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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: louisa maud on Monday 17 March 25 00:18 GMT (UK)
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Morning folks, not been much on the diary last week, wasn't a lot happening for me but this week, quite unusually , I have a packed week, 2 sick visits, blood test, hair and meeting my friend who has just returned home from Brisbane, that will be a nice meet up and lunch out, might get time to weald the hoover around!!
My grandson is still on New Zealand , 4 more days then he goes off to Melbourne, we travelled on a tour to New Zealand and although he has done the same places he has stayed a few nights at each place so he was able to explore, sent some wonderful pictures.
Jebber hope you are recovering.
Viktoria, hope your bump on the head is improving.
Take care folks
LM
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My goodness LM you’re still up as am I!
Sounds like you have a busy week … Hope you enjoy your catch up with your friend who’s returned from Brisbane. Wonderful to be following your grandsons progress through NZ with lots of pictures.
Usual week for me but following week I’m going to stay with my daughter for a couple of days and we’re going to the Vogue, immersive cat walk event! Also having the new carpet in the hall stairs and landing fitted the day before I go to London!
Hope Viktoria is ok as it’s unusual for her not to post during the week..
Also Jebber maybe home now with any luck as her experience doesn’t sound the best!
Wishing everyone else who has various health issues a better time too… spring is on its way hopefully!
Stay cheerful
Caroline
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Every now and again I have what i call " a can't sleep night" if I haven't fallen asleep within an hour or so I know I have to get up for a couple of hours, off to bed now, here's hoping I sleep, got to be up early
LM
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Hopefully in a deep sleep now LM and ready for 'top of the mornin' on St Patrick's Day!
We usually recognise it in some form, both my grandads were Irish who emigrated to NZ though sadly I didn't get to meet either of them, paternal b 1870 Belfast, maternal b 1873 Galway and husband has Irish ancestry on his mother's side too. Our girls did a decade of Irish Dancing, starting pre Riverdance era but the interest became greater and more dancers joining through that time, a fair bit of travelling around to competitions and St Patrick's Day was always a dance day going from mass to resthomes and to pubs and clubs etc for performances and parades. They loved it though, great memories :)
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There was a huge display in London on Sunday for St Patrick's day, very colourful, it looked a if a lot of people in the parade were maybe from Spain or further afield.
Beautiful morning but chilly we had a few days last week started off in the same way, deceiving as it is chilly.
RTL, where are you?
LM
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I've been to Dublin twice for St. Patrick's day, the parade is absolutely amazing.
Lovely and sunny here today, was cold overnight.
Yes, hope RTL is okay.
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Thank you LM and Caroline, today I’m finally home from hospital after four weeks. Had a Five hour wait in the discharge room waiting for hospital transport and a bumpy ride home but at least I’m here.
I surprised everyone, including myself that I was able to walk a little way with a zimmer two days after the sling was removed. It’s extremely painful but I was determined I would do it somehow, the next test is trying to get undressed tonight and getting to the bathroom in the night. The home care sent someone to see me and was surprised I had managed to dress myself this morning. I was determined even if it killed me. ;D I’m now very sore and looking forward to to a night in my own bed.
I have nothing but praise for the staff, their care and attention was first class even though short staffed. Most of the problems were caused by dementia patients, not that they could help it. Had some fun with one particular night nurse, you would have thought we were like kids at boarding school, it made the long painful nights bearable I shall miss her jokes.
I hope Viktoria is getting on alright and not causing mayhem on her scooter.
Best wishes to any of you who are feeling under the weather or have problems. The sun has been shining and warmer weather is on the way so things must get better.🤞
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Best wishes for your continued recovery, Jebber :D
After discharge on 2nd March, I had 29 staples removed from head wound and stomach incision a week ago.
Now walking without walker!
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Wow good news all round then for Jebber and KG… glad to hear you’re both on the mend..
Good to hear hospital staff are providing such good care in these difficult times too.
Always nice to get home to your own bed too… even after a holiday I look forward to my own bed.
Take care to both of you and Gillg, Viktoria, Mowsehowse and anyone else who’s needing our collective thoughts.
Caroline
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RTL, where are you?
RTL is fine, she is very busy with work and family.
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Oh good, i did pm her recently.
Pleased she is ok
LM
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Good to hear RTL is okay. :)
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Yes, I too am glad she is O.K.Well relatively,she is a stoic like many others.
Some very challenging illnesses bravely borne by a good number of RootsChatters.It is always good to read of such resilience ,it brings you down to earth and realise you are not too bad after all.
I talked to myself today ,and said that I would try out my scooter ,So gate unlocked ,shed unlocked ,ramps down ,——-scooter seat down ???——-no idea whatsoever how to unfold it , looked at manual , nothing .
Soooo, ramps back,shed locked ,gate locked ,and did some weeding and a garden tidy instead.
Son came back from delivering his orescription order and got in to shed and
found a lever ,problem solved——- :-[
Soooo I might try tomorrow.
Just listening to Gareth Southgate ,The Dimbleby Lectures.
What a lot of sense he has spoken ,especially re young people and their phones , resilience ,and parenting getting softer.
A lovely day today but rain for tomorrow.
I got a good bit of fresh air and sunshine whilst doing some necessary jobs .
Well off to bed and my difficult book .
Look after yourselves folks ,
Viktoria.
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Good luck with your scooter Viktoria, I will be thinking of you tomorrow and hope you’ll enjoy your first? Outing on it!
We listened to Gareth Southgate too, what a measured man he is and such thoughtfulness and good advice he gave… an inspiration to the young. It’s a pity his missed penalty always gets brought up.. poor man. It sounds like he had good advice after the event as been able to learn such strength from it.
Glad to hear that RTL is ok.
Goodnight all, looking forward to a warm day tomorrow.
Caroline
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Thanks everyone for your encouragement.
Jebber is very brave ,hope you are not so sore today J, a very difficult set of circumstances you are overcoming .eee, by gum !we are made of strong stuff we third generation people ,well fourth in some cases !
Best wishes to all who are unwell, I admire your fortitude folks.
No I did not try my scooter today,son was in a conference all day - three ways and international so I thought if I get in a mess and knock a couple of gravestones down he would not be able to help my getaway!
Despite it being forecast ,no rain today but a glorious day,so a bit more gardening , two dead Fuchsias pulled out and two pots of Tulips put in place .
Think the Lavender is nearly dead ,I will replace it but plant it somewhere .
It might recover if I am brutal .
Well time for “ The Dog House “, so Cheerio ,look after yourselves especially those unwell we know about but also those who have illness but don’t mention it but carry on alone.
Viktoria.
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There is an organisation down here in this neck of the woods, West of England Rural Network- which works with local communities in a number of different ways.
One such here in Radstock is to facilitate a monthly get together for the locals to Reminisce. There is a rep from WERN who will probably bring along some material to start the ball rolling and for an hour we sit around and chat either about the piece provided or,more often than not, we introduce topics from the floor. Our group,which I started attending last year, has about eight or nine regular members, and we sit chatting over a cup of coffee. Some very intersting topics crop up as you can imagine.
This morning there was a new attendee, well I had not seen her there bfore but I have missed a number of recent meetings. Her name was Janet, and we sat around the table chatting away. There was something about her which began to trigger my memory tabs and I eventually felt confident in expressing my thoughts. Are you Janet............?, who was a very good friend of Margaret........, who also happened to be a very good friend of ours.
Yes she said, but how do you know me? Well going back about 20 years when we first went to Australia,(for Andrew's wedding) we needed someone to look after the house and our two dogs and a cat. And so Janet, who lives not far from us, offered, through Margaret, her services.
And then the light dawned on Janet and we spent a fruitful fifteen minutes until it was time to go home reminiscing. In all those years since, I don't suppose we had seen her but two or three times, but kept in touch via our friend Margaret, who has sadly since died.
And the topic of the day, brought by the facilitator was also something to which I could relate. It was her grandfather's Crossing the Line Certificate issued by King Neptune, on a sea journey to India during WW2. I had experienced a similar occasion coming back from Africa in 1953 but had not participated as I was too young. But again it brought back some more happy memories.
rj
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Great to have those get-togethers and topics Jeff and some company, amazing to cross paths with past friends and acquaintances when it happens.
Hoping myself that I see a few I know or recognise at a school renunion on Sunday, it's just a lunchtime gathering for pupils of first 10 years of the high school I attended, have been to other weekend reunions and usually meet up with a few but sometimes not ones from my class and this time not aware of friends attending, one in particular who would usually go now living too distant having moved recently.
Have a good weekend all and also best wishes to all dealing with health issues ...
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Must admit I have never been keen on school reunions, would like to be a fly on the wall to see how others got on but not in person.
Viktoria, please don't go alone to a cemetery, number one it is usually difficult terrain, more so in a scooter but also a lonely place for us older people , when my father died we wouldn't let my mother go to the cemetery unless I went with her, wasn't safe.
Here's hoping all the RC's who are not so well are improving, the warm sunny days should make us all feel better
LM
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Thanks L.M.
It is not a big cemetery and almost always dog walkers there.
Two entrances, one on our road and one the next avenue.
You can see right across it if anyone else there etc as it is steeply sloping .
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On the other side of our road next to the cemetery entrance is an Ambulance station ,with a big area where the vehicles would park - but now closed ,so plenty of space there for wheelies!
I will be careful.
Another lovely morning ,looking at my bulbs ,only two of quite a few snowdrops have come up ,some muscari, daffodils but really short stemmed ,and tulips not yet in flower.
My mind goes back to “ Tulip Sunday “ in Philip’s’ Park ,near the Etihad Stadium ,we lived close by and each May I think the central area of huge flower beds was crammed full of tulips ,all colours and there must have been thousands ,all planted by the groundsmen .
It was a yearly ritual and many many visitors.
We teenagers would attend Sunday School and go for an afternoon walk to the nearby park ,then home for tea, evensong and then the pictures-
Someone’s Mum’s for coffee and home to get ready for school next morning doing any neglected homework in bed!( by the light of a torch if Mum and Dad had gone to bed.
Dad had to be up at five O’clock to get to Manchester’s Smithfield market for fresh fish and green grocery for the shop .
He went every day on the “ workmen’s special” bus which stopped opposite our shop.
We were never up late really.
Well must get on ,best wishes for those unwell or with problems ,and for improvements so life is not so difficult.
Cheerio.Viktoria.
My mind goes back
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Happy to say I quite enjoyed the school reunion lunch gathering today, plenty of people to chat with as a good number of familiar faces and acquaintances from around my hometown over the years, though only about 10 or so from my year attended and a nice catch up 8)
Enjoy the rest of another weekend, very little of it left for me now ...