soop's friendly kitchen for like-minded folk and pampered pets.

On a lighter note, I have been out this morning , and would love some lunch. What is on the menu at this cafe? Something healthy and tasty, like wild salmon,with salad ,couscous and hoisin sauce.

You do need to be careful with mops. A wet mop sitting in a bucket just breeds germs. The hospital where I worked insisted that the mop heads went to the laundry each time they were used..
You can get to the stage where you are just wiping the floor with bacteria.

It may well be a When Maw because we have been so good recently. Even so I would like to know When as I think that I was guilty but not recently.

I hope that those who are feeling under the weather are feeling a bit better today.

I am waiting for a parcel from that company I keep going all by myself. I have a nasty feeling that 10pm is the latest but I would like to go out for my flu jab.

The courier company is not a million miles from here and I was not first delivery so may well be towards the last.

OMG perhaps the snotty receptionists are on GN and our comments are all being noted down!
("Matron will be along soon with a VERY LARGE ENEMA ")
Paw has his blood sample taken today as nobody had told the phlebotomist she was having a paperwork day
But she did tell me about one surgery which failed its CQC inspection because <shudder> a mop had been left head down in a bucket in the cleaning cupboard instead of head up. Shock, horror. I expect all the patients there died of bubonic plague shortly afterwards.

Perhaps you could enlighten us Cari about WHAT mutterings have been going on elsewhere or about elsewhere?
It's like when mum/teacher looks disapproving but sad and says "Somebody has been very naughty " and everybody looks at each other and says What? Who? When? How?
And everybody feels guilty for nothing.
So if you don't want to be specific here, why not a PM?
Otherwise it casts a shadow over a VERY safe place.

I am obviously another one who has lost the plot totally but what is new?

Maw before you know it, if it is not happening already, the surgery will be going for days out so that they do not come across as brain dead in the surgery.

Would it not have been more convenient for Paw to have had the blood test done tomorrow?!

Joking apart, it is putting more pressure on Urgent Care and A&E departments. I have never heard of that nonsense before and have not come across it with my surgery but in fairness I have not contacted them for
yonks.

I am still lost. I have gone back and apart from mutterings about GP surgeries ,which we are surely allowed to put in our twopennorth about, I can see no shortcomings which should get our knuckles rapped.

Thanks Cari my only excuse for firing from the hip is I'm on a diet and I'm poorly !! Don't even mention cake !

Where did that come from Carigransnet???
Something other than a being stirred?
Skimming through the last couple of days I declare myself flummoxed (and may God bless all who sail in her)

Saying nowt else, but just hoping poorly people are mending and feeling better.
Phlebotomist who came this morning told me that our local surgery is effectively closed today, phones not being answered, nobody on duty, no INR tests being done, for a "staff paperwork and training day " as decreed by CQC. Funny, I thought health centres were there to treat sick people.
So anybody planning on having a fever, fall or heart attack should wait until tomorrow.
Words fail!!

I'm obviously out of sorts Cari because I kind of take exception to the 2nd half of your post. You make it sound as though we can discuss nothing other than niff naff and trivia. Yes we do offer cake and comfort but that is'nt all that is on offer.

I thought we could discuss freely ( as per the rest of the site) but when we discuss here it's done calmly and with thought and care for others feelings.

I am sure your ' timely ' reminder is because of a complaint so you won't mind if every mention of a thread on an other thread is referred to you?

I can only blame my current ill health for throwing my teddy out of the pram :-)

What have I missed apart from ailments? ?

Charleygirl, that is one of many misgivings I have about Pilates! Plus I have to join U3A to access these classes - I am not sure I am old enough!

Flipping computer has just hiccuped and lost my post.
To precis ...I wish all poorly people get better soon and are not hurting too much. I have caught up with Rorys health.
Goodnight all.

GrannyQ, I love the kingfisher pics, a bird I`ve never seen. A friend tells me he`s seen one recently a bit lower down the river from me, I must take a walk ( hobble) down there and see if I can spot it.
N & G, I`m pleased that you have a proper diagnosis now, and hope that the ABs soon sort you out.
Soop, I do hope you didn`t pick up any germs from the care home, you`ve only just got better. Love and hugs to Rory by the way.
Kitty, your Morecambe visit seems to be going down very well, I`m pleased to note.

I've sorted the wardrobe, visited and charity shop with the excess and guaranteed warm weather as summer clothes are banished. . Still sniffling, I'm convincing myself it is a small reaction to a recent flu jab and most certainly not major germs.

result n&g . Hope the antibiotics do their stuff soon.

Your holiday sounds hair raising in parts, kitty, just the sort of roads that have me closing my eyes. On the other hand the cocktails sound good, as does the sunshine. I sympathise with disappearing posts, so, so frustrating. I have a picture of them all reclining on sunloungers somewhere having a good gossip

I sympathise greyduster, we had two who were apparently far too tired to put their plates in the dishwasher yesterday. Really?? I don't think so.

Rory certainly is a gooooooood boy, soop, I'm sure he also loves you both. Goodness, I hope you escaped the care home germ free today.

You've been a busy soul, tizliz, they are lucky to have you.

Hope all went well anno, and you had good news.

You are, so right about GP surgery systems, maw, if you could spare a week or so to sort out our surgery I would be very grateful.

That's a handsome kingfisher grannyq, I'm loving hearing about your holiday, only very slightly green round the edges. .

All that wardrobe clearing has left me a little weary, there's a glass,of chilled white on its way and I suspect an early night.

Take care everyone, stay safe.

If I got on a Pilates mat I would never be able to get up again.

I have been quietly keeping an eye on you all but I have come out of my corner to say I have bought a Pilates mat! Oh dear, now I shall have to join a class .

Greyduster I hate to say it but your DS does not have flu and certainly not man flu. The non scientific way to diagnose flu is to put a £50 mote on a window sill when somebody supposedly with flu is in bed. They do not have flu if they can get out of bed and pick up the money!

N&G I do hope that this does not develop into pneumonia- please look after yourselves.

I went to an upmarket store yesterday, one which does not deliver food and bought something new- ready to poach king prawns with Laksa style fragrant creamy coconut sauce. I had that for supper tonight with 2 lots of veg and Basmati rice and it was delicious- definitely something different. I would think too expensive to buy x2 for a regular meal but this was very tasty. Their prices have rocketed in the food department.

That's excellent news, N&G. The shackles always do the trick! After all we have read on here, there can be no doubt about you having a heart as big as a frying pan. If I had a chest X-ray it would probably show I had a swinging brick, though I did manage a soupçon of sympathy for my first born this morning when he rang to say he had man flu. He was still working from home though, bless him. However, I had absolutely none for GS this afternoon when we picked him from school and he didn't want to go to the park - too tired - or to his running club after tea (well he won't get away with that one!). To be fair, his year group had spent the afternoon rampaging around the woods next to the school, having a "wellbeing" day! Well, the boys were doing all the rampaging and the girls just seemed to be sitting around on fallen logs gossiping! I know this because when we arrive at the school early we take a turn around the woods before the school bell goes. We could hear them, but hoped to avoid them until an elderly gentleman came toward us on the path and said "I wouldn't go that way unless you want to be knee deep in mad school kids!"
Soop it is the Tarbert at the head of Loch Fyne that my friend hails from. She always said it was the home of the finest kippers to be had anywhere, and she was probably right, except that I prefer the ones from Craster in Northumberland. Though I am very partial to a proper kipper wherever it comes from. And Rory is not the only one who is a gooooood boy is he? MacS is a real star. My very best wishes to all three of you.

I'm hoping it shows I have a heart * Kitty * ???

Thanks Charley I was hoping for a quick result but after nearly a month I can be patient a few more days x

Much love to you all, but especially Rory!

That should be...^a goooooooooooood boy^

N&G Result!

Tizliz You are a star. Folks should be duty bound to remove their own litter. It makes me see [mad] when I pass our local layby. We pick up all sorts of crap rubbish. I could spit tacks!

Thank you kitty and all for kind messages re Rory. He's eating. He's sleeping. He moves with great difficulty and cannot manage steps without a great deal of effort. We keep telling him that we love him and that he's a gooooooooooo boy

Bye for now. Ironing duty tomorrow morning. Will check in after lunch.