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I'll keep an Eye out for a Drone carrying a mini Coolbox ;o>

You'd be going from corner, to corner, to corner, to corner - sawing away and sanding bits off the bottom of each T..."
Probably just end up with a small coffee table, Suzy! :)

You be shocked if saw our frying pans Suzy...we're still using same ones Mum got as a wedding gift.....in 1966! They're worn to buggery..but mum thinks there is still plenty of life in 'em yet!!! :-D

I can't stand people who mope about all day, picking faults with the world. It's just self centeredness. The very fact he was sitting doing sod all..is the reason he was miserable in the first place, Suzy! If he'd got stuck into something, he might well feel better about life! Doing something worth while, instills self satisfaction & good well being.
When (but bloody rarely!)..i do finish something & it looks the bees knees...i feel abso-fecking-lutely fabulously wonderful! And perraps just a wee bit surprised at myself too...for just getting the damned thing finished..whatever it is! :-D
I recall, back on those hazy Amazon days, of your postings of all the work you did at that flat, Suzy. Sounded like you practically remodelled the entire building, at the time. Good on ya gal! :)
Tis odd though....some folks must wonder...if i can do what i do in me workshop..how come i can't do a similar job for work, that'll provide me the same level of job satisfaction, within a working enviroment that would be comfortable & safe for me?
Well.....i dare say, company insurance may play a big part on that. It's one thing for me to use a chop saw in the familiar surroundings of my own workshop.....but would any company employ a half blind & deaf man to use £10Ks worth of professional equipment? Somehow, i don't think so.
I've always done physical labouring jobs....it's my preferred type of work. When i stopped working a few years ago..someone suggested i try and get into office work..doing something with computers. Me? Wearing a suit and tie? (i never wear 'em, I hate suits!) In a stuffy office enviroment? Parked on me booty, tapping away at a computer, doing some droll, coma inducing administrative type of work? Nah..not really..never done it..dun wanna do it!
I work with my hands best (most of the time!), not me bonce.
Computer work, especially office related work...is so tediously boring! I remember when i enrolled in a 'get to know your PC' course back in 2005 (cos i'd never used a PC before then)....just getting to know the jargon alone, was enough to put me in coma!
How odd then, nigh on 15 years later..i use the laptop for almost all my needs, but the key thing here is..it's only stuff i'm interested in. Anything else, and i automatically switch off. So...admin work....well...it just wouldn't! :-)
I did once get in touch with a local charity run furniture restorer firm (every town has got one somewhere)...called Craft, about getting a position there, as they employ & train people with disabilities. But..it seems..the type of staff they employ, are those with mental & some physical limitations...not those with a lack of any of the 5 senses it seems. So, partially blind and deaf folks can't apply, it appears.
Public Liability Insurance, ya see....it's a right bugger!

Temperature here hasn't quite hit 30 degrees yet, but it is forecast to do so. All I can say is thank goodness for air-con :)"
Yeh, just a wee bit Grizzly......i'm not used to 28+ degree temps in Wales! sheeting rain & storms, is usually our preferred staple here! :)

☀️🍦🍦☀️"
Whatcha do with that, Anita? Shoot yaself with a minty aroma?!!!
;-)

My main disability is that I am in chronic pain all of the time and so I have to deliberately choose to hurt myself even more whenever I commit myself to having a go at any kind of household task or to do any DIY. I often have to sit on the Floor and crawl around on the days when I can't manage to stand up - and I usually don't get properly dressed on those days and stay in my PJs - as I can become exhausted just by the effort of simply getting myself up.
I have to set up a gradual build-up of very heavy duty Painkillers over several days in preparation before I can start to take any kind of a big task on - and I always take several days to see through things that would have only taken me just mere hours to complete a few years ago.
And, even with such Pain Relief, afterwards I can be so incredibly tired and in such agonising pain that I sometimes collapse - yet still can't bear to stand, or sit, or even lie down due to being in the most horrendous Pain or to stop myself from shaking for hours and even ending up in crying from the immense effort of it all. I have to virtually knock myself out then with Medication just to be able to get myself into a resting position that I can come to tolerate being in for a few precious hours.
I daren't ever give in to my Condition though because, while today I may still be able to do some things, I know that tomorrow I could wake up to suddenly find myself to be even more disabled. It is only a matter of time before I end up permanently being in my wheelchair for the rest of my Life.
I may not be employable anymore - but the very least that I can do is to keep on in doing my best to continue to take full care of myself and in helping out all that I can around the House to try to make daily Life a little easier and far less stressful for M&D ;o>

My main disabili..."
We gotta keep on keeping on, one way or another Suzy...it's all we hope for.
I certainly am benefitting from the cataract ops now.....if can remember where the blazes i left my readers. After 44 years of being extremely short sighted...me prescription has changed to one of slightly long sighted....which is really weird for me!
I'm used to always having me specs on....now i have to remember to check every day, of where the feckers are! I wonder how many folks have forgotten that they've got them on their head? I've done that a few times already!
The other day, i couldn't find me readers......took me 3 hours searching before i found them again.....under me bloody bed! Grrrr!
I swear they fell down under there, just to pee me off!

I'm not quite sure as to what's worst though? ... her inexplicably putting her Reading Glasses in the Microwave or her Diary in the Fridge? ... or my uncanny ability to be able to think just like my Mum does when she is not thinking straight and then work out where the missing item might be?!! ;oO
I wonder what it says about my own Mind that I can guess so well?!! ;o>

Unfortunately though the terrible Heat of the last few days has done it's worst because, although I managed to keep on going yesterday, today I can't get up because my Legs just hurt far too much to tolerate standing up for more than a few minutes every couple of hours.
I'm currently lying on my side on my Bed using my Laptop to order some more Dog Biscuits ... and I've just heard a very light pitter-pattering of Paws on my Carpet ... followed by a very careful and gentle jump and landing onto my Bed ... and a deep distinctly blissful moany-groan of pleasure that tells me that Tia has just snuck up and settled herself down behind me.
And any minute now? ... yes! ... a warm furry Back has just pressed itself against my Spine ... a long Leg has stretched out over and across one of mine ... and a long hot fluffy Tail is happily wag-wag-wagging away beating out a happy rhythm against my Right Hip!
But she isn't really there, you know?! - because her and me have already had this discussion several times over now about her NOT coming on my Bed without my permission or the Throw being put on first so that my Bedding doesn't end up completely covered in wafts of woofer fur! ... and she wouldn't ever dream of disobeying me, would she?! - and so she simply can't possibly actually be on my Bed with me right now, can she?!!
Tia wins! - I give up! ... ;o> ... ;o> ... ;o>


The Beer Puppet Game ... https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=466...
LOL!!! ;o>
We are alternating between cloudy and bright here and the temperature is still in the twenties - not much cooler than yesterday.
It seems that the wildlife has it in for me at the moment - on Friday I was in the shed to top up the seed and suet ball feeders when a mouse came flying out of the big bag of bird seed, across my hand and disappeared somewhere at the back of the shed.
Then yesterday, I had pulled up in a lay by for my break while waiting for a store to open. When I was ready to leave, I did a walk round of my truck to make sure everything was OK and the fridge was running at temperature. When I walked back round the front of the truck, I felt something thump into my chest so I looked down to see what it was and there, sat on my boot, was a very stunned looking bat!
Fortunately, it wasn't hurt and quickly decided it was time to fly off :)
It seems that the wildlife has it in for me at the moment - on Friday I was in the shed to top up the seed and suet ball feeders when a mouse came flying out of the big bag of bird seed, across my hand and disappeared somewhere at the back of the shed.
Then yesterday, I had pulled up in a lay by for my break while waiting for a store to open. When I was ready to leave, I did a walk round of my truck to make sure everything was OK and the fridge was running at temperature. When I walked back round the front of the truck, I felt something thump into my chest so I looked down to see what it was and there, sat on my boot, was a very stunned looking bat!
Fortunately, it wasn't hurt and quickly decided it was time to fly off :)

Phoebe doesn't get a choice about whether or not the fans are on or off - unless she has worked out how to use the switches :)

Her Breathing is very laboured today and I don't want to think too much about why this might be apart from it being down to the Heat ... so whatever Tia wants or needs of me these days - Tia gets ;o>
By now you must be on the floor! :)

It'll be the little hairy woofer's Teatime at time now ... and the very second that she hears the slight squeak of Corner Cupboard Door in the Kitchen opening and the sound of their China Bowls clinking together as they get put out she'll throw herself off the Bed and hurtle down the Stairs to try and beat Mitz to being first in the Kitchen! ... then my Bed will be mine all mine ... well? - for at least 10 minutes anyway ;o>
Make the most of it :)
As Phoebe has claimed the second sofa in the dining room, I have got the bed all to myself though I can guarantee that at the first beep of the alarm clock, she will either appear from underneath the bed or come hurtling up the stairs to say hello :)
Just done the rounds to make sure everything is all locked up as I head to bed when I noticed a movement in the garden - one of the Collared Doves has made itself at home in a large plant pot on the patio. All I can see is a head popping up occasionally :)
As Phoebe has claimed the second sofa in the dining room, I have got the bed all to myself though I can guarantee that at the first beep of the alarm clock, she will either appear from underneath the bed or come hurtling up the stairs to say hello :)
Just done the rounds to make sure everything is all locked up as I head to bed when I noticed a movement in the garden - one of the Collared Doves has made itself at home in a large plant pot on the patio. All I can see is a head popping up occasionally :)
Dinner today was fish, chips and mushy peas with a slice of bread and butter on the side. As I was starting a new loaf of bread, I asked Mrs Grizzly if she wanted the crust.
"Is it thick?", she asked, to which I replied, "I'll ask it a couple of questions and let you know!" :)
"Is it thick?", she asked, to which I replied, "I'll ask it a couple of questions and let you know!" :)

It's been such a long day already ... I didn't get off to sleep until around 3am, little Mitz woke us all up at quarter past 4 to tell us that she felt poorly, and then she was sick twice, and needed me to stay up with her afterwards to give her lots of love and cuddles.
And I'm currently onto my eighth load of Woofer washing at the moment! I feel a bit upset and awful in saying this but my Mum has unfortunately not been laundering things properly for a few weeks now - and everything that she keeps on insisting is all completely clean and perfectly fine very sadly and most definitely isn't.
I've had no choice but to spend today in re-washing the lot as it's all pretty much just been left dumped in piles all around the Garage for days at a time, instead of being stored away, which also hasn't helped either. Most of it is still covered in lots of Woofer Fur that hasn't been removed after washing and before drying when it is at its easiest to shake or pick off all the clumped-together bobbles of it. The worse of it though, is that it all smells absolutely dreadful! ... like lots of really disgustingly stinky sweaty Feet have been wiped all over it?!! ;o<
As you all know I've been worrying about my Mum for sometime now - and I'm not sure if it is because she has been putting far too little Washing Powder in the Machine (as she often does) and still not making sure that the Fabric Softener flushes through each time? - as I keep on finding most of it still in the Drawer after she has done a Wash ... or whether she has been deliberately opting to keep putting it all in on the wrong, much lower temperature and far shorter Wash Cycles that barely even Spin?
I was quite shocked to come across them all as they were late last night - as I really thought that they might actually be beyond re-washing and saving - because they just smelt SO appallingly awful ;o<
However, I experimentally bought a bottle of that Dettol Anti-Bacterial Laundry Cleanser (Fresh Cotton) a week ago and so I've been trying out using that in every Wash and - OMG!!! - has it made all difference! ... as everything is thankfully coming out of the Washer smelling SO fresh and clean and absolutely wonderful now!!! ;o>
I've just come online to check out prices on it as I want to make sure that we always have some in from now on for whenever we do any more Woofer Bedding washing. I really can't recommend it highly enough - it is seriously amazing stuff!

"Is it thick?", she ask..."
:0) Bravo. Will have to remember that one.

The Beer Puppet Game ... https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=466...
LOL!!! ;o>"
Hilarious

Chinese pork with little roast potatoes and some mushrooms in a creamy chilli sauce for tea and watched a fifties horror classic on DVD which I recently purchased, Night Of The Demon with Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall McGinnis on splendid form as the villain.

I still can hardly weight-bear, and I'm struggling to get any kind of control back over on my vastly increased Pain levels at the moment - but I've managed to get up and walk short distances every couple of hours and to keep on going with doing all of the unexpected piles of Laundry loads all the same.
I have now got two huge stacks of spare Woofer Blankets, and Towels, and Bedding all temporarily draped over the Landing Banister for now - all clean and dehairified and smelling really lovely and fresh once again... YAYYY!!! ;o>
I found some fab 'Really Useful - 84 Litre Storage Boxes' at an absolute bargain of a price online this afternoon and so I've ordered three of them. I plan to stack them up in the Garage so that they can be used to store all of our extra and spare Woofer Bedding in - as they should be reasonably air-tight and damp-proof which will obviously help to keep everything dry, clean, and fresh ... and all ready for use whenever they might be needed.
I think that just two Boxes will prove be more than enough Storage - but I've ordered 3 as Mum has got all sorts of bits and bobs and stuff stored in a couple of incredibly old and extremely manky-looking cardboard Boxes - and I am resolutely determined to get everything all tidied up and tidied away neatly and safely. It will make it far easier to find things almost immediately and the heavy duty Plastic Boxes will also take up far less space out there in the Garage than the current completely chaotic set-up does now.
Mitz is more settled tonight but I've given her an Antacid just to be sure ... so? ... it's Bedtime at last for me! ... HOORAYYY!!! ;o>
It's certainly been an unbelievably L O N G day all day long today!
Quite the opposite here - went to bed just after my last post yesterday, intending just to have a couple of hours and didn't get up until 9 A.M. this morning!
Mrs Grizzly said that trying to wake me up yesterday was like trying to wake the dead! :)
Mrs Grizzly said that trying to wake me up yesterday was like trying to wake the dead! :)

At least I know it wasn't Grizzlygrump's Truck though as he has already given up an airtight alibi and provided himself with a witness as well - LOL!!! ;o>
I'm paying for keeping going yesterday big-time today - everything hurts from the tiniest of Bones in my Face right down to the very tips of my Fingers and Toes and my Skin is aching with invisible Bruises all over which means I can't bear to be touched AND I've a splitting Headache as well ;o<
Ahhh well. It was well worth the time and effort as I've just got an Email saying the Storage Boxes for the Laundry should be delivered sometime today! Howzat for a superfast Order, hey?!! ... and if I get enough Pain Relief built up by the end of today I should hopefully be able to have a go at packing away all of the fresh clean Woofer Bedding tomorrow! ... and then that's another Job done! ;o>

I wish that I could get it together to get going today though - it is SO bloody frustrating being a free spirit held prisoner inside a Body that just won't stop hurting and won't work properly anymore ... GRRR!!!


I'm giving up on today now - it's getting to be a little easier to move around now but my Head still feels like it is almost about to split open. At least it's been another much cooler day today - and it's given my Body a break from trying to cope with the Heat. I just hope I recover enough before the next Heatwave hits us ;o>
I definitely don't want to be spending the best part of Summer in and out of Hospital as I have done in past years. I've had a couple of manageable Summers since then but I'm very aware that I'm really not coping at all well this year and Summer has only just begun.
I'm lying down in my darkened Bedroom at the moment trying to catch up on various bits and bobs of Jobs online. I've managed to wipe clean one of the Boxes (they were a little bit dusty and grubby which is not a big deal and entirely understandable as they came to me unpackaged) and have neatly folded and stacked all of the spare Furrybaby Blankets to one side and most of the large and small Towels to the other.
I've also been 'tidying up' the Woofer Towels as they have come fresh out of the Tumble Dryer by trimming off all of the pulled Threads - which is the main reason why my Hands are so utterly kerknackered and I'm having to wear my Hand Splints today.
I've had to Tumble Dry all of the Laundry before airing it out on the Line because I discovered a lot of the Towels were as rough as Sandpaper and almost as stiff as cardboard! Everything thankfully looks and smells wonderful now, even the couple of really old and rather raggetty Bath Sheet Towels that we put down on the Floor in the Kitchen on rainy days to stop the Girls from walking mud and water out of the Back Garden into the rest of the House - and they are all fitting perfectly into the Box with enough room still to spare so far ;o>
M&D went off out Shopping for a couple of hours and have brought back two more Bottles of that absolutely fabulous Dettol Anti-Bacterial Laundry Cleanser while it is still on special offer. It really is amazing stuff!
Tomorrow I'll have a go at setting up the second Box. It's going to have a couple of (brand new and as yet unused) Single Quilts in it, plus the spare (fuzzy felt type) Pet Fleeces that we use to snuggle in around the Girls in Winter and to line the back of the Car Boot whenever they go out.
The third Box is going to be for Mum's hoard of bits and bobs including a huge China Dinner Service that has been haphazardly piled up and dumped in a very old sagging cardboard Box out in the Garage for almost three years now. It needs to be sorted out, cleaned, and then put away properly. Plus there are various household Ornaments that she doesn't seem to want anymore? - but still can't quite bring herself to pass onto a Charity Shop just yet all the same.
It's always a slow and extremely challenging process in encouraging and supporting M&D to keep tidy and be more organised. They often let things slide and I can't manage to keep things together for us all like I always used to be able to. Mum doesn't cope well with having to make decisions and see things through and so she predictably wasn't too happy about the Boxes when they first arrived. It's sadly always been this way though that, if I had suggested them as a solution and consulted her first about ordering them, she would only have said no and not seen any point in getting them.
A couple of hours later now though, and she can already see just what a huge and a manageable difference they will make, and she is all smiles and currently happily humming away to herself as she finds things to enjoy getting done in her favourite place ... the Back Garden ;o>
Had a productive morning - got out there and mowed the grass front and back before it got too warm, and swapped around the feeders to confuse the birds :)
Dinner was a home-made chicken tikka served with rice, which was very well received by my harshest critic :)
Dinner was a home-made chicken tikka served with rice, which was very well received by my harshest critic :)

I took an extra dose of Painkillers at around half 2 with some Tea and Toast, checked the little hairy woofers were all snuggly-buggly and passed out - which they were ;o> - then went to Bed and crashed out for just over an hour ... until my Bedroom Door opened and a little black Mitz-shaped shadow furtively crabbed sideways in the dark over to my Bed and asked ... "is you awake 'cos I fink I may need to go poo?" ... !
Honestly, living with little woofers 'with attitude' is just like living with Toddlers!!!
So there I was limping and swaying around on the Patio almost half-dead on my Feet while Mitz was wandering all around trying to find THE 'perfect spot', when Tia staggered out yawning, and she wouldn't go pee unless someone was going to come down onto the Lawn with her! Luckily Mum came downstairs at that point - as I can't get down or up the Garden Steps because there is nothing either side to hold onto for support or to pull myself up with.
Then the Girls eagerly raced each other straight back inside to both try and get themselves the very best spot back in their Beds and Mum and me plonked ourselves down on the Garden Bench together, let the motion-activated Security Lights go out, and just sat in the early morning Light breathing in the warm sweet-smelling fresh air from the Garden and occasionally chatting about nothing much in particular for another hour ... before Mitz got up again and came and stuck her Head around the Back Door to ask us why we weren't also back in our Beds?! - LOL!!! ;o>
I virtually crawled my way upstairs and back to Bed just after 6am and then finally I got to crash out again until ... 20 past 8 when Tia suddenly head-butted my Bedroom Door open to tell me that her Tummy was insisting that it was already way past their usual 9 to 9.30am Breakfast Time!!!
I wonder if the RSPCA have the power to enforce ASBO's on Pets? ;o>

Dinner was a home-made chicken tikka serv..."
Oooh Chicken Tikka?! - that sounds lush! ... where's mine?! ;o>

Have they been stood around scratching their Heads and muttering to each other? ... tapping on the French Windows to ask you what is going on? ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "A banging Headache kept me awake until it was gone 3am - and I've had so little sleep for well over a week now that I feel like I've actually gone far beyond being tired now? ... out of 8 whole day..."
I get like that too - I find one bad night (or day) with little sleep leads on to yet more until eventually I crash out for 18 hours like I did the other day, which is usually on one of my days off so I end up losing that valuable time when I could be doing more productive things than sleeping.
I get like that too - I find one bad night (or day) with little sleep leads on to yet more until eventually I crash out for 18 hours like I did the other day, which is usually on one of my days off so I end up losing that valuable time when I could be doing more productive things than sleeping.

"Oooh Chicken Tikka?! - that sounds lush! ... where's mine?!"
Well, the part where I said it was well received by my harshest critic?
She liked it so much she went back for seconds and finished it off!!
Well, the part where I said it was well received by my harshest critic?
She liked it so much she went back for seconds and finished it off!!
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