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lcakethereforeIam · 22/10/2024 11:00

I've always had a yen to drive a tank. I'm still sorry I couldn't buy the Churchill tank I saw for sale in Loot decades ago.

FuzzyPuffling · 22/10/2024 11:09

I'd prefer a chauffeur. Any of the quokkas qualified?

Magpiecomplex · 22/10/2024 12:03

Not sure I fancy trusting this particular quokka. Or the limo, for that matter.

Bluestockings & Orange Wellies: Welcome to the Degu Station!
SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 22/10/2024 12:23

Boiledbeetle · 21/10/2024 20:15

I've grown used to online supermarket shopping that now if i go to the big supermarket it is just all too much! Too much stuff, too much choice, too many people, such bright lights, no bloody manned tills unless I want to walk right back down to the other end of the shop! I have been known to use the instore electric scooters and sending hapless looking staff off to find things for me, so there are some joys to actually going into the shop!

I have only been in a shop three times since the start of covid. Twice, to Boots, for my eye test and to collect my new glasses, and once, recently, to a farm shop. We were out for the day, by Loch Lomond, with a friend, and stopped at the farm shop to get ice creams, and dh said it was so long since I'd been in a shop that I should come in.

Ohhhh I had a lovely time - so many delicious things to choose - I kept finding more things I fancied, and handing them to him, and then left him to pay for them all. I doubt I'll be let loose shopping in an actual shop any time soon - lol.

I've just finished writing next week's menu, and doing the supermarket order for next Saturday. I am doing my best to think of things that are OK for diabetes (or, as they call it in Scotland - the Dying Betty's). I have got a diabetes cook book on kindle, and the Hairy Bikers diet cook book, but as dh does all the cooking, I need him to look through them and see what he fancies cooking - it seems a bit unfair for me to choose something that he might find too complicated at the end of the work day.

We did have one of Nadiya Hussein's recipes a while ago - from her new programme. It was a roast chicken, covered with spices and roasted on a bed of aubergine, onions, chickpeas and lemon slices - and it was utterly delicious! She said you could blitz up the left over veg and chickpeas into a sort of hummus, but I just had them cold, with some of the chicken. I will send the recipe to the gerbils and quokkas, so they can put it on the Bluestocking's menu.

FuzzyPuffling · 22/10/2024 13:20

Quokka in a posh bus is just what I need!

Today we've been to Lidl and the petrol station. We filled a couple of big bags with veg, loo rolls, nuts and other stuff that made us look healthy. ( Well maybe not the loo rolls!) This is in anticipation of Monday's cataract op, after which no driving for a while. DH doesn't drive. I may rival Boily's marvellous milage!

( Moorfields website says no housework or cooking for a fortnight. I'm going with that...)

MarieDeGournay · 22/10/2024 13:38

Good luck with the op, Fuzzy!
I was quickly back into the swing of things - just as well, as I live on my own and only had help for a night and a day after the ops - but I did have to keep the operated-on eye covered for a bit - maybe you could borrow Woody's goggles?

The ops on both my eyes were a doddle, but I'm not going to minimise the 😱factor, it's best not to think tooooo deeply about it beforehand.

I was sedated rather than knocked out completely, and any anxiety I was feeling was quickly replaced by being taken over by a compulsion to identify the exact shade of the colours I was seeing in front of my eyes - was it lilac? no maybe mauve. Yes that's it, mauve. Or a whiter shade of purple? Maybe lilac was right?It was like I was trying to work out the Theory of Relativity, or the Cure for the Common Cold, or How to End Global Warming, it seemed vitally important to me.
I was just settling on 'Mauve, yes definitely mauve!' when the doc said 'There, all done'. Mmmmmm.... sedation...mmmm...😍

So it wasn't at all distressing and it greatly improved my sight, I hope it's the same for you.

Chersfrozenface · 22/10/2024 13:51

I wasn't even offered sedation for my cataract ops (one NHS, one private). I think they'd already put me down as a Tough Old Bird.

It is a rather weird experience, but I got through it mainly by imagining a very large G&T, in minute detail.

FuzzyPuffling · 22/10/2024 14:21

Thanks lovelies for the support. No sedation here...I have requested Allegri's "Miserere" as my soundtrack. That should work just as well.

I have weird eyes and think not being able to wear my prescription specs will be the most difficult thing. I've bought some plain sunglasses ( £3 from Tiger...no expense spared) to hide behind.

Eye 2 in a further month or so. I'll soon be an expert!
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FuzzyPuffling · 22/10/2024 14:22

I'm most worried about not being able to wash my hair!

lcakethereforeIam · 22/10/2024 14:42
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All the best @Fuzzypuffling. You'll be rocking those shades, no-one will even notice your hair 😎

FuzzyPuffling · 22/10/2024 15:01

lcakethereforeIam · 22/10/2024 14:42

All the best @Fuzzypuffling. You'll be rocking those shades, no-one will even notice your hair 😎

Blimey, what are you taking? And may I have some?

ErrolTheDragon · 22/10/2024 15:31

The search field on my work laptop shows me what special occasion each day is, complete with appropriate image.

I'm delighted to say today is International Wombat Day. I'm sure the Bluestocking can host an appropriate event.

DeanElderberry · 22/10/2024 15:38

a tribute to wombats in the shape (literally) of cubes of - almost anything (except that)

cubes of cheese
lamingtons

some other cuboid things

Chersfrozenface · 22/10/2024 15:43

Ice cubes?

In a large G&T or similar.

DeanElderberry · 22/10/2024 15:46

Mind you, if someone offered you a plate of Lamingtons and said 'this is a tribute to wombats, tuck in' would you find it off-putting?

Bluestockings & Orange Wellies: Welcome to the Degu Station!
Bluestockings & Orange Wellies: Welcome to the Degu Station!
FuzzyPuffling · 22/10/2024 15:54

Tray bakes.

ErrolTheDragon · 22/10/2024 16:39

I've never had a Lamington, I don't think I'd be easily deterred from trying one.

DeanElderberry · 22/10/2024 17:14

I suspect I wouldn't either

lcakethereforeIam · 22/10/2024 17:27

Mug of oxo?

Boiledbeetle · 22/10/2024 17:28

FuzzyPuffling · 22/10/2024 14:22

I'm most worried about not being able to wash my hair!

Hopefully all goes well on Monday, but I've got to ask why won't you be able to wash your hair? Is it to do with getting water in your eyes after the op? And how long do you have to put up with it before you can wash it? And don't be tempted by the things Amazon try to sell you that resembles a cap that you stick on your head that washes your hair and requires no rinsing! They are awful and just leave you with a head full of slimy greasy hair!

Magpiecomplex · 22/10/2024 17:29

I had a chunk of rocky road earlier which was very nearly cuboid. Don't judge, teenage students, most of them male...

DeanElderberry · 22/10/2024 17:33

Is it about not bending forward? A woman at the craft meeting yesterday had had the op and wasn't supposed to bend forward. But of course was rooting through the stuff on the table in front of her, looking for the right yarn. If anything awful happened to it wasn't until after we'd all finished for the day.

Boiledbeetle · 22/10/2024 17:34

Magpiecomplex · 22/10/2024 17:29

I had a chunk of rocky road earlier which was very nearly cuboid. Don't judge, teenage students, most of them male...

Are you feeling rather chilled yet? Or was it just my generation that used cannabis in our Rocky road mixture?

Magpiecomplex · 22/10/2024 17:36

Boiledbeetle · 22/10/2024 17:34

Are you feeling rather chilled yet? Or was it just my generation that used cannabis in our Rocky road mixture?

I bought it from the college canteen so I hope it was unadulterated!

ErrolTheDragon · 22/10/2024 17:37

Or not getting your face wet? I do mine in the bath which could be done without total immersion.

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