What are you up to today if you have a chronic illness 🧵10! Summer Edition 🌞

[MewithME]

Getting ready..,. But you know the score.... Let's be good and fill thread 9 up first 😁

Link https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5542135-what-are-you-up-to-today-if-you-have-a-chronic-illness-thread-9-summers-coming

Well that's rather disturbing..don't think I've got one of those.

Oh the hyenas on MN, just circling to spot any sign of weakness. I'm not sure if it's my age, even, because there have always been nasty people but now they can come into your home.

Morning all
Slept well but dippy dog woke me early though actually good to do what I need to before it gets too hot. Pain not great but energy levels seem a tad better so I’ll take that!

Thanks for your kind comments re my DD’s disappointment yesterday. Driving tests are just unpredictable aren’t they?! Sounds like she was unlucky yesterday and I think nerves didn’t help. However, she is planning a beach trip today and a couple of friends over this evening to chill in the garden so good she’ll have a fun day. Exam Results tomorrow so bless her it’s quite the stressful week.

GP eventually phoned and trying an increase in pregablin that I already take for fibro pain but I only take a low dose so seems a sensible option.

Hope you can all keep as cool as can be. I’m looking at next weeks temps which look so much better!

National Fireworks Championships... @FuzzyPuffling ? Gosh ... Hope it's safe in all these dry conditions!

DS tells me there's a meteoroid shower too tonight?

Not organised enough for glasses here. Will be helping DS prepare with foil and cardboard I think!

@TodayIsabetterone I passed on my fourth attempt. I had terrible test nerves. I passed when I had a totally miserable and unpleasant examiner...it helped! I think I felt so annoyed he was trying to catch me out, I stopped feeling so anxious 😂 We did about 12 roundabouts on my test!

Better luck next time. She'll get there.

I remember all the A level stress, it was awful both times! And then sending them off into the big world. Hope your DD gets the grades she needs.

It will be good to have some more targeted pain meds, you GP sounds helpful.

Yes some cooler weather would be such a relief!

I’m either going to use the colander trick or watch the livestream of it that Royal Museums Greenwich will do

@MewithME yes, the peak of the Perseids are tonight into tomorrow but unfortunately the website I mentioned above, Royal Museums Greenwich says it’s midnight to 5.30am, the best time to see them

I don’t like the sound of a fireworks championship but I’m not keen on fireworks anyway. When I watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks on tv around the London Eye, I just think about the waste of money

The fireworks are all set off ( 10 min displays at 10 min intervals, all professionals) from a very long stone jetty that sticks out into the sea. Boat exclusion zone applies!
There's not been a fire yet!

You can watch it on (probably) You Tube!

@MewithME some of the examiners are just mean aren’t they! The first time she was upset as he told her to switch lanes at a roundabout literally by the test centre as they were going back then failed her as she didn’t leave enough space but she felt she was just doing what he told her and he was trying to catch her out! She’d have passed otherwise. She’s only 18 so I keep telling her she’s plenty of time yet. She’ll get there.

@TeaAndStrumpets yes A levels are so stressful! Well any exams really but it’s just about getting whatever you need to get to the next step. She has a uni place depending on results but is having second thoughts. So she’s having a gap year instead to work out what she wants to do, work a bit and travel a bit so in some ways if she doesn’t get predicted grades it’s not such a big thing. Though I still hope she does okay so she can keep her options open.

It felt more stressful with DS as he had his heart set on one particular uni, he actually dropped a couple of grades from his predictions
and was so upset but still got in and got a first so really in the end not getting the grades he was hoping for did not matter a jot!

Not sure what we’ll do re the eclipse. I do like things like that but have been so rubbish lately I’ve not organised glasses! Might try the colander trick but we’ll see. I do remember the one in the late 90s and think I had glasses and was all prepared but it was a bit of a damp squib where I was so I didn’t see much!

Our friend arrived at 8.30 so he and DH have been up ladders and crawling around in the loft removing and rewiring two big light fittings. There was a lot of banging and shouting - I suggested using their mobile phones which DH dismissed as unnecessary then he had a change of heart 🙄. All now safely done and nobody died. Luckily our friend was an electrician in his youth!

We are left with flex and a bulb in each room, as per conveyancing agreement, but they look a bit tiny up there!

DD2 changed subject and applied the next year to another university, so had grades in hand. Her future DH was on the same course she had rejected, and they eventually met doing post-grad!

It does seem to all work out in the end doesn’t it @TeaAndStrumpets whichever route you take. I think she’s being sensible actually to take time to work things out.

Ahh glad you survived and the lights are sorted. Well done DH and friend! 👏

Absolutely true! We only see the benefits in hindsight.

Our house looks like a combination of bombsite and Steptoe's yard at the moment! That's the trouble wifh emptying attic and cupboards. It's supposed to be logical to work from upstairs down but it is difficult. Boxes everywhere. Now I've got two huge chandeliers sitting on the floor of the dining room which need packing. Not crystal ones I hasten to add, just brass but too nice to leave. I am leaving the other light fittings because our ceilings are too high, DH would struggle to change them.

I'd hate to be back navigating school exams and uni, but hindsight is a wonderful thing - I got straight As and went to uni younger than normal (you could do that in Scotland at the time) but then I wasn't sure what I actually wanted to do with myself and was more interested in experiencing life. I ended up finishing my degree with the Open Uni more than ten years later, then doing a Masters, and my career has been a real mixture of things I studied and things I picked up along the way.

I'm currently very much appreciating the fact this house doesn't get direct sun - it's 23 indoors while it's hit 29 outside. I did go for a little walk at lunchtime but stayed in the shade and it was quite nice.

I do think it's better to be a well rounded person. Expecting kids of 16 and 17 to plan out their lives is crazy, really.

Hindsight is wonderful isn’t it?!
so hard to know what you definitely want to do at such a young age. Sounds like your experiences along the way were beneficial and the open university is fabulous. A friend did a similar thing.

Glad the new house is cool. Our main lounge/ bedroom are south facing so it’s not great. About 27 in the lounge currently and 30 outside I think! Fans everywhere 😊 The back of the house is cooler but no where to lie down/ rest there!

29° in the lounge, south facing like you @TodayIsabetterone and it's the sort of day when I'm glad the kitchen is N facing!

Anyone see the eclipse whether outside, the news or YouTube?

@JewelleryCat I had the collander out and it was rubbish! 🙈

I sat inside and just watched the light dim and the shadows get longer, and listened to the pigeons on my roof start coo-ing. And the cats fell asleep. Saw a bit of the BBC coverage too - the footage from Spain of the total eclipse made me unexpectedly emotional.

Oh really? I was the opposite with my colander lol and could see the crescents

I guess it shows how different areas got on with the eclipse

@martha79 yes, I saw some BBC and Sky coverage of the totality in Spain. Absolutely beautiful

Yes! My DH got lots of pairs of glasses (clever man) so all the family had them, and the spare pair for a neighbour.
It was definitely worth seeing through specs...less so with a colander.

I really regretted not getting glasses as DD and friend were actually quite interested!
We watched some on TV and tried the colander trick. Could see the crescent shapes emerging but I desperately wanted to look at the sun! I obviously didn’t!

DGS has read so many warnings he is convinced he will go blind because he accidentally got a brief glimpse. He wouldn't be reassured by his Mum so DH has had to talk him down!

Morning all!

Got up early, it is pleasant at the moment but 35° is forecast so I'm making the most of it. More clearing today! It seems endless.

Hope you all have a nice day.

I shall do my errands early doors and then hide out in a cool room. 😎