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I went to the Fracture Clinic yesterday just to have my Shoulder checked out and fully expected to be discharged ... but it turns out that somehow between dislocating it and having it strapped up and virtually completely immobilised for several weeks now I have miraculously managed to develop a small hairline Fracture in my Collarbone?!! ;oO
The Consultant was as surprised as I was - still I suppose it's some new kind of skill to add to my CV in my ever-expanding Medical Records, I guess?!! They'll be needing extra Staff and a separate Trolley just for pushing my Patient Notes from Dept to Dept soon ;o>
I've ended up coming back even more strapped up than I was before! - and so I'm not exactly feeling much like a happy bunny today ;o<

Cheer me up ... how is Lady Lux these days? ... and is Zombie Bob still living in your Greenhouse? ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "No Breakfast Tray AGAIN?!! ... HELLO?!! - I'm starving here!!! ;oO"
After all those Easter eggs, I've put you on a diet! :)
After all those Easter eggs, I've put you on a diet! :)



My Mum was very generous this year in letting Dad and me have some too ;o>

bob zombie continues to be served 3-4 square meals a day, and has taken to coming into the house if we're a bit slow with the nosh. keeps him from eating our brains, i suppose!
This amused me yesterday;
While waiting for a bay so I could tip my rubbish, I was reading my book on my phone. Another driver came out to move his truck and upon spotting me shouted over "I didn't know you wore glasses, Grizzly."
"Only for reading", I replied.
"Ooh, that's the start of a long slippery slope", he said. "I started off like that, and now I can't see a thing full stop without mine"
That said, he went to get into his truck, but a minute later reappeared, and looked down at the number plate.
"Wrong bloody truck", he said.
Not wanting to waste the moment, I waved my glasses at him and said "Can't see a thing without 'em? You can't see a thing with 'em - try mine!" :)
While waiting for a bay so I could tip my rubbish, I was reading my book on my phone. Another driver came out to move his truck and upon spotting me shouted over "I didn't know you wore glasses, Grizzly."
"Only for reading", I replied.
"Ooh, that's the start of a long slippery slope", he said. "I started off like that, and now I can't see a thing full stop without mine"
That said, he went to get into his truck, but a minute later reappeared, and looked down at the number plate.
"Wrong bloody truck", he said.
Not wanting to waste the moment, I waved my glasses at him and said "Can't see a thing without 'em? You can't see a thing with 'em - try mine!" :)

WoW?!! - that looks pretty and also rather yummy, Val ;o>
Chokablok used to be a separate company that started out in making a range of Easter Eggs for Tesco and now seem to have be taken over by Tesco as they don't seem to sell anything else or elsewhere anymore.
A lot of Supermarkets over here now offer up these particular kinds of flavoured Easter Eggs with the front part usually made of a different flavour of Chocolate and then studded with all sorts of sweets and treats - but I keep going back to the Tesco Chokablok ones as they usually have a bit more to them - more differences and depths of flavours and sweet and treat mixtures involved.
I bought a couple of similar slightly smaller ones from Lidl last year but they were extremely sweet and a little bit sickly with it rather than being tasty and flavoursome.
I'd really love for a Banoffee Easter Egg to actually taste of full-on Banana - even if it is an artificial flavouring boost such as using a Banana Milkshake flavour in the Chocolate - but I haven't managed to find us a good one yet.
The Lemon Meringue and Cherry Bakewell Easter Eggs were absolutely fantastic though ;o>
I noticed the other day that there is an American couple on YouTube who have posted up their own taste testing Reviews on this year's Chokablok Easter Eggs! ;o> ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q_DL...
EDIT ADDITION: ... and yes I love to check out all of the Tried & Tested Reviews across several different Websites over here ... I find they come in very handy at Christmas and Easter time for checking out what they think are the very best of all the seasonal specialities that are on sale ;o>

Awww, poor Lady Lux! - Tia also hates having her knots combed or cut out as well ;o<
And bless undead Bob too! - he sounds like he is getting around to thinking of himself as being one of the family now? I'm SO glad to hear that he's found such a kind and loving new Home with you ;o>


"Wrong bloody truck", he said."
O.M.G. !!! - has he been passed recently as being safe to drive?!! - LOL!!! ;o>

some other local parlours are,
'the groom room'
'wallace and groom-it'
'fido sassoon' &
not a mobile, 'scrub a dug dug'
'scruffy to fluffy'

Recently she was issued with another pair in a different coloured frame. I'm not quite sure why she has got two pairs and she can't quite seem to remember as to why she got the second pair either? - but it has become increasingly obvious to me now that the second pair are something for me to get to search the entire House in looking for ... just so that she can put them on to help her to find her original pair!!! ;o>

some other local parlours are,
'the groom room'
'wallace and groom-it'
'fido sassoon' &
not a mobile, 'scr..."
We have got SO many around here! ;o> ...
Penny's Poodle Parlour
Wagstars
Hair of the Dog
Doggydazzler
Poochey
Dapper Dogs
Shampoochie
Posh Paws of Davenport
Dogworx
K9 Services
Absolutely Fabulous
Wuff Cutts
The Lap of Luxury
... and NO! - Moo and Tee would also not ever allow for anyone else but us to wash, brush and comb them ;o>

I've been coming across all of the local hype and promotion about the new TV comedy series 'Scarborough' being filmed here in Stockport ... and, EVERY single time, I've come across Jason Manford's surname incorrectly spelled as 'Mamford'.
I'm not particularly all that interested in the series or am I any kind of a fan of Jason Manford either - but - after days of having several different Stockport Tourism Facebook Pages and Websites too all post and repost this mistake I finally thought ... "Right! - that's it!" ... and have spent several minutes today posting up a few (very polite) corrections in various places - LOL!!! ;o>
There's absolutely no need to thank me, Jason but, if you do feel it to be necessary, then please? ... just remember to get my name right on the Cheque before you put it in the Post, won't you?!! ;o>
Having been informed by Mrs Grizzly that "we" are on a diet, dinner today was chicken salad, no chips :)
Just managed to get that eaten before our new furniture was delivered - bed frame and dining table/chairs. I couldn't believe that they sent out the delivery driver on his own so I gave him a hand getting it all off the van and into the garage. Inspection and assembly can wait until tomorrow now :)
Just managed to get that eaten before our new furniture was delivered - bed frame and dining table/chairs. I couldn't believe that they sent out the delivery driver on his own so I gave him a hand getting it all off the van and into the garage. Inspection and assembly can wait until tomorrow now :)

WoW?!! - it really is very kind of you to set me up with a brand new Bed Frame and new Dining Room Table with my very own Chair, just in case I may decide to stay-over after sharing in one of your luscious Lunches, but I'm still quite happy to bunk down in Phoebe's Bed while she continues to sleep in your Bed with you? - LOL!!! ;o>

About 20 small Tiles above the Kitchen Window by the Kitchen Sink have cracked open and free of their Grouting and the bowing effect of heavy damp Plaster has bowed and bent the Runner bit that the Blinds open and close on.
I managed to climb up onto the Draining Board and help my Dad to brace it all with a propped up temporary Lintel Beam made from a spare thick plank of Wood ... I won't tell you all the details of how almost impossible it was for all of us to try to get me down again afterwards but me and Mum getting the giggles over the sheer absurdity of it all didn't really help much either at the time.
I was perched almost rigid by then with various Muscle Spasms whilst still only dressed in my PJs and I had no choice but to stay there and have my Breakfast just so that I could take my Medication to loosen me up enough to get back down again! ... HA HA HA HA HA!!! ;o>

I actually managed to buy it for just £3.99!!! - as it was originally on sale for £16.99 but the last few were reduced down to £8.99 a couple of days ago ... AND then I cashed in a £5 Voucher from the Catalogue they send out twice a year through the Post as it had (unusually) got no minimum spend on it this time around ... YAYYY!!! ;o> ...


suzysunshine7 wrote: "Our Kitchen Ceiling has decided to buckle and bow and threaten to fall in on us today! - we are pretty sure it is a slow and steady leak that has been happening for quite sometime now underneath th..."
And you wonder how you managed to fracture your collarbone? :)
And you wonder how you managed to fracture your collarbone? :)

I've eaten a few Meals in some rather unusual places but it was definitely a first for me to be sat on the Draining Board with my Feet in the Sink whilst eating a bowl of Weetabix! ... Hee, Hee, Hee!!! ;o>

I'm just off to Bed ... x N-N x S-T x and very S-D x

Playing 'Hurry up and wait' - have to be at the store for seven o'clock, no earlier, no later, only to queue behind two other trucks :)

It isn't scary so much as "OHHH! - why now of all times?!!" - LOL!!! ;o>
I am still very flexible but there is always a heavy price to pay for every single movement of every activity. My Muscles do such a marvellous job of compensating for my crappy Bone structure but they can suddenly decide to seize up rigid as stone or just relax like a Rag Doll ... and this often happens at completely the wrong time and without any warning.
It wasn't a big deal in getting up the Step Ladder with Mum helping me or sitting on the Cabinet and holding things with just the one Arm for my Dad - but then I seized up and had to sit it out and wait for my Muscles to relax enough again before I could get myself back down.
Mum and me were laughing so much because we were joking about maybe having to ring the Emergency Services and trying to explain to them what on Earth I was doing perched up on top of the Kitchen Units at 6am in the morning! With my Arm already in a Sling we thought they might possibly put me down in their Notes as being a serial Self-Harmer who was threatening to throw herself off our Draining Board!!!
And, to cap it all off, I was still wearing my Garfield PJs with this on the front!!! ;o> ...


Just please don't play with any Bridges while you're out there, will you? ;o>
We had yet another daft chancer who thought he could take on a local Railway Bridge yesterday ... it took over 3 hours to shift him and then another 6 hours before the Bridge was declared safe and the Road was reopened - and it caused chaos and Traffic gridlock through 7 surrounding Villages, including ours!
It ended up in taking us 25 minutes to make the usual 6 minute Car journey to the Dentists! ;oO





I was hoping to have a bit of a look around the Shop but it wouldn't have been fair on my Neighbour who kindly offered to take me on his way to Work so it was a morning of getting ready for a 3 minute max in and out job instead ... Ahhh well!
The huge Box it was packed and sealed in threw me for a while? It looked like it could easily have contained a massive Microwave despite barely weighing much to carry?!! ... and the small Cake Tin inside taking up barely a 10th of it had me laughing out loud ;o>
It does looks extremely good even though I would never in a month of Sundays have ever wanted to pay out on the full price of £16.99 for it.
Mum keeps on looking at it? ... and then looking sideways at me? ...
I don't think it will be long now before it gets cut and 'taste-tested' ;o>

We have had the most beautiful deep bright pink and flaming orange Skies over Stockport tonight - it's been wonderful just to sit out and take in the almost magical sight of them even though the general temperature has plummeted to being freezing cold today.
x Nighty-Night x Sleepy-Tight x and very Sweet Dreams to all x
After a six hour trip to Lowestoft and back, I've now got the weekend off. So, what's the first thing I'm going to do?
A six hour trip down to Gloucester and back to pick up Grandson from his dad for the weekend! :)
A six hour trip down to Gloucester and back to pick up Grandson from his dad for the weekend! :)

It's managed to stay dry for the last hour but the Sky is still completely overcast with dark grey Clouds - and we are sat here ready and waiting on the Plumber who said that he would be coming some time between 12 and 3.
I can't imagine that it isn't going to cost a large amount to sort this out but (staying ever-practical and positive on all of this) it has been well over a decade now since the Bathroom Floor was tiled and the Kitchen Ceiling was given a fresh lick of paint.
As unexpectedly annoying as it is that this has happened, it presents us with an opportunity to get to redo the Bathroom Floor so that it will hopefully go on to last another decade, and maybe get to fit newer and much better and brighter kinds of Spotlights into the Kitchen Ceiling and repaint it ;o>

A six hour trip down to Gloucester and back to pick up Grandson from his dad ..."
Awww, who's a lovely Grizzlygrump'y Grandad? ... You are! ;o>
Definitely grumpy by the time we got home - left here at 2 p.m. and didn't get back until 9 p.m. There was a heck of a lot of traffic about so I came back using a lot of the country roads that I know rather than trudge along with the masses on the main roads.
By the time we'd had something to eat and drink it was 11 p.m. and I'd been up for 24 hours by then - I don't even remember getting into bed :)
It's our Grandson I feel sorry for - he's gone onwards to Sheffield for the day with his uncle to see his mum. He's clocking up nearly as much travelling time as me and the poor bugger has started to develop travel sickness. We had to make a couple of stops on the way back here just so he could get out of the car for a bit of fresh air.
By the time we'd had something to eat and drink it was 11 p.m. and I'd been up for 24 hours by then - I don't even remember getting into bed :)
It's our Grandson I feel sorry for - he's gone onwards to Sheffield for the day with his uncle to see his mum. He's clocking up nearly as much travelling time as me and the poor bugger has started to develop travel sickness. We had to make a couple of stops on the way back here just so he could get out of the car for a bit of fresh air.

I bet he'll be glad to give up all this travelling and get back to School! ;o>
Would travelling all or part-way by Train be any quicker and better for him in future?
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Ohhh, how awful for him ;o<
I bet he'll be glad to give up all this travelling and get back to School! ;o>
Would travelling all or part-way by Train be any quicker and better for him in future?"
If he did do the journey by train I wouldn't be accompanying him - I've only ever been on a train once and as soon as it started moving, according to a very amused Mrs Grizzly, I went a wonderful shade of green!
That journey was only Rugby to Birmingham but I wanted to get off by the end of the platform :)
I just don't travel well unless it's by road, and preferably with me driving - I found the only way I could survive ferry crossings was by sleeping through the trip and I was put off flying over 30 years ago by a pilot in a de Havilland Chipmunk who rather enjoyed flying upside down with the canopy locked back in the open position!
Imagine looking up to see the ground about 1000 feet away and the only thing between you and it being the straps holding you in your seat!
I bet he'll be glad to give up all this travelling and get back to School! ;o>
Would travelling all or part-way by Train be any quicker and better for him in future?"
If he did do the journey by train I wouldn't be accompanying him - I've only ever been on a train once and as soon as it started moving, according to a very amused Mrs Grizzly, I went a wonderful shade of green!
That journey was only Rugby to Birmingham but I wanted to get off by the end of the platform :)
I just don't travel well unless it's by road, and preferably with me driving - I found the only way I could survive ferry crossings was by sleeping through the trip and I was put off flying over 30 years ago by a pilot in a de Havilland Chipmunk who rather enjoyed flying upside down with the canopy locked back in the open position!
Imagine looking up to see the ground about 1000 feet away and the only thing between you and it being the straps holding you in your seat!

The Wheels are coming off our otherwise excellent 4 year old Vax and unfortunately and annoyingly they are the sort that can't be fixed or replaced - and so I've spent the best part of 3 whole days and 3 whole nights online (fuelled mainly by Hot Chocolate and slices of Simnel Cake ;o>) searching Site after Site looking at Brand after Brand and Model after Model and wading through hundreds and thousands of Ratings and Reviews to try to pin down THE ultimate in best-ever Vacuum Cleaners.
After almost losing the will to live several times over I think that I have finally found one that could prove to be absolutely ideal for us - and so I ordered it last night off John Lewis where it was on sale cheaper than anywhere else plus it also comes with their 2 Year Guarantee - AND - I also paid a tenner more on top for an extra Added 2 Years Care ... job done! - HALLELUJAH!!! - I can now have my online hours get back to being fun-time once again ;o>
M&D go to our nearest John Lewis to pick it up today, my Dad opens it all up and takes one look at it and says "I'm not using that?!" ... Me: "Why not?" ... Dad: "I don't like the colour" ... Me: "WHAAAAAAAT?!!"
So, okay, it's a little bit Pink? ... and, as most folk know, I don't like the colour Pink either ... but it's much more of a kind of a Purple than it is a Pink or perhaps maybe you could possibly call it a pale and slightly glittery sort of a plummy Lilac? ... WHO FLIPPIN' CARES?!! - it is what it is and what it is is a Vacuum Cleaner for vacuum cleaning!!! ... ARRRGGGHHH!!! ;oO


it is exciting! we got a new model recently, and although there's only the 3 of us in the house (well, 3 humans and a spoiled lump of a beardie who needs space for her bulk bought premium chicken in the freezer), opted for a bigger model, primarily, i think, because we're greedy bastids! probably more due to 'his 'n' hers' storage - i drink premium coke, mrs t, diet, i use lurpak, mrs t, 'utterly butterly, i drink whole milk, mrs t, semi-skimmed, etc. it's only because i'm a health freak!

Totally relate to that! I'm a black olive person, he's green. I like pickles, gherkins, chutney, mayo. He likes aioli, thousand-island dressing, caesar salad dressing. He drinks soda water, I like lightly-sparkling. He has whole milk, I have almond milk......

Ohhh I get it because I'm just as bad, Val ;o>
I love the excitement of buying new or 'Like New' things - and then there's something (oddly?) pleasurable and incredibly satisfying to me whenever I come to have a sorting out and a resetting up of things like our Fridge and Freezer.
I love planning for Meals and moving things around to make more room before stocking up with all sorts of bargain buys as well as one-off Treats for extra special occasions.

c'mon, admit it, you bought a 'Henrietta Hoover', didn't you?"
Nope ;o> ... my Dad has an absolutely ancient rather manky and distinctly smelly old Henry that he refuses to part with and so we make him keep it outside in the Garage and won't let him use it in the House ;o>
I've bought us a 'Vax UCPMSHV1 Air Lift Steerable Pet Max Upright Vacuum Cleaner' which looks a lot more of a Fuschia Pink in colour in some pictures online that it actually really is in real life ;o> ...


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