Dang! Started a thread but it never loaded and now it's eaten my entire post! Grrrrr. What's worse, I typed it in Word, copied and pasted it, and now can't get it to paste.
Hope we don't get two new threads.
Anyway, have a nice Sunday everyone. Will catch up (again!) tomorrow.
Good evening. Legs did well today – no extra pain until we reached the penultimate aisle in Morrisons! And that wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t insisted on inspecting all the Christmas stuff at the garden centre, after a very good quiche salad.
Linda – thanks for the “Tuesday Smiles” this morning! Sorry you have had a partly frustrating day – pleased there were good bits too.
Margo – a lovely long post from you. Sorry to see you did a bit too much yesterday, but I can understand how pleased you are to be able to do more than before. Glad to see the weekend meals were both good ones; seems you are enjoying food again now. I hope your consultant will be happy with you tomorrow.
Rita – do you really need to worry about getting things done for Christmas? Don’t go making yourself tired and ill thinking about it, I am sure it will all work out fine. Please the AGM and Show went well on Saturday: were you re-elected Cactus Club Secretary at the AGM?
Dibnlib – pleased the boss’s twins waited till you were back from your trip away, but glad you don’t have to work the extra hours if you’d prefer not.
Going to try to finish Christmas letters off tonight, with personal bits added to a general update. Have tasked OH with printing out a family tree for my Mother’s Cousin as I promised it when we met up with her and her husband in August!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Linda - I shall have an easy day tomorrow, while OH is busy with cleaning (bedrooms get the main clean this week, all else just a quick vac and dusting where it shows). In the evening, the General Interest Group has it's festive December meeting: speaker is telling us about his locally grown and made cider (other apple products are available!) and we have a shared supper, for which we have bought our contribution this time, rather than making it.
Hello all
RITA - I get that panicky feeling too, never used to until the past couple of years. Doesn't matter how many lists I make, the only way of reducing the anxiety for me is to immediately do something that I can then cross off the list. And I mean immediately!! Well, not in the middle of the night but you get my gist! (To think that I used to teach anxiety management to clients LOL - ---)
Amy and Mum had hospital appointment today. They were told that Amy and the pump are both doing well and that Amy's blip the other night was probably because she got extremely excited when watching X Factor. I'm not sure that I understand that but that is what they were told! Anyway, Alison seems to be more confident now about pressing buttons on the insulin pump to change the dose of insulin or give an extra 'bolus'.
Great to hear from you, MARGO and fingers crossed for your blood results xx
Take it easy,OG. Your tip regarding the glasses case is brilliant. Why doesn't my mind work like yours?
Thanks Dibnlib, I will go to Pets at Home tomorrow and try to get Amber an advent Calendar, I might be too late! I am going into Howdens tomorrow anyway to do some shopping and have lunch.
OG - I have been secretary of the cactus club for about 20 years now, nobody else wants to do it! I sometimes think that I would like a rest from it.
Lindybird & OG I always get anxious about Christmas, I'm just a worrier by nature! but as you say it always turns out alright in the end. I think it is because I am on my own. The house seems to get more and more untidy towards Christmas, with all the presents and boxes of decorations etc.,etc., and I like to have it all perfect by the time my family arrive although they always say they will help when they get here. - but they have such a long way to come and very often in terrible weather conditions that I want them to relax when they get here. Last year they had to come via Aberdeen due to the weather, which takes ages longer. Having said all this, I really love Christmas, I think it is a wonderful time!
Heather - I make lists like you and get satisfaction from crossing things off but as fast as I do that I am adding more things at the bottom of the list!!!
OG - Hope you enjoy your meeting tomorrow night , the talk about cider making sounds very interesting.
Hi to everyone, I am glad to see you are all alive and still kicking
I thought I would share these with you,
I took them at Minsmere about two weeks ago.
"Birds are, quite simply, little miracles - and as such they require care and consideration."
Magnus Ullman
My Flickr account is here
Lovely pictures Limpy.
Afternoon all: We've had a marvelous steady soaking rain since 4 a.m. this morning (it's now 2) and it's not expected to go to showers until later this afternoon. Electrician arrived on time and found that the "new improved" (read easy/fast) wire connections originally installed had come loose. He switched those out but had the same problem we had - cramming all the bits and pieces back into the tiny space inside the fixture. Still, all working now.
OG: Most commercial frosting is sweet, but a couple of our local bakeries do a whipped or buttercream frosting that doesn't overpower the whole cake. Generally, I don't like sugar on anything anymore - a little goes a long, long way (and to think our Mum used to make us sugar and banana sandwiches after rationing ended). Nice for J to have the opportunity to earn some $$s for his guitar strap. Have a glass of cider for me.
Lindybird: Cute shots there - I have a Matisse print I need to hang and could use some input.... Maybe the penguin is doing upper-body yoga twists or just trying to keep warm?
Margo: Lovely to think of you bustling about the house and, of course, I forgot that you don't post when your hardworking OH is off at the weekend. Sounds like a lovely birthday dinner and lunch with friends. Will the next chemo session be done before Xmas?
Rita: Googled images of Mesem,etc.... Some look very familiar. I really understand the messy house aspect of Christmas; this year I put up a work table in the spare bedroom and just started putting presents, wrapping paper, cards, etc. in there so they wouldn't clutter up other rooms. I've also been wrapping things soon after I bring them into the house, putting gift tags on them and, because I end up forgetting what I bought, using sticky notes to remind me what's in them. This is the very first time I've taken such an organized approach and it's helped. My panic comes when it's time to start cooking Christmas dinner; I'm not a happy cook and I daren't pour a glass of wine too early or I start forgetting what needs to be done next. Ugh. Re the Cactus Club, I used to go to Rose Club meetings and nobody ever wanted to be president, secretary, etc... If you need a rest, just tell them make them take No for an answer (a radical thought I know). :-)
Heather: I wasted - well I actually went to the gym and worked out before the yoga class - almost an hour yesterday coz I wrote a list of errands to run, but didn't organize them sensibly so ended up at the wrong end of town from another errand that would've filled up that hour but not quite got me back in time for yoga.
Limpy: Hi to you and thanks for the shots - was that Minsmere?
Looks like the rain is slowing.....