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[ThatVikRinA22]

My Friends... theres no need to feel down
i said My Friends..Pick yourself off the ground
i said My Friends, cause youre in a new town
theres no need to be unhappy....

Our new thread folks (number 5!!).....i need to dash as im on nights but i will be back!
love to all. xxx

I have just broken my laptop screen It's too hot to be using a laptop (or that's what I'm telling myself).

How's everyone coping with the heat?

Hi everyone,

Def too hot for laptops snowy.
Glad to hear you've got a break booked vicar

Boiling here - just been at school fayre for 2 hrs, have now retreated to shady lounge before I brave baking garden with dcs... hose out soon. .

Hows everyone else doing?

:( CT contact was the same lady as yesterday morning, so I did point out this made things difficult. Not sure what CPN will say, I didn't disengage completely...But she may feel I should have done more.

It sounds like a question of vocabulary - she would have said 'disabled' had she fully realised that 'cripple' was unacceptable, and if she knew the word well enough? (which actually, she should - it is surely hard to do mh work if English is your second language, as English is such a subtle language)

UA what a thing to have to deal with. Glad your DS is unharmed.

And vicar for DD, her boyfriend, the friend's family, and all the young people who are having to deal with such a tragedy.

Yes, I think it must be hard. Still, a new day tomorrow.

I've been thinking of everyone, particularly in this heat.

I think i might actually melt!! Struggled this weekend with the heat as we have had a busy weekend so couldnt just go to the beach. It has been pleasant busy though. DD off school tomorrow so am planning on installing myself on the beach and staying there all day.

Have discovered that I can keep bedroom (where computer is!) nice and cool. :)

Enjoy the beach, LEM ! That's lucky, SPC I am told my CPN and the crisis team are comng out this afternoon

Hi snowy hope you have a helpful meeting with the crisis team.

Went to hairdresser this morn (highlights to hide lots and lots of white hair!) and coffee with friend which has been a nice chilled start to the day.

Hope everyone else's doing OK. My garden thermometer says 31 in the shade, already!

Ooh, went to uni this morning to give in last of the work, and I was shaking with fear it felt so bad, but I just kept thinking of just dropping stuff off and then I could leave, but I ended up meeting my friend for a coffee in the park. She was asking me a lot about the depression, so hard to talk to someone who has never experienced it, I felt as if I was being scrutinised and judged for sanity

But, I came home, bought a few clematis in morrisons and will put them against this boring wall when it gets cooler, it's probably not the right time to plant, but what the heck.

Snowy hope it goes ok this afternoon for you

Lem beach sounds lovely

Glad we've got Silvery's yummy ice cream in this weather..

Love to Ciq, highlights sound beautiful, I've given up on the grey.. I just hope the occassional dab of red lipstick makes me look old/sexy Probably not though..

Keep on going vicar you are so much better than they are, don't let them grind you down.

Lots of love to anyone reading that I've forgotten, keep cool.

hoochy you gave your work in :) and had a coffee with a friend :). If she hasn't experienced it, her questions were probably meant to help her understand how you are/were feeling. Or perhaps she is like me, I sometimes accidentally piss people off by asking for facts (eg when did it start?) which can come across as unsympatheic

Thinking of you snowy, and a wave and ice cream all round.

Hmmm ice cream. Can I have a very raspberry-y raspberry ripple please? or actually maybe a raspberry sorbet....

Well done hoochy brilliant you handed stuff in. I can imagine it was weird being scrutinised, but as spc says I think many people are genuinely interested when they have no knowledge/experience themselves. But I do sympathise.

Congrats on getting through it, hoochy !

Well, the crisis team didn't turn up, so that's been postponed to tomorrow. CPN came though.

I need to start taking all my antipsychotic at night. And I need to start communicating what's going on (not easy at present, maybe just looking at rating mood/voices etc).

They are definitely pressing for day hospital, I'm thinking about it til tomorrow.

How's everyone doing in the heat? I've succumbed to adding icecream to my shopping delivery tomorrow.

Ratings sound like a good idea snowy. I have a simple smiley face system for raking mood.

Ice cube trays too? It is prob a bit too hot for me but I'm so happy to have sun and warmth I will happily put up with it.

Just praying it doesn't stop as soon as school hols start!

I think I used to have a care plan that talked about using ratings. How long until school hols?

Mine break up middle of next week... fingers crossed!

Good luck with the summer hols, hope you find nice things to do!

Thanks snowy am looking at calendar with dh tonight. Think I need to plan in a bit more "me time" ie not being a mum as I am rather daunted by the prospect of a 6 week weekend. At the moment, as much as I love my DCs I really value the time they're at school!

Hope you're cooling down now!

Goodness we're going to need another thread again soon! Hope vicar can deliver another inspired title

Popping in.

Mine have had 1 day off already and it's been a disaster :(

But I completely stripped my garage yesterday. Top to bottom. Inside out. No box or bag unturned. I was on a mission to find and destroy the mouse nests in an attempt to flush them out. They have destroyed so much stuff (fortunately all stuff I can live without - decorating blankets etc. The bouncy castle and stuff I want is untouched), I really wish I had the motivation to deal with them properly before now but sadly injury, illness and lack of motivation have conspired against me (first discovered them in march .

Anyway I found and destroyed a few nesting sites. Found a colony a mouse pups which were relocated to the park. I doubt they will survive. They still had eyes closed so suspect they still needed mummy mouse. No sign of mummy or daddy. About 5 homemade traps set overnight but nothing has been close, including a trap in the drawer which contained the pups.

Anyway. My blitz yesterday, followed by 2hrs sleep last nightled to a major crash day today.

DD3 was up at 7. I couldn't get out of bed until 11am. I feel so guilty. I then laid on the trampoline reading for an hour, and dozed for a bit. Filled the pool (8' inflatable - best £25 spent ever).

I tgen went to bed for an hour. More guilt.

I was just soooooook incapable of anything. I did manage tge park after tea....

Oh and I might of signed myself up for a semi-naked calendar girls style calendar....oops...

Hugs to all. Hoping for a better day tomorrow.

(Oh and chest getting worse but not bad enough for dr yet. Hacking productive cough half the time. The other half is that annoying dry not quite tickly cough...and DD3 and DTD1 are hacking away too)

NO Guilt Ed - you have cleaned the garage out (funny, I am working on mine, but in a less blitz like way). And now you need a rest. One's surroundings can be a metaphor for us, and yours have just changed hugely for the better by your own hand. Rest on your laurels, and process the change

Ohh, tell more about the calendar!

snowy when you take your med can make quite a difference. Hope today's visit goes OK.

Thanks SPC That sounds like a job well done, Ed.

Hi all.
Well done ed ours could also do with a good sort out!

snowy what ice cream did you go for?

Have a poorly eye today. Think I must have scratched my eyelid when climbing into raspberries to pick them. Swollen puffy and tender this morning and not an attractive look. Thank goodness for sunglasses. Tired here. Poor sleep Sunday night has caught up with me I think.

Need to find some motivation from somewhere. Have done school thing and counselling so far, am planning in a nap after lunch so would like to get at least one thing done before lunch... To hot and c tired for housework tho!

I went for Cadbury's 99 cones. Sorry to hear about your eye, CiQ. I hope your nap after lunch is refreshing. It's definitely too hot for vigourous manual work.

Yum, have eaten so much ice cream recently. Cooking quiches (in this weather, why, why?)

Hope you get better Ed, do not feel guilty, grab as much rest as you can.

Poor Ciq, I battled the garden too, and it fought back. My strawberries have gone rampant, but the rest of the garden is like a jungle. Sleep well.

Spc environment is def a sign of stuff. Tidying attics is a freudian sorting out your head metaphor, wonder what tidying the garage means?DH is obsessive about the garage- man cave?

snowy enjoy the cones..speaking of which, I'm off to raid the freezer