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I haven't seen amy of the Olympics yet .. maybe another day !
Good news .. my elderly gent has finally rung me .. he was absolutely devasted by losing his little dog .. he said he just didn't want to get out of bed .. couldn't bare to get up and not have a little dog for company .. poor man ..
He's always had dogs .. and so after much thought he has gone and got a little rescue dog .. some may say it seems too quick .. but I know exactly how he was feeling .. I'm sure it would have been the death of him losing his 'best friend' like that .. and this little rescue dog desperately needed a home .. my elderly friend needed a little dog .. now they have each other ... he sounded so much brighter and happier when he was talking about her .. so I am really pleased for him .. and for the little dog .. they will be good for each other ..
What a very nice turn for your friend's story to take, Patootie. I don't think it's too soon at all. In fact, when our lovely Bingo died, and we got Rossie soon after, I always felt that as soon as Bingo got to doggy heaven he made arrangements for us to be sent another dog that needed a home. I'm sure your gent's old dog is very happy that his master isn't alone and that another dog now has a good home!
As to the Olympics, I know I should be thrilled, but the whole thing has been so hyped up for months and months that I'm bored with most of it now. There are a few events it will be fun to see a bit of, but it's all got so much ulterior motive attached that I can't really work up much enthusiasm.
Cynical? Moi??
I am very 'put off' about the Olympics too .. I just keep seeing those poor Chinese villagers who were marched out of their homes to make way for the new stadiums .. not so much as a please or thank you .. just an order to go ..
And my sympathies lie with Tibet and it's ongoing struggle against China .. they were summarily ordered 'you are now a part of China' .. but with no oil or other useful 1st world commodities they had no country coming to their aid like Iraq or Afghanistan .. all they got was a few over polite political 'noises' aimed at the Chinese re Tibet ..
1st world double standards !!!
And as for the London 2012 Olympics ... flippin' costing a fortune and for what .. stadiums no one will use after 2012 .. only benefitting London as usual .. and I think it will be a disaster .. blimey they are going to have to bus the athletes miles and miles .. chances of them actually arriving in time for their events are minimal .. flippin' norah they can't even get the traffic moving now .. let alone with tens of thousands spectators and athletes coming and going all day ..
Patootie, that's a pretty cruel time to be posting! I hope it doesn't mean the fibro is being a pig and keeping you from sleeping?
But I agree with you on the games. They were certainly spectacular, but I found the opening faintly chilling, because it showed thousands of human being who had all been reduced to widgets in one giant machine. It was, quite literally, inhuman---or so it seemed to me.
And as for the London Olympics....the mind boggles, it really does. I cannot imagine how they think London's infrastructure will cope. Even if they get the Olympic village and all that built, how on earth are all these people going to move around? I can only think that the politicians who dreamed it up haven't personally been on a tube or a bus for about 30 years!! And when you realise that the thing could have been held in Paris, with the opening ceremony on the Champs Elysee.....!!
And I'll bet you all the tea in China to a penny bun that it winds up costing the country in general, and London in particular, a zillion pounds that we haven't got. It's like the bliddy Millenium Dome, which makes me angry every time I see it. That big stupid white elephant sits there in the middle of nowhere, but with that money they spent on that they could have built dozens of shelters for homeless people, or an entire new wing of Great Ormond Street.....
But don't let me go on, cos life is good and I like people, honest! It's turned into a lovely afternoon, after a wet morning, so I think I'll take Rossie out for a while.
Hope you managed to get some sleep eventually, Patootie! Take care, won't you?
Sleep was indeed a bit hard to come by last night
It's my fault .. but I was sooooo tired last night that I made the mistake of going to bed too early .. which of course meant I woke up just after 2am ...
... tried to read but was thirsty and needed a drink ... so I thought .. 'blow it' .. got up had some lovely capucchino coffee .. played silly games online for a few hours .. then toddled off back to bed around 6am .. rather embarrassingly I didn't wake up again until 11am .. 
Feel better for the sleep/s .. but the flippin' on/off hot/rain weather is doing my head/body in .. if it would just do one thing each day it'd help hahahaha
Hi all,
Not Poodles LOL
Glad to hear your friend has a new friend Toots I think elderly people on their own really need pets to keep them company.
The 2012 Olympics
It should be a wonderful, once-in -a lifetime event for the country but of course it will turn into fiasco. And you're right about the transport GC. I'm half wondering whether we should ship out somewhere for the duration. I can't imagine what getting to work is going to be like.
Don't get me started on the Dome. The worst thing is that nobody wanted it.
Whenever the rising costs are mentioned I think of Montreal who only finished paying for the 1976 Olympics about two years ago! And given the Credit Crunch there could hardly be a worse time for a building project like this. The security bill on its own will be massive.
All very worrying.
Oh dear, I didn't know that about Montreal. But unless our planning on these Olympics is spectacularly better than any public planning we've seen for about 50 years, I would be confident that we will have to spend much more than we expected, and will wind up making much less than we hoped, from this event. And that most of the great 'legacies' turn out to be white elephants....
Patootie, it's great that you a) had the sense to get up and amuse yourself instead of lying there seething and b) managed to get a nice long lie. But I can imagine that this weather plays havoc with a finely-balanced system like yours. It seems to be constantly swinging between extremes, and never settling into any kind of steady summer. I hope things steady soon, but from the weather charts I saw this evening it looks like more of those weather fronts are trundling in from the west
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Will the cooler autumn weather be better for you?
It's all down to how much the barometer changes and how quickly .. small changes .. or changes over a couple of days are fine and don't 'mess' with me .. but rapid sudden changes .. 'fling' my fibro into overdrive ..
People may think I am a little 'eccentric' when I say "let me check the weather to see how well I might be feeling later today' but .. 'I knows what I know' .. if you see what I mean .. and keeping an eye on the weather forecast is an important part of my fibro
Tomorrow morning I have to be at the docs by 9.30am ..
.. got a 'starvation' blood test to have done .. so no food or drink from 9.30pm .. 
.. nothing at all in the morning .. so no meds at all before I go .. just hope it isn't raining as I am not good at driving so early in the morning especially with no meds at all ... 
And the poor nurse doesn't know what's coming tomorrow .. I have veins that can hide themselves away in an instant .. and I swear they are Teflon coated as generally the needles just slide round them hahahah .. so good luck to the nice nurse
Would you flippin' Adam and Eve it .. flamin' bucketing with rain .. no choice .. if it doesn't stop soon .. but to take the car .. had a terrible nights sleep
.. kept dreaming I had overslept hahahah .. every hour or so I would snap open my eyes and fearfully check the time .. no sleep .. no meds .. and I've got to drive ... aarrgghhhhhh !!!!!!
Gotta stay calm .. think Zen like thoughts .. breathe out slowly ... aaahhh that's feeling better .. rolls head slowly to ease the tension .. shakes arms to loosen shoulders ... omg ... breathe woman, BREATHE in again .. gulps air .. flippin' heck ... ok ... that's breathe out AND breathe in ... slowly .. calmly ...
... whhaggghhh rains still bucketing .. 15 minutes and I'll need to leave ....
.... heheheh watch this space ....
Yahoo .. 5 minutes before I had to go .. rain stopped and just a few seconds later the sun came out .. hahahah .. well they do say the sun shines on the Righteous don't they ... giggles
Nurse was very professional .. only a couple of minor digs around to find the vein .. then .. in the immortal words of the late great much missed Tony Hancock .. she took 'an armful' ...
Now sipping deeply on my coffee .. got my meds down me .. and all is well again in my world ..
Ohh .. and I forgot to say .. while I was waiting for my appointment (I was a good girl, got there 3 minutes early
) .. on the radio it said there was a massive fire in Cambridge City centre .. wine shop in Kings St .. I think it's this shop .. http://cambridge.openguides.org/wiki/?D'Arry's_Wine_Shop they've got 6 appliances, 2 with turntable ladders, to try and contain the fire .. it's in an old area of Cambridge so I suppose the roof void will vent into others roofs etc .. hope they get it under control asap .. 
Oh Patootie, what a nuisance this weather must be for you! But I'm glad to see there is SOME justice in the world, and at the last moment the rain stopped so you could go and do the business with the nice nurse. And gladder still to hear that, with the coffee and the meds, you're feeling better again!
I was a bit alarmed when you said some part of old Cambridge had had a fire, so I had a look on the BBC website but there's nothing there so I'm guessing no serious damage was done. Whew---in the old party of the city where houses are pretty close together and there's a lot of wood, a fire could be pretty disastrous pretty fast.
Hope you're managed to spend the rest of the day doing something nice to make up for being such a brave girl this morning!!!
I had a very self indulgent day spent with two friends. One is a professional keyboard player (harpsichord is her instrument) and the other is a world authority on mediaeval chant. The latter was trying to teach the two of us how to read some of the 11th century chant from Notre Dame. In half an hour we'd made it through two words!! But it's just fantastic stuff, a completely different approach to music than we are accustomed to. I loved it!
Yes .. I was right it was Darry's wine restaurant .. colleges on both sides so they had 8 fire crews in all .. the fire had gone up to the roof space .. but was quickly brought under control ..
I LOVE the harpsichord .. it's a beautiful instrument .. such a pretty sound .. very restful and melodic .. lucky you having friends like that .. what fun you must have had ..
Eeyew, just looked at the map. Looks like this place is more or less between Sidney Sussex and Jesus, so indeed a bad place to have a fire take hold. Thank goodness they got it under control quickly!
I love the harpsichord too, so much nicer a sound than the piano. This harpsichordist is in fact the director of our church choir, and sometimes if we're doing 17th or 18th century music for an Evensong or something she brings in her harpsichord and we sing with that----lovely!
Although today was about 500 years before anything she would normally ever encounter, which made it a lot of fun in itself! And the other friend is someone who believes that by about 1350 almost everything worth doing in music had been done
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A great day!
Just have to pop in to thank the collective wisdom of the thread for the hint about cats, pills and Brussels pate! Two of our moggies had their teeth cleaned this week and have to take pills for a few days.
In the past this has been a somewhat, ahem, trying occurrence, but this time I got the pate and now my only fear is that they are going to work out the connection between the pills and the pate---cos if they do I am going to be living with hypocondriac cats for the rest of my life!! (You know--it'll be the feline equivalent of 'Oh dear, I think I have a pain in my whisker. I think I need a pill for it--wrapped in pate, of course!")
)))))
Hope everyone else is getting a bit of this bright weather for a change! Is it any better where you are now, Patootie?
Oh, Patootie, they don't care at all if there's something hidden in the pate (provided it doesn't spoil the taste, of course). All they're interested in is the pate! I fear if I started giving it to them even when they didn't need pills, they would quickly come to view it as a natural feline right and would refuse to do ANYTHING without their slug of pate!
How are you feeling now? Any better, or is this interminable succession of weather fronts giving the fibro a pounding?
After several very long and depressing days of dull weather, storms and heavy, heavy air .. I had a marvellous day today .. weather broke last night so I slept much better .. morning broke with blue skies, nice and warm and a slight breeze .. felt full of energy and raring to go .. did some much needed housework .. BUT ... accidentally tripped the 'help' alarm when I got my cleaning cloth caught on the little toggle thingy .. I'd held it very carefully so i didn't turn it on .. then as I was walking away the very edge of my cloth flippin' snagged the toggle .. red lights flashed everywhere .. the warden was just coming out of her flat next door .. running feet ... what's the matter ... and to make it worse my warden had just switched the system to an 'outside' service .. so I had to explain over the phone that I had accidentally caught the toggle
Then around 6.30pm .. I 'discovered' today was Friday not Thursday .. DOHHH !!!!
Ohh .. and by the way .. I used to get a HUGE percentage off my pate because I bought so much of it .. I had a FULL one of those big white supermarket deli dishes of it every month hahahahahahah ...
Awww, Patootie, that sort of thing happens to everyone now and then, don't worry about it. I'm sure everyone was MUCH happier to find a false alarm, than to find something really wrong. Much better and more important is that the change in the weather is helping you feel better.
It's been much the same over here: not tremendously high temperatures, but rather heavy, dull weather that doesn't get cool enough at night to really sleep well. But I think it's changing now, hooray! In fact my guess is that we're in for an early autumn. We may still got some nice weather, but it will be a fine autumn rather than high summer. And no bad thing either: autumn is my favourite season!
I can't rival your bulk pate consumption, but then I've only got two cats and a dog who need a couple of pills each per day for a week. You must have been passing the stuff off in real quantity!
Hahahh ... after about 2 years they started letting me buy it at virtually cost price (had to show them the cats pills 1st though, just to prove they were on daily meds ).. admittedly it was the dishes that had reached 'sell by' dates .. but that didn't matter as I cut it up into 1/2 inch cubes as soon as I got home .. fast froze it on baking trays and then stored it in the freezer in plastic tubs .. and I only defrosted the cubes just before giving them to the cats .. but it saved me HUGE amounts of money ..
On the day I came home with the pate is was like a little 'factory' in my kitchen .. ease out of tray .. cut into slices .. then cut the slices longways into fingers .. and cut all the fingers into cubes .. carefully plop each little cube onto the baking tray (needed 6 trays) .. then go back an hour or so later and repack all the now frozen cubes into large plastic tubs ..
If possible I'd do it while the cats were asleep or outside .. or they would go crazy for a free lick or two .. hahah .. I once put a cube in front of my male cats nose .. he was fast asleep .. and without opening his eyes or moving anything but his mouth .. he slurped it up in his sleep .. hahahah .. you should have seen the look on his face when he did wake up .. started smacking his lips and looking all round ..he was very confused .. and he only settled again when I fetched him another cube .. bet he thought he'd been dreaming of pate or something hahahah
Oh what a great story, Patootie! I don't think I've ever seen an animal eat in its sleep, but if it did, it must be thinking it was a dream come true! All that fiddling with the pate sounds like one of those brilliant ideas that take quite a while when you implement them, but then pay off for weeks on end.
I do the same with embroidery threads (I'm a keen cross-stitcher): when I buy a new colour I unroll the whole skein, then fold it on itself so it's doubled, then again so it's quartered, and so on twice more; then cut both ends so instead of loops I have consistent lengths of thread; and I put those into a hole on my thread card. I have all the cards indexed in plastic binders. Takes a little while to do (and when I start to run low I byu up the colours I need and then spend an hour getting them all cut and put in) but it means I can find any colour straightaway, and I have it all ready-cut into the right lengths. Funny what people will spend time organising, isn't it?
I've just seen Chuglet 2 out the door with two friends: they are all celebrating A2 results, and the three of them will no doubt return around 3 am and crash out! But it's lovely they've all done OK--the Chuglet got into his first choice uni, which was Chester, and now he can't wait to go!
BUT I had best go give Truffles her second pill of the day---with the help of some pate, of course -)))
That;s great news about University .. well done to your son and his mates ... I sometimes wish I'd had the chance to go .. but I matured late .. academically speaking .. did well enough at school but was bored to tears with the 'simple' school work we were given .. and anyway most of the lessons I had would be nothing to do with anything I later needed in 'adult real life' ... in fact I was usually told I was 'clever, but lazy' .. never taken seriously or thought of as being more than average .. so .. in 1984 I decided once and for all to find out if my IQ was merely average, pathetic or brighter than usual .. and I took the Mensa IQ Cattell test ,,
... I am pleased to say .. but I'm sure they must have got my results muddled with someone elses .. pleased to say I was shown to have an IQ of 153 .. and in 1984 151 on the Cattell scale was supposed to be 'genius' hahahahh
Still .. it did prove I had a pretty quick and agile brain .. which us just as well with geting this flippin' fibro .. I dread to think how bad my mental processes would be if I had started out with a 'lesser able' brain ..
Patootie, there is no doubt at all but that you are a very clever lady indeed. You write wonderfully, you have a keen eye for the world around you, a formidability to organise things, a lot of imagination, all of that IN SPITE OF the fibro.....oh, I have no trouble at all believing that you're a genius! In fact, I could have told you that myself!
It is such a shame, though, that really able minds like yours are so little engaged at school, isn't it? Kids are so ready to learn, if only things are presented in a way that is intriguing and attractive. Lots of people get past it, of course, as you have, but I wonder how many able people never really make use of their talents?
Can you see the sun from where you are? If so, could you send a bit over here? It's raining AGAIN--and while I have nothing against rain, this is AUGUST, for dog's sake, and if we don't get some decent weather now, when will we???
Nope can't see the sun .. although there are blue skies in between all the white fluffy stuff .. the sun must be out though as there are lots of shadows .. need a neck like a giraffe to see round the end of the building .. yes .. she says craning her head out the window .. yes .. the sun IS there ...
Carefully snips away a piece of the sun and sends it off to gentle Chugger ..
Well that's just flippin' dandy .. sent you a bit of sun .. and now just minutes later it's come over dark, black clouds and pouring with rain ..
haha bright and sunny here on the South coast (after lots of rain earlier)
*sends a bit of sun to Patootie and Gentle Chugger*
Oh dear, Patootie, I didn't mean you should give me your sun INSTEAD OF keeping it yourself---I thought we could share!!
Here it is back---and you can have some too, B, since you were so nice as to share yours with us!
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Whoops, let me try again to send it back to you--
There, that's better
Hey Patootie, you OK? I hope the weather isn't getting you down or kicking in the fibro too much!
Today was a great relief. It wasn't actually raining as I cycled to and from work. It's rained every day for the last 2 weeks. It's not that I mind that much, I have head-to-toe Gore-tex, but it's kind of nice not to have to climb into and out of it all the time. Something different, at least!
And Mr Chuggs and Chuglet 2's trip to Chester went really well. C2 is starting up there at uni next month, so this was a big 'lets have another look and start to get this organised' trip. I luuuuurve Chester, my very favourite city, so I'm hoping he will want his mum to visit him often. What's that? You think he'd rather I never showed up at all cos it'll ruin his street cred? Oh rats......
Hi, hope you are all well.
It has been mad busy with work and coursework recently but is calming down a bit now. Just as well because I have to sort out travel insurance and a new Oystercard etc. before I go on holiday - thank goodnesss for t'internet!
Many congrats on Chuglet 2 getting into his university of choice. I didn't try very hard and didn't get in when I was younger which is why I'm doing my degree now. I don't actually regret not going at the time although I do wish I'd started earlier as it takes six long years by the OU route
Ironically I'm studying the subject I failed in at the time - history.
Coo that's a high IQ Toots, I'm impressed. Mine is above average apparently but not that high. Interestingly I watched those "Test the Nation" IQ progs, once sober and once after I'd been drinking and the results came out exactly the same both times. Never been sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing
I've seen cats dream eating but never really eating while asleep. that must have been very funny to see
I don't believe my actual IQ is as high as the Cattell scale might suggest .. I prefer to say I simply have a 'quick and agile' mind .. (or at least I used to have prior to the fibro) .. wherever I have worked they only had to show me something once and I instantly could do the job .. which is I suppose why I was always 'useful' to a company .. as I could take over any job through a breaktime .. or if folks were off sick .. I always used to get top makes for flexibility in my work assessments .. what I am not very good at is formal academia .. I just can't sit and learn page after page of 'boring' stuff .. I want to flit from one interesting bit to the next at a rapid rate .. I think they call it the 'butterfly syndrome' .. devours only the most interesting information .. in the same way a butterfly only sips at the most tasty nectar
Weather is getting me down a bit .. barometer is jumping around and that's terrible for fibro .. and I'm in my 'bad week' too .. which is I suppse why I've been quieter this last few days .. bit better today though thank goodness .. I had my week of 'can't sleep, won't sleep' last week .. and this week is a 'can sleep, can't wake up' week
My old male cat used to sleep so heavily you could easily pick him up and move him to another room and he didn't wake up at all .. he was an all black cat so in summer I was constantly having to move him back into the shade as he would sleep so deeply he didn't realise he was over heating .. had to go to the vets with sunstroke several times .. silly boy .. best I saw was one day when he was laying out side deep asleep and the birds were actually hopping on him and around him digging in the grass for insects .. must have been a good 10 minutes or more the birds were 'jumping' up and down on him .. he never even flinched ..