Glamour isn't the word!

Slurry all out now. Don't mind the aroma either, I think it's like your own babies nappies don't offend you, but other people's babies are a bit yuck!

Hope your Mum is ok.



How's the foot? I've somehow managed to knacker my back, limping round very slowly yelping a lot. Grr! Did you have a nice time with your visitors?

Back in the far mists of time I went to see Vanessa Redgrave and the lovely Rupert Graves in a play called A Madhouse in Goa, i think Tim Dalton was Vanessa Redgrave's partner at the time, anyway i was sitting in my seat waiting for the play to start and in he came and sat next to me. He was HUGE not just length ways!! He overflowed the tiny theatre seat and had the most enormous energy coming off him. He was utterly charming, I can totally see why he must do well in auditions or meetings with producers because of how compelling he was. He was James Bond at the time.

Sidenote - he's great in Penny dreadful (so far!)

In other news it was like a porn film out and about yesterday, all the sheep were nekkid


oh i do apologise i think that' me *wafts air around to disperse smell*. Hope your mum has a speedy recovery An

Morning Twass how's the foot today?

ETA just seen tk's post above we need our own medical team for these thread !
Any chance you can lie flat? You could get Mr tk to spray some of the magnesium oil on your back when it arrives. Oh i do hope it resolves quickly backs are a complete nightmare when you injure them, so sorry tk

An appears to be the least injured maybe if we all move in with her mum she can nurse all of us?

Again I think there's a small, but distinct improvement. I can't put the painful bit to the ground yet but it is certainly not as excrutiating as it was. My visitors said I was moving better this morning and I have taken no painkillers yet, I will only take them when really needed. Just massaged in another 5 sprays so...hopefully! I do hope your spray arrives soon as it sounds like you really need it....try and rest up! Not easy though of course.....things needing to be done....


Yoo hoo planets! As above, foot seems to be slightly improving!! I think your plan of all moving into An's mum's is brilliant. We can keep mum company chatting away while An does all the fetching and carrying Hope her recovery is quick!

Glad to hear the foot is improving! The thing about having An as our nurse is she can make us lovely clafoutis and bring it to us straight of the oven with lashings of cream (which of course is very healing and on my prescription from my GP i see )

How divine would that be! We can lie in a row waiting for our clafoutis and cream like four little birds in a nest With our beaks wide open! I feel sure An's mum loves the clafoutis treatment. Actually, An should open an exclusive clinic for clafoutis therapy and charge folks a fortune. We'd be freebies obviously

i think we should have a percentage of any profits having come up with the concept

Clafoutis Therapy

You and I should get a 20% cut each of the profits and An keeps the remaining 60%. I think that's very generous of us being the brains behind the enterprise

i agree Twass that's a very generous deal, I'm sure An will be delighted when she finds out about it
What time is the clafoutis round i'm quite peckish?

We should be getting it at 8am, 1pm and 6pm sharp! And possibly a late night dose at 11pm for good measure

Anyone a PINGU fan??

There's been no 8am OR 1pm clafoutis
I'm going to have to contact Patient Services about this....

How are we meant to recover with no medicine

I've had to resort to a mini twister ice lolly!

i've had to force crumpets and humous down
patient abuse patient abuse i know the signs Twass next is refusing pain relief

Although I have not taken any at all today and have decided that I only will when I need to go out. I don't want to get dependent on it. I've done pretty well, changed the bed, washed two loads of laundry, hopped out to line, hung it, and got it all back in. Not bad for a cripple. It took me a fair while but I was careful and no awful jolts of pain so I hopefully haven't put myself back. Rest of the time I have chilled my beans on the sofa. Well, other than making the bed back up again

I may have to survive on the leftover cottage pie I found in the freezer if no clafoutis arrives soon! You just can't get the help these days

Well done!!
i've watered the garden, deadheaded and watched lots of youtubes with the cast of Penny dreadful being interviewed today is a rest day after yesterday's trauma.

i'm very weak from clafoutis withdrawal....

to be honest i might have to complain to OfClaf

How did you get on at the dentist by the way? At least you had some naked sheep to embarrass on the way there and back

I hate the dentist
he had to drill the temporary teeth off to do the prep work for the new ones (hoorah the hole has healed!) i find it all a bit anxiety inducing. I'm not sure if it's related to the thing of when i had my first operation i wasn't at all nervous...but then skip forward and the week i had 4 different operations every time i was wheeled down to get the general anaesthetic i was more stressed and anxious than the time before; it got worse when i was expecting it to lessen with the "familiarity breeds contempt" mantra. I just have to concentrate on breathing and repeat "this too shall pass" in my head endlessly!!!

silver lining: it was chucking it down here when i left and half way there it was glorious sunshine. Instead of going on a motorway i take the back roads which have no traffic and it's just driving through fields for the most part. So that was lovely.
i love outside.
the verges are currently filled with rosebay willowherb and meadow sweet beautiful!

I no longer drive on motorways at all. If I can't get there on back roads I don't go

It sounds a bit more positive on the teeth front though, progress being made!! The verges here are now looking a bit dried out and dusty. The fresh, lush verges of Spring and early Summer are gone, but there are still many wildflowers and herbs growing in them or under the hedges.

I'm not at all surprised you fear procedures....too much has gone tits up for you in the past for you to feel OK with them now

*shuffles in a la Mrs Overall with trolley* right you lot I have cheese toasties, fish finger butties, M&S chocolate puddings with chocolate sauce and new Lidl organic yogurts in cherry or peach and passion fruit, with a tiny gin and tonic to wash it down.

Not exactly the most balanced supper, but very comforting.

OMG Biggins has been removed from the bb house! Offensive language

Evening tk, that sounds the most scrumptious supper! And as no clafoutis has appeared most welcome indeed

How's your back?

Thanks planets, it was the easiest spread I could manage tonight, rooting through fridge and freezer and minimal cooking.

Back a little better tonight, tho had to take two difene yesterday and today, it's a weak spot for ages but hasn't bothered me badly for a couple of years. Only cure is time and being careful.

If you can find the last few minutes of last night's hl show it will give you a laugh! Sorry can't post a link, but it's all over the forum

Erm...... that was me, twass!! But I'm sure planets will be in later.

Glad your back is improving!

Oh I'm so sorry blame the tiny g & t ...

You're such a lightweight!

Just seen this planets, how interesting and flipping heck, glamorous!

My claim to fame is seeing Samantha Fox , aged 15/16, checking the top shelf mags in the local newsagents. She lived a few streets away, and now I really like her in cbb.