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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: louisa maud on Monday 11 August 25 00:40 BST (UK)
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Good morning folks.
After 2 attempts last week to reply on both occasions my message just disappeared, frustrating to say the least.
The fete, fantastic, although I have been involved over the last 30 years on fetes and the like I never done anything like it before, a good new committee which was needed to be honest, not decrying what was done previously but I think a change was needed, everyone seemed to have a good time, was short on manpower but we managed, it just meant that we didn't get a break whereas we could walk around and spend our money, the atmosphere in church yesterday was buzzing, everyone was so pleased, fortunately the priest was a able to be there almost all the time so he was seen by people who didn't live in the village which is how it should be.
Only downside was I had a fall, my knee just gave way and now I am suffering, stayed the course but had help clearing away and everyone was so kind, what an idiot I felt, the clearing away is the worst job especially if it is the white elephant stall, people seemed to have unloaded their giveaways on to us , although it went into a cupboard it will have to be drastically sorted over the next few weeks and moved on.
So, hopefully I am going to gave a quiet week, take care.
LM
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Congratulations on the success of your Fete LM. I think those kind of events need change of committee every so often otherwise they get stale and everything becomes a habit. New people bring in fresh ideas.
Sorry to hear about your fall, I know how it shakes one up, I hope you are soon fully recovered. Knees tend to become less reliable as age stars to catch up with us. If you find yours painful try Voltarol max strength gel, make sure it’s the one for joints not muscles.
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Well done on your "new" venture. They do say a change is as good as a rest and sometimes things get a little stale and need a bit of a shake up. I know the feeling from past involvements in various activities.
Hope your knee is not too bad but take care- I am now a little less mobile, with a hip problem and waiting for something to "turn up". But I think it will be a long wait. Have had two knee replacement jobs, both of which are standing up well.
rj
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Our new leader is a bit younger, makes an awful lot of difference, knows a lot of people, she was a farmers wife, widowed now but still interested, a lovely person, cool calm and collected , that is what is needed with some committee members
I had a knee replacement 18 years ago and has done well, I am wondering if I have jarred it as I went down on my knee in a V shape, i am no featherweight to fall, but hey ho, is what it is, just take more water with it I am told, assif!!
Hips I understand are easier than knees but the exercises are important, my brother has waited 2.5 years for a new knee but he has other problems which have set him back .
Beautiful day , think i am under a tree all day if I get the chance , I seldom sit on the sun.
Take care folks
LM
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Oh! Louisa ,I am sorry you had that accident ,perhaps you need a check up on your knee - do all you can to maintain your mobility.
So glad your valiant efforts got good results.
A dull muggy day here ,hospital visit today and the Consultant has said I can have a pacemaker ,no idea of the time I will have to wait but I am pleased.
All ready for two hours before appointment time as we are instructed to be ,so a bit annoying when the patient for pick up after me was not ready and we were nearly an hour outside her home waiting.Couldn’t be annoyed really ,she was enormous and had great mobility problems so must be hard to lose weight .
A new system in place soon - we will not see the same Nurse Practitioner each visit -they get to know you and so not the same questions each time which is time wasting which a new one will have to do.
Honestly - if it isn’t broken don’t fix it!
Hope all are safe and as well as can be given many of us are elderly.
Has anyone seen the clip from” Mrs. Brown’s Boys “ where she careers into the house on an out of control mobility scooter—- ?
I know the feeling so well ——-
No reply yet re the proper ramp ,oh don’t you have to be patient when you are getting older!
Well just me for tea ,son at head office ,so some soup from the freezer, and
Parmesan rolls ,a fruit yogurt .
So no cooking this evening and daughter’s usual Monday chat .
Thinking if you all especially those with health issues, there are some real stoics out there.
Many thanks Gillig for the tip re zips ,but I am returning the outfit, it demands stabbing high heels ( reception on grass!) , beautiful make up and a huge hat .
Not me at all ,but asI am very old I could get away with my dressing gown ;D ;D ;and plead insanity of the confused.V
Viktoria.
Viktoria .———see what I mean !
Viktoria.
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Overdid it, weeding all Sunday. Overdid it again, did supermarket shop, then cutting main lawn and upper lawn,( as OH can't cope now with things like that) with flymo that creeps and clogs rather than flying. Both days shattered, sitting blinking and recovering.
Today, drawn all curtains, cool drinks, intend to splat in the gloom, fans on. Intend to revive gently.
TY
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A drop of the amber nectar might help! :D
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Was thinking of a jug of Pimms, or a long, cool G & T, only, of course, when the sun is over the yardarm. Till then, cloudy lemonade only. ( when is the yardarm?).
TY
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From Oxfordreference.com:
Over the Yardarm
traditional nautical saying to indicate that it is time for a morning drink. It was generally assumed in northern latitudes the sun would show above the foreyard of a ship by 1100, which was about the time in many ships of the forenoon ‘stand-easy’, when many officers would slip below for their first drink of the day.
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Alcohol dehydrates us, best keep away from alcohol and stick to soft drinks or water, especially us oldies, we need to keep hydrated. Even if it does mean innumerable trips to the loo. ;D
Save the amber liquid until the cooler weather, then you can enjoy it more.
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That's a good idea , got on hour to wait to stand down but it might be coffee.
LM
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You see, you learn loads of new things via you lot! Never knew exactly what that "yardarm" thing meant. Thanks KGarrad, I think I knew somehow you'd know!
TY
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LM ...but not coffee - it's dehydrating! :o In Austria when you are served coffee in a restaurant you are always served with a glass of water at the same time. I never knew why until a Viennese lady explained the significance of the water glass to me.
I like a half and half glass of orange juice and water in hot weather, though my daughter frowns on the orange juice, saying that there is too much sugar in it! You just can't win. Water alone is a bit boring. ::)
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I sip on lime juice cordial with water. ;)
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I like soda and lime, quite refreshing.
Regards my fall, I couldn't get a reply from the surgery so actually visited in person, the receptionist sent me straight to A&E, some 5 hours later I was allowed home got to take it easy, still in pain but hey ho no fractures, they xrayed my knee, hip and spine, over 65's, and I admit to being that have to have a test, so 10 quick fire questions, one being " what is that? " " a handbag" " what do you have in it?" " my purse, mobile and a load of junk " well he laughed but he was very nice, got them all ✅ , phew.
So many waiting , one woman flanked by 2 police officers, some most unsavoury, came home, stripped off and had a bath.
So, got to take it easy, some hopes, whilst I am on 2 feet I am up and walking, tomorrow is another day.
Well after my morning cuppa my next coffee, if I have another before lunch I will have a cup of water as well, don't think I drink enough to be honest
Keep cool folks
LM
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I'm a little tired of the buzz word "hydrated", but try to keep up my liquid intake, especially in hot weather. It's really important for us oldies. ;)
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I must be seeing things! Just doing the online supermarket order and they are have on sale the Radio Times Christmas/New Years Issue!!
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It's forecast 32 degrees here tomorrow, they're not going to convince me that it's near Christmas in those sort of temperatures :D
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Just watching the programme about the Moors Murders.
The search of the moors was called off - expense!
How much did it take to keep Bradley and Hindley in prison ——in relative comfort ?
The anguish of Keith Bennett’s family was of less importance it would seem and Brady and Hindley still had a great measure of control .
I can remember Lord Longford saying Lesley Anne Downey’s mother was” a hysterical,mother”———-
It was almost beyond belief, she had to identify her little girl’s remains after they were recovered from the peat of the moors.
After months underground.
So much evidence has been locked away that could have helped and what right had Brady to private papers lodged with a Solicitor that have still not been handed over?
In the words of a Dickens character—-“ The Law is a ass!”
Well we know they do a good job but sometimes there are cases like this that must make many really sad and angry.
It does me!
Viktoria.
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Baking hot here today, 32 degrees and of course it brings lots of people to the beaches to enjoy themselves but also there are the inevitable bad news reports. Several children rescued from the sea, thank goodness they were brought back alive. Lifeboat has also been called out to a boat, hope the outcome of that is good news.
And a car that someone thought was a good idea to drive on the beach, is now floating in the sea. There's always one. ::)
Forecast tomorrow is down to 26°, can only hope for less bad news.