Diary summary week ending 22nd June 2025

[louisa maud]

Yes, we will moan whatever the weather.

Forgive me for even mentioning this but have you looked in a nice charity shop to see if they have easy tops for you, you can get rid of them when you don't need them, just a thought, might make life easier for you after they have been in the washer,  you need not tell soul.
I have what I called my posh cousin,  I was astounded when she told me she frequented her local charity shop, mind you it was in a posh area,  she recently died and I know when she bought anything it was always the best, her charity shop will be pleased to receive her wardrobe full of expensive clothes, minus the charity shop ones
LM.

[Gillg]

Yes, LM
In the three small towns near us there is a distinct difference between the quality of goods on offer according to how "posh" those towns are.  I think there are three grades of clothing and some of them are really good quality.  I have no qualms about recycling clothes in this way, though a friend considers them as "dead women's cast-offs". 

Another hot day, but today it's quite windy now, whereas yesterday there wasn't a breath of wind.  Possibility of rain showers later. 

[KGarrad]

Our local Hospice has a number of shops, one of which is a Boutique!

[Viktoria]

A nice fresh but not cold morning here ,sunny.
Drenched the plants- and me! - last evening ready for the flag cracking day forecast .
For those not used to that saying - flags are granite or milllstone grit paving slabs,the old  Victorian ones, so some heat needed to crack those!

Son down South tomorow,not sure when he will be back ,but eldest son back now from holiday in Greece so I won’t be really alone.

Must get my Tesco order in ,not booked a slot yet ,I can take unusual times as I am almost always here.

Hope you are at least comfy Gillig , and feeling better.

Well I can’t believe it but baby Lily is feeding herself with a spoon !
Born November is almost seven months ,has been taking out and putting back her dummy, putting food in her mouth by hand and can turn over herself . I can’t remember the milestones but things have changed so much it all seems so early ,she will be bringing boys home next!
See a resemblance to Kyra her cousin , whose Daddy is Lily’s mummy’s brother.

Well ironing to do before it gets too hot , look after yourselves folks,and I hope all are at least comfortable .
Viktoria.

[Jebber]

I don't think I'm dead yet   The good quality clothes  I recently sent to a local charity shop are certainly not “dead women’s clothes.”  Since a number of bad falls has left me housebound I know I will never be able to wear them, quite a few were brand new and still had the price tickets on them, this included obviously unworn shoes.

It's not uncommon to find brand new clothes in our charity shops.

[louisa maud]

I bought a couple of brand-new outer garments, I know you have to be picky , I send clothes to charity shops, what will happen when I depart this life who knows, someone might buy my nice clothes, if my posh cousin can shop in a charity shop  and she was very very well off,  so can I but I am very picky, you can tell if an item has been worn to death, no, not till death, worn to death, well worn.
Primark do reasonable clothes for a quick turnaround,  not my type mostly but will do the job, I tried to encourage my grandaughter  to shop there, i suggested she got a few mix and match items when she started her full time job till she could afford to but the expensive ones she normally buys, cut the labels out if you don't want people to know.

LM

[BushInn1746]

My clothes are usually not fit for charity shops, they have been worn out!

My tops and any shirts, end up as my night  (bed shirts) modern washing machines keep them fresh, but they are just a bit worn around the collar.

I kept getting a perfume smell in my bed recently, but no lady has graced my bed for a while. It was coming from some underarm roll on deodrant and smell has gone since I have moved it.

Mrs P, has sold up and moved away.

Anyway I won't be going on holiday when I read headlines like this:-

Our dream holiday was ruined by hotel shoot-out

Queues at airports, stress of flying and turbulance (I'm not a flyer at all). A neighbour who looks healthy, fit and clean (her house looks spotless from the outside and I bet the inside is too), in her 50s said recently that she always picks something up now and comes back ill.

There are some beautiful places and walks right on my doorstep and why do I want all that travel stress.

A family member was killed in a military air crash and they can stick it!

I did all that abroad stuff when I was 18 to 25. I went on Inter Rail too all round Europe, also did week-ends to Holland and Belgium and France. A couple of Islands in the Med., the Isle of Man too, about 20 times and some most beautiful and remote places in Scotland and also Wales!

London, Paris, Nice, France, the French  Riviera, Rome, Florence, Pisa, Austria, Holland, Begium, Germany, seen the street entertainers (where we were warned beforehand, so some on the trip stayed in the Hotel), those of us who went had an absolutely great Summer's evening in our shirt sleeves and no they didn't get my wallet and nobody there pulled a gun either like a few weeks before.

The Police kept a presence with guns though.

Stood and walked on a frozen Glacier in Austria and did our tour of New Zealand, twice, etc.

When we got on one long train it was overcrowed and after we crossed the border into Italy everyone with their luggage was ordered off the train by Police with automatic weapons and we stood on the platform in the summer evening heat wondering what was going on. Then another locomotive with about 10 more coaches coupled onto the back. The train was now massive in length and the same Police told us we could get back on.

We were invited into or to strangers homes who were obviously well heeled and given drinks, today you couldn't do that!

When we asked this French chap why he had showed us hospitality, he said I could see you were English with rucksacks, that his Wife was English and had held a job in the government, she had passed away, he was a Pensioner and it looked like we needed a cool drink and he wanted a chat.

In Venice we went to a religious meeting of ours and this family invited us back and they had a beautiful waterfront home with cool marble floors, but sitting out on their terrace with sun screens, having a meal and drinks was most memorable and they took us out on their motor launch for an evening trip afterward.

When your immune system goes out of balance for an extended time after an illness I had actually recovered from and it causes secondary infections and upsets the functioning of organs, blood pressure, blood flow, I've decided to go for the avoidance option. I won't take anything if there is a possibility of certain reactions, rather than the live for today attitude.

My GP says to me, you keep doing what your doing, so I don't risk mixing in the crowd, but hey I have some great memories and even with my Wife leaving I have some great and wonderful memories with her too.

It was sad that she decided to move away, but I can't get sad, because I'm alive and even though I have to monitor and watch out for this or that, re my health, I can still communicate, developed a taste for nice natural foods and go for walks.

Life is what it is 

Take care all and I hope those suffering get well, or can get their conditions stable.

All the best, Mark

[louisa maud]

Mark, what a wonderful life you have led, although we had a caravan for 40 years we really were never very adventurous,  cautious more like, never took the van abroad but we did have a few  holidays abroad, most memorable  one was to tour New Zealand by coach, I would do that all over again, then we went to visit in Adelaide as an add on, should  have made it a longer trip but now it is to late.
My husband doesn't want to go on holiday now, I think he is worried for health reasons, I won't go on my own as my grandaughter  suggested.
Mark, no one can take away your memories, with or without  Mrs P , cherish them all.
Keep up the communication. Take care

LM

[BushInn1746]

Thanks LM, I understand how your husband feels.

The trouble is, something keeps triggering my immune system and was given strict instructions in 2021 not to use any medication etc., that will interfere with it.

I'm eating a diet that tends to calm ('modulate' is the term) the immune system, rather than rev it up.

Because an immune response that is too strong can cause accute organ failure and problems, or if it goes on for too long, cause long term failure and problems.

Mark