If not writing one - I can certainly recommend one or two blockbusters if you are in need of a good book, @MiscanthusI wondered if it’s possible to write whilst you have your treatments Captain? Then at the end you might have a blockbuster to show for it! You know how well received your writing is…Just a thought…Thinking of you and sending love xx
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Sorry to laugh @Oops but you have a way with words!! Yes, I get your frustration... my car has to undergo a yearly NCT and I swear the rigmarole.... full service but yet the NCT techs never pass the thing without a return visit and more requirements. Such a time wasting exercise...
‘Standard in the industry..’ along with ‘it’s company policy...’ ‘a team member will be with you shortly (ie 45 mins)...’Weeerrlll! They need to have a diagnostic machine to diagnose a new battery! That’s like the dentist charging you 200 quid so he can look in your mouth and tell you you require a £1,200 filling! I really got on my high horse over it - charging me to diagnose something I pay them to replace? Apparently ( little bit of jargon here…) it’s the ‘standard in the industry these days…‘
Heres a bit of jargon…I never used to be SO angry or want to punch people so much…grrr….
I pop up occasionally on the Lydia thread and the Frow one but like the off topic threads more these days!
🫣 This month’s Shitpuffin Award goes to Jargon Schpeelers and the psychopathy they cause!
Botswana? Wow! Do tell more....I pop up occasionally on the Lydia thread and the Frow one but like the off topic threads more these days!
I’m enjoying retirement and am really busy. Still loving the rescue ponies. Am waiting for a repair the the repair of my prolapse
Fingers crossed going to Botswana at the end of this month xx
I am in need of some book suggestions...please. i take my kindle but dont fancy anything and we haven't had book club for ages. Again I fell asleep during treatment but it's the pre-drugs they give you. I had taken my sketchpad but never got it out. The oncology nurse came to see me and we agree we would try me on sleeping tabs before sending me to a shrink. Last night I slept from 10.30 to 5.59. No waking at 3.30 or 2.30 yay!If not writing one - I can certainly recommend one or two blockbusters if you are in need of a good book, @Miscanthus
That is good news, Capitán. I’m glad that you slept so well. Sleep is the most restorative thing ever. I have always been a great sleeper but hubby is like our @Oops and rarely gets a good night’s sleep. His whole family the same ... it’s a terrible thing and I don’t know how @Oops stands it either. It might be different when you write though - and can write at any hour of day or night - what a gift. Unfortunately, my husband is neither reader or writer and I do believe it is stress for the most part. His job is pretty relentless.
Alternatively, there’s always Evergreen!! The three copies should still be available....DH has a big birthday in early May and it’s also our wedding anniversary . We are starting in Victoria to see the Falls and then off to stay in 3 different safari camps. Very different from anything I’ve done before! X
I’m also very prone to urge incontinence now.
Maybe tomorrow 
, . The florist had been instructed to deliver ‘something elegantly restrained preferably in white with maybe a little pink and or blue…’ The florist was clearly very anxious to please and so pulled all the stops out and delivered bonfire night instead. It was described as (and I quote) purple, yellow, lime-green, orange and blue and looks like a firework display going off!!
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It's those hands and intense stare 