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hollydolly said:
It's now 2.40pm here... and I'm just sitting here thinking of all the things I've done this morning... without bbreakin a sweat ..

I first drove in the pouring rain and rush hour to the hospital, and had surgery.. which involved cutting out a substantial piece of my skin... with several painful injections included..then I drove myself home after ...

When I got home.. I made a cuppa tea, and the phone rang and it was the insurance company...still talking about the vehicle crash..

Next I washed up the dishes.... and then took delivery of a package..

Then I ordered new prescription night driving glasses..online...

Then I called the dr's surgery to make an appt to have my stitches taken out iin a couple of weeks... a little while later the surgery rang me, with an avaiable appointment for the shingles vaccine..next week

Then my dd WhatsApped me...

Then I went out to the shed to get food from the freezer to defrost for later... and found the dehumidifier needed emptying, so I did that

Then I made lunch... and posted on the forum

.. and now I've made another hot drink...... and I'm astonished that I've done all that on just 2 hours sleep...:D
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Glad it's all gone well HD. I've done similar to you this morning, but rather less I suspect.

All I've done, apart from driving up the M1 and back is go to Tesco to get more TP and milk, and then get the rubbish bins in (it's bin day in our street on Tuesdays) then sit here trying to do the crossword, followed by coffee, cake, painkiller (for my almost constant headache) and finally sloped off to bed for an hour or so to try and reset my body clock to normal.

After the nap I went out and fed the birds. I put out fresh fat balls in four hanging feeders, and also fill a hopper with bird seed. The hopper lives on a table in the back garden. The fat balls are for the starlings, magpies, crows, and occasional parakeet, and the hopper is for the resident pigeon population. I normally go out around 1pm weather permitting, and so it was today, with around 30 of the feathered rats lining the roof of next door's loft extension, and watching me fill the hopper for them. (Que the music from Hitchcock's The Birds!)

Depending on whether our cat is out in the garden or not, the pigeons will either fly down immediately to start fighting over the grain, or they'll continue to sit atop the roof, and wait for the cat to go in before they dive on the food like there's no tomorrow.

As you say, it's drying out a bit, but I can still see the clouds wizzing by at over 40mph heading North, meanwhile the temperature remains a balmy 14c or thereabouts. So it's Warm, Wet, and Windy, just like the old saying.

We haven't heard from our daughter yet to find out if she got home alright, but no news is good news as far as I'm concerned, so I'm not too worried. She's a clever girl and a good driver to boot, and I have every confidence in her ability to get across the channel and home again without me fretting about her.

I also haven't heard from the missus to find out whether they made it across to Gdansk, but again, I'm sure I'd have heard by now if anything was amiss. So now I'm going to try to find out if it's possible to add my old Samsung tablet into the devices that I can run my VPN on, as well as my PC. Basically I'm fed up with the nanny state trying to censor everything I see, and even US websites demanding a video selfie from me to prove that I'm not a robot. With the state of AI imaging now I don't see how they could even tell whether it was me or an avatar on the screen, so it's all a bit pointless.
 

BJintheUK said:
Basically I'm fed up with the nanny state trying to censor everything I see, and even US websites demanding a video selfie from me to prove that I'm not a robot. With the state of AI imaging now I don't see how they could even tell whether it was me or an avatar on the screen, so it's all a bit pointless.
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Yikes, I haven't come across the video-selfie thing yet; sounds annoying. The most frustrating verification I've come across are those panels of images and you have to click on all the images that contain, for example, stairs, or a bus. There's always one that seems to have tiny bit of a set of stairs or a bus right in the corner. My daughters and I joke about those.

Our cold temperatures never really materialized. It's warmed up to 40 F (~4 C)—that's practically tropical for ND this time of year. However, tomorrow's high is supposed to be only 8 F / –13 C, so all this rain is going to turn into a sheet of ice.

Is it May yet? :ROFLMAO:
 

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The little tuxedo girl kitty did not show up this morning although the other two were here. I worry about them with all the coyotes around. She appeared a little while ago looking happy and healthy What a good girl!

I got a call today informing me that one of the long time members of our senior group had died suddenly from a brain bleed. No other information yet. She was the healthiest looking one of the bunch. She was a former librarian and active in the community. You never know. I had spoken to her by phone several times recently to update her on the progress of another friend who had a bad fall due to a brain aneurysm. She did not own a computer. Neither does the one who called me.
 
As I have been telling everybody for the last week... here are the pictures of the biblical rains and floods


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Storm Bram has battered Britain with 90mph gusts unleashing travel chaos as commuters complain of overturned vehicles, closed roads and four inches of rain.

Flights and ferries were cancelled today amid the torrential downpours - with further disruption expected tomorrow.

The Met Office has issued a raft of amber and yellow warnings for rain and wind across the UK, while environment agencies imposed 325 flood alerts or warnings.

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It was an encouraging day for me. I had a scheduled ct scan to see if my cancer I was diagnosed with in May 2023 had returned. I haven't officially discussed the results with my oncologist, which is next Tuesday, but I looked up the results online. It showed no visible signs of cancer. That was my third ct scan since my chemo/radiation was completed in Sept. 2023 that's came back negative for cancer.

Isn't funny how you can look up results nowadays online? It saves the anxiety waiting for results from your doctors office. I found out about my cancer (it was discovered during a colonoscopy) before the GI nurse practitioner called me in for the results. I'm glad, because it was a less of a shock when she did get around to telling me. Being a nurse (or retired), I could handle reading labs and procedure results online, but I would think it would be unnerving and scary if you were a non medical person, to find out you had cancer by reading it on line first.
 
TeePee said:
It was an encouraging day for me. I had a scheduled ct scan to see if my cancer I was diagnosed with in May 2023 had returned. I haven't officially discussed the results with my oncologist, which is next Tuesday, but I looked up the results online. It showed no visible signs of cancer. That was my third ct scan since my chemo/radiation was completed in Sept. 2023 that's came back negative for cancer.

Isn't funny how you can look up results nowadays online? It saves the anxiety waiting for results from your doctors office. I found out about my cancer (it was discovered during a colonoscopy) before the GI nurse practitioner called me in for the results. I'm glad, because it was a less of a shock when she did get around to telling me. Being a nurse (or retired), I could handle reading labs and procedure results online, but I would think it would be unnerving and scary if you were a non medical person, to find out you had cancer by reading it on line first.
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@TeePee

That is great news 🤗
 
Morning all, early walk at 6:50 temp was 35 with a mix or rain/snow as I strolled around the building once before breakfast
This morning,my friend, Mary is picking me up at 10, our weekly 'road trip' today to Target.Its nice to go somewhere considering the Gates van is still out of commission going on 3 weeks now.,its been cold/windy past couple of days{ highs 20's} Those who do have dr's appts /PT,arrangements have been made with Lyft- no cost to residents to take &bring them back
The rest of my day may go out this afternoon for a walk,read today's NYT, see what today's dinner menu is
Everybody have a good day
 
Good morning to everyone. It is cold this morning 44 degrees. It does worm up to 66 today.

@hollydolly those photos of the rain and floods look so dangerous. I didn't know England had that bad of weather. Take care when out driving and hopefully the weather will improve.

I will be going out this morning with some things that we need to do and hope to get some other things done today, too.

Have a great day to everyone. :)
 
Gray and gloomy here. I went to the doctor for annual checkup, nothing new. Stopped on the way home at a newly opened market and bought coffee and a blueberry muffin to celebrate "nothing new."

There is a golf group Christmas lunch today and later on we are supposed to look at the apartment across the street from us. We are thinking about moving to a one floor layout, thinking that this may make it unnecessary to move to some sort of senior living arrangement when we get older. I'm not super enthusiastic because I'm not sure the economics make sense. Although the senior living set up seemed exorbitantly expensive when we looked at it.

In my mind I'm about 28 and don't understand why anyone would worry about this sort of thing.
 
Afternoon Peeps of SF.....🍂

Today thankfully it didn't rain at all and we had sunshine. I wanted to go out and take donations to the charity shop but my leg is quite sore from yesterday's procedure and they told me I mustn't stretch it for 48 hours at least.. so I felt that driving wouldn't be a good idea.

I have to go out tomorrow and get my hair cut, so I'll drop them then, even tho it' going to be no sun tomorow...

Anyway I suspect because this was the first day without rain for about a week, that every where would have been super busy....
Now it;s 315pm and the sun is going down, and it will be dark in about 45 minutes.. another winter day gone so fast!

@hawkdon , peased to hear you're feeling better today than previous days...

@Rae ..yes the UK gets a lot of rain.. and floods... but mostly in the North and West.... here in the South & east we don't get it anywhere nearly as much.. so that's what's made this week a little different to normal...


@KSav .. Take care out there, stay safe

@moviequeen1 ... it sounds like you made a gret choice when you moved to Gates.. they seem to cover all eventualities...

Have a super day everyone whatever you're doing today...🌺🌼
 
Rae said:
@hollydolly good news about the weather in your area improving. I wanted to add a hug to your post but it only took the like. These like options are difficult to put them on at times for me.
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I find that I often wish they'd include a question mark emoji in the choices, as I find so much confusing nowadays that I don't fully understand what people have put up.
 
hollydolly said:
Afternoon Peeps of SF.....🍂

Today thankfully it didn't rain at all and we had sunshine. I wanted to go out and take donations to the charity shop but my leg is quite sore from yesterday's procedure and they told me I mustn't stretch it for 48 hours at least.. so I felt that driving wouldn't be a good idea.

I have to go out tomorrow and get my hair cut, so I'll drop them then, even tho it' going to be no sun tomorow...

Anyway I suspect because this was the first day without rain for about a week, that every where would have been super busy....
Now it;s 315pm and the sun is going down, and it will be dark in about 45 minutes.. another winter day gone so fast!

@hawkdon , peased to hear you're feeling better today than previous days...

@Rae ..yes the UK gets a lot of rain.. and floods... but mostly in the North and West.... here in the South & east we don't get it anywhere nearly as much.. so that's what's made this week a little different to normal...


@KSav .. Take care out there, stay safe

@moviequeeHey seem to cover all eventualities...

Have a super day everyone whatever you're doing today...🌺🌼
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