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[ianpspurs]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen. If you woke up it's a good morning.

A self induced 10.0 this morning, on the upper limit of my hospital given limits given my medication. My only defence is I received some bad news yesterday that scuppered my plans for the next few days, but in the big picture it's just trivia. Sympathy not required.

@gennepher gave you a hug, but would also like to give you funny for the camper van idea. @dunelm brilliant beach holiday.

Well I am now locked down along side Mrs J until Thursday when she has her operation, if I don't post again Mrs J will have killed me for something I said, didn't say, do or didn't do. Therefore in anticipation so long and thanks for the banter, art work and just plain being out there.

Stay safe.

I hope all goes well for Mrs AJ. Look forward to hearing from you when you can.

 

[Krystyna23040]

I would find more relaxation and enjoyment staying at home with my feet in a footbath of magnesium salts, a fresh cream cake (yes I know!!!!) and a cuppa...with no travelling and no parking and it would be tons cheape

@gennepher you would definitely find more relaxation and enjoyment staying at home than attending your fibro group at the moment. I also like your idea of getting a broken down engineless original Volkswagen Camper van to put in your back garden as a workshop... I don't think that you are going 'stir crazy'.

 

[Krystyna23040]

@gennepher I have just re-read the fibro groups rules and regulations. They are really draconian.

 

[SlimLizzy]

12.08
FBG 6.2

 

[ianpspurs]

Best Specsavers advert yet. This bunch are a proper whatsit show. One would fall about laughing if all our grandchildren weren't in their tender care. No, it hasn't always been the same and The Blue Team could field a far, far better 1st X1/XV than this. One with which I could live but the selectors "have issues". O/T: Dealers just said a backdated 3 year service plan for Julie's car which includes services and MOTs, if or when needed, costs £100 less than a single service this year would cost. (Oversight at time of purchase.) Tough choice but what about the loss of sovereignty and freedom of choice over the garage? Only a man of vision, principles and steely resolve could do the right deal. Not the terrible one on offer you understand, oh no. I capitulated and lost sovereignty - saved £s and warranty though. Woosterworld is truly a mystery to us all.

 

[gennepher]

@gennepher you would definitely find more relaxation and enjoyment staying at home than attending your fibro group at the moment. I also like your idea of getting a broken down engineless original Volkswagen Camper van to put in your back garden as a workshop... I don't think that you are going 'stir crazy'.

Thanks @Krystyna23040
I cannot see me ever wanting to go back to that fibromyalgia support group now, after those 'instructions' of do's and don't's, which made me think I would be about to enter a concentration camp. And I am not about to voluntarily do so.

The more I think about the engineless Volkswagen Camper van, the more I like the idea...

@gennepher I have just re-read the fibro groups rules and regulations. They are really draconian.

I do understand some precautions are needed, something sensible, but nowhere near to the extent of what she sent us.

I have been waiting for the end of mask wearing so I can finally have a conversation and lipread people, and join groups again. But R's rules were consigning me to purgatory. A chair socially distanced in a room of 15 chairs with a masked wearing human on each one, how the heck do you conduct a conversation with other people? I am talking about hearing people here, let alone a deaf person.

Prior Covid lockdowns I asked R if we could sit in a circle so I could follow/lipread conversations and join in. 15 chairs is normally just a small circle, and there was usually no more than 15 of us.

This has actually put me in a bad place mentally, back to the past when I couldn't follow anything at all. I have no desire to start 'fighting battles' again to try and get each situation/group I am in to a place (asking for simple adjustments to be made) where I can communicate with the group eg seating arrangements or asking if I can sit in such and such a place in the room to be able to follow etc.

I am done with all that now.

 

[ianpspurs]

Thanks @Krystyna23040
I cannot see me ever wanting to go back to that fibromyalgia support group now, after those 'instructions' of do's and don't's, which made me think I would be about to enter a concentration camp. And I am not about to voluntarily do so.

The more I think about the engineless Volkswagen Camper van, the more I like the idea...




I do understand some precautions are needed, something sensible, but nowhere near to the extent of what she sent us.

I have been waiting for the end of mask wearing so I can finally have a conversation and lipread people, and join groups again. But R's rules were consigning me to purgatory. A chair socially distanced in a room of 15 chairs with a masked wearing human on each one, how the heck do you conduct a conversation with other people? I am talking about hearing people here, let alone a deaf person.

Prior Covid lockdowns I asked R if we could sit in a circle so I could follow/lipread conversations and join in. 15 chairs is normally just a small circle, and there was usually no more than 15 of us.

This has actually put me in a bad place mentally, back to the past when I couldn't follow anything at all. I have no desire to start 'fighting battles' again to try and get each situation/group I am in to a place (asking for simple adjustments to be made) where I can communicate with the group eg seating arrangements or asking if I can sit in such and such a place in the room to be able to follow etc.

I am done with all that now.

Huge hug for the stress of that situation the strain of which I can't begin to imagine. If anyone can find a workable solution to the fibro group impasse you do seem to be best placed. Is there no techy solution? Zoom or similar? One highly personal example of many which will emerge, I fear. Y'all know where I lay the blame but how do we, the average person, help Gennepher and all the others left high and dry? Desperately sad and makes one so angry on their behalf.

 

[ianpspurs]

Stewed rhubarb - 1 cup, 245 gms, quite spiffing (liquid sweetener) with kefir + protein (from quark?) Cronometer seems to imply rhubarb is quite nutritious (image) and luckily seems to grow well here. The kefir with quark is very creamy but not many places stock that version - unless you know different. I don't have the discipline to go into W for just the few items on a list. This appealed to me with skinny bread - link from kefir page. Maybe when Julie is in Wales?

 

[Krystyna23040]

I have been waiting for the end of mask wearing so I can finally have a conversation and lipread people, and join groups again. But R's rules were consigning me to purgatory. A chair socially distanced in a room of 15 chairs with a masked wearing human on each one, how the heck do you conduct a conversation with other people? I am talking about hearing people here, let alone a deaf person.

We are allowed to run our pilates classes without masks as long as we keep to the 2 metres apart. Also, virtually everyone is double jabbed - as I am sure most (if not all) of your fibro group are. We are advised that we are safe as long as we maintain good ventilation. I wonder how many of your fibro group will return and how many will feel just as you do.

 

[gennepher]

Huge hug for the stress of that situation the strain of which I can't begin to imagine. If anyone can find a workable solution to the fibro group impasse you do seem to be best placed. Is there no techy solution? Zoom or similar? One highly personal example of many which will emerge, I fear. Y'all know where I lay the blame but how do we, the average person, help Gennepher and all the others left high and dry? Desperately sad and makes one so angry on their behalf.

You have given me a couple of ideas from this post @ianpspurs

There's going to be loads of people left high and dry. In this case R holds all our details and email addresses. We've not had occasion to swap individual email addresses. R has in the past been very efficient.

I was throwing the toys out of my pram in my earlier post in frustration. And I still feel the same way, but a day or so later my brain will think of a way round/into a situation, if it is possible. But I am hampered by no other contact within the group.

I notice @Krystyna23040 questions how many will return. I am guessing none under those draconian rules.

Thanks Ian

 

[gennepher]

We are allowed to run our pilates classes without masks as long as we keep to the 2 metres apart. Also, virtually everyone is double jabbed - as I am sure most (if not all) of your fibro group are. We are advised that we are safe as long as we maintain good ventilation. I wonder how many of your fibro group will return and how many will feel just as you do.

I wasn't 100% sure of the rules in England @Krystyna23040

But I guessed it was pretty much that from the way you were talking about your classes.

I am pretty sure all the Fibro group will be double jabbed. The small hall has windows and several doors to outside.

I can't see the conditions that R has set will be conducive to any of the others returning. It would be too much for some of them to be able to carry a cushion and food and drink as well as well as their normal stuff.

It is tomorrow, so presumably R will inform us by email how many turned up etc...

Thanks Krystyna

 

[ianpspurs]

You have given me a couple of ideas from this post @ianpspurs

There's going to be loads of people left high and dry. In this case R holds all our details and email addresses. We've not had occasion to swap individual email addresses. R has in the past been very efficient.

I was throwing the toys out of my pram in my earlier post in frustration. And I still feel the same way, but a day or so later my brain will think of a way round/into a situation, if it is possible. But I am hampered by no other contact within the group.

I notice @Krystyna23040 questions how many will return. I am guessing none under those draconian rules.

Thanks Ian

Glad I gave you ideas @gennepher. Usually the only ideas I give people are run for the hills, he's as mad as a box of frogs or please shoot me if I ever end up like that.

 

[lindisfel]

We are allowed to run our pilates classes without masks as long as we keep to the 2 metres apart. Also, virtually everyone is double jabbed - as I am sure most (if not all) of your fibro group are. We are advised that we are safe as long as we maintain good ventilation. I wonder how many of your fibro group will return and how many will feel just as you do.

My daughter was telling me today she knows of several longer term double jabbed doctors who now have Covid!
There are no guarantees with the Indian variant, Israel is having a surge.

170 deaths noted today in uk.
I dont think its over.
D.

 

[gennepher]

Finally my daily creative thingy.
A photo of Popeye in the early hours of this morning.
The rest of the nighttime nightsight photos were totally rubbish, but I liked the appealing look of this one. And so I took a second photo of black nothing. Went into Snapseed, put the black nothing photo on first. And then did the double tool and put Popeye in the corner (his whiskers on the left had been chopped off by my photo of him in the dark because I couldn't see what I was taking a pic of, it's the Pixel camera that finds stuff in the dark...), and so he had to be on the left side of the photo.

That's my best effort for today...
By the way, I don't put those white dots on his eyes, it's the camera when it takes the photo!

 

[Krystyna23040]

My daughter was telling me today she knows of several longer term double jabbed doctors who now have Covid!
There are no guarantees with the Indian variant, Israel is having a surge.

170 deaths noted today in uk.
I dont think its over.
D.

I agree that it isn't over, which is why we are staying socially distanced in the classes and are keeping good ventilation. I sanitise touch points regularly and provide hand sanitiser.

Also we have a policy that if a class member feels ill they don't attend classes and are not charged for their missed class. I operated this policy long before covid 19 because I wanted to safeguard class members from seasonal flu and other viruses.

We are using masks in the entrance lobbies of the venues in case we accidentally get closer than the 2 metres.

Although the vaccines are only 65% effective in preventing transmission of the Delta variant they are said to be 95% effective at preventing serious illness.

Hopefully they will start a booster programme very soon for the people who were first vaccinated in December 2020.

 

[karen8967]

5.1 for me have a good day everyone

 

[dunelm]

That is a great willow tree @dunelm
I would love that in my garden...

Thank you @gennepher - bit costly to uproot and they do tend to dry up your garden - greedy water guzzlers.

 

[dunelm]

Best Specsavers advert yet. This bunch are a proper whatsit show. One would fall about laughing if all our grandchildren weren't in their tender care. No, it hasn't always been the same and The Blue Team could field a far, far better 1st X1/XV than this. One with which I could live but the selectors "have issues". O/T: Dealers just said a backdated 3 year service plan for Julie's car which includes services and MOTs, if or when needed, costs £100 less than a single service this year would cost. (Oversight at time of purchase.) Tough choice but what about the loss of sovereignty and freedom of choice over the garage? Only a man of vision, principles and steely resolve could do the right deal. Not the terrible one on offer you understand, oh no. I capitulated and lost sovereignty - saved £s and warranty though. Woosterworld is truly a mystery to us all.

Service plan sounds like a good deal. Wonder if we can get a back dated old boy for the captaincy of the FO (Fuddled Office) and a copy of the opening lines to the book “War of the Worlds” - or just that document leaked last year.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.5 this morning.

Today am off to Norwich to the hairdresser. The first time this year, and will go by bus as they are running almost completely empty so will probably be the only passenger from our village.

Since the start of the pandemic I have saved an absolute fortune as I realised that I don't need to go to the hairdresser every six weeks and longer hair suits me.

I have an M&S voucher so will hopefully find something nice in store. I haven't browsed around a shop since .March 2020 - so am quite looking forward to it.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone from a quiet and pleasant start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of chicken and chorizo stew and a dollop of cauliflower mash (roasted a bit to give it a bit of zing) came in at 5.4 this am.

International Bin Day here so already been out and tested the temperature - Dark Sky app has it at about 16°C - body concurs.
Not a lot yesterday but estate agent sent someone round to carry out the Energy Performance Certificate tests (looking at things and measuring rooms with a laser measure) - so that saved us £50. Zoom call later today with the GP Practice Patients Group - wonder if we know anything more about the timetable for booster jabs and flu jabs. Have to wait and see, nothing can be predicted, or even forseen, ask the sun drenched Raabster. Hope everything goes OK for Mrs A-J @alf_Josiah.

@gennepher (was it?), mentioned Hokusai's Great Wave - so here is a not so great wave moving into a tree. Have a great Mitwock - I am slurping koffy.