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Absolutely great news @DavidKlyne - here's wishing Margaret a speedy recovery. I bet you're both so relieved that the waiting and uncertainty is over. As for getting up early - good job you don't live in this household - we're always up and about by 5a.m.!!
Which reminds me of a lovely funny story about our dear friend Tony. They were staying with us a few years ago and despite the time we are usually awake, Tony was obviously in the bathroom before us. We wondered what on earth he was doing up at that unearthly hour (even for us). Over the breakfast table, I casually mentioned him being up so early and it turned out he had forgotten we had to change the clocks that night😀
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@DavidKlyne that’s great news after all the uncertainty. I had to be in the hospital for my surgery at 7am, the actual operation happened at 5pm! Hope Margaret has a good book or two.
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Thanks for all the kind wishes for Margaret's operation. The hospital is only about 5 miles from home, the biggest problem is usually finding somewhere to park but perhaps at that time of day it might not be a problem? Even the surgeon said he comes on his bike! I am a bit of a night owl, rarely in bed before midnight so early mornings are not my thing although I am usually awake by 8.00am. Might have to miss Newsnight next Tuesday😊
David
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Really sorry to hear about your friend @richardandros . All our thoughts and good wishes.
We've had a difficult few days... our dog (Lizzie) has had a couple of seizures, resulting in a visit to the emergency vet overnight, whilst we were out in the caravan at Putts Corner. The vet gave her some quick-fix tablets to stabilize her and now we are at home, our own vet is running blood test to try and find the underlying course so he can treat tbe condition properly.
Good news for my OH, Carol, who had a phone call yesterrday with the ortheopeadic surgeon from the hospital saying she's been put on tbe list for a hip replacement (they're saying about 12 weeks!!)
Tomorrow I'm running a Come and Sing event all day, where folk come and join in with my Thursday night choir, for the experience of singing and learning a variety of different styles of music... including some John Rutter pieces, music from Riverdance, songs from Les Miserables, Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da (Beatles), and other bits and bobs...
Just off out to do my usual Friday lunchtime practice with Tamworth U3A choir... then on the way back, to pick up the dogs tablets from the vet and out tablets from the chemist (large carrier bag needed!! 😀😀), before on to Abbey choir practice this evening.... Things never stay quiet for long around here!!
Apologies for not replying to all posts... still reading them all. Have a great time, all those who are out and about in the vans.... Good news about the car @milliehull - great photos as usual, @nelliethehooker Good news about Margarets hip replacement @DavidKlyne .
David
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What a busy chap you are @DSB !! Sorry to hear about your dog I know how worrying it is when our pets aren't well - if only they could speak and let us know what's wrong!! Good news about Carol, though and that's not a long time to wait. I suspect I'll be going down that path before long but that will be after I've been seen by Rheumatology at Hull Royal and it might be up to a month before they even contact me to arrange and appointment. Also reassuring to know that we're not the only ones to come out of the chemist with a carrier bag full of meds🙄
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@richardandros Sorry to hear about your friend.At least you have many good memories. @DavidKlyne Good news re Margaret, I hope everything goes well and that she makes a speedy recovery. I had to be at hospital at 7.30 also, I think that is normal. I was still waiting very anxiously until 2pm.
I’m still enjoying all the photos and news of people’s days out, as I said before, living life vicariously through them at present. Afternoon out at the hospital again yesterday. The good news is that I won’t need chemotherapy, so pleased. Possibly radiotherapy, which, hopefully, doesn’t seem so bad, it’s just the 110 mile round trip each day. A few hiccups so more scans etc yesterday and another MRI soon. So feeling sore today, we seem to be buying paracetamol in bulk lately, and I never normally take painkillers. However, I must say that even if I had I been paying I couldn’t have been treated with more care and kindness. I’ve seen the worst of the NHS with the treatment of our daughter and granddaughter but my experience has been the opposite. The nurse team are just lovely and my surgeon is the kindest most caring person. Explaining everything clearly and with patience, and I rarely get to leave without a hug from her. I can never thank her enough. The very best of the NHS.I grew up in Hayes, leaving when I was 21. My Nan’s cottage, (long ago pulled down and replaced with high rise flats) backed on to where that power station is now. It must be so awful for the residents. And unbelievable that Heathrow is shut due to that, which is some miles away. All quite shocking. And very costly with all the cancelled flights etc.
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@DSB make sure you don't get the dog tablets mixed up with yours😉
Can I ask how long Carol has been waiting from point of referral to the hospital, it seems to vary so much around the country.
David
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@DEBSC - glad things are slowly progressing. Good news about not needing Chemo. It's strange but around here the specialised cancer clinic, especially the Breast clinic is superb. Mrs.WN can vouch for it personally but everyone you meet who comes into contact with them never has a bad word.
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Back home quite early today, expecting to find MiL in her dressing gown but she was just taking her walking shoes off after going for a walk.
We had a lovely 3 night break. Really enjoyed ourselves and came home refreshed. A few photos from our visit to Birkenhead Priory. As previously mentioned the volunteer who showed us around was great. Born and bred locally so knew the history of the area as well. The Priory survived Henry VIII as they were too poor for pillaging.
3 photos of stained glass windows. This is a brief chronology of the history of the Priory
A new window showing the life of the Monks. They used to row people across the River Mersey, 2 monks rowing and 1 either side of the river. For free until a charter was granted to charge by Edward III.
Dedicated to all Stonemasons and architects. these windows found in the Refectory.
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A few more photos.
The Chapter House. The 2 figures on the edges of the stained glass window are interesting figures to be found in such a place. The one on the right is Edward I who stayed for 3 nights one year. His wife, Eleanor of Castile, refused to stay here preferring a local castle now longer in existence at a village called Shotwick (the church of which is worth a visit).
The one on the left is the son of a Normandy baron granted ownership of the area by William the Conqueror. He set a manor in a place we travel through to get to Burton RSPB reserve, Puddington.
A beautiful Chapter House.
The first proper church in Birkenhead was built on the priory grounds but not built as well as the priory and most of the church has now been demolished with the exception of the tower where you can ascend the stairs to have a view over the Mersey to Liverpool. The size of the Anglican Cathedral still takes my breath away.
A drinking fountain dedicated to Queen Victoria, on the front at Hoylake by the Lifeboat station
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Wonderful photos @Wherenext and thank you for your virtual 'tour'. Not an area I know at all - so very interesting.
@DEBSC - great news that you don't need chemo, As I've said before, Ros has radiotherapy each time after surgery and whilst she was really tired afterwards, nowhere near as bad as friends have described chemo. And her surgeon was also absolutely wonderful. He saw us both when the cancer was first discovered and explained everything and couldn't have been kinder and all the nurses were really wonderful. It was quite a few years ago, but she really did experience the NHS at its best.
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Grand news for your OH, and yourself too, @DSB hope that there are no unexpected delays. You certainly know how to keep busy. So sorry to read of Lizzie's seizures, hope thst your vet can find the cause and provide a treatment.
You will certainly be relieved that you don't require Chemo, @DEBSC but that will be a tiring trip each time you have to go for radiotherapy. All the best.
Thanks for the grand photos, @Wherenext , very pleased that MIL managed to assist her carer!
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It has been less sunny today, not as warm as yesterday and the breeze had picked up a little again. We drove over to Sheringham Estate for our day out. We got talking to chap who was out on his longest walk after having a knee operation, done at Norwich Hospital, 8 weeks ago, and he was going well. Then spoke to a couple who were staying on the club's West Runton site who thought it overpriced! There were lots more toads on the footpaths here, and the NT had put up signs warning walkers of their presence.
A couple of photos from our walk, the private Hall, and an unusual creature in the woods.
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Sorry to hear about your friend @richardandros . It’s tough when one loses a good friend. I lost a true friend a few years back, someone I knew from senior school days. We were very different personalities, but we had a ‘connection’. I think of him often. You have my sympathy.
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A bright warm start to the day with a thin cloud cover. However by the time we arrived at Fellbrigg the cloud had built up and it was somewhat cooler, but still warm enough for me to go without a coat. We did the circular Lake Walk and again saw lots of frogs and toads. Again decided to give the house a miss and after lunch did V for Victory walk. Bumped into the couple who were staying at the club's West Runton site that we were talking to yesterday! We had the odd spot of rain as we made it back to the car and have had a couple of showers since getting back to our site.
Lots of beautiful daffodils out around the Hall.
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Thanks for you kind comments folks. Had a lovely day yesterday with around 60+ singers for our 'Come and Sing' day in Brewood. We learnt and sang thirteen songs in 4 parts and performed them at the end of the day... ranging from a couple of songs from Les Miserables, some John Rutter songs... and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by the Beatles...amongst others! 🤣🤣 We did cheat a little bit as members of my usual choir knew some of the songs and werexable to help the visitors.
The tablets are making Lizzie the dog quite drowsy.... it'll be good when we have worked out a 'definative' plan of action with our usual vet.
Some more great photos from @Wherenext and @nelliethehooker . Thanks for sharing.
David
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A quiet day here. Catching up with household duties and clothes washing. Plenty of emails to catch up with as well.
Had a flyer drop through the letterbox yesterday from BT telling me that Digital Voice is coming in the next 30 days so I need an adaptor, free from BT by going online and ordering it with a special code. I got the code and filled the application in only to be denied one. So I spoke to someone at BT. "Oh, we're a bit early sending that to you. You're not quite due yet". If MiL didn't rely so much on a landline system and hates mobiles then we'd get rid in a shot. Lucky me though as I get to do all again soon.😡
@InaD - I seem to recall you are going in for your replacement hip soon so best wishes for a successful op and hope you have a speedy recovery.
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With a good forecast, although initally a misty start, OH did another round of washing before we headed out as at brightened up as promised it was dry by the time we returned. Drove the short distance to Lower Southstrepps, stopping off en route to view Thorpe Market's Gothic St Margaret's Church, which was built in the late 18th C. We then had a couple of walks through SSSI Strepps Common and The Warren from the school carpark. I had another walk after we returned to the van nearly as far as St James' Church, Southstrepps, parts of which date from the late 13th C and has reputably the second tallest tower in the district, which can be seen for miles around.
St Margaret's Church
The local school, in the same gothic style as the church.
St James' Southstrepps, from a distance!
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The sun is out and I’m gardening! Just a little bit, with a few breaks in between. Only getting out some weeds with a trowel and tidying up a bit, and a bit of clipping back just with the secateurs, but I’m gardening. Can’t believe how tired I’m getting though, I suppose that’s what happens when one has been sitting around for weeks, another reason to keep active.
The Smart meter from British Gas stopped working some weeks ago, we have it because since our extension the meter is difficult to read and a hassle. BG said it would be fixed in 10 days, email today, more than the 10 days later, to say they will update us on the progress (non progress) every 10 days!
Hospital again on Wednesday but it’s a morning appointment so, as the weather looks good, we might plan a trip out somewhere afterwards.2 -
FFabulous Read DEBSC. A little bit of gardening will do much good for 😃. I expect you'll feel tired - I always do after the winter rest, let alone what you've been through. Don't overdo it, it's so very easy to do! Hope you can have an 'outing' after the hospital.
We have smart meters....... Electric inside, gas not included at the new build stage as not available in the village. Our gas meter failed without us knowing, soon after we moved in. I now take readings weekly and send in readings as 3 meters later it records but doesn't send...... I've given up trying to talk to them about it 😡. It took about 4 months for the 1st one to be fitted so I hope yours is quicker. We had no idea how much gas we were using, they billed on previous owners use 🤔.
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Good to read that you are feeling up to doing a bit of gardening @DEBSC hope all goes well with your hospital visit.
It was a dull start to the day but it gradually brightened up and the sun came out, although there was still a chilly breeze. We have moved on down to the edge of The Broads to be CL we have used before. There are two other caravans on the site, both of which appear to have been here for quite a while!!
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@Wherenext You remembered right! It's getting close now, a week this Thursday. Thank you for your good wishes.
@DEBSC Good to hear you've been getting out to do some gardening; and I hope you have a good day out on Wednesday after your morning appointment.
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We’re loving this good weather - not so we can get away, but so we can get Spring work done before it changes. Fields have been aerated, rolled, had slurry or muck spread on them (not necessarily in that order) and it’s now up to Nature (and the weather) to do their bit to make the grass grow.
I was taken on a drive round the fields last night and took this photo. In the far distance is the M6 - between J36 and J37. Any odd marks are muck on the windscreen (I didn’t get out).
My brother-in-law does walling for us and the old trailer acts as a refuge when it rains.
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Great walls there @Goldie146 could do with your brother in law here as some of ours need doing OH no good as he hates anything that looks like a jigsaw our field is surrounded by walls.
@InaD Hope all goes well with your op on Thursday.
@DEBSC Glad to hear you are managing some gardening and some fresh air and improving every day.
Well OH been busy putting a new door catch on the caravan and I have been doing some extra bits of upholstery and we downsized to a smaller caravan last year and looking forward to getting away in May and June awhile to go yet.
Weather is dryer today after some rain yesterday and it looks a lot better for the next 10 days so hopefully some gardening and warmer.
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All the best for your operation on Thursday @InaD hope all goes to plan.
You will be want a period of gentle but persistent rain now @Goldie146 to get the grass growing, and hopefully for us all it will only fall during the night!!😁
It started out fine and sunny but dulled up during the day and we had a little light drizzle during the afternoon. Today was our day for restocking our food supplies and diesel so after spending the morning walk through the dunes at the north end Great Yarmouth it was off to do our shopping after lunch. Looking forward to a meet up tomorrow.
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@RedKite @nelliethehooker Thanks both for your good wishes; BUT, my operation is not tomorrow, it's next week Thursday. Just over another week to wait.
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Hope all goes well with the hip operations both this week and next @DavidKlyne and @InaD.
We have a week of appointments this week. A hospital check up for OH on Monday. I came up with the idea that we should go on the bus rather than the hassle of parking the car. Unfortunately I hadn't realised that things have changed and during the afternoons the bus doesn't go right to the hospital entrance but stops at the top. Not a great idea for people with mobility problems like OH. It was a long and slow walk (all while OH was pointing out the free parking spaces 🙄) . All in all we were out of the house for 3 hours all for a 10 minute appointment! OH was not impressed. However on the plus side the appointment went very well. I think he will insist that we take the car in future.
Another busy day on the Cathedral shop yesterday as the Longest Yarn Exhibition is still on. People are coming from far and wide. It finishes next Monday and then is off to the USA,
I am now off for a chiropractor appointment as my back is playing up again.
I hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine. I have a load of washing out on the line that is blowing nicely in the breeze.
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@milliehull Thank you for your good wishes. What a frustrating afternoon, how odd the bus no longer goes to the hospital entrance in the afternoons. It's also visiting time then, apart from people like your OH having appointments. At least you now know for next time, having found out the hard way!
@DavidKlyne I hope Margaret's operation went well today, if she's already had it, or all the best if she hasn't yet.
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