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« Reply #825 on: December 10, 2018, 07:44:20 PM »
Your daughter is dead right!  However, I expect you are OK now, hope so.

I am not OK atm but not goin 2 talk bout it atm.
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« Reply #826 on: December 11, 2018, 08:40:57 AM »
Quote from: Robbie on December 10, 2018, 07:44:20 PM
Your daughter is dead right!  However, I expect you are OK now, hope so.

I am not OK atm but not goin 2 talk bout it atm.

My children are always right! ;D I have a way to go before I will have complete movement of the arm again, but enough to do most tasks.

I am sorry you are not ok.
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« Reply #827 on: December 11, 2018, 08:54:05 AM »
In the immortal words of Gloria Gaynor, I will survive :-).
Glad to have a 10am start at work today.

Sounds as though you are making progress. Onwards and upwards.
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« Reply #828 on: December 13, 2018, 04:48:03 PM »
This afternoon, I had to be in - British Gas were going to fit a new meter. Engineer arrives, looks at meter (which is outside), has to look at electric meter, says this has to be changed to, so they cannot do gas one until January! I'm not bothered, I don't look at the meters anyway, but it sounds as if the organisers of this meter changing programme are causing all sorts of problems for the engineers!
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« Reply #829 on: December 13, 2018, 05:01:08 PM »
Quote from: SusanDoris on December 13, 2018, 04:48:03 PM
This afternoon, I had to be in - British Gas were going to fit a new meter. Engineer arrives, looks at meter (which is outside), has to look at electric meter, says this has to be changed to, so they cannot do gas one until January! I'm not bothered, I don't look at the meters anyway, but it sounds as if the organisers of this meter changing programme are causing all sorts of problems for the engineers!


We have a smart meter, which my husband checks on a daily basis, and makes graphs of our energy use. 
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« Reply #830 on: December 16, 2018, 11:50:58 AM »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/shropshire

How on earth did that idiot manage to do that?
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« Reply #831 on: December 16, 2018, 12:09:38 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on December 16, 2018, 11:50:58 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/shropshire

How on earth did that idiot manage to do that?

LOL! (which is ok because no one was seriously injured)
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« Reply #832 on: December 16, 2018, 01:37:11 PM »
I now have the answer to one of the clues to one of the Quick crosswords (Wild guess (4,2,3,4)which is Shot in the dark ... but, very annoyingly, I can't find the page on which I've printed the crossword. *gnashing of teeth*!)
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« Reply #833 on: December 17, 2018, 04:11:16 PM »
I am FED UP! I went to the fracture clinic this afternoon, and hoped they would tell me I could drive, but no such luck. :( Whilst my fracture is healing quite well, they say it would be most unwise to drive at present because it wouldn't take much to displace it again. BOO HOO!  :(
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« Reply #834 on: December 17, 2018, 07:04:38 PM »
I am sorry LRoses, I was going to ask. Not entirely bad news though as you've been told your fracture is healing. We are all told that patience is a virtue but it's not easy. You have my sympathies.
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« Reply #835 on: December 18, 2018, 08:20:02 AM »
Quote from: Robbie on December 17, 2018, 07:04:38 PM
I am sorry LRoses, I was going to ask. Not entirely bad news though as you've been told your fracture is healing. We are all told that patience is a virtue but it's not easy. You have my sympathies.


Thanks. :) Not that I deserve any sympathy for putting myself in this position in the first place by my own stupidity. :o It is my eldest girl who requires sympathy for having to take me shopping, and my husband and I to hospital appointments.

I attached this entry from her Christmas letter, which I have just seen, CHEEKY MUPPET! ;D

As usual I have had a busy and varied year. Life as a Vicar is never dull! Add to that doing various activities with Guides, trying to write up my PhD and keeping my parents out of mischief. Unfortunately I didn’t manage the latter and having had to spend time in A&E on a Saturday with dad,  mum didn’t want to be left out and fell over and broke her shoulder 2 days later while out for an early morning walk.  It is amazing what she is still able to do with one arm but driving and shopping are beyond her, as will peeling the veg for Christmas dinner. (My new job!)
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« Reply #836 on: December 22, 2018, 04:52:17 PM »
I have just had a lovely chat on the phone with, 'Auntie' Myra, the lady who saved my life when I was two from a horse and cart, which was bolting towards me. Now aged 101, she has all her marbles, she still enjoys knitting, and word searches to keep her mind active. :)
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« Reply #837 on: December 22, 2018, 07:57:34 PM »
Just back from Bournemouh Hospital where I have been since Wednesday. Chest pain on Tuesday did not really go away in spite of spray,. so Wednesday morning saw GP who sent me to hospital.
They did angiogram MRI scan and chest X-ray. News is that I have only one out of three  heart arteries functioning and even that  is a bit dodgy!  Home today with increased medication; follow-up consultation within four weeks; if any worries, get help asap.

I do not feel 100%, but bearing in mind that I tap danced lastThursday, walked on Sunday and swam on Monday ... maybe I'll survive a bit longer. Anyway, the tap group haven't yet learnt the end part of the choreography to the St Louis Blues, and it would never do for them not to have been shown how to do it! :)

The hospital were first class in every way.
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« Reply #838 on: December 22, 2018, 08:19:30 PM »
Oh my - you take it easy Susan, and do what the medics say!
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« Reply #839 on: December 23, 2018, 02:17:04 AM »
I'm winding down with a small drink after being out for the night.

Susan you really are an inspiration. I love your attitude. My dad is a bit like you.

LittleRoses I had a read through to catch up including what your daughter wrote. Her style of writing is very like yours, that's quite noticeable.
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« Reply #840 on: December 23, 2018, 10:33:46 AM »
This morning there was the spectacular sight of a few hundred people including children, dressed in Santa  suits, running passed our house. They were doing this run for Cancer Research. It was a shame the weather wasn't nice for them, it is raining and gloomy out there. :( I have just give a sizeable donation to the charity on-line. My husband is most grateful that the CT scan he had the other week has shown that nothing is wrong with his pancreas.  :)
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Re: Topic for going off topic
« Reply #841 on: December 23, 2018, 12:30:21 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on December 10, 2018, 07:44:20 PM
Your daughter is dead right!  However, I expect you are OK now, hope so.
I skipped to the last page of this thread and this is the first post I read, so I had no context. I thought OMG somebody's daughter has died.
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« Reply #842 on: December 23, 2018, 01:57:46 PM »
 ;D

No, that would be, "Your 'hamster' is dead, right?".

(Didn't want to say 'daughter' in that context)
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« Reply #843 on: January 05, 2019, 10:43:44 PM »
I've just discovered that Hieronymous Bosch's surname should be pronounced "Bosk", not "Bosh", because he was Flemish, not German. That means that he and Vincent Van Goch (roughly "Hoch", not "Gock") have the two most mis-pronounced surnames in art.
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« Reply #844 on: January 05, 2019, 11:20:08 PM »
Quote from: Oliphant Chuckerbutty on January 05, 2019, 10:43:44 PM
I've just discovered that Hieronymous Bosch's surname should be pronounced "Bosk", not "Bosh", because he was Flemish, not German. That means that he and Vincent Van Goch (roughly "Hoch", not "Gock") have the two most mis-pronounced surnames in art.
People always miss that it should be David Hokeycokey (Hockney). Soorack Loovanck (Sarah Lucas)
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« Reply #845 on: January 08, 2019, 04:47:38 PM »
I have just spent the last half hour or so listening all the way through to, and responding to, an article by an author named Evelyn Rysdyk about her new book  on Shamanism. I think I'd call it totally delusional, psychobabbly  waffle for the supremely gullible.
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« Reply #846 on: January 09, 2019, 07:06:31 AM »
Never known a Shaman or had anything to do with Shamanism but have read some things about it. I find it a bit scary, anything that invites 'malevolent spirits' frightens me, even if I know, logically, they do not exist!

However, each to their own. Shamans don't bother me, no Shaman has ever tried to evangelise me. As I said, I've not met one. I enjoy fantasy but it has to be friendly and beautiful, I've not worked out how to get into that so far but if I did, I'd know it was pure fantasy. Authentic Shamanism would, I think, freak me out.
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« Reply #847 on: January 09, 2019, 07:57:39 AM »
Quote from: Robbie on January 09, 2019, 07:06:31 AM
Never known a Shaman or had anything to do with Shamanism but have read some things about it. I find it a bit scary, anything that invites 'malevolent spirits' frightens me, even if I know, logically, they do not exist!

However, each to their own. Shamans don't bother me, no Shaman has ever tried to evangelise me. As I said, I've not met one. I enjoy fantasy but it has to be friendly and beautiful, I've not worked out how to get into that so far but if I did, I'd know it was pure fantasy. Authentic Shamanism would, I think, freak me out.
But, as you have already thought that through and know there are no such things as actual, factual spirits, whether benign or evil, you would not let yourself be taken in in the first place I think.

If the people who write these books of totally imagined fantasy made it clear that the book was fiction, then okay, but unfortunately this never happens, as the authors are usually themselves convinced. If they are writing to make money by exploiting the gullible, then their hypocrites.

Ah, well, it will take probably another 500 - 1,000 years for fantasy to be seen by the majority for what it is, something to be enjoyed as being something our human brains are capable of and to be enjoyed and valued as such.
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« Reply #848 on: January 12, 2019, 01:42:12 PM »
We are feeling very proud of one of our grandson's (nearly 13) whose Mum was overwhelmed by the lovely things his teachers had to say about him at his parent's evening. He struggled a bit at primary school, more due to lack of self esteem than anything else. Secondary school has been the making of him, he is top of set 1 for most subjects, and his teachers are falling over themselves for him to choose their subjects for GCSEs. Besides being intelligent he is very empathetic as well, and apparently helps other kids if they have problems, which is to his credit.  :) 
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« Reply #849 on: January 16, 2019, 08:55:14 AM »
We spent a few hours in A&E during the night, from about 12.45am until 5.15am! My husband's catheter got blocked again! They were supposed to have done minor surgery on him before Christmas so a suprapubic catheter could be put in place, as they are less likely to block than one in the urethra. But of course they haven't got around to a yet, and they can't say when it is likely to happen. It is quite likely more trips to A&E will be on the cards, as the District Nurses are finding it harder and harder to fit new catheters due to his large and very vascular prostate! He is supposed to have it removed at some stage, but again no time frame has been given. HEY HO!

My husband is snuggled up in his bed making up for being sleep deprived during the night Naturally he expected his breakfast in bed delivered by the good fairy, who has all the usual chores to perform, in spite of lack of sleep.  But I shall keep telling him what  wonderful wife I am, and how fortunate he is to have me. If I tell him enough times he might begin to believe it. ;D
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