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Dangerous ..... only slightly!!
Posted Jul 5, 2009
About 2 months ago I needed to visit the smallest room (I do this every day a few times - but for the purpose of starting this journal at the beginning I'll start with the visit a few monts ago). I trotted merrily upstairs and as the loo is the first room on the right - an about turn at the top of the stairs really I swivelled and entered the room.
Most of you know that I live in a very small cottage and it's very old so the bathroom was cobbled up out of one of the bedrooms but this makes for a tight entrance! The door opens as far as the wall that is directly behind it (between bathroom and stairs) and no further - there is another wall at the other side of the doorway (between bathroom and bedroom) so you can appreciate that the entrance to the room is the width of a door but it's never given me much trouble before.
This day about 2 months ago, whatever way I swivelled at the top of the stairs - I took one step hit the wall and bounced off and smashed my arm into the door handle ..... now I'm no lightweight and my full weight landed against my forearm which had nowhere to go except the door - and the handle is a mighty solid thing - no give at all.
I felt incredibly sick with the pain and needless to say the air turned blue. My arm was so sore I attended the hospital to see if it was fractured - it wasn't. My problem is that since then I've managed to recreate this accident almost every week and it's beginning to become a bit of a worry. My forearm is now nobbly due to all the impacts with the door handle and there are several lovely little bruises all at various stages.
Thankfully I've only hit the *exact* same place twice and have managed to spread the pain at regular interval between mid forearm and elbow but I don't know what to do about it. In the 11+ years I've been in this house it's never happened before that day 2 months ago - is it a hex one of you lot have placed on my house or is the door just out to get me???
I just don't know.
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It's Showtime .......
Posted Jun 6, 2009
It started today .... THE BUSY WEEK.
Tomorrow I pick daughter up from guide camp - then straight to rehearsals for Little Shop of Horrors.
Monday - Final dress rehearsal.
Tuesday - Girl Guide Barbeque.
Wednesday - Meeting re: Summer Rock School - they're off to Co. Clare for a week in July.
Thursday - Opening Night Show
Friday - Performance
Saturday - AM - Charlie and the Choc Factory (tiddlies), Afternoon - LSoH matinee, Evening - Final Show.
Sunday .... I might get a lie in.
It's at times like these I'm really glad I only have one child.
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Latest reply: Jun 6, 2009
Jonesy breathed her last.....
Posted May 6, 2009
This evening we buried our little cat.
Jonesy had been with us for almost 17 years. She was the runt of the litter and a very sickly little kitten. The vet told me she wouldn't last the month but she proved him wrong and went on to scratch and bite him quite a few times over the years.
Jonesy gave us plenty to laugh about over her lifetime from the day she got stuck behind a kitchen cupboard to the night she caught a bat and brought it home.
She was a little demon and managed to get herself into a few scrapes along the way. She fell into the bath a few times ..... she never did learn not to lunge at toes peeping out of the water.
She even lost the tip of her tail when Sazzle was very small and slammed a door on it (accidently).
She was a very good natured cat, the only time she really ever showed her claws was when I'd try to make her take a tablet - and I sussed out the perfect solution to that one ..... eventually.
She died peacefully at home and we buried her in the forest just outside our house - she's just about 10ft from our trampoline (over the wall of course) at the edge of a clearing carpeted with bluebells.
I know in the overall picture of things our little cat didn't amount to much and she did spend a lot of time with our next door neighbour in recent years, but she was our wee treasure and we'll miss her.
PS .. and I'll miss her snoring.
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Latest reply: May 6, 2009
Guess who came to dinner........
Posted Dec 27, 2008
Well, it's been a pretty horrible year for our family. We've had a lot of death and some serious health problems kicking around - we just seemed to lurch from one disaster to another in 2008, but it was all turned around on Boxing day.
My nephew's wife was due their first baby on 22nd December but the little mite had the good manners to wait until all the Christmas day stuff was done and dusted .... then she went into serious action on Boxing Day morning. They trotted off to hospital yesterday morning at 9.00 and little baby Martha arrived at 11.00am, a healthy 7lbs. They were all home again aby 8.00pm last night and the rest of us got to meet Martha and give her a cuddle.
It's amazing what a lift a new baby can give to the tired old festivities .... she is gorgeous, just like a little doll - but she makes me a great-aunt for the 9th time .... and that makes me really old.
I'm so full of joy I could burst.
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Latest reply: Dec 27, 2008
Something's broken - it must be the holidays ......
Posted Dec 24, 2008
In my house it doesn't matter what holiday it is something always breaks and we're stuck for a fortnight while everyone qualified to fix it enjoys the break.
It's been the heating twice already - at an Easter and the Twelfth, it's been the car twice - also at an Easter and the Twelfth. It was the washing machine one Christmas, then the tumble dryer, and on another it was the fridge ..... and so on, such is life at Lunatic Lodge.
This year it's the heating again - we haven't had hot water or heat since Sunday.
Luckily I have an electric fire in the hearth and that's heating the living room. The emersion heater is heating the water and that's the costly options we have in the middle of the credit crunch.
I'm loathe to pay anybody triple time to come out this side of the new year, so I'll just don an extra cardi and snuggle under my blankie until my blood thaws.
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