Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

I've been sent home with a migrane. As I get the whole package, including visual problems and nausea, I'm not much use in a job that requires me to see well, think fast and climb ladders...

 

[Reynard]

That's very kind of you Reynard.

I've had a difficult relationship with him for many years, culminating in having to intervene when he attacked our daughter one afternoon 5 or 6 years ago (mainly verbally but some physical too). He had paranoid personality disorder which meant that almost anything anyone said or did had the chance of being misconstrued as a personal attack. He rang me up when our youngest got her first boyfriend (at 17 for goodness sake) and told me that she needed a boyfriend because she wasn't loved at home.

A stroke 4 years ago seemed to take all the malice out of him for a few years, but it's been sneaking back. Add to that an obsession with the medical profession trying (and eventually succeeding) in poisoning him and you can perhaps start to see why I don't give two hoots about his problems, other than for the damage it is doing to the people around him, his wife in particular. My wife has long seen him for what he is, and has helped her mum come to terms with all this. It was at her instigation that the Memory Clinic appointments led to this diagnosis. The net effect is that he can no longer drive, and all the official complaints he has lodged against various members of the medical profession can now be discarded. Other than that, everything just carries on as before, and all who have to come into contact with him carry on with their various coping strategies.

It's keeping your *own* sanity that's the hard bit. And that of your immediate family. Dad would get violent and abusive, and it's kind of funny how family friends and other relations (not that we had many) seemed to disappear out of the picture. It leaves you feeling really isolated.

A sympathetic ear, in these situations, is a godsend.

 

[Reynard]

I did something similar a few weeks ago, missed the clip and foot slipped of the pedal, banged the side of my arse on the nose of the saddle staying on and ended up with a bruise the stretched from hip to knee, for a week I could only sit on one cheek.

Ouch!!!

Though regarding the sitting arrangements.

 

[Reynard]

I've been sent home with a migrane. As I get the whole package, including visual problems and nausea, I'm not much use in a job that requires me to see well, think fast and climb ladders...

Hope you feel more chipper soon xxx

 

[Reynard]

In addition to the bruising from the oops moment on the bike, I also (somehow) managed to pull a muscle in my groin last night. Talk about ouch!...

 

[Hitchington]

Switzerland just had a shot. It went over.

 

[Salty seadog]

[QUOTE 5299914, member: 9609"]Perfect summers evening, blue skies and no wind - Do I watch the football live, or do I ride into the sunset and watch it on the video later?[/QUOTE]


Watch it live. This is a great tournament.

 

[GM]

[QUOTE 5299914, member: 9609"]Perfect summers evening, blue skies and no wind - Do I watch the football live, or do I ride into the sunset and watch it on the video later?[/QUOTE]


I'm thinking the same, the roads might be quieter and it should be a bit cooler.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Stuff the football, get out on your bike!

 

[PeteXXX]

Sitting in the garden enjoying my Pork and Kentucky Bourbon sausages & mash, a bee flew towards the Coleman’s English mustard on the sausages probably wanting to pollinate it

 

[Salty seadog]

Sitting in the garden enjoying my Pork and Kentucky Bourbon sausages & mash, a bee flew towards the Coleman’s English mustard on the sausages probably wanting to pollinate it

That would have woken it up if it had landed.

 

[PeteXXX]

And the bourbon would have knocked it out!

 

[PeteXXX]

I’ve just cut the grass on the shady side of the garden that’s still green.
It didn’t take long!

 

[Reynard]

I cut some grass today too. Well, it just turns to dust when it gets spat out the back of the mower.

 

[PeteXXX]

I only did the green grass... the yellow parts can wait until they’ve grown a bit.