Welcome and I look forward to reading more.Fantastic idea as I'm a chatterbox and love the support. I didn't log fasting this morning though will jump on here tomorrow morning.
Hope you all have a great week.
Thanks @jjraak. I rang on the dot at 8.30 this morning as suggested. I was 18th in the queue bur didn't have too long to wait. Guess what--there were no appointments left with the said doctor. The receptionist was very sympathetic and explained that there had not been many available to begin with as the doctor also made them directly himself. Despite being told yesterday that they could not make appointments with him in advance she bent the rules and made me an appointment for Friday. My fbs today were 15.3. Best wishes.It's a shocking system at times
Had similar, so just called next day as advised.
Rarely get through & by the time someone actually answers all appointments are gone again
Rarely bother now.
I'm online with surgery & use their E-Consult service.
Get a call back later in day, explain issues, usually get appointment or visit sorted if needed.
Not ideal for every occasion obviously, but worked well for me this year.
Hope you get a good response tomorrow.
That was a bit of boisterous excitement there!Morning team.
Yesterday spent walking dog, and an evening at gym keeping our Steph company.
Was bushed after walking dog, and almost baled on meeting Steph, but had said I'd go, so go I went.
A slow start but before I knew it, I was well into pumping this & stepping on that, 2 hours flew by.
Not so achey this morning compared to other days, either I'm getting used to this 'Arnie' life or I was slacking yesterday....mmhh
Nothing else of note except BG was an acceptable 7.1..(poor sleep ? )
Oh, and if you remember Marley next doors cat, uses our cat flat to enter block, then paws at our door for food.
Came back after taking the furry nephew for his late night walk, and behold, Marley was showing a new tenant (beautiful ginger cat) around his latest AirBnb let
Now dog & Marley , brush up & sniff each like brother & sister...
But ginger don't know that, and Frankie just slipped into dog mode and began a low growl.
To paint a picture, if you've ever seen the good, the bad & the ugly, or any spaghetti western, the stoppage of time, as the actors take steely looks at each ....cue ennio morricone
Then ACTION.....
Frankie's indoors so he's off his lead.
I was slow up stairs so stretching to catch him before his run at ginger,
Ginger freezes until Frankie moves,
Then like melted mercury, it's a ginger blur through banisters, a jump and a leap over a bemused Frankie, and just like that...
This Mexican stand off was over..phew.
Off for a cuppa & para's...knee playing up today.
Stay safe
Stay dry.
Your garden sounds absolutely wonderful...my kind of garden.Beautiful! Reminiscent of the scene from my kitchen window a few weeks ago - before the wind took all the leaves from the trees. What we didn't have, this late in the year, was the brightness of the flowers to lighten the scene. We had foxgloves in the shady areas but only grass seed heads out in the sunny patches. But I can see our late summer there - there's my cherry tree, and there's my willow with the old rhododendron lurking behind, waiting for the leaves to fall so that it can take a chance to expand in the light. You may surmise that my garden is pretty wild. It is, we wanted it that way as a wild life habitat and now it has a mind all of its own.
I was trying to encourage a wild area for a clan of frogs that make their home alongside a ditch beside the road. I think they still live there, but our neighbour on the other side of the road, keeps cutting the grass down with his strimmer - he doesn't like to see it overgrown. This results in the frogs being exposed to the children coming along the road to school and being somewhat harassed by them. I wish the frogs would move onto the croft where there is a perfectly serviceable ditch they could use, but I can't insist on it - they are wild creatures, after all.
Hug for the sore knee but great to have managed the 2 hours of exercise on top of walking the dog earlier in the day. Loved the description of the showdown between ginger cat and Frankie. I imagine the cat may well think twice before accepting the offer of your AirBnb however Marley may expound its virtues.
It is absolutely amazing how that suddenly happens with colour...
She is cheeky, and bold with it too!And another smasher, @gennepher .
Oh the fun & games now midnight's stood down from the Nights Watch...lol.
That Jade's a cheeky one
Enjoy the rest .
That was scary. Hugs for you.6.8 this morning. Last night I hadn't realised that the A47 Southern Bypass was closed for roadworks.
I decided to follow the diversion signs instead of taking a country road shortcut. It added 30 minutes to my journey and I had one very scary moment when I came up behind a cyclist all in black with no lights - travelling along an unlit section of the road.
Next time I think I will use the country road shortcut.
Thanks for the lyrics @ianpspursGood morning everyone from what is now a wet Breckland on a day promising strong winds but sunny intervals. Thank you for that absolute masterpiece @dunelm - stunning. @gennepher another wonderful autumnal creative reminding me that although autumn is leading to dark and dreary winter there is always light and hope. @Annb shame those frogs don't seem to want to find a safer habitat. @jjraak no wonder your knee is grumbling today after that hard day yesterday. Amazing how far you have come in a short time. @alf_Josiah enjoy the challenge of the puzzle and try not to annoy Mrs J any more than usual. I'm certain you'll be trying. Shopping put away, dogs and JKP fed and watered and my last full day of Paxlovid today. Currently watching T20 cricket - I don't think England scored enough but I'm hoping. Big game for Spurs later in Marseilles. Bearing in mind the traditions of the day and Spurs fans adaptation here a song that has been an earworm this morning (not the usual lyrics so not linked but this version attached Genn).
Welcome to the thread @Ellesangel29Fantastic idea as I'm a chatterbox and love the support. I didn't log fasting this morning though will jump on here tomorrow morning.
Hope you all have a great week.
Absolutely agree.It is absolutely amazing how that suddenly happens with colour...
Burning question is, where do we sign up to get them to throw stones at him..?So we residents of West Suffolk are to be left without an MP while he eats interesting parts of animals. However will we manage?
But some drivers do seem to drive with their eyes shut - not anyone on this forum, of course but some years ago when my husband, trying to stay home from the seafaring, had a job at the local hospital as an auxiliary nurse. On a wet, miserable morning he donned his bright yellow cycling cape and rode the 7 miles to Stornoway - it was fully light but he also had his lights on, front and back. A taxi drove out of a side road, just as he was crossing the end of the road. The driver just hadn't seen this bright yellow apparition right in front of him. Luckily the only damage to Tom was a fine selection of bruises, but the bike and cape were written off. I fume about cyclist riding 2 or 3 abreast on roads only wide enough to stay behind them without breaking the Highway Code, or without adequate lights or reflective flashes but I also fume about drivers who skim past cyclists or horses with only inches to spare (very often with indignant roaring of engines to express their displeasure). There is good practice and bad practice all round, unfortunately. When I was driving, I even had to berate myself when my anger surged at being cut up by another car, or some other example of bad driving manners. Once I found myself tailgating one such, until I realised how foolish that was and desisted. Never allowed myself to give free reign to my anger like that again. Not only a useless waste of energy but positively dangerous.That was scary. Hugs for you.
Many cyclists here also believe they are immune to vehicles...
Silly man. One has to wonder about the mentality of "politicians" who think their voter-appeal will be enhanced by taking part in such programmes as these. Or is it to have some sort of public presence after they think their day is pretty well done at Westminster? Not that I have ever watched any of these shenanigans (not even that one where people lived in the same house after the very first edition of that - was it called "Big Brother" - poor George Orwell if it was, using his invention for that kind of idiocy).So we residents of West Suffolk are to be left without an MP while he eats interesting parts of animals. However will we manage?
Won't make a blind bit of difference. Stick a blue rosette on a wheelie bin and it wins by a landslide in most of East Anglia. Cambridge is an obvious exception and part of Norwich. I think the attached is just for the press.Burning question is, where do we sign up to get them to throw stones at him..?
See he's got a book coming out about covid & all the unnecessary deaths.
Hope the jungle is just a taster for his trial & sentencing
In the spirit of grabbing as much dosh a possible, I see ficklizzie has an e-book out about her time in number ten.Won't make a blind bit of difference. Stick a blue rosette on a wheelie bin and it wins by a landslide in most of East Anglia. Cambridge is an obvious exception and part of Norwich. I think the attached is just for the press.
That woman is amazing! Imagine, having to run a house, do the shopping and cleaning, packing up to move house, cooking, possibly baking her own bread and making pickles AND she even has time to write a book (albeit an e-book) about all the years (weeks) she spent in office and at the same time running the country. Women eh? Fantastically talented and multi-tasking.You might enjoy this piece.
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