WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2022
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Tracey - All hail to Princess Micki!!! Ain't she great!
I have a tiara like that I bought for my 70th on the ship. I still have it in my bedroom on top of my bowl of necklaces.
This morning, Bea and Max are coming over for a playdate. Edie is playing a football match. After that a friend's mum is taking her and her friend to a Brighton and Hove Women's football match at the Amex stadium.
My son is picking them up before 12 as Bea has a party to go to.
My DDIL is on a deadline to finish her book, hence the childminding. It's about recovery after trauma. (She's a clinical psychologist)
Only five weeks tomorrow until our next cruise. I want to finish my memory boxes and get started on the next book by then. It's going to be my collected poetry with a bit of context thrown in. The complexity of grief interests me especially.
I've been sleeping upstairs the last few nights as DH has a bad cold. I haven't caught it yet, but I expect to. I thought I would give him room to cough and splutter.
Now I will take him a cup of tea.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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I was looking for a photo for Bea of my cats that I had as a child. I couldn't find the one I know I have of Oscar, but I came across this one of Dinky. He wasn't our cat, he was next door's, but he adopted us. This photo of me is the only one I have of the worst 8 months of my life when we lived in Harrow. I wrote about it in Me I Am. I do think I look quite terrible. Poor Dinky was run over not long after this by a coal lorry.
Around this time my little brother went missing and didn't come home from being out all day playing. The police were called and went out looking for him in their cars. He came home by himself. I find it amazing now that we were left to roam outside all by ourselves. In London. My brother would have been just seven years old.
Love Heather UK xxxxxx
We planted our bulbs in the big pot outside the dining room this morning with Bea. Max looked on. Tulips and mini daffodils. There were lots of crocus bulbs in the soil that didn't flower last year. We replanted them.
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I'm down a whole 3 kg (6.6 lbs) from my heaviest weight ever which I hit in mid-August.
Congrats on your weight loss Lisa!
Machka in Oz
The last 6 weeks or so have been great for weight loss for some reason. I made a few small changes, and the weight has been coming off. I wouldn't have thought small changes would have done it, but here we are. I hope it continues!
Today, I spent about an hour in the garden, digging mostly. I'm making a bit of progress digging the trench that will become my dry stream. It's a little bit slow going because I had planted a number of things in that garden last spring, and they're coming up this spring. So I was transplanting freesias as I went.
Then we went to a local fresh fruit and veg market for ... fruit and veg! And a couple other things.
And it was nice enough out that we got a bicycle ride in.
This coming week is a 5-day work week for me. I much prefer the shorter weeks I've had for the past 3 weeks. However, it will give me more time to climb stairs.
Machka in Oz
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Heather and all,
The news about Josephine the ballerina is tough. Josie is in good spirits, but her lung tumors (metastases from the spinal tumor) have been stubborn, preventing a stem cell transplant that MD Anderson had hoped to perform if the chemo/radiation treatments could shrink the tumors by 30% first. So now they are going to St Judes in hopes of being in a trial. Josie keeps her spirits up, and is still the sweetest girl ever.
Karen in Virginia
That is unfair ... and I hope she gets the help she needs at St Judes.
M in Oz
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »His attitude to entertaining is completely different to mine! I want everything to be easy, and prepared ahead, so I don’t have to be slaving over a hot stove at the last minute, and can can drift around cooly in nice clothes, and he likes to be performing acrobatics with grill tongs and juggling multiple dishes! Very manly! He was a professional chef for a while in his student days, but has always been keen and knowledgeable.
The table setting though leaves a lot to be desired. In the end I set it, but with odds and ends of old mats and cutlery.
The cake was fabulous, and he makes his own honeycomb.
I'm inspired to try it next weekend. Have any of you made it? Kim?
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
My entertaining style is to invite people to a restaurant, preferably a restaurant with a variety of options: meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, etc.
M in Oz
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Just had to inject here for those sharing their entertaining styles... I don't have one. Mine is "Go away before I sic the dog on you." 6
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I hardly ever entertain these days, only family and best beloveds very, very occasionally. A restaurant is much preferred, but prices are getting astronomical recently.
The week after next we are having one of DH 's old friends and his wife to lunch. They live a long way away, but are visiting friends in the vicinity. I couldn't think where to take them - they are old and very traditional, so I said I would provide a picky lunch, with cold chicken, meats, hummus, falafel, salad, dressings etc and fill your own rolls/wraps. I hope I can manage that without driving myself nuts with perfection anxiety.
We can walk down to the sea afterwards for excellent ice cream from Marrocco's.
My heart sank when DH said they were coming, but I have rallied!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx7 -
M – good luck on your test. When are you going for it? Which medications are your husband on?
Michele NC
The problem with getting those MRIs is that I will have to decide on a doctor, get my information transferred to that doctor, have an appointment with that doctor and convince that doctor that I want 2 MRIs. It may take a bit of time.
He's on two different epilepsy medications as part of the transition. He's also on medications for his heart and brain.
M in Oz
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Ii spent the day yesterday with DH. We sat outside and enjoyed the company of others. I hope that he will join me in the apartment in the near future. Wish me luck and DH will be able join me in the apartment.
I miss him.9 -
Katla, Such good news that your DH is able to sit outside! I hope he is able to come back to the apartment soon! That would be so good!1
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Autumn sprite.
Love Heather UK xxxxxx7 -
Morning ladies
Boy that nyquil knocks you out and it works,im not stuffy anymore.. but I did close the windows.
Have to pick up some groceries.. and then will be back.
Right now Tracy and Kyle have no back up.. and ,I feel kind of stuck ..I love Miles ,but can't plan anything because of the schedule until he is at least preschool age.2 -
Ii spent the day yesterday with DH. We sat outside and enjoyed the company of others. I hope that he will join me in the apartment in the near future. Wish me luck and DH will be able join me in the apartment.
I miss him. How great that you are spending time with him and that he's feeling better. 0 -
Katla, Good news about your husband!
Karen in Virginia0 -
Heather I love the autumn sprite! How sweet is that?
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I have communicated more with Josephine's mom. Josephine is 12 now. I asked if I could look for anything for her as I downsize, and she asked me to start a box of any interesting items for her to look at. I have craft items, dolls, books, and other things she might find interesting. Should be fun!
Karen in Virginia8 -
My entertainment style is a blend of careful planning and total panic. I don't do it enough to have any confidence. There was a time when I could have my friends over for coffee and feel okay, but that was twenty years ago.
I'm irritated with caregiving this morning. I made a really nice meatloaf earlier this week and my mother got it out and left the leftovers out on the counter all night.
Then she was carrying trash out to the garage, down two steps, and she picked up the newspapers too. I told her to make two trips but she ignored me. There's nothing I can do when she is being stubborn. I was waiting to do her pills so I could go back to sleep.
I cook dinner because her memory and thinking is so bad that she is dangerous in the kitchen. Every once in awhile she asks me if I cook because I like to cook. I say I cook to make it easier for her. She is grateful but she doesn't acknowledge her own limits. And there's no way to independently measure how much she can do safely. I know her doctors have encouraged me to take on tasks. It's just hard some days.
Thanks for listening to me whine.
Annie in Delaware9 -
KJLamore- Wrap the watermelon’s in newspaper and put them on the windowsill. I am originally from New England and that is what we did with our tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables that didn’t ripen before the weather turned cold. Brown paper bags work as well. Good luck saving those two watermelon’s!0
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It has been a rough few years since I have posted. I am sure that is true for many of us.
Besides the worldwide pandemic, I retired in January 2020, then my husband died of a heart attack and stroke on March 2, 2020 followed by my son dying on September 15, 2021 from a gun accident.
The day I retired I weighed 162 pounds. This morning I weighed 141.
Despite the tragedies and the stress of COVID I am grateful for my friends in the real world and my women’s camping group, Sisters on the Fly. They pulled me through.
Now I am grateful I (finally) found this group again to help me through the the last 20 pounds.
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