Hello everyone,
Thought I`d bump this thread up. My hair has started to grow through…black and white…just call me Cruella 
Anyway I thought Id be brave and buy a non permanent hair colour from Boots. A bargain at £3!!! Anyway popped into say hello to my hairderssers who were all in tears last time as they cut my hair short for me and were worried about me having chemo. I showed them my bargain hair colour which they said was really dark…they offered to colour my hair for me instead at a hugh discount. So my hair colour was definately a gormless buy.
To be honest I think its bettet that the hairdresser is going to do it for me…in case I have a strange reaction 
They were all so lovely when I went in…they have been cutting my hair for 7 years or so.
Love to all
Mel xxx
So Mel is your hair a different colour. lighter?? Do you like the final look? I am as bald as a coot and hoping my hair will grow a bit over the summer months. Have you tried the product FAST which can be bought online or at Boots the Chemist. I have heard it works well for some but not so successful for others.
I had my usual steroid on Thursday so I am bursting with energy which will probably have me floored by Monday! I have brushed the patio and hosed down the Seagull poo! It is a beautiful sunny day here so I wanted to spend a little time outside. The garden is a complete mess as we have not had a proper Spring this year.
Planning on baking this afternoon but having a wee rest after my outdoor chores. I haven’t shopped for anything recently. Because I have lost so much weight and do not know if I will start puting weight on again I am reluctant to purchase any more clothes. I did get a bargain buy in the charity shop last week which I got 7 small pudding bowls the type you do steamed puddings in for the total price of £2 50! I was really pleased so that is my last gormless bargain! Wonder if I will ever make those steamed pudding in that lovely recipe book I have been oogling!
Hello to all gormless ladies. Hope you are out shopping. We want to know what you have been up to!
Secondaries have definitely made me gormless. I opened this expecting to see the Bone Mets thread. Not sure how I got it so wrong.
I do regularly struggle with the Tesco on-line shopping. The number of times I have over-bought some item. Last week I managed 3 cucumbers. Luckily I spotted them early and the driver took 1 back to store.
Hi Val…my hair started coming back around the 4th cycle. Its grey and dark brown still at moment…i decided not to colour it myself but wait two weeks and let the experts sort it. Knowing my luck it would change colour. I havent tried Fast…still on baby shampoo at the moment…nice and gentle. My hair has always grown quite quickly…its soft like a baby and thickening up.
Your pudding bowls sound like a good buy. Am sure your puddings will be delicious. I have been sorting out cupboards and have taken quite a lot of things to the local charity shop. Some of the items were left over from my hen night last year!! I did warn them about the whip…am sure they had a good laugh about that
Amysmum that made me laugh xxx
Mel xx
Not really doing gormless buys but buying completely different from norm. Have just purchased two floral jackets, one in navy blue and one in black both with lots of different colours to wear with my coloured jeans. Showed OH and he said ‘oh they’re nice but you don’t normally buy things like that’. Every time I look at them they make me feel brighter and can’t wait for the warmer weather to wear them.
My definitely non- gormless buy for this month is a reclining faux leather chair and footstool with heat and 10 massage functions. It’s in my conservatory and it’s bliss! The massage functions really help my back and it’s so relaxing. Even my son was impressed when he came round and now he wants one too! He was so taken with it that he went home to his wife and said ’ you must pop round and see mum’s electric chair!’
Liz x
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I did some Gormless shopping today. I went to the garden centre…why don’t I learn…to buy just a few hebs to replace the ones I lost over the winter…Guess what I spent almost £60…on not very much. I bought the herbs and picked up a few new ones I haven’t tried before but my darling OH had another trolley which he was filling too with some new shrubs…then I saw the the bedding plants…still it may have been a bit pricey but at least I had to stamina after that long spell on chemo…to regian my gormless shopping trip!
Would like to buy some new trousers as I a managing on only a few that fit me but cannot find ANYTHING that is at all suitable. I don’t want black jeans or denhims as I have them already but Marks and Spencers just do not have ANYTHING I want to buy. I have gone down a few sizes but when I put on skinny jeans it reminds me of MAX WALL (if you are old enought to remember who that comic was!). I am in my early 60s and like to look younger but they are just not catering for me. Anyone recommend somewhere else I could try. Energy levels low so cannot wander round all the shops to look for myself. I don’t want suit trousers or baggy linen ones really. And a nice material and colour would be such a change. Waiting for your help. Val
Hi Val. saw some trousers yesterday in WALLIS, the ones that I looked at were cropped but I am sure that they had the full length ones as well, and they we’re 20% off!
Well I did some retial therapy yesterday and came away with one pair of shorts and 3 pairs of trousers, all different leg lengths.
So today asked my OH to take down my boxes containing summer clothes and have managed to fill 5 huge black bin liners with clothes for the charity shop…which doesn’t leave me with much to wear! So will need to do some more shopping before I go on holiday in 12 days time…3 weeks in France…cannot wait to get there.
Practicing today in our wee garden…finished the wine…now on the G and T’s…hubby cooked some lovely lamb chops and coated them with cumin and other spices…very tasty.
I know I may put weight back on but I needed to weed out my clothes and it feels good to clear my head from cluttter. Do you understand what I mean?
So now we are having dessert…icecream with passionfruit on top…couold almost be on holiday now…love to all, V
This thread used to cheer me up no end. I have missed it and wondered if any of you had done any gormless shopping. I have no new things to add but want to bump up this fun thread as I need cheering up after all the sad news I have been reading since I returned from holiday. Gormless anyone?? Val
I don’t know how you feel about me joining your thread, but its was Val’s question ‘Gormless anyone?’ that I couuld not, 'not answer to, since I always am doing gormless things…if only I could remember them…!
Anyway, so far this week I have managed to lose my travel card (bit of a must in London), arrive at the jewllers and ask them to replace my watch battery, only to discover I have no watch. But one of the things I did a whlle ago was to go to M & S to buy some cakes and ready meals as a treat. It was so busy though that I gave up half way round, left the shop, walked out the shop, past the security guard and half way down the street before I realised I was carrying the basket still!
Anyway, not quite shopping, but definately gormless!
Rattles x
Ooops Rattles… 
Hopefully not gormless but I am trying to turn off the TV and get lost in a book again so I’ve made some lovely purchases lately but I still spend far too much time online reading blogs, reading here etc. I don’t have a Kindle, I love my books and don’t want to swap a cumbersome squidgy paperback for a reader. Just finished cycle 8 of my chemo so I’m about to tackle some of my to be read pile soon. Re-reading Agatha Christie saw me through this chemo…genteel murders and not too taxing. 
Are you reading much Val? I remember you talking of your great collection of cookery books. I love reading cookery books in bed.
x
Hi guys
This posting made me feel soooo much better as I have been doing the most stupid things recently. I was away in a hotel with my girls and they left me to go up to the room while they got things from the car, me into lift forgot room no, floor no, out of lift, wrong floor, totally out of sense, thought about it…trying not to panic…down to recpection to ask what room no again, staff had a laugh at my expense, into the lift forgot what they said…in tears…finally got there in end…not a good experience. so thanks girls for this thread.
maggie
Hi Belinda, I have read quite a few REAL books recently and left them with my daughter in France. I am now reading the new hardback of Khaled Hosseini ( he wrote the Kite Runner and Thousand Splendid suns) The new one is called “And The Mountains Echoed”. Tesco was selling the hard back for £9. The books I left included a Stephen King called 11/22/63 which was also in hard back. I REALLY enjoyed it and it was a refreshing new story and not at all scary, but quite a long novel. Would recommend both of these.
I did lots of shopping for clothes before I left because I have diminished in size and nothing fitted. It felt great to wear cropped white trousers in a size 10 instead of last years ones which were either 14 or 16 but unwearable ( for the moment!). I gave my daughter a pair of jeans and a fine cotton long sleeved shirt but there was nothing else in my holdall that fitted her but she liked the linen shorts I was wearing so going to look in Primark to see if they have some in her size. It is a sad state of affairs whn your Mum (me) a pensioner is skinnier that you! I haven’t done any other gormless shopping as not seen anything I really want to buy.
As for Gormless things well they happened so often on chemo that I feel right “smug mare” for being sensible now that I have finished the chemo. Unless I am so Gormless I have just not noticed the gormless things I am doing ( more like it I fear!). Val
Hi Maggie and all members of the gormless club
please dont’t get upset you are not alone. Too many gormless incidents for me to mention at the moment. I also love the feel of books I like the idea of a squidgy paperback .
I just wanted to say hello to everyone I am relatively knew to all this but some fun would be really helpful. Scottish lass I am a reader a would love to exchange and discuss my books I am reading. thats if I can find them. I have habit at the moment Of leaving them somewhere usually in the garden fortunately not too much rain at the moment Lol. For some reason I never loose my kindle.
I hope we can carry on withthe gormless thread. It makes us all feel so much better knowing we are not alone.
Mara
ps will report on my gormless shopping outings later
Welcome to all the new people who have joined us. Keep the thread going please as it is good to share and have a fun thread too! Val
Retail therapy definitely does it for me. Before getting my scan results today I just had to buy yet another mascara (- I have so many since my eyelashes came back I could stock Boots) and a checked shirt.It’s a compulsion. Since my secondary dx I have gone from wearing mainly black/grey clothes to bright colours. Has anyone else experienced this? Have also become addicted to buying very cheap pumps in the wackiest of colours. I am definitely gormless as not really a saving - you can only wear them a couple of times and they fall apart. Mad!
Happy shopping everyone x
I’m into bright colours too Katie. Think I can get away with it now that I am slimmer. Today it is white cropped trousers with pink patterened birkenstock sandals and a rose Pink flowery top. Wouldn’t have chosen this before but when you have no hair to do and no eyelashes to paint, you have to try to cheer yourself up in other ways! My hair is coming through white/blonde but it is so short. I cannpot wait to see what it will be like in a months time. Thanks for the mention of the book on the bone mets thread. Will look out for it. Sounds good. X
Secondaries ladies, your posts really made me smile this morning. I haven’t been diagnosed with secondaries but it was the ‘gormless’ bit that made me read early this morning.
I haven’t brought any gormless things yet. However, I started talking to someone in Tescos who I thought I had been speaking to earlier (this lady I did know.) Anyway I was selecting veg and I wasn’t really looking at her as I started talking and she was wearing exactly the same colours as the other lady I had spoken to. I rambled on about what I was doing that weekend and it wasn’t until she spoke and I thought ‘that isn’t Megan’s voice’ (earlier lady) so I looked up and no, it wasn’t Megan. She still wished me a good weekend though which I thought was kind as she probably thought I was a local nutter!!
So ladies I am already’gormless’
Sam x
We should start a book club one day! I do love a chatter about books, I’m so nosy, I love to know what others are reading. Ah Kite Runner and Thousand Splendid have hundreds of excellent reviews don’t they? Agatha Christie can make me jittery so I’m not sure about Stephen King. Last winter I re-read some children’s classics, I Capture the Castle, Ballet Shoes, The Secret Garden and some more. I still have Tom’s Midnight Garden to be read. I had to have some rads over the New Year and was given some painkillers which took some getting used to so I started reading some of my old favourites of years ago. Anyone having a tough time with treatment I recommend reading and losing yourself in some of your old childhood books. The last 2 books I read, finished this weekend were The Summer and A Winter Book by Tove Jansson…adult stories from the creator of the Moomin books. Loved them.
I have only a fine covering of hair at the moment as I’ve just finished 8 cycles of Doxorubicin. (it was okay, apart from hair loss it was no trouble if it’s on anyone’s chemo list to have.) Before chemo I had, naturally, black hair so I sometimes spend ages trying to draw on some eyebrows. At home I’m bare headed but I wear Buffs outside.
Did anyone else ever try bookcrossing from a few years ago? You set your book ‘free’ and could then track it on the bookcrossing website to see it on it’s travels? I set about 8 books free and none ever surfaced again so I gave up.
Lovely to see this old thread back in action. x
Hi girls
scottishlass i splashed out & bought bringht pink birkenstocks and feel great in them, i am wearing more colours to try & brighten up my face, my cheeky friend suggested i change my make up, trying to explain that at the moment its enough to get dressed let alone put on slap. does it count as a bonus to lose weight, i put jean on yesterday and they feel down…shopping for size 12 coming on in asda today…for once in my life i can eat what i want.
as for books, i borrowed by daughter’s kindle 8 months ago and never gave it back, i know that i am getting one for my birthday this month, can’t wait as just now i have to ask her if i can down load a book on her account. i have changed my reading to teanage catching fir by suzanne collins and maze runner, its all fanasty stuff reading for teenagers but it gets me away into a different world. I have just read secret sisters which to a true story of family being sperapted but great twist at the end. now i need to call my daughter and ask if I can but another…i never thought i would get into my kindle so much.
will let you know how i get on in asda
maggie