Today I shall be Mainly...

[Tizer]

All this talk of electrical muscle stimulation reminds me of that Mr Bean episode where Rowan Atkinson is at the bus stop when the next man in the queue falls down with a heart attack. Bean decides to revive him, electrically, and opens up the panel on the side of the street lamp, pulls out a cable and starts poking the poor man with it. Terrible really, but I couldn't stop laughing!

[Stanley]

Shopping day.... I shall do a bit in the shed.

[David Whipp]

Coping without our car (again!). Wouldn't start yesterday afternoon when I was on an urgent mission...

[Marilyn]

"Celebrity Day" a complete fizzle as far as I could see. The only person I recognised was my own next door neighbour...and no...he isn't anybody famous! ( I don't think... )

Happy to report I am feeling at least 80% less pain after using the TENS machine about four times a day for the last two days. I've only used it once today.
I did try a few of the many TEMS settings, Cazza. Whoa! Can only deal with those on low! (I reckon they would make a dead body dance). They certainly make muscles contract...
I did find one programme I liked in the TEMS, so I have put that one in the memory, but I would say it is one of the weakest ones.
I tried to sleep with it on but I am far too restless at night to cope with "being wired".

[PanBiker]

Today I have mainly taken Sally to the railway station at Skipton, she's one her way down to Stratford for the Shakespeare 400 celebrations. Lot's of stuff going on this weekend as you would imagine including our Ruby in the Pageant.

[Stanley]

Having an easy day or two. I've woken my shoulder up too much!

[Sue]

Off to Anglesey for the day via Aberkhan , the fabric warehouse in north wales. The front gate at our rented cottage in Anglesey needs repairing and our joiner has let us down by not doing it. So...we are going to fetch it and mend it here. This afternoon we shall visit my sister at her caravan near Moelfre. The gate has to be purpose made due to the uneven slate flags on the front path. Any pre made gate will just not open.

[Julie in Norfolk]

... Looking for the television remote control, the telephone base station and the BT Hub for Mum, all of which have disappeared when she moved. We seem to be a box short of a full removal. Has anyone seen it? It is brown, about so wide and high and was last seen in Hereford.

[Wendyf]

It's not here, honest.

[PanBiker]

I have seen one very similar in the local supermarket, I don't think it's yours though Julie as it's a bit wider.

I hope it turns up.

[Stanley]

When you find them, nail them down!
I shall have another reading day, taking it easy is working......

[Tizer]

They're probably still in the back of the removals van and making trips around the country!

[Marilyn]

We have "lost" a few things whilst moving.
One was a lovely painting done by an artist friend...
Another was a beautiful decanter. (And I still have the stopper! )

[Tizer]

A tip...When a removals van takes your belongings on a long trip consider whether one side of the van is going to be exposed to the sun for long periods. If so, then make sure that items that could be damaged by heat are put on the non-sunny side of the van. When we moved here from near London we had some lovely outdoor flowering shrubs in large pots to be moved. The journey was from east to west on a sunny day and the removals men put the poor plants on the left-hand side of the van which, in this northern hemisphere, meant they were fried during their 200 mile trip to Somerset!

[Marilyn]

You would be hard pushed to find a removalist that would transport plants here!

[Stanley]

When Mary and I went round Scotland via the lighthouses in a camper van we went anti-clockwise so that the window over the table on the driver's side of the van always had sun and the sea view when we stopped.
Two days off shed duties has improved shoulder and back so a reasonable amount of time in there this morning. The rest has helped!

[Marilyn]

depends if you stopped in t' morning or t' afternoon...

[Stanley]

Breakfast mainly Maz. It was November and tea was almost always in the dark anyway.

[PanBiker]

Be looking after our Finlay, we will be going to Skipton to pick Sally up, (back from Stratford) after dinner. Then on to Silsden to pick Isla up from school. Mondays are now a little complicated to allow our Carla back to teaching full time.

[Stanley]

Looking after myself! My old war wounds have flared up again.....

[LizG]

Be looking after our Finlay, we will be going to Skipton to pick Sally up, (back from Stratford) after dinner. Then on to Silsden to pick Isla up from school. Mondays are now a little complicated to allow our Carla back to teaching full time.

That's a very kind thing you do, but isn't it great getting so much time with the little uns?

[PanBiker]

It's never been a problem with Isla and Finlay as they are only 15 miles away. Different kettle of fish with our Ruby of course 170 miles down in Stratford so only access at holidays. We enjoy the grand parenting though. Having Fin on a Monday is only until summer when he starts school full time.

To get Carla back teaching full time from Easter onward's her Headteacher offered her a full time nursery place for Finlay but he is not quite taken on with play type activities all the time. Monday adventures with Granny and Grandad are much better. We went messing about in the beck yesterday up Calf Hall, I had a job to tear him away when it was time to go.

We will have all three when we take them up to Whitby for a week at summer. We have booked a cottage right at the bottom of the Abbey steps, it should be fun. The girls get on well in the main and Fin tends to fawn on Ruby who loves the attention.

We may need a beach bum holiday with a 4 hour flight somewhere proper warm to recover after that though, we'll have to see what pans out this year.

[Stanley]

Trying a bit of light shed activity..... This cowering in the chair on a diet of aspirin is no good for man nor beast! Brace up Stanley!
My grand children are mainly a bit further away but that makes visits so much more special. La Yiota (Janet's daughter) is in the UK for a while and visits me tomorrow. Must put a clean shirt on.......

[Marilyn]

Blowing a gale here today, though very warm with it.
Decided to air the quilt and woollen under blanket...wrestled them off and outside...they have had a lovely blow thru.
Then wrestled them back inside and back on the bed before making it all up with clean linen.
Hoovered the bedroom, and in all the corners and moved all the furniture, window sill etc.

now I've sat down with a Coffee and a 30 min massage session with my TENS/TEMS machine.
Arm has improved by 90% in the past week but I was feeling it after wrangling king sized bedding. Nice to know that relief is just a button press away. This machine is amazing.

[Stanley]

Nice to hear you are getting benefit Maz but I don't want to be reliant on a machine....