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Post by tetsabb on Aug 6, 2024 16:52:21 GMT
After my head-on crash, I started getting dizzy spells. I have been on Stematil for then for over 20 years. Mostly successfully. This afternoon I had the worst I have had in ages - very wobbly. Went upstairs for more pills, and retired, very still, for a couple of hours. Most unpleasant
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 6, 2024 17:14:17 GMT
Volunteering at Newark Park today. At the end of the day I was on the top floor and the last visitor asked me why the Tudor bedroom wasn't opened. I had to point out that we'd technically closed 7 minutes earlier, so my staff colleague was shutting everything up.
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Post by jenny on Aug 6, 2024 17:32:50 GMT
I was planning to go swimming today, but Woodsman woke up with a very painful foot (possibly gout) and had a massage booked this morning, so I ended up driving him to that instead. We then had a nice brunch at Mr Bagel - onion bagel with cream cheese, smoked salmon, chopped red onion and capers. Mmmm.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 6, 2024 20:51:54 GMT
Weird thing just happened, most of you have probably had the same sort of thing happen. I came in from my afternoon walk with a lolly stick. Sat down in the living room and put it down. Got up a bit later and looked for it, it was gone! Moved the chair, and the footstool, and the table, and the other chair, got down on my hands and knees and looked under everything, not a sign of it. Checked my pockets, checked the bookshelves, nothing. Came upstairs and forgot about it. A couple of hours later, came downstairs, watched a bit of a DVD while eating dinner. Went out to kitchen and made a cup of tea. Came back in the living room, and there is the lolly stick in the middle of the damn floor! Right next to the chair, in a spot I looked at a dozen times. The carpet is dark grey/brown, the stick is almost white. There is no way I could not have seen it before, it was not there. Where TF did it go? And how TF did it come back?
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Post by amanda on Aug 6, 2024 22:58:14 GMT
I've had that happen with things that have rolled or bounced a bit so they are a bit away from the location I expect them to be. I also have the cat who can bat things off the desk/bench/around the floor at times.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 7, 2024 9:20:46 GMT
Where TF did it go? And how TF did it come back? It had obviously bounced into the washing machine, through the portal into which socks go for their holidays, before coming back, sometimes in the form of Tupperware lids.
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Post by amanda on Aug 7, 2024 10:04:48 GMT
Evening here and I have just heard four bangs, the third rattled my window. A neighbour called me, wondering what it is. Given that there was an earth tremor this morning/overnight in the country area of Woods Point, a bit away from Melbourne, I am wondering if we just heard some aftershock.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 7, 2024 10:38:18 GMT
We then had a nice brunch at Mr Bagel - onion bagel with cream cheese, smoked salmon, chopped red onion and capers. Mmmm. I've never thought to use onion - red or otherwise - with cream cheese. I have some bagels in the bread bin. I shall see what else I have and use today's lunch as an opportunity to experiment.
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Post by jenny on Aug 7, 2024 14:21:33 GMT
I hope you enjoyed it! I like raw red onion.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 7, 2024 16:57:42 GMT
I love raw onion. Nearly always add it to anything I cook, and rarely does every bit of what I cut up make it into the pan before I eat it...
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Post by Bondee on Aug 7, 2024 21:17:50 GMT
I hope you enjoyed it! I like raw red onion. The experiment was not a success.
I don't have any cream cheese.
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Post by amanda on Aug 7, 2024 23:35:08 GMT
Evening here and I have just heard four bangs, the third rattled my window. A neighbour called me, wondering what it is. Given that there was an earth tremor this morning/overnight in the country area of Woods Point, a bit away from Melbourne, I am wondering if we just heard some aftershock. After posting a query on the local 'Next door' site, it was revealed that it was police training at the nearby college, not exactly opposite my place but close enough. Apparently residents on the other side streets got a letter about this, we didn't. They may need to review their processes as the one that rattled my window felt really loud.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 8, 2024 6:57:17 GMT
To Nottingham with the cowboys today, won't be around here for a few days. See you next week...
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 8, 2024 9:13:52 GMT
To Nottingham with the cowboys today, won't be around here for a few days. See you next week... Be good!
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Post by jenny on Aug 8, 2024 14:32:14 GMT
Have fun! (This may conflict with tetsabb's advice above...)
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Post by RLDavies on Aug 8, 2024 19:22:57 GMT
Pulled my second all-nighter this week, and therefore spent most of the afternoon asleep.
As a reward, I shall be enjoying a three-day weekend. Tomorrow will probably be spent mainly catching up on chores.
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Post by suze on Aug 8, 2024 21:51:00 GMT
Today we returned from the Spanish sun.
As we emerged into the United Kingdom, it was raining. The country is on the brink of civil war (Elon Musk says so, so it must be true), and our recently elected Labour MP turns out to be a racist.
Why did we come back?
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Post by amanda on Aug 9, 2024 8:40:09 GMT
Usual Friday at the music library. My assistant brought the cataloging he'd done at home and had to stamp all the books with our red ink stamp. A local woman/member came by to get some more music, I put it all through the system.
My assistant is going overseas for about 6 weeks (some of it to the UK, I believe) so I'll be on my own for the next few weeks.
Then as my welfare payment is usually in the bank today, I got some things from the supermarket, and this suburb has a few good op shops so I got a couple more books. One of the NSW coastal town near where my friend's holiday house is, some photo negatives that were found after a local photographer's death - the older woman who served me said she had been to a wedding at this town in the 1960's. And a new book for the history library about an inner suburb's post-war development. Suburb named Alamein after that battle.
Then the council called me to say my scheduled cleaner couldn't attend today so that's been changed to Monday, so I decided to get on the bus to the shopping centre 5 km up the road to lodge my passport renewal at the post office.
(and it is now a two year thing that applies here - so I had to pay the full fee for a new passport.....just under $400.....)
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 9, 2024 9:20:21 GMT
I went up to London for the Gunpowder Plot experience near tge Tower. Met up with fellow history enthusiast Allie, had a bite to eat, and partook. Partially live actors, taking you through your involvement in the plot, partly VR for a few bits, such as being winched out of the Towrr, and being rowed across the Thames in a small boat. Very clever tech. I wondered if they ever get anyone getting seasick on the boat section. Some of the actors did not speak loudly or clearly enough, but they were very invested in their characters. Not as good as the Ancient Egypt thing I did a few weeks ago. We had a drink afterwards, and ambled slowly along to the Monument to the Great Fire. Home just after 2300, very tired.
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Post by jenny on Aug 9, 2024 20:49:13 GMT
That sounds like a lot of fun, tets. Who organizes it? Is it suitable for children, and if so, of what age?
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Post by emily on Aug 10, 2024 8:27:05 GMT
not very interesting really
also I didn't have much of an evening because I had a seizure and rested on my bed for... well, it was originally going to be like 30/40 minutes, ended up being two hours
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Post by amanda on Aug 10, 2024 9:04:27 GMT
Hope you're ok. I do have seizures but mild ones so I never really convulse as such.
Given the lovely weather today at last (I'm in Australia for emily's benefit) I thought I'd take a trip to town to check out the big second hand bookshop now that I have a new author to check for, for my friend, and get my usual chicken dish.
Except that the place had decided to put pepper all over the tray and I can't have that...
Took me three trains to get home - one from the city loop to an interchange station, then my next train had a drug affected man, asleep on a seat who'd come from the other side of town and didn't know where he was when he did rouse. His 'mate' (I use that term loosely as they may only 'know' each other vaguely) kept throwing items, keys etc. Man 1 yelled to the train that his keys had been stolen. They got out at an inner city station, arguing about the keys all the way.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 10, 2024 9:58:53 GMT
That sounds like a lot of fun, tets. Who organizes it? Is it suitable for children, and if so, of what age? It is a commercial organisation gunpowderimmersive.com/Quite a lot of it takes place in dark corridors, and at one point participants are hidden in a very dark cupboard to avoid detection. My claustrophobia was just starting to kick in. The actors also use quite a lot of strong language. 13 upwards, maybe?
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Post by jenny on Aug 10, 2024 14:14:22 GMT
Ah thanks for those details - not suitable yet for my grandchildren then. Katie won't be 13 until November 2029 so I'll have to hope it's still going and I'm still OK taking her out!
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Post by alexanderhoward on Aug 10, 2024 21:50:02 GMT
All day in Stratford on a glorious summer's day; finishing with Pericles Prince of Tyre at the Swan Theatre this evening. Currently in a rather plush hotel.
Looking around, I realised that with enough time, you could have a long theatre-crawl in the town.
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Post by amanda on Aug 11, 2024 2:30:14 GMT
With the beautiful warm day, I went to my local hardware/gardening store for another small bag of potting mix. Can only carry one at a time on my own and the delivery fee is too stupid to bother with.
The local woodturners guild was there with some of their members demonstrating the various machines and the products made were for sale to support a charity. I bought a small bird/duck with toothpick legs for $5.
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Post by alexanderhoward on Aug 11, 2024 16:28:06 GMT
Beautiful, hot day, so we after our cultural day yesterday, we visited Anne Hathaway's cottage and its gorgeous garden.
Then an hour or more of the middle of our day was spent standing in the long, long queue to the Diddly Squat Farm Shop. It is a very small shop. Still, the children had to get it out of their systems.
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Post by jenny on Aug 11, 2024 19:35:28 GMT
I wasn't a huge fan of Top Gear, and I find Clarkson quite irritating, but I did enjoy that Clarkson's Farm series and am looking forward to the next season.
We had a guy round today trying to sell us (though in fact money will not change hands) on having solar panels on our roof (which is actually ideally situated for them) on a system where we don't pay for the panels but we purchase at a very cheap rate the power that comes from them. I'm quite tempted, but he wanted me to sign a form that is 44 pages long, and I refused to sign anything I haven't read, so we've left it that we're both going to read it and let him know. I have printed off the form...
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Post by efros on Aug 11, 2024 20:20:01 GMT
I'd be doing some research on the company Jenny, the number of crooks and scammers in that area is quite appalling.
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Post by amanda on Aug 12, 2024 8:26:17 GMT
I was as busy as a bee today. The council rang at 9.30am to say the first rescheduled worker couldn't come after all at 10.30, but they had someone else who could come at 11.30. So I changed the bedsheets, put a load of washing on and went back to the hardware store for another bag of potting mix. When I returned at 10am, the wash had finished so I hung it out on the line, loaded up the second load.
When the cleaner left I then went to the shopping centre up the road to the post office, got back from there, put on the second load of washing, hung it out.
Then watered the neighbour's plants as she's away for three weeks.
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