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It all seems rather medical in here (((((prolific polyps, unnecessary ulna, bonkers blood pressure, achy ankles, dodgy dental doings))))) Look after yourselves - you're falling apart!!!
Everything but the kitchen sink eh Chugs - oh, you needed that too - ah well, hope it's all shiny and exciting - and useable
Hoorah for exchanging contracts - let's hope it results in a house move Tubbs.
I went out for a run last Sunday and got a bit of sun burn. I went out this Sunday and came back with frostbite. Running - it certainly isn't doing anything for my complexion!!
I did however go out again this morning and saw a woodpecker. Have been hearing it for a number of months and resigned myself to the fact that it was invisible. Not only saw it, but stopped and watched it in action for a bit. It was rather lovely.
Tonight we are out to see Paloma Faith - I'm not really looking forward to it.
Ah well, happy Wednesday - hope it brings you something jolly
I'll add to medical woes DL!
My mother phoned me last Sunday and long story short was in the throes of recovering from a really bad chest infection and still sounded dreadful....said it was the illest she'd ever felt
So as a dutiful daughter I advised her that although she was feeling better she needed to take it really easy as often after a really bad bout of something you're not as strong as you think you are.........
So last night she phones me........thought that rather than getting more antibiotics over the phone etc she'd walk to the doctor's surgery........had a fall outside........broken her shoulder in 2 places......... brother had to go and get her and take her to A & E as when the doctor's surgery phoned for an ambulance they were told 4 hour waiting time.........so she's now home but in a lot of pain and waiting to see if she needs surgery on it.........
So it looks like I'll be on visiting / caring /chauffeur duties over the next 6 weeks which means no real break at Easter, no Liege-Bastogne-Liege ride weekend most likely, no swim analysis weekend and one heck of a lot of driving (it's a 400 mile round trip) in a dodgy car that's on its last legs whilst trying to get all the prep done for summer exams!!
All I can say is thank goodness it's not MY blood pressure that's under investigation...........
Sluggie, you must be a true godsend to your BFF. With a son needing as much support as that, it must be hard for them to get away---but terribly necessary. And phone support is probably just the right amount for him.
Flibs, that does sound horribly painful for Mr Flibs, so really hope the op has sorted it.
I'm with you, Flibs, colour is impossible, so it's white ceilings and off-white walls :-) Looks SO much cleaner and brighter. Local elections yesterday, so on duty at the polling station from 0700 til 1400, then back at 2100 to count votes. We had a referendum at the same time---our last. The law allowing non-binding referendums has not worked very well, just caused confusion, so it's being repealed. Good idea, I think. Governmental decisions have a lot of angles that aren't at all obvious, so I never feel I really understand the real effects of the options.
Time for a nice walk with Mo, so happy days all. xx
Podds, I am sorry to hear about your mother's fall - for her sake as it sounds terribly painful, and for yours because your plate is already full to overflowing. Sterkte.
Chuggy, it sounds as if you had a long day yesterday. Hope you can take things more quietly today. I tend to agree with you about referenda. The way a question is phrased has a huge impact on the result ( our referendum about alternative voting offered the worst of the alternatives, which even people in favour of PR didn't want) and there is no room for subtleties.
Tubs, I bet it is chaos at your place today! I can understand your distress/anger at your bro's behaviour as you had the same bad start and would never dream of behaving as he has. Whether that is down to an unfortunate mix of genes or lack of strong role models, we will never know.
I hope DL survived the concert!
(((((Mummy Podds)))))) Can she not come and stay with you for a bit to make it easier? Or would that in fact make the whole thing unbearable!
Hope you've finished counting Chuggy
Happy packing Tubs
Should have gone for a run this morning
Didn't
Oops
Is it nearly the weekend ?- please someone say it's so???!!!! Gearing myself up for a 'conference call' this afternoon. Whoever invented conference call facilities deserves some sort of purgatorial experience surely?
Happy Friday - hope it ushers in a weekend of excitement for you
afternoon lovelies
oh dear Podds poor Mummy
- would travelling by train be an option , maybe you could then do some work while travelling? I'm guessing having her stay with you is not your preferred option
DL I rather like Paloma Faith - in that I think she has a lot of talent but I would fear she could be a bit shouty
I've just had to have a little word with myself - I keep seeing my fellow club runners doing amazing marathon training at 10mm pace whereas my long runs have always been at about 11:30. I'm always telling people not to compare themselves and be proud of their own achievements - and there's me doing it! naughty!
Parkrunned - feeling virtuous for dragging myself out of bed! They have sent me my results but I'm 'Unknown' in the list! I've emailed them ...
It was my birthday yesterday so we went out and celebrated (hence the not wanting to get out of bed this morning). A blood orange martini is delicious!!!
Grit your teeth, Podds! Hope your mum gets better soon. I can remember my mum not wanting to bother me with jobs then falling over trying to prune the roses and ending up calling me to take her to hospital where she needed stitches ... We did get her not to stand on rickety chairs to change light bulbs ...
(((( mummy Podds and Podds )))))
glad you enjoyed the concert DL, I do quite like Paloma Faith, she's a bit like Marmite, very original :0)
Beautiful sunny day here. I'm sneezing because we've been to get hay for the ponies, they're all out naked basking in the sun while we slave away keeping them fed, watered and cosseted! I've hoovered and mopped out the hoss box in preparation for filling it with our stuff. ( the neighbour's are now certain that I've completely lost my marbles!) As soon as we get the keys on Monday we're off with the first load :0) Packing has deteriorated into shoving stuff into carrier bags and piling them up in the front room. The cats are treating it like an assault course and I have absolutely no chance of finding anything I might actually need ever again!
((((( waisters )))))
been too busy to pop in lately, so trying to catch up but I never remember most of what I read!
podds - so sorry to hear about your mum, hope she is comfortable and getting better
DL - glad you enjoyed the concert, I think I like Paloma Faith but I don't really listen to her much
pippi - belated happy birthday
nearly Easter hols, thank goodness...
Sluggie - porn star martini.........do I dare ask?????
Oh dear Tubs - sounds like complete chaos and I'm sorry but the picture you paint did make me chortle a bit!! Have you broken the news to the cats that they're moving?
Thanks for the good wishes for Mummy Podds. Spoke to her Friday and she sounded much more compus mentis, which was good as Weds she was so spaced out I was tossing up confusion from pain meds v confusion from concussion, especially as she said she didn't remember the fall!!
My mother being ridiculously independent would hate to come over here so that's not an option I'd even float as she'd just get really shirty! Current plan is for me to go over Weds (in one sense no huge rush as my brother actually lives at home!!) and I'll take the 2 junior dogs with me and stay until Sun or Mon probably, however this could all change when I speak to her this evening. She didn't hear from the hospital on Friday so we're assuming surgery seems less likely now as if they felt it was urgent they'd have called.........but who knows!!
Did the DfE practice walk yesterday but dog knows how far we went in the end....Tom and Badger were shattered and my feet were on fire..........couldn't walk all evening!!
I've completely lost the plot. Losing an hour with the clocks going forward has exacerbated my lack of sleep - brain, well what counts for a brain in my case, won't switch off! In hindsight labelling the bags and boxes would have been a good idea. It's going to be like lucky dip unpacking! Loading drawers into the hoss box from the dressing table etc without emptying contents will definitely save a lot of time. Except that my knicker drawer aka the real fifty shades of grey, is in there somewhere. I'm going to have to try to find it as going commando isn't really an option! Our bedding will be the last to go Sluggie, probably wrapped around some furniture. Goodness knows what our new neighbour's will make of us pitching up in the hoss box, furniture wrapped in towels and duvets! I just hope none of the drawers lose their contents!
(((((Waisters)))))
Anyway, British Heart Foundation seem to have quite a detailed and sensible one - not too technical with cadence and power and stuff!!! but it goes up to 5 hours at 9 weeks, then two similar 4-5 hour rides the following weekend, then a 5 hours the weekend before the actual event. They do taper the midweek rides.
Then there is a very simple one from active.com which has two midweek rides of 45 minutes, then the long ride increasing by half an hour a week, with a drop back week every third week.
I like simple. Do you think the BHF one has too many long rides or do you think that gives the preparation you need? I'm just thinking compared with running, you wouldn't do 13 miles for each of the few weeks before a half!
I'm not saying I'll actually do it ... but I do keep looking at it!
Lovely to see everyone but 50 posts have been read so far... I've made notes and I'll be back when I have time to comment on all the goings on. A quick check of my schedule suggests this will be Thursday.
Pippi, people actually train for bike rides ? I always adopted the policy of get on and go
WAIST well - I'll be back!
good luck with the move Tubs - you are making me chuckle, I can just imagine your neighbours
Pippi I know absolutely nothing about bikes so I would chose the simplest plan. also I don't think cycling has the same strains on your body so there's not the tapering issue - but like I say I have no clue
I hope your mum is on the mend Podds
nice to see you MC no long now til Easter
I will have to work one of the bank holidays - and I've had no time off yet this year
DL, I'm jealous. I hear woodpeckers, and sometimes they come to snabble peanuts from the feeders, but I've not yet managed to see one in action. Glad the concert was a pleasant surprise, too. BTW, there is an easy way to survive conference calls. Take your knitting. Or embroidery. Or tatting. Or whatever. Anything you can do quietly that will keep you relaxed and occupied while the rest of them drone on ;-_
Podds, your mum has really been in the wars---chest infection, fall, broken shoulder. Not so reassuring to be concluding she doesn't need surgery on the basis of hearing nothing from the hospital! And it does sound like more stress and work and travel for you :-( Though maybe, like JFF said, you can do the journey by train instead of having to drive? Will you ever manage to fit in the DofE with the hounds?
Pippi, a belated happy birthday! Sounds like you had a nice evening out, which means your Parkrun wins you TWO gold stars! The BHF ride sounds intriguing, but I've no idea about training. Where's Noggy when we need him?
Tubs, loved your description of moving as a feline assault course of random-filled carrier bags! I can just see your two felines taking full advantage... :-)) But hopefully by now the worst of the move is behind you and you are starting the exciting and rewarding business of opening the bags---think of it as the world's biggest lucky dip! ;-)
Sluggie, LOL at your description of moving house and discovering you had no bedclothes! At least you're well equipped now for visitors :-) And I am awed by your encyclopaedic knowledge of martinis. Judging by the progression we are following, I guess the next one will be the 'Stormy'?
MC, good to see you, tho you sound frantically busy. Tell us more once you manage to cross the finish line on Friday!
(Waves to Yums as she speeds through the long) [she's a bit like Halley's comet at the moment, isn't she? You know she'll be back eventually ;-)]
Been bizzy here. Out all day and every evening counting votes, university dinner, choir rehearsal, concert.... BUT the laundry room is nearly finished! We thought it would be a small 3 week job, been nearly 7 weeks, but it is a lot cleaner and fresher now, so worth it. Sluggie: I thought of you on Saturday, went to a concert of the Bach St. John Passion---stonkingly good. How are your two choirs going?? Busy Easter weekend coming up, with big family brunch on Sunday after church, and then on Monday our annual asparagus feast (joined by some friends as well).
Oh, and I found a new way to start the week: take your animals to the V-E-T at 0900 on a Monday. The fun of trying to chase the cat out from under the bed, the relaxing peace of being one of three people hanging onto the dog to get the necessary drop into his nose, the sheer joy of holding the cat while the vet clips her claws....Definitely improves your attitude, because after that start, the rest of the week will seem easy no matter what happens! ;-)
Tubs, I really hope that you got everything safely to the new house. We actually did make sure that we had 'bedding' to hand by which I mean sheets, pillowcases and towels. We just forgot to keep the pillows and duvet aside!
Podds, what is the latest progress report on your mum?
Chuggy, v e t visits are intended to test one's resolve! Sky is due for a check-up on Tuesday and I am dreading it! Poor little girl hates even being picked up and I am frightened of having to start again with gaining her trust. However, the vet says that she cannot has to review Sky as she is getting regular prescriptions, so we will have to get on with it.
The choirs are going well, being secular there is no particular Easter music although, co-incidentally, we are singing on Saturday.
Morning chaps :-)
as Yums says, 'people are odd, but waisters are odder' .. or something like that !
I had a nice few days in Devon so was missing in action for a bit, had a bit of a 'storm chasing' kind of moment driving down the 303 being chased by the Beast from the East but just about slid in to Colyton as the blizzard followed! had a pretty good journey down all but the last 15 miles or so where I was reduced to 20mph on snow and ice, my relatives from darkest Essex deferred their visit to the following day. We managed a quick visit to Hestercombe gardens but that was a few weeks too early and was a little bleak ..
Daffs I too am loving your updates on FB, it looks just idyllic up there, I suspect extremes of weather may be somewhat testing at times but you will reap the rewards tenfold .. especially to have your own personal Hare! they are not common creatures any more. there is a very good book called 'the Running Hare' by John Lewes Stemple which I think might interest you, He takes a field that has been essentially over worked/farmed and goes back to natural farming ways and watches all the flora and fauna come flooding back in, its just a lovely book to read and some really good snippets of information that I never knew * he has also written one about owls
Podds, any transport decisions reagrds Austria this year? I have just been looking at flights and trains and what have you and will touch base with Cougs this week also, drop me an email if its easier
I had a personal training session today and then did a quick run afterwards before my legs realised they couldn't work any more .. I suspect stairs might be an issue in the morning
I am doing a night shift tonight for a colleague which seemed a good idea at the time, I am then back in on a late shift for the easter weekend which I am sure will be a bundle of joy!
* the poppy that became a symbol of the wars was found to grow in abundance on the fields of many sites of war, they flourished due to the about of blood that was found in the soil due to the amount of deaths that occurred
Hope everyone is well, am just dashing through the lounge as i get ready for work, tis granddaughters 2nd birthday today - have i managed lil flibs an littler flibs live at home? Am going to go and open presents with her before work :-)
happy birthday to littler flibs - you are a very young Granny Flibs - I bet you're a 2nd Mummy to the little one especially with them living with you
I can't imagine my boys being parents any time soon - I've had a stern word with them this week about the way they treat the house - still act like teenagers instead of grown men etc - I may as well bang my head on the desk!
that book sounds amazing Melds!