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Following on from the very interesting thread on the previous blog...
ReplyDeleteDefinitely known to be all 3 with a strong tendency towards no. 2!
ReplyDelete🤗 well done GG!
ReplyDeletePTBY thank you for your reply - I found it very interesting, and what a coincidence that I should ask the question just as you are about to meet up again with your best man (and on this very day too.)
Enjoy!
Is there not a fourth,Gary?
ReplyDeleteThere are those people (I am one) who enjoy being with the folk I find interesting but possibly appear rude if I am forced to socialise with those I don’t.
I am so pleased that my party days are over.
My nearest and dearest know that the last thing I would want would be a party when it is my birthday -not a big one this year anyway.
I think it's possible to be introverted but learn how to put on an extroverted life and soul of the party act as my daughter does. There are others like my son who is totally happy being an introvert, and declines to be anything other than himself. He thinks introverts evolved originally as a way of protecting the tribe. They were the quiet observant ones who could be trusted to man the battlements without chatting and getting distracted, and would see any signs of approaching enemy and could warn the others.
ReplyDeleteLove it.
Delete✔️ In a nutshell Janice
DeleteWhat an excellent theory.
DeleteI am definitely an extrovert. Will talk to strangers including children and definitely take after my father who also talked to all at the drop of a hat.
ReplyDeleteI do find it difficult to hear detailed stories of the other persons family triumphs and difficulties, but see this as a need in them and a human kindness from me to give them empathy, which costs me nothing other than my time.
On the other hand whilst being voluble I have always observed in myself a reluctance to give of myself, which I recognise as a contradiction within.
There is a reservation about me that gives a warning. Do not come too close ! ( I think )
Like Lancashire Janet I too am pleased that my party days are over. To overcome my difficulties as a young person I would always have a book to hand and would sit at a party, usually in a hallway, reading. (I suspect I was extremely pretentious )
On the other hand I always enjoyed dinner parties with a small group of people where one could enjoy a good conversation, although there is always the risk of being bored by the ' wrong' sort of person.
Well - I think I'm shy. I'm certainly not (as a rule) anti-social and once I am in a group I'm not introverted. It's just that I hate 'breaking the ice.'
ReplyDeleteI think to myself "Why should I burden them with me?" or "They probably won't like me anyway." I believe that is the essence of shyness or perhaps the ghost of an inferiority complex?
I’m the same Spicy. So maybe I’m just shy instead of anti-social.
DeleteArcherphile how is Captain A (& family of course) getting on moving the narrow boat in this weather! Also how is the calorie count going 🤔
ReplyDeleteI have a strange question to ask.
ReplyDeleteThis morning Mr LJ changed from his gardening gear into a polo shirt which was a gift -not from me.
It is bright turquoise and navy.
It is the bright turquoise I think which is the problem
It is a colour he would not normally wear.
When I looked at it I immediately felt ill.
This has never happened before.
(He said he will put another one on )
I on impulse bought a sleeveless sun top/vest.last year, which I didn't wear (bought at summers end so v.cheap). This year on sorting out summer T-shirts, I found I couldn't bear the colour - bright yellow which now seems slightly fluorescent! I understand what you mean. It is going into a suitable charity bag.
DeleteRealise that I didn’t actually ask a question which is
ReplyDeleteHas anyone heard of this happening or am I Imagining it and am feeling sick because I just don’t like the wretched striped polo shirt ?
Sounds as if your sense of style / taste has been violated LJ 🤔
ReplyDeleteFeel much better now that he has changed it.
ReplyDeleteLJ - you described the colours as turquoise and navy.
DeleteIn the second post you described it as striped.
If it is narrow stripes of a bright turquoise and any navy then the combination of those colours in thin stripes may induce a feeling of nausea in some when looking at this combination.
We were talking about this sort of effect when discussing Brigid Riley last week.
Thanks Mrs P.
DeleteGary. Interesting cartoon I can be all of those attributes.
ReplyDeleteSome times how we think we behave, and how others perceive us can be at odds.
I may present myself as verbally interesting and interested in others, when the reality is I’m just a boring old know it all droning on about myself. I’m sure we’ve all met someone lacking the insight to observe our eyes glassing over.
I spent my professional life having to listen and observe others and hear how they viewed their interactions with others. The fact is unless we ask for feedback we have only their responses to work from and most individuals will most likely provide us with what we want to hear. Not always a good thing.
I was very shy as a child and then I discovered politics in my teens. However As a professional I had to learn to take a back seat and not talk about my innermost thoughts.
I believe most of us fluctuate depending on the situation and people we are with day to day.
I concur with your final sentence Stasia, and of course the understanding of old fashioned manners required this of each individual.
DeleteAlso with your second sentence. I am sure this is true of myself.
The rest of your post I understand.
I had a short, very short, relationship with a person who accused me of being false and insincere because, according to him, I changed the way I interacted with each different person.
He himself had a monotonous voice which never changed tone or tempo, remaining on one level at all times.
When I challenged him on his opinion he insisted that he presented in the same way and in every situation with every person he met.
When the short relationship was over the friends I had met him through agreed with every aspect of my assessment of him.
Although I suppose they could have just been agreeing with me to make me feel good !
Horror of horrors. He sounds just like Adam.
DeleteI spent spent a great part of my professional life in a psychotherapy group discussing my emotions and behaviours on the theoretical assumption than unless one understood how one comes across it becomes more problematic understanding the circumstances of others. I suppose when working with emotionally vulnerable individuals supervision with peers is important.
Consequently my favourite word is reflection, not just of myself and how I might come across but of others and how they interact.
But you are right, how do we enable a boring person to accept how they are being perceived by others? It might not be appropriate to say, ‘shut up you are monotonous and boring’. They could take offence.
I have just reflected and am beginning to sound boring. Time to stop.
A thousand times worse than Adam !
DeleteComing into this discussion very late because my internet connection broke down yesterday pm and have only just been able to
ReplyDeleteLog back in.
My goodness, you have all been chatting away - not had time to read all posts but it seems we are discussing our social behaviour?
I don’t know quite where to place myself but probably nearer anti-social for the past few years. I consider the next door neighbours as friends and chat happily to them but could not confide in them about anything personal. There are one or two gliding friends of Mr A I might chat to but apart from that there is no one I would call a real friend or anyone I could confide in - that is why I find this blog so valuable. My daughter is very busy and never wants to know about any personal concerns I might have - son much more approachable and helpful but too far away.
I suppose I live a very secluded life here with Mr A but I do not feel lonely - I enjoy being on my own, doing my hobbies, listening to the radio etc.
I will chat to new people I meet, say on holiday, on a cruise but I never want to get too friendly or exchange addresses and promise to meet up.
Does that make me anti-social I wonder? I just prefer my own company and that of immediate family.
I even gave up going to WI some years ago because I couldn’t bear all the gossip and false bonhomie. I’m a sad case!
P.S the above probably explains why I really don’t want to go to this Golden Wedding celebration on Sunday. To spend several hours with a couple I barely know and all their totally unknown friends and relatives is my idea of hell!
DeleteBut I’ve made the card and (and put the Tiffins School Badge on the back, Mrs P!) and will plaster a smile on my face for the duration!
I don't think that is anti-social at all. I do agree about not exchanging adresses etc. with folks met on hols. Although it was fun at the time with shared experiences, that is all it was.
DeleteA big mistake! I am still exchanging Christmas cards with folks met on holiday and never seen since! It just adds to the expense of Christmas! I sound like Scrooge!
DeleteI am elated at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI have just seen photos of Niece#4 etc.with her 2nd son. He was born by C-section (planned) this morning. He is gorgeous, 7lb 11oz and called Oscar, a brother for Arthur (3yrs).
I have been on tenterhooks all day, and I now have a 5th Grand nephew + 1 Grand niece.
Niece No#3 is due the beginning of Jan. 2020 and I so would like a girl.
The storms forecast haven't happened just one heavy downpour which only lasted 15 mins. I have been lucky.
ReplyDeleteThanks to Cheshire Cheese as my impatiens are definitely infected with cloudy mildew (from other blog). I have read up on it, so know no what to do. These plants were bought from a very respectable garden centre, so I will let them know so they can adress it with their suppliers.
i gave up growing them several years ago because of the downy mildew. I believe there are some varieties that are resistant.
DeleteThis is the 1st time I have come across this problem. I have learnt a lot. So again Thanks Cheshire Cheese for pointing me into the right direction.
DeleteI wrote a reply to your query last night Miriam, but clearly failed to publish.
DeleteI said, much as CC that I had never grown impatiens without them rotting and that I had given up doing so a very long time ago.
I have found the New Guinea Busy Lizzies to be fairly tough, but I may just have been lucky.
DeleteI have been thinking this afternoon about our latest chat.
ReplyDeleteIt is not all about you,Lan Jan I told myself.
Whilst I am putting up with someone I don’t want to be with ,that person is more than likely feeling the same about me.
It reminded me of something that happened a while ago.
A story against myself.
In the days when I did go to parties I was invited to one where I was pleased to note a couple I liked would also be attending.
I didn’t chat much to them at the party .
Can’t remember why.
A few days after the party the hostess apologised to me saying that she wouldn’t have invited A and his wife had she realised how much we disliked one another!
To add-I assume they told her later that they didn’t like me.
DeleteI hope I didn’t ruin their evening.
🤭 😂
DeleteAs I have got older have decided if anyone doesn’t like me that’s their problem! Helps with the ego!!🤗
DeleteEv I know what you mean. I always just be myself, and if others like it that's fine and if some don't, it doesn't bother me.
DeleteI just hate those, who pretend that they are something they aren't, and put on an act.
I can usually spot who's genuine and who's not.
Archerphile post (12) here just an enquiry regarding Captain A & family and your calorie counting 😏
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts are with my Little Sis. today. On the one hand she has a new grandson (see earlier post) but also learnt, this morning, that her best friend, suddenly + unexpectedly, died yesterday (cause unknown). She is so very happy, but also very upset.
ReplyDeleteThoughts 🙏🏼 are with your little sis Miriam such joy & yet unexpected sadness to endure too. Good that she has two supportive and caring sisters in her life 😘
DeleteThat is so sad because her best friend is just the person she would have wanted to share her news with.
DeleteIt is always a sad occurance that as each baby is born, someone somewhere in the circle of known family or friends, dies.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's not unusual, is it ? As if it were a universal law.
DeleteHow conflicting, Miriam - joy over the birth, warring with the sadness of sudden loss, for your sister. Wish you all well.
Very interesting to read posts about introversion/extroversion here & on the last blog. Read ages ago that Jung himself took long time to decide on this with his patients. It's not that easy to determine, far more complex than might appear. Now ( googled today on the train coming back from visiting a friend) there's talk of 'ambiverts' & 'omniverts' , for goodness sake !! Leave you to work out what that says but it could imply that the original concept might be meaningless, not therapeutically useful.
ReplyDeleteGoing by how bloggers describe themselves, & how I read myself, we do tend to be a mixture, no one coming down strongly & clearly on one side or another.
It’s funny. We all need other people but there are times in our lives when we could well do without them! I echo other’s thoughts on this blog and that we can offload on to each other. Tomorrow would have been my 45th wedding anniversary but intend not to remind others of it but just to quietly remember and then get on with my day. Thoughts with your sister, Miriam and wish her much future joy with her new grandchild! My husband died in June two years ago and his great grandson, Freddie was born in the October. As you say, Mrs P, as one dies another is born. Freddie is very like his great grandad as we have just enjoyed a video of him joyously pointing out tractors! Mike was driving tractors when he was 12 and was very mechanically minded!
ReplyDeleteEv 🌹 it is just about to turn midnight as I write so I am sending warm thoughts to you on what would have been your 45th Wedding Anniversary. Your loss was quite recent when I was first involved with the blogs - where has the time gone! From all that you have written I feel that you had a marriage which has left you with many happy memories and I wish you extra joy of those on this specula day ⭐️
Delete“Special” day of course!!
DeleteMany thanks, Lady R. Yes, have many happy memories and much to look forward to as well!
DeleteSending love on this day of special memories for you Ev.
DeleteSo our friends came with their 19 year old son today. Was dreading it really but we had a smashing time. Conversation flowed, their son was a very nice, chatty young man and we went out for a lovely lunch. It turned out it was their 25th wedding anniversary today. Couldn’t believe it. We were at their wedding and it didn’t seem that long ago.
ReplyDeleteThe men went off on a short dog walk after lunch and us 2 women sat on my swing seat in the garden with a bottle of non-alcohol lager each and put the world to rights.
A really lovely day. 😊
There, you see, you were not looking forward to it, and look what happened.
DeleteLife can be better than we think it might be.
That's a message to me, as well as you PtbY
Sat in the garden!!! Wow we very nearly had to build an ark here in Hampshire.
DeleteLady R - sorry for taking so long to reply to your question - iPad problems for much of the day!
ReplyDeleteCap’n A (well, only First Mate A really!), daughter and s.i.l have now got the narrow boat as far as Goring on Thames tonight. It is faster going on the R. Thames apparently because the locks are manned so there is less work to do and travel is faster. They all got very wet today but will push on tomorrow to Reading and then turn right onto the R. Kennet. Hoping to reach Newbury and their new permanent berth on Friday.
Diet is going very well, been managing to keep under 800 cals per day so far, but it’s much easier when you’re only cooking for yourself - not sure how well I’ll manage when Jack Tar is back and I have to cook his meals again! 😊
I think you must be very very hungry! and very very strong willed!
DeleteWell done Archerphile! Under 800 cals per day for 3 meals how does that pan out? - just me still being nosey 🤭 but it sounds a very impressive achievement I have to say 👏🏻
ReplyDeleteDitto the families canal journey. Today’s rain has been torrential no watering of our small collection of pots for a day or me thinks, unless temp shoots up again 😱
It’s not so bad at the moment, I can’t even say I’m very hungry , but then I had been dieting for the past couple of years to loose 5 stone for my hip operation.
DeleteIt’s just that I hadn't been so careful for a couple of months and the lbs had begun to slip back on. I knew that if I didn’t nip it in the bud I should have gained all that weight back before the time I need my knee replacement. It’s happened to me before, loosing a lot of weight and regaining it, plus some, so I wasn’t going to let it happen again.
Following Micheal Moseley’s 800 diet to prevent diabetes and it’s not too bad - when you’re on your own.The real test begins when I have to cook (and buy) food for two again!
Sample menu for past 3 days: breakfast = 1 boiled egg; lunch = mixed salad of lettuce, Tom’s & cue from garden, grated carrot, beetroot (but no dressing ☹️) with small piece of chicken OR a couple of sardines, 1 apple OR pear; dinner = chicken breast OR cod steak with no coating baked in oven with carrots, runner beans from garden or any other green veg, pot of home made, unsweetened yogurt with a few berries. Milk for day = quarter pint of 1% fat milk ( that’s the orange topped milk from Sainsburys which is marginally more palatable than completely skimmed). That’s it! Not too bad really.
DeleteWell done Archerphile ⭐️ I had no idea you had previously lost so much weight for your hip op (very nearly a year!!!!). I take my hat off to you and understand your need to retain the level you achieved, especially if you are going to need your knee replaced at some point.
DeleteThe food you describe sounds pretty good in the scheme of things and like our friends (and many bloggers here) you are able to enjoy produce from your own garden 🤗 too.
Is Mr A a beanpole who can eat whatever he likes? ie - no justice😂
Well Mr A is 6’4 “ tall and well built. (I am
DeleteOnly 5’3”) He was very overweight 50 yrs ago when we first met but got very thin when diabetes got hold of him. Now he is on insulin he is able to eat more or less what he wants & take the appropriate amount of insulin to counteract the food. So I do find it difficult that he can eat whatever he wants while I have to be so careful!
Ev, I hope you allow yourself as many smiles as tears today - possibly even more...x
ReplyDelete💕
DeleteI'm joining in with love and best wishes sent to you today Ev. 💕
DeleteThank you all. Have had time to reflect today but have also enjoyed my daily walk with the dogs and of course with Katy. It is good to have her company over the school holidays! Have booked today a cottage in Dorset for October half term where we can take the dogs and it will be over Freddie’s second birthday so a good family time. Have good memories and a future to look forward to which is what Mike would have wanted! You are lovely friends!😃🥰
DeleteAre all our Friends in the North Ok?
ReplyDeleteI’ve been listening to the news and hear you had dreadful weather yesterday and have a lot more rain to come today.
Do hope nobody is affected by the floods and are managing to keep safe.
✔️ 🙏🏼
DeleteJust come on board, but have been thinking since up, about our northern friends and flooding.
ReplyDeleteWill look forward to hearing news. Good or bad.
Though if bad, we are unlikely to know for some time.
Concerned of Glos.
Thoughts with you too Ev, throughout today.
Need to add also, my congratulations to Archerphile on her success in keeping to her diet.
ReplyDeleteMy father when diagnosed with diabetes was determined to keep himself well away from insulin and kept strictly to his diet and once his weight was at the correct level (he was never very overweight) he kept it there for the rest of his life.
However he was an extremely obsessive man.
Very pleased to see a friend who has not been with us return, if only for one day.
ReplyDeleteBut hope Old Woman In a Shoe will continue to post.
Indeed. Her posts are always very entertaining.
DeleteThinking of you as well Ev. with Katy + dogs along with you. Memories never fade, but adapting to a loss can sometimes be difficult. The cottage in Dorset sounds lovely.
ReplyDeleteThere is a website which, I think is - dogfriendly.(not sure if .com or .co.Uk) which only lists properties, be they hotels, B+B's, rentals which accept dogs, in holiday stays.
We were recommended this one by a B & B we stayed at prior to dogs. They don’t allow dogs there as they have their own dogs. The cottage is right opposite a dog friendly pub so will be able to eat there providing the cooking smells don’t get to Gypsy too much!! Yes a loss like this is very hard but I have been helped by friends and family and looking forward as well as looking back helps enormously. I never will get over it but life has to go on. I have been very blessed!
Delete😍😍
DeleteI have shed a tear after reading this.
Take Care.
Thinking of you Ev.
DeleteThank you.
DeleteI have no idea how Archerphile can only eat 800 cals a day. I know I couldn't. I love my meat, chicken, turkey + veg but I am carbohydrate addict. Some crave sugar, but I have to have bread/pasta or rice (all wholemeal) or pots. on a daily basis. I have always said that my luxury item on that "Island" would be potatoe tubers, so I can grow + cook + eat - my carb. fix.
ReplyDeleteMy late father was an insulin diabetic. He was stage 2 but it was easier to control with insulin. This was purely down to diet, as he hated veg + fruit, but loved cakes + biscuits. When I made his meals for the freezer, (after Mum died) he ate a lot more veg, pulses etc as I hid them in his meals.
DeleteMiriam, it was giving up all carbohydrates 2 years ago that helped me loose 5stone! At first it was very difficult to give up cereals, bread, rice, pasta, potatoes (especially roast ones with Sunday dinner!) or anything containing flour or sugar.
DeleteBut it really worked and I gradually found substitutes. I usually eat loads of protein, vegetable and some fruit which seems to suit my metabolism.
It was having the very occasional scone & jam or rice with curry recently that started the pounds creeping back on, so I had to put a stop to it!
I suppose I am lucky that after over 70 years of being very overweight I have at last found a solution!
That is useful to know Archerfile. I love roast potatoes and toast dripping with butter but have decided that although not badly overweight it might be easier for my heart if I weighed less. I have tried the counting calories thing but felt starving on less than 1500 calories per day, and of course then it was head for a bar of chocolate! One of our vets lost weight over the course of a year, and she said similar to you that she did it by giving up potatoes and bread, and that was hard for her because her husband, also a vet, baked the most wonderful home made bread.
DeleteEv. My thoughts also.💕
ReplyDeleteThank you, Stasia.
DeleteIt has been very wet all day here in Cheshire. My poor flowers are looking very bedraggled but, on the plus side, my pond is very full and the bog garden plants are thriving.
ReplyDeleteI am on the other end of Cheshire and apart from rain this morning, which stopped before 10.00am, it has been dry + warm + with some sunny spells.
DeleteHow different, similar and close areas can be. I have been lucky, as to rain. It has been minimal for me.
I will be lawnmowing etc tomorrow as all is dry + looking good.
My surfinas in the window box do look a bit bedraggled, but will be fine.
The Nantwich Show was cancelled yesterday, due to a water logged sight. The International Cheese Fair, was the only thing that went ahead as planned.
DeleteI find this so strange, as live not far away, but just didn't have the rain.
I must live in a "micro" climate of sorts!
On the island it can sometimes be raining in Cowes for instance but not here half way between Ryde and Newport! The forecast for the island is frequently wrong as it varies so much here.
DeleteWhat a day!
ReplyDeleteNiece#4 went home with new babe today only 24hours after her C-section.
Niece#3 has sold(STC) the London property at full asking price with no chain, and also has had the offer on their new home accepted.
Niece#1 has arrived safely in Mauritaus, to meet up with her partner + kids (but there has been problems/troubles in Paradise) soon to be sorted.
All is looking good 😁😁
PS Must dash - Orangutan Jungle School about to start.
Mostly light rain and sea fret here in the north east, and foggy on the moors at the weekend, and again today. Managed a breezy sea front walk in between showers this afternoon. As PtbY reported, yesterday was lovely here, yet up the dales they had all that terrible flooding.
ReplyDeleteI can confirm perfect conditions in Co. Durham, Hot sunny days, wet, rainy nights. I have 39 tubs/pots, and no hose pipe so very glad about the rain.
ReplyDeleteIf I hear anything about a hosepipe ban I shall be very cross after all this rain!
DeleteThank you Mistral and Seasider for your positive news, but silence from CowGirl and PtbY bodes ill !
DeleteMrs P.... rained a lot yesterday but most of it just gentle showers. Every time I went out to dead head it started again. Nothing like the dales.
ReplyDeleteIt was very muggy, could do with a good thunder storm to clear the air.
Miriam.....I’ll see your 4 nieces and raise you a great nephew, aged 7, who got a trophy for being “Beaver of the year”🏆
ReplyDelete🤭😉😆😊🤪
(Please take this good heartedly, meant as a big of fun).
👍 - PtbY
DeleteAnd my granddaughter won ' most popular player' at county netball league.
I was intrigued by your diet Archerphile so decided to get Michael Mosley’s book out of the library to see what it was all about.
ReplyDeleteDuring the war we had no choice of what to eat because so much was on ration like sugar and sweets and eggs and cheese but a lot of what we did eat were carbohydrates and yet we rarely saw anybody who was overweight let alone obese .
Since I get no pleasure in standing in the kitchen baking or making meals I am unable to understand why so many of the programmes on TV are about food and cooking.
Surely the answer is for folk to eat less and not to eat between meals .
I agree Lanjan. I caught a bit of Nadia Hussein’s programme the other night. She seems to use masses of sugar, butter etc in her recipes which would be disastrous for me!
DeleteAs for the wartime diet, I think the lack of sugar and sweets helped people keep slim, but also the fact that there was so much more hard physical work back then, fewer cars and no TV to sit in front of! People walked far more and everyone was much more active than today, including children. Housewives especially were so much more active without today’s labour saving machines and gadgets. They burned off all the energy they gained from whatever food they did have.
I was born the year the war ended and was always a ‘bonny’ baby, a chubby toddler, a fat child and a frankly obese adult. At a school of 400 girls there were only two of us who were fat, a fact that showed up very obviously on the school photos! I think it would be the other way around today.
I was put on a diet (and given appetite suppressing amphetamines!!) by a paediatrician at the age of 10, and have been up and down, on and off diets ever since.
The doctor told me that my metabolism is so ultra efficient that I need very few calories to keep going, so any extra are immediately stored as fat. Around 500 - 800 calls per day is all my body needs to keep working efficiently which means even tiny treats will result in weight gain unless I could *significantly* up my physical activity.
After years of trial and error I now know that cutting out carbs works for me. I don’t like it very much and sometimes crave a bowl of muesli with creamy milk or a roast potato, and find it very difficult at social events or on holiday to resist beautiful looking food. But if I do regain some weight I now have the answer to loosing it again quickly.
Just wish I had been aware of this years ago instead of spending so much money at Weight Watchers, on so-called ‘diet’ foods and having to keep a wardrobe of clothes in a range of sizes from16 - 26 to accommodate my weight loss/gain.
With all that behind you Archerphile, you deserve an extra pat on the back for your recent achievements.
DeleteWell done.
PtbY - thanks for letting us know.
ReplyDeleteYou will understand where CG lives. Will she be OK too ?
I think CG said she has a stream along the edge of one of her fields in which case that might have overflowed its banks, and she might be busy moving animals.
ReplyDeleteOops sorry Mrs P and Janice, Just catching up.
ReplyDeleteAll is well here, very little rain. Incidentally I am just a few miles down the coast from Seasider.
Yes Janice I do have a stream , buy fortunately it is at the bottom of a deepish gulley, it is the drain from the moor, at the moment a gentle flow, when it really rains it boils !
P.S. thank you for your concern.
DeleteJust heard that the whole village of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire is being evacuated due to a dam overflowing (I think) and possible disastrous flooding.
ReplyDeleteHow dreadful.
Do any of our members live in that area I wonder? If so I hope they keep safe and they have all my sympathy.
🙏🏼 With you there Archerphile
DeleteI am just catching up, and I am pleased to hear all are safe + dry. I was surprised to see the flooding in some areas of Cheshire.
ReplyDeleteI have had a lovely v warm sunny day today. I need to go out and water my tubs, window box + planter, as are all bone dry (also need feeding). Lawns have been mowed and again so dry, I could do at 10.30am.
I have been lucky, and really feel for those who have been flooded.
I seem to eat a low GI diet, but this is what I like + suits me.
ReplyDeletePerhaps this is why I don't like sugar, so rarely eat cake, biscuits, puddings, ice-cream.etc.
I even find fruit too sweet, much prefer veg.
Lunch today was a turkey sandwich (wholemeal bread with seeds), rocket, tomatoes, low fat coleslaw, with celery and cucumber. Tea is going to be a chicken breast cooked en papillote, with mushrooms, lemon juice, herbs, with a bit of extra virgin oil. This will be served with potatoes, brocolli, carrots, runner beans and cauli. Quick, simple + tasty.
DeleteLunch today was 3 pints of lager, 1 glass of Sauvignon Blanc and several Benson & Hedges Gold... Quick, simple + tasty!!!!
DeleteGG That's equally tasty 😍🤗
DeleteWell done Gary.
DeleteMine was nothing coz I’d been out celebrating yorkshire day with a sausage bap followed by lemon cheesecake by 10.30 this morning.
Also celebrated with an “old fashioned”, a white wine and 2 prosecco’s at tea time. 😁
🤣🤣 GG
DeleteYou have missed your vocation ,Miriam.
ReplyDeleteIt isn’t too late.
I think you should write a book for people like me who hate to spend time in the kitchen
Yesterday’s meal was haddock and chips.
DeleteSimple. and very easy to prepare.
We have a wonderful chip shop about a mile away from here and I used Ubereats to collect it.
Decided to have a Pimms with it .
Couldn’t have been better.
It depends on individual tastes. What one person likes, others would just hate.
DeleteI enjoy cooking, wheras others don't, its a personal preference only.😃
I love Pimms. 🥃🥃
DeleteI cannot believe how my window box, hanging basket etc. have wiltered in the hot afternoon sunshine. They now have been watered + fed, so hope will look better tomorrow. I am surprised how dry these were.
ReplyDeletePusscat is now mithering, to also be fed. 😻
My plants are totally bedraggled. We've just had another torrential downpour here, the water was coming down the downspouts so fast that most of it went onto the ground instead of down the grid causing a mini flood on the patio. We live on a hill so the water did drain away gradually, our neighbour across the road is lower down than us and his front lawn has turned into a lake.
DeleteWe live a few miles from Poynton and Wilmslow both of which have suffered with floods. The A555, a new bypass and airport relief road south of Stockport, has flooded twice this week, a road that we drove along last week when we went to Lyme Park. Thankfully it looks as though it's going to be a bit drier over the next few days.
I cannot believe your rain, of which I have had virtually none, yet I am not that far away. I saw the Poynton floods on-line this morning. You crossed my mind when saw this, but not sure if you are nearby or not.
DeleteI hope things will improve for you.
The most alarming is the reservoir and dam about to burst.
DeleteThis is the sort of scenario that we see happening 'abroad' never expecting to experience it here in the U.K.
A complete town evacuated !
On the subject of garden flowers, I have had a major problem with Lily Beetles this year. I have 2 big pots of lilies, which are beeing eaten away. I have had to succumb to using a garden spray, which I hate doing, but it is needs must, if my lilies can come into bloom.
DeleteGG & LJ you have both made me laugh out loud thank you.
ReplyDeleteMiriam’s lovely healthy and tasty lunch followed by your booze & fags one GG - priceless 😂
LJ you did better than me we went with friends to our favourite village pub where I adore their fish & chips and the fresh fish man had not been 😱 so I had a steak instead on this occasion 😕 yours sounded yum!
Yes Miriam get that book going you have 2 customers already ⭐️
Make that 3 customers.
DeleteI have just seen the latest about Whalley Bridge + the dam, about to burst, in Derbyshire. What an awful situation is happening, the outcome still unknown.
ReplyDeleteI just hope all will be safe.
This has got me thinking. If I had to evacuate my home, what would I take with me?
First would be my pusscat along with my handbag, with purse, cash, credit cards with glasses + contact lens (which are always by my bedside at night, just in case) + a clean pair of knickers! Also pills + eye-drops.
But what else - probably jewellry such as Mums wedding + eternity rings, Dads signet ring, family photos and other similar items.
I just hope that I am never in that situation, unlike the residents of Whalley Bridge tonight.
What a traumatic experience for them all.
Gosh I can’t believe we have clocked up 120
ReplyDeletePosts in just 2 or 3 days! I must apologise for having taken up so much space since I returned from my gap of posting here.
I must restrain myself, to avoid Gary being overloaded with blog opening every 2 or 3 days!!
Post away til your heart's content Archerphile, it genuinely isn't a chore to open a new blog whenever it's needed.
DeleteReally wanting to go into the garden today as it's getting quite 'untidy.' However I now have a new problem.
ReplyDeleteA couple of months back I had a skin infection which took three lots of antibiotics to clear up. Why? - because my immune system is breaking/had broken down. I'm not sure for why but probably something to do with still being overweight. So back to strict dieting to see if I can get another couple of stones off permanently! In the meantime it's loads and loads of vegetables, fruit, nuts and sunshine to try to boost immune system.
My immediate problem is that last weekend I came up with dreadful looking, extremely itchy rashes on my arms and legs. I woke at night finding myself scratching. Went to get Vit B12 injection yesterday and nurse sent me straight into the doctor (well after morning surgery) Apparently it is a reaction to (he thinks) an insect bite but because I have little immunity it has turned into an allergic reaction. He suggests if I must go into the garden I do not wear flowery. bright coloured clothers and cover up as much as possible! Anyone got a bhurka to lend me?
Oh, Huge sympathies Spicy, that’s all you need! I have to be extra careful around bees and wasps because each time I am stung the reaction gets worse and worse and I seem to be heading for a really serious reaction next time.
DeleteI also came out in a dreadful itchy and blistery rash on arms, legs and face a few months ago which wouldn’t respond to any treatment. Off to the GP, who discovered that a drug he had put me in a few months earlier had the possible side effect of causing skin rashes to any areas exposed to sunlight. Unfortunately it happened to me, so I either had to go out completely covered or have the drug changed. I chose the latter! I’m OK in the sun now thank goodness. One of the drawbacks of being on so many different drugs.
Spicey and Archerphile, I feel for you both.
DeleteAvoiding the sun is dispiriting and often difficult if one needs to be out and about. And in particular in the garden. The addition of a rash does not help, particularly since sun helps a rash to dry out.
Because I have Vitiligo I have needed to avoid the sun since my teenage years, but I could allow myself short periods in summer and throughout winter months.
However my knee surgery has triggered the Vitiligo and over the last year I have watched the patterns on my feet and more recently my arms change. Where I previously had fairly large areas of my normal skin colour I am now completely white. And the Vitiligo is also spreading across my scalp. Twice this year I have had a sunburnt top of the head.
I do hope for both of you that your skin reaction clears up soon and you can enjoy sunshine again before winter gloom sets in.
Thank you Mrs P. Yes I am fine now that I have stopped taking that particular drug. My doctor didn’t know about that side effect, but found out by investigating in MIMS, and it has now been reported on the yellow card scheme.
DeleteI’m sorry to hear about your vitiligo getting more widespread. I didn’t know it could change over time, or after an operation. Can the skin colour ever come back or it is a case of ‘once it’s gone, it’s gone’? I knew a young lad, about 12 years old, at our cricket club who was affected. His face, neck and arms had very large areas of white skin, especially around his eyes, whilst the rest was very tanned. I felt very sorry for him but he didn’t seem too bothered about it. I often wonder if it is still the same now that he must be a young adult and if it affects his social life.
Of course Archerphile before the ten minute appointments most GPs would check in Mimms for possible side effects, PRIOR to prescribing it.
DeleteAbout Vitiligo. I don't believe it ever does retract. And it does seem to be attracted to any orifice. I remember noticing when a young nurse, elderly women with Vitiligo around the vaginal area.
How unfortunate for the young man who you knew. I have it around my eyes and mouth but it's very inconspicuous particularly in winter.
Like me he had it as a child, and like me he didn't seem to be concerned by having it. In my case I put it down to my parents attitude, being, ' whatever you have, it could be worse so get on with it and don't make a fuss '. This was actually said to me by my mother the first, and only time, I ever complained about period pain.
And being affected by having Vitiligo has never affected my body confidence which has always been very high, along with my self confidence, though not always my self esteem. I think I am a very fortunate person to have the personality that I was gifted with.
Like all Auto Immune conditions it's generally stress that causes or accelerates it. Surgery is major trauma, if not to us personally, it is to the body.
As I mentioned a while back, I was getting a excema/psoriasis type of skin condition, thought due to a med. I take (but didn't want to change just yet). This skin condotion has nearly, but not quite, gone. I put this down to UV light, in other words, sunshine.
ReplyDeleteI am careful using sun lotions etc. but not on those warm days, when the sun is not strong (I also think of my Vit D levels). I also started taking a multi-vit/mineral supplement on a daily basis, and so far, so good but the improvement is more likely due, to using a good, emollient skin cream (as recommended by a Phsrmacist).
This post was not well written, so to clarify.
DeleteI think the improvement is a combination of UV light plus an emollient cream.
I have recently seen the update as to the dam, and that it could still collapse.
ReplyDeleteThis is so worrying awful. There are so many workers trying to try to save it, putting their own lives at risk at the same time.
Cheshire Cheese...
I have seen some footage of Lyme Park and its flooding (I use the Cheshire Live web site). You have had it bad, and there is another warning of rain and storms, for your area over the weekend.
Thankfully dry today so was able to clear up the mess on the patio and back garden.
DeleteAll very trivial compared to those people in Whaley Bridge.
Yes. It is an awful situation.
DeleteHello Croatia, Jersey and Kuwait!
ReplyDeletecool!
DeleteCrikey GG it I’ll be the moon next! 🤭
ReplyDeleteWhere is everyone?
ReplyDeletePlenty of comment on Archers blog though.....
Lady R, I thought the same....
DeleteBut we are all too busy thinking about Ed and Emma to think about ourselves.
And the dam of course.
The residents of Whaley Bridge must be terrified.
Absolutely Mrs P every minute must seem like an hour for those poor residents 🤞 🙏
DeleteI am just watering again!
ReplyDeleteI find it hard that so many have had, and are still having, so many problems with rain, floods, yet I have had so little.
Even tomorrow, my forecast is for light showers only. It might change though.
A lovely summer evening, with BBQs going on nearby. And why not, just enjoy it while it is possible.
DeleteJust got back from friends' BBQ. Very pleasant & relaxing - finished off with strawberries & cream. Yum.
Deletepost-b'day meal yesterday with friends, 1/2 dozen oysters, cod loin, strawbs, espresso.. heaven!
ReplyDeleteJust realised you must have had a birthday very recently parsley! (Oh, nothing gets past me parsley - NOTHING! I'm like a creepy hybrid between a young Jane Marple and a slightly less camp Hercule Poirot...) Belated Happy Birthday!!! 🎈🎁🎂
Delete🍷🎈🎉 parsley
DeleteBelated HAPPY BIRTHDAY Parsley
DeleteI had a black pudding, red onion and cheese toastie as part of a picnic today - went to Blackness Castle & The House of the Binns on the Firth of Forth. Stunning weather AND we flew a kite on top of a hill overlooking all the monumental bridges! Got home just moments before an absolutely biblical deluge of hot, hot rain. It was amazing. Now I see what everyone (Miriam aside!) has been experiencing...
ReplyDeleteBeen out a lot this week, mostly on my bike. Been to Loch Lomond, Helensburgh, Ayr and various little villages dotted around the Central Belt of Scotland on my trusty metal steed, all the while munching on Gregg's vegan sausage rolls to give me energy - so tasty...!!
And I've had a wonderful hog roast bap while stroking a magnificent Friesian stallion, and watching a superb display of Spanish dressage by someone who lives locally called Jonathon Marshall, a master horseman and falconer, who has, with his horses, been in Game of Thrones and Poldark etc. Bliss utter bliss. Wish I was 20 years younger!
ReplyDeleteJust checking Janice - your wish to be 20 years younger WAS so that you could ride the HORSE wasn't it...? 😉😉😉
DeleteNow now GG 😂😂😂 !
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Delete😉 Well I must admit GG that for me a rider as one with his horse is poetry in motion!!
DeleteAlso I would love to own a Friesian but think perhaps I am too old now to give a lifetime's care to a horse. I have owned 2 horses over the course of my life , one as a child , and then a thoroughbred exmoor cross, with the beautiful carriage and grace of the thoroughbred and with the character and playfulness of a pony. He was with us for 25 years, and it was so sad when he died in 1996 that I decided never to have another, but then I sometimes see a stunning horse with lots of character and think maybe, just maybe.....
To add, both the Lusitano and the Friesian yesterday were horses that had been rescued from very difficult lives, and gradually with care and kindness brought back to what they are today.
that's wonderful, Janice.
Deletehttps://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/falconer-s-career-in-ruins-after-he-forged-eagle-s-passport-1-3889886
ReplyDeleteI guess life has improved for him!!
Yes indeed it has, but it never really was ruined because people who knew him and his work stood by him. The Golden Eagle, again was a creature he had rescued from a terrible life, and once better it had a wonderful free life.
DeleteWe sometimes look at Shih Tzu rescue pages and some of the stories are harrowing but with a bit of care and attention the transformation is amazing. They need grooming regularly and so often they are left with tangled , matted coats. Nails are left to grow long and curl over, very uncomfortable. The worst thing is dogs used for breeding and kept in cages. It is good though to see them rehomed and having a lovely dog’s life!
Deleteparsley. Belated birthday greetings. 🦞🦀 couldn’t find a picture of a. Oyster. Will lobster and crab suffice?
ReplyDeleteWell of course - delicious !
Deletethe big day was 1st August, Mr P end of this week 🦁🦁
many thanks for all your good wishes!
parsley 2 Leo’s then - like my niece (birthday today) and her longtime partners tomorrow! When we are meeting for lunch 🤗
DeleteI shall be needing a Lion in a couple of weeks time!
DeleteKeeping my fingers tightly crossed, that the storms forecast today, don’t make things worse for the Warley Bridge residents and all the emergency personnel trying to mend that dam.
ReplyDeleteJanice, pleased to hear that you must be improving since you have been out and about and enjoying life, and no longer ' just ' needing to rest.
ReplyDeleteWhen your strength returns why not Janice , what can be more relaxing than grooming a horse/pony always helps to reduce the stress levels. It was always my saviour when I kept ponies for my niece.
ReplyDelete......stoking a cat is pretty good for that too...
DeleteSpeaking of which Carolyn- stroking that is, not stoking !
DeleteMy cat Puss, just a little over a year since I adopted him, was fairly vocal but had an imperceptible purr. In order to hear it I had to literally lay my ear on to his body to hear anything at all. And it was infrequent.
Since my return from my short stay in Cornwall he has become a great deal more vocal, ( almost to the point of me asking him to shut up) but is now also purring.
And allowing me to stroke him which he wasn't too keen on previously.
I'm enjoying the change in him.
Perhaps he finally feels that he belongs with me since my absence.
I miss grooming our feisty rescued cat, Tigger - she re-grew her beautiful long-haired tortoiseshell coat starting with her magnificent tail! Sadly she is long gone. Merry makes an appreciative if short-haired substitute.
DeleteAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Mrs P ...
DeletePercy is blind but very vocal. He has many different sounds, fairly easy to translate, purr, soft, low & intermittent. Katya is not verbose, but to the point : sharp meow = feed me now; squawk= that hurt; extended threatening yowl = the visiting Burmese is around, but she does have a loud purr.
Gypsy barks in the morning when Katy gets up and in the evening at round about 5 both to indicate “feed me NOW!”. She doesn’t bark at me as Katy is feeder in chief! Buddy growls if lifted from his preferred place of rest but soon shuts up if not responded from fear!
ReplyDeleteI looked after my late fathers cat, whilst he was in + out of hospitals. It was find she was deaf, but quite vocal purring + meowing when wanting attention + cuddles.
DeleteMy pusscat has a very loud, very audible purr, particularly when on the bed at night. This is especially so, when she appears in the early hours of the morning, after her night time prowl.
ReplyDeleteThe annoyance of a bloke snoring, or a cat purring - definitely the latter now. 😂
When I was unable to sleep last night I was reflecting on the snoring that I could hear from the floor beside my bed.
DeleteThe cat was in the bathroom, but the dog was asleep near me and snoring.
Not quite as loud as a human though.
I feel for those so affected, in Whaley Bridge who have been told, that it wiil be another week before can return home.
ReplyDeleteI see another 55 nearby properties have also now been evacuated. Lets hope the forecast is not as bad, as predicted. If the warning siren of collapse, goes off - then escape time is just 70secs, hence no residents allowed back today....but what about the service personnel trying to stabilise things?
I am having a lovely, hot, humid + sunny afternoon (28C in garden an hour ago) and no sign of rain - just yet, though clouds are starting to appear.