Hey Grumpies!

I hope that Tuesday been a kind day to you all. Today is Mr. Home's birthday but we were going to celebrate it tomorrow since it's his day off and I was going to bake him a cake today. He left for work as usual thins morning but was back within in an hour having found someone to cover for him and giving himself the day off. It ruined all my plans. We were both a little tired though since we had a friend around for dinner last night and drank lots of Brazilian lemonade with rum. It was super good craic though since she's got stories to tell of her all her adventures that she'll never run out of. After a nappy late morning/early afternoon we gave the garden a good going over. It's been sorely neglected and overgrown for the past few weeks of my shoulder problem and the cats have tried to claim it back for themselves while I wasn't on the job. It was nice weather for it, not too hot but nice and sunny.

Amica: sorry to hear of your fibroid problem and hope it's sorted soon. But please don't get that coil thing. Putting a foreign object in your body is never a good idea. There are other ways to deal with menopause.

Have you sleepless in Grumpyland peeps tried any of the herbal tinctures of hops, valerian or both together?

BG & SP: When's the wedding?

Hi Snowy, Handy, KJ and Laura. Also MIA these days is twingle.

AW me happy birthday to Mr home when it comes

evening all

Evening my lovelies - I hope I'm still allowed here despite being absolutely rubbish and self-absorbed recently with lots of real life shiz! Into the second week of the school hols here and I have had my first nuclear meltdown today, I think this is actually very restrained of me - I'm obviously starting to practice what I preach

Hope you are all well, Happy Birthday to Mr Home, hope the nuptials went well to the Golden Girls and you didn't end up too sweaty
Amica I have missed your post but an arms length hug in case you are too menopausally sweaty to get close and LL I have no idea what is appertaining but send you love whatever
Sending KJ and HM hugs just cos I can!
Bugger, I know I've missed someone, feel free to send a kick my way or shove a pin in an effigy if it was you!

Now I have a long holiday ahead of me I have promised I will be around here more because I bloody well miss you lot but we all know that is my good intentions talking rather than what will actually happen! If it takes me another year or so to get back please believe that I would be here far more if I weren't so incompetent

Hello Collette lovely to see you sent you a pm
Going to try and get some sleep this evening if you see me back here send me packing back to bed

Hey Collette! Long time no see. Sweaty?! How very dare you.

I am almost but not officially menopausal so that's something still to look forward to. The Mirena thing is a hormone implant which gives only one seventh of the hormones in a pill. Still, according to the net I could look forward to weight gain, hair loss and also facial hair growth. I am still up surfing the net for answers but I can't find any. Obviously no-one can predict how anyone else will react. I am not convinced that my symptoms are bad enough for this treatment but if I decide to have it later it would be without the anaesthetic.

If I don't decide soon I will sleep through the appointment lol

Collette!!!

Happy belated birthday to Mr Home. The wedding is on Friday me@, and I'm watching the weather in a slightly obsessive way now. Looks to have settled down a bit temperature wise, but there have been some spectacular thunder storms and more are forecast, so who knows what will actually happen on the day. Sad and I will probably be too drunk to care. Kidding!

Amica, can these things come out again if you do go for it and get bad side effects? Good luck with the appointment either way. I'll keep everything crossed. Let us know how it goes.

My doings today are completely trivial. I'm having my first, and probably last, spray tan. I got totally talked into it and it seemed a good idea at the time. Now, not so much. And speaking of sweating, I'd better take my bike out for a spin soon because sweating is definitely not recommended once one has been sprayed. Or swimming. Or sleeping in white sheets....

Happy Birthday Mr Me@ have a good birthday enjoy your day
Managed to stop off here and get some sleep until the cat started howling for her breakfast or attention not sure which.

Happy Hump Day!

Hey Collette! Great to see you here. Once a GOW always a GOW so no need to worry about not being welcomed after a long absence.

Re the Mirenna Coil: I actually had an IUD in the early 70s. I had a Lippes Loop as the Dalkon Shield looked a bit scary. I had it for six months and it was six months of hell. Even when I got it out I had terrible cramps for several days. A few years later when I was doing my Family Planning training I learned how to put in a coil and how to remove them. Curiously none of the doctors who taught me would have one and in "shop talk" would express their concerns about their safety and long term effects on the body. Most patients reported some sort of difficulty with it. I also had friends who had one or the other long term and to be honest, every single one of them developed some sort of womb/cervical problems. No exaggeration here. The Mirena may have hormones in in but it's still an IUD that irritates the lining of the womb so that conception can't take place. They can dislodge, perforate and the string itself can cause infection. Years later and I wonder what was I thinking putting a foreign object into my body that wasn't meant to be there. (The same goes for the contraceptive pill.) The Mirena hasn't been around long enough to (since the 90s) for evaluation for long term effects but it's not different from the other two in where they go and what they do. Sorry if I'm going on but I feel very strongly about this and I know that the medical profession is really pushing them as a help for endometriosis (sp?) and fibroids , etc. but I've lost friends and family because of these things and have also watched friends suffer through surgery, cryosurgery, chemo, radiation, etc. from cervical problems. (Tubal ligation is also a culprit for later reproduction problems as well.)

There, I've said my piece and have given my personal and professional experiences with it. Please make an very informed decision, not from the doctors but from those who've had them although they may sing it's praises after a few months or a couple of years but what are the long term users saying?

Rant over!

Ooh crikey. You do feel strongly. We can only speak as we find though, eh?

I didn't read that before I went but had already decided to say no. The endoscopy wasn't nice and I thought it was enough for one day. Turns out I "didn't tolerate it well" and would need a general but my fibroid is small and not a concern. Review in a few months but I think things would need to be intolerable for me to buy into having one fitted. Hopefully I will hit the menopause soon and it will all be a thing of the past. For now I am having a nice lie down with a book to recover. Onwards and upwards.

evening all

Hey up SNoWy

Glad it's all over for now Amica, the decision making and the appointment. I'd recommend some more feet up and book reading today.

I'm up and about to go out for a quick bike ride before I set off. It'll clear a few cobwebs and given the weather over there - hot and thundery - it's my last opportunity for the next few days. Or are bikes safe in thunder, what with the rubber tyres... ? Gawd, it's too early for logic...

So NOT kidding


BG will be driving to the airport now... I need to get a shift on and pack

Amica - only just seen your posts and so glad everything is okay for now. I would wait and see, personally. But then I didn't get any choice - my cyst turned out to be very bad news and they whipped everything they could away. Hard to believe it was over three years ago.

Laters ladies xxx

Watch out Warsaw! BG and SP will be on the loose again. Have a wonderful time ladies.

Enjoy your trip ladies.
Bats is this to test out the grumpies tour?

LL - definitely. We'll put in an extra effort into checking out restaurants and bars, I expect. But today is all about the wedding, and the weather's behaving - big, blue skies and temperature of around 30 on the way, so I think we'll be okay as far as dresses... It's just the amount of vodka we'll be offered that I'm worried about now.

We'll report back later. If able.

Evening all

SnoWy - how are you?

I bought one of those adult colouring books earlier while shopping - a certain small ginger has 'borrowed' it momentarily. To be fair when I played earlier with it I borrowed his posh pencils so I suppose it's nice we're sharing

Have fun in Warsaw - you pair should see if you can get a job with the Tourist Board, you sell it to me every time!

Evening ladies and KJ

Hope Bats wedding went better than the one I went to today I am really out of it, never been to a wedding with a buffet before how times have changed lol could not wait to get home glad it over with.

Collette, twingle is into Adult Colouring have you tried Zentangling? I colour my stamped images on my cards so that is just the same

The joy of Insomnia grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Well manages a few hours sleep interrupted sleep but some sleep wish I could got to bed at 11 and get up at 7 without all the night times strolls must be heaven.

You poor thing LL.

I'm on short sleep rations too, so know how you feel. Bed time was about 3am (we were the first to leave, oh the shame ).

The wedding.... Not sure how to describe it. We did a few little videos which I sent to Batman and he's gone into shock I think.... just keeps saying OMG, with the odd 'you poor things' thrown in for punctuation.

I honestly don't know what to say... Different. Yes, it was different. And we certainly didn't go hungry! We sat down to tables full of cold buffet type foods, then there was a completely different buffet in a corner, under 'sausage chandeliers' and with lucky wedding lard (oh yes) taking pride of place in the middle, but that wasn't it, and we kept being served hot meals... lots of hot meals. Vegetarian options were limited, though. When I turned down the very first thing they brought out (offal soup - sorry Sad!) and said I didn't eat meat I was reassured that they also had chicken soup. And a very helpful lady next to me pointed out the things that only had a little bit of meat in them.

But it was absolutely fine because there really was sooooo much food... and vodka. Sooooo much vodka. Only vodka. And there was no point in refusing because that would just be confusing - people clearly can't come to a wedding and not have a shot of vodka every few minutes. I think there might be some kind of a bylaw... And may I just say that it didn't bother Sad one little bit. Down in one go like a local.

I'm probably selling it again Collette.

And to me! Hope your hangovers are not too bad, ladies!

Gentle hugs to LL.

Wow, I missed a lot! right...

Amica, hope you feel better now. Endoscopies are not fun. Glad all is OK and decisions are made.

me@h - hope that cake turned out nicely and you guys had a good couple of days

Collette - always lovely to see you whenever it happens
Back in the habit, that's the key.
I think we all drop out from time ti time, and then drop back in again...

Laura, the insomnia is a vicious circle, isn't it? Symapthy hugs, as ever xxxx

batty and sad - glad you're having an amazing time
The whole vegetarian option story put me in mind of Monty Python's Spam song: "We've got Spam, egg, beans, sausage and Spam, that's not got too much spam in it..."

*waves to snowy, KJ and anyone MIA*
Think twingle has family staying atm, no doubt she'll return...

As for the Melons - I'm dividing my time between housework catch-up and slobbing online. Mr M is making a database of all his magazines so he can sell them (he's totally run out of space!), and Melony announced this morning she wanted to turn the empty waffle packet into a dragon's head, so we are waiting for the first coat of green acrylic to dry.
Saturday...

Today I have been doing laundry. Tomorrow will be better. I promise myself.

France's west coast has risen by 5 cm. Scientists think tectonic plates have been shifting due to an intense weight redistribution affecting the Earth's crust in the area of Poland.