Thank you I will need it x
Thank you I will need it xI remember such a colleague. In the end the very sound of her voice would make me tense and my heart beat faster. Good luck with her next week.
Lots of hugs, you have a lot to cope with and I sympathise with the long journeys to be able to help and support loved ones, my partners parents are in Manchester and the journey is always so long and stressful nowadays. I hope you are able to ward off any bugs and that your mum is able to have her op. Thoughts with you for Friday too xxGreetings from Yorkshire where I am currently applying vicks vapour rub to my nose after reading it fends off viruses! My mum has a stinking cold and chesty cough - clearly I’m worried about her but also selfishly thinking it may make the pre operative assessment due on Saturday not possible! In which case we’d have to come up again ....... oh that she lived around the corner from us.
I’m also wondering if we will make my cousins 10am funeral in the morning as mum may need drs appt which nowadays doesn’t mean a planned appointment but waiting by the telephone for dr to eventually ring back and decide if an appointment is needed! As she’s asthmatic we need to play safe.
We also had a lousy journey up lots of torrential rain and traffic. Still we are here safe that’s what counts.
Breakfast one slice bacon and egg
Lunch rollitos picnic
Dinner two lamb chops on mushrooms with red wine followed by jelly and cream.
Will see what tomorrow brings
Greetings from Yorkshire where I am currently applying vicks vapour rub to my nose after reading it fends off viruses! My mum has a stinking cold and chesty cough - clearly I’m worried about her but also selfishly thinking it may make the pre operative assessment due on Saturday not possible! In which case we’d have to come up again ....... oh that she lived around the corner from us.
I’m also wondering if we will make my cousins 10am funeral in the morning as mum may need drs appt which nowadays doesn’t mean a planned appointment but waiting by the telephone for dr to eventually ring back and decide if an appointment is needed! As she’s asthmatic we need to play safe.
We also had a lousy journey up lots of torrential rain and traffic. Still we are here safe that’s what counts.
Breakfast one slice bacon and egg
Lunch rollitos picnic
Dinner two lamb chops on mushrooms with red wine followed by jelly and cream.
Will see what tomorrow brings
Thanks for the hug. I wouldn't say I was down more doing my helicoptering routine and analysing (over) what is happening. I think I see too much of this through a prism of very deep scepticism about this whole WOE and that tints all my analysis. There remains a massive gulf between the sheer joy I get from cutting lawns or chopping wood and the too frequent loathing of the process of deciding if I eat and what I will tolerate that won't anger me on testing. There then follows 2 hours of dreading the actual numbers and frequent feelings that it really wasn't worth that number. A total contrast to physical exercise - do it, release endorphins relax. Yesterday was a perfect/extreme version of that. 5.3 2 hrs after a salad as only meal of the day is not doing it for me.Evening all
Hug to you @shelley262 it must have been a horrible journey, and now your poor mum is ill. I hope you manage to make to funeral and her pre op assessment.
Hug for you too @ianpspurs as you sound a bit down so I think you could do with one.
B: 2 rashers and a scrambled egg. Coffee and cream
L:Butcher’s shop roast beef with h/m coleslaw a gherkin and 2 cherry toms. Coffee and cream
D: IP chilli with spinach. Very small glass of red.
This wasn’t what I’d intended for dinner but we ended up with extra mouths in the shape of 2 daughters and 2 granddaughters so the 2 chicken breasts I’d got earlier had to be shoved back in the fridge.
Hope tomorrow is a better day for those who’s Thursday has been a bit rubbish.
Winner for food choices and battling through a tough patch. Hug for the workload (and reading my post)Morning all. Playing catch up after a crazy few days at work. Not read through all the posts yet - that’s what weekends are for!
Think I last checked in on Tuesday but had a vat of cream once I got home from Manchester! Probably just as well as it carried me through Wednesday when I literally didn’t get time to eat during a horrendously busy day at work. Had a post work hair appointment so finally ate a Five Guys bunless bacon cheeseburger before braving Oxford Street to buy some new walking shoes.
Yesterday’s menu was lunch of smoked salmon and M&S whipped creamy cheese followed by 2 squares of Lindt 90%. So much easier to exert self-control when someone else has put the chocolate in the snack drawer and the disappearance of the whole bar would be an embarrassment! Dinner was 2 Waitrose free range Cumberland sausages, 3 rashers streaky bacon and 1 fried egg.
Thanks for the hug. I wouldn't say I was down more doing my helicoptering routine and analysing (over) what is happening. I think I see too much of this through a prism of very deep scepticism about this whole WOE and that tints all my analysis. There remains a massive gulf between the sheer joy I get from cutting lawns or chopping wood and the too frequent loathing of the process of deciding if I eat and what I will tolerate that won't anger me on testing. There then follows 2 hours of dreading the actual numbers and frequent feelings that it really wasn't worth that number. A total contrast to physical exercise - do it, release endorphins relax. Yesterday was a perfect/extreme version of that. 5.3 2 hrs after a salad as only meal of the day is not doing it for me.
Thanks. I thought I had that worked out but seems the database has been corrupted or there is a validation error - maybe I even specified the wrong degree of relationship. Either way, it is proving hard to normalise.Ian, have you considered building a database of your "safe" meals? I think we all probably have a list of "stuff" we know will be benign, and then stick with that for a couple of weeks, to give yourself from the torment you seem to have each day? With those benign meals, you could even have a rest from testing.
Sometimes, it's just good to build a bit of space into things, when we have a lot to compute.
So much of today was like being in a play or novel written for and starring me with the express intention of delighting me. Large parts of the day were fuelled by tea and endorphins and I loved it.
Then there was the anguish over what to eat or drink, the anticipation of the 3 or 4 drops of blood and the numbers on a meter which quite literally sucked all the joy out of the world.
Breakfast: - Lots of tea -initial burst of 2x1.5 pints Orange Pekoe; 2 pint top up of Assam with girlies; used the better coffee machine and milk frother toy to make a latte thing in between (Soya milk)- pleased with myself for using the toys
Dockey : Tea
Lunch : Tea then 75 mins cutting lawns
Mid Afternoon: Tea then hr dog walk
Evening meal: Avocado and Mackerel salad with heap plenty chia seeds
There is so much to ponder on here and lessons to learn.
@ziggy_w is Martinstag a thing in your area/past - I know the date will be Sunday but I bought our Goose today (part of the delights)
Thanks for that information about Martinstag - sounds like a good time of the year. To be honest I would be surprised if many British people knew of Martinmas these days. I like the idea of making as many links to my roots as possible and especially trying to understand how their religion was intimately intertwined with their day to day life.Hi @ianpspurs,
Yes, Martinstag is celebrated here, though not generally associated with a goose dinner. Goose is more of a traditional christmas dinner here, usually served with potato dumplings and spiced red cabbage (red cabbage cooked in vinegar, sugar, and goose fat and spiced with cinnamon, cloves, allspice and other christmassy spices.
There are two important traditions associated with Martinstag. One is called Laternelaufen (roughly translated as latern walking), when large groups of children holding laterns walk through the streets at night singing songs. The other tradition is Martinssingen (Martin's singing). You see smaller groups of children go from door to door offering a song and a blessing in exchange for a gift (usually a bit of money) -- so not quite unlike trick or treating, just no scary customes.
How about were you are from? Are there any traditions associated with it?
Yes, Martinstag is celebrated here...
There are two important traditions associated with Martinstag. One is called Laternelaufen (roughly translated as latern walking), when large groups of children holding laterns walk through the streets at night singing songs.
I remember doing this walk one year when we lived in Luneburg. We had a German housekeeper, Hildegarde, and she acted as a sort of kind auntie to me and my little sister, and we did various German type things with her including this walk. We carried paper lanterns on sticks and lit by little candles and sang,
Laterne, LaterneI found the song via Google, but some of the words we sang were slightly different.
Sonne, Mond und Sterne...
Robbity
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