Random Irritations

[Burnsey]

Wonky rear reg plates.

 

[The Squirrel]

I’m not going to last the week.
8 of us on route stop for lunch. She splits the bill 8 ways which is £22 each including drinks.
She says I’m only paying £20.80 as that’s what mine come too and left it on the table.
I pocketed her money and paid for it all on my card and told the others my treat.
She then asks me for the £20.80 back if I’m paying for everyone.
I told her it’s her contribution towards petrol and shopping for the week but she is not happy

Bravo, sir. Well played!

 

[irip]

Bravo, sir. Well played!

I was a little bit worried she might sneak up on me during the night but fortunately there is wooden flooring and I’ll hear her cloven hooves before she gets to me

 

[Fade and Die]

I’m trying to not let if affect me and just enjoy the time away with family.

I foolishly invited my MIL to join us on holiday about 18 years ago, I paid for everything so no problems there but the old bat seemed to think we had nothing better to do than to wait on her 24/7, all the cooking, cleaning, making tea, going to the shops etc, she didn’t lift a finger all week…given that we had two boys under 5 we had rather hoped that she would be helping us!
Needless to say she was never invited again.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

My throat has gone dry and tickly. I'm drinking water but I still can't sleep. This is grim, tomorrow is going to be horrible. So tired

 

[rulie]

I’m not going to last the week.
8 of us on route stop for lunch. She splits the bill 8 ways which is £22 each including drinks.
She says I’m only paying £20.80 as that’s what mine come too and left it on the table.
I pocketed her money and paid for it all on my card and told the others my treat.
She then asks me for the £20.80 back if I’m paying for everyone.
I told her it’s her contribution towards petrol and shopping for the week but she is not happy

Somebody (wisely) told me that it's easier to get into her world than to get her into your world. Just enjoy the time.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

My throat has gone dry and tickly. I'm drinking water but I still can't sleep. This is grim, tomorrow is going to be horrible. So tired

I’m just getting over it.
Cold and flu tablets, Albas oil to put on a tee shirt worn in bed, plenty of hot drinks and even more rest.
It’s only lasted 4 weeks

 

[Hobbit]

My throat has gone dry and tickly. I'm drinking water but I still can't sleep. This is grim, tomorrow is going to be horrible. So tired

I’m just getting over it.
Cold and flu tablets, Albas oil to put on a tee shirt worn in bed, plenty of hot drinks and even more rest.
It’s only lasted 4 weeks

What BM said, inc meds to ease the symptoms. Mrs H & I are 5 weeks in. My cough is just tickly but Mrs H sounds like she smokes Woodbines. We’re both out and about, and fine now apart from the cough.

Good luck.

 

[chellie]

My throat has gone dry and tickly. I'm drinking water but I still can't sleep. This is grim, tomorrow is going to be horrible. So tired

Gargle with a few drops of tea tree oil in water as often as every half hour until it feels better and take manuka honey.

 

[Slime]

What BM said, inc meds to ease the symptoms. Mrs H & I are 5 weeks in. My cough is just tickly but Mrs H sounds like she smokes Woodbines. We’re both out and about, and fine now apart from the cough.

Good luck.

I thought she did!

 

[Hobbit]

I thought she did!

Worse!

Some Spanish brand that smells like burning camel dung. Thankfully, she only smokes out on the terrace. I, foolishly, suggested for the nth time she gives up… the bruise is slowly going down…

 

[nickjdavis]

Whilst indulging in a few beers and an online chat late on Friday with some like minded brewing folk, I swung my swivel chair away from my desk and caught the left side of my left knee on the sharply angled edge of the small filing cabinet that sits under my desk.

To be fair, I've done it before, it hurts like hell at the time but usually there is no lasting after effects.

Not this time....Saturday morning I woke up feeling like some mediaeval ships surgeon was amputating my leg, by Sunday evening the amputation was complete and yesterday my brain was still been imagining pain from the long gone lower leg. Largely today there is just a dull throb and and I now feel my toes again...thankfully the amputation was imaginary, though would have been very welcome on Saturday.

The strange things is that I can prod and poke my knee and generate no pain whatsoever, I can walk with ease - relatively pain free once I've got myself moving. However any sudden movement, any change in direction results in a shooting pain around my left knee....absolutely no way I can even remotely swing a golf club given the forces involved.

Gonna give it another day and if pain still exists I'm off to join Nelsons navy to seek out the doctor with the bone saw.

 

[Golfmmad]

Did 2 hours of indoor cricket nets yesterday. First time I’ve picked up a cricket ball or bat in 5 years.
This morning I feel like I’ve been run over by a steamroller. Ouch!
Broke the habit of a lifetime and let a fast leg side yorker go, only for it to hit me like a sledgehammer on the inside of my right heel. Ouch!
And my bat seems to have doubled in weight since I last used it.
Weirdly, my elbows are free of tendon pain for the first time in weeks. Or the other pains are just overriding the tendinitis.
Definitely staying in retirement from that sport, I think.

Wow! How's your golf then?

 

[Crazyface]

I got back into tennis when I retired. I joined a local retirement group and they had a tennis session for two hours on a Wednesday morning.at the local tennis club. I was the youngest there by a mile. I was very rusty at first and fitted in well. Slowly I started to improve and the recovery time came down. Six months later I joined the club itself. I'd stick with the cricket, if it's your thing. Just don't charge in to it. Break yourself in slowly.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Lashing down yet again!
This the longest break from golf I've had in years, and that includes going on holiday.
I don't know what day it is anymore and my armchair will be worn out soon.

 

[Imurg]

Did 2 hours of indoor cricket nets yesterday. First time I’ve picked up a cricket ball or bat in 5 years.
This morning I feel like I’ve been run over by a steamroller. Ouch!
Broke the habit of a lifetime and let a fast leg side yorker go, only for it to hit me like a sledgehammer on the inside of my right heel. Ouch!
And my bat seems to have doubled in weight since I last used it.
Weirdly, my elbows are free of tendon pain for the first time in weeks. Or the other pains are just overriding the tendinitis.
Definitely staying in retirement from that sport, I think.

If it's any consolation, when I used to play all summer, the first "net" back after the winter break was absolute murder...and I was in my 20s....

 

[RichA]

Wow! How's your golf then?

This morning, utterly p-poor.
As I’ve found in the last decade, day 1 after serious exercise is bad but day 2 is even worse. Dosed up on paracetamol but couldn’t turn without feeling the ache across my chest and shoulders.

If it's any consolation, when I used to play all summer, the first "net" back after the winter break was absolute murder...and I was in my 20s....

Yeah, the same. Should know better but I’m an idiot. Forced retirement from cricket during the pandemic at 50 made perfect sense but my recent retirement from work and lack of golf over the last couple of weeks tempted me back to the nets.
MrsA said, “Don’t overdo it,” but I’m like an elderly labrador; chuck a ball and I will chase it with 100% effort and no regard for the consequences.

On the positive side though, elbow tendon pain has mysteriously vanished.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Duck breasts from any supermarket.
So appealing in the packaging then, served up, they look like they have won a WeightWatchers Slimmer of the Year gold medal.