Good Morning Friday 20th October 2023

Good morning all from wet, miserable, windy Harrogate! But not as bad as some of you are getting. Slept in again this morning, and nothing done yet!
Ash my heart goes out to your family!
Marydoll I would love to hear you are out and about again!
Glad you are not too badly affected*Grandmabatty*. Looking at it on the TV. It’s awful, hope none of our grans are affected like this!! This morning DH and I get our COVID jags. Later DDs are coming round (not sure if GC will be round!)
Have the best day possible folks

Good morning all,
A very wet and windy one here today, but no where near as bad as it is for the poor souls in Aberdeenshire. We have relatives who live in Arbroath.
I won’t be venturing out today, but will find plenty to ccupy me indoors.
We have a bit of a mystery - a puddle of water on the floor of the extension part of the kitchen, but the ceiling looks bone dry, so baffled as to where it’s come from. I’ve mopped it up and placed towels and a bucket there. We’ve checked the roof tiles from the window upstairs and they all appear to be where they should be.
💐 for all of you struggling with sorrow and/or illness, but good news about your DH, Baubles - such a relief for you.

Morning all.
Just had to pop on to also say * Marydoll* on reading your comment:
' reading the Style thread has resulted in me being a naughty girl! 😉 ' ...
I too had a look at the Style thread- which resulted in me joining you in the naughty corner, as I have ordered 2 rather nice looking v neck jumpers from Texture!
MD You should be on commission, as I bet I wasn't the only one who went to have a look at the Style thread

Hope all keep safe in this dreadful weather, sending love to all with worries whatever they might be. x

Morning all from a damp Kent. I wanted to place on record that I have just had my second breakfast in bed in over thirty one years of marriage! I had a call on Tuesday offering me a cancelled surgery slot for Wednesday at 07:30! I’ve been on waiting list for bilateral oophorectomy ( removal of ovaries) for a year. I was home by 16:30 on Wednesday afternoon. Couldn’t fault the whole team from start to finish - although the consultant anaesthetist didn’t get any prizes for the 11 attempts to insert a cannula! Very little pain, three small plasters on laparoscopic wounds. I had a hysterectomy 39 years ago aged 30 so there was a slight chance of changing to abdominal surgery. The surgeon managed to deal with internal issues without complications. Instructions are to take it easy for a few weeks, fart (!) as much as possible and drink plenty of fluids! Think I can cope with that!
Hope all the other poorlies ( especially my beloved old school friend Marydoll) are improving . Have a good day - I’ve just been offered another cup of tea. I could get used to this! DH has never had to take care of me before, I’m as fiercely independent as Marydoll.! Attached is one of the attempts!

Prescription apparently was sent direct to the pharmacy, pity no one told me! Anyway MrOops has gone to get it.
I feel your pain MD as a past sufferer of BPPV, although MrOops became very good at the Epley Manouever, when he got that right it was instant relief.
Pleased with other grans good news. Get well soon to others just out of hospital.

Good morning from coastal West Sussex where there is quite a bit of blue sky showing. It was lashing down when we went to bed but stopped during the night. I am thinking of Taichinan who is, I think, at the southern end of the red alert area, and any other grans affected by this extreme weather.

Good to hear the news re Baubles’ DH but sad that they’ve had to deal with a mistaken diagnosis.

Sorry things are no better for Marydoll. Thinking of all with ongoing illness 💐

I’ve been feeling a bit rubbish this week - end of a cold plus, maybe, reaction to Covid booster. Still, I have done some sorting and decluttering in the spare bedroom where a lot of stuff has gathered up. I am trying the Stacey Solomon approach of reducing some categories by 50%. I really need the team of experts to force some decisions.

I have youngest DGD tomorrow afternoon while her mum, sister and auntie go to the cinema for the Taylor Swift concert. Youngest DGD is a non-stop action girl. She rarely sticks with any activity for more than 5 minutes. I am hoping a few weeks at school (which she loves so far) will have improved things 😀

Wishing you all a good weekend.

Oh Borrheid, I wondered why I hadn't heard from you! I hope you feel the benefit of the op.
Now we need to get your other health issues sorted!
It must be something to do with the red hair that makes us so bolshie independent.

Mamma, I bought the purple coat from Texture. My holiday savings have lain untouched and my excuse is I would have bought similar on my usual October trip to Rome!

Now I just need to be well enough to show it off!
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.....

I am still in my jammies, I just can't find the energy to get dressed. I really must give myself a shake.

Oops, my GP had tried the Epley Manoeuver a few times, without success. She thinks there is something else going on, hence the referral to ENT, as my ear is also painful and has been for months.
One of the rare side effects of Amgevita injections are BPVV, so I am hoping that my rheumatologist and the ENT dept. can come up with a solution.

Patience is a virtue!

Good morning everyone, it’s a beautiful day here at the moment although still quite windy from hopefully the end of the horrendous conditions yesterday.

I’ve not read further than * Mick* and Ascombe’s posts yet. Such a tragedy for that poor young family.

I’m so late because I’ve been struggling to clear up a bit outside. One of the tables had been blown down a level in the garden to end up upside down under the lemon tree along with a lot of tiny lemons. Fortunately it’s an old one but very useful when it’s clean as I can rest my washing basket on it when I’m hanging clothes out. I’m hoping some washing will dry today as the forecasts are more rain to come.

Thank you all, too many to mention by name, for the support yesterday. It really does help so much, as did the pm from one lovely poster.

ziplock I too have relatives in Arbroath and Brechin so far they are OK. Im thinking of taichinan hope she is safe

Good news BaublesSuch a relief for you.

Harrigran