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Nice to hear the holidays are going well. We left the foghorn of St Anthony's headland behind this morning after a good short break in Cornwall. Covid boosters tomorrow, have heard it can take two hours in the queue, only one place in our area for jabs.
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Did you stay in one of the lovely cottages there Brue? It’s somewhere we have always fancied, that lovely little beach a short walk away. We used to do the headland walk to Place House and back from there. So interesting watching all water traffic there.
Glad you on the mend ET👍 Not a pleasant experience for you and your loved ones.
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Hope the covid booster goes well brue. Ours were fine. No repercussions. I have made sure that both our older 2 children have got theirs booked. It is so important.
So sorry to hear of your experience ET and glad to hear that you are OK
I went on a specialist architectural tour of the cathedral this afternoon. It was put on for the existing guides to 'expand' our knowledge. It was really interesting. I just hope I can remember some of it!
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The weekend ended badly here. First we heard that DIL had tested positive for Covid. As a teacher she does twice weekly lateral flow tests, as do the rest of the family, and on Saturday afternoon her test was positive. They all had to go on Sunday for PCR tests, and today she was confirmed as positive, rest of the family were negative. Since Saturday she has been confined to the bedroom, so DS is now in the spare room and complaining that the bed is not comfortable and the duvet not warm enough!
DIL has no symptoms so will hopefully be fine, apparently another teacher at school tested positive early last week, so presumably where she picked it up.
Then, on Sunday midday, while carrying a sack of wood out of the garage, I tripped while stepping over the caravan drawbar and ended up flat out with my left arm under me, and in great pain. Arm, just above wrist, did not look right, so OH took me straight to A&E, where I was X-rayed, knocked out while the arm was worked on, and woke up with a plaster cast in place. Was 6pm before we got home again.
Later in the evening, a doctor from the hospital rang to say they would be reviewing my X-rays this morning, and depending on how well the bones were now aligned, I might have to go in to have them fixed in place with pins or plates and screws.
Fortunately they were satisfied with the results and rang this morning to say to come back for a check next Monday.
So.....so much for getting our bathroom finished this year!! I will be in plaster for at least 6 weeks, and then need to take things carefully for a while.
At least the garage clearing can continue, with DD doing the hard work and me supervising. Today she put up some very large hooks and hung up all my scaffolding, it looks very tidy now! Then she unloaded all the shelving bits from the car and brought them into the garage.
There are some more things to hang up, and a fair bit still to do before we can start putting up the units, and then there will still be all the back end of the garage to deal with. And the " mezzanine level".......the garage has a very high ceiling so has an upper level floor above part of it! Plenty of stuff up there too.
We have requested skip removal now we have filled it up a good bit, hopefully will not be too long before it goes, will be nice to get our driveway back in use.
Next problem will be how to shower tonight without getting my cast wet.
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Next problem will be how to shower tonight without getting my cast wet.
Kj
A larger plastic bag with some masking tape around it would probably keep the wet out long enough for you to have a quick shower or perhaps a good covering of cling film?
How are you going to cope with enforced rest
David
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Took advantage of the Waitrose 25% off wine offer to buy my Christmas wine today. Just the One Mrs Wembley, AKA Margaret likes the occasional glass of sherry wine so we stocked up with that too
Only disappointment was that the boxes of wine for general drinking (weekends) which we usually buy were out of stock, perhaps not a bad idea from my liver's point of view!!!David
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Sounds like an interesting tour millie, do they give one for the general public?
Hope you have no adverse reaction to your booster, brue, and that the queue isn't as long as you expect.
WN, did you spot much of interest on your walk today? Guess you managed to miss the rain.
Has been dry here today although rather grey, with just the odd patch of blue sky. We did a 4 hr walk from the site along to Ombersley then down to the follow the Severn Valley Way past Holt Fleet and back to the van. Got back just before a 1/2 hr of drizzle.
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Arm, just above wrist, did not look right, so OH took me straight to A&E
Kjell, I know exactly how it looked, having done similar a couple of years ago. I too had problems trying to shower, but did manage to sort something out. Just make sure you don't try to do too much before the wrist/arm has time to knit fully.
ET, have you had the courage to tell Fliss the full extent of your illness yet. You could end up back in hospital again if not and she finds out some other way!
Glad to read that you are feeling much better.
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Had mine last Friday.... didn't feel too bad - just a very mild sick feeling around 2 hours after. Fortunately it didn't last too long...
At Burrs Country Park CAMC site for a few days. Fingers crossed the the weather keeps dry. Today was fine, but might get some rain tomorrow....
David
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Sorry to hear about folks with illnesses and a broken wrist just take care and all will feel better soon.
Another sharp frost here and foggy although the sun is trying to come out, we are off to check our friends house as they are now in UK and we have some things to take up and 1 pack of daffodil bulbs for me to plant hope ground not too hard so may go somewhere else if the spot they have chosen not suitable so get gloves and garden tools to take possible some old shoes and after we have had a picnic lunch we will be going to Villefranche to do some shopping trying to do it all in one day as Thursday is a holiday here Armistice day so not a lot of shops open although the local diy shops are open all day.
Well we had planes flying around here pm and as they got nearer to the army camp saw them drop about 30 parachutists and then the same again an hour later plus helicopters flying around hope the fog clears for them today.
Take care folks and enjoy your breaks away.
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Not the best of evenings yesterday while I was at the car OH had another fall in the caravan which I did not hear so we spent a while at the local urgent care centre, she has possibly cracked a rib this time ,so its a case of now do we stay , or go home as we have two concerts this weekend one at Hunstanton with our annual meet up ,and then a charity concert at the end of the pier theatre here,
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I remember you fell a while back nellie, is it really 2 years now? My left arm/wrist is my dodgy one as I had a very bad break in that wrist due to a car accident back in 1978. Several bones broken and it has never been 100% since. Driving our Volvo 345 I met a bigger Volvo head on, he had come off the motorway and not realised the slip road became 2 way part way up and was on the wrong side. I came off worst and both cars were write offs. I spent several days in hospital.
Right now the arm is still very painful, despite me having taken painkillers, and the fingers are puffy, though not cold. The cast is pretty tight to prevent movement of the bones.
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Sounds like an interesting tour millie, do they give one for the general public? Yes NTH if you specifically request the architecture tour in advance they will arrange it for you.
So sorry to hear of your accident Kjnn. I hope it improves and is less painful soon. It must be so frustrating for you with so much to do. When I broke a bone in my foot some years ago and my leg was in plaster I found wrapping a bin liner round it and securing it with gaffa tape worked well in the shower.I hope your daughter is soon better as well.
JVB I am sorry to hear of your wife's fall. It must be a difficult decision for you to make as to whether to stay or to go home.
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Your call, and it would be a pity to miss your concerts, but I would be heading home, caravans are not the best of places if your are incapcitated in anyway, especially with a suspected cracked rib, although there is not a lot you can do to fix it except take lots of rest, good luck with what ever your decision may be .
Great couple of days in Stubbers and so mild, walked the dogs just in a sweater this morning, was hoping not to have to cut the grass agen but it is looking a bit long, might just leave it, new pub does a lot of running around out there so hopefully he will wear it down a little, this is him practising for the Andrex toilet tissue ad
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Sorry to hear about all the mishaps, and wish all those suffering a swift and uncomplicated recovery. Showering can be a nightmare. I had to spend a month in a full body wrap, pinning my right arm to my body following surgery on a dislocated shoulder (thank you horse🤨). OH had to help me, and a knitting needle became a wonderful source of comfort to get to the odd itch!😂
C19 jabs went well, but I seem to be aching like mad. Might just be me, as Sis is ok. Couple of paracetamol has sorted things, and heading to pool later. Jeep passed its test, we had brake pads sorted though as part of service, so all set for another year now. We have been intrigued by next door’s new car. They already have a Mitsubishi Phev, but had a charging point installed in garage and a second electric vehicle turned up. OH thought it might be a Tesla, but badge was wrong. I thought some kind of electric Citroen, but a Google solved things. It’s a Volvo Polestar. Hopefully good in snow..... ought to be if it’s a Volvo😁
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Our next door neighbour has had the two large flowering cherries cut down in her front garden. Can't really blame her as they were a bit large and too close to the house and she said they were starting to impact on her drive. We had the same trees in our garden but removed them years ago when we had our extension built as the surveyor was concerned about the roots. The frontage now looks like it did forty years ago when the houses were just built.
David
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DD has ordered up some fancy things to keep the water off my cast, should come tomorrow, meantime a large plastic bag and not spraying water directly on it will suffice.
Enforced rest? Hmmmm! Will be stressful not being able to get on with the bathroom as the whole point of it was to get an easy access shower as soon as possible. OH has poor balance these days and climbing in and out of the bath is a bit tricky for her, especially now I have only one arm with which to assist her.
This incident will set us back by at least 2 months. The "standard" bits of the job are done, but the rest involves bespoke furniture units and a new countertop, which I would not want to outsource to anyone else, so it will have to wait.
DD is here again today and I have been sitting in the garage directing the work as it is a lovely day for a change. We will need to make some blocks of treated decking to go under the legs of the shelf units in case any water gets blown in again. I planned to make recesses in the blocks to sit the legs in, which would help keep the 2 sets of back-to-back shelves firmly together, that will involve the use of a router, which DD has not tried before, so she will have to learn to do that first.
We should be able to start assembling the shelving tomorrow if we can get the blocks made today.
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As we were going today had some of military outside in one vehicle then more vehicles and folk about in the village quite disconcerting when you stop at a junction and three men with guns looking at you at about 10 metres from the car so we must have had a big do here as army all over the village and some wearing backpacks so did not seen anymore as out for most of the day and now dark have got the aerial section flying about very noisy and low hope they will be finished before we go to bed.
We have a friend who had her bunions done when she was 12 and she had plaster on both feet right up to her knees for 12 weeks she said it nearly drove her up the wall with so many things she could not do and still had to do her homework from her school.
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We had 4 of them taken out a few years ago as we were experiencing the same problem with roots DK. They were coming to their natural end as they had stopped flowering many years before. I still miss them though.
KJ probably a bit late to the party but when i broke my ribs 2 years ago Mrs WN wrapped me up in cling film around my chest before I took a shower. Glad it wasn't foil otherwise I might have worried about her motives. Might actually be a blessing in disguise in a way as you do seem to have had a heavy workload recently. I don't know whether you've noticed but you are not getting any younger.
Millie, that tour sounds grand. Mrs WN and I are both interested in architecture, especially of religious places so will make a detour when next down that way. How much notice do they need?
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Good to hear of happy jabbing!
Another fine day so we walked from Thurstaton to West Kirby just in time for high tide to hit there. Oodles and oodles of waders all doing their Starling Murmuration impression.
Nellie, we did see quite a variety yesterday but nothing spectacular but any day you see skeins of Pink Feet Geese flying over and birds like Peregrines hunting makes it all worthwhile. There were hundreds of the geese flying back to the estuary today when we were coming back to the caravan.
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Millie. Years ago as a student in a group, I took an architectural tour of Ely and Peterborough and one smaller local church. I remember being doubled over in the crypt at Peterborough trying to listen to the details whilst having no head room to look around properly! At Ely I remember being braced against the outside of the tower in a howling gale longing to get back down to floor level, I don't have a head for heights. However as you can see both visits left an impression!
Do hope your arm heals up well KJ, very frustrating to be out of action and I expect it will be painful till all the bruising etc settles down.
JVB. Hope your wife is feeling ok, broken ribs are very unpleasant, I wonder if home will be best till it heals up?
We had our jabs, expected to have Pfizer but got Moderna. OH now feeling a bit shivery and we both have sore arms. An hour in the queue at Haynes Motor Museum, mostly waiting inside so not too bad and we were handed discount vouchers for future visits. For every ten or so booked appointments they admitted those without appointments so it was a very long queue!
Sad to see trees being removed DK. I replanted two cherry trees in our garden, we lost a very big one to disease and another never did very well. But I think there is a tree for most places, they just need to be the right one!
Puppy mischief Rufs...we've had a lot of that over the last 18 months or so. It has kept us on our toes! 🐶
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No, we didn't use the NT cottages on the headland although they're in a good spot. We were nearby with a nice view over Falmouth Bay, we could see all the fireworks on the 5th and 6th but no noise, so enjoyed the night time views! We previously used one of the NT cottages at Trelissick, that was a nice short break too.
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Coo, that’s quite a jab location Brue😁 Noticed they were using part of it as a Vaccination centre when we visited in September. A really interesting place, we hope to get back next year as we Gift Aided it. I seem to be over my post booster bit of aching, just back from a nice swim.
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Had a phone call from Norfolk and Norwich Hospital this evening, they cannot see any fracture of the ribs when looked at by a consultant, some cracks they say cannot be seen on xrays and it just takes time and ,pain killers if wanted , also just follow instructions in discharge advise pamphlet she was issued with yesterday
And to try and enjoy what is left of our,.time in Norfolk,,,
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Glad to read about all those getting vaccinated, and hopefully the aches and pains don't last too long.
Sorry to hear about your wife's tumble, JVC, hope she isn't in too much pain. There's not a lot one can do with a cracked rib, as long as there's no displacement, apart from rest.
WN, we've not seen any skiens of geese yet, but there are lots of Fieldfares and Redwings about here.
Thanks, millie, like WN we would be interested in that tour when we eventually get down that way.
Fin, warm, but cloudy day. After filling up with fuel and provisions, before moving on tomorrow, we had a grand walk up on Hartlebury Common. A great place to let Flyte off for a run around. We were surprised just how many others were of a like mind, but there's plenty of room to avoid bumping into anyone.
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Sad to see trees being removed DK. I replanted two cherry trees in our garden, we lost a very big one to disease and another never did very well. But I think there is a tree for most places, they just need to be the right one!
Brue
I don't disagree but there comes a time when decisions have to be made. I am not sure if my neighbour contacted the Council prior to the work but I did before we removed ours and the chap at the Council said the the original Development Corporation landscapers had designated trees that were far too large for the gardens we have. There is reputed to be 22 million trees in Milton Keynes so we still have a few left! I suppose timing wise, with COP26, probably not the best time to be cutting down trees. Our neighbour is quite a keen gardener so perhaps she will compensate in some way. One of the issues we had with one of the trees was that it was growing further and further towards our house. It also depleted water from my flower boarder so probably swings and roundabouts.
David
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