Hahaha JCJ, that would be a pic indeed:smileyhappy: Hope rash is gone and not coming back, ever…
Have a super duper holiday, woo hoo!!
We are off to Greece, sunshine hopefully am so fed up of the cold, c***** weather.
Had doc appt yesterday, white spots on hands are sun damage, crusty facial things are skin condition I already have that has now decided to do something different, thing on eyelid to be removed and a blocked tear duct, have lotions and potions to keep things at bay, haha, am actually pleased that I know what’s what now:smileyhappy:
Am busy today but not for a couple of hours, whew, not been sleeping well which is unusual for me so am superly tired, I def need my sleep…am lucky it only happens now and again, feel great sympathy for people who have issues every night. xx
Glad you’ve got all your various ailments sorted, categorised and catered for, KTC! It is certainly good to know what everything is.
We are in the cottage, right by the mill pond. The Weir is just feet from the patio doors and the surface of the pond is 3ft above ground level, so here’s hoping the wall holds up. Mind you, it’s not our furniture if the place does flood!
Wandered out earlier and ate fish & chips - choice of TWO chippies, both less than 2 minutes walk away! OH discovered a 2nd hand bookshop that is also a cafe. It keeps loads of books outside, even when it’s shut; 50p each - put money through the letterbox! I know where he’ll be spending a large part of this week!
Cottage is great. No silly, naggy rules. Just 1 sheet of paper with a welcome, instructions for using the Sky TV and DVD, information about recycling and a phone number if we need anything else!
Between the two of us we have: 2 bedrooms (essential due to twitching and snoring!) 3 toilets, 2 showers a bath and FIVE sinks! There is also the luxury of a dishwasher (and a washing machine, but probably won’t be using the latter
I’m on holiday!!)
The noise of the weir is loud and constant. It will take some getting used to and will make the distant motorway noise at home seem completely insignificant!
Holidays always make it more obvious how much OH has deteriorated, though, so I’m a wee bit glum this morning and scared for the future. Going to enjoy every one we can still do - don’t know how many more there’ll be.
Ooh! On a brighter note: YD just messaged me - am I free 26th to 28th July “… no reason” (which is our private way of saying it’s something special eg birthday present/surprise) She says she’s “keeping the dates free can’t commit yet - all will become clear” oooh! Intriguing?!
Oops sorry girls, forgot to tell you I was going away for a few days to friends in Hertfordshire. Took my tablet but for some reason known only to the internet elves I have trouble getting into Benchland on it. Bach home now and have been catching up…with classical music? I meant BACK home :smileyhappy:
Glad your various appts. have gone ok Katy, even if you are officially old! I had that at the opticians although she was kind and and called the changes age related. Same thing…I’m old too :smileysad:
Cottage looks great JCJ although I’m sure you’ll need those three loos with that weir outside the window ! Sorry that the hols show OH’s problems up, hopefully meds. will keep him stable and you can have lots more holidays. Enjoy this one,
End of July is quite a while to wait. There’s at least three of us intrigued now!
I thought tomorrow was the postponed easter egg hunt at Daughters but I’ve just had a phone call from Son and it’s…Catio Day! Postponed egg hunt is cancelled and he and SIL have been planning and tomorrow’s the day. I’m delighted and Purdie is over the moon actually no, she’s not, she’s a cat, she’s got no idea what’s planned.
Glad you’re OK, FF, hope you enjoyed your few days away. How’s the catio going? All to plan I hope. I hope Perdie appreciates it when it’s done.
Lazy morning on the Kindle bench, occasionally looking up to admire the weir & wildlife (sounds like the name of a pub?) We’ll probably venture out somewhere later for a short walk and possibly investigate a nearby pub that serves food. Neighbouring hotel has a nice looking menu but it’s horribly expensive! Ditto a restaurant in the viillage. We ‘self-catered’ all our meals yesterday, so we’re due a treat.
I’ll try to keep this short but I may not succeed. Catio day…all parties turned up on time, cup of tea and and a bit of chat… and get on with it. Quick trip to local store for chicken wire. 4 rolls bought. Son and SIL are the builders of this catio, Son’s philosophy is " two bits of wood adjoin, knock a nail in, a blind man would like to see it"! SIL’s philosophy is “two bits of wood adjoin, get out a spirit level and a 90 degree angle tester, drill a hole and then put in a screw!”
In other words, I’ve got a bodger and a total perfectionist. This is why I enlisted SIL to “help” Son. I didn’t want a bodged job . However SIL’s perfectionism takes an awful lot longer and as I’m somewhere between the two, no don’t bodge it and no 86 degrees will do, I just made tea and sandwiches to keep them going, and kept quiet,
The wooden frame is now up and the door made, that’s the hard work done, only need now to cover it with chicken wire and Purdie has a catio. Next weekend, weather permitting, it will be finished.
Re Catio, yes Katy, it’s big…now it is up it looks bigger than I envisaged. As my conservatory doors open outward it needed to be high enough to allow for that and I want to give Purdie as much space as possible So there is lots of room for me, that’s why it needed a door to let me out of it into the rest of the garden. As it will be covered with chicken wire and therefore see through, I hope none of the neighbours will complain! I intend to soften the lines with artificial ivy to make it look less like a cage and more like a garden feature.
Holidays are meant for leisure and treats, unfortunately mine is now over as I need to go back to school tomorrow. Pre-school floor needs a jolly good clean and also certain other parts of the school that I’ve ignored for a few weeks,
Investigated nearby pub rather sooner than I anticipated yesterday: OH suggested Sunday lunch. I didn’t need much persuading! Lovely carvery. Yum. Then we went for a bit of a walk along a woodland path and back. Soup & salad for tea in the cottage.
Today started sunny, but it didn’t last. We took a bus to Matlock Bath, which is only about a mile away, and had a wander round. The Blackpool/Skegness of the Peak District. Not really my scene, but we eventually found a nice cafe for a sandwich and cuppa. I was psyching myself up to brave the cable car up to The Heights of Abraham but OH didn’t want to. We had a look at the footpath to Matlock, from whence we planned to bus or train back, but I thought it was probably too much for him to tackle (steep, uneven paths with steps) and anyway it was starting to rain so we just got the bus back to our cottage. All rather disappointing on a dull, grey day.
Cooked dinner and ate it, getting more and more chilly. Fiddled with thermostat and timer but boiler didn’t respond. No hot water either! Getting seriously cold Eventually contacted owner and he was round within 5 minutes - currently staying next door!! All fixed. Yeh!
Now toasty warm on the Kindle knitting bench (reading Kindle and knitting a bear, you understand, not knitting a kindle! :D) while OH wallows in the bath.
Yes in my own cancer journey I have met people with all sorts of ‘grades’ of cancer from even those who are terminally ill. What struck me is that every single one of us wants the same thing very much: to win and live!
Am on the “freezing” bench, just can’t seem to warm up at all, so am about to drag out hoover and do a good tidy up, have drank around 5 muggateas this morning and been lingering near the “CBA” bench…
Had a lovely meal out seafood pasta, garlic pizza bread and the most fabulous dessert toffee, bananas, icecream and meringue, was sooooooooooo full afterwards, haha. xx
Hi Karapace. Welcome to Benchland! As you can see, this thread has wandered a long way from the original - via several levels of mid-treatment madness and hysterical antics - to fairly mundane posts from just a few of us who have got 6 years on from diagnosis and *almost* back to “normal” (who? Me? Never!) but we still keep in touch.
I hope your ‘journey’ is going OK and that you, too, find support and friendship on this wonderful forum. Here’s hoping you will be passing the “6 years on” milestone too!
Weather COLD, damp and grey today. Dissuaded OH from planned trip into the hills to see a stone circle; pointed out there’d be no view due to the low cloud/mist and the footpaths would be VERY muddy. We went to nearby reservoir instead but the wind was so cold, it was pretty miserable walking. Actually, pretty is the wrong word: the scenery *would* have been pretty, if we could have seen it; the weather was bl***y awful! OH turned back after a couple of hundred yards and went to listen to his CDs in the car while I completed a small loop walk - probably only a couple of miles.
We had a cuppa and a browse around the shops. OH bought yet more books (he spent most of yesterday in the bookshop in our village - I joined him for tea and cake, having been for a walk to a ‘shopping village’ about a mile away. EWM was there, so, of course, I had to buy 2 tops! One is just another polo shirt, but you might see the other one at MMU!) I bought a very cute little teddy, because I’m an arctophile and he was originally from Hamley’s, in as-new condition, very cheap and in the Air Ambulance shop. It would have been criminal not to ‘rescue’ him?
Last day tomorrow and it looks like the weather will still be ****! We had about an hour of sunshine, on Monday morning…while I was still in bed! Thank goodness we’re in a cottage and not camping!
School now sorted, so I’m on the smug bench. All done! Friday I will pop in to do the water checks and flick a duster around and sort any mess that teachers may have left if they go in tomorrow.
Stop going North for your hols. JCJ. It’s been a beautiful day here today although a bit of a grey start. Thank you for also extending my knowledge and vocabulary…arctophile = fond of/collector of teddy bears. Glad you found him, he was obviously waiting for you. Two good deeds in one.
Still sitting on the Commonweath Games bench, although some of the camera work is a bit suspect and the chat comes from a studio in Salford, it’s still good. Providing most of my exercise this week! Moving from the reading bench to the tv bench by way of the make a muggatea station…that’s exercise isn’t it?
Back in Benchland after a bit of a ‘glitch’ 're: joint problems etc.
Anyhow all OK now, and signed up for a wander up Helvellyn this summer GULP!!!
Should a 70year old with osteo arthritis be attempting Big Fell Walk for the first time in 30 years???
The Duchess is very wonky on the back legs and has to ride in her trolley quite a lot, and the ASBO Boy is still in Police Lady’s book, so that is all normal…
Had a session with the physio today so feeling a bit delicate.
Glad you are better now, attending physio and contemplating your walk, good news indeed!!
JCJ, reminds me of the old days when you used to say your hols always brought the bad weather…
Never mind at least you are away and you do have a cosy cottage, put your feet up and enjoy the rest, who needs to walk for miles??
FF, are you still on the “smug” bench? or have you fallen off now hee hee.
Had GS unexpectedly today, a while ago we started playing this game and he loves it as soon as he comes through the door we HAVE to play it, I hate it hahaha, really, really hate it…so as a distraction we baked some cakes, 10 done, he ate 4 of them, then wanted to play the game again…
Mum has appt at docs tomorrow am going with her, she didn’t listen to what last doc said, so stubborn, grrrr!
Had a bit of sunshine but was chilly, back to drizzle this evening so boring, will we ever have sunshine?? xx
Helloooo Grumpy! Long time no see. Glad your joint problems are fixed sufficiently for you to contemplate Hellvelyn (Helvellyn? Hellvelyn? Hell?) Hope you don’t cause said problems to recur!
Sunshine, Katy? What’s that then? We’ve not seen any here, although the cloud seemed a little higher today - apparently a heatwave is due here. By Wednesday. Of course it is, as we go home tomorrow! The weather will be glorious once I’m back at work! Grrrr!
Went on the bus to Matlock today. Much nicer than it’s chavy neighbour. Had a wander about and a cuppa and flapjack in a cafe. Bought sandwiches (end of day reductions at ‘the shop renowned for its pants food hall’) for tomorrow’s journey home picnic. Back to our village and had dinner in the pub - same one we had Sunday lunch in… same table even because we hadn’t booked (either time) and it was the only table for two unreserved.
I’ve just packed up everything that won’t be needed again and done a quick clean/tidy around. Can’t clean properly: no vacuum cleaner! What a shame?! swept up the worst of the crumbs and wiped around the kutchen and bathroomS. Got to be gone by 10am - I haven’t been dressed by that time since the last day at school!
Eventually contacted owner and he was round within 5 minutes - currently staying next door!! All fixed. Yeh! 
swept up the worst of the crumbs and wiped around the kutchen and bathroomS. Got to be gone by 10am - I haven’t been dressed by that time since the last day at school!