*I forgot to put the picture of the dress on..*
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Doodle No indeed DS2 in UK does not know how grotty I feel. What can he do about it excepy worry and he's just beginning to feel happy and hopeful again.
NN Be careful what you wish for 
I've lost over 20lbs in the last few weeks and far from feeling or looking better, I feel awful. I wish whatever has run off with my appetite would bring it back
Dear Doodle you are so very kind to Bold NN's post and I did try to read it (as you see) but these days I can manage only a few sentences, bold or not, before I have to give up.
Typing my own responses is also more difficult and if I make a mistake I can't always see what it is . If I didn't love the people on this threa (we've been together so long through thick and thin) I'd have bowed out a long time ago.
ixion I'm sad you are in such pain and at the risk of becoming boring (or even more boring than usual) don't forget MSM.
And you too Grammaretto it seems life is taking an emotional toll on you as well as a physical pne. Be kind to yourself dear friend. If and when you move, you'll have years to sort out what to keep.
Why not buy one of those folderswith many clear pages into which one can insert papers or photos back to back?
They could hold all the individual calendar pages and you'll have a record of how the grand-children have grown over the years.
Thank you dear Cherry for the remembrance; I know I'm not the only one who thinks of you and misses your input. Much love and many cwtches.
I wonder if that's where we get "cutchy cutchy coo"
I do have a screen reader and used it here for a while but one has to make notes as it reads the text if one wants to respond. I can't write fast enough and forget so easily, so I gave it up.
I just saw a video with some garden tips. One of which was laying tomatoes cut in half, seede uppermost in a fairly deep tray, covering with soil and watering and hey presto! they all came up as seedlings. So easy.
One thing I remember from long ago was to mix water, flour and seeds into a thick paste. Put into any squeze bottle (washing up liquid well washed?) and squeeze in rows down a tray contain seed-raising mix. Cover with more compost and water in.
Saves planting individual tiny seed which you may not be able to see.
I seem to remember the original idea was to use wallpaper paste but I think these days it contains something which might compromise the seeds.
More garden tips here.:
www.facebook.com/groups/1377104787027460/user/61567794740157/
How awful for you to be so upset by that song.
It's not so long since M&S declared tghey were not going to play music in respect for the many people who don't like or are disturbed by it. Obviously respect is swept away by commerce.
I avoid music at all times but there are still one or two (old now) which can reduce me to the same distressed state if inadvertently heard. Takes a while to recover too as it stays in the mind.
We have a system called "Ask a Librarian" and I sent a request to see if these learned person could find me books which are mysteries without murders. Even the recent "cosy crme" book are not as cosy as I would like. :-)
It seems we have a veritable obsession with murder and the US books are the worst - they seem to be used to even the most terrible of horrors.
Within two days I had a list of 12 audio books from my librarian.
Isn't that marvellous? I tend to forget all these lovely little things when I'm a bit down but I'm so grateful for them.
Re tomatoes If I were planting, I'd scrape out the seeds and use the rest of the tomato don't waste a good thing.
Ambiguous statement.
I meant I'd eat the tomato shells. Probably filled with cream cheese and finely chopped spring onion
Although you usually tell us you creative work is not up to par, Doodle everything you've shown us so far over the years has been lovely. Looking forward to seeing the watercolour.
I bought some Floradix so I'm hoping it will give me a kick start to get me going again.
I spent the morning with my friend and neighbour Ray today. He's waiting for a wheelchair but in the meantime will use my (zimmer?) walker.
We laughed at ourselves, two old crocks ,both off our food atm but I took him home-made cream of chicken soup with dessert of apple crumble, custard and cream. I wouldnāt have had the motivation to make that for myself.
Funny isnāt it how you can do something for a friend which you wouldnāt for yourself?
He said Friday's lunch was still in the fridge but he thought he'd eat my offering.
We caught up on various things in our two lives and with his permission I contacted St. John's to arrange for someone to come and fit a free alarm. He's fallen a few times so if he has this, all he has to do is wait calmly for the paramedics.
Knowing he spends a lot of time in bed and not wanting to disturb I havenāt visited for weeks (shame on me 
) but his reply to my text about a convenient time was "any time any day"
He was in bed when I arrived but I sat and chatted until I felt Iād disturbed him long enough but not a bit of it. He struggled out of bed and made me a mug of tea ā just how I like it too, not too strong and very hot. [smile
I always assume people get sick of me soon as my tongue runs on wheels but he did his fair share asking about the elders group and my family.
Once he has a wheelchair it may be possible for him to come to the Kaumatua group again. He says he is very uncomfortable about eating in front of people as he's so shaky but that's no problem, weāll just take our kai somewhere private and join the other rascals later.
I think we did each other good and itās given me a reason to get my act together and DO something.
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