What saddened you today?

[Gaz]

2 minutes ago, MikeTheThinker said:

Don't forget to leave 1.5m clearance when you do ...

That’s no fun, I need to be close enough that they can experience the full effect of my 8mph wake 

 

G

 

[Lady Elanore]

So how is the stool patient ? (not a euphemism) 

[Lady Elanore]

[Gaz]

 

9 minutes ago, Lady Elanore said:

So how is the stool patient ? (not a euphemism) 

 

RIP:

 

On 02/09/2023 at 15:16, Gaz said:

Stanley didn't make it ☹️  After consultation and medical (read arboreal) advice it was agreed to switch things off and allow nature to take its course.  He went peacefully to join his maker, and wasn't in any pain.  It was the right thing to do 🥲

 

At the risk of sounding cruel and shallow, meet Stacey:

 

Stacey is a rescue.  She came to us with her bigger Sister, Stella (it didn't seem right to part them) from a garage sale in Seaford.  She seems amicable and good natured.  Nice, stable outlook and I'm intending this to be her forever home 👍

 

Gaz

 

 

 

 

[Lady Elanore]

I missed that one...oops. Been away for a while with family matters. 

[Gaz]

4 minutes ago, Lady Elanore said:

I missed that one...oops. Been away for a while with family matters. 

 

I oft notice your absences, and just assume you're on a working assignment (or stealing pizza 🍕).

 

None of our business, but I hope the family stuff's alright, or as alright as it can be.

 

G

 

[Lady Elanore]

2 hours ago, Gaz said:

 

I oft notice your absences, and just assume you're on a working assignment (or stealing pizza 🍕).

 

None of our business, but I hope the family stuff's alright, or as alright as it can be.

 

G

 

 

 

Thanks for the thought.

 

Mum passed away last week. She fought dementia for 4+ years and so in many ways it was a relief that she finally received lasting peace. It's a very cruel illness and I recently heard someone call it the "family disease" which sums it up well.  I'm ok now, as it was worse to see her suffer for so long. 

[Breezy_Pete]

My condolences. RIP Amanda's Mum. 

[@Lee]

Sorry for your loss, Amanda.

Sincere condolences. 

[Mickvrs220]

Sorry for your loss amanda ,its such a cruel disease ,its also part of my family ,and probably a few others on here too ,RIP, for your mum .

[Lady Elanore]

Thanks guys. 

 

I'm remembering all the good stuff and being happy and grateful for those many, great years. Of course, it is sad for the family, but we were so incredibly lucky to have her as our mum. 

[mac11irl]

just catching up here,

Im really sorry for your loss @Lady Elanore.

i hope you and brother and dad are doing okay. all the dementias are terribly cruel diseases.

[MikeTheThinker]

On 27/09/2023 at 21:18, Lady Elanore said:

I'm remembering all the good stuff and being happy and grateful for those many, great years.

Our Mum suffered - as have many others - from a slowly progressive vascular dementia, becoming increasingly hostile and aggressive towards us in the family and decreasingly less the mum we knew and loved.  It has taken me several years to begin to see her as 'Mum' again and not the bitter nasty harridan of a figure she became - all, of course, down to the unavoidable personality changes due to vascular dementia.  It was unfortunately some time after the problems started that we actually discovered the problem was vascular dementia - Mum's GP had been recalcitrant and uncooperative despite a letter of approval for Mum to say we could discuss her situation.  It finally took a complaint to the General Medical Council to open up the information flow, during which time Mum was suffering and we didn't know what to do or how to go about it.  The fact that both my sister and I lived many miles away didn't help.

 

I'm really glad I can now look back and celebrate her life as 'Mum' and would encourage anyone else caught in a similar situation to just let time heal.  I know it's a trite expression but - if you let it - time can heal all wounds.

[skomaz]

On 28/09/2023 at 16:00, mac11irl said:

 

Im really sorry for your loss @Lady Elanore.

i hope you and brother and dad are doing okay. all the dementias are terribly cruel diseases.

 

 

Can only repeat the above and send sympathy and condolences...   My dad had lewy body dementia alongside his parkinsonism and it was bloody hard to see and cope with. 

 

Just remember the good stuff before the dementia! 

[Lady Elanore]

Mum was never officially diagnosed with Vascular Dementia, although they thought that was probably most likely what it was. I always looked on her, once she had to move into a home, as still being "my mum", but the person in front of me was a sort of, broken shell that contained her. I've got a lifetime of fantastic memories and I have put her last few years to the back of my mind. A most hateful disease, dementia.

[petrolcan]

2 hours ago, Lady Elanore said:

A most hateful disease, dementia.

 

This, in spades.

 

Sorry for your loss.

[Gaz]

Watching the further dismantling of the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse 😞

 

Crappy photo through wobbly binoculars with a wobbly iPhone:

 

 

The main bodywork and helipad is now off and floating away on a barge, just leaving the concrete tubular column it stood on.

 

Keane's song will never be the same  😢

 

Gaz

 

EDIT:

 

A better photo than I can take:

 

Edited 4 October, 2023 by Gaz

[@Lee]

Stables across the road from us lost a barn full of straw, hay and feed today. Volunteer fire service arrived about 11:30am. Technische Hilfswerk (volunteer specialists) arrived later to dismantle what's left of the barn. They're still working on it now at 20:00. Thankfully no animal or human casualties. 

 

 

 

 

[mac11irl]

no casualties. all that matters.

the barn can be rebuilt, and the straw/hay/ feed replaced, albeit at a cost, but humans and animals cant be..

[Breezy_Pete]

 

Boo.

Boostered only a few weeks back too.

First time for me, as far as I know.

Headachy and coldy but nothing severe really.  

 

[Graham Butcher]

35 minutes ago, Breezy_Pete said:

 

Boo.

Boostered only a few weeks back too.

First time for me, as far as I know.

Headachy and coldy but nothing severe really.  

 

With any luck, it might only last a few days. My son had it a few weeks ago and after 4 days he was clear again.

[Breezy_Pete]

Medicinal whisky has been deployed. I don't seem to have lost my sense of taste, cos it's still not nice.

[Graham Butcher]

20 minutes ago, Breezy_Pete said:

Medicinal whisky has been deployed. I don't seem to have lost my sense of taste, cos it's still not nice.

Yeah, that's what I do when I feel ill, I have a hot drink with a good slug of medicinal whisky in it and go to bed a sweat it out. 

[Breezy_Pete]

Partner took a test straight after that one ^.

Was clear at 10 mins, but now has developed a faint line next to T, after three-quarters of an hour.

Double boo...

Not surprised, I guess.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Ah bugger, sorry to hear that @Breezy_Pete. Hope you and your OH take it easy and remain well, or as well as can be. You'll get used to the whisky...