Tea? (Part 4)

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

BIG

Sorry, I know it's your family and it's not my place - but what a bunch of selfish B*****ds!

You are (sometimes) and have been in a terrible place, emotions like a rollercoaster in and out of hospital with an uncertain future and they are on your backs about not replying to a text message?!?!?

F* em, F* em all.

my thoughts exactly. I sent my thoughts to my brother this morning after an email say at the very least reply to this even if it is a blank message. So I sent an essay... badly worded, badly spelt just straight as I thought of it... I got a text message off him that stated he suspected I am suffering from depression, has been seeing the signs and symptoms in me for months. apparently his wife is being treated for it at the moment and he was planning on bringing the subject up with me because he was getting concerned about me... this is right after a lecture about don't let this descend into an argument with our sister... we have already lost one member of the family... ahhhhhh

well at least I suppose he is actually worried about me. Rings me 4 or 5 times a day - he's a courier and often has free periods in the day. Actually he has been a god send over the last few months, but stepped over the line this morning... think I chopped off his toes for it! lol. ride has helped... but I went too far and too long and am paying for it now. may have to take some codeine on top of the morphine again, something I haven't done for about a week now since I was put on the time release morphine capsules... well at least I can take some more paracetamol now, but will have to wait until 2pm before I can take any more morphine for the pain. 10.7 miles at an exceptionally slow pace but I did do the (short) complete Whitegate Way... exhausted, hungry and may have a sleep.....

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Have another

FWIW I never bother with my siblings. 36 hours for a reply to a text, sh;t, I haven't turned my phone on for about 4 months!!

When people get older they build their own lives/families and drift apart. Just last night our daughter, who lives in Sheffield, phoned Mrs B to give her some earache because she hadn't commented on a picture she sent on Facebook a few days ago - she was excited because she had snapped someone riding a horse down her street. FFS, she's a uni graduate who is now married with a family and is 33 years old. Now we live in Ireland with open countryside on one side of us and a wide sandy coastal bay on the other so seeing a horse go down the street isn't headline news to us. We didn't pay much attention to the moaning daughter!!

Don't get wound up - the negative emotions are just self harming.

yep - a horse wouldn't be anything interesting here either... unless it wasn't saddled and was loose yet again, in which case all we need to do is catch it or herd it back to the stables behind the house and now all I would do is knock on my landlady's door and tell her because I can hardly herd anything in my state! Oh and the cows sometimes get out and come down into the courtyard as well.... so all I can do now is close the gate to stop them escaping any further and ring my landlady.... nothing exciting there either!

Where in Ireland are you? I have cycled quite a bit of it and also travelled quite a lot of it over the years. We love it...

 

[classic33]

That's a bit early! It's only 4:10am there, right? A quick search informed me that London sunrise is about 5:50am at the moment. Tell the birds to shut up and go back to bed.

I'm a bit further North than London. Which if I remember correctly, gives me a further 10 minutes.
I'll check and let you know.

 

[classic33]

Morning Mr. C

It was?

 

[ScotiaLass]

Back from the docs.

Doc: How did you do this then?
Me: Fell off my MTB yesterday afternoon
Doc: Did you go to A&E?
Me: Why? There were no bones sticking out and no blood. I didn't see the point!
Doc:

He gave me low dose codeine (he mentioned morphine but I told him I wasn't taking it) to take alongside my other meds.
They won't recommend an MRI until the acute phase has subsided - to go back in a month

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Bob's on the road again...or was.
just over the 15 mile and the legs felt good considering.

 

[Lullabelle]

morning all... going to be another hard day in hell today.
I may not be around much....

having problems facing the world at the moment.
family are being shoot to me because I took 36hrs to respond to my sisters text message. This is the 4th one she has sent me since my back went. she lives 25 miles away, has not been to see me. has not bothered ringing me. I have learnt 3rd hand she got engaged last week and I had nothing polite to say to her so I was waiting until I didn't say what was on my mind. now both my mother and one of my brothers are on my backs because I didn't reply. I got one line from her saying "hi sis, how's you?" what am I meant to say... this is the girl I brought up until she was 10 or 11. apparently I shouldn't let this descend into the argument that resulted in one of my uncles leaving the family and never returning. I'm the one that dropped everthing when she recently (last summer when I was on my feet) collapsed and sat with and collected her from A&E many many miles from my home and she has no idea that I had to cycle 11 miles just to pick the bloody car up to get to her! OK, im going to stop there it is making me too angry ...

like I said facing the world this morning is just making me cry.

edit: sorry.

families can be such a pain at times, sorry I can't say much else but thinking of you

 

[Blue]

yep - a horse wouldn't be anything interesting here either... unless it wasn't saddled and was loose yet again, in which case all we need to do is catch it or herd it back to the stables behind the house and now all I would do is knock on my landlady's door and tell her because I can hardly herd anything in my state! Oh and the cows sometimes get out and come down into the courtyard as well.... so all I can do now is close the gate to stop them escaping any further and ring my landlady.... nothing exciting there either!

Where in Ireland are you? I have cycled quite a bit of it and also travelled quite a lot of it over the years. We love it...

Just behind the houses seen in the opening shots of this video (not my video BTW). We live on an elevated site with stunning views over this bay and across Belfast Lough to Co Antrim and the Irish Sea to Scotland. When the sea is as seen in the video we get lulled to sleep by the sound of the waves. It's a village called Ballyholme that has been merged into the larger town of Bangor, Co Down over the last 100 years. We moved to the area when we retired 10 years ago so only our youngest got to live here with us as the others had moved on a few years earlier.

View: https://youtu.be/f4IqEECZaNY

 

[classic33]

Just behind the houses seen in the opening shots of this video (not my video BTW). We live on an elevated site with stunning views over this bay and across Belfast Lough to Co Antrim and the Irish Sea to Scotland. When the sea is as seen in the video we get lulled to sleep by the sound of the waves. It's a village called Ballyholme that has been merged into the larger town of Bangor, Co Down over the last 100 years. We moved to the area when we retired 10 years ago so only our youngest got to live here with us as the others had moved on a few years earlier.

View: https://youtu.be/f4IqEECZaNY

Tenth house down, left-hand side isn't it?

 

[Blue]

Tenth house down, left-hand side isn't it?

Aye, close enough there Classic

 

[classic33]

Aye, close enough there Classic

It was tracking that ship that came close to shore, with the cargo of explosives on board.
A case of where you had to be to in order to see it.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Just behind the houses seen in the opening shots of this video (not my video BTW). We live on an elevated site with stunning views over this bay and across Belfast Lough to Co Antrim and the Irish Sea to Scotland. When the sea is as seen in the video we get lulled to sleep by the sound of the waves. It's a village called Ballyholme that has been merged into the larger town of Bangor, Co Down over the last 100 years. We moved to the area when we retired 10 years ago so only our youngest got to live here with us as the others had moved on a few years earlier.

View: https://youtu.be/f4IqEECZaNY

that's about the only bit of the coast we have not cycled...
we went from Rosslare to Cork around to Galway, around to NI up to the Giants Causeway before they upgraded it... and down to Larne... along the coast... we know the SW side of EIRE inside out... but the bit and have been to Dublin once or twice, but Larne to Rosslare is unknown territory to us... oh and the middle of the country... we have driven through it once or twice but not often... seem to only do the coast for some reason!

 

[Blue]

It was tracking that ship that came close to shore, with the cargo of explosives on board.
A case of where you had to be to in order to see it.

Thought it might be that as I remember the incident well.

 

[Fubar]

that's about the only bit of the coast we have not cycled...
we went from Rosslare to Cork around to Galway, around to NI up to the Giants Causeway before they upgraded it... and down to Larne... along the coast... we know the SW side of EIRE inside out... but the bit and have been to Dublin once or twice, but Larne to Rosslare is unknown territory to us... oh and the middle of the country... we have driven through it once or twice but not often... seem to only do the coast for some reason!

From what I remember of driving across Eire there isn't much in the middle and all the good stuff is round the coast - could be wrong though...

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Spent a couple of family holidays in Courtown...
fished all over the NE of the south and spent more than an hour piking on Lough Beg...oops, many an hour
Ireland is braw, I've visiting since the days of the punt