General Chat

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.

The sun is battling to make an appearance, but it's still very cold.

I've just been to the postbox, which is a short walk away, but was glad that I'd bothered to put on my hat, gloves and scarf in addition to my coat.

Good to hear that you had a good sleep Mel. I hope the pain eases for you.
Not sure that our doctor would prescribe paracetamol. They have really cut back on the drugs which are cheaper to buy over the counter.
Actually, it's difficult to even see a doctor. We usually get passed to one of the nurses, so I haven't had a face to face appointment with a doctor at our surgery for years.

Ann, I hope the visit to the dentist goes OK. They do seem keen on the deep clean routine there :-|

Its a funny thing I have just realised that the usual way I get into GR in my bookmarks was'nt there yesterday when we could'nt get in but this morning it was there again.

Morning girls,

I slept like a log last night just up once in the night while it was still dark and went back to bed and must have gone straight off again. I must admit it does feel better this morning but still not right. I shall carry on with the paracetamol today and as Em has to go to Bideford today I'll ask her to get me some more. I have ordered them from the docs but as you all know its a 5 days wait for your scripts and I need them now.

Its 8 degrees and pc says to expect rain showers by Friday. The sky outside is very blue grey and looks well like rain today to me but I think the wind may have dropped which was so very cold yesterday.

Good morning all 1 degree here and back to overcast and dull, It was so lovely to see the sun yesterday even if it was very cold. I have dentist check up this afternoon, not too bothered about that, even though I hate goint to the dentist. But I know this usually is followed by two deep clean appointments.

Mel I hope your foot feels easier, but if not you really ought to get it checked out. I know that is awkward as you probably will need somebody to take you but do try and get it sorted. Is your foot swollen?

Vera hope the migraine has cleared. I am pleased that the migrains are not getting more frequent

I hope your foot is easier now you’ve rested it a bit Mel. Hopefully it will let you sleep better tonight.

Gwyn, I hope you have managed to sort out a date and place to meet up with your college friends. It’s good to have these get togethers. I used to meet with a group of school friends and their partners. Although we were scattered round the country a few of us would host everyone in our homes and, if necessary, provide overnight accommodation for those who had travelled furthest. Then a couple were finding long drives difficult so we started meeting in London as everyone could get there by train. Sadly now a couple are in poor health and we are all getting on in years so we are down to letters with Christmas and birthday cards.

You are lucky to have a Range, Mandy and Annx. Our Homebase has closed but the Range owners didn’t want it and no-one else has bought it.

AnnG asked if my migraines were getting more frequent. Just the opposite in fact. I get a lot of bad headaches and they do seem more frequent but migraines are different, though people often call a headache a migraine. I get fewer migraines than I used to and I don’t get violently sick anymore. This one has gone now, thank you Annx. It’s just left me feeling drained but that will improve over the next day or so. Could your doctors prescribe migraine tabs for your OH? They will know what can be taken with his other pills. For years I had triptans as well as a strong co-codamol, though I don’t take them now. What a performance OH has had to get his referral letter. I hope the private health people can see him quickly. All this waiting to get things done can’t be good for his stress levels.

This is getting long and my eyes are feeling very tired again so I will leave telling you the saga of our plumbing till tomorrow and, no, it isn’t fixed.

PS. I’m on the iPad and it’s a good job I read my post through as well or I’d have been in trouble like Mandy. I had triptans had been changed to I had Tristan! I’m covered in blushes.

Mel it sounds like you have done some damage if you can't use your foot at all so it may be best to have it checked like the others say. It sounds like you have no choice but to rest it today, so you may as well do your miniatures. It's good that Em is feeding the chickens for you, and at least she has plenty of eggs now. It sounds like she has a busy day today.

Vera I hope your migraine has gone now. These migraines can be so debilitating. OH woke in the night with one recently. He wouldn't take his usual tablets for them as he worries they won't mix with all his other tablets. It's something we need to ask the pharmacy next time we go. Sorry you have had to get plumbers in quickly and I hope the problem has been fixed now.

We popped to the shop and I dropped OH off up the road from our close and he had a 10 minute walk home which is what he needs to start to do now. I carried on to the car wash in the village to give my car a much needed wash. Their standards used to be higher and a few bits were missed, but it was really cold for them today and it looks princely to what it did and cost a bit more than last time at £10, but doesn't everything cost more now!

OH still had no call from the surgery to collect the referral letter he needs, but he happened to log in to his records with the GP and there it was and was put on yesterday, yet no-one told him they would do that. Then an hour ago he had a txt to say to collect it from the surgery, so why didn't they txt him yesterday. He's trying to be seen quickly and the surgery takes 6 days to do a simple referral letter. He's already sent it to the private health people by email, so I hope they don't dilly dally as well.

I've phoned someone to come and cut down the brambles and saplings that are growing in the field and all over the full length of our bottom fence. He did it for a neighbour a couple of years ago. We''ve provisionally arranged for him to come at the end of next week, weather permitting, as OH has a lot of appointments earlier in the week.

I've put a wash on and OH only needs eyedrops 6 times a day from today and can stop the salt water rinses 3 times a day, so that will be a bit less to remember.

Mandy, I think I will give our new Range a wide berth for a couple of weeks. I think although we have another store, the new one is bigger and with better parking so will be more popular.

Yes Mel, take Mandy's advice and get the foot checked out if it's not getting better quickly. If you remember when I damaged my foot I didn't get it checked for 3 weeks and when I did I found I had broken 3 metatarsals and they were healing out of alignment. I didn't go any earlier because I didn't even fall so thought I couldn't have done much damage and also it was during lockdown and the hospitals were full of Covid patients so I wanted to keep away. I regret it now as I still get some pain from that foot.

Oh my goodness good job I read my post through the word post came up wrong with an I instead of the o , I told you this ipad will get me in trouble :-D

Afternoon all, Nice to be back together ,

Very chilly here even with the sun now and again ,the cold gets right to your bones .
We nipped out to the post box and called into Morrisons ,I don't think we've been in our morrisons for over a year and it doesn't look like we've been missing much .
We were going to Tesco's but the traffic that way was awful ,I think it's all the traffic for the Range that opened last Friday so thats why we went to morrisons .

Oh Mel I hope your foot pain soon eases but if it doesn't go get it checked out there's a lot of tiny bones in your foot you might have snapped one , it's giving you a rest though and a catch up with your miniatures with the sitting about .

Hi Gwyn you popped in as I was typing.

I'm so pleased we are all back together again. I really miss you lot when we can't talk on here. You always know someone will pop in with something to say.

I rng Em and she came round and said she would feed the chickens for me, put my sock on the bad foot and went and got me some more paracetamol caplets she had as I have only got the great big capsules. Then she went home and came back with two egg boxes and she had a dozen eggs which was good as the tray is overflowing after todays two so far. She's coming back later to corn the girls for me. She has to take Goerge to Bideford and Sam to Torrington to meet friends. She's not too happy about Sam going and he said he did'nt want to wear a coat but the winds bitter here again today.

I feel so helpless not being able to do anything. I may just do soem painting as I hav'nt done any lately and I have some bits to drill out too so all sitting down jobs.

Good morning all.
Good to see you all again :-D

Yesterday was a very busy day for me, both locally and online, where I was trying to reply to a group of college friends, as we are hoping to all meet up later in the year.

Periodically, I tried checking into Genes, so it's good to see it working again today.

Mel, I hope you are hoing OK.
Should you get someone to take you to have your foot checked?
I hope the bruises are not too painful today <3

Good to see Vera is a bit better now <3
Don't wear yourself out trying to catch up.

Hope you all have a less troublesome day today :-)

Good morning

I’m glad we are back at last. Sunny but cold here today and we have a plumbing problem so have emergency plumbers coming late afternoon. I’ll explain later. Must get on now as I’m trying to catch up on jobs I didn’t do when the migraine was so bad and I am also going to have our main meal at lunchtime as I don’t know how long the plumbers will be here, so I need to get that prepared.

Hope to bbl.

Morning All,

Goodness me we are back again! The sun is shining brightly now as well so the day is improving. I'm off to the shop next and then will start on my jobs list! BBL.

Just had a message from Jamie to say problem sorted so hope we stay on line now.

it is 2 degrees now here, had to go out to take the garden bin back in and it was a wee bit chilly so, as Ann advises I will wrap up warm. Mel will be pleased that we are back. Yes I too feel sort of alone when the site goes down and was gateful for the group email.

Mel if you get a group email when you reply, if you press the reply arrow, then press it again and it should bring up a list which includes ;reply to all'. :-)

Thanks Mel.
Ann good job you didn't put on an unexpected show for the window cleaner. At least ours need to let us know when he is coming or he couldn't get in the gates. It really is an inconvenience that these doctors only work at the surgery part time. Inconvenience to patients not doctors.
Ah pleased that you are around Vera but sorry to hear that you had another bad miigraine. Are they more frequent now, was there a trigger for this one? It must be frustrating, besides being painful.
The sun is till shining here and it is 5 degrees. certainly not warm, I wrapped up and did an hour in the garden cutting a lot of overgrown stuff back. My hands were cold but I wanted to get something done as it is brown bin day tomorrow. And 'pay for next year's brown bin month' in March. that year has seemed to have flown by since last paying.

Good to know your ok if not well at the moment Vera.

Ade is here and well into cutting the tree up. I must take some pics!!!! He has had a look at oh's fishing gear aand said it is worth a lot more than what I was offered for it by my buider.

My first post should have read.

Nice brightish day here and I don't know if there was a frost but its all gone now if we did have one. Its 5 dgrees and says expectrain shhowers on Thursday. Still a really cold wind here though.

Hallo everyone
Thank you for your concern. Yes, I have been knocked sideways with a doosie of a migraine. It started on Friday and I’m only just coming out of it. Late yesterday afternoon I thought I would be able to do a couple of posts but after a short post on another thread I had to give up as the words were jumping over the screen so I never got as far as posting on here.

I’m not stopping now as I still have a lot of pain above my left eye and I don’t want to push my luck. Hopefully I’ll be back tomorrow.

Morning All,

Colder than ever here first thing, but the sun is out now. The windowcleaner came early so lucky we weren't in the shower. We bothe slept quite well last night.

I saw Vera had posted on another thread I think yesterday or maybe the day before yesterday, so hopefully she is ok.

OH has rung the surgery about his referral and it should be ready to collect this afternoon. As we thought the doctor doing it works part time and wasn't in work on Friday to do it. We are popping out to the shop and then to Screwfix as we need some brighter bulbs that are LED for the conservatory.

Good the apple tree is getting sorted out Mel. Hope you get through some of your jobs list AnnG. Mandy I have a wash to do as well. I have hoovered the bathroom, hall, study and main bedroom, cleaned the bathroom sink and worktops and windowsill and cleaned the kitchen sink.

More trouble with the front door so we need to get the engineer back, but the phone is constantly engaged so will try again when we get back. We are using the backdoor to go out incase we can't lock it again. Better get changed and get going so toodle pip for now.