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[suzysunshine7]

Blastronaut Mk2 wrote: "Ah thanks for the kind words folks, that's really kind. I shouldn't have gone public with my/our woes but I guess I was feeling particularly sorry for meself on Friday ..."

Hey? - this is exactly just what this lovely friendly Thread was created for, Poppet ... a shared (and hopefully a comforting) commiseration as well as a celebration of "Life, the Universe, & Everything!" ... ;o>

I hope that your Mum is feeling a lot better in herself today as well ... x

[Craig White]

sometimes it's good to share, blastro, and a little venting does no harm, can even be beneficial - helps you keep on top of things. glad your kids' situations are resolving.
with alzheimer's, sometime it can be a benefit to the sufferer that a wide spectrum of people are aware of the condition, it makes people more understanding and accommodating if the condition worsens. but let's hope it doesn't!
take good care of your mum, blastro, and yourselves.

[Blastronaut]

Indeed, such threads as this always restore my faith in this small cyber-community of ours when I'm getting a tad disillusioned. And even tho I'm kinda a bit-part player at the moment, I do still feel part of it, and it does matter to me; I've been here (and there on 'zon) for quite a few years after all.

Yes mother is (touch wood) mending well and has just managed the biggest part of a Sunday dinner. This time three days ago she really did look - and obviously felt - quite poorly so really can't complain. Cheers m'dear.

[Blastronaut]

Yeah Tech, no doubt about that. It was as much mother's decision as ours to keep it quite at the start but, like ya say, it's no bad thing that people are now aware of the situation, y'know, now it's gotten to the point where she doesn't recognize some people (especially the ones that she's not seen for quite a while) and in other cases forgotten them altogether. Don't think she had the intention of 'outing' herself but yeah, it's for the better at this point.
It'll be a downward spiral I'm afraid but they'll obviously keep it as much at bay as possible. Hey, ya never know, someone may pronounce a cure for dementia of some description in the next year or so? Stranger things have happened I guess... I mean if Donald Trump can denounce hatred and division (albeit with his fingers crossed behind his back) owt can happen! : )

Cheers bud, much appreciated.

[Gordon]

You have my sympathy, Blastro. My dad's Alzheimer's is fairly advanced and was exacerbated by a stroke about a year ago. I have several collagues with parents in similar situations. It does have a major effect on the lives of everyone close to the sufferer, even apart from what she/he is experiencing.

[suzysunshine7]

Awww Alzheimers? ... I'm SO very sorry to hear that Blastro ... x x x

I'm glad to hear that your Mum is having a better day today and has even managed to enjoy a good Lunch too ;o>

[Anita]

Do sorry to hear about your mum Blastro.I always feel so lucky that my mum is a little crumbly but has her mental faculties .I'm glad your daughter is ok . And hopefully your son is getting his money back.

[Post Soviet]

Blastronaut Mk2 wrote: "Ah thanks for your considerations folks, that's really kind. I shouldn't have gone public with my/our woes but I guess I was feeling particularly sorry for meself on Friday.
The bank has put a few..."

To be honest haven't visited this thread for months, til this morning, to check how are things elsewhere comparing to the moody politics thread.

Sorry to hear Blastro it's your turn going through tough times in life. There is nothing wrong to share
with other people. All you need is a little patience, guess you know it yourself. And have a good day, well as possible.

[suzysunshine7]

Ahhh, you know the Summer days are so much warmer, brighter and longer when you go to Bed every night and wake up every morning to the chorusing sound of Power Drills, Saws and Lawn Mowers! ;o>

And I often think on now, and remember and miss, the days when just about the only sound that could be heard from all of the Neighbours' Gardens was occasionally that of a Hand Propelled Lawn Mower being slowly and rhythmically pushed and pulled up and down the Lawn - LOL!!!

The current noise levels can't be helped ... our Village is having very extensive Pipework dug up and replaced, and Roadwork done at the same time, and so literally thousands of those temporary bright Red and Orange Barriers and an almost never-ending line of Traffic Cones have miraculously materialised from out of nowhere and now taken over every one of the main Roads for several miles all around! On the plus side though, although the Traffic is still often gridlocked from time to time, it hasn't actually been half as bad as was expected because everyone knows it's in their own best interests to try to avoid using our Village as their usual main Traffic thorough-fare.

It still took us a full 20 minutes to drive the barely 5 minute walk just up the Road here to the Doctor's Surgery this morning though! We would happily have walked, with me being pushed in my Wheelchair, but all of the Bollards and Barriers have been moved around and lined up along the Road up such a way as to make it pretty near impossible to get to use the Pavements easily or safely.

The Power Tools contributions to the overall noise levels start off at around 6am alongside the heavier sounds of the Utility Installers and Roadworkers - and appear to be coming from several Houses close nearby to us including two of that have recently been up for sale.

One has now been completely stripped back and gutted down to just it's Brickwork and is minus most of it's Roof too at the moment - and has become a rather fascinating thing to get to covertly watch from my Bedroom Window. I don't want them thinking I'm a nosey Neighbour?! - LOL!!! - it is just really interesting seeing a Building being stripped right down to it's bare Bones and then seeing it start to very slowly be rebuilt and come together as a House and a Home again.

The other House has currently got two Double Mattresses, the ripped out remains of an old Bathroom Suite (dark and mid green just like our old and thankfully long gone one from the 1970's) and various decidedly ancient-looking Kitchen Units stacked up on it's Patio - and is obviously undergoing a complete refurb of all of it's Rooms before the new family move in.

And I miss M living at the House on the other side of the bottom of our Garden. We rarely ever saw her outside all that much but we were all very fond of her all the same and it felt so familiar in knowing that she was always there. I'm absolutely delighted for her though that she has settled so happily into her Nursing Home and is clearly having the time of her life with all of her new friends there. She really has welcomed and embraced all of the positives that have come to pass and says she has no desire whatsoever to want to return to the Home that she lived in for almost 60 years.

So, it's all change here ... and Neighbours, Families and Friends come, and go, and come again ... and all that remains and stays silent and still are the huge beautiful Trees around here who have watched on over us through so many decades and generations. I hope when it comes to my time to leave here the Trees will all be standing still and will perhaps sometimes also remember me? ... and, hopefully, will do so as fondly as I will always hold them in my Heart and remember them.

There's SO many places out there but there's no place quite like Home, is there? ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

The Kettle here is on ... if anyone is fancying a Brew? ;o> ...

[[deleted user]]

Got any peppermint tea?

I've developed a liking for it after spotting it in B&M and deciding to give it a try :)

[suzysunshine7]

Nope! - you'll not be finding them 'fancy' Teabags here - LOL!!!

But bring 'em with you today - and I'll make sure I have some next time you bob in ;o>

[[deleted user]]

'Fancy'??

They're only Tetley, not Ringtons :)

[suzysunshine7]

They're Mint! - that definitely makes them out to be 'fancy' in this House ;o>

I can do you a Ringtons Kenyan Gold Mug of Tea with a generous splash of Oral B Mouthwash?!!

[[deleted user]]

So long as it's straight from the bottle and not already been gargled with :)

[[deleted user]]

Also, can I have ten sugars please, but don't stir it as I don't like it too sweet :)

[suzysunshine7]

Bear with me ... I'll have to hunt for the Sugar ... it's on the top ten List of things that my Dad likes to hide in places that only ever make any sense to him ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Try under the sink, next to the washing up liquid - I used to use a little bit of both for cleaning oil and grease off my hands after I'd been tinkering with my car.
Just as good as Swarfega :)

[suzysunshine7]

Clever! ... no, it won't be there? ...

Hmmm? - I'm actually going to go take a look ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Found it! ... on the Shelf where we keep the box of all of the Dog Medications!

While I'm here can I also interest you in a Drontal for Dogs Tasty Bone Tablet - for the treatment of Intestinal Worms, including Tapeworm, Roundworm, Hookworm and Whipworm? ;o>

[Lez]

My sis has got some old Ringtons' crockery - a teapot and a couple of jugs. Not worth anything as there were loads made but they're very pleasing.
I didn't know till now that they still do doorstep deliveries!

[Blastronaut]

Again, thanks for the kind words folks, very much appreciated.

[Blastronaut]

Talking of hot drinks and such, y'know I never been a fan of tea or coffee? Told you I was an odd un... : )
I'd wager that I'm the only non-tea drinking, non-swimming, non-driving poster on these boards?

[suzysunshine7]

Lez wrote: "My sis has got some old Ringtons' crockery - a teapot and a couple of jugs. Not worth anything as there were loads made but they're very pleasing.
I didn't know till now that they still do doorstep deliveries!"

Yep! - Wayne from the Wirral brought me my monthly fresh supplies last Friday ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Blastronaut Mk2 wrote: "Talking of hot drinks and such, y'know, I never been a fan of tea or coffee? Told you I was an odd un... : )"

Go on, surprise me! - what's your favourite hot or cold drink, Blastro? ;o>

I'm pretty cwap at Swimming as my allergy to Chlorine meant I couldn't take part in my Primary School's Swimming Lessons at the nearby Public Pool ... and I can't drive either so you aren't alone on those ... but I do really lurrrrrrrve my Kenyan Tea ;o>

[[deleted user]]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "Found it! ... on the Shelf where we keep the box of all of the Dog Medications!

While I'm here can I also interest you in a Drontal for Dogs Tasty Bone Tablet - for the treatment of Intestinal Wo..."

I'm good, thanks - since I've been using Phoebe's medication, I've been feline fine :)

[suzysunshine7]

HA HA HA HA HA!!! - LOL!!! ;o>

[Lez]

I drink coffee but don't do the other things.

[Blastronaut]

Just cold drinks really Suze. Do like a Pepsi Max from time to time, and tho I haven't been a big drinker for many years, I like a Red Stripe. Have had many beer 'flings' back in the day including the likes of Budweiser and Carling (ugh, how did I ever like those, especially the former?) but RS has been a stayer I have to say.
Like Heineken and a Stella goes down well. For spirits it just has to be JD - maybe it's the old rocker in me I dunno but Jack's a must if I was drinking shorts... on it's own or with coke, either's fine. Can feel a Top Ten coming on here! : )

[suzysunshine7]

I have got some Pepsi in at the moment - it is just the original one though.

I briefly allowed myself to be converted over to Coca Cola for a few years when I came across both the original and the Cherry Coke Zero ... before they sadly chose to change the Recipe at some point in the last year and now all I can taste is nothing else but all of the nasty Sweeteners in it ... (*shudder*) ... and the Cherry Zero seems to have almost disappeared now as well.

So, I'm back on contrite and apologetic Knees to drinking Pepsi again ;o>

[Lez]

One of my plants (epipremnum pinnatum ' Marble Planet') after some leaves turning brown and falling off, has suddenly gone berserk and sent out 4 new leaves and a 3ft long shoot with tiny leaflets.
I was looking how to propagate it but could only find this really useful watering guide:
'Epipremnum pinnatum 'Marble Planet'

Care
Keep moist, hand-warm water once a week, potting soil should not dry out.
Water regularly with water.
Twice a few times every two weeks, in the winter once every two months.
'This houseplant makes strings with leaves, so you can let the plant hang like a hanging plant. Nice and versatile.

[Martin]

Blastronaut Mk2 wrote: "Talking of hot drinks and such, y'know I never been a fan of tea or coffee? Told you I was an odd un... : )
I'd wager that I'm the only non-tea drinking, non-swimming, non-driving poster on these b..."

I can match two out of three there Blast, I can still just about manage a width theoretically as I haven't actually been in a pool for centuries. Haven't drank tea for about twenty years and never learnt to drive.
San Miguel, Banks's Mild, Flowers (when I can get it, has a distinctive creamy taste), Newkie Brown. As for shorts, after a lifetime of butterflying my way through most of the spirit alphabet nowadays in my dotage whisky is the preferred choice. Surprisingly neither of my children touch the stuff or have ever smoked, if it wasn't for the fact they look like me I would wonder if we shared anything genetically as my own yoof was very much mispent!

[suzysunshine7]

Lez wrote: "One of my plants (epipremnum pinnatum ' Marble Planet') after some leaves turning brown and falling off, has suddenly gone berserk and sent out 4 new leaves and a 3ft long shoot with tiny leaflets. I was looking how to propagate it but could only find this really useful watering guide: 'Epipremnum pinnatum 'Marble Planet' ..."

There's a bit more watering advice on ... https://www.rhsplants.co.uk/bomcard/_...

And loads of advice including info on propagation as well if you scroll down ... https://www.ourhouseplants.com/plants...

[suzysunshine7]

I really hope that I get to see something of this tonight ;o> ...

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/...

[theDuke]

Well..i wanted some rain..and i got a hell of lot of it today..all in the space of 10 minutes. We've had a thunderstorm..i haven't er..heard and seen one in ...well i can't remember.

But the rain! A small lakes worth must have decended in a very localised area..namely my house! Just one big forboding black cloud right above us...surrounded by blue sky....weird.

Annoyingly..i had not, just 15 minutes before, finished putting the final touches of cuprinol weather stain on my new cladding...sod's law.

But, I think it just about survived the deluge.

[suzysunshine7]

It's barely rained at all here, thank goodness! ;o>

Although a few of the much lower level Shops in the middle of Stockport Town Centre were flooded out yesterday according to several reports on Facebook.

Bedtime for me ...

x Nighty-Night x Sleepy-Tight x and very Sweet Dreams x ;o>

[Blastronaut]

Martin wrote: "Blastronaut Mk2 wrote: "Talking of hot drinks and such, y'know I never been a fan of tea or coffee? Told you I was an odd un... : )
I'd wager that I'm the only non-tea drinking, non-swimming, non-d..."

Now yer talking Martin - good old Newkie Brown! Tbh I couldn't stand it to start with in my late teens/early twenties but then grew to quite like it. Has a reputation for bringing a person to violence round these parts but I've never found it like that personally.
With spirits I can drink most but I struggle with rum, and really can't be doing with that yellow thick stuff which my other half sometimes drinks. Damnitt why can't I think of the name of the bloody stuff? Bad memory day I'm afraid.
If I fell into a river/pond, I'd hope I could splash about to reach the edge (as I did once before but I was much younger and weighed less back then so I wouldn't bet on it) but I really couldn't see me managing owt else like a width, and certainly not a length.
With driving, I more-or-less know how to do it and can set off fine... just struggle with the gears/clutch. Only driving I've done was a few times in the late 80s and early 90s, around the secondary school car park in a couple of mates' cars. Oh and one go when the missus tried to teach me but after that she swore never again. And she's a patient woman!! : )

EDIT - Advocaat! (the thick yellow stuff)

[Lez]

I'm frightened of water, didn't even like paddling as a child. Never liked baths either, was really pleased when showers became the norm!
Never learnt to ride a bike, never mind drive. My sis was married to a driving instructor but she never wanted to learn either.

[suzysunshine7]

Blastronaut Mk2 wrote: "With spirits I can drink most but I struggle with rum, and really can't be doing with that yellow thick stuff which my other half sometimes drinks"

I never was interested in drinking any kind Alcohol at all until I was almost into my 30's - as I've got absolutely no palate whatsoever for almost all alcoholic drinks, especially Wine, and so I don't get as to why anyone would ever want to drink something that to me only ever tastes so utterly vile and disgusting - LOL!!! ;o>

However, I then discovered Dark Rum & Pepsi (which was a favourite drink of a very dear friend) and was delighted to find it was my own 'favourite drink' as well - as I loved the taste of it pretty much from my very first sip. I still rarely ever drink though - but, when I do, then it'll be a Dark Rum & Pepsi, a Cockburns Special Reserve Port & Lemon, or (just like your Missus ;o>) a Advocaat made into a Snowball with Lemonade and, of course, it really must have a couple of Maraschino Cherries on a Cocktail Stick with it as well!

I always like my drinks made up in the same way ... as a double or even a treble measure in a very large and tall Glass that is then filled to the very top with the Pepsi or the Lemonade ... so that I can get to just take my time in enjoying just the one (full-bodied) long and leisurely drink, a sip or two at a time, and have it lasting me over an hour or two. I like to sit back and relax and simply can't be doing with keeping on in getting up to make up, or to order, several small itsy-bitsy glasses with only just splashes of mixer added ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Lez wrote: "I'm frightened of water, didn't even like paddling as a child. Never liked baths either, was really pleased when showers became the norm!
Never learnt to ride a bike, never mind drive. My sis was m..."

I can't say I like water all that much either but it's something that I've had to work on overcoming so that I can get to do Hydrotherapy. It definitely helps to use smaller Heated Hydrotherapy Pools that are usually only around 4 Foot deep and have Stairs going into them instead of Ladders down the sides.

I'm absolutely terrified of huge Swimming Pools with Deep Ends or ones that are all over 6 Foot Deep being as I am barely 5 Foot 2 ... when I was very young I was taken to learn how to swim in Pools where I couldn't keep my Feet on the Bottom of the Pool and my Head and Shoulders well clear of the Water at the same time and was left absolutely panicked by such experiences and occasionally still find myself having nightmares about it ;oO

[Lez]

All primary school kids had to go to the baths when we were about 8. I was terrified and I had to wear a ghastly navy wool cozzie my mum had knitted. I decided to throw an asthma attack claiming the chlorine affected my breathing. They never made me go again.

[[deleted user]]

When we were in junior school, we used to be bussed across town to go swimming in the outdoor pool. Once we moved up to the comprehensive school, we got to use the newly built indoor pool instead.
I used to enjoy swimming and could manage a whole length of the pool underwater :)

[suzysunshine7]

LOL!!! ... I had rather an opposite experience, Lez Lee ;o>

We also were taken over to the Public Baths when I was at Primary School for compulsory Swimming Lessons. I was a very quiet and private independent child and so, when I started to feel my Arms and Legs getting weaker as I tried to move through the water and feeling all achey and weird it didn't occur to me that I was any different to anyone else and so I never said anything.

Within minutes I used to find myself catching my Breath and wheezing slightly and my Chest ached and felt like it was crushing my Lungs ... and still I said nothing ... and I felt extremely exhausted, dizzy and disorientated when I got out ... yet held it together, felt a bit confused by it but still made out that nothing was wrong!

We weren't allowed Showers afterwards because there was not enough time and I would sit in Class an hour or so later and start feeling my Legs stinging and burning like Hell. When I sneaked a look I would see a huge scarlet scalding Rash all down the backs of my Legs that looked and felt like a Kettle of boiling water had been poured down them ... AND instead of telling anyone I just felt self-conscious and embarrassed and in too much pain to tell anyone.

Finally, around my 6th or 7th time at the Baths, I got out and walked while suddenly virtually deaf and blind into the Changing Rooms, felt violently sick but wasn't, and collapsed on the Bench in a dead faint that lasted almost 10 minutes. I came round to find myself still a bit wet but having been dressed (by my Teacher) while I was unconscious.

There was absolutely no kindness, or Tea and sympathy from her, as she always was such a dried old stick of a woman - and when she saw I had come round she then proceeded to berate me loudly for not telling anyone that I was an Asthmatic and for not bringing my Inhaler with me?!! ... and I just sat there utterly bewildered and dazed and still feeling so nauseous I could hardly bring myself to even speak except to keep on saying "But Miss? - I don't have Asthma?"

I collapsed again when we got off the Coach when it was parked up in the School Playground and got virtually dragged into the Classroom by her holding me up by grasping me by my Jumper!

My Mum was called, because I had no Inhaler on me, and turned up just as bewildered to find out what on Earth was going on. Apparently I was bright red all over yet my Lips were a weird white colour and I was gasping for Breath so badly I was actually starting to think by then that I might be dying?!! ... my Mum was thankfully of the same opinion and drove me to the Hospital where I was immediately diagnosed as being on the verge of Anaphylactic Shock and treated accordingly.

It was absolutely no use at all in repeatedly explaining this to my Teacher though, as she didn't believe in Allergies and more especially in anybody ever being found to be allergic to Chlorine - and so for the rest of that year she would still tell the other Teachers I was Asthmatic and ask me, from time to time, where my Inhaler was (I didn't need one and never had one) and I just gave up on trying to put her right and tell her it was in my School Bag!!! - LOL!!! ;o>

Why she didn't ask anyone for help with me, or bother to ring for an Ambulance, is something I'll never get to know or understand ... and how the daft and deluded woman didn't end up in killing me at the age of 9 is pretty much a miracle to me now in thinking about it?!! ;oO

[Gordon]

Well, actually, you can't be allergic to chlorine. But you can suffer severe skin and respiratory reactions to it: American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

I'm a bit baffled, however, by a teacher who doesn't believe in allergies but does believe in asthma.

[theDuke]

I used to swim a lot in me yoof..and loved it. Once, as part of my Duke Of Edinburgh Silver award; I swam 100 lenghts of an olympic sized pool, non stop. Granted..i was a very fit 15 year old then..i doubt i could do that today..not unless i want a cardiac episode!

I was knackered afterwards...but i got that award, in the end! :)

I haven't swam or been in a proper pool, in over 15 years now...namely cos i couldn't see without me specs on before (i wasn't going to risk swimming with those on..if they came off i'd never find them again!), but mainly cos somewhere onlong the line...i took a distinct dislike of the clorine used in public baths.

I'm not alergic....i just can't stand the smell of it.

However..should i ever find myself on a beach with clean waters.....i'll try again..now that i don't need to wear specs for regular activity...thanks the recent cateract ops.

One thing i've never done to date...is skinny dip....anybody tried that at all?

And, just to clarify, I'm not implying..in anyway shape or form..that there's anything kinky about skinny dipping neither! :)

Just never done it...yet!

[suzysunshine7]

Gordon wrote: "Well, actually, you can't be allergic to chlorine. But you can suffer severe skin and respiratory reactions to it: American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

I'm a bit baffled, however, by a..."

Really? - so if I ever come into contact with it again I'll probably be just as ill but still be alright then? ... WHEW! - that's good to know! - I've been terrified ever since of it happening again as the effects of being exposed to it hits me so hard and so fast that I doubt I'd be able to get help for myself. I was barely breathing by the time that my Mum got me to the Hospital ;oO

I don't think it helped much either that I'm fairly sure that they deliberately put a generous dose of extra Chlorine into the Baths on School Swimming Lesson Days! - LOL!!! ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

To be fair though, my experience with my Teacher wasn't personal or all that exclusive. She insisted that one of my Classmates couldn't possibly have a genuine digestive problem with Dairy products, refused to give him the little bottle of Orange Juice that came with our usual mid-Morning Milk, and even stood over him to make sure that he drank every last drop of the Milk that she gave him instead.

He soon put her right by first frantically trying to get her attention and then, when she ignored him, he raced up to the front of the Classroom and projectile vomited all over her, her Desk and all of her Books and paperwork ... and her open and very expensive-looking Handbag!

He was one of my best friends at School for several years after that - until his whole family emigrated to Australia in the Summer Holidays before we were due to start at Secondary School ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

theDuke wrote: "One thing i've never done to date...is skinny dip....anybody tried that at all?"

I think I'd probably have been charged with Indecent Exposure if I ever tried it in any of the Public Pools that I've used over the years, Duke!!! - LOL!!! ;o>

I'm just extremely grateful that not many Pools use Chlorine anymore like they seemingly all used to do when I was a Girl.

[theDuke]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "theDuke wrote: "One thing i've never done to date...is skinny dip....anybody tried that at all?"

I think I'd probably have been charged with Indecent Exposure if I ever tried it in any of the Publ..."

Well..i wasn't suggesting of doing it in a public swimming bath Suzy...for that way lies madness.......and probably a criminal conviction too! :)

I haven't been to a public bath in 20 years or so now....if they're not using Clorine anymore..what are they using instead, these days?

[suzysunshine7]

And these days ... risking being seen by the entire World via someone posting it up on YouTube and a variety of Social Media Sites as well! ;oO