Re: Diary summary week ending 7th September 2025

[louisa maud]

That was the year we bought our  caravan, for the life of me I cannot think where we went on holiday , I might have to dig out a diary, it might have been the year we went to Cornwall,  I suffered prickly heat I think it was called.

LM

[BushInn1746]

Are those in the North-east looking out to sea?

BBC
Watch: Timelapse shows Northern Lights display over North Sea

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ckglgp9q2nno

[ThrelfallYorky]

We spent the summer of '76 crawling around under floors, we'd married in '75, and spent the following summer installing central heating in our new house. OH was working with a towel round his neck, I squeezed it out and renewed it between meltdowns. I was nearly as hot, although not quite as sweaty.
TY

[Roobarb]

Are those in the North-east looking out to sea?

BBC
Watch: Timelapse shows Northern Lights display over North Sea

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ckglgp9q2nno

 I wasn't feeling too good Mark so wasn't watching but I gather the cloud cover made it a bit disappointing. We were supposed to get a huge red moon too, not sure whether that was last night or the night before, but that was obscured by cloud. Disappointing when it's been lovely and clear for a lot of the day.

I can't say I remember anything in particular about 1976 apart from the fact that it was hot.

[BushInn1746]

Hi All

Sorry to hear you are not feeling so good Roobarb and hope you feel much improved soon.

You always look so healthy and smiley on your bike, but the Green fur would make me look at you twice   

For just a few days recently, I actually felt reasonable and was out for walks in the sun, walked a bit further than usual with my bottle of Highland Spring and getting near the pub I could hear a band in the garden and so I went round the back.

The back garden was a sea of people, the sun was out and the band was playing and I had a Guinness and home by teatime.

They were called Ska Train, playing 80s music, The Specials, Madness, Bad Manners, The Selector, playing Trombone and Sax, so it took me back to my youth and enjoyed the moment.

The following days my awful belly pain was back, noisy digestion, sweating, a fever and my balance affected. I'll spare everyone the other symptoms.

I can't go anywhere without being affected now. It is though some people are carrying something I don't want to catch 

The photo looking Westerly shows Oat Croft, there was once a hedge joining the trees, ripped out before I moved here and also before the Hedgerows Regulations came into effect.

Oat Croft nearest, toward Hockley which Henry VIII called The Moors and in the background are the Nine Peppercornes (9 farms in Sir Wilughby Aston's later Court's Baron Survey held with several adjournments between 1689 to 1691) Thorneyfield Wood, an ancient farm location called Peppers Croft, the Lands of Brett and Harcourt (old book of the Family Harcourt printed in France), Brett's Manor is partly wooded on the right, another historical site 

The saddest thing is, someone has got another Planning Permission to build on part of these ancient lands.

The Planning Officer told me that our public campaign raised 282 different valid planning objections  , to build on the Nuns Common, but it still got built 

They found a Monus Occupation Site and Flint finds dated as Early Neolithic and Late Mesolithic, in the pre development Archaeological Excavations, at Plough Hill.

The Saxon King (I'll look his name up) said in a Charter that if anyone should destroy his lands at Eaton, they be cursed into Tartarus and after these planning permissions, we got Covid and the housebuilding close to me was abandoned during Lockdowns (now completed).

To the South (out of view) were the lands of Geoffrey de Tourville c.1150, lands of William de Newmarche (Novomercato) are in the locality.

I've got various Green teas, Hot Milk Cacao (pure Cocoa), Milk Coffees and dry Red Wine and have really healthy meals (high in the essential amino acids), also other natural fruits, spices and things to consume that seem to help in clearing the belly trouble, until it happens again.

Take care R and All, keep your chins up Mark 

[Viktoria]

Hope you are feeling better ,those who have not been and those who still are unwell.

Yes,always sad when ancient and old things are lost to modern ideas .

Fairly mild quite bright morning but I put the C.H on as it was really cold.
I can’t stand being cold and with strong blood thinners Apixoban -and Clopidogrel I am never warm.

Must try to get to the Church Jig saw festival today. There are new ones as well as used ones ,jigsaws are very expensive nowadays ,I want new ones for little Christmas presents , I don’t mind used ones for me though.
The used ones are all checked so no missing pieces but there are new unopened ones as well.
It cost me £15 for a modest sized one at a local shop , for a present this
year.

Son off to Head Office again tomorrow, one of his computers has something wrong with it ,getting hot where the power source is , can only  be sorted by  the firm he works for,so he will call in to see an old Uni friend in B/ham, on his way down.

Getting a bit overcast now , but no washing until son leaves tomorrow and I completely strip his bed .Give the room a good airing and clean.
There are piles of papers ,and documents all over the place -he knows exactly what they are but I don’t touch those , just dust where I can and vac what carpet is visible .
There is no room for filing cabinets etc ,which is what he needs but he is gradually getting next door in order so then he will set up an office, but it is good he is not solitary ,all through Covid ,like many others he worked alone at home . No social interactions at all. That is not good for people is it really,
 I has eye appointments etc so did get ambulance rides and chats with Nurses etc.

Well must get on, not dressed yet but bathroom will be warm now, so Cheerio ,hope those unwell feel better .
Look after yourselves .
Cheerio.Viktoria.

[Gillg]

A warm sunny day here so far, so the washing line is full of stuff that has been waiting for a few days, though I'm not looking forward to the ironing later.  I'm going through my summer clothes now and reviewing what I have for winter.  It's that time of year when nothing is quite right for the weather.

Last night I went to a lecture on Family History at our Local History Society.  It followed a village family through several generations, showing excerpts from various records, and I thought it was quite good, though the elderly man sitting next to me got bored very quickly and invited me to the pub afterwards! (I didn't accept )  I suppose I didn't learn anything new and the speaker wasn't able to give me any hints on how I could break down my brick wall (mid-18th century ancestor illegitimate and no father named and no Bastardy Bonds available for the area), but the talk did confirm that I was using the correct methods of researching.

Viktoria
At the meeting I met up with 2 other recipients of pacemakers and we all compared notes and talked about how we had dealt with the 6 weeks after the operation.  I feel as though I have joined a club!

[KGarrad]

The latest news on my ongoing saga!
Have an op scheduled for 3rd October, with Pre-Assessment Check on 25th Sept.

Op is open surgery; so hopefully the errant stone fill finally be removed.

Been offline since Monday - Manx Telecom had a problem with their 4G network.
And that's what I use for internet.

Finally sorted

[BushInn1746]

Oh Gillg, a date invitation   

Yes, Viktoria, social interaction is most important for the immune system too.

Social interaction is how we build up genuine immunity and where the phrase herd immunity comes from.

Getting out in the sun for walks to keep the skin exposed and Vitamin D levels up is a good thing.

We have wooded paths (an abandoned wooded railway cutting with a dirt path) nearby where it is shaded and with stagnant water pools and sometimes damp.

Trees, vegetation give off certain stuff (microbes bacteria and fungi, I presume) and to keep walking and exposing my lungs to this, to try and keep my immune system challenged.

I always feel improved after a walk in the wooded areas.

I came into close proximity of a younger person delivering who sounded breathless and in the following week I was terribly ill.

But yes, social interaction is most important for our mental well being and most important for our immune system too.

Viktoria, I had that feeling awfully cold for about 20 months.

I had to have the heating on for 11 months each year, for two years to clear it. My belly went and felt cold and I also avoided cold drinks.

I applied a hot water bottle to belly (where I was affected) for 15 minutes at a time and it helped.

But I think it is the Liver area and brain that you must not overheat.

I only cleared that awful coldness, by getting a temperature up.

There is a name they give it, in relation to Covid, but can't remember off hand.

My GP said they have a drug for this cold temperature business, but when I told the GP that my previous Practice and Specialists diagnosed me with drug reactions to new medication (since covid), he said, oh you want to go drug free?

I said, yes if possible Doctor and he said get a heat pad.

I said will a hot water bottle do and my GP said yes, go for it.

The night sweats and thirst (requiring sips / drinks / wees through the night) to clear it were awful.

After 20 months, I managed to shake off this extreme cold malarky.

It is another problem with Covid, it cools the body and the body won't always build up a temperature (a fever) to fight it.

I'm trying every trick in the book including Grandmother's remedies and a few things they have tried on Rats and Mice in the Labs, that are humanly edible (safe).

Get well soon 

Mark

Added:-

KG
The local window cleaner needs an op to clear a kidney stone, I hope you get fixed up, get well soon, Mark