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Lamont D said:
Bad day at the Lamont household.
Mrs L deciding to cook a piece of gzmmon, lighting the cooker with the pot on.
As it was early morning and a bit nippy, the heating went on.
A cuppa obviously, and a bit of a snack.

As I woke up, to go the toilet, the heat emanating up the stairs was a bit sauna like.
I rushed downstairs to find Mrs L asleep.
Safe to say, unaware of the chaos.
It was 315am.

It took me the best part of 30 minutes to get back upstairs.

Up at 7am, to clean up and get ready for tv repair man.
He arrived.
For a computer reason, the upgrade didn't happen.
No one could understand.
A frustrated engineer left.
Phoned up to get some sense and they are returning Thursday.

Hurt myself doing kitchen duties.
Hands have been sore as well, locking fingers.

New glasses are ready, gonna pick empty up in morning.

Raining, windy, cool, cloudy day.
No grandkids to cheer me up.
No gardening to do.

Gammon tasting soon.

I bet you have a better day than I am having.

And the day ain't over yet!

Best wishes to you lot as always.
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Having read @SlimLizzy's tale of her daughter's woes it sounds as though horrible as it was you and Mrs L have had a real let off there. No new box is obviously a let down and the hand hurts but focus on the big picture.
 
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ianpspurs said:
This is a long read - 1.5 mugs of tea/koffy for sure - but I'd say she has been influenced by the same ideas. Contains the best/clearest definitions of Neoliberalism and why it is dead I've seen anywhere. Helps explain why post 2008 life hasn't worked for most. We've buried the real problems. They're called Maggie, Ronald and Boomers selfish ballot box power. Probably TLDR for most but I don't do fiction and it helps me clarify how we got here. Take it or leave it obviously but it made the £2 NYT monthly subscription a bargain for me.
“The postwar neoliberal economic project is nearing its end, and the survival of American democracy relies on how we respond.”
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Market-oriented reform policies, what could possibly go so greedily wrong? Unfortunately the NYT wants a subscription - blagh!
 
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dunelm said:
Such a terrible and traumatic event when it happens. Thankfully they have the use of your brothers house for now, one worry down. Everyone essentially OK and that mental trauma calms, two down. Community stepping up which will be of great help. Hopefully the house and contents Insurance company are really on the ball and that they are able to recover key documents and more importantly, their items of memories.
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Items of memories are almost certainly gone. Birthday cards, school reports etc were in a box under the stairs where the fire started.
 
ianpspurs said:
Having read @SlimLizzy's tale of her daughter's woes it sounds as though horrible as it was you and Mrs L have had a real let off there. No new box is obviously a let down and the hand hurts but focus on the big picture.
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As @Annb once said to me. "Our worries are our worries" even if they seem paltry to others. Hugs to you and Mrs L
 
SlimLizzy said:
Items of memories are almost certainly gone. Birthday cards, school reports etc were in a box under the stairs where the fire started.
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Oh...I really feel for them all, and for you @SlimLizzy
That makes me so sad losing those personal memories.I know what it feels like, that feeling will never go away, it cuts deep.
But everyone is safe xxx
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Nighttime wildlife video
Badger looking around...
38secs

Creative...afraid it is my ferns in a kaleidoscope today in Laboscope
Because it was asthma yearly review this morning, and when I got back it was my afternoon siesta. Only just woke up, and it's 4 pm. Now 5:45 pm I have posted this. Not drunk enough water today with being out and then asleep, so trying to make up on fluids...
Asthma nurse kept talking to me when she was facing away from me on computer or washing her hands etc. I had explained when I went in, pointed to my lipreading badge on my chest. "Please face me I lipread". But more than 10 times I had to pull her up, and when she repeated it, she faced away again. My mind cannot comprehend this, and I pull her up again..."Are you muttering to yourself, or are you talking to me, I just reminded you I need to see your face to lipread". She looked darkly at me as she turned around, "I said you were doing very well".
I do not have a clue what she was referring to...doing very well at what? So I ask her. "Your weight", she replied. "What about my weight?" I ask. "You've lost weight," she replies.
And how big a deal is that, I am asking myself in my head.

She doesn't offer the information. So, I ask her, how much weight have I lost. Something kilograms, she replies. "I am sorry" I told her, "but I cannot lipread numbers, could you please write it down for me?"

She then shouts (thinking I will lipread shouting better) at me, "TWO STONES". And carries on shouting, "ISN'T THAT GOOD". I'm repeat the words 2 stones to make sure I have it correct, "You said, 2 stones, have I got that right ?", and she looks at me with an even further darkened face, as though she was dealing with an imbecile. (By this time, I do not care one jot that I have lost 2 stones).

Then she faces her computer, and is either muttering at it, or talking to me. I got told off so many times by the GP years ago (when there were such things as GP's) for asking if they were talking to me, when they were facing the computer, because I needed to see their lips to lipread, and I was told very abruptly to keep quiet then.

The asthma nurse stops muttering at the computer, she had been going through many different pages and highlighting in different colours, and turns to me, "Well, which?" she asks. I tell her yet again for the umpteenth time, "I have already told you many times at this appointment, that I lipread, and I have this badge on my chest which says please face me I lipread, yet you persist in talking to the wall (while washing her hands etc), and having conversations with your computer....but never facing me so I can lipread, and I have made it very clear, from the start, I need to see your face."

Her face couldn't have got any darker, "I was asking you if you wanted to have your diabetic review now, with me, or in a month's time with J".

Oh boy was I tempted to say now (but she had been talking to her computer over 10 mins, and I am guessing now, writing this, that she had been relating stuff to me on my diabetes and I have not received one jot of that information so I am in the dark about that).....but I said, next month with J. I have no idea who J is.

She literally ran to the other side of her room, grabbed her tea/coffee mug and ran to their tea room...and I left and went to bed absolutely shattered.


I hope you had a good day.

I am tired, my day has been wasted with utter stupidity of others who should know better.

The day is now getting dark, evening is here, and I have done nothing.., I need to see to Midnight (who still won't come in as it is too warm), see to the beasties, trail cams, and lock up....

Have a good night's sleep...

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Dreadful behaviour with the asthma nurse. Talk about not thinking. Lovely kaleidoscope, hope you have a better night than your day.
 
dunelm said:
Dreadful behaviour with the asthma nurse. Talk about not thinking. Lovely kaleidoscope, hope you have a better night than your day.
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It is never any different, especially with the medical profession. And it makes me exhausted trying to cope, because I know I missed a lot... And when I asked for the details of what I assume I might have missed when she was facing the wall washing her hands, she just brushed/flicked her hand in the air and again turned away from me as she said more words, and I have no idea what she said again. I have challenged all this so many times. It is impossible... @dunelm

Thank you for your good wishes.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Nighttime wildlife video
Badger looking around...
38secs

Creative...afraid it is my ferns in a kaleidoscope today in Laboscope
Because it was asthma yearly review this morning, and when I got back I crashed out asleep. Only just woke up, and it's 4 pm. Now 5:45 pm I have posted this. Not drunk enough water today with being out and then asleep, so trying to make up on fluids...
Asthma nurse kept talking to me when she was facing away from me on computer or washing her hands etc. I had explained when I went in, pointed to my lipreading badge on my chest. "Please face me I lipread". But more than 10 times I had to pull her up, and when she repeated it, she faced away again. My mind cannot comprehend this, and I pull her up again..."Are you muttering to yourself, or are you talking to me, I just reminded you I need to see your face to lipread". She looked darkly at me as she turned around, "I said you were doing very well".
I do not have a clue what she was referring to...doing very well at what? So I ask her. "Your weight", she replied. "What about my weight?" I ask. "You've lost weight," she replies.
And how big a deal is that, I am asking myself in my head.

She doesn't offer the information. So, I ask her, how much weight have I lost. Something kilograms, she replies. "I am sorry" I told her, "but I cannot lipread numbers, could you please write it down for me?"

She then shouts (thinking I will lipread shouting better) at me, "TWO STONES". And carries on shouting, "ISN'T THAT GOOD". I'm repeat the words 2 stones to make sure I have it correct, "You said, 2 stones, have I got that right ?", and she looks at me with an even further darkened face, as though she was dealing with an imbecile. (By this time, I do not care one jot that I have lost 2 stones).

Then she faces her computer, and is either muttering at it, or talking to me. I got told off so many times by the GP years ago (when there were such things as GP's) for asking if they were talking to me, when they were facing the computer, because I needed to see their lips to lipread, and I was told very abruptly to keep quiet then.

The asthma nurse stops muttering at the computer, she had been going through many different pages and highlighting in different colours, and turns to me, "Well, which?" she asks. I tell her yet again for the umpteenth time, "I have already told you many times at this appointment, that I lipread, and I have this badge on my chest which says please face me I lipread, yet you persist in talking to the wall (while washing her hands etc), and having conversations with your computer....but never facing me so I can lipread, and I have made it very clear, from the start, I need to see your face."

Her face couldn't have got any darker, "I was asking you if you wanted to have your diabetic review now, with me, or in a month's time with J".

Oh boy was I tempted to say now (but she had been talking to her computer over 10 mins, and I am guessing now, writing this, that she had been relating stuff to me on my diabetes and I have not received one jot of that information so I am in the dark about that).....but I said, next month with J. I have no idea who J is.

She literally ran to the other side of her room, grabbed her tea/coffee mug and ran to their tea room...and I left and went to bed absolutely shattered.


I hope you had a good day.

I am tired, my day has been wasted with utter stupidity of others who should know better.

The day is now getting dark, evening is here, and I have done nothing.., I need to see to Midnight (who still won't come in as it is too warm), see to the beasties, trail cams, and lock up....

Have a good night's sleep...

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Hug for the nightmare asthma review. Winner for the kaleidoscope and if wanted the weight loss. Can what was entered on computer be accessible online or printed off? Don't take offence but the whole episode sounds like a naff version of this.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Good point well made Ma'am. This is brilliant and what I’m feeling Kamala Harris inching towards saying to rebut the foul Musk flavo(u)red Trumpism. To some extent Tim Walz has already been saying these things. Let’s hope someone at the DNC let’s rip at the rank hypocrisy and mendacity. Has to be done in the USA because for all the nonsense before, during and since THAT referendum Britain isn’t a major player anymore. Grate - as in an unpleasant rasping sound.is far more apposite.
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Absolutely brilliant article @ianpspurs
 
gennepher said:
Creative...afraid it is my ferns in a kaleidoscope today in Laboscope
Because it was asthma yearly review this morning, and when I got back I crashed out asleep. Only just woke up, and it's 4 pm. Now 5:45 pm I have posted this. Not drunk enough water today with being out and then asleep, so trying to make up on fluids...
Asthma nurse kept talking to me when she was facing away from me on computer or washing her hands etc. I had explained when I went in, pointed to my lipreading badge on my chest. "Please face me I lipread". But more than 10 times I had to pull her up, and when she repeated it, she faced away again. My mind cannot comprehend this, and I pull her up again..."Are you muttering to yourself, or are you talking to me, I just reminded you I need to see your face to lipread". She looked darkly at me as she turned around, "I said you were doing very well".
I do not have a clue what she was referring to...doing very well at what? So I ask her. "Your weight", she replied. "What about my weight?" I ask. "You've lost weight," she replies.
And how big a deal is that, I am asking myself in my head.

She doesn't offer the information. So, I ask her, how much weight have I lost. Something kilograms, she replies. "I am sorry" I told her, "but I cannot lipread numbers, could you please write it down for me?"

She then shouts (thinking I will lipread shouting better) at me, "TWO STONES". And carries on shouting, "ISN'T THAT GOOD". I'm repeat the words 2 stones to make sure I have it correct, "You said, 2 stones, have I got that right ?", and she looks at me with an even further darkened face, as though she was dealing with an imbecile. (By this time, I do not care one jot that I have lost 2 stones).

Then she faces her computer, and is either muttering at it, or talking to me. I got told off so many times by the GP years ago (when there were such things as GP's) for asking if they were talking to me, when they were facing the computer, because I needed to see their lips to lipread, and I was told very abruptly to keep quiet then.

The asthma nurse stops muttering at the computer, she had been going through many different pages and highlighting in different colours, and turns to me, "Well, which?" she asks. I tell her yet again for the umpteenth time, "I have already told you many times at this appointment, that I lipread, and I have this badge on my chest which says please face me I lipread, yet you persist in talking to the wall (while washing her hands etc), and having conversations with your computer....but never facing me so I can lipread, and I have made it very clear, from the start, I need to see your face."

Her face couldn't have got any darker, "I was asking you if you wanted to have your diabetic review now, with me, or in a month's time with J".

I was tempted to say now to get it over and done with, (but she had been talking to her computer over 10 mins, and I am guessing now, writing this, that she had been relating stuff to me on my diabetes and I have not received one jot of that information so I am in the dark about that).....so I said, next month with J. I have no idea who J is.

She literally ran to the other side of her room, grabbed her tea/coffee mug and ran to their tea room...and I left and went to bed absolutely shattered.
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I feel so indignant for you Gennepher. That nurse doesn't deserve to be a nurse. Nurses are supposed to be caring and helpful.. She clearly was anything but that. I know clinics and hospitals are short staffed and they are all busy, but all it needs is a little thought and consideration.

The fern kaleidoscope is lovely, by the way. I love ferns.
 
SlimLizzy said:
19.08
Visitors all returned to UK yesterday. Some to distressing circumstances.
Unfortunately there has been a serious fire in the night, at my daughter's house and it is currently uninhabitable .
Her husband was lucky to get out - had to be rescued by the fire brigade through a window. He was in hospital overnight getting treatment for smoke inhalation. Two bedrooms and the staircase are entirely destroyed. All the other rooms have water and smoke damage.
I phoned my brother, currently on holiday somewhere in France, and they have arranged to use his house for now. Convieniently only a five min drive from the fire damaged house.
Goodness knows what happens next, but family and the local community are rallying round with offers of help.
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How awful for your daughter and her husband. At least it seems that he wasn't harmed, at least physically. Awful to lose treasured possessions in a fire and the trauma must be massive but at least they are safe and being cared for by their community. That is something to be thankful for.
 
Lamont D said:
Bad day at the Lamont household.
Mrs L deciding to cook a piece of gzmmon, lighting the cooker with the pot on.
As it was early morning and a bit nippy, the heating went on.
A cuppa obviously, and a bit of a snack.

As I woke up, to go the toilet, the heat emanating up the stairs was a bit sauna like.
I rushed downstairs to find Mrs L asleep.
Safe to say, unaware of the chaos.
It was 315am.

It took me the best part of 30 minutes to get back upstairs.

Up at 7am, to clean up and get ready for tv repair man.
He arrived.
For a computer reason, the upgrade didn't happen.
No one could understand.
A frustrated engineer left.
Phoned up to get some sense and they are returning Thursday.

Hurt myself doing kitchen duties.
Hands have been sore as well, locking fingers.

New glasses are ready, gonna pick empty up in morning.

Raining, windy, cool, cloudy day.
No grandkids to cheer me up.
No gardening to do.

Gammon tasting soon.

I bet you have a better day than I am having.

And the day ain't over yet!

Best wishes to you lot as always.
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How worrying for you if your wife is starting to do things like that. Poor soul, she won't be aware of the danger. You of course, are aware and that is making your burden even worse. So sorry.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Nighttime wildlife video
Badger looking around...
38secs

Creative...afraid it is my ferns in a kaleidoscope today in Laboscope
Because it was asthma yearly review this morning, and when I got back I crashed out asleep. Only just woke up, and it's 4 pm. Now 5:45 pm I have posted this. Not drunk enough water today with being out and then asleep, so trying to make up on fluids...
Asthma nurse kept talking to me when she was facing away from me on computer or washing her hands etc. I had explained when I went in, pointed to my lipreading badge on my chest. "Please face me I lipread". But more than 10 times I had to pull her up, and when she repeated it, she faced away again. My mind cannot comprehend this, and I pull her up again..."Are you muttering to yourself, or are you talking to me, I just reminded you I need to see your face to lipread". She looked darkly at me as she turned around, "I said you were doing very well".
I do not have a clue what she was referring to...doing very well at what? So I ask her. "Your weight", she replied. "What about my weight?" I ask. "You've lost weight," she replies.
And how big a deal is that, I am asking myself in my head.

She doesn't offer the information. So, I ask her, how much weight have I lost. Something kilograms, she replies. "I am sorry" I told her, "but I cannot lipread numbers, could you please write it down for me?"

She then shouts (thinking I will lipread shouting better) at me, "TWO STONES". And carries on shouting, "ISN'T THAT GOOD". I'm repeat the words 2 stones to make sure I have it correct, "You said, 2 stones, have I got that right ?", and she looks at me with an even further darkened face, as though she was dealing with an imbecile. (By this time, I do not care one jot that I have lost 2 stones).

Then she faces her computer, and is either muttering at it, or talking to me. I got told off so many times by the GP years ago (when there were such things as GP's) for asking if they were talking to me, when they were facing the computer, because I needed to see their lips to lipread, and I was told very abruptly to keep quiet then.

The asthma nurse stops muttering at the computer, she had been going through many different pages and highlighting in different colours, and turns to me, "Well, which?" she asks. I tell her yet again for the umpteenth time, "I have already told you many times at this appointment, that I lipread, and I have this badge on my chest which says please face me I lipread, yet you persist in talking to the wall (while washing her hands etc), and having conversations with your computer....but never facing me so I can lipread, and I have made it very clear, from the start, I need to see your face."

Her face couldn't have got any darker, "I was asking you if you wanted to have your diabetic review now, with me, or in a month's time with J".

I was tempted to say now to get it over and done with, (but she had been talking to her computer over 10 mins, and I am guessing now, writing this, that she had been relating stuff to me on my diabetes and I have not received one jot of that information so I am in the dark about that).....so I said, next month with J. I have no idea who J is.

She literally ran to the other side of her room, grabbed her tea/coffee mug and ran to their tea room...and I left and went to bed absolutely shattered.


I hope you had a good day.

I am tired, my day has been wasted with utter stupidity of others who should know better.

The day is now getting dark, evening is here, and I have done nothing.., I need to see to Midnight (who still won't come in as it is too warm), see to the beasties, trail cams, and lock up....

Have a good night's sleep...

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I believe that we have had our own battles with medical staff of all types.
or we wouldn't have joined the forum.
We occasionally get the good ones and I don't think that they are intentionally ignorant of our needs.
just inundated with appointments one after the other.
they use computers as promoting tools, as they would medical cards in the past. Facing us.
I would in all honestly kept tapping her arm o or let her know that she needs to face you. Be pushy, demanding.

The number of times I have had to use an appointment or a phone call to get my experience with the high numbers of doctors, that I have seen all through a true diagnosis, treatment (ha!) Advice (ha!)
I'm currently trying to get my prescription changed again.
Never mind Mrs L.
We don't deserve such treatment, so we have to fight for more.
Don't let them fob you off.
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Nighttime wildlife video
Badger looking around...
38secs

Creative...afraid it is my ferns in a kaleidoscope today in Laboscope
Because it was asthma yearly review this morning, and when I got back I crashed out asleep. Only just woke up, and it's 4 pm. Now 5:45 pm I have posted this. Not drunk enough water today with being out and then asleep, so trying to make up on fluids...
Asthma nurse kept talking to me when she was facing away from me on computer or washing her hands etc. I had explained when I went in, pointed to my lipreading badge on my chest. "Please face me I lipread". But more than 10 times I had to pull her up, and when she repeated it, she faced away again. My mind cannot comprehend this, and I pull her up again..."Are you muttering to yourself, or are you talking to me, I just reminded you I need to see your face to lipread". She looked darkly at me as she turned around, "I said you were doing very well".
I do not have a clue what she was referring to...doing very well at what? So I ask her. "Your weight", she replied. "What about my weight?" I ask. "You've lost weight," she replies.
And how big a deal is that, I am asking myself in my head.

She doesn't offer the information. So, I ask her, how much weight have I lost. Something kilograms, she replies. "I am sorry" I told her, "but I cannot lipread numbers, could you please write it down for me?"

She then shouts (thinking I will lipread shouting better) at me, "TWO STONES". And carries on shouting, "ISN'T THAT GOOD". I'm repeat the words 2 stones to make sure I have it correct, "You said, 2 stones, have I got that right ?", and she looks at me with an even further darkened face, as though she was dealing with an imbecile. (By this time, I do not care one jot that I have lost 2 stones).

Then she faces her computer, and is either muttering at it, or talking to me. I got told off so many times by the GP years ago (when there were such things as GP's) for asking if they were talking to me, when they were facing the computer, because I needed to see their lips to lipread, and I was told very abruptly to keep quiet then.

The asthma nurse stops muttering at the computer, she had been going through many different pages and highlighting in different colours, and turns to me, "Well, which?" she asks. I tell her yet again for the umpteenth time, "I have already told you many times at this appointment, that I lipread, and I have this badge on my chest which says please face me I lipread, yet you persist in talking to the wall (while washing her hands etc), and having conversations with your computer....but never facing me so I can lipread, and I have made it very clear, from the start, I need to see your face."

Her face couldn't have got any darker, "I was asking you if you wanted to have your diabetic review now, with me, or in a month's time with J".

I was tempted to say now to get it over and done with, (but she had been talking to her computer over 10 mins, and I am guessing now, writing this, that she had been relating stuff to me on my diabetes and I have not received one jot of that information so I am in the dark about that).....so I said, next month with J. I have no idea who J is.

She literally ran to the other side of her room, grabbed her tea/coffee mug and ran to their tea room...and I left and went to bed absolutely shattered.


I hope you had a good day.

I am tired, my day has been wasted with utter stupidity of others who should know better.

The day is now getting dark, evening is here, and I have done nothing.., I need to see to Midnight (who still won't come in as it is too warm), see to the beasties, trail cams, and lock up....

Have a good night's sleep...

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Stunning kaleidoscope @gennepher
 
ianpspurs said:
Winner would be purely for listening to Joni Mitchell without anything else. Yes, crunchy PB is the only way but it is very moreish. Fortunately, I have another kg tub (and some Jarlsberg) to help me follow the instructions on my medication. Steroids seem to make me hungry and I really don't need to weigh 74 kgs. I'm less convinced by the day that anyone actually has the faintest idea what is healthy whilst signing up for a Zoe Daily 30+ subscription. Acute cognitive dissonance here. :doctor:
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Yes, that is the big problem with crunchy peanut butter. It is just too moreish. Even better is eating crunchy peanut butter while listening to Joni Mitchell.

Yes, there does seem to be differing views on what constitutes a healthy diet. Should it be all plant based, carnivore, high fat, low fat or somewhere in the middle.

My priority from the start was to avoid the high carb diet that resulted in me being admitted to hospital because, apparently, I was only hours away from a fatal coma.

Beyond that my main criteria is that I only eat food I really really like - which actually puts me somewhere in the middle - heavily plant based but including meat, fish and rather a lot of dairy. Not forgetting the all important coffee.

Coffee used to be demonised as very unhealthy - but now it is considered to have health benefits.
 
Annb said:
How worrying for you if your wife is starting to do things like that. Poor soul, she won't be aware of the danger. You of course, are aware and that is making your burden even worse. So sorry.
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Thanks, I am beginning to become a professional nag.
I believe I could out harangue my mum.
And she had five men and boys to deal with.
I just have a very stubborn erratic forgetful person, who needs a lot of care and attention.
 
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