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Post by tzarine on Aug 5, 2021 20:50:55 GMT 2
1. i send baz some of our sun 2. sun 3. sol 4. soleil 5. eguzkia
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Post by sophie on Aug 5, 2021 20:53:51 GMT 2
1. Back to the pool this morning 2. Getting my hair cut 3. Our contractor is coming this afternoon to start getting things organized for next year!
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Post by tzarine on Aug 8, 2021 6:32:41 GMT 2
1. i fed the lads corn & potato, tomato, onion, chive soup i made 2. i like my cooking 3. i will start to watch some olympics
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 30, 2021 0:20:39 GMT 2
1. It is 11.20 2. I'm sleepy. 3. See you tomorrow.
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 30, 2021 11:37:43 GMT 2
1. I have had my eye on a pretty cardigan and a long sleeved top from Joules. 2. I resisted temptation for so long, that the cardigan went out of stock. 3. The cardigan is back in stock and I gave into temptation and bought both items.
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 30, 2021 13:13:08 GMT 2
Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything except temptation.
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Post by Voy on Aug 30, 2021 13:47:23 GMT 2
1) I can drive 2) I can drive ! 3) I can drive !!! -- it's like being given a pass out of Jail !
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 3, 2021 10:48:11 GMT 2
1. We are going to the lawyer because she made a spelling mistake in one of the names. 2. Then I am going to the surgery to have tha dessing changed on my foot. 3. It is now 7 weeks since I went to the doctor about this foot and he said I needed to see a podiatrist. 4, He said he would organise this. 5. Nothing happened. 6. After a month I went private. 7. The podiatrist said there was arthritis - but also a circulation problem that was something she couldn't quite diagnose. The NHS would have to. 8. She wrote to my doctor 3 weeks ago. 9. Nothing has happened. 10. The dressing needs changing twice a week because of bleeding. 11. Where do I go from here? 12. The only positive thing is the letter from the podiatrist because it begins: "This delightful gentleman..."
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 3, 2021 12:45:58 GMT 2
I presume then there is an open wound. How would this be arthritis or is it 'also' arthritis?
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 3, 2021 17:29:21 GMT 2
I believe it is arthritis. Plus a circulation problem. The podiatrician was able to get a pulse on the top of my foot and then further forward. But she did not have the equipment to test on my my little toes where the pain comes. I have no pain when I sit and only a little when I stand. But when I go to bed and lie flat then the pain starts in the toes of my left foot. I found that if I stretch out on a sunlounger where my head is slightly higher than my feet the pain is minimal. I have spent some nights like that. Thinking about that I applied the same logic to going to bed. When the pain starts I let my left foot dangle over the side of the bed (so it is lower than my head). After a couple of minutes the pain goes. Then I can bring my foot back in bed and with luck the pain doesn't return - until I go to the bathroom when I have to repeat the process.
Sorry to be a bore.
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 3, 2021 20:10:24 GMT 2
Not a bore - but how is it bleeding?
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 3, 2021 23:34:36 GMT 2
Another problem is that my little toes have been twisted inward. The nails dig into the neighbouring toe. Hence the bleeding. All my adult life my shoe size has been 9. Last year when my problems began I bought size 10. This year I went up to size 11. There is still pressure on my toes. Truly I need a podiatrist to have a good look.
When Covid struck all podiatrists (state and private) stopped work. There is now a huge backlog. Nobody can tell me when I will have an appointment.
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Post by sophie on Sept 4, 2021 5:42:34 GMT 2
How about a foot soak with Epson salts?
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 4, 2021 10:41:20 GMT 2
How about a foot soak with Epson salts? I doubt that will straighten my toes. Maybe if I soaked my shoes in Epsom salts...
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Post by sophie on Sept 4, 2021 15:24:22 GMT 2
Agreed, Baz, but it would make them feel better.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 5, 2021 10:31:59 GMT 2
1. Baz: Alexa, what is the weather today? 2. Alexa: Right now in Chipping Sodbury it is sunny.. 3. Baz looks out of the window and sees total cloud cover. 4. Mrs Faz gives hollow laugh. 5. Cancel plans for a picnic.
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Post by shrjeff on Sept 5, 2021 12:33:19 GMT 2
1. google translate is lame and more confusing than helpful... 2. the corollary of #1 is to not expect reliability from Alexa...
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 5, 2021 17:37:30 GMT 2
1. google translate is lame and more confusing than helpful... 2. the corollary of #1 is to not expect reliability from Alexa... You are right, Jeff. I don't know where Alexa gets her weather forcasts from. An hour later she said Chipping Sodbury was in fog. No. This afternoon we have had clear blue sky and sun. No mention of that.
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Post by sophie on Sept 5, 2021 22:53:15 GMT 2
1. I enjoyed swimming 50 lengths as well as half an hour of water walking in the pool.
2. I really enjoyed the lamb spit meat from the fundraiser at the Greek Orthodox Church right next to the pool afterwards
3. Pool will be shut down for the next 2 weeks for annual maintenance. Boo.
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 15, 2021 14:33:29 GMT 2
1. Spain 2. Bosnia 3. Germany
I only have one set of clothes without duplications other than saying it is a T shirt or trousers or shorts or whatever. Travelling around those three without paying for a checked in bag when flying means I can only use a cabin bag. But if I'm staying in any one of them for more than a week or two means I need more clothes and then leave a set at each one. I'm loathed to start buy enough to end up with three complete sets, so that means splitting what I do have into three and leaving most of that third at each one. First world problems. What to do?
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Post by Netsuke on Sept 15, 2021 16:24:41 GMT 2
1. My grandma always knew when it was going to rain. 2. She said if her bunions were playing up it would rain. 3. Grandma’s weather predictions were always correct.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 16, 2021 9:58:05 GMT 2
1. The sun is shining. 2. I have just seen Bob watering the hanging baskets down Horse Street. 3. I am seeing the podiatrist in less than 3 hours. (At the weekend I spoke to a woman who has been waiting 18 months for an appointment).
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 22, 2021 10:21:41 GMT 2
1. Baz: Alexa, good morning. 2. Alexa: Good morning. Today is the first day of autumn. Soon it will be Hallowe'en and pumpkins and the shops will be full of Easter eggs. 3. Alexa made me smile.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 22, 2021 21:11:26 GMT 2
1. good day, baz 2. happy autumn, everyone 3. enjoy the cooler nights
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 15, 2021 18:53:30 GMT 2
1. I have resown broad beans, this time in pots which I placed in our garden room. The broad beans I sowed in the allotment have been cut off (not eaten). 2. I have made Chairman Mao's pork for tomorrow night's dinner. 3. I've forgotten the third thing. But there were definitely three. Perhaps a Potter can suggest something it might be.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 15, 2021 22:40:44 GMT 2
1. I have resown broad beans, this time in pots which I placed in our garden room. The broad beans I sowed in the allotment have been cut off (not eaten). 2. I have made Chairman Mao's pork for tomorrow night's dinner. 3. I've forgotten the third thing. But there were definitely three. Perhaps a Potter can suggest something it might be. baz, did you go for a walk? did you drink tea? did you eat breakfast?
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 16, 2021 0:31:14 GMT 2
I had breakfast certainly but I wouldn't post that: fruit juice, toast with butter and honey, coffee.
It wasn't this but it will do.
3. I have seen 2 private podiatrists and 4 NHS (state) podiatrists about my wretched foot. It has been bleeding for 4 months (though much less now, thank goodness). I have been contacted by the surgery: now a GP wants to see me. I wonder if she will finally agree with me that yes, there is arthritis in my left foot, and yes, I was bitten by a monkey in the ankle 70 years ago but there has to be something else. It is either a circulation problem or some nerve problem or why do I get sharp pains when I go to bed at night and stretch out? Because I have no medical training this is dismissed by the podiatrists. But my philosophy course at university did include logic.
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 16, 2021 3:33:13 GMT 2
1. I woke up. 2. I am alive. 3. I ain’t dead.
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 16, 2021 11:19:10 GMT 2
1. I woke up. 2. I am alive. 3. I ain’t dead. How can you prove you haven't woken up in some after-life?
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 16, 2021 16:31:47 GMT 2
lol! the meetingpot is a hangout in the afterlife?
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