What have you been doing today?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Trigeminal Neuralgia - I sincerely hope not. Even at its mildest forms debilitating and life changing with limited treatment options.

Well, those were the description of the symptoms, which perfectly fitted. It does suggest the severity, and frequency, can vary. I guess my symptoms are way down at the lower end of the scale. I used to suffer it whilst working, and just do my best to ignore it, and carry on. I've even bothered to try to diagnose it before, until now, I suffered so rarely from it.

I also suffer what the doc told me was a form of Neuralgia, where I get a scalp pain, not nearly as bothersome as I suffered the past few days though.

 

[securespark]

Got a copy of my post op X-ray now, but can't remember if I've posted it here or not.

 

[Mottie]

You must be worth a few bob in scrap!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

You must be worth a few bob in scrap!

Best not get too near any strong magnets!

 

[Andydevon]

Reminds me I need to pop into Screwfix today.

Hope recovery goes well.

 

[securespark]

Cheers people!

Loving the humour, the LOLs help keep me going!

 

[securespark]

Hope recovery goes well.

I had the op on the 5th.

I've been partial weight bearing since the 11th, but as the ankle I have broken is my "good" leg, I can't walk yet as I can't step or hop on the other leg, which is my weak CP side. The estimate is 4-12 weeks before I am weight bearing.....let's hope it is the lower end of the scale. I hope to go home today, but the ambulance guys have to assess how best to get someone who can't walk into a property with steps.

The good news is that I came into hospital weighing a bovine 165kg. Now, after suffering the indignity of a hoist, I weigh a slightly less bovine 157.7, or 7.3kg less (over a stone less).

 

[Mottie]

Today, as I do about this time every year, I get 'surprised' that after a year of tending my allotment I find that Sainsbury’s are selling sprouts, carrots and parsnips at 15p a bag! Still, it’s a hobby and hobbies cost. If you just looked at the price of things, golfers would get someone to just pop that ball in the hole and save all that time and expense, anglers would get someone to put a wriggling fish in their hands, train spotters would just make up numbers of trains and Notch would get someone to clear his local supermarket shelves of tomatoes so that he could pretend it was due to Brexit and then restock them as soon as he had left…..

 

[Andydevon]

Sainsbury's pah Lidle are 8p a bag.

 

[noseall]

I had some time on my hands this morning while I was having my full fibre installed so I gave the ovens a pre-Christmas annual clean.

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Mind you, I cheated on the bottom one:

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I think I might have even pipped @noseall to the post this year!

Done mine today....

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I bought two packs of the oven stuff and used a full bottle in the seal-up bag and another bottle was used for slopping around the ovens. Saved about 90mins on the cleaning effort.
Managed to give the hob a going over too....

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[Mottie]

I went and collected a kitchen trolley/island that I bought online for £20. I’m going to paint it the same colour as my kitchen cabinets, put a towel rail on it to match my kitchen door handles and change the top for quartz, again to match my kitchen worktop. My first project for the new year.

I bought some back-up carrots and sprouts for 15p a bag but I went over the plot, dug up some spuds, pulled some carrots and a red cabbage and harvested my own baby sprouts for my Christmas lunch. Going over our sons for Christmas dinner. They've bought the turkey and I said I’d supply and prep the veg. I’m going to pre-roast the spuds and parsnips and freeze them so they’ll only need popping in the oven for 15 minutes.

 

[Sunshine32]

I love red cabbage. How you going to do it, with apple and spices? We grew red cabbage and green too in the garden but the insects had them, they'd burrowed through to not quite the centres and had a good old munch. We ended up leaving them to finish them off. Yours look healthy. What's the trick? Are you using a polytunnel or greenhouse?

 

[Mottie]

I love red cabbage. How you going to do it, with apple and spices?

I'll leave that to the daughter in law.

We grew red cabbage and green too in the garden but the insects had them, they'd burrowed through to not quite the centres and had a good old munch. We ended up leaving them to finish them off. Yours look healthy. What's the trick? Are you using a polytunnel or greenhouse?

For all my brassica's, I make up a frame out of wood and some plastic piping and cover it with some fine netting. Keeps the damn cabbage white butterflies and their caterpillars out!

 

[Sunshine32]

Ah ok, we put netting over but not with frames and they managed to get under it and had the time of their lives! Our potatoes did well though. We planted 2-3 varieties in lockdown and they have produced well every year. Last year we thought we'd turn the patch back into a bed and despite digging them up they've still proliferated. They're like squatters, they refuse to move.

 

[Mottie]

Ah ok, we put netting over but not with frames and they managed to get under it and had the time of their lives! Our potatoes did well though.

If you just put netting with no support, the butterflies will lay eggs through the netting onto any part of the plant that is touching the net.

We planted 2-3 varieties in lockdown and they have produced well every year. Last year we thought we'd turn the patch back into a bed and despite digging them up they've still proliferated. They're like squatters, they refuse to move.

Yeah, you only have to leave the tiniest of potatoes or even just a piece of skin in the ground and up it will pop next year!