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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 9, 2021 0:23:30 GMT 2
The blood tests will be a couple of days. I had an ECG as well. Then, miracle of miracles, th doctor was there and wanted to see me. She is in her early thirties and responded well to my saying Minglaba. The ECG showed no problems with my heart. She approved of my self-prescribing iron tablets for my lack of energy. My high blood pressure is the problem do she prescribed another pill. We'll see how we go.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 9, 2021 1:12:38 GMT 2
hope the meds work!
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 10, 2021 11:40:45 GMT 2
did they check your urine, Baz?
doing laundry and running the dishwasher and I'm going to be knitting this afternoon!
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 10, 2021 13:06:32 GMT 2
did they check your urine, Baz? Yes. No problems, apparently.
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Post by kuskiwi on Jan 10, 2021 19:04:09 GMT 2
Going back to work after 3 weeks leave. 5.30am came round a bit fast as I'm all out of routine.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 11, 2021 11:14:18 GMT 2
I'm hoping to fetch more manure from the stable near us. I can't be certain. Mrs Faz has gone to the recycling centre and we hope they will accept the garden prunings that are filling the sacks I would put the manure in.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 11, 2021 14:16:09 GMT 2
I went to the stable but the manure was hopeless, mainly straw.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 11, 2021 14:46:30 GMT 2
Today being a hot day - 37°C, I put the split system on in the morning on the lower fan setting, giving me a nice, cool lounge room. Not being able to concentrate on anything requiring one’s brain to actually have to work, I went from something where concentration is required to a fluffball where it’s a romp in time travel, a torch scares the bejaysus out of the 6th century locals, and the impossible becomes possible and the unexpected is expected at every turn.
A spoilt and selfish actress from today’s world gets in the kombi van which is a magical van called Boong Boong and drive off into the great unknown. Up to episode 16, there are 20 episodes altogether, I hope the selfish wench turns over a new leaf soon otherwise what was the point?!
So, my day has been spent being entertained. (Suddenly Russell Crowe’s voice is in my head....... “Are you not entertained?!”
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Post by tzarine on Jan 11, 2021 23:48:32 GMT 2
i went to chelsea market i will roast more potatoes in duck fat & maybe make a frittata w all the chard tzar bought
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Post by tzarine on Jan 20, 2021 22:57:48 GMT 2
write to my 4th grade teacher bc my 3rd grade teacher told me i should took a walk the fruit vendor was not out today
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Post by tzarine on Jan 25, 2021 20:47:17 GMT 2
making the sale american wagyu tzarvich brought home from the japanese market
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 25, 2021 21:28:42 GMT 2
this morning, I shovelled snow and tonight I celebrated my niece's birthday.
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Post by Voy on Jan 25, 2021 21:44:28 GMT 2
Making chicken soup ! and watching my handyman put new weatherstripping on my 30+yo windows... Yayy - there will be less wind whoosing thru and my heating bill will go down !
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Post by tzarine on Jan 26, 2021 0:24:16 GMT 2
i wrote a letter to my 4th grade teacher i had lunch w the lads
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 26, 2021 1:41:28 GMT 2
this morning, I shovelled snow and tonight I celebrated my niece's birthday. Annie, I’ve never seen snow. Although I did once travel on the “Snow Train” from Melbourne to Moe, then to Traralgon,. Then a shuttle bus up to the snowfields. Almost five hours from start to end. Then do the same only in reverse, another five hours or so, the light in the carriages start to dim before you’re half way it’s almost pitch black by the time you arrive back - the fuel is just about gone see? The whole day took around thirteen hours. Once was enough.
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Post by Voy on Jan 26, 2021 2:05:02 GMT 2
It's not much, and they aren't great, but when I lived in Sydney we used to go down to Thredbo (?) to ski for the weekend...
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Post by sophie on Jan 26, 2021 4:11:03 GMT 2
I finished pruning all four plum trees. Only a few trees left but they are the tough ones. I will get our son in to help with the upper limbs.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 26, 2021 5:22:01 GMT 2
eating tacos w the lads
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Post by Voy on Jan 26, 2021 15:53:00 GMT 2
in about an hour, going for my first vaccination !
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Post by Voy on Jan 26, 2021 20:22:23 GMT 2
done ! and so far, arm not even sore . happiness.
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Post by Voy on Jan 26, 2021 20:23:10 GMT 2
I just wish I could have had it at Salisbury Cathedral ! with an organ concert !
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Post by tzarine on Jan 26, 2021 21:42:48 GMT 2
me, too i did have a cookie & hot chocolate @ the hospital
i am making an onion, red pepper, potato frittata i read a tale from the decameron
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 26, 2021 21:49:49 GMT 2
I did procrastinate a lot, but I also cooked, I changed the lightbulbs that needed changing, I had a call witha patient and prepped meds for another. And I did the washing up and prepped a few things for tomorrow. oh... and I did hoover the whole place.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 27, 2021 10:00:29 GMT 2
in about an hour, going for my first vaccination ! I read this as vacation and thought, “I wonder where Voy is going?” Then realised that I had read it wrong. Ah well... Why do Americans say vacation? Everyone else calls it holidays. In the English speaking world.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 27, 2021 11:22:12 GMT 2
I am being stubbornly optimistic about going for our vacation (ahem, Netsie) in early June and have this morning booked the free shuttle from Athens airport to our hotel in Rafina where we'll spend the night before catching the ferry. Accommodation is booked on the island of Siros. If the pandemic prevents us going I can always cancel. I have already cancelled accommodation 3 times and our flights to Athens have been shifted twice before.
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Post by Voy on Jan 27, 2021 17:21:19 GMT 2
Netski asked: Why do Americans say vacation? Everyone else calls it holidays. In the English speaking world.
I think because we still tie the word holiday to the ones that started religiously - Holy Days. ( even tho it's not a formally religious country. ) We say "I'm going home for the holidays". And Vacation comes from vacating. you are vacating your regular place and work. And during the recent economic downturns they invented "staycation" - for staying at home while away from work, and all the things you could do.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 27, 2021 18:42:07 GMT 2
Thankyou Voy for explaining that, not sure I fully understand but there, we’re all different. Although to be perfectly honest, if an Australian said, “I’m going home for the holidays”, it’d be a bit like “Eh?” you’d get a bit of a funny look. Say for example, Easter is coming up, we don’t ask “What are you doing over the holidays?”, we would say, “Are you doing anything over Easter?”. Same for Christmas 🎄, In America, schools close for nearly three months over the summer 🌺, but here in Australia 🇦🇺 we don’t. Christmas is in summer, not winter, so schools finish around December 18th or 20th, and schools go back by the end of January. The school year begins January and finishes three weeks into December.
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 27, 2021 19:00:08 GMT 2
I shifted boxes, and then I shifted snow.
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 27, 2021 19:02:46 GMT 2
Netsie, "The holidays" usually are about the series of holidays that take place at the end of the year. Christmas/Chanuka/etc etc and New Year's Eve.
AT least this is what I understand. If you're going away around Easter, you'd say I'm going away at Easter.
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Post by Voy on Jan 27, 2021 20:26:16 GMT 2
what Annie said ^ --Netskie's comment made me think - and here most 'vacations" are taken in the summer, when there are no holidays - except 4th of July - which just calls for fireworks and bbqs. Easter dpesn't count - we don't even get the Monday off, much less the Friday. And Thanksgiving, while major, is just referred to as Thanksgiving.
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