**TAMOXIFEN**the 6th

[MaryAnnSingleton]

here we go !

Have you bought the rabbits in yet cakes or are they sill outside, shivering......

Can you take anything for the itching or apply anything antihistimine or something....?

Keep an eye on your temperature as well KK, just in case you start cooking and infection.

Rabbits still outside, but we are going to bring the hutch up onto the terrace at the back later, so they can get some gain from the house, and also be more out of the wind. That's as much as I am willing to do

sparkles your ds sounds fab. my dd - also 7 - has become a Hindu this week. She was baptised RC, toyed earlier this summer with Buddhism, briefly became Jewish and told me yesterday she is Hindu. So I guess she is pretty much in tune with your ds's way of thinking. I have told her she needs to examine the beliefs rather than than just pick the ones with the nicest festivals, but she isn't listening.

smee - the hot itchy boob is a nuisance, but it does go after a while. Try to enjoy the warmth it is providing Is the skin reasonably OK?

Just necked two Clementines. Nice, but it's not the same...

love Sparkle's ds also Cakes' dd for her dabbling in religions- I used to long to be Jewish. I was also brought up Catholic- my mum then tried lots of different things and settled on Buddhism.

Sorry to hear about itchiness smee- the colouring can be a bit alarming -but it will improve
So happy that the swim was warm Cakes. I used to take a curious pleasure in swimming outdoors in the winter- more for the blissfully hot dip in the indoor pool afterwards.
Am painting a drawing and now going to make hot choc for my boys (and me). Am hoping I can get to Sainsbury's,piano & my final Mindfulness class tomorrow.I also have my pneumococcal jab in the morning but can manage to get to the surgery as it's minutes away on foot.

Enjoy the mindfulness, MAS. Hope it's not snowed off...

Have a good day MAS, wrap up warm. Do you play the piano, or is it DS's class?

ds is learning - but would love to learn too !

Drat- have just lost my post I wrote. Sorry - builder arriving tomorrow at less than 24 hrs notice, so have to go and clear space in living room. That's an interesting birthday present for me! In haste.

Sounds intriguing SR. Is your birthday tomorrow? (sorry if you've already said, if it is many happy returns )

ooh HAPPY BIRTHDAY SR !!!! hope builders are tidy and neat in their work
Was just looking at my friend's fly ladies thread - they seem to be like us,except that they do cleaning - it's rather too OCD-ish for me - but friend says they are lovely. They list what things they've done - (the list making bit is the ocd bit that wouldn't be good for me !)

Happy Birthday SR!!!

I don't think I'd be much good on a cleaning thread. I'd never have much to post. But, oddly enough, I am off now to do a bit. Even so, I imagine my list would be pretty short.

hope today is lovely for you SR !
Am just back from pneumococcal jab - had to wait so dh was worried and was climbing out of his sick bed in order to be ready to cart me home !! am fine if there's no blood but bless him.
Hope the cleaning isn't too dull Cakes- I will have to do some tomorrow.

Hope the jab wasn't too ouchy. Bless your dh!

Cleaning was extremely dull. I have come to the conclusion that I need to throw a load of stuff out before i can get the place shipshape. I knew that before, really, but have now decided that it may require a skip...

I have had a productive morning doing my bit of cleaning, banking the takings from the school Xmas Fair (nearly £2,500 - wowzers!) and doing a bit of an emergency shop in case we get snowed in towards the end of the week. I need a rest now.

The ghastly stretch'n'tone tonight, this time using Flexibars, which were invented by someone with a pathological hatred of lazy people like me.

To KK, smee and everyone else with sore bits: I hope you are feeling OK and keeping a close eye on the symptoms.

Hope everyone is well and not too cold. x

I'm glad the jab went OK MAS, - is it one that makes you feels a bit under the weather for a couple of days? - I hope not

Well done on the cleaning Cakes - we are having a bit of a clear out at the moment as well, I don't know how we've managed to accumulate such a lot of useless stuff.

I did a bit of Christmas shopping this morning, it was bitterly cold in town, I had a hoody, a fleecy jacket and a wind proof light weight thing on and I was still freezing. (Except in the shops of course where it is faint-inducingly hot).

Happy Birthday SR (if it is today), hope you are having a good day.

Can I just say in a venting way that I hate, hate, hate banks.

Hope the sinuses are improving Sparkles, and the rads. site is a bit less sore today Smee.

Belly button looks a bit better today, its not as sore, I think a stitch dissolved inside (because it was all pinched looking and now it isn't) but it has made the wound open up a little bit but only on the surface.
Doesn't look too bad. (sorry -a bit of a yukky subject)

Hope everyone else is having a good day.

That does sound better KK - hope so, anyway.

What has the bank done now? It seems to be quite an ongoing saga. Sympathies - i hate banks too (and I am also a bit scared of their officiousness, which usually makes me come out a bit fighty and aggressive, especially when it's someone who is about 10 that they expect me to deal with - probably counter productive though).

Try not to let them get you down. They aren't really human you know.

Well, without going into too much detail, they decided for no apparent reason not to pay three of our direct debits last month. They have form on this issue. So now we have to get in touch with the recipients of the DD's and explain, sort it out with the bank, make sure they pay next month etc.
It's so annoying and such a complete waste of time. Less than a year ago they randomly transferred about £1500 from our current account, and then started charging us for being over our OD limit. Absolute madness and incompetence, and it takes ages for them to put things right and breathe.

I'd change banks but we have our mortgage, insurance etc. with them so it would be a pain.

Sorry - that's very dull, don't bother to read it, it just feels quite good to have a rant

I've read it alright, and it sounds all too familiar. My Mum is with Santander and, frankly, they shouldn't be allowed to run a bank...

Rant away

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear SR, happy birthday to you

Hope that was tubeful enough!

KK I am glad the tummy button looks a bit better... do you need to see someone anyway if it has opened up a bit, not sure a sticky plaster will cure that one! Hope you are ok.
(I agree banks are the wrok of the devil....quick to take your money, quick to lose it too!)

MAS, well done on getting through the jab, I had that last year and my arm swelled up like a balloon, hope they don't call me for that one again this year!

Cakes - I am with you on the cleaning lists. I have seen that thread and I am in awe of what they achieve bu 9.00 in the morning Chickens are seriously annoyed now.....snow so deep their bread treats just disappeared into it.......very cross clucking

Smee - how are your itches, I have been worrying about you.

Tickles to Boris pennies.

I have spent the day with all dc again, school closed due to snow, made advent decorations, played ds created convoluted abd complicated games, played Pepper pig, watched cbeebies, tickled tummies, played hide and seek.....a good day and my kind of list!

Hope you are all ok, it is sooooo cold here.

Thank-you all - yes I am 56 today! That sounds a bit old doesn't it. I don't look it of course.

Having a teenager keeps you young IMO.

Broke into my huge chocolate cake that didn't get eaten at the frozen party...

Guests seem very enthusiastic in their thanks re the frozen party....but don't think I'll repeat it.

GRR - Arimidex prescription has run out - I was late oredering it but today is 2nd day without now - not good - must improve.

CLEANING THREAD - blardy hell, no thanks. Ghastly idea. I've always had a bit of a prejudice about people whose homes are over-tidy - I call it peach carpet syndrome Life's too short to stuff a mushroom as they say. (Actually I do now like stuffed mushrooms but only found to make them once DCs were at least 15.)

Yay for your birthday SR - choc cake sounds the very thing!

Glad to hear that tummy wound seems to be better KK.
Am just back from taking ds to piano- have parked facing down the slight hill on our road-easioer to get out if it snows again.
Mindfulness has been cancelled (many of them live in villages etc) and it was the last one -rescheduled for beginning of January - bit disappointed but we are to carry on doing our home practice- so will go to meditate soon
Jab was fine but my arm is sore and a bit swollen - feel ok though. Poor ds fell over twice and banged his elbow so is feeling a bit sorry for himself and dh is coughing and sniffing.
Keep warm everyone xx

testing testing - can't seem to post

Right at last, - I've lost 2 posts so far!

Chocolate cake sounds lovely SR

Hope your arm is better soon MAS, and poor DS - its very slippy out there.

Sparkles - that sounds like a fun day any sign of the snow clearing where you are?

DH has just won 4 tickets for the panto at the Opera House in Manchester this Saturday, so he's giving them to DD and her flatmates (we're not near enough) - they are all very pleased

It snowing again! School will probably be closed again tomorrow.... we are in rural staffordshire, and it is looking magical out there.

mmmmm chocolate cake.....

Baby is crying so I am going to go and sort her out now, she has started with a temperature this evening, not too high but enough to make her miserable.

Have a lovely evening, I will chat with you all tomorrow.

Happy Birthday SR. Hope it's not just chocolate cake on the menu tonight. Demand indulgent treats!!
'Peach Carpet Syndrome' ! I wouldn't last on that thread either. Not too long ago I caught myself being pleased mum's eyesight's has deteriorated to the point where she can't see dust.

MAS, hope your arm's calmed down a bit and DS and DH are being brave!

Cakes, DS said he was a Hindu about this time last year too. Lasted until he realised they don't celebrate Christmas, so I predict a rapid conversion for your DD any day soon. How's she doing fending off those boys?

Kurri, bah to your bank. They sound useless. I'm not sure if I'm right about this or not, but if you want to switch, I think lots of banks will sort it all for you. We're with First Direct and I'd recommend them if you were thinking of a move. Have been with them for about 20 years and have never had a problem. And that T-shirt tip was timely; I am now inside out, so thank you.

Sparkle, I do love the sound of your DS. Must be nice to have the snow days. Hope the baby's not coming down with something. Last thing you need is to be stuck in with a fractious small person.

I have just two Rads left, so hip-hip-hooray for that. Though sadly, my skin's now become a teaching case, as apparently my breast is perfectly demonstrating what can go wrong. Today I had six trainee Radiographers all aghast at my poor puce breast. They've asked if they can take pictures tomorrow. Have decided to be amused; who'd have thought I'd ever be a topless model..

oh poor smee - still you are helping med students,which is a good thing..really hope it's not too sore.
WEll done to Mr KK and his winnings
Have fun in the snow tomorrow Sparkle -the nearest I've been to Staffordshire is nearly to Uttoxeter (from the M1) heading towards Ashbourne -I hve a friend in Doveridge who we stop off to visit on our way to see MIL in Notts.
arm really,really hurts - ow