two teeth out as they are both loose, but asked OH to just clear it with the cardiologist first to be sure and booked him an appointment to do it anyway. I suppose they need to be happy about him bleeding with being on blood thinners and with his osteoporosis meds, which can cause problems with healing. I think the regular painkillers now like you said Mandy has helped with the toothache as well as it's not bothered him much today. He seems a lot happier now his voice is back properly and he's had two phone calls enquiring about him today and offers to meet up with people he works with when he's ready, so that was good. Yes I was glad I was able to calm down Mandy as that stops them getting worse.

I can remember, probably the same tremor, in the night years ago that rattled the long wall mirror and was so strange as you say, as you couldn't tell what was moving at first.

I wonder why they won't take just the one tooth out for you Mel. A dentist told me once that it's best to hang onto as many teeth as you can. I wish I'd looked after mine better, just like Pam Ayres said.

Stu is good making his own sauces and I should do that, but am a bit lazy or too busy. I just add things to the packet or bottled ones lately. I meant to ask you what the cooked celery was like? I love cream cheese and chopped celery sandwiches and like it in a salad. I used to drink Vodka when I was young, but the raspberry one sounds nice.

Yes Ann Tramadol are a lot stronger and Colin and son have them for their back .
Hope OH got on ok at the dentist and they could ease the toothache for him .
That's good you managed to calm yourself so you didn't have the panic attack ,they must be awful when they occur.

Mel it sounds like Stuart likes to experiment with the herbs and spices when he makes a meal ,different taste every time ,he probably can't remember quite how much he used last time so each time it tastes slightly different.

I meant to say the other day I read we had had an earthquake just off the Norfolk coast, it was about 4.30 Sunday morning so we would have been fast asleep .
I can remember feeling a tremor several years ago now when son was little it was a strange sensation everything shook for a few seconds so I think a full scale one must be terrifying.

Wishing oh good luck at the dentist and hope he can have his loose tooth out. They won't take my loose one out they want to take all I have left out. I suppose its cos I am a national health patient and thye don't get as much money for my treatment.

Stu makes all the sauce so not shop bought. He reacons it was the best one he made yet and we've had it a few times now. I think the first one was the nicest but I did'nt tell him that.

I too hope Vera has a safe journey home today and that the weather is as nice there as it is here. Its still lovely and sunny and its 8 degrees now but feels chilly indoors so I may turn the heating on for a while.

Morning All,

Sunshine here too! It's a shame about your PC AnnG, but it might be something easy to fix so you don't have to change it. I'm still having trouble with the numbers on mine and would have taken it in if events hadn't happened. I might see if they can look at it next week. With needing to use numbers with all the codes we have to use now and PINs, they need to be right. It's a nice day out for you with lunch and then the theatre. I have never seen Pirates of Penzance.

Mandy they've issued him with codeine at the moment and said to have paracetomol with them, so I think Tramadol must be stronger. I think my sister had those for her back. He did have a better night again last night, so is making sure to take more (within the instruction) now. I started off sleeping, but then woke up a bit dizzy and hoped it wasn't the start of a panic attack, so I sat up and put the tv on and did the breathing exercises and was ok. I actually feel a bit calmer today. I keep meaning to ask about the lady too. At least if you can catch her and let her know, it should put her off doing it again. I bet son was pleased with the gammon and goodies to eat. I'm not much of a meat person either, nor smelly cheeses, but I like the others.

That sounded a lovely meal Mel, without chilli for me though! I tend to throw things in sauces without telling OH till after he's eaten, so it doesn't put him off. It's surprising how a bit of this and that can add flavour.

I hope Vera has a good trip home as well.

The lady that runs the groups rang today and she thinks it is too soon for them for me yet, and booked me in with the surgery counsellor first instead.

One of my toes is black where I caught it under the edge of the bed yesterday, it did hurt a lot when I did it!

Today's trip out is to the dentist for OH, but it isn't far, so that's good as it will be dark when we come back in the rush hour. It's engaged every time he tries the Eye Hospital, but his eye is no worse.

Morning Anng ,Mel ,morning all,

Lovely sunshine and blue sky but there was a frost first thing ,I think it should be sunny all day .

Enjoy your lunch and the theatre Anng ,hope the Pc can be fixed or it will be more expense as our dear Frank would say ,perhaps it just needs a good clean to blow any dust out they run hot sometimes ,I know son use to get a can of air to blow all his keyboard and take the back off to do something in the back as his would run hot at times.

Mel you sound as if you enjoyed your meal last night and even had a little tipple too ,some of these sauces are lovely with all the different herbs and spices .

Hope Vera has a good journey home.

Son called in and checked my form for my licence ,he went away with a big piece of gammon a big box of biscuits for cheese a box of chocolate biscuits and two packets of cookies all from Christmas, we'll never eat all those biscuits and the gammon was a spare piece I put in the freezer so they will eat it up .

Morning Anng and all,

Its a lovely bright sunny morning here and its 5 degrees and pc says mostly cloudy and rainy days coming.

Slept well but got up three times for the loo. Had a lovely meal with Stu. He had done his chicken dish but put more herbs and spices in it this week. I know he uses olive oil, grainy mustard and maple syrup, chilli flakes, tarragon and BBQ sauce, sounds awful dos'nt it but it tastes great. We also had roast pots, leeks, carrot, celery which had been steamed. A small bakewell tart for sweet and a few grapes and a hazelnut biscuit which was a bit hard for my teeth. He also gave me a drink to taste and it was lovely, it was raspberry vodka and lemonade so I had a very small one of those too and a glass of water.

I just looked out the window as I thought a car was driving down as I did a deer shot off into the orchard so I don't know what the noise was unless it was a plane but the deer heard it too.

There's wall to wall blue sky at the mo.

Good morning all. On my IPad now until the Pc is looked at, mended or condemned. I don’t know how old it is but it could be over ten years old. I dread all the upheaval in this room if I have to have a new one. It would mean moving a lot of my craft stuff.

It is 0 degree here, a slight frost.
I am out most of the day, to lunch at Brasserie Blanc and then the theatre for Pirates of Penzance.

Slept ok last night hope you all did as well

Did you enjoy the meal Mel?

Safe journey home Vera.

No Gwyn I haven't caught her going past yet but I will I think I might see her go past in the better weather ,I haven't forgotten, I doubt she would pay up but at least I can let her know I knew she took things and didn't pay .
Hope you've enjoyed your stir fry ,did you say you had had haggis on burns night ,never tried haggis ,I'm not a meat person really I will eat a little but no way could I live without cheese ,well only Stilton not a fan of mouldy cheese :-D

Ann are the painkillers Tramodol ? Colin and son both take them and you can take paracetamol in between taking the Tramadol ,Colin finds that Tramadol takes about an hour before he can feel any relief from it ,the doctor told me I could take those when my gall stones play me up , bil has the slow release Tramadol.

Thank you for mentioning that about tablets Gwyn. It does make sense, as did Mandy's recent comment about taking them regularly. I hink he's been put off by the fact they can become addictive, but he doesn't have many of those and has been told to take parcetamol with them to help as well.

Quite a 'thinking' day today hoping that the day is not too hard for Vera and her family and remembering Ann on this anniversary day too.
It's quite a sad week for several of us on this thread <3

Annx
I'm not one to take too many tablets, but the hospital advised me that painkillers are best if you take them in anticipation of need,if the pain is severe, rather than for trying to ease an already accute situation. OH will soon be able to ease off later and reduce the dose if necessary.

Mel, I think it's a great arrangement going out for a shared meal or Stu coming to your home. It breaks the week up and it's good to have face to face conversation. I hope you enjoy your chicken meal this evening.

Mandy
It must be lovely to see the fire burning brightly on these cold days. It's strange what you say about Colin unusually saying about the cold. Many of the young staff at school say they are really cold a lot this year.
I'm sure your little doll will be lovely. Did you ever catch up with the person who helped herself to your craft from outside?

We had a lovely bright morning, but more rain this afternoon.
I think we are catching the edge of the storm which was over in Europe. They've had flooding in France, so it was obviously carrying quite a lot of water. :-0

Stir fry tonight as our nod to it being Chinese New Year ;-)

Afternoon All,

Quite a chilly day here despite the sunshine.

It must be hard not to be sad on days like this AnnG and there will always be the memory, but maybe as time goes by it will become a little easier. <3 I can't believe it's been 4 years either. You are right about OH! Is your desktop ok now? Our door is still playing up as well so I make sure I have a backdoor and gate key in my bag, just in case. I need to rebook the engineer to look at it yet again.

I've been thinking of Vera and her family too on such a sad day for them. <3

OH slept a bit better again last night and I did. I woke from some sort of dream that something had happened and lay a few minutes till I realised it was a dream. OH was a bit worried about some buzzing in his ear, but it soon went off and we realised it was was probably water from his shower. He tried to ring the Eye Hospital about his eye, but no answer, so will probably wait till his appointment on Monday, but go straight there beforehand, if it gets any worse. His footie friend came this morning. I've seen him a few times before to wave to when he's come to pick OH up, but never really chatted with him. He was a really nice person and asked all about what happened. His wife is a deputy manager in the Ambulance service so he knows a lot about these things. He's going to pick OH up to go for a coffee at the new Jennos where his son works once OH feels up to it. He's said not to hesitate to contact him if needed, as he and his wife will help and he even texted to say so after he left. His visit gave OH a bit of a boost and me too.
OH managed to get an appointment with his dentist for tomorrow afternoon to see if he will remove the loose tooth. He was wondering if the hospital should do it last time so we'll have to see. OH had a little walk up to he Post Box to post a birthday card for Terry for me, which was good. Terry has just been touring Japan and Australia with Primal Scream. Not my sort of music!

I've spent ages trying to find out how to attach an old email to a new one to report these phishing emails I get, as you can't just forward them like I used to, as they won't deliver now. Instructions certainly aren't easy to find and others were reporting the same problem. Suggestions I looked at didn't relate to my webmail, but I eventually managed to do it and have written down what to do in case I forget next time.

Your dinner tonight sounds nice Mel, I would enjoy that. It was a shame the egg broke and don't they make an awful mess to clean up!

I bet it was cold doing the windows Mandy and much nicer to do some knitting of a lovely doll in the warm! I wonder which one you are doing? The folded duvet cover is a good idea for OH and I'm sure I have a plain coloured one in the drawers so will have a look and he can try it.

Don't forget we will want to see the dolls whhen its finished Mandy.

I have througherly leaned the sink this morning and have made sausage rolls which are now in the oven.
Stu rang to ask if I was coming to dinner tonight and I said yes so I shall take a few sausage rolls with me for him and James. He's doing his famous chicken in sauce with pots and veg its something I like.

Been dull all morning and is still dull now but the winds dropped and its now 6 degrees.

I was gooing to make a caketoo as I had found two more eggs in the chicken house and they were a bit muddy. Brought tthem in nad cleaned them off and thought I will use those. Did the washing up and promptly knock one and it fell on tthe floor and broke. I was so cross I them had tto clean the carpet and get the rest of the egg in the microwave and cook it foor the birds. I used the other one to wash the sausage rolls with but there's a lot of it over some I may make a bit of cake with that.

Afternoon all ,

It's been a sunny morning but the sky has now turned really black and looks more like rain .

Thinking of Vera and family and sending love as they say their goodbyes to their loved one .

Sending you love to you too today Anng I can't believe it's four years .

Ann hope you and OH have managed to get a better night and that the painkillers are helping to ease the pain .

I don't seem to have the get up and go today ,there's lots of jobs I could be doing but I just can't get going to do any ,I did wipe the windowsills down outside as they were dusty and gritty but it was cold so I didn't hang about out there for long .
Colin went out and chopped a few sticks but even he said its chilly out and he doesn't usually feel the cold .
The fies lit now and I think I will do a bit of knitting I have the doll to finish for sil .

Thank you Mel. Yes thinking of Vera and family.

Thinking of Vera and family today sending love and wishes and to you too Anng. <3 <3

Morning all,

Dry this morning but its not very warm it 4 degrees and pc says expect lighht raiin.

Woke late again today and I needed to be up and dressed incase the postie come earlier bu t I am done now so I hope I get two labels today and I can tell Karen its now posted.

Hope you others sllept better and that Ann's oh had a better rest last night. Its all healing.

Nothing else planned for today.

Desk top computer has gone wrong now.
And front door lock is sticky so that could be next.

Good morning all. Patchy sleep last night so not so good as it has been. Probably thinking too much about today 4 years ago. It will pass.
Hopefully going out to the Range and B&M this afternoon with my friend.

3 degrees here and still quite dark at 0730.

I hope everythinng goes off as planned Vera and safe journey to your daughters. We will all be thinking of you at this sad time. <3 <3

I had no subs today on the shopping either. It was Dan the driver I like and I hav'nt seen him since well before Christmas. He is now a dad and showed me pics of the new baby Rory. I gave him a card for the baby but I could'nt put anything in it as I had no money in the house. That what happens when you send the parcels by the Royal Mail as I don't get to the post van to draw any money out. I shall have to make a special trip as I like to have something to use if I need to.

Forgot to post this!!!!!!!!

Vera I hope all goes well tomorrow and you have a safe journey to your daughters .

Ann it's good OH has plenty of books to read while he is recovering , yes keep up with the painkillers having them regularly they work better .
I use to use a spare duvet rolled up under my pillows as extra support when I had a bad back .