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Mel Fairy Godmother
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20 Feb 2025 11:46 |
Morning all,
Did'nt wake till late again this morning and its a horrible day much like most of you have with wind and lashing rain but the temp is up again today even though its dull and dreary its 13 degrees! positively mild but iv'e still turned the heating on.
Nothing doing here today so I will just do what I fancy when I fancy. Foot does feel a little better this morning but Iv'e not done the girls yet and my welly tells me if its still swollen. Elbow still quite bruised.
I do hope Vera's little handyman can sort out her probled for them as it must be awful having that kind of smell through the house.
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Annx
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20 Feb 2025 09:27 |
Morning All,
A summery 12 degrees here (according to the PC) with a blustery breeze and some rain too. We got to the surgery in good time and being early the traffic hadn't built up by the roadworks. We got one of the few parking spaces too and OH soon had his blood test. He's had all his tablets, eye drops and BP checked for the chart, so we are off to the factory shop next.
It would be interesting to see the moon installation Gwyn, but I agree with you about charges. I saw Lincoln cathedral years ago when I was on a course with my job, but they charge to go in now.
Yes, more trauma last night as you say AnnG. I suppose they kill people off that they don't want coming back in the future, but there seem to be a lot going just now. Maybe there are new people coming along?
Vera it's good the man will do the job and it looks like the problem will soon be sorted for you, fingers crossed.
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Gwyn in Kent
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20 Feb 2025 08:52 |
Dull, damp and dismal over here, but milder, so we will see how the day progresses. I don't have to go anywhere, but hope it's dry enough to make a local walk comfortable, at some point.
I remember being surprised at just how small the loft was in my friend's house. Her house was detached, ours of a very similar style and lay-out was a semi. We could store quite a bit in our loft space, whereas my friend couldn't even get a large suitcase in hers. I do hope your team of workers can rectify your problem, Vera...and quickly.
Pleasant day out with my daughters yesterday. We went to Rochester.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xqn5pp2w2o
We went to see the moon installation there in 2020 just before Covid and had seen the world globe in Salisbury Cathedral, prior to that. I like the fact that both these cathedrals did not charge an entry fee. They have donation stations dotted around the inside area and I willingly put money in there on each visit, as the running costs for such events and upkeep of the building must be immense, but actually charging to go into a place of worship doesn't feel right to me.
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AnninGlos
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20 Feb 2025 08:29 |
Good morning all from a very wet and blustery gloucestershire. It is dark and chucking it down out there and 2 degrees, I won't be going anywhere today. Vera hope the man you have contacted makes an appearance and can do the job.
Ann, well both those soaps were not very cheerful last night and East enders was no better. Trauma all the way. I wish they would find another way of getting rid of people rather than killing them off.
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SuffolkVera
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19 Feb 2025 21:38 |
The smell isn’t noticeable now but this is what happened 10 years ago. The smell kept coming and going. OH spoke to a local handyman tonight who seemed to know what he’s talking about and he’s going to get a quote to us tomorrow. OH told him how limited the space is - there’s just about room to crawl - and he didn’t seem worried by that. If we accept his quote he can’t come till Monday and then with luck the plumber will come back Tuesday.
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Annx
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19 Feb 2025 21:02 |
I'm late to bed tonight AnnG, but I don't sleep well and won't as we have to be up at 7.00am for OH's fasting blood test in the morning. There were roadworks on the road to the surgery today so we need to make allowances for queuing in the morning.
Yes, the 2 soaps I watch are Emmerdale and Corrie and both have been very medical lately as you say. I thought a bit far fetched as well, as if trying to outdo each other! The ambulances in Emmerdale were quick weren't they and I was surprised they found them so easily in pitch darkness, but maybe there was only one track to the lake. Better go and set my alarm now.
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AnninGlos
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19 Feb 2025 19:28 |
I don’t remember which two you watch Ann but all three seem to be involved with medical things and hospitals. I could not believe how quickly ambulances arrived in Emmerdale.
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Annx
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19 Feb 2025 19:09 |
No you aren't odd AnnG. My dentist used to call it root planing as well. I have receding gums too and very sensitive teeth. He used to do mine before I moved here which is 25 years ago so it isn't a new thing either.
Mel OH has had the soluble aspirin prescribed since his cardiac arrest. We order paracetamol on our Asda food order, so no need to go to shops unless we run out. Also Pharmacy2U (and other companies) prepare and deliver NHS medication to you by tracked Royal Mail postage and I think it's free. My old schoolfriend uses a delivery service and sometimes gets hers the same day. It's something I ought to look into, but I suspect you need to be home as I doubt they'd put meds through the letterbox. It sounds like a big bruise on your arm where you fellI, but don't do too much till your foot improves.
OH's trouser belt does up 4 holes shorter since 3 weeks ago due to all the weight he's lost. I'm still wondering if the 9+ tablets a day plus painkillers he is taking are affecting his taste. He's going to start doing bits to finish off some of his work that needs doing when his painkillers are helping. If he's ok, I may drive him to a council meeting he has next week as he'd like to go.
Vera, the loft at my old house was similar with sloping lofts either side of the upstairs bedrooms. They were narrow in places and you needed to crawl. I hope the local handyman will be able to help you. It can't be very nice for you with a horrid smell.
Mandy your kitchen must smell lovely with all the nice things you cook. The family must love the homemade cakes you make for them and it's good the old school cake went down well. I like a cheese scone , but like you the pastry on sausage rolls can give me indigestion too, much as I love it.
The two soaps I watch have both been a bit samey and a bit one themed this week so I hope they move on a bit tonight.
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AnninGlos
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19 Feb 2025 17:35 |
5.30 and still light
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SuffolkVera
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19 Feb 2025 16:14 |
I’m pleased you haven’t got to have a deep clean this time AnnG. We haven’t approached our house insurers yet though if it looks as though we are getting into silly money we will. I think they will say it won’t be covered because OH shouldn’t have done the initial repair but called in a professional. I suspect they will ignore the fact that, until retirement, he worked in the water industry on the sewage side and was highly qualified and his “amateur” repair has lasted 10 years.
Mel, I don’t think bleach and soda will do anything. There is no smell coming from any of the drains. We are controlling the smell quite well by judicious use of the fan in the en-suite and keeping that door and the bedroom door closed. For the last couple of years that room has been my bedroom so I have decamped.
A while ago OH said he would have to buy the boards and fit them in the loft himself as most companies don’t want a small job like that. I had a bit of a meltdown at that. I can’t emphasise enough how tight it is on space up there. We have sloping roofs and it’s just the area at the apex. You couldn’t store anything up there. Anyway I told him to go and look for a local handyman. He has found one who gives a number to ring in the evening so OH will call him tonight. OH is very fit for his age but it needs someone a bit younger to do the job. We are thinking of putting boards direct on the insulation but in a strip down the centre and as far as just past all the pipework. That way the insulation will still be exposed at the sides and end so the air can circulate.
Watch this space.
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Mel Fairy Godmother
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19 Feb 2025 15:47 |
Meant to say glad your apponitment went off ok Anng and you did'nt have to have the deep clean yet but now have t o wait till September.
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Mel Fairy Godmother
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19 Feb 2025 15:46 |
It always seems strange to me how you can get appointments offered on certain dates that are connected to you. It happens with me too and things seem to run out on special days too. Have any of you found that?
Ann I am still in a lot of pain with my foot and whilst washing this morning I noticed I have a graze on my right elbow where I hit the corner of my desk in my fall and a socking great bruise there too. Had I been in the shower I would'nt have noticed it but did in front of the mirror over the hand basin. The doc gave me a huge box of Paracetamol when I had that awful pain in my back the other year and I usually get 200 at a time because of hip and knee pain too.
I also hve gastro resistant Asprin which you can buy in the shops but I get those on prescription too. Perhaps it cos I live out in the middle of knowhere and its a long way to the shops.
I have fed the chickens and done a wash today and popped it on the line but now its come over cloudy so I think I will bring it in. at the moment its 11 degrees here and it says rain starting in about an hour and a half.
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AnninGlos
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19 Feb 2025 14:53 |
Well my appointment was for 2pm amd I had walked home by 2.30. £45. for an inspection, although he does dig done into the gum and calls out various things to the nurse. And does a thorough inspection in and around my mouth and tongue. (that is private pricing.) He agreed to not do a deep clean this time, said it should be done at least once a year so would leave it until September. I think if my gums had receded more than previously he would insist on the deep clean. I am pleased that you have had it in the past ann anyway, now I know I (or my dentist) am not odd.
So, nect appointment is 3 September. First date they put down was 27 august which would have been my 65 wedding anniversary. I asked them to change it.
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Annx
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19 Feb 2025 14:22 |
Afternoon All,
It's 4 degrees here now but feels much colder. We have had a blink of sunshine, but it's dull again and rain expected later.
What a saga Vera! They keep changing regulations, but most of us live in older houses that don't comply with them. Two electricians (different contractors) had to go in our loft when we altered a bedroom 2 years ago to move the consumer unit and put a new socket for the changed position of a tv. We only have a pathway of boarding down the middle of our loft.They both managed with the rafters/joists and a plank they laid across them to work from. It seems like a lot of work in order to do the job and you'd expect plumbers would carry some boarded squares they could use to lay over joists themselves with most homes not having fully boarded lofts.
It's good your foot is a bit better Mel, but be careful with it. We were both shocked you can get paracetamol on prescription. It was 2018 when GPs stopped prescribing a lot of meds. Some were costing the NHS more than we could buy them for. Our surgery certainly wouldn't prescribe paracetamol. I need to take them for pain from my knees and an autoimmune condition I have and OH has been told to take them daily for pain now, but they don't prescribe them for either of us. We have to buy our own.
I hope the dentist didn't find any work to do AnnG. Like you I used to have frequent deep cleans with a previous dentist when my gums used to bleed then. He carried on with them after they stopped bleeding too. They aren't pleasant, but are a thorough clean below the gum line that helps keep your gums and teeth healthy. I think I had some numbing gel when mine were done.
It's the same here Gwyn and we are usually given nurse appointments too. I rarely see a doctor now.
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AnninGlos
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19 Feb 2025 13:03 |
Oh gosh Vera, that is horribly worrying and not very nice if you are having to meanwhile contend with the smell. I think your house insurance should cover this so don't forget to check, just in case the job gets bigger than it currently seems. I hope they accept the temporary work.
I have heard of other people having a deep clean, It is really just an extension of whay you would have as a normal hygenist appointment but I can't cope with it without injections as it ventures down near the nerves and my teeth are very sensitive.
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Mel Fairy Godmother
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19 Feb 2025 13:03 |
O my goodness that could have been a dreadfull smell that came from the stench pipe. I hope you can get someone to come and fix everything. Oh did our loft insulation and he bought these leg things to fix the boards to. He never finished the end of the bungalow over his study but just piles all the stuff that was in the loft over there. That bit was an extension so was boarded over. I do hope you can get someone soon to get it put right. In the meantime I would go and get some soda crystals and bleach and mix it with ot water and put that down that drain that should give it a good clean out and prevent smells. I need to do mine too. I can fill the bath with very hot water a whole pack of soda and a whole bottle of bleach. Thats the way we have cleared drains in the past.
I have been up the orchard to have a word with Ade who is taking the logs away today and when I was on the way down back to the house I saw a conker on the grass. Now there is not a conker tree anywhere near where I live but only way over the back in the big houses field or in the churchyard. So that means a squirrel must have brought it a very long way. It actually has a little root sticking out so I may grow it.
Time for a pill and some lunch I think.
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SuffolkVera
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19 Feb 2025 12:27 |
Good afternoon
Another cold day but it’s bright and sunny so much nicer than cold and grey.
I hope you get on OK at the dentist AnnG. Perhaps you won’t need a deep clean this time. Your dentist does seem keen on them but I’m sure he/she has a good reason. I don’t know anyone else who has ever had one.
I’m glad your foot is easier this morning Mel. Don’t try to do too much too soon. Just rest it for a few days. Like Gwyn, I don’t think our doctors would prescribe paracetamol as it is cheap and easily available to buy. A few years ago my vitamin D level was found to be alarmingly low and I was prescribed a massive dose for 2 weeks and then told to take 2000 units a day. I was asked if I would buy them myself “to save the NHS money”. I’m still buying them.
I see you’ve been busy cooking again this morning Mandy. Your family are lucky to get all these lovely cakes from you. I really should do more cooking but I always seem to be short of time.
Now to our plumbing story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin (do you all remember Daphne Oxenford and Listen With Mother?).
The builder who constructed our house and 4 bungalows in our Close used the cheapest sub contractors he could find and was always in trouble with the Council for not complying with regulations but he built our house for himself so it was probably the best of them. He didn’t live here for long before selling it on and we bought from the next owners. We also had a proper survey done. We weren’t told of any problems. We moved in.
One day a short while later we noticed a horrible smell in an upstairs bedroom and en-suite. After a few hours it disappeared. Over the course of a month or so this happened 3 or 4 times so OH went into the loft to check on pipework. Our loft is just a very narrow space under the eaves so trying to move up there is very difficult. What OH found was 2 pieces of pipe (stench pipe?) weren’t joined together. There was a 1” gap between them. OH managed to go into the loft headfirst on his back and fix a join between the pipes. At that stage he was just on the rafters as there was no insulation which he put in himself shortly after. We have had no smell problems since then.
Fast forward 10 years. Yesterday the smell was back with a vengeance and at one stage permeated the whole house. OH thinks his 10 year old repair had slipped or just worn out. I forbad him going up there. He’s 10 years older and if his back gave way I wouldn’t be able to get him out. He rang emergency plumbers and one was coming about 5 pm. I decided to have our main meal lunch time and had just put the oven on to heat up when OH got a text to say the plumber was on the way. So it was turn the oven off and put the food in the fridge. We waited and waited and he turned up at 2.30 in an ordinary car. His van had broken down on the way to us! After spending some time here he said that for health and safety reasons he would not do the job until the loft is boarded and boarding could go directly on top of the insulation.
So, OH has been in touch with a boarding company whose man has just been. He said that the company won’t compromise the insulation. There would have to be a gap between it and the boarding and then there won’t be enough room for the men to work so they can’t do the job. He suggested getting someone to put temporary boarding direct on the insulation and then removing it when the job is done so we have to find out if that will be acceptable to the plumbers. OH is now up a tall step ladder doing some measuring. I don’t know where we go from here but I am thoroughly fed up with it all.
Well, I should think you are all ready for a coffee after reading through this screed. I know I am after writing it.
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AnninGlos
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19 Feb 2025 12:08 |
I always make a few Easter cards for family and just checked the date. I had no idea that Easter is so late this year. Easter Sunday is 20 April.
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MillymollyAmanda
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19 Feb 2025 11:40 |
Morning all,
Cloudy and still very cold ,tomorrow is suppose to be a but milder but then we might have rain .
Been making some cakes for family this morning ,another Old School cake as they loved that a dozen cheese scones and half a dozen sausage rolls for us ,well Colin really as the pastry always gives me indegestion.
That's good you had a good night Mel ,can you walk ok today on your foot . I don't think we can get paracetamol on prescription here either ,some things were taken off prescriptions a few years ago because of the cost, anything that was cheaper to buy was taken off .
Just having a coffee while the bathroom floor is drying after having a mop ,I opened the window so I must remember to close it .
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AnninGlos
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19 Feb 2025 09:58 |
Strange, I just had to sign in and when I just clicked on what was altrady in the box (as I have always done when having to sign in, it siad invalid so I put the same in as usual and it accepted it. since having this new PC which came with AVG I do seem to have stronger security. Which is, at the same time, comforting but annoying.
Mel I was wondering about paracetamols on prescription too, we would not get that here. I thought nation wide we have been told to buy stuff that is cheaper for us to buy over the counter than for the surgery to provide.
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