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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: Roobarb on Monday 21 April 25 19:15 BST (UK)
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Well either Louisa Maud is busy or she's forgotten that today is Monday. :) Easily done, the last four days all seem to have been Sundays.
Some rain here tonight, much needed for the gardens. Sunny and increasingly warm forecast for the rest of the week.
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The days seem all over the place and as for the dates I’m always terrible!
Dull and cloudy this morning and then rain which all the newly planted vegs/ seeds are in desperate need of.
The rain didn’t stop our grandsons from being in the garden but lunch soon brought them inside… I had a full fridge when they arrived yesterday morning and by teatime today it’s looking very empty!
Looking forward to the sun and warmer weather returning.
Hope everyone has had an enjoyable Easter whatever the weathers been like and enjoy the rest of the week.
Take care everyone
Caroline
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I did realise it was Monday, just a bit preoccupied with my daughters poorly dog, I am sharing the looking after with a very kind dog sitter, my week isn't my own this week.
Lousy weather for Easter, rained this evening, am just squeezing a few hours off tomorrow to meet a friend, cutting the day short to be back to my daughters, it's all go at the moment, plus the church fayre this Saturday I'm supposed to be in charge, what did I do to deserve it I ask myself
Take care
LM.
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Whatever - the weather will be whatever it wants to be, regardless of time or day! BUT if we are still here, then that is all that matters for us! :-* :-* :-*
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You're just kind hearted LM, spending your time doing things for others. I hope your daughter's dog is soon better, it's so distressing with pets who can't tell you how they're feeling. And I'm sure the church will appreciate your hard work.
Hang on in there x
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Thank you Roobarb but I am sad to say my daughters dog is very ill, the dog sitter is fantastic, my grandaughter comes home tonight about 10pm so I will be there when she arrives, my daughter and son in law are due home on Saturday, I would like to think they cut their holiday short, I think they will have to make a decision soon, in my opinion very sad but I wouldn't like to see him suffer.
I am sure whatever money we will make at the fayre will be appreciated.
Bumble, I have a friend who is forever saying "I might not be here tomorrow" she is 89, drives me mad, none of us know what is happening tomorrow, neither did 2 relations who were aged 22, 45 and 55, I try to live each day as it comes, what will be , will be.
Take care everyone
LM
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Apologies for being a little "light-hearted" in the midst of pet problems, BUT:
Our local garden centre runs an "over-60's Club" where special offers are available to members every Wednesday.
This week's offer is "TWO free slices of toast" but you have to purchase a hot drink. :-X :-X :-X
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Well I realised just now I was still posting in last week’s diary !
Sorry about the dog what is the matter with it?
I hope it improves, they do pull at your heartstrings don’t they .
We were staying with friends in Shropshire who were minding a neighbour’s little dog .
It was blazing hot weather and the little aCairn Terruervwas seeking cool places in the garden
She was bloated with fluid like heart failure, we took her to thevVet’s and he agreed, and wanted to put her to sleep ,so we phoned our friends who phoned the owners but they did not want that so we had to take her back to our friends and sadly she died the next day which was so upsetting for them but honestly such a weight gain ought to have alerted the owners well before she was in her last hours.
Our friends found her under the big rhubarb leaves in the shade .
Aaaaaw, a dear little dog.
Dogs are amazing , I always think they are brighter than us !
Well baby Lilly was munching on a banana!
What us she now ,born November 13 th so five months, it seems very early to me ,mashed up yes BUT some new fangled” baby controlled “ diet and weaning programme!
I must bite my tongue!
St. George’s Day tomorrow, anyone putting the flag out?
Well cheerio .
Viktoria .
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Another step along the road back to some sort of sense and reality. Mark and Erica down for a couple of days at the weekend and tackled the wardrobe; sorting Jane's clothes and packing them up into cases for disposal. The best will go to the church at Southdown in Bath, where they have a charity shop which Jane and a colleague set up nearly 30 years ago when she worked there.
They also re-organised the kitchen and utility room to make things more manageable. Slight downside to this is that I am having to adjust to finding where they moved things to, but it looks a lot more organised now! ;)
They worked so hard to get things right for me. :)
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That was kind Jeff.
I live in fear that I will pop my clogs when the house is not pristine !
Difficult when someone else is here, working most of the time in the computers then popping next door to work on their house.
I can hardly move in the bedroom where he works.It is like an obstacle course getting to wardrobes where my best clothes are and a store cupboard with the extra stores are and my sewing stuff.
But he works so hard and checks and re- checks his statistics and calculations.
It will work out .
Well with all the sunshine thr flipping pond us going green again despite me using a shade my sin made to screen off sunshine.
I even started the clean water off last time with a block supposed to stop green water but curing it when it is green- rubbish -and at £19 fo two blocks!
I can’t find a home for them ,not krgal and very cruel to put them in rivers ir ponds ,besides given the quality of our waterways they would not survive anyway .
So once more unto the pond dear friends , crying” Harry ,England and St,George “ or something like that!
Hope those unwell feel better, there are some real stoics among us .
Cheerio for now.
Viktoria.
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Have had 2 communications from Manx Care (our version of NHS) this week.
First from Occupational Health. They originally offered to install hand holds on the back steps. 9 concrete steps leading to back lane; where the rubbish bins are.
Referral was before my latest op; so no longer needed! I've even given back 2 walkers (rolators), as I am managing with just a stick.
Secondly, I have an appointment tomorrow at Physio; letter arrived yesterday!
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Glad things are moving on for you ,such difficulties you have to contend with.
Tell me about your rollator.
I am fed up with this scooter shenanigans !
We will see what transpires tomorrow .
Hope you continue to improve.
Viktoria.
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I had a 3-wheel walker, with space for shopping, and a 4-wheel walker, with seat and space for shopping.
The 3-wheeler I could fold and manhandle down the 9 steps.
The 4-wheeler, even when folded, was too heavy and unwieldy!
Still have a 3-wheeler (bought by my daughters) in reserve!
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K.G. I am really pleased to hear you are making progress.
I wish all improvement.
When I went to the Doctors a few weeks ago, I was seen by a Doctor, an Advanced Practitioner. Also a 'Scientist' occasionally makes contact by text.
I was only on one medication and the NHS Consultant, was most animated with me, demanding that I had to stop taking them straight away, so I did.
But have been prescribed another by the NHS A.P., to take only in the event if I need to.
So I'm not usually taking any Drug or Drug company substance or tablets, currently.
Yesterday, I saw a claim that 30% of people who take that medication I was on for more than two years, are more likely get dementia or similar condition.
I have turned even more to natural fresh foods containing natural nutrients (some are day to day fresh foods), which are FREE of added sugar and sweetener.
All my Advanced Practitioner can offer me, is to keep going and not give up, even though I get pain.
On virtual and the latest ultrasound scanning nothing can be seen at the location of the terrible pain which flares up, except a gaseous substance.
So I keep praying too, as I have passed a from 5 years, then a 20 year life expectancy, because of a brain condition diagnosed when I was 39 yrs. Then MIS inflammation in 2020.
A Consultant Specialist, was saying yesterday that there is a massive communication system (500 million nerves) between the Gastro-intestinal (the gut) system and the Brain and it seems a lot depends on what we eat and what we avoid, plus walks and rest.
For some reason the:-
humble tomato,
chewed walnuts, whole almonds (so that they become a paste before swallowing),
cucumber,
sardines, and some other fridge foods,
blueberries,
other berry types,
Kiwi fruit,
Fruits lowish in sugar, high in vitamins,
organic oats to make porridge with water,
cooked veg, lean meats and fish, e.g. Salmon,
extra mature cheddar,
hot milk organic cacao drinks,
one square off a 95% Dark Choc bar made with cocoa butter (no sweetener),
sliced banana on buttered sugar free wholemeal brown toasted bread, and sometimes dry Red Wine,
will bring the awful pain under control, which means I can avoid taking painkillers with their kidney and liver side effects.
DON'T Eat or Drink any of the above if you have an allergy to eating it, or been advised not to.
I am intolerant to added sugar and any sweeteners, they also seem to have been causing the pain elsewhere in the muscles (which is probably a form of arthritis).
A neighbour up the road has an identical condition and when I've been to A & E, a younger chap 3 years ago was having these awful pain spasms and cramps, I kept pressing the button for the nurse, for him. He told me he had the first Covid V and he was told you can't have the 2nd or another. So I mentioned, I had similar cramps, pains, bowel problems and how I cut out foods with added sugar and sweetener and he replied that he thought his problem was sugar and certain foods.
All I can do is to keep going, praying and keep positive.
Take care all, Mark
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Yes Mark, be positive, I first had a stomach condition in 1994, my Dr diagnosed it straight away, had over the years various x-rays and " scopies " I call them, and all is well, I eat sensibly and I have no idea what affects my stomach, but hey ho, I keep going, not prepared to give up, a friend has the same condition and is frequently in pain and often either calls an ambulance or goes to A&E, I guess we are all made up differently with different things affect us.
Be positive and pray to keep going
LM
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Sorry to hear L.M.
A Geneticist and Sequencer has told us at online meetings that Scientists have observed under very high power equipment, the virus and C-19 entering the bacteria in the human digestion system and also even mild infection is depleting the good bacteria in our digestion system.
I think Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, or similar sounding names were mentioned, with other bacterium.
As well as the above the NHS A.P., is advising me to continue with foods and my Natural Yogurt.
But Organic Natural Yogurt is yuk :( !
But Fruit yogurts, contain sugar and sweetener, which makes the bad bacteria and viruses multiply quicker in our digestion system, it seems.
Edible Vaccine In Trials
I see online that they are even trying to make an Edible Covid Vaccine from natural ingredients, because the current prevention is not always stopping hospitalisation.
When I saw the NHS Doctor and A.P., it is more like they are asking me what I am doing to stay alive, as though they are asking me and then encouraging me to carry on.
My G.P., said to me, Mark, you had better make sure you keep doing what your doing!
Mark
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That is it, keep doing what we are doing , I laughed with a friend recently and said I am living as long as I can to annoy as many people as I can and collect my pension, ha ha,!
How's the scooter Viktoria
Enjoy your day folks
LM
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I am having such trouble with my iPad since the topic re Church Unity was blocked .
The moderators’ message keeps coming up preventing me from getting other mail ,can’t sort it out .
My notification of new messages is not working
I shall leave it alone and see tomorrow if it has cleared
.Hope all are O.K.
Hope this gets through.
Viktoria.
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Morning Viktoria, hope you get sorted soon, frustrating this modern technology.
LM
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My daughter talked me through a good while last night but it still does not notify me of new emails ,lThe locking message for Church Unity won’t go away.
I need my iPad to communicate with the mobility scooter people .
The offer even if I buy another is £2000 less than I paid .
Not sure what if I don’t buy again from them .
I really thought I was on the Vitess2 ,that was what interested me,safety and stability and kerb mounting etc,
The test rude in January was easy and simple, so I agreed to have one.
§Then the monster arrived —- very very complicated and really for car drivers.I really can’t manage it and as I have said it lost a tyre doing what it is supposed to do safely ie mount a kerb.,
Repair man came and took me out on it but itbwas so fast and keen ,not like the one I tested which in my opinion was smooth and so easy .
I thought the new one was perhaps an updated one from the one I test drove.
So this week along cone the original salesmen .
The new one had been set in the fastest setting !,no wonder it jumped forward so alarmingly.
I nearly killed the delivery man.
It has 0.6 of a mile on it!
So not used at all really.
I did another test run on Thursday, again so easy and gentle.
I was on the one I did the first test on ,which was NOT the Vitess 2 but the Plus, a gentler model sooooo I had not test driven a Vitess 2!
I naturally had expected to have a test run on the model I was interested in buying! I was not told it was not a Vitess 2 so agreed to have one as it was so easy, thinking it was a Vitess2.
Why on earth I was not tested on the type I had expressed an interest in I can’t imagine .
That is the strongest point in my argument with them , but I won’t get very far with them I feel sure .
But a £2,000 loss and a new price of replacement wil be more than I paid in the first place.Not sure what I will get if I don’t get another from them .
They will get some bad publicity though !
Enough of that.
Quite sunny but chilly here, Tesco delivery between four and eight O’clock.
I see a bird quite often on my lawn, but since Mr. rat I don’t want to put food out even in the feeders - I see a Squirrel, getting food ,well rats can do what squirrels can -
Hope all have a peaceful weekend .
Cheerio.
Viktoria.
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That is it, keep doing what we are doing , I laughed with a friend recently and said I am living as long as I can to annoy as many people as I can and collect my pension, ha ha,!
How's the scooter Viktoria
Enjoy your day folks
LM
L.M. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D you made me laugh at two of your reasons to keep going.
Viktoria, oh ipads and pc, I hope you get fixed up :) . Technology is annoying when it won't play ball.
My old Laptop gave up, so I purchased one with a C.D. drive, a lot more Memory and a big screen.
I paid for the 3 year Remote and at Home Support.
Suddenly, my new pc refused to connect to the Internet, with a reason why, on the 'phone to a very nice patient lady in Support and she had me in the computer operating system.
Oh it isn't that she said, I want you to try this and sent some instructions by email, but each instruction line went over two lines (on this phone) and some lines need a space inserting, according to the Tutorial sent too.
The Tutorial link emailed too, was far far too quick for me.
I gave up, had tea and went to bed earlier on Day 1, after the afternoon 'phone call my brain was exhausted.
On Day 2,
I had to keep stopping and reversing the short Tutorial for about 3 hours, to write down each line of words and characters and then to write down exactly, where each line went in the long scroll of text. ???
I was mentally exhausted, with an A4 page of gobbledygook lines :-\ and where to be inserted in the scroll of text.
Day 3, I inserted the lines and was back online and I haven't a clue how ::)
Mark
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Viktoria,
I hope you are fixed up with your scooter and have the one that best suits your needs.
Fancy them, leaving the knob in the fastest setting at delivery!
When any motor vehicle is delivered and the buyer sits in, to be shown the controls and start it up, the person delivering a car should make sure the car was left in Neutral and everything switched off.
Oh Mr Rat, the people of Birmingham, have them running about there as big as block pavings (same size as house bricks)!
BBC Verify claimed the rate they earn was only just above minimum wage.
The rents in the Midlands, or mortgage for a small family home are huge money, for that amount of wage.
Mark
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Similar experiences with new printer this week. Loads of paper bumph, mostly not in English! Problem loading and connecting because of something which the old printer left behind. Eventually managed to get it going, with some help from a neighbour and lots of patience and Christian Fortitude. So, bought on Tuesday, up and running by Friday late afternoon.
Why ,oh why do they make life so difficult for those of us with limited computer savvy?
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Well between them both, my eldest son and daughter,by phone to each other have sorted out my iPad.Phew,it was like losing my best friend!
I have been doing it all wrong- for years,not fit to be let loose on , however baby Lily and Flash Harry and Kyra’s photos and videos all,gone!
They will be somewhere - but - where?
Well must get on.
Look after yourselves folks ,you will never know how much I missed you! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Gosh,just reading of your problems Jeff and Bushinn made me want to lie down in a darkened room!
I am not technically minded , it is gobbledygook to me ,I ought not to be let loose on one!
Thanks again ,I was getting withdrawal symptoms.
Viktoria,I think —— well I was when I went to bed last night!
Viktoria.
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Viktoria, in the fastest setting you might nearly have pulled a wheelie ;D
I'm lying down in that darkened room ;D ;D just recalling it!
Re your photos & videos, did they put your device back to factory settings?
If this was done with a PC, pictures etc., used to be lost?
A reputable computer specialist managed to recover my deleted photos of RAF and Air Ministry Files, our holiday, family photos and history book files, even though the PC had failed.
It was over £100, but he repaired the pc and recovered what was on the PC too.
That is why I insisted on my new PC had a CD Drive, because everything from 2004 and some, from the years before 2004, were saved on CDs.
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RJ,
I agree, how do Windows, Apple and PC manufacturers and their whizz kid Technicians, ever expect us with limited knowledge to understand what they are saying, let alone remedy the problem?
I wanted to save about 20 of those £3 GRO images (before GRO delete them), when I right click on them, this new Windows 11 can't always save all of them as viewable jpeg images, forcing me to save a few into Windows Paint first, then save them from there as jpeg.
All the best everyone, Mark
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Given my lack of knowledge I ought to have a gas iPad!
Like the gas television comedian Arthur Haynes wanted to buy from the salesman ,played by Nicholaaaaaase Parsons.
A quiet day otherwise.
Many would love to have some of those.
0melettes for tea ,mushroom and cheese.
With salad.
Ham joint tomorrow.with ———( pineapple) :-(How 1950’s- 60’s )
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Hope all have a nice day tomorrow ,and thanks for your concern re the scooter!
I think the fact that I had not seen never mind ridden the Vitess2 is quite a valid reason for me to reject it ,We will see .
A lazy day today ,things to do but they can wait.
Cheerio.Viktoria.
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This afternoon I ventured out on my first "solo" drive, other than just popping to the shops, since Jane died. It had a particular purpose rather than just a trip out. I went to a village called Sutton Veny,just south east of Warminster, a distance of about 20 miles from home. And for what reason.
Well this week has seen the ANZAC Day remembrances and during the first world war there were a number of military camps and some hospitals sited around Salisbury Plain, and in particular a large one at Sutton Veny. Sadly some soldiers there died from their wounds, whilst recuperating; others were caught by the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.
In the churchyard of St John the Evangelist are the graves of those deceased sodiers. But why did I bother?
Well our son Andrew, who now lives in a small country town in NSW and teaches at the local school will be doing something on the ANZAC story in the coming week and thought some background from Sutton Veny would be appropriate.
The Australian Forces badge which is in the ANZAC Chapel in the church is also replicated on a hillside a few miles from Sutton Veny, just east of Codford St Mary.
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How very kind, it is doubtful if any of their family members were able to visit.
So far from home .
There are a few cemeteries for Chinese labourers on The Somme, and Indian troops.
I don’t suppose they were ever visited either
As far as possible we called in ,but many we saw on our way through the
area .
But if course the vast majority of British and American troops ‘graves won’t have been visited by relatives .That is very sad .
A day of memories Jeff ,well done.
Viktoria.
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Well done Jeff. The youngsters will benefit from seeing your research.
One of our daughters is a teacher and my contribution for her has been my family tree research from a WW1 relative who was awarded the MM and the DCM for their school history project.
Plus she uses some of my old toys for ‘ toys from the olden days’. Makes me feel even more ancient!