well 🤣 Scaredycat! I love these typos.
Lovely long thoughtful post as well for us all - self care, self value, kindness to self, and any judgements made from love and need that only a rather a conventional person might make.
Kindness to self needs practice, hey?
Well when you have finished with your car HVDY the invite is always there...have a good aqua and lunch and well Jaffa's claws definitely needful.
I didn't get up till 9.40am but I have already - so chuffed with this - its looks like my buildings insurance will shell out for the plaster on the water damaged wall, and best of all really are sending a surveyor out to assess the damage
- vital info even if they don't pay out, and arranged roofer for estimate.
And I described and sent pix, two out of 3 already taken, to the exhibitions curator, and got an enthusiastic yes back. Just one to be done.
Time for another nice latte and down time. I had thought of the gym but have a lot of bits and bobs like the above, to catch up on before going to see friend late afternoon instead of going to the gym. Stuff put off for ages, but just the essentials.
I have enclosed two of the photos for the exhibition in this post - the theme is actually, "things that make me smile" and as you can see the focus is around hands and the meanings they give - love, old and young, sharks et al - DS has approved them with pleasure.
SweetpeaSue Hope you're having a relaxing day today.
ScaredyCat The League of Gentlemen was supposedly in "Royston Vasey" - the name was the real name of Roy (Chubby) Brown, wasn't it? I loved the characters Tubbs and Edward, the shopkeepers. And the vet! I bet your boys feel much more comfortable after their trims at the vet's. Jaffa doesn't mind, and he gets into the carrier with no bother at all.
Wyllow3 Great news about the insurance company covering the damage (although I expect you'll have to pay the excess amount?). What splendid photos. Have you got a fancy camera, or do you use the one on your mobile? I love the one of your GD with her little sharks 
.
Aqua was good (about 30 people there), then a vegetarian breakfast at the pub. Shopping done, car vacuumed. Vet's soon, then I'll change the beds. Hope everyone is having a good day x
SweetpeaSue My husband and I agreed that I'd stay at home to bring up our sons. As a result, he worked very long hours - he'd go out at 4.30am and get home at 5.30pm, plus working on Saturday mornings. I was left with the boys all day, and it felt very much like being a single mother. Both had health problems (under the hospital), and I struggled to cope, being so isolated and lonely. I did my best, but I found it very difficult. Hope you manage to sleep better tonight. Noisy neighbours can be a nightmare. Hope you get a F2F appointment for your DH.
Wyllow3 I bet your friend enjoyed the delicious soup after an 8-mile walk. Marks & Spencer sells some lovely food items. Our nearest one is about 7 miles away, but I might go there later this week.
Doodle Monday's aqua aerobics class has the use of the whole pool. Other days are less busy because the pool is restricted.
Jaffa didn't get his claws trimmed- this particular vet was unable to do it. He swiped and hissed at her. She got a nurse to try to help. They tried wrapping him in a towel, which frightened him and he screeched and struggled. I don't like this particular vet - she didn't speak to Jaffa, said he's overweight (he's not; he's 5kg), and said he'd need to be sedated before she could see to him (I'm not agreeing to that). I left and said I'll go back another day (and see the other vet who manages perfectly well with him). Poor boy . Off to bed. See you tomorrow x
Doodle Your heart rate was extremely low before the pacemaker 
. You must have felt unwell with it. I'm on a beta-blocker to slow mine down. Hope your new vicar appreciates the effort people have gone to, and that he's friendly.
ScaredyCat 3 children under the age of 4! That would have been hard work. Several people have said they don't like that particular vet (Son2's friend and his mum, for a start). She struck me as being rather haughty. My boy won't see her again. Your birthday plans sound very nice indeed.
nadateturbe I can't speak for anyone else, but I tend to have a busy couple of days, then a lazy day (which will be tomorrow - I might not even get dressed
. Hope you're managing ok.
LG was here all day (just gone). Soft play/role play place for 2 hours, then home for lunch - she loves the spag bol DH cooks. Park, where she made friends with another little girl, and then duck-feeding and an ice cream. Hope everyone has been ok x
Doodle Sorry you're not so good today. My Tinnitus is loud today, so I'm listening to really loud rock music through my headphones. Hope a couple of Paracetamols and an early night will help you.
SweetpeaSue I used to go to a mum and baby group, although I never really liked the company of women (still don't, as most are bitchy). Then I used to help out at the school - listening to all of the kids in the class reading - including my own boys, of course - as well as little spelling tests and watching them swim. We got a 100% council mortgage when Son2 was a baby, then moved here when he was 7 (Son1 almost 10), and got a mortgage on DH's wage alone at a 12% interest rate. So glad your husband was seen by the GP. I hope the new BP pills will suit him better. An MRI should show, once and for all, what the problem is with your DH's back. My eyes are a little bit better, thank you. Jaffa's ok and I'll ask for someone he's seen before. I used to be very confrontational, and a few years ago, I would have torn a strip off that vet. Nowadays, I ignore or walk away from things that used to bother me.
DH is out with Son1, so I'm listening to music and seeing what I can buy from Amazon .
Oh...HVDY - I love the company of women...women's changing rooms in the gym is a laugh or sharing and never bitchy...in the 70's I was in the women's movement and again, the fun we had women together...yes of course I have met bitchy women but just don't want to know. I'm not criticising at all, it's just not been my experience on the whole.
They often have a lot of very uncomfortable and sad feelings inside, to need to put each other down?
I can just picture LG today, how they make little friends, their little world you can visit and be with and in...and very keen on those non days when you sort of catch up with yourself. I got my first mortgage on a council one, back in the day they had them didn't they. I admire stay at home mums as it was never something I was very good at.
I'm so very glad to hear about that GP visit, Sweetpeasue. You sound as if you really felt "heard" and it will all be properly on record now. All the best with the follow ups.
I imagine Fluffball must be a bit of a handful at times. Very energetic!
Doodle tonight is just hugs for you and my greatest sympathy for how you find yourself. Thank you for the kind comments: I shall put the three images up, one is bitter sweet. I do hope you sleep as well as can be expected.
Been very tired, meeting all Friend's family a week back was very demanding although necessary: I was basically under inspection from certain ones in the family. But today was lovely - instead of the Botanical Gardens and the gym it became a gentle wander in sunny breezy weather - quiet gardens, birdsong, all the wonderful and well cared for plants, and the cafe was not busy so lunch and a bit more wander to enjoy...still so very green here, lots of autumn coloured flowers, the leaves still green and all watered enough to be healthy. (they have quite a lot of volunteers who look after bits of the garden as their own almost).
Good Quaker Zoom. Early night.
Great to see you in, nadateturbe. I just like it when you say hello.
Early night. Best nights all.
Wyllow3 I can somehow imagine you in the Greenham Common group (apologies if not), and maybe the "Me Too" movement? I grew up with 3 older brothers, although Brother 1 (who is still around, of course) was married when I was 6. Then I had 2 sons, so all their mates (2 even now) were frequently at our house. My clerical jobs at BT involved a female supervisor and all-women colleagues. Every time someone went to the toilet, others would gossip about what she was wearing, etc. It was a toxic environment, and I was glad to be out of it.
I love your photos, especially the one with your hands on the sleeping child's head. You had a lovely day yesterday, then. Good. The trees are all looking beautiful - greens and shades of brown.
I saw that post and reported it. How very dare that person . DH out for breakfast with schoolmates, then he's taking the car for an M.O.T. I've been up since 6.30 but really can't be bothered to get dressed - it's a make-up free day, and possibly ironing later. x
Good morning everyone. I'm working backwards and hoping to say hello to a few of you. hope your day is going well. It's sunny here today, and not too warm. Ideal, in my book.
HVDY I'm glad your eyes are a little better. The infection sounds very severe. I wash my eyelids carefully every day now after having it. I know you say you have maybe two active days and one rest day, but your rest days still sound very active to me! and you cope with things very well - tinnitus sounds awful too. (Although Rock music sounds worse ). Like you I now mostly ignore things that annoy me, it's easier somehow, than getting fussed. And also like you I have had a lot of negative experience with bitchy females. When I was young only one girl in the street spoke to me, the others were very nasty. I went to a different school to the rest which didn't help. Even in work it was the same. and people would be nice to someone's face and gossip as soon as they left the room which really shocked me. Thankfully I managed in later years to meet nicer females where I live now. And again like you, I feel very guilty about smacking my son. It was the done thing in those days, and I have apologised for ever. But tbh I was smacked as a child and I never give it much thought, or hate my parents for it.
Did you find anything nice to buy? Amazon is much too handy., and next day free delivery so often!
Hope you manage to have a restful day. x
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