What's on your agenda for today?

hollydolly said:
AS Can you do me a favour when you go to Glasgow can you buy me some unsmoked Ham Ribs, clootie dumpling and fruit pudding from the butcher, and some cold crust Rhubarb pies from the bakery ( they look like mutton pies except they're rhubarb) View attachment 15021 and can you fed ex them to me Purrrrlease..:D


I am going to the hospital in a little while to have all my Pre-Op procedure done before my back surgery next month...Sunny day today and quite warm..so if my back isn't killing me when I get out I may go and pick up some shopping....oh my exciting life at the moment *sigh* ...but never mind I'll be looking forward to my Scottish feast fayre arriving by special delivery.. :playful:

Seriously Annie...are you staying in a hotel for the next couple of days....say hi to the city for me and can you just pop over to the west end and say Hi to my brother and his family while you're there..? muchas gracias :bigwink:
Click to expand...

Sure, of course, nae bother hen! :grin: We go into Glasgow quite often for day trips, and at least every 6 - 8 weeks we spend the night at a hotel. It's a Scot's dream trip. Free bus and ferry to get there, the Ibis or Premier Inn hotels are sometimes as cheap as £29 but usually £42, and we eat at Wetherspoons (it's the ales and beers, really...nothing to do with cheap price food). Oh, and we get the old people discount at the cinema.

What date is your surgery? Is it expected that you'll no longer have back pain at all when you are done?
 

yes if only we had free travel here on public transport..but alas no...not until I'm 67 which is a long way away, and no doubt will have been removed by the government by then.

I was in Glasgow about 3 years ago and stayed at the Premier Inn in Argyle street..it was a one night stop over trip...and they completely ruined our nights sleep by allowing the fire alarm to go off not once but 3 times throughout the night between midnight and 4am ..and we had an early flight to catch next morning too..

My back surgery is on the 23rd of march hopefully it will address all the herniated disc and sciatic nerve problem.., I've had it before, and it takes a little while to sort itself out and initially the pain can be even worse until it settles down..but I won't be clear of Back problems completely because I have Osteo arthritis in my Spine which they can do nothing for.. fortunately that doesn't give me too much trouble. if I can bet the disc problem sorted then I can get back to work properly and that will suit me just fine.. :D Must go and get ready for the hospital, appointment is in about an hour.. :)
 
hollydolly said:
yes if only we had free travel here on public transport..but alas no...not until I'm 67 which is a long way away, and no doubt will have been removed by the government by then.

I was in Glasgow about 3 years ago and stayed at the Premier Inn in Argyle street..it was a one night stop over trip...and they completely ruined our nights sleep by allowing the fire alarm to go off not once but 3 times throughout the night between midnight and 4am ..and we had an early flight to catch next morning too..

My back surgery is on the 23rd of march hopefully it will address all the herniated disc and sciatic nerve problem.., I've had it before, and it takes a little while to sort itself out and initially the pain can be even worse until it settles down..but I won't be clear of Back problems completely because I have Osteo arthritis in my Spine which they can do nothing for.. fortunately that doesn't give me too much trouble. if I can bet the disc problem sorted then I can get back to work properly and that will suit me just fine.. :D Must go and get ready for the hospital, appointment is in about an hour.. :)
Click to expand...

We're staying at the Charing Cross Premier Inn. We normally stay at the Ibis on Regent and have stayed so often we've already had one night free and have enough points for another. If we have a flight that isn't too early we stay at Ibis and take the airport bus, but when we've had a very early flight we stay at the Holiday Inn right across from the terminal.

Good luck on your pre-op.

Before I turned 60 I heard about England slowly raising the age you needed to be for a free bus pass. So I was excited when I did get the pass! And the ferry pass.
 

HD - I hope all goes well with your pre-op. I also hope that the disc situation gets solved so that you are freed up from at least some of the pain.

I've already been on two walks with the dog so now I need to pick up some dog food. Then on to the bank to take a copy of hubby's Power of Attorney - then to bakery to get my favorite cookie. This is not good - I shouldn't buy these cookies but they are the best cookies ever! I know I could never bake them myself because I haven't baked much over the years and if I did bake something like the cookies in question, I'd know how much sugar goes into them. I may skip the bakery visit.
 
Kath said:
HD - I hope all goes well with your pre-op. I also hope that the disc situation gets solved so that you are freed up from at least some of the pain.

I've already been on two walks with the dog so now I need to pick up some dog food. Then on to the bank to take a copy of hubby's Power of Attorney - then to bakery to get my favorite cookie. This is not good - I shouldn't buy these cookies but they are the best cookies ever! I know I could never bake them myself because I haven't baked much over the years and if I did bake something like the cookies in question, I'd know how much sugar goes into them. I may skip the bakery visit.
Click to expand...

I keep reading this articles on how poisonous to your health that sugar is, but did that stop me from buying a doughnut yesterday? Nope.
 
Thanks Kath and Annie...pre Op took a whole 3 hours...I kid you not, I was almost in tears with the pain in my back by the time I left there with all the sitting around , up and down examination tables etc..

ECG was good, apparently I have a healthy Heart,who knew I even had a heart?.. :D BP spot on..lungs & kidneys all good...lots of do's and don'ts for the day before and the day after the OP...

Kath don't feel guilty about the cake..I came out of the hospital and drove straight to the supermarket and bought 2 packets of Dark Belgian chocolate fudge brownies and some very posh Belgian chocolate crispy biscuits..yuummmy..I think I deserved a treat, to heck with the sugar...they'll last me a while tho'..

Annie yes I know the holiday inn at the airport, very handy but I've never fancied being that close...I didn't know an airport bus went from the Ibis tho', so that's worth bearing in mind. :)
 
Hi Holly, glad you got through those exams and got good results back; hopefully you can relax some the rest of the day. Belgian chocolate, yum. That alone would make my day much better. :D Now thinking maybe I should run, yeah right, walk, no, limp, downstairs and cross the street to the bakerie. But, I'm too lazy, it would mean I have to put on my face and stuff :bowknot: I have errand set for tomorrow, think I'll stop at the bakery then. Maaaaaaaaaaybe.
 
I'm just back from running my errands - I took the dog with me so she could see some of the world. I got the dog food (she likes salmon-flavored anything) and went to the pharmacy to pick up meds, etc. I did NOT go to the bakery but although I didn't cave today doesn't mean that I won't tomorrow!

Holly - I'm sorry you had to go through such a long appointment and I can sure empathize with how rotten a back can feel if a long sit is involved. I usually have to get up and walk around a bit if I'm having to sit and wait for something and whenever I have to go on a lengthy car ride, I have to stop at least hourly to get unkinked and make the pain more tolerable. On planes, I get up frequently and walk the aisle a bit although my seat mate sometimes gets frustrated.

April - Having a bakery just across the street from where you live must be very convenient but for me it would probably be a bit of a temptation!
 
Kath said:
I'm just back from running my errands - I took the dog with me so she could see some of the world. I got the dog food (she likes salmon-flavored anything) and went to the pharmacy to pick up meds, etc. I did NOT go to the bakery but although I didn't cave today doesn't mean that I won't tomorrow!

Holly - I'm sorry you had to go through such a long appointment and I can sure empathize with how rotten a back can feel if a long sit is involved. I usually have to get up and walk around a bit if I'm having to sit and wait for something and whenever I have to go on a lengthy car ride, I have to stop at least hourly to get unkinked and make the pain more tolerable. On planes, I get up frequently and walk the aisle a bit although my seat mate sometimes gets frustrated.

April - Having a bakery just across the street from where you live must be very convenient but for me it would probably be a bit of a temptation!
Click to expand...

I have a lot of conveniences where I'm located, I can walk to so many types of stores even have a number of international restaurants, including English/UK cuisine, right along that same street and up and down the other side streets, still it's a quiet area most evenings. But, the convenience of the bakeries haven't tempted me, well not in the past couple of years now, I haven't been in there in well over a year. I just walk by it staring longingly. Gets a little noisey some weekends when the Tiki restaurant plays reggae and other music though, but, that hasn't been too often or too loud these days. We have some strict noise ordinances and one little call and they get shut down.
 
Kath I know exactly where you're coming from re the back problems when you're travelling ..it's miserable isn't it?..I'm sorry you suffer as well.

April I am going to come and have a holiday (vacation) where you live, it sounds like there's loads of places to go right where you live and the beach close by as well...Bliss!!

Anyone seen the movie American Sniper yet?

daughter in Spain just text to say she went to see it earlier this evening , said it was a Tough film but very well made...and she's quite a critic so if it's your bag, it might be worth seeing..
 
hollydolly said:
Kath I know exactly where you're coming from re the back problems when you're travelling ..it's miserable isn't it?..I'm sorry you suffer as well.

April I am going to come and have a holiday (vacation) where you live, it sounds like there's loads of places to go right where you live and the beach close by as well...Bliss!!

Anyone seen the movie American Sniper yet?

daughter in Spain just text to say she went to see it earlier this evening , said it was a Tough film but very well made...and she's quite a critic so if it's your bag, it might be worth seeing..
Click to expand...

Would love for you to visit the area, blissful if really is, when my body is up to enjoying it all.

I haven't seen American Sniper, I try to avoid movies I know will have me crying in the theater, I wait for the DVD, if someone had told me how, The Imitation Game would go toward the end, I would have waited for that as well. :cry: Still glad I
saw it, but, I prefer to do the ugly cry where no one is watching. :D
 
Don't know if this is your cup of tea, but I watched Grand Budapest Hotel for the second time and enjoyed it a lot, lots of subtle humor and wonderful cinematography. :)
 
I do have to see most action type movies on the big screen though. :D I'm not allowed to turn up my home sound system to the decibels I'd like to get that full sensory effect that shakes the walls. he, he, he. I put Batman returns on one day and the walls started to shake, not good. :eek:
 
Holly - I don't know whether or not to see American Sniper because of what happened to Chris Kyle after his return home. His death at the hands of someone he was trying to help hits me right in the gut. Just thinking about it makes me tear up. I think many Americans feel sort of sick that this kind of thing happened here - I sure feel that way. I've heard that the movie itself is tough to watch at times but it's what befell Kyle after his military service that puts an additional horrifying spin on the overall film experience.

I saw the movie "Birdman" a few days ago and it was a very different type of film than most that have been made lately. I would call it an "alternative" type of movie, just like we have the alternative music genre. Michael Keaton was very good in the film as he was more or less playing himself - I've liked almost all of his films and this was probably his best role.
 
AprilT said:
I do have to see most action type movies on the big screen though. :D I'm not allowed to turn up my home sound system to the decibels I'd like to get that full sensory effect that shakes the walls. he, he, he. I put Batman returns on one day and the walls started to shake, not good. :eek:
Click to expand...

April. I also have to consider neighbors while watching surround sound. The old Bose systems is quite able to shake the windows so I have to be careful.
 
Pappy said:
April. I also have to consider neighbors while watching surround sound. The old Bose systems is quite able to shake the windows so I have to be careful.
Click to expand...

And some dvd's are better on sound than others and most recent, I had picked up a dvd from the library and Oh my, the sound coming off that movie was incredible, I was so sorry I couldn't up the volume on it just a bit more, I'm very much into the sensory experience of some movies and this one was had divine sound, just like the batman return with the motorcycle chase scenes.

I wish I had a boss system, the one I have is quite old and chunky.
 
hollydolly said:
Thanks Kath and Annie...pre Op took a whole 3 hours...I kid you not, I was almost in tears with the pain in my back by the time I left there with all the sitting around , up and down examination tables etc..

ECG was good, apparently I have a healthy Heart,who knew I even had a heart?.. :D BP spot on..lungs & kidneys all good...lots of do's and don'ts for the day before and the day after the OP...

Kath don't feel guilty about the cake..I came out of the hospital and drove straight to the supermarket and bought 2 packets of Dark Belgian chocolate fudge brownies and some very posh Belgian chocolate crispy biscuits..yuummmy..I think I deserved a treat, to heck with the sugar...they'll last me a while tho'..

Annie yes I know the holiday inn at the airport, very handy but I've never fancied being that close...I didn't know an airport bus went from the Ibis tho', so that's worth bearing in mind. :)
Click to expand...

Sorry it was so awful! At least it's finished and you're ready.

The holiday inn is nice and quiet. We used to get 6am flights to the US and stumbling across the road at 4am made it easier. The airport bus doesn't go right past the Ibis but very close by.
 
On the bus to Glasgow. Going to see Selma at the cinema and stay overnight. No birthday cake but I will have some kind of dessert today plus Maltesers during the movie.
 
We are getting hammered with lake effect snow, coming in off Lake Michigan.. Driving is terrible so I'm just staying put.. I'm too old to battle this garbage.. I'm staying in my jammies.
 
Absolutely pouring here...so I won't be attempting to go anywhere. I might try and get some of the ironing done, there's not much to do just his Nibs jeans and T-shirts. It's one of the few things he does himself occasionally, but I'm at home and he's at work so I may as well do it for him.

Enjoy your trip AS... I only like dark chocolate but if I was to eat Milk chocolate maltesers are the only sweets I eat..they are very addictive!
 
Good morning. I'd trade our black ice for QS's lake effect sNOw and Holly's pouring rain. Our Big Weather Event was pretty much a bust, only alternating rain and sNOw, but it's just below freezing this morning and will take a couple of hours for the black ice to either melt or get worn off. I'm going to wait until around 10 to go to work.

Holly, glad your pre-OP stuff is done. Three hours? Ack!
 
hollydolly said:
Pappy and April can you not use headphone to listen to your window shaking movies...so as not to upset the neighbours... :D
Click to expand...

I think that is what caused my deafness or contributed towards it by listening at a to high a volume. I used to play my keyboard, with my earphones on, way to loud. And the poor other half would be able to hear a thing. :sentimental:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top