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Oh so you had broken a metatarsal by the sound of it Mel. I had to wear one of those black, thick soled sandal things when I had an operation on my foot years ago. I think I still have it somewhere in the loft! Not very flattering are they. :-) Your email shows how bruised your foot is too. So Em's having her days all thrown out now instead of you! She must have a lot on her plate with the two boys, but it sounds as if she doesn't have a job, so is often around in the day luckily. So have they told you to rest the foot now and how long will you have to wear the shoe?

I can't believe it either AnnG. We are only allowed 2 packs of 16 at a time from supermarkets.

Mandy, the gift thing was for M & S! I think he was rather hoping it was for Waterstones for some books. He was very pleased to receive it, but it looks like it will be for some pants instead! lol.

I have started going through more files of instructions for appliances etc, but there isn't much I could shred. Now I'm going through FH folders and might be able to add some to my FH from some things I found.

Oh dear Mel, but at least you have got it sorted and at least it should heel OK, Were there any instructions about how much you could walk on it? Is this shoe thing something that you can take off at night? Well done em she is good to you.

I really can't believe that your surgery just dishes out 200 paracetamol tablets. How on earth do they know that they can't fall into the wrong hands.

O and I also picked up my paracetamol form the surgery and they have given me 200.

Got back home at 2.46pm The paramedic looked at my foot at the surgery and said he thought I should go and get it x- rayed at Stratton which is just outside Bude. Anyway off we went to the x-ray dept there and we had to wait just over an hours I think perhaps not quite that long. The nurse showed me the x-ray after it was done and when she called me in she had two shoes things in her hand !! I thought oh no and yes you have guessed it I had broken a small bone on the side of the joint on my little toe which is about half way down my foot from my toes. Theres a pointy bit there and I have knock about a cm of bone off with a hairline crack. I now have a bl88dy great hard show thing to keep on for at least two weeks maybe four. Its like a sandle thing and I'll send a pic later but now I must eat something. Em took me and waited for me she's such a good girl I asked her if she would like to have lunch out as a treat but she wanted to get back to her boys. I did give her some money which she did'nt want to take but I said if I ever needed her like that again I would'nt mind asking as long as I can pay her something.

Right I need food............................................

Check out the government website for the learner drivers theory test. You certainly don’t need 100% to pass. Perhaps Jake didn’t complete it in time - it is tight. There are 50 multiple choice questions to answer in 57 minutes. It doesn’t give much time for thought. He’ll pass next time I’m sure. Good luck to him.

When I damaged my foot I only spoke to the GP on the phone but he referred me direct to X-Ray who rang me within an hour with an appointment that day. X-Rays were rushed to the GP and when he saw them he referred me to the fracture clinic who rang with an appointment the following morning. So a phone chat with the GP was enough to get everything moving. Maybe it will be the same for Mel. It could be that it’s swollen because you have been walking on it too much Mel and not resting enough.

I’ve done some ironing and a few other jobs and now I must go and get changed and titivated up a bit. Our table for the 80th birthday lunch is booked for 1 pm and I am being picked up at 12.30. It’s difficult to know what to wear. The temperature apparently is 14 degrees but feels like 7 and it is very windy. It was wet earlier but it’s not raining now and I’ve just seen a brief gleam of sun. I guess layers is the answer to what to wear.

EDIT. I see you have an appointment With the doc Mel. Good luck.

I spoke to a doctor and he has mde me an appointment for 12pm and said I may have to go to Stratton so Em is taking me to the docs and we will see what happens after that. She will take me to Bude if I have to have an x-ray. she had to get in touch with Ed to see if he could take the boys to Bideford and rearrange her day so she can take me. She's a lovely neighbour I call her the daughter I never had.

Will let you know how I get on later.

All of you with slow draining drains just do the soda crystal and bleak with boiling water and then after a while put more boiling water down and they should clear. Our shower used to get blocked up with fluff out of oh's belly button and hair but that always cleared it right out.

It's Buster plug hole cleaner, it does say leave overnight but I use that loo at night and if there's any fumes from the cleaner I didn't fancy leaving it over night so by doing it now I can leave a window open and close the door.
I remember our kitchen drain blocking and Colin used some stuff he got from the building merchants ,well he poured it down and within a minute it went off like a rocket ,such a bang it frightened me to death , cleared the drain though lol

Ann that was lovely of the school to send the voucher and card to OH ,that will get a couple of books :-D

Morning All,

It's 14 degrees here and very breezy. We didn't sleep well last night so decided to lie in this morning. A load of banging on the front door and study window, followed by dinging on the door bell when they eventually noticed it under their nose on the door frame soon put paid to that Idea, as I scrambled into jeans and top to answer the door. It was the post woman with a signed for small, thin envelope addressed to OH. It turned out to be a get well card wth a £20 gift voucher inside from one of OH's schools, so that was a nice surprise for him.

It sounds like using your foot as much yesterday wasn't a good idea Mel, but I don't see how a phone call will help, other than to perhaps say have it x-rayed. Maybe they will just say rest it and use a bag of frozen peas first though and see if the swelling goes down again.

Mandy that's tough if getting one answer wrong means a fail. I hope they told Jake which it was. I've got the same problem with the ensuite basin draining slowly. OH doesn't use it, only me with short hair. I've got a long thin brush I will try first. What with that and the toilet backing up if there's much paper, I'll be glad when we can get it all redone in there. I noticed the new small basins seem to have bigger plugholes now which would help.

Better get lunch prepared now. Some cod fillets with mash for OH and carrots, leeks, cabbage, peas and sweetcorn with a white sauce.

AnnG I hope you enjoy your trip out with Cynth. If it's to a garden centre, they are stocking up with more things now that christmas has been packed away. Our Range store always had tiny gangways so they could pack more things in.

Mandy I have to use that sometimes after son in law has been here, daughter's longish hair and his shaving seems to cause problems. On my own it goes for ages without needing doinng.

I am going out with cynth for coffee this afternoon from 2pm. She does her shopping Friday mornings which is why we are not going then.

A face to face would have been better Mel so they could actually see your foot ,how are they going to know if you've done any damage ,it's all phone calls now .

Anng I haven't spoken to Jake just son and he just said he'd failed on the one question so no idea what the question was ,I suppose next time it will be different set of questions again .

Well cleaned the shower and put some plughole cleaner down the plug hole and the basin plug hole just need to leave it all day to work , the water was slowing up draining away I think its hair in the shower and Colin shaving that clogs it .

Oh oh suns out

Hope you can get a reply from the doctr soon Mel, has it only just swollen? That could have been if you were walking on it yesterday. Maybe they will send you for an Xray.

Mandy does Jake know which question he got wrong? Or do they just tell them they had a question wrong? My internet was down for an hour, it kept implying that it was my Wifi but I guess it could be something to do with the weather.

Morning all,

Milder here this morning but very cloudy and dull .

Anng I think its a set of 60 mutiple choice questions for the test and they so many minutes to answer them ,he must have been disappointed to get one wrong .

Mel thats good your getting your foot looked at if its swollen, hope you can get an appointment today .

I need to give the shower a good clean today and have a hoover in the bedrooms so a couple of jobs to keep me busy .

Iv'e rung the doctors and they are going to ring me back so I can speak to a doctor.

Mornig Anng and all,

Dull, dreary, dire,dreadfuland damp here this m orning and its lashing with rain and very windy. 13 degrees.

I am going to try and get an appointment iwth the doc today as my foot is very swollen. Wish me luck I have to ring them at 8.30am.

good morning all it is 12 degrees here, very dull and PC says rain is coming. It is very windy as well.
Mandy the Range do seem to put their stuff all close together. It is normally OK although maybe not the place to go if you know there is a lot of flu or covid in the area. they do have some good stuff though so worth going when it is not half term or other busy times.
I bet your cakes do disappear quickly as they have a big growing (hungry) family. Lucky for them that you like baking.
Oh poor Jake, does the theory test have to be 100$ correct then. that is hard.

Evening all,

It was suppose to be milder today but it wasn't here ,the wind was quite strong which made it cold out .

We went o Aldi for our shopping and called in the Range to have a look too , lots of nice things in there but we never looked upstairs where all the lighting and craft stuff was ,by the time we looked round the bottom floor we had had enough so we'll do that another day ,everytime we stopped to look at something people wanted to come past, I think there's to much in there and not enough room to stop and look .

Vera I hope the chap soon gets back to you with his quote and you get the boarding down so the plumber can then do his bit and cure the smell ,your OH must have done a good job if it's lasted ten years ,he sounds just like Colin he'd say I can go up there and do that , and I have to say yes ten years ago you could have but not now .

Mel thats good you'd foot seems better, just be careful when you drive to the shop on Saturday, I don't know which foot you hurt but its either brake or clutch and pressure might upset it again .

Gwyn sounds as if you enjoyed your day out with your daughters .

Anng your right about the dark days don't encourage housework ,roll on the better weather with some nice sunshine .

Ann thats good you didn't get caught up in any traffic ,probably not as much this week being half term .
Was there any bargains in the factory shop ,haven't been to ours lately .
We saw son and family in the Range this morning and he said cakes were lovely ,half gone already .
We dropped the cakes in yesterday and Jake was then setting off for his driving lesson
He had been to Norwich with his mum on the bus that morning as he had to sit his Theory test , he failed on one question so now he has to book another one .

Well the visit to the factory shop was disappointing. They have hugely reduced their stock and have almost no menswear now. OH used to get some good quality shirts from there once, but there are none anymore. I did get a pack of the soft grip socks I wear, but there were only 2 other packs left. There were none of the plastic basket weave baskets we wanted to carry OH's meds in, so the only other thing I got was some dishwasher cleaner. I may be wrong, but I got the impression they may be winding down ready to close! On the way back we called at a garden centre we were passing and found a right size basket there and we had two skinny decaf lattes while we were there, only needing to pay for one as OH had enough loyalty points for the other. When we got home (in the rain!) I did a chicken and mushroom stir fry with chow mein bought sauce for lunch and we both really enjoyed it, so I'll do it again as it was so quick and easy.

It sounds like your foot is getting better Mel if yiu can move around slowly with it. Just be careful though.

I'm the same with HW on these darker days AnnG. I must do the bathroom floor but it's on the shady side of the bungalow, so needs a brighter day to show what needs cleaning properly.

I hope the quote will be ok for the work Vera. I have lost track of costs for things and what is good value now as prices just keep going up. It will be nice tomorrow to meet up for a friend's 80th birthday. :-)

We seem to have similar weather to the rest of you. It’s wet and very windy and about 13 degrees but you wouldn’t know it. Weather app says it is 13 but feels like 5 degrees. We had a nice treat first thing this morning before the rain really set in. There were 4 jays in our little garden. They are the first jays we have seen around here and to get 4 at once was amazing. They are such pretty, colourful birds.

Gwyn, I don’t like charges to enter churches and cathedrals either, though I understand why. I know you can get in free if you are going for private prayer but I have no idea how you would prove that is what you are going in for. I believe it is currently £26 admission to St Paul’s which is a lot of money. Our local cathedral is Bury St Edmunds and they do not charge entry but it apparently costs about £3000 a day to keep it open and I doubt if that gets covered by voluntary donations.

Mel, the smell here was horrid at first but now it isn’t at all noticeable most of the time. It comes and goes and as soon as we think we can smell it a bit we put the fan on in my en-suite for an hour and it mostly wafts it away. We can live comfortably like this but the job has got to be done and we want it done as soon as possible in case it suddenly gets worse. We are still waiting for this handyman to get back to us with a quote. I expect OH will call him if we haven’t heard by tomorrow. I’m glad your foot is feeling a bit easier but take it easy for a few more days.

We went for our usual Thursday coffee meet which was very pleasant and we put the world to rights between us. Tomorrow several of us ladies are having lunch out to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of us.

Time to go and sort out some veg to go with tonight’s smoked haddock. The migraine I had kept me away from alcohol for several days but I might even risk a pre-dinner glass of something tonight ;-)

I know just what you mean Anng if the sun comes out you just want to get on with things and it shows up the cobwebs

Foot seems a bit easier again today and I am wslking about the house without the walker and if I go slowly thats ok. I have to go round to the girls again with a bit of corn for them but its raining at the mo. Pc is telling me rain on Sunday and its still 13 degrees here.

I have done some ironing but my back is aching now so I am having a sit down. Might make a drink.

Still raining here and 13 degrees now. I have dusted the lounge and dining room and done the floors not that it was very dirty down there. I have also sorted most of the food order for Saturday. Probably make some cards next, maybe give the bathroom a clean. This weather doesn't really encourage Housework as everywhere is so dark.