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ianpspurs said:
Morning from an almost Spring like start to Monday in this bizarre area of The Brecks. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art which strikes me to be very similar to the setting for the very moving gathering @JohnEGreen shared. I guess the walkers can be taken as a sign of hope or defiance. Hug for the cramps: are they related to the stroll along the prom and helping your granddaughter yesterday? . @Krystyna23040 wonderful news on Bonnie who will both give and receive so much love and joy which is just as it should be. She has definitely won the puppy lottery. JKP was awoken by a phone call from the milk delivery people offering very large "free range" (hens) eggs delivered to our doorstep, appreciably cheaper than we currently pay. @gennepher they were some pampered quails as one would expect and yes absolutely too much work now. JKP still hankers after hens again but as wonderful as the eggs were life moves on apace while one isn't looking. The vegetable availability issue could worsen according to this. For those seeking the elusive "fresh" food today best wishes for success. Let's all run Monday up the flagpole and see who salutes.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning from an almost Spring like start to Monday in this bizarre area of The Brecks. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art which strikes me to be very similar to the setting for the very moving gathering @JohnEGreen shared. I guess the walkers can be taken as a sign of hope or defiance. Hug for the cramps: are they related to the stroll along the prom and helping your granddaughter yesterday? . @Krystyna23040 wonderful news on Bonnie who will both give and receive so much love and joy which is just as it should be. She has definitely won the puppy lottery. JKP was awoken by a phone call from the milk delivery people offering very large "free range" (hens) eggs delivered to our doorstep, appreciably cheaper than we currently pay. @gennepher they were some pampered quails as one would expect and yes absolutely too much work now. JKP still hankers after hens again but as wonderful as the eggs were life moves on apace while one isn't looking. The vegetable availability issue could worsen according to this. For those seeking the elusive "fresh" food today best wishes for success. Let's all run Monday up the flagpole and see who salutes.
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Life does move on, and we cannot do what we once did, no matter how much we want to...
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those that do battle with the NHS app.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.2

I am sad to read about that poor lad from Wigan who lost his life, but glad to read that the Labrador puppy is settling in well and it seems will soon has his new keepers trained :)

Cramps:
If I don’t increase my salt intake I suffer from cramps, but my cramps are linked to my daily prednisolone.

On a +ve point I have looked up my hbA1c result on the NHS app and it showed a reading of 48. A suspicious result given my medication.

Given the outside temperature is now in +ve numbers I might just streak round the garden, but then again I don’t want the neighbours feeling sorry for Mrs J !

Stay safe, stay warm and don’t panic over things you have no control over, ie fresh vegetables. Frozen veggies won’t hurt for a couple of days.
 
JohnEGreen said:
It’s been a few years since our Sox passed still miss her.
Keiran has been thinking of getting a dog again I’m not sure as he was looking at Bernese mountain dogs bit to big for our small house.
But is now thinking of getting a cocker spaniel bit more sensible a friend of ours has recently got a rescue dog a 10 year old grey hound to my mind a bit of a strange choice for a disabled woman in her 70s but she seems happy with her choice and that’s what counts.
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Read somewhere that greyhounds are sprinters- so don't need a lot of exercise, a session with a frisbee might well be enough. Unlike some terriers who can keep going all day.
 
JohnEGreen said:
There are times I thank God that we moved away from Wigan when we did one of those moment was last night when we learned that one of the group of six lads that Keiran was friends with there had died struck by a lorry on the M6 yesterday he is the third of that group to have died since we left non by natural causes which causes me reflect on the fact that in certain areas the youth have been failed by society where the have no opportunity and little hope of a bright future not a lot has changed there since George Orwell wrote The Road To Wigan Pier.
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Hug for the concern for others combined with winner for "whatever" motivated you to move. There is no need to be a devout believer to see how the sins, intentional or just what seemed a good idea (vote winner, nice little earner) at the time, of the fathers have blighted/are blighting several generations. I too thank God I felt a strong call to move to Cambs from South London the instant JKP knew she was pregnant with our firstborn. Meant 8 months commuting, probably a missed promotion, then restarting my career but I wanted that child and any future ones out asap. I can't bear the thought of my grandsons ever walking those streets.
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
We now have a lovely little yellow labrador puppy who our granddaughters have named Bonnie.

She has explored the whole house and garden and I think she has decided that she approves of her new home
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Bonnie is a lovely name. Wish you much fun and many happy years with her
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning from an almost Spring like start to Monday in this bizarre area of The Brecks. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art which strikes me to be very similar to the setting for the very moving gathering @JohnEGreen shared. I guess the walkers can be taken as a sign of hope or defiance. Hug for the cramps: are they related to the stroll along the prom and helping your granddaughter yesterday? . @Krystyna23040 wonderful news on Bonnie who will both give and receive so much love and joy which is just as it should be. She has definitely won the puppy lottery. JKP was awoken by a phone call from the milk delivery people offering very large "free range" (hens) eggs delivered to our doorstep, appreciably cheaper than we currently pay. @gennepher they were some pampered quails as one would expect and yes absolutely too much work now. JKP still hankers after hens again but as wonderful as the eggs were life moves on apace while one isn't looking. The vegetable availability issue could worsen according to this. For those seeking the elusive "fresh" food today best wishes for success. Let's all run Monday up the flagpole and see who salutes.
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Thank you @ianpspurs - no idea about the cramps the cause of which is quite elusive even to those white coated chin scratchers. Happy Birthday to the hen hankerer.
 
Fbg ...not taken it cos I was awake all of last night...

I went out there early to try and get some veg and eggs. I noticed the Polish shop were unloading quite a few crates of vegetables which presumably came from Poland.

But I went to Lidl first and luckily they had a load of vegetables, the choice and selection not as good as it usually is, but the quality of the veg was absolutely perfect.

So I got all I needed in vegetables...I can make a different soup every day for a week now.

I went to get some fresh meat, but the chiller section was almost empty of fresh meat...there was some belly pork. I have never cooked it before, but I thought if I threw it in the Remoska, it should turn out alright. And it did, I am eating it now.....

But disaster struck for me while I was looking for eggs. I found them eventually, but not before I had walked down an entire aisle from top to bottom of the store with nothing else but sweets, sweets and more sweets on either side of the aisle and before I had got about a third way down, I don't know whether it's some chemicals from the sweets or what but they made me feel so sick and my tummy was turning over and over and I don't know how I held it down.

Obviously, the store were short on a lot of goods and they just simply filled both sides of the aisle from top to bottom with all those sweets from their storeroom. The smell was overpowering for me, I cannot stand sweets and sweet stuff anyway, but that made me so ill. I felt sick and dizzy. When I got to the till there were no cashiers you had to self service yourself so I got hold of an assistant and I asked them to do the self service for me. He said I don't really wanna do that. How about I get a cashier for the till, I said that suits me just fine.

I got my stuff to the car, but I was still feeling ill and dizzy from those sweets, the smell from them. A passerby helped me get my stuff in the car because she said I didn't look too good.

I am nearly home when I realise I am just about to have a humdinger of visual migraine attack. I took my tablets quickly and managed to back the car in the driveway. I am so glad I widened the entrance to my driveway. It makes it so much easier backing into it, when there are cars parked either side of the road.

I grabbed a slice of cheese out of the fridge and ate that and then my stomach started to settle. And the visual migraine began to clear, so I eat another slice of cheese.

I just fell asleep then and this posted itself...

The visual migraine is almost clear now, but it was that full double aisle of sweets that caused me to feel very ill, the smell of those horrible sickly sweets that people feed their children.

I am just going to find my creative and add to this....
Here we go... I did it before I went out...it is of a cushion, but it looks like horrified monkey faces...oh well...

Have your best day...

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alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those that do battle with the NHS app.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.2

I am sad to read about that poor lad from Wigan who lost his life, but glad to read that the Labrador puppy is settling in well and it seems will soon has his new keepers trained :)

Cramps:
If I don’t increase my salt intake I suffer from cramps, but my cramps are linked to my daily prednisolone.

On a +ve point I have looked up my hbA1c result on the NHS app and it showed a reading of 48. A suspicious result given my medication.

Given the outside temperature is now in +ve numbers I might just streak round the garden, but then again I don’t want the neighbours feeling sorry for Mrs J !

Stay safe, stay warm and don’t panic over things you have no control over, ie fresh vegetables. Frozen veggies won’t hurt for a couple of days.
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Alf...I would sooner go on a water fast for a fortnight than eat frozen veg. Frozen veg churns my stomach.... the only frozen veg I can eat is frozen peas but nothing else @alf_Josiah
 
gennepher said:
Fbg ...not taken it cos I was awake all of last night...

I went out there early to try and get some veg and eggs. I noticed the Polish shop were unloading quite a few crates of vegetables which presumably came from Poland.

But I went to Lidl first and luckily they had a load of vegetables, the choice and selection not as good as it usually is, but the quality of the veg was absolutely perfect.

So I got all I needed in vegetables...I can make a different soup every day for a week now.

I went to get some fresh meat, but the chiller section was almost empty of fresh meat...there was some belly pork. I have never cooked it before, but I thought if I threw it in the Remoska, it should turn out alright. And it did, I am eating it now.....

But disaster struck for me while I was looking for eggs. I found them eventually, but not before I had walked down an entire aisle from top to bottom of the store with nothing else but sweets, sweets and more sweets on either side of the aisle and before I had got about a third way down, I don't know whether it's some chemicals from the sweets or what but they made me feel so sick and my tummy was turning over and over and I don't know how I held it down.

Obviously, the store were short on a lot of goods and they just simply filled both sides of the aisle from top to bottom with all those sweets from their storeroom. The smell was overpowering for me, I cannot stand sweets and sweet stuff anyway, but that made me so ill. I felt sick and dizzy. When I got to the till there were no cashiers you had to self service yourself so I got hold of an assistant and I asked them to do the self service for me. He said I don't really wanna do that. How about I get a cashier for the till, I said that suits me just fine.

I got my stuff to the car, but I was still feeling ill and dizzy from those sweets, the smell from them. A passerby helped me get my stuff in the car because she said I didn't look too good.

I am nearly home when I realise I am just about to have a humdinger of visual migraine attack. I took my tablets quickly and managed to back the car in the driveway. I am so glad I widened the entrance to my driveway. It makes it so much easier backing into it, when there are cars parked either side of the road.

I grabbed a slice of cheese out of the fridge and ate that and then my stomach started to settle. And the visual migraine began to clear, so I eat another slice of cheese.

I just fell asleep then and this posted itself...

The visual migraine is almost clear now, but it was that full double aisle of sweets that caused me to feel very ill, the smell of those horrible sickly sweets that people feed their children.

I am just going to find my creative and add to this....
Here we go... I did it before I went out...it is of a cushion, but it looks like horrified monkey faces...oh well...

Have your best day...

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Hug for the effect of all those sweets and that's without ever eating one. Wow, amazing what can impact people - how fragile yet resilient we all are in so many ways. Thank you for sharing that delicate kaleidoscope - sheep's heads?
I added resilient due to @gennepher's amazing bouncebackability
 
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ianpspurs said:
Hug for the effect of all those sweets and that's without ever eating one. Wow, amazing what can impact people - how fragile we all are in so many ways. Thank you for sharing that delicate kaleidoscope - sheep's heads?
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Thank you Ian.
We were never meant to eat sweets like what the sweet industry foists on us.
I am assuming it is because of my diabetes and me over a period of time, getting the stage where I don't eat any sweet stuff now, unless it is natural fruit, and so maybe that is the reason why my body is now intolerant to sweet stuff? The smell of it was absolutely overpowering in that aisle @ianpspurs

Yes, I like that description...they do look like orange sheep heads....
 
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ianpspurs said:
Hug for the concern for others combined with winner for "whatever" motivated you to move. There is no need to be a devout believer to see how the sins, intentional or just what seemed a good idea (vote winner, nice little earner) at the time, of the fathers have blighted/are blighting several generations. I too thank God I felt a strong call to move to Cambs from South London the instant JKP knew she was pregnant with our firstborn. Meant 8 months commuting, probably a missed promotion, then restarting my career but I wanted that child and any future ones out asap. I can't bear the thought of my grandsons ever walking those streets.
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We did not end up in Wigan by choice but I new it was no place for Keiran his prospects would be severely limited if we stayed there I hesitate to share this but of those three who have passed away one a victim of a brutal murder one other an accidental overdose and now yesterday a tragic suicide non of them angels but they deserved better from life.
 
6.8 before the egg run, a dozen stashed in cupboard for now. According to staff, fifteen deliveries today.
Cupboard or fridge? Any views?
If I remember rightly @JohnEGreen, one of my first posts on this thread, was about how proud I was, that my eldest had rescued a teen from jumping off a motorway bridge near us. Since then, there has been put in places, not all, a higher prevention fence. There has been a call for these fences for every motorway bridge.
And it is endemic of the pressure put on our youngsters, trying to survive in this country these days.
Was having a lovely deep sleep, when I felt Mrs L stir. And in a demanding tone asked.....
If we could go home now?
I answered that we were.
After the fourth time of asking, demanding I phone for a taxi. I spent the next ten minutes visit the upstairs with Mrs L, to prove we were. She mentioned the old people's bungalows on a particular area, was where we were.....
Of course, getting back into bed, Mrs L, fell asleep quickly whilst I couldn't!
This is not the first time it has happened.
I should, make enquiries.
Weather is drab, dank and even tho it is above freezing, it is still freezing!

Myself and Mrs L found ourselves around forty five years back, with family struggles and before our lot began life, we looked after her two younger brothers,. There was a lot of rebuild in the area, many areas were being either knocked down or restructuring. And around that time, we had the offer to return to where we were or seek rehousing elsewhere in the borough.
Because of the influx from other estates etc. We knew, we had to move away, for our kids sake.
And thank whoever, we did. You could say, we were lucky but we decided and cajoled the housing for a decent home.
This house was our fourth option, we looked at. And in an instant, we knew.
And because of that, it changed our lives so much for the better.
I do miss, where we grew up. It is a brilliant area except for those, that burden every one else with their existence.

Still no bin men.
Still no garden.
Still got lots to do.
Still no idea, what is next?
Best wishes.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg ...not taken it cos I was awake all of last night...

I went out there early to try and get some veg and eggs. I noticed the Polish shop were unloading quite a few crates of vegetables which presumably came from Poland.

But I went to Lidl first and luckily they had a load of vegetables, the choice and selection not as good as it usually is, but the quality of the veg was absolutely perfect.

So I got all I needed in vegetables...I can make a different soup every day for a week now.

I went to get some fresh meat, but the chiller section was almost empty of fresh meat...there was some belly pork. I have never cooked it before, but I thought if I threw it in the Remoska, it should turn out alright. And it did, I am eating it now.....

But disaster struck for me while I was looking for eggs. I found them eventually, but not before I had walked down an entire aisle from top to bottom of the store with nothing else but sweets, sweets and more sweets on either side of the aisle and before I had got about a third way down, I don't know whether it's some chemicals from the sweets or what but they made me feel so sick and my tummy was turning over and over and I don't know how I held it down.

Obviously, the store were short on a lot of goods and they just simply filled both sides of the aisle from top to bottom with all those sweets from their storeroom. The smell was overpowering for me, I cannot stand sweets and sweet stuff anyway, but that made me so ill. I felt sick and dizzy. When I got to the till there were no cashiers you had to self service yourself so I got hold of an assistant and I asked them to do the self service for me. He said I don't really wanna do that. How about I get a cashier for the till, I said that suits me just fine.

I got my stuff to the car, but I was still feeling ill and dizzy from those sweets, the smell from them. A passerby helped me get my stuff in the car because she said I didn't look too good.

I am nearly home when I realise I am just about to have a humdinger of visual migraine attack. I took my tablets quickly and managed to back the car in the driveway. I am so glad I widened the entrance to my driveway. It makes it so much easier backing into it, when there are cars parked either side of the road.

I grabbed a slice of cheese out of the fridge and ate that and then my stomach started to settle. And the visual migraine began to clear, so I eat another slice of cheese.

I just fell asleep then and this posted itself...

The visual migraine is almost clear now, but it was that full double aisle of sweets that caused me to feel very ill, the smell of those horrible sickly sweets that people feed their children.

I am just going to find my creative and add to this....
Here we go... I did it before I went out...it is of a cushion, but it looks like horrified monkey faces...oh well...

Have your best day...

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You did really well to get home safely @gennepher
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Thank you @SlimLizzy. Yes, Bonnie is a lovely name. The other suggestion from the grandchildren was 'love puff' which received a resounding no.
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Why ever not?. Would have provided so much fun and so many quizzical looks with you calling come on love puff with Mr K a short distance away. Even the wonderful Mr K may have struggled to style that one out. Would have been priceless. What a killjoy :playful:
 
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