The Bluestocking, where the cheese is plentiful and the Champagne is on Boiledbeetle

[Magpiecomplex]

Welcome one and all. Quick précis - women's pub, rodent staff, apparently we're sane.

I did. It was devine.

I think boiled’s new erm… socks would be great of a winter morning on my boat

Or when i sit outside of a crisp cool dark night for a ciggie.

I kept well away from polyester and acrylic until I bought an Oodie. So warm! Perhaps these long socks are the same. Never mind what they look like.

(I bought 2 blanket hoody things for £11.99 each from a cheap outlet, recommended on the MN Christmas bargains board, when real Oodies were new and cost £69. When they arrived one came in Oodie packaging with a Oodie label, and one similarly with Kudd.ly branding. I imagine those companies don’t send their returns out again, but sell them on. Or off.)

Hurray! Have another, if you don’t have to go downstairs again.

Is an Oodie the same kind of idea as those Borg fleece things? goes to Google

These are Oodies. Similar things are everywhere now.

Have Googled. I think that I've seen people wearing them coming out of the local leisure centre.

I'm keepingwarm indoors by wearing a hooded fleece dress thingamob I got from a Wolfairy sale. I think I look a bit daft at my age, but by gum it's warm.

I think the things people wear outside might be imitation or real Dry robes. I don’t quite understand these, there are the very big things people wear to get dry and changed on the beach, and the large warm waterproof things spectators wear while supporting their offspring at football and rugby training. Perhaps they are the same.

You can get one for £19.99 if you don’t mind looking like a Man City fan. Or this if you do.

I hadn’t heard of Wolfairy. Looks very tempting.

I'm so old that I remember when mums used to make changing robes out of a large towel and some shirring elastic. (They used to be de rigueur on Fife beaches in the '60s.)

I think I know what you mean. Also seen on the beach at Brid and Skeggy.

Like a strapless dress: take a bath towel which has seen better days. Sew the two short edges together to make a cylinder, add a few rows of shirring elastic across one circular end.

Step into it, or dive into it. Wriggle out of wet costume, slipping the straps down first, holding the shirred edge firmly in place while you do this to avoid revealing bare self.

Put on pants and shorts/trews/skirt underneath the robe - another step to be done with care. Put clothing onto your top half with towelling layer beneath it. Finally pull towelling layer down, taking care not to bring pants etc with it.

You can do this all with just a towel wrapped round you, but there’s a greater risk of revealing all.

@AsWithGlad That's it!

There were also some made with terry towelling which had been specially purchased and fashioned into a full cape.

Boily, my Reynauds has greatly improved since I have been taking medication for it. Purple, dead fingers are almost a thing of the past. It's made a proper difference.

Medication has certainly made a difference, unfortunately I can't take nifedipine, so I take amlodipine instead. It definitely helps, it isn't as effective as the nifedipine, but the side effects are not as horrible. I've got Hughes Syndrome as well which probably doesn't help matters.

I take lercanidipine ( same family). I also have APS, which is the same as Hughes, I think?

Ooh I've not heard of that drug, I shall have to google.

APS is the same illnesses, but Hughes is easier to get my mouth round than antiphospholipid 😀.

i took amlodipine for a while as part of my blood pressure medication but it made my ankles swell (known side effect) so they took me off it and upped my dose of irbesartan instead.

It's an education here at the Bluestocking.

Sending gerbils and Rosie the red panda for cuddles and additional warmth to Boily, Britinme and Fuzzy.

I was recommended daily aspirin for my APS, but can't take it as my kidneys are well under par. My rheumatologist didn't check that out first...you have to be really on the ball!
My DD had a stillborn DD...Hughes syndrome. That was the tragedy in all this.

I've just got back from a walk, dual purpose of needing to get out of the house and wanting some exercise. Managed a walking speed of 3.5 mph, which isn't bad for an overweight asthmatic the wrong side of 50!

That must have burnt a few calories, Maggers.

That's the plan - we're going out for dinner tonight!

And built some muscle. I think muscle is denser than fat so it's not just weight lost, you might stay the same weight but still become slimmer.

Yes, I have high testosterone thanks to PCOS, so I do build muscle fast. I must admit, I stayed on paved paths today, which is probably why I managed a decent speed. I would definitely have been slower if I'd been on grass or mud.

I’m very sorry to read that about your DD, Fuzzy.

Also your rheumatologist not considering your other medical troubles. You’d think it was a standard thing to do.

I’m another who used to be on amlodipine but now takes Lercanidipine. My lower legs used to be quite large but I thought it was just me being fat. I went into hospital for a day procedure on my foot: the anaesthetist told me I was at risk of leg ulcers and needed to ask my GP for something else. That’s the joined up thinking it’s good to see.

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