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Welcome back oxon , please stick around.

I am a fan of Rescue Remedy oxon. Always have a little bottle upstairs, downstairs and in the car.

oxon sounds like you need some light relief, catch up on a few of the threads and you will feel better

Hi Oxon thought you hadn't been around for a while! You clearly have a lot going on - take a bit of time for yourself too.xxx

Notso and Oxon I have a bottle of Rescue Remedy in every room abd every bag.

I did that with pickled gherkins when pregnant

jeni

Many thanks for the thoughts, folks. It's nice to be missed!

I found my rescue remedy, and will keep it around.
I hurt my back, believe it or not, by turning over in bed....

I think my painting (now I can do it again after my broken wrist, which has taken an age to get to this stage) is the equivalent of cleaning. Cleaning is never finished! Painting, I achieve something, even if it is only a better loo!
Cheers, Alison

WELCOME back Oxon70 we've missed you.

When I am stressed about things I go have a pampering session hair and nails etc., or if I am stressed/angry with someone alternatively I write everything down I would like to say but never send the email.Alternatively I put music on very loud, and clean the house. Works every time Nevery tried cream cracker throwing, OH might object!!!

When I am stressed I like to read - it blocks everything out for a bit. Before I retired I would read for an hour each morning before I got up, to help me through a stressful day!!!

RoseBlossom. That sounds a good one.Cleaning would be the last thing I'd want to do.
I sometimes buy a v.difficult jigsaw from charity shop and spend an hour or two with it from time to time.Total waste of time but takes my mind from problem in hand .
I remember doing one of American trees in the fall when my son(then aged 8) was in hospital with a broken leg after a traffic accident.

Nice to hear from you too supernana.

I think I have a pause until Monday when we see this house. Then my sister is coming and (if my daughter likes the place) we will have to ask her to help out - I can help a bit, but my daughter will need to pay removers this time, so I am very much hoping for more help!

I've been making a farm on Minecraft free too. This is a definite addiction....there are not many computer games that I like, but this is one.....

Is stres just a fashionable word for feeling fed up? Stress means palpitations and breathlessness, lack of sleep and a mind going round like rat in a trap.

Since the media got hold of the word 'stress' and made it something for busy active people to be, then suddenly everyone was.

I am not stressed but have down days. Due to the fact that every now and again I realise I am no longer young and the years left to me are getting fewer and fewer. There is no cure for this and thankfully this feeling does go away.
I have been to two funerals lately, both younger than me!

Still I am lucky as I don't feel down today quite the reverse. I don't need to clean my house or polish my silver. I'll just sit down with a catalogue from a men's outfitters who has a page of good quality women's clothing and look if there is anything for me.
I have 50 patience games on my iMac and don't fee addicted to them as I play Bridge and Cribbage on my computer as well. I love it.

Jigsaws are a good diversion, Maniac. Someone referred me to a website - www.jigidi.com/ - with loads of free on-line puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty which provides me with a displacement activity and the house is like a tip!
My GCs are into Minecraft, perhaps I should have a look at it so that I know what they're talking about.

I am passionate about jigsaws, too - always take one on holiday with me if we are self-catering - the table is never available for meals (means we eat out more, so that's a bonus!)

When I had a new kitchen, the size of my farmhouse table was dictated by being able to have a jigsaw on the go at one end, while I could bake with the grandchildren at the other. I do have a roll up mat, too, having tried a big plastic jigsaw holdall that was neither use nor ornament.

Jigsaws are very relaxing, too!

I have always loved jigsaws but they are very expensive in France. I like landscapes, harbours or country cottages - I can picture myself in them.
I think I will order some on line from England. I must buy another of those roll up mats that you can do them on. I have only a little folding table in my flat but I have kept a large piece of cardboard that was part of the packaging of my new suitcase. I always start by finding all the outside edges and building inwards from the frame. My sister just chooses a colour she likes and works outwards from that. I am a very organised person and she is a bit scatty!

I like jigsaws too and have just finished one of a 1950s shopping spree - all the old names and some that are still going.

I certainly don't feel like cleaning when I'm stressed - it's bad enough doing it when I'm not. Depending on the reason for the stress I either (a) make a list of things I need to do especially if I've got deadlines - and do something on it because the pleasure of actually crossing something off helps enormously (b) disappear into the loo with a book (c) have a good cry - and then do something on the list

Greatnan you can get some bargains on Ebay - I just had a look for thatched cottage jigsaws and here's one that no-one has bid on yet - it finishes tomorrow, so you could probably get it for very little:

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chad-Valley-1000-Pc-Jigsaw-Puzzle-THATCHED-COTTAGE-MIDDLESEX-/110813657411?pt=UK_Toys_Jigsaws_RL&hash=item19cd023943

I do jigsaws in winter, and when my GS hasn't finished one. Recently we did one of a windmill, a very unfamiliar thing to him - then we went over to Wheatley and managed to get a look at a real one, a complete coincidence but very educational!
I use a piece of cheap hard board cut to about 2' x 1 and a half to do them on, easily moved and light.

annobel, re Minecraft, you don't have to do it fighting monsters, my GS does, but I think the monsters are pants. (to use the young expression.)
I like the creative anad peaceful modes.

Thank you for the tip, Carol, I will look on French e-bay as I don't think it would be economical to get them posted to France from the UK

Running.If that doesn't work I've earned the chocolate and then all is good!