Anyone Else Up Yet ......... Vol. 2

They said on TV a couple of days ago that the pollen season is more or less over. Since when I can't stop clearing my throat and I'm still sneezing!

At least I know I'm amongst friends

Ella You sure are...

soop

With rhinitis it doesn't have to be pollen. Any old dust will do.

Oh yes - sneezing and snuffling here too.

Well, Bags I have plenty of old dust!

I'm still runny nose as well!

Sneeze, wheeze, sniff!

And me I have really sore eyes...

Same here, anno. Sometimes I look at my old dust and think "gosh!" and then I find something more interesting to look at or do, like gransnet

And anyway, Bags, if you get rid of the old dust it just gets replaced by new dust...

Quite.

And it's very useful on mirrors - gives you a sort of 'airbrushed' image...!

Especially if you haven't got your specs on!!

Up early today, 4.30, overtired after yesterday and - yes - expecting gardener at 10 am. So I woke far too early!

With doctor and daughter yesterday, did not go well. No joy from the other doctor, who is new....the other one that J is upset about was, I think, basically telling her to 'snap out of it; instead of diagnosing depression.
My daughter is miserable since.

Allie, it's so hard when one of our children is suffering. I hope your daughter gets the help she needs. I was awake at the other end of the night, didn't get to sleep until 3.30 worrying about my son and woke again at 7 so am feeling wrung out. Events surrounding him are so dire I am in despair.

Sorry I wasn't back yesterday. I worked in the garden and ended up very tired! I must be careful with my back today....

Sewsilver, I am so with you about worrying about our children. Once they go out of the door, they will do their own thing and make their own mistakes!
My daughter is one who always has a crisis - and has usually coped with them, I used to think she thrived on problems.
But since she hurt her back she's become very frustrated and unhappy, and said this week that the usual things aren't cheering her up - like the council gave her a new fence this week. I tell her that the only way to deal with depression is to fight it, which is what I do.
I do hope things get better for your son.

Up even earlier than usual, so took a wander outside with my mug of coffee.
The just before dawn night sky is a marvel, and I don't think I have ever seen the milky way looking so clear. An awesome sky!
Then the barn owl screeched at me twice, so I've left him to his hunting .......

....... and am back indoors to say Good Morning all!

Morning Butter and any other early risers!

Good morning, you two, and any lurkers . I'm visiting DD's old school this morning with some rescussy Annies.

How many Annies are going to need rescussitating?

Good morning to you all. Sorry to hear about the poor annies.
You would have loved my walk the other morning when i was in Wales. A very high tide due. Walked down a little lane between cottages, too narrow for a car, past a patch of marsh where there were loads of pale pink marshmallows in bloom - on the bank at the other side of the path yarrow and scabious. Through the gate onto the marsh proper. The sea is pushing inland, up the ditches in the salt marsh, with that fast steady tidal flow you see in an estuary. Ravens are cronking over at their Tor. The marsh is fast becoming a smooth, grey sea. Marsh ponies know to find the higher ground and root themselves to the spot until the tide recedes. Even small foals that cannot have seen a spring tide before stand still by their mothers. Then over the dunes and onto the beach, where there were a thousand oystercatchers.
No humans around but me.

Alie I wish your daughter could have some CBT - it is an approved treatment for mild depression (by NICE) so GPs are allowed to "prescribe" and I would have thought it would be available in Oxford, of all places. I suppose it just might be worth trying to speak to doctor on phone and saying that you are really worried because there is such a change in her over the last few months.

Jess, I loved your word picture of your walk.
I have only just caught up with this thread - I pay about £5 a month for iportal so I can watch UK TV programmes (or hear Radio 4) for up to a year after they are screened. There are some free programmes too but I gathered from my expat forum that they can be quite difficult to run.

I am off to the garage to get all the little things fixed on my car that the French equivalent of MOT threw up. Nothing urgent and it does not have to be retested, but I need my car to be in perfect condition when I drive alone in very isolated places. I am hoping it won't be more than the €500 for which I have budgeted.

I can't understand why there are still GP's who don't understand the nature of depression - I believe nearly one in four people will suffer from some degree of it sometime in their lives.

Jess - I certainly would have loved it. Just what I'm needing at the moment - a change of scene. Still, almost time for the mini Spanish adventure.