The Truth of what the Coalition has done to 84% of sick and disabled claimants in the UK!

Hi Alan,

Thanks for that, I was wondering how that would come off, I know placing links in normal posts from this site is moderated straight away, I will keep you informed on any others in future. The current news on disabled and the sick people is drastic, which is what I want to get across. I subscribe to that site you mentioned that is why I posted such an article.

Many people on these forums are unaware of why their PIP, DLA or ESA claims are denied, the fact is they deny mental issues as not eligible, therefore it is unfair to the claiment in such cases.

Again, much appreciated for you intervening and correcting the details with links.

Regards,

Les.

HI Georgia,

Fancy seeing meeting you here!   That is the truth and the facts that we are not told by the media is very much unreal. It's like ATOS paid £30k for using paramedics not Health Care Workers like was stated in the press. Maximus is different they are paid double that rate because they want to use Occupational Therapists, hence more money. And this is Iain Ducan Smith's idea of getting people back to work!!

The word is out that more claiments will be out in force and against any Tory or LibDem vote, LibDems because they did not stick up for anything and have no backbone...

In my case, and I expect many others will feel the same, Tories will be out in May, not in like Cameron thinks he will be, he has already further nasties up his sleeve, if he gets back in and again targetting the disabled!

Regards,

Les.

Chant, chant, chant, Tories wil be out in May and Hawkwind will be back in!!! Sorry I got carried away. 

LOL @ Georgia! Now, we are in a Wayback machine!

Times were simpler weren't they! Or seemed so to me, the joys of youth. I still listen to Hawkwind though. Dave Brock lives near me and the original members were from a town I lived in. I've seen them but never met Dave Brock personally, a friend did when he painted his house. That's way off topic I know. Apologies.

I'm in a quandry now because I need to post back my postal voting form and I can't find it. I'm glad you reminded me with this topic. 

Good morning Georgia,

Yes, I agree back in our youth things did seem better, well before the Thatcher years came to be! She started to destroy this country wayback then, oh gawd how many enemies did she have! I dread to think, now Cameron is a true misguided idiot, whom thinks nothing about us, and intends to make it worse, well Iain Duncan Smith does!

Hawkwind, that's travelling back some time now - I got a few of their records still now Trinodia - Astral Clouds album is one that I used to be mad on, it was them that got me in to liking Jean Michel-Jarre. I just checked is Bio... age 66!! Gawd, his Rendez-vous Houston concert was incredible for it's time. I remember people being asked to move back from the fireworks that fell, no one was bothered - the concert blew people away! That's one concert that I would liked to have seen him live back then, he was way in front of his time!

Now, you got me off the subject! Easily, done - I'm forever doing it! lol

Me too! My fav Hawkwind albums are 'Warrior on the Edge of Time', which I listened to last night funnily enough, and 'Chronicle of the Black Sword'.

Who is Hawkwind? I would vote for Hawkeyes of MASH  any day of the week. I would vote for cardboard cutout for that matter. Not for any who support the coalition nor any who support so woeful an opposition. 

off corruption, and the sad thing is the ones who really are swindling the system will keep getting away with it because there clever, it will be the honest ones that will loose out . 

if i loose mine i will not sign for unemployment because i am not fit , 

whos going to employ me when i fall asleep with out warning , cant sit or stand for more than 20/30 mins with out pain and going numb. gets dizzy spells, ,sensistive bladder ,and bouts of  i  b s. not to mention the fatigue and constant acheing blurred vision .its a joke no ones going to employ me .so i will end up with nothing and so will many others 

 

You hit the nail on the head there Tiswas... Corruption being very apt.

If you look carefully around the net, you find documents that were not to be published, and kept from the public eye! It's these documents that prove what a corrupt government we are under. The media say various things, but they are only fed facts after careful consideration by the government.

Take last year and the whistleblower that was in the news flying around numerous countries, we are informed he was a special whistleblower!! Making people think it was a good read to follow.... The truth is there is many whistleblowers on our own doorsteps, in the UK. Yes, they are told not to inform anyone of email contents, etc. But they will for a price, or what is coming out lately is whisteblowers that do not think the information they have been told should be kept secret, hence details are posted in places, but no one informs the media, or if they did, what would be the circumstances??

MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE SAID CORRUPTION AND PROPERGANDA 

Yeah Tiswas!

well its bleeding obvious they are going to pick on us we dont have the power they have or the energy to kick up a stink. easy pickings us .

they ought start charging for stiching people up after fight and pub brawls

at week end . like they do in some countries . you get your self in it why should the tax man foot the bill most cost a fortune.

That's such a good point. And through benefits cuts because of the amount of people cheating through claiming unemployment and working on the side those of us unable to work are getting scrutinised and so many of us are losing benefits, it's so frightening and downright shameful!

And don't get me started on politicians owning 3 houses etc! Tax dodging etc.

and like i said before alot of american women come over here at about 6 months rent somewhere to live have there baby on the NHS then fly back as soon as they can after the baby is born ,there supposed to pay but the health service dont get the money up front and never chase it  up .

millions go from our health service is this way .

And as I said before immigrants come here, work for less, send the money home then go home. When people say our youth are lazy I spit feathers! Where are the job opportunities for them, they're not allowed to work legally for less!

Two words spring to mind "Cameron" & "Smith"! Both stand in Parliment thinking they are it, immiigrants come first then English!

My middle son took any job he could just to get work, a part-time job as a cleaner for a Cleaning Company that the local Co-Op Shop used. Then along comes Tescos, massive company even selling American food, the Co-op's takings dropped straight away, hence the outlet closed, left my son with no job, because a News Agent moved in with their own cleaners. My son only worked for 7.5 hours a week on a minimum wage. He had one advantage, he is an outgoing person like myself, and got to know the Co-op staff before the closure. So, he asked if he could apply for a job at another Co-op, not so close to Tesco's and now works for them, within 2 months became a Deputy Manager, and is happy.

At least he had the initiative to go for a job!

Regards,

Les.

My son and his friend went for a job in a new factory that opened up. I even bought him a suit for the interview. They were told that they had the job and to turn up for work on Monday.

They did and were told they didn't have the job! It turns out that the factory was opened by Polish people for Polish people but they had to interview some locals.

Well, that's this country all over lately! You can't win... its Cameron's way or noway!

yes since bloody tescos  came to filey two years ago, we have lost two butchers two bakers, a groserer, and since iv been here 2001 we have lost a off liscence,

two clothes shops, a shoe shop,an eastate agents ,our police station,

two decent cafes , and a shop that used to sell everything . 

or replaced by ,coffee shops, pound shops, nail bars , and takeaways . and charity shops . 

any way thats my rant , i am glad your son found a job with another co op .

my friend works for the co op in leicester shes been there since she got married 35yrs ago ,

What about the Candlestick maker? Oops wrong century! 

Maybe we should put the Coalition in a Pea Green Boat and send them on their way before the election?

yeah it did sound like that. but socity worked better for the old ways better for us of course , not them they get so much out of the big boys , food chains and stores . or we get is poorer and fatter as a nation .

i remember my gran telling me about when the tinkers came to town they take out old sucpans and pokers and shovels and they would fix them .

and a man used to come with a grinding wheel to sharpen knifes , 

nothing wasted then .

it also wasnt uncommon for a family to have there own cobbler stand cant think of the proper name to fix shoes on . 

now its a wasteful world .

and all the people that try to be not so are out weighed by the utter waste 

of new tecnolgy every 5mins when all the stuff gets dumped on someone eles door step

.its desgusting brand new printers ,and computers mobile phones etc brand new alot of them still in there boxes dumped because stupid people ahve to have the latest modal .

i agree hun plus they spend a lot less the immergrants because they tend to live in family groups , so they all put in the pot if you got one person in a house with heating on it expensive but you have 7/8 people in the same house all putting money in its the same price works out a lot cheaper .

thats how they can work for less, its totaly wrong and unfair , i see trouble brewing big time,

Never mind about the wrong century, Georgia. The Owl and the Pussy Cat would make much better leaders. We may yet be pleasantly surprised come the election. 

Hi Tiswas, the name you were searching for is last - the cobler's last. Made of cast iron and very effective too. You could smack the nails in goodo with a shoe on the last.

Yes! You know I said I waited years for my steamer to die before I'd buy another one even though it was a rubbish one, I got that passed down to me by my grandma and mum. They were always frugal and that word is hardly ever even spoken these days.

frugal its a good word, a wise word .

we are all to keen to thru stuff away drives me mad .

then they scream global warming and make us seperate our rubbish

we recyled for yrs before this ,properly 

returnable milk bottles

returnable pop bottles

newspaper reused for the fire/chippie/and greengrocer 

pillow cases turned into hankies

double sheets turned 

collars and cuffs on shirts turned 

saupans mended ,and apparently when saupans started to be made with seprate handles and not all in one .you could buy relacement handles .

we are all to lazy and thoughtless, and supermarkets have made us a throw away socity .end of rant

Hand me down clothes for siblings. I'm glad I'm the eldest because I got the new ones! 

Mum used to make some of our clothes on her Singer sewing machine and she taught me to sew when I was very young. No material was ever wasted in our house! She even taught me how to lay a pattern so as to use less material.

i still love a jumble sale or a route in the second hand shop not so many jumble sales now thou , i wish i could sew .i am useless

took me 2 hrs to sew in a zip in my coat wednesday by hand and god my arm and shoulders you would think i had been shoveling coal .

 

last,  strange i normaly remember strange names like that .

i suppose it was becase it made shoes last .

i am not hopeful hun ,its always the same old same old. words the public want to hear to get the votes then nothing promised comes to anything .

the plug has been pulled on this country and we are sinking faster then a bolder in a pond, we cant bail faster enough to save our selves.

i no its negative but its a case of tells us the same old story we've heard it all before.

Alright we'll be positive then. We are evolving more spiritually, more and more of us. The old ways are on their way out, new portals and dimensions to explore.

Dear Tiswas, yes we recycled and from a very much smaller selection and volume of goods. In addition to your list there was string, not cut but untied, wrapping paper, not flimsy and printed but strong brown paper smoothed for reuse with a hot iron, paper bags , for flour and sugar and split peas and lentils again strong brown paper bags with no printing, bags and baskets for our shopping, little enough each time to be carried home and the basket lastest for years and years. Everything we used was repairable and was repaired. OK Twiwas not the soap, sugar and flour 

Why don't we still do those things? Because the big players make money, lots of money, from selling us bags for one journey, flour in a printed bag that bursts so flour is wasted and more must be bought, chairs and machines that cannot be mended and break down shortly after the guarentee expires so we have to buy again.

Money, although in short supply, was our servant. Now we are swamped with it and cursed by it. How many are consumed with greed. How many lost in the misery of unsolvable debt from which the big players make even more money. We have become the servants of money, nay! the slaves of money. We get poorer while the big players get richer while already rich beyond any sense of need.

I can remember when society was not sick.

How extrodianary, Tiswas (Georgia too) I cannot think for the life of me why the computer algorhythm snaffled that. Recycling, connection with money and a society being remembered by me as wholesome. Well I may be able to work it out if any survives our Moderator. Meantime, on we go.

Georgia, you are going to like this. I got hand me down clothes from my big brother and from my sister. Yes, even at that tender age her pants were not right shape. I loathed them and was terrified lest any schoolfellow might discover my secret.

Your joke the other day on my slips - gent's slips - was funnier than you knew.

i do agree with you hun and with lainy things are changing i can feel it 

but theres no good trying to talk spiritul to people who think we are cracked .thats why my reply was as it was .

in the now world it is all heard it all before fed up with the same old bullsh*t ,

but when the universe changes things will improve definatly cosmic changes about . 

I'm mad keen on jumble sales and charity shops because I like to dress differently and you never know what amazing clothes you'll find there. 

 I have to be careful with my jokes sometimes, glad that one went down well. Phew!

I went to school for years in clothes that made my school friends think we were really poor. We weren't, mum was just frugal. I only found out what they thought when mum, out of character, bought me a really trendy outfit, Bay City Rollers time, baggy trousers with pockets and a really neat top.

My friends were all delighted that I'd finally caught up! 

at least she didnt make you an austrian hedi outfit and send you to school in it , i cried all day ans was bullied something awful, i was pleased when i went to seniors and we had a uniform

I don't know whether to laugh or cry in resposnse! Your mum must have loved the Heidi story. My mum used to play with my hair to make me look like Alice in Wonderland. Blue hair band an all. She wanted to make an outfit but seeing as I was a tomboy we came to a compromise, blue cuilottes!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry in resposnse! Your mum must have loved the Heidi story. My mum used to play with my hair to make me look like Alice in Wonderland. Blue hair band an all. She wanted to make an outfit but seeing as I was a tomboy we came to a compromise, blue cuilottes!

me to georgia i hate being the same, i wish i was thin enough for vintage clothing theres so many vintage shops. althou it is annoying about the prices they charge, for what used to go to jumble sales .

my faverite colour is black love black . suppose because i am fat.

i like to hide but i love buckles and badges  , iv got some badges to sew on my denium waistcoat which say i suffer from ,C R S cant be remember sh*t.

and 2 more that say ,not dead yet, i'm no cactus expert but i know a prick when i see one . so i sort of like to be noticed ,i suppose i am a fat bird with f*cking atitudue . what you think .?

lucky you . and it wasnt funny hun i can asure you.

i dont no why the moderater has done this again post below theres no advertising in my post or named products , i used an expletive but only as an descriptive word about myself . not to or about anybody .

i hate being controlled . 

I hope we are growing more spiritual, and more than just a few. I feel so out of date with things as the are and enjoy my walks down memory lane. Right at the beginning of social security when the government took over from charities, everybody was kept from destitution I think. 

Can anyone help on this? I was a bit young take in more than a broad impression.

not really hun there were work houses turned into hostles right up to the 1970s ,the hostles were awful with loads of women and children shareing doorms , mother and baby homes where babies where taken from wayward or unfortunate girls, the church poor funds , where you were means tested

basicly if you had shoes on your feet you wernt poor you could porn them

it was really tough , if you had no family support .

you need to watch cathy come home to see how tough it was as late as the early 70s , and maybe when the boat comes in bbc drama based just after ww1 and leadin gup to ww11 so much social history in them .

it was true neighbours did there best to help each other but they were hard up to . so couldnt do much . if your man died and left you with chilldren it was often the poor house,or scrubbing floors and taking in washing till you dropped , .

I know sis, neither was being dressed the way I was.

infact after the first world war so many women were left alone with children

that were not entitled to the war widows pension , you know why ?

because they were not married , you know why? because they couldnt afford the liscence . fare think not .

All I know is that the Labour government helped.

i suspose it taught us to be tough and an idividual .

my faverite colour is black i suppose because i am fat so i like to hide 

but i do like buckles studs and badges 

and i change some times i lkie to be in a long skirt some times i lkie to be in black leggings and a long top and my denium waist coat or leather jacket , depends on my mood,

i cant ware high heeled shoes because iv got problems with balance etc 

so i tend to wear ankle or cowboy boots with studs and buckles etc

iv got a denium waist iv got 3 badges to sew on one says  i suffer from  CRS ,cant remember sh*t, the other says ,not  dead yet ,and the last one says , i'm no cactus expert but i know a prick when i see one

SO I SUPPOSE i like to be noticed  i suppose i am just a F-----g fat bird with attitude . what do you think ?

so right george .id forgotten about string and brown paper therew was always a draw with string and paper in .

when i was little we were given clean butchers white paper to draw on

and some times paper bags.

my nan had a tin with used match boxes,steredent tubes,cotton wheels, elastic bands ,theres another we would save , elastic bands, and pipe cleaners ,and buttons another item we used to save nearly every house had a button tin ,

and we would play for ages on a wet day at the table with it all .

mind you when i was about 18months and grissley with teeth my nan gave me a tin of golden syrup and a packet of dried peas to play with ,

both unopened , and went about her buisness not long afterwards my grandad came in for his tea, and found me well away playing with the syrup and peas making patta cakes happy as a sand boy .

Thank you Tiswas for that further Social History instruction. Your store of information is both interesting and instructive.

the other charity i was trying to think of was parish charity .

so hard to get . and very means tested .

it wasnt till after ww1 killed so many and the spanish flu wiped out even more than the war ,due mostly to poor housing and diet that things started to change but it was very slow ,

school dinners started to be put in schools in poor areas

,

as they had noticed how malnurtioned the men were that went to join up

most were unfit to fight and went to basic training camps to be fed up as well as trained .

  housing was on the improvement as well as they realised health problems went hand in hand with living conditions ,by the 1930s council house were being bulit mine was built just before the war then the second ww came and stopped the progress, 

but not all was hopeless at least the tommy was healthy and fitter when he was shot .

today with have not enough housing ,thanks to maggie not reinvesting the money she got from selling of the houses of ,some  kids are not getting a good hot dinner at school,or at home, unemployment is ridicolus ,and food prices the same all just like pre war times . 

something is going to blow ,and it aint going to be pleasant .

Rock on sister! 

A few years ago I was remembering things, not all good. So I remembered being a Brownie and Girl Guide. I wear one of my son's hoodies he grew out of. It's green in case you were wondering.

I started sewing patches all over it reminding me of things I'm proud of in my past. Music, motorbike, some authentic old Brownie patches I found in...and more. I was so destroyed I needed to build myself back upl

Yes Tiswas, we will need out tin hats then.

certainly wil . 

i no the feeling . what do you think to whats on my badges .my faverite is 

i suffer from CRS cant remember sh*t .

hi george sorry hun i keep suggesting films, and forgetting about your hearing diffitculties ,

i read a collection of books some years ago now by an authour called

Helen Forrester , the first being twopence to cross the mersey there are 3 more in the collection the second i think is called liverpool miss

there very well written and descriptive books on her life after her family lost there wealth in the wall street crash ,and have to return home to her fathers place of birth liverpool and how they struggle to survive without servants and money and how they  still hang on to trying to keep up appearences .

heart warming and positive reading trust me you wont be able to put them down they really grip you. there expensive on Amazonthe first one is 14.99  i brought mine from a book shop about 10yrs ago cost me £8.00 each then ,you can buy the first one on audio cassetteon Amazon for £6.87. hope your have a go .you really will enjoy them.

Hi Tis,

LOL... I just been reading some of your posts and noticed one word you used, lol.  The actual line in the message is this:

basicly if you had shoes on your feet you wernt poor you could porn them

it was really tough , if you had no family support .

I am assuming you meant pawn not porn! LOL I had to laugh, I thought that would have been moderated. I know what you meant, but words we type in posts are spidered by searh engines, hence porn would bring the wrong people here! hehe

Regards,

Les.

i knew the word was right hun but the spelling was wrong i just couldnt recall how to spell it.  i of course i meant pawn .

This is going to sound weird coming from me...lol

Did any of you knit with 4 nails and a wooden cotton reel?

I remember we used to get the old wooden cotton reels off our mum, knock in 4 nails on one end and use wool to start knitting. They spoilt it when they changed the cotton reels to plastic, and not wood.

Well, Tis you know what they say English is the hardest language to learn, we have so many words that sound the same, but have totally different meaniings, or fluctuate slightly and mean something else.

Regards,

Les.

PAWN - Well Tiswas, they both read right in English English but do not in Scottish English. What a mad world English spelling is. Hats off to Dr Johnson. Perhaps the spelling for his dictionary/lexicon was an expression of his notorious bad temper. The trouble I have had with spelling!

Yes Les, I bought a knitting dolly at ****** *azzar for my grandaughter. She knitted multi-coloured rats tails and sewed them into mats and such like. When I was young, I begin to doubt I ever was. The grandchildren do not believe it. erumph! When I was young we made ours out of the larger size of cotton reel. That worked well. The dolly gives you more to hold onto.

i just get muddled with my brain fog

not weird at all yes i can remember my gran showing me . used to make pompoms with 2 pieces of circler cardboard and the a centre cut out.just remembered that .

There was a children's game based on that. I loved it! I spent nearly all Christmas day knitting a very long piece of thin knitting then didn't know what to do with it, so I curled it into a little mat and sewed it together. Totally useless but fun!

Ah yes Tis, good old brain fog! In a CFS forum there's a very funny thread about having brain dead days, with people putting chickens in the washing machine etc. Gotta laugh or cry!

I set my new cooker on fire a few days after I got it. I'm talented that way. 

my faverite stupid thing i do is putting saucpans on with nothing in them or forgetting there on and letting them boil dry , the same goes for my electric steamer the times iv put that on without water .

then people ask why i dont you a pressure cooker.

because i quite like my face where it is .! 

Ha ha!  I quite like mine where it is too. On my ar*se apparently.

I bought a ilttle ladybird timer, it's wind up so it's doesn't need batteries or anything and I'm safe in the knowledge that if I do fall asleep or forget it's going to let me know I'm about to burn my house down or cause an explosion of some kind.

I can't tell you how many baked potatos I've rescued black and eaten what's left inside with a spoon!

yeah i have a timer as well works brillantly when i remember to wind it up . oh yeah another great trick i do is put a joint or jacket potatoes in oven shut the door and put the grill on instead of the oven .CLASSIC ! 

did you listen to that record eve of destruction .its lyrics bloody strong .

and still so much of it applies today ,sadley .

i love the tv serise MASH i am hoping to get the complete collection next month it is quit expensive , that was set in the korean war ,which ended in 1954 i think , then later we had the vietiam war all such  a waste of life young boys used in a politicle game of chess .more so than any other wars except the falklands ,

like black adder goes forth, mash's humour was black and truthful , like black adder said in an episode ,we might as well stayed at home and shot a few hundred every day , at least we would have been in comfort iinstead of in this mud bath. it sort of made sense .the logic.

 

I've turned the wrong knobs on so many times!  I'm still speaking about the kitchen so don't send me to the corner again. 

I loved M*A*S*H too, especially Hawkeye and Radar! I might just get that collection too. I'd love to watch them all again.

i am so glad hun it drives me insane when i am sat in the front room looking forward to my tea when the penny drops it dosent smell right or i can there tha fan, the i realise i have piut the grill on instead of the oven ,

yes i love radar i just want to cuddle him , hawkeye and i love and there fall guys  frank and hot lips brillant black humour , 

do you like black books ,oh he reminds me of me so disinterested in anything that takes him away from doing what he wants .

i loved the episode where he was attemting to do his tax returns had me in stiches .a brilliant serise . 

iv turned a lot of knobs on in the past but the princeses always turned in to frogs when i did . hahaha

I think I would have preferred frogs to what I ended up with!  Funnily enough I used to collect ornament frogs, still have a few. I'm not kissing them in case they turn into knobs.

I want to cuddle Radar too, awww so sweet and his uncanny psychic hearing of choppers.

Love Black Books! I like the one when he somehow got stuck in a levitating position.

Tiswas, that Blackadder comment. There was a series which drew out the theme. The 'hundred' were drawn by lot, collected and disposed of. So many houses, factories, offices were demolished. The trouble was the 'war' was so sanitised that there was no pressure to make peace. 

Of course stark staring bonkers, but it could happen. Please tell me I am wrong.

Ask me about TV, I'd say me well I used to Bionic Man and Woman, and my wife was always in to Airwolf (She fancied the pilot!!).

First time for me, not coming on here first thing in the morning... I woken up with such bad pains I had to use the Zimmer and my wife just to get up and out of bed. All I can hear is my dam joints clicking, there's my wife saying that's normal, I said it is for me lately. I couldn't even sit up in bed, let alone get off it. I really need a body transplant! lol

I was on Photobucket uploading some of my images, that I been doing lately, and on Pinterest pinning some msuc tracks off YouTube!

One of my comments on YouTube as been at no.1 now for 4 months... On one of Ella Hendersons tracks.

Regards, and Good Afternoon!

Les.

Another thought flowing from the Blackadder busines. If it were a rule that after the war, win or loose, the chief polititians on both sides fall on their swords in solidarity with all those they got killed,maimed etc.. Polititians would be very careful about getting into a war. Likely to happen - absolute ZERO.

Thank you Tiswas for remembering my cloth ears. (Know where that expression comes from?) Thank you for the recommendation. I shall try the first book in the series.

Did you see the last episode when they were in the trenches George? So moving; I cried my eyes out. I love when comedy can get across serious human issues as well.

Georgia, you remind me so much of my wife, and I'll tell you why.

1. My wife used to collect Frogs when she was younger, now its owl ornaments.

2. She used to be a biker years ago.

3. You mentioned Patchouli Oil which you wore, so did my wife - even though her mum still hates that smell to this day! lol

4. I'm assuming you wear a Leather jacket when on your motorcycle? My wife had one with all the tassles on, and metal studded skulls all across the back.

5. She's into music like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbeth, Alice Cooper, White Snake, Europe, Ozzy Osbourne, etc.

I'm assuming a lot of that brings back memories! lol

Wow that's a blast from the past, the bionic man and bionic woman! Yesss! I love Star Trek. The technologies that weren't invented yet but happen after the programmes. Foresight on science from muse.

On joints do you have plenty of good oils in your diet? And Comfrey ointment is good for them. I'm not trying to teach my grandma to suck eggs, just suggesting. 

What are you suggesting I drink Castrol Oil, or WD40? lol What sort of oils?

My joints are so painful, the swelling in my feet, ankles and legs are worst in the past couple of months, I think its a medication side-effect - trouble is I can't prove it atm

Oh, Star Trek, that is one programme my wife and I never watch, we were both put through that growing up. We avoid it like the plague! LOL

Ha ha ha!!!!!!  Am I in the twilight zone?

I collect Owls too and so does my mum. Lol And I collect dragons.

I used to wear a leather and was in a female bike club, I had my own bike but used to ride on the back of the Pres' chopper sometimes and the looks we got being girls. I was vice pres. The Satan Slaves wouldn't tolerate male bike clubs but we got away with it being prettier! 

I wear a bike jacket made from Nasa type material now; much warmer.

Iron Maiden were the first band I saw, then Motorhead, Hawkwind.... Say hello to her for me. 

WD40 of course if you're bionic.

Extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, cod liver oil capsules etc.

Lol on Star Trek, me too but I watched all the new ones, I was hooked on the Captain Janeway and Captian Picard ones especially. I fancied Chakotay, Janeway's side kick. And I liked the Borg woman Seven of Nine.

look up essential oils for circulation rosemary , lavender, tarragon,cypress

with a good carrier oil like fratuated coconut oil which is cold pressed so its liquid. 

ask georgia for more info on which is best for people on meds i think there all ok aslong as there diluted with carrier oil but i think georgia will know more on that than i. ginger is also very good for cirulation eaten as is cinnamon .

Wow, that's a lot of coindencies! My wife used to hang around with a huge group of bikers. I know one was called RawHide - he got that nick from taking a No. 2 and wiping his bum on a rock! LOL

Twilight Zone we loved that programme!!

That is strange about you collecting Owls though, what I didn't tell you is my daughter collects them to, lol And, then you mentioned Dragons - if you seen the one we have you wouldn't want to leave here. We have a dragon in our Lounge its probably about 5ft tall and 4ft wide carrying a sword with gems inset on the handle of the sword, at the bottom of the statue is skulls, treasure, gold coins, pearls and he stands on rocks! It's huge and its also a lamp. It was bought from Cornwall and takes 3 people to carry it.. BTW, we have a large lounge.

My wife gave up bikes after we started having children, so we got a car. We did have a Mitsubishi Lancer 2ltr Turbo..gawd that car flew. My daughter said to my wife one day this car is so slow, my wife said I drive sensibly, and then put her foot to the floor, Jess was flung back in her  seat and never asked again! lol

Regards,

Les.

 

No I don't know more than you; I always still learning. 

Great idea on essential oils for circulation. And 4 drops rubbed on the palms of the hands then on the soles of the feet. Learnt that from a Kinesiologist what knew loads about other complementary medicines as well.

Garlic for circulation too, good for the heart.

yes garlic if you can tahts good . and the supplement q10 its natrual found in our bodies in plenty up until about the age of 30 then starts to deplitae 

helps protect the heart by pumping fluid away from it .

a must for anyone taking statins.

i thought you proberly knew more than me on the oils because you make the soap . 

Stop it!  I nearly told you about a wooden dragon in my living room about that tall!

A man from my care team came round and he noticed I liked dragons. His wife had made him put this one in the garage to save space. He tried to sell it on ebay but couldn't bring himself to do it; he thought someone needs it.

I draw strength from dragons. I was born in the year of the Dragon.

Lol about your wife's driving; I ride sensibly these days too.

yes the young do really think that we have never been young and wild they think they invented youth .

gawd if only they knew some of the stuff we got up to .

good for your wife.

I always remember my wife asked her mum if she could have a few friends stay overnight on her 18th Birthday! So far, so good. Anyway, my wifes mum & dad went out, they used to get back by about 9.30 -10.00pm - well, that day, they were shocked, there was bikers and bikes, some were 2-up all the way along the road, and even her mums driveway! LOL - when they eventually got in the house, bearing in mind people were sat in both front and back gardens, they were even all in the lounge, kitchen, hallway and stairs.... My wifes mum, said you asked for a few friends around, not a whole estate of bikers!!! And they lived right next door to a high up Policeman! LOL

Imagine that.... well, its hard to imagine!

Regards,

Les.

i love unicorns ,i think i was born in the year of the boer not sure jan 1960 

dragons are my sons thing he was born in the year of the horse.

Just to add I meant that when I'm feeling all washed out dragons remind me of my inner fire, or the Holy Spirit if you will for those who prefer to think of it that way..

they didnt sound like they were doing anything bad .just hanging.

 

that makes sence

jumping in here on star trek love it i like all the oringal serise because now they are so funny to watch ,esp when they do those fight scence and kirk is replaced by his double you can so clearly see it to .

i love the borg i don tknow why but i just do , and seven of nine she is ace,  what do you think it says about me , when i actuly fancy worf the clingon , spock,and data . its a bit disconserting dont you think.

Lol Tis, I think our chldren's generation thought they invented the word 'cool' then when they found out they didn't they stopped using it, 

do you like other sifi , like space 1999.ufo. dr who ,blakes seven lost in space ,and captin scarlet and thunderbirds  not strictly sifi the last two but i still like them i think boys had better childrens tv than girls

.i liked terrorhawks to, looks a bit like me in the morning when i first wake up.i used to go to bed in makeup when i was a teenager if i stayed with a guy i would wake up perfect ,now if i do that i look like a abstract work of art . 

 

did you like the album war of the worlds 

When I did some Herbalism courses with the BSY group I had to learn how to make soap and I also bought a good book. I know a little about essential oils, and the ones I use for the soaps are the ones I've looked into for my own healh and my step dads but I'm more familiar with herbs. 

Thank you Les. Your annecdote about the flying Lancer gave me a lovely laugh. Great tonic for this cold wet day and I forgot my troubles too. 

George

I'll have to look into oils.. it's pain (not in a pun), I used to wear jeans or trousers, depending on where I was going. Now, its jogging bottoms, because my legs have swollen that much. Shoes, can't wear them, so I wear a pair of cloggs.

I even get days when one leg is more swollen than the other, Jeans I always used to wear out the pockets or knees.... until last year then every pair I bought, started spliting down the sides - besides that, they cause pain in my legs, just touching my leg and I'm in agony!

When I mentioned it to my doctor last year, they just said probably bad circulation. Then my Occupational Therapist said do exercises, and then she tried lifting one leg off the floor, I said "oh sh*t" that kills, and all she done was put her fingers around my ankle! lol

I have no clue what year I am born in...probably something stupid knowing me! LOL

 

yes , they thought they invented the word rave in hte 90s bu ti heard it used in an episode of steptoe in the early 70s refering to a party 

i am having a little rave up at my pad tonight ,

what over words or expressions can we remember from out youth .

i wonder, groovey, hang loose , dont be a litter bug take your litter home ,

fair enough i only know a little like you. i am looking into oils for circulation theres something wrong with mine i shaved my legs 5 days ago still no regrowth baring in mind i am dark and after 5 days i normaly look like a yetti biit worried.

Hi Georgia, can you make black garlic? I am trying to work out how to make the kit so we can make our own.

Hehe I'd love to see you looking like an abstract work of art. I'm laughing so much my tummy's hurting. 

I didn't used to be able to go out of house without my make up on, but these days I'd need a trowel and cement so I don't bother. 

Dr Who!!!! Mad on Dr Who. When my son lived here we called Christmas day Dr Who day. I still do! 

sorry about my spelling mistakes on my new lap top someone decided in the design of it that the keys should be of set to line up with the screen so i am always hiting the letter either side of the one i want ,i wish they would leave things alone.

look into q10 on the net  cant remember what it stands for now but it aids the body in getting rid of fluid its not a directic its an ensyem that we have in our bodies but it becomes less with age .  your find it very interesting .iv been using it for about 6yrs now. you cant go like this .have a look cant do anyharm

 

Sounds awful Les. I only started learning about oils, herbs, diet etc because the doctors can do absolutely nothing for me. There's so much that can be helpful!

I've had fun learning which Chinese year my family and friends were born in. I don't take it seriously but it's interesting.

i liked all the old doctors ,didnt like the serise before this one but present doctor is brillaint . 

so you have a face like mine then you get up and the face fulls in to place some time later hehehe

sometimes i wake up in the morning  and my hair is all sticking up on one side and at the back , i look like ken dodds love child.hehehe

did you like AB FAB do you remember that episode were patsy sets fire to eddies house because she has fallena sleep head down on the table with a

fag in her mouth .thats so funny .

Yes brilliant! The way the daughter had to be the responsible one.

we have cival unrest in our cities now , remember the french revolution .

beware that we have not learnt from our mistakes

".i used to go to bed in makeup when i was a teenager if i stayed with a guy i would wake up perfect ,now if i do that i look like a abstract work of art . " LMAO.... Now, I've never heard of that saying before!

My wife buys makeup but never wears it out ever. My Daughter is totally the opposite! She won't even go to school with out all the makeup on, hair straightened, or tonged in to long curls. The amount of boys she attracts at 14 is unbelievable, "she must have my looks!! LOL"

When she goes out some boys don't even recognise her, thats how much she changes. She spends 45-60mins a day before catching the school bus, just doing her hair!!

And, she used to get bullied - now, no one even tries, apart from an incident last week, but that was 3 boys that nicked her report off her while she was reading it, and ripped it up. All she said to them is You'll regret doing that! - has soon has she got home, I asked her to write who started it and who else was involved, and the witnesses.... Then I emailed the school stating what had happened to he Tutor. She emailed me back saying tell Jess not to worry about it we can print a new one, but the boys mentioned in this email I will report to the Head of Year. The following day I got an email off her Head of Year stating all 3 boys have been given a 1hour detention after school. Normally, is a dinner time detention then an after school, but because they had what is classed as school property, they went straight on a 1 hour. lol

One of the boys on the following days said to her your a "snitch" - she said "Well, my mum and dad reported it because they don't stand school bullying or you defacing school property, which you probably didn't even think of, did you?" - he shut up then! Has spoke to her since.

These days bullying comes from teachers as well, one tried it on with our daughter about 4 weeks ago, I noted down which lessons that it was happening in, it turned out not to be a teacher, but a Teacher's Assistant - whom I reported and myh daughter has heard nothing from her since. If they can get away with it they will. It's bad - you would expect it from school staff, but she got reported after I alerted my daughters Tutor!

Regards,

Les.

loved patsy she was the girl i always wanted to be .slim and popular

i was the same when i was at school althou it wasnt allowed untill the fourth year . i would get up at 6.30 i had two buses to catch to school.

i would plug in WEIGHT FOR IT Carmen rollers while they were heating id have a wash and have my bacon sandwich ,then id stick all the curleres in with those terriable grips, make some toast and a flask for break time pack it in my bag ,put on my make up brush out my hair ,get dressesd ,and of for the bus . nothing has changed much .

have you ever seen the film to sir with love with sidney potier brilliant film .

based in the 60s a teacher pulls a bunch of no it all students in to shape to face the reall world . 

proberly from the mills where they weaved cloth , lots of people went deaf 

maybe . or maybe they stuck bits of cloth in there ears to protect them from the noise .not sure on that one

There is only one guy I wouldn't not being Jason Statham - uses no extras to do his stuntwork - everything you see, he does himself. He's in his mid 40's now, but look back on his life actor, producer, martial artist, former diver and an Olympic Swimmmer!

He must be worth a fortune...

I downloaded a movie yesterday with him in it, not one of his best but still good film called "Wild Card". No, it's not in the cinema or on DVD....lol before anyone asks me!

another of my faverite lines from that serise is when bob who was a female joined as man to serve, 

and black adder spotted it ,and she say's o sir dont report me all my brothers have joined ,and i wouldnt to see how a war was fought so badly . 

and his reply well your certainly come to the right place . i loved the humour . do you have subtitles ability on your tv .

i think jackie chan is amazing does all his own stunts broken everybone in his body and still walking. 

i tell you someone else you might not know John wayne did all his early stunts as well .before he became famous and the insurence ran to high,

i was watching room 101 last night johnathan ross was on and spoke of micheal cane , he said how do you feel about the film jaws 4 being so badly slated and his reply , i dont let it worry me iv see the house it brought me .love micheal cain . so down to earth .not many of those about these days

Bravo your daughter! And you and your wife.

It used to be very different as you know. I was punched in the stomach when I was very young, under 10, by the bully boy next door.. I ran to mum crying and in pain. She said 'Fight your own battles' which was the general attitude I think, like leaving babies to cry so they'd learn not to cry.

Where the heck they got all this from I don't know but I'm so glad it's changed.

I have fought my own battles but I lack something in having had to learn to. Like the gentleness I was born with and wish I still had.

 

I remember that movie:

"have you ever seen the film to sir with love with sidney potier brilliant film."

My mum used to always watch it when it was on, I must admit that was a good one.

Some of the movies I really like:

The Notebook - More of a love story than anything!

A Fault in Our Stars - A teens dying from cancer talk and enjoy their lives to the full. A twist at the end that you don't expet.

The Ultimate Gift - This movie is amazing with the late James Garner - His grandson must prove to him that he is worthy of what he has left him in his will, he must make a friend for life. It's a touching story.

Now is Good - A teenager dying from cancer makes a bucket list which she wants to live to fullfil.

Those movies would come to the very top of my list, even though I normally don't watch that type of movie. The order in which I would recommend them though is the 3 one first, then 4, then 2 and then 1.

And then you would need a box of tissues..... all the trailers for them are on youtube, so you will get an idea of what to expect.

yes  the very last episode of mash had me in floods of tears people all packing up and leaving maybe never to see each other again .i hate sayin ggood bye to people i love.

and the episode where radar goes home after his done his tour of duty

and everyone realises how important he was after he was gone .

black books , his levitating on his side ,  isent he in that episode

and the one where mannings parents come to stay

and the one where he gets him self locked out of his shop in the rain by his new security door. i love black humour, can i say that.there my faverites

 

Oh dear me I'm having a hot flush!

He was amazing in the film with Vinnie Jones about Jones being a football star then ending up in prison.

i asked you if you had seen to sir with love one of my faverites

along with a patch of blue,   sidney potier

guese whos coming to dinner    sidney potier

alfie                     both micheal cains / and jude law 

first do no harm 

the book shop on the corner

cathy come home 

a kind of loving 

georgie girl .

shindlers list 

the others

truely ,madly ,deeply,  

i l look up your films on you tube.

Being too thin can have the same effect, the girls with bigger bo*bs were always popular. The girl with the biggest ones was like the Queen in my comprehensive scool.

i was built like a boy until i was about 14 then i staretd to fill out . but never had much of a bust . 

Who need busts anyway, massive ones mean they get black eyes and sore knees when they run! 

well yes theres that i suppose ,and remarks like over there tits in a jumper.

did you ever watch life on mars and ashes to ashes .god i thought that was a brilliant programme loved every moment of it. iv got the box set of both thank god because when this run is finished.

its going to be heavly censored  ,which was what made the programme .because its our history thats how it was in the 70s/80s  if you censore it your not telling the truth 

its like censoring any part of history it then becomes fiction .

The David Bowie one:

I have always stayed as thin as possible because I don't want to be seen. I'm naturally thin anyway so I never had to do that but when I was a teenager I had anorexic tendencies. I'm struggling with my words. I like the idea of being invisible so they can't get me.

Healthy diet now! Good body I'm told so what was all that make up hiding, you're never thin enough s*it. I know, it was lack of love in my formative years. I know that rings a bell for you.

sure does . my diet is poor because i theres a lot of things i cant eat without problems, not thru choice , 

but i am naughty some times i do eat for comfort if i am upset 

crisps and toast  not together . apparently heidi says people who go for this when upset have abandament issues spot on in my case. 

i just thank god for lycra and love the man who invented it. ..i am a size 20/22 at 5ft 4  size 7 /8 in shoes and big hands , so i am not a slight build more medium build , i am at my best at about 10st and a size 14 , 

the david bowie one? i am talking about the bbc 1 drama life on mars .not the record. hun

I meant the Bowie film when he came here from Mars.

I drink wine for comfort sometimes and far too much of it.  But I feel like I'm getting closer to letting go of the past, not there yet but nearly. There's lots of love around from kind caring people. 

god cant do alchol makes me really sick .i love it and miss it.you are lucky in that . 

no didnt like the film couldnt get my head around it. 

so you have not seen the serise life on mars youv'e missed a great programme .there . if i drink it makes all my muscles really hurt like hell and upsets my stomach . its not fair i love whiskey and brandy barcardi etc i can manage a light ale some times with out to much trouble.

whats the silliest thing you have said recently ,

i was telling george that i was talking about railway carriages

and called them railway cabbages.

I have lost the tread, Georgia. I think the last episode of Blackadder in the trenches. I saw some of that series. Perhaps not the last one. Humour, comedy can be n effective way of getting a serious point across. MASH was I think to begin with. The characters and sitcom were so good the underlying message became rather swamped.

That gentleness is still there.

Its in your poetry.

It's in your caring.

It's in your spirit

undiminished.

--------

Interesing. I wrote that as a single line of prose. Then I added three Does it mean more in the four line form? It still says what I mean about your inherrant gentleness.

Reading that again I got an even bigger smile. Great medicine Tiswas. Thank you.  If I had heard it I would probably have 'corrected' from the context and wondered what others were laughing at. I don't get spoken jokes any more. The way I work out what may have been said ruins the timing and timing is so crucial in very many jokes. Reading puts me on a par with you all. A great joy for me.

I've never heard of alcohol doing that to anyone, you really have a lot of allergies don't you, but on a hopeful note I can tolerate certain foods that I couldn't when I first got ill so allergies can go.

I couldn't tolerate things like rice and soya at one point, but it was good because I found out about things like Quinoa, Amaranth and Buckwheat etc that I might not have otherwise.

I can eat rice now but I won't eat soya on principle because, like Palm oil, they destroy parts of the Rain forest to grow it. 

Yes Mash was a powerful vehicle for getting the message across, but I have to disagree on it getting swamped.

I think the contrast between the funniness and the choppers suddenly coming in with wounded got it across more strongly. And the way Hawkeye was always cracking jokes to deal with the horror of it all.

And sometimes Hawkeye came over very strongly against using his considerable skill to patch up young men just so they could go and be shot at again.

that was the whole crux of the programme  the absolute and futile waste of lives 

and the total disgrace of a country that sent young men not even older enough to vote to be mamed and killed , and as with vitanam some yrs later . alot of these poor burgers were spat at in the street and ignored by the country that sent them, to see such  horrors know man should ever see.

with fibro theres are a lot of pain that affects the muscles and all soft tissues

it seems that the achol stays in my blood stream longer effecting the soft tissues,  your slim and apparently slimmer people get rid of alchol quicker because they have less fat cells to store it in , that was from a science programme i watched about 6 yrs ago it make sence to me .

iv tried quinoa its awful stuff, apparently the only rice you should eat is basmalti it has less arsnic then other rice , and is easier to digest apparently.and your right to stop with soya. on health grounds alone soya milk is linked to breast cancer i believe its stripped from the beans like coffee using aliumin salts and such ,i was reading an article the other day about it on the net that it also increases the risk of alzemires . 

yet smoking actuly decreases the risk. some surveys say.

does the tobaco you buy make your head spin like cigs do ,sometimes i wish i still smoked i have no pleasures . to enjoy .

just like theres a thin line between ,pleasure and pain ,so it is between humour and life. 

and so it is said by tina.

That makes sense in the amount of wine I can chuck down my neck when I'm in the mood to. Wow we learn something new every day! When I was young I drank great big men under the table!  Lol, well I didn't drink the men. Hehehe Another silly sentence from me; you're welcome! 

American Sprit or Peublo tobacco doesn't make my head spin but I ran out once after several years of smoking it so I smoked a golden virginia rolly and got a massive headache. I don't know if I already said that.

Why does fibro and ME cause pain? I think it may be because every body movement or function, heart beat, moving a leg etc without the body's natural endorphins would cause pain. With a compromised immune system our endorphins and all the other hormoines in the endocrine system don't work properly.

Vitamin C and Echinacea are good for the Immune system.

vit c gives me direoreah even in small doseages ,iv used echinacea before didnt see much difference ,

i was the same when i was young used take man on at seeing who could drink more, i won several times ,on shorts ,i didnt have any fat on me then

and i never had a hangover ever ,even when i got drunk i still never had a hang over , i did used to drink loads of tea when i got home ,maybe that was it 

the worse drink i ever drank for  causing deppresion was brandy and babycham, and gin awful stuff.

, i could and still could if it didnt effect me so much drink a pint in one ago. i shall have a go at that light ale in the cupboard soon its lovely 

but it wacks me out makes me very tired,doesent hurt my muscles or upset my stomach .

do you know what the difference is in the tobacco you smoke and the virgina,

i have ordered some iv ordered some  organic hemp oil which is supposed to be good for the imune system 

You wouldn't be alive if you wern't taking in Vitamin C. All vegetables contain it so you not intolerant to it in small doses. However you're getting it believe me you're getting it.

I suspect the diaorrhea may be due to something else.

The tobacco I smoke is pure straight tobacco, the tobacco plant with no nasty chemicals added.

Just not enough vit C. Your body is trying to remember how to work efficiently and it needs some help.

 

that would sort of make sense ,iv tried it in multi vits and minerals still does the same thing , like i said i eat broc ,caul ,cabbage ,and all the root veg including celaric,  some every day ,i dont do fruit , some like pears and bannas constapates me and the acid fruits like berries and grapes give me acid and oranges make me itch ..so i tend to leave it all alone . 

bu twhat you say defo makes sense .

maybe its because in supplements it tends to have a fizz to it. abit like sherburt , that gives me dirooeh to i love sherburt  , for some yrs i couldnt even drink a soft drink , now i can one or two ,a week , and in fruit maybe its the acidic of it that makes me sensistive to it .like you say with out vit c 

i would have scruvey and alsorts of problems good job i like my veg .

i am alright with melons there not acidic but i dont really like melons ,they remind me of marrow. yuk.hate marrow.

I eat a Banana after breakfast everyday after porridge, but always drink a glass of Orange juice first. Everyday, is the same at breakfast time. Lunchtime, usually sandwiches, teatime usually a cooked meal - and a few biscuits before bed so I can take my tablets.

 

I use chewable vit C 500mg. There is no fizz with them.

that would be great for me orange to clear me out and a banana to bung me up . night mare ,i am glad you can manage them thou with all the tablets you take , re the oils lavender is an oil you can use as it is it dosent need to be put into a carrier oil.and is safe enough for children even babies 

iv been using it for a couple of nights now rubbed into my calfs havnt notice any change yet . but it is suppose to be good for circulation 

no but they are acidic taste like fruit pastles, i cant eat them either.

Celariac chips are really good, I've made swede chips too, with extra virgin olive oil. I love caulli and brocolli. Can't remember can you eat cheese? I do caulliflower cheese sometimes with mushrooms and onions, sprouts etc. I like making parsley sauce with fresh parsley too and I use coconut milk because I don't do milk.

We could do recipe swaps in pms?

Hi Georgia and Tiswas,

I would be interested in your recipes. Perhaps a recipe Discussion in which favourite as well as healthy recipes could be posted? What do you think?

George

 

god no i hate sweet tasting chips , heated olive oil is not good apparently it changes the structure of the oil ,i use coconut for everything as it dosent change when heated as do olive oil and vegatable oil ,olive oil is fine on salades and stuff its just when its heated.

yes i do eat cheese but its salty so i have to be careful salt gives mean problems if a consume to much. i dont add any to food but its hidden in so much . i use reduced salt bacon from sainsburys , and i use coconut milk as well as as cows mixed together.

i am all right with cows milk cold, but to much makes me flemmy . iv still got a carton of hemp milk in fridge havent tried it yet have you ever tried it .

il post some in a new thread called old fashioned cooking 

in chat room catergory

Yeah I know but I need easier meals to cook sometimes and I can't roll the chips in coconut oil cause it's solid. I use a lot of olive oil anyway in other things and don't put the cooker rings above 4 so I don't kill too much of my foods nutrients.

It's hard to do everything perfectly being so ill so I have to take short cuts and compromises in some things.

What kind of salt do you use? I use Himalayan pink rock salt and I crave it! When a doc tested me for everything he said the only think they found was that I lacked sodium. Make sense with me loving salt so much.

I don't think I've tried hemp milk but I use powerdered Hemp, spirulina etc added to porridge.

Ha subconscious typo power dered Hemp, spirulina. They are powerful! 

if you warm coconut oil it becomes a liquid literly if you put it in your hand it will melt in seconds . i hate salt full stop added to my food i know its in my food   like bacon etc ,

iv tried pink salt still the same to me its nasty although it does have health proberties unlike table salt ,maybe i just dont need it .

iv posted some war time recipes in a new post in chat room .

That is the beauty of the pink salt. Like the sea it has lots of salts. Good for metabolism, good for building bones. Only a proper proportion of Sodium Chlorate and no additives. Just to make sure we are not conned we buy the very coarse grade and grind it in our coffee grinder (we do not need it for coffee). Our daily porridge (Scottish style) tastes so much better with Himalayan salt. Of course you have to put a lot more in than you do if using shop white salt.

How about a second recipe Discussion, and not just for us Georgia? I'd call it "One pot cooking and other simple dishes." in Chatroom. Almost had a mega typo for I had typed in Gloria. Who's Gloria.? I have not the faintest idea.

That should not rival Tiswas's excellent Discussion. What do you say Georgia and Tiswas?

Hemp milk - never knew it existed.

Another cullinary Discussion - Tips - some healthy and some nice.?

available at sainsburys has omega 3 and other vits in it havnt tried it yet 

Oooh I love recipes! When I have enough energy I like to borrow ideas then get creative with them.

I do the various vegetable chips at times when I can barely stand up. I trick myself into doing it when I've made it to the toilet. I say go on then, you're here now, you can do it sort of thing so it has to be as simple as humanly possible, which it is with the olive oil.

How long would it take me to melt cococonut oil in my hands then coat each individual chip!  Like I said I get coconut oil in my diet anyway.

Tiswas, as quick as a flash and always on the ball did it already! I'm going there soon. I think it'll be really useful for us all. 

i am just saying that as an example leave it somewhere warm melts quickly 

or  will stay melted .if kept in a  warm place, if its stored somewhere cool that it goes hard .

i used the hand discription because it melts at body temp i scoop a spoon out and few seconds it melts  and then apply it to my face

not saying you should do it for all the chips that would be silly . but do what your most happy with .as long as your ok with it.

I can't tolerate too much heat so I have to keep by bungalow fairly cool, I'm acclimatised to living high up too where it's cooler; great for my bills!. But it's ok, I know you're helping! I eat it with a spoon, put it in cooking etc.

i dont like humidty . or dry heat like you get in shops .

but i like my gas fire or a coal fire . but not that awful hot air stuff.

Hi Georgia,

I remember when we went on holiday, a Haven holiday park - anyway we rented a private 8 birth caravan for a week, took the in-laws, well actually we met them there. But on driving through the Welsh mountains we were driving slow but still hit a landslide on our side of the road, all we was an almighty bang. The trouble was we were at the front of a line of vehicles and could not avoid moving on the opposite side of the road, because of on-coming traffic. My wife had to carry on driving a few hundred yards before we could pull over and see what damage the rock we ran over did. We got out the car, I looked at it and thought "oh Sh*T", we had lost the wheel trime which was in a line from where we hit the rock to where we stopped.

We I got my mobile phone out, of course being in the Welsh Mountains we were miles from anywhere and it was bloody cold. The car we had was a Peugeot 206, that was another problem, a small car with 5 of us in, carrying all our holiday clothes, etc and the space-saving wheel was under the back of the car, we could not call the AA or RAC, mobiles don't work out there, so we had to somehow fix it. Well, it was obvious we could not drive on the current wheel, the tyre was hanging off the rim, and the rim was dented in ny about 4" in place!!

Now, comes the worse part, to release the space-saver wheel the mechanism was in the boot, under all our luggage! So, we had to un-pack the whole lot on the side of road, I was a lot more able bodied back then but walked with a real bad gait. I managed to get the space-saver wheel off the car, and jack the car up - okay, that delayed us by over an hour.

We did have one laugh about it all, my wife wasn't very please though, the kids were all in histerics!!! While I was putting the lever back to pull the wheel up under the car, my wife was leaning against a old gate to a massive field, we didn't see anything in it, until my wife that hardly ever swears shouted "OH F*CK!, that hurt!!" a donkey was in that field put its head through the gate bars and bit my wife on the arse!!! LMAO

Yeah, and she ended up with a bruised arse with massive teeth marks on it.

Eventually, we left that spot after the accident and the loads of laughter. lol  We got to the Haven Park, we already had the keys, and drove up to the caravan, a long way up as well and on a slope and a road called "Mountain View" - didn't think no more of it. Then we heard the kids screaming look what Jess has done!! We both thought now what, well she had her own room climbed on the wall and pulled the radiator off the wall. Well, that was two things gone wrong since we got there. We waited for the in-laws to arrive and the wifea and I went to the main office to ask if we could use their phone to find a Peugeot dealer in the area, the closest one was 40-50 miles away and closed for 2 days, and a new wheel they did not stock so it would be 3 days!! Great time so far, a holiday from hell - well, it couldn't get any worse surely, how wrong we were. We thought we would walk to the beach, the brochure showed lovely sandy beaches and blue seas. Well, we followed the path to the beach, and what the hell... no sandy beach whatsoever! It was all peebles and rocks. We were in Pwllheli, North Wales - if you Google it, it shows golden sandy beaches, they must of photoshopped those pictures because my kids never found a sandy beach there. They came back a couple of times with baby shark heads in their buckets and crabs!!

When night time came we found why it was called Mountain View, right to the right side was Mount Snowdon, and we has picked September to go, so it was Bloody Freezing, no smoking in the caravan allowed. So, it was shiver and smoke outside - only my father-in-law and me smoked back then, and by gawd was it cold. We even fired up the central heating, eventhough our daughter tried to break it.

We took the car to the dealer, because by law you should not drive more than 40 or 50 miles on a space saver wheel. We were expecting to pay about £50 or more, because of the damaged wheel and then driving on the tyre rim, but the guy came out and said you are lucky, he said the wheel is a definate scrap, but for some reason you done no damage to the tyre!! Not a single puncture was found. We drove back through Snowdonia Park, breathtaking scenery and driving around Mount Snowdon was amazing. The new car wheel only cost us £21, and they put a new wheel trim on for free, so it wasnt as bad as we expected.

About halfway home the two boys were laughing between themselves, when I asked what was so funny, they said you know the cleaners are going in that caravan? I said Yes, why? - we let off 3 stink bombs in the bedroom wardrobes!! I thought oh no.... just hope we don't get charged for that prank! lol That was the last holiday we had, and half of the caravan hire was paid for by a charity. That was back in 2004.

So, Georgia how you can live in the middle of nowhere and high up, I'll never know! Give me central heating anyday, the Gov't pays us £140 a year towards the Electric which is useful around Xmas. Yeah, they actually pay for some electric, that seems to go up every year by £5.00.

Regards,

Les.

Well Les, it may not have been the best wall to wall holiday but it is a tremendous anecdote. I loved it and had lots of laughs and quite a few smiles. Thank you.

You're welcome George! LOL

It was one of those things we look back now and laugh at, but at the time, a few swear words were gone through! Even our kids, bring it up now and then, when reminiscing what they did when they were younger. People reminiscing is a subject thats brought up a lot in our house.

Some things you just don't forget...

Regards,

Les.

A very funny holiday Les! I like your boys style with the present in the wardrobe! 

Oh boy when I first moved here for the few years I was always freezing in the winter. Used to curl up in my artic sleeping bag with my clothes on and a dressing gown on top of them, two duvets. The radiator on, a halogen heater by my bed to turn on when I woke up cold! 

As I said I'm acclimatised to it now and I use very little heating.

LOL @ Georgia, I never been that cold! Our first place was a town house on 3 levels, I used to burn the electric like there was no tomorrow. The temperature was always on 23 or 24 degree's and I used to always walk around with just a t-shirt on... Even on TV they say if you walk around your property with just a t-shirt on, it's not the tropics and your wasting electricity or gas!

I like the heat on, not the poxy 19 degrees they state on TV, I would be cold then.

I always remember buying a thick wooly jumper for £60 which was half price, normally £120.... Went out for a meal, nice meal then I woke up in hospital, had a seizure and of course they needed to get to my upper arm... so they cut my brand new jumper!!! Luckily, my mother-in-law could knit and fixed it - never forget that! Then again most people don't have to worry about things happening while out. Now, I tend to dress casual and not wear expensive clothes, I used love wearing one hoodie, it was expensive at £200 - but I just keep it now in the wardrobe. It is nice, all black with skulls embroidered in white and the main logo was embroidered in red.

The last time I went out to a 21st party, as soon as they switched on the laser LED lighting that was it, had a massive nose bleed, trouble with me when that happens I have panic/anxiety attacks which causes seizures. One thing I glad of these days is Diazepam in a oral form, I used to hate it being shove up the rectum. At one point, my doctor gve a prescription for diazepam - took it to the pharmacy and she called me over, and said did you know about the Diazepam? I said yeah it's normal, then she asked who administers it, when I said my wife the pharmacist said does she have problems with injecting it in to veins????? I said what, it is supposed to be rectal tubes, well this prescription is for disposible Diazepam injections, not rectal. She phoned the surgery and the doctor seen the mistake, she had gone one too many on the list for Diazepam types, but authorized rectal types intead. Those days are gone now, its oral based only, because so many people were needing hospital treatment after rectal tubes were used, people were causing more problems than they were worth! lol

You are on DLA, do you get Housing Benefit, etc? If you are, you maybe eligible for the Warm Home Grant. Just a thought..

Regards,

Les.

Lol I've never heard of that kind of mix up! The doc used to give me rectal painkillers, looked like wax bullets and they melted inside, self administered. The trouble is, as I expect you know, trying to hold them in, clenching like mad, gritting teeth, punching walls, well not quite but they don't like it up 'em! 

Yes I get Housing Benefits but I don't need a warm house grant. Greenhouse heaters do me, as I said I prefer being cooler than warmer.

You remind me of a friend who is aways cold. She has a rayburn, but even in the summer she tells me on the phone that she's wearing 3 pears of socks, goodness knows how many jumpers, sitting in front of the ray burn like a block of ice. There's me not far away with a cool fan blowing on me!

 

I think it's a natural muscle thing, it's an output, not a dam input - so the brain tells you it doesn't belong up there! It's a weird feeling... I know one time in the house before we moved here, I had a seizure and I must of been coming around because at around 4:00 in the morning I woke the whole household up, not sure about our neighbours. But my wife tried to push diazepam in via tube, and I screamed the place down!! LOL - I vaguely remember doing it... that's only ever happened once.

I only mentioned the Gov't Grant because it goes on your electric meter, I assume you have electriic out in the sticks, or a windmill? LOL

My son suffers from Raynaud's disease, he's always cold - much worse than me. With me its a case of coldness now and then. But my son has to wear special gloves. He wears four or five hoodies or teashirts - there's not a lot they can do.

Regards,

Les.

My son hasn't been diagnosed but I think he might suffers from Raynaud's disease. He says his hands are always cold. We borrowed a friends rotivator when we first moved here. I couldn't do a lot of it so some neighbours and us took turns (very hard clay soil). He said it really hurt his hands and put his motorbike gloves on. But his body doesn't get cold so I don't know.

See what you mean about the Grant, cheers I'll check it out.

Ah! now I know what Cpl Jones the butcher meant when he wasn't panicing and shouting "don't panic, don't panic" I don't know why the locals (well in these fair well spoken days of political correctness so different from the outspoken primitive days of my youth I can't possibly call them F*z** W***** can I even if Clp Jones did) why they didn't like suppositories being administered without charge by Queen Victiria's loyal red coated soldiers. Can you?

Ah Georgia, with all that practice you should try radiotherapy for the pelvic region. When the pain in the butt gets troublesome they issue you with little white bullets to calm things down. Says not by mouth ! I suppose someone thought they were white chocolate. 

George that's gross!!! LMAO

I certainly would not want chocolate up my ass!! Yuck... besides it would melt. I suppose that's an easy way of making Chocolate Drops!! LOL

I am working on a piece of digital artwork at the moment showing 2 young children looking out of a window at the galaxy..... I'll post a small copy when it finished,.

Regards,

Les

Les, how do you mean it's gross? You have turned my comment upside down.  Oops! I expect you'll say that is gross as well. O well, I shall go and stand in the corner until break. 

Lol on your windmill crack! You reminded me that when I first told my landlord about thinking of moving here a young woman, another tenant standing there told me there would be no phones and no internet. Think she thought we'd be alone in a tent in the middle of a field! 

Funnily enough the village had only just got broadband just before we moved here. Apparently it was the last village in the country to get it! Good timing or what, seeing as me and my son are avid internet users.

 

Looking forward to seeing that Les. 

You've utterly confused me with this George!

You are confused.  I am confused about what you are confused about.   Anyway I am standing in the corner worrying about what Les found was Gross. If I liked white chocolate I would eat it. Not gross unless I ate tons of it and then I would be gros et gras.

I don't know Les meant; I meant about political correctness, re-Jones, wasn't sure if you were saying it's a bad thing to be politically correct these days. 

Hi Georgia and George,

What I was referring to was this remark:

"Says not by mouth ! I suppose someone thought they were white chocolate."

I assumed you meant by rectum, which I thought was yuck! LOL

@Georgia, I assumed you were still on phonelines in the middle of nowhere! LOL - A question for you, Georgia are you with BT or Virgin Media? There's a reason I am asking, of course with BT once your main area is updated you get BT Infinity with 160Mb broadband and BT TV, but to do this they have to lay the new fibre-optic cables, which I am assuming where you are is a long distance. Now, BT thinks they are catching up with Virgin Media which currently averages out at around 160Mb a sec or higher, but by the end of this year that will 400Mb per sec. Virginmedia have just finished wiring a village in Cambridgeshire with new cables only 4cm in diameter, compared to their current system on cable with 14cm diameters! The new system allows them to push out TV at 4k, which are very expensive TV's and Broadband will be 1,000Mb or 1Gb in easy terrms.

So, Georgia you have gas, electric, telephone and broadband. Are your street lights gas? lol We have the latest here which is LED street lights, trouble is they are that bright outside our bedroom window you would think it was daylight! They are the new low cost street lights, our bills didn't go down though!

We are thinking of replacing all our energy saving bulbs with LED bulbs, they cost £4 each but come with a 7 year warranty, because they last on average 9 years minimum! In Japan, they have even designed bulbs that last even longer 20 years! You may ask why are these so special, it's the amount of electric they use, instead of getting a standard 60 watt light bulb, these new bulbs have roughly 40 LEDs inside and only use 3.4 watts of power!!! So, you could leave every light on the house and you would not use the same amount of a 60 watt bulb!! And they are cool (as in the term cold, they generate no heat!), so the chances of fire are lowered by around 90%. Oh yeah, I am not marketeer eiher!! 

I guess you have no central heating either! lol

Regards,

Les.

We are still on phonelines, they haven't laid fibre optics yet but my broadband is fast. Not BT or Virgin, I was with them and never again! 

Ha ha gas streetlights! I'm not in Victorian London Les. Although I call my living room my Tardis so time travel is possible. 

I use LED bulbs, energy saving ones contain mercury and people with ME were being made ill by them according to the ME assiciation.

There's a type of LED bulb you can get now that continues working during power cuts, which we get more than most here. They work for several hours apparently but I haven't got any yet, only recently found out about them. Anyway I have LED hand crank lanterns and torches.

I have central heating and a boiler but I don't use them; found I don't need them. 

Well, BT doesn't surprise me... we have Virgin Media mainly for Phone, TV, Broadband and Mobile Phones. It sounds a lot with one company but we get a huge discount, and Sky or BT couldn't match! We did have BT up until last November, I had it installed because they said that BT Infinity would be in the area soon, oh yeah lying sh*ts they were! 19 months later and still nothing, so I cancelled the contract which I was tied to for 18 months.

I phoned BT to cancel my agreement with them and the guy on the phone said why did I have both! I said your company is full of promises it cannot keep not only Infinity but you even had the check to put the line rental up, when I have no phone plugged in the socket, if you dont believe check your logs. I said besides that Virgin Media is way in front of you with fibre-optics cables, he then had the cheek to say Virgin Media uses wires!! I said it's fibre-optics to street-level then wires, so just canel my account. Which he did, just had to pay a 30 day notice fee.

I looked up LED bulbs, there seems to be 2 types, and one which contains mercury. You would have thought these would be removed off the shelves.

Gawd, my bloody legs are itching like hell today, I'm thinking it the new tablets I started on yesterday, thats the only thing thats changed.

There's my wife saying yesterday well you're now down to 30 tablets a day!

I used to say I hate painkillers, now I have no choice but to take them! Georgia swap bodies, your's must be better than this old half century piece! lol Then again I don't think I could cope living in the middle of nowhere with no central heating! lol Everyday, the heating is on, I wear a t-shirt, a hoodie done up and even a dressing gown on top!! And I still feel cold...

Regards,

Les.

 

The company that lays fibre optics are separate from BT. BT lie!

I'm still on antihistamines for the itching and painkillers so I'm not free of doctors. And seeing as most of my time is spent in bed I like learning to find better ways to live. If I was fit and well I'd be living off grid by now.

As far as I've managed to get so far is improving my health somewhat and being able to survive for weeks in a powercut, and they're coming. There are plans to, what's that word for restrict, limit? 

Have you really thought out the implications of swapping bodies, you'd have a female body! Lol

Oh gawd.... on the other hand! I'll keep mine....lol

Lol thought you might, cause can you imagine the reaction from your wife and kids! So funny.

One of my daughters-in-law teases me because of the small ways I have changed with hormone therapy. I like flowers and my room, I am more concerned with how I am dressed and I'm more ready to talk of embarrassing things, the sorts of things men do not like to talk about. Of course she exaggerates hugely and goes into peals of laughter. Happily I am able to join in the fun. I still know that I am completely me and male. I am expecting someday to be given a pinnafore such as Mrs Bear of Rupert  Bear fame always wore. 

Hi George,

That is one thing that I don't get anymore... Embarressed!

Once you've been in hospitals and had everything done to you imaginable, your dignity goes out the window. I had 16 year old girls washing every part of me in bed baths, they asked first - I thought well the other guys are all saying yes, so why not! LOL Gawd, they even managed to turn me over, I was too weak to do anything.

There was a guy dead opposite me, and kept masturbating - oh, gawd not again! After, so many of us complained to the sister they moved him in to his own room thank gawd. It didn't really bother me as such, but you have visitors bringing in their children and that is what concerned me. The nurses kept covering him up and telling him to stop it - but he just carried on.

There was another guy, and yes George I know how a catheter is inserted and removed, what the guy did a beds away from me one night I thought was impossible. Has you well know the tube is inserted and they pump air in, so it stays in the bladder. However, one night this guy pulled his totally out!! Even the nurses didn't know how he did it because the air was still in the rubber ball part! He must of been in extreme pain to do that.

The things you see in hospital in a month is unreal.... I was dumbfounded by somethings I seen - logic, that didn't exist!

Regards,

Les.

 

Hi Les, that sounds like a bit of a nightmare. My eyes were popping as I read about the man pulling out his catheter with the balloon still inflated. "eiyeeee". just an hour or so ago I woke to a dreadful sudden pain from bladder and urethra. tonight back to how you got tangle round my leg and I had kicked out of my sleep. As I said "eiyeeee" but the catheter is still in place. My balloon is filled with water so it is just not compressible. Perhaps that's why it has stayed where it is. And that guy who had to be moved to a side ward. I have heard of such compulsive behaviour in the occasional combat soldier. 

So go to hospital and see the world.

Lol George, I think you'd make a lovely Mrs Bear! Have you taken up cross stitch yet?

There was a woman in the bed next to me who kept masterbating, I think she had dementia, it can include innapropriate sexual behaviour. And once on a ward a woman kept pulling the tube out of her nose so the nurses were in and out all night and they don't talk quietly do they! You'd think they'd at least do that at night.

Illogical is being woken up to be given a sleeping pill! 

i know when your in that situation les theres not much you can do ,but  i pray i never am ,the thought of being dependent on any one to wash me or anything eles i couldnt bare it .

and that man surly if he was well enough for that, he was well enough to go home desgusting behavoiur theres a time and a place for every thing. imagine if that had been on a mixed ward .

there was a women in my ward once that was waiting for a bareium meal for astomach xray , every time she eat she was in terriable pain ,know one belived her .

eventuly she got the xray and they found a hard ball shaped stone in her stomach the size of a small cannon ball ,of course it was all in her mind .wasnt enough that she had a crumbling spine .and high blood pressure .

Tis I dread that ever happening to me too! I think we'd get used to it like Les and I think he's really brave, but the thought of it really disturbs me. 

That's terrible about that poor woman! 

Hi Georgia,

That guy that I mentioned who kept pulling his catheter out at nights, he used to pull his drainage pipe out which was in his nose and into his stomach, those things I hate, yuck! I had 2 drainage tubes but mine were actually in holes in my stomach, they leave you with scars.

My stomach they cut about 8 inches roughly, course I had lost weight as well. Since I came back out and properly, that took months to fully recover from but of course I put on weight what I had lost in hospital, if anyone says to me hospital food is nice, I would like to know where! lol So, now my daughter looks at my stomach and says I have a front bum!! cus of the scar in the middle of my abdomen. It doesn't bother me.

When you seen the things that go on in this world, nothing really embarrasses you.

I'm not sure if you know the meaning of the following but it happened to my middle son at school.

He was forever getting pains from his testes, now I knew what it was - but didn't know the medical term for it. Being at school he was naive and embarrassed easily. So, we suggested he go to the doctors, of course he didn't want to go in on his own, and he didn't want his mum either, so it was left down to me, course I didn't know the medical term at the time. Anyway, he was called in to the doctors and the doctor asked him what was wrong, well he couldn't get it out (that sounds wrong!! LOL), so I said I don't know the medical term only the slang term. The doctor looked puzzled and asked where it was so I said he has pains in his testes. Then the doctor asked him if he knew what it was, I thought gawd this is being dragged out too long, so I said to the doctor he keeps getting pains in his testes, so the doctor said to my son, are you sexually active and do you have a girl friend, my son said yes. The doctor looked puzzled. At this point I said I don't know the medical term for it, but the slang word is "Blue balls", the doctor said well I have never heard of that before but it does describe the problem. Then the doctor said it is vasocongestion, basically a lack of sex!!! My son went red, I thought oh my gawd... we laugh about it now, but it was embarressing for him at the time.

Regards,

Les.

hun id rather be dead ,hun , i know thats easy to say when your not in that palce. but i didnt even like steve getting me out of the bath when i broke my hand and i couldnt push up on the sides to get out .

i struggled with standing up in the bath with a bowl of water and a sponge working my way from top to bottom then rinsing with another bowl of water . rather then have him help me out of the bath again , we put a shower in in the end .didnt want to be put in that sistuation again . thats me . 

Very true Tis, I basically couldn't do nothing apart from pressing the Red button in my hand to report him to nurses again and again. I was bed ridden, even moving up the bed was impossible, I had to get 2 nurses to lift me up the bed.

Even when I got home I had about 7 pillows and a quilt under all them to prop me up, lying down absolutely killed me. What made it worse was how they made the incision around my belly button, it was straight down and cut around the belly button then further down. Now, imagine that healing - it took about 5-6 weeks - the district nurse came out for about a month after me being released from hospital. Because the wound, would not heal where the belly button was.

Even my own doctor said that was a big operation - and didn't know all the details until the hospital sent them all through. Most people have one operation and that was it, I had to be different and have 2 major operations within 2 days.

I always remember one nurse, he was a male one and everyone hated him - it was him that had to rush me down to surgery for the second operation due to the amount of bile that I was choking on, the nurse asked if I could sign a request form, I didn't have the energy to even do that and they worked out that I brought up about 5 litres of bile, and an emergency operation was needed to be done ASAP. I think it must of taken them about 5 minutes or less to get me from the 5th floor of the Tower Block into surgery, I don't remember anything after that except one thing I threw up on the male nurse no one liked!! When I got back to the Ward all the guys were saying you got him good! lol

I slept that night right through to the following day, with no problems but I was only allowed sips of water, I was on loads of drips because it was nil by mouth, including medication for about 2-3 days, they did not want to put any strain on the intestine.

I was so glad to get home, which felt strange the first few days, guess it was the hospital and all the drips I had been on.... But being home was a good feeling even though I was still in a lot pain! The story of my life!

Regards,

Les.

I've had carers offer to help me to shower when I stink and I've said no, I'd rather stink!!

that must be very hard for you ,iv not had a shower today yet i normaly have two a day because it eases the pain in my limbs but just to tired to day well thats what i get for enjoying my self going to the butchers yesterday all of about 10 min walk from the car .

plus my daughters mad dog went for mine again  today so had to hit them hard to seperate them little b****** donnas dog ,the shopping had just come and i was putting it away i had a bag of chipsticks in my hand when i was hitting the dogs 

so chipsticks all over floor had to hover them up then mop the floor ,so knackered now . so madding 

god knows whats wrong in the post iv just sent theres no mention of webs or products or any swearing . 

Lol Georgia, so you are ganging up wit my daughter in law. no I am not taking up crosstitch not even if I was given loads of sweetie pink wool. of course I could knit a sweetie pink jumper for myself or perhaps I should say cardy. It was taugh to knit pearl and plain by my granny. he believe that everybody should be taught basic domestic things like knitting and sewing on buttons. The trouble is that my buttons never seem to stay on the garment for more than a few minutes.

you certainly drew a short straw hun along with many others .

it all sounds absolutly awful .

 

Aw sweetie pie you're missng out. Embrace the female within you. You won't turn into a fairy just yet!  

Oh gosh Les, your poor son. I would have died of embarrassment at his age. Little did I think then that the boy would become an ancient 74 who would phlegmatically look on as an  assortment of female and male nurses ministered to the old John Thomas. That is life. Indeed I would've shrivelled up with embarrassment in my 60s. Necessity it would seem makes all the difference.

Hi Tiswas, I do not think there is anything more promotionally destroying them to have an ailment and those one loves and depends upon refuse to believe you. Next to them are our friends and health professionals who refuse to believe you. 

I had this problem when I was about eight years old. I was at boarding school and in the evening I frequently had a severe pain in my belly. I went to matron with this pain and was sat in sitting room and given sodium bicarbonate to drink. After a while the pain subsided and  I returned to bed. The following holidays are family doctor was called and he palpated my belly and pronounced that I did not have appendicitis. I was given a stern lecture and this was illustrated by the story of the boy who cried wolf. I understood the message and never complained of that pain again. I was almost 18 years old before I worked out that the pains that troubled me most evenings were nothing more difficult than colic. 

The colic is easily treated and was no further problem . I stopped having colic by the time I was 20. The lasting damage is that I am very reluctant to complain of any ailment and think and think interminably over whether or not I should go to the doctor. This may have spilled over to making me even more reluctant than most Brits to complain about anything.

xxxxx George

 

PS I think there are many on this forum who are scarred by the same problem. There are many examples of this in the discussions dealing with CFS/ME. There are probably other areas where this problem is felt too. It is just too easy to dismiss people whose diagnoses are difficult as attention seekers or liars.

 how do you mean 'you won't turn into a fairy "JUST YET" !!!' ?  

i feel like i am living in hell 

know one believes you family friends or collegues doctors

you can see them rolling there eyes .you need a celebrity to have something like Fibro/ ME and have it in the news so people learn that its real

it needs to be discused more on tv .in soaps . because alright its not fatel but its so life resticting thats what people dont get .how life constricting it is .,and i get very upset when people make comments like oh its just another syndrome .

 

Yes how our thoughts and fears can change. Now I have got used to my catheter and got expert in my little ways, it is not embarrassment I fear but someone having to do itfor me and doing it ineffectually.

Yes Tiswas, looking back, my impression of the year of ME is a year of life lost.

iv done 10yrs with fibro , i am doing my best to beat it into submission ,the trouble is iv not got to beat myself into submission at the same time thats the hard bit.

yes Tiswas, that is a hard row to hoe indeed. Courage and perseverance and fortitude, and all by the bucket full. 

You need a pretty good hoe as well 

you certainly do .

Georgia, I don't like to smell - in hospital you can only use roll-on but thats for arm pits not anywhere else!! Probably sting down there, no I don't know personally. I know they do a Vaginal deodorant, never seen one for men though.

That's another thing, every girl I went out with, I had to always buy the condoms, why is this? Are girls embarressed to buy them?

Other thing is Tampax and Tampons, I always had to buy these - my wife wouldn't, now she orders them with the groceries!

Now, my daughter is different she is just like me, and doesn't care at all and buys Tampons and Tampax and thinks nothing about it. Perhaps, its a generation thing!

Actually, that reminds me of my wifes sister, LMAO - They decided to try "Mint Flavoured Condoms" ages now.... He put it on, and ran out the bedroom screaming to the toilet! saying "OMG, that's burning so much!" - they never bought condoms from Anne Summers again!

There's a lot of things I've done over the years playing practical jokes on people you wouldn't believe.

Along time ago now, we used to live in a close, and my wife was having an Anne Summers Party! Course I was not allowed to attend, because then its classed as an orgy! LOL... Anyway, at the end of the party, I had been staying 4 houses away at a neighbours house. My wife knocked the door and the guy come to the door and then got me, he then went back inside - my wife then showed me this huge 12" dildo with balls!! I said to my wife 2 secs I got an idea, so I un-done the Jeans zip and put inside my jeans.... then I went into Trevors Lounge, stood their, and said "Alright Trev?" - you should have seen his face, he had to look twice because it was massive!!! He said if anyone pulls jokes on me, it's always you!!! LOL

Our next door neighbour was hanging her washing on the line, no clouds in the sky and a boiling hot day. I thought ah time for rain...LOL  So I got my son's super soaker and opened the patio door enough to shoot a jetstream into the air to land on her and her washing!!!  She kept looking up at firsf, then realized, she shouted "Les, you idiot!" I know its you somewhere... I've had some fun over the years!

Somethings I have been upto I would not put on here! Let's just say I wasn't ever an innocent boy!  When I 18-19 I had 14 year olds after me!! That was a big "NO, NO" from me, my dad would say to them he's out, they would say okay and sit on the kerb way waiting for me. Little did they know, I started jumping the back fence, in to a junior school field and away I was!

There was my mum and her spies, as I called them - they would tell my mum "oh, I seen Les kissing so and so!" oh they bugged me, I tried to ignore them! In my teens, I had my hair dyed like Dave Vanian from The Damned, and sort of like Sigue Sigue Sputnik - I used to get alsorts of looks from people, but I didn't care it was the in thing, sort of. My brother tried doing the same but, failed and the black dye ran into the blonde dye when he washed it, So, his blonde top of hair turned purple! Another friend of mine dyed his hair blonde, then added a bright red wash out dye, that failed and it looked pink and black! LOL

The teens were probably this best times of my life... getting chased, blowing holes in the ground, blowing huge holes in walls, throwing people in green ponds.LOL the lists is endless! And we had no mobiles or internet, yet we had some incredible times.

The darkside of Les!..lol

Regards,

Les.

Hi Tis,

We got a weird setup, we got a shower but you cant fit a curtain around it because of the window. You have to either sit in the bath, stand in the shower or I have a seat that I sit in and have to lift my legs into the bath, but thats not easy my legs are swollen, like my ankles and feet. I have to rely on my wife, even my daughter said she would help if need be. I know shes helpful but I think that would be embarressing!!! She always says once you seen one you seen them all? and when I said where did you see one at your age, she said once on TV, but they look horrid, she watches embarressing bodies, which they show at school.

In hospital I had no choice, either not wash for a month! or let them give you a bed bath. Another thing is shaving, I have to shave everyday which is a pain - my sons can go weeks!

I'm not allowed to be in a bath alone, just in case a seizure occurs. With Epilepsy a very hot or a very cold bath can cause a shock seizure which happened to me once, the following day the Neurologist said "Did you actually have a bath?" I said yeah why? He said anyone that suffers from seizures should never have a bath, a shower yes a bath is out of the question. So now we got a bath, part of shower, and a swing seat for me, trouble is I cannot soak my legs. I need to contact my Occupational Therapist and ask about a sit in bath, to be fitted make life easier. We've had over £4,000 worth of changes made to the bathroom in the past year. There is another £3,500 roughly of work to be done. We had over £4,000 worth of aids done in the driveway, when we moved in here.

I still got to report the Black Mould, Damp and moisture on walls, ceilings and floors. We now have more grounds to fight on, I asked my neighbour to come around and asked her a few questions, she is also got the same problem, needless to say - the case details I am collecting against our Housing Assocation is building up. And they wanted to repair all the condensation from both properties covering 14 rooms, just ONE VENT!! I don't think the Environmental Health will be very happy with what the Assocation has done. These places are supposed to be warmer, they are actually colder!

Regards,

Les @  2.45am LOL

Thought that one'd get you going! 

Oh yes I would have been far too embarassed to buy condoms! I bought some for my son though when he got his first girlfriend. No way he would've bought them and no way was I becoming a grandma with him still at school! 

I was a punk and my dad was a policeman so when he was at work I'd sneak his police shirts out of his wardrobe and wear them with bondage trousers etc! He never found out; I think I was hoping he would because I was trying to annoy him. I managed that in other ways though! In my defence he annoyed the h... out of me!

Mum had this satiny leopard skin print dress (the horror of the clothes they used to wear!). She let me have it and I cut it up and made it into a pair of skin tight trousers. Every punk in the vicinity wanted them! Looked great with a police shirt! 

I tried to dye my hair blonde but it came out orange, then I tried to dye black streaks down the sides and they ended up purple! Quite effective actully! 

Lol on the practical joking! I'll probably never hang my washing out again in case you jump out of the internet and douse me. 

About the same time for me with ME Tis. Can you look back and see improvements? My sister taught me to do that because we can't always see positive changes with us still being so ill. It gives me hope that I'm somewhat better than I was and that helps me to keep going. 

I suspect that the house me and my son lived in before moving here could have been partly to blame for my ME. He was a good landlord but he insisted on doing all the work on his several houses himself with just my boyfriend helping.

Mould, fithy water pipes etc. Does that count as sick building syndrome?

I was wondering what you'd said! They have guidelines of what you can post and I think you covered the ones we can't do so who knows! 

Aw your poor son!  I'm embarassed for him! Lol

I have a sort of bum on my tummy too from 2 operations. The scar's from the middle of my chest to just above my pubes. I think it makes me more interesting! And they bodged it in one place so it looks like I have two belly butoons. Butoons????  I'm leaving that one in.

Seriously though I hardly ever think about it; we can get used to almost anything in the end can't we.

I hope you don't mind me seeing the funny side of that! Punching dogs and dropping chipsticks. You can't say your life's not interesting! 

On the showering, I have a shower seat but it doesn't help much because I have to keep shuffling about on it to reach places and I keep getting soap in my eyes. The best way I've found is to stand up with a hand on the side bit. But if I don't have there energy to even have one I don't have it!

Sink washes are good, quicker and easier.

i was remarking on my daughters dog being a little B some sites allow that because its not really a swear word. 

 i was saying i was sorry about you not being able to have a shower on your bad days or should i say worse days, and awful that must be

i have no choice i have to shower twice a day 3 in the summer  other wise my limbs ache like hell plus because i am so hot in personal places i end up with external thrush if i dont shower at least once aday ,

i have often dropped of in the shower thou. 

It's horrible, I like being clean! When they were accessing me I was asked if I need help showering and I said no. I also said in the DLA form that I don't need help with that. Stupid, stupid pride!!!

I use Grapefruit seed extract for thrush. And it cleans my whole body. Apparently, so I've been told, I don't smell bad when I haven't showered for ages. Cleaning from the inside I suppose. But still I enjoy showers so much I wish I could have more.

not really. the symptoms have got worse over the years, it just started with with a few ahces and pains ,and being tired more than normal

devolped into more wide spread painful areas ,and more chronic fatigued then just tired . as you know there is  a massive differance between just being tired and fatigue .

 

Massive difference! When family and friends on the phone compain to me that they're tired I grit my teeth and act sympathetic but Ouch! 

I'm sad that you haven't seen improvements but they can happen, ask George! Keep the faith and hope that you can get better sis. 

its sort of funny but its frighting to terrieres have locking jaws so they can hang onto there prey ,i.e rats ,rabbits

 you have to puch them to seperate them ,i just forgot i had chip sticks in my hand i just reacted my daughters dog is about 12lbs but viscious little thing when food is about

.iv had him done hasnt made any differance so i shall be taking him back to the vets, they have other things i can try so we will see

i prefer baths so i dont have to stand and i can use my magneisum flakes

but after the fall i had 2013 i was unable to get out of the bath with a broken hand ,so we put a shower in .hopefully if we move house we will have both .

i dont get internal thrush since i did my exclusion diet 6yrs ago .

its external thrush from sweating i also get it if i wear trousers to long 

i use yogurt .coconut milk to cool it and it works well gone in a couple of days.

Hi Georgia,

Even my daughter buys condoms!! When I confronted her about why she was buying them.... She said not for what you think, dad!!! She and her friend were trying to blow them up while on their heads. Course, they ripped them trying to get them on... There's my daughter's friend saying we need extra thick!!!

Oh, I remember the Punk rocker days, well Punks vs. Mods! LOL Yep, I used to be a punk, chains, Dr. Martins boots (Those dam long laces!), etc.. Always wondered why we used to get stared at with badges and cloth badges of things like the B*zzc*cks, Secs Pistols, Sham 69, Ramones, Ian Hendry, I used to be mad on The Damned. Gawd, the middle ages wasn't it Georgia?? LOL

Regards,

Les.

fibro normaly gets worse ,esp with hormone changes ,

and i think having Aspergers dosnt help .because you have hightened skin sensistivity and sound and smell are also hightened in Aspergers and iv had it all my life so i got a double whammy . so i just keep on with my gold my cdb oil and keep my fingers crossed 

 

Crikey! Rather you than me.  All I could do is stare them out.  But then if they're fighting they would be looking at me. I could always hit them with my stick? Made of hazel by my friend Roy, it has no handle, is long and looks a bit Gandalfs staff.

Hope it goes well at the vets. 

sounds like a right mismash going on with your home even i know building bricks over vents would cause mold problems 

the council put in a walk in wet room for my neighbour as she is in a wheel chair being a polio victim since the age of 4 .they did the same for my dad to ,i think they plan to convert all proberties for life , so people dont have to move if they get ill or infirm .

I think you meant Mods v Rockers Les! We would have had a fight because I was a punk turning into a rocker and you were a punk turning into a mod. 

In Ilfracombe on the beach we were all congregating, guys with motorbikes with long hair etc. One was my boyfriend. My police man dad suddenly appeared and shouted in his loudest voice possible. GEORGIA COME HERE!!!!

The whole crowd of us stood still and looked up at him. Then I had the walk of shame going up to him. Then he said so everyone could hear 'GO HOME GEORGIA!'.

I got the last laugh because my boyfriend had already got on his bike. I said 'NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! to dad equally loudly', jumped on the back of the bike and the rest is history. No one was hurt on that rally, we were all just having a bit of fun. His pride was hurt though! 

 I still listen to the Damned, heard 'Dark Asteroid'? Sex Pistols, still listen. Siouxie and the Banshees.....

you have to punch them or chuck water over them its the shock value that seperates them unfortunaly a stick wouldnt do it.

scruffy is only 12lbs but laylas about 13 kilos all muscles very strong dog  so when shes defending herself against him she is megga strong ,

i would never have chosen to have two terriers , but i couldnt stand the thoughts of putting him in kennals 

but if the vets cant help it might come to it . 

his so cute and funny but around food his unpredictable 

and when the dog next door comes on heat he tends to go for layla as well

 

My encouters with terriors have been on my motorbike. They don't seem to like the noise when I fire it up and they've rushed at my front tire or leg, trying to grab with their teeth.

One time I was trying to pull away but couldn't accelarate too fast because I had a terrior hanging onto my jeans by its teeth! I was shaking my leg to get it off!  Wouldn't budge so I revved up slowly and eventually it had to let go. I didn't want it, me, or anyone else getting hurt.

 

scruff hates bikes ,hoovers,and layla hates lorries and buses and phone .

i think its because terriers esp have brilliant hearing .for hunting .

layla used to sit next to the dish washer all thru the programme listening to all the squeaks thinking it was a mouse it was so funny , she wouldnt give up untill the programme had finished . then she would just get up and walk away . [we dont have a dishwasher any more] to expensive

That makes perfect sense! I almost killed myself once trying not to kill one of them because it was about the second time I'd been on a bike. One kept trying to lunge at my front tire and I had to keep swerving to avoid it. Darn good bike riding lesson as it happens!

Lol on Layla, is she named after the Eric Clapton song?

yes they do tend  to attack the wheels i suppose they look rather big to them . to be fair. but dogs shouldnt be out   in the first place .

they certainly suit there names [Terriers]

i only  remember the derek and the dominos version .i dont whos song it was oringaly . i had a dog some years ago a heinz 57 i could him Rigsby 

after the leonard rossiter cherector in rising damp.

 

it was greasers and skins when i was at school. 

il take something for that Dark Asteroid if i was you Georgia sounds nasty ,hahaha

i prefered boomtown rats myself  . pink floyd

Motorbikes must be 'terrified' of them!  

No idea where the owner was when I was learning to ride and one sprang from nowhere. The one that grabbed my jeans when I was pulling away lived next door to friends and he used to jump over the fence every time I started my bike.

i suppose it would be like us standing in front of one of those large monster trucks seeing the wheel comeing towards us ,i dont think i d try to bite it thou. yes to be fair terriers are escape artists real clever little dogs

. scruffy can get thru the smallest hole or gap ,his a little bugger ,he escaped once when i opened the front door quick as a flash didnt even see him

luckly some one found him and brouht him back he wernt a bit bothered and i couldnt tell him of for laughing he looked so pleased with him self

Lol I suppose they could be thinking they're protecting their territory or owners. The owner of the one trying to attack my front tire could have been trying to catch up. Leads are a good idea.

Glad you wouldn't try to bite tires! Hehehehe  I only would if I was really hungry.

I believe my house was the primary trigger for the prolonged trouble I had decades ago. House had been twice treated in quick succession with a wood preservative preparation that included lindane. Llindane was banned some years ago.

They use formaldhyde in so many things, including radiator paint, kitchen surfaces, you name it! It's highly toxic.I like science in some respects but when science goes mad we're all guinea pigs, including the scientists!

funny that. i got worse living in this house it had been treated for wood worm not sure how long befor we moved in ,plus we have wood floor boards in living room with just dirt floor underneath iv never sneezed so much in my life since i moved here .

 artificale sweetner aspartame when heated produces small amounts of formaldhyde and some people practily live on it .and we give our kids loads in juice and even medincine not to mention loads of other stuff .

ants hate it if you sprinkle some where ants run they will avoid it , they obviously more intelegent then some people. 

i think all dogs and some owners should be kept on leads when in public heheheh

and all dogs should be musled when around kids esp small kids .

when steves grand kids come both our dogs are museled  ,dogs see small wriggly things as prey esp hunters , and lets face it one bit or attack is one to many .i always say better safe then sorry you cant go back .

Tiswas, all that sneezing that sounds very ominous. I had a terrible sneezing bout one time I went to a dog show. About two years later I visited relations who had a dog.I got unwell and fatigued and didn't recover until some days after I'd left that house. It was 20 or 30 years before I was able to tolerate dogs again. Not until I was able to tolerate most things.

iv always been round dogs so dont think its that with me ,

now cats as soon as they come anywhere near me i start with my nose twitching and itching .eyes itching then my skin . 

aspartame: is that heating to blood temperature? it certainly seems unwise to consume that stuff. It already has a bad press amongst people who are concerned about diet.

Hi Tiswas. I wasn't meaning dogs in your case. Rather I was meaning whatever caused your sneezes might in the longer term prove really troublesome.

well i dont know whats under the floor boards except for dirt that could be it i suppose it does seem to happen more down stairs then up stairs .

the thing is people trust the food industry when they say its safe ,

the book sweet poison tells many people true stories that say differant

iv avoided it like the plague .

cant say iv never had it when iv been out ,

but never in the home .it was being devolped as an ulcer drug when some was spilt and they noticed it was sweet ,bang dollar signs started flashing .  and funny that so many people that take it and use it in everything still remain fat

,simply because its so many times sweeter than sugar which is what the body detects sends out all the insulin to get rid of it , nothing for insulin to do so gets absorbed back into the fat cells . it confuses the body .

 

I sneeze every morning serveral times from dust mite allergy and I'm so stuffed up it's hard to breathe. I don't think we're meant to live in boxes. 

no your  proberly right ,

oh god just watching coranation street .

someone has just had a line.

i am covering a shift for fat brenda [ who you never see] now you couldnt say black ben, or gay henry . but you can say negative things about fat people . aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah makes me crazy

Yes that's well out of order! Why can't people just be accepted for being people, not just picking on one thing about us, like skin, size or whatever. So ignorant.

There's a rape story in Eastenders and I'm shocked that she couldn't speak up in this day and age, and most people don't believer her! Grrrrrrrrrr

She's an older woman, he's a younger man, who do people want to believe, not the older woman! It's all about steriotypes but people aren't steiotypes, we're unique.

i think its because her husband has been her only lover ,it broke something special ,she didnt want to hurt him ,she thought she could deal with it ,but you cant deal it it eats you up .

and i think the people who knew her believe her except for micks dad .

other people see the age thing and think she must have lead him on . forgetting that alot of rape happens in the family circle . 

some are just so judgemental .

 

I sort of agree but I think that it's hard to talk about rape whatever your age or situation. There's always guilt for the victim and like a part of you has been stolen.

that its a part of you has been stolen .

i remember the first rape in a soap back in the days of brookside with shelia . and her being pro life catholic ,

it was awful to watch ,because i could see it from all sides hers and her husbands . and family .

no one knows how they will act till it happens

, i suppose its a lot to do, with shock why it dosent get reported ,and the enternal question it must have been my fault . i must have done something . we all no that this is not true ,but  i think the shock must make you doubt and question  yourself .

georgia /george/les 

MY DAUGHTER HAS GOT HER SELF A FULL TIME JOB 

starts next saturday . thank god she deserves a break .

she can afford to the heating on now .

Tiswas, that is SO marvellous.Please pass on my felicitations to her. You will be able to visit without wearing ten overcoats.. Can the boiler be made to come on at the same time as the central heating now?    

she might feel more positive now and get in touch with the council to sort it out ,i think maybe before she couldnt afford to have it on so she couldnt be bothered  to sort it out

. iv got everything crossed it will be a job she enjoys . she is a nice girl.

l no  i am her mum and mums say this about there kids but she is a nice girl.

and a tryer so she deserves a break .she spent 7 yrs with a nut job who damaged her emotionly so now hopefuly she will finaly be happy .in her new flat now that she can put the heating on .and not worry so much about bills . FINGERS CROSSED  , 

Nut jobs, fruit loops

Trooping through our lives

Stomping on our dreams

And ripping us apart

They're the ones who end up alone and unhappy. I wish your daughter all the best of love and light! 

not sure what your replying to bit confused ?

The nut job your daughter spent 7 years with who damaged her emotionally. Rung a bell.

i thought thats what you meant wasn't sure. 

i have nothing against people with mental health issue

except when they dont take there meds and consume strong alchol instead then give the person who cares for them a hard time 

thats what donna had from the age of 20 ,id tried to tell her ,but youth never listens do there .

Hi Tiswas,

Yes, Fat people is politically correct, even though it shouldn't be, but with the Tories I suppose they could change it to obese.

When I said to you about others that they're trying to change one I left off was this, and this one will get you outraged! Guaranteed!

They want no more of Bing Crosby singing White Christmas!

For a start, they cannot change it to Black Christmas, that would make no sense at all. The only option is A Black Slushy Christmas - thats even worse. But come one that record is what 40 to 50 years and they want to change it after all this time!

What a stupid world we are going in to.... I really dread the future for our Children, or their children! If our generation is anything to go by!

Regards,

Les.

Yes Les, I agree 100%. 

have you ever felt "stop the world I want to get off"? yes, I fear for my children and grandchildren and their children.

Hi Tiswas,

"MY DAUGHTER HAS GOT HER SELF A FULL TIME JOB"

That in itself these days is very hard accomplishment to obtain! Best wishes to your daughter, Tiswas.

The trouble is I blame the Tories and all the stupid cutbacks in education. If your behind at school or a certain disorder is not picked up, you end up with bad grades, your outlook on life then looks sometthing like this:

Bad Grades at School = Need Collage to get the grades you failed on = Job chance is virtually impossible.

High Grades at School = Job with an Employer that also offers you an Apprenticeship, therefore you are earning and learning at the same time. Whether you stay with that company is your own prerogative, most companies prefer you to do so, since they paid for your Apprenticeship in the first place.

Let's take a step back and look at our current society... Yes, in many cases this Government has made it, so you can sit on your arse all day you are better off than getting a job! How did i work this out, simple, enter your details in to any UK Benefits Calculator then where it states children change this from '0' to '3' and now watch how much you get every four weeks for doing nothing!! And, that is how easy it is to just sit on your arse and do absolutely nothing! If you get low on food then the Government has this covered with Food Banks!

I, for one would not want to live like that.

I received a letter in the post today, just stating that my weekly benefit is staying the same but being topped up, because of the amount of Tax I paid into the system, years ago when I was working. That extra top up is just £2.75 a week.... for working. You may think well, he's well off - doesn't have to do anything all day, disabled so he gets a brand new car every 3 years! So, people look down on me because they are working and paying tax for me to sit at home.

If I could work I would, being disabled and having to rely on my wife not to just take me dentist appointments, doctors, consultants, other hospital appointments but to check my medications daily, and which ones I need to take before food and after food and 4 times a day. Some days differ if a seizure occurs, then its a special syringe taken orally. No I cannot bath on my own, make meals, even make a hot drink, can I hold a hot drink, no that's impossible when you have constant spasms in both arms, then think about having blood tests done, simple no, with me it can take many people all trying to get blood from a vein.

I remember working 16 hours a day, thinking nothing of it money was good and bonuses were paid weekly, imagine how much Tax I paid in to the system every week, back then many people had jobs, you could leave school and virtually jump in to any job you wanted. Back then school had more control of children, you were taught never to back chat a teacher, if you did - I can guarantee you wouldn't do it again unless you were a total idiot. You never disrespected anyone older than you, and you helped people that were struggling to carry shopping in the streets. You could leave you front door unlocked and not worry about being robbed. Drugs in schools did not exist, maybe the odd bottle of booze someone would bring in, if they got a way with it.

Going back to schools these days... Children leave school not knowing what they even want to do, schools do not even teach them what to expect from the wideworld. I asked my middle son were you not taught how to approach businesses and present yourself to them, or anything else - he said no. He wondered why he didn't get one job even after he had passed a test and an online questionnaire. When he attended the interview that was his let down. And, why, simple he did not present himself to the company correctly dressed or the way he answered their questions. He went dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, and assumed it would be his job! We'll that was one job he lost - I went over with him what he said and was asked at the interview, one thing stood out a mile, he lacked assertiveness completely. I went over with him what was required by businesses and how to put yourself over to that company in a way that they would want you working for them, and not anyone else.

From what I have seen children these days do lack assertiveness when it comes to jobs, and approaching companies. It's not a disorder, it's something they have never been taught in the first place at school. The other problem is bad grades, again no job at the end or even a chance of getting one. Eventually, he got a part-time job, that led to a full-time job and he's been doing well ever since. He's no longer shy with meeting new people, and makes conversation with anyone he serves.

So, basically it all back tracks to the Government yet again!!!  Yet, in the 2015 General Election we will see the Tories make this country even worse, think about it, the lies - they said the the Deficit has dropped since been in power, the truth is its grown worse, not gone at all. Cameron and most of his MP's lie to the public, the media only lets the public know so much, not the FULL real truth, the Gov't tells them what is allowed to be printed.

## End of Rant ##

Regards,

Les.

Hi Les,

No rant that, or if it is not ranty enough. I search the horizon with my 'statesman scope'. nahhhh! I polish the lens and look again; I strain my eyes nahhhhh! Not a statesman in sight, no, not one. Poor, poor Britain.

Do you know if she got the job yet?

Oh that is ridiculous Les! Being politically correct about snow! I've heard it all now. 

yes starts next saturday .full time .in either the gift kiosk or cash kiosk 

i think she will be best suited to the gift kiosks myself 

That's excellent! Nice one. 

Not that poor George; it has people like us in it!  Ordinary folks who tell orginary jokes and don't want to rip each other off.

Hi Georgia,

I know it sounds ridiculous, but our stupid Tory government will probably do it, because our country lets anyone from other countries change the way we live. David Cameron just bows down to them all, he'd rather give billions in aid to other countries, but where does it come from? Partly, from the Tax Payer and also the money they are saving by taking disabled people of the sick. By doing this, they know they can make more money from us on our own system, which I said was not "foolproof", and this is how.

Let's say for example you have been on the sick for a few decades, re-phrase that part, sick before 1995, that would have meant you would have been entitled to Invalidity Benefit then it was renamed to Incapacity Benefit, you may think whats the point of changing the name? It was done, mainly to confuse people that were claiming Child Tax Credit, if you were not careful you started paying Tax on your Incapacity Benefit! In fact unless you phoned up Child Tax Credit and said should I be paying Tax, when I was not previously, they would then adjust your account so you were no longer paying Tax.

Now, what happened - we have the Employment and Support Allowance - ( nice long name! to confuse people ). Now, this is where many people dropped off the sick system without knowing. If you were placed on Income-based Employment and Support Allowance then your still liable to pay Tax. Therefore, this would need to be declared to the HMRC Child Tax Credit, so you're can no longer escape paying tax on your ESA. Clever aren't they? Not quite...

You can catch them out and here's how.

Let's say they put you on Invalidity Benefit before 1995, then it was changed to Incapacity Benefit, and your claiming Child Tax Credit - your Incapacity Benefit should NOT be taken in to account. But then came, the new change - but this time let's say it is Contribution-based Employment & Support Allowance & your in the Support Group. What does this actually mean to you? Well, for a start it may look similar, but it means that you have worked prior to 1995 and paid Tax and Stamp Duty. You may think what does this mean to me today, that was years ago!

If you are in this category, then you've probably been placed in the same category as the Income-related Employment & Support Allowance and the HMRC is counting your new Allowance in to account for Tax purposes. But, is this correct, the answer is "NO".

If you phone the HMRC and state that you've been on the sick before 1995, and you are now on Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance and the HMRC deals with Child Tax Credit, then the HMRC is actually worked out your household income incorrectly.

As long as there have been no gaps in claims prior to 1995, then being on the Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance now should NOT be counted as a Taxable income, if it is you need to inform them ASAP. Now, it might take time on the phone to sort this out, but could cost you thousands. Mine worked out them wiping off £1,477 from my account.

The trouble with our system is it's over complex, and made like it to confuse the average Joe Smith - But, I'm not the average person mentally, physically yes I'm I am useless! Understanding the complex Benefits System we have is not that hard to work out, if you take parts from one place and merge with another.

Remember, no more White Christmas, its racist!

Regards,

Les.

first of all les i think that people who had worked previously before claiming dissability  should  be entitled to a tax linked dissability pension .depending on how much they have paid in and how many years they have worked 

lets face it they have earnt it. 

we are on the coast and a sea side town so yes i think its a mircle shes got a full time job ,its in an arcarde and theres one place money  is always spent .that and the pub and casino i cant believe that one of the poorest places next to hull has a bloody casino .crazy ,

and have you noticed that every time theres a shortage of jobs they raise the school leaving age , you proberly know this with kids still at school,  you have to be in further education . or an apprentiship .till 18

when i was at school we had lessons in how to present our self at interveiws how to write out a check, mock interviews ,.how to lay out a an application letter etc

we stood up if the head came in , and talked back to teachers who we could getaway with it

,but there were alot who ruled with a rod of iron and only the very brave or very stupid pushed those ,i was a senior 71/76

the mamby pandy teachers were just starting to come in with there new soft approch ways lets all be friends , BIG MISTAKE  smudging boundries just causes confusion , teachers demanded respect as did parents  and the law. now there is very little and socity is breaking down

you couldnt run a army /police force or any other force with out rules and discapline so why do we do it with our schools .

we had sports teachers that were right arse holes ,if we complained about being cold would make us run track in our pumps and shorts no track suits on hard lumpy ground in winter ,

and a maths teacher that used to say if he had a noisey class that wouldnt quiten down , fine its detension after school ,whole class , didnt have to do it to many times ,before the penny dropped .that you couldnt win

,he'd come looking for you if you didnt turn up , school like prison is to soft ,  today .and socity is paying the price.

the national debt to america was paid  about 15 yrs ago for the money they lent us in ww2

so why arnt we better off .as a country  we might have won .ww2 but thru it lost us our empire  , we our now struggling to hold on to scotland there never be great set before our nation again .

once respected and listened to all over the world we are now a perfected shrinking little maggot , that evryone eles stamps on .

proud to be BRITISH  once i was ,now i am embarresed 

 

yes iv still got everything crossed that is i am always a little afraid of something going wrong like with your son . i dont say anything to donna thou , i just be happier when shes actuly starts.

any thing on the job front for your son yet , its awful ,feeling theres no hope it shouldnt be that way ,youth have a right to a future and to make plans its a national disgrace.

that young fit healthy people in some cases see crime as the only alternative

, And the ones like your son who havnt taken that route just hoping for a job  i hope he will find something soon .

i know it sounds stupid but just typing this reply i am getting bakery not one like my daughter was in greggs ,

Traditional bakery with beautiful HOME made cakes i see him in a white apron and checked shirt serving cakes and coffee , i know its not what he wants but its just really weired .

i get feelings that my brain makes pictures of i dont actuly see a physical picture dont know if you no ,what i mean ,  i cant think who eles it could be for ,

hi george i got of in 1982 when i stopped listening to radio 1 .

because it was so awful .

everything has just got worse since not just the music .

so many dumb people think there better of then previous generations 

but call in all the debt they owe i bet there homes would be even emptier then there grandparents and great grandparents .

living on credit has cost this world and nation a price to great to even comprehend .

i know that was my point ,how is it fare to call someone fat ,in a negative  you have gained weight since you have become ill, i have because i cant get around like i used to,

not because we sit and eat all the time , so not everyone is fat because there greedy .and its not fare to club us all together .

even some people who do over eat are damaged emotionaly some times from abuse so it is an illnes to . its just so unfair .

how about i am dreaming of a grey christmas ,  well i shal sing it as white christmas no matter what ,they say ,id go to prison for it someone has to stand up to this stupidty , any way les we would proberly get better treated  in prison . .

lets face it the rate of crime raises every year amoung the elder genaration ,because they're low catergory prisoners for petty crime ,and they are fed and kept warm while in there

and have company .

how sad and desgusting that these poor pensioners normaly law abiding find it a need to commit petty crimes so they can go to prison to keep warm and fed .thru winter .what a reflection upon socity 

Och no Lassie, how about these?

Ah'm dreamin' o' a McEwen tartan Christmas, jist like . . . 

or 

Ah'm dreamin' o' a McNab tartan Christmas, jist like . . .

an' we wid get wee Jock McSween to croon 'em. 

Tiswas you are so right. It was better by far when we had to save up first and then buy what we wanted. Annie and I started off sitting on boxes with an orange box for a table. We did not feel anything but satisfied. We were married. We had a comfortable flat. We had been given a twin tub washing machine for a wedding present. We had a comfortable bed and bedding. We had enough to eat.The sitting room furniture, fridge and carpets all came later when we had saved up for them. People resisted buying on the 'never never' as hire purchase was called then. It was seen as not quite respectable or prudent. 

How about 'I'm dreaming of a rainbow christmas?'

like rainbow sheep ,have you been hitting the hard stuff again hehehe

no but seriously how bloody daft .how can you ruin such an iconic song .

very wise way but i am afraid to say we all mostly sucombe i no i have . why because its so easy ,and not frowned on any more .

and do you remember that women couldnt get hirepurchess at one time

as they wernt seen as a wage owner ,it had to be the man .

they could have stuff laid aside and go in weekly and pay for it but they couldnt own it untill it was paid for  

. when i was first married we had a bed sofa second hand , and a table and chairs second hand 

and a caraven fridge with a broken latch that we had to keep half a broken brick in front to keep the door shut and a portable tv b/w and a radio .plus cutlery and kitchen stuff that i had collected together each week , and some hand me down curtains  sheets and blankets .

but we didnt care it was great just having our own place. how things have chnaged.

You just made me see my son being a carpenter and joiner like he wanted to do like his dad. He's so good with his hands. He's just tried so hard to get a flippin job as you know I don't think he has any hope of getting one now.

The good thing, yes, is that they haven't turned to crime. 

what's that Tiswas. Raising school age! i'll probably find I have to go back to school next year

You said grey, I said rainbow! 

let me know it anything comes of what i said maybe theres a connection with working in  a cake /coffe bar leading to another job sometimes things come about in the strangest ways .il keep my fingers crossed .

Actually something did come out of it. Me thinking why isn't his dad helping him more to get a job!!!!!!!!  

thought you might like this .

Everything on earth has a purpose,

every disease an herb to cure it 

 and every person a mission 

this is  the indian theory [native]

of existence,

Christal Quintasket [1888-1936] salish .

 

yes you cant leave school at 16 you have to in to further education or worked based traing .

Hehehe I've hope you still fit into your school uniform George. 

well i didnt like to mention it before ,because i didnt know how things were between you , and didnt want ot upset you, but i did wonder why his dad wasnt helping his son more to find work .

YES YES YES!!!! That's lit me up like a Nebular on purple and golden fire. Thank you! 

Oh darn that means I have to work out what my mission is. 

Poet's name duly noted.

i often wished i had saved my old 70s clothes including my school uniform what i laugh it would be trying to get in to all your teenage clothes hours of entertament there .

Woodwork, I was top of the class in that subject! I even took it as an Option, but I got an grade "E" for it in the exam. 2 reasons I failed was:

1. I hated the bloody teacher!

2. I could not be bothered to take my coffee table in, which was the main course work.

And, to be honest - I could not even be bothered with woodwork as a career. There's plenty of jobs out there that use people with woodwork exams and qualified, but it used to bore the hell out of me.

Gawd, why didn't they make girls like Ellie Goulding in my teens! LOL Now, shes singing the main OST for Fifty Shades of Grey!

yeah no problem hun ,just that you do see grey snow sometimes if you strated to see rainbow snow along with rainbow sheep the pills are to strong,

just having a laugh .nothing personal

i thought it was very well worded , 

i found it on my face book page .

If I saId I'd be banned from the website! Nouf said? 

'The birds want sweet green herbs and the water running by.' Rumi (my favourite poet)

OMG, Tis I don't have my school uniform but I do have some old slides of me and my brother at Westonbirt Arboretum, nr Tetbury.

They are embarrassing though and in horrid color.... omg, they even showed my old blue shorts and knobly knees!!

LMAO

I used to improvise my school uniform because I was a punk. And for a very sneaky reason too, on the days I really didn't want to be at school if I wore jeans I'd get sent home. Did I go home, course not! 

Needless to say I didn't like the last few years of school. But then I didn't like home either.

This was really naughty.... LMAO - and involved the Vicar!!! LMAO

Well, everybody knows I'm good on here!

I found my stash of topless ladies from the 50's - gawd the bottoms were a turn-off LOL. Anyway, me not thinking took them to Sunday School on the first day! I hated it anyway, always scived.

So, there's me and my brother looking through the cards, and the Vicars son noticed us, and said "Hey, can I borrow them, I'll bring them back next week!" - I thought yeah why not... Well, Tuesday evening arrived and there was a knock on the door, my dad answered it! All I remember is my dad shout "Leslie, get down here now!" - I thought now what, started to go down the stairs and noticed the Vicar I thought oh sh*t.... My dad said did you know about these and that Adrian had them? I said yea, he asked to borrow them at Sunday School. lol

The Vicar's face was a picture "He said, I would like to think that you would keep these sort of things to yourself!" LOL - I said we'll their not mine they're my dad's!! LOL - I got a right telling off..... which went in one ear and out the other!!!!! LMAO..

Regards,

Les.